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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-27
HERO FACES TRIAL,
DESERTED TO FIGHT
Quit Navy, Joined Marines,
Confessed to the Captain
He Saved in Battle.
4,774 RETURN ON GRANT
Gen. Banding Tells How the
9th Broke the linden
burg Line.

The transport President Grant broueh.
back from Brest yesterday with her 477t
passengers. chiefly officers and men Of In.
| 164th Infantry. Brig. Gen. Albert II
Blanding. returning to his home in Bar
| tow, Fla. who believes he has rieh,
| to parade with the Twenty-seventh hi
vision here and will ask his superior,
| for permission. He was originally with
| the Florida National Guard, and a sho-t
! time after landing in France was as
signed to the command of the Fifty.
| third Brigade of the Twenty seventh ri.
vision, comprising the 196th Infantry
/ and the 105th Machine Gun Battalion.
and was with the organization from Au.
! gust 80 until November /, taking part
in it's finest achievements, including tn,
smashing of the Hindenburg line.
Having shared the glory and the har d-
ships of the New York men. the Gen.
eral seeks to turn out with them here.
lie applauded the appointment OF col
/ Berry by Gov. Smith as Adjutant-Ocn.
eral Of this State.
Number of Wounded Tremendous,
| Gen. Banding said that of the 10n0
men of the Fifty-third Brigade who
went into the battle in which the Tween.
| ty-seventh Division broke the Hinden-
burg liiIe only $500 escaped being listed
as casualties. Under his command were
regiments made up or the old Seventy
mrst regiment or this city. the Second %
| Troy 'ne fourteenth ana I"enty-thrd
OF brooklyn and the 105th Machine Gun
Battalion.
| mo regulars, no marines. no other
American fighters ever showed greater
asoiE Ut iaueu uea'h more "lIiins'y
~, az. NV sudruSluen' ne
Th ,, "nu W. N''l o'I'ouen.
| - va "'''"e" "dH ire
"NsnIi ,,, ..,....,
/ .,,,. fs,..,S 80 - "''r w 't'-
80 ,. "a eo''anH VI lue SIN'u wa
( 800 .',u -. ''a' " ''i' '"oe' y. ms
VI ,I.J SUI, ram rdr'e PACK
W. - '9o'eI W S'a,ru '''d' W co''''
, tha ',ai o' " e''", &c oi ue,e,,l''s ION
g." tee'uen, oI mo
| ~, t.,s US, 10, '.',''y7 w."
| ~ 'eateu ~ n'o N"iu' GUS revoru IL
,,.ho,I '., g. !. o''.s 10 s'.u
- sseu tos w ON ,'"SpoIt dlle
i o 1 I'm 'ue,t's panneu CIV e.eae'Hs
! w., h,n 80, $3.50 ~ nes' .,IS
| .,..; '.s Iio.".. Pn nau 1oIneu '.e
.tat,,.es ', I'st' 80 ep''' s'eH as no
p =. 1oseph' "i'er '"e war iaudl's
- "''''
Con.cicncc stirred nv I,I,c,
| WINE the PRESIDENT Grant was in TINS
! port IN ue summer or 1917 CoTnelus de-
serted ana joined the marines under an
assumed name. lie WIS among the iTst
| 10 get INTO action. Al Chateau 1hierE
ne was wounded while bringing his com
| mahder' capt. Joseph #. Gargan. hack
10 salety' CAPT. Gafgan was caught IN
an ambush while ralding machine Ein
| hes's' IN september 'ornenus We
|
hoSpl'aI IN fariS' "here he met can.
uargan' Ills conscience was stirred ny
| ms Illness ana lie confessed 10 the 'aN'
| Ia'h 'hdt ne vas ues'rter from i.e
| navy. AFTER ne was Wen ehoheA 10
| lrdNel ne was sent 10 bfeSt ana ''s
uaNal au'hor'tieS "ueed MN mere 10.
| ria''
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-27

I'ouTrANn. Fsn o6--Thc Essen
the second hospital ship IN Leave llf
pool for this port with wounded -.
DIAN soldiers Is expected 10 arrive h''
March 4. according TO advicos ro'ciNel
to-day. The steamship has 700 Nolaa' )
mon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-27
Private Detectives at Work.

