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4 TIMES-DEMOCRAT Friday, June 3, 1972 Davenport Bettendorf, Iowa The Slum Aristocrats Trying To Ease Crib Death Grief raw "A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limh. II hut should it Anoir of death'f" -William WonlHorth PfKfiorktit BOMBAY, India Among the million or more homeless people of Bombay, the thousands who live in the wide drainpipes stored on vacant lots are considered the aristocrats of the squalid slums that disfigure one of India's leading cities. "They are the fortunate ones," a city apartment dweller declared recently, explaining that the ranks of usused concrete pipes give their occupants protection against the fierce Bombay sun and the pounding monsoon rains.

Some construct doors of palm fronds. THE PIPE dwellers, together with the inhabitants of some 200,000 squalid shanties and the 100.000 or so famillies whose only home is the sidewalk, are aspects of a spreading urban blight that Bombay hopes to alleviate, if not eradicate, by building a new twin city to the east across the harbor. Planned for completion in the next 15 to 20 years, the new city is the Maharash- tra state government's imaginative approach to a longstanding and many-sided civic problem. The issue is whether Bombay "can be saved or is doomed to become another Calcutta." according to Rajni Patel. a leading Bombay lawyer and politician.

Like the thousands of homeless who make the sidewalks of Calcutta a dormitory, the slum people of Bombay constitute a menace to the city's well-teing on several Ironts. The street has to be their latrine in the absence of public toilets. Many who ere without-easy access to public taps get water for drinking and washing by breaking into already overtaxed city mains. Their meager living is often dependent upon begging and stealing. Sharing the sidewalks with the squatters and drifters, who tend to cluster in factory neighborhoods where there is a chance of finding work, are 100,000 hawk-ers.

33,000 beggars and 60.000 lepers, according to a recent compilation. Oswald, Hitler Letters Sold NEW YORK (AP) A New York physician has paid $1,250 for a 1962 letter Lee Harvey Oswald wTOte his mother from Russia and $500 for a letter to Adolf Hitler from his wife. The unidentified collector made both purchases Thursday at an auction at Charles Hamilton Galleries. Another unidentified New York collector paid $725 for a three-page letter written by Charles Darwin in 1848. An autograph penned by industrialist Howard R.

Hughes went for $80. Oswald, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, wrote his mother from Minsk in the letter dated March 21. 1961: "As you say my trip here would make a good story about me. I've allready sie thought about that for quite awhile now, in fact.

I've allready (sic) made 50 pages of longhand notes on the subject." He also told of "a reply yesterday from some general telling me about the reversal of my honourable (sic) discharge into an undisireable (sic) one." By Judy Klfmetrud NEW YOHK Words-worths We Are Seven" is one poem that Mrs. Judith Choate can recite by heart, and often does. Early one morning in 1965, the willowy, former fashion model tiptoed into the nursery of her west side apartment and found her 5-month-oid son, Kobert, dead in his crib. The baby was the victim of -Sudden infant Death Syndrome" (SIDSi. or "crib death," the mysterious disease that is the nation No.

1 killer of infants under I year of age. Each year approximately babies die of crib death 1 in every 350 live births. The cause is still unknown. The grief-stricken Mrs. Choate immediately sought out other parents who had suffered the same tragedy, and today she is the executive director of a growing national organization dedicated to helping parents who have lost a child to crib death.

IT IS the National Foundation for Sudden Infant Death, a tax-exempt charitable corporation whose headquarters are in a tiny office on the 20th floor of 1501 Broadway. From here, Mrs. Choate. now 32 years old. and one secretary spend much of their time mailing out literature on crib death, which, as letters the foundation has received testify, can have devastating psychological effects on a family involved.

Marriages have broken up Rkkard McCoy Convicted In Skyjack SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Richard Floyd McCoy, 29. a Vietnam veteran and former Sunday school teacher, was found guilty Thursday night of air piracy in the $500,000 skyjacking and parachute jump irom a United Air Lines plane in April. The prosecution presented four days of testimony in U.S. District Court, calling more than 30 witnesses and introducing 50 pieces of evidence against the former law enforcement student, who sat expressionless as the verdict was read. His wife Kathy broke into tears.

McCOY was convicted of commandeering a Boeing 727 and 85 other passengers aboard over western Colorado the night of April 7 and diverting it off its Denver-Los Angeles route to San Francisco where the passengers were let off and $500,000 ransom put aboard. The prosecution presented photographs of all but $30 of the ransom that FBI agents found in McCoy's Provo. Utah, home two days after the hijacking. They also found a gun. flight suits, maps and an inert hand grenade.

Chief Judge Willis W. Ritter overruled defense motions to suppress exhibits taken from McCoy home because the wrong FBI agent's name was on a search warrant. after a crib death (or "cot death," as it is known in England) because a husband refused to live with a wife who "let a baby die." Older siblings of the victims have become emotionally scarred. (Nightmares and bed-wetting are frequent results.) Guilt-ridden mothers have withdrawn from friends and relatives and refused to leave their homes for months. Suicides have been reported.

