The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-25
LOCAL DRAFT
Turns OUT
90 MEN
WORK OF BOARD RESULTS IN
FILLING QUOTA
EASILY

QUOIA
EASILY
Three appeals we're taken yester-
day from rulings of the local exemp-
ton board. George Carroll, Glen
P. Jepperson and Will Falvey made
the appeals.
The Tonopah board has reported
the examination of AL G.. Fields and
the board at Telluride, Colo, has
reported on Charles r. Riley. Both
were certified as being accepted,
making Sc men from Esmeralda
county who have been accepted to
date.
Mondays nights Tribune gave the
number of men accepted as 53. This
number should have been "a, as
Will Falvey, who IA accepted late
in the day was not included in the
total, although his name appeared
in the list of those accepted.
1t is believed that this county's
showing in the draft examinations
has been excellent and that few,
if any, other counties in the state
can equal it. Despite a foreign
population hat was shown to have
been fairly large and the usual
number of valid dependent claims,
the quota was secured with ease
and with little trouble of my kind
to the board. The work has pro-
ceeded speedily and is practically
finished at a time when other
boards in this and other states are
still issuing calls for hundreds of
additional men to complete quotas
far from filled.
Board members believe that ex-
actly as they were drawn the eligi-
BILE men will enter the national army
and that every eligible man will
serve and that only Just claims have
been allowed. The lists have been
subjected to a rigid Examination
and while some eligibles may have
escaped, they have been few and
impossible to discover.
Complaint is heard in some quar-
ters regarding work of the board,
but this is believed to be unjustified
and to be expected.
Thousands of unfounded claims
undoubtedly were filed in all parts
of the country, according to Pro-
vost Acknowledgement Crowder. The
local board, in common with other
boards, and District Attorney Foley
requested that persons knowing of
c,,oh invalid oIoin,c n0fifu thn off
Gals and if persons making unjust
claims have escaped service. it is
the fault of no one but the per-
sons who knew of them without re-
porting. Persons knowing of such
cases may appear before the dis
trict attorney at n time, it is by
no means too late, and he will in
form them how to proceed.
Friends of Phillip c.. Shearer,
reported by the exemption board as
not having reported, state hat some
time ago he enlisted in the army
and is now at Angel Island, on San
Francisco bay. Army officials have
never reported his enlistment to the
local board. He originally register
ed his home address as Auburn, ILL.,.
and it is thought that in enlisting
he gave this as his home address.
so hat he has not been reported in
Goldfield, where his registration
card is still held awaiting a report.
OF interest to men who have not
yet reported for physical eXamina-
ton is the following recently issued
ruling of the provost marshal-gen-
eral:
Press reports and other ad-
vices received indicate that in
one or two widely separated dis
t%ricts. individuals, m~isinformed
as to the purpose of the law and
misguided as to its result, are
threatening forcible resistance to
the draft.
There is nothing to resist at this
stage in the execution of the law.
All male persons between the
ages of 81 and 80, inclusive. have
been enrolled for military SER
vice. A preliminary call has gone
forth to some such persons but
the immediate and actual object
of this call is merely to provide
an opportunity for such persons.
or for someone else in respect