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2 Tht Pottstown Mercury Friday, February, 2, 1968 Former Army Pilot Tells of Life as Korean Prisoner Elvis Presley Becomes Father Of Daughter Roundup Of World News MEMPHIS. Tenn. Mrs. Elvis Presley, wife of the million LAKE ZURICH, 111. (AP) A Voltz and another American ground before at least 100 sol-started, day and night.

They said. constantly watched i ormer U.S. Army helicopter pi-captain, Ben Stutts. were cap-diers surrounded the craft. interrogate for three me and questioned me.

I be- ot who was held prisoner by the tured by the Communists in soldiers, mostly young hours, let me sleep for an hour came so physically and mental- JSorth Koreans in 1963 told May 1963. Voltz said their cop-men. knocked us around, tied us and then question for five hours, ly exhausted that when asked ajre entertainer, gave foorth Thursday of beatings and re ter was downed, apparently by up and put rice sacks over our They asked everything from my my name, it took about eight Thursday to a 6-pound, 15-ounce Donges. who died last Jentless questioning by his cap gunfire, after it strayed over the heads. name and rank to when I grad seconds to answer.

They gjrjf the first child. after a long illness. took us to a small pris- uated from school and what laughed their heads off at that In the news from around thej The 650-mile long archipelago world: between Forihosa and Japan ('APE TOWN, South Africa came under U.S. control in (AP) Cabinet minister War and thc chief bus Fouche was selected Thursday as South president ocutive for the islands now is to succeed Theophilus E. chosen by the legislature with month approval of the high tors.

hope that they treat le 83 crew members of the USS Mieblo like they treated us," Carleton W. Voltz. South Korean border into North of poor Officials at Baptist Hospital A caucus of the ruling Nation sioner. Korea because of poor radar on. The cells were filthy and too kind of family I had.

They want-! one day, the treatment said the child was born at 5:01 party nominated' Fouche CLASSES RESUME the 83 crew members of the USS conditions. small to lie down in. Ben Stutts ed my detailed life he said. sent m. She was 20 inches long, for the largely ceremonial of MADRID (AP) Madrid Pueblo like they treated In an AP interview, Voltz said and I were separated there.

Voltz said that when he gave in a doctor regularly, fed me The baby has not been named. nCo The choice is tantamount University's faculty of philoso- copter barely touched the when the questioning answers, he was not harmed; more food and let me sleep at Mrs. Presley was brought to to election since Nationalists phy ami letters resumed classes when he refused to answer, he night. The torture the hospital from the Rock hold a majority in the after being closed for was beaten. Voltz said that after the four Roll mansion in suburban college, which votes on the nom- three weeks following student He said that after five days he months of questioning, he began Whitehaven.

Presley and sever-; Feb. 19. demonstrations and clashes was taken to a secluded house receiving lectures on Commu- al of his close friends accompa- Fouche, 71, is minister for ag- with police, where the interrogation contin- nism. This also lasted for fourinied her. services and The university, largest in ued.

This time, he said, by real months. I Mrs. Presley is the former wa(er resources and formerly Spain, said the political and eco- professionals. the North Koreans Priscilla Beaulieu, daughter of was defense minister. nomic sciences faculty will instance, there was a stopped their indoctrination ses- an Army officer.

They met inj sume classes Feb. 8. big 6-foot tall North Korean ser- sions and just left me Germany when Presley was sta- OWN CHIEF EXECUTIVE Students have protested the I ITTI ROCK Ark (AP) ine late Thursday with Prison gin and the (Arkansas River) geant with Voltz said. became very tioned there as a soldier, and NAHA, Okinawa (AP) Ryu use of police on campus. LI I ILL rock ArK.

(Ai laic i nursnay wun tri.cn gin ana me (Aranas Kiver; was an expert at t0rtUriiig with- friendly and fed me even better wcrg married early last year. islands voters will elect Authorities quietly continued to upt 0 'vhn levee and dying 0ut leaving he said. food. They were fattening me up Presley, former Memphis own chief executive for the IN COPENHAGEN throe sis Cytim ic to out convict rumors i rVturn to th( 4 first time in November, the U.S. COPENHAGEN (AP) King Prison Kirni as a lecisla'of a clandestine cemetery for of Houston.

who Voltz he sPcnt the Following his return, almost a as a Roll star in high commissioner for the is Constantine of Greece arrived nuns I son Farm as reported that he served 11 davs four months without leaving the year later, to the United States, the 1950s His activities now are lands announced Thursday. in Copenhagen on Thursday to Uve group added its voice 10 me Main inmaies. of a 15 (iay sentencc on a va. house. He slept in one mnstlv limits tn clamor for a full-scale investi-j wpbtio mnv grancy charge before escaping interrogators in am nation into whether the ones trnm said there was a full Diatoon of tivp Hiitv Up lpft thp Armv in! that President Johnson had It was the first trip out Probe Continues in Discovery Of 3 Skeletons at Prison Farm sec ref for The Council asked convicts killed 28 years ago.

murdered inmates. fuU 8nd Pershing Mills, 49. of Reedly, Officers had nothing new to Ration by the Criminal Investi- said in an interview sav a bout he invcstigation Division of the State Wednesday that he saw five in- touched off by by in Lin-mates killed at Tucker Prison---unearthing of the sprawling prison, the state The sla(c par(jons an(j pa. Gov. Winthrop 8 roles Office said it had records fice said, however, that the1 Rockefeller urged Wednesday L( mw imprisonment, but state medical examiner would people foun(j nothing on Ford and Rcd- conduct an analysis of the- bones rea conjusin8 mond.

It said, however, these The investigation is being records mi ht he somc th conducted by the Criminal recordings Qen Ferdinand Unger attend thc wedding of his sis- told the Ryukyus Legislature ter-in law. Princess Benedikte. guards assigned just to watch 1965 to become a commercial plyj FISH amended an executive order, side Italy since he fled to Rome him. airline pilot. The Pentagon re- thus permitting direct election Dec.

14 following his vain at- was one of the worst ports Stutts was killed in a 1966 The flying fish can sail as far 0f chief executive by popu- tempt to overthrow the Greek never he plane crash. as 200 yards through the air. lar ballot. military government. was rather than the FBI laboratory at Washington as originally planned.

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Meanwile, a 60-year-old Fresno, man joined the list of persons identifying themselves as ex-Arkansas convicts who witnessed inmate murders. The man, who asked that he be identified as Thomas Ford, the name he said he used in 1924 when he was sent to Cummins on an automobile theft charge, said he had seen about six men murdered in the 1920s. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. saw a lot of men die down The commander of Ma- there on that farm, a lot of them nnes in Pacific and Vietnam whipped right there in the Thursday called Viet Cong sui- he said. cide raids in Saigon of He said he remember the bur- desperation." ial area the (cotton) Their aim.

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