Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-11
COPIES OF RULES
TO GOVERN DRAFT
ARRIVE IN OMAHA
Relative or Employer Of &
Drafted Man May Claim Ex-
emption for Him in Case
He Refuses to Himself.

Six Douglas county exemption
boards are ready for business as soon
as the government draws the num-
bers in the huge lottery for selective
army conscription.
These numbers will correspond
with serial numbers opposite each Of
the approximately 10000 names of
young men who registered June 5.
Every man drawn in Douglas coun-
tvs quota, which is expected to be
about 1,400, will then be subject to
army call, providing he does not ap-
pear before the exemption board in
his district, and show proper cause
why he should be excused.
Election Commission Moorhead
hopes the drawing of numbers in
Washington will have been made by
the last Of the week, but admits he is
as much at sea as the general public
as to just when the lottery will be
held.
Il and everyone else realizes the
suspense incident to the drafting of
men for the army, and / believe the
government realizes it, too" said the
election commissioner.
r Rules Arrive.
Exemption boards today received
copies of the official rules and regu-
lations governing conduct of the local
bodies.
These rules cover every angle and
phase of problems expected to come
up before the boards.
The boards will spend considerable
time from now till the time the gov
ernment advises them to begin work
studying the regulations and getting
ready for tasks before them.
One of the important points touched
upon is the rule governing residents
of Douglas county who, are now In
other parts of the country.
May Ask Transfer.
These individuals, who registered
here and elsewhere as residents of
this county, may go before exemp-
ton boards wherever they happen to
be when the bodies start their ses-
sions and ask that their hearings be
transferred.
The local board will then make re-
quest OF the foreign board to trans
fer the hearing.
Exemptions will not necessarily
have to be asked for by registered
persons themselves A relative or a
third person may claim exemption
for a registered man and appear be-
fore an exemption board in his be-
half.
Thus a wife. father OF a mother
could appear before a board and ask
exemption for young man. even if
the registered person himself did not
care. to do So.
=" Employer May Claim.
An employer could also claim ex-
emption for certain Of his men. il he
believed their services were of greater
need in some particular line of busi-
ness than in the army.
Husbands, who like Rip Van
Winkle, would welcome life in the
army as relief from matrimonial war-
fare, may find themselves out of luck
in case their wives get wind" of
their intentions and appear before ex-
emption boards.
The six district exemption boards
III Douglas county are as follows:
|. Twelfth and Fifth wards, fire
barn at Twenty-second street and
Ames avenue; w. G. Ure, chairman.
3 Tenth and Fourth wards, old
South Side city hall; J. J. Breen,
chairman.
g. Eighth and Third wards, Patter-
son block; w. w. McComb, chairman.
a. First. Second and Seventh wards,
court house; Clyde Sundblad, chair
man
5, Ninth, Eleventh and Sixth wards,
Judge Estelle's Office, court house;
Charles Foster, chairman.
E. Country precincts, DR.. w. r.
Reeds office, Benson; Oscar J. Pick
ard, chairman.