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DRAFTED MEN ARE CALLED TOTHE COLORS BY THE PRESIDENTIN ORDERS ISSUED THURSDAYONE THIRD OF THE QUOTA FROM THIS DISTRICT WIU. BE CALLED OUT FOR DUTY ON SEPTEMBER IThe Balance of Each District’s Quota Will Be Called Out Later in September—Local Exemption Board Will Have Charge of the Men, Seeing That They Are Housed and Fed Until They Are Put on Their Trains for Camp But the Men Will Be Allowed Last Night With Their Families—Men Who Do Not ReportWhen Called Will Be Classed As Deserters.iIWashington, Aujr. 10—Tin* Federal Government lias completed it* plan for the first rail of men to the colors for the national army to he formed under the auspices of the selective service law.The Governors of the States haw been notified that each State will hr* called upon to furnish one-third of itr- quota onSept. I. Each of the 4,557 local districts wilt he expected tofamish one-third of that district's quota on Sept, 1, and theywill he mobilized at training camps between Sept. 1 and 5. The rest of each district *s quota will bo mobilized later in September. Regulations governing the plans for the mobilization ofW/.MMI draft - (I n - re issued b\ I*i • lt;ilt; ui \\ ilsoij today (through the offie»* »lt;•;. Hnoeii Crowder, the Provost i Marshal Gem r d. These regulations direet tin* local and district boards in minute detail how to proceed in designating tin* men to be entrained in th*- first eai! to the colors. The regulations prov ide tor|i*e listing of the men t«» be culled* tor the posting and notification of tin*.'-«• lt;alted, for t|u*ir as»emM. lodging,subsistence, cntruinment and traiLsportation to the mobilization camp*.OMMmTCrowder win t-pccify th#* number of rn*»n to be mobHizcd areaKft samp The local boards arc expected to entrain men for these camps at th*time* specified The Adjutant Generals of the States will call on the local boards to send selected men to the mobilization lt;amps. The local boards will (lz the time of assembly and order the drafted men to military duty They willaIro arrange for subsistence and lodging and for th* transportation of the se*•elected men to the camp* They will make arrangements with hotels, reetau tanta and lodging houses in their neighborhoods for the lodging of the men ( assembled for entrainmcnt but the rules contain a provision by which draftedII*men may spend thesr last night in their home town with their families by making application to the iota! boards j Posting of a man s name, or notice to him by mail will serve as hi.s orders fo report for military dut' • ioullt;i ho fa 1 to report when petted on the h't *f those embraced in the assembly It.-t he will be subject to arrest. The namesif all who become absentees are to be reported by the local boards direct to ' Brig Gen. Henry P. McCain, the Adjutant General of the army at Washington If the local board knows . . hereabouts of the ab-ee.tecs it must . a i on the police to arrest them a* desert* rs from the army and to deliver them to the tearett military station as prisonersIr
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Aug 10, 1917
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