davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
U.S.Hunts Slackers
In City's Resorts
Ignorant, Wilful and For
getful Draft Dodgers
Rounded Up

Dividing all slackers into three
elasses-ignorant, wilful and forgetful
the Department of Justice is seeking
among the crowded amusement resorts
of New York young men who failed to
register for the National Army on
June 5.
The departments agents are attempt
ing to destroy the last haven Of refuge
of those who did not obey the law. In
formation has been received concern
ing many men accused of being slack
ers, but many more have remained I'M
discovered, and it is to round up the
latter that the drive by the govern
ment's agents is being made.
Unsnnounced appearances of Mar
shall Thomas d. Mccarthy in the Mar
riage License Bureau to question the
would-be bridegrooms is typical Of the
efforts to unearth slackers. In similar
fashion the Federal agents are appear
ing at resorts where young men con-
gregate and asking them TO produce
their registration cards. The beaches,
ball parks and poolrooms are among
the places thought to be likely Stacker
Ravens.
Nor is the department dependent
upon its own resources, for Captain
William NJ. Offley, director of its work,
said yesterday that the state author-
ties and the city police are to CO.
operate. Any policeman may swoop
without warning upon a crowd OF young
men and demand the presentation OF
registration cards.
Captain Offley was reticent yesterday
as to how many slackers were being
found.
"We're not bringing them in at the
rate of 500 a minute, as some people
seem to expect" he said, "but we are
making satisfactory progress"
The fate of all slackers arrested will
depend on whether they were wilful,
neglectful or ignorant, Harold A. Con-
tent, Assistant United States District
Attorney. who has been prosecutor in
the Stacker cases, said yesterday.
"Those who avoided registration will
fully face almost certain prosecution"
he declared, "We find, however, that
the majority of those who didn't regis
ter were seemingly ignorant that they
were required to do so. But, ire
spective of whether they were wilful,
ignorant or forgetful, all arrested will
be taken before exemption boards to
be registered and given red ink serial
numbers. Their cards will be sent 10
the adjutant general and drawn by
lot. The men will then be placed in
the first draft, probably in the places
of exempted men, so that only those
who receive Jail sentences will escape
being called before the exemption
boards at once"
Criminal prosecution Of dentists and
oculists who aid men 10 escape army
service will be made if charges which
have reached the Department of JUS
tice prove to be we'll founded. Repre-
sentatves of the department have con-
ferred with Governor Whitman con-
corning these alleged allies Of slackers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Draft May Kill City
Bingham, Utah, Aliens Number
81 Per Cent of Population

Salt Lake City, Aug. 2.-Its ex-
istence as a municipality threatened,
Bingham, through its commercial club,
has appealed 20 the government for
relief from what it believes dis
eliminating military draft Bingham
wants either assurance that aliens are
10 be conscripted by the United States
or by their own government, or else
change in the first draft regulations
10 adjust it according TO citizen popu-
lation. Unless this is done Q. b. Kelly,
president Of the Bingham Commercial
Club, in a telegram sent TO the United
States senate and in appeal 10 Salt
Lake. declares that few Americans will
be left in that city.
Figures prove that SO per cent Of the
Bingham reglstrants are alienA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03

18th Street, near Fourth Avenue.
5000 to Join Camp
For Quartermasters
More Than 10000 Enlisted Men
To Form Corps Units
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington, Aug. "A quartermss-
ters' corps training camp is soon to be
established. About 5000 officers from
the officers training camps now in op'
GRAFTON will be sent to the new camp
for additional training in work for the
quartermasters' corps. The camp VIII
also accommodate from 10000 20 10000
enlisted men, to be formed into quar-
termasters' corps units.
A staff Of instructors and assistant
instructors will be drawn from non
commissioned officers already in ser
vice.
Ths camp will be used for the forms-
ton of special and technical units, such
as motor companies, wagon companies,
stevedore regiments, labor companies,
supply companies, repair shops salvage
shops, etc.
Several sites are under consideration
and announcement of choice probably
will be made soon. A tract OF some
thing like 1000 acres will be required.
The Office of the quartermaster gen
eral states that no applications for sp'
pointment to tho quartermasters re.
serve corps made since April IL are
being considered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Navy Gets Two More
Baseball Recruits
Jacobson and Sloan, St. Louis
American League Outhelders,
Enlist Here

