The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-06-14
Work Will Begin June II;
Continues Several Days
PLAN is MAPPED OUT
Regulations That Have Been
Prescribed BY Federal
Government
fAssociated Press Dispatch

Washington, D. c. June 8.-United
States marshals, pOstmas;ers and
police chiefs in every city of the
United States will register between
June II and 26 every German alien
woman in the United States. record
ing fingerprints and photographs, and
providing the registrant thereafter
with an Identification card which
must be carried on the holders per-
son for the duration Of the war. The
work will be carried out under regu-
lations issued by Attorney General
Gregory, and women who do not
may be interned, imprisoned
or depOrted.
American women who have mar
ried German aliens will also be re-
quired to register, under the regula
lions, unless they have taken steps
to get return of their original citi-
zenship status. Women of German
nationality who have taken out
American citizenship papers need
not register The regulations also
hold that the wife of German who
has become naturalized and has COM
pleted the requirement of American
citizenship is a citizen herself, and
need not register. A German woman
who married an American before
April 6 is also outside the class re-
quired to register, while special pro-
vision is made in the regulations for
the treatment of natives of Alsace-
Lorraine and of Schleswig Holstein.
The Registration Booths.
fofi in oft = nm
inhabitants or more are designated
as registration places, and postoffi-
ces in the other areas. Details OF
local procedure are left to the Off
Gals charged with the work. -Four
photographs of the registrant, each
one personally autographed, will be
taken, and her affidavit of personal
history must show a variety of facts.
Her occupation, relationship to SOL
diers in the German army or to per-
sons now in Germany, length of resi-
dence and circumstances attending
arrival in the United States are par
ticular matters of inquiry. The regu-
lations emphasize the fact that regis
tration will be considered as "giv-
ing proof of peaceful disposition and
intention to conform with the laws
of the United States" Each regis
trant will be required to state spe-
officially whether or not she has ever
been required to report to or regis
ter with any German military, dip
lomatic, or secret agent.
False statements are representa-
lions in the affidavits required will
subject the woman concerned to i'm
mediate internment. Her card,
showing that she has complied with
the law, will be issued to her within
fifteen days after her appearance.
1t will carry one of the signed photo
graphs, and a print of her left thumb.
The printed forms provided for the
registration have been distributed
to the proper officials.
When All Is Over
When the registration has been
completed, three sets of the affidav-
its will be prepared, one of which is
to be sent to Washington, the second
to. be held by the United States mar
shall within the district where the
women have registered, and the third
is to go into the local record.
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the territory in which they usually
reside during the period set for the
registration must apply for tenn
porary cards in the place where they
happen to be and then complete their
registration at home within thirty
days. After the registration has
been completed, no German woman
can change her place of residence
without a permit from the officials
in her original district, and records
of such changes will be filed with the
original affidavits in three places.
Power to deny such permit for
change of residence is given to the
registration officials, though they
must submit a report of their rea-
sons for denying it.
The regulations admonish register
ing officials to be courteous in their
treatment to women, and to render
all necessary assistance in filling out
the affidavit blanks. The photo
graphs required must be unmounted.
and without hat or other head COW
ering." Special provisions are made
for Hawaii, the Philippines, and
other outlying territories of the
United States, but the registration
is compulsory over the entire area.
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