The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-06-06
Returns
AreSlOW
Coming
About One-third Make Claim
for Exemption on
Card
ABSENT ONES REPORT

Seattle and King county reg.
istered approximately 32,o93
men for select service Tuesday,
according to precinct and dis
trlet reports and official est.
mates at noon today.
OF this number about one
third claimed exemptions.
But the ultimate percentage
OF exemptions will 90 higher.
probably past so per cent. be
cause many who have depend
enss. or who are aliens or are
disabled, made no specific
claim Tuesday.
With 6 OF the ~ city districts TO.
tailed and estimates based on in
returns for the remaining
6. the figure Tor Seattle at noon
was 2s.G03. Forty-fiye OF the it2
county precincts made the county
figure i.i0s. Auditor Wardall esti.
mates the entire county registra-
ton at $500. Out OF l.l0s men
registered in the county. s52 claim.
I'd exemptions.
Chief Registrar William r.
for the city. expects to wire
TO Gov. Lister complete summaries
for all " districts by S .. m. Wed.
nesday. Auditor Wardali probably
all telegraph tho county returns at
D. IN District boards we're busy
Wednesday afternoon. making the
duplicate records and compiling the
summaries for their precincts. while
in the auditors office large force
vas at work .SomnllIpG thc Lsia arms
As fney cams7r from the cuNnty.
Registrars Meet
All district registrars will meet
with Mayor GIN and Corporation
Counsel Caldwell at Z p. m. at the
mayors office. to discuss plans for
the reformation OF the boards into
exemption boards.
Those who for any reason
were unable TO register Tues
day must report themselves at
once TO the district board gov
ernino the prseinet In which
they live. according 10 calo-
well.
Get Another Chance
Men who were at sea. in the
woods or for any reason ignorant
of the registration. must report at
once 10 Chief Registrar Gaines.
who will direct them TO the proper
board" SAYS Caldwell.
The boards will have wide discre.
tionary powers in dealing with
slackers and may either prosecute
or register them. Prosecutions
will he conducted In federal court
and the penalty Is one years I'M
and later military serv-
ice There is no fine alternative.
Help Get slaekers
Under the plan OF the war
department. the 10000. 900
"honor men" who registered
become service policemen TO
hunt down evaders. Each man
is asked TO give information OF
any evasion within his knowl-
edge. Prompt action will fol-
low any reports OF evasion or
false registration.
Lists OF all registrars will be
posted within five days and every
person asked 10 note any absentees
and tip off the authorities. Then
these lists are being compared
with the lists of voters in each pre-.
cinot kept by the political parties
Have U. S. Records
Lists OF foreigners are kept by
the department OF labor and depart
nent of immigration. Further. the
has three checks on
the ages of men falsifying To evade
service; the census. the birth rec.
ords at the county seat and the
public school records.
The registration of the Japanese
of the city was a revelation to the
registrars. A total OF 944 were
registered without single claim
for exemption.
At some precincts in the county
the supply OF cards was exhausted.
but in most OF them there was a
surplus. Registrar Miller, at Eagle
Gorge. had Il applicants whom he
could not register because of a
shortage of cards. Cards will be
mailed 10 him at once.
Registrar Miller. at iiot Springs,