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Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 14

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Des Moines, Iowa
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14
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About 30 Houses Destroyed as Tornado Rips Through Texas Town of Olney t1 4 VJ it damage was placed at about a million dollars. Two pers ons were killed and Saturday 20 others still remained in This aerial photograph show the damage which res ulted to homes at Olney, when a tornado Btruck that community of 5,000 Friday. About 30 homes were destroyed, 100 others were damaged. Estimates of property hospitals with broken bones and lacerations. This photo hows houses destroyed in front of the town high school.

i pV) A TV Ix uMy-' Wife Sightsees With Blind Husband David Ferguson, of Toronto, Canada, who was blinded during World War II in France, now is touring Europe on a bicyclewith his wife, Patricia. The couple met when both were students at Toronto niversity. Patricia steers the bicycle and serves as eyes for her husband. In this hoto, they are near Paris. A Mother Says She Doesn't Care to See Her Children Anymore Mrs.

Eleanor Barnes (left), mother of the four children shown at ight, was photographed after she had testified in a divorce case in Milwaukee, that she had no interest in her children and did not care to see them again. The husband, John A. Barnes, was granted custody of the children in hia uncontested divorce suit. The children are (from left) Charles, 3, Jack, 7, Jill, 9, and William, 8. They are playing with their dog, Peanuts.

They were not told of their mother's testimony. rMk: '4 'Vv -yi -L. "1 1 Vk Moment of Prayer on Korean Battlefield Watson Family Is Together Aqaln In Waterloo There's always time for a bit of pras-er on the battle field. Even under the pressure of Red attacks which pummeled United Nations troops in Korea, there was time for this moment of prayer by members of the United States 24th division. With their weapons and helmets close at hand, these American soldiers kneel as they attend a Catholic church service in the open air somewhere in western Korea.

The chaplain conducting this service was Maj. Paul D. Roche of Chicago, 111 the' chaplain for thaith, division. Mrs. Jeanette 37, who spent 25 hours in the Blac Hawk county jail at Waterloo for refusing to take the oath as a juror, was back home with her family Saturday.

Mrs. Watson was sentenced to six months in the women's reformatory at Rockwell City by District Judge Shannon B. Charlton for twice refusing to serve on the jury in the Edward Beckwith murder trial at Waterloo. The Iowa supreme court ordered her released from jail on $500 bond pending a hearing by the court next September. She told the judge she would be unable to serve on the segregated jury because of her two sons at home, Gene(left), 8.

and Robert, 5. she was in jail, her husband, William E. Watson stayed home from his job to care for the children..

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