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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 2

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NATIONAL LEADERS TRAINING WOMEN TO' SERVE AMERICA US HAS ORDERED ALLSLACKERSHELD BATTLE IN COURT Continued rom Page One If Tin is is ST ISK TUBE I If you enjoy ii good music you need a Victrola g1 4 de no Si ar not il COSTA LESS IS! 371 than gov SB i i How long has it been since you ex amined your tubes? Look them over carefully and replace any which you are not sure will stand the strain MORE igl With this wonderful instrument you bring music into your life each day to add to your happiness and make your home more complete Hear your favorite tnujic today at any Victor He will gladly play for you the exquisite interpretations of the greatest artists who make records exclusively for the Victor And if desired he will demonstrate the various styles of the Victor and $10 to $400 To Insure Victor always look for the famous trademark Voice" It is ooU genuine products of the Victor Talkinc Machine Company rlj tk 3s Chicago Vans Saloon ree Lunch Chicago June The Chicago council today passed an ordinance Command Goes orth for Ar rests at Unce Governor Sleeper Orders State wide Slacker Hunt If you believe in the power of music to elevate your thoughts and broaden your intellect to stir your imagination and quicken your emotions to soothe your mind and lighten your toil you can appreciate what it would mean to have a Victrola in vour home I I the several states in proportion to the population as determined by the bureau of the census and not In proportion to the registration The result is that every person who' has failed to register is seriously Increasing the burden of those who have registered Asks Everyone to Report Slackers "It is requested every effort now be made to detect and errest per sona subject to registration who have not registered and to bring each promptly to the attention of the nearest representative of the department of justice Care should be taken that the lists prescribed in paragraph 59 (men registered) are promptly posted and all regis trants should be asked to assist ip bringing non regtstiduts to the at tention of the police' "In case cf doubt as to the age of persons who have not register ed the tabulated records of politi cal organizations and other local records should be consulted and data may be obtained from (he bu reau of the i Roundup Decree Issued for Slackers in Detroit Beginning Tuesday all eligible men found not registered are to be promptly reported to the fed eral officials and held under arrest pending further instruction ac cording to directions wired Mayor Marx Monday afternoon by Gover nor Sleeper The governor calls attention to the section of the registration reg ulations empowering police officials to see that all eligible have reg istered and to report alt found not registered Policemen may require any eligible to produce his'eard on demand the regulations state List to Be Posted Mayor Marx was out ofAtolvn when the instructions came from the governor and probably will take action on the orders Tuesday As an aid in rounding up any who have failed to register Gov ernor Sleeper also urges prompt posting of the lists containing the names in alphabetical order of all those registered In Detroit "Afl registered persons should In their own Interest assist in dis covering non reglstrants" the gov ernor's telegram says It probably will be several days before these alphabetical lists are arranged for public posting accord ing to the official who have the I Victrola XVI $200 Vlctroh XVI Uctric $250 Maboruy oroU Victor Talking Machine Co Camden Important Notice Victor Records and Victor Machines are scientifically coordinated sod synchronized by our special processes of manufacture sad their use one with the ocher is absolutely ssoeaual to a perfect Victor reproduction Special to The ree Press Lansing Mich June Orders to roundup all known slackers who failed to register last week went out from the capitol tonight to the mayors of all cities and the sheriffs of all counties In Michigan All who arc known to have been within the age limits prescribed and who did not appear and be reg utArcuf nrA ia ho Arrratori If afLrf arrest i are to be let go And ordure of this ort went out last night from Wash Ington to all federal officers in the country republic MOTORTRUCKS THE 4 DETROIT BEE PRESS TUESDAY JUNE 12 1917 DETROIT BRANCH Jefferson Ave and Brush Street Nacrby Branchtt in Toledo Grand Rapidi and Sainait State Moratorium Protect Soldiers While War Lasts Lansing Mich June 11 A com plete moratorium for everybody from Michigan who is In the army or navy regular volunteer private ur officer ia the effect of "Section 53" of military law The law simply protects any per son in the service either state or federal from all execution for debts Incurred prior to enlistment or incurred during the war "Section 53 covers both regular army drafted army or National Guard" said Major Samuel Pep governors on state quotas and hunt ing slackers said: "Quota are to be assigned to New isk Tubes NOH7 will give you belter tire satisfaction and lower upkeep costs for the balance of the season This is the time to buy 8 Government Starts Trial of Anti Draft Agitators Special to ree Press New York June 11 The govern ment today begun the first anti draft prosecutions Louis Kramer follower of Emma Goldman Morris Becker Joseph Walker and Louis Sternberg were placed on trial in federal court All pleaded not guilty to tne charge of seeking to dissuade men from registering May 31 at a Madi son Square Garden mass meeting wfd led In numbers with 10631 while the ifth ward was close be hind with 10091 orcible Registry Ordered for Violators of Draft Law Beginning Tuesday morning all men of