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Show forSges Taking Advantage of Alleged Ruling by Provost Marshal General Crowder. NEW YORK. July 31. Another "slacker" rush for marriage licenses began yesterday, 351 being issued. Some of the applicants openly called attention to the ruling of Provost Marshal Mar-shal General Crowder, made last week, that a man with a wife solely dependent depend-ent upon him Is exempt from the. army draft whether he married for love or safety. NEW YORK, July 31. United States Marshal Thomas D. McCarthy with fifteen of his deputies appeared at the marriage license bureau this afternoon, where scores of young men of tho draft age, with their prospective brides, were waiting for licenses and within fifteen minutes cleared the room and hallways of half their number. num-ber. He ejected from the place every man who was unable to produce his blue registration card. oo |