Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-06-14
TWO GUILTY AT NEW YORK
Convicted in Federal District Court of
Conspiracy Against Conscription
Law-St. Paul Editor Indicted
Fleeing Stacker Shot.
ARRESTS MADE IN DAY.
Antidraft Men Guilty.


New York, June 13.-LOuiS Kramer
and Morris Becker, anticonscriptiOn-
lists, who proudly acclaimed themselves
anarchists opposed to all governments,
were found guilty of conspiracy in the
federal district court. A third defend
ant, Joseph Walker, was acquitted.
The jury deliberated two hours. The
specific charge was that the defend
ants cOnspired to persuade men of con-
script age not to register under the Sc
1ective draft law by distributing litera-
ture at a Socialist meeting.
Upon examination, the witness as
serted he was opposed to all govern
ment and all laws except ethical
laws"
Louis Sternberg, one of three men
on trial with Kramer, was acquitted
by direction of the court upon the
ground that there was no evidence
that he knew the other defendants or
that he had distributed anticOnscrip-
tion literature. Witnesses testified
Sternberg could not speak English.
Three men who were arrested at a
meeting of the No-COnscriptiOn league,
where Emma Goldman and others de-
nOunced the war and the army, were
held for the grand jury charged with
refusing to register for the selective
draft They are Phillip Lavine, Her
man Wascow and William Herrguth.
Draft Gets Nearly All.
Washington, June 3.-Practically
every citizen of military age IN some
New York city districts, Senator Cal
der advised the war department, viii
be taken under the army draft because
of the population base on which the
draft will be made and because in the
districts referred to there are three
times as many aliens as citizens.
He suggested remedial legislation
which the department and congress
SiOnal committees recently found i'm
practicable.
Registration in Five States.
Reports on registration by states
during the day were as follows:
indiana 204,96S
South Dakota ..... 5S,014
Michigan .................. 372,S72
New York ..................1 L. ,036,573
Idaho ................... ALSO
Six at milwaukee.
Milwaukee, June 13.-Warrants
were issued for six persons who failed
to register under the selective draft
act in Milwaukee. Others, it is ex-
pected, will follow from day to day
Stacker Is Shot.
Virginia, Mimi, June 13. - Nick
Luona, aged twenty-eight, and an I.
w. w, was shot in the back here by
Patrolman Pickle of the local force
while running away from arrest on
charge Of being a Stacker. He is ex-
pected to recover.
Twenty-siN arrests for failure to
register have been made in and about
Virginia and the list is expected to
reach so. Nine were arrested at
Chisholm. Seven are held at Brainerd
all said to be members of the I. w. w
Editor Is Arrested.
St Paul, Mimi, June 13.-Edward
BOS1i, editor of the Referendum at
Fairbault, Mimi, was arrested here
by a federal agent on a charge Of
printing articles discouraging enlist
ment. He was indicted by the federal
grand jury recently.
Big Camp at Des Moines.
Des Moines, Ia, June 13.-NIen
drafted from Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and Nebraska will
be trained in the Thirteenth district
camp of the new national army, which
will be established here. The camp
wifi include the site of Camp Dodge
and the Hyperion Golf and Country
club. and will aggregate more than
5000 acres.
Officials in the office of Adit. Gen.
Guy E. Logan at the capitol here esti-
mated that this divisions increment
of the first 100000 men would be
about 3O,OOO and that the camp would
need nearly 1000 buildings, many of
them for handling food supplies.
Draft Evaders Rounded Up.
Dallas, Tex, June 13.-Federal
agents were securing several West
Texas counties seeking to arrest those
of the 80 men indicted by the United
States grand jury for alleged seditious
conspiracy who have not yet been
taken into custody.