The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-11
NEARLY THREE HUNDRED
HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED
Richmonds Exemption Boards Have
Draft Work Well In Hand and
Running Smoothly.
APPRESIARLE REDUCTION
OF EXEMPTION CLAIMS
Henrico Board Busy, But Runs Out
of Exemption Enthusiastically Of
ficfaIs Contribute Fund to Have
Blanks Printed.

With nearly three hundred men al
ready certified TO the district board
as being ready for military service,
and the work of the five local exenp-
ton boards of the city being rushed
with all vigor, 1t is considered high
ly probable that Richmond's quota Of
7ss men will be ready for the gov
eminent when the call for men to
entrain for the army camps comes on
September /. Records show that l.
3ss men have been examined by the
boards of the city on the first call for
men, and out OF this number about
$50 are ready for service, 5o7 have
been rejected. and 523 have filed
claims for exemption. Half OF these
claims will probably be rejected.
which, viii III We fs focal Ts7eT1s eertb}sa'
to the district board Of about five
hundred. The examinations OF tho
men on the second call of the boards
are now under way, and with fewer
exemption claims. Il will not be diff
ficutl to round out the 7ss.
There was an appreciable falling
off in claims yesterday at Division NO
3 when out OF ninety men examined.
OF those found acceptable thirty de-
appears that the young men, seeing
the futility of making claim wheth-
err there is reason or not, have re-
signed themselves to the inevitable,
and are ready to FIJI the place pre-
pared for them in the big army. All
OF the boards are looking for fewer
exemption claims from all future reg
istrants called. In Division No. 5 out
OF ninety men passed physically, TWEEN
ty-nine refused to claim exemption.
These names are stated elsewhere TINS
morning in this paper.
Engaged I'm denominations.
All Of the boards are now engaged
in re-examinng men who were re-
tected when they first appeared. but
who, on account of recent rulings OF
the provost marshal, will make &C
ceptahle for service. Several OF such
men passed at Division No. yester-
day, and will he placed In the army.
One hundred men were examined yes
terday in this division. many of them
being accepted. and others making
claims which, in numerous instances.
will not be acted favorably on by tho
board.
Division No. rs preparing to call
additional men for next Wednesday,
when nifty will be examined. 1t ts
probable that a SUFFICIENT number OF
men will be accepted in this number
to make the quota OF the first division
complete. Today Division No. will
complete the examination Of tho last
ninety men called by the board this
week. Out Of the 270 men who have
been examined by this board this
week, II Is believed that more than
100 will be accepted. Yesterday d.
vision No was engaged In re-exami-
pattons and working on a report of
the frst call made by the board. This
will be ready today, when an an
nouncement Of the figures will be
made by j. r. Phillips. Jr.. chairman
OF the board.
Henrico At Work.
At the Henrico county courthouse
the examinations Of men from the
county was completed. The majority
OF the men were passed by the physi-
clans but exemption claims were
numerous. On account Of having
more requests for forms on which
to make exemption than was expected
by the government. the Henrico board