Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-10-12
LOCAL DRAFT ARMY
IS ALL MIXED Up
DISTRICT BOARD BALLS up
RECORDS-NOW STRAIGHT
ENING AFFAIRS OUT,

Before the final Is per cent Of the
first draft Of the new national army
goes to Camp Lewis, American lake,
clerical errors made by employees Of
the four district boards will have to
be Strengthened out and an official
report also made to each local board
by the adjutant general as to the
number of men accepted at camp out
of the S5 per cent already sent there.
Twenty-one men are scheduled to
60 from Thurston county in the last
contingent, which 1t is expected will
be ordered to report about October
20. The board in this county, how
ever, as in nearly every other regis
tration district in the state, is con-
fused by clerical errors in the office
of the district boards, and the men,
bership of the final contingent will
not be known until the board for the
Southwest Washington district gets
it's records Strengthened out.
Certified Out of Order.
The chief error has been that the
board, through the failure of a clerk
to take the records out of the fling
cases in order, did not certify regis
trants in rotation, and as result
there are men now at Camp Lewis
whose order numbers run in the zoos,
while there are q men here at homo
whose order numbers are less and
who ought to be at camp in their
place but were not ordered to report
through the failure of the district
board to certify their names to the
local board.
This condition of affairs was dis
covered when the local board went to
Tacoma the latter part of last week
for a conference with the district
board. to find out what had happened
to those cases upon which 1t had re-
ceived no report. Investigation of
the records revealed that the girl
employe who had charge of
the records for this registration dis
trict failed to take these cards out Of
the fling case in the proper order
and that consequently they had never
been before the district board.
That body Immediately began con-
sideration of these cases and made
it's certification to the local board
this week, SO that 1t now has cor
rect list OF final action on the claims
of all registrants examined to date.
Inasmuch as there are q Of these
"out-of-order" cases and the county
has to furnish only 21 more men, the
next question to be solved is the dis
position to be made of those already
at camp whose order numbers are
higher than those of the men who
will compose the last contingent and
who constitute a surplus above the
county's quota.
Whether they will be held at
camp, now that they have been there
for some time. or whether they will
be discharged for the present and
pet mitted to return to their homes,
the local board does not know. A
similar condition of affairs exists in
nearly every registration district of
the state. it is said, and the adjutant
general and the regular army officials
are trying to straighten 1t out When
their decision is made, the last con-
tingent of the quota will be ordered
to report.
District Boards Decisions.
The district board took the follow
ing action on Thurston county cases
this week:
Certified for service-Lion McEl-
fresh, Walter w. Lohrer, C.. H. A..
Mcdonnell, Burton w. Meacham, AL
bert Edward Smith. Arley d. Mills.
John William Miller, Oscar Benson,
Leo Edwards, Edwin Travis Aver,
William Henry Cheadle, Clarence
Morris, Howard Stofford, Harry X.
Reed. G. U. Hamerschmith, Fred M.
Mills. Albert Ross Galloway. Milton
A. Harrison. Daniel Whipple. Cecil
T. O'Neil. Guy F. Overhulse, Benedict
Leitner. Clifford Miller. Dean Greg
ory Pickett, Neil Nelson, Carl NJ. Hin
derlie. Richard E. Norris, Joseph An
ton Rollman, Otis c. Hastings, Ed
ward L. Sheehan, Ralph A. Reischl.
Andy ]. Kirkness. Alland Hutchinson,
Ole Ness Egge, George H. Colmer.
Chas. William Meyer. Charles Kruger,
John s. Mossman, Gustav Peter Prem
zlau. James Roy Wood, Giovanni