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PAGE SIX CHIEEICOTHE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JULY GLACIAL LAKE HOARDS GOLD Nuggets Known to Lie In Basin and Crevasses; Dangerous To Get To. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July strange glacial lake that empties yielding its secrets to man, but it still turns back miners seeking gold known to lie in its bed. Called Lake St. George, this vast body of water empties itself each fall and refills during the winter and spring. The basin lies 20 miles south of ttie Matanuska Valley settlement of transplanted Westerners and is considered the eighth wonder of the Tcorld by Alaskans.

The'glacial lake is 26 miles long, two miles wide and from 100 to 400! Ray McDonald, Anchorage radio rier, fills in. the canyon and forms the lake. Through the late spring and the summer months a warm sun beats' down on the living mass of ice. Its rays open a small channel through which a trickle of water flows. As weeks pass the trickle becomes i small stream eating a hole through i the Knik.

Then late in September, usually during one of the last ten days of I the month, the entire lake bursts its icy barrier and dumps itself into! the river valley below. I Only once has the scene been; photographed. A cameraman stood by for days waiting for the flood to burst forth. When the flow started, he was too close and was swept into i the current. Helpers pulled him back to safety and on the way, he turned the crank to record a few precious feet of film.

A Babe Is Born in a Manger feet deep. Annually it pours millions of gallons of water into the Knik and the Matanuska river valleys. Prospectors know there is gold in flie crevasses at the bottom of Knik glacier arid in the bed of the 'which asks the lake, but it 4s forfeit of life -to get it. station operator, and newspaper correspondent, was one of the first to see Lake St. George from the air before-and after the deluge.

Seeking traces of several Japanese missing 1 on a transpacific flight and' believed for a time to have landed in Alaska, he flew across the glacial years ago a prospector was up a few nuggets when the ice of a crevasse cracked and engulfed him. -One minute the lake is an imposing! jbody of water. 'Within five hours nothing, remains but the watermarks on the sides of the mountain valley. The deluge descends into the rivers and spreads over an area sometimes covering four miles in'width. Large cakes of ice float in-the torrent; huge cottorrwood trees are uprooted and carried along as the flood moves Several lake several years ago.

Later when tie the-latee I I had emptied and watermarks on the sides of the valley showed the depth it had reached. DAWN DAILY ITEMS Dream and Masquerade Dance." When they reached the place specified, a barn in the Saanich district, they said they were told that if they wanted the job they would have to submit to an initiation ritual and in addition would have to pay $6.50 as membership fee in the cult. However, they were not permitted I to decline. They were told that the swiftly toward the river deltas and ithe fJook Inlet outlet. Sourdoughs in western Alaska had known of the floodffor years but not Miss Genevieve Evans of Chillicothe spent the week-end at the G.

H. Hug'hes Miss Frances Paris was an overnight-guest of- Miss Helen Evans Friday night. Marvin Evans from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Oliver Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Gleve Burner spent until airplane travel was developed i the week-end at the home of his was the phenomenon fully explained, brother, Jake Burner of Bedford. The following enjoyed a fishing firom the air at the top of the Knik watershed can be seen seven or eight small glaciers, dead masses of ice.

These during' the sQiawing period into a deep canyon. At the other end of the canyon glacier flows. It is a living glacier. Its movement makes the mountains tremble. whole proceeding must be kept con- fidential.

The cult, the leaders said, was a secret order and all its nego- I tiations and actions must remain I secret. If there were violations of this code, they would be punished severely. Lindstrom and Share, according to the story they told police, agreed to join the cult, little suspecting i the nature of the initiation. They! said they were seized and tied with I ropes and strung up to rafters in the barn, part of the time suspended by their 'eet. Alum and salt were stuffed into i their mouths and they were then given vile tasting liquid to drink.

Once Lindstrom's head was forced into a bucket of water and held there until he gasped for breath. I The letters O. were brand- i ed on their bodies in letters nearly i three inches high with hot irons. Then they were compelled to put on gaiters in which tacks had been I driven so that their leg's were gash! ed when they walked. They were I pushed in their bare feet across a floor littered with tacks.

Finally, they were gagged, dressed in old clothes and thrown into a lake, from whjch they extricated themselves with difficulty. Instead of keeping the secret. Not "Wise" Men of the East," but kindly Barnesville, folks came with gifts for the baby in a manger at the town's race track to a jobless couple. After the newcomer had arrived, without medical attention, in a straw-Uttered horse stall which the homeless trancients, Mr. and Mrs.

Ellis Summers, had chosen for shelter, sympathetic townspeople brought Lindstrom and Share notified po- clothes and food, and fitted up their "room" in the manner illustrated below, where the proud'parents are shown with their offspring. The picture above, that of an adjoining stall in which the baby's blanket hangs, reveals how the girl's birthplace previously had looked. Two Victims Expose Weird Torture Known as United Order of Nails lice. With officers, they returned to the barn next day and found Burritt and Walker, allegedly ready to initiate another victim. Archie Mac- Corkindale.

Burritt, Walker and Wood, the last described by the prosecution as more of a novitiate than a principal, were arrested charged with assult and unlawful wounding. trip near Sampsel Saturday: Mr. and Mrs. Elmo-Pryor, Mr. and Mrs.

Ivan Burner, Etherd Wilson and Ada Mae Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. C. E.

Comer and son, Dean of Braymer spent Friday at the Nath Comer home. Mrs: Margaret Lionberger returned home from a visit with his son, Knik glacier moves across the end of the canyon, closing it completely, Ralph Lionberger and family of Water accumulates behind the bar- south of Dawn, Thursday. VICTORIA, B. July court, probably some time in young Vancouver Island October. men, members of a strange "torture -It was a weird story that the cult" known as the "United Order victims, William Lindstrom and of Nails," are awaiting trial here on Michael Share, told-of their trsat- a'charge of assault on two youths mcnt by the cult, whose practices during a brutal initiation ceremony" appear to resemble rituals staged! "MOTHER OF OZARKS" CLAIMS TITLE AT 36 YELLVILEE, Ark.

Mrs. i Elizabeth Taylor, 06, is a claimant in a deserted barn. the Ozarks." She is the mother of by barbarians. childrenj 35 grandchi i clren 70 The three cult members. Roland Lindstrom and Share, who are greafc randchildren and flve gj-eat- Burritt, Rupert A.

G. Walker and musicians, said they had been en-, great randchi i dren he has al- Donald Wood, are free on $1,000 bail pending a hearing in the as- gaged to provide music at an event described as "A Midsummer Night's ways lived in the Ozarks and until the past year was in fine health. TO LONELINESS I BRING COMPANIONSHIP "A Lucky hos helped me A good smoke and a good book ought to drive away loneliness." "Such a glorious evening for drive and Bill has to work. Looks like lonely hours ahead for little me." TO LONELINESS I BRING COMPANIONSHIP. IMYOUR BEST FRIEND, I AM YOUR LUCKY STRIKE.

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