Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-24
DISTRICT BOARD DEALS
EXEMPTION DENIALS
To MANY CLAIMANTS
Four Farmers, Five With De-
pendentS and Four on Phys
icar Grounds re Refused Dis
charge From Service

Resuming work Thursday morning.
the district seIective service board for
the northern district OF Georgia at a
morning session. considered sixteen
cases. denied fourzappeals on agricul-
tural grounds. five on grounds OF hav-
ing dependents. :our on physical
grounds and granted the appeals OF
three persons based on having de-
pendents-
The cases before the board Thursday
follow: Clifford ". Gentry. Palmetto.
farmer. claim denied: Thomas Daley.
Fairburn. farmer claim denied: Inman
Smith. Fairburn, farmer. claim denied;
Charles NJ. Byrd, Palmetto, dependency.
appeal granted: H. NJ McLarin. Fair
burn. dependency, appeal denied; Thorn
as E. Hindman. Union City. dependency,
claim denied; A. G.. Hudson. Palmetto,
dependency. appeal granted; Paul P.
Patton. Palmetto, appeal on physical
grounds. denied; H E Pollard, Red
Oak. dependency. appeal granted; Rocha
Nix. Fairburn, physical grounds, appeal
denied: Robert Benson, Red Oak, phys
fcal grounds. appeal denied; Earl Clos
son. Fairburn, physical grounds, appeal
denied: Isaiah Palmer, Fairburn, de-
tendency, appeal denied; William s.
Simpson. Union City, farmer, claim de-
MED; Guy V. Reeves. Palmetto. de-
tendency, appeal denied; Elvin Rainey,
Fairburn. dependency, appeal denied.
QUOTA NEARLY COMPLETE
With one exception Atlanta selective
service boards have filled their quota
and have a few men over 70 spare.
The exception. local board for divi-
sion No 8 Sixth ward, began Thurs
tay the examination Of 165 men, called
fl. lots Of ifty-five each for Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. From these the
board expects TO NIL up. As matters
now stand the board has 81 men that
have passed the physical examination
and did not claim exemption In addi-
ton IL has a large number Of cases in
which the men called did not report for
examination It's quota is 1ss.
Division No. First and Fifth
wards) at noon Thursday reported l56
men ready for military service The
board completed Wednesday afternoon
what IS expected TO be its last examina-
tions. From the cases pending and
the men certified to the district board
after not reporting for examination this
division hopes 10 secure enough to bring
its total up 10 155, its quota. The board
will begin consideration OF pending
cases Thursday afternoon Il has
list OF about IS that failed to report
for examination
Division No Second ward. with
a quota OF 10. has ITO men ready for
service II also has about seveRty-tive
men 20 be certified after failing to re-
port for examination. This board has
called $50 men for examination next
Monday and Tuesday in order TO be sure
of having a sufficient number of men
at the proper time
With a total of 12s men ready for
service and a quota of only ITO. local
board for division No CThird ward) is
now resting easy and on Thursday de-
livered its last list OF certified men to
the district board
In division No Fourth ward
Thursday members Of the local board
were busily engaged in checking up the
men that are available for military
service and that can be modified at
once Such men numbered 157, while the
boards quota is I54. This board has a
list OF fifty delinquents that It has GER
tilted and. feels assured that further
calls for examination will not be nee
essary.
Division No. CSeventh and Tenth
wards already has certified 90 men.
Its quota is SIS.
Division No. eighth and Ninth
wards has sweIled it's total certihca-
tions to $50, with the addition Of ten
names on Wednesday. The boards
quota is 129. which il feels It has filled
1t also has about thirty cases in re-
serve from which several other men are
sxpeced 10 be obtained.
FARMERS MUST SERVE.
When the cases of two farmers-the
first to come up-were reached by the
seIective service board for the north
ernoon ones claim for exemption was
denied while the other was excused until
January 1 in order that he can gather
his crops.
During its session Wednesday aft
ernOon the district board passed on
thirty-five claims. finishing the cases
sent to IL from Atlanta local boards
and going into the list coming up from
Campbell county The result was that
twenty-fOur claims were denied and
eleven granted OF those granted four
were for having dependents. four on
physical grounds. two being already in
the military service and one on agricuI-
tuTal grounds.
The farmer who was denied exemp-
tiOn is Harold Cantrell Mckenzie. of the
PeaChtree road. while the one that was
excused until January /, Is Grady Bry-
an Thames. OF Red Oak. Campbell
county
Thames applied to the district board
for exemption on the grounds thrt he
has a four-horse crop ungathered and
that IL is up to him 10 see that the
harvesting is done He stated that after
this had been done he would be ready
for service in the armS-
Mckenzie asked exemption on the
grounds that he was farmer, had en-
gagged in farming in Fulton county for
several years and had just closed A
lease for a farm in DeKalb county eff
fective January I, on which he intends
to raise hogs and food crops