Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 4

| i’ 1 i | NINE HURT, TRAFFIC Bus Fells Ped-strian and| Crash of Auto and Street | i_ Car Injures Four. ‘ f i §oe persons were injured in traffi pidents in the last 24 hours, accord g0 reports to the police this morn: it bus of the Washington Railway | & Electric Co., driven by Raymond J Campbell, 618 A street northeast, m ing a turn at Fifteenth and H street about o'clock this morning. knocked Henry Acton, ’5 Benning road north- Acton was taken to Casualty 1 njured in a col- | nobile and a | enth and W | They were 34 years ol of the ma streets early last night Harrison Dixon, colored of 2429 M street, driver | chine, and three colored ¢ | Clemith Lee, Alexandria, Va.; Lil-| lian Henderson and Bessie Day. dress. Bessie Da ture of the right knee; the only slightly injured. Two Women Injured. to cross Four- y ets shortly be- fore 8 o'clock last night, Miss Dore Fellows, 48 y old, of 21 First street northeast, and Miss Harriett Fellows, 50, of 1118 F were knocked down by an automobile driven by David F. Landmar of > street southeast. They were taken Garfleld ital, where it was Dorcas Fellows had ure of the , and that Miss Harriett Fellows had a fractured hip. Landman was arrested on a charge of reckless ce Swann, colored, 'S 08 New Hampshire avenue, knocked down by a taxicab driven by Sidney L. Harper, of 318 Third street at Georgia avenue and Barry place early yesterday morning. He was treated at Freedmen's Hos pital for a fracture of the left knec and a cut on his neck. Knocked Down by Auto. Ernest West, colored, 40 vears old, of 38 Decatur street northeast was knocked down by an automobile, dr en by Harry Colvin of 247 Rock Creek Church road, near North Capitol and W streets at 10:30 o'clock last night At Freedmen's Hospital, where he was taken after the accident, physi- cians reported that he was uninjured. John L. Colbert, 48 years old, of Sol- diers' Home, was knocked down and slightly injured by an automobile driv- en by Edwin Woodward of 1301 Tay- lor street at Eighth and Quincy streets about 7 oclock last night. He was treated at Garfield Hospital. G. U. SENIOR WINS DEBATING MEDAL Joseph E. Green Awarded Mer- rick Trophy in Philodemic Society Contest. 24y Georgetown's highest scholastic honor was conferred last night on Joseph E. Green, a genior at the col- lege, who won the coVeted Merrick de- batipg medal in a close competition between members of the Philodemic Society. ‘While Green was selected by the judges as the best individual debater, he was on the, losing side of the con- test, which was decided in favor of the team opposing the Swing-Johnson bill for the construction of the Boulder Canyon dam. The decision of the judges in both instances was on a two-to-one vote. ‘The members of the winning team were F. Henry Van Ells and J. Philip Cahill, both of New York. Leo N. McGuire of the District of Columbia was Green's colleague on the affiirma- tive team. ‘The Merrick debate, the fifty-third held at the college, took place in Gas- ton Hall before members of the facul- ty and a large number of friends who were {nterested in the keen scholastic rivall which the annual contest evokes. The judges were Dr. John A, O’Donoghue, chairman; B. F. Saul and William K. Wimsatf. John D. O'Reilly I}lgre!fl\flng officer of the debate and alf the participants were members of the senior class. Joseph A. Kozak of jPennsylvania was winner of the de- ~bate last year. 1, Music was furnished by the senior Quartet, with solos by Joseph Mullen, tenor; Charles Bruns, saxophone, and Francis K. Shum:n, leader of the Georgetown Colleglans. HOGG IS HONORED. 0‘hepresenmme Hogg of Indiana awas elected president of the Indiana Soclety of Washington at a meeting Saturday night at the Willard Hotel. The former president, Representative Purnell, addressed the society on “An Interesting Trip Through Europe.” The following were elected _vice presidents: Postmaster General Harry 8. New, Senator Robinson, Represent- ative Greenwood and Representative Canfleld. Miss Mina Martin was re- elected secretary, John A. Houston financial secretary, and Victor L. Gar- rigus, treasurer. Abe Martin Says: “You mark my word, theyll be here when we're dead an’ gone,” said Gran'maw Bentley, t'day, while de- plorin’ th’ widespread criticism of our boys an’ girls. Why call it face liftin,’ when th’ face is stretched much th’ same as th’ heel of a sock over