Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
DRAFT CALLS OVER
UNTIL NEXT QUOTA
Boards, However, instructed
to Send Men Selected Under
Old Regulations.
D. C. SELECTION COMPLETE

Provost Marshal General crowder to.
day announced there will be no more
formal calls for deferred percentages
of the present quota of National Army
men before February Is.
while boards should. until they
have enough men finally classified in
class /, send forward promptly men
selected under the old regulations to
make up deficiencies in calls already
made" states Gem Crowder. the re-
suit Of this decision will be that we
shall be able to give the benefit OF the
new classification system to all men
whose order numbers are SO late as to
place them within deferred percentages
Of the present call"
Boards are notified also to expect
very shortly calls for men skilled in
special lines Of work. This presages
calls for workmen other than brick
layers, of whom 1000 are needed by the
Army.
Urges Wide Publicity.
Gen. crowder, in speaking of the
order, said the information ought to be
composing the public mind and for the
convenience OF registrants."
Since the Districts quotas are prac-
tically completed. the effect OF the or
der Is that there will be no more calls
until the second draft, with the excep-
ton of such calls as may be made to
skilled workers and to fill tho places OF
men lost at Camp Meade for whatever
reason.
Indications today are that physical
examine ton of men placed in class one
will begin in about ten days. Classin-
cation of the registrants returning the
first per cent quota of questionnaires
must be completed by the local boards
within five days to the District board,
which Is required to consider first the
appeals of all men who have been
placed IN class one by the local board
AS rapidly as registrants are definitely
placed In class one: either through
failure to appeal or through the denial
of an appeal, their physical examina-
tions will be ordered.
Police today were busy seeking delin-
quent registrants who have failed to
return within the time specified ques-
tionnaires mailed them by their local
boards.
Boards to Decide Action.
AS fast as they can be rounded up
they will be taken before the boards,
which will determine what further &C
ton is to be taken. If the delinquency
appears TO De WllIIul, Inc ooAIoS lie .
no alternative but to report the offend
ers to the United States attorney for
the District Of Columbia But IL a sat-
isfactory explanation Is made it is
within the province of the board to ex-
tend the delinquent more time in which
to file his claims for classification.
One board today reported seventy
nine deliQuents in those registrants to
whom questionnaires were sent Decem-
Der Is and IT. large number Of
these, 1t is believed. are men already in
the service who were under the impress
sion that they did not have to answer
the QUESTIONABLE.
Each day a new batch Of delinquents'
names, corresponding with the per
cent allotments of Questionnaires
mailed out will be turned over to the
police until the list 10 exhausted. The
local guardians OF the law have. ave
days. under the regulations, In which TO
Investigate each group of deifnquents.
Order numbers included in, today.s
mailing of questionnaires were as fol-
sion No. 2, 1s51-213o; division No: 3,
l5s7-1732; division No. 4. 1471-l608;
division No. 5, 1677-1s27: division No. s.
1912-2o90; division No. I. 1o01-11oo:
division No. 8, 19a2-2111; division No. 9,
l3l1-1442; division No. 10, 1706-1S65.
and division No. II. $4,000.