Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-03
DRAFT BOARDS MAKE
UP APPEAL REPORTS

UP APPEAL REPORTS
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made upon industrial and agricultur-
al grounds, while there are many
appeals from the decision of the
local boards.
Camp Opens Sept. 10
The report from the Adjutant
Generals office that Camp Meade Will
not be ready to open until September
10, has afforded local boards the
much needed time to complete all
their details. While a sufficient num-
ber of men have been certified by all
the boards to warrant five per cent.
of the quota by September 10, 1t is
certain that nearly the entire quotas
will be certified. This will help the
working of the draft system and
from now on everything is expected
to go on smoothly. On September
two counties of this district Will send
their first men to Camp Lee in Nlr-
ginia. Fulton whose quota is seven
ty-three men will send four, and
Huntingdon with a quota of 14O,
will send seven. The men who are to
go first from these two places Will be
certified the first thing at the meet
ing of the appeal board tomorrow,
and by nighttime their names will
have been sent back to their local
boards.
Rounding Up Siat kers
The draft board at Steelton is very
much occupied sorting out the
claims for exemption in preparation
to act upon them. Following action
report will be made to the appeal
board. Saturday a list of seventy
three slackers in addition to t.le
sixty previously announced were
given out. These men will be round
ed up speedily and brought before
the board. If they failed to show up
within a certain time they will be
certified as accepted and classed as
deserters from the United States
Army. There have been 917 men eX-
amined at Steelton and of this num-
her l56 have passed and not claimed
exemption. Two hundred and thir-
teen who passed claimed exemption
and these with the men who have
not shown up. are expected to make
up the required quota of 255. No
more men will be called from this
district.
Move Into City
The board of division No has
moved it's headquarters from Pax
tang to the third floor of the Dau-
day the new office had not been suf-
ficiently fitted up and the board en-
joyed a holiday. Beginning to-mor-
row and lasting until next week this
board will act upon exemption
claims and prepare a report for the
appeal board Next Monday the first
of the three hundred men called in
the third class will be examined. Sixty
will be examined each day until the
entire number have put in appear
ance. There have been los men GER
titled by this board out of the first
567. When the claims have been act
ed upon the entire quota of 1919 will
be complete.
The draft board of division No. 3
at Elizabethville, took holiday to-
day and does not expect to start eX-
again for a few days, dur
ing which time they will act upon
exemption claims. A list of those
who have been certified as subject
for military duty is as follows: Ray
w. Lenkcr, Millersburg; Ambrose
Cycowski, Lykens; Gordon Kuisey,
Joseph Bergdall, Thomas Rakofsky
and Mark Kilraine. Williamstown;
Harry Welker, Gratz; Daniel Sny-
der, GratZ; Sherman Liddick, Ray
Blaser and Raymond Green, Mil
lersburg; Francis Sheesley, Powl's
Valley; Jasper Reigle, Loyalton; Jo-
seph Long, and Ray Schwalm,
Eiizabethville; Myron Mutt. Sidney
Stanley and Charles Schreiner, Ly-
kens; Harry Alleman, Halifax.
Col. Frank G. Sweeney, officer i'll
charge of the State draft headquar-
ters, to-day telegraphed to the local
draft boards to notify him whether
arrangements for the dispatch of the
first men assigned to go to mobiliza-
tion camps had been made. The
men who will go this week will go to
Camp Lee and Sherman, those as
signed to Camp Meade being held
off until September 10.
To Keep Groups Together
Colonel Sweeney also warned the
local boards that only men who have
been called to go to camp are to be
considered as entitled to pay. Not
all men accepted for service are to
be certified for pay beginning Sep
tember 3, but only men called to go
on that day. The pay of the men will
begin on the day upon which they
are called, but they will be paid
from that time whether they are sent
to camps or held at home.
Special instructions have been
given to men in charge of the draft
ed men to see that the groups are
kept together, that each man Is pro-
vided with comfortable shoes and
that the groups are given final in
at local headquarters and
asked to make the movement a cred
1t to their community and the State.