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Show LAWYERS DILATORY I FILING OATHS SALT LAKE, Dec. 14 One hundred and forty attorneys selected as associate asso-ciate members of the legal advisor' boards for the draft machinery have not as yet filed their oaths, according to a statement made yesterday by James H. Wolfe, -assistant state attorney at-torney general, vho is chairman of the executive committee In Salt Lake county Taking and filing the oath Is a necessary condition to service, Mr. Wolfe says, and at the final hour all attorneys who have not filed oaths must necessarily be counted off "the lists and replaced by reserve attorneys, attor-neys, thus Increasing the burden of those who have come forward and enlisted for service. It is pointed out that the filed oaths constitute the only record by which it may be ascertained who nas agreed to accept and keep the assignments. Up to 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. Wolfe reports, 110 oaths had been filed in the office of tho adjutant general. gen-eral. It is requested that all who have not executed and filed their oaths do so today, so that the status of the legal advisorj' boards can be ascertained ascer-tained and the list of those to be depended de-pended upon for service made out. Imprisonment in a federal penitentiary peniten-tiary will bo the punishment meted out to all who fall to adhere strictly to the truth in filling out the questionnaires, question-naires, the mailing of which to men of military age will be begun tomorrow according to W. W. Ray, United States attorney, and no leniency will be extended. ex-tended. Any .effort on the part of registered men to be rated In a classification which may defer their being called to service until late in the war, with a possibility of not being called at all by falsifying in filling out the questionnaires, ques-tionnaires, will be severely punished Ho who so falsifies will be charged with perjury and prosecuted. Any apparent ap-parent distortion of facts on the part of registrants will be rigidly investigated. investi-gated. There is an impression abroad that a registrant who has enlisted in the regular army or navy service is auto- matically absolved from filling out the ,1 questionnaire which he will roceivo in due time and sending it in to his local JM draft board. This is an erroneous idea, according to Captain F. V. Fitz jH Gerald, secretary to Governor Simon Bamberger and United States dls- bursing agent under the draft. It is necessary, Captain Fitz jH Gerald says, for every man to fill out and return his questionnaire, whether jH he shall have enlisted to avoid draft iH or not, in order that local boards can fH clear up their records in each indl- '1W vidua! case. Strict observance of this liti fT rule will avoid inconvenience and Th' probable trouble. j ' T |