New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-23
Alleged Stacker
Says He Was Not
Ordered to Report
.JudelOvitz Testifies He Went
10 Draft Board 20 Times
TO Learn Status and Was
Told He w Guild Be Notified

Louis j. Judelovitz the Brooklyn
draft registrant charged under the
FNty-eighth Article Of War with evad-
ing military service in the World War,
took the stand in his own behalf yes
tcrday before the general court martial
which is trying him at Governors
Island. Questioning by the court and
opposing counsel brought out that the
defendant constantly received mail at
$50 broadway, his business address in
Brooklyn, during the time he is al
legged to have been in hiding from the
was official government correspondence
relating to Liberty bonds which the
accused had purchased.
Judelovitz proved to be a willing wit
ness. He testified that the first ne
knew of his being classified as draft
delinquent was when nephew showed
him a newspaper on May containing
a list of alleged slackers certified by
Local Board 81 Two days later, he
said, he went to the United States Dis
trict Attorneys Office in Brooklyn and
inquired concerning his status. He was
told, he said, after clerk had searched
for his name among papers there, that
there was no record of his classification
as a. deserter and was informed that
publication of his name might have
been a mistake.
Went Away for His Health
He then consulted his employer,
David Markowitz, he testified, and was
advised to visit a lawyer. According
to the defendants testimony he called
on Arthur Werther, the Brooklyn at
tornev who is conducting his defense,
and Werther said he would investigates
Meanwhile, Judelovitz said, he became
i'll and desired to go away for his
health, leaving his case in the hands
of Mr. Werther, who told him not to
stay away more than a week or ten
days.
While the defendant was away the
military authorities visited his present
business address on Graham Avenue,
known as the Enterprise Credit House.
They were informed that Judelovitz, or
Judel as his name appears on the door
of the Enterprise Credit House, had
gone away for his health. The defend
ant returned to Brooklyn on May 49,
after Mr.. Werther, accompanied by
Representative Lester D. Volk, had Wis
tied Governors Island and pleaded for
him. Subsequently he was surrend-
cred at Governors Island by Mr.. Wer-
Their and locked up.
Judelovitz admitted that he had re-
ceived a notice to hold himself in
readiness for service and that he like
wise had received a notice to the effect
that he had been found physically fit
for service. He testified that he had
visited the Office of the local board up
ward of twenty times after finally fill
ing out a QUESTIONABLE, to learn if he
was to be ordered to report for duty
He was told, he said, that he would be
notified if he we're called. This notice
he never received, he said.
Says He Suffered From Two Diseases
The prosecution produced the de-
PENDANTS registration card and asked
him why he had stated his disability
to be rheumatism when he now claims
to have been sufferer from tubercu-
losis; to which the defendant replied
that he suffered from both ailments at
various times.
Asked by Colonel William H Allaire,
president of the court, if the two chill
dren for whose support he claimed ex-
emption when he appealed his case to
the district board were his own, the
accused replied that he was not mar
ried and the children were those of his
sister.
Owing to the absence Of a witness
whom the prosecution announced it de-
sired to introduce, the trial was ad-
journed for several days.