Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Next Draw For Men to be Made February 15th [ARTICLE]

Next Draw For Men to be Made February 15th

The remaining 35 per cent of the drafted men in the first call will not be sent to camp before February 15th, according to a telegram received by Governor Goodrich from the provost marshal-general Thursday morning. The telegram reads in part as follows; “It has been decided that there will be no more formal calls for deferred percentages of the present quota before February 15th. While boards should, until they have enough men finally classified in class 1, send forward men- selected under the old regulations, to make up deficiences in calls already made, the (result of this decision will be thAt we shall be able to give the benefit of the new classification system to all men whose order numbers are so late as to place them within deferred percentages of the present call. Calls, however, will be made very shortly under the provisions of Section 149 for the special class of men there mentioned.” Section 149 referred to covers the induction into service technical and other experts and of registrants highly skilled in some special line of work. Such men may be inducted into service at any time regardless of a deferred classification on the ground of engagement in industry or agriculture, and regardless of the order numbers heretofore assigned by lot.