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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TIYS earch in jungles of Thursday, January IS, 195S Pressed for victims of Massacre Ecuador Helicopter Joins Hunt for Fate of Three Protestants Quito, Ecuador (U.P.) A U.S. Air Force helicopter whirls off into the "green hell" jungles of Eastern Ecuador today to de termine the fate of three Ameri can Protestant missionaries fear ed slain by bloodthirsty Indians. In New York, The National Broadcasting Company reported that Dave Garroway of the "To day" television show talked this morning with Clarence W. Jones in Quito. Jones indicated some hope for survivors. In response to a question from Garroway as to whether he had heard anything new, Jones, pres ident of the World Missionary fellowship, replied: Encouraging Word "Yes, Dave. I've just tuned in on the jungle network and got very encouraging word, the best we've heard in the last few days." Then he told how a commer cial airline pilot "saw two men on the beach with canoes nearby and he said they looked like our people." "They were waving a white flag," he said. "The pilot man aged to take a 35 mm. film and the boys stayed up until mid night last night developing the prints to see if they could rec ognize any of- the faces. But they were too small to make it out." - . He said that, as a result, crew men on the helicopter were go ing to drop a note to the men, asking them to write identifying words on the sand. The 'copier, flown " in Wed nesday from the Panama Canal Zone, will take off from. Shell Mera, an oil camp which is the civilized outpost nearest the point where the missionaries' wrecked plane was sighted late Monday. Bodies Sighted Searchers in an Albatross res cue amphibian sighted the bodies of two of five missing mission aries near the wreckage Wed nesday. The dead were identified tentatively as T. Edward McCiil ly, of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Roger Youardin, of Billings, Mont. No trace has been found of Nathaniel Saint, of Fullerton, Calif., Peter Fleming" of Seattle, and James Elliott, of Portland, Ore., who flew into Auca In dian country with McCully and Youardin Sunday. A report that a small fire had been sighted near the wreck age gave rise to some hope that one or more of tftem survived the Indian attack. No Sif ns of Life Search planes that criss-crossed the area Wednesday saw no signs of life, however, and au thorities in Quito believe all five of the missionaries were massacred by the savage Indians, An American-Ecuadorean par ty started on foot from Shell Mera V'ednesday, but it is not expected to reach the wreckage until sometime Friday because of dense jungle growth block ing it path. Robert Savage, chief Evangel ical Protestant missionary in Ecuador, said the five men flew into Auca country from Shell Mera Sunday, after Saint and McCully had found the Indians apparently friendly on a pre vious flight. Wives Remain Behind Savage said the wives of mar ried men in the party remained behind in Shell Mera. He con tradicted early reports that Mrs. McCully was slain in the massa cre. No one could tell immediate ly what turned the ' Indians against the missionaries, but the Aucas are known to have hair- trippr fpmnprs that romtiro only the slightest provocation to set them into a bestial rage. Ways off White Man Blamed for Tragedy Which Befell American Missionaries in Ecuador Jungle Washington U.R) Two stu dents of South American Indian life blamed the white man and his ways today for the tragedy that befell an American mission ary group in the Amazonian jungles of eastern Ecuador. The missionaries met disaster when they flew in a small air plane to the wilderness home land of the Auca Indians, a little known tribe of "head-shrinkers" that has learned by bitter ex perience to hate whites. Penalty Believed Paid Dr. Clifford Evans, associate cu- In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In this modern world, there is an abundance of good things in some cases a SUPER-abund-ance. Wheat and cotton, for ex ample. These useful commodi ties so abundant that our gov ernment is hard put to find enough warehouse space to store up the surplus of them. But It appears There are SHORTAGES you are skeptical, read this: If A FTER a long lifetime of smok ing clay pipes, it's a hard thing for an old lady to en counter a shortage of clay pipes. That's what happened to Aman da Spuler, 81-year-old matriarch of Poplar Ridge, in the Buck skin Hills of southern Ohio. A few weeks ago, she got down to her last clay pipe, and t'o save her she couldn't lay hands on another one. Word of her predicament got around Poplar' Ridge, and peo ple ransacked their attics. But to no avail.' Nobody had stashed away a single clay pipe. The story spread to Chillicothe. But there were no clay pipe there. Finally her plight got onto the news wires of the Associated Press. . That did it. Clay pipes began to pour in from all over the country. Between blissful puffs the other day, she said to a reporter who had come- to interview her: "I've got enough stone pipes now to last me the rest of my life." - 'AH, vision from an ME. That brings back a earlier day. The vision has to do with Aunt Sally Cozad and Aunt Mary Ann Brown. And Uncle Tom Cozad. Uncle Tom was Aunt Sally's hus band: Aunt Mary Ann was aunt Sally's spinster sister. They all lived together in a cabin down