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Survived On Mozart, Bach, Snails, Prayer
VKRVrm, Australia (UPD —
A French couple said today they
survived two months of a
crocodile-infested desert island
and four days on a sinking raft
because they had Mozart, Bach,
snails and prayer.
Henry Bourdens, 44, said he
and his wife Jose, 48, on the
Island "were living on sea
snails, starving in style, all the
while listening to the radio and
playing records on our transls-
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Monday, April 3, 1967
tor record player.”
His wife said that, on the raft,
they endured attacks by savage
crabs and prayed for the sharks
to stay away and for help to
come.
The Australian coast patrol
boat Betty Joan picked them up
Just before dark Saturday. It
ended an ordeal that included
the worst of Robinson Crusoe
and mutiny on the Bounty.
Bourdens, an airline pilot, and
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APRIL’S FAVORITE GUESSING GAME—Who will win
the Oscars?—will be decided Monday, April 10, at the
39th annual awards presentation of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The golden statuettes
will be awarded for the highest achievements in each of
26 major areas of motion picture production, but prime
interest, as always, will center on best actor and best
actress. Nominees for best actor: Alan Arkin, ‘‘The Rus
sians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”; Richard
Burton, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; Michael Caine,
“Alfie”; Steve McQueen, “The Sand Pebbles”; Paul Sco
field, “A Man for All Seasons.” For best actress: Anouk
Aimee, “A Man and a Woman”; Ida Kaminska, “The Shop
on Main Street”; Lynn Redgrave, “Georgy Girl”; Vanessa
Redgrave, “Morgan”; Elizabeth Taylor, “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?”
Drug Director
Talks To Doctors
ATLANTA (UPD — Dr. Jam
Goddard, director of the U. S.
Food and Drug Administration,
will be the featured speaker at
the two- day meeting of the
A m e r i ca n Association of
Planned Parenthood Physicians
which bets under way here to
day.
The stli annual conference was
expected to draw physicians
from throughout the nation to
discuss breakthroughs in con
traceptive device research.
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The doctors will focus atten
tion on ways to acquaint people
with family planning methods.
New birth control methods to
be described include a pellet
which is injected under the skin,
once-a-month hormone Injections
and intrauterine devices.
Teamsters Local
Rejects Contract
ATLANTA (UPI) — Members
of Temasters Unioin Local 728
overwhelmingly have voted to
reject a proposed three - year
contract.
Local members were among
of Teamsters Union Local 728
voted over the weekend on a
strike proposal that would affect
1,500 trucking firms in the na
tion if approved.
Early returns showed some
locals favored the walkout by as
much as 50-to-L The Atlanta
vote was 2,458-to-131.
Local president Weldon Matliis
said Saturday he would recom
mend rejection of the proposed
contract which he said would
give a 15 cents per hour raise
the first year, 10 cents the sec
ond and three cents in the
third.
Towns County
Sheriff Wounded
HIAWASSEE, Ga. (UPI) —
Towns County Sheriff Ed Barn
ared was reported in fair condi
tion today after he was shot Sun
day while attempting to make
an arrest.
Von Nicholson, 34, has been
charged with assault with intent
to murder in connection with
the shooting.
Sheriff's officials said Barnard
was shot in the chest with a
.22 - caliber rifle at Nicholson’s
house.
Woman Held In
Neighbor's Death
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — Ruth
Mae Miles, 60, was being held
today under $5,000 bond in the
fatal pistol shooting of her neigh
bor Sunday.
Police said Roy Curtis Hunter,
39, was shot to death at the
woman’s house during an argu
ment. An investigation was un
der way.
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his wife left Singapore Sept. 20
aboard their 45-foot yacht Singa
Betina. They were bound for
home and their children at St.
Tropez on the French Riviera.
They reached the Celebes for
Christmas but then ran into
stormy seas which ravaged
their boat.
The couple stumbled ashore
on a nameless desert island in
the Timor Sea, sure they would
be found immediately. Mrs.
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US Forces
Finish Off
Cong Unit
By BRYCE MILLER
United Press international
SAIGON (UPD — U.S. troops
following their greatest victory
of the war trapped remnants of
a crack Viet Cong regiment in
thick jungle and Air Force jets
splashed napalm about 40 yakds
from the Americans to finish
the job, military spokesmen
said today.
American infantrymen ducked
behind fallen trees and
crouched in their foxholes as
FIOO Supersabres dumped the
flaming jellied gas and bombs
on the frantic survivors of the
272nd Regiment of 2,500 guerril
las.
"The Forward Air Controller
(FAC) marked the target and
we rolled in and strafed the
position, just 40 meters (43
yard::) from where the friendly
troops were,” said Supersabre
pilot Ist Lt. Harry S. Freed
man, 24, of Baltimore, Md.
Border Battle
There was no immediate
count on the Communists killed
in the FIOO attacks Sunday in
the War Zone C fight about 70
miles northwest of Saigon. That
was expected after U.S. troops
sweep through the area.
The fight took place near the
Cambodian border where out
numbered U.S. units in the past
two weeks have stunned the
272nd Regiment with successive
kills of 622 to 900 guerrillas in
one battle and 581 in another,
the latter Saturday.
