Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 11 | Spruce Division to be Closed Thursday

SPK DIVISION TO ' BE CLDSEDJTHURSDAY Registrants Qualified Only for Limited Service Are Given Warning. Registrants who are qualified only for limited military service are warned by Captain K. V. Fitz Gerald, draft executive execu-tive officer for Utah, that they have only until Thursday to take advantage of ob-laining' ob-laining' olumury Induction in the aerial spruce division. Those desiring to enter i his servu-e may do so by applying to their respective ku'al hoards. While it is probable that most of them will do so, tho advice is given by local hoard m embers that resist rants always eurrv with them their registration cards. Possession of the cards is always necessary, neces-sary, it is stated, in ease a registrant la approached by an officer in search of delinquents. de-linquents. Considerable trouble would hae been saved to many men at the time of the recent roundup had they had their resist rat ton cards with Lhenu If they do not volunteer for service by attending the training class for mechanics mechan-ics at tlie University' of Utah, class 1 draft registrants are likely to be involuntarily invol-untarily inducted this month, anyway, it is announced by members of the four local boards. f far. however, there has been a grati-J grati-J fying number of inquiries concerning con-J con-J clitions to be mot in order to get into the tree schooling in mechanics offered by the government, and it is anticipated that the quotas of the four local boards on this account will be raised with comparative com-parative readiness, as the offer is considered consid-ered to be specially advantageous. In a te'egram received from General K. H. Crowder yesterday. Captain F. V. Fitz Gerald is advised that all local boards are to "receive and observe instructions only .from the governor or the adjutant general or the draft executive or, in rare cases of emergency, instructions issued direct to such boards by the provost marshal genera!." General Crowder tells Captain Fitz Gerald that some of the communications sent to local boards "are genuine, but are without authority and should be ignored. ig-nored. Some are forgeries and are fraudulent." fraud-ulent." "Instruct boards," General Crowder says, "to carefully scrutinize all communications com-munications purporting to be official and in case of doubt or suspicion to refer matter mat-ter immediately to you. Fraudulent com-munieatoins com-munieatoins of this sort are likely to be resorted to in connection with the approaching ap-proaching registration, especially upon the question of age." Local draft boards are receiving many applications for voluntary admission to tiie free class in mechanical training for registrants which is to be conducted at the Universit" of Utah. One of the first to make application to hoard Xo. was Gordon Keogh of St. G?orgp, near the southern boundary of ':e ?ate. Telephone communication with his local draft board at St. George i 'tared the way for Keogh to enter the i class, provided he shall be found physi cally" and otherwise qualified.