Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-10
DIVISION NO. 8.

The board in division No: 8, head
quarters at the city post office. today
passed on twenty-five claims for ex-
| emption and rejected fifteen Of them.
board on Tuesday, it was announced
today. The board has completed the
consideration of all cases in which ar
fdavits have been filed to date. 1t Is
now waiting for the completion of
| more cases. only fifty-seven of which
were pending. All aff1davits to support
claims for exemption must be in the
hands of this board by a week from
tomorrow.
Postmaster Merritt o. Chance. chair
man of the board. said today that he
would reopen number of cases, IN
| view of the ruling of Provost Marshal
General Crowder that a man should not
| be declared exempt from military serv-
| ice where the parents of a wife or the
| husband were able and willing to sup
! port the wafe while the man was in the
army, and also in the case of men
whose employers will continue their
| salaries.
| The board of division No an
| nounced today the following men
! today were certified for service
Henry kruse. 1912 K street north
| west; Garrett Ashby. 1900 Scott circle;
Samuel Madden Diggs. 617 23d street
northwest; James Theodore, 24Oe Vir-
Dorsey. 1119 goth street northwest:
Henry Charles Saunders, 1746 Massa
| chusetts avenue northwest; William
Wilson. 1850 goth street northwest;
| Louis NJ. Merrick, Pill Q street north
west; John Bernard Reside, jr.. 1886
street northwest; Harvey Perry.
| 500 21st street northwest; Richard
! George O'Dea, 1880 Massa chusetts
| avenue northwest; John Carl Owens
| 1885 L street northwest.
Clifton Augustus Brown. 72S goth
street northwest; William Ferbee, AL
exander court; Frank Newton Wilson,
so4 New Hampshire avenue northwest;
northwest; Arthur Watkins. 1924 18th
street northwest; Theodore Phillip ].
Williams, 1920 Goth street northwest;
Claude Alexander Miliken. 7o1 18TH
erly, $50 9th street northwest: Herman
Monroe Jackson, 2205 l street north
west: William Arthur Cobb, 504 18th
street northwest; Ernest Preston Allen,
| o24 18th street northwest; William
Thomas Diggs. SIT 23d street north
| street northwest: Albert Washington
Garner. 1904 1 street northwest; Fred
erick William Nehb. Y. NJ c. A.
The following claims for exemption
the men certified to the District board
| as discharged: Nicholas Joseph Car
della, 1919 Goth street northwest wife
and three children; Arthur James
| SnuRdIS, ISu 1olH street HoEtHW COL,
wife and child, and Charles Howard
Freyer. 1924 @ street northwest, wife
| Isle Frederick Rice. $50 21st street
| northwest. in naval service; George Al
fred Huckin, 2217 n street northwest
minor; L. L. Humphrey, $50 23d street
northwest, wife and two children; Carl
Henry Yantz, GIL 23d street northwest
| in military service; James Marshal!
Carpenter. 90 O'Brien court, wife and
child: William Druitt, 1851 21st street
northwest, wife and child; Thomas G.
Wall, jr., 2210 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. wi1e and child.
| The following men today were GER
titled for military service by division
| No. 3, their claims for exemption hav-
| ing been disallowed:
Charles Russell Crosby, 1910 X street
northwest, widowed mother, ruled: can
provide support on army pay. William
Henry Degges, mother and sister under
sixteen, ruled: can provide support on
army pay. William A. Cumberland, 926
! 26th street northwest. wife, ruled: can
provide support on army pay. Hymen
Popkin. 1926 P street northwest, aged
and inflrm. parent and United States
employe, ruled: can give aid on army
pay.
4 John Henry Thomas. 2616 I street
northwest, widowed mother; ruled. car
provide support on Army pay. Costello
Craig. 1905 gath street northwest. now
of Fairmont, w. Va, wife and child
claim approved by West Virginia loca
| board; District of Colum bla board de-
clined to accept findings of West Vir-
gina board, ruling that man could pro-
vide as much support on Army pay
Daniel Henry Sicily. 174s Q street north
west. widowed mother: ruled, can give
4 as much aid Army pay. Raymond
Il D. Hart, 2044 L street northwest; claim
made by Rev. c. T. Benjamin or
grounds of wife and member of reli-
sious sect opposed to war. Joseph
Wynder. 1907 18th street northwest
wife; ruled. can provide support on
Army pay.
Herman Fink. 1743 F. street north
| west; mother and brother under six
teen. U. S. employe: ruled has no sole
dependent; Francis Moteika. 1929 New
| Hampshire avenue northwest; wife, IA
Their and mother; Louis Francis Rosen-
| busch. 2116 P street northwest; wife;
| William R. Wicks. 1925 21st street
northwest; wife and mother.
The following men withdrew their
claims for exemption and We're certi-
| fed for service: Edward Mortimer
! Gray, 81 21st street northwest, L. S
| employe. and Carl Brown, 1900 New
| Hampshire avenue northwest, aged ia
| Their.