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SANTA CRUZ NEWS. SANTA CRUZ. CALIFORNIA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1928 PAGE FOUR In the Mode i AN "UNLUCKY 'H ERO" OF THE WAR ARMISTICE DAY EXERCISES HOOVER TO BE HONORED WITH PICNIC SUNDAY Ten Years After Armistice, One of Large Group Although Never Engaged in Front Line Fighting 'A 1 i 1 l. Still in Hospital Great Sacrifices, of a hill and the truck back of me lhoi-1 liail drakes. When it struck me I was thrown back in my own truck and wrenched so that I was iaid up for several days, wound in adhesive plaster.

Then pneumonia and flu got me and I spent my first ten weeks in a hospital. "I Irs was in February, after the armistice. I was sent back to the states and mustered out at Camp Upton in July. I went home for five monttis and during that time my spine was being treated, because ft was getting worse. "Eventually I was able to work again and went back to my oid occupation for more than a year.

"But early in 1922 my spine and legs gave out on me and they diagnosed the case us arthritis. "I spent li months in the Marine hospital at Buffalo, undergo-' physio-theiapy. I was just baie-ly able to gel around when I Corp. Kleck, Who Made BY KODXKY DUTCH Kit KKA Service Writer (Copyright, 1U2S, NIS.Y Service, Inc.) WASHINGTON, Nov. ,10 Ar mistice Day finds Corporal Walter A.

Kleck recovering from one more of a series of operations de- iigned to restore the use of his hips and enable him to walk. Corporal Kleck has spent more Jme in hospitals as a result of his; war injuries than any other dis- iblcd veteran now at the govern nent's great Walter Reed 'Hospi- A. He hasn't walked for five ears. Corporal Kleck has been dismaying his heroism in the ten oar3 since the war. He did not ill gloriously on the battle field, ctim of gas or shell.

That vasn his job. He was never less ban 20 milts from the fi'ont, for le was driving a supply truck and vhen he was wounded it was be- ause one truck crashed it.her. Wont Lm of All nto tn in The latest decree of fashion, if you're interested that sort thing, is the possession of a cheetah, or hunting tiger, to go about with you everywhere. It should be added that this is rendered quite sate and sane by the fact that the cheetah is well stuffed and quite lifeless. After traveling 2,378,000 miles without an accident.

John Grassie, Aberdeen, Scotland, has Just completed 55 years servlce 88 locomotive engineer and fireman, and retired. A determined effort is heing made to make Irish the national language of the Irish Free State. ni in mm Hsu- a. 1J V. j.

ii discharged, and spent eight They wouldn't move. Colonel Wil ljam L. Keller, who does the. big operations here, found there was no trace of the hip joints left just stiff and solid. "So Colonel Keller decided to give me some new hips.

Ho had to go in there and chisel where he; thought the old ones were, and1 new joints. Then he takes; and cups it, grinding tt off a smooth surface. Before finish-' i i ing he took a piece of fat from my leg and gut up in the new joint. He got a three-inch spike put It into the bone, and then he sewed me up. They won't tell me What the spike is for.

Other Ojjevations to Come "He did that to hip number one nine weeks ago. Now I can move jthat hip, and he's going after the one that was broken. has to graft a piece of my sh(n bone to put into that one and give me new joint. "After this operation they've got to go baqk to the other hip in about two months and put an-j other piece of bone In that, "If I'm lucky I won't have to use braces on my Jegs. I won't be able to work, but maybe can get around with the canes Maybe I'll be leaving in six or eight months.

"I'm lucky to come out as well as ,1 have. I realize that when I think of some of the other fel lows I've' seen especially those with families. I haven't ever whimpered much, but once I had in ere oanaaging l.u tS don't think painful than arthritis. For a year I couldn't even roll over in bed. 'But everything's been done for me that could be done, and if I get out I can do leather work, making pocketbooks and things like that, and read a lot.

I'm just tickled to death that I. can sit up in this wheel chair, and when I was out in an automobile the other day for four whole hours. the first time in a year, I had' the time of my Students in Calcutta, India, are making such disturbances In the aters that members of audiences are protesting that they cannot follow plays or pictures. Compulsory retirement of pub lie officials at the.age of 65 is be- ling adopted by cities of Scotland. and making it straight.

It was a lot more pain, of course, but you get used to it in two or three weeks. "Then they found that I had developed ankylosis in both hips. In other words, I hadn't any hips Some shoe stores in France have adopted all-steel frqnts, and are described as appearing like a cross between an aquarium and a safety deposit vault. Constantinople's new bridge across the Golden Horn will cost, more than $1,000,000. i I 1 jl II But Corporal Kleck is a victim i "Next it was thrse months at jf the war.

His sacrifice has been the Naval hospital in Brooklyn, great as anyone's, and more with more electricity treatment, ban once in these ten years it ln.s "All this time I had been in irought h.m to the brink of death, terrible pain. When this pain are many other disabled ally began to decrease I found eterans today, suffering, who ray spine had become rigid and ere not hurt, in actual combat, immovable. lome of them feel keenly the fr.ct "From Brooklyn I came here to Celebrating the election of Herbert Hoover to the presidency, a basket lunch picnic and will be held tomorrow at 1 the cfternoon. The program will include musical numbers and Recitations and a bonfire will be made. Assem blyman Bert B.

