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Show t . . -v ' ' ve 'V' "V - . .s :" i iiST as yD iD scar is: wra 025MH ELIGIBLE TO FILL ; am , Slackers Arrested Will Be Given New Chance ' to Register Before Sentence Sen-tence Is Pronounced By United Press. DETROIT, Mich., June 12. Two hundred men were nnder the arm of the federal law here ihort-' ihort-' ly after noon today awaiting: the V roundup of flackers failing- to reg--later for selective service. Many of the men were taken into cus- tody when they went to the fed eral building- to register today, thinking' this was the last day. r WMSHINGTOnT June 12. W Total registration for Relative Rela-tive service will be approximately ' 9.250,000, aeeordinu to revised figures (riven out today by 1'ro-vost 1'ro-vost Marshal General Crowder. vf Tbla number ia more than ona mil-Hon mil-Hon below the original cenaua estimate. esti-mate. Revision of the figures waa made when tha provost marshal's office , realized that In uslnrf censna figures officials did not take Into account tha fact that about 600,000 men of eligible eligi-ble age already have volunteered for aervice In the regular army, national guard, nary and marine corps. Another factor in tha revision was belated realization that census bureau estimates, made previous to the war, t i did not take into account the fact that ' in the past three years immigration has practically stopped. While officials realize that there are still probably many tbouaanda of f - slackers, they point out that, follow ,i I Ing the revision of estimates, the I number will be far less than at first eipected. |