New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
&c. Hughes Is Chairman
of Local District
Exemptors
Expect $4,000 Cases
,..;.n Is First to File APP
peal; Committee to Meet
Thrice Weekly

Il
:. n. trenches and who shall stay at
,.us 70 keep the wheels Of industry
+avinp settled down to business In
=, FEDERAL Building yesterday,
mis- staggering job the board faces
T.. even before the Local Board 80
,.,,dal broke it was estimated that no
49,. than $4,000 appeals were contem-
,,.,d By government and individuals
t.on the findings Of the lower boards
y. those. Il the Irregularities discov-
.,,d in one district arouse suspicion OF
q. general integrity of the draft, may
:. added thousands of others.
Even then, consideration of cases on
,,nssl is only part of the district
,,emptors' work. Industrial exemp-
,ion claims come under their original
';,,i,diction. How many such claims
thew will be called upon to handle none
~ the board members could guess,
Int il is not likely they will run fewer
than appeals.
&C. Hughes Is Chairman
With bang Of his gavel, Charles
Evans Hughes, the chairman, started
81, board into action on the big job
Al 1890 o'clock in the morning. AT
that time the corridors of the Federal
building outside Room 1913, where the
d,,riet exemptors were in session, were
crowded with men eager to get quick
answer on their claims. The crowd had
been waiting an hour. 1t had to wait
through another hour while the board,
behind closed doors, was completing its
organization.
First Of all. there was a clerk to be
chosen. W. B. Davenport was the man,
and william |. Washburn was appointed
his assistant. Next, five sub-commit-
tees we're inted-designated as
Committees A, b, c, D and E. Their
personnel is as follows:
Committee A, Justice George l.. In
graham, DR.. Sigismund 5. Goldwater,
nr. Edwin f. Hicks, Eugene II. Rosen-
quest; Committee b, Judge f. II. Gull
len, George B. Agnew, DR.. Herman t.
Radin, W. W. Mills; Committee c,
Louis Marshall, Howard o. Wood, DR..
George Doty, Rev. S. Edwin Young;
Committee d, Colonel William II. Dyk-
man, Robert A. Inch, William H. Eng
lish, DR., James s. Waterman; Commit
tee z, Meier Steinbring, James A. Dele
tsnty, George T. Mcclure, l. I. Flatto,
DR.. J. Evan Shuttleworth.
To Meet Three Times a Week
Meetings of the full board will be
held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days. The other weekdays will be de.
voted to committee work. Individual
cases will be considered by one com
mittee or another as assigned by the
chairman, and ratification of commit
tee findings by the full board Will o'
more or less a matter OF form, excep
As concerns cases on which the com
mittees are not agreed.
OF the thirty members of the dis
trict board appointed by the Presiden
FIVE must be replaced, and AdJutan
General Stotesbury and Provost Mar
shall General Crowder have been ad
yised 10 this effect. Edwin L. Garvln
Charles E. Sims, John Dalton and Sam
usl H. Evins, holding city positions, ar
debarred by a clause in the charte'
from accepting Federal Office. Nathan
Strsus has announced from a sickbe'
his intention of resigning, so that I'M
man mower of the board be not weak
ened BY his absence.
L. nrnnngltl0n that
subcommittee be appointed for ant
obtsin quarters in each of the five Dor
oughs. In the interest Of efhciency I'M
was abandoned, and the board VIII con
tinue TO use the Federal Building guar
..rs provided by United States Mar
shall Mccarthy.
40. 1923 will be the meeting room
33s a waiting room and so ana o.
fling rooms. Appeals and lndustrIa
exemption claims will receive precise
ly the same attention II sent by MAJ
addressed Secretary, District bosro
Federal Building, New York City, a
Il brought in person. But the crow
that was on hand yesterday mad TN.
TO learn.
Russian First to File Appeal
Immediately the doors of Room 81.
we're thrown open there was rusi
that swept away the attendants. Girscf
Sarehin, a Russian born declarant, wa
the first 70 file an appeal. Since Loca
Board 13 certified him for service u
the National Army, Sarchin, who lives
a. 1919 Boston Road, has decided NJ
would rather 90 "home" and take VI
arms for Russia.
Por quarter hour the district ex
.nptors were swamped. Then ordei
vas restored by reinforcements from
ns nsrshaPs office and a line wa
Termed.
Up 70 o'clock In the afternoon
shsn the doors were closed again
mere than three hundred anxious mer
sN talked with Secretary Davenport
~ Hsshburn, or some other member
tae board. Chairman Hughes him
Nf assisted IT. handling the callers
'he gave advice 10 many Of them.
Adviee was about all the board had 4
yAsf-Snd that was a concession, fol
ne regulations bar oral testimony be
iote the higher board as before tn,
,oeal boards. Mr. Hughes said that thu
~S6 boards in only a few cases haC
ytssed up the records and affdavits
l. ~s"HFh must DC NDNoAutIth. " All J
.oafas also had neglected 20 turn over
n,H certified lists, which, when all in
~ give for the FIRST time an accurate
80 OF men ready 10 answer the cal
Nths eolors.
Claims on Industrial Grounds
~ addition 10 one exemption appeal
'eh 10 IN shape for consideration by
r BOARD, said Mr. Hughes. Eve have
sFed three or four requests for e1-
pnon on industrial grounds. These
1 De turned over 10 Committee A
ae reported back at the next full
.e.hg Of the board on Monday morn
ar. Washburn estimated that halt
.e men he interviewed intended 20 ap-
go ron the findings OF the doctors
~ Examined them. The district boa I'd