Saved In Jungle By Planes

Scientist's Wife, Badly Injured, Brought to the Hospital in the Nick of Time.

After an S.O.S. was flashed out over hundreds of miles of Panama jungles by the dispatch of a native runner more than 75 miles to the nearest telegraph station, three United States Army airplanes penetrated the wilderness 320 miles and rescued Mrs. Helen T. Gaige, wife of Prof. Frederick M. Gaige of the University of Michigan, it was learned upon arrival of the couple at New York.

Professor and Mrs. Gaige left this country last February with the intention of remaining in the jumgle 13 months to study reptiles. They had gone hundreds of miles and were near the border of Costa Rica when Mrs. Gaige was wounded by an accidental discharge of her shotgun. Her husband administered first aid and dispatched a runner to a little settlement named David, about 75 miles away, to telegraph a request for assistance to Dr. S. J. South, American minister to Panama, in Panama City.

Professor Gaige and his party then started out to follow the runner, reaching David in three days. Meanwhile, Minister South forwarded the S.O.S. to France field, the army aviation base, and a Martin bomber and two other planes were sent out to find the pair.

Gangmen Kill Monticello Officer

Three men on Tuesday night were surprised by Officer Dollard of Monticello in an attempt at robbery. The officer was shot and killed and the robbers fled.

The alarm was given and three men who were driven into the swamp near Monroe are supposed to be the ones wanted. Middletown officers pursued the fleeing auto till it turned off the main road at Monroe, where it was abandoned. State Troopers surrounded the swamp when the men surrendered. Sheriff Pelton took them back to Monticello, where the will be charged with first degree murder.