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Life in the bars may sound rowdy, but the hotels are even worse. "Every year two or three people try to take a swan dive off the fifth or sixth floor balcony into the pool below. Unfortunately most miss," says Sergeant Jim G. Ferrel of the Ft. Lauderdale police department...
...Ferrel described an incident last year where a young man grabbed an outdoor elevator at the Pier 66 Hotel. He rode it up to the sixth floor, lost his grip, and fell to his death...
They were awakened by "an awful din-stones and clubs began crashing through the windows." Then, recalled 58-year-old Ruth Hege, a Baptist missionary from Ohio, "the men found us. They pulled us through the house, onto the porch." Her companion, Fellow Missionary Irene Ferrel, 42, from Idaho, was killed by an arrow. "I feigned that I was dead," said Missionary Hege. "Young men kicked me or grabbed me by the hair. Once a man came up and put his hand on my chest to see if I was really dead. The Lord calmed...
...FERREL ATKINS Richmond...
...ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...