The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-16

throughout the country today vas
given a copy of President Wilson'S
war message of April 25.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announced that Persons registering
on June 5 are at liberty to enlist in
the navy or marine corps at any time
prior to their selection for military
service
Still Can Enlist.
'This announcement is made in a
letter 30 General Barnett, major gen
eral commandant of the marine corps,
who pointed out that many young
men, according to the reports of re-
cruiting officers, seemed to be of the
opinion that those registered under
the selective draft would be unable TO
enlist in either the navy or the ma
rine corps. The provost marshal gem
erals statement makes it plain that
any man registered may enlist in
either the navy or marine corps at
any time until he is actually selected
for military service.
A report from the Department of
Justices representatives at Kansas
City, Mo-, announced that registration
booths were crowded, full registration
indicated and perfect order prevailed.
There agents added that leader Of
a small group charged several weeks
ago with conspiring to persuade young
men to refrain from registering had
voluntarily registered, indicating that
the backbone of trouble has been
broken"
Kansas Below Estimates.
Topeka-Kansas probably has not
come up to the expectations of the
government officials in the number of
registration. The government esti-
mates were that 180,183 were within
the draft ages in the state. The indi-
cations were tonight from the incom-
plete reports sent to Topeka that the
total actual registrations would fall
fifteen to eighteen thousand short of
this estimate.
In Topeka alone the actual regis
tration was one thousand short of the
estimate, $500 being expected to reg
lister. The incomplete returns from
other counties indicated that there was
ures in most counties.
There were no disorders anywhere
accompanying the registration. The
great work ahead Of the government
and state officials now is to ascertain
whether anyone deliberately failed to
register who was within the draft
ages. State officials asserted that
they expected no reports of failures
to register
Swamped st. Louis Registrars.
st. Louis.-R Registration proceeded
rapidly and without disturbances in
all the five hundred precincts of ST.
Louis today.
Because of the long lines at many
of the polling places, it appeared that
all could not be registered at 9 p. m.
and Acting Mayor Aloe announced
that at any registration place where
men were waiting when the closing
hour came the doors would be kept
open long enough for all to be listed.
Rush to Register on Coast.
San Francisco-Reports of eager
ness of young men to register con-
tinued to come in today from all parts
Of the Pacific Coast. In Eugene, Ore,
two men had to be held apart to avoid
a personal encounter, each contending
he was first in line and entitled to
be enrolled in that precinct as No. 1.
No serious disturbances were re-
ported from any of the far western
states.
Arrested Five in Arkansas.
Fort Smith, Ark.-F'ive men were
arrested at Jasper, Newton county,
according to word United States gov
eminent authorities just received,
charged with plotting to prevent con-
scription service. The defendants, ac-
cording to information the authorities
here received, are Ivory Ramsey, his
three brothers and Albert Smith
Indians Defy Draft.
| Flagstaff, Ariz.-Navajo Indians
drove an Indian agent and other fed
eral officers off the government res
ervation, one hundred miles northeast
of here, when the latter went to reg
lister the Indians under the war army
Selective Draft Bill, according to ad.
vices reaching here.
The federal officers feared the In.
dams would go on the warpath if fur
Their attempts were made to register
them, it was reported
The Indians appeared to be con
fused over the purpose of the regis
tration, according to Runke.
The Utes Threaten War.
Ignacia, Col.-Ute Indians on thei1
reservation near here refused to reg
lister, under the Selective Draft Act
and spent most of the day dancins
war and bear" dances, in native cos
tune. A number of the younger mer
are said to be out in the hills neal
here and to have obtained a. quantit,
Of liquor.
Anti-War Riot in Butte.
Butte, Mont.-A parade here of abou
six hundred men and. women appaT
emily of foreign extraction started
riot which led to the calling out o
troops, which had been held in loca
barracks in preparation of such al
event.