These were the greatest kills
chalked up in single fights by
American forces in the war
In the napalm-support strikes
the Gls heaved smoke grenades
and the FAC in a light plane
dropped smoke rockets to mark
the target for the flame and
fury of the FlOOs.
Klan Plans More
Atlanta Marches
ATLANTA (UPD — Georgia
Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux
Klan, Calvin Craig, has pro
mised demonstrations would be
held at the homes of city aider
men.
"This is just one of many
demonstrations to be held at
other aldermen’s homes,” Craig
told about 265 marchers he had
led to the home of Councilman
Robert Dennis Saturday night.
Craig led the demonstrators
two-blocks to Dennis’ home from
Grant Park where the Klan held
a rally to protest the City Coun
cil’s setting up the bi-raclal, 21
member community Relations
Commission.
Dennis was not at home but
Craig walked into the screened
in porch and left a copy of a
“non-Communist loyalty oath”
identical to the one he said was
sent to all members of the Com
mission. The Grand Dragon said
only one commission member
replied.
Bourdens felt so secure she
went ashore wearing only her
favorite dress, a high fashion
creation from Paris.
They joked about Robinson
Crusoe, switched on their
electronic radio and record
player and nibbled on their
small supply of food. The fun
ended that night.
“Animals kept crying out. We
could hear the crocodiles killing
and fighting each other. We saw
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THIS WEEK’S HOUSEHOLD
HINT: Lighter fluid is good for
removing adhesive tape. The skin
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Beehive Bomb Blasts Cong
By TOM TIEDE
KONTUM, Vietnam — (NEA)
—lt happened without warning.
There were some shots and ex
plosions. And in a dreadful in
stant the American camp was
being overrun by dozens of suic
idal enemy soldiers.
The Gls were stunned.
It could have been a disaster.
But, fortunately, it wasn’t.
As it happened, the U.S. unit,
an artillery battery from the
101st Airborne, was prepared.
At a preordained signal the
crew of a 105 mm howitzer le
veled their tube directly at the
onrushing terrorists.
The gun fired once. Its report
was almost ridiculously weak. It
sounded more like a popping
tire than the boom of an artil
lery piece.
But its effect was devastating.
What was a wall of ranting en
emy became a silent sea of
writhing bodies. Guerrilla troops
grabbed at their faces and fell
like rocks. Others gaped open
mouthed, groped helplessly with
their hands, and dropped in life
less heaps.
Shocked and confused, those
guerrillas who survived turned
and ran for the jungle in stark
terror. Their attack was hope
lessly mutilated. They never
-.new what hit them.
And what did hit them?
U. S. technology did.
In this case, the beehive bomb.
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hundreds of snakes,” Mrs.
Bourdens said.
Their food supply ran out.
They found a few snails and
munched them.
Bourdens who had saved a
rifle from the Singa Betina shot
a small kangaroo. Jose bar
becued it. “Magnificent meal,”
she said.
Twice she rescued her hus-
The beehive, more officially
the XM-546, is a recently de
classified, three-foot-long artil
lery shell which can kill with
such eerie efficiency that it may
well strangle the most fearsome
stratagem in Oriental warfare—
the human wave assault.
The shell is simple enough, ac
tually. A bit larger than a nor
mal 105 round, but no more ex
pensive to make, its payload
consists of over 8,000 three
gram, inch-long darts.
The darts, or flechettes, are
uniformly packed in a row of
separate containers. . . and co
vered by a layer of shell cast
ing iron.
In event of close-in fighting,
the shell can be set to explode
at less than five feet from the
guntube. After blast, the 8,000
darts are hurled in a cone-shape
direction with the velocity of ri
fle shots.
The darts, stablized with fins,
hit head first. But on impact
with flesh they usually tumble.
One flechette can shatter a lar
ge bone. A half dozen will tear
a chunk of body completely
away.
Quite plainly, the results are
grotesque. Those close to the
gunpoint can be shredded be
yond recognition. . . and, in us
age here, enemy troops have
been killed 200 meters from gr
ound zero.
■TUi a weapon,” says one ar
tillery captain.
band from quicksand-like slime.
After two months Bourdens
fashioned a raft from remains
of the Singa Betina. They put to
sea last Wednesday. Immediate
ly the dry wood of the raft
sucked in so much water, it
began slowly to sink.
They drifted helplessly out
toward the Indian Ocean. “We
prayed day and night,” Bour-
It is indeed. Even in tests the
shell is terrifying. In a recent
101st experimentation, the 546
was aimed at scores of empty
ammunition boxes, all of which
were hit with such frightful for
ce that most weren’t even knock
ed over. . . just demolished.
In a stateside trial, a beehive
was shot at a football field pack
ed with several hundred balloons
... all of which, throughout the
entire field, popped as if they
were one.
''espite this awesome power,
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dens said.
Big crabs chewed their legs
aboard the raft. The pain was
dreadful. But if the sharks had
come, nothing would have
saved us,” Mrs. Bourdens said.
Saturday night they prayed
one final time, kneeling as the
water crept up their waists.
■Bien the Betty Joan appeared
just before dark and certain
death.
though, the beehive is still only
a small factor in a war which
spends thousands of artillery
rounds daily.
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