The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
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 ENLIST UNTIL
 DRAWING TIME

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 A wire was received by the chair man of the local exemption board last evening confirming the press dispatch of the previous day in the statement that Alaskan registrants under ahe selective draft law would be permitted to enlist in any branch of military service Outside, despite the recent ruling that there should be no more voluntary enlistments.
 This ruling with regard to Alas kans was made because there has been no drawing here yet, nor does there seem to be any likelihood of one in the near future. The mes sage received yesterday from the governor states that Alaskan regis trants who desire to enlist may ap- ply to any local board in the States for voluntary enlistment into the service, and if their credentials show that they are properly Alaskan reg istrants, they will be enlisted accord ing to regular regulations. up to such time as the drawing of the first quota under the draft law takes place in Alaska. Moreover. credit for the voluntary enlistment of Alaskan registrants will be given to the local boards by which which the enlisted men had been registered.
 The telegram from the governor with regard to the new rulings is really self-explanatory, and is here with given:
 Juneau, Alaska, Jan. g, 1918. A. R. Heilig, Local Board No. IF,
 Fairbanks.
 In accordance with the ruling of Provost Marshal General you are in- structed as follows:
 "Inasmuch as no drawings have taken place in Alaska, and no order numbers have been assigned Alaskan |registrants, and since communica- tions with Local Boards in Alaska are now practically impossible, the provisions of the regulations relat- ing to the voluntary induction into military service and enlistment, in the Navy or Marine Corps of such Iregistrants are not applicable. The following is, therefore, ordered to be effective until such time only as a drawing takes place in Alaska. No person under the jurisdiction of an Alaskan Local Board will be consid cred as within the current quota. Any such registrant desiring enlist. ment in the Navy or Marine Corps or voluntary induction into military service may apply to any local board for the certificate required by sec tion 151. selective service regulations, or for voluntary induction. The local board applied to will require the reg istrant to exhibit the registration certificate, and, if satisfied that he is in fact an Alaskan registrant, will require him to file question naire and will thereafter treat him as one of its own registrants except that it will enter on every paper. in every space requiring a local board stamp. the designation of the Alaskan local board, will forward to the Governor of Alaska all papers required to be filed by a local board, together with a letter of transmittal stating that registrant was inducted into military service or authority to enlist in navy or marine corps, and will not enter the registrant's name on its classification list. Credit for induction accomplished under author. ity of this telegram will be allowed to the proper Alaskan board. Of course. these men are subject to the same restrictions as to induction as other applicants, and no men will be inducted for any corps or depart ment of army for which induction has been stopped by existing orders" ]"
 You are further instructed to give this order as much publicity as pos. sible, through your local newspapers and otherwise. and to encourage vol. untary enlistment and induction, and in order to make up the deficiency in our quota in this manner if pos sible.
 | STRONG, l Governor.