The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-24
Select Service Men Will Not Be
Called October 3-camp
Unprepared
ADDITIONAL TEN PER CENT
TO BE HELD TILL NEEDED
Only 100 Per Cent of State q
Quota Will Go to Camp in
Original Draft

one week from Wednesday have beel
granted respite. Provost Marshal
General Crowder last night wired
Governor Frazier that because Camp
Dodge Is not deadly to receive anoth
or large increment of select service
soldiers, the call Of 40 percent sched.
uled for October will be indefinite.
ly deferred. It is probable the call
will not be made earlier than October
Is, and it is possible that the entire
remaining IS percent will be sum.
moned to report at that time.
The movement of the first forty per.
cent of North DakOta's national army
was completed yesterday, when the
Cass county contingent embarked at
Fargo. Those who are yet to 60 may
rest confident that they will not be
disturbed for at least two weeks to
come, as the local boards require fully
a week to get out notices and to as.
sure the attendance of registrants on
the date to be finally specified for the
next quota.
This contingent will be made up
largely of claimants for exemption
whose claims were denied by the local
or district board. The great majority
OF these will be men who asked for
exemption on agricultural grounds,
principally those who claimed consid-
Grafton as farm workers. Quite a
number Of these were exempted until
Oct. 3, in order that they might COM
plete the harvest before being called.
Board Adjourned.
The district board, after considers
ing 1000 claims for exemption on in
dustrial grounds and cases appealed
from the decision of local boards, ad.
jOurred last week, to meet again
at the call of Justice Luther E. Bird
zell, the chairman. The board has
been ignoring union rules. putting in
10 to Is hours daily, and it will enjoy
a rest. Upon its adjournment the
board had certified to the adjutant
general and to the local boards prac-
tically enough accepted registrants in
every instance to make up the 40 per
cent called for Oct. 3. TO make GER
tain that all of the county quotas will
be filled, the district board probably
will convene again the latter part of
the week.
To Remain at Home.
Local exemption boards, while re-
quired to have available for sending to
Camp Dodge, 10 per cent in excess OF
their designated quotas for the first
army, may hold this extra tenth at
home as a reserve to be drawn on
when needed Adjutant General Fra
ser announced this fact today, clear
ing up a question which had been trou-
bling some local boards.
Draft officials had been in doubt as
to whether they would be called on
to send the full 40 per cent of quotas
to training camp. Only enough men
will be called out OF this extra tenth
drafted by each local board to make
IN for men who are rejected at Camp
Dodge for physical disqualification or
other reasons. To date no such re1ec'
tions have been made of Burleigh
county men, and it is believed the
state over they will run very low.
Fine Body Of Men.
physically, mentally and morally,
I've never seen a finer lot OF boys
from which to build an army, said
General Fraser yesterday on his re-
turn from Fargo, whittier he accom-
panied the train bearing more than
500 select service soldiers from North
ern Pacific points west OF the Gate
City. "They were a splendid body OF
Young men, and they were a willing
body. There wasn't shirker among
them: not q man who wasn't willing