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Show HUNT Oil FOR DESEflTERS SLACKERS I ; I j Councils of Defense to Be Used in Tracking Men Delinquent in Their Duty to "Old Glory" A NATION-WIDE ncaroh for dcKrtprs and aohlirm absent without leave ia to be conducted by the war department through the medium of the state council of Wna. Tnjs Information la wn-tHlnHl wn-tHlnHl in meaamaa to Arch M. Thur-man, Thur-man, aerrvlary of th L'tah defvnaa counrl). from niavnor B. Clarkaon. Qnnttniid on pa HUNT ON . i (Continued from page 1.) I director of the field division of the ! . Ciinrtl if tmtinnnl H..r--t.- f All the machinery of the state coun- I ell of defense, the county and commu- nlty councils of defense, will be utll- j Imed In tracking down slsckers and de- i serters. In this way the apprehension i of deserters will be considerably fa- ! cilitnud. Instructions frrrm Msjrrr flenerat P. , C. Harris, adjutant general of the 1 army, by ordevtf Kecretary of War ' Newton I). Baker, commanding officers ! of all detachments, divisions, divisional division-al cantonments snd Independent com- i mands in the Cnited Htata, state that ' councils of defense will he furnished ; with complete lists of deserters from j the army and soldiers absent without ; leave. Biweekly reports will be sub- , mitted to the state councils, and in , turn submitted by them to county and t community councils, contumlnf the t complete name, rank and organisation, the soldier's home address, the status , of the soJdler whether absent without ! leave or absent as deserter, and a list i I of soldiers previously reported who I hsve ten apprehended. |