The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-09-24
EXEMPTION
CLAIMS TO
Be PROBED
Many False Statements
Made to Local Boards,
It's Charged

ll YOU have been exempted from
army service hy your local board be
cause YOU alleged sou bad deepen
dents, and il you lied abou, b, YOU
might as we'll begin trembling now,
because you are not going 20 get
away with b. That. in word Is
che warnihr sounded hy The dis
frict board whose duty 10 is 10 YER
f9 uch claims The district board
Is SONG after The slackcrs and
shlrkers with "a vengeance now, be.
cause SO many charges OF fayorit-
ism have been made
on FRIDAY the district board re-
yersed eight decisions W here local
boards had granted exemption pleas
OF men who declared they were the
sole support ~ dependents. and for
the iast few days The district board
has had every Investigator it could
engage looking up such cases
Friday morning severa young
men who call themselves The True
Blue Americans marched away 20
eutraln FOR Battle creek They
,aughed and shouted as they went
and appeared to Doe happy 10 saCri-
dce themselves and their careers
for The nations good bar before
they Went they complained Ca The
Times hat some ot their ncighbort
bad been exempted hy the board on
The ground hat they We're the solo
support ~ mothers. and they
charged that the exempted men mad
no resp possibilities at home FhrE
felf b. was unfair and while they
We're glad 30 De- az service 20 thr
country they said hey should like
% See some ut tbc silk stockings
81 their district ger into the sght
also
They sem 70 the local board
com alalni be which they named
nalfdozen exempted Young men De
clar.ng thar they had no claim for
exemption whatever one young
man. they alleged. obtained hiss OK
emption on the plea Thar be was the
sole support ~ his widowed mother
That mother. the young men Dc
clared has three automobiles and
haNdozen servants. all ~ whom
are paid from the mothers income
I'm addition She supplied the young
man who claimed exemption with
pocket money and hid con 'derab ie
left Another Of the ueignboFs or
fho "Trlr HJue who got OK so he
could support bus mother the
charge ser forth has hcen q bin
% expense to his mother FOR wear.
and she has p bushes fh8r makes
son and herself
Tho district board go' rs ntesti
gators or these cases st once and
ir Is believed that hy Monday tho
board viii have enough evidence fo
Justify II In reversing the local
board n lt is found that The youne
'slackers arc guilty OF perjury d
is also said that fhey VIII be- prose.
cuted 10 the United States courts
II is also charged that many fond
and wealthy parents have obtained
Jobs Tor their son IN shipyards and
other industrial plants so thar hey
could claim exemptions for them
Tn many cases. n is said the young
men are of no value 90 the plant
where they are employed and that
their employment is only a snbtef
fuEe Where ~ appears 20 the
board that men are so employed
only that they may claim eSemp
zion on industrial grounds. II is
threatened by officers OF the dis
tricr board that they viii not only
be- takon FOR army service. bui will
30 punished as we'll for their de
ception.
The district draft board has been
asked 20 reconsider the case Of Mar
tin Slnachai. No Asa Alexandrine-
ave east. whose wife has been try
ms in vain 10 secure HIS release
from The draft His claim FOR OK
emption was denied by the local
board and. thru ignorance. he neg
lccted 20 appeal. so there was moth.
ing for the district board 10 do but
certify his name 10 the sdiuiant-
general sinachaj should have gone
% Battle Creek. Friday, but about
the time be was due % reach camp