The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-21
|UNDERWEICHT is
NOT RECOGNIZED
BY DIST. BOARD
Cantonment Surgeons to Pass
Finally Upon Such Claims
for Exemption.

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be causes for discharges from the Ma
tional Army by the district board ac-
cording to rulings made public today.
Such cases will have to be passed
upon by the cantonment surgeons.
Neither will that board consider
the conditional discharge from the
army of artisans whose work may be
learned by another person within
from three to four weeks time.
Another point decided in one Of the
most interesting reports upon indi-
vidual cases recently made by the dis
trict board is that dependency passed
upon by the courts such as the sup
port of a child, alimony payments.
etc. are not dependency claims upon
the exemption boards subject to con-
sideration under the War Depart
ment rulings.
In the cases of men who can show
by letters from the commanding Of
ficers that they are already in another
branch of the United States service.
exemptions will likely be granted
upon precedent set yesterday.
Neither is cigarmaking considered
of sufficient national service to war
rant the exemption Of those drafted
for army service, although the cam
paigns for smokes for soldiers" Is
recognized as a worthy cause by gov
eminent officials.
Street railway employees operating
cars and express company employees
are not to be exempted nor are sky
light workers and some of the United
States mail divers who can be re-
placed by others OF older age within
a reasona BILE period of time.
OF cases reopened by the board
Yesterday four received exemption OF
temporary discharge and one was de-
MED New evidence presented to the
board in four cases was unavai1ing
with one case resulting in conditional
discharge.
Those whose cases were passed
upon in the Bridgeport divisions yes
terday are:
Industrial CIaims-Denied.
John Stengel. skylight worker;
William i. Estinyk. polisher, no
claim by company; Sherman E.
OConnor, mail wagon driver; John
M. Peterson, barrel grinder, Reming.
ton. no claim by company or evil
dence; Ardizzone Gaetono. cigar
manufacturer; Edward Meehan.
motorman, street railway.
Conditional Discharges.
John Cantor, valve filter Grant
Mtg. Co. March 20. 1913: Albeit E.
Hughes, Remington, machinist,
Mach 2o;t Victor s. Wrenn, ritter,
Remington Arms, denied on depend
ency, conditional discharge to March
20. on Industrial; Clifford A. Butler,
rnillwright Billiard, conditional dis
charge March 20: Harold Longway
assembler of engines. Locomobile
Co., conditional discharge March 20
Dependency Appeals
David Lennon, late marriage
(June IS, 1910; Harry JueHner, one
child but father compelled by law to
support it.
Physical Disability-Denied.
Frank N. McKeon (Sixth district)
underweight claim, four pounds.
Deferred Awaiting Additional Evil
dence.
Sylvester A. LaPierEe, board refus-
ed to reconsider; Giacchino Riccotta4
conditional discharge to Dec. 20 for
operation; Henry S. Crowen, Sixth
dfyiEion, referred back to local board
for REORGANIZATION and action; Will
liam B. Adams, deferred for full re-
cord.
Not Certified to Local Boards But
Now Must Go.
George G. Kemp, nachinist, Pro-
jectile Co., to 4 weeks to train;
Elmer T. Nitschen, toolmaker, Loco
mobile Co, no evidence; Frank Har-
low, Adams expressman; Meyer E.
Dow, physical appeal-qualifies even
on new evidence submitted; Calegero
Militana, dependent parents in Italy;
Edward D. Dolbelstein. physical and
support of small brother; made no
claim to local board; both denied,
no evidence.
Reconsidered on New Evidence.
Denied.
Roy Phillips, (Second district).
widowed mother, no new evidences
not before local board; Benjamin R.
Harnan, no jurisdiction, degree of re.
lationship not covered by regpla-
tons; Hurbert Hayward, fiat feet, re-
fused to reconsider; John e. Clarity,
machinist and grinder. U. M. c., de-
MED on dependency but given condi-
tional discharge to March 20. on on
dustrial.
Federal authorities from Milwaukee
seized a wireless outfit of A. F. Gallun
at his summer home, on Pine Lake.
Wis.
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