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TP' IJTlje Amfrtran-ftatf swan THURSDAY- i 1 1 i j. FRANK DOBIE Wild Woman Finally Found 4 Africa; he knew the captive's tribe end spoke enough words of his barbarous language to learn his history. The African had as a boy been sold by his parents for "knife and tobacco" to slave traders, who had him with many others for a long time in a ship at sea. They came at last into a river. Here they were landed and kept for some days in a large house, where they had plenty of sugar and sugarcane.

He and another, a grown man of his tribe, made their escape and wandered for a long time in the woods, crossing a great many rivers and prairies; he did not know how many. Often they were Stall Photo Pictured, with Sir Ar Austin, Texas Page C-s Sunday, January 30. 1955 Proclamation Given Howard Gene Howard, Austin nursery man and president of the Texas Association of Nurserymen, was presented a copy of Gov. Shivers' proclamation on "Plant Texas" month in recognition of nurserymen's part in the movement. The proclamation was presented to Howard by State Commissioner of Agriculture John C.

White. The governor's proclamation said in part: "Barren and blighted land can be made green, beautiful and productive through the wise planting of trees, shrubs and grasses. Such planting, in addition to bring ing many benefits to Texans of today, will pay rich dividends to future generations. ONLY MD's Pharmacy 1403 Guadolupt Phen 8-1605 Is Open Until Midnight ever) m'ghf Your Midnight Druggist Free City Wide Delivery PEARSON Ph.8-3431 KNIGHTED ARCHITECT Sir Arthur Stephenson (left), world-famed architect from Australia, was visiting in Austin this week with local architects, University officials and health department leaders. He is touring the US investigating possibilities of financing hnsptal expensrs for the thur are UT Architect Harwell Harris (right) and Mrs.

Harris. He was made an honorary Texan by Governor Allan Shivers while here. Last year he was knighted and personally presented with the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture by Queen Elizabeth. Scientists Schedule Lectu rcr How an understanding God heals discord will be the topic of a Christian Science lecture to be given Thursday by Frank Hord of Washington, D. it was announced Saturday by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Austin.

A former Army combat chaplain, Hord will speak in the University-Junior High School Auditorium, San Jacinto and Red River at 19th Street at 8 p. m. The lecture is open to the public without charge. Hord's subject will be 'Christian Science: Its practical operation." Hord served 46 months in the United States and in the European theater of operations during World War II as a Christian Science chaplain. He was with combat troops throughout the war, and served in the Antwerp area during the five-months' buzz-bomb siege of that important supply base on the Belgian coast.

Trior to entering the public practice of Christian Science healing, Hord was active in sales engineering, and as founder and head of a travel agency. He is currently on extended tour as a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. Pclro-Chcniical Industry Written Technical information about the booming petro-chemical industry is presented in a new reference book by Dr. Lewis F. Hatch of the University of Texas.

"Chemistry of Petro Chemical Reactions," issued by Gulf Publishing Company of Houston, is a compilation of facts given by Dr. Hatch in articles for Petroleum Refiner magazine, to which he is a contributing editor. Dr. Hatch, a pioneer in petrochemistry, in 1940 established what was thought to be the nation's first college-level course in that field. He is in demand as a lecturer in industrial short courses on the subject.

Dr. Hatch also is the author of a new textbook, "Organic Chemistry," published this month by McGraw-Hill. Meat Processing For Tour Rome Freeifr Beef Pork Deer SOUTH AUSTIN COLD STORAGE 1901 So. Congress LETTERS TO EDITOR FRANK T. HORD Knife, Fork Club Slates Counselor A former secret service man who worked in Mexico.

Central America and the Far East dur ing World War II, and now is a public counselor in North Carolina will address the Austin Knife and Fork Club next Friday at 7:15 p.m. at the Stephen F. Aus tin Hotel. He is Arch F. Coleman, a marin ate ofthe University of Minnesota, who visited Portugal, Spain, North Africa.

Algiers. Italv. Pales tine, Syria and Turkey, while serv ing tne ui government as a secret service man. Following his graduation from Minnesota, Coleman scent two years at West Point. He got his loreign experience via the business route, when he accepted a clerical job with the United Fruit Company in Guatemala.

Later he worked for an oil company, and in heavy machinery sales in Mpy- ico, and then was employed by tne us government as an assistant trade commissioner in Mexi- co City. With this foreign service as a Dackground he was later again sent to Mexico to spy out extent of the Gestapo and Japanese intelligence service. Coleman became an Instructor in work and durin World War II established and or ganized espionage groups working out of Istanbul. Thomas M. French, president of the Austin Knife and Fork Club, said Coleman will speak on "What our undercover men uncover for us." It is against the law in Mexico City to run out of gas.

cizing the City Council for dropping the ban on the use of explosive fireworks. I wish to commend the council. True, there were a number of accidents, but tell me what year hasn't there been? I had a firecracker go off in my hand once, but the next time I was much more careful. Yes, there was misuse of firecrackers by vandals. But to stop thousands of kids from using fire- After having been a mystery for years, the Wild Woman of the Navidad was finally sighted by some men on horseback who were hunting her.

