Evening star., 1943-11-07

board Tor lnductlOn.
Special agents of the FBI tracked
zero weather. They found their man a.
with a loaded rife beside his bed and e
two months.
The man was sentenced to three years
and six months and fined 500, while
his father, who had helped him hide
out, was given eight months and fined
500, and the two men who owned the
cabin were sentenced to six months
each.
The False Information Dodge
Another man registered in Texas I'M
der an assumed name. He signed his
registration certificate with his left hand
because he thought it would help him
evade apprehension. 1t didn't. He was
picked up in Arkansas and is now Serv-
ing two years in prison for furnishing
false information at the time of his
registration.
Some men have thought they could
outwit the draft by failing to register
at all There was. for example, the
case of the father who not only failed
to register himself but persuaded his
son not to register.
FBI agents found that the man and
his family had been living in tent In
the forests of Idaho and Washington for
two years, moving frequently to escape
detection. When the FBI located them.
the father said his 25-year-old son was
II.
He told the FBI that he didn't want
his son inducted because he was the
breadwinner of the family but 'ac-
uuaintances were of the opinion that
he induced his son not to register since
If he were inducted, the father would
have to go to work and they claimed
he had never done a good days work
In his life" the FBI reported.
Change of Address
The charge failure to notify the
draft board of a change of address"
usually means tracking down job for
the FBI. One man who changed his
name and moved to another section of
the country couldn't change his hand
NIllIIlS. llIdllhS W L ol lldIluNllbHlS
experts. the man is now serving two
years and nine months in a Federal
penitentiary.
That change of address" violation has
let the FBI in on a number of cases
where the men involved thought they
had only the State authorities to deal
with. The FBI went after the Touhy
sang when its five members escaped
from the Illinois State Prison The
rose came under their jurisdiction be-
C7rse the draft-age gangsters had
failed to notify their draft board of
c39nGe Of address"
Ernst Oscar Hopf also thought he
ttleS when he fed to Mexico to escape
a grand jury investigation of his alleged
activities in the sale of German marks.
When he was brought back to this
country, he went to prison not for al
legedly selling German marks but for
failing to tell his draft board where he
was going when he fed the country.
Some men drop out of sight as soon as
they get their notice to report for in
duction but Howard Hall of Philadelphia
actually waited to disappear until he
got to the induction station at Fort
George G. Meade, Md-thereby posing
a pretty legal question for the author
ities. The Army contended Hall had
never been inducted and that he was
still under the jurisdiction of his draft
board, but civil authorities for time
took the stand that Hall had DISCHARGED
his duties as far as his board was con-
cerned and his custody had passed to
the Army. 1t was finally settled that
Hall had failed to report for induction
and the FBI went after him. He's
serving a three-year term now.
Some Even Fake Death
A number of men have tried to dodge
the draft without leaving home and
flreside. Their dodges have ranged from
playing sick to falsifying their ques-
tionnaires
One OF the most picturesque along
this line was the man who wrote his
draft board in a Southern State saying
he was desperately i'll and was going
home to his family. A few days later,
the board got a letter saying he was
dead and few days after that came a
letter from an "undertaker" certifying
the man had been buried.
What the man didn't know. however,
was that the FBI was already on his
trail before he became "despera telv ILL.,"
He had become delinquent and the draft
board had asked an investigation The
dead man. popped up in another town
and was confronted with his own slight
ly exaggerated version of his demise
One man pushed back the date of his
marriage to avoid service and another
sWore he was an active farmer though
he was really planning to take over his
fathers barber college
In many cases, the accomplices suffer