Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-12
County Draft Boards Short
Required Number of Men
to Go Sept. 10

nfty are negroes, ana as THESE men
are to be excluded from going with
the first contingent the board is left
short. To-day a new list of 102
names was prepared and rushed to
the district board ac the Capitol to
be acted upon. OF this number
thirty-four are colored men. If these
names are certified. Steelton will
have 22S men on hand. Taking out
the 79 negroes that are. included,
there will be bare margin over the
required number. This board had
not intendde to call any more men
for examination. However. to-day
the belief was expressed that more
men will have to be called in order
to secure the full quota of 255.
Rush Examinations
At the Headquarters of the Pax
tang board in the Dauphin Building
the work of examining is being
rushed in order that the required
number of men can pe secured. To-
day the board received from the dis
trict board "a names that were GER
titled. These, added to the II already
certified brings its total up to Gve
more tha mis- required to send on
September 10. A margin of five is
not sufficient and more names must
be sent in. This week so far 150
were ordered to report for examina-
ton in the first three days. The ma
1ority put in appearance and the re-
mainder of the 800 called will be ex.
amined before Monday.
PaXtang Board Safe
The PaXtang board is much better
off in this respect than the other two
boards. Steelton will eb fortunate
If it pulls through, while Elizabeth
vile is working to rush the names to
the appeal board.
At Elizabethville yesterday the
board examined Sd and of this num-
Der 80 passed and "a were dis
charged. Twenty-three asked ex-
emption and Z expressed their will
ingness to go to the Yront.
Taking into consideration the way
the district board has been acting on
the claims presented, the chances of
Dauphin county being fully repre-
sented Wednesday appear slim. Yes
terday the appeal board acted on 21
claims from Franklin county and of
this number sent back 13 for adj
ditional information. To-day tho
board acted on Ia claims from Fulton
county, denied granted. 2 and sent
back for more information. Twelve
claims from York NO. were acted
on, were denied and were grant
ed. One claim from Dauphin county
was allowed this being a man who is
engaged IN teaching engineering in
an industrial school in Porto Rico.
Most all the claims presented to the
board were on the grounds Of agri-
culture, onl ytwo being industrial.
May Cut Tape s.
REPORTS from Elizabethville to-day
staetd that this morning SO were
examined. OF this number 35 passed.
IS were discharged and claimed
no exemption. The chairman of this
board is hopeful of having Al men
ready While only 35 names have
been certified to this board. he feels
that with 70 men not claiming ex-
emption he will be able to secure the
extra II. This is a possible solution
of the troubles of the other boards.
too. IF the men who have not
claimed exemption are allowed to go,
then the full numbers in all the
boards will he certain. Perhaps the
red tape that is bound around the
working of the appeal board may be
cut and the men allowed to leave.
If this be the case, there will be great
rejoicing among the boards and a
great load will be taken from their
minds.
Demands Speed
Officers at the staet draft head
quarters to-day asked that members
of district appeal boards and local
boards speed up their certification of
men for the national army so that
PENNSYLVANIA will be able to send
forth its quota of men on tho first
call for Camp Meade next Wednes-
day. The quota was Increased yes
terday by an order from Washing
ton and the headquarters officers de-
clare that it will require much more
active work on the part of district
boards. The certifcations should be
started Mt once, rs the first of the
five movements of men to Camp
Mes de will begin on Wednesday, Sep
tember 10.
Detailed information has been sent
to local boards regarding the move
ment to Camp Meade and the rail-
road officials are now working on
plans for special trans from eastern
Pennsylvania. Movements to CamDe
Lee and Sherman are scheduled to be
made on the same day.
Men Ready For Service
The exemption boards at Paxtang
and Steelton have issued new lists of
names of the men who have been
certified to the appeal board as
ready for service in the new national
draft army. Paxtang has seventy
one men ready to go. while at Steel
ton, in addition to the twenty-seven
already certified by the appeal board,
112 more have been listed. Follow
ing is the list of those certified at
Steelton:
Peter Krahling. Steelton; William
Condran, Middletown; Juan Trevino.
Royalton; John Cersovic, Edgar Nc
Near. Charles II. Fisher, Thomas w.
Bouknight, George Blanheim, Will
liam Fl. Bowler, Charlie Bates. Mack
Morgan, Paul p. Rector, Joseph
Peter Boss, Steelton; John M. Shan
non. Searles II. Slack, Middletown;;
Robert r. Neusbeidle. Charles For
tune. Steelton; Allen f. Brubaker,
Paul Brown, Steel
ton; Elwood T. Neagle, Middletown;
Lemuel Fisher, Martin Carnok, Steel
ton; Ray L. Cover, Highspire;
c harle f. Shutter, Willie
Walker, Eugene Barber. Eugene
Franklin. Traiko Minaff. David Nor
gan, Winfield NJ. Sides. William
Washington, John Cassel, Steelton;
Kenneth Mays. Enos w. Burke, Waco
Navakavic, John Brown. Wesley Su-
ber. Avry Wise, Philip johnson, Will
liam Lamar. Stcelton.
John Ira Coble, Elizabethtown,
r. f. D., q; Samuel Daily. Joseph
Small, Harry o. Kitner, Nikola Jar
Josip Broski, Charles K. Messer-
smith, Robert Days. Ed. Baskin,
Steelton; Herbert II. Hoffman. Mid.
dletown: Laso Bentolac. Steeiton,
Jacob r. Stutzman, Highspire: Sino
Kosutich. Earl S. Bush. Steelton,
Almon M. Hoverling, Middletown;
Franklin washington, Walter Ashley |
Boyles. Jonah Brooks Steelton, Le- |
roy. Samuel Clouser MiddletoWn,