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TOTAL REGISTRATION IN THIS CITYTUESDAY WAS 1,455 AND THE DAYPASSED WITHOUT ANY DISTURBANCETHE RETURNS WERE SENT TO COUNTY CLERK ATCOSHEN AND WILL GO TO THE U. S. WAR DEPARTMENTuRegistration Day” Here Brought Home In aForceful Manner the Entry of This Countrythe Great World War—There Were No Disturbances of Any Kind in This City—PoliceDepartment and Company I Were PreparedFor Any Trouble, but Their Services Were NotNeeded—It is Expected That the War Departmnt Will Draft From 900,000 To a Million antfHalf From the Names Registered and Afterthe Exemptions Are Made That There Will BeAbout 625,000 of These Men Called to theColors- Some Arrests MadeWomen Accompany the Men Who Register.Wives, sisters and sweethearts accompanied their men in many instancesSome were dressed in holiday garb and carried lunch baskets, indicating thattbty were off for a picnic as soon a the duty of enrollment had been accomplirhed Others stood around a solemnly as though they expected to saygood bye to the men as soon a they had registered.Still another class of women figured In the day's proceedings. Thesewere deserted wives who either telephoned or sent messages that their wayfard husbands should not be allowed to claim exemption on the ground of having a wife to support, .More titan a hundred calls of thin character were received at the headquarters of the Central Hoard of Control in the MunicipalBuddingInterpreters were In great demand, and when it was seen that perfect orderprevailed, many of the watchers who could sp« *k all alien language were requisitioned for theis servli ••Weabin*tou. June ti—Uncle Hum jour boys are ready, a hundred hundred)thousand strong Argument Against PacifistsThis was the reply today to the challenge of the Imperial Government offlermany from 125.000 American registration placesPropagandist.- pacifist!- for pay and other agitators were swept into ob*1 *non bv the tide of ruen that flowed steadily to the registration places fromeP- ■ TWt .w ^ i. • . u A.. kt H ■ I, Wbefore 7 o’clock in the morning until after 9 o’clock at nightA' 10 o’clock tonight Eastern time Provost Marshal- General Crowderolurado and North:arolina. All rcjHtrts were that the registration machinery had workedif 1moothly except in northwestern Missouri and a portion of Indiana, wherei gh water prevented many men reaching the registration places, and in Deroit and in Cleveland, where tie* number of men who presented themselves 1or registration were so far in excess of the estimated number as to swamp (hs registration board.When the Provost Marshal General's office closed at midnight, no finalegistratiou report from any State had been receivedThree arrests, reported by Attorney General Gregory, were made at •lt;Three Arrests Are Made Tuesday.IHamilton. Ohio; Hartford. Conn and near St Louis, Mo. Details were notven out its Wa VngtonA not he i aii\ -t reported was that of J L. Litz of Coeburn, Va„ who cursede Prru l^nt. the Administration and »he flag He was promptly arrested1F rifuer 'III UP AVA 1UH1I ...MM u r- ’ * V * 1C(t held for tn;d a-roadr g • the telegrams from the Governor of Virginia, It. a * M A 1 J • t m 9 * » • *rtc/i* t*p m! J i not ii Uicate that Lit' huii suenii^l to interfere with regis*at on»Ti e res.* ' on of men out; de the country surpassed all expectations of j 'a , * a ys M .. _ —A - ‘S _ nhfls .. .... a JBe W„r f Forty registration blanks were seat to the Unitedm v m ’ -’■a —-• tea Windsor. Ontario, and today he wired for a thousand more.is ca.taul a? Toronto also seat in a request for additional blanks. Americanrsuls tnror.t'liout the world ha'e been supplied with blanks and all Atueri■v. mw —' ,ii ■« m*. V .ivri ■l cil:tens of i' ! :-*» age abroad will blt; given the opportunity to register. jegiatralv! Day’ in this city Tuesday wen t’ue factor that has made folksre umu deeply than ever before tlmt Pmdo Ham is 1n this great worldi». — M » .M. A A A aI w w m w mm WI w — — ^r to a flnlsn t » u; .old and maintain the principles of democracy and justice im m * S a 1 % ■ « . 1A total of '.4 * rests, between the ages of 21 and JO. inclusive, registered at» iexp* olive »Hng placet; as followFIRST WARDDir trial95 228in 1 Listrfi,- Ditlricf1986ECOLD WARDIHi Dlxtriedir,i i2c 1 District?rd District112150THIRD WARDj st Districtso2nd District10FOURTH WARD. (, I Disti letIf•JO2 id District1501455*Go to War Department,ie returns from the various registration places In ihis city liuvo beensi i i (ho coun y clerk’s oltice at Goshen. Following the procedure to be hd all over inis country these returns will be forwarded to the War Depart-FIut ; t Washington.I is csiimatcd tiuit eleven million men registered in this country Tuesday» Ik a k w .. a -tm m w ^at!ucu all of these nanus have been submitted to the War Department, the de- btruent will select the numes ui those men i« do tiraiieu ana a list or thesedcs will bo sent by the Department baek to the respective places affected. I iiis t-\peeled (hat she War Department will draft from 900,000 to a inilliuu 1 *1 a huif men from these namesThe exemptions will probably bring the number of men of Registrationtlt;who well be called 1o the colors, to 625,000.Itl(C'outinued on Page 6.)
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Jun 06, 1917
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