Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 10

0 FI NFE WSES | YOUNG TRAVELER | Eilery Walter Tells of Nar-| s . | row Escape in Trip | Around World. i Ellery Wash.. a £pirited years, who on his trip around the world on one leg. had a poisoned knife hurled | at him by a superstitious Fiji Islander. | stopped off in Washington yesterday | viciting relatives and friends. Hobbling along on crutches smazing cncrgy. the young man, whom Mussolini called 2 urer.” still is suffering from the results of the twenty-second operation follow- | ing an injury to his left foot while on | the crew at the University of Was ton. But he bravely planned to s today on a trip to Chicago, where he will enter on a whirwind lecture tour of y the Middle West 1 Worked Way on Trip. ! Although losing his foot in Honolulu, | Hawaii, from infection, and suffering | intermittently ever since, with anuther‘ operation about a week ago, the student and adventurer not onlv worked his | way around the world, but went back during the past Summer to renew old friends, and visit some of the great per- sonages of Europe. While there he saw Mussolini, President von Hinden- | burg of Germany. the Pope, David Lloyd | George and Sir Thomas Lipton. The Fiji Islander who mistook him for a “one-legged devil,” eouldn’t un- derstand. Walter said. how ‘any one| £hould be able to get about on one foot. | Al the islanders died when they lost A leg. He was seated in a hut with Jack Gregory. internationally known | cricketer of Australia. far off ghe beaten trail in the Fiji Islands where they had gone to see real Fiji village life. the adventurer related A figure flitted past the doorway of the hut and “zing." something whizzed past. It struck be- tween them in the matting of the hut. | Knife Dripped Poison. When they pulled it out. he saw the long. sharp, wooden knife of the jslander, dripping and stained with fa- | tal poison, with which they dispatch | their enemies. One deep scratch from | that knife would have bgen the end. Walter said. Their guide had difficulty explaining that Walter with his one lee. meant to bring no malediction or curse upon the village, but was a jriendly traveler, not an evil spirit, reincarnated from the dead. Working his way around the world with his physical handicap appeared to be good sport to this young man, who said he had tried all kinds of work from tutoring children in English families, w serving as a “night watchman in Alaska when there wasn't any night.” | He also has worked in the ofl fields of Tampico, Mexico, where in earlier days, | he said he saw Pancho Villa. | He left Seattle on his world girdling | tour with two legs and $15, but when he got back, after traveling 45,000 miles, he had one leg and $16. Walter. of Seattle, CADETS WILL MAN Fort Myer Regiment Not to Be Utilized for Training of West Pointers Next Year. Announcement is made at the War Department that the 1st Battalion of | the 16th Field Artillery at Fort Myer, Va. will not be utilized for the Field Artillery training of the cadets of the first, class of the West Point Military Academy at Fort Eustis, Va., in the 1929 training season. The loeal troops were used at Fort Fustis during the artillery practice of | the cadets last Summer, but it has since | been decided on the recommendation of the superintendent of the Military | Academy that hereafter the cadets shall | man the batteries completely, including | the tractors, and that the use of en-| Jisted men other than for upkeep and | administration shall be kept at a mini- mum. Field Artillery material will be maintained in storage at Fort Eustis for the use during the training period, in- | cluding thirteen 77-mm. French guns, twelve caissons and fourteen 5-ton trac- tors. According to the War Department bulletin, the approved arrangement will result in a continuation during the| Summer training period of the Field | Artillery instruction carried on through- out the academic year at West Point it | will afford the desired training of cadets | in the operation of tractors, it will not | interfere with Coast Artillery training at Fort Eustis and will release the 1st Battalion, 16th Field Artillery, to the control of the 3d Corps Area com- mander during the entire Summer training season for firing and tactical training at Tobyhanna, Pa.; Fort Leon- ard Wood, Md., or elsewhere. During that period the battalion quarters at Fort Myer will be available for civilian trainees SMITH GIVES ITINERARY | FOR RETURN TO ALBANY | Expects to Visit Indianapolis on His Way From Chicago—Re- jects Glass-Cage Idea. By the Associated Press ! LOUISVILLE, October 13.—Gov. | Smith announced at a press conference | here today that he would probably visit | Indfanapolis for an hour or more on his way back to Albany from Chicago October 20. He emphasized, however, | that he would deliver no speeches on | the trip from Chicago to Albany. ! ~ His itinerary with respect to Ohio on the return trip still was indefinite, he | said, although a stop or two might be | made for rear platform appearances. The Democratic presidential nominec | also said today that he remained to be informed as to where he would make his address in Chicago October 19. He was certain, however, that it would not be Soldiers’ Field. “You might just as well talk to » group in a hotel room as to talk there| from a glass cage.” the governor said with reference to plans to overcome his opposition to outdoor speaking. CONVICTS OV.ERPOWER [ CAPTORS AND ESCAPE North Carolina Policeman Serious- Jy Wounded, Another Hurt, in Fray With Prisoners. By the Associated Press WINSTON SALEM, N. C., October 13.