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Show riEW ORDER ISSUED ! - 10 AID HARDSHIP Provision Made to Rectify Unintentional Errors of Draft Boards. i Ki":of;iii.iii(; ; lie necessity lor a svs-' svs-' teinat ic "iothO'1 uf relieving hanlship - in eases where, eitlier through error in 1 the Jaw of loeal or district boards or through the non-eulpalile iynorame of the registrant, a person ' who clearly ought to have liecn exempteil or discharged dis-charged fron) military duty, hut lias been held for service,' Provost Marshal r (leneral K. If. Crowder lias issued additional ad-ditional instructions at direction of the secretary of war. There are two general classes of such i hardship. In tiie first class the man has not been inducted into military service anil in the other he has been inducted into the service. In the lat-' lat-' x- ' tcr case he is in the service from the time he is notified by the local board the adjutant general to report for Vhere a person has been certified by the loeal or district board and not exempted ex-empted or discharged, but has not as yet been certified back from the district dis-trict to the local board, the local board ' may reopen the case on its own motion or upon request of The adjutant general, subject to the condition that the local hoard shall immediately notify the dis trict board -that it has extended the time for filing proof and has reopened The case. Where the person has been certified '' -v- , from the district board as selected for military duty, but the date specified hy the local board for induction into the army has not yet arrived, the case may be reopened. In the latter instance either the loeal or the district board may reopen the case on receiving permission from the adjutant general of the state or upon I - . request from the latter, and the local board mav also defer orders into military mili-tary service pending receipt of permission permis-sion from the adjutant general. A man already inducted into the service serv-ice cannot lie discharged under authority author-ity of the selective service law, but he can be discharged by the secretary of i war under his plenary authority so to i do. In cases of hardship now under consideration a discharge may he granted on the ground that exemption should have been granted. . General (.'rowder says that the mili- 1 larv authorities cannot conveniently review the action of the selective serv--ice system on the questions of exemp--, tion or dischargo and it will he of great ' convenience to have the decisions of the local and district boards on the , question as to whether the; exemption 1 should have been granted originally. In such cases the adjutant general mav withhold entry of the name of the s registrant and may request the local Jioard to reopen the case and pass on """" its merits, certifying to the district B J board, all in the normal manner as I though it had jurisdiction to discharge. Similarly the district board should pass ' : on the case. If discharge is denied the adjutant general will send the man to the proper mobilization camp direct or will ' order -him to report to his local V board for transportation. |