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FIRST CALL WILL TAKE 251,900 DRAFTED MEN TO THE RESPECTIVE ARMY CANTONMENTS ON SEPT. 1CROWDER URGES HASTEGovernors of Various States Are Asked to Certify Quotas Quickly.%NEW DRAFT RULE TAKES HUSBANDSFIVE DAVS FOR MOBILIZINGTO RESTRICT EXEMPTIONSCitizens Called to {Colors WillBecome Federal Charges on Provost Marshal Decides MarBoarding TrainsWar Department will call one third of the quota for the national draft army from each Stats to entrain forMen Must Serve if Re i Will SuoDort Wivesj in* toGeneral Crowder yesterday.This f-rnearer a rizorous restrlc-k r 7Washington. Aug. 9—If relative* are ‘able. ready and willing’ to support a wife, the local draft boards will nation r amps to which the men ire jr#fuw» to exempt her husband, accordso he sent to their camp* during the j inK to a ru|jng from Trovost Marshal-first 3ve days in September.,To obtain m*n rapidly enough to carry out this mobilization movement , _G.n.r.1 CroM,r U» called upon the 1 of ««P‘lo»« «» h' ««»•Governor in each State to urge local Irr*** * rowder after consultation withboard? to certify their lists with suf ?nd approval of Secretary of WarSfl*nt expedition to obtain this num of men by the first of next month The State* nrt‘ therefore b**ing called upon the complete one-third of thrirquotas for the national army in tba|t#«*tlC*liy ail of r;aim for ex {mjjjjg twenty-three lt;iaTh» quota assigned for the *ntre country was ♦jfci.OtH* men. GeneralCrowder last week issued instructions for each State to draft 10 per cent.:nort than it* quota. *5*.7^0 additional on her husbandMM for the couairy so a to tnak»* al•! The ruling »l*o applies to depen lowagiee* for »^ilt; kness and disabilities dent children and to mothers, sisters during the train ng of the National and hrothers; in short, to all classes A rwiv This mean* that the number |pf dependents for whch exemption is cf men to be obtained from the firstj claimed b drafted men draft will b* around 755,700 men. j As explained by General CrowderThe M ar Department is ready to re- j last n^ht, it is a further effort—probtt- ; ns? Informs the local b^ard? • no the district board*, to which au-emptlon go up on appeal, that they msv ascertain whether or not a wife's relative* are will ng to take care ofher and thus eliminate her dependencyhuiltreive by Sept 1 one third of the«emen in the cantonments now- beingIn other words, ft will be ready by the 1st o! next month to begin themobilisation of 251.000 men.The quota for New York Sta?e ha* been fixed at *;*». J 4! Add me 1 per• en* to tak** lt;are of gaps caused bysickness gives a roial of 76,165 men, o* whom the third to be mobilized onSept. 1 number 2S£.General Crowdrr i* conferring h the General S?ab and its War College division regarding plans for the mobilization of the national army, it* a * •ignment to trainingJand the method* of transporting the drafted men to these point-* of rendezvous. Whether excursion trains mill be run hart not been determined. But each man drafted ’will be supplied with transportation to his mobilization point and to tha where he is to be traablv the bnal one—to make clear tow Offlocal boards exactly what constitutesdependency. General ( rowder said it had been inspired by the enormous number of requests received from lo-? al boards for further light on de- jpendency. The ruling will apply es- ;pecially to claims for exemption which ; husbands of well-to-do wives have made and to cases of men of wealthy j families who have asked for exemp-!Uon i P■ A lt;flg ' 1 \v*An in^'anre cited \e terday at the fc Provo*t Marshal-General* office wastha? of Kingdon Ooul4 When Gen cantonments, eral Crowder was asked what chancedlt;ttlt; antoumentthis healthy young millionaire had of escaping the draft hr replied dryly: ”lt will be up to the local board to j say, of course but affording to this »ruling it doesn t look very favorable | for him. 1Vlt;o!LETS POLICE CLAIMvltrgac
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1917
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