Couples ave refused to have further children for fear of another crib death. OTHER couples, like Arthur and Ann Siegel (he is president of the It II advertising agency) decided upon adoption. The Sicgels adopted two children after their 16-month-oId son. Danny, died of SIDS in VM. They also have two natural children, one born after the adoptions.

"My pediatrician recommended we have another child right away," said Mrs. Choate, whose husband, Edward, is manager of the Music Box Theatre in Manhattan. "He told my husband, get her pregnant right and we had another child li months later." Today, in addition to two adult children from his first marriage, the Choates are the Hscher Vlees Meu snwn Blacklisting For Fischer? AMSTKKDAM AP The president of the World Chess Federation has threatened American champion Bobby Fischer with blacklisting after reports he is holding out for a cut of the gate receipts from his World Series with IJoris Spassky of Russia. Dr. Max Euwe, the world federation president and veteran Dutch grandmaster, said Thursday night that if the 29-year-old American fads to appear Sunday for the start of the world chess championship in Reykjavik.

Iceland, he stands to lose his rights to play for the world title "not only this time but perhaps forever." FISCHER was seen Thursday night at New York's Kennedy airport, but Icelandic Airlines said he did not board its flight to Reykjavik. hen newsmen tried to question him, his bodyguards fended them off. The next flight from New York to Iceland is tonight. Hut Fischer in the past has refused to fly on the Jewish Sabbath, between sundow Friday and sundown Saturday. INFORMED sources in Reykjavik said Fischer informed the If landic Chess Federation he would not play unless he got 30 per cent of the gate receipts.

Mao Tse-tung Dying: parents of Michael, 10, who was with his mother the morning she found her infant son dead in his crib, and Christopher. 6. "That was the longest period of my life," Mrs. Choate said, talking about Christopher's first year the period when infants are most susceptible to crib death. "I had to fight myself from going into his room ever five minutes to check on hira." The National Foundation for Sudden Infant Death was founded in 12 as the Mark Addison Hoe Foundation, started by a Connecticut couple whose infant son was a victim of SIDS.

Today the foundation has 20 chapters throughout the U.S., plus 12 others in formation. There are no dues-paying members as such, but the foundation has a mailing list of couples and individuals, Mrs. Choate said. THE UTERATCRE details the latest theories as to wnat causes crib death, plus those that have generally been discounted: external suffocation in bedclothes, allergy to cows' milk, bleeding in the spinal cord, lead poisoning, radiation fall-out. smoking.

adding bleach to the diaper wash, air pollution, fluoridation and suffocation by pet animals. The theory advocated by Dr. Abraham B. Bergman of Seattle, the boyish-looking 30-year old president of the foundation, is that a sudden spasm of the vocal cords closes off the airway during sleep. One of the major efforts of the foundation, and also of a smaller group working with SIDS parents the International (iuild for Infant Survival, in Baltimore is to acquaint medical examiners, law enforcement officials and the public with SIDS.

Bergman said public officials who are not informed aliout SIDS often immediately assume that any baby who died in his crib was a victim of child abuse. "As a result." he said 'angrily, "they treat the parents like criminals." NEW YORK (AP) Mao Tse-tung is reported to be suffering from incurable throat cancer, the Wall Street Journal said today. "One estimate is that he may not survive beyond the year, though that apparently is not a firm medical prognosis," the newpaper reported in a story by staff writer Robert Keatley. Keatley said the 78-year-old Chinese Communist party chairman, a heavy smoker, was reported to have received radiation treatment for his illness, but it was not known if there were plans for surgery. Mold Bandit Kills In wan Personalities "More Than a Museum -it's a Tour Through Yesteryear" TIME I WAS VILLAGE MUSEUM Imagination Saves Stranded Canoeist OPEN MAY 1 Oldtime Shops Fire House.

Blacksmith Shop Old Country Store Old Curiosity Shop Clocks Cobbler Shop Sweet Shop Lamp Shop Harnessmaker's Shop Oldtime Office Old Barber Shop Book Store locksmiths Tinker Shop Telephone Exchange Tobacconist Shop Exhibits Music Boxes Bottles Bells Costumes Trinkets Treisures Woodenwari Ironware, Firearms Early Utensils Agricultural Tools China Glassware Old Valentines Quaint Old Toys Dolls Coin Machines Sewing Weaving Hardware nd many mors. gunshot wound in the head. Mrs. Akers was treated at Allegheny General for shock. Mrs.

Akers told Allegheny County detectives the bandit was a young hippie-type, about 5 feet 9 and weighing about 150, and was dressed in faded blue shirt and faded denim jeans. He reportedly had his long hair tucked under his stocking mask. Akers was a truck driver and his wife had accompanied him on a trip to Syracuse, N.Y., to pick up a load of candy. The couple has an 8 year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son. PITTSBURGH (AP) A 31-year-old Burlington, Iowa, man was shot to dcat in a motel near here early Thursday after complying with the killer's demand for money, police said.

