Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1918 — NEW DRAFT TAKES 3,250 [ARTICLE]

NEW DRAFT TAKES 3,250

MEN WILL GO TO COLUMBUS BARRACKS, OHIO, NEXT WEEK. Indiana, May 14. —An unexpected and urgent call for fifty thousand draft men has just been made-by the war department, according to a telegram from Provost Marshal General Crowder, received today by Major Robert C. Baltzell, state conscription officer. The call is in addition to all other calls which have been made for this month and provides that the entire number of men must be moved to designated camps during the fiveday period beginning May 20. Indiana’s allotment of the fifty thousand men is 3,250. They will be sent to Celumbus barracks, Ohio. General Crowder’s message points out that only white men, physically qualified for general military service, are to be furnished under the call and no men are to be drawn except from Class 1. General Crowder adds that if possible men in this class who now are engaged in planting or other farm work be eliminated from the call but if possible, to use care in selecting those who can best be spared. Major Baltzell stated that quotas will be mailed to local beards tomorrow, based on the number of men left in Class 1, in each district.