Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-25
BOARD PHYSICIANS EXPECTED TO
EXAMINE $50 MEN IN THREE
DAYS.
FIRST MAY BE SUMMONED
FOR MONDAY, AUG. 8
Board Members Think Il Unlikely That
Clerical Work Can Be Finished
Ready For Any Earlier Date-Ex-
emption Board May Have Four Ex.
aminins Physicians to Help

Speed up the machinery Is the gist
Of the latest orders received this FORE
noon by the local exemption board
from the office Of Provost Marshal
General Crowder. Exploit instructions
were received regarding the method OF
proceeding and the speed with which
the board Is expected to advance to a
completion Of its task Of selecting the
county's quota Of 226. In the mean
time, the board is preparing so as to
be able to keep the pace the provost
marshal orders must be maintained.
County Auditor w. E. McLeland has
estimated from the known work that
Is to be done that it is probable that
it will not be earlier than Monday,
Aug. s, when the first Of those drawn
will be summoned for examination.
Three Days For Examination.
The provost marshal has ordered that
as soon as the master list, which is
the official one, is received from WASH
ington, that the arrangements for ex-
aminations shall be made at once. He
has directed that at once, upon receipt
Of this list, notices of summons for
examination must be mailed. At best,
it is figured that several days must be
allowed for the clerical work to be
done before the first summons can be
sent.
The instructions are that 200 per cent
of the county's quota must be exam
ined in three days. That number would
be about $50, ,or at the rate of $50
day.
May Have Four Physicians.
AS soon as the clerical work is COM
pleted notices are to be sent to the
first $50 drawn, who must appear five
days from the date of the notice for
physical examination. The second $50
will be notified at the same time to
appear six days after the notice is
dated, and the third $50, seven days
after the notice is mailed.
In order to examine as many as $50
day, 1t is provided that the local
board may have four physicians. One
Of these, yet to be named, is member
Of the board. The next is q sort Of ex-
officio member, to be designated by the
governor and appointed by the board
and the other two are mercy examin-
ing physicians appointed by the board
Any board, whose quota for examina-
ton is over 120 men day, may have
two examining physicians in addition
to the physician member and the ex-
officio member.
Short Time For Exemptions.
Since the first 15o will be notified to
appear on the fifth day, the second 150
on the sixth day, and the third $50 on
the seventh day the time for filing
claims for exemption is going to be
short. Such claims must be filed with
in ten days Of the date of the summons
to appear, but half or more Of that
time will have been consumed before
the physical examination is made, and
no claim can be filed until after the
examination
Certify List at Once.
Another detail of the speed-up pro-
gram ordered is that on the seventh
day after the first notices to appear
were mailed, the board Is to go thru
the list Of $50 who have been examined
and from 1t select the name of each
man who has been found physically
qualified and who, or for whom, no
claim for exemption has been made.
This list is to be certified at once to
the district board for the southern dis
trict of iowa as that Of persons called
and not exempted or discharged.
The order reads: See that these
lists are in the mail on the eighth day
On the same day the lists so mailed
are to be posted, offered to the press
to publish, and each man in the list
Is to be notified at once by mail that
his name has been so certified.
Take Up Exemptions.
After these lists of men not exempt
ed or discharged have been sent to
the district boards and posted the
board will then take up the exemption
cases, but not until then. The board
is instructed to dispose Of each case
in which exemption Is claimed within
three days after the claim has been
filed.
Certificates For Absences.
Men who registered in this county
and who have since gone to other
states may be examined where they
are, provided a certain regulation pro-
viding for such cases Is compiled with.
This regulation Is that the absentees
must first obtain from the exemption
board Of the district where he regis
tered certificate specifying that per-
mission is granted the absentee to be
examined where he then is. The abb
sentee must designate in his applica-
ton for this certificate the specific ex-
emption district in which he wishes to
be examined and not merely the state
or county. Requests for such certif-
Gates, without the exemption district
where the absentee wants to be ex-
amined being given, will not comply
with the requirements and the certii-
cate will not be issued.
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