The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-11
LOCAL BOARD
GETS GOOD
RESULTS
BETTER SHOWING Is MADE IN
SECURING MEN FOR
ARMY

camp.
Nine discharges were granted for
physical disability and 43 exemption
claims have been filed thus far.
This leaves 16 men who have been
passed as physically qualified and
who have not made claims for ex-
emption.
One or W. more exemption
claims may be made by men among
the first rs, but it is believed that
practically all who wanted to file
have done so. Through adding a
number of exemption claims that
it is believed will be disallowed to
Is or 16 who have passed the ply
steal examination and will not claim
exemption, it is concluded that
about 20 men have been secured.
In addition to this there are still
a number of men who ave been
examined elsewhere and who have
not yet been reported.
Louis C. Lamar, who was report
ed absent without notifying the
board, is in Los Angeles anu so
notified the board n week ago.
In some manner this accounts
for all of the rs men except five.
Nick Cicoich, Modesto Jiminez,
Thomas Cronin, Phillip Shearer and
Edward Pirtle remain unaccounted
for.
OF IFS who have been notified to
appear, % have notified the loci
board that they will he examined
elsewhere.
The exemption board continued
work today on the first SO men in
the extra 100 called and the result
will be published tomorrow.
AS a rule men take physical ex-
aminations before the exemption
board good naturally and as a mat
ter of course. This is always tru
of native-born Americans, although
some of them do odd stunts when
they attempt to secure exemption
for imaginary ailments.
1t is sometimes evident that,
while they say nothing, some for
eigners do not take kindly to the
examination and are not as cheer
full as they might be, although all
they have to do is enter an adjoin-
ing room and claim exemption,
which they never fail to do.
In this way the board can
tell what the next man will bring
forth and what peculiar sort he will
develop to be, which lends interest
to the proceedings.
An unconscious comedian appear
ed before the board yesterday after
noon in the person of a genuine
southern negro, registered in New
Orleans, with one cross eye and
minus two fingers on one hand.
Everything went along as usual
until the doctor told him to read
the letters in the eye test. The
little piece Of celluloid used in the
test was placed owe n eye, as is
customary, and he was told to read
the letters.
He turned his head until he was
almost looking over one shoulder
and the doctor again pointed to the
lelIcIS, HOl IcdilHluS "HdI was
wrong. AS he still held his head
in that position the doctor placed
his hand to the colored mans
cheek and turned his face toward
the letters. He promptly turned
his head back again until it was
difficult to realize how he could
possibly see the letters and started
to read them and he read them all
correctly.
Although the light in the room
was poor his vision in both eyes
was found perfect.
The doctor carefully examines
the hands of each mar and he no.
ticed hat from the start the color
ed boy held one hand over the
other in front of him. When the
time came to look at his hands the
doctor asked him what he was hold
ing his hands that way for and
brushed them apart. when he dis
covered that the hand that had so
carefully been kept covered lacked
parts of two fingers.
The colored boy almost turned
white when the condition of his
hand was discovered and said to
the doctor. DOC, yo' amt goin' to
exempt me TO- dat are yo'. cause
all sho' want to GO" And every
one who say the way he acted and
heard the way he said it knew
that he was earnest and it was
easier to understand why Pershing
always likes to have the colored
Tenth Cavalry with him.
DR.. Mccarthy passed him and.
owing to his wide range of vision
it is believed he will make a good
mar for outpost duty.
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