It was night, however. The rider nearest her tried to rope her as she streamed across a neck of prairie and missed. She disappeared into deep woods. No dog would fallow. For a long time no sign of her was seen by any of the settlers.

She seemed to have disappeared. But during the severe winter of 1350, while snow and sleet covered the ground, a man found her camp in the brushy end of a tree that had been blown down in a thickety canebreak. There was a rude bed of moss and leaves, but no sign of a fire. She had brought in a great deal of sugarcane and much of it had been chewed. Cords, or strings, made from the twisted bark of cotton stalks had been made into snares for catching small animals.

Tracks, a span long, in the snow showed that the camper had been there recently. A watch was set, but the creature had taken alarm and did not come back. Another Muster The winter passed, and, some fresh signs being seen, another great muster was made; then, equipped with horses, hounds, and ropes, the pursuers made a favorable start on the track. The men took up stations in line and closed in from all sides. In the last resort, as was expected, the creature climbed a tree and was soon looking down with a frightened stare at the troops of baying dogs and the up-gazing men.

Instead of the hair-covered female glimpsed by moonlight on the prairie, they saw now only a runaway African man cowered in the tree. The wild creature they were pursuing had, it seems, by accident or design crossed his trail. The dogs, taking the latter scent, had been misled. Now the hunters could remember that the cry of the dogs changed during the chase, and it was thought that by going back in time the trail might be But this Negro was somewhat of a curiosity himself, and they stopped to investigate him. He was entirely naked, an unknown condition for runaways.

The hunters bade him come down, but he made no sign of obeying. They asked him to whom he belonged, but he made no answer. They threatened him, but he did not seem to understand. To frighten him into obedience they pointed guns at him, pretending that they would shoot him, but he motioned with his hand for them to desist and go away. They then climbed the tree and took him down by force, He trembled, but said nothing.

While looking at him they observed his feet and hands. Could it be, after all, that this was the wild being who had so long evaded the sight of man? They led him through a muddy place to see the tracks he made. It was measured and found to agree with the measure often taken of the strange wild one. The man was kept confined for some time, and the news of his strange capture was published far and wide. But no owner came forward nor could anything be learned concerning him.

At last a wandering sailor came that way who had been at a Portuguese mission on the coast of MEXICAN works because of a handful of vandals would be unfair. I believe, as I think nine-tenths of this city believes, to deprive thousands of young children of many happy occasions would be wholly unfair. JOHN C. DAVIS Austin WESLEY 313 Congress WORD OF THANKS To the Editor: On behalf of the Lutheran Student Foundation, I wish to thank you for the fine coverage you have given all of our events. We are extremely grateful to you.

Sincere thanks for your help and cooperation. DAVID F. LARSON 2004 Whitis. To The Editor: Many people have been criti 3 Lb. Pkg.

Cut Up HENS LB. 34 L. EAST Ks- TURKEY BACKS PRODUCE COMPANY 708 East 8th tffl 195.5 nn nearly starved to death, but his companion, skilled to throw the club, had as often taken some animal with which they sustained life. At length they came into the section of the country where he afterwards remained so long. They saw the people passing about, and they saw that some of them were Negroes, but were afraid of their clothes; they feared that the Negroes were cannibals.

His companion died after several years, and ever since he had been alone. As he was now a man of middle life, he had probably been brought across the sea between 1820 and 1830. His small feet received some explanation. It appears that there is a tribe on the west coast of Africa, perhaps more than one, characterized by very small feet. The man claimed that a certain hour in the night, which varies somewhat with the moon, the most watchful dogs are snug in such insensible sleep that a stranger may walk among them and step over them with impunity.

He was advertised as a stray Negro and sold on public account. The purchaser turned him loose among his other Negroes, and he remained in his new home. The Wild Woman was never afterwards heard of. Tublic curiosity died away; the abolishment of slavery put an end to runaways in the woods; only dimming tradition remained. Other Tracks Other mysterious tracks and "wild men" passed into legend ever the Texas frontier and even in places after the frontier had passed.

The tradition was common over the South, and various romancers worked and overworkedit into fiction. In the 70s a tiny footprint that Texas Rangers connected with the Pegleg robberies in the San Saba country gave them the same concern that a mysterious, sign accompanying a series of murders might give a Chinese detective. Some years later lonely campers in the Big Bend country would awake in the morning and see tracks of moccasined feet leading to and from the vicinity apparently of a man and a woman. But, no matter how good as trainers the campers were or how persistently they followed the trail, always the tracks ceased to lead on; after having been traceable for miles, they would vanish as completely as if the makers of them had taken wing. "Big Foot and Little Foot have been here," a cowboy might say upon stirring the ashes of his campfire in the morning.

But who made the big and little tracks could never be found out. The treaders did no mischief. Finally these vanished amid the solitudes, ceased to be, even in tracks. PARADE chipped in $3,000 more toward the building Pete reportedly has a permit to ship 700,000 head of Mexican cattle across the Texas border. Neville G.

