Evening star., 1941-10-07

Lowell, Mass, businessman, reiter-
ating that he knew he would find
her alive" said Pamela told him she
had slept side of a road until one
day I crawled to brook"
The girl was found near tiny
mountain stream, and the father
said he believed she had not wan
dered far from it during the entire
week. This, doctors believed, en-
abled her to conserve her strength.
The curly-haired child, weighing
a family picnic, was pounds lighter
when amazed searchers heard her
shout Hi" just before dusk fell last
night.
Wore Little Clothing.
Veteran woodsmen and medical
men termed her survival even more
surprising than that of Don Fender,
Boy Scout found alive after SINH
larly being lost eight days in the
Mount Katahdin region of Maine
two years ago.
The girl. they pointed out, was
lacked the Boy Scouts woodlore.
and she encountered temperatures
as low as % degrees at one period
and driving rain at another.
Her shoulders and back exposed,
the girl wore tattered green over
alls and red sneakers when a group
of C. C. C. boys led by Foreman
William Matson heard her shout
and found her reclining beside a
trail 2 miles from the picnic scene.
She was smiling and showed no
trace of fright.
I've been out in the rain and
cold since Sunday" she told Mr..
Matson. I've been drinking out OF
brooks and everything, but there
hasn't been anything to eat. want
to see my mummy and daddy.
News of her safety led some OBJ
servers to the belief that she had
been kidnapped and released, but
DR.. Charles Smith. who examined
her after she was taken to a hos
pital, said there was nothing to
indicate she had been out of the
woods.
She apparently had all the water
she needed, but she had nothing
to eat" said DR.. Smith. Her
feet showed she had frostbite and
were quite swollen"
Because of the swelling her sneak
ers were cut from her before she
was placed in bed. Her first meal
consisted of orange juice and lac
tose toast.
Scarcely an hour before she was
found High Sheriff James WEIGH
announced that hope of finding her
alive had been abandoned.
But the search went on-as it had
for the last few days-largely be-
cause the girls father refused to
quit. He stayed in the search area
constantly from the time the girl
disappeared.
Notified by portable radio at the
base camp that Pamela was alive,
he raced up the trail and carried
her down in his arms, almost too
overcome to speak.
Then he called his wife, who had
been confined to bed, grief-stricken,
in Lowell. She arrived at her
daughters side few hours later,
exclaiming: oh, it's wonderful"
Wasn't Afraid.
Mr.. Matson, hardly believing his
eyes when he first saw the child,
could only ask:
whats your name?"
"Pammy," said the girl.
You are in better shape than we
are" he told her.
Mr. Hollingworth, clutching the
girl to him after making part of the
trip along the narrow trail in an
Army jeep car, asked:
Were you afraid, PAM"
"Oh, no." she replied calmly, but
it was cold
She appeared concerned that her
hair was muddy and that she had
lost her blue hair ribbons
The woodsmen went "all out" in
praise of the girls courage.
"A lot of grownups heavily
clothed couldn't have lived more
than couple of nights through it
lack of fear saved her." commented
veteran Conservation Officer Lem
Baker.
Makes You Believe In God"
The news Of the girls safety spread
like magic in Lowell, mill city of
100000, where Mr.. Hollingworth is
superintendent of a lumber COM
pany, Community Chest leader and
Lions Club president.
In its first extra since England
declared war, the Lowell Sun, an
afternoon newspaper, said in an
eight-column headline. Pam Alive,
Safe"
A woman, one of many persons
who besieged Boston newspapers
with telephone calls, said in a uuiv-
ering voice:
Its something like this which
makes you believe in God"
Weary searchers shouted, threw
their hats in the air and Rugged
one another in joy.
lt uOcoIl Scclu pUSSlDle, was
the most frequent remark.
Search of the wilderness near a
road where Mrs. Thelma Knight,
an Augusta, Me, school teacher, re-
ported seeing a small girl q week
ago Sunday, led to the finding Of
"Pammy."
Authorities telephoned to Mrs.
Knight last week and she returned
to Conway Sunday and pointed out
the spot where she had seen the
girl 1t was at the end of . days
search in that region yesterday that
Pamela was found.