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Show Virginia Waman With Broken Hip Unaided for 40 Hours PINEY RIVER, Va. Mrs. John D Massie was shoved into a ditch by a cow. She lay there for 40 hours with a broken hip before be-fore anyone came to her rescue. Her. husband dropped dead while trying to assist her. Mrs Massie had gone Into the hilly pasture to bring in the cow. The balky animal shoved her into in-to a ditch and her hip was broken in the fall. Her husband finally found her and tried to help her to their home. Unable to move her, he started to the house for aid. bul suffered a heart attack and died just 100 yards from where his wife lay. Mrs. Massie lay unaided in the pasture for hours. Her calls foi help were unheard by a brother-in-law at work in a field just ovei the hill. Neighbors found her two dayi after the accident. She said sh was not hungry during the twe nights, but was in a frenzy of feai at whal had haprencd to her hus bard Com. Gray was to have attended a training school in Newport, but the school was closed and all Navy men ordered to duty. Commander Gray was assigned to the U.S.S. Quisley, at Brooklyn Brook-lyn Navy yard. Virginia Houston entertained ! at a tea this week for Mrs. I James Zimmerman, the former Jane Larsen. |