Penrose, president of the Good Neighbor Commission, takes a house in Cuernavaca every summer with his wife and daughter, Tatricia Last week the Fort Worth millionaire, here after several months in Europe, fished in the Gulf of Mexico, at Tuxpan, before starting another trip, a tourist-promoting jaunt to Guatemala "as personal representative of Governor Allan Shivers." Erby Swift was born in the woods of Wilson County, 50 miles from San Antonio. He was a iun ior military cadet at West Texas Military Academy when he visited Mexico for the first time in 1910, as an interpreter for Elihu Root, special US ambassador to the Cen tennial of Mexican Independence. This popular Texan has lived here since 1919, as chief counsel for Sinclair Oil. He is also legal counselor for American Airlines de Mexico which he organized in 1941 and headed for three years. Mrs.

Imogene Fleasant de Be- teta, former wife of Ramon Be teta, ex-minister of finance and now Mexican ambassador to Italy, comes from East Texas. The man who built most of Mex ico's highways under President Avila Camacho, Sherman D. Ba ker, was born in Matagorda, Texas, but moved to Tampico 30 years ago. He lives in Mexico City new where he has eight horses running at Hipodromo de les Americas race track. He spends some of his time on his ranch "Ojo de Agua." about 25 miles from this capital.

Cashed Checks Guy "Doc" Turner, who be friended thousands of American tourists and cashed their checks during his 34 years in the drug de partment of Sanborn's, came to Mexico from Mount Vernon, Texas. He is in Veterans Hospital, Hous ton. where he recently underwent a serious operation. About 300 University of Texas alumni the biggest group outside of the I nited States live in Mex ico City. They have finally or ganized.

and the first meeting of the new "Ex-Students Club of the University of Texas" will take By VIRGINIA SNOW MONDAYf JANUARY 31, 1955 (k V-IK J-iJ- I IMPORTANT YFAR for thp rnntiru' MEXICO CITY-Mexico is full of Texan men who figuratively swap their 10-gallon Stetsons for sombreros and women who alternate their Lili Dache hats with rebozos as if they'd been doing it all their lives. Texans who thrive under the Mexican sun often make news. One of the times Senator Joe McCarthy was unavailable for comment, he is said to have been fishing with Clint Murchison on the latter's private Isla del Toro "Bull Island" in the Tamiahua Lagoon. The Dallas oil and cattle millionaire, also once entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor on his Hacienda Acuna, in Tamau-lipas state. 20 Years Ago Albert Pullen, a wiry Texan from Corrigan, near Houston, was first to develop Acapulco, 20 years ago.

He bought 750 acres of beach lands, from La Qucbrada where El Mirador Hotel now stands, to the Pacific Ocean, and put in streets, water and lights. Now he owns the resort's big Hotel de las Americas, and is a stockholder and director of Hotel del Prado, in Mexico City. He and his Mexican partner have an $8 million real estate investment on Lake Tcque-squitengo, near Cuernavaca, as well as. big Acapulco holdings. Pullen came to Mexico in 1027 as a representative of Remington Rand, He's a Mexican millionaire new.

A rich widow from Houston, Mrs. Judy Grubbs. recently bought Dallas millionaire Colonel Harry Stewart's mansion in Cuernavaca for $350,000 complete with his Hearst collection. She plans to live there part of the year. Next door, by a long stone's throw, is a huge palace with hilly lawns, swimming pool 'and magnificent mountain view.

The colonel's ex-wife nee Mrs. Edith Little-Lewis-Stewart, lives there with her new husband. Louis Bunde, of Milwaukee, in the center of her mountainside real estate development 'Ranchn Tctela." The newlyweds and Edith's son, Homer I. "Pete" Lewis, of Eagle Pass, Texas, donated IS acres for Marymount College, to be Mexico's exclusive boarding school for girls, and the bride FIRE STATIONS East 5th and Trinity 506 West 19th 3002 Guadalupe 1000 Blanco 1005 Lydia 1705 South Congress 201 Chicon East 21st and East Ave. 43rd and Speedway 3009 Windsor Road 1611 Kinney Avenue 2109 Hancock Drive 4305 Airport Blvd.

829 Airport Blvd. SPECIAL DEPUTIES: The American National Bank Capital National Bank Fidelity State Bank Texas State Bank Austin National Bank Scarbrough's Allandale HEB Mitchell's Montopolis Food Stora ued GROWTH PROGRESS and FUTURE of A ST I and the RESPONSIBILITY of determining that FUTURE is in YOUR for it is YOUR FUTURE as well! TOMOR-j ROW is the LAST DAY to PAY YOUR POLL: TAX so make MONDAY your day to spend a FEW MINUTES in ONE of the MANY POLL-TAX BOOTHS conveniently located THROUGHOUT the city and BE READY to fulfill your obligation to yourself YOUR'FAMILY and the city of Austin in 1955! place in February..