Show GEN CROWDER ASKS WAY AY TO HANDLE HANDLEI I DELINQUENTS Opinions of Draft Executives fives tives Sought to Solve Puzzling Problem S Opinions of ot the forty-eight forty states asto as asto asto to the best meth method d of dealing with delinquents who failed to report for physical examination or failed to file Ile questionnaires with th their lr local boards subsequent to November 16 1918 when all nil physical examinations were wen 01 oi stopped are sought by Provost I Marshal General Enoch II 11 Crowder ac accordIng according according ac- ac cording to a tel telegram gram to Captain Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don Snow draft executive officer for Utah General Crowder sets forth that due to the signing of the armistice November November November No No- vember 11 and t the e subsequent stopping stopping stop stop- ping of all induction calls and still lat later r the abandonment of physical ex examinations examinations ex- ex November 16 16 many registrants registrants regis regis- trants between the ages of 18 and 36 failed to report for examination and those who did report were sent back home without having been examined physically No record of the men who reported or failed to report was kept by the local boards and consequently consequent consequent- ly Il the local boards are unable to de determine determine de- de termine the men men who reported and who were delinquent General Crowder asks the opinions of the forty-eight forty states as to the best method of dealing with these cases cases- whether men reported as delinquent shall be prosecuted or the matter over over- over over- looked The influenza epidemic throughout the various states caused the tile stopping of examinations to a great extent and many who reported failed to receive examination Captain Snow has replied to General General General Gen Gen- eral Crowder that Utah practically had completed its ts classification of registrants registrants registrants regis regis- trants between the ages of 18 and 36 as well as the physical examination of these registrants prior to Nov November November Novem Novem- m- m ber 16 and fo for that reason the number number number num num- ber of delinquents In this state is com com- and he therefore suggests that the matter J e overlooked and forgotten n. n |