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Show 1819 MEN OF UTAH IN JICTI SERVICE Fully 10,000 From Beehive State Now Engaged in Uverseas Lhaty. DRAFT IS SUCCESSFUL National Army Has 9535, While 8562 Soldiers Are Volunteers. r With ail the August draft calls filled, aSKretrating 1S74 men, there will be actually serving in the armed forces of the United States a total of 18,097 men from Utah, according to a survey of volunteer vol-unteer acceptances and operations in this state under the selective service regulations. regula-tions. ' This total does not include the shipyard volunteers or others engaged exclusively ex-clusively in war work. The total number of men called from this state under the draft is 0535 and tlie total number of volunteers is S562, making the grand total to-tal 18,037. 10,000 Men Overseas. An interesting associated feature is that In all probability more than 10,000 Utah boys are now serving on overseas duty. Of this number about G000 are in the Ninety-first division, now somewhere on tlie western front in France. Two regiments regi-ments of this division, the SGlst and the 162nd infantry, are largely made up of 11 tail boys. Other Utah soldiers in France are included in-cluded in the Fourth, Forty-first. Forty-second, Forty-second, Forty-seventh, Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth divisions. A machine gun battalion and a field signal battalion of the Ninety-first division are also made up largely of national army boys from Utah. In France there are also a large number num-ber of men from Utah serving with tlie marine corps. A mong the troops which include large numbers of Utah boys still in the United States are the Eighth and Thirteenth regular army divisions and the Fortieth national guard division, the last named including tlie 145th field artillery, Utah's national guard regiment, and the national guard field hospital from Utah, as well as about 600 national army boys from this state. Figures Are Official. With the call of August 26 filled. Utah will have in the armed forces of the nation na-tion upward of 13,000 men. The following follow-ing figures, except the estimated number num-ber of enlistments In the army, navy and marine corps from December 15, 1917, to September 1, ISIS, are official: Volunteers frcm Utah in army, nary, marine corps and national guard from April 1, 1?17, to December 15, 1917, are i B5S2. Volunteers in the same branches from December 15. 1917, to September 1, 1918, are estimated at 3000. Total volunteer volun-teer enlistments are 8562. Total number selected from Utah under un-der the first draft to December Id, 1917, is- 2370. Total number selected under the secend draft from December 15, 1917, to July 31, 191S, is 5291. Total number, included in-cluded in August calls is 1374. Total number num-ber selected under the draft to September Septem-ber l, 1918. is 9535. The August 26 call is a good example of the wonderful success of the selective service law. This call is for approximately approxi-mately a regiment of men at peace strength and the state is given about three weeks to fill the call. Under the old volunteer system, it is said, it would almost certainly be impossible to secure this number in that length of time, particularly par-ticularly so if the state had already furnished fur-nished nearly 17,000 men. Under the selective se-lective service law the men are available and are awaiting this call. Uocal draft boards will undoubtedly fill their allotments allot-ments on time and without the least confusion. con-fusion. August Call Heavy. Captain Fitz Gerald received yesterday from Provost Marsal General E. H. Crowder a call for 1125 registrants, to be entrained for Camp Lewis during the five-dav period commencing August 26. This is" the largest single call yet made on Utah and the total for August exceeds ex-ceeds that for any other month since the draft opened. So far this month calls have been made for men in the following numbers, to be entrained during the five-day periods beginning be-ginning on the dates designated: August 1. forty-nine negroes; August 5, 250 white registrants; August 13, 450 draftees for training at the University of Utah; August Au-gust 26, 1125 men for Camp Lewis. These calls. Captain Fitz Gerald says, will probably exhaust the class 1 men available for general military service. Other calls made during this year will necessital e recourse to men of deferred classifications, provided there still be no new registration, such as has been suggested, sug-gested, to meet the situation. It is thought that about 750 young men In Utah have attained the age of 21 years since June 5. Local boards were last night notified of the apportionment under the last call, with instructions to complete entrainment of their men during the five-diy perkxJ bearlnnin August 26, the number to hfi furnished by eacn board being as follows: fol-lows: Allotment Announced. Beaver, 19; "Box Elder, 52; Cache, 71; Carbon, 19; Davis, 31; Duchesne, 44; Emery. 12: Garfield, 11: Grand, 9; Tron, Zl; Juab, 15; Kane. 9: Millard, 29; Morgan, Mor-gan, It; Ocrden City, 175; Viute, 17; Kich, 9; Bait Lake county No. 1, Salt lake county No. 2. 5fi; Salt Laku City No. 1, 75; Salt Lake CUv No. 2, 26; Salt Lake City No. 3, 52; Salt 1'ike City No. 4, 16; San Juan, 5; Sanpete, 5; Sevier, 4H; Summit. Sum-mit. 24: Tooele. 24; Uintah, 13; Ctah, 84; Wasatch. 16; Washington, 16, Wayne, 6; Weber, 6; total, 1125. Oni v white men arrl men physically qualified 'for genral military' service are to be Inducted under thin call. Thr-v are to bo iJikftn in tlie Hon ne nee f their or-der or-der numbers from tbc 1!17 class and the rla.sH cf Juno, I'US. On Julv local board reported to y tatc headquarters that tb-re were t he following numbers of physically rv,)-tied rv,)-tied registrant h in claws 1 , fx elusive of these nooded to fill July Cnnx of June. 1017, 1U4; olaHB of Juno, 1018, 79!; total, J'J13. |
