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Relief Work Used to Gain Delegates, Senator Says He Has Been Told. PLEDGES M’KINNEY AID Intends to Do ‘All He Can’ for Candidate for Governor. BY JAMES DOSS A threat to push a Senate investigation of the Works Progress Administration in Indiana, if he substantiates reports that WPA is being used as a political club in the Democratic race for Governor, was made here today by Senator Frederick VanNuys. The senior Senator, on his return from Washington, said he had a three-point program for his fourday visit here. Aside from investigating alleged abuses in WPA, he intends to do “all he can” for the gubernatorial candidacy of E. Kirk McKinney. He will also confer on ways to expedite Public Works Administration in the state. Senator VanNuys said he had received scores of complaints in Washington that the Indiana WPA was being used to obtain delegate pledges for Governor from certain counties. Some Complaints From County “These complaints come mostly from the larger centers of the state," Senator VanNuys said. “However, I’ve received few from Marion County. “The complaints are pretty much the same and have to do with the alleged appointments of precinct committeemen as WPA superintendents and other key employes on the promise of a certain number of Governor delegates from this or that county. “This sort of thing, if it is happening, has got to stop, and I think I can stop it. I'll take it on the Senate floor if necessary, and ask for an investigation. The Senator said he has received “20 or 30 of these complaints” from St. Joseph County and others from Vigo and Lake. Backing Two for Judge Senator VanNuys refused to comment on the reported availability of his colleague, Senator Sherman Minton, for one of the vacancies on the Chicago Circuit Court of Appeals. He revealed, however, that he had recommended two men for the two existing vacancies. They are Mayor John W. Kern, and Guy Colerick, Fort Wayne attorney. “One of those appointments is due Indiana politically and I'm going to try to get it.” he said. “We've never had a Democrat from Indiana on that bench.” Senator VanNuys said he regarded the nomination of Mr. McKinney as Governor as certain “if we have a free and untrammeled state convention in June.” He said he had no second choice for the nomination. Predicts Party Harmony “One thing is sure,” he added, “111 ‘tear my shirt’ for the nominee, whoever he is.” Asked if he thought Pleas E. Greenlee’s charges—that “McHaleism” is ruining the Democratic Party in Indiana—would jeopardize the party chances in the fall election. Senator VanNuys said he “doubted it.” “There’s a good )r °athing spell between the conventic ; and the election,” he said, “and there will be a chance for any bitterness to disappear.” Asked about a recent statement by Gov. McNutt that "Indiana is not in the doghouse as far as Washington is concerned, and this will be demonstrated shortly,” Senator VanNuys said: “I'm sure there isn’t any resentment in Washington by the President or Jim Farley (Democratic national chairman) against Indiana. Wants Recognition for State “However, I’ve complained against the lack of recognition Indiana has received. We have no Cabinet officer. for instance, and we haven't received recognition through an appointment as head of some important department.” Senator VanNuys was asked if he thought there was any chance that he and R. Earl Peters. Federal Housing Administration director for Indiana, would join political forces in the race for Governor. ‘I haven’t talked with him for some time.” he replied, “out I expect to see him while f'm here.” He added that Mr. Peters’ FHA direction in Indiana had received high praise in Washington. Senator VanNuys said he expected adjournment of Congress “early in June,” depending on the amount of tax and relief debate. KIDNAPING CONFESSED, POLICE OFFICIALS SAY Suspect Reported to Have Admitted Pennsylvania Boy’s Abduction. By United Press 9 ALLENTOWN. Pa.. April 23. Richard Taylor. 42. Akron, 0.. confessed to police today, they said, that he kidnaped 10-year-old Henry Koch, son of a wealthy Allentown merchant after sending five ransom notes, demanding $20,000. Earlier, the suspect had given his name as John James, Chicago.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow with slowly rising temperature.

