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Show llTllDfllF . CERTIFiEDUP AS FIT District Board Rushes the Work to Fill Utah's Quota Quo-ta to National Army. YOUNG WIVES APPEAL ' Some Men Also Bring In Mothers-in-law to Make Claim of Dependency. The district exemption board yesterday certified seven ty- three more names of Utahns to the national army, making more than 700 of the quota from this state already passed upon by the board. The greater part of the work yesterday consisted in going over the records of various cases which were brought to the attention of the board, with the result -hat little time was had to devote to scanning the papers or hearing evidence , Ifr ' filed by those who are claiming exemption" exemp-tion" from military duty on account of dependents or occupation. The board, ; however, will take up a large number ; of those who are claiming exemption to- ! day ana will pass upon the claims. The district exemption board yesterday yester-day revoked its first exemption paper when the exemption granted to Chester Ireland of Salt Iake was ordered returned re-turned to the board. The exemption was granted In order that Mr. Ireland might have until December 1 to provide for a j dependent mother. He notified P. L. j Williams, chairman of the board, that ar- i rangements for his mother had already been made and Lhat lie was ready for ; service. New Wives Appeal. j The parade of "after declaration of ! war" brides to the district exemption ! board continued yesterday. Many of the j young husbands who failed to read the i warnings which were issued by President : Wilson in regard to getting married af- ! ter the declaration of war were present j at the district board meeting yesterday . seeking exemptions. In many cases those ' who were married during the merry i month of June, 1 917, are having their marital bliss broken into very rudely by the long arm of the draft. The excuses which are offered for getting " married when the country was at war and when the men were registered are varied and many. In almost every case the district board declares that the violation viola-tion of the warning was sufficient to cause the men to be certified. The young men who took wives in .June are now bringing their mothers and their mothers-in-law before the board to prove that the mother or the mother-in-law are dependent upon them, in addition to the wife. As yet no exemption has been obtained through bringing in the other members of the family. . Yesterday Lafayette Hanchett, secre- a I tary of the board, declared that it is pre- Y sumed that those who married after the 'fi declaration of war did so knowing that they might be called into the service of vl their country. He stated that the de-Mf de-Mf pendent wife taken on or after April 10 does not figure in the work of the board, as it is decided that the wife can make her own living. A number of persons .who were certified certi-fied to the district board by the loral exemption boards have been certified into the national army, as they did not appear ap-pear for examination. The list of names lias also been given the local police officers of-ficers and they will be arrested on sisht and held until the further orders of the department of justice. These men all registered on June 5 and the most of them are from the rooming house districts. dis-tricts. Police Look for These. Those who are certified for service and for whom the police are looking are as follows: Frederick Wavne Gibson. 16S Main street; Clifford B. Pardee. 134 E street; P. Encarnasion Carillo, 164 North Third West street; Max Lewis Stayner, 116$ First avenue; Alfonso Agge, Salt Lake City ; August Mensing, L. D. S. hospital ; Homer Quillie Mitchell, 124 West North Temple street; Josenh Brown Eastmond, 258 West North Temple street ; Samuel Harman Williams, 957 West First South street; Alex RIvas, 64 North Second West street; - Jos Romano, Columbus hotel; Charles Richard Burchner. 25 North First West street; Jim Peter Nichols, 4S North Sixth West street; James Lee, 168 Norl;h Second West street; Anson Gordon Parkins. Par-kins. 279 North Second Wept street; Harry Leroy Smith. 23 West First North street; Prisciliano Bedolla, 610 West Ninth North street;1 Dominick Aime, 254 West South Temple street; Chris Rudolph Ru-dolph Anderson, 7 Tut tie court; Alfred Cleveland Weston, St. Mark's hospital ; John Corollo, 254 West South Temple street; Marvin Sullivan, Lu-id hotel:, Ari-hie William Johnson. 1H4 North Ninth i st street; Genrge Glenn Royce. St. Mark's hospital; William Kiward Webb, j :S10 Richmond apartments; Claude Simmons. Sim-mons. Salt Kake Citv; Albert Lewis Ad-dinston. Ad-dinston. 2," North First West street; Fred I Ishmael White, To North Second West street. The local board for division No. 2, with headquarters in tho Atlas block, yesterday yester-day exempted Jack W eiss, whose home address is Denver. The following: were transferred from othr cities: Roy T. T la tier. Richmond, Cat.; Gus F'htllis. Denver, Colo.; James W. Slaven., PueDlo. Colo.; Donald McDonald. 174 West First North street, from Nevada ; Sanford J, Harwitz. Leadville. Colo. ; John O. K. Bary strom, Elko. Nev. Rny McCain. Kvanston. Wyo., was called into the service of the United States and not exempted or discharged. The men transfer red from other cities under this heading arc: Arthur Joseph J-lolford, Dalhart. Texas; Kdward A. Towle, 150 South Second West street; D. K. Firesheets, Crewe, Va.; James T. Casey, Charleston, Wasli,; George Sto-nich, Sto-nich, "i35 California street, Denver, Colo.; John Price Coen, Katon, Colo. Mystery Cleared Up. Solving a mystery that has incumbered the records of local drajt board No. 3, at the capitol, for several weeks, there was received at that office yesterday morning a registration card filled out by Royale Hillman Stevens, mailed from Hobart, Tasmania. Mr. Stevens gives his home address as Salt Lake and states that he is a metallurgist in the employ of the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australia, Aus-tralia, Ltd., of Hobart , Tasmania. He claims exemption on the ground that he lias a wife, two children and his mother as dependents. Men who are drawn for military service ser-vice under the selective draft will enjoy the same privilege of becomingi commissioned commis-sioned officers, field clerks or of being ordered on special military assignments as men who have volunteered their services, ser-vices, according to the most recent rulings rul-ings of Provost Marsh til General K. H. Crowder. up to the present time the president has not determined what industries in-dustries are to be considered necessary to the military establishment In preference prefer-ence to any other industries. For this reason it is not believed that the present draft will materially affect the gross labor supply of any industry, considered nationally, so as to warrant any general adjustment of labor supply in favor of some industries at the expense of others. Passing from civil life to t ha t of a soldier, sol-dier, the six young men constituting 5 per cent of the quota reported for duty yesterday afternoon at the headquarters of draft board No. 3 in the capitol in response to summons issued several days ago. The young men responding were William Gottfried Keller, Leslie Keats Franks, John B. Cum mock, Jr.. George Otis Oglesby, Wallace Sherman Partridge and George Parker Dykes, with Robert Forlines as alternate. At 5 ; 30 o'clock in the afternoon the same young men appeared for rollcall and were furnished with orders which will entitle them to lodgings and subsistence sub-sistence until they leave for American take tonight on the Oregon Short Line train at 11:55 o'clock. Upon being mustered into the military service the young men. all of whom volunteered vol-unteered to be the first to be sent to the concentration camp, were addressed briefly by Heber M. Wells, former governor gov-ernor of L'tah, chairman of draft board No. 3, who impressed upon them the important im-portant places which they will now occupy oc-cupy as integral units of the new national na-tional army and urged them to ever keep in mind the duty which they owe to the flag and to their country, and particularly par-ticularly to the state of Utah, which they will help to represent on the fighting fight-ing line. Mr. Wells urged them to fight as only American soldiers can fight, and told them that if they took the part in the war that the people of Utah pledged for them they would surely return with great honor to themselves and to the state. |