AMERICA'S FIRST ARMY ASSEMBLES
First Section of the 687, 000 Will Soon Be in Camp and at Work
ONLY WHITE MEN CALLED
Larger Groups Are to Follow September 19 and October 3 When Seal Work Starts
By GEORGE MARTIN
WASHINGTON—America's first national army is actually in the making today.
Four thousand, five hundred and fifty-seven local exemption boards throughout the land plunged into the task of mobilizing the first shipment of 34,300 drafted soldiers to camp. This first increment will be 6 percent of the 687,000 men drafted.
Between now and September 6 each local board will select, gather in groups at exemption board headquarters and finally certify the 80 percent.
Learn to Fight the Boche
On September 6 they will put a drafted man in charge of each group, entrain them and send them on their way to learn to battle the Boche. Only white men will be sent to the various camps September 5.
Routings and entrainments, according to the present plan, will be secret. All the local boards have in their order to have their quota of men at specified cantonment camps at a certain time. They are making their own plans for the hour and place of enlistment.
How Men Are Called
Notices to the men selected by each local board to go first are being mailed or have been mailed to the men. Lists of drafted men in this first group are also being posted at exemption headquarters.
They are being ordered to report in person to the local board.  "For military duty" at a fixed hour named by the board, which shall be not more than 24 hours nor less than 12 hours before the hour for entrainment. 