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 37

Washington Speculates on McNutt’s Reference to Political Plum. MINTON ENTERS PICTURE Junior Senator May Land on Federal- Bench, Is One Surmise. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 23. —Speculation is rife here as to what Gov. McNutt meant when he indicated that a fat Federal plum is shortly to fall into the lap of Indiana in lieu of his being named convention keynoter. One surmise is that it may mean the much desired Federal judgeship for Senator Sherman Minton. It is reported here that had Gov. Henry Horner been defeated for renomination in the Illinois primary he would have been named to one of two vacancies on the Federal Court of Appeals. With his renomination, way is paved for Senator Minton to get one of the judgeships without slighting Illinois it is pointed out. The junior Senator is frank to admit that he would like such an appointment. That he would be a “New Deal judge” is indicated from his criticism of the anti-New Deal decisions of the United States Supreme Court and his sayings after the impeachment of Federal Judge Ritter, that the "effect will be wholesome, since Federal judges oftentimes get too cocky.” However, the jutting-jawed firstterm Senator from Indiana would be missed by the Administration. He is in all their battles full-tilt. And the more he does for them the greater are his assignments. In addition to being a member of such important regular committees as Military Affairs and Interstate Commerce, Senator Minton is one of the leaders of the Black lobby investigation committee. Recently he was assigned to the committee to investigate election expenditures.

2 HOMES DESTROYED IH MARS Hill BLAZE Mother Under Care of Doctor After Ordeal. Fire fanned by a stiff northerly wind today destroyed two homes and their lurnishings in Mars Hill. Opening the door from the kitchen to the front room in her onestory bungalow, Mrs. Nora Gray, Second-av West, near Alling-st, was driven back by flames and fled with her son, Edsel, 7. She was placed under care of a physician at the home of friends. One hundred and fifty dollars which Mrs. Gray and her husband, Howell Gray, had been saving for an operation for Mrs. Gray, was lost, together with their personal belongings. household goods and the family car. The fire swept south to the Jim Carter home. Mrs. Carter and four children with the aid of neighbors succeeded in rescuing a few household goods. A valued hunting dog, Bob, was burned to death. Firemen were hampered by lack of water. Firemen had to build a dam in a creek nearby to create a water supply. Nearly 2000 feet of hose were used. Total loss was estimated at $4700. BITTER FIGHT BEGUN ON NEWTAX BILL Measure Stoutly Defended by Rep. Doughton. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23,-Re-publicans and Democrats today opened the bitterest battle of the session over the New" Deal’s proposed $803,000,000 tax bill, providing for drastic revision of the corpdr*te tax structure. Fighting off a wave of Republican criticism. Rep. Robert L. Doughton <D„ N. C.) opened the Administration defense with a declaration that the measure was “fundamentally just.” On the Republican side. Rep. Allen T. Treadway (R., Mass.), ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee, marshaled the opposition forces which contended the measure was “farcical" and emphasized that it had been drafted behind closed doors by the Democrats who “must assume full responsibility.”

New Features Today “Why You Should Vote For Me!”—Statements by the candidates in the Twelfth Congressional District race—Second Section, Page One. “Folly and Farewell/' The Times new serial story, first and second chapters, Page Six.

ITALIANS ROUT HARAR ARMY IN FIERCEBATTLE Ethiopian Chief Reports Failure of Last-Ditch Stand to Capital. ADDIS ABABA IN FRENZY News of Retreat Heightens Confusion; Many Join Flight From City. By United Press ADDIS ABABA, April 23. Ethiopian forces m w.e east, making a desperate last stand against the advancing Italians, were forced to retire after three days of fierce fighting, Ras Nassibu reported to the government today. Ras Nassibu, commanding the forces trying to protect the strategic railroad center of Harar, reported that there were 3000 casualties on both sides in the fighting between Sasa Baneh and Danena, which is 105 miles south of Harar. News of the Ethiopian retreat added to the confusion of people here and heightened their conviction that the break up of the empire was close at hand. Merchants, foreigners and many natives were fleeing the city. Roads Are Crowded Ras Nassibu said that his forces attacked the Italians’ positions around Sasa Baneh and drove them back in three days of hand-to-hand fighting. Then, he informed the government, the Italians moved up contingents of Lybian and Somali troops and the Ethiopians were forcid to retire toward Dahena. In the country north of Dessye bandits ran w’ild. Warriors in the shattered armies of defeated chieftains roamed in tattered garments, destitute, many of them with machine gun or shrapnel wounds festering in them. Here in the capital old men, women and children were crowding the roads to the west, their homes broken up, the able-bodied men at the front, without hope of ever reforming their little families. Rich merchants strapped bags of silver from the banks in the saddle bags on their mules and, surrounded by their armed retainers, made for safer places. Foreigners began their exodus. Nearly all the foreign Red Cross units, their Usefulness at an end, because of the rapidity of the recent Italian advance and the blast of Italian airplane bombs, were here and ready to go. CONGRESSMAN SHOWS FIGHT WHEN ARRESTED Rep. Zioncheck Goes to Police Station for Speeding. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23.—Rep. Marion E. Zioncheck (D., Wash.) submitted to arrest on speeding charges today and was taken to the Police Station after shouting: “There’ll be a damage suit on this.” After lengthy and uproarious argument and a minor jjand-to-hand scuffle with Police Sergeant George Hellmuth, Zioncheck was taken from the Capitol to a metropolitan police automobile, which headed immediately for the city Police Court. The scuffle occurred when Hellmuth attempted to serve an attachment.

