Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-05

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permitted registrants to take from one
< - three hours off
registration today was similar in every
respect to that of last year, when all
young men between the ages of twenty
one and thirty-one were required to reg .
2 ister. All those who did not registe
( last year because they were a few days.
weeks or months below the minimum age
4 had to register today. Whether citizerg
or not, all must enroll
As long as the war lasts similar
registration will be held annually on this
date. 1t Is estimated that at least
100000 men will be added TO lists of
those eligible for military service by
today's registration and on each sue
ceeding registration day.
With his father and older brother in
France lighting against Germany their
birthplace, Henry Singer 6O3 Altman
street. waited in line for several hours
to be the first one to be registered In the
Forty-second local draft board. sixty
sixth street and Woodland avenue.
AZ Singer was being registered by
Albert Bulmer, one of the clerks in the
board, he told him he was anxious
to be the first one sent to camp from
his district. When asked why he dis
played such anxiousness he said that
his father, Richard. a former bugler
In the Philadelphia City Troop. and his
brother Herman were fighting the Kaiser
even though they were born in mill
taristic Deutschland,
And / want TO join them. too" the
youth said as he left the station house
amidst cheers from the line of wait
Ing registrants and policemen.
Others Just as Eager
Hundreds of the young men were lust
as anxious as Singer to get into the
army. In many cases the youths said
they would have enlisted long ago. but
: believed they were also barred from en-
lstments as were men who registered
last year. Expressions of regret were
heard in many Of the board head
quarters when the enlistment laws were
explained.
Paul Dwyer. has North Sixty-third
street, son OF John +. DwYer secretary
Of Board No. So. spent an almost sleep
less ninght in his effort to be the first
to register there. Bright and early he
was up and waiting for the officials to
clear the decks for action" He stood
outside the headquarters a. SiXty-thrd
street and Lansdowne avenue a half
hour before the first board member ap-
peared
Dwyer has two brothers-Frank and
was put down at the head of the regis
tration sheet. he expressed the hope that
he would be in camp within few
weeks Things work by threes," he
said. 80 I am needed
Sons OF families of social prominence
were among the registrants of Board
No. Is at Highland avenue and Shawnee
street. in Chestnut Hill. Among these
were Richard Henry Morris. Sd; Ralph
ha
and George c.. Omerley. Jr.
Meyer Sander. 22l1 South SIKH
street. today brought his third and
youngest son to the Thirty-ninth regis
tration board at Fourth and Snyder
streets, to be registered for service in
the army.
Sanders oldest son. Lewis. has been
IN the army for some time and about a
month ago was reported missing in
France. His second son. Harry, is also
doing his duty as a soldier.
y As his son was signing the registra
ton blanks. the father stood nearby.
While there was little outward show
Of feeling. II was easy to see that he
was laboring under great emotion.
Later this father said that, while he
hated to see his last son leave him. yet
he was glad to give him TO his country.
Hint German Propaganda
80 Pro-German propaganda or erort OF
slackers to dodge duty and hinder the
work of the draft boards and confuse
the members is hinted at in a notice sent
out this afternoon by Major Murdoch. IN
charge of the State Draft headquarters.
Major Murdoch communicates to the
boards at the same time the notice Of
General Crowder on the subject, as
follows:
'This Office is receiving information
that many local and district boards
are receiving letters and kilograms
either sent to them or purporting TO be
sent to them from some branch of Gov
erpment departments or bureaus in
? washington or elsewhere. Some OF these
communications are genuine but without
authority and should be ignored. Some
are. forgeries and are fraudulent,
please impress upon local boards
that they are to receive and observe
instructions only from the Governor,
or the adjutant general. or the draft
executive, or. in rare cases of emergency.
Instructions issued direct to such boards
by the Provost Marshal General II is.
of course, proper for Government Off
ciais and others TO communicate in the
manner provided in regulations directly
with local and district boards concern
ing registrants, and to furnish to boards
< the prescribed forms. affidaYits and in
formation required or authorized by the
regulations. but there is no authority
In Sny person to issue any instructions
DRAFT ELTGJRLES