Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-18
II OF 80 FIRST
EXAMINED READY
TO GO IN ARMY
Lower End Draft Board Sur
prised by Number Who Do
Not Claim Exemption

Members os the first county dis
trict board set the wheels in motion
this morning for the examination of
the men called before them to un-
dergo tests for the national army.
OF the first thirty men examined at
Steelton twelve were passed and
placed on the roll of prospective SOL
diers for Uncle Sam. None of these
men filed any exemption papers. The
board of the first district is justly
proud of this showing and believe
that the quota will be reached when
the $40 men summoned have been
examined. Only six of the first thirty
were rejected for physical reasons
and dozen filed exemption papers,
four being aliens ana the other
eight having DEFENDANTS.
The draft board of the third
county district. at Elizabethville.
started work to-day passing on the
amined for the first three days. AL
ready two claims have been dis
allowed by them. More men will be
examined on Monday.
The dozen mer VINO did not claim
exemption after they had passed the
physical test and who will be among
the first to go on the county's honor
roll include the following, some of
them aliens who are willing to serve
the Stars and Stripes:
Charles E. Brashears, Highspire;
Henry Gray, Steelton; jeremiah Stet-
Ter, Middletown; Ervie Clouser, Mid
dletown; Joseph f. Smith, Steelton;
Ephraim Carter, Steelton; Powell
Felckick, Steeiton; Herbert B. Bar
bett, Middletown; lila Bilzo, Steel
ton; Richard j.. Otterbine, Steelton;
]. Robertson, Staelton; Jovan Kopic,
Steelton.
Five rooms on the second floor of
the Steelton Light and Power Com
pany are being used by the draft
board and their corps of extra ex-
amining physicians. In one room
DR.. ]. r. Plank. Steelton, examines
subjects head; DIR. H. H. Rhodes,
Middletown, and DR.. w. B. Kirk
patrick, Highspire, conduct the chest
and abdominal examinations, and DR..
b. l. Dickinson, Steelton, the board s
physician, conducts the anatomical
examination.
Four to Examine Men
With this method of examination
| no one of the registrants can possibly
! be discharged without having first
passed the tests of all four physi-
clans. Charles G. Cumbler and Alien
Drawbaugh, the other members OF
the draft board, are on hand also and
! supervise the physicians work.
! Only six of the men ordered to re-
! port failed to respond when their
names were called, but four of them
were expected to put in an appear
ance later in the day. There were
others who reported ahead of time.
John III. Phillips, 2119 South Second
street, was called, but he is with
Company 80 at the naval training
| station at Norfolk, Va. Another man
ordered to report this morning gave
notice to the board that he wants
to make arrangements to be examin-
ed in Bethlehem.
AS fast as the men are examined
they move out of the examining
room and go to the office where they
| file exemption claims, if any they
have, with Walter Keister, Steelton,
assistant to the clerk of the draft
board. Tive interpreters are aiding
| the examiners, William Starsinlc,
who helped at Paxtang, and Frank
| Morelli, Steelton.
When Starsinic is not busy trans
lating a foreign tongue he aids the
corps of stenographers which in
! cludes Glarence Snyder, one of the
clerks in the office of the County
Commissioners, Miss Sarah Dickin-
son, Steelton. daughter of DIR. Dick
inson, of the draft board, and Miss
Edith Maurer, Steelton.
Results of three days examina-
tions by the third county division
board, follows:
Passed
Passed: John Cador, Martin Me
mitz, Charles Seaman. Eugene Pink
erton, Harry Brown, John A. We'll
ker, Joseph Bond, Lloyd Bowman,
Harry Boyanowski. Ralph Grim,
Joseph Simmer. Robert Schriver,
Grover Mcbride, David White, Lloyd
Enders. Beecher Hay, Guerney
Keim, Loyal Finn.
-.- Rejected
Rejected: Samuel M. Baker, By
ron Forney, William n. Miller, Sam
pel Snyder, Howard Proudfoot, Will
liam Harmon, Harry Hoffman, John
| Stitch, John r. Forney, Claude
Heckert, John Goudy, Harry Bow
ers, Harry r. Walters, Roxie Matio
Eston Klinger, Lewis Donindiak, J.
/ Albert Mace, Nasil Yasanuki, How
ard Pritz, j. Rothermel, Daniel
Dockey, Mark Graeff, John Thomp-
son. Ralph Lehman, John Novinger
Clayton Sausser. James Herb. Fred
Retallic, Emory Kreiner, Charles
Harris, William Ibberson, Charles
Schoffstall, James Feister, Harry
Mick. Adam Prenzel, Frank Helwig
John Lenker, Ezra Koppenheffer
Eston Klinger.
! Claiming Exemption
Passed and claimed exemption
Roy Good, Moses Willard, Franl
Schaffner, Harry Machamer, Rob
ert Hoffman, Daniel Miller, JohI
Page, Harry Campbell, George Der
bert Charles Rummel, Charlie
Maurer. II. Barnhart James Sheib
ley, Ray Fetterhoff, Rudolph Golden