DESERTS FRENCH EEC ION.
FLEES ACROSS SAHARA'
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LONDON, Ont.—Thomas William |
Marshall, diminutive adventurer,'
Mamet and soldier of fortune, joined i
the French Foreign Legion to get “a I
kick out of deserting.” He did. To
day his story reads like a page out of i
the most fantasti cnovel.
The Britisher joined the Royal En
gineers as bugler, in 1915, when only!
14. Since demobilization he has been!
all over the United States. Egypt,'
Canada, Germany, Central America,!
and with the Legion in Algiers and j
Morocco. His episode with the mosti
famous of the French fighting forces
was followed by a harrowing ordeal
as he walked across 40 miles of the
Sahara desert to freedom. Now he
is here with an aunt and seeking em
ployment until the wanderlust strikes
him again.
A graphic story of life in the Le
gion, where its discipline was more
than brutality, of hardships and dan
gers, are related by Marshall and a
companion, another Legion deserter
Captain J. A. Martin, formerly of the
British forces.
A few days after he joined Mar
shall decided to desert, and he did,
with a Dutchman as companion. “We
never gave up hope,” he said. “At
night I made a hole in the roof of our
quarters, my fingers running blood as
I did, and got to the ground, taking
cover in a fig tree that was just out
side. Here we stayed for a few hours,
then went on and on across the burn
ing sands. Finally the Arab forces
caught up to us, and we hid in an
other tree. My companion grew
weaker and weaker, our food supply
having been exhausted for some time.
Finally he slipped from the tree and
into the hands of our pursuers. I
don’t know what they did to him—!
probably shot for desertion.
“I dropped out of the tree later. At!
last I made my way to the beach and i
struck out into the sea. It seemed as
if it were hours later when I found
myself exhausted on the decks of an ■
English ship. They had hauled me
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out of the Mediterranean, half
drowned.
“Life in the Legion is a living
Hades. Few of the men knew
French. They could not understand
commands and were hit over the head
with a rifle butt when they didn’t
obey. Punishment of the most brutal
is common, as are suicides.
“Recruits are punished with fa
tigues for the slightest offense. We
receive only nondescript uniforms, the
poorest of foods and the worst of
treatment.”
Prior to joining the Legion, the ad
venturer was in Miami, Fla., at the
time of the boom. He worked his
way from city to city, sometimes
without a cent in his pocket, until he
landed in New York, where he shipped
on a European-bound ship.
EN D OF WORLD WOES
SEEN BY DR. MAX MASON
CHICAGO,—A,world that in time
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derstand the worninps of their own
minds, was seen today by Dr. Max
Mason, who resigned the presidency
of the University of Chicapo to be
come research director of the Rocke
feller foundation.
“We may even colonize other
planets some day,” he said. “We
know there are many thinps wrong
with the world today. What makes
men unhappy ? ” Why should men go
hungry? What is the trend of
thought in the direction of improving
the conditions that bring these things
about ?”
Such problems, he indicated, would
be studied with the resources of the!
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Because be was kind . and friendly
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mined on Galdstream and who now
lives at Martinez, California, is,richer
by $50,000, according to William Gil
cher, who got the story from the Out
side. The money was left him by
one Baumgart, a miner, who died in
apparent poverty at the,age of 85
years.
Baumgart, according to the report,
was an enigma to the countryside
where he had lived .for many .years,
but his neighbors could learn little of
his means of livelihood. His farm,
adjoined that of .Raap, and the two
men became friends, Raap extending
courtesies to Baumgart, who seemed
to be in need and dire penury. After
his death it became .known that at
his advanced age he had .walked 30
miles to an Oakland Rank .to deposit
$10,000.
