The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-14
LAST INCREMENT
OF FIRST DRAFT
THOUSAND MEN
CALLED INTO TRAINING.
IOWA HAS FURNISHED QUOTA
Second Draft Of Eight Hundred
Thousand More Men to Be Made
Soon and Trained During
the Summer.

! Washington March l2.--Ninety-five
thousand more men were ordered to-
day by the war department. to pre-
pare for induction into the training
camps. This will be the last of mere
ment of the first draft
The number will include the mobili-
cation of twenty eight thousand south
ern Negroes in northern camps.
The only states that will not be eff
, fected by this call are Iowa and Min
nesota who recently filed their last
quqtoa of the first draft.
More Than Quota.
Because of the peculiar conditions
and the camp situations some dis
tricts that have filled their quotas of
the first draft will be asked to furn-
ish more men and will be given credit
under the second draft.
Several thousand of those today or
dered mobolized will be used to ill
ranks made vacant by death and by
Withdrawals. Others will be used for
industrial calls of which fifty-six have
already been made so, Deputy Pro-
vost Marshal General Johnson stated
today. The first contingent of the in
dustrial workers drafted recently have
been sent into France, he said.
Eight Hundred Thousand More.
/ Washington, March 12.-Eight hun
bred thousand men the so-called
second draft" will be the nations
quota to be fed into the military
mills for training in small groups
from week to week, or month to
month as needed according to Official
announcement made at the war de-
partment this afternoon.
This vast number will be divided
into state quotas and with the except
ion of certain ones will be drawn from
class one, and furnish the needed
support of regiments for the present
arms.
Skilled Artisans Also.
Ten thousand young men, skilled
artisans whose names do not appear
on the class one, list have been asked
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
to enroll.
Ten thousand other young men will
be summoned this summer to enter
technical schools for training for
later entrance into the army if their
services are needed.
The agriculturists will be given a
deferred classification.
Mo Fixed Date.
No date has been set for the sec
NnranIrYAnc tho
fixing of definite date for the plan
is to feed the new men into the mill
tary army as occasions require.
The situation depends however on
a large number of elements.
Emptying of a camp will allow
call of the increment of the eight
hundred Thousand into camps. Special
needs for the replacement Of troops
OF certain divisions will demand an
other call for men to go to canton
ments.
Small Numbers Called.
The groups will be called in compar.
ativey small numbers to the camps
during the year 1918. The number
of men to be called depends largely
upon pending legislation in congress.
As now arranged the draft is con-
sidered by General Crowder as "se-
Elective" and will be worked with the
least possible disruption to industrial
and agricultural interests.
There will be no Withdrawals of any
large number of men from the ranks
of industrial and agricultural indus
tries during the coming summer, but
they will be drawn in such a way-in
relatively small groups-so as to cause
the least possible interference with
industry and agriculture.