a darnin’ ball an’ anchored back o’ th' ears? opyright, 19 { THROUGH SNO TOLL IN 24 HOURS Racing Dogs |it was Big Jerry himself, the leader | | from mate to mate, letting them know THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, IDOCTOR TELLS OF 100-MILE TRIP W TO SAVE ILL BOY N Mu]e Teams and Snow S]‘lOCS Carry Relief Over Treacherous Moun-~ tain Trails to Stricken Child. NOTE—This is the personal narrative 01" ‘country doctor who. {raveling by fog“wred - dired 140 miles of 1dako woun i “roads drified deep in anotw 10 save e, lite ora boy. He didnt want fo irrite the article which follows. At Tirat he refused He vieided on'y when Je wcas convinced ihat what he had woutd: refiect The. doctor hours. considered @_record in view Ine Obstactes of storm and savage coun- iy e eroseed one " mountain * pass 17000 teel Riah BY DR. DON NUMBERS. h to The Star an ewspaper Allianc McCALL, Idaho, December 12.—At 2 o'clock in the mprning of November I was satisfied that a boy | faced death miles away in | 100 the | mountains. He lay ill with intestinal | flu and pneumonia in a shack at.the | Wordenoff Mine. The name of the boy ts Emmett Rouston. The snow was deep. Tle only way to reach that boy was by dog sled and of Roy Stover's strong team of black | and tans, that got the little town of McCall awake to what was going on. over is a racing dog driver who s no one but Jerry when a_special effort is expected of his dogs. But the big black Labrado was telling the world he dashed back and forth important business was to be done, Meanwhile, Stover was dragging out the harness for the dogs and getting the rig ready. All harness runs have a serious and dignified place in the minds of trained racing dogs. They are a concerted lot when they are working, anxious, am- bitious, often vicious. But they are honest. Stover Sure of Dogs. Stover trusted in this honesty, and was sure of their willing ability to £0 a long way as he harnessed them, hooked up the collar and lead chains and loaded them into Frenchy's big truck. The truck was used to travel eight miles to Payette Lake, where more fine dogs, the pick of Warren Brown's 1926 American derby win- ners, arrived in another truck. Here a composite team was formed —two wheel dogs, two abreast ahead of them, then two more abreast, and a single line of four on out to Jerry, the leader. We moved out into the cold night with hardly a sound, and sped through the snow toward RBergdorf. Speeding over fair stretches and slowing to a walk. on steeper climbs and in deep loose snow (in places the drifts were 10 feet deep), we were over the first lap of 35 miles in less than three hours. Keeping on, stiil breaking our own trail, we reached the Independence mine. Every man and every dog was happy that our highest summit had been passed. Our goal lay only 12 miles farther on. Our team was tired from the rough, hard going of the bad piacés. The dogs’ feet were bleeding. But not a dog was willing to quit. We really had put on too much speed over this first lap of what proved the easiest part of the journey. A piece of blanket I had worn for protection was torn off, and my heavy whip- cord breeches were worn out entirely on both hips. This was due to the scraping of the light sled against icy snowbanks. Those trousers looked as though some one had been shoot- ing through them with a sawed-off shotgun. Borrowed,New Trousers. But I borrowed a heavier -pair from Andy Casner at- P Andatier ot conell K BOKY brandy, 1 kept on. But from the springs I had only twb of the original team. Fifteen miles farther on, at Warren, we picked up two additional dogs and two expert snowshoe men, Brad Carey and Bill Roden. We were carried across the next 10 miles by mule team. This was made possible by _shallow snow. We were helped by Dan Levan, the wildest of mule-skinners, and 20 more willing horse and snow shoe men who met us by relays. They fed us and pushed us on and by Monday afternoon we were heading toward Elk Summit 11,000 feet up and usually a stormy spot. Brad Carey was now my guide. A better one, or a more considerate and faithful helper in an emergency, never lived. Stover waited benind. caring for his worn-out dogs at Bergdorf. The driving was becoming strictly my job as the most rigorous part of the Jjourney approached. My good physical condition came into service as we plodded up through the snow, sending the dogs and sled ahead of us. We all followed