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Show 24,00(1 Feebleminded Rejected During War NEW YORK, Feb. 6 More than 21,000 candidates for military service in this country during the war were rejected on the ground that they were feeble minded, according to a paper written by Dr. Pearce Bailey, chairman chair-man of the New York state commission commis-sion on mental defectives, and read at the closing session of the societies for mental hygiene here. Dr. Bailey was unable to be present because of illness. ill-ness. Rejection for nervous and mental diseases, he asserted, ranked fourth on the ll3t. The percentage of mental defective averaged six to a thousand, he said, and ran especially high among the immigrant classes of New York. Past records show that fifty thousand delinquents might havo been expected In the American army, but that only 14,000 developed. risonville, who committed suicide in Sl Kansas City, according to announce- ment by James T. Duncan, stato bank examiner. al The bank will remain closed pend ll ing the outcome of the audit, Mr. Dun- l can said. 91 Mr. Duncan said a letter from Pres- 91 ident Burney to the board of directors '11 I had been found in which he admitted the misuse of the bank's funds. fil |