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Show IS QUIZZED DUMB RAID FiSLACKERS Score Taken at Bingham Canyon Jailed Here for Investigation. In a raid at Bingham Canyon yesterday yester-day afternoon and last night, conducted by , Sheriff John S. Corless, members of the' public safety committee and representatives repre-sentatives of the local draft board, more than 400 men of draft age, principally foreigners, were compelled to give an accounting ac-counting of themselves with reference to compliance with the conscription law. Two alleged deserters and thirty other men who could not give satisfactory explanation ex-planation for non-possession of registration registra-tion and classification cards were- taken into custody and will be held for investigation. investi-gation. The two men arrested are want-,ed want-,ed for draft desertion from draft district No. 2 of Salt Lake county, the officers said. Their names are John Andru-lakskis Andru-lakskis and James Caravanas. , Caravanas was rounded up in Bingham proper, but succeeded in making his escape es-cape from the crowd, which was being detained in the Commercial club. He had boarded an automobile for Salt Lake and was making his way out of the canyon when he was overtaken by deputies and recaptured. The two alleged deserters and the other men held for investigation were transferred trans-ferred late last night to the county Jail in Salt Lake. Their names had not been listed last night. They are principally Austrian miners, who had no classification classifica-tion or registration cards and could not explain why they had none. One of the men being held is Esteban Bustcza, a Mexican, who was found with a bogus registration card. The card was Issued in Niagara county. New York, and has an American flag where the eagle should be. It is the first card of the kind found in Bingham, although several have been noted in Salt Lake. More than a score of foreigners were found without registration cards, who readily admitted that they had not registered, regis-tered, but signified a willingness lo do so. Registration blanks were provided and members of the Jocal registration board listed them at once. About a dozen foreigners for-eigners were found who had not filled their questionnaires. There were permitted permit-ted to fill their questionnaires and were released. The work of examining those rounded up by t lie officers was conducted bv Captain Cap-tain F- V. Fitz Gerald, assisted by C. W. Aldrich of the Bingham draft board and Frank Price of county draft board No. 2, and members of the local board. The officers and their party of assistants assist-ants traveled from Salt Lake to Bingham by automobile, reaching there at 5 o'clock. One section, under the leadership of Depu t y Roy Ker. ner. was assigned to Highland Boy district; Deputy S. S. Jones and his party took Copperfield, while Deputy Oscar Fullmer and his party operated in Bingham. |