Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-30
Will Go to Florida.

trict men to be sent to Fort Dade,
Fla, will be entrained November IL,
the new date set for this call. The
men will be registrants qualified Tor
On the same date $50 white regis
trants, qualified for general military
service, will be sent to Camp Greenleaf.
Ca This will be the second time local
men have been sent to this camp.
Local draft officials today predicted
classification and physical examinations
of all class 1 men of the September
registration between the ages Of nine
teen and forty-fve years by January 1,
the end of the hundred days" set by
Provost Marshal General Crowder for
the big task.
While local board members we're this
afternoon in conference with Commits
sioner Brownlow as to the best methods
of putting every ounce OF push possible
into the work Of the boards, the prog
ress chart hanging in Maj. D. ]. Dono-
vans office showed that the boards are
rushing the grading Of the registrants
between nineteen and thirty-six years
old
Standing Of Boards.
Four boards now have 80 per cent or
the classification completed. The stand
ing Of the boards today follows: No. /. 60
per cent; No. 2, 60 per cent; No. 8, 60
per cent; No. 4, 80 per cent; No. S, 60
per cent; No. 6. 60 per cent; No. z, 80
per cent; No. 10. 80 per cent; No. IL,
80 per cent.
Questionnaires to regfstrants thirty
seven to forty-flve years old will be
issued by the eleven local boards of
the city simultaneously, it may be
definitely announced. Ten per cent of
the blanks will be sent out each day
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to be announced. 1t had been hoped
to begin the circulation Of the man
power invoices November 1.
Simultaneous issuance of the Ques-
tionnaires by the boards will place
the minimum of work upon the law
yers Of the legal advisory board, who
will furnish free legal aid to the older
registrants. Chairman Justin Morrill,
Chamberlin is at work on the schedule
of legal stations. The places and hours
will be largely the same as used re-
Gently with the nineteen to thirty-sfx
registrants.
Physical examinations Of class men
will begin in earnest Monday at No. l
truck house, New Jersey avenue be-
Owing to the abatement of the in
f1uenza, doctors now are able to aid in
the work.
Schedule Of Examinations.
Capt James J. Kilroy, medical aid
of the local selective service head
quarters, has sent to local boards an
elaborate schedule Of examinations
Monday morning at 9
o'clock there will be three examina-
ton periods a day. 100 registrants to
be examined in each period. Local
board for division No. will have the
first period. from am to IL m.
Board No. 2 will have the second Pc
Rod, from to o'clock pm. Board
No. will examine men in the third
period, from to II O'Clock pm. Other
boards will follow in turn, day after
day, until December IL. which will
have given each board nine examina-
ton periods.
Approximately 10000 class 1 men
will pass through the examination
mill" in that time, allowing 100 men
for each of the ninety-nine separate
examination periods. These figures
would seem to indicate that about SO
per cent of the $4,000 registrants be-
tween the ages of nineteen and thirty.
class in the draft here. If this sup
position is correct it denotes an unusual
ly high percentage of men placed in
class /. About IS per cent was the
national average for the men Of the
June S, 1917, registration.
There is likelihood, however, that
tho examination dates announced to-
ton periods for registrants between
tho ages of thirty-seven to forty-five
years who will be classified during No
vember. In that case the percentage
Of men being placed in class will not
be as large as indicated above.