The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-30
ALL U. S. FORCES
HUNT SLACKERS
Police, Postmasters and Federal
Agents Modified by Viii
sons Order.
$50 REWARD FOR PRISONERS
Registrants Who Fail to Return Cues
tionnare, or to Appear for Exam
ination, or to Perform Any Act
Will Be Punished.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-FederaI
agents. the entire postal machinery OF
the nation and police of all cities are
drafted into the pursuit of the men
who attempt to evade the. conscription
law In regulations made public by
Provost Marshal General Crowder and
approved by the president.
All Police to Aid U. S.
The regulations also set the penal.
ties which shall be imposed upon the
men who attempt to escape military
duty or who by their own Indifference
fall to comply with the letter of the
law.
Under the plan of the war depart.
ment every police official high or low
throughout the land, will become q
part of the army building machine,
declared General Crowder. ''This great
agency will be put in operation from
5000 separate points by the local
boards.
1.-The postal authorities under direc
ton of the president and postmaster
general also will work hand In hand
with the local boards in every direc
ton and every possible clue will be
run out to trace registrants who have
disappeared from their home districts
In order that they may have no pos
sible excuse for their failure to return
their questionna!re within the seven
day period prescribed by law"
1t also was stated that the postal au-
thorit1es through their ability to trail
persons through the addresses on let.
ters will turn their whole machinery
toward the apprehension Of men who
fail to report for service when or.
dered
The agents Of the department Of jus.
tice throughout the country also will
carry on this work, in addition to TAX.
ing large part in the prosecutions.
New Draft Regulation.
In new regulation promulgated on
the method Of dealing with draft
evaders, Provost Marshal General
Crowder asserts:
"Those who fail to return the ques
tionnaire, or to appear for physical ex.
animation, or to report change OF
status, or to report for any. duty, OF
to perform any act at the time and
place required by the regulations or by
directions by local or district boards In
pursuance thereof, are gu'ty of a mis-.
demeanor under the Selective service
law. Under authority granted by that
law, 1t is hereby made the duty of all
police officials of the United States, OF
OF any state, or any county, munich
pality, or other subdivision thereof, to
locate and take into custody such per.
sons and to bring them forthwith be.
fore local boards to determine whether
their cases shall be reported to the
federal department of justice fol
prosecution, and to serve the summons
to witnesses issued by local or dis
trict boards.
Subject to Military Law.
Persons who, after induction into
military service, with intent to evade
such service, wilfully fail to report to
local boards for military duty, or fail
to entrain for mobilization camp, or
who absent themselves from entrain-
ment or from their parties Of selected
men en- route to a mobilization camp
are deserters and are subject to mill
tary law. 1t is hereby made the duty
Of all such police officials to apDrehend
and arrest such deserters and proceed
against them.
"a reward Of $50 Is payable for the
apprehension and delivery to mill.
tary camp, post or station Of a desert
er from the National army when the
person making such delivery presents
the certificate of local board"
Order to Postmasters.
President Wilson's order calling the
postal service into action as a detec
tive agency to apprehend draft evad
ers follows:
Postmaster and all postal EN-
ployees shall give every aid to loca
boards In securing the address of reg
istrants; and upon receipt of lOca
boards. postmasters shall furnish tC
them the forwarding address of al
registrants whose mail has been for
warded to an address in possession OF
the postal authorities, for the confiden
tial use only of the boards and per
sons charged with the administration
Of the selective service law"
Supplementing the presidents order
Postmaster General Burleson has is
sued instructions to $4,000 postmas
ters.
Iowan Kills Wife and Self.
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