The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-12
V|C FLE|SCHMAN JOINED THE NAVY
 ON APRIL 181H

i Ed Cronin, chairman of the Ne mana Local Board, received a tele- gram this morning from the com manding officer of the naval train ing station, Seattle, which reads as follows:
 Victor Fleischman enrolled this station April 18th, with release Seattle Board Six; notification to local board mailed you April 18th" ! This clears very worthy and patriotic young man of the stigma of being deserter and his name has accordingly been removed from the list of deserters made up by the Ne mana local board. The notification of induction referred to in the wire from the officer commanding, naval training station, Seattle; as having been mailed on April 18th, has not yet been received in Nenana. /! At the time the list of deserters was made up for publication, the local board, as we'll as his many friends in Nenana knew that Victor Fleischman had entered the service, but, in the absence of any notice of induction or other official communi- cation to this effect, the local board had no option but to publish the name, together with the others of whose movements no advice had been received
 It is thought that Howard Curtis, the former chairman of the Nenana local board, issued the necessary per init to Fleischman to enable him to go Outside and enter the service by voluntary induction, but there IS no record of the transaction here. It is possible that Curtis had over looked making a note of this in the records of the local board.
 Ed Cronin, the present chairman of the Nenana local board, wired on July IA to the Seattle local board regarding young Fleischman, but got no reply; he then on the 17th of the same month, wired to the execu- tive officer of the navy yard, Seattle, and this message also remained un- answered. On August 23rd Chair man Cronin again wired; this time to the Bremerton local board, and after some delay received a reply indicating that the local board there had no record of such a man. Re gently another wire was sent to the Officer Commanding, Naval Station, Seattle, requesting information re- garding Fleischman and inquiring why his enrolment was not pre- viously reported, as the registrant has been shown as a deserter. The reply to this wire was received this morning, as shown at the beginning of this article.
 , Owing possibly to failure by a former member of the board to put on record the permission granted him, and largely to the red tape governing transactions of this na- ture, very worthy and loyal Ameri- can was temporarily listed as a de- serter owing to no fault of his. ! In addition to the wires sent re- sarding young Fleischman, Chair man Cronin, of the local board, also wrote several letters to Vic Fleisch- man, addressing them to the care of the Frye hotel, which was the ad- dress given him when Victor left Nenana for the States. These let ters have been returned to the local board.
 Victor Fleischman and his brother Carl are both in the service of their country. Their parents, Mir. and Mrs. Tobias Fleischman are we'll known and respected citizens of Fairbanks, where both of the boys were practically brought up. They count a great many friends, both in Fairbanks and in Nenana, who will be glad to hear that the stigma of being deserter, which was at no time deserved has now heen re-