To be king of three little islands and dozens of little islets out in a tropic sea, where one's word is law and where the palm leaves wiggle in approbation,such is the destiny of Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, onetime commandant of the Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station, onetime Governor of Samoa, who was last week appointed by President Coolidge to be "king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one...
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