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Show 70 MORE CERTIFIED TO NATIONAL II District Board Expects to Have Utah's Quota Certified Cer-tified in Time. MANY SEEK RELEASE Exemption Claims From Salt Lake County Larger in Number. Tho ilihtrii't ilrjift board yesterday certified seventy more names to the nu-'vional nu-'vional army, and while there remain more than 1500 names to bo certified yet it is thought by the members of the board that they will be enabled to certify the full quota from'tlis state by the timo set for the 40 per cent of the mombers of the national army to go to tho front. The number of exemption appeals to the district board is not decreasing, de-creasing, but, on the contrary, is increasing. in-creasing. As tho board is working out all of the problems on a basis in conformity con-formity with the law, the appeals do not take as much time as they did in the earlier days of the organization. Utah county yesterday brought in the cases which tho government desires appealed ap-pealed from tho local examining board to tho district board in the matter of dependents. In every caso where exemptions ex-emptions from military service are granted on the ground that the exempted ex-empted man has dependents the local board is required to appeal the case to tho district board. These appeals' are in the main a mittcr of form, as it gives tho district hoard an opportunity for review, no mutter what the decision de-cision of the local board, in the event it is found that some have secured exemption ex-emption through the making o false claims. Claims Are Increasing. The number claiming exemption on account of industries and occupations is increasing in this county. Tho board has made a ruling that persons engaged in thu production of potash are to be exempted from military service the same as employees in powder mills and other factories which are producing materials ma-terials for munitions of war. The greater part of the potash companies operating in Utah are under contract to furnish material to the government direct or to companies which are manufacturing man-ufacturing munitions for military use. Yesterdav the district board was advised ad-vised bv Captain J. D. Watson, U. S. A., in charge of the recruiting office, that the war department had ruled that tieorgo Lowe Abbott of Ogden, who was exempted bv the district board on account of having dependents whom ho said would not be cared for by his relatives, rel-atives, could enlist iu the regular army at any time prior to the recalling of his exemption by the district board. The board was not informed as to the intentions inten-tions of Mr. Abbott. Claims Passed Upon. Yesterday the board passed upon the following claims for exemption in the various counties which were being considered con-sidered bv the board. Morgan county Frank '. W'ardley was granted exemption. Daniel P. White, Joseph 11. Voss and Frank Y. ychmalz were held to the service and their exemption claims denied. Salt Lake t'itv District No. i. Roy Hough was 'lenied exemption on tho grouud of industrial occupation. Carbon county Leonard Karl Dur-rnnt Dur-rnnt was granted exemption on the ground of having dependents. (iarfieSI county James Kay Slade ami Lieorgo Ashley Alien were granted exemption on the ground of having de-1 de-1 pendents. '' Weber county David Johnson, Gran-don Gran-don Neal, Charles Louis Jones, John William Gibson, Nathan George Chugg, Cecil Reed, John William Clark, Joseph Jo-seph L. Klmer, Samuel Abbott Shaw and 1. S. Campbell were all denied ex-.. ex-.. ' rmption bv the board. Andrew Kav llarbertsoii, Jesse W. Fowers, V. I. Naisbitt and William Temple Short were granted exemption from military service on the ground of having dependents. de-pendents. No Second Call Date. Provost Marshal General Crowder. in issuing new rulings concerning the execution execu-tion of the selective draft law. yesterday reiterated that no date lias lieen set for a second call for men for the national arniv and that, so far as is known, no second call is contemplated by President Wilson. ' Rulings Issued yesterday provide that a registrant whose order of liability does noi permit of his beint selected for the first quota cannot, even at his own re-t;ucst, re-t;ucst, be advanced and sent witli that quota. The acceptance of substitutes for men selecte.l for military duty is prohibited, and loral boards are instructed not to consider claims for exemption based upon a discharge of ft registrant from the armv. navy or marine corps at the expiration expira-tion of enlistment or for some physical disability, since corrected. Another rnlins is that registrants may. in certain circumstances, be exempted or disi'lvi-cd to enable them to continue in non-military pursuits, but after they are selected for military service they may nol be assigned to non-military service. |