The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-08
TWENTY-EIGHT
MEN ARE CALLED
FOR AUGUST 26
Second August Contingent Takes
Benton COunty's First Class
1917 Registrants
HARVESTERS NOT EXEMPT
Army Must Have Men Even Though
Crops Suffer and All Defer
ments are Revoked

ments are Revoked
To revoke summarily all temporary
deferments granted for agricultural
reasons, to advance all married men
with no children to Class 1, and to all
for service all Glass men of the 1917
registrants, are orders received this
week by Benton county's local draft
board.
The boardsis instructed to furnish
% men for entrainment to Camp Lewis
during the five-day period beginning
August 26. This takes every man ply
sically fit for military service left in
Glass in this county after the Aug
nst contingent was furnished. The
call, however, does not include those
who have been advanced to Glass 1
under the "no children" order of the
selective draft department. The call
in part is as follows:
"Your particular attention is called
to the fact that Call No. 1141 is to
be filled with Class men of the class
of 1917. No class of 1913 men are to
be sent on this call, for, as indicated,
its purpose is to clean up the class Of
1917.
ut may be that you have some Class
1 men in the class Of 1917 who have
been and still are assiduously and
completely engaged in the cultivation
of crops, and to whom you have hith-
erto granted temporary deferment. IF
so, you will now call such men. The
military situation is so acute that no
further deferment of call for agricul-
ture considerations can be allowed. You
do not need to be concerned that har-
vesting will suffer thru taking them,
and it is immaterial whether harvest
ing suffers or not. Such men must
be sent on this call. Other agencies
of the government are now organized
to supply any farm labor needs Incl
dent to completion of the harvest. It
is, further, immatcrial whether you
may have promised these men defer
ment to September 1st or 18th or Oc-
tober 1st. Such promises, when made
by you, were made in good faith, but
the military situation could not then
be forseen, and you will simply have
to withdraw such promises and induct
such men,
The % men in the August 26 con-
tingent are:
Edward Dunning, Richland; Jay
Austin, Beverly; Donald Kerr, Keller:
Geo. W.ilgus, Prosser; Clarence Som
derman, Richland; Leland R. Fuller,
Prosser; Louis Baierlipp, Kennewick;
Herman Roberts, Prosser; Edwin
Strate, Kiona; George Mcclure, Ho-
yer; Fred Culp, Richland; Harvey Ro-
wen, Prosser; Ernest Anderson, Pros
ser; Otto Reese, Kennewick; Robert
Sutton, Richland; Harvey Mitchell, XII,
ona; Merton Cochran, Kennewick; Os-
car Nelson, So. Berlin, N. Y; Vern
White, Prosser; Nick Alfonso, Badger;
Fred Knaub, Arrowsmith; Merton
Strommer, Marcus; Edwin Greer, Sc
attic; VIM. Christianson, Prosser; L.
+. Bliss, Kennewick; Oswald Eberhard
Brewster; John Crump, Kona; Elwood
Hazelton, Prosser.
The first August contingent left
Prosser Monday for Camp Fremont,
california. Those going were: Clar-
ence Lille, John Long, John Rearick,
Peter Taggaris, John Bachman, Henry
Holmes and Vito Michelli.
The following registrants who have
volunteered for special instruction as
mechanics, will entrain Wednesday,
Aug. Is for Washington State College,
Pullman: Arthur Mason, Prosser; Dell
Weaver, Prosser; Harold Copeland,
. Grandview.
For Oregon Agricultural College,
corvallis, Ore: Clarence Berg, Han
ford, Arthur Simson, Kennewick;
Chester Mcdonald, Prosser; Ralph
knudson, Benton City; Arthur Foisy,
Prosser.