Details Of the thing which Pratts rel
stives will claim is the real reason for
the chauffeur's disappearance are said
TO have been unearthed in the South
Norwalk Sicilian colony by agents OF the
private detective agency which has been
engaged by the family to seek to unravel
the mystery of the young mans disap-
pearance.
Between the time Pratt was first re-
leased on $1,000 bail and rearraigned
Tuesday. he visited Pratt's Island, of
Darien, where his mother owns a sum
mer cottage and where II was at first
believed by the police that the missing
man had been murdered.
Mr. Unger and Detectives Armstrong
and Andrews of the automobile squad
spent the greater part OF the day on
Pratt Island yesterday, but no traces
~ Coppoias body were discovered, They
we're fraHNk adwSSX night that the
possibilities OF the island had been eX-
hausted without even satisfa ctorily es-
tablishing the fact that murder had
been committed. DR.. Otto Schultze.
medical examiner for the District At
torney's office, declared that stains
found on n rowboat at the Pratt hunga-
low had been analysed by him and that
they actually were blood stains.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-27

F. n. Pratt declared yesterday that his
brother came to New York early on the
day in question. and that a waitress
would be produced at the proper time
who would testify to having served him
luncheon some time around noon. she
Vas able to remember him. the accused
mans brother said. because he had
'jollied" her during the meal
Arthur. according TO his brother. also
visited an unnamed business establish
ment in the vicinity of Central Park to
have a toy belonging to his 6-year-old
son repaired. He said the salesman who
waited on him would swear to his pres
ence there and that this would be fur
Their corroborated by young woman
clerk She remembered it was Friday.
the 18th. +. O. Pratt said. because she
had an appointment with a dentist that
day and left to keep 1t Immediately at
ter his brother called.
DO you believe the story your brother
told about meeting Rosenthal In the park
and buying the car OF hlm?" F. o. Pratt
was asked
NO" he answered II think he is
keeping something back Monitor 1.-THE
Pratt Attorney doesn't think he had
anything 10 do with Copollas disappear
ance, but that he is foolish"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-27
PRATT HAS ALIBI
IN COPPOLA CASE
Asserts He Was in New York
at the Time Of Alleged
Murder.
NEW WITNESSES APPEAR
Taxicab Driver Last Seen
With Man and Woman as
Passengers.

II Charles Coppola, the young Italian
taxicab driver OF South Norwalk, Conn.,,
who has been missing since Friday.
February ~, were actually murdered
the crime. must have been committed
some time between and 4 o'clock that
afternoon, according to conclusions
reached last night by detectives investi-
eating the case. In that event. 1t is a sserted
that Arthur William Pratt, who has
been arrested on charge of stealing the
| missing mans car and attempting to sell
| 1t In this city, can produce perfect
alibi.
Pratt. who is the son Of a wealthy
New York woman who has a house at
Darien, Conn, Is out on 5000 bail, his
| bonds having been increased from 81 900
| by Magistrate Marsh in the Yorkville
court Tuesday after a statement by AL
bert b. Unger Assistant District At
torney, that the evidence pointed
strongly TO homicide" and TO Pratt's
| implication in the supposed slaying. He
! will be rearraigned before Magistrate
Marsh at 2 o'clock to-day. when 1t is
expected that the state will ask fol, n
further continuance, a request that his
brother, F. o. Pratt, a New York
Jew eller. said yesterday would not meet
| with opposition by the defendant.
Mystery Surrounds Passengers.
Coppola, according to witnesses found
yesterday by the detectives. was last
| seen about o'clock the afternoon OF his
| disappearance. Miss Elizabeth Coppola,
\ a sister of the chauffeur. said she saw
her brother with four girls In his cab at
49, 55 o'clock and that they were near
the Washington Bridge in South Nor
| walk Two of his fellow chauffeurs de-
clared that five minutes later Coppoa
| drove by with man and a woman as
passengers. No one has been found VINO
saw him after that and the identity OF
! his fares has not been esta blished
J 1t is alleged that around 4 o'clock the
| same afternoon Pratt drove w to the
/ Automobile Bureau of the Secretary OF
| States Office at 127 West Sixty-1fth
, street. where he discarded the Connect
cut license plates on the machine and
| obtained a New York number-190-630--
| under the name OF Harry Clark OF
Pelham. The trip in from South Nor
walk would have taken approximately
| AN hour and half IL no stops had
| been made
Shortly after this 1t Ia alleged that
Pratt drove the machine to Arthur Wei
| sells garage on East Sixty-fifth street.
near Second avenue, and offered to sell
1t. The car was valued at 1850. pu.
| Pratt. according TO the garage Keeper,
agreed to let It go for s325. Twenty-Five
dollars was paid to him and when he
returned for the remainder ne was ar
rested Weisels having become suspi-
| cious because OF his readiness to sell
for such a low price. 1t was not until
atterward that II developed that the ma =
chine belonged to Coppola and that the
latter was missing. rratt denied he
had stolen the car and said he had
bought 1t of a man named Rosenthal in
Central Park. He also said he had no
knowledge of Coppola whereabouts
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

