Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1928, Page 36

88 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1928 MOLTENLAVARUINS TOWN IN SICILY Mascali and Fertile Country- side Swept by Flood From Mount Etna. Y By the Assoclated Press. CATANIA, Sici November 7.—A | stream of molten lava pouring from | Mount Etna today was Sweeping through | the town of Mascali and the fertile | countryside, leaving dostruction in its | ‘wake. | The lava struck the town of 10,000 inhabitants shortly before 8 p.m. last | night just after the townsfolk had fin- | ished celebrating the fete of their pa- | tron, St. Leonardo, whose statue was | carried to Sabity on the shoulders of | four old men. t The lava swept into the principal square of the city and then flowed *oward the sea, about two and a half miles to the east. another stream of lava divided after atriking the railroad line around the foot of the mountain. One current turned toward Santa Venera and the other toward Nunziata. The stream going toward Nunziata destroyed numerous gardens end burn- | { #d many trees. It flowed over the car- riage road near Peidimonte, which was | chocked with vehicles of all des tions bearing the popuiation to ‘The scene was reminiscent of thos ‘wartime, when villages near the line of fire were being evacuated. MEXICAN REBELS SLAIN. Two Chieftains Also Surrender to Federal Forces, MEXICO CITY, November 7 (#).— Dispatches from Guadalajara today that numerous insurgents had been killed at Mesa de la Cucharilla, when they were defeated and dispersed. The number of casualties was not stated. The insurgents were led by Primitivo | g SR Marron. Chieftains Rafael Lomeli and Jesus Alvarez surrendered to federal forces at Jalostotitlan. e i i Italy now demands that all regula- tions concerning the admission of chil- dren to motion picture theaters be m at .the entrances of the play THE EVEN The Crisis. on secing the group of women standing outside that door of her apartment, evidently wait- LIVE TOWNSEND'S black eyes O registered a lock of irritation ing for her. She had no time to talk. She must give her little son his din- ner and hurry back to her husband at he sanitarium “Well, Mrs, Townsend,” one of the women said as Olive reached the land- ing, “we thought you were never com- e.” * Olive inquired, with a feel- something dreadful had hap- ned. “Your child fell off a shed this morn- ing and just about killed himself,” the women informed her in a tone, Which told Olive that she held her responsible. “I carried him across the street to the hosnital hours ago,” she continued. Without another word Olive ran down the stairs and across the street | rega to the hospital, her heart thumping madly against her ribs. “Dirk must not hear of this,” she old herself, her heart swelling with love and pity for her husband. As she followed the nurse down a long corridor to where her son lay she Emyed that God would spare his life. earful of what awaited her, yet steel- ing herself against the ordeal, she tip- toed into the room redolent of medicinal odors. “Gerald, dear!” Olive whispered, on catehing sight of her son lying so mo- ionlers upon . the little, white bad. Tenderly the patted the small, brown hand that lay outside the coverlet. 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Remember this, LISTERINE THE SAI:E ANTISEPTIC bling hands, tling through her mind. she said. “You can't!” the doctor told her. “Your presence here when the ecrisis comes may tip the scale in which your child’s life is held in the balance.” “But I must! Hell be all rightl See—he's sleeping now,” she pleaded. Then in a voice that sounded far away, her son said, “Mother.” “Mother is here,” she whispered, and dropped into the chair again. After a while the doctor left the horrible thoughts hur- “I must go,” NG STORY. | [y with pity for him that it ached with a physical ache, smooth back the light “Madame,” an interne said, looking in at the door “Dr. Saunders left word brown hair from his damp forehead. for you to stay until he sees you.” When the psychiatrist had said, | “There is a chance that a shock might correct your husband's condition,” she had taken heart. That was nine months ago. She had long sirce given | ™ igts interrupted b; ' we er thoughts were interrupted by he’,“.,fg{";, ::,‘%&:,dmnéghfi;bgfi the not unpleasant voice of Dr. unusually irritable that morning. The | Saunders. doctor at the sanitarium had telephoned her at her office early that morning. She had asked for leave and hurried out to be with him. From out of the stillness shetheard her husband’s voice repeat the"story of the “Last Pass.” It was the memory of that shock, which he had“fecei while serving as captain of a_company of infantry during the World War, that was undermining his health. “We were resting In a house in a French village in the Champaigne sec- tor. I was watching the major and lieutenant play a game of craps when a huge German ‘G. I. Can’ exploded. I was stunned by the concussion of the shell; the others were killed. When I ined consciousness I saw the major with his right arm extended over the table, his fingers half-cupped, like this, Olive.” And he would show her that not unfamiliar gesture. “Scattered about the table were paper francs, the ‘works’; and near his hand were two dice, one showed a ‘5 the other a ‘2'—a nat- ural. It was his ‘Last Pass,’ I tell you, dear.” “Mrs. Townsend,” he sald, ‘“your boy is very ill. If parents would give their children the attention they should, accidents like this could be avoided.” Olive did not try to defend herself. Those women who had been waiting for her at her door, the doctor, all seemed to think she had neglected her son. If only she dare lay bare her soul to the neighbors and sue for| rightecus judgment. Tell them that| th2 hours spent away from her child were spent at the sanitarfum with her husband of whom they knew nothing. | But she could not. The fear of the| taint of insanity made her afraid. She watched the doctor's skillful| hands dress the wounds on her son's room. Olive tiptoed to the door and looked down the corridor. A nurse was stand- ing at the farther end reading a chart. She walked back to the bed, adjusted th2 counterpane, smoothed back her son's hair. And then she was gone. Olive found her husband pacing the floor, muttering to himself. “I can't stand it another day. It haunts me. You know, Olive, it was his ‘Last Pass.’” She pulled his head down on her shoulder and smoothed back his hair. And then somcthing snapped inside Olive. Tears trickled down her cheeks, wetting her lips. Big, salty tears they were. Dirk raised his head and stared at his wife, a puzzled expression on his face, while Olive blurted out the news of Gerald’s accident. “Will he die?” he queried in a steady y. “He will get well?” she ventured. “I can't tell. He is injured inter- nally,” he answered her. A nurse glided noisclessly into the room and handed Olive a telegram. 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