P.-T. A, PLEDGES AID TO MERITSYSTEM State Group Names Local Woman President. BY ELIZABETH CARR The Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers pledged support to the merit system for governmental employes today. It urged the promotion of the traffic safety education project of the state and national congress, and recommended legislation to stop legalized betting and gambling. Other resolutions passed advocate support of the Federal food and (Turn to Page Three) JURY GIVEN BATHTUB SLAYER’S CONFESSION Prosecutor Ridicules Intimation That Killer Is Insane. By United Press NEW YORK. April 23.—District Attorney William Dodge took John Fiorenza’s confession of the murder of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton to a grand jury today while the young upholsterer's lawyers prepared an insanity defense. Dodge said he expected to obtain a trial within three weeks. He ridiculed the intimation by Attorney Henry Klauber that Fiorerza was not responsible mentally when he attacked and strangled Mrs. Titterton. 34-year-old writer and wife of Lewis H. Titterton, National Broadcasting Cos. executive.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23,1936

EYES OF WORLD ON SCENE OF NOVA SCOTIA MINE DRAMA

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ABOVE: A crowd is gathered around the spot where communication with Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding, entombed for 10 days at Moose River, Nova Scotia, was established with a twoinch pipe sunk 141 feet through earth and rock. A tiny microphone lowered through the pipe enabled the entombed men to talk with relatives and rescue officials.

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HAPPY, VICTIM'S DAUGHTER SAYS Ethel Scadding, 15, Weeps After Father’s Rescue From Mine. Ethel Scadding:, 15, cried Joyfully when she heard her father, Alfred Scadding, had been rescued alive from a caved-in Moose River (N. S.) gold mine. In the following dispatch, she tells of her fears and prayers during the long days and nights when rescuers sought to free her father. BY ETHEL SCADDING (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) WAUKESHA, Wis., April 23. My daddy’s safe, and T’m the happiest girl in the world. I knew he would be saved, but oh, how I worried. Every night I prayed for him. I prayed he would be strong enough to wait while those brave men dug him out. Sometimes it was hard to be brave —especially when it was announced that the rescuers had struck solid rock, or had been stopped by another cave-in. I almost wept my heart out at times. Every time I thought of him down there in the dark I prayed. Now my prayers are answered. It's hard being a girl and having your daddy nearly killed. It was horrible being way out here and not being able to do anything and having to wait for news. I wish I could have been there ready to help. Couldn’t Study or Sleep Instead I had to go to school, although I couldn’t study much, and listen to the radio at night. I haven’t slept much all week thinking of daddy. Do you wonder I was happy when they told me daddy was really rescued? I was heart-broken when the first report of their rescue proved false. The first thing I’m going to do now is write him a big long letter telling him how much I love him. I sent telegrams for him to read as soon as ha got out of the mine. Next summer when school lets out I want to go to see daddy. It’s a long time since I saw' him, but he has been so sw'eet writing letters twice a month telling all about gold mines in Nova Scotia. Maybe when I see him he’ll show me the mine where he was imprisoned, but probably he won’t even want to talk about it. PUBLIC GIVES SUPPORT TO MOCK LEGISLATURE New Jersey Unemployed Camp in Capitol; Demand Funds. By United Press TRENTON, N. J„ April 23.—Unemployed men and women who have camped in the Capitol assembly room as a mock Legislature since Tuesday, recruited support of churchmen and politicians today for their demands that the real Legislature provide relief funds for 300,000 persons. City Commissioner George E. Brunner of Camden, Democratic state committeeman, threatened to lead 10,000 unemployed men from Camden to Trenton Monday night, when the Legislature reconvenes. The Rev. Robert Smith, Trenton Episcopal minister, obtained adoption of a resolution by the Trenton Council of Churches demanding “immediate action.”

