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Show DRAFTEES MAY MEET WEARING FLU MASKS Instruction to Be Given in the Prevention and Care of Disease. Meetings of men subject to the draft, particularly of registrants in class 1, who are liable for speedy calls to the service of the nation, ,may soon he held throughout through-out the state, in the open air, each registrant regis-trant wearing a gas mask. This is expected ex-pected to follow a letter sent put to the local draft boards of the state yesterday from the office of Dr. T. li. Eeatty, state . health commissioner. The draft boards are called on to hoM the meetings in pursuance of the terms of the ChamberMn-Kahn act. and various rulinrs of the treasury and war depart -i rnvfnts. The purpose of the meetings will e that the men may receive instruction as to the dangers and evils of social dis-I dis-I eases. Salt Lake county draft board No 1, the largest draft board in the state hi point ; of number of registrants, again takes the i lead on the draft progress chart for the state. It has completed per cent of the classification work in connection with registrants IS years of age. or between the ages of 37 and 4C, inclusive, -within its territory. A bulletin sent out yesterday by Captain Cap-tain Gordon Fnow, Utah draft executive, gives this credit to the Garfield and Bingham Bing-ham board. The Tooele county board is marked up as having the classification work 61 per cent complete: Boxelder county and Salt Lake county No. 2 (Murray) (Mur-ray) have each completed 30 per cent of the classification work. Salt Take City No. 1 has already been credited with having hav-ing its classification work GO per cent along. Ten principals and four alternates were called vesterdav bv draft board No. l of Salt Lake City"td appear for roll call and instructions at gthe board offices, room 300, capitol. NovTifiber 9. Ten of the men wfll entrain for Camp Lewis. Wash., in the five-day period beginning November 11. Those called for induction are: Principals William Tracy Mackay. Francis Foster. William E. McCullough. Ralph S. Foulcer. Michael C. Cloonan, Jerry R. O. Keefe. Thomas-Henrv Grey. Wallace Earl Evans, Kenneth Garrison Bailey, Edward H. Fitzsibbons. Alternates Paul Kuynen. William Brian Feeney. Frank J. Wanamaker, James H. Hahn. Frank Berry, pupil at the West high school, who won quite a reputation for himself bv constructing a wireless telegraph tele-graph plant at his home at 359 East Thirteenth Thir-teenth South, now- has a chance to use the skill thus acquired in behalf of the nation, and at the same time to extend his ex-. ex-. perience in wireless along practical lines. Though a "limited sen-ice' man. he has been granted voluntary induction into the signal corps, and papers sending him to Fort Leavenworth have been made out by-draft by-draft board No. 1. Leland K. Cowie. of the same boar. I has been transferred to a New York board, and will train fur heavy artillery at Fort Monroe. , Board No. 2 has called the following to appear for roll call November 11, to go to Camp Lew-is in the five-day period following fol-lowing that date: V. S. Cappuceio. Hyman Mayrowltz, Nephi Andersen and Nick Tares. Ta-res. The colored registrant tailed by the same board to go to Camp Funston. Fort Riley, Kan., in the three-day period after November 19. is Monroe Mosby. He will appear for roll call November 19. Alexander N. Russell has been sent by board No. 4 to the vocational courses in the students' army training corps at the Utah Agricultural "college at Logan. A bulletin sent out to local draft boards of the state yesterday calls attention to the fact that hereafter the function of procuring pro-curing officers for the I'nited States army has been assigned to the commissioned . personnel board of the operations division divi-sion of the general staff. Through the agency of the Military Training Camps - association and other civilian organizations, organiza-tions, this section will conduct its recruiting, re-cruiting, classification and commissioning of officers for the staff corps and departments. depart-ments. Exceptions will be medical of -'fleers, dentists, veterinarians and officers of the railway transportation corps and of the judge advocate general's department. I-oeal boards are asked to refer all per sons applying for particulars as to the eligibility for commissions to the nearest office of the Military Training Camp association. as-sociation. A letter from the provost marshal general gen-eral has been forwarded to local boards In the state for their guidance in considering consid-ering the claims for Industrial exemption of registrants. The letter refers to registrants regis-trants who are living abroad, and calls attention to the fact that their services abroad will be of importance to L the nation in the period Immediately fol-W fol-W lowing the war, and to make tfiefr recom-I recom-I mendations to the district board accord-Ll accord-Ll Ingly. |
