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Show Draft Boards Go Out of Existence After Dec. 10 eaaaagsaassi Records of Registrants Are to Be Completed and Sealed as Early as Possible; Duties Then I Cease Pending Orders. LOCAL draft boards probably wlH be demobilised and disbanded shortly after December 10. This is indicated In a telegrsm to Captain Gordon Snow, draft executive execu-tive officer for Ctah, from Provost Marshal General Knoch H. Crowder, directing that all local board records shall be sealed by the chairman of the local board by aeallng the cases in which- the records are filed and. so1 sealed, the records and cases shall be kept sealed and Intact, subject to further oroers from the state draft executive or the provost marahal general. gen-eral. All papers and documents received re-ceived by local boards subsequent to the sealing of the records shall be firat clearly and plainly Indorsed or stamped with the date of receipt and then i placed In a separata file and held for j further orders. No further question- I nalres may be received by local boards after December . j derlng of tha last monthly report, which must be not later than December Decem-ber 10, local board records, which are public records of the federal government govern-ment of the t'nlted Htates. shall be sealed by the chairman of the local board by sealing up the cases in which the records are filed, and so sealed the records and cases shall be kpt intact, subject to further ordere from the draft executive or the provoat marshal general. All papers and documents received re-ceived by local boards after the records are so sealed shall be first clearly and plainly Indorsed or stamped with the date of receipt and then placed In a separate file and held until further orders from Jhe governor or the pro- ' vost marshal general." CANT BE WITHDRAWN. Local boards are directed by General Crowder that no further entries, alterations alter-ations or additions may be made to the records of registrant of the class irrtuw wen lb i i an. In setting December 10 as the date for the sealing of the draft records, General Crowder wishes to have all draft work cleared away before his departure for France, draft officials believe. be-lieve. "In view of the armistice and the consequent temporary abatement of the Immediate urgency of complete classification. General Crowder wires, "locej boards should complete the principal prin-cipal work still remaining as follows: fol-lows: "Immediately collect and transmit sll data called for in connection Srith tha making of the annual report. Local board a with the least possible slackening slack-ening of effort on account of the annual an-nual report work, will complete their classification work as to all registrants regis-trants of the 19 to SO and the 18-year groups, except for physical examine-i examine-i tlons, which have been ordered discontinued dis-continued as to all age groups. NO MORE APPEALS. "Local boards will forward no more cases to the dtstricT" boards. No more appesls will be taken now to district boards. Hlnce the physical examinations. examina-tions. Induction and classification work by district boards have ceased. It Is anticipated that this work of Initial classification by local boards may be practically completed on or before November No-vember 20. except for late registrants, and no late registrant shall be classified classi-fied whose questionnaire is received after December t. SEAL RECORDS. "Immediately upon completion of their classification work and the re n - classes, except under conditions snd instructions to be issued later. Following Fol-lowing the classification of registrants of September 12 of the 19 to 30 and lS-year groups, the same rule will be I applicable. Local boards will not be pej-mltted under any circumstances to allow any person to withdraw any papers pa-pers whatever now In the board's files, anl no further access will be given to the records of local boards on the part of any person not a member of the board or a member of the clerical force specifically authorised, thereto by the board. No Information concerning the Mteorde shall be ! an out except un the written Instructions of the -state draft executive or the provost marshal general. STRICT OBSERVANCE. A scrupulous observance of these rules Is essential. General Crowder states. In order that the records shall not be vitiated and In order that the local boards shall be protected against the Importunities of reglstrsnts and against serious charges to which any other course would lend color, and might give substance. The proper snd Just administration of the war risk Insurance In-surance act and of future pension laws will. In many cases, depend almost exclusively upon data contained In these records, which will likewise have a vital relationship to charges of desertion de-sertion and delinquency, involving the honor of thousands of registrants. From the records of the draft boards the history of the war must In 'good part be compiled end from them also must come information of the last value as to manpower in case of any further war. General Crowder declare a . |