Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-30
MEDICAL STUDENTS
NOT TO GO TO WAR
To Be Exempted From Army
Through Enlistment in En-
listed Reserve Corps.
HOSPITAL iNTERNEs, TOO

Hospital internes and medical students
who have been more than . year at col
lege. may be exempted from military
service under the selective draft bill By
regulations issued today. The War De-
partment Is anxious not to interfere with
the professional education Of these men.
whose service rs doctors may be neces-
sary before the close of the war.
Enlistment In the Enlisted Reserve
Corps Of the Army is the way found by
Provost Marshal General Crowder to ac-
complish the desired result.
Local medical students have been
active for some time in the matter of
getting exemption for those studying
medicine on the ground that such stu
dents ultimately will be of more value
to Uncle Sam as doctors than as SOL
diers In the trenches.
Text Of New Regulations.
The supplemental regulations in re-
gard to medical students, as prescribed
by the President, follow:
Hospital internes who are graduates
OF well recognized medical schools, or
medical students In their fourth. third
or second year In any well recognised
medical school. who have not been
called by local board. may enlist In
the Enlisted Reserve Corps provided
for by section f1fty-five Of the national
defense act. under regulations to be
they are thereafter called by a local
board they may be discharged on
proper claim presented on the ground
that they are in the military service
Of the United States.
"A hospital inferno who Is a graduate
of a well recognized medical school,
or a medical student In his fourth,
third or second year In any well recognized
medical school. who has been called by
and accepted, and by or In behalf Of
whom no claim for exemption or dis
charge Is pending. and who has not
been ordered TO military duty, may ap-
ply to the surgeon general of the Army
to be ordered to report at once to q
local board for military duty and thus
be indicted into the military service
Of the United States. Immediately
thereupon to be discharged from the
listing in the Enlisted Reserve Corps
Of the Medical Department.
Must Inclose Boards Order.
With every such request must be
inciosed a copy Of the order of the
local board calling him to report for
physical examination form one hun
status OF the applicant as q medical
student or inferno. and an engagement
to enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps
Of the Medical Department
Upon receipt of such application
with the named Enclosures. the surgeon
general will forward the case to the
ad5utant general. with his recommen-
dations. Thereupon the adtutant gen.
erai may issue an order to such inferno
or medical student to report to his To-
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ned date. In person. or by mail or tele-
graph. as seems most desirable. This
order may issue regardless Of the per
sons order of liability for military
service From and after the date SO
specined such person shall be in the
military service of the United States.
He shall not be sent by the local board
to mobilization camp, but shall re-
main awaiting the orders of the adju-
tant general Of the Army The adju-
tant general may forthwith issue an
order discharging such person from the
military service for the convenience OF
the government"
Await certifcations of Men.
Several draft divisions. including
board No. 2. located at the Dunbar
aigh school, waited -anxiously today
for certifications of men from the Dis
trict board. Early in the week. the
District tribunal certified 226 men back
to seven of the boards. affording these
boards enough men to work on to Sc
lect their first quota of S per cent.
which Will entrain for camp next Wed
nesday afternoon at 500 o'clock.
Selection Of the first forty-seven''
has not yet been completed by the
boards where men have been certified
back, while those boards having as vet
received no certifcations have not even
made a start on their selection.
Drafted men have been besiegine
their boards TO get in the first quota
70 go. Seemingly all the men would
ike TO be the first on the grounds. not
only for the sake of being first. but
also because such men, picked as they
will be for past military experience,
viii have the best chances for nom
commissioned Jobs.
Exemption board for No. 3 division.
located at the city post office, held a
meeting this afternoon to wind up its
disposition of local cases. Physical
examinations were In order today at
this board for John Bernard Reside.
j., Willie Henry Williams and Leland
G. True.