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Show MIT ORDERS TO ARREST ALL IN DRAFT PLOTS Series of Raids Planned to Break Backbone of the Anti-registration Propaganda. ATTORNEY GENERAL ISSUES A WARNING Conviction on Evasion Charge Insures Service in Trenches of France, He Says. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, June 2. Federal and local authorities throughout the country tonight were waiting for word from Washington to begin a series of raids that the department of justice believes will break the backbone of the anti-registration propaganda. These raids are expected tomorrow and .Monday. ' They will clean out the headquarters and distributing agencies of the plotters'. They are timed to let the blow fall just before registration day. This plan of the federal authorities has two objects. The first is to break up the propaganda by a general roundup round-up of its leading advocates. The second is to have ringleaders of the anarchist and radical non-registration groups in jail on registration day, so that they may not incite trouble around the booths. Ready for Anything. ' The 'department of justice is prepared for anything short of an armed uprising upris-ing on Tuesday when the booths open. Rioting will be dealt with by the local police and sufficient armed guards will be stationed at each registration place to protect the officials and the men who register. Attorney General Gregory today made this plain to the pacifists and propagandists who have preached "Better "Bet-ter to rot in jail in the good old United States than in the trenches of Europe." "It lias come to the notice of the department," de-partment," said Mr. Gregory, "that certain disloyal citizens who are themselves them-selves beyond the conscription age are suggesting to the young men of the country that it is better to suffer imprisonment im-prisonment under the terms of conscription con-scription act than to register with the likelihood of being enlisted aud compelled com-pelled to serve at the front. To Draft Violators. "Attention is called to the fact that under section 5 of this act, parties cou-victed cou-victed on the charge of evading registration regis-tration are not only punished for the crime committed, but are thereupon duly registered with all the liability for military service resulting therefrom." there-from." The definite statement was made today to-day that it is the government 's plan to "draft violators of the law first. They will be sent to the trenches with their sentences for failing to register hanging over them. Arrangements were made with the war department today for the use of national guardsmen already mustered into the federal service for riot duty if necessary on Tuesday. State and city police will .also -co-operate with the federal agents, as will hundreds of vigilance committees, organized by patriotic pa-triotic citizens in all sections of the country. These citizens already have prepared unofficial lists of the men who should register. The3' will see that all men liable come to the registration places. SEDITIOUS TALKERS ARE TAKEN IN HAND BY GOVERNMENT XEW YORK, June 2. Refusal by militia mili-tia and naval men t3ay to tell by whose orders they attended the an ti -conscription meeting" in Madison Square Garden on Thursday night was upheld by United States Commissioner Hitchcock. The men declined on the ground that their orders were of a ronfidentlai nature. Krtward C'assin, counsel for J.ouLs Sternberg. Stern-berg. Louis Kramer, Joseph "Walker and Morris Becker, four men arrested at the meeting on a charge of attempting to obstruct conscription and who were held today by Commissioner Hitchcock for further examination, charged that the soldiers and sailors in New York apparently ap-parently were usurping the powers of the police. Mrs. Jennie Diemer, arrested with the four men. was discharged from custody todav on her plea that she liad no thought of disobeying the law. The cases of Owen Cattell, Charles F. Phillips and Miss Eleanor Wilson Parker, students ', arrested on a charge of conspiring to in-I in-I fluence men against registration under ! the selective draft act, went to the fed-j fed-j eral grand jury. CTXCINNATT, June 2. Refusing to allow al-low any of the eleven men who are reamed with treason to plead guilty because be-cause the maximum penalty Is den th, "nite-i States ('ommissionor Adler today cave a heaving to tr.e men, who were arrested in a general roundup last night and wiio the government officials aliege i (Continued on Pago Nine.) SEDITIOUS TALKERS ARE TAKEN IN li Government Applies Quick and Strong Measures Against Obstructors. (Continued from Page One.) circulated seditious and treasonable literature lit-erature concerning anti-conscription. The preliminary hearings of the men were set for June 5 to 9, and, owing to the law forbidding bond, they were remanded to jail. KANSAS CITY, June 2. Five men held in jail on charges of conspiracy to defeat de-feat the army draft registration law refused re-fused to sign registration cards today, jail officials announced. One more arrest was made today In th& alleged conspiracy. con-spiracy. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 2. An appeal to the stale supreme court was taken today from the ruling -of Circuit Judge Bird at Kansas City Tn which he refused to enjoin state officials and city and county officials at Kansas City from enforcing the army registration law. NEW YORK. June 2. Two Germans Interned In the . immigration station on Ellis island escaped today by jumping into the water and swimming for the mainland. main-land. One of them, William Schulze, a young sailor, was caught when he attempted at-tempted to land. The other, named Steinhard, got away. WICHITA FAIjLS-, Texas, June 2. 73. K. Priest, said to bo secretary of ihf local Farmers' and I .laborers' protective Association of America, and Phil Claiborne Clai-borne and A. A. Hernandez, members of the association are in jail hero as a result re-sult of complaints filed before a United States commissioner. Complaint also has been filed against the president of the association, who Is under detention, but not in jail. Alleged anti-conscription activities of the men under arrest will be investigated, the authorities said. NEW YORK, June 2. Two women and a young; man were arrested here tonight to-night on charges of circulating anti-conscription anti-conscription literature. The women described de-scribed themselves ar Martha Grueninp, 28 years old, an author, and Rose Marie Stanier. 21 years old, a student. The young man said he was Alexis Sartori-ouf, Sartori-ouf, 19 years old. According to the police, the women were arrested when giving out anti-conscription anti-conscription handbills in a restaurant. Sartorious, who was accused of ' distributing dis-tributing similar propaganda on the street, was taken in custody bv a soldier sol-dier and escorted to a recruiting station, sta-tion, where a crowd threatened the youthful prisoner. rrXCiXNWTI, O., dune 1. With the arrest of two men tonight who are accused ac-cused of having anti-conscription literature litera-ture in their possession, thirteen men are now being hehl by United States government authorities on charge of treason. One other man is in custody as a material witness, hut no charge has been placed against him. Oue of the men arrested tonight is an Austrian subject. He is said to have told the police that he received the anti-conscription literature from the other man arrested tonight, and that he did not understand its meaning. The second man arrested is an American Amer-ican citizen, employed as manager of a grocery. CEDAR RAPIDS, la., June 2. The son of a railroad official, whose name has not yet been made public, caused his own fat her s a rrest today on the charge of making treasonable utterances. utter-ances. The son advised federal authorities authori-ties that his father had in his possession a large amount of anti-'iraft literature. The house was raided ami the names of a number of othor anti-draft conspirators conspira-tors secured. Five arrets were made tonight and more than 100 foreigners are reported involved. |