Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-27
APPEAL BOARD
CONCENTRATES ON
CERTIFICATIONS
To Have Latest Quota Ready
Before October 3; Finish
ing Up Examinations

days has been cut out. The matter
of preparing the list of men who will
leave this district for Camp Meade
next Wednesday will be the most i'm
! portant work. This list will have to
be made up and sent back to the
local boards in time to allow them to
notify the men. Already some of the
boards nave sufficient men on hand
to assure the sending of the required
. per cent. The majority, however.
sent on September 19 their entire
number on hand and at present are
very much concerned as to where
they Will secure the men for next
| Wednesday. This week Robert r.
Free, clerk of the appeal board. has
been certifying the names of those
men who did not claim exemption
and 1t Is expected that by the end of
this week the entire quota of Dau-
phin county as we'll as the other
counties in the district will be as
sured.
Allowing Few Claims
/ To-day the appeal board acted
on a large number of claims for
exemption, appeals from the local
| boards and other minor matters.
Only small percentage of the claims
were allowed. Yesterday the names
from Cumberland county districts
| Nos. l and 2. Northumberland No. 2,
Steelton, York Nos. 1 and and
Franklin No. l were certified back to
their respective local boards and they
practically assured the sending from
| these counties of the per cent. on
October 3. Steelton. however, is an
exception. The board certified back
eighty-three names to this board and
out of that number there were only
seven white men. Three of these
men are already at camp, leaving
four to make up the quota of thir-
teen. The colored men will not leave
with the second contingent and the
Steelton board will endeavor to Sc
cure the certification of the large
number of white men that have been
certified to the district board. The
Paxtang board is awaiting it's list of
names from the upper board and
when these arrive more than enough
men will be on hand. Elizabethville
has alreday announced the list of
the men that will leave Wednesday
and is preparing a list of nearly the
entire quota of 1873.
Making Lyme"
An amusing claim for exemption
was received yesterday from George
e. Hewitt, of Hanover. Hewitt asks
| that he be granted exemption on
turer of "hygh grated lyme" which
! is used by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany in large quantities, to be used
in the manufacture of ammunition
| for the United States government.
He feels that he is more than doing
his bit for his country and that his
services are needed at home more
than in France. His claim will be
acted on later.
The Paxtang board called fifty for
examination to-day. Thirty-nine of
these men showed up and the result
of their examinations is as follows:
Twenty passed and claimed exemp-
tion, fifteen were discharged as phys
ically unfit and four passed and did
not claim exemption. The names of
the eleven men that did not show up
are as follows: Norman R. Bell Har-
risburg; Louis Kniganek, Middle
town; Guido Santoni, Rutherford
Heights; Steve Markovic, Bressler;
Ulysses G. King, Penbrook; Alvin
Gottschall, S105 North Second street;
Jacob Binni, Enhaut; Nazzareno
Fresconi, Swatara Station. These
send any word. Ralph Flick, Swa-
tara Station, sent word that he was
seriously i'll, and Frank Bolbacker,
Enhaut. is confined in hospital.
Won't Call Any More
The number of the men who have
failed to show up for examination at
this board has reached a large pro-
portion and the board is reported to
be planning some action to round
them up. The board announced that
it will stop examining next Monday.
Previous reports stated that men had
been called to appear for October 8.
The board believes the full quota will
be secured from the 1,167 men al
ready examined.
The Steelton board last evening
finished action on all the claims for
exemption that were made by the
l 900 examined. The board to-day
received back from the district board
the list of names that were certified
for service in the army. Only four
men out of the eighty-three certified
are available for military service.
The names of these men are as fol-
lows: Josip Breski, Dinko Mishofr,
Ordan Domoff, Tlioji Billion, all of
Steelton, A representative OF the
Steelton board visited the headquar-
ters of the district board this morn
ing in an endeavor to secure a suf-
ficient number of white men for the
second contingent. Out of the entire
eighty-three men certified only nine
teen will be ready for service even
! if the colored men are allowed to
go. SiXty-four of the number have
made appeals to the district boards
and the sending away of these men
will be delayed several days.
EliZabethville Finished
The Elizabethville board has dis
continued examinations and is pre-
pairing a list of names for the district
appel board as we'll as acting on ex-
emptions. This board is the only
| board in Dauphin county that has
announced its list of men to leave on
| October 3.
Completing Schedule
Local draft boards were to-day
notified by state registration head
quarters that they should facilitate
exemption and other matters by
aliens. complaints having been made
that men had been called and cer-
tilted without being fully informed
as to what rights they had through
Ignorance of the law or failure to
ask questions
| A number of questions were to-
day submitted by local boards, among
them one by No. l of Montgomery
county, whether ]. w. Hallowell, Jr.
| assistant director of the state bureau
| OF TldTheISt COulu De eAeluDleu. 1ne
question had been raised that his
office was created after registration
day on June 5.
c. w. Crowther. in charge of the
transportation arrangements for the
drafted men, was here to-day in con,
sultation with the Adjutant Gen,
erals department officers regarding
the schedule for the movements Il
begin October 3.