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Show WAR DEPARTMENT WORKS. ON DRAFT . REGULATIONS When Tabulation la Complete Rule For Drafting Will Uo Made. MASSING ON CLAIMS FO'h KXEMPTION Local Boardd WU1 Be Appointed for Each 30,000 of Population. Washington, June 7. The war department de-partment was at work today on regulations regu-lations for the second step in the army draft, selection by lot of a proportion pro-portion of young men registered, while the provost marshal general's office was compiling data on the registration reg-istration Tuesday. It may tako a week or 10 days to completes the natlon-wlJo tabulations. Thon tho war department will prescribe pre-scribe rules for drawing names of men who are to bo examined before local or precinct exemption boards and for the composition of these boards and of boards of review to which tfioae drafted may appeal. A call fora detinlto number of troops will bo Issued, each state will bo notified no-tified to contribute a certain proportion propor-tion and state authorities In turn will determine- allotments for subdivisions. subdi-visions. Officials noted today that tho ro-turns ro-turns received so far indicate that more, than halt of tho men registered either claimed exemptions or gav.i facts which might exempt thorn. Tho war department may Issuo a guiding statemont for boards of exemptions, but actual decision In each caso will bo left to tho local authorities. Emphasis Is laid on the determination determina-tion to prescribo no class exemptions, but to pass on cases Individually. Clnlins for I'xt'iuptlnn. To pass upon claims for exemption exemp-tion for military; botyIcq undor tho conscription law, locnl boards will bo appointed for approximately ench 30,-000 30,-000 population. This w.ib announced today by provost marshall genoral's office in a statoment paying: "There n111 bo a, local exemption i a board for approximately each 30,000 population. The power 'of -appointing these boards resta with the president, presi-dent, but the task is so large that a general plan for the selection has boen outlined by the president. I "These local boards will have to do especially with self-executing exemptions, ex-emptions, that la those In which exemption ex-emption depends only upon the determination de-termination of facts as, for example, whether a man Is a federa, state or Judicial officer, whether he is a clergyman cler-gyman or whether he come In any other way within any classification for which exemption is specifically provided In the selective law. "In each federal Judicial district ' there will bo at least one board of review to which appeal may be taken from local boards and which will have also original Jurisdiction in the exclusion of discharge from the selective se-lective draft of persons, engaged In Industry, Including agriculture found to be necessary to maintenance to tho military establishment or the effective effec-tive operation of the military forces or the, maintenance of national Interest Inter-est during the emergencies. "The oxomptlon regulations are not In final form. When they are they will bo promulgated by the president." |