Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — MAY RETURN FROM FRANCE [ARTICLE]

MAY RETURN FROM FRANCE

Americans of Conscription Age Arc Not Accepted Abroad. A dispatch from Paris appearing in the Chicago Tribune stated that large numbers of Americans of draft age comifig to that country to join the ambulance corps, are being refused because 6‘f their eligibility to military service in this country. However, it seems that they have the alternative of joining the French army and taking chances of securing a place in their chosen field, or returning to this country and be drafted. If this statement is true it will affect both Vern Davisspn and Sam Duvall, who went there recently to join the ambulance corps. However, it would not affect Alfred Thompson, who went there with a unit from several American colleges and joined the transportation corps. They have been accepted and according to a letter received by his parents Sunday they are now in a training camp preparing fdr service. Just what Davigson and Duvall will do is not known, as no word concerning any obstruction to their plans has been received here.