William Jacobson and Yale Sloan,
outfielders on the st. Louis American
League baseball team, were among the
nine recruits the United States Navy
got IN Manhattan yesterday.
jacobson and Sloan enlisted at the
navy recruiting headquarters, "a East
Twenty-third Street. 1t may be a
month before they are called for duty.
This is due to the fact that the train
ing station at Newport is overcrowded
and there are no quarters available at
present for new men. There are 400
navy enlisted men awaiting orders IN
this city.
Only sixty-two men enlisted yesterday
at army recruiting headquarters, $50
Broadway. Five men joined the Ma
rine Corps. Recruiting officers attrib-
ute the general slump in the rush TO
enlist to the inroads Of the Federal
draft
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
London Slow to Catch
Spirit of the Army
[By Cable TO The rnsunsl

London. Aug. 1.-THE Evening Star"
to-day reflects the feeling in London
over the great offensive in Flanders
in an article which says:
cover in Flanders and in France
they know what a blow was dealt the
crack German troops on Monday. Do
we krcv? And il we know, are we let
ting our soldiers feel the answering
pride and thanksgiving in our hearts
After all. these are our sons. Inc?
listen for our cheers after they have
done their gallant deeds. A little moro
enthusiasm, a little fervor, little
more faith would also do US good. Let
us try to catch the spirit OF the army
in Flanders and France and make our
rather slow pulse beat in union with
theirs"
The military correspondent of the
Westminster Gazette" says the new
attacks have begun excellently. some
ups and downs we may anticipate he
saws. However, the ups will be more
marked than the downs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
House Will Push
Alien Stacker Bill
Drastic Measure Provides
Drafting for Labor liz
United Sites

Washington. Aug. 2.-Drastic deal
ing with alien slackers is proposed
by a bill agreed upon to-day by the
House immigration Committee and
slated for quick action in the House.
Alien slackers who do not wish TO
take military service in the American
forces would be deported; the entry of
others to the country would be prohib-
tied. Any person who claims exemp-
ton from military duty on the ground
that he is an alien never could become
a naturalized citizen.
Aliens Of any class could be drafted
for work on farms, in industrial plants
and for other home duty.
Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, one of
those who fought the draft law. intro
duced a bill to-day to require the con-
sent Of everv man drafted into the new
National Army before he could be sent
to Europe for service.
Hundreds of men in the chief cities
of the country, reports to the Depart
ment of Justice show, gave fictitious
addresses for draft registration, and
are now being sought by government
agents Bridges, vacant lots. streets
that do not exist and. in some cases
factory sites were given as addresses
by registrants who since have disap-
peared. In large numbed OF cases
prospects are not considered bright
for finding the slackers.
The practice appears to have been
more prevalent in the larger cities.
Few cases Of the sort the reported from
communities having less than 100000
population.
Slackers who, after having registered,
fail TO report for physical examination
will be ordered into the military SER
vice of the United States without
further preliminaries, losing claims of
exemptions and other considerations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Henry Fields Widow
Gets Only 100000

