New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-28
Ellis Island
Seizes Dane as
Draft Evader
MAN Who Returns AZ
ter Wartime Absence
Abroad Found OH Omaha
List and Put Under Arrest
Il New Errors Appear
Dead Men and Veterans Are
i'm New Group of Names;
One Suspect Set Free

ties in connection with the arrest of
alleged slackers appeared yesterday to
be reviving. Two such arrests were
made and in the case of one of the
men the military authorities on Gov
ernors Island saw fit to confine him
pending further investigation. The
ether was released by United States
District Attorney Leroy Ross, of
Brooklyn, after satisfactory evidence
had been submitted to him to show that
the man had served in the army dur
ing the war.
The man in confinement at Fort Jay
is Jens Berkall, who registered from
S1o5 Cumming Street. Omaha, with
local board No. 5, of that city, prior to
October, 1917, when he is said to have
left the country and gone to Denmark,
The land of his birth. Through the
vigilance Of Inspector Marsh, of the
Ellis Island immigration station, Ber-
kali, who said he had been in the
United States only year and half
previous to registering for military
duty, and was not citizen, was found
among a batch of immi grants who ar
rived recently on steamer from Eu
rope.
Found on Stacker List
Berkall was asked to show his reg
istration card, as is the custom laid
down by the immigration authorities
for men Of apparent draft age return
ing to this country after an absence
during the war Failing to produce
such a card, but admitting, it is said,
that he had registered, the United
States attorneys Office was notified
Telegraphic communication with Wash
ington followed and it was ascertained
that Berkall was listed by the War
Department as a deserter, Inspector
Marsh then took the man TO Governors
Island, where he was subsequently
locked up.
This is the second announcement of
an actual arrest and confinement at
Governors Island since publication of
the draft dodger" lists began several
weeks ago, but there are known to be
other similar cases pending at Second
Corps Area Headquarters and in two
of them trials by general courtmartial
have been recommended.
Should Berkall be able to establish
that he was an alien of treaty coun-
try, it was explained by an officer of
the judge advocates department that
the War Department would not prose-
cute him.
L. j. Judelowitz, or L. j. Judelioski
of 104 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn. the
business man who was surrendered by
Arthur Werther, his attorney, last
week, and who also is in confinement
at Fort Jay as deserter, is one of the
two who have been recommended for
trial by court martial.
173 on New List
The names of 173 more men alleged
to have evaded the draft appear on the
list published this morning for this
section. Of these, unofficial investiga
ton indicates that twelve were so listed
through error. They are:
Michael J. Mahoney, or Maloney, of
255 Warren Street, Brooklyn, a veteran
of the 106th Infantry, 9th Division;
Cyril Frazer, who registered from Is
Wyckoff Street, Brooklyn, and who is
said to have died before being called
for service; Frank W. Tyler, of 1900
Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, who is said
TO have been regularly exempted be-
cause he was a champion riveter" at
the Hog Island shipyard during the
war; George M. Ludlam, of James
Street, Manhattan, who was thrown
into the sea when the ship on which
his unit was en- route to France was
East 108th Street, who died almost four
years ago of a nervous disease; Samuel
Rosenberg, of 65 East -108th Street a,
deaf and dumb man, according to his
mother; Henry Kunz, 25 East 103d
Street, who was placed in the fourth
class because he was the support of his
wife and three children; John Francis
DAILY, of lis East 105th Street, who
died a month ago, but had served in the
Y-a vii INV porr
N. Y. N, g., after rejection for enlist
nent in the regular army; Jacob
Greengold, of East 106th Street, who
died in July, 1917; Morris Freedman,
listed as living at 181 Varet Street,
now residing at 181 Varet Street,
Brooklyn, who enlisted October IL,
1917. in company with his brother
Samuel. and served twelve months in
France with Company 10, Q. NJ. c., of
the 77th Division, and Louis Bosyk, of
172 McKibben Street, Brooklyn, who
died on December %, 1917, before he
was called by his local board.
Victim of Submarine
Ludlam was the man summ oned to
the Office of United States District At
torney Ross yesterday. 1t was alleged
that he failed to appear when sum-
noned by his local draft board. He
told Assistant District Attorney Rich
ard J. Barry that he enlisted at Oyster
Bay on December 10, 1917, in the 2l3th
Aero Squadron. When his transport
was torpedoed, he SAID, he contracted
pneumonia as the result of being in
the water for four hours. He fought
in several engagements in France and
was discharged December /, 1919, at
Paris.
Ludlam was released after he pro-
duced his discharge