Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1918 — RELEASE OF CLASS ONE MEN TO ENLIST FORBIDDEN [ARTICLE]

RELEASE OF CLASS ONE MEN TO ENLIST FORBIDDEN

Final instructions forbidding local draft boards to release class 1 men for enlistment in the navy or marine corps were received from Washington. The order is, as part, as follows: “Hereafter, no registrant, either of the 1917 or 1918 registration, shall be released to enlist in the navy or marine corps, or be placed on the emergency fleet ' classification list, who has been finally classified in class 1, and has been found physically fit for general military service, or when he has not been finally classified, or whose reclassification into or out of class 1 is still pending either before the local or district board, or on application to the president, or who having been finally classified in class 1 has not had his physical examination completed. “This prohibition applies even though there is a surplus of class 1 over and above the number necessary to fill July and August calls.”