Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-07

Registration laggards have a new chance
An executive order by Mayor Smith this
afternoon extended the city's registration
period to include tomorrow and Saturday
Men that register this week will not be
prosecuted. Those who have not registered
are ordered to do so at Room 63O City
Hail. the office Of the Registration Board
Mayor Smith, after a long conference
with United States Attorney Kane, prom
lsed 10 use the city's forces to probe the
charges that receipt cards were given away
and even sold by division registrars.
The Mayor promised to make a through
Investigation. Frederick ]. Shoyer, chair
man of the Registration Board, and other
registration officials said, "Itll be up to
U.S."
They started work by checking up the
number Of receipt cards returned to them
with the number given out and the number
used Tuesday. Return of unused cards
must be made by next Monday afternoon.
The Twenty-frst Ward today returned
1928 cards. Unofficial figures indicated a
shortage. officials refused to tell how many
had been given out to the registrars. The
Ninth and Tenth Wards, which are COM
bined in one registration district returned
1900 cards
Twenty telephone tips regarding men al
legged to have lodged Tuesdays registration
were recevd today by tn registration board
They were turned over to United States At
torney Kane. He will have the PRISONS
warnd to register tomorrow or aSturday,
with the alternative of prosecution.
Secret service men worked on reported
instances in which men have displayed
( registration receipt cards they were not
netitled to hold. In downtown sections men
are said to have shown souvenir" receipts
to the number of four or five. hTe Federal
agents want to find out where they got
the extra cards
John Handy Hail. Assistant United States
Attorney said he believed a great deal
Of carelessness was shown in distribution
Of the receipt cards. 1t is asserted quanti-
ties Of them were given away and that in
some cases they were sold.
By forging entries and n registrars
signature on a stolen card a shirker would
be able to pass muster when questioned,
and unless the card was compared with
the registrars records, his failure to
register would not be discovered
The United States Attorney and Frank
Garbarino, head of the Department of JUS
tic operatives, asserted they would make a
complete investigation.
The second prisoner in the secret serv-
ices roundup Of shill5ers was held without
bail by Magistrate Baker in the Twentieth
and Federal streets police station today. He
is Mike Duffy, twenty-siX years old, Of 1927
South Twenty-siXth street.
u don't give a - for anybody"
Duffy is alleged to have said, refusing to
register
1t was the work of "citizen sleuths" that
caused Duffys downfall He was reported
BY men obeying the Governments injunc-
ton that all citizens were in duty bound to
turn up cases of Stacking.
rn1n nf Il Fxn,
and National Guard is being carried on
by Secret Service men in connection with
thelr work in trailing registration shirkers
Three arrests were announced today. One
man deserted from the Coast Artillery, one
trom the First Regiment, N G. p, and one
from the Third Regiment Of the Pennsylva-
MIA forces.
Philadelphia alienist this afternoon will
examine Freedrick J. Becker, of 5415 Chest
nut street. who is in Moyamensing prison
N oetault of $500 bail imposed yesterday
py United States Commissioner Long.
seeker, an oyster opener employed in a
herman restaurant on Market street, re-
tused to register and said he'd rather die
Ior Germany than fight for America. Five
years ago he was an inmate at the Phila'
uelphla Hospital Attorney Kane will. moi
oohunue prosecution until experts have
passed on the prisoners sanity
frank Thompson was arrested by Secret
service agents as an alleged deserter from
ne Ihird Coast Artillery Regiment. He
was round hiding in a West Philadelphia
mouse 1t is asserted. His mother, accord
Mg 70 Federal agents. Is dying Of sorro.
william Roth, alleged to be a deserteI
from the First Regiment ~ G. p, ha;
Ueeh turned over to Colonel Brown and /;
swalung couTt-martial. Tony Ross ac
Sused OF daserting the Third Regiment, n
~, Z" has been turned over to Lieutenant
N0iohel Whitefield and will be tried.