New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
Hughes Draft Board Strict,
But Exempts War Workers
Nine Men indispensable in Industries Handling y. S. Con-
tracts Sent Back to Work-Medcal Students
May Be Detailed" to Study

is circulating a petition urging the Sc
lectlve CONSUMPTION Of all doctors
physically fit for army service. between
the ages of twenty-one and forty-five.
The petition states that the special
state medical census has proved that
the volunteer system of recruiting the
personnel of the Medical Officers Re-
serve Corps has failed to provide an
adequate number of the available physi-
clans for army service.
Although the district board moved
along faster yesterday, its work will
have to be greatly speeded up If it
hopes 10 clear up its docket within the
next few months. The four new mem
bers of the board. Edwin L. Garvin.
Charles f. Simms. John Dalton and
Samuel NJ Evins, finally qualified for
membership. and Mr.. Garvin was elect
ed secretary to succeed William B.
Davenport, who resigned because he
found the duties of the Office were too
great strain on man of his age.
Alexis White, of local board 81,
sought industrial exemption on the
ground that he is a manufacturer of
razor handles, and that the soldiers
cannot shave themselves with razors
without handles. The board decided il
would rather have soldiers with whisk-
ers than lose Witte.
Exemption for a period of six months
was granted Emil Rimbault, of 556
West 19lst Street, and Russell f. Lowe,
of $50 West Eighty-ffth Street. Rim
bault is employed by the f. F. Perry
Manufacturing Company, which makes
derricks and cranes used by the navy
and the Shipping Board. He presented
letter from Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lowe is
engaged in the manufacture of ferro-
manganese, and it was shown that the
plant would have to close down for sew
eral months if his services were dis
pensed with.
Other Experts Released
Another man who obtained six
months exemption was Frank B.
Schmidt, manager of factory making
bullet-pointing machines and aeroplane
engine parts. Others whose claims were
granted were DR.. George Scatcherd,
chemistry professor at Columbia, who
produced proof of his assignment by
the Federal Board on Poisonous Gases
to discover a means of combating car
bon monoxide generated by exploding
shells on battleships; Harold John
Patterson, a civil engineer, employed
by a company building shipyards for
the government; Charles Leone, who
said he could neither read nor write
English, and was therefore unaware
that he was supposed to file affidavits
attesting to the dependency of his wife,
and Arthur Ross, of Richmond Hill, an
employee of the navy yard.
Julius Kramer, from District 10, de-
posed that he was mentally deficient,
but the board decided he was smart
enough to be a soldier.
James A. Healy, of 1855 West Eigh-
tieth Street, was granted exemption
when it was shown that he was en-
ployed as executive secretary by the
American Red Cross.
Roscoe s. Conkling, director of the
draft in New York, received a ruling
from General Crowder to the effect
that natives of the Virgin Islands, re-
Gently purchased from Denmark, are to
be classed as aliens and exempted.