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Girl's Attacker
Sought by MPs
Nuernbtrg. German;. L.5. j
U.S. military police conducted a :
bar;K to bunk search of barracks
in the Nuernberg area today in i
?arch for an American soldier i
who attacked a 19-ear-old Ger
man girl in a city park Tuesday ;
ni?ht. i
The latest act of violence in-:
yoking U.S. troops and German
civilians was reported.' shortly
alter German officials met with
U.S. military officials to discuss
bitter complaints registered by
tne German population.
The young nurse said the sol
dier threw her to the ground
and tried to rape her.- but he
fled when she called for help.
She said she bit the GI s arm,
and military police be;an a
search for a soldier bearing tell
tale teeth marks.
The recent death of two Ger
man civilians in brawls with
GIs and the rape of a young girl
by a 2ng of soldiers prompted
a meeting between Nuernberg
city officials, German newspa
per editors. Army Area Com
mander Col. T. Ft. Kimplon and
military police officers.
Kimpton told the Germans he
believed the German press ox-
asgerated reports of the current i
series of incidents. !
School Construction
Bill To Stay Dead
Washington (UP. Congres
sional leaders predicted today
the federal school construction
bill will stay dead this year
despite President Eisenhowers
attempt to breathe life into it.
The House killed the SI ,600 -('00.
(100 school aid bill by a 224-
194 vote early this month. The
President made a second appeal
for the bill's revival Tuesday as
Congress rushed toward adjourn
ment. Chairman Graham A. Barden
(D-N.C.) of the House Educa
tion committee commented:
"Sciene has developed some
wonderful machines called pul
motors, but so far as I know it
has not come up with anything
powerful enough to bring that
bill back to life."
Top House leaders privately j
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Is That So?
"Ten of us three women and
eight children were trapped. The
ranger said fire was burning to
ward us through the forests on
three sides. Our back was against
an unscalable mountain ridge.
We were in the safest area for
miles around, at Hunter School,
about 22 miles out of Red Bluff.
Tehama county, California,"
7-18-56
writes R. L . tiie winner of this
week's award of the liO-volume
set of the Encyclopedia Ameri
cana. "The ranger said that although
access to the "outside" was cut
off we would be safe if we stay
ed "put" in this clearing in the
woods.
Before he left us, promising to
return with help as soon as pos
sible, our ranger took us around
and showed us how to dig a
trench and roll up in wet blank
ets if need be, so that the fire
could pass over us without hurt
ing us.
There was a spring in the
clearing and plenty of water for
our needs. We hauled our beds
outdoors and prepared to watch
and wait. Just before he left, the
ranger had seen a skunk. He
told us that these small creatures
were very curious and that we
were not to be alarmed by their
presence: that if we did not rush
'at them but permitted them to
j look around and investigate as
tney saw. fit, tney would not
bother us.
We were, in the next three
weeks, to remember his admoni
tions on this point many times
for we had a mother and father
skunk and several little baby
skunks as close neighbors all
this while.
They behaved with quiet dig
nity, accepting us although
never deigning to regard us
closely. For the first day or two,
they insisted upon going through
our cabin, carefully inspecting
each item that attracted their
attention. Finally, they took up
residence under the shed.
I am sure they watched the
fire at night with as much con
cern as we did but they seemed
to have the calm assurance that
everything was going to be all
right for they never seemed the
least bit excited.
Joined by Other Families
As four other fimilies were
burned out, the four women and
their 11 young children joined
us. The men and older boys re
maining to fight the on-coming
fire.
All the forest creatures, dur
ing this time, gradually seemed
to move down around us. We
found tracks of a large bear one
morning, although we didn't see
him. Cougar tracks. Wildcat.
Hundreds of rabbits and grey
squirrels. Once we caught sight
of a timber wolf. One night 1
was awakened as something
brushed across my nose. I looked
up to see in the glow which was
now lighting the whole sky over
head a large deer which quickly
pounded off.
Snakes slid by. Owls by the
dozen screeched. All the forest
creatures were on the move. to
ward congregating with us dur
ing the night.
We knew that hundreds of
creatures were close by many
of them natural enemies but
there was no token of fear of
each other then. All of us. hu
man and animal, and reptile
were bound in those hours by
a common concern. A great and
terrifying menace had stricken
off the record for the moment
that we w ere supposed to be shy
with each other and all war be
tween us was at a standstill.
Wall of Flame Adrances
Then the fire approached.
Within a few hours a wall of
flame more than a hundred feet
high advanced within 50 feet of
our clearing.
It was awful and relentless.
The little skunks under my
bed huddled together but there
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Wednesday, July 18, 19S8
By IUGENE BURNS
Rjngtr-Naturaliit
' was rio whimpering. Every crea
ture, human and animal seemed
contained with quiet. Waiting.
What next? The wind which
had caused the advance at the
rate of 15 miles an hour sud-
: denly turned back on itself and
the fire like a whipped thing
ate into itseif and died down
: and suddenly the forest crea
! tures knew that it was safe and
j there was stirring and move
ment and mysterious rustlings
land we knew that the hundreds
of animals and birds and rep
tiles which had come to our
clearing "the safest place for
miles around" the ranger had
said were departing to resume
their former lives in the woods
not burned at our back yard.
And then the rangers and help
came and told us we were safe.
But we knew it already.
(Copyright, 1956,
by Eugene Burns)
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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Marilyn Jams
London Traffic
London U.P.- Marilyn
Monroe went to the theater
Tuesday night in a flesh-colored
gown and touched off a real
Hollywood and Vine-type traffic
jam.
Four truckloads of extra po
lice were called out to control
the crowds milling around the
Lyric theater to catch a glimpse
of the bosomy Hollywood star.
Traffic backed up through
Shafftesbury ave. and London's
theater district while the police
struggled to clear a path in
front of the theater.
With husband Arthur Miller.
Marilyn went to the Lyric to
see Vivien Leigh in Noel Cow
ard's "South Sea Bubble." Miss
Leigh is the wife of Sir Laur
ence Oliver with whom Marilyn
is to co-star in a film here.
Marilyn and her husband at
tempted to avoid being spotted
and ducked into their orchestra
seats after the lights went down.
But the word spread through
the theater and outside. By. the
time the play ended, the street
in front of the Lyric was jam
packed with eager-eyed fans.
Marilyn waited inside for an
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Girl Now Aware of Auto Mishap;
X-Rays Show Fractures of Pelvis
Salt Lake City vU.Ri Doc
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Margetts, 18, California girl who
survived nine days of exposure
and starvation in a mountainside
wreck, has found out for the first
time that she was in an automo
bile accident.
A report from the Latter-Day
Saints hospital here, where she
has been confined since July 3,
said that "when Miss Margetts
continued . to be curious and
somewhat agitated about the
reason for her hospitalization,
doctors told her she was in an
automobile accident."
"She apparently accepted this
explanation and has since been
quiet and thoughtful," the report
added.
Find Broken Pelvi
Attending physicians disclosed
that a further complication in
the Sunnyvale girl's convales
cence has been detected. When
complete X-rays became possible,
it was found she suffers from
multiple fractures of the pelvis.
A hospital spokesman said the
only way this complication
would alter Miss Margett s treat
ment course is she must remain
in bed more than recently. She
had been allowed for several
days to walk around her room at
will.
The girl still has not asked
about her fiance. Jim Hixon Jr..
22, Salt Lake City, who died
June 24 as their car left a high
way as they returned from a fish
BETTER LATE . . .
Pittstown. N. J. (U.R! When
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years without a license, the 64-year-old
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Case Unusual
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University of Utah Medical col
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research could find no parallel to
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