The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-25
DRAFT DELAYED
BY FIGURE MIDDLE
IN LOCAL BOARDS
Assignment of Serial
Numbers Causes I'm
certainty AS to Date.
MANUAL, is ISSUED
Legal Advisors Are In
structed What to Do
In Assisting Regis
trants.
MANUAL is ISSUED

AShln on. sept - -~-i tHd4 W.
termination of the date fer the big
draft lottery ~ being delayed by fail-
ure of local boards to notify the oHtee
OF the provost marshal-Eenerst that
they have assigned serial numbers To
all registrants.
General Gfowder sent kilograms u
all of the local boards last night and
again tonight demanding that this he
completed AT once and the lists be for-
warded to the adJntant general Of the
statcs.
one southern board has the entire
system badly tangled. II segregated
the reGistrants' cards into groups Of
the efehteen~year- old men, the nine
teen and twenty year Odds, the thir-
ty-two aud fhirtY-siS inclusive ana
the thirty seven to forty-hve. It then
assigned serial numbers To each class
beginning IN E8CU cfsSS Win one aad
going M In this way there were four
holders cf many nam berg In this IN"
district
When General Crn~der was advised
~ this situation. he ordered an en-
tirelv new serial number ALLEGATION for
re.istrants of that district, The cards
were all to be shuHied. and the seriat
Numbers assigned IN order Tor all reg
iatrHssss according TO tFe registrations
X is still possible 10 hold the ORA" :
ing on September %, II word is received
from AL the local tttNAtt@ tt''t ~
serial mum bers have been assigned
General Crowder sent out now man
mai for legal ADJ iSory boards today, It
covers many Of the difficult problems
In answering the qae@tFonnaareS
Raraes on oR~GIsfrants.
ReEistrants are warn@f 1EaF W.
burden rests upon them to get tine
aaestionnairss and return them 70 their
local boards within the seven days al
lowed II they fail to receive the
raesttonnaires. it is their duty - get
a duplicate from the board, sat II
they are unable to secure the support
ing aridasitS for claims of deferred
classification within the seven DAYS
,hev must apply to their local boards
for an extension before the FNPfat'o"
OF the seven-day period,
Answers to questtonnaires should be
~ritten in black ink. but II there Ia
not room in the space left the regis
-.rant may have the additional tn1orma~
zion typewriter on sheets the same
rixe as the questionnaire ana inserted
in H.
rersy advisers are instructed TO see
tsat registrants make claims for de-
ferred ciasslfications wherever tsueh
. are proper and that a registrant shou1o
\ v,akc claims for deferred ciassihcatlon
i on as many grounds as he mas. even
though they seem TO be cohhictths,
4 may De GfAHSiilFu EA N'@"7 -
an occupational grounds and class
cr densndency. In that case. his rat
Y snp would be class T. so long as the
\ senendency existed IT II ceased. ne
~ nuld revert to class :. II he had not
made the occunational claim, ne woula
yeyart to class l. and be subject 10 the
rext draft call. or, should he have
"nsrrea emnlevment and so lost his
4 c,ass position, he would then revert
r,aas / had he not made the de-
pendency claim.
Tha legal advisory boards are In
,,atoa - see that married men. who
A. not make the dependency claim
ss., the formal waiver affidavit and
that similar affidavits are signed by
their dependent SO that there can DE
no confusion later as TO lheir ra,Ihs
An the draft.
Dependency Defined.
Attention is called to the definition
~ the conditions of dependency. rms
waiter is UP to the local boards, but
nerson is held to he a dependent un-
a. the regulations who receives from
!. reristrant reasonably adequate sup
port" ,<. T.
.b,e 10 support herself is not an is
sue saws Colonel Warren. executive
officer of the provost marshal gen
erals office.
mo draft board has the authority
n make a physical examination or a
wife to see il she is strong enough to
vork. II she is dependent on her hus-
hand. that settles the matter.
Registrants are advised that infor-
nation regarding health Is TO be held
"A confidential and that no one but the
proper government officers will have
| access to II. Men suffering from loath-
aome diseases will not have their in
| frmities made public though they are
reasons for exemption or refusal by
! the army
Finally the Instructions advise thai
The assistance of attorneys In filling
! nut the questionnaires and in &C
/ knowledging the necessary afTidavits is
/ TO be free.
Every lawyer should deem 1t a
privilege and patriotic duty" says
the manual,
General Crowder also issued a fur
ther appeal to all registrants to claim
their deferred classifications. and t
employers to see that proper affidavits
and claims for Differences for occupa'
4ional grounds be claimed for neccs
10y employees. He points out thai
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