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Show COUPLE HIKING FROM COAST TO OHIO CITY I . ' Special to The Tribune. ! CODEX, Sept. 11. Paul Evanos, for-, merly a s.-iilor in the United Slates navy, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Og-rien Og-rien today after a hike from Los Angeles by way of San Francisco. The couple is en route to Akron, Ohio. When Mr. and Mrs. Evanos arrived in : Oprden this morning they were near exhaustion ex-haustion as a result of the trip across eastern Nevada. The Red Cross furnished them with money to finish the trip to ' Ohio. Evanos was on the TJ. S. S. tanker Atlantic At-lantic Sun, and on his first trip across the ocean the ship was stopped by a submarine sub-marine and the crew compelled to take to the boats, after which tho tanker was blown up. The boat Evanos was in was picked up by an English ship. Evanos was transferred to the U. S. S. Nebraska, Ne-braska, upon which he .served throughout the war and from which he was recently discharged. |