Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 12

/7 DESPERADD SEEKS CURE BY ORERATION Roy Gardner, Backed by Captor, Asks Surgeon o End Brain Pressure. Press. Ga., November one of the most spee s turned out by the Jing to have sur-| sons try to cut the thing out of his rin that makes him a criminal- is ner is going to take thi » surgeon’s knife if he ey, the Washing- ptured him, h is the! d hero of sev frraising escapes from the law, ! the man who walked Into in Centralia, Wash., and without even pulling a gave half the reward to destitute wife and child a he received it. Then began to study Gardner's wild oscapades, which ranged from stick jug up trains to some of the most | cperate escapes any criminal ever sande 1 he decided that Gardner 2ad be; ane since the day the Jack his head was crushed by u in Arizona ward for Cure. send the rest of » have the Gov wrdner as a pati Today Son. 3 s only one thin dime left the §3,000 he got for ¢ and has just finished a trip the continent to interview John W. Snock, of the At Janta Federal Penitentiary, possibility of having performed on Delief is that if the depressed bone a! take the lamoring for it. the bruin | 8. Sonney, who probably knows mors ibout Gar r than any man living. sketched the bandit's eer Jjust aft an interview with the warden. He de. Clared that Gardner comes of a kood tamily and has a college ind that it was not until af: ury in Arizc criminal Skull Badly Crushed. “His skull was so badly crushed,” said Sonney, “that many stitches had to be taken to keep the brains from oozing out of the hole in the back of head “Dmring the Madero administration n Mexico he smuggled arms across the border—seemingly just for the ex- ‘ In 1920 he disguised him- negro and held up a truckload ail on the way from aneisco Post Office. He hid he money in bushes near Delmar, Calif., and hung around until he was captured and the money recovered. he was being hurried to San @ notion that he wanted to see his wife and baby, and in spite of the fact that he was hand cuffed and guarded by four officers, he snatched a gun from the belt of one of then held up all four, made an- other prisoner unlock the handcuff: and escaped Escapes Twice More. ‘Later on 1d up the Pacif Limited, and so: tured in a little tow! - the & of the hold-up. He v McNeil's Island train w s. shackles Orego s leg. Before board he train he managed somehow to | ‘rete a pistol under his arm, held up the officers, made them loosen him and escaped 1 captured him without any trou- ble In Centralia, and he was taken safely to MeNeil's Island that time. But he hadn’t be there long before he made one of the most sensational escapes in prison history. Two pris- on teams were playing a base ball| ame in a wire inclosure when Gard- ner and seve other prisone rushed for the wire, cut it, and dashec in of shots. One man illed and three were recaptured, but Gardner got away to Mexico, where he remained until a longing to see his wife and child brought him back. He was captured the last { time in Phoenix. Ariz. “The man's mind is wrong, or he wouldn't have taken foolish chances he has. That S say something should be done about lifting the bone that's pressing on his brain. 1 believe the surgeons change him into an honest man. they ought to be allowed to try GLOWING TRIBUTE PAID D. C. WOMAN IN PARIS Mrs. S. R. Fuller's Funeral Rites Made Eloquent by Russian Exiles She Had Aided. Dr. S. Richard Fuller, 1607 Twenty- second street. has received a clipping printed in the Paris edition of the New York Herald and written by admirer of his late wife, M Derby Fuller, who dled at on September 3 last. Mrs. as well known in Washington. The article follows: “To those who find our post-war world wholly materialistic, wholly cyni- cal, wholly disappol 1hat to do or even to attempt to do for others s but to earn their ingratitude what revelation it would have been to attend the memorial mass for the late Mrs. S. Richard Fuiler, at the Russian Church in the Rue Daru, on Sunday. “*Mr Fuller, during three-year residence in Paris had given of her means, her time, her heart, to the suffering of the Russian exiles strug- gling so desperately to establish them- selves in foreign lands. On her return 10 America, although in failing health, she continued her efforts to ald the cfugees, even up to the last hours of her life. Particularly had she inter- ested herseif behalf of officers of the wounded and azed by their sufferings. “During five years, in several lands, has been m ee to hear the Russians sing in exile. Thus their Jarvelously beautiful sacred chorals not unknown to me. Yet nothing 1 had ever heard touched in sublimity the solemn mass of Sunday. Like the tones of a great organ the voices rose and fell, and, at times, Joated on and up, and up. one felt to the very throne of God. the glorious voices, in the solemn requiem mass, prayed for the succor, for the keeping of the soul of the dead, aged men, tears streaming from their eyes, prostrated themselves before the altar and prayed for their departed friend. {UGENTA 