The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-05
Are Provided In New Registration
Claims for Exemption for Indus.
trial Reasons, However, Must
Be Well Founded

Be Well Founded
Washington, Sept. 5.--Much broad
er grounds for claims for exemption
from military service are provided ir
new regulations now being worked
out by Provost Marshal-General Crow
der to govern the classification of men
between eighteen and forty-fve, who
will register on September IL.
Importan notifications are based
upon the change of few words in
the original draft law made in pass.
ing the new man poweract. The term
industrial occupation is eliminated
and the law now provides persons
mcy be given deferred classification
when engaged in occupation or en-.
ployment, including agriculture, which
can be established as necessary to the
military establishment or the main
tenance of the national interest
This section, officials pointed out
today, with the registration boards
constituting it, will definitely allow dis
trict exemption boards to exempt
bankers and essential bank employees
when engaged in necessary CONNER
cial enterprises, and necessary wrok-
ers for Red Cross and kindred organ
izations. The regulations will not
attempt specifically to define the stat
us OF registrants who shall be entitled
to exemption, but will Glliw the boards
to work out the details, after the au-
thorization has been given them.
1t was said the regulations would
straighten out compl ?tely a situation
arising since district boards in va
rious localities have ruled under the
cid law, that railroads and banks are
not industries and that an importer
OF necessary war materials and his
stan are not engaged in industry.
Since the requirement that a man
exempted because Of his occupation
must be OF such Importance as to
threaten the continuance of the en-
terprise to which he is attached, has
been retained, however, the sum total
OF exemptions is not expected to Sc.
riously affect the new manpower
which will finally be placed in class
one.
Boards to Have Expert Advisers
District boards in applying occupa-
tional exemption regulation will have
the assistance of three advisers. in
dustrial, commercial and agricultural
who are being nominated in every
district.
Only minor changes are incor.
porated in the revised QUESTIONABLE
which the registrants of September
IL will be required to fill out It
strikes out the requirement that city
police and firemen be in service three
years before being entitled to deferred
classification, and allows them to be
placed in class three without regard
to their length of service. 1t estab-
fishes also three new divisions in
class five, exempting automatically
persons discharged from military or
naval service upon ground of alien.
age or upon displomatic request" per.
sons who are of citizens of countries
;obelligerent with the United States.
VINO come under treaty arrangements
their service at home, and
he citizens of neutral countries who
AVE Withdrawn declarations of their
Intentions to become citizens.
The QUESTIONABLE still requires that
zach registrant who desires exemp.
Ion to make the formal claims and
resent detailed facts substantiating
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embraces All From Eighteen to '
Forty-Six, Inclusive
10 remove any misunderstanding
to who will be required to register
nder the new manpower act, Provost
larshal-General Crowder in state.
lent tonight said that all men who
ave not reached their forty-sixth
irthday on or before registration
ay, September IL, will be included