in the creek bottom, where they owned 60 acres of land that sup plied their needs quite amply except in the bad years when the June floods came. i ' But even in . the unfortunate years of the June floods they made out, and if in those years anyone had sugggested that they go down to the co't -house and apply for what in these more liberal modern days we call RE LIEF there would' have been a ruckus that would have rat tled the windows for miles around. I hate to think of what would have happened if some local politician, running for of fice, had proposed that Uncle Sam buy up their surplus co'n every year at a high price and charge up the cost to the taxpayers. Recruiting Campaign For Unit Men Sunday Ashland Active recruiting of 21 men for the Ashland unit of. the Oregon National Guard will start Sunday. The campaign is being conducted to bring the unit up to the qualified 94 of ficers and men needed for new equipment which will replace present equipment. There will be a display of weapons and equipment at the armory here Sunday. The unit's conventional artillery will be converted to electronically con . trolled "skyswleper" artillery soon, according to Capt. Ardis N. Warren, battery, commander. The battalion is to be the first Oregon unit to receive the new type equipment and a full roster of trained men will be needed to man them, Lt. Col'. Francis C. Ayres. commanding officer of the 732nd battalion, said. Capt. Warren said men who wish to enlist Sunday may do so and receive a day's drill pay. a THINK I'd better explain here that Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally and Aunt Mary Ann weren't blood relations. In that day, people of their age and kindly type were Aunt and Uncle to everybody in the vi cinity.) piVERY evening, after the . chores were done and Uncle Tom had come in from the barn and the dishes were washed and the house had been tidied up, Aunt Sally and Aunt Mary Ann would reach down their clay pipes from the mantle, tamp them carefully with "long green" tobacco that had been grown in their -own back yard and light them. The lighting of the pipes was a rite. With the poker, they would separate a likely-looking hickory coal from the ashes, pick it up between thumb and fore finger and deposit it on top of the tobacco. There were match es. But using a match was no proper way to light a clay pipe. The fumes of the sulphur would spoil the flavor of the tobacco, whereas a hickory coal would enrich the smoke. With their pipes lighted, they would settle back in their rock ing chairs for a half-hour of solid comfort. TTNCLE Tom didn't smoke. He chewed. His chewing tobac co was likewise . grown in the back yard. It was cut and hung up to cure. At the proper time in the curing process, it was twisted into what was known as a "hank." From' one of these hanks, which he carried in his hip pocket, Uncle Tom would bite off a mouthful, which he would enjoy as much as Aunt Sally and Aunt Mary Ann en joyed their pipes. On Fourth of Julys and other gala occasions, and when "tony" company was in the house, Uncle Tom chewed store tobac co. His favorite brand was known- as Horseshoe, and into each plug was stamped a little tin horseshoe. These tiny horse shoes were carefully saved up by Uncle Tom to be bestowed upon the neighboring children, who esteemed them highly. TN CLOSING, I should like to make it clear that Aunt Sally and Aunt Mary Ann were ladies in . every moral sense of the word. They, were not, however, of the social level that was known as "quality." Quality ladies didn't smoke. At least they didn't smoke until after having attained a ripe age. : Age was supposed to have certain perquisites, and smok ing a clay pipe was one of them. But quality ladies, of whatever great age, seldom smoked ' in "company." They were apt to enjoy their pipes in seclusion.": rator of the Division of Archae ology of the U.S. National Mu seum, said he believes the mis sionaries paid the penalty for past misdeeds of white gold and rubber hunters. Evans, who has made several expeditions to South American jungles, said that white soldiers of fortune, derelicts unfitted for life in their own societies, have gone into Auca territory with guns and "shot down the Indians for no reason at all."-; So the Aucas, a primitive and admittedly ferocious tribe, kill in retaliation "because they have been mistreated," Evans said. " Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, head of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, thinks' the missionaries were also the victims of bad luck and bad approach. Stirling, who visited the head waters of the Amazon in 1924 and again in 1929-30, has travel ed unarmed with only two or three companions through much of the eastern Ecuadorian jun gle. Slow Approach Belter Both Stirling and?' Evans be lieve . the missionaries barged into Auca territory too abruptly. A slow land approach, with a friendly Indian trusted by the Aucas to explain their presence, would have been better. , "But the Aucas are not ac tually as bloodthirsty as they are . painted," Stirling said. ' "I feel personally that a white man reasonably well guided - and well-versed in the Indians' cus toms can travel anywhere he wants , to in , that country and not be in danger." Murder Suspected in Disappearance of Beauty in New York New York (U.R) Police to day advanced the theory that 20-year-old Jacqueline Smith died while