New Britain herald., 1918-04-26
Four Fail to Report and Are List.
ed As Army DeSerters
SOME TEMPORARILY EXCUSED
Each Board Sends Fifty Men-One
Deserter Has Two Offenses Charged
Against Him, as He Did Not Appear
to Go With a Former Quota.

New Britain sent 100 more men into
the National Army thjs morning, SO
men going from iu:1l thc first and sec
Ond exemption diStl ;C.&. The men en-
! trained at the local passenger station
at S:04 o'clock go:nE to Hartford,
where their train was attached to an
other special train which took them
to Camp Cptun YaDhank, l.. l., via
New Haven A crowd of more than
u thousand people thronged the sta
ton platform to wave q last farewell
at the departing soldiers, but thero
was q noticeable lack Of the hysteria
which haj swept the crowds on pre-
vious occasions, tho public being evil
IDENTITY stecled against any outward
demonst"ati and realizing that the
grim decrands of war must be met.
-Four t'ail to Appear. ...--
OF the quotas called by each board,
there were two absentees i'll each of
whom the boards have been unable to
find any trace and they will undoubt-
edly be classified as deserters. In the
first district, John F. Baldyga, of Or
chard Lake, Michigan, has been listed
as a deserter, and Peter Hogopian, OF
$50 Washington street, also failed to
appear. In the second district, Kis-
tantignas Staretis of 70 Woodland
street, is also classified as a deserter.
He was scheduled to go with the last
quota, but failed to appear and was
again summoned to go today, but
again did the disappearing act. The
other absentee was Joseph Mattas, of
Seltzer City, Pottsville, Pa.
Several Temporarily Excused.
In the first district there were sew
eral men who either for business or
other reasons found it difficult to
leave today and they were granted a
few days extension of time by their
board. 1t is these men whose names
appeared on the first list published,
but do not appear today. John P. Sui
livan, of this city, recently commits
stoned as a second lieutenant at Camp
Devens, was sent to Camp Upton this
morning as directly in charge Of the
first district men, and his aides were
Clarence E. Conant, Michael A. Belllin,
Francis Dugan, Wilfred j. Dunlay,
George Collins and Joseph Leszkiewicz.
In the second district Philip Smith was
captain, assisted by John Mccarthy,
John KERN and Joseph Farr.
First District Men.
Those who went from the first dis
trict were:
Peter Montguris, So. Bethlehem,
Fa.; Clarence E. Conant, 1O3 Camp
street; Frank Kulis, Stamford, Conn;
Alexander Konik, 144 Grove street;
Francis Dugan, SO Washington street;
John Stanulevich, 104 East Main
street Meriden; Philip Tamroz, 100
| Washington street; Thomas Berezon-
sky, 144 Grove street; Salvatore Riz-
| zia, 58 Temple street, Hartford,
| Conn.,; Michael A. Belkin, Hotel De-
| laney, Hartford, Conn; John GWoaz-
| da, 157 Grove street; John B. Manres,
292 Main street; Paul Matosian, 1890
! Seaview avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
! Edmond Slonsky, 5 Silver street;
! John Condor, CIT Main street; John
| A. Bjorklund. Is Commonwealth
| avenue; Ralph J. DUDE, 712 e. Main
street, Waterbury; Constantly Muir
gym, 216 High street; Wilfred j. Dun
lay, 464 West Main street; Joseph
| Moskowski 109 Grove street; Peter
Smith, 26 Smith street; Michael Pts
| lzorko, So Broad street; Walter
| krawcik, 20 Orange street; Boniface
hosip, 1o3 Orange street; George
! Zdinski, 200 High street; Savas p
Saxon, 387 Main street; Yonspus e.
| Mytrza, 103 Grove street; Walenty
| Brezezinski, "a Gold street; Peter
| Zakrzeski, "a Orange street; John
! Ealocki, 27 Holmes avenue; George
| Collins, 219 Washington avenue; AL
| phone Chaniewiski, Hotel York, Main
| street. Wladislaw Tiskewicz, 23 Ly-
man street; Joseph Leszkiewicz, 1872
| High street; William j. Coleman A
| Greenwood street; Frank Mel1ey
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