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FRR-YEAR TEK1I!1AS DRAFT EVADa'So Ion Truman Wilkins, 34, ofAtlantic, arras tod by the FederalBureau of Investigation lasti|rinf on a charts of failing to re*port to th* Gass county solocthroservice board for induction intothe armed forces, was sentencedto four years in federal prison and,!fined $600 by Judge Charles A.| Dewey in federal district court atCouncil Bluffs yesterday. Wilkinstold Judge Dewey he refused toreport at the conscientious ob-factors' camp at Magnolia, Ark., because of his affiliation with a religious sect.Wilkins, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, was first reported delinquent by the Cass board Oct. 18, 1843, when be Ignored a draft call. After being disced as a conscientious objeetor, Wilkins then refused to report for “work of national importance at tho “conchie camp. He has Seen held in jail at Ottumwa since heiag bound over to the federal court following a hearing before United States Commissioner Ralph Ferguson at Council Bluffs.Abo fined in federal court at Coundl Bluffs yesterday was Charles Adams, 61, Council Bluffs grocer, who was assessed $180 on his plea of guilty to a charge of falling to register under the enemy alien act. Adams told the court a friend had told him he was horn In 8aa Francisco, but the prosscu. tlon said records showed ho had, entered the country on a passport from Italy.t1
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 05, 1944
Page 5
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Steven C.
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