ovens to make gingerbread. The old
grandmother eaten alive by wolf
that tries to eat little girl alive is
classic pabulum for babies. What
worse can the movies offer?
For nearly a hundred and fifty
years the whole world has loved Feni-
more Cooper for his stories of Indian
atrocities, scalpings, torture-dances
gun and tomahawk and arrow play Be
fore that there were the religious
stories, the books of martyrs, the his
tories, Of saints. plueked with red-hot
pincers and broken on wheels and fed
to lions The vivid pictures Of hell
fire were always kept before the
young. Nurses of all times and chimes
have always apainted pictures Of
demons to Brighten their charges into
submission Few mothers have been
above the use of that most terrible
before little savage child
rem were subjected to the depriving
influence of motion pietures-Rupert
Hughes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
Children and the Movies

My benighted youth had no such
luxury as moving picture shows,
though l used to see niger minstrels
and small town plays as often as they
struck town.
But what on earth can one fear
from the movies when one considers
what the pre-movie children were
brought up on? From time immemo-
rial children have been threatened
with orgies and witches that eat chill
dren alive or change them to toads
Grimm's Fairy tales and many others
are too hideous to read to young chill
dren nowadays. when we have learned
that abject terror is not the best pap
for infants.
Jack the Giant Killer, Jack and the
Beanstalk, Hop o. My Thumb and
other nursery pets describe cannabal-
istic orgies, the mastication of raw
children, or the thrusting of them into
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
ANOTHER OMAHA
WOMAN ATTACKED
News of Fresh Outrage Is Suppressed
for Fear of a Renewal of
Riotnq

Omaha, Neb., Oct, 1.-Another Grim
inal assault on a white woman by a
negro was made here today when an
unknown man attacked Mrs. N. G.
1 Wisner in her home at 1892 Burdette
street in the afternoon. News of the
outrage was kept from the public less
1 it provoke more rioting, and Gordon
CT regular troops has been thrown
around the black belt on the edge Of
which the victim lived.
When the negro entered the Wisner
home he threatened TO kill two
little Wisner children. Mrs Wisner
offered him money to leave. Instead
he attacked -the. Woman. The children
ran screaming from the house as soon
as they dared and aroused the neigh
bors.
The negro escaped according 10 one
report Another says that he had been
arrested and taken to the State Peni-
Tertiary at Lincoln, Neb Neither can
be confirmed,
As public sentiment in Omaha is al
ready greatly inflamed the afternoon
newspapers suppressed the story to
prevent more trouble with mob yiol-
ence.
As soon as the news of the attack on
Mrs. Wisner reached the authorities
1000 Federal troops were called out
and paraded through the business part
Of the city. Machine gun sections
were sent to the prominent corners
and the guns We're mounted on tops
of buildings which commanded squares
and assembling places After half an
hour The troops were withdrawn and
sent to the uslay stations.
Today has marked a new step in
the riot case. Wholesale arrests are
being made by the army
General Wood called 800 members
of the American Legion and gave them
these Instructions:
When you go to make an arrest
use no more force than is necessary
and use all the force that is necessary.
Remember you are sent for a certain
man. Come back with him. Bring
him in alive, if possible But bring
him in"
More than 100 arrests have been
made so far No charges have been
made against any of these men, but
all are marked Held for investigation"
a list of 800 names which had been
on the police books. The police have
All of the 800 are supposed
to have taken part in the lynching of !
Brown or the rioting that followed. |
They are being arrested as rapidly as
they can be found. ts
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers
Homemade sausage and home pork
q Oh, 10. - ..l-1at IL.

