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Show Oil GIVEN FOR SLACKERS ARREST PERIOD OF LENIENCY END8 FOR THOSE WHO FAILED TO PROPERLY REGISTER. Government Sets in Motion Machinery for Effective Enforcement of Penalties Pen-alties Upon Those Who Would Evade Selective Draft. Washington. Orders for the arrest &f every man between the ages of 21 Hid 30, Inclusive, who cannot shovr a certificate of registration for war service ser-vice wag issued by the provost marshal mar-shal general on June 11. General Crowder's orders In part fey : "Quotas are to be assigned to the - several states In proportion to their population as determined by the bureau bu-reau of the census and not in. proportion propor-tion to the registration. The result is that every person who has failed to fegiater" is seriously increasing the purden of those who have registered. Ample notice and every opportunity has now been given and there is no' longer any argument upon which the conduct of non-registrants can be condoned. con-doned. "The period of leniency has now passed. It is requested that every effort ef-fort be now made to detect and arrest persons subject .to registration who nave not registered and to bring each ciwse promptly to the attention of the ' nearest representative of the department depart-ment of Justice." The penalty for failure to register on June 5 is imprisonment for a year and enforced registration, but General Orowder immediately after registration registra-tion day recommended that local registration regis-tration boards provide further opportunity oppor-tunity for delinquents,. The department of Justice has notified noti-fied United States attorneys to release -.those already arrested for failure to register, providing they have now registered. reg-istered. . General Crowder had nearly completed com-pleted a draft of regulations to govern exemptions and exemption boards and expects to lay it before Secretary Baker Bak-er in a few . days for approval. The general bellevesno class should be exempted ex-empted as such, but that local boards should decide on the circumstances iu each individual case. He favors use f some device such as a jury wheel for drawing the names of those to be examined by the exemption boards. |