Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-23
NEARLY A MILLION
REGISTERED JUNE 5
YOUTHS REACHING Fl IN LAST
YEAR ARE LIABLE
TO SERVICE.
RESULT is SATISFACTORY
Census Bureau Missed Number of Ell
igibIes by Only Small Margin
Married Nos Exempt-Dependen
cy Must Be Clearly Shown.


ports to the provost marshal generals
office show that 744,S65 young Amer
leans who have become of age dur
ing the last year registered for mil
itary service on June 5.
This is 266,724 below the estimate
of the census bureau, but since more
than 100000 unregistered 21-year-olds
already are enlisted in the army,
navy or marine corps the military
authorities find the result entirely
satisfactory.
Army and navy estimates places
the number of 21-year-old men enlist
ed at POSSESS. This figure combined
with the falling off in alien registra-
ton gives a total of 353,6S6 which
means that the census bureau appar-
entity missed tn number of eligibles
by only $4,000.
Registration In West.
The 1918 registration totals of west
ern states are as follows:
California, 1884; Idaho, 2788; Mon
tana, 1856; Oregon. 4701; Utah, 3051;
Washington, 1905.
Marriage No Bar to Service.
Marriage since the enactment of
the selective draft law no longer will
be accepted as cause for exemption
from military service, except in the
cases of men who have become of age
since June 5, 1917, who may be ex-
empted if they married before Jan
uary Is, 1918, the date on which the
joint resolution requiring their reg
istration was introduced in congress.
Drastic amendments to the draft
regulation were announced recently by
Provost Marshel General Crowder,
under which local boards are required
to reclassify all cases involving such
marriages. Dependency claims on ac-
count of children of such marriages
born or unborn before June 9, 1879"
Order to Draft Boards.
Following is an order sent to all
state draft executives.
please promulgate at once to local
boards the following important
amendment to the selective service
regulations.
Rule 5, section 72, S. S. R., is
amended to read as follows:
Rule ga, the fact of dependency
resulting from the marriage of a reg
istrant who has become 81 years of
age since January 8, 1917, and who
has married since the date of the in
PRODUCTION of the joint resolution in
congress requiring his registration,
to-wit, January Is, 1918, will be dis
regarded as a ground for deferred
classification
'B. If a registrant who has at
tanned the age of 81 since June 5,
1917, and who has contracted mar
rage subsequent to the date of the
selective service law, to-wit, May IS,
1917, but on or prior to January IS,
1918, claims deferred classification on
the ground of dependency resulting
from his marriage, the fact of de-
tendency resulting from his marriage
will be disregarded as a ground for
deferred classification, unless the de-
pendent is a child of the marriage
born or unborn on or prior to June
8, 1918, in which case such a regis
trant upon satisfactory proof being
made shall be classified in class Q.
Disregard Dependency Claim.
&c. If a registrant, other than one
who has attained the age of 81 years
since June 5, 1917, who has contract
ed marriage since May 10, 1917
claims deferred classification on the
ground of dependency resulting from
his marriage, the fact of dependency
resulting from his marriage will be
disregarded as a ground for deferred
classification, unless the dependent is
a child of the marriage, born or un
born on or before June 8, 1918, il
which case such a registrant upor
satisfactory proof being made, shall
be placed in class 2.
ID. Nothing contained in this
amendment to rule shall be con
} strued as requiring the transfer t.
class 2 of any registrant who ha.
been finally classified in class 1 OF
the affirmative finding that his mar
riage since May Is, 1917, was mad,
with the primary view of evading mil
itary service.
Instruct all local boards forthwith
to reclassify all cases involving mar
riage since May Is, 1917, in accord
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