The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-10
EvADERS HERE NUMBER 1,50O
 OFFICIALS SAY First Division Contains Largest Number of Draft
 Dodgers. FAKE ADDRESS ONE METHOD OF EVADING Many Delinquents Live in Fashionable District of
 West End.

today that there are over 1,500 evad- CTS of the draft here. Steps have already been taken by the police act ing under the supervision of Assistant Superintendent c. H. Suckley, to bring those who. have failed to respond to the call of division boards to justice. Others known to have left the city since registration will be rounded up by Department of Justice officials
 In the tolls this morning is Arthur H. Cornell, formerly resident of 72s Barnum avenue, but who the police allege has consistently evaded the draft by working a few days in a place. Cornell was arrested upon a farm near Newtown. It is said that since leaving his address in this city he has travelled as far as Waterbury working two or three days at one place and then changing his name. A charge of breach of the peace haA technically been placed agains thA name until the federal authorities take him into custody. He is likely to be given a jail sentence and then sent into the National Army as an ex- ample to others
 The police have been actively in. NeStlS SctlIS UGllIlQu6AtS WAOS0 IldInSs have been furnished by the six local division boards in this city. A large mum Der are found to have been willing ure to receive notification through the mails. These men are turned over to the examining boards.
 In the second division embracing
 the fourth and fifth voting district: the official lists of draft evaders show about a5 names. of which seven have been definitely located and have stood examinations.
 The first district contains the larg. est number of evaders. numbering be- tween $50 and 375 names; there are approximately 200 in the third divis ion, 175 in the sixth.
 Draft officials today declare that g large percentage of those on the list. will, when located, be found to bt aliens not amenabfe to the arm. standards.
 From returns / being made by the postoffice it would appear that nearly 20 per cent. of those registering gave fictitious addresses, for in many in stances police inquiry discloses tha no such person as named in the regis tration ever lived at the house. In other cases where notifications 1 have been returned by mail house holders declare that the person regis tered moved away shortly afterwards These names are no win the hands o, special agents of the Department O Justice who will require about 100 op orators in this city to finally check III ! the whereab bouts.
 The excuses given by those whc have already been located by the DO
 lice are various ranging from enlist ment to incarceration in tuberculosi: | hospitals. About per cent. are be- | Heved to have enlisted when it be- came apparent that drafting was tt 1 be enforced. One man was found who failed t< appear for examination but immedi lately filed claim for exemption on de pendency grounds. Another wal found in St. Vincent's hospital suffer l ing from appendicitis.
 A close examination of the lists O.
 the Second division discloses that <; large proportion of the delinquent! are located on fashionable Clinton | Wood, Brooklawn and Colorado ave nues. In the Third division, Lexing | ton avenue holds the record for draf
 evasion.
 Omclais declare today that the 1arg I number of evaders uncovered proba
 ply will not materially effect thu numerical standing of the men furthe
 down the list for many of those who's
 names are now on the failure to b. l examined lists will be certified b.
 the district board and will be chased
 as deserters. They will be apprehend
 ed by the federal authorities befor
 the last of the first draft contingen has gone to camp.
 The discharge of practically two thirds of the registrants of state eX
 exemption division No. 13, which in ) cludes Westport, Stratford, Westor
 Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Trumbu
 and Shelton, has resulted in a call go
 ing out for 1000 men to appear fo
 physical examination, this numbe s bringing the total of men called b the board up to 1900. The diyisio quota is 382 and there is no tellin how many men may have to be calle l to get the required number.
 The discharges are due almost en
 tirely to the number of aliens residin , in the district. Few of them hay waived their claims to exemption an 5 lthe boards have simply crossed ther :. off the list. .az2k