Snyder will be lope of the speakers, is planned. Coffee and cream will be served by the committee, the participants brlngfng their own basket lunches. Dean Theodore Hoover of Stan-fqrd university, owner of a large tract of land on Waddell creek leading from the beach back to the state redwood park, is a brother of the next president. The affair 'tomorrow afttynoon is the of a movement orig inating with and carried out by Dean Hoover's neighbors in the coast country. RTIST-WRITER IES SUDDENLY SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

10. Olivia Kingsland, 65, California artlat and writer, was stricken with heart disease while addressing the California Expression club here last night, and died before arrival of a physician. is survived by a son and two daughters. Scevhoslovakia exported, nearly $15,000,000 worth of linens in the past year, breaking its po3t-war records. Read THE NEWS Regularly You! hat it wasn't a instead.

Walter Reed, and here my leg3, theirs, they have often toid hos- became flexed, gradually drawing! jital officials, was the worat luck themselves up to a constant sit-j )f all. Uing position. At times I had 50 This story is of what the war pounds of weights on both legs, neant to Kleck aud, with the idea of straightening so many others. Kleck, upon: them. i told it as follows: "My home is in Niagara Fails.

Y. I wa3 a metal worker. 1 tor electric and hot bath treat-as 21 when I was drafted, sent inent. I was there 22 months and Camp Dix and then to the pain began to subside. For is a member of the 312th supply; the first 15 months I was in bed, I was put to driving a big' getting up rarely to take the Armistice Day Dance Saturday Evening, November 10 BOULDER CREEK Brokaw His Hawaiian Garden Orchestra Hear and see This Wonderful Recording and Radio Band.

10 Artists NovKiriKs Official opening of the semi-monthly winter dances. KOlUiST TH.KATKH HAl.L Gentlemen $1.00 Ladies 25c months at home again. I couldn't work, of course. "After nine months at Walter; Reed they sent me to Hot Springs -baths. "A year ago last September I was allowed to go homo again.

I could only move about a little, stooped and bent, with two canes. "On Christmas Eve one of the canes slipped. I landed on the floor win a broken hip. This PGLICi FOR 111 NEW. YORK, Nov.

10. totalling1 The insurance policies $95,000 on the life of Albert Snyder, murdered by his wife, Ruth, and her lover, Henry Judd Gray, have been declared null and void by Supreme Court Justice Ma-honey. The insurance, taken out not long before Snyder's death, was established as the motive for the murder for which Mrs. Snyder and Gray were executed. The Prudential Life Insurance company brought action against Mrs.

Snyder's mother, and Lorraine Snyder: little daughter of the executed woman, for annulment of the policies on the ground that the contract was not valid because Mrs. Snyder had deceived her husband in taking them. A former Insurance agent testified at the trial that he had traced Snyder's signature on another policy so that he could write it on two others sought by Mrs. Snyder. SVOID OH SHE MATE! AT HIGH SCHOOL Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the armistice was the object of yesterady's assem bly.

C. E. social science instructor, presided. He opened the program by reading a paper on what November 11 should mean to the students. Mr.

Wade, English instructor who wa3 in iio marine corps. spoke. Although a serious case of influenza hud prevented him from being part of the fray he had time with the corps to learn the popular songs of the time. Some of these war songs he san; yesterday. He closed by voicin.

a dread of the horrors of anoth er war. The list of the members of th high school faculty who are vet erans of the war was read, am ex-soldiers were loudly applaud ed. The chairman introduced Private Motely, a veteran of the Civil War who was a member the 2 4th division of the Massa chusetts The meeting closed with th( announcement of the plans foi Monday parade. Alice Garrett who was promi nent in high school activities, ha-received honor at Jtomona wher. ehe is a student.

Bhe has beet appointed the freshman represen tative on the commission of hon or for the examinations. Th of this commission is tc help preserve the spirit of houoi and to recommend punishmen for those who do not follow th tradition. News from Santa Barbara states that Wesley McGiff a grad uate of the high school sustain ed a broken leg while playing football. Wesley is cheer leader in the Santa Barbara junior college where he is a student. Man Hunted For Years Arrested By L.

A. Police SACRAMENTO, Nov. 10. (IP) A dramatic man hunt that began two years ago when three of California's most notorious desperadoes escaped from Folsom prison was considered closed upon receipt of the report here that a man arrested in Los Angeles had been identified as Leo Brennan the last missing member of the trio. Warden Court Smith of Fo.Nom prison, was notified of Brendan's capture.

With Brennan's arrest ends the nation wide search that started aUer he, William O'Brien and Tom Griffin, known as "The Owl," clung to the bottom of a hand car, shoved it outside of the prison walls and escaped on Nov. 15, 1026. "The Owl" succumbed to exposure and starvation three daye after his escape. His body wat found beside railroad tracks near Antelope, Sacramento county. O'Brien is awaiting execution at San Quentin prison for participa tion in a robbery of an Oakland bank last July which resulted in the fatal shooting of W.

