Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-31


n slcth infantry. one of the units COM
3 posed of drafted men from this ctty and
state. The young officer Us prominent
socially along the Main Line lie t- a
Z riefnber of the Merton cricket 'lun .,nd
X s1s a fine all-rouud athlete. Mr.. NlIlN
4 ST., is a leading member OF the i".''-
y delnhia bar.
total of 731 today, including, hoWgErr
y only forty soldiers from Philadelphia
y and district of this number three have
died sof wounds. twentN-one have been
wounded and two are missing. Five -p'-
Y diers from nearby points are dead and
y five others wounded
Sketches OF The Heroes
Private Arthur ". Trainer. wounded
& in action on August 81 makes no men-
tion of having been injured in several
Az @ tors to his
ignores His Wounds mother wri item
y in Letters TO Mother speaks Of the light
ing having D e e. D
s.pretty stiff" says the Germans ar,
I being driven back, remarks that ho ifs
80 r." but says never a word about
Z having been hurt. Trainer was drafted
early last summer and sent TO Frame,
Afser oniy a brief stay mt Camp Meade
"a He quickly picked up the rudjmeuts Of
military drill and was selected to iilI
Vacancy in the ranks OF Company n.
s5i5th Infantry He IS the son of Mrs
4 John A. Trainer, 3N32 North Tenth
\ street. and was formerly a probation
off.cer for the Municipal Court
Private Giuseppe Colo, died Of
& wounds. was only eighteen years old.
anil had not been naturalized when this
crunfry declared war on Germany. But
he enlisted p. omptly in the old Third
4 Regiment. \. q. T., and has been in
France since alay Of this year. His
4 mother died shortly after he joined the
army, while an Slider brother went back
10 italy ard is row fighting under Gem
eraI Diaz alon.y the Pave. An aunt.
Mrs Nazzario Narchesano, Of $50 Pierce
|street. had a ietter from her nephew
Safte. he had peen hurt hut he failed to
.SYrlentiCn the nature or extent Of his in
.Srnries No other letter was received
sf<So days ago came an official tole-
= from Washington stating that pr-
~ Colo had died in base hospital
Z on SSptanher >
during the flattening of the st AIhitI
.4ealient, Is rapidly recovering IN a base
X hospital according to u letter received
by his stepbrother, Michael McLaugh-
lin. of 1000 North Eleventh street
Perranc enlisted in May of 1917 in the
Irregular army and went to Franco in
the fall of last year with the Seventy
sixth Field Artillery.
HI Private Anthony Gismpietro, wounded
WAS Formerly employed as tailor. i'm
the quartermaSterS department of the
H United States marine corps. He was
drafted in May of this year. and after
I. only a short training at Came Meade
was sent to France with the 3l6th In
fantry. His wounds were not serious
7 he said in a letter to his wife. Mrs
II Lena GiampietrO, Of 1903 South Eighth
street. Private Giampictro was inilIred
IN the heavy fighting along the Meuse
e sbetween September - and 30. during
"A which so many bhlladelphians were
killed and wounded.
e Lieutenunt Alexander II. Eatta, son
4 Of Street Sergeant Samuel II. Latta,
s of the Thirty-secOnd street and Wood
land avenue police
Ww Department 1ird o tin,s ,s ay n 'I l-nt It
Insists This Nincing the War
4 Officer Is Dead that he is actually
alive, In fact the
7 sdepartment has not yet admitted that
y the lieutenant is stll in the iig gsh, but
insists that he is dead and buried
received an artiSticaIiy engraved Cor-
a tjficate from the War Department
u tcertiIying to all men present that Ser
ageant Alexander H. Latta died hOnOrably
" In the service of his country on Sep
4 tember T." This interesting document
n WAS given under the hand and seal of
the adjutant genera! OF the United
States.
Il The chronological history Of the case
b 0f I.feutenant Latta has a touch Of grim
u huIior He had been recommended for
~ Infantry, sailed for France, and he went
y a1opE az a cadet officer with the rank
z dE Bergeant His commission WAS held
up and did not reach him until SopLem-
p her 1. On September Z he was gasscd