Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-06-15
DRAFT DODGERS
ORDERED TAKEN
Provost Marshal Issues Order at
Washington.
W0LATORS FACE JAIL TERM
Fifty Members of Farmers and La
borers' Protective Association OF
Texas Indicted for Conspiracy
Against Government.

Dallas. Tex, June 12.-Fifty
white men, members of the Farmers
and Laborers' Protective association,
were indicted on seven counts by the
federal grand jury here for conspiracy
against the government. Names were
withheld, as only One-half of them
were arrested. W. A. Bergfeldt, mail
carrier of Haskell, Tex, also was in
dlcted for threatening the life OF the
president The protective association
was recently broken up by federal OIL
Gals because it was suspected or OPP
posing the selective draft law.
Washington, June 12.-Orders for
the arrest of every man between the
ages of twenty-One and thirty inclusive
who cannot show a certificate OF reg
sstratiOn for war service were issued
by the provost marshal general.
Labor Wants Board Member.
A demand that organized labor be
represented on the exemption boards
that will weed out those selected for
th army draft was voiced by Samuel
GOmpers. He said that unless persons
familiar with workers problems are
given places on these boards grave in
justice will be done.
The United States today holds al
most a million unnaturaliZed Germans
or aliens of countries allied with Ger
many who are males above twenty-One,
according to a census bureau report.
The total number of aliens born in
Germany or countries allied with her
il 4,652OO or Az per cent of the
United States population.
Actual alien enemies (Germans)
number 2,349 900, of whom /, 10000 are
males twenty-One years old and above.
:. First Arrest Made at Chicago.
: Chicago, June 12.-Chicago's first
known draft-dodger was arrested and
taken before the United States author
titles to explain his failure to register.
He is Klemen Formiller of 4252 North
kedzie avenue.
Stop Eligbles in Street.
7 Beginning today deputies from the
office of the United States marshal,
officers from the local bureau of the
department of justice and city police
began stopping on the street men VINO
booked to be between twenty-One and
thirty-one years of age. The man
stopped in each instance was asked his
age, whether he had registered, and,
IL he had a card he was told to pro-
duce it.
Where those questioned were of
military age and could not show the
blue card signifying they had regis
tered, they were arrested and locked
Np with the promise that justice will
be done speedily.
Assistant District Attorney Joseph
3. Fleming stated that the govern
ment would prosecute every man who
had not done his duty by going for
ward to have his name placed on the
Hist from which Uncle Sam will pick
his new army. Mr.. Fleming said that
sill most likely would be given years
sentence in a federal prison and that
they then would be automatically reg
istered and impressed into the army.
Illinois EnroIs 672,498.
Springfield, H., June 12.-GOvernOr
Lowden reported Illinois total selec-
tive draft registration is 672, 49S, dis
sributed as follows:
Whites, 542,013; colOred 22,2S9 !;
aliens, 95,145; alien enemy, 6,O51; in
dicated possible exemptions, 333,673.
The census bureaus estimate for
Illinois was 642 ,533, which did not in
clude $4,000 guardsmen and army en-
Iistments.
Subtracting the total of those claim
ing exemption from the total white
and colored registrants there remain
237 500 eligibles who do not ask to be
excused from military service.
Deducting the number of men
now serving in the army or the Ma
tional Guard, not counted in the reg
istration quota for Illinois, this state
exceeded by 47965 the mark set by
the census bureau.
Ohio Registration Large.
Columbus, o., June 12.-Registra-
tiOn in Ohio exceeded army estimates
$4,000, totaling 565, 1872, according to
an official statement. The registration
was as follows: White, 451, 461; col
Ored, 25,146; exemptions claimed,
whites, 2S7,073; colored. 14,473; total,
SOL $40; aliens, S2,S6S; alien enemies,
1927.