Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-12
.DRAF 7 CALL IS
CANCELLED SOON
As WAR IS ENDED
kilograms Prepared in ADJ
vance in Expectation of
Signing of ArniStiCe Sent to
All Local Boards,

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRgl
Washington, Nov. 11.-Almost the
first action of the war department to-
day after announcement of the sign
ing of the armistice with Germany
was the cancellation of all army draft
calls under which more than 100000
men had been ordered to entraln for
camps before November 90.
Urgent kilograms, prepared three
days ago at the discretion of Provost
Marshal General Crowder were sent
to all local draft boards directing that
the movement of 1000 men under
orders to entrain between today and
Friday be stopped Immediately. The
kilograms reached most of the boards
in time, but a few men are known to
have started for camp. Secretary
Baker said, however, that wherever
possible their immediate return to
civil life would be arranged
Il have suspended further calls UNI
der the draft and inductions,' Mr..
Baker said. There will be for the
present no additional men brought in
under the draft, and to the extent
that we can, we will turn back those
men who have been entrained and
have rot yet reached training camps
No Estimate Made.
f The provost marshal generals office
had no estimate of the number on
trains before the cancelling order was
issued. All men assembled for en-
training are to be considered as
honorably discharged from the army
and paid accordingly. Until further
,on Ind nnt
for the navy and marine corps will
be permitted. One call for a few
thousand of men for the navy is now
in preparation, but volunteers to date
have more than filled the require
ments of the navy and marine corps,
Since August, 1917, when the first
calls were issued under the army
draft law, 100000 men have been
indicted into the army Practically
all physically qualified men between
the ages OF Fl and 81 who were
placed in class are now in the. serv-
ice. Themen who were to- have moved
to camp this month were of the new
registrants enrolled September IL.
Mony of the men who were under
orders to move this week were orr
ginally directed to entrain in October,
but their movement was held up be-
cause of influenza in the army camps
last month. 1t
Revert to Former Status.
General CroWder announced that
registrants whose induction orders
are cancelled or who are discharged
after their entertainment for camps
will revert to the status existing at
the time the original induction order
was issued, this to include resumption
of their order and serial number,
1t was specifically announced that
nothing in the cancellation of the
calls shall operate TO relieve from the
consequences OF his acts any regis
trant who has heretofore become de-
linquent or deserter.
BY order of Secretary Baker Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder today
directed local and district board to
Continue to completion as expedi-
tiously as possible the classification
of all registrants who on September
II had attained their nineteenth and
had not attained their 37th birthday"
General Crowder, however, directed
the boards to discontinue immediately
"all work connected with the classi-
fication of men who on september IL
had attained their thirty-seventh
birthday and had not attained their
forty-sixth birthday"
"In entering" said Mr.. Bakers or
der to General Crowder, upon what
seems, in view of the mighty events
of the day, to be the final work of
this character to be done by the Sc
lective service system, / extend to the
members of that system my personal
congratulations upon their truly great
achievements of the past year and a
half.
ITO you. members of that system,
must come sense of duty we'll done
which loyalty, patriotism, and de-
votion such as yours can bring. The
country and the world knows that it
owes to you a debt of thanks and gra-
titude which can not be measured by
words but only by the affection, the
respect and the esteem, now yours, of
those among whom you live and from
whom you have taken, that which was
beyond price,
In transmitting Secretary Bakers
order to the state draft executives
and local and district boards, General
Crowder added his personal congrat-
upon their truly great
achievements of the past year and a