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Show coiGissii's son DOCGESJHE DRAFT Byron Nelson of Wisconsin Indicted for . Failing to Register. MADISON, Wis, Oct. 20. A federal grand jury indictment was returned tonight to-night against Byron Kelson, son of Congressman John if. Kelson of the Third Wisconsin congressional district, charging him with an attempt to evade the draft law. Young Nelson now is in Spring-Coolee, Canada. Nelson is charged with going to Canada Can-ada last May with the intention of evading registration for the national army. Since that time he has been at work there on his father's farm. Congressman Nelson has defended his son's action and in a brief filed with Attorney General Gregory on September Septem-ber (3, he maintained that the draft law did not apply to Americans abroad. Following the indictment-tonight he reiterated re-iterated this belief and said: "H clearly appears from tho law itself, from the interpretation put upon the law by the provost marshal general, by the secretary of war and the secretary secre-tary of state, Americans abroad are not required to register under the law, which in this case is so clear I can not account for the action of the grand jurv. J ' A United States marshal with extradition extra-dition papers for young Nelson will leave for Canada Tuesday. |