Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1918 — NO WHITES FROM INDIANA ON FIRST DRAFT CALL [ARTICLE]

NO WHITES FROM INDIANA ON FIRST DRAFT CALL

More Hoosiers —1,800 of them—will be taken to the national army post at Hamilton, N. Y., within the five day period beginning April 3, according to word issued to Robert Baltzell, state national army agent, from the provost marshal at Washington, Wednesday. This will complete the total number of white men wanted by the first draft call in Indiana. Only men physically qualified for general military service are to be in this call. The American Railway association is working out a schedule so that the men may be transported as rapidly as possible. Major Baltzell will notify the local boards shortly as to their quotas. Altogether 17,510 men in Indiapa are in the first call, but about 1,200 of them are negroes and none of that race had been called yet from the first draft percentage.