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Show BOARD AFFIRMS 213 DRAFT EXEMPTIONS The district board yesterday affirmed 2.13 exemptions granted by the local board of Salt Lake City district No. 1 on the ground of dependents. Carl- A. Badger represented Provost Marshal General E. A. Crowder in appealing the exemptions granted bv the local board on behalf of the government. All of the papers in the 213 cases appealed by the federal government in Salt bake City district No. 1 were in' such condition condi-tion that the district board was enabled to go over them and render a decision in every ca-se yesterday. Members of the district board complimented Mr. Badger and the local board for the manner in which the records had been kepi. This is the first district in the state wherein the federal government has appealed ap-pealed the exemptions granted on the ground of dependents to the district board for review. The government has ordered that every exemption granted by local exemption boards throughout the Ptate be appealed to the district board, wherein the grounds for exemption exemp-tion were based on dependents. In the matter of exemption on account of physical phys-ical defects tho oases will not be appealed ap-pealed to the district board, as the certificates cer-tificates of two physicians that a drafted draft-ed man is physically deficient are sufficient suf-ficient to secure exemption for him. Owing to the fact that the local boards throughout the state have nearly all completed the work of certifying the number of men desired from each district under the selective draft low, the district board yesterday certified but twenty names to the national army. Of this number eleven were i from Cache county and nine were from Salt Lake City district No. 3. Reports which were received yesterday from throughout the state indicated that the local exemption exemp-tion boards were working fast and that a long list of certified men would be sent to the district board during the coming week. The district board hopes tn be able to certify the entire quota of 2o07 from this state by the nd of next week. . The board is making progress on the matter of sorting out the papers and records in the cases of those, who were certified from other states to the local boards in this state for physical examination. exami-nation. It was said yesterday bv Gilbert Gil-bert W. Williams, clerk to the district board, that this work would be com-"nlcted com-"nlcted within a week or so. The local boards caused the records to become mixed in a number of cases .and they must be straightened out. in order to give credit to the proper states and districts dis-tricts in other states where men had registered but had removed before being be-ing notified to appear for examination. |