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Herbert Hoover Recalls Work Of Belgium Commission Brussels (UPI) Former President Herbert Hoover re called Saturday the work of the commission lor relief in Belgium which he headed during the early World War I. In a "Hoover Day" speech at the Brussels World fair, he paid tribute to the Belgian people a$d the governments which cooperated to sustain the morale, the unity and the spiritual strength of the inno cent victims of the war. "Lasting benefits have come to the world from the experi ence we gained in those years of the First World war and its armistice," Hoover Hoover, 83, who underwent a gall bladder operation April 19, returned to the scene of one of his greatest triumphs as special United States en voy to the affair. "This is an occasion and a setting which reaches into the depths of our memories and our emotions." Hoover said. Cared for Milliom In a review of the work of the commission he headed, Hoover pointed out that the agency managed the supply of food for 10 million people, careS)for the ill, the aged and the destitute. It was the second speech Hoover, made here in , two idajs. Ia an Indeptndence Day srddrcss Friday, he said tlii United .States currently is toe xirtim of "false legend, misrepresentations and vi- stages oFi ciou propaganda" . even in the ire world. and listless children" before the soup kitchens. He recalled, too, times when "Belgian eaiety and wit would break through their suffering like a star shell in the night over no man's land." Like the time a "thundering Noting this propaganda has j enemy general unbuckled his incitad "physical attacks up on Amerian citizens, upon our officials, and abuse of our country," Hoover said: "Forty years ago such atti tudes contributed to the re treat of the American people behind a barbed-wire entan glement around the Western Hemisphere. I have little fear of such a retreat today. But the danger signal is up." His second address was de voted to reminiscences of what he witnessed "on this spot" and elsewhere during and after World War I. Scenes Recalled He recalled scenes of cruel ty that heosaid have troubled his dreams ever since. A monument at Dinant, Belgi um, where "hundreds of men, women and children were taken as hostages and mowed down with machine guns." Belgian city streets with a hobnailed soldier of the Kai ser at every crossroad. The "long lines of weary women lit W tli: rr- lr TOUR JACKSONVILLE Consideration is being given to the possible restoration of Jacksonville as a tourist attrac tion for the 1959 Oregon Centennial period. The Jackson County Centennial commission, has several projects in mind It hopes will ring outsiders to this area. Touring Jackson ville recently in coniection with this project were, Jeft to right, Ernest Hood and Russ Jamison, both on the board of trustees of the Jackson County Centennial association, and Drs. Arthur Taylor and Frank Haines, both members of the Southern Dregon college gculty. belt of ponderous weapons" and laid them In a browbeat ing gesture on a Belgion bur gomaster's table and the Belgian "solemnly uncorked his fountain pen and laid it beside the revolvers." Hoover spoke of the "thou sande of devoted women" who worked to save 2,500,000 children in Belgium and northern France from hunger, disease and degeneration. After the armistice the Amer icans who worked in Belgium brought rehabilitation to 13 million children in other parts of Europe. And after World War-II, he said, the same group of Americans from that original staff in Belgium got the United Nations to use the system developed then to care for war-debilitated children throughout the world. Full Story Untold The Belgian relief organi zation. Hoover said, was un precedented in history and pi oneered the methods of re lief of great famines. "Some day," he said, "I hope to publish the whole story, because only I know it in full." The storv does not end with th oroeram of relief, Hoover said. When relief op erations ended in 1919. the or ganization had 39 million dol lars in unspent funds. The money was endowed to chari ties and educational founda inn which, through the vears have enabled Belgians to study in tne unuea and Americans to study w Belgium. Hoover read a special mes sage from tresiaeiu hower paying tribute to the "courage, the fortitude and the ideals for which the Bel gians have stood." in two world wars and in times of peace. Vandalism Reported At Emigrant Lake A nurse containing a $10 monev order was taken from an Emigrant lake concession stand when vandals DroKe into the stand and strew equipment about, according to state police. 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"What a shok," Warren Higgins, 33, of Alexandria, Va., said later. "They were a lovely family . . . wonderful neighbors." All five had drunk pineap ple juice spiked with poison, according to Police Chief Henry G. Liebernecht. Injected Himself MacDowell swallowed some Seconal tablets and then in jected himself with deadly poison, Liebernecht said. Apparently, MacDowell ar ranged a midnight "snack" for his family in order to carry, out the gruesome plan. "There is some indication he had discussed the murder suicide with his wife," Lt. Leon Neidorf of the Essex County prosecutor's office said. Liebernecht agreed Mrs. MacDowell "apparently knew of his plans." rf However, the motive re mained uncertain. THIS LOOKS LIKE AVA? Dawn Manning, 26, of At lantic City, sheds a tear in New York police station, where she was booked for trying to get out of paying bills by taking advantage of her resemblance to actress Ava Gardner. Navy to Return