Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-13
STILL IN DOUBT
on LATE Order
III Latest Order Il Means That Only
Those Between Is and 10
Must Sign.
RECEIVES TELEGRAM TODAY
Exemption Board Has No Official
Word That Men Need Not Fill
Out QueStionnaireS.
CBy the Associated Press.

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Washington, Nov. 13.-Men be
tween Sc and 40 years Of age who
have received but not filled out
Questionnaires were asked today by
Provost Marshal General Crowder
to return them in blank form TO
local boards The boards are in
structed to cancel all entries relat-
ing TO men Of these classes and they
viii be considered as no longer
bound by the seleCtive service law.
Classification Of youths of IS,
which will be continued is regarded
by the general staff OF the army as
most valuable for statistical pur-
poses, and its bearing upon posi-
Bile future military problems.
Draft boards also have been mott
fed of the possibility that they may
be needed as the active local agents
in governmental rehabilitation
plans.
Exemption board officials have
not received official notification that
missionaries sent out to Sept. IL
registrants between the ages Of IS
and 10 and 81 and as do not have to
send back their questionnaires.
Press dispatches yesterday officially
quoting Provost Marshal General
CrOwder, were TO the effect that
classifying men aged under 10 or
over SO years is to stop and boards
are to withhold questiOnnaires for
such regisurants not sent out. 1t
was also said that registrants Of
10 and from 81 10 as years who
have received questionnaires need
not fill them out
Latest Official word to the local
exemption board came from Spring
field this morning in the form of a
telegram from Adjutant General F.
S. Dickson. That portion of the
communication bearing upon future
draft proceedings follows The
secretary of war has issued the fol
lowing order to the provost mar
shall general. You will at once in
struct state headquarters and local
and district boards Immediately to
discontinue all work connected with
the classification of the men who
on Sept. y, 1918, attained their
37th birthday. You will further in
struCt said boards to continue to
completion as expeditiously as pos
sible the classification of all regis
trants who on Sept. u, 1918, had
attained their 10th birthday and had
not attained their 9th birthday.
You will finally at the earliest ap-
propriate moment direct all local
boards and district boards TO issue
missionaries to all regiStrants
who on Sept. u, 1918, had attained
their 18th birthday and had not at
tanned their 18th birthday, and to
proceed with and complete as early
as possible the classification of
such registrants Further orders
will be issued later covering the
matter of sending missionaries to
and classifying 1S-year-old regis
trants."
It's Interpretation.
The above telegram is taken to
mean that all local boards are TO
complete the classification of reg
istrants of Sept. l., 1918, between
the ages of 10 and q and % TO SO.
Questionnaires were sent out TO
these registrants by the local
boards several weeks ago and the
work Of classifying them has been
ompleted.
In reference to men between the
ages Of Is and 10 and 81 and 46, II
IS taken 10 mean that question
naires are 10 be sent only TO men
between IS and 10 and that when
these Questionnaires are returned
the men are to be classified. How
ever. the local board not only sent
cut cuestiennaires to men between
the ages of is and 10, but TO men
between the ages of 81 and 46. Ac-