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Show Saves a Boy's Life and Gets a Beating Des Moines, Iowa. James Boltz, who saved a boy's life despite the objections objec-tions of a woman spectator who thought he was giving the boy a beating, received belated thanks recently. re-cently. A piece of popcorn lodged In the windpipe of eleven-year-old Max Hodges several days ago while he was riding on a street car. Boltz, who was a passenger, tossed the boy to the floor and applied vigorous vigor-ous slaps and artificial respiratory measures, at the same time fighting off the hair-pulling and drubbing administered adminis-tered to him by an infuriated woman who did not understand what was going go-ing on. After the ambulance arrived, Bolts disappeared. A City-wide search wag carried on by the parents to find hlra and express thanks for saving the child's life. |