military age who failed June 5 to register under the conscription law will be forcibly registered when arrested and later held for arraignment before Stanley Hurd Unieed States commissioner accord ing to an announcement Monday by federal authorities Since registration day the prac tice has been to permit registration slackers to register voluntarily and thus obtain their freedom Accord ing to the terms of the conscription law this privilege ended Munday night By forcible registration is meant that the prisoner will be foceu to answer the registration questions whether he wishes to register or not Hls name will then go on the registration books and he will not be given his freedom Half a dozen men who were ar rested Monday for failure to reg ister were allowed to register vol untarily One man refused to reg ister and his case was considered Jy the federal grand jury He is Milton Breitmayer an artist 57 West Baltimore avenue According to federal authorities he is a mem ber of the Socialist party Slacker Net Captures Mountain Man as Rebel Roanoke Va June The fed era! net sweeping the feud dis tricts of the mountain country for anti draft conspirators today brought In Calvin McCoy a rela tive of William McCoy already under arrest and charged with be ing at the head of the which was to have murdered all the landed people of the vicinity and taken their property Depart ment of justice agents and National Guardsmen along the line of the mountain railroads are being fired upon dally by sympathizers their work in local factories The roundup is under the direction of Henry Behrendt United States mar shal at Detroit Law Nabs at Two Students Who Refused to Sign for Draft Ann Arbor Mich Judo Re fusal to register for selective diaft has brought two Ann Arbor stu dents under the hand of the law Max rocht and Elwood Moore Moore who is 27 years old is a high school student He asserted he would not register Moore is already under arrest and warrants are out for the arrest of rocht rocht who is a Russian is en rolled in the University of Michigan as a sophomore from Detroit home is in Langhorne Pa Monroe Court Excuses Jury to Help Out in arm Work Monroe Mich June Upon petition of the members Ttf the Mon roe County Bar association inter ested in the jury cases for the June term the circuit court today excus ed the jury which was mostly com posed of farmers until the first Monday in October in order that their presence might not hamper the farm work of the county The court paroled William Springer of Northville for two years Three years ago he mar ried Christine Greene of Northville and In May of this year married Jessie Toast of Maybee this county William Steinberg 50 years old a bricklayer pleaded guilty to forgery and drew a year in state's prison at Jackson III by CUaedinst Washington fru Underwood Underwood New York Chiefs in Committee of Council of National Left to right: Miss Maud Wetmore Mrs Josiah Cowles Miss Ida Tarbell Dr Anna Howard Shaw Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt Mrs Joseph Lamar Mrs Philip Moore Standing are Mrs Stanley Mc Cormick and Mrs Ira Couch Wood These leading women of the country have been organizing the women of the United States to work for Uncle Sam in a way that will count most Two youns men anil in Kir Joined the members ot lost etrall within the last week names were Included In reports to police Monday Ruth Book is been missing from 263 Sixth street since June 10 and Esther Itan scenberger IS left her home Gladwin avenue June 3 Jacob 19 Is missing from Riverview avenue since Juno 6 and Morris Zeigler 19 from 147 Car deni avenue since June 9 Zlestb left a note saying he Intended to commit suicide Victrola VictroU" to tka Registered Trde ark of the Victor Talking Machine Company doslgsstfog the product at tMs Company only Warning: The cm of ths word Victrola upon or la the promotion or uk of any other Machias or Phonograph products io milrsding and CtegaL lirr iACTmc Hid VU1CL Salads In Vogue to It Yacht THE may onnaise Served by thousands cf dis crinaUfig housewives nd at 'selectS hotels clubs The isk Rubber Company of General Office: Chicopee alla Maisa 1 'THE best time in the year to safe guard 1 your casings for the coming season You afford to chance ruining perfectly good casings with worn out tubes orestall incon venience See to it that your tube equip ment is right and ready to meet all the con ditions of summer driving Replace all your old tubes before isk Week goes by a Jr Dow Chemical Co Charge New inn Obtained Secrets When war halted the rnorr of German chemicals the Chemical company of Midland said to have reaped a was the only concern in this rn1' try that manufactured an dient of bromo seltzer for America was formerly denemr'1 upon Germany Prices soar'd iT ingredient jumped from 41 ce pound to something like 49 mi? land was rich overnight But according to comtlaie: of the concern now being heard t5 circuit court before Junge KeiteJ eari a new organization AIleican Bromine company Midland 1 Prceeled buy 1 mu tuuxpany'fi men Ine Dow company claims its met formula was rveale A not rest its case on patents asserts a right to its secrets Xo does it ask damages It urges that the new concern be frmn producing and Insists that it be out cut of business lhe case being heard hehit a duors' The must not hint at lhe Attorneys of national repute ar figuring in the fray Wickersham Cadwaiader Taft of are associated with Hunmhiev Grant Humphrey of Saginaw tJ the defendants Wlckersham is formed attorney general of th United States and Taft is a brot'te of the former president ay Oberlin ay ot New Yo a' issues for the plain tiffs With them are Congressman Gilbert Currie of Midland and Beaumont Smith Harris tL r)(r trott per judge advocate tonight "It does not mention National Guard but simply says every person