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* / SLIDING GHOST ì S ♦ War Vet, Robbed of Memory by Shell, Cannot Even Recall Rfs Name If tí r knack o f w M in j thwmhTto ns Lana worn hun the nkknam o f T h e S lid in g G h o s ^ O ' aflL Ì 3 y pn ’o p .” i ’’ ■ !! J . ‘ l Just flever had a sfcwce to offer that »best. i W 0 * jd & e jy « * pipe only* by the tohabco you putt io it. I f you haven’t smoked P . A ., y o n pipe hasn’t had its chance. T o thoi 4 men who know the keenest* pipe-enjoiyefcent, Prince'Albert staiids out fifee a beacon o f cheer on a moonless night. minute Prince A lbert has put pipes fofo the WASHINGTON. Aprl 7 — It yon could start out in life again ^xs^ltb^af clean late, forgetting the past, would you do It? “Better naÿ/’ answers the V "Sliding Ghost," an ex-soldler who for want ot a better pame ta called Jerry Tarbot at -the * Mt Alto Veterans* Hospital here. The case ot the "Sliding Ghost” is one of the most pe J collar and baffling mysteries that has followed In the wake of the ! great war. Can’t Loam His Name For threoj yean the federal. Î government has bean trying to • learn the rSal name of Jerry * Tarbot. It has failed, but the Veterans* Bureau is convinced that the "Sliding Ghost," who Won his nickname. because of his ability to wiggle through some of the most dangerous'parts ot wft-e-entaagied Z No Man’s Land, lived through sound of the moat terrible days of the wai*.*‘ *‘* Blg^t years ago Talbot’s mem ory was almost blotted out when a great shell exploded near blm In France. . i • s "■niere was r a tremendous flare fit light and the sound of a million bees humming In my ears/* he recalls. From that time on, he can re? member nat&lifig attest his hast, la 1923 he was found in an asylum at Stockton, Calif. How he got there he does not know, but during the interval from 1918 to 1123 hq apparently wan mouths o f mote men item any? other dered al over the Country, eten - A . . . 2 . . . . ___ _ U _ - l l L L_ buying a barren ranch. , j «ce Albert.” Tarbot could start life again on a fresh, new page, but he Pack i f with needs h lsp a st. His few scat P. A . and light up. T1 tered flashes ,of memory, gleam ing through the base of forgotten pull will tell you P . A . year«, are dot enough to guide to-order for you! him back -to* his real niche in society or to his real name. Can't <iet Conypcnsation If he could Identify himself and cdnneet himself with a war service recor<j somewhere In the rolls ot the Marine Corps, lie would be asveral thousand dol lars richer! He wou£ have gov ernment compensation money for nearly eight years to which a disabled veteran is entitled. < Therb is also a more important' need for Ms past, he believes. “Starting over again now, about 37 years old, I can't take a place alpngside the averagk gained,” be said. "It is pos man of my age," he says, "t her. I’d feel her presence if him, and she appeals to anyone sible to stimulate the body, who may know of him or who she were a mile away." muqt start oat fresh with th< glands somewhat, but as for "What If a strange y man may recognise ’his picture to younfc lads. Other men have Bring Your Shoes To making i a 80-ygaf'Old woman commu^ a t^ yW Lth her.’ t J • been building up .Intq thqir Jobs. should crime up and say he 'was look 20, such an dea is ri- I don’t know where I did my your b/othef?)’ Jerr^ was naked. diculbns.” • *Jf he cogld n6t prove it. I'd NOTK B OF OUAItDIAN’S SALE building. If I could go back BERKELEY, Cal., April 7 - - Dr. Holmis also claimed that OF REAL ESTATE- } hit him on the nose," he agskrers and begin where I left off, thore (U.P.,— Results ,of experiments creation of animal life from In for quick, satisfactory NOTICE' Id HlRBBY NtlVlN would not be so much toll to with* earnestness. • “f’vg been In rejnvlnatlng human cells or organic matter never has been claimed too much already." that I will, at the Court HoifsJ In transplanting into the body do over again. service achieved. He refused to be In Jacksonville, Oregon, at 9:80 Served With French First so-called "monkey glands’* or lieve reports from Europe that Claimed M any' g*imes o'clock a., » ., og April 9, 1923, Most convincing are his mem* The business ot being claimed selT, to 'the highest' b iller, for. "¿oat glands" have been largely a young scientist had created 339 E. Main Street erles of army life. He thinks as a long lofet relative has be cash all of the right, title ahd disappointing, in the opinion of live snails from chemicals. he went to France in 1916, and come a comic relief in Jerry's Dr. Samuel J*. Holmes, professor Interest of Donald Goland for a time he was a dispatch distressing story. He has been Easter, a miner, in and to an of zoology at, the University of carrier with French troops. Glendale — Molly street open Klamath Falls — New 21 claimed dozens of times. In undivided 'OSaOthird, (dterest In California. He remembers, too, that he "Lost* youth , cannot bs re-, ed as main thoroughfare. Fremont School dedicated California once a Mexican woman and to Lots fifteen (16) ahd served with the Sixth Marines at with four children insisted ar sixteen A it ), in Balfvlew, in Ilelleau Wood. This fact is con dently that he was hers, and in Jackson County, Oregon,, ,as the firmed by members of that fa tradtaced him to the children' Us same are platted 'of »record. mous outfit, a captain making "Papa," but the police proved Dated at Portland, Oregon, this affidavit that he must have been she was mistaken. 8th day ot March, 1926. there to know so much about Yet Jerry wants to be claimed 0. F. EASTER, R ^ 0 9 ^ . • ^Hfj||f|i Ä / J i l the fight and the men in It,, He wants his past to, catch np Guardian ot the Estate and an enlisted man spying he with him. At present he Is be of DONALD GOLAltD know him, but only by the name ing treated here ' for physical EASTER, a minor. of "Frenchy." disabilities and eared for by the B. F. MULKEY, Remembers Boyhood Veterans' Bureau. Mrs, Inez Attorney .fdr Estate. • A handful of earlier memOrlea M. Pugh of the bureau baa been Sttlte 603, Corbett Building. be has, also. He grew up on New York’s West Side. He re members boyish mischief, such as selling a chicken to a side walk merchant, recovering It through a hole in the coop and soiling it over again. He thinks he once studied for the priest hood, and he can quote phrases of Latin and Greek such as might stick la a schoolboys mind. ‘ RAPR» - • PROMPT W5 OLRAX ' - ÖÖMUOHfrARLl His mother waa Irish, he thinks, and his father was French. TWO THROUGH STAGES DAILY - EFFECTIVE‘APRIL 1ST Remember this when you need anything in the lum . "I’d know my mother If I To Portland, leaving ¿A land atYiOO-¿1. M. hfad'lfcBO A. M. T.Day trip ber or building line. We make every effort to have aver saw her," he declares. "I can’t describe her, bat I*d know other tobacco is like it! Transplanting Of Glands Is Fáili Agee’s Shoe Shop 1 lk\—— 1 Time To Paint! The tree« arv beginning to show tender green—the flowers to burst forth in bJounr—they make the dear old home hide his head in shame. But cheer up, old house-Hiere a^e cosmetics to refurbish your complex ion—to make you u home to be proud o f!/ Its time to paint now—to make tho dear old home shine forth proudly among his Springtime neighbors. Paint for the Outside. . . . Paint and Varnish for the Inside.. . , They’re Resisting Paints! J. 0 RIGO T Wall Paper and Paints ON OAK STREET JUST ACROSS X THE RAILROAD 1 TRACKS Everything Yoh Piped* in building your home or an yMhfcr kind of stCuctbre ASHLAND LUMBER COMPANY Also leaves Ashland at 4.15 P. M. for Roseburg, cinnAting Following morning to Portland We take passengers for Mil Way points. For further information and w tickets cell «Ashland*Hotel, .TelMilKgae, At?.. Direct jat Sósèbu/gZfb» K76ÓS ®Ay Points, at Portland for Seattle and Vahcmtver,* B. C