Evening star., 1918-10-04
CHANCE FOR RDRAF1EES
TO BECOME STUDENTS
Call for Seventy-Fiye D. C., White
Registrants to Attend Bliss
Electrical School.

A call for seventy-five white regis
Electrical School October IS, made
today by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. offered perhaps the first op-
portunity to men of the September IL
registration to join the colors.
The District is called upon for
|seventy-fve grammar school gradu-
ates to receive technical training at
the Bliss School, which has been con-
Quoted as an Army training unit for
several months. The call upon the
National Capital forms part of a cali
for 20.01s white registrants. qualified
for general military service, made
upon forty-two states and the Dis
trict today. Nine hundred and eighty
colored registrants also were called
from the states.
Certain Waivers Necessary.
Voluntary induction will be allow
ed until October IL. It was stated to-
day that registrants of the September
IL registration may be voluntarily in
Quoted to complete the Districts quo
ia. providing the men have been prop
erly classified by their local boards,
and are willing to make several waiv-
ers necessary. This is believed to be
the first opportunity opened. to men
they will play in filing the call vii!
depend mainly upon the number OF
men classified here tcdate.
The last 10 per cent Of question
naireS were received by men OF the
city between the ages of nineteen
and thirty-six years today. 1t is
known that at least one of the local
boards has classified more than 100
registrants- upon the basis of ques-
ionnaires returned so far. Regis
rants have five days in which to :ap-
peal their classification to the dis
trict board. Men who will have been
classified before October IL, there
fore, and who have been placed in
class !. and who do not appeal their
classification. may apply for yolun-
tary induction under the call for men
for the Bliss School, according to an
erals Office.
Examination Question Undecided.
examinations of the newest regis
trants remained today moot ques-
tion among local draft officials. Con-
ditions of the influenza epidemic here
left a doubt as to whether the exam1-
nations would be begun as early as
had been planned.
No requests for the suspension of
physical examinations of draft regis
trants were received today by Provost
Marshal General Crowder, though in
Massachusetts and Philadelphia, it is
reported, the work has been halted
because of the influenza.
1t was said today that except in
localities where conditions were par
ticularly bad, the examinations would
be allowed to proceed, but that they
would be ordered stopped wherever
the public health service and the local
health authorities agreed upon its
necessity.
= Affects All Class One Men.
The examinations upon which local
boards were ordered to begin as soon
as possible affect men between nine
teen and thirty-seven years old of
the September ~ registration who
have been and will be placed in
class I.
The great call for $4,000 men to
he entrained for cantonments October
0 still remains suspended. Two hun
dTed and thirteen white District regis
trants mark time until the call is
made again. Epidemic conditions are
not considered sufficiently improved
to ALLOW the reinstatement of the or
der for the movement of the men.
The district men were to have been
entrained for Camp Meade, where par