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Show ALIEN REeiSlTIONS TOBECOilll Names Will Not Be Made Public Until 15 Days Have Expired. ORDER FROM GREGORY Total cf 130 Is Reached During Two Days of the Work. Plxty-elsrht enemy aliens registered at police headquarters yestfrday, making a total of lo'J for the ilrst two days of the work. ' ha to in the. day a tr lepra m was re-1 re-1 ocived by Knitcd States Marshal Aqiiila Whektr fr )in Cnlted States Attorney Gregory, Washington, P. , directing that the in I urination contained In the re;.' 1st rat ion blanks be considered rn-i:l. donti.'il and must not bo made public, and advising htm thai the names ar.d ad-droea ad-droea of registrants must imt be pub-IiMn;d. pub-IiMn;d. The ma rshal was Instructed, however, that If ho desires he may give the neWbiKipers the names and ad ires.-s of all regi.-1 rants to whom registration cards may be Iven as recorded in the Imal summary. According ;o this ruling the names of registrants will not U; made public until un-til after llv t:; jurat Ion of lit teen days after the rlose cf regis t ration ne. t Saturday Sat-urday n 1 lit. when all to whom it has been decided t'J give registration cards will h;ive iv.oiwd them. While Lulled Staler Attorney Cre-Aory does not give any reason for withholding withhold-ing the names uf registrants as thev are opposed of dally at the phtces of registration, regis-tration, it U presumed that i lie order ws issued on the. ground that registration cards may, not be Issued In all cases. Those who are found to have sworn to falne answers to questions concerning themselves no 'dotiht will be denied registration reg-istration cards and will be dealt with according to the penalties prescribed. It is probable that such, off enders against the dignity of the country will be interned in-terned for the period of the war. May Be Safeguard. U may also be considered by the government gov-ernment that enemy aliens who are conducting con-ducting themselves as spies will seek registration cards. As all registrations are carefuMy scrutinized and investigated investi-gated if the slightest reason develops, tiie process of registration m :- result in ferreting out such undesirable persons and terminate in their internment. In every ev-ery manner the T'nlted States is safeguarding safe-guarding itself against r-ossible contingencies, contin-gencies, and secrecy is regarded as tiie surest method. The registration of yesterday, repeating repeat-ing the experience of Monday, developed the f:u't that many who appeared at police headquarters for registration were not provided with permits allowing them to live and at t end to t heir bus: ness af-nurs af-nurs in Salt Itke. all of the business portion of which is within the restricted zone, as well as much of the residence sections. ('lose to t wen ty of this character char-acter of enemy aliens came to light, and in nearly every instance ignorance of the law was pleaded as an excuse for tiie lack of a permit. All of them were directed di-rected to the office of t he United States marshal to comply with the permit law before being allowed to register. Ignorance Shown. In one instance a you ng German said that he had lived in Salt Lake for more t han five years and for several months had been acting as an agent for a book publishing concern which required solicitation so-licitation in all of the large of the buildings. build-ings. During the course of interrogation as to why he did not have a permit he said his father possessed a permit and he did not think it necessary for him to have one. The young man was advised ad-vised to lose no time, but to report at once to the T'nited States marshal. Others Oth-ers said they had never heard of the permit per-mit requirement. The registration yesterday revealed the fact that more than 2." per cent of the registrants are near-sighted. Pronounced ignorance of the laws of the land was shown in many cases. |