Show U S YOUTH YO UTI-I UTI DESERTER WORKS AS TAILOR IN FRENCH PRISON ILLE ALBERTVILLE Savoie France Dee Dec 10 Dy 10 By The AssocIated Press Hopeful Press HoP rul that Ills his oIs deserter's desert desert- deserter's deserter's ers er's sentence of or eight years cars In the gloom of or a II French military prison will be bo terminated before It runs Its course Bennett J Doty of ot BI- BI Biloxi Bl loxi Miss who was Gilbert Clare of the tho ForeIgn LegIon Lerlon re- re remains re remains mains cheerful and seemingly courageous Two worries were confessed to a correspondent of ot The Th Associated Associated Associated Pre Press s His fingers ringers are too slow In fn sewing army trousers the hard labor to which he ha was sentenced and hes he's afraid the tho folks foils back home homo will think cow cow- cowardIce cowardice cowardice ardice instead of or homesickness prompted his flight from warfare In the arId Syrian desert IS A MODEL PRISONER l Dot Doty was as sentenced by n II French rench court martial at Damascus on Au- Au August August cust Au-cust gust 16 last lut to the military peni penitentiary here her for tor his attempt to leave the th French Foreign Legion when serving on the th soil of or an anallen allen alien land Th There There- r under the name or of Gilbert Clare Clar of or Memphis Tenn he h h had d fought the Druse rebels In this tha campaign and Ur the mountaIns mountain of or the Houran Perched high In the th Alps In Inthe inthe the shadow of Mont Blanc the military penitentiary of or Albert Albert- Albertville Albertville Albert ville overlookIng a II beautiful b val val- valle valley val valley le ley has a a forbidding and gloomy aspect Clare Is If a model prisoner saId Captain Besancon command command- commandant commandant commandant ant of or the th Institution Ills IUs army record Is I and he h Is I II a afine afine fine boy A little thinner and somewhat paler clothed In a nondescript prison uniform long lone brown blown coat flap cap wooden shoes Clare pre pre- presented pre presented s a i sharp contrast from the proud soldier whom the corre- corre correspondent correspondent corr had visited in the tb citadel at Damascus last June MORALE NUT NOT Ills Ilia Hi morale Is unimpaired how how- however however however ever and ho he h greeted his visItor with evident e pleasure I Not Not too bad for s a a man who was reported executed last June he replied to s a query as to hIs health You boys bos better go eo and walk walkin walkIn alk In the sun said laid ald the Alpine Alpino Chas a little Blue Devil II with Ith fixed bayonet patrollinG th the Inner court Within high h walls alls and In ina Ina a 0 narrow strip of ot sunshine the American Legionary and the th cor- cor cor correspondent respondent rc walked back and forth for an hour hour while the sentry stu- stu stu studiously looked the other way Clare Claro relished an an 1111 American cIg- cIg cIgarette cigarette arette Yes Yea I get iet plenty to eat he said saidA A A big bit bowl of soup In the morning s a a place plc ot of meat ono one pound of or bread and a II plate plat ot vegetables at noon another nother I quart or of soup at night It Isn't the th Ritz Pits hotel but I cant can't kick It might have been daisies by the roots MAKES THREE rAnt PAIR A DAY What about the tho hard bard labor he was asked Clare Clar laughed outright Yard liard labor Hard labor ho he h repeated Do you know kno what I do I am sewIng trou trousers erD for the th army Some I 1 never lId did myown my myown myown own mending when I 1 was In the legion lerlon ion simply limply couldn't handle a an needle n dle And now I 1 have hav to turn In three thre completed pairs of or trou trou- trousers trousers trousers sers a da day The Th best I can finish up Is one pair and one leg and I Iam Iam am steadily falling failIng behind It worries me The needle is harder on the th fingers than the th trIgger fritter of the rIfle Gee but It feels fed runny funny to be doing womans woman's woman work I certainly didn't expect this when I enlisted I 1 wanted to meet Mister el Abdel Krim I AbdelKrim I 1 thought they were going to send me m to Morocco but they round found me m another war just as good asgood wa nothing we w couldn't very well run nin awa away from those birds was all he h would say of or the th de deed d deGuerro th that t won for tor him the th Croix de Guerro Captain Besancon later pro pro- pro produced Clare Clans Clan's citations for valor DENIES WAS ID Iran I I hope hop tiny they dont don't think that I 1 ran away way because I was scared Clare said 1 suddenly I f dont don't know what came cam over O mo me meYo Yo We hadn't gone eon three hours houn that I knew we hall hail pulled a boner but It Palestine WM was wa too lat lati lata to turn back Pal Pal Pal- Pal estine certainly did look to me melike like the Promised Land that eve n ning Clare Claro feels reels some anxiety about the tho disposition which will be I Imado mado of ot him when In III conformity with Premier Poincare pro program ram ramor or economies economic the tho th military peal peni ten tI a 1 here Is closed December 31 I am worried lest I bo be sent to some civil prison with s a lot or of thieves pickpockets burglars burg burg- burglars bur lars lars or up hold-up men ho he said I have committed no crime against society and I dont don't want to be penned up with real jailbirds I HM I t Captain Besancon Informed Claro that ho he would probably be besent besent besent sent to a ry prison either at Bordeaux or Marseilles s I have confidence In the sense or of justice of or the French ministry ot of war the prisoner said I can hardly think they will let me rno rot eight years In prison I risked my life several times for their cause causa and I feel sure that when this ballyhooInG has h ls is subsided they will edge me mo out of ot this quietly Soup Is ready Clare said the little Blue Devil sauntering up The big bis steel and Iron gate swunG upon Its heavy hinges and and an- Clare dare disappeared Into the sombre prison Leaning Leaning- hIs face against the th bars Clare shouted as s a a farewell This Is a great life It Ir you dont don't weaken 00 |