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...conscience of red-haired Larry Gara, like that of many another Christian, has led him down a hard & lonely road. When World War II began, it prompted him to refuse to register for the draft. Quaker Gara went to jail, spent three years there...
When he got out, Gara found a job as history teacher and dean of men at Ohio's small, Mennonite Bluffton College. For 26-year-old Larry Gara and his wife, Lanna Mae, a new life opened up. But last fall his conscience dropped him into hot water again. When one of Bluffton's students refused to register for peacetime military training, Gara and his wife hustled...
...chairman; 2) Edward A. Hayes, onetime American Legion national commander. Other MacArthur strategists: Hanford MacNider, also a onetime Legion national commander; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Van Zandt, onetime commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Nebraska's Congressman Arthur L. Miller; Alfred O'Gara, Chicago investment broker; Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin's Secretary of State; William Campbell, Wisconsin industrialist...
...casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the fortress of Gara Mulata, well fed, comfortably lodged, but handcuffed night & day to the wrist of a guard. Lest Italy should release him, make him a puppet emperor, it was announced weeks ago by the Emperor that "Child of Jesus" had been moved to the shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf on the British Kenya border. This...
Right in the path of the Italian advance lies the fortress of Gara Mulata. Therefore Emperor and jailer took good care last week that Italy should have no chance to rescue Child of Jesus, set him up on Haile Selassie's throne. Secretly their prisoner was moved hundreds of miles to the southwest, to Bako where he could contemplate life and his chains near the craggy shores of Lake Rudolf...