Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-06
ROUNDUP Or IOWA
sLACkERs BEGINS
GENERAL LOGAN AND HIS STAFF
TO SPREAD DRAoNEr FOR MEN
FAILING 70 REPORT.
MORE THAN 1000 FAIL
TO ANSWER CALL TO DUTY
Notices Being Mailed and Men Are
Givsn Five Days Of Grace to Report
to Exemption eoards-Failure to
Appesr Classics Then, as Deserters
With Reward Of $50 For Each.

Des Mones, Sept. 6.--Adjt Gen. Guy
E. Logan and his staff will prepare to-
day to spread net for national army
slackers over the entire state OF Iowa.
Filing of the first Stacker reports by
the supreme district exemption board
for southern Iowa last night indicated
that there are more than 1000 regis
trants in Iowa who failed to respond ~
rho summons Of tue local exemption
boards. when men were called for the
first national army.
The reports fro1l the supreme board
to the adjutant generals office re-
vealed the fact that an average of ten
men failed to appear in each Of the
local districts when they were sum-
moned for examination. There are IL
local districts in this state
Treated az Deserters.
Within five days after official no.
LITIGATION by mail these men become
deseffers from the United States army
and will be treated as such.
THRU the office OF the adiutant gem
eral the war department proposes
Thorough roundup of the national army
slackers.
AS soon as the Ave days Of grace
have expired. and the men 80 under
the classification OF deserters, any per-
son delivering them to the government
will receive reward Of $50 for eacn
man so delivered.
This phase of the draft will go into
active operation today when the first
notices will be sent out by Major Frank
Lyman Of the adjutant generals Office
Mail Notice to AL.
Each man is to be notified that ne
failed to respond to the call of the
local board and that consequently ne
Is considered as being in the service
Of the United States army.
Men receiving the notices are ordered
to report Immediately TO Adjutant Ger
eral Logan at his office in the state
house Failing to do this the men be-
come deserters five days after the date
the letter is mailed. After that time
the $50 reward provision is effective
Adjutant General Logan reported last
night.
Approximately fifty Of the 1000 ma
tional army slackers in Iowa reside IN
Des Moines and Polk county.
Some in the Service.
On account Of the fact that the
Stacker lists contain the names Of some
registrants who enlisted in national
guard units, or other branches Of the
military or naval service. the lists will
not be made public until they are
checked In the office Of the adjutant
general Of the regular army at Wash
ington In that office the names Of
men already, in fthe service will be
iweeded out and. the revised Lists will
be returned to Adjutant General Lo-
gan.
Both military and civil officers will
then scour the state for the men who
fail to present themselves voluntarily
at the office Of the adjutant general The
$50 reward is expected to aid mate
rally in the rounding up OF the draft
deserters after the time limit has ex-
PRED.
Plan Of Procedure.
Following Is brief explanation OF
the operation, Of the Stacker clause Of
the draft regulations:
Local boards submit to the supreme
district board the names OF men who