From Dave Price

BucklFL, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. What years did Freddie work this act? I really don't know, I never saw it. It was done either while I was away in the Army or after my father died and we had moved from Hugo to Florida. Yes Chic, Freddy was a Canadian and started out working for my dad with the Terrell Jacobs Circus. a feature of Conklin's All Canadian Shows. At the conclusion of the season he was smuggled out of Canada in a baggage car hidden behind some shifting boxes. Aware that he would be tacked down, he left Peru and spent some time with the Endy Shows before joining RBBB where he got a job as a cage hand and in no time was moving props around during May Kovar's cat act. He once told me that while waiting in line at the office to get the job, the fellow standing next to him was Bob Dover who was placed in ring stock as a pony punk. One morning while sitting on the hay pile waiting for the cages to arrive on the lot he saw these gentlemen in suits approaching "Are you Fred C. Logan?", "Are you a Canadian Citizen?", "What are you doing here?", "Are you aware there is a war going on?" In a few weeks he found himself in a room with a large number of other draftees who were ordered to form three ranks and was then informed one was the Army, one was the Navy and the final the Marines. Freddy was now in the Navy and served in combat in the Pacific. After the war he returned to the Ringling Show and went to work in the elephant department and by 1947 was Richard Shipley's first assistant working the center ring act. Buckles