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Sunday. November 28. 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Twelve Men Injured v In Welsh Ship Blast Svansea, Wales (U.R) Twelve men were injured early Satur day in an engine room explosion aboard the docked Norwegian ship ClavsRingdal Jr. ; Svansea: police said three crewmen were missing but that it was possible they spent the night ashore and were not casual ties. . "We have no reports of any crewmen being dead," they said. Dead line for Sunday Clasaified It at noon Saturday. hi-tung FURNITURE STORAGE CONCRETE BUILDING DRY & CLEAN "A Safe Place for Your Household Goods" . Tn in aim Pusan, Korea (U.R) A fire An Army, spokesman said destroyed 75 per cent of the U.S. supply depot in Korea early Sat urday, wiping out stores of food, clothing and supplies needed by American troops in Korea. Army authorities opened an immediate investigation to de termine cause of the blaze which started Friday and raged for seven hours until 200 American and Korean firemen brought it under control Saturday morn ing. - preliminary check showed 12 to 15 huge warehouses destroyed along with a barracks, a mess hall, numerous smaller buildings and stacks of equipment stored outside the building. Twenty neighboring Korean houses also were burned and many more were knocked down by Army bulldozers clearing a fire lane around the installation belonging to the 55th quarter master supply depot. 24- Hua-lein THE . FORMOSA Fire Damages Big US ECorean Supply Depot 1 9 I Swofow I - La 111 MILES 100 -22- 122 REDS TAKE FIRST STEP Swarms of Red Chinese troops invaded the tiny rockbound , island of Wuchui (arrow) in the Communists' first amphibious assault on Chiang Kai- shek's island defense chain. Wuchui, located about midway between Quemoy in the south and Tachen to the north, is a stepping stone to Formosa. Sweetfaced Grandmother in Jail as Poisoning Suspect Tulsa, Okla. U.PJ Detec tives Saturday urged a sweet faced grandmother to tell them whether she brought widow- hood upon herself twice by feeding husbands poison. She has been married four times in 17 years and is a widow now. The grandmother is Mrs. Nan nie Doss, 49, who has buried four husbands in Lexington, N. C, Emporia, Kan., and Tulsa. Police are not sure whether her first husband, Charles Braggs, Is living or dead. Mrs. Doss was arrested Fri day night on suspicion of murd ering her last husband, Sam Doss, 58, a Tulsa highway work er whom she met through a lonely hearts club. Their court ship by mail lasted eight months - and their marriaffe four. Arsenic in aoay He died last Oct. 6 and an autopsy showed the body con tained "enough arsenic to kill a horse." Tulsa police said her third husband, Richard L. Mor ton, Sr., 68, of Emporia, Kan., probably was also poisoned. Mrs. Doss pleasantly denied to the detectives that she knew anything about any of her hus bands being poisoned. But that was about as much as she told them about her affairs. She was somewhat less plea sant with a newsman who -undertook to interview her. "Poor Old Woman" "I'm. just a poor, ugly, fat old woman and I'm in jail," she said. "That's all I have to say. Good bye." She actually seemed to be en joying her interrogation by the police. Her eyes sparkled -mer rily. "She talks a lot, but not about the case," Detective Harry Stege aid. . ' Stege, Agent Wayne Owens of the Kansas Bureau of Investi gation, Agent Ray Page of the Oklahoma Crime bureau and ington, N. C, today to investi gate the case there. They want to find out wheth er her first husband is alive or dead and what happened to her second husband, Arlie Lanning, 54, a childhood friend from An niston, Ala., who married her in 1947. He died five years later and she buried him in Lexing ton. .,' Stege said she had collected a total of $1,400 ia insurance Doss had a $1,500 policy, but she has not tried to collect it. Cosfa Rica 'Alert' In Invasion Threat San Jose, Costa Rica U.R) President Jose Figueres, taking notice of reports planes and truckloads of Legionnaires were en .route here from Honduras, said Friday he is "alert" to repel a possible foreign invasion. Figueres said for : several months "it has been said that several Caribbean countries were preparing to attack Costa Rica." He said the attackers were led by pro-Communists who have been leaving the country for sev eral months. French Fire Dides In Spying Scandal' ; Paris (U.R) Police Inspector Jean Dides, whose arrest was the first disclosure of the spy scan dal involving leaks to the Com munists from the National Se curity Council, has been fired, the Interior Ministry announced Saturday. Dides was suspended from the police force Sept. 22, four, days after counter - espionage . agents arrested him. He was accused by Interior Minister Francois Mitterand of not turning over to his superiors information he Tulsa County-Investigator Ray gathered on ' Communist activi- Billingsley will leave for Lex-'ties French Women Jailed For Stealing Models Paris U.R) Police arrest ed three women Saturday on charges of stealing and selling copies of the closely guarded or iginal models of some of France's leading houses of fashion. The police announcement said half the models of the 1954-55 winter collection of such famed designers as Christian Dior, the late Jacques Fath and Pierre Balmain were copied and sold in France, Spain,. North Africa and South America. The three women , arrested were Mme. Margueritte Bros sard, Mme. Simone'Archambaut and Mme. Pajala Rothstein. The Surete Nationale, advised of the suspected leaks by the Haute Couture Chambre Syndi cal, Conducted a discreet investi gation during which 20 houses were searched and 25 persons questioned. Elizabeth Unhappy Over Choice of Film London U.R) The con servative Daily Express said Saturday Queen Elizabeth II was "displeased" at the choice of "Beau Brummel" for this year's Royal Film perform ance. When the lights went on . after the performance Friday week, the Queen and the Duke, of Edinburgh rose unsmiling and walked out with scarcely a word. The Express said the Duke commented he was "flabber gasted" h the "poor choice" for the Royal Film perform ance. "Beau Brummel" shows one of the queen's ancestors. King George ' III, going mad at Windsor Castle. IKE GOLFING Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower expected to get in more golf Saturday over the Augusta, national course where he is spending a Thanksgiving weexena noiiaay. 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