Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-19
DRAFTED MEN TO
HAVE NEW CHANCE
Voluntary Induction Details
Announced Today by Ad-
jutant General Beary

Adjutant General Beary to-day an
nounced the details of the "volun-
tary induction" plan for drafted men
to enter certain branches of the
United States Army. This will permit
men who did not enlist before De-
cember Is, to make application Ter
service. The effect will be to make
a recruiting station of the dratt
boards as each man must apply to
his own home board.
The order is as follows:
l: voluntary induction of certain
reglstrantS is provided for in Section
100, Selective Service Regulations
This section requires local boards TO
send the applicant for voluntary in
duction to the nearest mobilization
camp.
2. To provide a flexible system
winch will permit men to be sent TO
places other than mobilization camps
the following will govern as to the
disposition of men applying for in
duction under Section $50. This seq
tion must be strictly complied with
IN all other respects except that men
sneuld be sent to places herein in
dlcated instead of the nearest mobi-
llzation camp. Attention is directed
to the fact that no man in the cur
rent quota may be voluntarily in
Quoted and that credit for men so
lnducted Will be given on the quota
called for next after their induction
into military, and not on the current
quota.
3. Wh.te registrants desiring VOL
untary induction into the various
branches of the military service here
inafter named, will be sent by local
boards only to the points designated
as follows:
Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex.
Land division, signal corps. to
Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Medical department, to medical
otiicers training camp, Fort Riley,
Kan, by local boards west of Missis-
slppl, and to merical officers train
ing camp, Fort Ogelthorpe, Ca, by
local boards east of the Mississippi
Quartermaster corps, to Camp Jo-
seph johnson, Jacksonville, Fla.
ordnance department, to Raritan
Depot, Raritan, n. j.
Infantry, by local boards of Pa
ciiic Coast, to Fort Mcdowell, Cal,
by all other local boards to Camp
Greene, Charlotte, n. C.
Organization conditions are such
that only white men may be sent to
the places named in this order,
therefore no negroes will be inducted
under Section $50 until further or
ders Supply conditions are such
that no men at present may be in
Quoted under this method for service
in the cavalry, field artillery coast
artillery or engineer corps. Similar
conditions at the mobilization camps
prevent the sending to such camps
of men voluntarily inducted.
4. In sending men to the places
named in this telegram, local boards
will prepare three copies of form
No. 1929 for each man or group ac-
companied by two copies of form
1910 for each man. One copy each
of form 1929 and 1910 will be sent
to the camp with the inducted man
and one copy of each of these forms
will be Immediately mailed to the
camp after the man has been for
warded to camp, the third copy will
be held by the local board in a sepa-
rate file until further orders. / The
commanding officer at the camp will
accomplish the entries and certifi-
cate provided in form 1929 and on
completion thereof will mail one
copy direct to the provost marshal
general and hold the other copy un-
til further orders. In using form
1929 for voluntary induction as pre-
scribed in this telegram, local boards
will write across the face of the first
page thereof, in bold ink characters,
the word voluntary" and the word,
Infantry" "Quartermaster Corps
Medical Department" "or whichever
word designates the branch of the
service for which each man was in
Quoted. Where practicable, men
should be sent in groups even if il
is necessary to delay some applicants
as much as a week, but no delays in
excess of a week for any applicant
is authorized.
5. The attention of the local boards
should be emphatically directed to
the fact that this method takes the
place of voluntary enlistment and
since men inducted under this provi-
sion are to be sent for great dis
tances at considerable expense to the
government, the utmost care should
be exercised in their physical exam
ination and no man should be for
warded to any of the destinations
mentioned herein unless it is quite
certain that he is physically accept
able for military service and local
boards should be enjoined that they
are on their mettle to demonstrate
their efficiency as recruiting units
for our army.
6. Transportation from the local
board to the destination mentioned
herein should be provided as pre-
scribed in Section 10 and meal
tickets for the time necessary for the
Journey should also be provided by
the local board. Where the journey
requires over twenty-four hours,
tourist Pullman transportation may
also be provided by utilizing ordi-
nary transportation request for tour.
ist transportation, but where tour
ist transportation is not available,
standard Pullman accommodations
may not be furnished in any in
stance.
Z. Please communicate this order
to all local boards within your state
by mail without delay and without
change or elision.
CROWDER
Adjutant General Beary to-day an
nounced that Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder had approved ruling
whereby the affidavits of a drafted
man in the industrial statement Sec
| ton of the QUESTIONABLE could DC
certified to by the head of mill ur
department of a large works in
stead of the executive head of The
whole plant. The foreman of The