Homemade sausage and home pork
at Shanahan's market. ADV.
Mrs. Harriet Wood from Pownal
and Mrs. Sarah Cranston spent the
day with Miss Lillian Harbour.
Mrs. Helen Waite and daughter,
Mrs. John Knapp, have returned from
a visit with relatives in Greenfield
New Corners and visitors will be
more than welcome at the church of
their choice ON Come-to Church Day
next Sunday.
Elmer Mattison has so far recov-
cred, following an operation at the
Putnam Memorial hospital, that he is
able to be ont Of doors,
Ccme-to-Church Day should appeal
to everybody in this new era of drives
and seeing things through. Let each
church strive to 90 "over the top"
next Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Wayne Morse and son
Kennon. Mrs. C. s. Morse, c.. N.
Morse and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Mattison, were among those to
attend the fair in Brattleboro on
Wednesday,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS
Eastern, crecian, Roman and Anglo
Saxon Civilization Influenced It.

Eastern, crecan, Roman and Anglo.
Saxon Civilization Influenced 1t.
"Cypus, fairy land of the Mediter-
ranean, exemplifies a bromide, for the
fiction in Shakespeare's 'Othello for
which the island in part, is the set
ting, is no stranger than the vivid
drama of actual history enacted
there says a bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographic society.
Richard Occur de Lion wrested it
from a ruler who had won it by forg-
ing letters in his monarch's name, af-
ter that ruler, Isaac Comnenus, had
refused to let the crusaders ship
wrecked and seasick lady love land
there the first time she asked.
Richard married Berengaria there
and went his way after turning over
the island to a penniless adventurer.
Guy de Lusigran, who founded a 'feu-
dial State amongst spice gardens and
silken luxury and thus established a
dynasty which has been described as
the most romantic in European his
tory.
Cyprus bulks large in the crotch of
Asia Minor, like huge fist with a
lean finger pointing straight at An
tioch. Historically. one may imagine,
the finger should be crooked a bit
more, in perpetual accusation of the
Sultan, the degenerate Selim H.,
whose generals captured the island,
impelled in part, at least, by the fact
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

irregularities \ n q
pain, | had one
physician after an
other but they did
me no good. Tread
a b out Lydia E.
Pinkham's We gee
table Compoundand
gave tia trial and in
a short time | felt
benefited and a m
now feeling fine,
and without weak
ness orpain. Many
of my friends have
also taken Lydia Z.
Pinkham's We e e.
table Com pound
and been helped by
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

to that of Delaware and Rhode Island
while its total population is about
half that Of the latter State, Greek
of almost classic purity is spoken
''The people follow agricultural pur
suits, along primitive lines, and until
recently the famed Syprian wine had
its flavor affected unpleasantly by the
use of tarred skins as carriers. Among
the other products are grains, vet
ches. and carobs. the locust beans
which John the Baptist is supposed
to have eaten while in the wilderness.
Marble is quarried. asbestos is found,
salt is produced, and there are sponge
fisheries, but the copper, from which
the island derived its name, has been
exhausted"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
Lad selIms favorite vino eame from

that Selims fayorite Wine came from
there. Geographically, the nromon-
tory marks the line OF Cyuru S pre-
historic connection with Asa main,
/ land
There. too, reigned the autiful
Queen Catherine Corrara loDted
daughter of Venice, Who, hough
grief stricken by her husband death
struggled against intrigue that the
throne might be saved for his unborn
child
Early came to Cyprus those Yam
KEGS of the Leyant,' the Phoenicians.
Sargon, the king Of Assyria, who. as
Isaiah had prophesied, led the Egyp-
tians prisoners, and the Ethopians
captives'. also conquered Cyprus.
Ear-haddon, the. Caesar and Carnegie
of Assyria. who left at Nineyeh an in
dexed library of many thousand of
clay tablets, received tributes from
10 Cyprian kings
"Pausanias. Benedict Arnold of
Sparta, liberated Cyprus from Persian
dominion, and Evagoras, one OF the
island kings, hero of the worlds first
NUN ~ tltNl amy pNAutN IVY lsON4dN-
es, united the scattered principalities,
is the king Arthur Of island tradition.
Thus Cyprus wreaks with compos-
its memories of eastern, Grecian, Ro-
man and even Anglo Saxon civiliza.
ton. No less was it focal point for
religions.
"At Kouklia, where certain tides
still pile masses Of foam along the
shore Aphrodite is supposed to have
been born of the waves Here are
ruins of a temple for her worship
where originally fetes were held
which, as one writer puts it, were
the scenes of too literal worship of
Venus and where, until recently it,
was the custom to immerse a maid in
honor of the goddess birth.
'Kouklia is on the site of the anc-
lent Paphos; the Paphos of today was
the one-time Neapaphos where ST.
Paul struck blind the sorcerer Ely.
mas, and converted Sergius Paulus.
the Roman deputy
THE present day Larnaka is on the
site of the Biblical Chittim, whose
ships are mentioned by Daniel and
whose ivory is referred to by Ezekiel
In Larnall is the tomb of Lazarus.
who after being raised from the dead. |
became bishop of the renowned city. /
"The area of Cyprus is about equal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