It Was Great to See Full, Heroic Draegermen Agree

There They Sat, Laughing, When Rescuer Went Through Hole. Joe Nearing, a draegerman, was among the first of the rescuers to reach the underground prison of Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding. His story follows: BY JOE NEARING (Copyright. 1936, by United Press) MOOSE RIVER, N. S„ April 23. I craw'led through the hole and they were sitting there, laughing. The little fellow (Scadding) was great. Boy, it w r as great to see those men. I had to squirm to get through that hole. Then Mike Dwyer (Hon. Michael Dw'yer, Minister of Mines, Nova Scotia province) came tearing down. I thought he's not going to get through that hole, he’s too big. But he got through. I don’t know how he did. I w'as on the off shift, and I was standing at the entrance to Reynolds shaft talking with Draegerman Leo Mackay when miners Johnny Lloyd and Pat Doyle came up from below. They were grinning all over. Heard Doctor Talking “It looks as if we’re through at last,” Johnny said.. In the shaft, there was a big boom blocking the way. It was rolled out of the way and we heard running water. There was a little waterfall below. It was clear above and ahead, except for some slack on the floor of the slope. The roof was arched. We thought a man could get through, but guessed we’d better pull out the rocks under the waterfall. We could hear the doctor talking from there. The doctor was talking about walking up. Mike Dwyer phoned up to the surface that we’d have them out in 10 minutes. And it was just about 10 minutes more when we got the hole through.

TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS COST 65 MOTORISTS Larger Parking Spaces Are Being Marked Out. Traffic Captain Lewis Johnson reported today that 65 offenders paid sticker fines yesterday. One second offender was fined $3 instead of the customary $2 for a first offense. Traffic zones, safety signs and parking spaces are being painted in the downtown area by workers during the night, in order not to hinder day traffic. Individual parking spaces, 18 feet in length, are to be designated by yellow painted lines. Capt. Johnson pointed out that the large spaces would eliminate the “bumper-to-bumper” parking. All no-parking zones are being re-measured and re-checked, and pedestrian lanes are to be painted at busy downtown intersections. The case of Samuel B. Sutphin. Indianapolis manufacturer, charged with speeding 60 miles an hour out W. Washington-st, was continued by Municipal Judge Dewey E. Myers today. Mr. Sutphin told state police that he was hurrying to the airport to catch an airplane and would be back later this week.

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LEFT: How the entombed men were fed through the communication pipe in the last days of their captivity is shown here. A rescue worker is placing a vial of supplies encased in a slender drill can into the pipe to start its 141-foot downward journey. Herman Magill died of privation before he could be helped by this means.

