Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1930, Page 33

S0 e FATHER OF SPANISH " LEGON DUE SOON Gen. Astray, Scarred in 100 Desert Battles, Hopes to Find a Certain “Yanqui.” I nish Moroceo, Africa,.! ‘With an arm shot off and | out, a bullet hole through 1 s of a hundred Gen. Jose | he Spanish on his way d to Mexico as an | sident Ortiz Rubio and the secretary of war, Gen. Joaquin Amaro. He expects to reach Vera Stptember 1 on the Alfonzo III, T in Havana August 30, and prob- &bly will reach New York October 5. ‘The general would like very much to 9:10 in the United States a certain ‘Yanqui,” one of many roamers and adventurers, who at one time or an- other have chosen, for reasons best known to themselves, 4o enlist under any name that pleased them in perhaps the hardest-boiled body of fighting men | on eapth—not - excepting th | h outfit | ides itself on being, if anything, der than the French. Yanqui” lying wounded in | 8 Spanish-Moroccan hospital and the | Wife of Gen. Millan Astray, as was her | custom, visited there and gave him a| few cigarettes, a smile, a pat on his forehead and a word of cheer. She did that to thousands. “To 20,000, all in all, T dare say.” said Gen. Millan As- tray, reminiseing. “But of all those thousands that s¥anqui did something no other Legionnaire ever did. When he could walk he went to the town market and, from his few coppers, bought a lit- tle bouquet of flowers and four pieces of candy. He limped out to my house and requested to see my wife. With great dignity, yet simplicity, he pre- sented her the little flowers and the four pieces of candy. “She was very, touched. And I was— although, of course, I could never let him know so because of discipline. Only 8 Yanqui did. or could do, that. I should love to see that Yanqui when I am in the United States—but, of course, I never will. I do not even know his name, or whether he is alive. “We have had fine ‘Yanqui’ fighting men in the legion. Some Negroes have been especially notable—black men from the south of your country., They will fight, those men. I #emember one who called himself Jack Johnson. Of course, he was not the prize fighter. 1 never had a.better non-commissioned officer. I don’t know his real name. All we ask in the legion is that a man be a soldier and indifferent to hardship and danger. We ask no other guestions. But God help the man who thinks it is a place for weaklings.” More than 15 years agp King Alfonso eonceived the idea that Spain might well organize a foreign legion, on the lines of the Prench body of tl in Spanish Africa. Millan Asf a captain of infantry, son of one of | the most brilliant police officers of’ Spain, and with a fine army record, was selected to dd the job. For 12 years he headed it, fighting African tribes- men. When, after many less serious wounds, he was one-eyed, one-armed and full of lead and dagger thrusts, spear gashes and saber cuts, the Span- ish government did something it has done in modern times to no other of its officers, Instead of retiring him as physically unfit it elevated him in the active’ army list—the highest honor |~ that could be given this fighting man. He is an inspécfor general of the army and honorary colonel of the legion which he mt.g(‘. NEW WARSHIP GROUNDED WHEN WAYS COLLAPSE French Torpedo Boat Partly in Shallow Water, Must Await Septemfer Tides. By the Assoctated Press. HAVRE, France, August 28.—One of the finest new warships of the modern- ized French fieet, the 400-foot torpedo boat Vautour, was damaged Tuesday in & spectacular accident as she was being launched. A disaster was narrowly averted in the crowd of spectators scrambling out of the way of the 2,480 tons of run- eway steel. Several persons were in- jured, though not seriously. The accident was caused by the col- lapse of the ways. The Vautour slipped and pivoted 200 feet down and finally slid partly off into the water. ‘Workmen were busy yesterday evening stabilizing the ship so as to relieve the strain on her hull. She was lying at an angle of about 45 degrees, her stern resting in shallow water and her bow perched on the ways. The ship now cannot be launchtd until the flood tides in September. The deep sea submarine Meduse was Vautour, successfully launched about the same P Gt T BROOKLYN FIGHTER SHOT ! IN AUTO BY ASSAILANT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 28.—A Brook- lyn pugilist was shot riear the heart Tuesday night by one of four men who ;r;urd him and boarded his automo- le. ‘The boxer, Joseph Silverman, 25, was taken to Trinity Hospital, where doc- tors said, he could not live. Still con- scious, he related the details of the shéoting and named his assalant, po- lice said. . Police entertained the theory the ting was the opening shot in a threatened gang .war over the slot- machine racket in Brooklyn. They said Silverman had associa with a man sus] ;t,‘tcd of controlling many of the machines. THREAT OF VIOLENCE FACING EMBEZZLER Man, Who Admitted Misuse of $211,000 Bank Funds in In- diana, Is Safeguarded. By the Associated Press. CROWN POINT, Ind, Algust 28.— Threats of violence from depositors led police to move Boleshaw Salik from the Hammond, Ind, jail to Crown Point ‘Tuesday for questioning about his con- fessed embezzlement of $211,000 frcm the Northern Trust & Savings Bank of Hammond. At the same time, authorities inti- mated that another important arrest was_expected soon on the basis of revelations by Salik, who was secretary of the bank and of the Fisst Polish Building & Loan Association. Both mssll(cuuons were closed Tuesday for audit. Meanwhile Paul Pipinski, president of the bank, was reported critically i1l since the revelations. 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