Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
NEWS. OF STEELTON
156 QUALIFIED
FOR NEW ARMY
First Board Calls $40 to Get
This Number; $50 Were
Discharged

or the five hundred and ten men
composing the first call of District
No. ! of Dauphin county, one hundred
and f1fty-siX men have qualified for
service in the new draft army which
is now being raised. In this number
are included a number of aliens whose
claims for exemption on the ground
of being aliens may lower this total
IL allowed.
OF the above total $50 men were
discharged and the remaining 1O4
men were not passed but are being
held for further consideration. 1t re-
quired five days work on the part Of
the board members to examine the
$40 men. 1t has been announced by
the board that Steelton has sixty
slackers, or men who did not turn
up to be examined on the dates set
for them to appear.
The stenographers employed by the
board have made a typewriter list of
these slackers on yellow sheets, which
Will be turned over to the police of
Steelton. According to the boards
instructions. issued by the War De-
partment, these slackers, if they do
not Immediately appear for physical
examination will be placed in the NH
itary service without such eXamina-
tion and they will be given no chance
to file exemption claims.
The board yesterday examined sew
enty-eight of the second section of
the 400 additional subjects called to
furnish the quota for the first army
and fifty-seYen were found physically
qualified. Twenty-Five men failed to
report for examination and twenty
one were found deficient.
Exemption claim blanks were OBJ
tained yesterday by twenty-three
subjects, who want to be excused
from service on account of depend
ants, and by eleven aliens.
List of SIackers
The following list of alleged Steel
ton slackers was issued this morning
by the District No. war board, which
has its headquarters in the Electric
Light Building, 40 North Front street:
Vertalli Pasquale, 527 S. Second;
Steve Marinkovic, 729 Francis; Leroy
Shlters, Locust Grove; Oliver Mercer,
779 South Fourth; Suarez Maslinger
Harry Rough. 73S South Second; Win
fred Toliver. T19 Third; Dimitar
Grmusa, $40 South Fourth; Anthony
Selikos; Pero Cavic. 716 South Fourth
john Monteevis. Second Precinct, First
ward; Charlie Bates, 767 South
Fourth; Willard Plum; Niki< Vojno-
vic. 72s South Third; Jsvo Dmitrovic.
6SS South Third; Frank Novak, 5S1
South Fourth; Edmond Deref. Locust
Grove; Eugene Barber, 772 South
Third; Shake Bland, 129 Adams; Will
liam Lamar. 353 South Fourth; Will
liam Henry Carter, Locust Grove;
Stanko Tarabio. Chambers; Tom Will
son, 10 Cumblers Row; Matais Su-
cevic, 657 South Fourth; Richard
Scroggins, 25S Ridge; Marion Johnson
41O Ridge; Reedie Mincy. 200 Adams
John Matena, 154 Ridge; julius 10
ten, 211 North Second; James Van, Iii
Adams; Harry Tuptanoski, 613 North
Third; William Timberlak, 230 Adams;
Emanuel Brown, 215 North Secind:
James Anderson. 446 Ridge; William
Washington, 14s7s Adams; aJmes Ed
ward Stephens, 145 Adams: George
kackey, 502 Ridge; Joseph Small, 32l
Ridge; Robert Anderson, 3O4 Ridge;
Grover White. 321 Ridge Steve Marin
kovic, 211 Francis; Robert Arnold
Chinn, 205 Myers; Jose Rodriguez, 261
Myers; Leroy L. Johnson, AZ Furnace;
Drago Valetic, 246 Christian: Peter
Baroto, 446 Myers; Jose Rozas, 261
Myers; Nose Smith, Smith avenue: Lee
G. Sheppard, 10 Furnace; Charles Cor
rell, So Furnace; Frank Rafaj. 166'
Frederick; Joshua Burell. 476 Myers;
euro. Drovicj. 24S Myers; Charles A.
Specht. 239 Christian; Eduardo Duran
261 Myers; Modesto Verdin, Pei Myers;
George Burell. 476 Myers; James Hab-
beor. 62 Furnace; George Spiridon.
32S Christian.