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Show oo UTAH MAY FILL -OUT US QUOTA SALT LAKE, Fob. 13, Thero is every prospoct that Utah's quota in the second selective service draft will be practically filled up before the call for the specific number of men required under it shall be received from E. H. Crowder, provost marshal general of the United States army. At least a special effort to attain this object Is being made, and there is encouraging prospect that it will be achieved. Voluntary induction into military service is being encouraged and this will proportionately reduco the number num-ber of men to be tnken to cantonments under the draft call. The quota will not be reduced, it is stated, but the men accepted for voluntary induction will be subtracted from tho total to be called call-ed under tho draft. For this reason and for the credit attaching to securing for service tho number of men to bo called for, prior to the issuance of tho specific quota to be required' of Utah, this special effort is being pushed to the utmost With the exception of the quartcr- mnctnr nn1 nrrlnrmoo HfinnrtmpntS. all services in the army are open to voluntary vol-untary induction, including tho infantry, in-fantry, it Is explained. Already the voluntary induction showing is so encouragingly en-couragingly great that an effort will bo made to "beat the draft to it," as Captain A. J. Mechin explains. Registrants who were rejected by a close margin under the former physical phy-sical examination rules will not be called upon to again appear before cither Uielr local boards or tho medical medi-cal advisory board. Captain A. J. Mechin, in charge of the Utah adjutant's adjut-ant's office, yesterday sent out instructions instruc-tions to this effect in a bulletin to all local and medical advisory boards, based upon the following message which had been received by Governor Bamberger from General E. H. Crowder: Crow-der: "Physical examinations conducted under tho old regulations need not be repeated upon receipt of the new regulations requiring physical examinations. exam-inations. "Upon receipt of the new regulations local boards will proceed with the physical examinations until all registrants regis-trants in class 1 are examined. "Medical advisory boards will adopt tho new regulations for local boards and continue ui)dor them until a now manual intended for medical advisory boards alone Is received, when they will thereafter continue according to th.-d new manual. "When the vote 'of the local board is unanimous on either qualification or disqualification,' a caso need not bo sent bofore a medical advisory board, unless tho local board so elects." oo The lact trade affords employment to something like 100,000 persons in France. |