Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-08-09 | Page 3 | 'Tis Not All Gloom in Draft; Here's Few to Make You Laugh

us Not All Gloom In Draft Heres Here's Few To Make Y 00 Laugh By United Press EW YORK Aug 9 Yours 9 Yours looks like a case of cold feet NEW N said an examining physician to Morris Frank today when the latter said It was useless to examine him for the draft I suffered suffered suf suf- with em em ever since I was a boy said Frank Right now I should be in bed t t By United Press T LOUIS Aug 9 Arrest Arrest of physicians who have aided men to tu S ST. ST evade the draft is expected here today following an investigation tion started by federal agents last night after the discovery that men drafted had evaded the call by use of drugs which caused t tl them em to be rejected by physical examiners Scores of men appearing before before before be be- fore examining boar boards s were found to have heart trouble and other defects as a result of dope S s By United Press LEVELAND 0 O. Aug 9 The 9 The national army all but got Henry C CLEVELAND Little The draft board doctor was signing the papers showing him physically fit when Little remarked You forgot my eyes And with a a. simple twist of the wrist he dislodged a glass eye He was exempted By United Press AN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO Aug Walter Walter Evan Gurlock called at the offices of S SAN files of an exemption board today as a drafted man For two hours he stood in ill line waiting to be examined physically When the doctors came to him they found him to be totally blind M t By International News Service LEVELAND 0 O. Aug 9 If If local examiners are not careful C CLEVELAND Cleveland's quota In the tho draft army may be mistaken for part a of a sideshow After labeling one registrant physically fit the theman theman theman man took a glass eye from its socket and showed the examiners They changed their decision Another man 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing weighing weigh weigh- ing was passed as fit By United Press I Aug 0 Three Three youths were being examined today bythe by bythe C ti CHICAGO the department of justice as the result of a riot last night In which several were injured when one of the trio is alleged to have denounced the draft and ridiculed a soldiers soldier's uniform Bricks and stones flew thick and fast when Private Thomas Keough clashed with Martin M M. Kamin 19 who was addressing a street gathering The police were finally obliged to charge the crowd with drawn pistols to restore order S S S By International News Service fT Ind Indy Ind Aug 9 9 Mrs George wife of a young K r farmer told the police her h husband threatened to kill her if she did not attempt to save him from being drafted The police arrested him today and antI he le withdrew his claim for exemption