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Show m M NEEDED II DISTRICT NO. 1 Exemption Board Will Issue Is-sue a Call Friday for 600 Additional. Special to The Tribune. 1 BINGHAM, Aug. s. Salt Lake county exemption board No. 1 sat today at the Commercial club In this city to examine men who have been called by the selective selec-tive draft. A total of ICO reported, but rjfty-six were found to be aliens and were not examined as to their physical fitness. fit-ness. Of sixty-five Americans examined ten failed to r.'ss the physical tests, and of the remaining fit iy-four, twenty -four claimed e..e:r.pt:c::s on various grounds. It is now v pn.i rent that the quota required re-quired of ciistr.ct No. I. whi'di inelunes ail territory ui the county west of the Jordan river, cannot be furnisned under the call recently made, and an additional call for C:'' more men will be issued by the board Friday and the men directed to appear, beginning the following Mon- day. The quota was originally 237. but Provost Pro-vost Marshal General Crowder telegraphed to the board today that the quota had been reduced to The belief here Is that the number has been reduced as a result of the protest sent to Washington from Bingham, in which it wan set out that so many exempt aliens were Included In-cluded in the selective draft that the burden bur-den will fall too heavily upon American citizens, who are needed in milling and other industries in the camp. |