The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-06-06
YOUTHS OF q
ARE REGISTERED
FOR SERVICE
Twenty Young Men Who Have
Become 21 Since June 1917
Register Here
MAY BE CALLED THIS FALL
Two Hundred Thousand Registrars
to be MObilized Last of
This Month

The registration of youths who have
become 81 years of age since June 5,
1917, here yesterday resulted in 20
more young men being listed for SER
vice. The registration fell five below
the estimate for this district. Regis
tration was conducted in this end of
the county, also in Prosser and White
Bluffs, but the totals for the entire
county are not available at this time.
Chief Of Police Copeland, who as
sisted Registrar Campbell w. Bush
nell, is Of the opinion that the regis
tration here was very complete and
believes there are no slackers. For
the most part the registrants are
farmer boys and all with two excep-
tions are native born. These two are
Japanese who are employed in the S.
p. & S. section crew at Coolidge.
One Of the registrants is Reuben
Wheeler, of Richland, who, because of
muscular paralysis, has not walked a
step for seven years, not knowing of
the absentee registration provisions,
made the trip to the registration Of
flee. AS he signed his name to the
registration card he said his desire to
be strong again was stronger now
than ever before. He wanted to be
well, he said, not alone for the sake
of being well, but that he might fight
for his country.
The list of registrants and their
post Office addresses follows:
Earl Drexel Johnson, signal depart
ment, N. P. Ry., Easton, Wn.
Walter Bryan Shepard, Richland.
Frank Earl Stahl, Finley.
Samuel George Foraker, R. F. D.
No. 2, Kennewick, Wn.
julius Olbrich, Kennewick.
Reuben Fay Wheeler, Richland.
Ralph Matthews, Horse Heaven.
Howard Wesley Door, r. F. D. 1.
Otto Edwin Erickson, Kennewick.
Harold Claire Weisel, Horse Heaven.
Edwin Fred Davis, Finley.
Ray Henry Copeland, Kennewick.
linus Yabuki, Longview p. o.
Kazuo Baba, Longview p. o.
Henry Oliver Kilmer, r. F. d. 1.
Brian Charles Lowe, r. D. 2.
Walter Bryant Smith, Finley.
Willard A. Campbell, R. F. D. No. 1.
Guy Willis Rogers, Bly,, Asotin
county.
Clarence Wilson Buzby, Richland.
Altho the selective service regula-
tions put the young men who register
ed at the bottom of the eligible list, it
is probable that some Of them will be
in training this fall. For while the
registration was in progress orders
went out from Povost Marshal Crow
der to the governors of the state for
the mobilization between June "a and
% of 100000 more registrants. It is
probable that this call will exhaust
all the available first class men in
some Of the states and the next call
will include some Of the younger men.
Assignments for the men called to
the colors under today's order indicate
the rapidity with which troops now are
moving overseas. In nearly every in
stance the registrants under today's
requisition are assigned to national ar
my cantonments, whereas recently
when calls were made, it was neces-
sary to. send the men to national
guard, regular army and other camps
because the cantonments were filled.
The state of Washington is to fur
nish 2200 men under this call.
Sheriff C. E. Duffy, who acted as
registrar at White Bluffs, reports four
registrants as follows: Rutherford B.
Dunlap and Cecil Edmund Barge, of
White Bluffs; Harry Marion Blackler,
of Hanford; and John William Cook,
Cook, of Yakima.
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