Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1920 — 5,000 DRAFT DODGERS CONVICTED; 30,000 REMAIN [ARTICLE]

5,000 DRAFT DODGERS CONVICTED; 30,000 REMAIN

Pive thousand draft evaders have been convicted in federal courts and given sentences of from thirty days to one year in prison, according to reports compiled at the department of justice. . Thirty thousand cases remain to be investigated, but officials said yesterday that rapid progress was being made in rounding up the delinquents. The cases it was explained, do not include cases of peraons who were called in the draft and deserted, as such cases are handled by the military authentic. So far approximately 275,00 V cases of delinquents, who succeeded in avoiding actual entrance into service, have been investigated by the department out of a total of 318,314 reported. The results of the investigation show about 10,000 cases, of failure to register andan equal number of false questionnaires. _