Authorities said a gunman wearing a stocking over his face entered the room of James Allen Akers and his wife Anna Jean. 25, and demanded money. After receiving about $.100, said police, the gunman shot Akers and fled. Akers was rushed to nearby North Hills Passavant Hospital and later transferred to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he died of a TO OCT. 31 A visit you'll remember 30 Antique Automobiles Complete Miniature Circus Gallery of Nostalgic Art Authentic Period Rooms Popcorn Wagon Peddler's Wagon Collection of Carriages i Wagons Winter Wonderland Diorama of Yesteryear HOHK'ON.

Y. (AIM -Some imaginative thinking saved a year-old canoeist marooned on a rock in the Shroon Biver after her craft capsized in the turbulent water Thursday, police said Hobin Case, of Woodridge, III and her companion, Nelson 4 MILES SOUTH OF MENDOTA ON US SI OPEN DAILY 9-6 Adm. 1.50 SEMI-ANNUAL liomh Thrown Hotel In Itogcr' Wester, 22, of West Orange, NX, were dumped into the Schroon when their canoe struck a rock while they were shooting rapids near this Warren County town. Wester made it to an island in the middle of the river and was rescued by companions who had accompanied the pair in two other ranoes. Miss Case, however, was stranded on a rock among the raging currents.

When all else failed, some rescuers, who soon totaled about 50, drove 40 miles to the West Mountain Ski area in (lens Falls where they borrowed a chair used in rescue operations on chaulitts. A hardy sw immer earn ing a rope reached an island behind where Miss Case was stranded, fastened one end of the line to a treetop and ran it over the rock to shore. I'sing Mock and tackle, the rescue chair was fastened to the lilcline and swung over to the rM k. Miss Case was able to ride the makeshift device to safetlv. The operation took five hours.

Mhlridge Man To Take Donald H. Hamann. Eld-ridge. will lie installed District till governor of Linns Clubs at the annual convention of the International Association of I.ions Clubs in Mexico City, Mexico. Hamann takes office July 1.

George Friedrichs of Anne-cy, France, newly elected president of I.ions International, will install the district governors. Hamann was born in He is a graduate of Davenport High School and attended St. Ambrose College. TENTH. Australia (AIM A smoke bomb was thrown Thursday night inside the hotel where Secretary of State William IV Hogers is staying Thick orange smoke swilled through the lobby, but no one was injured.

Anti-American demonstrators were gathered outside. The incident occurred as Ilogers and his wife prepared to leave the I'anmlu Hotel. Minutes later he drove off in a car and MUtlles developed as police moved in to look for the tMimh thrower. Several arrests were made. AT DAVENPORT AT BETTENDORF SOFAS SOFAS Beautiful turquoise Jocquord fobric with lounge chair in soft Herculon ond tub choir in crushed velvet, properly co-ordinated Safe Price s425 to s650 DM Officers Punished MANY OTHER SOFAS, oil styles and covers, some with matching love seats 0050 Sale priced horn LU SLEEPER SOFAS, many styles, many colors ond fabrics Originally priced to $495 NOW, Sale priced from only Save $100 or more on modestly priced sofas, regularly from s28950 to s39950 over 30 sofas and love seats at huge savings Early American in florals or plain tweeds Traditional styles in velvets Mediterranean styles in tapestry Modern ond contemporary in velvets, vinyls, nylons and Herculons French Provincial in boucle or quilted motelasse CHAIRS Over 50 choirs in 16 styles ond colors, some pairs, upholstered in a wide range of fabrics originally priced to $149.50 YOUR CHOICE ONLY si 9750 SWIVEL ROCKERS, originally priced from SI 10 to $279.50.

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DKS MOINES (Al't Eight Des Moines city policemen have ltecn suspended (or their involvement in a sportswear pun liase case. The cuiht ol fleers were suspended Thursday effective immediately in connection with a case involving the MX i lothing case. Authorities said a lew d.ivs ago several oil kits pun hascd. at tremendously dcllated prices, hunting j.h kcts and other items of sportswear from Ift-X. a firm that cailier reported the loss rf several thousand dollars in miTchan-dise.

A Polk County grand jury returned recommendations for ensure of Police Chief Wendell Nichols for failure to investigate the case in depth and against other officers allegedly involved in the clothing purchases Sgt. Al (iladson as suspended for 30 days and was ordered demoted to a lower rank; seven other policemen and detectives were handed four -day suspen- stons. one rcivived a reprimand and charges against two others wen dropitcd Crml Nichols, was WTong when he said earlier he would take no action against the olfi-rrs involved. City Manager Tom Chcnoweth said. The statement was illogical and s66 RECMNERS, both fabrics ond vinyls.

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