El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-11
WILL INSIST
QU0TAI5HIGH
Mayor and Judge Jackson
Leave Tonight To In
form State Officials.

Records not compiled.
Mayor Charles Davis and judge Dan
" Jackson viii leave for Austin to-
night. armed with complete data on
the local situation as regards the
army draft and will appear before the
governor and the adjutant general
with an urgent request that FL Paso's
quota be reduced, by reason Of the
fact that over so percent Of the total
registration in this city are aliens,
whereas the quota was based on the
entire registration.
The mayor and other citizens have
said they feel that unless some relief
is granted. the city viii be unjustly
supplying more men than It should.
and business viii be unduly affected
10y the drafting Of the new army.
City Beard Gets Six.
City board No held a short but
unusually productive session Saturday
morning. Desiring TO clear away the
mass Of clerical work accumulated
during the week, chairman j. F. VIII
lams had summoned only % men TO
appear Saturday. OF these, six were
finally accepted for the army, three
were rejected four claimed To- Doe
aliens, ana rEo claimed 20 have de-
peulents- Those accepted were
Clauue c. Lucas. BraZos flats.
John William ElIer. 40 Mesa
L. H. Holman. us Davis
Herbert r. woods, 6l5 North ore
walter C. smith, Central apart
kele Fox. az North FL Faso.
one man, El j. NIeiEer. who had pre-
F.Ously made am exemption claim, ap-
peaIel SaLul gay and withdrew IL He
res-ues at 5i5 River street
Those claiming dependents Sarur-
day were David T. Porter and Manuel
out Of FL Get IG.
g. 3. E-lluza. 900 s. Florence.
W. :. JessuT, 1925 Myrtle.
j. p Porter 5nI South St Erain-
David T. MUlsahy, 1923 Myrtle.
William A. Anderson. 4ZU1 Clifton.
william r. HutchisoE, Hammet-
and Alameda
o. T. Farrar. SIS Park.
blanchard Bell, 2916 Montana.
Juan T. Fi-ar. 500 south OcLCa.
Carl w. Il gh-OWer, Locke hotel
David z Cross, 290l Lebanon.
William E Greene. E P & s. "
yards.
Dick Ward. 17I2 Myrtle.
Lester r. Hazard. 5715 west
H. n. Johnson. s24 Magoffin-
u. j. smith, 1915 Elm
Du- Of III men summoned TO cD-
pear for examination Friday, city .
army exemption board No i secured j
only the above named 16 men for the +
draft Seventy-flve abSented them .
selves entirely while 81 claimed 70 be /
aliens. The following passed the 4
physical examination. but filed ey-
ruDrion claims on the grounds Of de- F.
ueuLeu-s-
Claim Have Dependents.
Antonio Auargulta. Ed Brannin, I
Dean 2. clark, Robert E Lee Magee, /
lose Granada. Arthur D. lIohr. Don
sI7 FUnsaker. Hollis r Johnson, .
T-o Woods. Forbes ParEhill Roy C. .
Traf-on. Antonio Flo-es. AleXander 2
Tru1r- Ulysses Trnat Brooks. Emile z /
Gufd-y. r. O. S1ea-s. Arthur E san
1crs Nicolas Candalaria. Julian OIL
srufn. P0Eer Brown. Homer W. Hill, /
F~ei n POvle. Louis R Duchou-
0uerte Harry Elias. John T Ma
honev. Pedro Duran, william Banks,
Manuel Phillips. George E Mead,
o. p Hubbard. Charles ". Rowan,
Ira r. Fi1de~. E~llf0 Luna Frank
Drown Zaca-ian Suchoch, Elmer 2
CeC-~e T. shaw. Louis NJ Rannister.
T.. N7varre+e Pichard r. Henderson.
Harry A. NFrTei- lean AEuilar- Law
renca T. Fillyar. c. NJ Fierro and T.
Give NT-yor Draft Figures.
Fo-ty-efvnr men had been accepted
for the draft h- city selective board
70. 2. and Is men by the county
hoard I'D To the close Of Fridays ses-
efo7r according TO data furnished
city clerk Jack Dawson as ammuni-
tfon for the rnavor in his forthcoming
annea-anCe before the adiutant gen
cral pr Austin with a plea 70 hove the
quota for this city reduced Figures
were furnished in detail by the two
boards as follows
County board-2O37 registered
about 1900 being 1IaTicans, 43S
cq1le7 for examinatiOn; 258 appeared;
$50 aheentaee- 124 claimed alien citi-
zanship- IS reierted by medical exam
ine~- is waived exemptions; SO
claimed dene0dentS- 2 claimed indus
trial eEeuDti0rs- 3 agricultural, and
one Government emplove-
CITY board No. 2-5576 registered
42A apDaa~a7- 226 abSenteas. Of which
755 have Mexican names: AZ claim TO
Exception claims; 4s accepted for.
County CrTs All RegiStrants.
Everv man on the list Of 2037 regis
tered I'm the county outside OF the
cit7-. for military service will he
called for examination, chairman A.
Boone said Saturday morning. Three
hundred are called for Aug IS. 400
for Au~ ! g. and 900 for AUG. Il. This
leaves $50 20 be called as fast as the
board con pre0are the lists.
No. I VO-rd Cells Wore.
At mon Saturday board No. issued
q call for $50 men, To aDDear Aug. Is |
=. is. in addition 20 the SOC called
previOuslv. Due to the fact that men
were called to appear before their
time for making exemption claims ex-
pired. the records OF city board No.
are not vet in shape 70 show how
many men have been accepted and
how many claimed exemptions. Judge
Z A Dale chairman. announced that
hy TONIGHT his board would be in a
position to give out this information.
BY that time. exemption claims on
file viii have been checked up and
entered.
It pays to palm with Patton's Sur