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Show SAYS 50.10 Ii IP.S.1SLAMS Provost Marshal So Declares De-clares in Reports on Array Draft Legislation. WASHINGTON', Jan. 4. Fifty thousand thou-sand real slackers in the United States is Provost .Marshal General Crowder's estimate in his report to Secretary Baker. That calculation supposes that ten men in each registration district have escaped service without being ia"vhile. a few more than 250,000 of the more than three million registered men failed to appear when called for examination exam-ination General I'rowdcr estimates that S5,oiH) of them have gone into military service without notifying local boards. 'This leaves more than loO.OOO to be accounted for," says the provost marshal general. "Were they all slackers? 1 ' General Crowder answers liis own question bv estimating that they prob-ablv prob-ablv are not real slackers because 100,-000' 100,-000' are probablv aliens. This he estimates leaves 'about 50,000 real slackers to be accounted for. Only a few more than 16,000 have been identified identi-fied and a few more than 2000 have been prosecuted. The report shows that 928 Germans of draft age have been accepted for service ser-vice in the national army. A total of 14,101 enemy aliens were accepted, the remainder being Austrians or Hungarians. Hunga-rians. Enemy alien registration was 279.431, of whom 104,672 were called to produce the 14,161 accepted. All aliens accepted make a total of 76,545. |