No. 25383

432 F.2d 77 Zels B. JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Melvin LAIRD, Secretary of Defense, Lt. General Stanley Resor, Commander, Department of the Army, Headquarters 6th U. S. Army Presidio, San Francisco, California 94129, and Lt. Col. George Abe, Headquarters 3rd Bn., 161st Infantry, Pier 91, Seattle, Washington, Defendants-Appellees. No. 25383. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. September 29, 1970. Robert C. Mussehl (argued), Lind, Thom, Mussehl & Navoni, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff-appellant. Charles Murphy, (argued), and Charles A. Schaaf (argued), Asst. Attys. Gen., Slade Gorton, Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., Stan Pitkin, U. S. Atty., J. Byron Holcomb, Asst. U. S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., for defendants-appellees. Before HAMLEY and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and GOODWIN, * District Judge. EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge: 1 Petitioner-appellant Johnson instituted this habeas corpus proceeding in the district court seeking release from the Army as a conscientious objector. The district court dismissed appellant's complaint on the ground that he had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies prior to seeking judicial review. 2 At the oral hearing of this appeal we…