in the service of the state or the Unit ed States during any war "It is broad enough to cover everybody Enlisted men and offi cers alike are given the benefit of the failure of an execution to lie against them And such a condi tion exists for six months after they are through with the army" This law was first enacted 1871 then disappeared from the statute books byt came back again in 1909 and was not amended no? changed by the Culver bill passed at the last session of the legislaW ture It merely stops any execu tion which means that the collec tion of any debt cannot be carried to completion Even rent would come under its provisions It is a question whether the law was applied to the trip of the Na tional Guard to the ijorder Its effect rests on the much discussed problem of whether the United States was technically at war when the troops on the border Three Jackson Men Held in Registration Roundup Jackson Mich July 11 In ac cordance with instructions from Governor Sleeper to arrest all me eligible to conscription who have not registered the police tonight took three men into custody The men gave their names as Otto Hoover and Melores and Marie Southard Muskegon Mucker Arrested Muskegon Mich June 11 The first action of a determined cam paign headed by Chief of Police Phillips of Muskegon Heights John Kloss 26 an Aus trian was arrested Monday night for failing to register June 5 Anti Draft Meeting Raided in Gotham 30 Are Detained Special to The ree Press New York June 11 aided by United States marshals and militiamen tonight took forc ible possession of the Royal Lyceum hall on West One Hundred and ourteenth street where support ers of Emma Goldman were speak ing against conscription Two persons were arrested and 28 others detained until it could be determined if they were properly registered The speakers urged the formation of councils of American workers and soldiers patterned after that formed in Russia following the rev olution Rrjklbiting free lunch to Chicago saloons The orrttr be effective in Hi laya jt a a health measure a pas5 isteren are to ne arrcai a if aiirr arrest they agree to register they I are to be let go And orders ot this sort went out last night from Wash ington to all federal officers in the country A bulletin front Governor Sleep 1 I er explain to the Michigan peace i officers just what they have to do It was based on the orders received early this morning by wire from Provost? Marshal General Crowder at Washington He clfed the law to the governor and Insisted that the sections of it referring to 1 those who did not register be ob served to the letter Michigan Hus Rone Duty As far a Michigan is concerned Crowder's order is not taken over seriouaB' That is It Is not under stood here that slackers In thia state Inspired the order It is bo llived that the order was meant where Judging from the returns there are many who did not regis ter I do not think that failures to register can be found In any large number In Michigan" said Major Pepper today "I think that you will tlnd a greater pvicvniage or uir men registered here thajr In any of the other states we so rar caeded the estimates of th war partment that there can be charge agatnst us "Naturally I suppose there a few here and there who did nnrt It Ia that want to get hold of if can I think however that they wiUbe few "I Rm having table prepared cr perially of those count which did not come ud to the estimate! and we are going to impre upon the officrn therit that inatunui ae they fell below the estimates th should riva thplr rrnulation a careful cru tiny There were not many ch counties and thnxn that did IrII be 1 to nstltnfttA did rut fall verv The complete summarization blanks continue to come In by mall and thrse are betnr totaled up pre cinct by precinct in order to prov up the fiffures eent in by wire Detratf igure Slump A misunderstanding on the wire reports from Detroit has caused a drop In the total registration Instead of the state registration being 3JP000 it will fall to about S720hfi reputed flrur of 15500 to 160000 has all the time Included the non resident cards which should not be credited to Michigan at alt They number prar tlcallv 18000 so that tha actual reeiatratlon In Detroit Is just about 141000 Today all counties had been heard from on details with the exception of Alver whoe total Sud la here but nothing else With all allow ances made for tha discrepancies In the mall reports and figuring in those which have appeared to date the total registration with Detroit missing is 230635 This includes Al Adding to this 14100 for De troit which the Detroit officials said over the telephone thU after noon wag about right the total rr tstratton win run just auoui 600 which a tract loa more 13 per rent in excess of the 38000 estimate Laeetag Allee Enemies Vader A roundup of alien enemies Is under way in Lensing by ranklin Dodgf Jr deputy United States marshal bit 1 estimated there are 200 usnl ruralized Germans who most obtain permits to continue registration work in charge Work will be started on arranging the 141845 Detroit names In alphabeti cal order Tuesday morning 7 Registration 154770 1A total of 154770 men registered here those in excess of the 141845 being residents of other communi ties who sent their registration cards home Only 52222 of the registrants claimed exemption because of de pendents That this falls far be low the ratio found in other cities is laid to the fact that registrants here were not asked specifically if they sought exemption More than 43000 aliens were reg istered the exact figures being 43 022 Of these 1419 are alien ene mies There were 4652 Negroes I among those registered The irst I' it 1 I 5 7 rr O' T' sr ft I 9m MAYDRHAISe II 5 If il WEEK IPlN ILBIIJ ILLJMJ IXVMUni! 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