Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-11
ALL DRAFT CALLS
CANCELLED; ARMY
MOVEMENT STOPS
Gen. CroWder's Action Taken
in Accordance With Presi-
dents Order.
A FEW MEN ENTRAINED
BEFORE OFFICIALS ACT
Calls for Navy and Marine Corps
Not Affee .ed-Draft Board
Work to Continue.

By order Of President Wilson
Provost Marshal General Crowder to-
day directed the cancellation of all
outstanding draft calls, stopping the
movement during the newt fv" d"vs
OF 252 900 men and setting aside all
November calls for more than 3uJ.oUU
men
A small number of men in eastern
states commenced entraining at 6 am.
today for cantonments under the
calls, and the cancellation comes too
late to affect their status. They will
be considered as in the Army until
demobilized. Men not yet entrained.
whether specially inducted or assem-
bled by general call, for whom the
day and hour or service has been set
by draft boards, will be considered
as honorably discharged. and SO paid.
Navy and Marine Corps Service.
Calls for the Navy and Marine Corps
and entertainments OF, mon. for these
s<rvfces will continue as ordered
Draft boards will continue classihca-
ton Of registrants of September IL.
Secretary Baker later announced
that so far as practicable all men
who have been called and who have
not yet completed their induction into
the Army will be Immediately turned
back to civilian life.
Mr.. Baker made this statement after
a conference which included the heads
of practically every important bureau
of tAe War Department. He said
more comprehensive announcements
10 qitnafinn yCnnld he
made laAr
"All that can be said now" he said,
"is that further calls and inductions
under the draft have been suspended.
and that, so far as we can. those men
who have been called. but who have
not completely passed through the
camps, will be turned back to civilian
life.
TO the extent that we can We will
turn back those men who have been
entrained and have not yet reached
training camps.
Prepared Two Days Ago.
kilograms to the 4.6oo-odd local
draft boards conceling the calls were
prepared two days ago at Gen. Crow
ders orders. and only the word OF the
general staff was needed to release
them. The draft executive has been
urgent in recommending the suspension
OF the calls.
1t Is pointed out in the orders to
local boards that their work Is to con-
tinue and that the draft machine will
remain in readiness to function quick
ly again, however remote the pos
sibility Of its necessity.
Practically every man in the 10000
called to enter service in November
was a registrant on September IL,
when the eighteen to forty-fve year
age limit became effective. More
than 5000, 900 men. to date have been
ordered into military service under
operation of the seiectiFe service law,
and more than 2.700,0oo, including
nearly every man found physically At
and without dependent or industrial
exemption Of the original twcnty-one
to thirty-one year group. have Joined
tho service
one call, for 4 thousand men to Join
the Navy. is now being prepared by
the provost marshal.
The naval construction program
will continue without any let-up as
the result of the signing of the armis-
tice, Secretary Daniels said today. The
stress Of war has forced the navy
yards to give practically their entire
attention to work on submarine
chasers and on repair work AS fast
as the navy yards can be relieved Of
this work they will be employed on
tho construction of larger war ves-