Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-04 | Page 1 | 40,000 Men Arrested in N. Y. as Slackers

Mf ARRESTED I IN I Y AS SlACKERS Got Gotham Overwhelmed Oven With Task of Caring for Host of Suspects Caught in iii Raids and arid Put in Corrals I N N. T EW W YORK YOUK Sept 3 Federal Federal officials officials officials of of- estimated n more ole than Jan 40 suspected slackers ha had been beet arrested arrested ar nr- ar- ar rested today in iii New ew nearby dt cities e Most of the i prisoners is ners it was said came from rom of the country Tonight indications s were v rc that men caught flu r today ri le would 4 ff ln n n. n ha have liae m e to to t. t remain 3 it ir in tut LU VL v I Ul J-Ul U t U Ul l lIU n if t tI i. erNt ri i before JO ll examinations a ti could coul be c completed complete i f r.- r. As the task oC or housing feeding am and guarding ing the suspects became hourI more moro serious Charles F F. dc tle W Wood Woody head of the time federal investigation bureaus bu un remiSe conferred here with GO Whitman It was sni said that at the conference the time question of mobilizing the state stat guard was us discussed Capt David ld Asch assistant to th the thc director of or the draft In iii this district declared that New York is the greatest greatest great great- est cst slackers slackers' retreat in America an and that men who want tant to e a evade their dut duty have come hero here in un droves IL-em IL all port parti of or the countr country Women omen aided In the time raids b by driving man maim many of or the hun hundreds reds of or automobiles used In transporting prisoners from police stations to armories