Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-30
MEDICAL STUDENTS
FREE FROM DRAFT
With Hospital Internes Thew
Are to Enlist in Re-
serve Corps
PRESIDENT MAKES ORDER

Hospital nterns and medical stuao,,.
Of the fourth, third and second ve,r,
exempted from the operations =, a.
selective draft act and permitted to e,,,.,
in the Reserve Corps of the resuiar .
by supplemental regulations issued tod.y
by President Wilson. The order makes nr.
vision for those already examined ana -.
cepted under the first call as well a. ths..
in the second draft. ''
The President prescribes the follov,,.
supplemental regulations governing ,hs
execution of the selective service law:
First Hospital internes who are sr,a-
yates of well-recognized medical scbooi.
or medical students in their fourth. third
or second year in any well-recoeniy.s
medical school, who have not been caiIsS
by local board may enlist in the on.
listed reserve corps provided by Section ks
of the national defense act. under reyu.
1ations to be issued by the surgeon gen.
cral, and If they are thereafter called bv
p local board they may be discharged on
proper claim presented on the ground tb.,
they are ire the military service of ths
United States.
Second A hospital inferno who is .
graduate of well-recognized medical
school or medical student in his fourth
third or second year in any wel-recos.
nzed medical school, who has been called
by a focal board and physically examined
and accepted. and by or in behalf Of
whom no claim for exemption or discharrs
is pending, and who has not been ordered
to military duty. may apply to tho sur.
geon general of the army to be ordered
TO report at once to a local board for
military duty and thus be inducted into
the military service of the United States
Immediately thereafter to be discharged
from the National Army for the purposs
ha cd
of the Medical Department. with every
such request must be inclosed a copy oft
the order of the local board calling him
to report for physical examination tform
1888. affidavit evidence of the status Of
the applicant as a medical student or in
tcrne. and an engagement to enlist in the
enlisted reserve corps of the Medical Do
partment.
Upon receipt of such application with
the named Enclosures. the Surgeon Gen
eral will forward the case TO the Adiu-
tant General with his recommendations
ThereuDon the Adjutant General may is
sue an order TO such inferno or medical
students to report to his local board for
military duty on specified date. in per-
son or by mail or telegraph. as seems
most desirable. This order may issue
regardless of the persons order Of lia-
bility for military service.
From and after the date so specified
such person shall be in the military
service of the United States. He shall
not be sent by the local board to a n1obi-
lization camp but shall remain awaiting
the orders of the Adjutant General Of the
army. The Adjutant General may forth
with issue an order discharging such per-
son from the military service for the
convenience of the Government.
Three official copies of the discharge
order should be sent at once by the
Adjutant General to the local board.
Upon receipt of these orders. the local
board should enter the name Of the man
discharged on form 164 A. and forward
form 164 A. together with two Of the GER
titled copies of the order of discharge, to
the mobilization camp to which II fur
nishes men. The authorities at the mob-
lization camp will make the necessary
entries to complete form 1874 A, and will
thereupon give the local board credit on
its net quota for one drafted man.