undergoing an' abortion early Christmas day and that her body was probably dismem bered and hidden. - The vibrant young' small town beauty disappeared mysterious ly during the Christmas holidays and the routine' missing persons case exploded into a criminal homicide investigation with the arrest Wednesday of her 25-year-old boy friend, Thomas G. Dan iel, and a handful of other wit nesses. Jacqueline, an ambitious fash ion designer with a zest for life, came to New York 18 months ago from her home town of Leb anon, Pa., and had been inti mately acquainted with Daniel, formerly of Warren, O., since June. Deputy Chief Inspector Ed ward Byrnes said early .today he could not be quoted on the new abortion-dismemberment theory but he said he was certain the girl was a victim of "criminal A! Sarena Background By UNITED PRESS Background on Al Sarerra Mining Controversy - The hot tempered congressional investi gation of 15 Oregon mining claims is about timber not min erals. Al Sarena Mines, Inc., of Mo bile, Ala., applied to the Interior Department in October, 1948, for rights to 23 Oregon minitig claims. The claims are in the Rogue River National Forest. Rights .To Ore, Timber If the' application were grant ed, the Sarena company would have had rights to the ore in the ground and the timber on top of it. But the department then under the Truman admin istration rejected .the applica tion of 15 of the claims involv ing 300 acres of forest. It said they didn't contain enough min erals. Sarena appealed, claiming some confusion about assay re ports on the. claims. A new assay was ordered. It was done by a Mobile firm, the A. W. Wil liams Inspection Co. The assay report showed enough minerals, in the claims to justify develop ment. The : Interior Department - now under the Republican Eisenhower administration re versed its old decision in Janu ary, 1954. Neuberger's Stand - ' Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.) charged the Sarena case is a precedent for giving away the national forests. Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.) said the Sarena company appears to be "in the lumber rather than mining busi ness." Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R Mich.) charged congressional in vestigation of the claims was an attempt "to smear the Eisen hower administration." All three congressmen are members of the joint congres sional committee conducting the investigation. - Vancouver Youngster Drowns in Ditch "Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) James Laurel Harper, eight-year old Vancouver boy, drowned in a water - filled ditch near his home yesterday. , Deputy Coroner Fred Apple said the boy and a companion were trying to fish a can out of the water when the Harper boy fell in. , The other boy, James Krein, called his mother. The father, Arthur Krein, was returning from work and heard his "wife scream. He rushed to the ditch and dove in, recovering, the Harper boy's body from the muddy bottom. DRY DOUGLAS FIR CORE WOOD (Split and Rounds) or Excellent Fireplace Fuel PROMPT DELIVERIES Medford Central Point Jacksonville Phoenix :.. " 1 CORD $17.00 17.75 18.00 18.00 VA CORDS phone; TlMBERP MItFORft $24.50 25.25 25.50 25.50 2-8086 Company OMON (U-Haul at $15.00 Per Cord) Summit and McAndrews Road TO BUY OR SELL USE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS homicide." Other detectives working on the case said the abortion-dismemberment theory developed from the questioning of an un identified Mexican doctor, a male nurse, and several friends of Jacqueline's boy friend. . Mexican Doctor Called ' They said the Mexican doctor was called to -Daniel's apartment early Christmas morning with a report that a'-girl 'was dying there. He told police when he got there the girl was dead. Police indicated they had learned that both Daniel and the male nurse, identified as Leo F. Pijuan, were in the apartment when -the doctor arrived. Pijuan, who was brought in for questioning late Wednesday, was grilled throughout the night. Inspector Byrnes said that it was imperative to find Jacque line's body and ordered 50 de tectives to press the search for it. The searchers dragged the Hudson river most of Wednes day without finding a trace of the girl. They made plans to resume the search early today. Daniel was locked up in civil prison under $25,000 bail. It was Daniel's statement that j led police to the river. He said Jacqueline told him on Christ mas Eve thaft she was pregnant and asked him to marry her. He said he refused her' proposal and left the room briefly. When he returned, he said, he found her body on the floor with a carving knife "plunged into her abdomen. Daniel said he stuffed the body into a garment bag, took it in a taxi to Riverside drive, and dumped it into the river. 250 CAMPBELL AIM : London (U.R) Water speed king Donald. Campbell, who set the world mark of 216 miles per hour over Lake Mead, Nev., last fall, says he'll try to raise the record to 250 mph this year and keep ahead of the American competition. "I have a profound respect for American engineers and pilots," he told .a luncheon group, "but at the moment we have a lead on them,, and if we are to keep that lead, then we have got to get working." Indian Game Law Trial Scheduled Klamath Falls XU.R) The In dian game law case has been set for -trial in Portland Feb. 28, J. C. 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