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...Faustin Wirkus, son of a Polish miner in Pennsylvania, wanted to see more of the world. He decided when he was eleven to enlist in the Marines. When he did, he was sent to Haiti. He missed the War because of a compound fracture of the arm, but had plenty of fighting against Haitian bandits, rose to be a Marine sergeant with rank of lieutenant in the native gendarmerie. A crack shot, he personally potted many a Caco (bandit), but in off hours he made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency...
...WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE? Faustin Wirkus & Taney Dudley?Doubleday, Doran...
...many white men really like black men. But Faustin Wirkus, lately of the U. S. Marines stationed in Haiti, likes them; and Traveler Seabrook likes them ''on the whole . . . better than whites." These two not entirely unvarnished narratives should clarify much current opinion of unvarnished, kinky-haired Negroes; neither book mentions Harlem...
Consul-General? Year ago Alden Freeman, 69, wealthy & eccentric Florida philanthropist and globetrotter, announced that thereafter he would travel only by air. Last week he set out in a Moth biplane from Kingston, Jamaica to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to visit his good friend Lieut. Faustin E. Wirkus of the Garde D'Haiti and U. S. Marines (TIME, Jan. 26). The plane was forced down midway, floated for six hours until Globe-trotter Freeman and his pilot were picked up by a steamer...
...Pittstown, Pa., coal mines at 17, stocky, square-faced, blue-eyed Faustin E. Wirkus enlisted in the Marine Corps, was shipped to Haiti in 1917 as a sergeant. While serving at the tiny outpost of Anse à Gallet, he saw a hard-boiled tax collector drag in a big black Haitian woman who had defied the law. She said she was Queen Timemenne of La Gonave. Sergeant Wirkus smoothed out her troubles, got her free...