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1 'J t .' H-(Scc. II) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fti, Dec. 21, 'Sfl "; ULldliU I dU vuC J UUUiw 0 2 Rich, Old ladies Exhumed I EASTBOURNE. England. Dec 20 i Scotland Yard's murder souad tonight ordered iwedif- fier- to exhume the bodies of two rich old ladies In lonely ceme teries near this Victorian seaside town. i The directive went out after a magistrate's court et Jan. 14 for the trial of Dr. John Bodkin Ad ams on charcet of murderlnt; a Wealthy patient, 11-year-old Mrs. Edith MorreU. a widow, six year 60. A detective testified la court that Dr. Adams on belnf charged re- t plied: l-Murdert Caa you prove it was tturder? I did not think yon could prove murder. She was dying in ar event." ' Scotland Yard detectives said tie exhumations were connected With their Investigation of Dr. Ad ams, a highly respected 57 year old bachelor physician whoe pa tients Include many aged and wealthy people. Just Br lore Cava The exhumations were to take place just before t'awa. tThe bodies for which coroner C. Sommerville ordered the ex hpmations were those of: . Mrs. Julia Bradnum, an 15-year-eld widow who died on May 27. and Miss Clara Neil Miller. Who died at the age ol a In Feb rbsry last year. They were reported to nave been Dr. Adams' patient. J'9 Wills Examined Detectives examined more than j 50 wills of Eastbourne's dead, be fore they arrested Dr. Adams. Before the physician was taken to London's gloomy Brixton Jail t await trial, Detective Supt Her bert Hannam. tile "gentleman de-j Consas City Police Solve I Extortion Try KANSAS CITY, Dec. 20 tfV-An e'-tortion plot against Leonard Mil-r-am. retired vice president of a j .jiuas City grocery chain, was r. ., -ped In the bud by police Vv'ed rVajy with the arrest of an odd j s man. James Clark. M, was arrested as he walked out of a tavera with I.'.. '-ram. r,..;'ram three hours earlier had r.-ceived telephone calls threaten i z death to him and the kidnap i, ? of his grandihild if be did not j v r..v o in old. nnmarked $10 a-vl 0 bills. IV, re aid Clark admitted he J; I called MTam'a home. i j the last of four calls. ?.. :-am asked the man to des i , e a meeting place. He spe t 4 the tavern. j'o'.ice surrounded the tavera v. ! e Kk'ram entered. tl.trk told police he needed the mmipy to send his wife home to t her parents in Stuart, Iowa. teethe." told the magistrates how he srrested Dr. Adams. He said be called at the doc tor's bouse, bowed slightly and said to the portly doctor: "On Nov. 13. 1930 a patient of yourr Mrs. Edith Alice MorreU, died at Mardea Ash, Beachy Head Rosd and you certified the cause of death to be cerebral thrombo sis." Dr. Adams stared at the detec tive through his glasses. "I am now going to arrest you," said the detective, "and take you to the local police headquarters where you will be charged with 18 th Dog Bite Ends Patience MINEOLA. N.Y Dec. 20 Ilk Edward Servea, 42-year-old post man, said in a Supreme Court ac tion Wednesday that be baa beea bitten 1 times by the same dog in the past 11 years. Servea filed a claim for 1100.000 against the dog's owner. The 18tn bite, he said, caused him to fall in shrubbery and permanently in jured his back. Now, he said, he itas to carry his mail in a cart. the murder of Mrs. MorreU. The physician looked astounded. "Murder?'' be asked. "Murder? Can yoa prove it was murder?' "You are now charged with murdering her," said the detec tive. There waa a pause and then Dr. Adams waa quoted as replying: "I did not think you could prove murder. She was dying la any event," Hannam said there was another long pause before the doctor asked: "Will there be any mora charges of murder?" "I cannot discuss that with you now,", the detective said be re plied. . See Yea la Heaven As Dr. Adams followed the de tective, a woman receptionist grabbed Dr. Adams' left hand. Dr. Adams told her "I will see you in heaven." the superintendent re lated. At the police station the doctor aaid: .. "It is better to say nothing." The - prosecution has not re vealed bow it will seek to prove that the doctor murdered his pa tient, or how be is alleged to have killed her. The motive, they