TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, March 22, 1953
New York Youths
Rescued From Cave
Beneath Street
New York OI.R) Two and
one-half days of terror ended for
three teen-agers today when po
lice dangling on ropes 150 feet
above the ground rescued them
from a cave under one of New
York's heaviest traveled streets.
The two girls and one boy
'explored" the cave Saturday
afternoon. They were trapped
until 2:30 a.m. today without
food or water in their dank
prison.
They had spent more than 50
hours praying, yelling them
selves hoarse to cars overhead
on the Henry Hudson Parkway
and trying to dig their way out
with their fingernails.
"It was terribly dark and we
just prayed and prayed," they
said between bites on ham
burgers brought by their rescu
ing officers. "Thank God, you
found us."
They owed their lives to the
perseverence of a detective who
located the cave on a slim clue
from one of the children's play
mates. The adventuring trio 13-year-old
Jacqueline, and 16-year-old
Joele Weber, and Ron
ald Tevlin, 15, all of Manhattan
climbed a 150-foot stone cliff,
using hand-holds in the crev
ices, to caves under the highway.
While the teen-agers explored
one of the caves with a flash
light, dirt and rock shifted.
blocking all but a small opening j
too mall to crawl through.
The girls were reported miss
ing Monday afternoon by their
father Joseph Weber, who had
been frantically trying to find
them by calling their girl
friends, with whom he believed
them to be staying.
Detective Bob Herbstman was
ordered on the case and began
questioning teen-age friends of
the trio on the assumption that
they were runaways. One close
friend of the missing children,
Richard DeWald, 12, mentioned
the caves to Herbstman. The de
tective investigated his slim
lead and discovered the young
sters' plight.
Champion of Negro
Rights Succumbs
To Heart Disease
New York (U.R) Walter
White, champion of Negro rights
and executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
since 1918, died Monday of heart
disease.
White, 61, known as the "rank
ing Negro diplomat" in segrega-
tion controversies, was looked
upon by many Negroes as the
nearest thing they had to a na
tional leader since the death of
Booker T. Washington in 1915.
He was fair-skinned with blue
eyes. His own blood was said to
be but l-64th Negro. His second
wife, Mrs. Poppy Cannon White,
was Caucasian.
White was tireless during his
entire career with the NAACP
in investigating reports of per
secution, lynchings and discrim
ination and was an energetic
' leader in pressing for relief in
the courts and legislatures.
He was born in Atlanta where
childhood tragedies influenced
the course of his life. White's
father, a mail carrier, died of
"lack of attention" because of
an injury. White believed his
father would have lived if he
had received treatment and not
been treated as a Negro. When
he was 12, Atlanta was torn by
the ordeal of racial riots.
White, although he was not a
lawyer, appeared many times in
the chambers of the Supreme
Court where he sat in a section
of seats up near the judges'
bench, which are traditionally
set aside for attorneys who have
practiced before the court.
White was a novelist, biogra
pher and contributor to numer
ous nationally known magazines.
He served as a war correspondent
for the New York Post from
1943 to 1945 in the European
Mediterranean. Middle East and
Pacific theaters.
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