The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-24
From First District, 81; From
Second 100; From County %.
Necessary To Take Men From
Reconsideration Here.
ONLY WHITE men MUST 60
Negro Call Saturday Was for
1000 Troops in July.
Kansas Soon VIII Have Given
Uncle Sam $4,000.

Orders from the war department
today practically wiped out the en-
tire list of class 1 men remaining in
Kansas. Under the big induction call
for the five days beginning July %,
this state will send 4,600 men to Camp
Funston and Fort Riley. OF this num-
Der 900 go to Riley and 3,700 to Fun
ston. The order calls to the colors
all except 644 of the class 1 men
registered in this state June s, 1917.
The class of 1918 is not affected by
this call.
Every section of the state will feel
the effects of the big new call for
imm ediate service men. 1t virtually
wipes out the entire remaining class.
Records today in the office of Charles
| s. Huffman, adjutant general, show
that the states list of class 1 regis
trants of 1917 is now but 5,244. This
number will be increased, of course.
| by the reclassifications of local and
district boards, but the advance class
at this time is practically called bod
| lily into service.
For White Men Only.
| The new call is for white men only.
| 1t is independent of a call announced
| Saturday for 1000 negro troops from
Kansas. Under the call for negro SOL
| diers, Topeka and Shawnee county
will furnish 100 men. The new call
for white selective service men will
take 244 and miscellaneous inductions
for the coming month will probably
| boost the total from the city and
| county to 375 or 400.
Official quotas by counties and dis
| tricts are being established today in
the office of Charles s. Huffman. ad-
| jutant general 1t is probable these
| quotas will be announced later today.
| Calls thus announced for July bring
the Kansas quotas above the 5000
mark. Enlistments end inductions
from Kansas including June calls took
| nearly $4,000 men from the state. The
new induction orders and volunteer
enlistments are expected to advance
the Kansas fighting force at the end
of July to between $4,000 and $4,000
men.
May Take All From Topeka.
The July draft call announced by
the adjutant generals office this
morning may take every class 1 man
in Topeka to the army, according to
statements issued by the local boards
this morning. The quotas assigned to
the Topeka boards left only thirty
five men in class 1 and it is thought
that voluntary inductions in the vari-
Gus training schools and enlistments
in the navy will absorb the difference.
Only s5 Men Left Here.
i Topeka and Shawnee county will
lose almost it's entire remaining class.
OF the 279 men in class 1 in the city
anu county, tie new Cdil VIII uoupt-
less take 244. This will leave Just
thirty-five men in the advance class
here.
l Practically official figures available
in the adjutant generals office late
this afternoon indicated 81 or 22 men
would be taken from the list of rs
available in Shawnee county. OF
/ these four will go to Fort Riley, II
( to Camp Funston.
From Topeka city district No. 1. .
N fof of xx-fI1 lz1 u.
! first city district will send IL men to
! Fort Riley and so to Camp Funston.
II City district No. 2 will provide q
!, quota of $50 men. OF these 81 will
I be sent to Fort Riley and 129 to Fun
4 ston. 1t is possible that in adjust
j ments for the state that final figures
! may make change of one or two men
' in city districts and the county quota
will remain at 81 or 22.
Into RecIassified Class.
Local draft board for division No. 4
will call about forty re-classified men
=; in the July call, It was announced this
noon by the board officials.
!, Draft board No. Q was required u
furnish 160 men for the July draft
e and when every possible head had
= been counted and the list was totalled
I up it was found that the men in clasa
:, / as it stands today would be twenty
Z eight short of the 160. The men listed
s in class / today also include men whG
:. are registered for special inductions
6 The board officials announced that Z
l. total of nearly forty men in the re-
l. classified class 1 list will be included
Il in the call.
II This is the first warning to the m0g
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