New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-10
Ut. S. tic, Clear
Men Unjrnstly
On Stacker List
Fullest Publicity Ordered
Where Error Il Proved;
Eight Names I'm Last
30 Protested by Kim
One Still in Army Shirt
Parents Show Papers, Sister
Says Drug Addict En-
listed After Taking Cure

QTAIb uebeIeIS III inc i&teSL liStS
were quick in coming to their
defense with enlistment and discharge
records, newspaper clippings and other
evidence, all tending to show that err
rors had been committed. Out Of the
thirty names made public to-day by the
War Department at least eight, after
thorough investigation. do not seem to
belong on the list. One man, still wear
ing his army shirt. was surprised to
learn that he had been classed as a
deserter and showed proof of his serv-
ice. as cavalryman.
According to a letter from Washing
ton received yesterday at the office of
the Judge Advocate for the Second
Corps Area at Governors Island, full
est publicity will be asked for the
cases of men cited as draft evaders
when evidence shows the subject to
have been listed enormously. If re-
/ moval of the name is justified the COM
handing general of the corps area will
be directed to do 50 by the adjutant-
general.
Boxers Papers Shown
The parents of Robert II. Gleason,
cited by Local Board 10 in the Bronx,
showed discharge papers and enlist
ment records of their son to prove that
ne had served in the army. Gleason,
who was formerly an amateur boxing
champion in this state and took part in
boxing contests at Camp Mills, was
made first sergeant in the Quarter
master Corps on October 25, 1918, and
ms warrant, signed by Major r. S.
Kimhall at Camp Mills, hangs in q
prominent place in the parlor of the
Gleason home at 765 St. AIMS Avenue.
His father, G. Fl. Gleason, plumber,
showed his sons honorable discharge in
which he was recommended for re-
enlistment. Gleason enlisted on July
II, 1917, and was discharged on May 6,
1919. 1t was said that no draft notices
had ever been received. A newspaper
Clipping, dated August 10, 1917. de-
scribed boxing bout in which Gleason
had been contestant at Camp Mills.
lie is now employed at Palisades Park,
New Jersey amusement resort.
Frank Passko, also listed by local
board 10 as Frank Pesko or Presca. of
SIT Courtlandt Avenue, took up his
own defense to disprove the govern
ment's charge that he was a draft de-
serter. Passko, who lives at 155 South
Eighth Street, Mount Vernon, regis
tered from the Courtlandt Avenue ad-
dress in July, 1917. He gave the
| Bronx address because he was en-
| ployed there.
Soon afterward he grew restless and
| enlisted at Fort Slocum, joining E
Troop of the 10Th Cavalry, which was
later assigned to duty at Fort Brown,
| Texas. From E Troop he was trans
ferred to the supply troop and sent
with his outfit to San Antonio, where
he was discharged on May A, 1920.
Passko showed veterans license No,
636, signed on May IS, 1920, by
Robert L.. Moran, clerk of Bronx
County, permitting him to peddle on
the streets of the borough. 1t is
stated in the license that Passko had
shown his honorable discharge from
the army, dated May a, 1920, in order
to get the license.
Addict in Drug Hospital
Louis Pascucci, another delinquent,
according to Local Board 10, which
cites him as Louis Pascassi, or Zonis
Pascassi, or Pascaccio, found de-
fender in his sister at 674 Morris Ave
nue.. Pascucci, an admitted drug adj
dict, she said, had registered for the
for the drug cure at Harris Island.
When his notice came he was an in
mate of the hospital, and his sister
appeared before the board personally
to explain the situation. She was in
structed to write an explanation and
did SO. After six months in the hos
pital Pascucci was released and en-
listed in the army at Fort Schuyler.
This was after the signing of the
armistice and he was discharged four
months later. He is now said to be
one of the crew on merchant marine
vessel.
Old neighbors of Joseph or James
Cooper, of 763 Elton Avenue, also one
of those cited from Local Board 10,
were sure that they remembered such
a man who was married and had two
children. They agreed that he had died
of blood poisoning in May, 1917. Mrs.
Cooper, they said, had told them that
she had written to the draft authori-
ties. telling them of her husbands
death. 1t was said that Mrs. Cooper
is still resident Of the neighborhood,
but she could not be located.
Defended by Landlady
A Mrs. Jordan, who lives at $50 East
158th Street, said that she recalled a
James Rowan, who had boarded at her
house in 1917. James Ruane or Ruame
was listed as delinquent from Local
Board 10. Rowan, Mrs. Jordan said,
was a horseshoer. She was positive,
she said, that he had enlisted at a re-
cruiting Office in the Bronx and had