New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14

Saturday $50 drafted men will be
contributed to the National Army by
boards SO to -, 1855 20 l64 and ia TO
III The rest of the local boards ID
TO %. lS6 TO 1879. rs to IS, 17S TO 119,
l65 TO 17S, $50. ISL, 1s2. lS4 and lS5-
will send .675 selected men 70 Camp
Upton on Sunday, September %.
John Angelus. an Austrian, who was
7 originally ordered to report at Camp
Upton this week. probably will join the
second contingent. Judge julius NJ.
Mayer decided yesterday that though
Angelus is an alien he will have to
serve, because Local Board 1855 and the
district board had certified him for SER
vice. The significant point was Judge
I Mayors opinion that the courts have
no jurisdiction to review the actions of
the local and district boards in approx
ing men for service in the National
Army. He dismissed writ of habeas
corpus obtained by Charles Recht, an
attorney.
Will Appeal to Higher court
= The failure of Angelus to comply
with the technical requirements of the
law in filing his claim for exemption
was given as the reason for retaining
him for military service. Angelus.
who is twenty-five. will take the case
to the Court OF Appeals.
A ruling from the provost marshal
regarding the status of public service
corporation employees under the draft
will enable the District Board TO pass
on cases which il has held up for sew
eral weeks. Former Justice Hughes
announced yesterday afternoon that
-a1 ral nj 4a1 I'd
press company employees are to be ex-
emp.ed from the draft, under the
new Interpretation from Washington.
where il can be shown that they are
necessary to the prompt dispatch Of
business.
The board applied the new rule in
three cases yesterday. George W.
Williams, a locomotive engineer Of the
New York. New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, and William Stevenson. an
engineer Of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, were discharged because
officials OF the railroad asserted that
engineers are hard to obtain and are
necessary TO the prompt movement of
trains. Arthur Hamlin, cable oper-
ator of the Postal company, also was
exempted.
Consideration of 2,O55 cases consti-
tuted days work for the board yes
terday. OF these $50 were formal
appeals from the Provost Marshal. and
only twenty were successful. OF the
appeals by conscripts from the deci-
sions of the local boards 13l were
granted and 230 denied. Forty-eight
original applications for discharge for
industrial reasons were successful and
thirty-siX failed.
+. A. Guggenhem Is Exempted
The request for exemption of Edward
A. Guggenheim, chairman of the eS-
ecutive committee of the Chile Copper
Company, caused a stir among the
members of the board. Louis Marshall
/ said the young man was as essential
Z TO the defence of the nation as a brig
adler general in the army.
In his aflidavits GugGenheim said
he was necessary in the administra-
ton of the affairs Of the government
as an expert mining engineer in a
company whose annual business
amounts TO 100000, and said he was
the inventor of new smelling process
William y. Dyckman, who reported
on the case. urged his exemption. but
Senator George b. Agncw called for
the papers, and said he did not be-
lieve Guggenheim's appeal had estab
lished proof that he had sufficient
technical knowledge to be indispen-
sable. The board decided in Guggen-
. helms favor.