The New York herald., 1921-05-14
won MEDAL AS HERO
| Or TORPEDOED Ship, !,
LISTED AS STACKER
G.. III. Hahn Was on Ill Fated
President Lincoln and
Now in Navy.
8 SERVICE MEN NAMED
War Departments Latest
Record Cites 250 as
Draft Dodgers.
INACCURACIES ARE FOUND
Men Who Saw Service at Front
Included-Three in Cana
dian Forces.
INACCURACIES ARE FOUND

Another instalment of the alleged
Stacker list compiled by the War
Department from records of the local
draft boards, made public yesterday
by Ma Gen. Robert l.. Bullard. con-
tanned the names Of approximately $50
men. THE NEW YORK HERALD does not
print this list because of the many
inaccuracies that it has been shown to
contain. A checking up of the latest
instalment reveals that at least eight
of the men cited as draft dodgers were
in service and one of them is said to
have received the Congressional Medal
Of Honor.
Charles II. Hahn of 176 Norman
street. Brooklyn, the reported medal
winner, now is serving his third en-
listment in the navy. Persons living
at the Brooklyn address state that
Hahn was awarded the medal for hero
ism In rescuing wounded men from
the transport President Lincoln, which
was torpedoed and sunk June l. 1918.
He was a seaman aboard the trans
port.
Joseph Nicholas Jarvis formerly of
ITO Cypress avenue. Brooklyn, but now
resident OF Worcester, England. en-
listed in the Canadian army in 1917 and
served in France for more than a year.
Mrs. william Jenes. who lives at the
Brooklyn address. is authority for the
statement that Jarvis is far from being
the Stacker that the War Departments
list says he is.
Edwin Bertram Johnson of 1876
Twelfth street, Long Island City, the
third veteran cited. served overseas with
the Yankee Division. composed Of troops
from the New England States. He moved
to Rhode Island soon after war was de-
clared and enlisted in that State
Harry Goldberg of 322 East 119th
street and Edward j. Muller Of AIS East
the front Goldberg enlisted in the Ca
madam army soon after the outbreak OF
the war and was on the firing line for
two years. He was honorably dis
charged in London In September. 1918,
and has since become an American citi-
zen. Muller enlisted In the Eighth Coast
Ammunition Train. was transferred TO
the 102d Headquarters Veterinary Corps,
attached to the Twenty-seventh Division,
and helped the New York men smash
through the Hindenberg line.
John Casey Of 1897 Madison avenue.
Benjamin Caruso of 336 East 120th
street and John II. Curry OF s5 Audubon
avenue were three other veterans whose
names appeared in the list. Caruso
served in the Italian artillery for four
years and Curry went overseas with the
Third Battalion. Canadian Bxpediuonary
Forces. He and his brother-in-law were
in the same unit The latter was killed
In action September 81, 1918. Curry was
honorably discharged In May. 1919.
Reporters for THE NEW YORK HERALD
visited more than 100 OF tho addresses
mentioned in the alleged Stacker list, and
In a large number of instances failed to
find any ono who had ever seen or heard
OF the man named In the list. In a few
cases the person named had registered
for the draft but never had been called,
and two died after registering. Very
often the reporter found that a person
OF the name mentioned in the list lived a
few doors away and. when interviewed.
this individual explained that he had not
been called. One proved to be 3s years
old and the father of i've children.