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Show YOUTH DROWNS IN N RIVER Melvin Redding Seized With Cramps in Pool at Foot of 33rd Street. Melvin Redding, 21 years old, re-ffldlrr re-ffldlrr on Thirty-second street, be-tvvo. be-tvvo. . Washington rind Grant avenues, was drowned while swimming in the Weber river at the foot of Thirty-third Thirty-third street yesterday afternoon f 3:30 o'clock Redding, It is claimed, had partaken of a henrty meal prior to his swim, and was overheated e ben he entered tho water-I water-I Small boys who were at the poo! at the time, say that RodOlng was seized with cramps. 1 pon realizing that Redding was drowning, the youngsters ran to the Bamberger tracks and hailed Willi. in. Honkers. I A years old, and Eric Boek-way, Boek-way, 1 ? years, who rushed to the river. DenkeFS grapsed Bedding by the hair and dragged him to shallow wator Bookway assisted Henkers in dragging the man from the river and they rushed to a telephone and summoned sum-moned the fire department pulmotor but efforts to resuscitate Redding were unsuccessful. Traffic officer H B Dlam Investigated Investi-gated the drowning and broke the news to the boys parents, Mr and .lr John Bedding |