Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30

board. forwarding the cards: e. e., take
district that registered 100 persons
Suppose its quota Is ten. Then the To-
cal ca board board VIII cali twenty men. select
bers appear on the Official sheet after
canceling on that sheet all numbers
above 100. Some OF those twenty will
be discharged because of physical de-
flciencies or other lawful ground for
discharge.
Supposititious Cases.
"suppose there are I'VE men to be reg
istercd after the draft. The adtutant
numbers of those discharged and by
lot assign them to the late registrants.
Suppose 7S, 4. Is, so and 80 are numbers
OF persons discharged. Suppose John
emiah Atkins and Joe vaughn are the
late rssistrants; then he. by lot, as :
signs to each Of said persons one Of the
above blank numbers. The man who
gets 78 must take the place in the list
list.
III no persons among the twenty are
discharged, and hence there are, no
blank numbers. then he will begin at
101, the next serial number following
the highest number in the supposed dis
trict. and add Ave serial numbers and
assign them BY lot to the persons above
named. They then are liable in the
order that 101, ct cetera. come in the
official draft lists. The adjutant gem
eral will then notify said local boards
of the serial numbers' thus assigned
the cards forwarded by that board. The
local board will then assign the proper
serial number sent them by the adju-
tant general to the original cards in
their possession and cause the list Of
persons with the serial numbers' to
be posted ana notify each person Of his
number. Thus, the late registrants are
made equally liable under the original
draft with all who registered according
to law.
Local officials May Assist.
at is not expected that your time
will permit you to undertake person.
ally or with your regular force q
house-te-house canvass nor q COMPARE
son of the registration list with the
various tax and voting lists OF each
county: but when you can engage the
tary organizations for such work it
should be done. The department does,
however, expect you to institute with
all the help at your command a vigor-
to you of eonscription age and not reg
istered and all cases coming to your
attention in the course OF your work.
when 1t IA discovered that a person
mas not registered ana 10 OF proper are,
proceed at once to register him, as out
lined above, and institute criminal pro-
ceedings against him regardless of the
reasons for failure to register before
the draft, unless the circumstances
causing the delay are beyond the con.
trel Of the individua1-such as being at
sea on registration day and registering
as soon as practicable after landing, or
when the person had been refused the
opportunity to register by the local
boards. Pending physical examination
and application for discharge or exemp.
ton, such persons who hold numbers
rendering them liable to draft on first
call should be kept in jail or released
on the highest bail practicable. The
prosecution for violation OF the con.
scription act Is entirely independent OF
the act Of registering such persons, and
is terminated only in one Of two ways
by Judgment OF court or by being
chosen by the district board
Alleged Stacker Il Arrested.
Robert Nelson, colored. twenty-five
years old, residing in an alley between
9th and eth. M and N streets north
west, was arrested as Stacker" and
taken before United States ATTORNEY
Laskey today. Nelson claims he was
sick on registration day. but had no
doctor in attendance.
Mr.. Laskey turned the case over to
Assistant United States Attorney Arth,
who will follow the method outlined
in the letter from the Department of
Justice. He took the man to the ex-