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n in TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, December 5, 1954 Mail Checks Alarming To Senators; FBI Man Says They re Routine Washington U.R) Senators were alarmed Saturday over dis closures that government investi gators have sometimes run "mail checks" on private citizens and even a member of the Senate it self. But Paul J. Cotter, an ace con gressional investigator and a for mer FBI agent, said a "mail cover"., is a routine method of investigation.. Many Requesis He said the post office fre quently makes mail checks on a secret basis for law enforcement agencies. The department has a book of requests about a foot high for such "covers," Cotter said. A mail cover is a check of incoming letters by the post of fice to determine by post marks and return addresses who is cor responding with a person under Slayer Self-Confessed of Four - Writes Memoirs Tulsa, Okla. U.R) Gentle faced Nannie Doss, who con fessed poisoning four husbands and once fancied herself to have a touch with an epitaph, is writ ing her memoirs for a maga zine. One of her court-appointed lawyers said Saturday that Mrs. Doss, 49, hopes to get enough money for the article from the magazine (Life) to hire psych iatrists to prove she was crazy when she killed the husbands with rat poison. -Suspect in 11 Deaths If she can prove in court she was crazy, she can escape the electric . chair. She is suspected of murdering a total of 11 per sons: Her parents, two sisters, two daughters and a step-grandson, in addition to the husbands. Relatives of the pink-cheeked Mrs. Doss told authorities in Lexington, N.C., that she was fond of composing epitaphs. . The inscription she wrote for the tombstone of husband No. 3, Frank Lanning of Lexington, whom she poisoned in 1952, said "We Will Meet Again." Married Five Times She had "God be With You Til We Meet Again" chisled into the headstone of husband Frank Harrelson, who was - buried in Alabama. She was married five times. Her first husband, Charlie Braggs, divorced her because he was afraid of her and survived. Traces of arsenic were found In her mother's body, but she denied poisoning her mother. investigation. The mail is not opened or read. Senate concern over mail cov ers developed earlier this week when Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) said a check was made on his mail during Senate Elec tions sub-committee investiga tion of his finances in 1951-52. McCarthy charged that someone forged the name of a senator to the request for the mail cover. Blamed Gillette McCarthy originally blamed Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D-Iowa), onetime chairman of the Elec tions subcommittee, for order ing the mail check and on the eve of the recent elections, ac cused Gillette of a "flagrant vio lation" of law in taking such action. Gillette was defeated for re-election by Rep. Thomas E. Martin (R-Iowa). - But testimony released Friday by a special two-man committee which investigated use of the mail cover against McCarthy dis closed that McCarthy admitted he made "mistake" in accusing Gillette. Gillette had resigned as subcommittee chairman be fore the. request for the mail cover was made. The special committee, com posed of Sens. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) and Walter F. .George (R-Go.), said the requests for the mail cover were signed by a rub ber stamp bearing the signature of Sen. Thomas E. Hennings CD Mo.) who succeeded Gillette as subcommittee chairman.. But Ferguson and George said no senator ever authorized the mail cover and that it could not be determined who stamped Hennings' signature to the mail check requests.. Ike Congratulates Watkins On Job With Censure Group Washington (U.R) The White House said Saturday that President Eisenhower personally congratulated Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) "on the very splendid job he did" as chairman of the -McCarthy censure committee. Press Secretary James C. Haggerty told reporters or tne con gratulations following a White House call by Watkins. Reflects Respect , ."He. told. the Senator he thought he' had handled a difficult and tough assignment with a great deal of dignity which reflected the respect the people of the country have for the Senate of the United States," Hagerty said. Watkins also talked with reporters after a 45-minute visit with Mr. Eisenhower. He said he told the President a great load had been lifted from his shoulders. : " 1 "I feel good this morning," the Senator said. "I feel consid erably younger, even though I may not look it." . Sees No Split Watkins said he did not believe the vote to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy would cause any permanent split in the Re publican party. . . Watkins said the Senate next year should adopt four rules changes recommended earlier by the censure committee but over looked in the furor over reprimanding McCarthy. Watkins said he tried to call the proposals to the Senate's attention but was not recognized in the rush to adjourn the special session Thurs day night. See Story Page 1) TWO ARRESTED . San Jose, Calif. U.R) Two men beat and robbed a gas sta tion attendant Saturday and an hour later two Stanislaus county brothers were arrested at an Alameda county, sheriff's road block in connection with the crime. Wayne Thomas, 26, and his brother, Donald, 17 both of Patterson, were taken into cus tody at Niles and jailed here on robbery, charges, Montgomery Receives Rebuke from Commies Missing Yacht Believed Safe Tokyo U.R) An American yachting expert said Saturday the "missing" American yacht Phoenix probably is struggling against southerly winds near Midway- island while the Jar anese Coast Guard is searching lor u aiong tne coast of Japan George Folster, a National T a a uroaacasxmg company corre spondent who crossed the Pacif ic m his own yacht two years ago, discounted concern over the disappearance - of the Phoe nix and said it may be encount ering trouble in leaving the pre vailing west winds and heading toward Hawaii. "It is easier to sail from Tok yo to San Francisco than from Tokyo to Hawaii," Folster said. The small vessel, carrying an thropologist Earle Reynolds, his wife Barbara, their two children and a crew of three Japanese university students, sailed Oct. 28 on a cruise to Honolulu. Davies Fears Gag inform Agreement For Separation Washington (U.R) John Paton Davies, Jr., ousted State Department officer, said Satur day that because of fear of a "gag" he has not picked up some $17,000 due him from the government. