Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-11-23
ALL DRAFT APPEALS
ARE DECLARED VOID
Exemption Claims Before Boards
Hit by Ruling.
WILL HAVE TO APPEAR AGAIN
Registrars Will Be Sent QUESTIONABLE
Men Not Completely Crippled
Will Be Held Subject to Spe-
cial Army Duty.

Washington, Nov. 19-Men who
have been drafted and have appeals
from the decision of their local board
pending will have their cases auto
matically thrown out hg ruling OF
Provost Marshal General CrOw0er in
connection with the revision of the
draft regulation.
Major Easby-Smith, legal expert of
General CrOwder's staff, who, with Col.
Hugh Johnson, did most of the work
in revising and recognizing the draft
system, explained that all such appeals
will automatically cease to exist, as
theh man will be returned to his orig
inal status-that is, to the position he
was in before being called before the
draft board.
He will be sent a questionable. If
his replies to the queries in that book
let indicate that he should be grant
ed the deferred classihcatlOn-fOr
which his present appeal will be made
he will be so classified by the board.
Can Appeal Decision.
Should the board decide, however,
that he belongs in Glass 1, subject to
immediate call, he will be so notified
and will have the right of appealing
to the district board for such deferred
classification.
Subject to Immediate Service.
The text of the new rule whereby
the secretary of war is authorized
to draft into immediate service for
special duty any man believed from
the record to be qualified for such
duty no matter what his classified
ton or his order number in the draft,
is cOuched in the widest terms. AS
given out by the provost marshal gen.
eral it follows:
1.-THE deferred classification of eX-
perts and men highly skilled in indus
try or agriculture is intended to pre-
vent the waste incident to induction
into military service of men whose spe-
cial qualifications render them more
valuable to the national interest in
some other capacity.
War Need Can Reverse Plan.
''There are, however, circumstances
adjustment for expert men is such
that the national interest is better
served by Inducing such men into mill
tary service than by leaving them en-
gagged in industry or agriculture. In
such circumstances neither deferred
classification nor the ground of en-
gagement in industry or agriculture
IL
signed by lot can be permitted to defer
the call of such men into military serv-
ice"
The provost marshal general made
clear today that because the new reg
ulatiOns provide that men not COM
pletely crippled may be held subject
for special army service, and will not
be exempted, this does not mean that
the army proposes to fill up it's ranks
behind the lines and on routes of COM
municatiOn with semidisqualified men.
Such men will be put practically in
special class, and can be called only
under a special and specific summons
tary service, but qualified for special
service.
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Would Adm Minor Defects.
This ruling applies to thousands Of
men are suffering from fiat feet, but
lar minor deformities which would
disqualify them from field service, but
which would not interfere with them
operating any motor cars and such 9th
er work. or on line of communication
duty. 1t also applies to men under
weight, or whose health would render
them unavailable in hard weather.
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