—Claude H. Jones of Spray, N. C., was seriously wounded and W. L. Ver- non, chief of police of Spray Leakville, was’ slightly hurt in an encounter to- with two convicts who escaped after after the fra The convicts, John Mclver and Sum- merfield Martin, were being returned from Chattanooga, Tenn., in Jones' automobile by Vernon and Jones when Martin slipped the handcuff key out of the officer’s pocket and freed him-, self and his partner. According to the report to local offi- cers, the two prisoners, riding in the seat, suddenly overpowered Ver- non, took his pistol from him and when Jones attempted to aid the offi- cer, shot him. The struggle took place &t Brook's Cross Roads near here Melver 2nd Martin were arrested in Chattorooea Eunday- for theft of an ," au‘omobile from Jones’ garage at Spray roung traveler and author of 22 ’ it (URTIS TO INVADE | travel into Ohio, probably speaking at |campaign is planned for delivery by | FIELD BATTERIES |Gis i s men ™ poabects o gl | up on personal mail and going over the 1 awaiting his attention after the month’s | Carolina late tomorrow night. | lic a telegram sent by Rep. W. W.| Slizhtly . Hoover Accepts Old Iowan’s Offer For Inauguration By the Associated Press John W. Reeder of Tipton, Jowa, who is one of the oldest men in Cedar County, where Herbert Hoover was born, has written Mr. Hoover that he will be in Washington for the inau- guration March 4, and will “hold | Mr. Hoover's hat while the cere- mony is being performed.” | Mr. Hoover has written Mr. { Reeder that in case he is elected he will be glad to accept Mr. Reeder's offer. Reeder cele- brated his 92d birthday on Thursday with a big reception attended by about half the population of Tipton. SOUTH THIS WEEK Will Speak at Raleigh To-. morrow—Itinerary Inciudes | New England Cities. By the Assoclated Press. Returning to the= Capital yesterday for a breathing spell from his month's | campaigning in ths West, Senator | Charles Curtis, the Republican vice presidential nominee, found a full pro- gram in the East facing him. | The Eastern itincrary provides for 10 days in this sector and it takes the | Senator to Raleigh. N. C.. a State of the Democratic “Solid South.” for the opening shot. He speaks there tomor- Tow night and stops over en route at Petersburg. Va.. for a visit tomorrow morning. The proposed dip of the Republican vice presidential nominee into the South follows closely the visit of Herhen! Hoover to Tennessee last week. The| move is in line with the announced in- | fention of Republican managers to wage | a campaign in the Southern Democratic stronghold. Schedule for Week. i The schedule for Senator Curtis this week follows: Tuesday, Cumberland. | Md.; Wednesday, Wilmington, Del.; | Thursday, trip across New Jersey from Camden to New York by way of Flem- | ington; Friday, Trenton, N. J.; Sat-| urday, Hartford, Conn. The automobile | trip on Thursday has not received the | official approval of the Senator. He has been ordered not to do any travel- ing by automobile in order to protect | his throat from the weather. | Next week’s itinerary includes Utica, | N. Y. on Monday:; Pittsfield, Mass., on Tuesday, and Rochester, N. Y., Wed- | nesday. From there the Senator will Coshocton and Akron on Thursday. Will Speak at Trenton. The principal address of the week’s | immigration are among the subjects he is believed to favor for the North Carolina speech on Monday. ! The Senator spent the day at his| desk at the Capitol building, catching accumulation of senatorial business campaign. Mrs. Edward Gann, a sister, and a group of friends met him upon arrival here early today. He- declared himself feeling “fit” and ready for the renewal of the Republican cam- paign next week. He leaves for North COPELAND CRITICIZED FOR WATERWAY TALK Representative Chalmers Scores Reference to St. Lawrence Project as Calamity. { | | | By the Associated Press. H CHICAGO, Octobr 13.—Western Re- publican headquarters today made pub- | Chalmers, Toledo, Ohio, and advocate | of the St. Lawrence Waterway project, to Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York criticizing Senator Copeland for referring to the waterway project as a “national calamity” in a recent New | York address. | Representative Chalmers said that if the St. Lawrence project was to bei termed a national calamity, the all- ! American route sponsored by Gov. | Alfred E. Smith would be a “greater | national calamity” because he said it | would add almost a dollar to the freight cost per ton as compared with the St. Lawrence project. HANSBROUGH CHARGE' IS DENIED IN LONDON Records Disclose Hoover Held No Directorships in British Firms After 1919. By _Cable to The Star and New Ve . LONDON, Getober 13 An shvestga: tion of records here relative to charges made by ex-Senator Hansbrough showed that Herbert Hoover held.no director- ! ships in British companies after 1919.! That year he was director of the Burma | Corporation, Ltd. i In 1913, he was director of nine com-, ranics, being chairman of cne and joint managing director of another. One year later he was director of 29 British concerns. His brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover, was a director of 11 British companies in 1913 and of 15 in 1914. There is | no record of his being a director of any company in 1919 or afterward. Ex-Senator Hansborough in a recent | specch charged that the Republican |y nomince for President held the direc- | f torships of many British companies | after 1919 and owned. with his brother | Theodore. coniderable British property. HITCHCOCK i;REDICTS HUGE HOOVER VOTE! | Former Republican Chairman Says | Swing to G. 0. P. Nominee | Is Just Beginning. | - | By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex, October 13— |Frank H. 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