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Show QienuRES io BE SENT OUT TODAY Men in First Class Will Immediately Im-mediately Undergo Physical Physi-cal Examination. Captain V. V. Fitz Geralil, United States disbursement a-ent under the draft, received the following telegram last night, from ihe provost marshal at Washington. IMease instruct all legal advisory boards or through them all associate associ-ate members to enter on the left- i hand margin of the front page of the questionnaires of registrants to whom they give advice for assistance assist-ance the following: "Aid given by me," and sign .name of member followed .by the? words ''permanent member," or ''associate member, legal advisory board, ' 7 as the case may be. Draft machinery in the four divisions of Salt Lake City will be set in motion today, when questionnaires will be mailed out to 5 per cent of a total of 10,526 men in tho city, the entire number num-ber to be mailed at the rate of 5 per cent on each succeeding day, Sundays and holidays excepted, and the mailing work to be' finished by January 9, 191S. All over Utah and' the remainder of the United States similar work is to begin today, lu Utah the number of men to be notified is -10,202 and in the United States it is approximately 9.000,000. On June o there were 10,9oS registered regis-tered in Salt Lake City. Of these 4112 men' were sent to mobilisation camps under the first draft, leaving 10,526 now to receive questionnaires. In Utah on June 5 there were registered 42,572 men. Of these 2370 were sent to cam), leaving 40,202 now to be. required to fill out questionnaires. With the receipt of filled-out questionnaires ques-tionnaires the work of classification of the bcd will begin and bv the time it is completed about 9,000,000 men in the United States will be classified and card indexed in readiness to meet the second call for 500,000 additions to the national army and subsequent calls until un-til tbe total ' registration of June 5 shall have been exhausted. j It is contemplated that the men already al-ready in mobilization camps as a result of the first draft will early in the spring be moved away nearer toward the war front to make room for increments incre-ments to be sent into camp from the second draft. Men designated under the second draft to the first class will undergo immediate physical examination. It is hoped to so exp'edite the work that, by January 9, 19 IS, an ample number1 of men will be in readiness to meet the second call for 500,000; which is expected ex-pected to issue February 15, 1918. Captain A. .1. Mechin of the Utah adjutant ad-jutant general fs office says that credit in the second draft will be given for all registrants who have enlisted in o the regular army, navy or marine corps. Inasmuch In-asmuch as there have been many of these recently, the n-en preferring to etlist rather than be drafted, this rule will mako quite a reduction in the number num-ber of men to he sent from the four city divisions. yesterday ten men were sent to Camp Lewis from this citv to replace those of the first draft rejected at American Lake mi account of physical deficiencies. deficien-cies. They are Moroni Stnngfeilovr. Johr O. Crook, George, C. West, Hay-mond Hay-mond T. Ellsmoro, Rliiu Springer, Jean L. Mardin, Jr., Jamef V. Gunnerson, Roger T. Van Pelt, John Lester Ains-worlh Ains-worlh aud Clarence C. Dougoan. |