Inti mated, was for financial gain. New Missiles Join Europe Defense Unit ROME. Dec. JO IB Europe's bristling atom defense ring has been bolstered by the arrival in Italy of the latest Corporal guided missiles, it was learned Wednes day. The long range surface-to-surface guided weapons can carry either atomic or conventional war heads. They have beea set op by the U.S. SETAF (Southern Euro pean Task Force) command in the strategic region around Vicente, in northern Italy. The Corporal can deliver a knockout atomic tunch to a pia point on the map many miles be yond the range of other weapons so far installed in this segment of NATO's defense ring. Weather and visibility have no effect on the corporal ai it streaks home to Its target at speeds many times that of sound. A SET AT spokesman described the arrival of the Corporal weap ons as part of a routine pattern of the SETAF buildup. The corporal far outranks in firepower the two biggest weapons previously held in this area the new 280mm cannon ar ' the Honest John missile. UN Position Defined DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 20 Oft Hedejl Tamoura, charge d'affaires Lodge Says U.S. Hopes for Disarmament Progress in 1957 By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Dec. 20 liftHenry Cabot Lodge Jr. said today the United States sees hope for progress in disarmament in 19S7. He pledged the United States to take a further initiative for agreement. The chief V. S. delegate told the 12-nation Disarmament Commis sion that the United States will propose a meeting of the five country disarmament subcommls sion next March after the U.N. General Assembly adjourns. The United .States. Soviet Union, Brit ain, France and Canada make up that subcommission. Lodge spoke shortly before the commission unanimously ap proved its report to the Assembly consisting principally of records of the subcommission meetings held during the year. It did not make any recommendations. Disarma ment is slated to come up in the Assembly's Political Committee early in 1957. Meet Vrgeat Prebleas The Commission met at the re quest of the Soviet delegate, Ar kady A. Sobolev. He told the dele gates the Soviet Union considers disarmament the "most funda mental and most urgent problem btfora the U.N.7 r V ' The Soviet Unioa has modified its long-standing oppositioa to ! "open skies" aerial inspection plan made by President Elsen hower at Geneva in 195$. Mos cow announced Its readiness to discuss such Inspection over a belt 1.000 miles wide through Central Europe. The President proposed mutual aerial inspection of the United Slatea and the Soviet Union but the Russians called the idea an intelligence mission. Lodge,' who has been pushing Eisenhower's "open skies" plan at every opportunity, said the United States welcomes "evidence of movement on the part of the Soviet Union toward positions that give greater hope for the sound agreement that is so profoundly In the interest alike of the Soviet Union, of the United States, of the at the Japanese Embassy here, told a news conference Japan will be "a useful and active" member of the Asian-African bloc in the United Nations and will seek es pecially to forge stronger relations with Middle East countries. SURGICAL SUPPORTS Ot AH Kinds, Trasses, """" Abdominal Supports, , Elastic Hosiery Expert Fitters Private Flttiag Rests Ask Year Doctor" Capital Drug Store 405 State Street Ceraer at Liberty ZrfC Green Staanpa members of this commission, and of the world." , . Lookini 1 to the year ahead. Lodge aaid: . "We are aware of the difficul ties. But wo are determined, with sincerity and persistence, to seek agreement. We are ready thought fully to consider proposals of all governments and .we will take further initiative to reach an agreement which would advance the prospects of a Just and last big peace."- i He said nothing about American proposals and neither did Harold E. Stassen, presidential disarma ment advisor, who sat behind Lodge. But U.S. officials recently disclosed the United States has in cluded In Us disarmament plan the control of long-range missiles. E. Ronald Walker of Australia. 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