Two Missionaries Killed in Ecuador
Were Known by Bachelders of Nome
Two of the missionaries who'
died in the recent tragedy in the
jungles of Ecuador are well
known to Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Bachelder of the Nome Gospel
Home. Discussing the death of
the missionaries today, Mr. Bach
elder said:.
“We have stayed in the home
of their parents in Portland, the
Elliotts, and know the Flemings
of Seattle.
“The missionaries who died
had longed to go places where
men had never heard the Gospel
before. In fact when I knew the
Elliott boys 'back in Bible School
days, I can well remember them
saying that they would be glad
to die for the Gospel’s sake in
getting the Good News to savage
tribes.
“Jim, the one who died, is the
older brother and had pioneered
for many years in Ecuador. Bert,
who is still alive, had told me
that to him, one of the greatest
joys would be to offer to an
untamed savage the Word of God
and the Saviour . . . before civil
ization offered something less sat
isfying.”
The eastern slopes of the Andes
furnish much of the draining for
the great Amazon river, and it
is in this area, lying partly in
Ecuador and partly in Brazil, that
there are still tribes who have
never seen white men. According
to Bachelder it is one of the few
parts of the world still complete
ly hidden and in many cases
completely forbidden to civilized
man.
QUITO, Ecuador, OP—The bod
ies of five U.S. missionaries mas
sacred by savage Indian tribes
men they had hoped to convert to
Christianity, were buried in Ec
. -
uador’s jungle Friday near the
stripped skeleton of their plane.
The search for the missing men
came to a grim close when res
cue parties found the fifth body
in the remote Curaray River Val
ley.
The others had been located
over the past few days by air and
ground searchers combing the
jungle habitat of the primitive
Auca Indians.
Grady Parrott, president of the
Missionary Aviation Fellowship,
announced the fate of tde five,
who apparently were attacked
just after radioing “Here comes a
group of Aucas we have not
known before.”
At least one of the missionaries
had been run through by a primi
tive lance.
The dead men were Peter
Fleming, Seattle, Wash., Nathan
iel Saint, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.,
James Elliot, Portland, Ore., Ed
ward McCully, Milwaukee, Wis.,
and Roger Youderian, Landsing,
Mich.
Abraham Vandenpuy, president
of the Inter-American Fellowship
of Ecuador, said the missionaries’
Piper plane, “Wings of Mercy,”
will be left at the death scene as
"a witness of their sacrifice."
Searchers said the Indians had
stripped the craft and ripped the
fuselage.
The mission group had been
trying to win the Aucas’ friend
ship for the past four months.
Disabled Crane Operator
Gets $90,000 Settlement
CHESTERTOWiN, Md, CP —
Emory E. Newton, 49, a crane
operator permanently and totally
disabled in an automobile acci
dent, has received a $90,000 out
of-court settlement in a personal
injury case against the A. S. Abell
Co., publisher of the Baltimore
Sun papers.
The settlement, believed to be
among the largest of its kind ever
recorded in Maryland, was an
nounced here yesterday.
Newton’s pickup truck was hit
•by a newspaper delivery truck
July 2, 1954. State police said the
newspaper panel truck went out
of control and crossed into the
wrong lane of traffic.
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Studying Journalism at
Northwestern University j
EVANSTON, 111.—Last fall,
8,322 full-time students were en
rolled on the Evartston and Chi
cago campuses of Northwestern
University.
Part-time students, mainly in
the Northwestern evening divi
sions, brought over-all enrollment
to 17,382. Included in this total
are 227 students from 45 foreign
countries and American territor
ies.
Of the university’s 12 schools,
the largest full-time enrollment
last fall was in the college of lib
eral arts with 2,094 students. It
was followed by the Evanston
commerce school < 865 >, speech
school (723>, and education school
(676)
Alaska students enrolled in
cluded Ruth Joy Crane, Elmen
dorf AFB, Anchorage, school of
speech; Margaret Loraine Hodge
• daughter of Judge Walter Hodge'
school of journalism; James C.
Leveque, 113 Dunkel, Fairbanks,
school of journalism.
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Soviet Ships
Start Research
In Antarctic
MOSCOW, —The second So
viet antarctic expedition ship, the
Lena, was reported to have ar
rived at the fringes of Antarc
tica. The vessel’s command ex
pects to toe soon in the area where
it will gather its first research
data.
A report released here from
special Tass correspondent I. Den
isov said the Lena’s scientists will
commence work in the South Po
lar region with examination of
marine ice. Depth sounders are to
toe used to examine the bottom of
the continental ice shelf which,
said Denisov, is little known.
The flagship of the Soviet ant
arctic expedition, the Ob, has al
ready been along the antarctic ice
pack for a week. From it, mem
bers of the expedition have land
ed. A suitable site for a perman
ent camp is toeing sought.
Denisov announced “a new
Soviet instrument has been in
stalled on the Lena to enable the
navigator to obtain weather data
necessary for navigation directly
in the steering house.”
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ice Atuk is the treasurer.
Kay Mclver is leader for Patrol
2, and Clara is the treasurer.
We made a health chart.
We invested the Polar Bear
Brownies.
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