Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
WILL NOT CALL
MEN TILL, DRAFT
QUOTA IS GIVEN
County Boards Prepared to
Send Notices but Have
Not Issued Lists
NO WORD OF INCREASE
State Waiting Official Order
of Ten Per Cent. Increase
on First Call
NO WORD OF INCREASE

Until the official quotas for each
district in Dauphin county are re-
ceived from Colonel Frank G.. Swee-
ney of the state board, members of
the division boards will not send
notices to any men to appear for
examinations. This was the state
ment made to-day by officials of The
boards.
While we have prepared notices
for about 400 men to appear for eX-
aminations the list has not been is
sued, and the notices will not be
sent until we receive the proper
orders giving the number of men in
our quota" c. c. Cumbler, chairman
of the first county division board
said. I'VE hope to receive the allot-
ment some time tomorrow or Satur-
day, but until that time we will take
no action, and will not issue a list of
numbers of those who are to be call
ed for examinations"
Members of the other exemption
boards made similar statements in
announcing that they were ready to
proceed when the quotas are issued
to them.
No Hurry
Colonel Sweeney, of the state
board, in speaking of the work of
some of the district boards in the
state, in starting examinations, said
there was no need to hurry the work
and that probably the best thing for
any of the officials to do is to wait
until they are notified of the num-
Der of men the district must fur
nish.
We have received no orders to
rush, the work through" Colonel
Sweeney said, otherwise it would be
advisable to hurry. But to avoid any
errors and trouble the boards should
wait until given the exact number
of men to call. Notices may be pre-
pared for approximately the num-
ber required but it is not necessary
to go ahead with examinations when
the district quotas are being delayed
because of the verifying of National
Guard enlistment credits"
No Official Word
The state registration headquar-
ters has not heard officially of any
change in the draft quotas for Penn
sylvania, although it has been re-
ported that there will be a ten per
cent. increase. The board is to-day
sending out instructions to all dis
trict boards requiring them to fill in
their lists of additional physicians
as rapidly as possible.
According to instructions received
from Washington regarding subjects
of Germany and others exempt by
provisions of the draft act, district
boards, when there is reasonable
ground for believing that an appli-
cant is entitled to exemption of these
grounds, may postpone physical ex-
animation until the claim for eX-
emption shall have been heard. The
same applies to persons necessarily
absent or sick and unable to file
application elsewhere for eXamina-
ton, as provided by the draft law.
City VIII Not BE Hit
Even with a call for ten per cent.
more than the fret al!t~ ment. Har-
risburg may have enough credits re-
naming it was intimated, which
would exclude the city from furnish
ing men on the first call. Until the
revised quotas are announced how
ever, a definite statement can not be
made, Colonel Sweeney said.
According to the report from
Washington Brigadier General Crow
der estimates that ten per cent. more
men will be required because of in
dustrial exemptions.
Harrisburg boards are going over
the master lists of numbers furnish
ed by Washington to arrange for any
emergency which may develop, mem
hers said to-day. However, until
something more definite is known
about the additional call no further
action will be considered, the boards
reported.