Malvern daily record., 1918-01-28
GOV'NT. APPEALS
 IN Al CASES
Local Board Places Those Married Since May Is in Deferred Class, but All Cases Are Appealed.

The cases of forty one registrants, placed mostly in the Fourth Glass by the Hot Spring County Exemption Board, have been appealed by Govern ment Agent, Jabez M. Smith, to the District Board, acting under instruc tions from the Adjt. General. These are the cases of those who have been married since May IS, 1917. The Local Board placed ali in deferred class, on instructions from the District Board, to use their best judgment as to whether registrants married since that date, did so for the purpose of evading military service. The Board investigated each case, and classed them according to their findings.
 The rule under which the classified tions were made, is rule 5, of the Selective Service Regulations, and is as follows:
 "Rule V. On May IS, 1877, every person subject to registration had no tiee of his obligation to render military service to his country The purpose of the Seleetive Service Law was not to suspend the institution of marriage among registrants, but boards should scrutinize marriages since May IS, 1917, and especially those hastily effected since that time, to determine whether the marriage relation was entered into with primary view of evading military service, and unless such is found not to be the case boards are hereby authorized to disregard the relationship SC established as condi tion of dependency deferred classif cation under these regulations"
 The following is the instructions under which Government Agent Smith, acted, in appealing the cases:
 Washington, D. c. Jan. Is, 1918. Governor, Little Rock, Ark.
 Number A thirty one seventeen. In order that District Boards may review all classification by Local Boards in case of marriage since May IS, 1917, and secure uniformity of action, all Government appeal agents shall be instructed to appeal all eases where Local Boards have granted deferred classification in either class two or class four on account of such marriage
 Crowder. oil cases have been appealed by the Gov ernment, under these instructions: Order No. Name Address
 35 Robert c. Duncan, Malvern
 IT David Lee McClain, R. No. 3. Malvern.
 40 Robert Murphy Davis, Fleming
 121 Algie Thomes Bettis, Carriage Donaldson.
 300 George Miller Taylor, Butter field.
 S30 Thomas Watson Belote, R. F. D. No. 3, Malvern.
 363 Luther Houston Knight, Pt Cedar.
 371 Elza Floyd Armstrong, Lost Prairie.
 372 Wm. W. Beeson, Malvern.
 418 Robert Lee Cunningham, Nal vern.
 455Dayton Hale Montgomery, R. 1 DeRoche.
 526 Andrew Jackson Byron, Key burn.
 567 Nat Helm, col, Sweet Home
 570 Roy Herbert Wilson, Malvern
 586 Ernest Clarence Ward, De Roche.
 687 Albert Baker, Lono.
 813 Charlie Calvin Brown, Malvern
 814 Jonathan Isom Hughes, Bis mark
 852 Oscar Lee Keeper, Willow.
 999 Martin Hughes Rutledge Stuttgart.
 1913 Walter Lee Taylor, Bismark
 1061 William Frye, Donaldson.
 1882 Edward Orson Fitzpatrick, 1883 William Edgar Ledbetter DeRoche.
 1110 James Harvey Ledbetter, De Roche, Route 1.
 1114 Robert Harvey Collie, Route 3, Malvern.
 11e2 Pat Williams. col. Fordyce
 11s4 Theo. Chas. Ainsworth, Nal vern.
 11s1 oda Watson Wynn, Route I Mimdag.
 l 1211 Rufus Hues Overton, Lono.
 1241 Vernon Milas Merritt, Social Hill.
 1269 James Washington Arnold Route 1, Mimdag.
 1255 George Rolona Baker, Malvel
 1286 Clyde Franklin David,- care Ark. Land and Lumb. Co.,, Malvern.
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