Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-09
green SUMMARIZES PROCEDUREFOR
DISPOSING OF EXEMPTION APPEALS

fer military service and was not e1'
empted or discharged All claims must
be submitted in the prescribed forms,
and unless all the affidavits required
by the regulations are submitted, the
board has no authority TO exempt OF
|discharRe No arguments, oral or 9TH
erwise, are permitted before the board
unless the board calls for other proof
which it will do only in limited mum
Der Of cases
Every claim for discharge or eX
emption will be decided by the board
within three days after affidavits are
filed. and II the claim is allowed a GER
tificate to that effect will be issued. 1t
should be remembered, however, that
any certificate OF exemption or dis
charge may be recalled at any time
II the conditions on which the certif'
cate is granted are temporary or con-
6itional, the certificate becomes OF no
effect when the time or the condition
named are fulfilled and when the con-
dition that has postponed your post
ing tothe colors ceases you may be re-
called at any time.
Remember, one Of Gen. Crowder's
Official statements reads, that your
case may be appealed to the district
board by the government, and on this
appeal your certificate may be with.
Drawn at once. When so withdrawn
YOU stand precisely as though you
had been selected for military service
by the local board.
Appeal to the District Board
'If you claim is disalIowed by the
local board your name will be certified
and sent by the local board to the dis,
trict board as one who has been call.
ed for military service and who has
not been exempted or discharged.
Claims for appeal from the decision
Of the local board may be made with.
in ten days after the notice that the
claim has been disallowed posted, and
mailed to the district board. The
forms to be used In all appeals to the
district boards will be available at the
offices OF the local organizations.
THE person who appeals to the dis
trict board also has five days, after
his appeal is received by the district
board, to file additional, evidence in
support Of his claim, all Of this addi-
tional evidence to be submitted in aft
davit form. The decision of the dis
trict board must be made within five
days Of the closing Of proof, and the
appallent notified by mail of the
boards action on the appeal.
"As for discharge from the provi.
sions Of the selective draft in indus
trial grounds, all such claims must be
made direct to the district boards. The
form to be used in making a claim for
discharge on Industrial grounds will
DO supplied. on application, by the dis.
trict boards.
The form properly filled, must bc
filed with the district board within
five days after the mailing ard post
ing Of the fact that the applicants
name has been certified from tae local
to the district board as qualified and
eligible for the military service. The
district board must make its decision
within five days after the closing of
proof, and II the decision favors the
applicant certificate Of discharge
will be issued. II the decision is ad.
verse the board will also notify you.
Remember says General Crow.
der, flat you rave been called for
military service, and that the certi.
ficate Of the district board is only con.
ditional on your remaining in the kind
OF industrial service on account OF
which you were discharged. No such
exemption shall continue when a cause
therefore no longer exists and your
certificate or discharge may be with.
drawn or modified by the district
board at any time that the board shall
determine that the circumstances re.
quire it,"