Show I I F Former ormer Yank Contends HeI He I I Still Is Alive Kr Br Sul Service P p PHILADELPHIA Pa FebA Feb Feh A 12 1 12 C. C Cooperman 2411 2111 S. S Third street is a a. stubborn stub born man He refuses to be conI convinced convinced con con- I vinced that he is dead I The war department is a patient paI patient pa pa- I tient department indeed but it itI I cannot understand such in incomprehensible incomprehensible incomprehensible in- in comprehensible stubbornness Hasn't it disregarded his asser asser- assertion assertion tion that ho he is not only alive but is working on Hog island as asa asa a a coppersmith 7 Yet Cooperman who was a member of company H Thirty- Thirty eighth infantry Third division was unconvinced d today when ho he gazed at the phot photograph graph which showed a n grave brave surmounted by bya a wooden cross bearing his name He was wounded bounded in July 1918 near Belleau Wood Three sets of id identification cards were lost by him while white in France Prance he said and he believes the finding of one of these led to the belief that he ho was dead |