New Ulm review., 1917-12-19

fill out the questionnaires that are being
sent out, the draft officials also asserted.
It also is considered possible that all
quotas to be filled after December Is
will be filled from the available regis
trants in Class l, as the ruling says it is
desired to fill quotas as far as possible
from Class 1.
The Ruling.
The ruling as received reads:
'In accordance with Section 2, Sc
lective Service regulations, registrants
who on December Is stand selected for
military service under the old regula-
tions shall remain liable to be inducted
into service to fill deferred percentages
of the current quota of any local boards
!, and quotas of any future call until it shall
appear that there is in Class sufficient
number of men to fill such quotas after
December Is from Class evolved under
new systems, but since military necessity
is paramount, quotas must be filed, and
whether they are filled from first class or
not depends entirely on the expedition
with which local boards place enough
men in Class / to fill their present and
future quotas"
Those in First Cas-.
! Those to be included in the first class
are single men without dependent rela-
tives; married man, with or without
children, or father Of motEerless children,
who has habitually failed to support his
family; married man dependent on wife
for support; married man, with or with
out children; or father of motherless
children, not usefully engaged or family
,sfuppo1ted by income independent of his
unskilled farm laborers; registrant
= or in the respect of whom no deferred
q classification is claimed or made; regis
trant who fails to submit questionnaire
andsall registrants not included in any
other division.
These new regulations have been de-
signed to cover all possible contingencies.
By proper filling out of the QUESTIONABLE
draft officials say registered men will
automatically classify themselves into
one of the five groups.
A large number of rulings were given
out by Provost Marshal General Crowder
for the information of registrants who
are to receive the questionnaires and
also for the local draft officials.
Austrians Cases Held Up.
Austrian subjects or declarants will
not be permitted to entrain for canton
ments or training camps until further
/. notification from Provost Marshal Gen
faI Crowder. This notice will cause
Aary local draft boards throughout the
ste.e to call for ard examine another
class of registrants in order to fill the
.sincomplete quota of the first draft if it
| is called into service within the next two
months.
81 Claim for deferred classification must
.abe made by any registrant within seven
adays after receipt of the QUESTIONABLE or
no appeal may be made from the decision
of the local board and registrant shall
be placed in Class l.
All men placed in Class shall be
examined physically Immediately upon
their notification of their class in order
that sufficiently large number of men
may be available at all times.
Students in any approved technical
engineering school may, under such
regulations as the chief of engineers may
~prescribe, be named by the school
faculty for enlistment in the enlisted
reserve corps of the engineer department.
If they do enlist their local board shall
place them in Class S if they present a
certificate of enlistment to the board
Enlisted Men to Fill Blanks.
Questionnaires must be sent to all
men who lave enlisted in any branch of
the service in order that their status
may be definitely determined. Many
luIt uItkstered men who enlisted have been
ed arged by. the army OF navy or ma
Zine corps for various reasons and are
still on the records of their local draft
boal DIS as teing in military service.
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