Nuclear Test Sailor Honolulu-(UPI) Dr. Earle Reynolds who attempted to sail into the forbidden Pa cific nuclear test area will be returned under guard from Kwajalein early this week, the Navy said. Reynolds deliberately sail ed his boat, the Phoenix, into the test zone with his wife, their two teenaged children and a Japanese crewman also aboard. The yacht was inter cepted and towed to Kwaja lein. Reynolds, his wife and daughter will return aboard a government plane. Rey nold's son and the crewman will remain with .the yacht, the Navy said. Farmhand Admits 9 Letter to Malik London (UPI) William Stanley Whales, 34, an out-of-work farmhand confessed yesterday he had written the letter which touched off fears a "crazy" American pilot might drop a hydrogen bomb off the coast of England. The letter was addressed to Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik, who immediately made it public. It was 1 de nounced as a "hoax" by the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Air Force, and even the Soviet Embassy expressed doubts as to its validity. Whales said he had identi-1 fied himself as an American airman stationed in Britain because he figured that would draw more attention to the wrongs he claimed had been heaped on him by the British Royal Air Force. He accused the Soviets of deleting all references to him self, or recopying the letter and th'en signing it only with the initial "W." He said he had signed it originally "W. Whales." Radio Moscow lost no time in getting aboard the propa ganda wagon. In a broadcast beamed to North-America it said the letter "bears the im print of men driven desper ate by the hourly threat of nuclear warfare and have de cided that some terrible dem onstration is needed to make people see the powder keg situation." Whales was questioned by police and then released. Both police and the United States Air Force had no com ment on the matter. Florida has 58,560 square miles. Ope rations Of Three Survivors Reviewed by Pilot Honolulu (UPI Capt. Robert McCulley, Arlington, Tex., who commanded the res cue plane which spotted three survivors of the downed C- 124 in the Pacific, told Satur day about the" "textbook" search and rescue operaton. McCulley's plane, an SC54 search craft, left the 76th Air Rescue Squadron flight line Iowa Counts Cost As Floods Abate Audubon, Iowa (UPI) Searchers" plodded through mudcovered debris today looking for the lone remain ing body of the 19 known dead in southwest Iowa's worst floods in history. The floods appeared to be spent. Red Cross officials said a first survey of the damage showed 19 dead, 59 injured, one seriously, and 31 dwell ings destroyed. In addition, 120 dwellings suffered major damage, 355 others were less severly dam aged and 71 farm buildings were destroyed. In all, the floods inflicted losses on at least 971 Iowa families. ; At least two possible flood threads apeared to be past the danger stage. The Nishnabotna River, loaded with carcasses of dead livestock, flowed swiftly past the barricaded town of Ham burg into the Missouri River. Sandbags and flash boards lined up to protect the town proved to be eight feet high er than the river's crest. A second flood threat dim inished when the Raccoon River crested at 18 feet at Des Moines, then began falling. at Hickman Air Force base at 3:55 a.m. Friday and be "highest probability." Three hours and 30 minutes later, McCulley spotted what the thought was an oil slick and altered 'his course .pattern to investigate. "Then Casto (T. Sgt. Earl W. Casto, Replete, Va.) holler ed he had got something," Mc Culley said. "We all saw stuff then. There was debris all over the place." McCulley made a low pass over the survivors, two in the wifcr and one lying across a crate. Happy Bunch "You talk about a bappy bunch. They were waving their arms and jumping. We figure they were in the water about 12 hours," Capt. Robert Donstad, San Jose, Calif., the navigator said. The plane than made an other pass upwind of the sur vivors and dropped a survival kit two 20-man liferafts con nected by an 800-foot nylon line. McCulley said it was a search and rescue "almost from the textbook." The entire crew of the res cue plane said it was "the prettiest drop we ever. saw." The center of the line drop ped right across the survivors. T. Sgt. Julius Raetz of. St. Louis, Mo., and T. Sgt. Alton Schneider, Marysville, Calif., made the precision drop. . Schneider had a magnifi cent black eye to show for his part, acquired when a piece of the gear slapped him while it was going out. "I'm proud of it," Schneider said. The three survivors had al most reached one of the rafts when the helicopter arrived from the carrier Boxer to lift them from the water. The res cue plane escorted the heli copters back to the carrier and returned to continue the search for others. MfcIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford, Oregon, Sunday, July 6, 19S8 7 tossenger Train Stops Because of Engine Fire Speigner, Ala. (UPI) The Hummingbird, Louisville and Nashville railroad's crack Das- senger train between New Orleans and Cincinnati, was halted temporarily here Fri day night when an engine unit caught fire and burned. No one was injured. The engine unit, one of three, on the Hummingbird, was a. complete loss. Fire men from nearby Wetumpka fought the blaze for 45 min ute before getting it under control. Lancaster, Mass. (UPI) For the first time in this town's 304-year history, a town meeting has been held outdoors. Eighteen citizens conducted their business just outside the town hall because of humid weather. 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