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100-5698 , 1942, Chic? Clerk Draft Roard 18, Baltimore, darrland, advised that BMY had appeared et Providence Hospital on June 23, 1 ake a blood test, but when 4& negro . dector had attempted to give BEY this te ts) allow the negro to take his blood, stati that ian » 2s not a negro but a Vocrishau’arican. lla? en Le 2 hospitsl We. without having the test made an the draft board and said he does not claim the negro race as his and would Jike tter to be straightened out. Then on June 29, 1942 Bay z.ddressed s letter to Leecal Draft Board 4, Richaond, Virginia, which is as follows: "I receive your letter date June 24, 1942, and I am very sorry that the doctor and the board got the wrong conseption about my statesent during the time he was about toe take ay blood test. The question about the matter is that 1 discovered that ay duscription of registrant was check wrong and when I asked them about the rectification they didn't seem that they wanted to give me cousideration., It is written in our Devine questionnaire on page 4, quustion 62. It saids that the shade of the Moorish-.nerican skin ars olive, and if any “Roorish — wee rogister up in this nation or in any state according to the compi oxion with is provided for the following, they have violate the Devine laws and the laws of the land that was hand dowm for us to gc by. Therefor as a citizen of the United States of snerica I have founded its necessary for my complexion «live to be reetify on my description cf rogistrant as it is being Gone on others. I am not to cause any confuision but this registration was made through misunderstanding. 1 wo looking for my appointment stating when thcy can take my blood test." The ice questionnaire also reflects that on June 22, 1942, BEY had written a letter requesting a dupli- cate registration ¢a O replace the one hv had lost, in which he also requested that his nationality be listed as Moorish-samerican and complexion be checked as olive, "because the negro problem is being solve only as it can and that is by the Mocrish National Devine Movement incorporated in this Govermaent." Fe] advised ‘no BaY had appeared at Lucal Draft Board 4 in Richmond in December cf 1942 at which time he was given a physical examination. On January 18, 1943, he requested that the induction order he had received from nis Richmond Board on January 15, 1943, be transferred to Local Draft Board #13, 882 Park avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, The above requ d and induction papers farw to Local Draft Board 3. alls subsequently advised on oD oY had reported for induction at Baltimore and that upon being - € d by Army doctors he was declared mentally disqualified for military service by reason of simple schizophrenia and schizoid perscneality. This decision was rendered b jedics]l Examiner, on February 9, 1943. te te Crone sascreety ro, me men anang tee \