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SLIDING GHOST
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War Vet, Robbed of Memory by Shell, Cannot
Even Recall Rfs Name
If
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Just flever had a sfcwce to
offer that »best. i W
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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.
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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
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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.’
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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,
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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
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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!
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