it. Mrs. MARGARET NESS, 1916 b,
Hazard St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Women who suffer from displace-
ments, Irregularities, inflammation,
liberation, backache,. sideache, head
aches or "the blues" should not rest
until they have given this famous root
and herb remedy, Lydia e. Pinkham S
Vegetable Compound, a trial. If
complications exist, write Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for
special suggestions. The result Of its
long experience is at your service.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

There remains to ms great 1Gty OF
l2icnse and preservation; and there
IS open to ug also a noble pursuit, to
which the spirit of the times strongly
invites US. Let us advance the arts OF
peace and the works Of peace. Let us
develop the resources OF our land, call
forth It's powers, build up it's instltu.
tons, promote AL its great interests,
and see whether we, also in our day
and goncration, may not perform
something worthy to be remembered
Daniel Webster
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
R. o. T. C. UNIT ASSURED
Over 100 Men Sign Up for Military
Training at College.

Middlebury Sept. 30.-Over one
hundred men have been enrolled in
the K. o. r. C. at Middlebury College
and unit is practically assured. AT
first it was thought that the college
would be without military training
this year when Captain Ferguson,
who was in charge last year, was re
called and discharged
The football squad was strength
ened yesterday by the return to col
lege of Earl Good, formerly of the
class of 1918 and Robert Aldrich of
the class of 1919. Dlving the war
these men were in the navy. Tony
Good played end on the team which
beat the University OF Vermont IN
1917.
The mems fraternities of the col
lege are making final rushing plans
before pledge day which is tomorrow.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
Vad's Express

Interstate express makes daily trips
between North Adams ana Benning-
ten. Slate for orders at Cullinan's
market Tel him. North Adams
telephone number is 1891.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
II SUFFERED
SEVEN YEARS"
Was Eventually Cured by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.

Philadelphia, Pa. 81 suffered for
seven long years with lame back,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-07
FLOOD CITY WITH
RED

Handbills in various foreign Ian
guaRes were scattered all over the
southern part of Gary yesterday. ad-
vertising a meeting OF the Reds to be
held at Roumanian hall on Sunday.
May il. The hall is owned by the Tri-
Color 81. Ind. Romans Company. OF
which Andrew FIesher. n Gary bust
ness men. is president. The building
Is leased by Sofron Bontea and upon
learning that a meeting was adver-
tised for next Sunday Mr.. FIesher Inn
mediately served notice on the lessee
that II he allowed a meeting OF the
Reds his lease would be forfeited and
he would be elected from the building
there being no clause in the lease pro-
hibiting the holding OF any unlawful
meeting in the building.
Mayor Hodges and Chief Of Police
Forbis have given orders for the police
TO arrest all persons caught distribut-
ing handbills calling any meetings Of
the Reds at any date in the city of
Garay.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-07
CHICAGO
Transfers
On STRIKE
Labor Trouble in Twin City
Results in Deadlock; the
Drivers Want SixSy-fve
Cents an Hour and Eight
Hour Day.

Trouble has arisen between the coal
feed, lumber and building material men
and their drivers as members Of the In
t~ernationsl brotherhood Of Transfers.
LEGAL No. 529. East Chicago.
The trouble IL due to a deadlock over
the demand of the local that the drivers
he paid 65c an hour and given an eight
hour day.
Up to April 1st a contract has been
III force which provided that teamsters
should receive Soc an hour on a ten
hour day. This contract was made on
April 4. 1917. and was 10 run for Two
years. The war came on, however. and
everything increased in cost 50 abb
normally thai the dealers allowed their
drivers up to 45c an hour on a ten hour
day. This was being paid by a MAORI
ty Of the dealers on April 1 1919. w1en
the old contract expired
In renewing the contract. the teams
tiers asked for an increase Of about zoe
an hour over present prices and a re-
duction in the length OF the day. THIS
reduction from q ten hour day TO an
eight hour day does not necessarily
mean that the drivers DO not want 10