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Show oo TUMBLE CURES USELESS FINDER Montana Officer Falls From Fence and Rejoices i BPOKANB, Wa.sh . iSopt 16 -If a Spokane mother hadn't feared that In r small son was polsonod by toad stool6. und if the father hadn't foi-Koilen foi-Koilen to drive down a nail sticking Up in the fence around their home, the I 'hlrd finger of Emergency Officer) Joe Bcott'fl right hand would still be' useless, bi it has been for the past thirty years Thirty yearn ago Officer Scott was j ' working ;s a sawyer und from dailv use of a big saw a callous was formed in the pa'm of his hand The callous '.nered the cord of his third right, linger Gradually the callous hun! etted and pulled the finger down until S'cotl was unable to straighten 1L He Intended to have an operation per-fMi-meii I., release the finaer. but as the years passed he became accustomed accus-tomed to the crippled member and didn't bother. A month aro he did go to a doctor. The physician said that the cord would have to be cut loose and that Scott would be laid up for several weeks in consequence So he again decided to put 11 off. Then an emergency call came in from the mother who thought that hi BOD had been poisoned Scott an swered the call and attempted to climb over the fence A nail caught his trousers and In trying to liberate himself he loat bin balunce. In fall ing to the ground ho landed on hla riht hand. The fall bent his finger back so far that the stiffened cord was torn loose. And now. after thirty yean of enforced idleness, the once stiffened finger is doing its duty ariln. And the mother, whose fear that her Bmall son had been poisoned was the Indirect cause of the release of i the stiffened member, Is quite happy. Her fears proved groundless The' father Is still undecided whether to drive in the nail or let it remain as It Is. |