Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — State Conscription Board. [ARTICLE]

State Conscription Board.

Indianapolis, May 18. —A state conscription board will sit in Indianapolis and pass on all questions relative to exempt ion from draft under the army trill. The board is to be made up of five men. who will be appointed by President Wilson. Governor Goodrich received official notice to this effect. The governor was advised by Washington officials to name a physician to the conscription boards in each county and each city of more than 30.000 population. He has advised conscription boards in every county by telegraph to displace the third member for a physician. The boards now will consist of the county clerk, county sheriff and a physician. He asked mayors in cities which have conscription boards to recommend a physician.