Chicago, Aug. Mrs. Nancy Field.
widow Of Henry Field. grandson Of the
late Marshall Field, who died July 9,
receives only $4,000 Of her husbands
estate. This amount represents her
share of the property which was left
to Henry Field by his father, Marshall
Field, jr., and includes none Of the
residuary estate of Marshall Field.
Counsel for Mrs. Field, who filed letter,
of administration, said to-day Mu
Field would receive no part Of her hu.'
bands share in the estate Of his grand
father.
Henry Field was twenty-five Year,
old at the time of his death. The Mar.
shall Field will provided that he SHOULD
receive a payment of 100000 on his
twenty-ffth birthday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03

q local board TO accept the more i'm
portant appointment-and he's SIM
looking for place 10 sit.
However, that is a matter which VIII
straighten itself out, as good many
othr matters have had to do since me
Federal draft policy Of Supervised de-
Capitalization" was hung upon the IN
suspecting necks Of the nations 1851
exemptors.
Supervised decentralization means,
SO far as New York City is concerned,
the practical imposSbility OF accurately
keeping pace with the day-to-day prog
ress of the draft. Even now, with the
most important work on Of examining
registrants. there IS no clearing house
10 receive the reports Of the l69
boards.
Each Board Independent
Each board is an independent unit
following it's own devices. And they
have strayed so far apart under su-
pervised decentralization that WIN
some through the second Of the three
prescribed DAYS of examination, others
have not oven got out their notices
And after the posting of the notices
examinations may not begin officially
for five days.
At Least Fifty Boards at Work
Yet. for all the confusion which re-
mains despite the untiring efforts OF
Mr.. Conkling, what transpired yester-
day did not break the calm which mas
attended the successive steps or the
draft. Some boards had been conduct
ing spasmodic and semi-otlclal exam
nations for days past; on wednesday
Boards 142 and l56 had set the oihciai
ball rolling yesterday there were prop.
ably upward Of nifty on the Joo' JUST
how many. thanks 10 "supervised de-
DECENTRALIZATION" no one knows, and no
one will know until the last district
board has come forward and the COM
Melted reyorts of the local boards are
at last compiled and passed up.
By all Representations Of EVIL, the
day when a sizeable number of boards
began 10 make the man IN the street
feel the weight of the draft law was
the day 10 lock for trouble. There
wasn't sy-unless the murmurlng OF
some registrants against the enforced
los sof time is to be counted.
Examinations we're conducted so
slowly in many boards that n good
share Of the men called were forced TO
wait all day before the doctors got
around to them, and then there were q
few left over who, under threat OF the
law, must report again to-day.
That such burden would be put
upon the registrsnt had been foreseen
Washington suggested o way around IT.
but Board 1870 has found system that
works like a charm. This board has
for its headquarters the nome of DR.. q
Frederick Brooks, its medical member
at PAT Central Park West.
In issuing the call DR. Brooks specl-
fled not only the day for the registrant
to appear, but also the hour. With
three other physicians assisting. he was
able to maintain his schedule of tfteer
examinations to the hour, and for the
registrants there were only few MIN
utes of dead time each.
James Cowden Meyers, chairman OF
Local Board 14S. called l42 men fol
the first day. They had the big new
armory of the Odd Engineer, at Fort
Washington Avenue and l6Sth Street
to loaf around in, and, to prove ne
was playing no favorites, Mr.. Meyers
let them hold little lottery of their
own to determine the order" OF ex'
au,ipatin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Baker Denies Disasters
No Misfortune to u. S. Men on
Land or Sea, He Says
IErnm Ihn Tribune Burnsn

Washington, Aug. 2.-Seeretary Of
War Baker issued a statement to-day
reassuring the nation against sensa-
tional reports concerning alleged dis
asters Detailing American forces and
dangers confronting them. He said:
81 have no hesitancy in saying that
not syllable has reached the War
Department which would lead US to be-
lieve that any misfortune has attended
our forces on land or sea. And / can
reiterate the pledge made some time
ago that any such word will be instant
ly given 10 the country, subject only
to the qualification that any military
movement In process at the time be
completed, so as not TO imperil the re-
maindsr OF the forces involved"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03

"Staats-Zeitung" on Draft
Sees Only Failure in Plan to
Raise Army
The "Staats-Zeitung" says:

