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Show 4mm STUDENTS Tl DEFERRED CLASS Those Pursuing Courses in War Winning Places in Reserve Corps. - MANY JOIN ENGINEERS Members of Class of 1918 May Enlist in Navy or Marine Corps. Provision has been made for reserve corps enlistment and deferred classifica- 1 tion of registrants who are taking certain cer-tain school and college courses useful in war, according to an amendment to "section 151 of the selective service regulations regu-lations received and redistributed yesterday yester-day by Captain Fitz Gerald. The text of the paragraph which has been added to that section is as follows: Under such regulations as the secretary secre-tary of war may prescribe, a registrant regis-trant who Is regularly enrolled in a school approved by the war department depart-ment committee on education and special spe-cial training and is pursuing full-time courses leading to a bachelor or a higher degree in medicine, engineering, engineer-ing, physics, chemistry and other technical subjects essential to the I prosecution of the war, or who is an indispensable teacher in such courses, or who is engaged in the training of the army personnel, may enlist in the enlisted reserve corps, and thereafter, on presentation of the registrant to his local board of his certificate of enlistment, such certificate shall be filed with the questionnaire and the registrant shall be placed in class 5, on the ground that he Is in the military mili-tary service of the United States. Enlistments Permitted. Hereafter the individual induction and induction under voluntary calls of the class of June, 191S. will be permitted, according ac-cording to a bulletin sent out yesterday to local draft boards by Captain F. V. Fitz Gerald. The enlistment of registrants, regis-trants, of this class in the navy or marine corps on certificates from local boards showing that they are not within the current cur-rent quota will also bo permitted. This lets down the bars for the men or the 1018 class of registrants, who have been unable heretofore to volunteer in the various branches of the military service. ser-vice. To the provost marshal at Washington the Utah adjutant general's office yesterday yes-terday transmitted a report on the number num-ber of men obtained in Utah in response to the call for help for the engineer corps. The men sent from this state included the following numbers in the designated occupations: Sixty-one automobile repairmen, re-pairmen, seven electrical workers, three blacksmiths, eight crusher operators, six gas enginemen, three carpenters, four draftsmen, three mechanics, four plumbers, plumb-ers, one bugler, eight cabinetmakers, eigLmachinists, one powderman, two rrymen, two photographers, one sur-veyor, sur-veyor, one pipefitter, one telephone operator, op-erator, eight ax men. one saddler, two horseshoers, three timbermen. one concrete con-crete foreman, one construction foreman and one lithographer. Captain F. C. Goord of the Pacific dl-SC'on dl-SC'on offices of the British and Cana-oi Cana-oi recruiting mission has requested the anjutant's office for lists of registrants or the 1917 and 191$ classes who are British Brit-ish subjects, whether declarants or otherwise. other-wise. Captain .1. S. Farley, in charge of the adjutant's office, yesterday sent nut lo local draft boards requests for such lists. Draft Leaders Selected. A. S. Paine was ' yesterday designated by the draft board of division No. 3 to have charge of the forty men to loave here next Tuesday for Camp Lewis under un-der orders issued by Secretary Gordon I Snow. With Mr. Paine ft'ill be Herbert A. Coster and R. M. Stewart as squad leaders. lead-ers. These registrants will form part of Utah's quota of 5u0 men to be entrained for the cantonment during the five-day period beginning July 22. They are to report at the board's headquarters in the capitol Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock for final instructions. At the Wilson hotel on Monday afternoon the men will be guests of the city and county at a luncheon. For the forty-six negro draft registrant regis-trant who are 1o be entrained for Camp Lewis during the five-day period beginning begin-ning Aucust 1 Captain F. V. Fitz GeraW has made tho following apportionment to local boards: Carbon. 1; Ofcden, 14; Salt Lake county division No. 1, 1: Salt Lake county division divi-sion No. 2, J; Salt hake City division No. 1, 3; Salt hake City division No. 2, 9; Suit Lake City division No. 3, 3; Salt Luke Citv division No. 4, 11; Tooele, 1; Weber. 2. Forty-six will exhaust, the negroes rn class 1 of the 1917 registration, while the call from Washington Is for forty-nine men. Captain Fitz Gerald has asked permission per-mission to take three men from class 1 of the 1918 registration to fill the slate's quota. |