The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-13
COUNTY APPELLATE BOARD
 ST0RMED BY EXEMPTION
 CLAIMANTS, SHUTS DOORS
Courthouse Is. damned With Men Seeking In- dustrial Exemptions Board Resumes After Policemen Make Or der Out of Chaos George c. Edwards Collapses From Over. work on Draft.

If the accepted national army men attack Germans the way candidates attacked the district exemption board office, at the county court house today, there will be no question of result. The district board was put to rout in about an hour and had to close it's office until arrange ments could be made to estab- fish an information bureau.
 Secretary Seth Low Pierrepont, E. W. Harral, members of the board. and Miss Florence L. Hamilton, who di- rects the work in the absence of the board members, were the target for questions of every kind fired contln- uously by the industrial exemption seekers who arrived at the office at the rate of 100 or more an hour. The office finally closed and three assist ants of the board lined the men who sought information in the hall. There each ones case was taken up and the work of the board was not longer in- terrupted.
 George c. Edwards, chairman of Local Division Board No. 1, has been forced to give up work as the result of the nervous strain he is suffering from attending to his duties. MT. Ed wards was advised week ago by doc tors to stop work, but made effort to continue until the latter part of last week when he was finally forced to give up The first division work is now entirely in the hands of Judge F. A. Bartlett, but he is resolving as- sistance from pfonninent men galled in to aid in the work. The illness of MT Edwards accounts in paH for the delay, but the board is keeping the situation well in hand and will finish on time
 The district board will receive all evidence in affidavit form from those desiring to present. evidence. Blanks are furnished for claiming exemption and filing appeals from the decisions
 of local boaards. but all supporting ev- idence must be sent to the board in legal, form made out by the persons seeking exemptions or those seeking the exemptions on behalf of others. l. This evidence, the board announced today may be as elaborate as the in dividuals desire to make it. Every scintilla of evidence must be includeds
 for once the case is passed upon and decided, it ei,l be closed. Tn the case of those wanting exemption on indus-. trial grounds, the evidence must cover these important points:
 First, the necessity of the occupa~ ton ito the maintenance of the mili-, tary establishment, the effective opera ] ion of the military forces, or the main- tenance of national interest during the emergency"
 Second, the necessity of the person in whose behalf the exemption is sought to the particular industry The claims must be filed within five days after the lists have been certified. Saturday was the last day for filing claims for exemption of those certified 1 last week by the first division board and State Division No. IA of Norwalk. | Many of the claims are in, but others will likely find that they didn't act promptly. Within five days after the actual filing of the claim, the evidence
 must be submitted suPpaEting thA claim. Esse zrs sEsss5t sssss F F ss It was apparent today that the dis 1 trict boards will have to pass on ap- peals from the physical findings of local boards One man appeared to- day and argued that his son, 23 years of age, being feet 6A inches tall
 weighed only 115 pounds and his chest | measurement at expiration was onss- ! 29 inches.
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