The "Staats-Zeitung" says:
"On the first day, aoltogether the
district exemption boards in New York
have found only forty-nine men ht
and willing to be drafted. Either the
man is physically unfit or, when fit, he
insists upon his right TO provide for
wife and child, TO whom he hitherto
had failed to pay this tender atten-
ton. 1t is no elevstng picture having
TO read day after day: ooh, how eager
am to fight against the eGrmans-
butt" And this but illustrates the
plan of stamping big armies out Of
the ground-of bringing help as fast
as craved by Americas Allies. Indeed,
much vii have to change, many will
have to be educated before the Ameri-
can youth able to bear arms will ar
rive at the standpoint of rushing to
the service for the fatherland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Two New York Dentists
Named for Posts in Navy
From N. Tribune Bureaul

Washington, Aug. Louis B. Lipp-
man, OF 1887 Franklin Avenue, The
Bronx. and Frank Kaufman, of the
Gouverneur Hospital, New York City,
have been recommended by Secretary
of the Navy Daniels for probationary
appointment as dental surgeons in the
navy. They were among the fifteen
candidates who successfully passed
their examinations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Dynamite Threatens Senator

Montreal, Aug. "A stick of dyna-
mite, accompanying a note threatening
death il he voted for conscription, was
to-day found under the balcony Of the
homo Of Senator c. P. Beaubien, in
Outremont, near here. Senator Beau
bien is one Of the best known French
Canadian advocates OF conscription in
Quebec.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Allied Statesmen
Meet in England

London, Aug. 2.-Premier Lloyd
George, Lieutenant General SHUTS, Of
the Union of Soutr Africa, and Chan
cellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law to-
day attended the conference Of Allied
statesmen, to which Mr.. Lloyd George
alluded in Parliament yesterday. The
conference was held in south coast
town.
This conference is a continuation Of
that held recently in Paris, at which
the best means Of prosecuting the war
was discussed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
u. S. Surgical Units
In Flanders Battle

British Front in France and Belgium,
Aug. 2.-America played small but
important part in the battle of Flan-
ders. A number of American surgical
teams" who were brought to the front
from the base hospital by the Director
General of the Medical Service, worked
side by side with their British allies in
caring for the wounded.
Each team consists of a surgeon, an
anesthetist, nurse and an orderly, and
they have been doing excellent work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03

scripts appeared before the examiners
with gunshot wounds through the left
palm. The explanation offered usually
was accidental discharge of a rife. An
end was put to this practice by execut-
ing every man so wounded unless there
was preponderant evidence of accident
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
g. Altntatt & On.
lit is q Patriotic DUTY

Id is q Patriotic Duty
to eliminate waste-to spend ones money
wisely, and with intent to retain that which
is purchased.
Merchandise selected t1oughtlessly, only to
be returned later, involves waste of time and
effort, decreased efficiency, and, ultimately
financial loss to the public as well as to the
merchant.
I'm support of the plan of the Commercial
Economy Board of the Council of National
Defense,
B. Altman & Go. request that Merchandise
for Credit or Exchange be Returned
within Seven Days.
Fifth Ausmn aaahiam Aussus. -
34th ann 15th STREETS arnT "A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
Exemption Board Movies
OF Slackers and Fighters
Bald Men, Deaf Men and Men With Dependent Mothers
n-Law Rub Elbows With Real Men Who
Want to Do Their Duty

He was striking looking chap Wordsworth and when
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18
TWENTIETH CENTURY
CLUB MEETS

