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Show M WILL ACCEPT WmM 38 Applications Should Be Made Immediately Is Washington Advice. On and after October 1, men over 35 years of age may be inducted Into the army if their services are desired, or if they make application and show qualifications qualifi-cations for military service, according to information received last night from Washington. Prospective applicants must first confer with their local boards and then make, application for induction Into the particular branch they desire to enter. en-ter. If the commandant at J-'ort Douglas will not accept and forward his application, the applicant should make it di rect to the commanding officer of the western department at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The war department advises thai applications be filed immediately. In this connection. Provost Marshal General Crowder yesterday issued the following statement: "Instructions have been sent out by this office to local boards throughout the country, providing for the classification and physical cm ami nation, out of their turn, of registrants in civil life w-ho have made application for commissions in the staff corps of the army. "These instructions direct that the local boards 'shall proceed to the classification and physical examination, accord ing to the regular procedure, of any registrant within the ages of IS and 45, inclusive, immediately upon his proentlng to hi local board a cert I Ilea te from tne 'hief of a o'"ps or department of the arniv to thft effc-ct that he is a candidate for a commission.' "The orders a oply both to the registrant regis-trant who may be appointed to his commission com-mission direct from civil life and to thnpe whose appointment a officers, under the terms of the recent order of the war department, de-partment, dated September 2?.. woli Immediately Im-mediately follow their induction into the mtlila ry service. "The advanced classification nnd physical physi-cal examination of Mi'-h registrants W-be W-be for the purpose of determining their status In order that the army may consider con-sider them for eommit-sions. and in older that cer'ain reqlt r;tnis my be o'un-tarily o'un-tarily Inducted at the request of the army, navy or marine corps." |