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Show THE WEEKLY WARBULLETIN 07,716 Men Excused from Military Service Under Vocation Provisions Under provisions of the selective-service selective-service law making specified vocations voca-tions a ground for exemption or discharge, dis-charge, apart from the "necessary industries" dealt with by the district boards, 67,716 men were excused from military duty. Of the men 'exempted 1,665 were Federal or state officers; ministers, 3,976; divinity students, 3,144; in the military and naval service, 47,-822. 47,-822. County and municipal officials numbering 889 were discharged; custom house clerks, 171; mail employes, em-ployes, 1,476; arsenal workmen, 2,358; Federal employes designated by the President, : 1,777; pilots, 1,772; mariners, 2,666. Trade Tests Used to Secure Skilled Workers for Army To increase the accuracy of selecting se-lecting skilled workers among the enlisted men a system of trade tests has been developed. Exact and comprehensive com-prehensive definitions of the more than six hundred different trades represented in the military organization organi-zation have been brought together in a 3 00-page book, "Trade Specifications." Specifi-cations." Tables have been prepared showing the detailed needs of each unit for skilled and semi-skilled workers. Work has been done in refining re-fining methods of selecting and training train-ing men for special duties in the Navy, special service regarding selection se-lection of aviators, assistance to Provost Pro-vost Marshal General on the ques-tionaire, ques-tionaire, and assistance rendered the Surgeon General for general intelligence intelli-gence tests for enlisted men and officers. of-ficers. The war-service exchange of the committee on classification of personnel per-sonnel answers inquiries of persons desiring to serve the Army. It informs in-forms the Department of Labor of the needs which the War Department has for men. Fertilizer Manufacturers and Dealers Must Secure Licenses Attention of fertilizer manufacturers manufact-urers and dealers has again been called to the necessity for taking out Federal licenses. All fertilizer manufacturers, including in-cluding mixers, even though their output may be small, are required to take out licenses. Agents and dcalears doing exclusively a retail business, whose gross sales do not amount to more than $100,000 a year, are not required to take out licenses li-censes or to make applications for blanks. However, any retail dealer or agent whose gross sales amount to more than $100,000 and who does not apply for a licenses is liable under un-der the provisions of the act of Congress providing for the Governmental Govern-mental control of the industry. Application Ap-plication for license should be .made to the law department, license division, divi-sion, United States Food Administration, Adminis-tration, Washington, D. C. War Department Plans Furloughs to Help Farm Work For the purpose of augmenting agricultural production it is the intention in-tention of the War Department to grant furloughs to enlisted men to enable them to engage in farming during the present season. Commanding Com-manding officers may grant such furloughs fur-loughs within prescribed rules whenever when-ever it appears they will contribute to increased farm production. Furloughs may be given by commanding com-manding officers of posts, camps, cantonments, divisions and departments. depart-ments. They will be for short periods, per-iods, largely for seeding and harvesting harvest-ing time. They will not be granted to enlisted men of or above the grade of first sergeant, nor in an organization organiza-tion that has been ordered to move or is in transit from points of mobilization mobil-ization or training to a port of embarkation. em-barkation. All furloughs granted will be recalled and the men ordered to their organizations when they have received preparatory orders for duty overseas. Furloughs granted for farm work will be without pay and allowances, except that enough pay will be retained re-tained in each case to meet allotments allot-ments in force on the day of the order, or-der, war-risk insurance, and pledges on Liberty bonds. For specially qualified experts in agriculture furloughs may be granted grant-ed by the Secretary of War upon application ap-plication by the Secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, providing such furloughs are voluntarily accepted by the persons for whom application is made. Individual applications for furloughs fur-loughs submitted by relatives will be on a form to be furnished by local draft boards. Two sections are to be made out and preesnted to the local board, which will complete the form. If the furlough is granted the ap plication will be filed by the commanding com-manding officer and a certificate furnished the soldier. If not granted, the application will be returned with reasons for disapproval. If the soldier initiated the application appli-cation he will give the name of the person for whom he desires to work, from whom will be ascertained the need for farm service. Furloughs may be granted en bloc to men who are willing to accept them, upon requests of farmers, when time consumed in traveling from the post to the place of labor will not exceed 2 4 hours. In making these applications farmers will use a form of the Provost Marshal General's Gener-al's office, also going to the local board. Prisoners in Germany Don't Lose Rights to AVar Insurance American soldiers and sailors in German prison camps prior to April 12, 1918, will not be deprived of their rights to war-risk insurance because be-cause of inability to make personal application, provided such application applica-tion is made in their behalf. According to a statement by the Secretary of the Treasury, applications applica-tions for insurance may be made in behalf of such prisoners by persons within the permitted class of beneficiaries bene-ficiaries under the military and na: val insurance law. This class includes in-cludes wife, child, parent, brother or sister. Application should be made to the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance Insur-ance at Washington, D. C. Alien Property Custodian May Sell Enemy-Owned Property The Alien Property Custodian has been given power to sell, at private sale without advertisement, enemy-owned enemy-owned livestock, feed or food-stuffs, hides and other animal products, agricultural ag-ricultural products, fertilizers, chemicals, chem-icals, drugs, essential oils, lumber, cotton, tobacco, furniture, books, glass and china ware, wearing apparel, ap-parel, jewelry, precious stones, pictures, pic-tures, ornaments, bric-a-brac, objects ob-jects of art, raw or finished textile materials, trunks, boxes, partially or completely manufactured metals, fabrics, rubber and rubber products, and all kinds of merchandise, In lots having a market value of not more than $10,000. Report Shows Health Conditions Good in Army Camps The health of troops in the Unitec States continues very good, accord ing to a recent report to the Surgeoi General of the Army by the Divisior of Field Sanitation. Admission, noneffective non-effective and death rates are somewhat some-what higher than last report, due chiefly to prevalence of influenza and bronchitis with complicating pneumonia, pneu-monia, in many of our northern camps. National Guard camps, as a group, continue with remarkably low rates. Very few new cases of measles meas-les and meningitis have occurred. National Army camps continue to have high sick rates as. compared with camps of other groups, though the rates are lower than last report. Scattering cases of measles are reported re-ported from all camps. |