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CHARRED BODY OF VICTIM is removed by ambulanee attendant from one of two Greyhound
buses which hit headon as they reached crest of hill near Waco, Texas, with loss of at least
28 lives. Injuries to. 24. Tragedy occurred In darkness before dawn. ' (International Soundphoto)
Young Mother Denies Guilt
In Death of Airforce Mate
Munich, Germany U.R) A
pretty teen-aged American mo
ther of two children, her voice
trembling and almost inaudible
pleaded innoncent Wednesday to
the first degree murder of her
Ah Force sergeant - husband.
The U.S. High Commission
District Court ordered pale, slen
der and blonde Mrs. Martha J.
Wage, 19, held for trial opening
Sept. 22 before three American
judges. If convicted, she could
be sent to prison for life.
No Evidence Heard
No evidence was heard at the
brief hearing in a stifling court
room. She was accused of shoot
ing 25-year-old Sgt. Dan P. Wage,
Baldwin, Wis., in - a bedroom
quarrel in their Fuerstenfeld
brucke base billets July 26 aft
er he brought home a German
girl friend.
Mrs. Wage, mother of two in
fants, appeared more composed
than at her tearful preliminary
hearine July 28. She was still
nale but a slash of bright red
lipstick brightened her face. She.
wore a white blouse and a crown
and yellow skirt.
No Sign of Emotion
She was led into the small
court room by a WAC and a
giant military policeman who
dwarfed the petite prisoner.
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She showed no sign of emotion,
her large dark eyes staring al
most trancelike into the distance.
When presiding Judge Leo M.
Goodman asked Mrs. Wage if
she were married, she replied
in a small, trembling voice:
"No. I was. I am a widow."
She shuddered slightly.
"Do you plead guilty or not
guilty?" the judge demanded.
Mrs. Wage's reply was almost
inaudible:
"Not guilty."
Her lawyer, Morton Lang, re
peated the plea of "not guilty"
and asked time to gather wit
nesses.
With fixing of the trial date
for September 22, the brief hear
ing ended.
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Shot From Souvenir
Pistol Kills Boy, 11
: Portland U.R) The acci
dental discharge of a German
P-38 war - souvenir pistol held
by a 13-year-old boy resulted in
death for his 11-year-old play
mate Tuesday afternoon.
Victim of the accidental
shooting was Larry D. Shinn.
Detective John Fraser said the
gun was held by Ronald Lester,
a neighbor of the Shinn boy.
Fraser said the two boys and
another youngster had been
playing with the gun in Lester's
home arid that young Lester had
been told to put it away, as ne
was insertine the cliD back in
the gun, it discharged-. The bul
let struck the Shinn boy m the
right shoulder, pierced his arm
and went through his chest.
Lester was. not held.
Local 4-H Boys
Tour
Attending
Two Rogue valley 4-H bDys
are attending the range tour in
Umatilla National forest from
August 4 to 9, according to R. H.
Cate Jr., county agent in 4-H
work.
, They are Charles Elmore and
Francis Krouse both from Ap
plegate. The boys were selected
to attend the tour from 4-H
members who wrote a letter de
scribing why they wished to at
tend the meeting. They are be
ing sponsored by the Jackson
County Young Farmers club and
the Jackson County Stockmen's
association.
Jackson county is the only
county west of the Cascade
mountains that is represented at
the tour, Cate pointed out. In
struction will be given on out-of-door
subjects, such as hunting
and fishing, woodcraft, plant
identification and principals of
plant growth.
The tour is sponsored by the
northwest section of the Range
Management association. .
La Prensa Ed itors Plan To
Resume Place in Freedom
Court Records
DISTRICT COURT
Jarlr Dw Mvers. overload. $39.
Alvin McKinley Hicks, passing with
insufficient clearance. 15.
CIRCUIT COURT
Lucille Bourne vs. C. O. Bourne,
divorce coirmlaint.
Charles A. Wilcox vs. May Wilcox,
divorce complaint.
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Auto Thieves
Increasing Action
Washington flJ.R) FBI Di
rector J. Edgar Hoover Wednes
day warned car owners that
auto thieves are stepping up
their operations throughout the
nation.
According to local police 're
ports from 381 communities, he
said, .car thefts increased 21.2
per cent in large- cities during
1951. and 15.1 per cent in rural
areas.
He valued the cars stolen at
$95,312,596.
The FBI chief said the racket
is so highly organized that cars
frequently are stolen by "spec
ial order" a car thief is provid
ed by his ring with the particu
lar make, year, model and color
desired.
He said 90 per cent of the
stolen cars are recovered event
ually. Order To Prohibit
Feeder Hog Import
Salem U.R) E. L. Peterson,
state director of agriculture, said
Wednesday his office was pre
paring an order which would
prohibit import of feeder hogs
to Oregon for 30 days.
Purpose of the order, Peterson
said, is to prevent outbreak in
Oregon of vesicular exanthema,
a swine disease. The order, which
New York (U.R) One of
the world's great newspapers
was suppressed on Jan. 26, 1951,
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The
former editors of the expropri
ated La Prensa pledge, in a book
published by the John Day Co.,
that one day ;it will resume its
place in "defense -of freedom."
