The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-17
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Aliens and Others Ex-
empt Cut List of
Army Eligibles
LOCAL BOARDS
RECEIVE RULES
Certificates Will Be
Given Those Phys
ically Unfit

Details OF the draft plan have
reached the 20 exemption boards In
Detroit. The rules are SO explicit
that the boards will not have 10 use
. great deal OF Judgment except as
20 the facts. More than 10000
Detroit men have registered. or
these more than 10000 are exempt
because they are aliens. From the
remainder Detroit must furnish
10000 for the national army. II
has been figured that outside OF
those exempt for various causes.
supply about one out OF every Ave
eligible.
The rules provide that the reg
lstrants called for the army will be
drawn by lot when the drawing
is completed lists showing the or.
der OF the numbers drawn Will be
published and also posted at the
oface OF each local board. Regis.
,rants are expected 20 go 70 the
local board 10 discover whether
they have been drawn Notices viii
be mailed. but the posting OF the
lists Is deemed sufficient
II any drafted man is discharged
for physical unhtness or any other
cause he will be given certificate
10 that effect II man IL physi-
cally At but hles claims FOR eXemp-
ton he viii be given 10 days IN
which 70 prove his claims The fol
lowing grounds for exemption have
teen decided upon
That you are an officer. iegis-
D.
United states. state or territory
or the District ~ Columbia
That you are regular or duly
ordained minister Of religion
That you were on May 3 1917,
student preparing FOR the ministry
IN any recognized theological or
divinity school
That you are In the military or
nAval service u the United states
S That you are subject 81 Ger
many. whether you have taken out
papers or not
!. That you are resident alien
who has not taken out hrst papers
In addition 10 claims for eNemp-
tion claims for discharge may be
made "a any 81 the following
/. Tha, you are county or mu.
nicipal officer.
rhat you are custom house
That you are employees by the
United states in the transmission 81
mails
Ths, you are an srtiacer or
workman employed In an arm0ry
arsenal or navy yard % the unitfc
states
s That you are employed IN. tire
service OF the United states tund
certain conditional.
That you are licensed pilot
regularly employed ia the pursuit ~
your vocation.
: That you are mariner actually
employed IN the sea service ~ any
citizen or merchant within the United
States
That you are married man
with wife or child dependent on
you FOR support
; That you have a widowed mother
dependent on your labor for support
10 lat you have aged or inrrm
parents dependent upon your labor
FOR support
II that you are the father 81
notherless child under 10 dependent
upon your labor for support
- That you are a brother OF an
orphan child OF children under 10
dependent on your labor for support
ia That you are a member % any
wrii-recogniZed religious sect or
organization organized and existent
May - 1917. and whose then exist
ing creed or principles for bade It's
members 90 participate in war in
any form and whose religious con-
victions are against war or partici-
patton therein in accordance with
the creed or principles OF said reli-
gious orgsniEa ton.