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Is iXit $.,. -iMBuflnii«ition of Maine, elected at Polandleft to right, Millard Stevens, ings Bank, Auburn; Melvin A. i’aterville Savings Bank, Water-dent, and Ex. Comm., treasurer Paris; Charles (1. Carswell, ex-ow, left to right, Lawrence A. Brunswick Savings Institution,Brunswick; Fred B. Wheaton, Ex. Savings Bank, Biddeford; Sewall Penobscot Savings Bank, Bango Gardiner. Absent when picture president, treasurer of Gardiner Burley Smith, treasurer, secretary Allan Spear, Exec. Comm., treasui Bath.SacoGir!14JLoseLifeIn RiverA 14-year-old Saco girl lost her ? ife in the Saco river Friday af- lernoon while two of her girl ompanions, including a younger ister, were rescued by a nine-'ear-old yaco boy, a brother of ne of the pair, while bathing in he stream at the site of the for-ner Standard Oil company’s )lant off Front street, Saco.Louise A. Amnotte, one of 13 •hildrcn of Mr. and Mrs. George \mnotte, 7 Wharf street, the vic-im, lost her life after she slipped rom a railroad tie upon which he was floating a few feet from hore in w-ater estimated between 8 and 20 feet in depth.Arline Labelle, 8, told news-nen at the scene of the accident, hat she and Claire Amnotte, a ister of Louise, were in the wa-er nearer shore when their old-r bathing companion vanished rom sight after losing her grip n the woden object she was float-ng on. She said if it had not been or her brother, Dickie, 9, she and Claire would have drowned, not ealizing they were in water so ieep, only a few' feet away from shore.The alarm, spread after Louise lad disappeared below the wa-er, was ouickly answered by hreo of her teen-age brothers, Paul. Roland and Robert, who -ntered the water and made a frantic effort to locate their sis-;er. Their efforts proved fruit-ess. The father of the girl was ilso promptly upon the scene nfter being notified of the accident while on his way home fromOatis Story ToAppear In JournaliWeek 01 Sept. 14New York, Sept. 5—(/P—William N. Oatis, the AP correspondent, who spent two years in a Czech prison, has written his own story.The byline “By William N. Oatis” will reappear in this paper Monday, Sept. 14, over the first of a series of articles Oatis has written, giving a vivid description of his ordeal.Oatis, a native of Indiana, went to Prague in June, 1950. to become chief of the Associated Press bureau reporting the news of Czechoslovakia. His efforts toget the news would be considered normal in anv country with a free press, but they were not to the liking of Communist officials in Prague. The secret police arrested Oatis in April, 1951, and built up a charge of espionage against him. The U. S. State Department denounced the charges and his trial as a travesty of justice. Oatis snent more than two years in prison cells near Prague before he was released last Mav.On his return to the Unitedyork at the Saco-Lowell shops.Dragging operations were com-1 States he had to undergo ^exten-menced by members of the Saco^ -police and fire departments. A group of volunteer workers,* including Rev. Andrew C. K. Richards, pastor of First Parish Congregational church, Saco, andMorrill H. Harper also assisted in the dragging.While the accident took place shortly after 3 it was not until 4:50 p. m. that the body was located, about 30 feet from shore(C untiiiiH*(i on piicp frlt;»ven)sivc medical treatment. He was eager to write his own story in his own words, but doctors for a time permitted him to work oniv an hour a day.The AP said today that Oatis will relate in the articles the methods the secret police used in obtaining his “confession” to charges of spying, and disclose various aspects of his imprisonment.
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Sat, Sep 05, 1953
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