He died suddenly .and ?his i)«kly was
found in his lonely cabin. On the wall
was a scrap of wrapping paper, which
•proved to he his last will .and testa
ment. In it he left .all his worldly
possessions, which investigation dis
closed included $50,000 to Raap with
out reservation. The story created
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ported, because he had prospered
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SEA WATE RGOLD FAILS
GERMAN WAR DEBT PLAN
BERLIN.—Faint hopes that Ger
many might pay her war reparations
debt with gold extracted from sea
water were dashed today by. Profes
sor Frits Haber, who lectured before
the Oceanographic ..Congress here.
Professor Haber said that any pros
pect of winning appreciable amounts
of gold from the sea has utterly van
ished.
The lecturer w on the Nobel prize in
chemistry in 1918 and is professor at
the Kaiser Wilhelm institute for phy
sical and electric chemistry. His po
sition and .reputation gave, his conclu
sions great weight with the scientific
audience.
Professor Haber said that, the pos
sibility of extracting gold from the
.oceans had long been a strong appeal
to scientists and inventors. Since
1872 some thirty extracting processes
have been patented.
When the reparations commission
in 1921 fixed Germany’s war debt at
132 milliards in gold marks, equal to
50,000 tons of gold, German chemists
again approached the alluring possi
bility of obtaining yellow metal from
the seas.
The great Swedish chemist Svante
Arrhenius in 1903 estimated that
there were eight milliards tons of
gold in the ocean. Professor Haber
said today that the highest yield ever
obtained was 60 milligrams of gold
from a ton of water. He explained
that this .was ten times. more than
Arrhenius had calculated, but he add
ed that sea water varied so extraor
dinarily and unaccountably in gold
content that laboratory experiments
had resulted only in disappointment.
Gold is there, he concluded, but the
hope that science might, make its ex
traction a paying proposition had not
-materialized.
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Joseph Oates returned tiday from
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Frank JOT. (Guskey
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McGrath, Alaska
ora’t get along with my wife.”
“Why nut?”
"All (far does is ignore me."
“Ignore yon?”
“Yes. and if there’s anything 1 dis
like, It's, ignorance.”
“I trfd my boy Josh to learn his
lessons,” said Farmer Corntossel.
“Did he obey:”
1 “Yes. And mehbe he’ll come to the
rescue of the old home. The lessons
he appears to take the most interest
in are boxing lessons.”
Store Manager — They say bru
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Qerfc—Well, my wife’s been both,
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Are. yon a Kusko Times subscriber ?
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i In the Probate Court at McGrath,
Alaska, before W. T. Vanderpool,
U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge.
Territory of Alaska. Fourth Divi
sion. Mt» McKinley Precinct—ss.
To all persons to whom these
| present* shall come—greeting: Know
ye that it appearing to the Commis
sioner aforesaid that Helen McGinty
has died intestate, leaving at the time
of her death property in this, precinct,
I, aforesaid Commissioner, have duly
appointed A- X. Grant, of Takotna,
Alaska, administrator of the estate
of Helen McGinty, deceased. This, I
therefore, authorizes the said A. X.
Grant to administer the estate of the
said ETeten McGinty, deceased, accord
ing to law. In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and offi
cial seal at McGrath, Alaska, this 3rd
day off July, A. D. 1928.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
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To H. W. Strangman, Jack Lamont,
James McHugh, J. N. Anderson,
E. Coke Hill, and all persons
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them, or any of them, and their
heirs, executors, assigns and suc
cessors in interest, greeting:
You and each of you are hereby
notified: That during eaeh of the
following annual labor years, to-vit:
the years ending July 1st, 1922, 1923,
1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, the under- ■
signed put one hundred dollars
($100.00) worth of work and improve
ments on the certain placer mining
claim on Long Creek, in the Nulato «
Recording District, Territory of
Alaska, known as Buckeye Associa
tion.
That all of said work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claim in compliance
therewith in order to hold the same
for each said year and thereafter;
That during each said year and at
all times thereafter the undersigned
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claim, and if within<ninety (90) days
after the ninety (90) day publication
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28th day of April, 1928, -you and each
of you do not .contribute to the under
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each said year, your interest in said
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undersigned. ,
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as your undivided interest in each
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