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...always said he wanted to be buried in a military cemetery, so his widow Evelyn bought a lot in the military section of the Memorial Park Cemetery, 25 miles from Winnebago, outside Sioux City, la. Last week, John Rice's funeral procession rolled through the undulating corn country from Winnebago to Sioux City. At the grave an American Legion firing squad fired the traditional three volleys of the military burial service. The service ended when Evelyn Rice was given the flag that had draped her husband's coffin...
...Indians are bad medicine. Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
Mitchell Red Cloud had become a fighting man early in life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud...
Three days later, while Dr. Alway waited in Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Alway, still coatless, boarded another Mid-Continent plane, this time a DC-3, to fly back home for a new wardrobe. Less than an hour later, the plane headed in for a landing at the Sioux City, Iowa airport in a driving snowstorm, crashed and burst into flames. Rescuers pulled ten passengers safely from the wreckage. But among the 15 trapped in the flaming debris was Mrs. James Alway...
Three first period goals and one in each of the last two periods gave the Sioux the return game. Marshall, Kittredge, and Hubbard were the Harvard scorers--one in each period, but the Crimson ran out of gas and could never overcome the initial deficit...