The sun., 1917-07-31
TESTS OF
DRAFTED MEN BEGIN
Two of 189 Exemption Boards
in New York City Start
Qualifying Work.
ROUND up FOR SLACKERS
U. s. Marshal Mccarthy, Back
To-day From Washington,
Will Seize Them.
'ROUND up FOR sLACKERS

able to make this early start by setting |
their doctors to work on candidates who |
waived the right to at least five days
notice. This is permitted by a new
ruling from Washington.
or the first twenty men tested by the
physicians Of Board 145. which sits al
the City College, In a Washington
Heights district, only two. or 10 per
cent, were rejected. This is an ex-
hemely low percentage. The estimator
probable rate of reflections for physical
reasons the country over is between So
and 80 per cent
Only two OF these same twenty men
claimed exemption yesterday. At this
stage, however, this does not Indicate
anything. All candidates have seven
days after they are summoned for the
bodily quizz in which to file a claim. AS
matter Of fact, nearly all the twenty
IN question are expected to make af-
hdaVit that they have dependent rela-
lives. Most OF them said this on their
registration cards.
None Now Actually Drafted.
The first man TO confront the examin-
ing doctors In this city was Fred c.
Wilbur OF 2sl West 147th street He
was rejected as being below the re-
quired weight and stature Joseph
bragard. New York Central brakeman,
of 30lI West 147th street was the second
He was the first to pass the physical
examination. His wife will claim ex-
emption for him. The third was Joshua
Abrams of 3l0 West l53d street He
passed. II must be understood that
none of the men passed now Is ac-
tually drafted. On the seventh day after
their notification to appear for physical
examination, the local board will certify
or the district or appeals board all
the men who are physically sound and
who have not claimed exemption. Not
until the appeals boards act will the
candidates accepted by them be really
be a matter of weeks The city appeals
board is not even appointed yet.
When Board II. at Public School 56,
| Madison street and Bushwick avenue,
| Brooklyn, closed it's offices for the night
| 1t announced that twenty mine men had
been examined, OF whom only eight had
been exempted. OF these eight Ave were
the first men examined. Three Of them
| claimed exemption because of dependents
and two alleged physical defects. This
board showed the highest proportion of
| any board in the city of men accepted
as eligible for service.
| Order to Arrest Slackers.
| The long delayed order to arrest all
men of military age who did not regis
| ter, came from Washington yesterday
The roundup here will start as soon as
Marshal Mccarthy, who is in Washing
ton. returns-probably to-day. The
Marshal has said he believes there are
| only few hundred culprits in New
! York A batch of letters, most of them
| anonymous. received by the city draft
director, Roscoe S. Conkling, and naming
| alleged skulkers, has been sent to the
Marshars Office.
| Most of the local boards, as soon as
exemption claims begin to come in, will
ask the police to help them investigate
! all suspicious cases and find out whether
a man told the truth when he said he
was family necessity.
A year in prison is to be the portion
of Meyer Graubard young "conscien-
tious obtector" who boasted on street
corners that he had not registered A
| jury in the Federal Court had no con-
scientious objection TO finding him
guilty in two minutes, and Judge Man
ton sentenced him.
on top of their other troubles came
word to the local exemption boards yes
| terday that their district quotas must
be changed. Capt Hutchinson OF the
Adjutant Generals ONCE in Albany tele-
phoned Mr.. Conkling that National
Guard and some regular army recruiting
officers had made mistakes in reporting
the number of enlistments.
Change Won't he COnsidera BILE.
As the enlistments in each district
were a factor in determining the quota,
the effect of the blunders Is obvious.
Capt. Hutchinson said, however, that
only two or three men would have to be
added to the quota OF the New York city
districts, which will not embarrass them.
as many boards are calling more than
twice the quota anyway. Some up State
boards will have TO raise their quotas
considerably All chairmen are asked TO
keep going on the basis of the original
quotas until new figures are sent them
from Albany.
The Manhattan board. 145 which got
| ahead of the others by starting the
physical examination grind yesterday,
was able to do so by saying In Its
notices sent TO each man called, that II
he wished to appear before the fifth day
he could do so and avoid the rush
Provost Marshal General Crowder's rul-
ing on this point is:
AFTER the available list has been COM
Melted and mailed Ito Washington) and
the call list is properly and regularly
posted and notices for examination are
sent out, any man may, II the board SC
decides, be examined at once providing
he will sign a waiver OF hye days
notice"
: hoard Sat TIL 10 O'clock
The result in Division l45 was thai
| about twenty-five early birds were chirp
, ing at the City College door at noon yes
terday, and so many more arrived latei
| that the board sat until 10 o'clock las
, night. At that hour 1t was announced
, | that twenty men had been examined, o
, | whom ten had been disqualified becaus'
of physical defects. Ten were listed a
, eiigibies as follows Joseph Bragard
. 3oI West 147th street (his wife will
claim exemption for him, however)
Joshua Abrams, 310 West 1880 street
! Josenh Edward Silliman, $50 St N'chola
avenue; Carl Anthony Ritter, 500 Yves
, l42d street Samuel Goldbladt, 1877 Wes
, l46th street Harry Gunther, 81 Brad
hurst avenue Isador Tannenbaum, 6l
!, West l42d street Walter simmons 46
4 West 14lst street James T. McAuliffe
: 2745 Eighth avenue Edward w. White
r 656 st. Nicholas avenue,
I'm to last night sixty-four OF the 1S
a boards had reported to Mr. Conkling tina
n they had sent out their notices for physi
a cal examination. He hopes that none o
4 them. before doing this, has failed L
v prepare its available list, the names o
q all the men In the district I'm the orde
s of the drawing, which Is a 'prerequisit
8 step TO any examinations
4 Board l76, in Queens, protested yes
n terday that II had no official blank form
. for the list and hadn't been able TO ge
them from Mr. Conkling or by wirin
n | washington. Many OF the boards ar