Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-11
WHOLESALE ARRESTS
EXPECTED THIS WEEK
Authorities Are Checking Reoistra
tion Cards With All Avail
able Records.
TIME FOR LENIENCY IS PAST
st-Marshal-Gcneral Crowd e r
Tclcgraphs Governor, Requesting
That Efforts BE Made to Detect
Those Who Have Not Registered.


Those Who Have Not Registered
Wholesale arrests for failure to reg
lister will be made here within tho
next few days. or as soon as the sew
eral means for checking up slackers
have been investigated Already a list
Of men personally known to the reg
istrars has been made'up. and will be
turned over to the Federal authorities
for action.
Governor Henry G. Stuart last night
received telegram from Provost
Marshal-General Crowder requesting
that every effort be made to detect
and arrest all persons subject to reg
iatration who had not complied with
the law. The law requires that all
police officers of any grade or class,
whether township. county. city. State
or Federal, must report those who
have not registered. They are en-
powered to require any person sub
ject to registration to produce the reg
istration certificate.
1t is to the interest OF the States to
see that all slackers are brought to
depend upon the estimated population
and not on the total enrolment Gov
ernor Stuart, by insisting that the csti-
mate for Virginia be corrected, cut
down the estimate oe.5OO. thereby
greatly reducing the quota of drafted
men from this State. II there are any
slackers. the burden will fall on the
shoulders of the reEistrants.
TIME FOR LENIENCY
HAS PASSED, SAYS CROWDER
The time for leniency has passed
Beginning to-day IL vigorous campaign
Will be inauGurated throughout the
country to roundup those who have
not complied with the law. They will
be Immediately registered. as the fact
that they are liable to heavy jail
sentence will not keep them from being
enrolled for military service. The tele-
gram follows:
Quotas are to be assigned to the
several States in proportion to the
population as determined by the Bu-
reau OF Census and not in proportion
to the registration. The result is that
every person who has failed to regis
ter is seriously increasing the burden
OF those who have registered. Ample
notice and every opportunity has now
been given. and there is no longer any
argument upon which the conduct Of
nonrcgistrants can be condoncd The
period of lcniency referred to In my
No. 500 has now passed. Attention Is
invited TO paragraph 16 OF the rcgula-
tions. IT Is requested that every ct-
fort be now made to detect and ar
rest persons subject to registration
who have not registered and to bring
each case promptly to the attention Of
the nearest representative of the De-
partment OF Justice.
Wide publicity should he given to
the effect OF nonrcs 6 istration in incrcas-
ing tho burden of those who have reg
istcrcd Care should be taken that the
lists prescribed in paragraph 30 are
promp;ly posted. and all registrants
should b" asked TO assist in bringing
nonregistrants to the attention of the
police
CENSUS DATA MAY
ESTABLISH PERSONS AGE
SmmariZation reports of rcgistra-
tion from tho various boards should
be compared with estimates of Census
Bureau and effort should be concen-
trated on those districts where dis
crepancy between registration and es-
Inmates seems greatest In case of
doubt as to age OF persons who have
not registered. the tabuluted record OF
political organizations and other local
records should be consulted. and data
may be obtained from the Bureau OF
Census.
The purpose OF this telegram is to
inauSurhtc from tomorrow Il viEor-
GUS. aggressive enforcement OF the
penal clauses OF the Selcctivc service
law against all who have by their
failure or refusal TO register brought
themselves under those provisions. The
Department of Justice is sending to-
day similar advices 10 United States
attorneys and marShals with instruc-
lions TO release on their own rccoc-
nlZanceS al; prisons arrested by mar
shals or deputy marshais or by State.
county and municipal police officers
and turned over to them, who prompt
~ register under the terms of para
graph 40. registration regulations The
Secretary of War construes section 8
OF the seiective service law as reouir-
ing compulsory registration by tho Of
hcer making the arrest OF each arrest
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