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THOSE ACCEPTED NOW PROVIDEQUOTA OF 209 WITH SIXTY-FOUR ON RESERVE]LIST CERTIEIEO TO ROANOKENo Others Needed on I list Draft Unless District Board Makes Large*Number of D.scharges. Coinphie |t List of Those Selected byLocal Board. 111fAnnouncement was made yesterday tlt; by the local exemption board that [ ‘InRockingham County’s quota of 200 nlen on the first draft for the newrational army has been raised fromthe 680 men examined, and that the p board now has sixty four more H0available men than were needed to provide the actual quota. Twenty-three of these sixty-four have been certified along with the first 20H in order to provide a 10 per cent »ur plus, and tfce remaining thirty-oneure on a reserve list to be called ifneeded.Whether or not the local board will have to call other men to take the physical examination during thepresent craft, repends entirely ui-on the number of exemptions grant- J ”ed by the district board at Roanoke, j31 This board is now in session pass * lag upon vocational claims and dis posing of appeals from the local! rcboards If the district board does jnot grant more than fifty discharges ol in addition to those already granted w by the local board and only few are jKturned down on the entrance exam- \ j inatton at the training camp, the tepresent reserve will be sufficient and j)rno more men will he ealled until ]nthe second draft. If the districtI ccboard discharge* more than fiftv ofwwthose certified to it from this county. however, or the army surgeons reject any considerable number of jV1 the men passed by -the local phv jsidans. it may be necessary for the wlocal board to make another call th Fifteen of the 233 men certified to bn the district board as qualified for in railitury service are entitled to par lt;f tiai exemptions on religious grounds. | rj, A delegation from the Mennonite (--jChurch conferred with Secretary* to, }n the President J. P. Tumulty la** j ofweek with reference to the drafting of members of that denomination. | They were assured by Mr. Tumulty that those with religious scruple* aguinst war will not be put on the firing line, but will be given noncombatant duties In the list below. the names of men entitled to partial exemption on religious j Mlgrounds are proceeded by a star (*). R*chcoSvIIIMen in First Quota.The following 230 men. eompri*-1 f, ing the quota for Rockingham Couii- s* ty on the first draft, have been cer- j no titled to the district board at Roa-j rp noke as being qualified for military [ w|(Continued on Page Five)ft CMed
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Tue, Sep 04, 1917
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