Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-19 | Page 6 | Examinations Are Limited

EMIT1S IE LUTED i ' I Captain Gordon Snow, draft execu-, execu-, live officer for Utah, has sent instruc-l instruc-l tions to local boards that physical ex-laminations ex-laminations of all registrants of Sep-I Sep-I tember 12, except those between the ages of 19 and 3G, have been cancelled. can-celled. Local boards aro directed to complete com-plete the classification as soon as possible pos-sible of the 19 to 36 and 18 year old i groups. No registrants aged IS will be examined physically, but physical examinations of registrants in class 1 between 19 and 3G will be completed immediately. This will include Brit-i Brit-i ish and Canadian registrants between j the ages who have not been examined ,and other registrants In this group j who were unable to be present when i called for examination on account of ! illness or absence from the city. . ( In response to telegrams from state draft headquarters yesterday, the Ogden Og-den city exemption board answered they could complete the classification of 18 years old registrants within two , weeks. The work has been completed I by the Weber county exemption I board. J General Crowder's telegram as sent i to local boards, says: j "Instruct all local boards Immedl-tately Immedl-tately that the classification ordered in my recent telegram does not include physicnl examination. All local boards will therefore discontinue all physical examination of registrants, but will continue and carry out at the earliest possible moment the completion of the classification of the 19 to 36 and the IS year old group. "The secretary of war directs that his order transmitted in my recent telegram be modified in the following particulars: District boards will discontinue dis-continue all work of classification and of appeals immediately. They will proceed pro-ceed at once to complete all their rec-' rec-' ords in so far as they are deficient ; as to men already classified by them , or In respect to -whom they have heard nnd determined appeals. They will use ithe utmost care in preserving and protecting all records and will await , further orders regarding custody, ' I checking in and accounting for .their Jown records. All records belonging , permanently to the files of local boards' should b'e returned Immediately to ,the I proper local board."