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Boy who Joked at Death
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937.
Scout Teaches
To Laugh At
Cripples
Life
LOST LEGS IN ACCIDENT
(By Andrew Kidd)
Leatherhead, Nov. 19.
Three years ago sea scout Jack Weller, then 15, was run down by a railway engine and both his legs were severed above: the knee.
As he lay for weeks between life and death in a Salford hospital, not a whimper passed his lips. Instead, he smiled through his agony,
The story of his wonderful courage was told in the Sunday Chronicle at the time and aroused nation-wide admiration.
For days on end cheque after cheque came from sympathetic readers to the boy, who, wracked with pain, could tell his sorrowing father:-
"It's all right, Dad-I know my legs have gone. I saw what happened
as they put me in the ambulance... I shall have to tack my stockings up now."
TO EARN HIS OWN LIVING SOON
Now hear the sequel... On visiting the London and District Cripples' Training College at Leatherhead (Surrey) I found that Juck has been miraculously transformed,
"See my pair of artificial legs," he said, "I have learned to walk without difficulty. Soon I will be able to run as well.
"Since I came here and got fitted as a memorial to Mr. Bernhard Baron, tip with new legs I have been learning and was opened by the Queen (when to be an electric are-welder. Soon 1 Duchess of York) in 1035, will be able to go out into the world and earn my own flying."
Work is invariably found for the students after their period of training
Captain John Vincent Hay, super-ns engineers, shorthand-typists, gar- it tendent of the college, confirmed all Jack had said.
"Yes, in about two or three months Jack will be one of the world's wage earners. He has been an example to
all,
Jack is one of 52 crippled students; for whom the college is working miracles. Captain Hay spoke of] other wonderful cases,
There is Christopher Tracey, ut Brighton, who had his back broken in a motor-cycle accident. He is now Leing trained as an engineer-and bas turned out to be an Inventor.
Surgeons have been astonished by|
3 new type of surgical temp which
The made. It was shown tast month
WAR-1937
the
ueners, painters. In the last 12 months 34 were placed In jobs,
A CHINESE SOLDIER оп Among Captain Hay's new students Northern Front prepared for any will be an armless youth.
emergency.
SOVIET PLANS NEW
FLEET FOR
ARCTIC
.Special submarines to travel under the Arctic icefields are
at an international exhibition in Edin-apparently to play an important part in the establishment of burgh.
HIS "GREAT SPIRIT"
Russia's Moscow-North American Transpolar passenger and freight air route, says the Moscow correspondent of the News-
Twenty-year-old James Driault, pf Chronicle. Pinner, Middlesex, who is paralysed in both legs und is unable to walk a step, is training for clerical work. James has been proving his ability as secretary of the students' club.
For the first time, preliminary The final conquest of the Stalin specifications for such ander-ice craft Trans-Arctic route, it is declared, will have been published. According to be realised by a combination of sub- these the vessels could:-
marines, aeroplanes, tce-breakers, "James has great spirit,” said Cap-; Be employed for the construction and huge-amphibian tanks. tein Hay. "He Is out to help himself of aerodromes and landing fields as far as possible, and for years on across the vast deserts of the cen-miles apart as fuel and rescue bases, The latter would be stationed 500 end he has been saving up to buy at. tral Folar basin: Wheelchair, Already he has savedĮ Travel thousands of miles without it is hinted that Russh moy at- £10."
refueling.
tempt to send a fleet of submarines The Cripples' Training College, Break through thick over-head into the Arctic before
trains incapacitated youths leefelds when necessary by the use Wilkins can carry out his own new Sir Hubert which and men for industry, was established" of powerful explosives.
project for an under-lee journey,
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