Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-04
ILLINOIS MEN TO GO TO
GREELEAF, FORREST
AND OTHERS
290,773ARE CALLED
RUMORS THAT THE WAR Is OVER
FURNISHES LOTS OF PRE.ELEC,
TlON TALK.

\ WOrk or mailing out inc question:
naires for all men in the 81 to As di.'
vision OF the IS to As draft was started
BY the local exemption board last
Saturday evening, at which time 2i5
papers were sent out They will be
mailed out at the rate OF 245 a day
for ten days, or until all the men in
this division of the Sept. II registra-
tion have been served.
The local advisory board will meet
every day during the next two weeks
In the supervisors rooms In the court
house, and every man must return his
questionable within one week after
II has been mailed out from the Of
hce Of the local board.
November Quota Not Received.
The local board has not received
any quotas for the November calls as
yet, nor has it received the call for
the 1875 men to Camp Macarthur
which was postponed several weeks
ago on account OF the Spanish in
fuenza epidemic
II is understood the November call
will be the largest In history. the
quota issued in Washington for Nov,
1-21 being the largest single call yet
to be issued These calls will be filed
almost entirely by the men in the
Sept. u registration.
2s0,77s Called Before Nov. q.
Draft calls for the mobilization of
290,773 additional men at army train
ing camps before Nov. q have been
announced by Provost Marshal
Gen. Crowder. Between Nov. IL and
LIS, it was announced 253,S35 white
men physically qualified for general
military service VIII entrain, max
ing the largest single call issued I'M.
der the seective service act
The remainder of the November to-
tai, so far as announced, will be made
up of negroes for entrainment Nov
19 to 81
With the assembling of the men pro
vded in these calls at camp, the to-
tai number of men inducted into mill
tary service under the draft will have
passed the 100000 mark; and the
number of men in the United States
army, in the field or in training will
total more than 4.000,000.
Men Above 80 to Be Called.
Men who registered Sept. ~ under
the act extending draft age limits
will make the largest proportion OF
the November mobilization, as the ell
igible list remaining from previous
registrations largely was exhausted b,
the October calls Though the Oc
tober calls were suspended because
Of the Influenza epidemic, nearly al
have been reissued during the las
three weeks.
In states where the calls have no
been reissued men called for camp II
October will leave with the men calle,
for this month. Calls for additiona
men to entrain later this month are il
preparation, 1t was said today at tn
ONCE Of the provost marshal genera
Men to Be Called.
From the midwestern states tn
white regstrants will be entrained a
follows:
ILLlNOIS-2,5OO to Camp Greer
leaf, Ga; 10000, Camp Macarthur
Tex; 1895, Camp Wadsworth; 1,5O
Camp Forrest, Ga.
1NDlANA-5,794, Camp Wadswort
IOWA-2,500 Camp Greenleaf: 4.35
Camp Dodge Ia; 1,400, Fort MacA
thur, Cal
MICHIGAN-2,334, Cam wad
worth.
MINNESOTA-1,59O, Fort Riley.
NEBRASKA--1,OOO, Camp Bowl
Tex; 5000, Camp Kearney, Cal.
'WISCONSIN-6,73S, Camp Wad
worth; 5000. Camp Logan, Tex.
Colored Men Called.
Colored registrants are called
camps from states as follows.
Illinois, 465, Camp Grant, Ill.
Indiana, %, Camp Sherman.
Missouri, 95, Camp Funston.
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