Communist China Releases Third
U.S. Prisoner and Italian Bishop
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Bush-Beaters Try to Flush
Wayward Elephant From
Woodland Hideaway
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —A posse
of bush-beaters tried Thursday to
flush Vickie, the wayward ele
phant, from her wooded hideaway
here.
Vickie, 6 years old and 2,300
pounds, has holed up in a strip of
woods 400 feet wide and nearly
a mile long since she wandered
away from a Charlotte amuse
ment park Sunday. She has resist
ed all attempts to drive her out.
Trainer Johnny (Smoky) Strick
land now plans to try an African
bush-beating technique. The posse
will set up n hue and cry, coupled
with the beating of drums, in a
march through the area.
Animal handlers from a carni
val at nearbby Gastonia say that
Vickie is getting dangerous and
will have to be shot unless she
comes out by the end of the week.
Strickland insists, however, that
she’s harmless unless someone
gets in front of her.
Convicts Released
For Heroic Rescue
After Hurricane
FAIRFAX, Va., UP)—Two con
victs, their drab prison existence
cut short by an act of heroism,
started out to pick up their lives
Saturday with home, friends—and
freedom.
They were two of the four pris
oners on a hurricane cleanup
work detail who rescued a six
year-old Fairfax girl from a deep
mud slough as she was sinking
over her head. The two others—
longer termers—had their sen
tences reduced nine months each
for helping save Lynn Hooper.
Gov. Stanley gave his approval
Thursday to recommendations of
the prison board for the immedi
ate release of Charles K. Stewart
of Pennington Gap, Va., and Indi
anapolis, and Millard Gibson of
Johnstown, Penna.
Gibson, who served a year and
seven months on an auto theft
conviction, said he hoped to enter
a teachers college and become a
teacher and athletic coach. He
said he had completed his high
school courses at the prison camp.
Stewart looked forward to a
two-week visit with his mother at
Pennington Gap and then a re
union with his wife and son at
Indianapolis. He had served a
year and six months for grand
larceny.
In the Aug. 9 rescue the two
convicts jumped into the mud pit
and held the child above their
heads while the others pulled the
girl and then the prisoners to
safety.
Fine Job Printing at The NuggeJ
f HONG KONG, UP}—Communist
1 China released a third American
prisoner here Saturday and a half
dozen more were reported near
ing freedom.
The first man to find freedom
Saturday was Lawrence Buol, 34,
of Stockton, Calif. He came across
chewing gum happily and looking
fairly fit although he lost about
80 pounds during his five years
and eight months imprisonment—
longest of the 10 American civil
ians whom Communist China
promised at Geneva to release.
Two years of his 2,067 days in
jail were spent in solitary confine
ment, he said.
A short time after he was re
leased, Buol’s wife Sue raced into
his arms. “Doesn’t he look won
derful?” she cried. They had been
married six months when Buol
was arrested by the Chinese Com
munists on the Mengtze Airstrip
140 miles south of Kumming in
January, 1950.
Buol, v^ho was a marine pilot
in World War II, was operations
officer for the American-owned
Civil Air Transport at the time.
The Reds accused him of “as
sisting Chiang Kai Shek’s bri
gands to wage civil war against
the Chinese people.”
The Communists also released
Bishop Alphonse Ferroni, 63, an
Italian who said he had been a
prisoner since 1951. He was- so
weak he had to be carried across
the Shumchun River border. His
stick-like arms bore marks of
iron cuffs, but he told fellow
priests “my mind is my own.” He
signed no confessions, he said.
Negotiations at Geneva by U.S.
Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson
got the promise of immediate re
lease of 10 American civilians of
41 held in China. Twelve of the
41 not actually under arrest were
declared free to go when they
i chose. The other 19 may appeal to
! Britain’s charge d’affairs in Pei
ping to help them get out.
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Seventh American Freed
By Reds Since Friday
HONG KONG, <#>—An Ameri
can Baptist missionary held pri
soner by the Chinese Commun
ists almost five year crossed the
border to freedom on his 67th
birthday today.
The Rev. Levi A. Lovegren of
Cherry Grove, Ore., was the sev
* enth American civilian freed by
i the Chinese Reds since Friday,
i The Communists promised during
! recent negotiations with the U.S.
at Geneva to release American
civilians still in China.
Three American Roman Cath
olic priests—Fathers Frederick A.
j Gordon of Somerset, Ohio; Joseph
E. Hyde of Lowell, Mass., and the
! Rev. James G. Boyce—arrived on
the train from Red Canton yes
terday. They had been held under
house arrest more than two years
by the Chinese Reds.
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Two Kansas Uranium ;
Hunters Found In Depths
Of Old Abandoned Mine
GEORGETOWN, Colo., W —
Bodies of two Kansas uranium
hunters were found early today
in the black depths of an old
mine where they hoped to strike
it rich.
An 11-man mine rescue squad
found Glenn Dew, 33, and Melvin
LeBlow, 45, both of Ulysses, Kan.,
seated side by side against the
wall of the tunnel.
The bodies were 5,800 feet from
the entrance of the long-aban
doned mine. The shaft was be
lieved to extend only 200 feet
deeper into the mountainside.
Searchers said it appeared the
men stopped for rest, pulled off
their oxygen masks and died un
ware of what was happening.
Ike On Five-Day Fishing Trip
DENVER, UP)—President Eisen
hower left the summer White
House today for Fraser, Colo.,
where he plans at least five more
days of trout fishing.
Air Force Assn. Says Any
Cuts Would Be Dangerous
To Our National Security
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Air
Force Assn., a private group that
often acts as an unofficial mouth
piece for that service, says any
Air Force budget cuts likely
would be “dangerous ventures
into calculated risks of national
security.”
Gill Robb Wilson, Association
president, said yesterday there
are no apparent areas in which
cuts could be made without ser
iously affecting the current build
up to 137 combat-ready winds.
Six in Car Killed in
Collision With Truck
GRAHAM, Tex., UPi—A truck
loaded with heavy oil field equip
ment and a car carrying six per
sons to a high school football
game collided near hear Friday
night, killing the gridiron fans.
The driver of the huge diesel
truck was released from a hospi
tal here after treatment for minor
injuries.
The automobile had just been
driven onto a state highway from
a farm road when the accident
occurred 12 miles north of here.
WOMAN-HATER NABBED
TURIN, Italy, UP)—Roberto Lor
eni, 41, went to the Turin police
station Friday and asked permis
sion to hold a public meeting.
He said he wanted to make a
speech on the subject “Let’s abol
ish women.”
Commissioner Maugeri turned
to an assistant and said, “Go get
the permission forms.”
While they were waiting, a
hastily summoned psychiatrist ar
rived from a nearby mental insti
tution and led woman-hater Lor
eni away.
Chinaman Gets Death
Penalty For Death Of
American Newsman
SINGAPORE, W—Ong Ah Too,
a 25-year-old Chinese truck driv
er, was sentenced to death Mon
day for being a member of a mob
which murdered American news
man Gene Symonds.
Symonds, 29, of Dayton, Ohio,
was United Press manager for
Southeast Asia. He was fatally
beaten May 12 during the riots
accompanying a strike.
The jury of seven acquitted S.
Suppiah, 25-year-old unemployed
! Indian, who had been charged
1 with Ong.
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