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Show LEGION MAN, STURDY HIKER Illinois Ex-Soldier on Way Back From Washington, Is Completing 2300-Mile Jaunt Romance still lies along the broad highway, according to II. II. RufUSv sgs "Harding's nies-TV nies-TV senger boy," now on llls wav bock wwg to Danville. 111., &m "" afoot, from Vash-5 Vash-5 '"Ston, D. 0, completing a 2300- 4kf mile Jaunt. After ' ' hanging by his i.,-4 hands from rail-jg2f rail-jg2f V 1 'Nl Wl,y trestles nJ p- " , faclnS starvation. " 3 ln the mountal" l4lf t'- r & of Kentucky, the sturdy hiker found a climax to his adventures in Clarksburg, Clarks-burg, YV. Va, In the form of "the only girl." Muftis, who Is forty-four years old. an ex-soldier, and a native of Danville, Dan-ville, started out last November, bearing bear-ing four sealed messages from the Danville chamber of commerce, which he was to "deliver In person" to the ('resident. Stalking out of the White House six weeks Inter, he said: "I was nil eyes and ears, looked straight ahead, and got what I went after." The hiker Is dropping In at American Ameri-can Legion posts when he wants to darn his socks or shave, and his stories have become well known. lie storied from his home town with with one cent and the Instructions neither to beg. borrow, nor steal. He carried a 14-pound 14-pound pack which, among other things, contained a cigar for "Uncle Joe" Can-non. |
