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Show UST STATEMENT OF WORK OF DRAFT BOARD SALT LAKE. Nov. 23. The final report of the operation of the selective selec-tive draft in Utah was forwarded last night to Provost Marshal General E. H. Crowder at Washington, D. C., by Gilbert W. Williams, chief clerk of the district board. It shows that 11,81-1 men were considered by tho local and district boards, from which 2607 were reported acceptable for military service ser-vice and were sent to Camp Lewis, Wash. Simultaneously with the forwarding of the report, Parley L. Williams, chairman of the district board, forwarded for-warded replies to forty-eight questions ques-tions under twelve topic heads, as to the procedure of the draft in Utah, together to-gether with recommendations, as requested re-quested by the provost marshal general, gen-eral, which may be of service in framing fram-ing final regulations for conducting the second drafL The report shows that 473 claims for 'discharge on occupational grounds were filed with the district board in cases in which the latter had original jurisdiction. Of the 473, 110 were based on Industrial grounds and 363 on agricultural. Ninety-seven of the claims on industrial grounds were denied, de-nied, and all of the claims made on agricultural ag-ricultural grounds were denied. Petition for Discharge Of the thirteen petitions for discharge dis-charge on industrial grounds granted by the district board, one was to a wool expert, five in the mining industry, indus-try, two employees of powder works, one in the shipbuilding Industry, one in the postal service, two In the telegraph tele-graph and telephone service and one superintendent of knitting mills. Of the ninoty-seven claims for exemption ex-emption on Industrial grounds, which were denied, one Avaa engaged in coal mining, nineteen in metal mines, one general contractor, one employee of a powder plant, eleven In flour and sugar production, one In the textile trade', six in electrical trades, twenty-three twenty-three employees of steam railroads, seven in the telegraph and telephone service, one in the postal srvice, eight in merchandizing, two in the public service, nine in professional lines and seven in miscellaneous occupations. Sixty-eight appeals from tho decisions decis-ions of the district board were taken to tbe president of the" United States. More than half of these have been reported re-ported back, and in only two instances has the district board been reversed. The cases reversed were that of Addison Addi-son Charles Moulton of Heber City and Joseph W. Ockey, registered in Juab county. The district board acted on 607 appeals ap-peals from decisions of local boards, denying -285 and granting exemption to 322. Of the latter, 295 wore allowed allow-ed on the ground of dependency; nineteen nine-teen because of being resident aliens; four German aliens and the balance on miscellaneous grounds. During tho operation of the selective selec-tive draft, the district board demonstrated demon-strated its particular field of usefulness useful-ness to be that of solving problems arising in the local boards in remote sections of the state and in bringing about a uniform application of the draft law. The usefulness of the board In this matter is reflected in the fact that the board reversed twenty-four cases of the first seventy-one reported by one of the county boards, and in another instance it reversed twenty-fivo twenty-fivo out of the first 140 reported. Out of the 600 cases reported upon by local draft board No. 3 in Salt Lake, however, the district board interfered only to the extent of reversing eight cases. |