The sun., 1919-02-18
Remainder Of Scorpions Crew,
Interned at Constantinoplc,
Reach Home.
THREE TRANSPORTS COME
Bring Several New York
Heroes, Including Altman
Who Downed II Planes.

bringing back OF American soldiers from
the congested port OF Brest. arrived yes
terdayxwith 1870 officers and men.
On the Dante Alighieri came Lieut.
Commander Herbert s. Babbitt, two ON
GERS, three petty officers and thirtf-flve
men OF the American warship Scorpion,
formerly the steam yacht Sovereign, the
only vessel of the United States Navy
to be informed in the war. She was near
Constantinople when the United States
entered the war.
The Scorpions original crew was
larger by eighteen men. all Of whom
,uarried Turkish girls and preferred do
nestle life to naval service. The Oldest
OF the benedicts Is Joseph barley, So.
who was the Lieut. Commanders yeo-
man when he was fascinated by n
tyenty-year- Turkish beauty-at
least that Is what he called her. He
had been thirty-two years in the navy.
Unuolestsa By TURKS.
Commander Rabbit said that the
Turks did not modest the Americans, al
though they put an armed guard aboard
and also set a small steamship to watch
the Scorpion. Tho officers got shore lib
erty only every two weeks and were ac-
companied by Turkish officer when
they went ashore. Enlisted men were
permitted to go ashore once every two
monthe. and this did not please the mar
red men. who had been in the habit
Of meeting their Turkish wives every
two days.
All the overseas craft that arrived
yesterday united with tho troop carriers
In reporting ugly weather on the trip.
The Dante Alighieri had a particularly
rough time on January and her COM
mander, Capt. Angelo Sturlese. sent OFF,
GERS to warn venturesome soldiers not
to stand forward. where, crests occas-
ionally leaped over the bows.
Three doughboys disregarded the
warning. A resStless comber hurled
them against the rail and they were
taken to hospital. They are James s.
Cotey of Boston. left thigh broken
Harry Valenciam. New Orleans. ankle
broken and Amos r. Thrupp, New Or
leans left leg broken.
The Dante Alighieri brought the entire
Sixty-first Coast Artillery Corps Of
thirty-two officers and 1856 men. mostly
from the South. which did not get to
the 'front.'. lnev are ny
Major Austin Frick of Savannah. The
only New York officer in the command
is Lieut.. Thomas A. Cannon OF Bat
terry D, whose business address is So
Liberty street.
Two naval aviators of this city were
| in the ships naval contingent. Ensign
Lawrence White, son OF the late Stan
ford White. and Ensign Daniel Hughet
| Of 1245 Madison avenue. who Joined the
-
with the Lafayette Escadrilie
Good VIII in Italy for U. 3.
D. A. Truda of Mcdonnell & Truda.
State street. agents of the Dante ALL
| ghieri, returned from two months
visit in Italy and noted that the people
| were preparing for a big commercial
! expansion. Prominent industrial firms.
! headed by G, Ansaldo & Co., which
made the largest individual contribution
in war material. including airplanes. are
| changing TO a peace basis. The two
| young men at the head of the firm,
Truda said, are Of the most venturesome
and progressive type in Italy, and are
| acquiring a feet OF ships.
! There was no doubt about the
genuineness OF the admiration of the
Italians for the United States and 1t
| seemed to Mr.. Truda that the merchants
| of the two countries should make tho
most of the mutual good feeling that
has been promoted by their alliance in
| war.
! Among the gallant Americans who
returned by the Rotterdam are Lieut..
| Sumner Sewall, who won the Legion of
| Honor and the CroiX de GueTre, bring
Ing down officially eleven Boche planes.
He flew with the French originally. lie
never received a scratch.
Lieut.. Col. r. II. Dunlap was the only
officer of marines who commanded a
field artillery. brigade. He went over
with Gen. Pershing. Lieut.. Irving
Crowne of Forest Hills. l.. l., won the
Croix de Guerre by shooting down a
Boche plane. Later he got leave of alb
sence and utilized il by joining the in
fantry and going over the top with
them.
Won the Legion of Honor.
Capt. A. ]. O'Keerfe OF Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan. has the Legion OF Honor
insignia. won at Buzancy on July 49,
when lie led 200 soldiers In an effort to
take the town. When they reached its
outskirts the next day there were only
thirty whole men left. The others had
melted before the machine gun and artil.
lery Are. and their commander had been
shot twice. lie improvsed "a crutch
from a piece OF timber and limped al
tke heaus0l lis steadiast~s10l into he
town, which they held until assl3tass.sa
came. -.-
Lieut.. Charles FriZell of 100 Riverside
Drive, fghting with the Thirty eighth
Infantry. was wounded in the left leg al
Chateau Thierry and taken prisoner. lie
was without treatment month, being
shifted about to various camps until he
fell In with an Ialian army medical Of
ficer who gave the wound attention.
Forty officers arrived by the steam
ship Sixaola, including capt. Jess NJ
West, hit by machine gun bullet al
Chateau Thierry and later wounded ir
the left arm by fragments from IA hlgt
explosive shell In the Argonne. He hat
led his command over the top before be
ing knocked out.
Lieut.. Mulberry OF Company I, 1851
. Infantry. Fortieth Division. was OF 9
raiding party OF 1870 men and four OF
ficers of the Thirty-third Division of tn,
, French army and three American officers
. He was gassed and wounded twice IL
the attack and won the Croix de Guerre
!, The raiders accomplished their object
taking seventy Germans.
Held on Check Forgery Charge.