The Twentieth Century club met on
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 in the IL
brary building and held a most inter
esting session. After roll call, to which
nearly all present responded with
items of important current events,
and a short address by the president
concerning the proposed course of
work for the year, Mrs. Runge pre-
scented a very able and instructive
statement of the organization, aims
and purposes of the Peoples Council
of America. She read several extracts
from a couple of bulletins published
by them.
At the business meeting following,
Mrs. Astle and Mrs. Runge were ap-
pointed delegates to the convention OF
the Wisconsin Federation Of Womens
clubs to be held in Madison October
II to 10, with Mrs. Gerber and Mrs.
Guth as alternates. The sum OF five
dollars was subscribed to the fund be-
ing raised for the purchase Of books
for libraries for our soldiers at their
various environments. The club then
adjourned until November 1, when, II
the weather is favorable, they Will
meet with Mrs. Mertzke; if not at the
library.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18
SIDE LIGHTS ON the
CIRCUS BUSINESS
lTlT"7~7777-7~)I lI~---.m-M-

The big circuses as they exist to-
day are wonderful institutions-cos-
mopolitan cities, peopled with mechan-
les, artisans and workers who daily
erect, decorate, dismantle and trans
port great cities. Over 500 souls live
in the travelling community Of a great
circus. Almost every profession is
represented. 1t has postmaster, doc
tors, veterinary, newspaper, hotel
keepers, lawyers, detectives, book
makers, blacksmiths, electricians,
physical directors, base ball team,
tent makers, painters, civil steam
and electrical engineers-in fact ev-
erything found in any city.
The transportation Of this enter
prise is a magnifcently accomplished
task. No other institution can boast
of better working system. Four big
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18
"lT7lE il

trains of double-length care are loaded
and unloaded every twsnty-four hours.
Every article, even to the most insig--
nificant guy-rope stake must be in
it's exact place; otherwise the system
would be disrupted and it's working
efficiency spoiled. Time is ever a
precious article around a circus
Countless articles and almost every
form of life, all of great value, must
be given the closest attention in the
shortest space of time. Every attache
has a place and belongs to some GER
tain department. Each department
has a competent superintendent, who
is responsible for the proper working
and care of his section. Thus must
the daily movement of the great cir
cuses be carefully watched to protect
the large capital involved,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18

Kaiser Wilhelm, but rather because
giving their lives to prevent the enc
my from invading their land and de-
stroying their homes and families, &C
cording to James Evans, French war
ambulance driver, who returned to
spend some time at La Crosse with
his father, DR.. Edward Evans, prior
to resuming his studies in the state
university medical school.
81 believe that all that is keeping
the Germans at this fighting game is
the successful manner in which their
superior officers, the German press
and everyone in authority misrepre-
sents the true situation" said Evans.
1.-TWO months after the United States
had declared war the Germans IN
the fighting lines knew nothing Of it.
l got that much from a German pris-
oner, who rode in my ambulance aft
er being wounded. The wonderful
discipline of the German army keeps
the soldiers in absolute ignorance of
true conditions
Evans said that all the reports
which have come to the United States
about the Germans bombing Red
Cross hospitals are absolutely true;
he was in the vicinity of one when
it was attacked. He said that he had
also heard many reports of hardships
visited upon the soldiers of the allies
now interned in German war camps.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18
Germsn Minister
Quits As Result
0fLa1e Scandal
bic in his office.
First Step in Mutiny

bic in his office.
First Step in Nutiny
The first evidence of the recent mu-
tiny in the German feet was an act Of
characterization aboard a battleship
whose captain was notorious as a
bully, according to information re-
ceived by the Associated Press. A
sick sailor, refusing to obey the or
ders of his superior officer, was taken
before the captain, who placed him
under arrest. On the following day a
deputation of sailors demanded The
release of the delinquent.
When the captain asked the mean
ing of this deputation, he received the
answer that the sailors had formed a
council on the Russian model and this
led to an investigation which resulted
in arrests and the seizing of pam
phlets.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18
Ready to Fly in France

In q recent issue of the Chicago
Tribune appeared picture of Leslie
Luder, university graduate and mem
Der of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity
Madison, who is about to leave for
France with an aviation corps.
Luder completed his course in
ground training at Champaign, ILL.,, and
his flying training at Dayton, Ohio.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Luder of BarabOO.
There are two other sons in the
army.