Hope for Missing Baby Sitter Dwindles with Discovery
Crosse, Wis.—(U.P.)The chief of the Wisconsin state crime laboratory was expected to tell authorities today whether stains on underclothing found underneath a highway overpass are the blood of missing baby sitter Evelyn Hartley.
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The underclothes were discovered under a highway 14 underpass about two miles south of Evelyn's home yesterday. They were stained with what appeared to be blood.
District Attorney John Bosshard said authorities felt "sure" the garments were not under the bridge when the area was searched Monday.
This led to the belief that Evelyn's possible abductor may have thrown the garments from a car late Monday or early yesterday.
Evelyn, an attractive, 15-year-old high school honor student, disappeared Saturday night from a neighbor's home, where she was tending a 20-month-old baby.
Police say evidence indicates she was carried off by a sex maniac. Although no definite trace of her has been found, her mother has said "I'm afraid my baby is dead."
The discovery of the undergarments was accompanied by police reports that a pool of blood was found on Highway 35, 14 miles south of La Crosse. Highway 35 branches off Highway 14 to the south.
Charles Wilson, head of the state crime lab, was expected to compare the stains on the undergarments with blood splotches found on a home next to that of Viggo Rasmusen, the La Crosse State College professor whose baby was entrusted to Evelyn's Saturday.
The girl's distraught parents prayed she had not been killed. But hope dwindled that Evelyn would be found alive.
Law officers, aided by hundreds of volunteers, have searched over about 700 square miles by foot, auto, and plane since the disappearance. The search continued today.
Evelyn's father, Richard Hartley,
issued a plea to "the abductor" to
"return my daughter, wherever you
are and whether she is dead or
nive."
"If you have any regard for the feelings of hurt parents, you will bring our daughter back," Mr. Hartley, also a La Crosse college teacher said.
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UN Halloween Goes to Children
United Nations—(U,P)—Thousands of youngsters this Halloween will "trick or treat" on behalf of a United Nations fund-raising campaign for needy children in other nations. They will participate in organized parades, parties and traditional Halloween activities arranged by harried municipal officials and civic leaders hoping to keep vandalism at a minimum.
The UN idea was adopted in many communities in 1951, and last year funds were solicited in about 500 American cities and towns. The contributions are for the United Nations International Children's Emergency fund.
CoedsinPrivateHomes Name AWS Officer
Phyllis Wood, college junior, last night was named acting representative to the Associated Women Students House of Representatives at a meeting of independent women who live in private homes.
A permanent and an alternate representative will be elected at their next meeting, said Janice Mason, education junior and program chairman.
ARG Silversmiths Hear Talk on Gems
Robert Williams, graduate student in geology, spoke on precious gems to Alpha Rho Gamma, professional in the English room of the Union.
Mr. Williams showed examples of gems and demonstrated various instruments which are used to detect flaws. He also explained Moh's scale of hardness and the working of single and double light refraction.
2 Students Undergo Surgery
Sylvia Kendall, college sophomore, and Donald Tice, journalism senior, underwent emergency surgery last night at Watkins hospital. Both were reported in good condition this morning.
Pittsburgh—(U.P.)The day of the atomic engine "is here" and the Navy must start equipping its warships with them now or risk losing naval supremacy to Soviet Russia, Adm. Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, said last night.
Speaking at the national convention of the Military Order of World Wars, Adm. Carney said "it may very well be that in this 20th century naval supremacy will go to the first nation that converts from oil to atoms."
At the same time, he disclosed that the Navy "very soon" will equip its ships with deadly guided missiles "of all descriptions—surface to air, surface to surface, air to surface and air to air."
U.S. Fleet Urged To 'Go Atomic'
"With the Soviets emerging as a maritime power, with the danger of atomic power and guided missiles and hell bombs in hostile hands, an obsolete fleet is a risky investment," Adm. Carney warned.
However, he said there is no evidence of an imminent threat "of a nuclear-powdered enemy fleet," although strategists assume that Russia is working on atomic engines for its growing Navy.
Adm. Carney described two nuclear-powered submarines now under construction as "the Navy's model T's" of the atomic age. He said military power is in the midst of "epoch making" changes which will make World War II ancient history, but that the United States is not keeping its fleet modernized.
"Our present shipbuilding rate is not even enough to maintain our current peacetime level of active ships," he said.
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RepatriationCompound Murders' Exposed
Panmunjom, Korea—(U.P).The Indian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation commission announced today that four North Korean and Chinese prisoners had been murdered by fellow inmates in neutral zone camps.
Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya's announcement strengthened Red charges that fanatical anti-Communist agents were at work among the 22,000 Chinese and North Koreans who do not want to return home and were responsible for the breakdown in explanation talks.
Thimayya said the murdered prisoners included three North Koreans and one Chinese.
A commission spokesman said another prisoner had died a violent death in one of the compounds, but he was a "suspected suicide." Thirteen other prisoners have died in the neutral camps, 10 of illness and three in riots quelled by Indian guards.
The Indian chairman of the fivenation commission made his report in response to Communist charges that "agents" of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and South Korean President Syngman Rhee were murdering and torturing prisoners who indicated they might return to Communism.
"We have the bodies," Thimayya told newsmen after a two-hour meeting of the commission.
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