The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-29
SECOND ARMY TO BE RAISED
Boards Will Get Busy Again Just a.
Soon as the First Draft Is Out
of Way.

of Way.
Topeka.-As soon as the first draft
ed army of $4,000 is raised, the War
Department will take steps to orga-
nize troops for a second and perhaps
third army. This information reach
ed here recently from Washington. The
War Department proposes to profit by
the experience in getting up the first
army. 1t now sees where the mistakes
were made and it hopes to avoid them
in the future.
Although the first army is about
raised and the prospects slim of the
second army being raised for four to
six months, everything is in an unset
tied condition. The young men who
registered are puzzled. They can not
find steady employment. Employers
of labor do not want to hire them and
train them only to lose them in four
or five months. The situation is really
working a hardship on the registered
men and is disturbing industrial con-
ditions.
About 100000 Of the registered
men were called before the first army
received it's quota. It is now planned
to call all the rest of the men, who
| registered, and have them examined
| and their claims passed upon. This
will release all of those physically IN
fit for army service and those entitled
to exemptions, and they will be en-
| abled to secure permanent positions.
| Slightly more than Is per cent of the
men who have appealed to the district
| appeal board in Topeka for exemption
from military service have won exemp-
lions. During the last week forty-six
of the 155 applications for exemption
won. The record since the opening of
sessions in Topeka shows 313 of the
1,156 applicants whose cases have been
determined, will stay at home More
than 100 appeals have gone to Presi-
dent Wilson.
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To Report Earlier.
All men who were granted temper
airy exemptions from military service
by the First District appeal board
must report to their local exemption
boards not later than October 1, the
board announced rec emily. Heretofore
exemption in some cases ran until
January 1.
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To Protect Camp Funston.
Plans have been completed for the
construction of a dixie to protect Camp
Funston, national army cantonment,
from the flood water of the Kansas
river and construction work will start
at once.
Many Marriages in Topeka.
. In three and a half months mar.
riages in Shawnee county have mum.
: bered more than in six months any
compiled in the office of Ralph Cav,
probate judge.
, Edward Fitzgerald, 90 years old, a
f farmers son, near Hope, was killed
= the other night when his motor car
| ran off a culvert. He was found IN
der the car the next morning.
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Frost Would Hurt Sorghum.
2 Development of grain sorghum has
e been slow and a killing frost before
! October would damage a large pei
5 cent. Seeding of wheat in Kansas
: has begun but win not be general fol
j another week.
Governor Capper Back From East
Governor Capper has returned from
/ two weeks trip in the East He
D spent part of the time looking after
S official business in Washington and
b the rest with his wife on the New
Jersey coast.
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Corn Nearly Safe.
+ Corn generally has passed the roast
u ing ear stage but viii require two tt
q three weeks more before it is SAFE
:, from frost Cutting Of early corn ha.
d begun in the extreme southern coun
e ties and filling of silos soon win b,
/. general
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, u. P. Signal Man Killed.
# R. L. Land, signal man Of the Union
v Pacific, while riding IN a motor tri
IS cycle on the track west of Solomon
d was struck by a freight train and in
stantly killed the other day.