Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1917-11-17
NEW CLASSIFICATION
OF DRAFT ARMY MEN
Registrants Will Be Divided Into
Five Glasses to Fix Order
Of Call to the Colors

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The FIVE classes into which the
5000, 900 men registered for military
duty-and those who are registered
hereafter-are divided. and the order
in which they will be called for SER
vice were oficially announced We'd
nesday In the Provost Marshal Cen
erals QUESTIONABLE, which every reg
istered man must fill out and file.
The order shows some change from
the tentative draft published some
time ago.
Contrary to some published re-
ports, it does not exempt married
men as a class, but Il does place mar
ried men with dependent wives and
children far Own on the list of tables.
In fact the QUESTIONABLE indicates
that only men of the first class will
be called to the colors except In the
gravest emergency. The Eve official
classifications of registrants follow:
CLASS l.
(a) Single men without depend
ent relatives.
(b) Married men. with or without
children, or father Of motherless
children, who has habitually failed
to support his family.
(c) Married mar dependent on
wife for support.
Id Married man, with or with
| out children, or father Of motherless
children; man not usefully engaged,
family supported by income inde-
pendent of his labor.
(e) Unskilled farm labor.
(f) Unskilled industrial labor.
Registrant by or in respect OF
whom no deferred classification is
claimed or made.
Registrant who fails to submit
qsestionaire. and in respect Of whom
no deferred classification is claimed
or made.
! All registrants not included In any
other division In this schedule.
CLASS II.
(a) Married man with children
or father of motherless children,
where such wife or children or such
motherless children are not mainly
dependent on his labor for support,
for the reason that there are other
reasonably certain sources of ade-
quate support Excluding earnings or
possible earnings from the labor OF
the wife) available and that the re-
moval of the registrant will not de-
prive such dependents of support.
(b) Married man, without chill
| dren, whose wife, although the reg
istrant is engaged in a useful occu-
| patton is not mainly dependent upon
his labor for support. for the reason
that the wife is skilled in some spec
ial class of work which she is physi-
| cally able to perform and in which
| she is employed, or in which there Is
an immediate opening for her under
conditions that will enable her to sup
port herself decently and without
suffering or hardship.
(c) Necessary skilled farm labor
In necessary agricultural enterprise.
(d) Necessary skilled Industrial
labor in necessary industrial enter
prise.
CLASS III.
(a) Man with dependent children.
(not his own) but toward whom he
stands in relation of parent.
(b) Man with dependent. aged or
infirm parents.
(c) Man with dependent helpless
brothers or sisters.
Cd County or municipal ofncer.
(e) Highly-trained fireman or
policeman, at least three years In SER
vice of municipality
(f) Necessary custom house clerk.
| (g) Necessary employee Of United
States in transmission Of the mails.
(h) Necessary artificer or work
man in United States armory or ar
senal.
% Necessary employee in service
| or united States.
Cd Necessary assistant, associate
or hired manager of necessary az
ricultural enterprise.
(k) Necessary highly specialized
technical or mechanical expert OF
necessary industrial enterprise.
CLASS Nv.
(a) Man whose wife or children
are mainly dependent on his labor
for support.
(b) Mariner actually employed in
sea service of the merchant marine
of the United States.
(c) Necessary sole managing.
controlling or directing head OF nec-
essary agricultural enterprise.