Pair Surrenders
19 Hostages in
Tennessee Prison
NASHVILLE, Tenn., UP) — Two
mean, armed convicts who had
threatened a mass murder of 19
hostages walked quietly from a
captured office at the Tennessee
Penitentiary yesterday, ending a
dramatic 25-h'our siege.
In a sudden and almost anti
climactic ending, Robert Rivera
and Raymond Farra handed over
their two pistols and four knives
and surrendered after state offi
cials agreed to their scaled-down
demands.
The hostages, three women and
16 men, were released, unharmed.
Farra, 25, is listed on prison
records as insane and capable of
murder. He is serving a life sen
tence for kidnaping. He was com
mitted to the prison after escap
ing from a mental institution.
Rivera, 24, was called by offi
cials “one of the most dangerous
prisoners ever to enter this peni
tentiary.” He is serving 40 years
for armed robbery.
The pair grabbed 21 hostages at
the Deputy Warden’s office short
ly after 3 p.m. Wednesday as pris
oners were being paid scrip for
work done.
One hostage, inmate Sam
Broyles, was released during the
night because he was ill. Another,
Jack Warrick, a telephone oper
ator-guard, was turned loose sev
eral hours later for the same
reason.
Rivera and Farra first de
manded a car and three state
employes as shields to accompany
them on a run for freedom. This
was refused.
SPIRITUAL
TRUTHS
GLEANED FROM THE NEWS
Contributed By
NOME GOSPEL HOME
TEL AVIV, Israel — The land
of Palestine has just celebrated
the 37th anniversary of light and
power. In 1923 Pinhos Rutenberg,
a Russian-Jewish refugee who
studied electric and water prob
lems in Italy, installed the first
diesel generator. Since this time,
there has been a tremendous ex
pansion in industry and agricul
ture with the installation of many
hydro-electric plants. This con
struction is going on around the
clock all year round as new plants
are opening to help bring light
and power to the many new settle
ments and cities springing up as
refugees pour into the country.
It was also from the land of
Palestine that the greatest known
Power and Light came. It was
here that our Savour was born.
We can still hear His wonderful
voice calling forth . . . “I am the
Light of the World,” and “All
Power is given unto me in heaven
and in earth . . .” and “Lo, I am
with you alway, even unto the
end of the world.” “Amen.” —
(John 8:12; Matthew 28:18, 20.)
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MY EARLY DAYS
IN ALASKA
By OLAF HALVERSON
The recent passing of Mr. Anton
Anderson, the former mayor of
Anchorage, brought back mem
ories to me, since I was Mr. An
derson’s right-hand-man in the
survey of the Matanuska Valley.
It was in the early summer of
1935 that I came up to Alaska
on the SS Northwestern, and se
cured a position on the Matanuska
Valley Project. After surveying
that first summer in the Valley,
I surveyed for the General Land
Office at Lawing and Prince Wil
liam Sound.
Following a brief travel survey
on the railroad and boats, I re
turned , to the Matanuska Valley
and secured from Mr. Anderson
a drafting position. It was my task
during that first winter, to draw
the first map of Palmer and of
the Matanuska Valley. Mr. An
derson and I spent many happy
moments working in the survey
tent. He added much with his un
numbered lines of poetry and his
Irish humor, because he was half
Swede and half Irish.
The administration tent was oc
cupied by the administrators of
the project and one of them was
Mr. Howard Lyng, the first Nome
ite that I came to know.
That first winter with the col
onists was very interesting. A
nearby lake which offered good
skating was a great inspiration
to me. Many people still remem
ber my skating in that commu
nity.
In the spring, I was sent on a
special mission to the City of An
chorage, a city of 5,000 people in
those days, to secure homestead
information for the map from the
General Land Office. Upon the
completion of the map, it was
sent to Washington, D. C., where
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
looked it over because the coloni
zation project was his leading
project of that year.
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