The FBI has cleaned up almost half a million draft-evasion cases in the five years since Selective Service became a law. This week it announced some results: 12,559 men were sentenced to prison terms; fines of more than a million dollars were imposed; most of the other evaders "were made available to the armed forces." Some FBI adventures:
¶ By aircraft and snowshoe, agents pur sued two draft dodgers in Alaska, finally caught them at the base of Mt. McKinley.
¶ One 200-lb. fugitive from Selective Service tried to skip across an ice floe, fell in. Pursuing FBI men fished him out.
¶ Agents on the trail of a phony farmer saw a hand in a haystack, pulled out their quarry, who explained: "I was just getting ready to give myself up."
¶ Another vowed he was on his way to his draft board when he heard about the food shortage, patriotically went to milking cows instead.
¶ Asked why he had registered under a false name, one man said sheepishly that his real name was Julius Caesar.
¶ Declaimed one delinquent : "Danged if I'm going to fight in any war I didn't start. " Explained another: "I was too busy dodging my wife to report."