Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-13 | Page 2 | Former Yank Contends He Still is Alive

F Former ormer Yank Contends He Still Is Alive Ih I Service p PHILADELPHIA Pa reb L l 12 i 12 1 C. C Cooperman 2411 S. S Third street is a stubborn stubborn stubborn stub stub- born man He refuses to be convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced that he is dead The Thc war v d department is a patient patient pa pa- f I tient department indeed huts but it cannot understand such in incomprehensible in- in I I comprehensible stubbornness 1 I Hasn't it disregarded his assertion assertion assertion asser asser- I tion that he is not only alive I but is working on Hog island as asa asa asa a coppersmith 1 Yet Cooperman who was a a. member of company H Thirty- Thirty eighth infantry Third division was unconvinced today when he gazed at the photograph which showed a grave surmounted by bya a wooden cross bearing his name He was wounded in July 1918 near Belleau Wood Three sets of identification cards wern lost by him while in France he said and he believes the thc finding of one of these led to the tho belief that tha t he was dead i