C. Mc- Farlan, bank clerk. Brennan, known to police off! cialw as a "super bandit and burglar" was declared the most dangerous of the three escaped He was said to have escaped froir San Quentin in 1922 to be recap tured in a gun battle with police after Bix months of liberty. Several Matters Handled By Court C. B.

Younger was granted let tors 6f administration for the for eign will in the estate of Leo Moslrer, who died in Dallas, Tex Bond at $250 was fixed by Judge Lucas. Other court matters handled yesterday on law and motion da were the issuance of letters t( Mary E. Eudd in the estate James Rudd with bond fixed at notice of decision filet by the Felton Water companj ngainst the Forest Lakes Mutua Water company, et and tin filing of a memorandum of mo tion to set for trial the case of John Holtzer against E. C. Read et al.

Street Lien Suit Dismissal Asked Request for dismissal of the suits pending in the local super ior court resulting for street as sessment liens, was filed today by Attorney J. W. C. Abbott for Le Roy Balaam in the action against Ralph B. Day, the city of Santa Cruz, four Does and two Hoe com panics- There are 70 of Miese suits to be adjudicat ed, various properly owners be lug the defendants.

Flight" Will Thrill time it was five tough weeks at a private hospital, and then back to Walter Reed in a plaster cast. "Out of the cast and into a traction, a system of weights and counterweights all over the bed pulling at the break in the hip N. Y. STOCKS GO STILL HIGHER NEW YORK, Nov. 10.

7P) Another wild outburst of buying on the New York stock exchange swept prices of a wide assortment of issues lip S5 to $18 a share in today short session, ine uooa of orders again severely overburdened the ticker, which was about an hour late at the close of the market. Total sales ran well over 2,000,000 shares. Montgomery Ward soared a share to a new record price at Radio was again a spectacular performer, shooting up $18 to but losing about a third of its gain in profit-taking. Canadian Pacific, Mexican Seaboard Oil, Vanadium Steel and Federal Mining and Smelting climbed about 6 to $9. The new shares of General Motors, fir.st traded on A when issued basis, ranged from $89 to $89.50.

4 Letters In Lewis Estate Granted Letters of administration in I tion to the appointment of an administratrix, the court accepted C. G. Hammer as inheritance tax appraiser of the estate. 5 i i r- if 'i if i I 1 1 i i i few0 i truck. Our headquarters were at St.

Nazaire and it was our job to let all kinds of supplies to the t'ront. "My troubles began at Nevers, ifter a year over there. We were Iriving from St. Nazaire to Dijon. Hie convoy stopped at the bottoml DLY BURNED SAN DIEGO, Nov.

10. P) Lieutenant W. W. Seagrit of the navy, attached to the torpe do school at North Island, and Harry McArthur, a civilian, said be from Los Angeles, were probably fatally burned last night in in explosion of alcohol in an apartment in this city. Ensign Joseph B.

Danhoff, also station- id at North Island, was arrested on a charge of violation or the Wright act. Danhoff said the two men who were burned were the small kitchen of the apartment with a kerosene lamp to 'Jglit the place, the electricity not having been turned on. There was an explosion, he said, and the iwo men rushed, enveloped in 'lames, to the room where Dan hoff was. The lamp Is supposed have set fire to a lace curtain and caused the explosion of i can of alcohol which the men hud. Investment Firm Made Defendant In Suit On Lien Damages of $2829.18 together with interest of 7 per cent from October 26, 1921, and attorney of $700 are sought in a com plaint filed today in the county lerk's office by Le Roy Balaam against the Henry Investment company over an assessment and lien for street improvement work Cottage City tract, a resubdi- vision of the James Vincent tract.

She's Highflyer After 105 Years OAKLAND, Nov. 10. (JP) Mrs. Georgiana Collett, who celebrated her 1 0 5 til birth-lay here, yesterday insisted on eing taken for her first airplane ide, and liked it so well that when the pilot started down she nduced him to prolong the trip. In a newspaper interview of ler 105lh birthday, Mrs.

Collett iaid she thought airplanes no nore marvelous than railroads ttere in her youth. She was born England July 19, 1823. She lsts being kissed by Queen among her interesting experiences. Residents of Grenoble, Franco, ire demanding the removal ef bombs, which were piled near he city following a serious explosion in Grenoble during the world war. Bush fires and a hurricane did 55,000.000 damage in New South Wales, Australia, recently.

Following a twenty-four 1,1 1,1 10 strike, a railway in Paris agreed i i lwis to increase wages and at the samel J- Lewis today by Judge II. C. time to raise fares to cover the 'Lucas in superior court. In addi amount of the increase The sultan of Muscat recently visited the Irish Free State. THRILLING! 'Wl BEGINNING MODERN! Uw'l Tracniv TUESDAY in ROMANTIC! fIM Santa Cruz WWrTml EVENING NEWS FL4HJ11 The specially prepared flour that makes the most delicious pancakes and affles.

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