UNITED STATES v. NEWMAN

Nos. 15430, 15447.

44 F.Supp. 817 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. NEWMAN. SAME v. BUCHANAN.

District Court, E. D. Illinois.

April 28, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Roe, U. S. Atty., of Vandalia, Ill., and Ray Foreman, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Danville, Ill., for the Government.

Horace Gunn, of Danville, Ill., for defendants.


LINDLEY, District Judge.

Defendants are charged with refusal to comply with the orders of their respective draft boards. One has been classified as a conscientious objector and directed to serve in a noncombatant camp. He claims that the board should have given him complete exemption as a regularly ordained minister of religion. The other also insists that his board should have classified him as a regularly ordained minister and exempted him from all service. The...

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