The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-29
Men Who Failed to Respond to Calls under the
Draft During the War Are to Be Punished
by Federal Government
LISTS ARE SENT TO WASHINGTON
Local Police Are to Be Asked to Aid the Department of
Justice in Apprehending Men Who Fraud
uently Evaded Service in Army.

Sixty-three Kenosha county men are
liable to arrest under the order issued
by the department of justice in Wash
ingten on last Friday, directing that
immediate steps to round up all war
deserters be taken. Local police Off
GERS will in a few days be asked to aid
the federal officials in the apprehen-
sion of these men who failed to do
their duty when called under the draft
law and all Of the men arrested will be
subject to trial under a courtmartial.
The Stacker" list for the city of
Kenosha contains about nifty names
and that from the county thirteen
names. Under orders of the war de-
partment, the list of the men found
delinquent in connection with their
military duty, were sent to Washing
ton sometime ago.
May Have Some Defense.
~ do not know just how many of the
men marked delinquent in Kenosha
would be subject to trial for deser-
tion," said Arthur Fl. Quigley, former
secretary of the Kenosha service board.
"There were about fifty of these men
who failed to answer the various calls
made by the board, but it is possible
that some of the men never-received
the call to service sent to them
through the mail. In making our re-
port to Washington we sent in the
names of all delinquents as the orders
provided. We knew of cases where
men were delinquent not through
choice but because they had failed to
be notified of the calls sent out by the
board"
1t is known that in widely scattered
cases men who failed to answer the
call Of the local board in Kenosha went
into the army from other places and
served through the war. One or two
of the men who were marked delin-
quent in the records Of the local boards
met death in the war.
Many Just "sIackers."
Many of the men whose names were
sent from Kenosha to Washington dls-
appeared following the draft and re
manned away until after the armistice
was signed. Some of these men got
employment in other places and found
a way to explain their not being in
the army. Others hid themselves on
farms in the surrounding counties and
returned to Kenosha after the last call
to the service had been sounded. Some
of these men have brazenly admitted
that they were delinquent in service
with the army and have declared their
opposition to war was the cause Of
their delinquency.
While the arrest and prosecution of
these men is wholly matter for the
federal officials, the Kenosha police
department did much to aid in the ap-
prehension of slackers and delinquents
during the war period and it is certain
that the local officials win aid in the
roundup now to be made.
Offer Reward for Capture.
The first step Of the government in
the war on the slackers will be the
publication in every community of the
list of names of men who failed to
meet the army call and q reward of
$50 will be offered for the arrest of
these men on the charge that they
have deserted from the United States
army. The men when arrested will. be
delivered to the nearest army post and
they will later be tried at a general
courtmartial. 1t is known that many
of the men who slipped away from
military service are now living in Ke-
nosha and there Is no doubt but that
they will be turned over to the army
officials and that there will be plenty
of people to claim the reward.
It is expected that few draft evad-
ers who failed to register for army
service will be picked up from the list
of Kenosha delinquents.
The prosecution of the men will be