Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-26
Ea-Wife Claims She Has
Letters Showing Cham
pion Vas Put in Class f.
4 by a Fraud
SAYS HE THREATENED

IF. THE charges made by Maxine
l. Dempsey, of Wells. Nevada. former
wife of the worlds heavyweight box
ing champion, as printed in Phila-
delphia paper this morning are true,
Jack Dempsey and his highly perfumed
manager, Jack Kearns, will not only
have to cease all negotiations for a bout
with Georges Carpenter, but Dempsey
will be drawn into a legal battle. with
Uncle Sam, with the possibility of
spending year in federal prison as
draft dodger at its conclusion. Demp-
sey's ex-wife, according to the dis
patch from Nevada, was compelled to
sign Jack S QUESTIONABLE under threats
of bodily harm and worse, in order to
put the boxer in Glass "A. She also
was made offers for doing this, she
states, which never were fulfilled.
Mrs. Dempsey, according to her
statement, is not trying to get money
now, but merely attempting to show
what kind of person Jack Dempsey
"I cant say anything about the
Dempsey case said Assistant Special
Investigator Garman, of the Depart
ment of Justice. this morning after
having been made acquainted with the
hypothetical case in which man has
escaped the draft by having had false
questionnaire signed, or having had it
signed under duress, that man can be
sent up for a one years term.
eff such a case should come into this
Office now we should investigate it and
if the facts warranted warrant
would be sworn out for him and he
would be arrested and tried in the
United States District Court as a
Stacker, and if found guilty would be
sent to prison for a year.
''One year is the maximum now in
such cases. Mr.. Garman continued.
IF the war were still on, we should
probably simply induct the man directly
into the army as we did in hundreds OF
other cases.
This case is not a parallel one to
Grover Bergdol's. The latter officially
was inducted into the army, then de
serted. He therefore is to be tried b!
court martial.
"On the other hand, q man in Dcmp
sey's status was never in the army ant
| is amenable only to the laws cf the cIvl
court. As j have said before, | don
know anything about the facts i'll th
! Dempsey case and ! can't say anything
about it. but such cases are still bein;
run down by the Department of justice
md men found to be slackers are being
tried aud sentenced as such. ~.
!. j. Giles. justice Of the peace al
Wells, Nevada. is said to have seen tho
cx- Mrs. Dempsey's papers and TO have
put them in the form of an affidavit
One thousand wounded IaukS in tbs
| Fox Hills, Staten Island, ljospta
! bn,.o f,r,,.,r,lnI thp Gpl lowing lCt fer IL
Jack Dempsey:
2sDal IssDg NV N% 4orl: a. F"J jan ls g. Si3:s, 80
sense and opinions of the wounded msi
in this hospital with whom have talked
mas '*'" "Lll!ur; &RTHUH R2i'INs9N.
11Oth lmfnntr5, 2Sth Division
the e'r ap6ea Witch you You have add essod {,
the American Legion and, to he army
in an effort TO have = fdir judEment paSSe'
nm instructed ty Wounded IRON II
! the Legion does not consider 1t n function
Of the orsHH@atiGn wh@ o TeGG'W me Sss
to Justify his exemption from mlhler!
The The Legion. the men hero believe. i.
peculiarly qualified to pass upon your wal
| record. but any Judgment which tho hoYnt
| w. -. o,,,.'iC If lTrae
Because OF this I take pleasure. in in
w. , IosG S "'Et More Tsu man gse 20 ycar 51 ' Ra
| passed since tine armistice was signed, ou
| there are more than 1000 men here, still
! suffering from wounds sustained In action
and from their crippled ranks committe,
| or court of f"ir Judgment VIII be organiEe'
| to considrr your case II you care to sub
| nit ii.
An in lorremont of your war record by
.co-----ittcn Of thlS sort, take II. vii
satisfy your conscience and help to abat
TN, .d: 4 puHHc resentment which hai
heen beating AGAINST a7d smashing the blIl
wark5 of the patriotic part which you claln
you played in the war.
That being the case. We Do not supDos
you will neglect ihe opportunity to presen
| your defense, and In this connection
| suggest that you answer and carefully III
| out the following questionnaire:
First. 1t has been said that you wer
properly classified in the draft and that
like others subject to the selectye servic
act, you awaited your turn TO be called