8. BUMGARDNER."” American trucks are Influencing people of India to use mofor car froight transportation, | | one of t Sl wil L n 1908 that he turned afterward was cap- | who argue | ¥ {a reorganization of the national pro- | ! | Has Leading Role \ | S, HE i vvakoH, \COMEDY IS PLANNED BY CHURCH PLAYERS St. Anthony's Actors to | | *Clarence” Two Evenings and il i at Special Matinee. i | St. Anthony’s Players are ready to | produce Booth Tarkinston's - " a comedy in four acts, tomor ¥ nights in their th and Monroe streets rtheast matinee performan: Pl | will be given this afternoon for the ters of Washington i J. Herhert Walsh taking the | eading role as “Clarence.” Thomas Trodden, well known in the dramatic ircle of Central High School, will be stars in the production, as RBishop and Anna May | Fitzmorris. The latter two have taken {part in many of the local amateur production! the past four years. Other o > teatured in | the 1 rude Dove, i Rose orris, Dorothy Muckel bauer. nk, Bernard Con- | nelly Stephen Trodden Miss Ida Mae Madigan is lay 'COLUMBIA HOSPITAL | . GIVES 18 DIPLOMAS Graduation Marks End of School of Nursing Due to Inade- quate Quarters. | i | 2l ecting Eighteen members fo the graduat- | ing class of the School of Nursing of |the Columbia Hospital for Women were awarded diplomas at commence: ment exercises in Rauscher’s Wednes | day night. An address y Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, i the prominent part that nursing has | taken toward the increase in the ayv. | erage life of women, from 44 to 36 years, during the last 40 vears. " Diplomas were awarded by Rabbi { Abram Simon, president of the board | ot directors of the s who also ided by spital pins to the graduat ) Cresson Newbold, president of th nen's hoard of Columbia H. Newbold also presented the Skin- | ner medal, for demonstration of quall- | ties of effict to the winner, Miss | Miidred Marie Purcell of this city The graduating class was composed | of the following: Miss E Brown, Round Hill. Va. 5 J | Bream Barb, Berwyr Miss | Louise Sharon Derflinger, Bluemont, { Va.; Miss Aileen Hargrave Derflinger, | { Bluemont, Va.; Miss Elizabeth Jane | { Fishpaw, Ber! ile, Va.: Miss Mar | jor Anne Guindon, Washington; | s Katie Pauline Hern, White Sul- | Spri W. Va. Miss Bessie | | E - . Clinton, Mo Hazel Marie Rees, Mansfield, Ohio; Miss Mildred Smith, Dundalk, -Md.; | Mis Susan S Evansville Ind.: Miss Ruth Smith, Madison, N. | C.. Miss Mabei Sites, Upper Tract, | W. Va., and Miss Ella De Lena Sites, | CUpper Tract, W. Va. | On completion of the formal exer-! | cises a reception was tendered to the graduating class and their friends by Miss Alma Corbitt. superintendent of | nurses, her staff. | The commencement exercises mark- | «d the discontinuance of the School | of Nursing, due to the lack of proper | { housing fties for student nurses . It was pointed out, however, that | it is hoped that some time in the near | future, when adequate housing factli- ! ties are available, that the school will again be opened as a post-graduate { senool, to give speclal training in the | nursing of women. Marie “Washingto Miss | | |RECIPROCITY IS URGED IN UNIVERSITY FEES State Institutions Gain Nothing in Long Run. Says South Dakota ! Official. | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 21.— | Reciprocity in tuition fees should be | considered by State universities, since | by raising the charges for students from other States they merely com- | pel thelr own students who go out- |side to pay higher fees, Alvin Wag- | goner, regent of education of Sout | Dakota and president of the Asso- | clation of Governing Boards of Uni- | versities, told the association. | The assoctation, composed of trus- | tees of 21 State universities, is in sesslon at Ohlo State University. The ‘proposal to establish a na- |tional department of education and |appropriate $100,000,000 for Federal States in_educational work 11 not be passed by Con- | Waggoner said, although |gram is likely to be made. |AUTO DEALERS BANQUET. | Hold Annual Meeting at the May- flower Hotel. Thomas T. Mott, president of the Washington and Virginia Motors, Inc., ! | was the principal speaker at the an. nual dealers’ meeting of the Wash- | ington and Virginia Motors, Inc. | the Hotel Mayflower Thursday. speakers were C. P. Gaunt, sales| | manager of the Paige-Detroit’ Motor Co.; Robert Seymore, vice president of the’ Commercial Investment Trust of New York: 1. H. Hill of the Paige- Detroit Motor Co., and C. P. Faught, ce president of the Washington and Virginta Motors, Inc. A banquet. followed by entertain-! ment, was held in-the evening. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NOVEMBER 1925 PART Velvet Rugs “Furniture of Merit” Seventh and' Eye Streets. Seamless —closcly woven——-heavy dedle grade—offering new and striking patterns of artis- tic colorings. Size 81/,x10Y%; feet, $34.00 Size 9x12 feet. ...$58.50 Wilton Rugs —heavy quality, with fringed ends—rich color effects in new dcsigns. 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