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Show JII DEFECTIVES r TO ENTER SERVICE Will Be Used to Release Fighting Men for the Front Line. W SHINGTON, May 29. Two hundred thousand men of 'draft age who because of minor physical defects, have been held by examining surgeons over L''m for limited military service, aie to be employed In producing or hafldlrajp eoulp-meht eoulp-meht for the army. Provost-Mai B a -General Crowder announced tonight that the army staff corps will utilize the service ser-vice of these registrants and thus release lighting men for the front line General Crowder today issued the first call under the new plan. Orders went forth to governors of states tor upwind of 9000 men for service in spruce production produc-tion for airplanes. The men will be allowed al-lowed 10 volunteer until next June tj. After that dato a report will be made to the provost-marshal-seneral and, u tnere are not sufficient volunteers, allotments will be made to the various states to be tilled by involuntary inductmcnt. Some 10,000 men of the army now are engaged In getting out spruce timber in the northwest, and the signal corps constantly con-stantly is increasing this number. Consequently Con-sequently the sending of the new men to i his Held will constitute no new policy and It is understood that it has no relation rela-tion to complaints that Industrial Work-ers Work-ers ()c World there have retarded the jjdjr.'t of spruce. ome twenty-four trades or classes, in- eluding railroad, transport and construction construc-tion men, office -workers and laborers, are desired for the spruce division. When this division has been filled, men will be called to till other staff services of the army, until the 200,000 total has been exhausted. ex-hausted. Xo indication was given as to when the other calls will be made. In a statement announcing the new plHu,- General Crowder said the solution of the question of what to do with these men had been "one of the great problems ol the draft." Some of the men, it -was explained, have a thumb, or toe, or eye missing, but almost every one of them is engaged in active business, and thus were held to be of some use in the military mili-tary establishment. After months of study it was decided to (call thern into branches of the army engaged in producing pro-ducing equipment for the fighting men. |