Shaft Looks Like Burrow, Doctor Says, on Way • to Top. George Morrell, a “draegerman,” was one of the three men to reach Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding in their gold mine prison. His story follows: BY GEORGE MORRELL (Copyright, 1936. by United Press) MOOSE RIVER, N. S„ April 23. We lifted three or four rocks. They weighed about 40 or 50 pounds each. Trueman Hirschfield was ahead. Jack Simpson was in the middle and I was last. Then we had an opening into the tunnel. Hirschfield called back up the shaft for blankets, and we crawled through. Dr. Robertson and Scadding were sitting down. The floor was wet and the walls were dripping. I shook hands with Dr. Robertson. “You’re a wonderful man,” he said to me. “You’re a better man than we ever thought of being,” I said. “Thank you,” he said. “Now don’t talk,” one of us said. “You’ve got to conserve your strength.” Interested in Tunnel I told him we wanted to get him up to the surface where his wife was waiting. “You’re a wonderful man,” I told him. “You’re one in a million. Your wife is just the same. She never broke down as far as I know.” I looked around. Magill’s body was eight feet behind the doctor and Scadding. They were sitting with their backs to it and the water was dripping from the roof. We kept our lights turned away from the body and no one mentioned it. Dr. Robertson kept right on thanking us all the way to the surface up that narrow shaft. He seemed very interested in it and examined it closely all the way. “It looks more like a burrow,” he was saying all the time. Walked Most of the Way The doctor walked most of the way and when he needed help Simpson pulled him and I shoved. He is a big man. I hear he looks after a lot of kids. I have kids. Jack Simpson has kids and Hirschfield has kids. That’s why we Pictou County draegermen volunteered and that’s why we had to get through. I’m a coal miner and proud of it. I served overseas with the Nova Scotia Highlanders. We organized the Draegerm#i in Pictou County some years ago. We’ve been trained in mine rescue work. We ran go in place’s that’s filled with gas after explosions and we know how to tunnel through anything. Os course, we don’t work at rescue all the time. We work in the mine when there’s work, but there’s not much work these days. People don’t want our coal. Times Index Barnes 17 i Merry-Go-R’d 17 Births 6 ! Movies. 26 Bridge 14 i Mrs. Ferguson. 18 Broun 17 i Mrs. Roosevelt. 15 Comics 27; Music 20 Crossword 12 ; Pegler 17 Curious W0r1d..12 1 Pyle 18 Editorials ... 18 Radio 20 Fashions 15 } Scherrer 18 Financial 19 I Science, Dietz. 18 Fishbein 18 Serial Story... 6 Flynn 19 Short 5t0ry...27 Forum 18 ; Societyl4 Grin, Bear It. .17 1 Sports 22 Jane Jordan...ls j State Deaths. .21

SCADDING NEEDS ADDITIONALCARE; DOCTOR IS SAFE

Weary Miners Celebrate Their Triumph in Race With Death. FACED MANY DANGERS Gold, Coal Diggers Agree Rival Group Is All Right, After All. By United Press MOOSE RIVER, N. S., April 23.—The coal and gold miners of Nova Scotia, hearty, two-fisted men all, celebrated their victory over death around a keg of beer today. Each of the 100 men nad risked his life not once but repeatedly through many hours in Reynolds shaft to save the lives of Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding. Since early Monday, they had worked in shifts, with little rest between, to the point of exhaustion. Early today they had achieved their victory and it was time to celebrate. Make Rafters Ring A keg of beer was rolled to the center of the 30 by 25-foot room which contains 12 beds, and soon the rafters were ringing with the songs of the countryside. After the mugs had passed around a number of times, they were singing "God Save the King.” “What’s wrong with them gold men?” asked a grimy coal miner. “Nuthin’,” screamed the coal miners. And then, in a wild, shrieking chorus, the coal miners cheered the gold miners. When the echoes died away, a gold miner proposed a toast to the coal miners and the compnrAent was returned. Traditionally, coal miners look down somewhat on gold miners, alleging that they are less virile than themselves. Gold miners have certain prejudices against coal miners. Hence, a keen rivalry exists between miners in this district where there are coal and gold mines. Critical Watchers All during the rescue work, the gold and coal miners watched one another critically, looking for points to prove the superiority of one set of craftsmen over the other. Which was the most courageous? Which worked the most efficiently? At 12:30 a. m. today, three men crawled through a narrow hole 141 feet down in Reynolds shaft into the tomb. Two were coal miners—(Turn to Page Three)

Ten Days

Dr. Robertson, Magill and Scadding were trapped in the mine about 11 p. m. on Easter Sunday, April 12, by a great slide in the main shaft which blocked all exits. Dr. Robertson and Mr. Magill, a lawyer, both of Toronto had bought the mine only recently. It had been closed for years, but the two believed with the 75 per cent rise in the price of gold in the last few years, it would be a profitable investment. They had employed Mr. Scadding, also of Toronto, as timekeeper and had assembled a small crew to begin reconditioning the mine. From the main shaft, four horizontal tunnels branched off at levels from 80 to 350 feet. The three were in the 141-foot level, about tc go up to the surface after making an inspection trip, when much of the main shaft gave way and was filled with rock and other debris. At the outset, there was little hope for the lives of the three. It has thought likely that they had been killed outright by the falling rock. Then on Monday, April 13, smoke curled up through the debris to the surface. That spurred the rescue workers. Steamshovels and other equipment was rushed by special train from Halifax and then were brought (Turn to Page Three) $460,800,000 SET AS SECURITY GOST F. D. R. Asks Congress for New Funds. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23.—President Roosevelt has submitted to Congress a request for $460,800,000 to finance the social security system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance, it was learned today. The President in his cummunication, which was referred to the House Appropriations Committee, recalled that when he submitted his budget message “there had not been sufficient time to plan the organization and methods required, to permit including . . . estimates” for the security board. The requested appropriation will be included in the deficiency bill carrying the $1,500,000,000 workrelief fund.

