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Show - MEANS OP APPEAL Governors to Request Re- opening of Cases if Neces- sary Showing Is Made. WASHINGTON, Fopr. 10. Men summoned sum-moned for service under l he draft and who have been denied discharge by local Mi st riot boards because of dependents nave' still a means of appeal where they '.an show there has been error or misapplication mis-application of the law in their cases. On such a showing, governors of states, to whom appeal may be taken, are authorized author-ized to request local boards to reopen cases. There is no appeal to the president, however, except where exemption has been Bought on the ground of industrial employment and denied by the district board. The rulings communicated last night to state officials make this clear In the following language: "Tho only cases in which there is a right of appeal to the president are cases of rlaims for exemption or discharge ha sed upon engagement in industry or ngricclture. Further than this it Is impossible im-possible to go. If any of the millions of indivi .Val cases within the original jnrls-d'-Hiof local boards are to be consid--in Washington, then all ought to be jpen to consideration. This is impossible. Therefore, administrative authority will not address itself to particular cases in the jurisdiction of local boards. "The president has directed the war department de-partment to decline to discuss cases pending pend-ing before local or district boards or entertain en-tertain any communications, suggestions , or statements concerning them." |