Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
BELIEVE EVERY
 STACKER TAKEN
 |Nb|GDRAG NET
Few of Thirty-five Held May / Be Released After Case
 Investigated; Two Thous-
 and Halted During Night

 of some 1000 men of draft age, not carrying classification cards or witt! doubtful credentials, by the police re- serves and city and county officers, proceeding by government order and working under the direction of United States Marshal Dillon, was complete success.
 Federal officers and police and coun-. ty authorities said yesterday that in their opinion there had been practi- cally no wanted man overlooked and that the 5 men arrested and who arc being held in the two jails represent more than the number of actual slack CTS and deserters at large at the time the dragnet was spread.
 It is believed that a number of those under arrest will be released after their cases have been thoroughly in vestigated. The men probably will be taken before the local board today or tomorrow for a preliminary hearing. It may be that some of them later will be arraigned before the United States commissioner for trial in federal court.
 Little Resistance
 The roundup was so we'll carried out that there was little opportunity for any of the men halted to offer re- sistance if they had been so inclined. A number of them, when stopped and ordered to produce their classification cards and who could not do so, took a naughty attitude and would not listen to orders, although informed that the proceedings were by government in- struction. Some of them had to be gently urged before they would &C., company the officers.
 The police reserves worked in squads Of four or five. In military fashion they marched their men with re- serve on either side and with one or two bringing up the rear. In this man. ner all unnecessary argument was avoided and the obdurate ones were moved to local board headquarters without further delay. Ed Warren, deputy sheriff, reported that he and other deputies working in plain clothes had some trouble in get ting some of their men to move to- l ward headquarters. At a hall where a dance was in progress Warren found 1 one man who wanted to start a fight, 1 but the officer, with one of his char acteristic fierce looks and few quick 1 jerks, took the fight out of him and, | lamblike he went along.
 l Frantic Card Hunts
 '- One man rounded up by the auto mobile squad of the police reserves under command Of Captain Frank 1 Thomas said he was a newspaper man and had a card in Coconino county. i Captain Thomas said he was always l glad 10 meet newspaper men and in- yited him to so to headquarters to see about that Coconino card.
 Lost or misplaced cards were num- , erous, according to excuses made to the police reserves and other officers. ! nt ! quarters were consulted, and where | there was no record the prospect was | placed in jail to await the instructions ! of the government.
 | At headquarters there was all man. i per of excitement. Wives and other i relatives were going and coming fran | tically. Messenger boys with hurry l up orders were dispatched to homes ! throughout the city to get cards left there by the thoughless or to summon somebody who could furnish identifi- | cations as to age when prospects | pleaded they were either above or be- low the draft age.
 1 Many a home was ranSacked franti-
 cally, and in many cases vainly, for cards put away months ago. In num- erous cases wives down town at the 1 time hurried to their homes to search
  put away for safe-keeping.
 -'-'- All in Good Nature
 Humor and genuine friendly spirit pervaded headquarters, however. Through some stroke of diplomacy. of- ficers with personalities" were the most in evidence. At the entrance stood Sheriff Wilky himself. Just downstairs. as a sort of door tender extraordinary. was Jack McGrath of the police department with that big smile that makes a prisoner feel con- plimented when Jack takes him in. Be- sides McGrath was Police Officer Grove, one of the coolest and yet
 most kindly spoken men in the depart ment. These two officers with fault les department handled some 2,000
 men without even as much as a harsh
 word.
 Secretary Martin T. Weyant, his as-
 sistants and Dr. A. E. Nichols, county physician, were the busy men inside Dr. Nichols worked back and forth
 from the door and met the coming
 flood of prospects as it was passed or
 from McGrath and Grove. Dr. Nichols
 was Doc" and nothing else that night 1 He would grab a prospect by the arm
 and another by the coat tail and witl
 the command, follow me" clear the
 way with his 50 pounds or more
 through the mob to the inner circle
 to check the boys and see if they wer'
 registered. Those going out of head
 quarters were given 70. k cards tha
 passed them past Grove and McGratf
 and through the city for the remainder
 of the night.
 The Red Cross parade brought dowr
 town an unusually large Saturday nigh
 crowd. This gave the police reserves
 and other officers an excellent oppor
 tunity to do their work thoroughly
 Every theatre was patroled as we'll a
 refreshment places and all other store open. The parks and dance halls fur
 nished numerous prospects. The worl of the roundup started at about S:3 and continued until o'clock Sunda, morning. After tine streets had cleares of people, about l2:S0 o'clock, the DO lice reserves rounded up the roofninl houses and hotels. in search of me- without registration cards. Thirty five arrests was the total of the night work. ~s
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