New-York tribune., 1917-07-26
Whitman Picks
. Boards to Pass
! On Exemptions
Hughes, Straus and Robert
w. Chambers Among
70 Nominated
First Thirty to Serve
/ In Greater New York
viii Be Appellate Courts
After Ruling by
Local Exemptors

Albany, July Ex-Governor Whitman
announced last night, after he had for
warded to Washington his nomina-
tions, the names of seventy citizens OF
New York State selected for service
on the district boards" for exemption
of drafted men which are called into
being by Section 81 of the draft regula-
tions.
These boards will have primary juris-
diction over all vocational exemption
claims and will sit as appellate courts
in disability or other cases taken up
by the government or individuals after
ruling by the local boards.
First 30 May Serve in City
After the Governor had issued his
statement announcing the nomination
Of members Of the district exemption
appeal boards he left for New York.
There was nothing in his statement
20 indicate what men were to serve in
anv specified district and no one IN
the Governors official family or in the
Adiutant Generals Office would add
anything to the Governors formal an
nouncement.
1t was stated unoficially By one Of
the Governors assistants that prob
ably the first thirty named would
serve in greater New York and the
others in the Federal judicial districts
in which they reside.
The Federal draft law provides that
each exemption board of appeals shall
consist of at least five members. II
had previously been announced at the
Adjutant Generals Office that the New
York City board was TO consist OF
thirty members, but no announcement
had been made as to the number TO
serve in the upstate judicial districts
Statement by Governor
Covernor~Whitman's statement, which
accompanied the list, was as follows;
"The boards of appeal for this state
pointed by the President.
81 have submitted the names of sew
enty persons. Not one single one OF
these nominations has been made for
political reasons. and until the question
was raised by the letter purporting to
have been made public by Mr.. Tumulty
I had given no consideration whatever
TO the political affiliations of these
men.
sixteen Of these are physicians.
do not know the politics Of any OF
these sixteen men. They were care
fully selected and recommended TO me
by the State Department of Health.
"The head of this department. DR..
Riggs. is Democrat, appointed by
Governor Glynn. He has remained in
nv administration at my urgent re-
ouest on account of the great service
which he has rendered and is rendering
the state.
"There are two or three clergymen
with whose politics | am not acquaint-
cd and two or three persons who,
am informed. are enrolled Progress
sives About this same number are
regarded as independent in politics.
OF the remaining forty-fve or forty
six am informed that there are about
,weutv-one Democrats and twenty
three or twenty-four Republicans"
List of AppoIntees
The list follows:
Charles f. Hughes, Nathan Straus,
ceorqe p Agnew. William l. Washburn,
DR. Sigmund Goldwater, George l..
Ingraham. Louis Marshall, James A.
Delehanty. |. T. Flatto. DR.. George
Doty. all Of Manhattan.
Edgar NJ. Cullen. Rev. s. Edward
Young. Meier Steinbrink, SHoward o.
Wood DIR. Edward Z. Hicks, William
II English, william n. Dykeman.
William B. Davenport, Edwin l.. Gar
win and DR.. James 5. Waterman, all
of Brooklyn.
Samuel II. Evans. New Brighton, S.
l.; John Dalton, Staten Island; W: W.
Mills. West New Brighton, S. l.; Rob-
ert A. Inch, Queens; DR.. j. Evan
Shuttleworth. Richmond Hill, New
York City.
Charles f. Sims, Eugene H. Rosen-
ouest, Richard W. Lawrence. George
B. Mcclure, DR.. Herman 7. Radin, all
Of The Bronx.
John c. Crapser, Massena; Robert
w. Chambers, author; Broadslbin; JEFF
ferson Mcdonnell, Mechanicsville; Al
bert II. Proctor. Malone; DR.. George
Graves, Herkimer.
Charle.on H. Lewis, Schenectady;
Stanton P. Hull, Petersburg; Arthur
c. Wyer. Delhi; Rev George Dugan,
Albany; DR.. George Stover, Amster-
dam.
William Nottingham, Syracuse; Her
bert J. Fowler. Auburn; Thomas A.
MacClary, Union; Julius F. A. Doo-
little. Utica: DR.. Alfred Goss, Adams.
Eldyn Reynolds, Belmont; James h.
Owens. Chemung; William +. Lefing-
we'll. Watkins; Milo H. Acker, Hornell;
DR.. VI. S. Coke, Dunkirk.
William Pitkin, Rochester; j. B.
Bradley, Tnterlaken; Philip n. Nieho-
las. Geneva. George W. Atwell. jr.,
Lima; DR.. Charles R. Sumner, Roches-
ter.
John Lord o'Brien. Buffalo; John G.
Wickser. Buffalo; ". W. Smallwood,
Warsaw: Norman E. Mack, Buffalo;
DR.. A. n. Moore. Lockport.
william A. Davidson. Port Chester;
Clayton Ryder, Carmel; Charles w.
Swift. Poughkeepsie; Franklin Mont
rose. Peekskill: DR.. Charles Z. Towns
end. Newburgh.
W. D. Guthrie. Locust Valley; z. n.
/. Smith. ST. james; Ralph Peters, Gar
den City: Sylvester Pearsall. Lyn-
brook; Or. Arthur H. Terry, Patchogue.