Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-24
DIST. BOARD MAKES RULINGS AT TUCSON
 0N MARRIED MEN
No Claim Of Exemption to Be Allowed Unless Wife Is Li- able to Become a Public Charge.

The District Exemption Board at Tucson is still working on the claims from Cochise county and has denied a number of them. The following ac- tions were taken by the board in their session of Wednesday according to the Tucson Citizen:
 The district exemption board for the Second District today announced a rule governing exemptions on the ground of dependent wife and children. The following resolution was unani- mously passed:
 Tt was unanimously decided that for the purpose of uniformity that de pendents should be governed accord ing to the following rules insofar as such classes only are concerned, namely: A married man with no children shall not be exempted unless he clearly proves that his wife would become charge upon the community or that she is an invalid requiring personal care, attention and support of the husband, and a married man with a child or children will be ex- empted unless it clearly appears that ais wife and children will be provided for"
 Only one claim for exemption on in dustrial grounds was allowed among number considered by the district board at the session today, and he was merely given a three months respite.
 Ruling On Engineers.
 A rule in reference to engineering students at colleges was laid down in the case of Warner Austin Shattuck of Bisbee, a member of the class of 1918 in the Michigan College of Mines, who asked to be allowed to complete his course. His claim for exemption was disallowed.
 Walter H. Triplett, engineer of maintenance of way of the Nacozari railroad. asked an exemption so that he might get action on his application for admission to the engineering corps. He lives at Douglas. His claim was disallowed
 The only claim allowed was that of Lester C. Breniger, who has a ranch at San Simon. He was given three months to find a purchaser for his ranch or get someone to run it.
 The claim of Alexander J. Thomp- son, Jr., bean rancher and cattle rais- CT of Dos Cabezas was disallowed
 Other claims disallowed were: Lonnie Mart Fralie, rancher,- Tomb stone; Thomas Henry Short, rancher Pirtleville; w. A. Ingle, physically un. fit, Pearce.
 600 Fail To Report.
 A long list containing at least GOO names of those who failed to report in Cochise county were automatically drafted. They had been certified by the local board. A number of these men are in detention at Columbus, N M., being among those deported from Bisbee on July F, as l. w. W.'s What steps will be taken to apprehenG these men and place them in the army will have to be determined by the de partment of justice. Under the law they have lost the right to be exam ined and to file exemption claim
 The board met at II o'clock thi. morning at the office of John B Wright.
 New claims filed today were: Milt s. Frankvich, Bisbee. dependents, ap peal; Charles Harvey Young, Thatch CT, dependents. appeal.
 Many Graham County Appeals.
 w. R. Chambers, county attorne. of Graham county, has appealed il a large number of cases in which ex emptions were allowed by the loca board. Most of these were exemr tions on account of dependent rela tives. In two cases where men wer' discharged for being overweight Chambers alleges that he has ever. reason to believe that they will sool lose their surplus flesh. In anothe case where a man was discharged be cause his teeth were had, Chamber says he has every reason to believ that he has a good set of molars.
 Here are some new claims filed yes terday afternoon with the distric board: James F. Cheadle, Tombstone farmer; Casimiro Figueroa, Tomb stone, dependents; Walter H. TriT lett, Douglas, engineer maintenance of way Nacozari railroad; Alex. I Thompson. Jr., Dos Babezas. beal grower; Milton Carlsom. Pima, stool raiser; w. R. Smith. Stafford. depend ents; R. P. Freeman, Tucson, chickel raiser; Henry P. Boyd. Tucson, ma chinist's helper s. P. shops.