The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-20
Large Number of Drafted Men
Have Not Reported.
Drag Net Will Be Put Out To
Bring Them In.
MAY LIST 'EM AS DESERTERS
All Are Subject to Court Mar
tiaI by the Army.
Even the Death Penalty Might
Be Given Them.

The state adjutant generals office
today listed 1o7 men in six Kansas
counties as slackers. Unless reports
are received from these men by next
Monday, September "a, they will be
listed as deserters. All of the men
failed to report when their names
were called for examination before To-
cal military exemption boards.
Dragnets are to be used by state
and federal officials to bring the men
into the federal service All of the
1O7 men were today declared to be
automatically in the national army
Next Monday was designated as the
1lnal day for the men to report for
military service. Failure to report will
place the men in the list of deserters
There is to be no hitch in the pro-
gram for dealing with deserters ac-
cordlng to announcement by military
authorities. Captain Montgomery in
the adJutant generals office has di-
rected the compilation of lists of
names in all counties. The men who
1alled to report for examination are
now in the Stacker list. 1t is probable
number of the men will later be
found in some branch of the military
service. In that event the records
Will be changed and the men given
places on the honor roll.
Names of many Kansans of selective
draft age will be submitted next week
to Fred Robertson, United States dis
trIct attorney The men reported as
deserters will be subject to court mar
tial and at the discretion of the war
department might receive the death
penalty. There is ample provision
for such action in time of war A
dozen reports received in Topeka are
to the effect that men listed for serv-
ice cannot be found by local boards.
Counties affected by today's notices
include Barber, Barton, Bourbon, But
Ter, Cherokee and Crawford. The list
for the state is not complete. Thoro
records of other counties will be COM
piled from day to day and a new
| Stacker list will be reported each day
until the records of the state have been
| canvassed. A review of the Shawnee
county record, showed six of the nine
men listed as slackers, are in some
branch of military service and on the
honor roll. These men include: Jesse
Alpheus Eddy, John Quay. John Edgar
| Madden, John Greenleaf Buchanan
Rudolph Corley Dellinger, Robert
| Thomas Kemble.
Following is the Stacker record for
the six counties:
Barber county-Joseph G. Herndon, Vim
| ton c. Shinliyer, Fred Burleson, James
tin, Claude Hight, David Mccoy William
J. Groves, Joe r. Albright, Paul Smith,
Paul r. Smiley. Allen Thomas Potter, Louis
L. Thomas, Roy NJ. Sout, William c. Cur
tbs, William c. Perdum, John H. Harris,
Charles Henningson, Charles w. Ashlock.
Total, %.
Seven in Barton County.
Barton county-William H. Newman,
Harry McCracken, Charles E. Richardson,
Jesse Ewing, Harry f. Cloyd, Jesus Pena,
Bourbon county-Henry c. milford,
Ralph D, Ruby, Earl L. Endicott, Claude
c. Byrant, Kenneth c. Davenport, Clifford
S. Brown. J. p. Bakeman, Arthur L. Pat
terson. Total 8.
Chagella, Filipe Mangana, James E. Will
lfams, John A. Roberts, David Cox, Ed b.
/ wilkins, Antonio Zunaro, Gesus Vanquez,
Archie Glines, George Miller. James d.
Stokes, Jesse Vargas, Albert Myres, Vim
Klohr, Thomas Martinez. Antonio Magel-
lanes Austin c. Ward, Shepard A. Hall,
! Thomas A. Miller Frank Jones, Maguel
Herrera Hermit Keck, Lavenre Long. To-
tai. 49,
Cherokee county-Antonio Rivas Jacob
Olson, Burl Frazier, Guadalupe Comes. Don
Allen, Chris Hershey, Harry c. Hartman
Seba w. Shultz, Eugene L. Wagner, Sam
uel r. Freed. Claire Bradshaw, Ralph E.
Jameson, Mike Jangor, George a Miller
Sloan, Banjamin Vape, John F. Dyer, Juan
Emmert. William Sirosinko, James r. Bur
nett, Frank Sherland, Charles L. Behrnedt
Samuel Wallace, Floyd A. Lemler. Guy M
Cheney. Karl Krocker, Charles Shropshire
Fred Frye. Total, 81:
Crawford county-Glenn W. Curtis Rich
ard s. Babuber, Joseph Bednarik, Walter
Scott. Charles NJ. McKahn. Joseph r. Wor-
ster. Doyle G. Coleman, Thomas O. Mccoy
Howard H. Burns, James Good. Total, 10