."Defense of Freedom,'' the
title of the volume, traces the
history of La Prensa from its
founding in 1869 by Dr. Jose C.
Paz to its seizure by the Peron
government in 1951. The book
was originally published in Span
ish last March and now appears
in English' for the first time.
Three men, all members of
the Paz family, guided La Prensa
through its 81-year-history. All
held passionately to the creed
laid down by the founder in his
first editorial:
"We are here to express true
public opmion and not to sub
iect it to our thinking.
Late 1943 saw the beginning
of the end for La Prensa.
The government set up its
ministry of propaganda.
"A .monster is born," report
ed tne editors of La Prensa. It
was to be the "single pen" con
trolling both press and radio.
La Prensa's policy did not
change. In 1946, Dr. Alberto Gi-
anza Paz, successor to Don Eze-
quiel Paz wrote:
"The Argentine nation can
only have one political faith, and
that is democracy; can admit
only one mode of life, and that
is freedom; can accept only one
statute, the one - that provides
constitutional guarantees; and
can progresg only by means of
the fully respected toil of its
sons.
The blow that was to prove the
beginning of the end fell on Jan
25, 1951. The government-spon
sored union of news vendors
served a series of demands on
the newspaper, including one
that it contribute to the union's
social work 20 per cent of the
value of all classified advertise
ments.
Hoodlums Move In
That night hoodlums invaded
the press room while other arm
ed men outside surrounded the
plant.
Without police protection, the
plant closed and the paper did
not publish again.
However, one more scene re
mained to be played out.
La Prensa's hundreds of loyal
employees held a meeting on
Feb. 27, 1951, and voted to go
back to work.
At 2 p.m. on February 28,
they gathered at the mam build
ing for the 10 block walk to the
printmg plant.
They had almost reached the
plant, the story continues, when
the tragic ambush took place.
Not Union Men
"The same mobsters who had
been active before rushed in
from several streets, reinforced
xnis time m iiumueis, maicvu
lence and weapons. They were
not union men, they were pro
fessional thugs. They spread
their ranks at the street corners
and opened fire on the columns
of men and women. The attack
was made without opposition;
there was not a policeman in
sight. They cut off access to the
plant and in a few minutes the
tragedy was completed. A young
La Prensa workman 36 years
old, a father and an exemplary
citizen fell dead, cut down by
the assailants' bullets, and 14
other workmen were wounded.
Violence and bloodshed finally
closed La Prensa where other
measures had failed.
The building and shops of La
Prensa now are used by the Gen
eral Confederation of Labor for
would be effective upon signa
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would allow shipments ot hogs
for immediate slaughter to con
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the publication of a paper by the
same name which, the editor
say, "is not the true and only La
Prensa which defended freedom
and constitutional order during
80 years."
: The Editors of La Prensa
.wrote: ... ...
"Everything material that was
used for. the publication of La
Prensa has passed into other
hands. But that is not the news
paper. The true La Prensa is
an honest popular voice that has
fought for the freedom of the
people independently and fear
lessly! it is a spirit, not a collec
tion of type faces. That spirit is
far beyond the reach of expropri
ation and violence; no human
force can silence it. Freedom al
ways wins the last battle, and
great injustices have never en
dured." -
Wednesday, August 6, 1952
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Meat Price Increase
lips Wholesale Index
i Nev York (U.R) A not
j able rise in meat prices brought
i the wholesale food index to the
highest level of the year in the
week ended Aug. 5, Dun and
Bradstreet, Inc., reported Wed
nesday. Although declines outnumber'
ed advances, the agency report
ed its index at $6.65, a cent
above the previous high of $6.64
set on the first of the year, and
two cents above last week's fig
ure. The current index compares
with $6.95 in the like 1951 week.
Percentagewise, the index
stands 4.3 below a year ago but
11.6 above the pre-Korean mark
of $5.96. v
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Farm Bureau Takes
Stand on 3 Measures
Bend UU.R) Oregon Farm Bu
reau Federation directors, who
ended their quarterly meeting
here Tuesday, took a stand on
three measures to appear on Ore
gon's November ballot.
Marshall Swearingen, presi
dent of the group, said the fed
eration would intervene actively
in the controversial truck tax
fight. He said the group would
support the truck and bus bill
passed by the legislature and re
ferred to the people by long-haul
truckers.
The board opposed the school
district reorganization bill but
went on record as in favor of
the principles of the Oregon
Milk Market Act.
Dead line Sunday Classifieds ts at
noon Saturdays.
Korean Armistice
Negotiations Halted
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
Korean armistice negotiations
were halted Wednesday -.with
only a few Allied and Commu
nist soldiers on guard at this
dusty, deserted village.
United Nations and Commu
nist staff officers stayed at their
bases in Munsan and Kaesong
after agreeing Tuesday on minor
word changes in the proposed
armistice draft.
High-level negotiators will re
sume their recessed talks Mon
day, when they will again tackle
the stalemate over excha i'ing
war prisoners.
Busiest men at the United
Nations base camp were the in
terpreters. They were compar
ing English, Korean and Chinese
versions of the armistice draft.
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