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Corporation wired the local
board requesting that his entry
into the service be deferred on
account of his employment in
that branch of the service, stat
ing that formal request would
follow by mail.
The local board by wire or
letter obtained a ruling from
Maj. Rudledge Smith, executive
officer of Tennessee that unless
official notice was received from
the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton In regular form, form 1925
of the regulations, and before
notice was issued to Verhine to
appear for entertainment he should
not be placed on the emergency
feet list as provided for in sec
tons l5l-55 of said regulations.
AT this stage of the case |
was called on both by the father
of young Verhine and by the
board to advise with them re-
specting the matter, and | had
more than one joint conference
with the board and with Mr..
Verhine, the father Of young
Verhine in my office, in which
we all together examined the re-
gulations ard the kilograms
which the board had received on
the subject.
Il felt that the ruling which
had been furnished to the board
by Maj. Smith although it pur-
ported to be based upon the rul.
ing previously made by Gen.
Crowder he might be induced to
modify the ruling and to order
that Verhine be placed on the
emergency fleet list. therefore
wired Senator Shields the status
of the case and the ruling made
by Maj. Smith, and requested
him to submit the question to
Gen. Crowder and see if he
would make rule otherwise and
order Verhine released, or placed
in the emergency fleet list as
prescribed by section 139 of the
regulations. The senator's,
courtesy to me, | presume, wired
me that Gen. Crowder ruled that
an appeal should be granted to
the district board under section
139 Of the selective service regu-
lationr, and that such an appeal
when granted by the govern
ment appeal agent would stay
action, and that he would be
placed in class of necessary
employees.
" / submitted this telegram to
the local board and appeal agent
in a second conference, in which
the father of young Verhine was
present. We examined the sec
tion Ia9, and the local board and
government appeal agent took
the position that it had no APP
plication TO the case of Verhine,
and refused to appeal. In this
ruling was inclined to believe
they were correct, notwithstand-
Ing that course was suggested
by very high authority.
"Thereupon wired Senator
Shields again, stating this ruling
of the local board and appeal
agent and stating that the board
refused to defer Verhine' s Undue
ton into the service, on the two
grounds that the Emergency
Fleet Corporation had not filed
the request as required in the
regular form, form 1924, of the
seleetive service regulations, and
that the request from the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation was not
received until after nntice was
mailed to Verhine to appear for
entrainment, and ! ask him if he
could not secure a ruling from
Gen. Crowder, reversing this
ruling of the local board, or at
least staying further proceedings
for investigations
with all due respect for the
ruling of Maj. Smith and to that
of Gen. Crowder, as finally made
| felt that the rulings insisted
upon were highly technical at
least. if not erroneous. There is
nothing in the sections. 1925,
directing that the local boards
shall place employees of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation in the
emergency fleet list upon notice
of the superintendent or man.
ager of the corporation, indicat-
ing or prescribing that such no
tice must be filed with the local
boards before they shall have is