Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-06
AT LEAST TEN |. MILLION OFFER ID SERVE FLAG
Every Bit of Mechanism In Big National Registration Machine Moves Without Single Hitch.
vXI ASHINGTON. June B.
 w More than ten million

w More than ten million
 - young Americans en- rolled themselves today for war serviie. Registration day. with but a few weeks of pre- paration saw the first military census ever taken in the Unit ed States compelled without a single untoward event of con sequence.
 The manhood of the nation obeyed the president's s call and volunteered en masse, setting at naught all the schemes and plottings of German syrhpa- thizers and the few cranks who have agitated against re1 gistration.. It remains but to select the men who are to go to the front.
 From virtually every state reassur- ing messages came through to Brig General Crowder. provost marshal general, federal supervisor of regis tration.
 While no complete registration from any states weer transmitted up to a late hour. the governors were unanim- ous in reporting that complete quiet had prevailed throughout the day and that full registration would be indie ated.
 In some precincts late corners forced officials to keep the poll open until long after g D. m. closing hour set in the regulations. General -Crowder authorized them to keep open as long as men wished to enroll themselves.
 100 Per Cent Register.
 Early reports showed a full turn out all over the country and indicat- ed that the estimates of the census bureau a sto the number of men with in the specified ages limits would be verified by the count. Wherever par tial figures were available the estim-
 A typical message received was that from Idaho Registration will be 100 per cent" it said. "Spontane- ous and without murmur or incident"
 The situation was osclear and the response so ready that governors of AS of the 4s states had sent similar assurances long before registration had closed and the other two were close on their heels.
 Many cards mailed by men absent from their home precincts failed to show the present address of the indid- ual.
 Governors of many states" Gen eral Crowder said in statement. Ire port that the registration cards of ab- sentees which are reaching home pre- cincts in maiy instances do not carry the present address of the absentee who is mailinf the card.
 crowder's Instructions.
 Tt is impossible in these cases to mail registration cards to such absen- tees. An absentee who has made this should at once send his ad- dress to the registrar of his precinct and request a certificate. The reqres should advise as follows:
 "The registrar-Preoinct (youT home) cara sheriff-- county state if permanent home is in city of 30.O00 or over mail card in care of the mayor of your city"
 Late tonight only four arrests had been officially reported to the depart ment of justice-at Hamilton, Ohio. Hartford, Conn. Richmond. Va. and at a small place near St. Louis.
 Reports Are Slow.
 Department of justice officials had only local or sporadic dis turbances and had predicted that the men opposed to registration would not resort to force any where but they took exery precaution to cope with if their plans to check all trouble in it's incipiency had