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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.
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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. O'Neil, counsel for the
Klamath Indians, said yester
day. ,
Federal Judge Gus Solomon
will try the case, which was !
brought by O'Neil and Charles I
Luce, Walla Walla, Wash., repre- j
senting the Umatilla Indians. j
The tribes claim that enforce- j
ment of game laws on the res-1
ervation would violate the ,
treaty of 1870 with the Indians. ;
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