Carey, who with young Roden broke our trail. Boy's Father Weakens. It was snowing and the snow fell harder and harder as the ascent grew stiffer and the snow glready fallen deeper. Old John Rouston, the father of the boy I was on the way to see, was with us. Years ago he could snowshoe with any man. But as dark- @he Focning Htar ness fell and the wind increased, John weakened. “Gio on, boys," I can’t make it. Neverthele: he cried, “I'm afraid he tried desperately to follew But as he fell back and taded away in the storm and black- ness my emotion admost got me. It was one of those occasions when a man could ery—hut in the end shuts his mouth tight and keeps going. Finally we hit the top of Elk Summit. The terrific wind gave so viclous a roar and push that the crest, about 50 feet wide, held us less than 40 sec- onds. We jammed men, dogs, sled and all into a huddled bunch, sort of scrambling, grabbing af each other and at the terrified dogs. The gale blew us exactly in the direction we were heading for. It swept us off that thin ridge of snow-covered ice into banks of loose, drifted snow. We found ourselves in a tangle of men, dogs and harness. Keeping on, still breaking our own trail, cached the Independence Mine. man and every dog was happy that our highest summit had been passed. Our goal lay only 12 miles farther on. Father Follows Trail. Some one produced a flask. I don’t know who did it. That never leaked out. And then, to our amazement, John Routson came faltering in. He was weak, but game. He had followed our heaten trail more easily than he had been able to Nelp break it for the | dogs. Our-party struck out now with greater energy, almost with ferocity. Soon we left John Routson behind us again. We hated to do it, but we had confidence in his knowledge of the hills. We felt certain of his ultimate safety. ‘We plunged on down the canyon, and very, very slowly wallowed through the drifts mile 2fter mile, Two or three hours hefore I had had to discard my bear paws or snow shoes. The sled had been all that kept me on top of the snow trail. And now we saw lights of the \Vordenoff mine, where John Routson’s boy lay {ll Just as I saw their first flicker my team scraped swiftly under a fallen tree, one of many, for we were in heavy timber. And one of my ears look- ed like raw hamburger steak as the re- sult. Possibly a little frost bite has something to do with this. Stricken Boy Rallies. But we got to the mine and we got to Emmett Routson. The boy has ral- lied, and for 15 hours now he has gained steadily. To all of us, that has made up for whatever hardship the journey may have brought us. Let me say right here what I owe to the men who helped me. They have a do or dfe spirit in these mountains. Without these lads and their perfeci co-ordination in meeting me with re lays, keeping my feet from freezing and my lungs from giving out, 1 would have been a physical impossi bility for me to reach this boy at the Wordenoff mine. Handicapped as we were, mainly by lack of time for preparation, the feat accomplished by both men and dogs was one not to be expected. They got me over these mountains in unprece. dented time. . _And if Emmett Routson continues on to recovery, the thanks are due to the men who got me to his side. (Copyright. 1927 in all countri American Newspaper Aiincs e HEBREW CONGREGATION TO GREET DR.‘S'IMON £..a o bbi Returns From European Trip—Welcome Planned for Wednesday. Dr. Abram Simon of Washington Hebrew Congregation, who, with Mrs, Simon and their son, David Simon, have just returned from a 10-week trip abroad, will be welcomed home by the Brotherhood of the Eighth Street Temple Wednesday night at 8 o’'clock, when an entertainment will be_given in the vestry rooms. Dr. Simon was granted a leave of absence until January 1 by his con- gregation, following the death of his son, Leo W. Simon, young attorney. His physicians and friends advised a vacation abroad. . The program Wednesday night ‘will include a musical ensemble by chil- dren of the congregation, magical tricks by Dr. Archie Engel and songs by Royal M. Tinker. Julius Reis and Milton Korman will offer the opening and closing prayers. In honor of his thirty-fifth year of association.with the congregation Jacob Eisenmann will be presented with a gift from the brotherhood. There is a lake on the east coast of Ceylon famous for its singing fish. 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