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Show IRE IN ADDED TO DRAFTING LIST YOUTHS WHO HAVE RECENTLY BECOME 21 WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR SERVICE IN ARMY. Will Be Put at Foot of the List, in Their Classes, and Called Only When Available Men Under Last Registration Are Taken. Washington. Drafting of men who. have become 21 since last June 5 was approved on April 25 by the house. Under an amendment by Representative Representa-tive Hull of Iowa they will be put at the foot of the list, in their classes, and called only when available men under un-der last year's registration have becu taken into the service. This and another provision which does away with. military exemption for divinity students, will necessitate a conference with the senate. Chairman Dent of the military committee com-mittee announced that the war department depart-ment will order the registration of the men eligible by this bill June 5, the anniversary of the first enrollment. All men who have reached 21 by that date must register ; they will be classed, after answering questionnaires, on exactly ex-actly the same terms as men enrolled a year ago. Under an agreement proposed amendments to register men from 21 to 41 were postponed, to prevent complicating com-plicating and delaying the principal measure. Divinity students lose their exemption, exemp-tion, military committee members said, because there has been abnormal increase in-crease in the number of pious young men the last year. |