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Show FormerPastorHeaded For Troubled Country When the Reverend C. M. Cavit resigned the local Methodist pastorate and position on the faculty of the local high school last summer, it was lor tne purpose pur-pose of taking training in the .middle west, preparatory to doing missionary work in Bolivia. While he and his wife and young baby expected to be located at La Paz, the capital, for a time, they expected ex-pected eventually to do work into the hinterland. A Christmas card to The News stated that they expected to be leaving for Bolivia shortly after Christmas, supposedly despite the political unrest in that country. (Further complicating conditions in that country is the fate of five other American missionaries, missing for two months in the Bolivian jungles. Their fate remains re-mains a mystery, although a Franciscan Fran-ciscan father receded information Saturday night which he said indicated indi-cated they had been killed by savages. The priest receded a telegram from a mission at Robore, near the Brazilian border, that bloodstained blood-stained khaki clothing had been found at a jungle camp among disordered and burned supplies apparently ap-parently owned by the Americans. He said it appeared they had been killed with poisoned arrows. |