Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-21
EXPLAIN PLANS
. FOR INDUCTION
Men viii be Sent Into Navy
and Marine Corps Just as
Into Army

A communication from the adju-
tant generals Office received by
MAYOR John +. TenBroeck, of the
local draft board, this morning in
forms the board that the government
is to commence inducing men for
service In the navy and marine corps
in the same manner as that which
has heen i,ssd to taking them into
the army. An aiasee2dment to the Sc
lective service regulations makes enS
term military service include ns.yai
service, including service in the ma
rine corps.
AS the result Of this latest govern
ment action no releases can be grant
ed to those who have registered and
wish TO enter branch of the service
other than the army. Individual IN
ductions may be secured only through
the provost marshal general.
The provost marshal general will
from time to time make calls upon
the governors of the states to furnish
selected men for service in the navy
and marine corps in addition to calls
for selected men In the army. Calls
for the navy will probably be an
nounced during the last of September
or the first of October. Calls for men
made within the next few weeks.
Calls for the navy and marine corps
will be (a) general, that is for men
taken from the ordinary run of the
draft In sequence of order numbers,
and (b) special, that is, for men with
special or technical qualifications.
These calls will be made and filed
exactly as calls for the army are now
handled. State headquarters upon
receipt of a general or special call for
the navy or marine corps from the
office of the adjutant general will
proceed to its ALLEGATION and filling
exactly as In the case of a call for
the army.
Credit will be given for inductions
into the navy and marine corps as n
the lnductions had been made into the
All calls for the registranta N he
inducted into the army will be desir-
mated by prefxing to the number Of
the call the letter "A" All calls for
registrants to be indicted into the
navy will be designated by prefixing
to number of the call the letter ssNS
ana all calls for registrants to be in
9ucteo into the marine corps will be
designated by the letter "M.'
No change in any of the existing
forms is necessitated. Until further
orders all local boards will employ
the same forms for the Induction and
mobilization of men for the navy and
marine corps as are now employed for
the tnduction-and mobilization OF
men for the army.
The added feature of Induction for
the navy and marine corps will NOT
compiicate in any way the mobiliza-
ton OF selected men. Each call will
designate the point OF mobilization
and the officer to whom the Selected
men will report
In selecting men under a cali for
the navy. local boards will not in
duct any registrant who cannot read
write and speak the English Ian
guage; one who is not a citizen of the
United States (no declarant or alien
shall be inducted). or one who Is a
conscientious objector.
No man over seventy-four inches
In height, none whose vision without
glasses is less than fifteen twenty in
either eye, none who are color blind
and none having transmissible skin
disease Will be accepted for the nayy
Regtstrants who are inducted into
the navy or marine corps under this
new ruling and who fail to report for
the first roll call or entrain, or who
leave their party en- route to a mobiii-
zation point will be deserters and
dealt with severely.