OCR Text |
Show QUIET CATCHES HOST OrVSLACKERS More Than 800 Held in Wholesale Arrest Are Checked Up. All records for wholesale arrests in Salt Lake county were broken last night when twenty deputies from the sheriff 's office, assisted by thirty members of the committee of public safety and several special deputies from the army intelligence department made a series of raids which resulted in the arrest of more than 800 men. All the men arrested were taken to the office of Sheriff John S. Corless in the city and county building, where a force of twenty clerks, representing the draft boards of the several districts, was kept busy far into the night checking check-ing up the prisoners and weeding out those who were unable 'to give a satisfactory satis-factory account of themselves. The raids were conducted under the direction of Deputy Sheriff W. E. Schoppe, who divided the available force of deputies aDd assistants into eight squads, which were in charge of Deputy Sheriffs C. C. Carstensen, W. L. Goodsell, W. M. Hughes, George Cleve-and, Cleve-and, J. M. Raleigh, Kiley M. Beckstead, R. J. Oswald and George H. Vine. The work of checking up the prisoners prison-ers was under the direction of Captain J. S. Farley, assistant adjutant general of the state, and Captain Francis V. KHz Gerald, secretary to Governor Bamberger. Bam-berger. According to Sheriff John S. Corless, every pool room, coffee house, bowling alley and soft drink parlor in the city was included in the dragnet, as was also the pavilion at Bonneville park and the trains arriving from Saltair. Scores (Continued on Page Sixteen.) dren hurried to the City and Co jam building as the news of the raids spread over the city, and they presented an unusual un-usual spectacle as they tearfully pleaded plead-ed for permission to see their sons, husbands, hus-bands, lovers and fathers who were awaiting their turns in the long line. Many of the women brought the registration regis-tration cards which their boys had neg lected to carry with them, A rigid investigation into the status of those who were held in the county jail will be made at once, and those who either have failed to register or who have secured deferred classification-through classification-through misrepresentation, will be at once drafted into the service, it is said. or not they were registered, and secondly, sec-ondly, whether or not anv false statements state-ments had been made by them in securing secur-ing their various classifications. Each man was required to produce his card, those being unable to do so being held. Those who were able to produce cards were questioned as. to their families, occupations and similar matters. The crowd brought in constituted a motly array, almost every nationality, race and condition being represented. The pool room -habitue was there in great numbers, as was also the man in overalls. A remarkable number of the men wore Liberty bond and Red Cross badges. Most of them were immediately released, as they were able to give satisfactory sat-isfactory answers to all questions propounded. pro-pounded. Most of those arrested were native Americans, but the bulk of those held, about forty in number, were Mexicans Mexi-cans and Greeks, and these were sent to the county jail on the technical charge of being slackers. Scores of women, mothers, wives, sweethearts and a large number of chil- DRAGNET CATCHES 1ST OF SLACKERS (Continued from Pane One) of men found loitering about the streets, who appeared to be within the draft age, were also brought in, nine auto mobiles being kept busy for more than four hours transporting to the sheriff's office those taken into custody. As the men were brought in they were tnken by threes and fours to the sheriff's private office, where the draft board clerks under the direction of Cap tains Barley and Fitz tlerabl conducted an examination, the principal purposes of which was to ascertain tif-t. whether |