The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-16
FINAL APPEAL Of
BANKERS SON FOR
EXEMPTION DENIED
Willard 0hIer Finds He Can
Neither Go To Orient Nor
Return Home
YOUTH DISCHARGED FROM.
NAVY IS Held BY BOARD
Claim Of III Health Is Not Borne
outfand He Goes Into
: Class IA 3

Whether or not Willard Ohler is a
Stacker, as draft officers intimate in the
face Of his fathers strong denial, the
controversy that arose in connection
with his case ~ over, so far as the
draft board Is concerned, and the re.
suit is that 0hler must stay in Homo.
luh He is held to be a Glass IA
man, subject to call at any time, and
he may neither sail for the Orient, as
his family planned, nor may he re
turn to the mainland
All efforts of the OILERS to obtain
exemption for the young man failed
yesterday, when the district board, on.
the record presented to it denied the
young man s appeal. Under the terms
of the selective service act young Ohler
Gan make no further appeal, but must
stand, ready to go into military serv-
ice whenever the call comes, and he
must stay here.
Son Of Banker
Obler is the son of James Ohler, a
banker of Lima, Ohio, who has been
here with his wife for the past two
weeks and has been taking a hand in
the case. The Young man Is twenty
seven years old and though he looks
like football player and "strips like,
an Adonis as one of the examining
physicians said, it has been contended,
particularly by the father, that he is
wholly unfit physically.
Ohler turned up in Honolulu on
March IL, preceding by few days his
parents, who were on their way to the
Orient 1t was when Ohler sought to
obtain permit and passport to go with
them that the trouble developed, draft
officers say. Capt. H. Gooding Field
says the young man said on the oc-
casion of his first visit to the draft
Office that he had registered back in
Lima. The young man said his regis
tration card had been left back there,
according to Captain Field, who told
him he would have to have it before
permits to travel could be issued.
Ohler senior says his son at no time
said he had registered in Ohio, point
ing out that in the registration period,
the young man was serving in the
navy. The OILERS say that young
OhIer on his first visit to the draft
office told Captain Field that his dis
charge papsps,. not, hisv registration card,
had been left Ia safe back in Lima
On this point officers Of the draft Of
fee and the OILERS contradict each
other.
Ohler Senior Appears
Several days later Ohler senior visit
CT the draft office. The father assert
cd that his son had not waited for the
draft, but had enlisted in the navy in
May of last year and after serving for
period at the Great Lakes training
camp had been discharged as physically
unfit. Ohler senior said the discharge
papers had borne the statement "nOt
subject to re enlistment In view of
this disc barge he said his son had not
registered at all. Unfortunately, he
said, the discharge papers had been
left back in Lima.
Captain Field said yesterday that he
had told the father that even though
man had been discharged from mill
tary or naval service, if he were with
in the age limit, it is required that be
register, fill out the questionable and
undergo medical examination. A
Young Ohler had not registered, as
the father said, it was necessary for
him to do so at once.
On the strength of the fathers as
sertions concerning the sou Is physical
condition, Captain Field said that con
dition would become evident upon
physical examination and would result
either in rejection or in having the son
placed in some one of the classes not
subject to early call. If the young man
did not come in either Glass | or Class
>, contingency that seemed remote
from what the father said, it would
be possible to issue a permit to travel
and a passport could be obtained also.
This WAS the information Captain
Field said yesterday he gave to Ohlcr
senior
Is Found Fit
In accordance with Captain Field s
suggestion young Ohler filed out
questionable blank after he had reg.
istered in the draft Office here. His
MEDICAL examination followed with the
result that young Ohler was pro
HOupoed SOUND and fit for service. He
was given a elassi fcatiOn as Class IA.
Ohler appealed from this finding and
presented a certificate that had been
signed by DR., George Herbert in which
Doctor Herbert said young Ohler was
suffering with "tabis dorsalis'', or
something equally extraordinary, and
held that he was physically unfit for
military service.
On young OILERS appeal a second
cxaminatiOm~wa made by the medical
advisory board composed of Doctors
r. D. Kilhournc, W. G. Hobby and &.
y. Wood They called in an aIienist,
Doctor MickeIs, and a dentist, DIR. o.
G, Wall, and when they got through
with Ohler they sustained the ruling
given after the first examination, de,
cIaring young Ohler entirely fit physi
cnlly for service.
Takes Final Appeal
OILERS next appeal and the last one
be is able to take under the law, AS
cases may not be appealed to Wash,
ingtOu on physical grounds, was to the
district board which disposed of the
case late yesterday afternoon. The
district board is composed of DR.. James
r. Judd, }. \. Bulch, G.. r, Hemen.
wa, Clarence Crabbe and Percy Pond.
-- ". B. B. -
\ contribution of 800 was given by
Niscouht Ishm on Sunday TO the ia
UnDese hospital of Honolulu. Already