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
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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.
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Robert Hall, Phoenix, told
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door of a converted trailer
house was broken to gam en
try. In addition to disrupting
the insides of the sand, two
soft-drink coolers were
thrown into the lake, accora
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Poisons Family,
Takes Own Life
Glen Ridge, N. J. (UPI)
A former drug executive
killed four members of his
family with a poisonous pine
apple drink Friday and then
swallowed a lethal dose him
self to complete a murder-suicide
plan that his wife may
have approved.
"I'm sorry for what I'm
doing." muscular, good-looking
Thomas H. MacDowell, 49,
said in a note found by police.
"I love my 'wife and chil
dren dearly but I think in the
long run they'll be better off,"
the note said. '"Shis is the best
way out."
Neighbor Finds Bodies
A neighbor sent to investi
gate the absence of the family
from a July 4 picnic found the
bodies of MacDowell, his Bra
zilian wife, Marta, 37, two
sons, Donald, 7, and Robert
6, and MacDowell's mother,
Florence, 79, in second floor
bedrooms.
"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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Lindsay Dealer Here
Johnston Stores, !112 South
Riverside ave., Medford, has
been appointed exclusive au
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automatic water softeners, the
company has announced.
The local store will serv
ice all of southern Oregon,- it
reported.
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years old, Britain has one mil
lion more women than men.
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