NICARAGUA: Lieut. Big Feet

Readers of the Chicago Daily News were recently tantalized and vexed by a tale which its star correspondent, Julian F. Haas, cabled from Nicaragua. The story concerned the U. S. lieutenant "who has the reputation of having the largest foot in the Marine Corps. . . . Every shoe or boot that he requires has to be made to order."

Continued Correspondent Haas: "This young lieutenant . . . whose name we shall not mention ... we shall call him Brownlee, was stationed at a little town called San Rafael del Norte, wherein the...

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