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FORGOTTEN NAME
MONTREAL. March 13.—Someplace
•^ome where, sometime—he clinches
his hands and sobs in a futile effort
at recollection—two surgeons clad in
prophylactic white, battled in the tile
operating room with the grim angel
of death. It was a delicate operation
and the least slip means disaster.
One of the white masked figures
was the father. The other was the
assistant, his son. The former be
longed to the less recent school, per
haps; the latter to the ultra-modern
college.
At the most critical moment there
arose a technical difference of opinion
in the manipulation of an abdominal
clamp; it was the clash of the newer
surgery method with that of .the old.
The clash scarcely was apparent on
the surface—the mere lifting of
brows, the tightening of lips already
compressed in the stern resolution of
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| surgery. That was all. Yet under
| neath seethed the eternal war between
age and youth, fanned into a vivid out
;break.
Then after the tense, protracted
| struggle came the final break. The
young doctor went away, no one knew
where, and the weeks merged into
years.
Then the World war and all its hor
rors intervened. Somewhere, some
place, he can't remember now. the
young surgeon answered the call to
arms. Somewhere on a desperately
contested road in France between Ar
ras and Monchy he fell before a rip
I pling fusilade of machine gun bullets.
Today, in detective headquarters is
• a man who thinks he is Robert John
j McCullough, who passes his hand thru
| his hair in an attempt to brush away
the deadning amnesia when he cannot
: tell. How he came to Canada, or
' when, is all a dim. distorted, mirage.
Through persisting echoes a former
1 life calls.
“For God's sake send me to a doctor
and let me talk survey.” he cries. “It
j may bring it all back.”
1 The man carries a distant recollec
! tion of places and people, the operat
ing room of the Mayo Brothers in Ro- j
Chester. Minn., the famous Doctors, |
Judge, Hamilton and Armstrong; an |
; indistinct memory of the Royal Her
I bert hospital in Woolwich, the Mis-!
: sippi river. Saskatchewan.—under
i circumstances that remain a complete
blank. All these and more rise up in j
disjointed figments to torture him un- j
til he sobs.
“In the day time. I am better and
j sometimes 1 think it is all coming to
me again,” he said. “Then comes |
night, and it all goes away again— ;
| “quick, give me a pencil.”
Writes His Name
It was passed to him and excitedly
lie wrote: ‘John Robert McCullough.” I
‘Look, it must be my name,” he cried.
‘When I feel a pencil between my fin
ders and let myself go—that is what
[ always write.”
McCullough—if that is his name, is
live-feet 7 1-2 inches, has fair wavy
tiair, blue eyes, about 140 pounds and
obviously is somewhere in the neigh
borhood of 30 years old. He was taken
into custody by the detective bureau
on a charge of being implicated in a
chain of house breakings. Goods
valued at $7,000 have been recovered
to date.
will enter a house and take goods of
The extraordinary part of it is he
a kind not generally preferred by pro
fessional thieves,” Detective Gut bier
explained to Adjutnat Tricket of the
Salvation Army, who is trying to find
the man’s relatives.
‘ Furthermore, in disposing of his
loot, he evidently does so at a mini
mum price, for when we took him. he
was in rags, although he just had stol
en several hundred dollars worth of
property.”
12-Year-Old Law Enforced
for First Time In Hawaii
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Mar. 12.—Discovery
that residents oT Hawaii have been
violating a federal customs law lor
the past 12 years was made known
when agents of the customs service
under Frank Thropt, mainland agent,
swooped down simultaneously upon
curio and jewelry stores here and
seized feather jewelry containing the
plumage of the kingfisher valued at
?2,000.
Importation of such jewelry into
the United States was forbidden by
Congress in 1913, but the law ap
parently was never enforced here
due to an oversight, according to
Thropt. The articles seized will be
kept in the office of Harry E. Mur
ray, collector of customs, until in
structions as to their disposal are re
ceived from Washington. Duty had
been paid on all of the jewelry seiz
ed, according to Thropt.
Most of the jewelry is made from
kingfisher wings in the Orient. The
feathers are dipped and then encrust
ted with precious stones or bits of
brilliant coral. The law forbidding
importation of such articles was
based on a desire to propagate wild
animal life.
Movie Benefits American
Trade, Says London Daily
(By A*sociated Pre»»)
LONDON, Mar. 12.—“Trade fol
lows the film,” says the London
Daily News in an article relating to
the benefits obtained by American
industry through the medium of the
moving picture. American clothing
and shoes and various other articles
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have become so well known through
the film in various parts of the
world that there is a regular de
mand for them and British dealers
have been fashioning their goods
accordingly, says the newspaper. In
this respect the Daily News quotes
Percy Nash, one of the best known
British producers, as saying.
“So great is the influence of the
American film that many British
manufacturers of ready made cloth
ing and shoes have had to alter their
designs and to manufacture on Am
erican models with which their ov
erseas customers have been famil
iarized by the American moving pic
ture.’’
Ireland Prepares to Dam
Heavy Flow of Liquor
—
(By Associated Press)
DUBLIN, Mar. IS.—The Free State
government has appointed a commis
sion of nine persons to inquire into
the excess in the number of drink
shops. There are more than 15,000
in the 26 counties. Some small
towns have as many as 70 shops
where drink is sold. It is agreed
that at least half the number should
be abolished, and the work of the
1 commission is to find out what scale
of reduction should be adopted.
As in England, which has seen a
large reduction in the number of
drink shops, tl» problem of compen
sating the dispossessed has to be
faced. The report of the commis
sion is intended to form the basis
of future legislation.
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Meal Checks Instead Money
Reduces Visits Berlin Vags
(By Awociated Pre*s>
BERLIN, Mar. 12.—An effective
method of getting rid of profession
al beggars has been devised by the
Berlin Women’s Club. It has issued
books of coupons in denominations
of five and ten pfennings, which Bei
lin families can purchase with a view
to handling these meal checks to
beggars.
The beggar takes them to the mu
nicipal district welfare office of his
district, whereupon he is given a
free meal. At the same time his
case is looked into by district wel
fare workers. Professional beggars
never come again to a house in
which they receive a meal check in
stead of cash. In fact, the sign fur
nished to such families for display
and reading, “Alms are here given
only in the form of meal checks,”
is usually enough to scare them
away.
Virginia Marshall, aged 5, of
California, has been declared the
perfect type of childish beauty by
Ernest Linnenkamp, a noted Aus
trian artist. Little Virginia has ap
peared in several movies.
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