Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-26
Reclassification of Men With Only Dependent
 Wives Is Ordered,
LOCAL BOARDS TO
 BEGIN AT ONCE
Resurrection of Old Rule Believed To Indicate That Crowder Will Build Mighty Army With Married
 Men.

Provost Marshal General Crowder IS going to draw on Class men in the draft to build up a mightier Amer ican army to beat the Germans.
 This is the interpretation placed by local exemption board officials upon a circular received yeterday from Ad- jutant General Lloyd England in- structing local boards to review the eases of all men in Class who have only wives as dependents
 The circular calls attention to Cir cular B-172 which provides that men in Class who have no dependents but a wife should be placed in Class 1 and held for military service under certain conditions. If the order is made general throughout the coun- try, and it is believed that it will be, hundreds of thousands of men will be made available for military service
 Local Board Begins Work.
 Working under the original circu- lar officials of Board No. Wednes day reclassified nine men and placed them in Class 1. With the new cir cular to stimulate them that board and Board No. 1 is expected to imme- diately begin going through all rec ords of men in Classs 2 and many of them will be reclassified and placed in Class 1.
 Board No. has 615 men in Class and Board No. has several hun dred. As rule Class 2 men have only their wives dependent upon them, which may indicate that tin, great majority of them will be put in Class l and held for general military service.
 Selectmen whose wives are capable of self-support, or who were support ing themselves before they were mar ried and who have received training in some line of work that would aid to support them, very likely will be re- classified. as the wives would receive an allowance of $15 per month from their husbands pay and $15 from the government.
 The bulletin received yesterday fol- lows:
 Here's the Order.
 Attention of this office has been called to certain cases where regis trants had been granted deferred classification when their only claimed dependent was wife.
 Paragraph 8 of our Circular B-172 reads: If a registrant has wife but no children and there are such other sources of support available thot the removal of the registrant will not de- prive the wife of reasonably adequate support he goes into Class 1 as not being included in any other division in the schedule.'
 Where the registrant's anly claim ed dependent is a wife boards are au- thorized to consider the income Cor what should be the incone) from the labor of the claimed dependent as we'll as support available through the government allowance and allotment and other sources.
 Local boards will immediately re- classify or return to district boards for their attention all cases of mar ried men whose only claimed depend ent is wife, providing reclassifica- ton has not been made as outlined above"
 To Re. Examine Men. The circular also contained the fol- lowing instructions:
 "Attention of all local boards is again directed to our Circular B-163. Registrants rejected at camp do not necessarily belong in Class and l boards should conduct re-examina- tion of such men whenever there is possibility of change in their phy- 1 sical condition"