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Show MISS ETHEL SMITH IS LIVING H AS RESULT OF SACRIFICE OF LIFE OF CRIPPLED "NEWSBOY." (nr, Ind.. Oct. 2b. Residents of this town will erect a monumeut to William Rush, a "newsboy" who wns a frown man and a heio though crippled. crip-pled. Ethol Smith, n s'rl he had never nev-er seen, was so badly burned in an explosion of a motor cyclo that she was in danger of losing one leg und possibly her life. Hugh had one leg that was paralyzed and useless. Ho offered to have It amputated that the jskln might be used for grafting to cover the flesh of Ethel Smith s burn- IH ed member The operation was per- IH formed, and Miss Smith wns sooa able tM to leavo I he hospital, though she is H not yet fully recovered. Complica- M tlona set in nfter Hugh's leg was nin- IH putated, and he was told by tho doc- Jl tors that he could not recover. "All 1 right," he said. "I wns some good jH to tho world after all." Thoso words IH will be engraved on the monument jH that Gary will erect to his mem- B H |