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Show 111 DRAFT BOARDS LEADING COUNTRY First State to Complete Physical Examination of Class 1 Registrants. Utah has won one race, which has not yet been completed, only one other state, In fact, having completed the course Nevada. That was in the classification of registrants of September 12 between the ages of 19 and 36. inclusive, and in the physical examination of registrants of class . Now another race is on. announced an-nounced yesterday in a bulletin to all local hoards from Captain Gordon Snow. Utah draft executive. The second race covers similar work with regard to the remaining registrants of the September classes. "Ctah is so far ahead of every other state in the union,"' reads the bulletin, "in its classification work that there is no reason why it should not finish the second race of classification with its leadership lead-ership still unchallenged.' Hoard No. 1 of Salt Lake county is already al-ready on the new progress chart, and though, the largest board In the state, is the first to appear there, It has already completed tiO per cent of the classification work in connection with the remaining registrants of September last. Captain W, Brown Kwing. medical aide to Governor Simon Bamberger in connection connec-tion with the selective service law. has sent to the surgeon general of the United States army reports from local boards of men who were placed In class 5-C on physical examination. Men in the class designated are deemed physically unable to serve the nation in any military capacity. ca-pacity. The surgeon general's office desires to check up the returns from the local boards in this regard. Some of the local boards of the state have not responded to the request of the medical aide for the reports re-ports in question and they are simply listed as not having done so. fa plain Gordon Snow, draft executive 'officer of Utah, has sent a telegram to each local board asking for a report on the total registration of September 12, between the ages pf IS and 4n, Inclusive; and also between the ages of 19 and 36, inclusive: and ' the total number of registrants reg-istrants in class 1 physically qualified for general military service, so far examined. These reports 'are asked on orders from the provost marshal general, and are to be furnished weekly by each board, hereafter. here-after. James W. Simms. Kdward Saiin. William Wil-liam Federson anil Benjamin S. HIte have i been inducted into the vocational course at the Utah Agricultural college from board No. 3, Salt Lake City. City letter carriers, "whose services cannot be dispensed with without materially ma-terially lowering the efficiency of the pervice," may. be listed by postmasters of first and second-class pos .offices for the purposes of securing deferred classification, classi-fication, .according to a new ruling received re-ceived at draft headquarters in tho capl-tol capl-tol yesterday, and transmitted to local boards. Another regulation transmitted to local boards provides for an extension of time for induction into the service of men recommended as principals or alternates for appointment to the United States naval academy at Annapolis, or the United States military academy at West Point. Provision Is also made in tho order for extension of the first ninety days' extension. In -ase the candidate Is conditionally accepted and is ordered to present himself for physical .examination or for entrance to the military or naval academy, as the case may be. Such delay of cal Is not to be con-b con-b rued as deterred classification, and no such registrant is to bo Involuntarily inducted in-ducted Into Ihe army or navy until his age uronp and class and order number have been reached In due course of regular regu-lar dra ft. procedure. When a registrant has lTeen actually appointed cadet at W est Point or midshipman at Annapolis, the superintendent of the academy will no tify the local board and the registrant goes automatics My Into class 6, as already al-ready in the military or naval service. |