New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
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Army Told Il,
Ignore I)raft

Road Hospital, Fox Hills Hospital and
old Polytechnic.
John j. Smith, listed as living at 242
East Fifty-tifth Street, Is another man
who served in the war, according to in
formation obtained by The Tribune.
His name also appears on the Stacker.
list of to-day. Smith registered from
the foregoing address, which is that
of his parents. He now lives at 993
Ogden Avenue, the Bronx, and is rY1ar-
ried. His parants say he enlisted on
December II, 1917, and went into. train
ing for aviation. He was sent to Eng
land with his unit, where he was sta
toned for most of the war lie was
among the first of the American troops
TO return from abroad He had regis
tered prior to his enlistment.
John George Copf, thirty-one years
old, of 988 First Avenue, also on The
list, registered for the draft, was called
and examined and placed in the de-
frrred class on account of deafness.
His mother said he has been totally
deaf since he was three years old, but
that, regardless Of this defect, the
draft board summoned him repeatedly
for further examinations Her son has
been trying to obtain employment, she
said, for six months.
Navy Man Is Listed
William Fink, of 223 East Ninety
fifth Street, who was cited on the list,
saw service in the navy during the
war, along with a brother. Both en-
listed at the same time
James Pollack, formerly of 338 East
Fifty third Street has not been at shat
address for two years, tenants in the
same building said but they were posi-
tive that James and his brother both
served in the army and that James
went overseas with a unit. The boys
father died while James was abroad.
Another man who died after regis
teripg for service is Edward Cooney.
who lived with his parents at 215 East
Flfty-third Street, neighbors Informed
The Tribune. Cooney is said to have
died two years ago, and since then his
parents have moved from that address
Curtis Joyce. who lived at 205 West
lO2d Street with his parents until three
years ago, the superintendent of the
building and neighbors say, is now in
Cuba They said Joyce was an officer
in the army and had done service over
seas. He first entered the air service
but was hurt in fall while training
in Texas and was transferred to an
other branch.
a man VINO is SAID to have been in
the American consular service in Rus
STA during the. war and who spent sew
eral months in Siberian prison. APP
pears on the draft list IS Max ZahIer,
of 1411 F..th Avenue. Zahler lived at
this address with family by the name
of Packer.
Gets Draft Papers in France
The first public admission by an
army officer that not only he, but many
other company commanders who served
overseas with the first units Of the
American Expeditionary Forces, told
men under their command to disregard
draft missionaries they had received
while in France, was made yesterday
by Captain C. S. Coulter, an assistant
,adjutant of the I'd Army Corps area,
- representative of The Tribune
Captain Coulter commanded Company
G, of the 18th Infantry, 1st Division,
later being in command of a battalion
of that regiment.
He said his regiment had been in
France about three months when
twenty to thirty men in his company
received draft questionnaires The
regiment, Captain Coulter explained,
was due to go into action in about two
weeks, so he advised these men of his
company to disregard the request for
information by the local boards on the
ground that by the time the question