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.
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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.
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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
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Robeson Passport
Request Turned Down
-Washington (U.R) The
State department has refused to
grant singer Paul Robeson a
passport to attend the Congress
of Soviet Writers meeting in
Moscow next month. '
. A department spokesman said
Robeson's application was
turned down "because it was not
in the national interest." Robe
son has tried unsuccessfully be
fore to obtain a passport for
travel abroad.
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