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in Mexico
Associated Press
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — Thou
sands of students continued a sit-in
strike in the administration building
at the Autonomous University of
Chihuahua here Wednesday to press
demands for the rector’s resigna
tion. But authorities denied reports
of major violence.
Gov. Oscar Ornelas was trying to
arrange a meeting Wednesday
morning between student leaders
and the university’s administrative
■ council at the Executive Mansion,
but representatives from both fac
tions said no solution appeared to be
in sight.
About 2,500 of the university’s
6,000 students invaded the building
Monday, saying they would not leave
until university authorities agree to a
reform of the state education laws
limiting the rector to one four-year
term.
By law, the university is autono
mous, in that it runs itself with state
financing but no outside interfer
ence, and the rector is elected Uy the
university council made up of fac
ulty, alumni and student representa
tives.
Current rector Carlos Humberto
de las Casas Duarte was recently re
elected to the job. Re-election of
state university authorities is allowed
by the law.
News reports Tuesday night said
groups of striking students seized a
number of buses, trucks and taxis,
virtually paralyzing public transpor
tation in this northern state capital,
with some going on a rampage and
sacking supermarkets and stores.
Excelsior, an independent na
tional morning newspaper, said in a
front-page story that striking stu
dents seized 260 buses and trucks
and “dozens” of taxicabs, “and
sacked businesses and supermarkets,
with authorities being unable to stop
them.”
In a telephone interview Wednes
day, Ornelas’ press secretary, Luis
Ochoa Minjares confirmed that
“dozens” of buses and vehicles were
seized by the strikers, but denied
there was any sacking or damage to
property.
Alfredo de la Torre Aranda, a
strike leader, said in a telephone in
terview the students plan to “step up
the pressure with new measures,”
which he did not disclose, if their de
mands are not met by Thursday
morning.
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by Kevin Thomas
Research reveals courage
of unknown World War I hero
Associated Press
MOUNT CARMEL, III. — The
tombstone gives no indication that
the man buried beneath it was a true
World War I hero and one of only
three Americans to receive En
gland's highest decoration for brav
ery.
It simply reads: “Hutcheson, Bel-
lenden S., Died April 9, 1954.”
The humble epitaph says nothing
about the life of the quiet physician,
who returned to his native southern
Illinois after the “war to end all
wars.”
As a captain in the Canadian
Royal Army Medical Corps, Hutche
son became one of only three Ameri
cans to receive the Victoria Cross —
Great Britain’s highest award for
valor, instituted in 1856 by Queen
Victoria.
According to Dr. FJ. McHugh of
Cheshire, England, who is research
ing medical recipients of the V.C.,
the other two are: Ordinary Seaman
William Henry Seeley, who received
it in 1864 and is buried in Massachu
setts, and the Unknown American
Soldier from World War I.
Hutcheson, who was born at
Mount Carmel in 1883 and became a
soldier in 1915, never touted his mil
itary background. But the British re
cords tell a story of almost superhu
man acts of bravery.
Like many Americans in the early
ears of World War I, before the
nited States entered the conflict,
Hutcheson joined the Canadian
armed forces and found himself in a
bloody new world.
It was the day of Kaiser Wilhelm,
Baron Von Richthofen, trenches,
mustard gas and doughboys. Tanks
were replacing horses, and crude
C
“Without hesitation and
with utter disregard of
personal safety, he re
mained on the field until
every wounded man had
been attended to” — Vic
toria Cross citation
awarded to Bellenden S.
Hutcheson.
airplanes were changing forever the
unforgiving face of war.
In August 1918, three years after
leaving home to “make the world
safe for democracy,” the battlefield
physician from southern Illinois was
dodging shells about 80 miles north
of Paris.
It was then that he received the
Military Cross, to be followed a
month later by the Victoria Cross.
“During the mopping up of a vil
lage, he passed through the streets
several times (under heavy fire) at
tending to the wounded,” said Hut
cheson’s citation for the Military
Cross. “He also voluntarily dressed
nearly 100 enemy wounded who had
been left behind.”
British records from 1918 indi
cate that on Sept. 2, Canadian forces
broke a German entrenchment east
of Arras in France. The Germans
fell back to the Hindenburg Line, at
tempted to regain their offensive but
failed, and the Allies eventually be
gan a final drive to victory.
Hutcheson went through the line
with his battalion on that day while
“under intense shell, machine-gun
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“Without hesitation and with utter
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“He dressed the wounds of a se
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