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Plane Is Ordered to Rush Rescued Mine Victim to Hospital. SLEEP ONLY TWO HOURS Condition of Robertson Is Described as Surprising by Physicians. BY LAUGHLIN F. CUNNINGHAM (Copyright. 1936, by United Press) MOOSE RIVER, N. S., April 23.—The best doctors in eastern Canada strove thi3 afternoon to restore the health of two Toronto men who were snatched from death after being entombed for more than 10 days in a collapsed gold mine. Heroic miners completed their part of the rescue when, after days of feverish tunneling at the peril of their own lives, they brought Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding out of their prison 141 feet under ground at 10:44 last night (Indianapolis time). The rest was up to the doctors. They felt little fear for Dr. Robertson. But Mr. Scadding’s condition was sufficiently serious that they decided he should be flown to Halifax immediately for treatment of his infected feet. Dr. W. E. Gallie of Toronto telephoned Halifax to send a plane at once. Sleep Only Two Hours The two men, dirty, unshaven, so weak they barely could stand up, but still able to smile their thanks to the rescuers, were put to bed in an improvised hospital here shortly after they were brought out of the pit. Cheering and hymn singing of the rejoicing rescue crews was cut short so they could sleep. Doctors later reported, however, that the two had slept only ?bout two hours—either because of nervous reaction from the 242 hours and 45 minutes of imprisonment, most of the time without food and in total darkness and silence, or because the doctors did not wish them to sleep too long at first for fear of giving infections or other ailments time to develop. Dr. Gallie said Dr. Robertson’s condition seemed satisfactory and he was resting quietly, too weak to talk to any one save his wife, who for days had waited anxiously at the mine head for the joyous reunion that finally came last night. Doctor’s Stamina Amazing Dr. Robertson’s stamina was considered the most remarkable because he is 53 years old, the eldest of the three men who were trapped by a cave-in while they were inspecting the mine Easter Sunday. Scadding, whose feet became swollen and infected during the days of stumbling around in the rock and wading through cold water, is 44. Herman R. Magill, Toronto lawyer and co-owner of the mine with Dr. Robertson, was only 30. He died in the mine three days before the rescuers could burrow into it, reportedly of pneumonia. An inquest was arranged today to determine the exact cause of death. Mine officials Were forced to board up the entrance to the treacherous Reynolds shaft, through which the rescue was made, to prevent souvenir hunters from entering it and imperiling themselves. Almost everything movable was snatched by the hundreds of sightseers who descended on this little community. Later a dynamite charge will be set off in the Reynolds shaft to close it permanently. The tragic drama of the Moose River gold mine ended at 10:44 p. in. Wednesday (Indianapolis time), when rescue workers brought Dr. Robertson, 65-year-old Toronto surgeon, to the surface. He w-as dirty, unshaven, so weak he could hardly stand on his feet, but he called out cheerily: “Here comes Capt. Bligh.” Scadding Weak; Grins Two minutes later, his living companion, Alfred Scadding, was brought to the mouth of the Reynolds shaft where the rescue workers had been working under the most dangerous conditions since early Monday. He was weaker than Robertson, but he grinned and w'aved at the onlookers. They were taken to a hospital set up in the one-room mine office. The rescue workers coal and gold miners rescruited from the countryside, and government officials—suddenly began cheering and many wept. A Salvation Army worker began a hymn and the crowd joined in. Then more rescuers appeared in the mouth of the shaft. They carried a blanket-covered stretcher. Beneath the blankets was the body of Herman Magill, who was trapped 141 feet below the earth’s surface with Robertson and Scadding on Easter Sunday, but couldn’t endure as much and died a week later. Three Miners Break Through The crowd was silent as his body was carried past to a room in one of Moose River’s 15 houses. At 10:30 p. m. the rescue workers overcame the last of their obstacles (they had tunneled through almost 100 feet of solid rock, slate, earth, and, finally, steel bars, since Mon* (Turn to Page Three)