Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-13

The draft board handled the work
| eXpeditiously and does not anticipate
any trouble. However, precautions
are being taken, the board having re-
ceived assurances this morning that
its application for a state police
guard will be granted. Those men
who were rejected this morning went
through two examinations before the
board passed finally in the cases.
When one physician rejected a
registrant, the subject was shifted
across the hall and re-eXamined by
the. other physician on the board.
1t was expected at noon that all of
the men who received notices to re-
port to-day will be examined be-
| fore the board adjourns tonight.
However, it was suggested that the
board may not finish to-day on time,
| at 5 o'clock.
The men called for examination
number 317 and the board will pass
upon all of these cases before an
other allotment of men is called. The
first three days will be devotc~. -, the
| physica, examinations and the bal
ance of the week will be given to
passing upon claims for exemption.
The registrants who reported to-day
were required to make their depen-
| dency exemption claims to the local
board to-day, otherwise their claim
will fall.
First Board Behind
Physical examinations of men in
the first Dauphin district, comprising
the lower end of the county will not
be begun until Saturday morning, it
was announced to-day by the board
of that district which comprises
! Charles C.-Cumbler, DIR. B. T. Dick
inson and Allen Drawbaugh. The
tests will be made in rooms and
of the Steelton Light and Power
Company building, 40 North Front
! street, Steelton, and will begin daily
at o'clock.
The board has sent out letters or
dering 100 men to report daily on
Saturday, and on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week and
11O men on Thursday The men will
report in the order in which their
serial numbers were drawn in the
draft and the board is figuring up
on examining the men at the rate
! of ten an hour during the morning
and twenty an hour in the afternoon.
On the fifth and last day of the ini-
tial examinations thirty men will be
summoned to appear for examination
beginning at o'clock in the after
noon. The board has sent letters to
510 men or just double the quota
which the district must furnish.
To Start Wednesday
The first twenty-five men in the
| third county division will be exam
| ined in Elizabethville on Wednesday.
Members of the local board for that
district will call forty additional men
each after Wednesday until the
quota is filed. Industrial exemptions
are expected to be heavier in this
district than in the second division,
because of the mines
Faces Arrest
A colored man, worried and all
excited, pleaded this morning with
the selective draft board of the third
city district to examine him and re-
port the result to his home board in
Huston, Texas, so that he will not be
arrested as a deserter or Stacker he
cause he failed to report in Hous-
ton on August for the physical ex-
animation. He did not get his notice
to report in Houston until late last
week he said and he added that
two other boards here, one in the
city and one in the county, declined
to examine him.
Members of the local board said
the colored man is right in his belief
that he already is liable to be ar
rested as a deserter because he
failed to report for the physical ex-
animation on time. However. the
registrant was instructed to wire his
board to forward the registration
data to Harrisburg so he can be
examined here. Upon receipt of the
proper data he will be examined.
Refuse Exemption
The selective draft board of the
third city district, whose members
l1- TAh nrt. 4
and DIR. c.. r. Phillips, refused to-
day to exempt a man who sought to
be discharged from the draft because
his widowed mother is dependent
upon him. If this ruling is sus-
tained by the appellate board, and
other drafts board follow the prece-
dent it will not be at all easy for
registrants to escape the draft upon
the mere claim that they are their
mothers only support.
The man whose claim was denied
is Maurise Haas, Hoboken, N. J.,
He is an inspector of munitions for
the British government and he GER
| tiffet1 that he annually pays his
mother $500. He made an affidavit
to that, SO did his mother, who in
addition swore that she is dependent
upon the contribution from the son.
A neighbor likewise made an affi-
davit to that claim.
But the board decided that even
If the registrant is drafted and only
| paid at the rate of $50 a month,
the lowest possible wage paid to SOL
dier fprivates. he can continue to
support his mother out of his earn
ings, by paying her S25 month
Haas has another exemption claim
pending and Industrial exemption
claim, but that will be heard by the
district board and cannot be con-
sidered by the local board,