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MORE REGISTRANTS CALLED FOR TESTSLast Bif Group of Class One Men Being Ext mined Today—But Few Ar« LeftSixty-two registered men, comprising the last large group in clast Xnot hitherto called for physical examination, were summoned to appear at the court house in Stevens Point today to undergo the tests. This number raises the total of class I men called for examination to 886. Only about a half dozen, whose classifications had not been finally determined and reported back by the district board up to Saturday, remain to be examined. ]The men called for examination to- ] day include a considerable number of 1 registrants who were married since i May 18, 1917. The local board, after ( passing on these cases, sent all of ; them up to the district board, which lt;placed them in class I for the reason j that men married since the selective j service law was passed did so despite j the fact that at that time they were aware of their liability to service. In one case the district board refused deferred classification to a resident of a rural community of Portage county whose bans of marriage were pub- ' lished in a Catholic church prior to \ May 18. J
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Stevens Point Gazette
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Feb 20, 1918
Page 10
Full Page
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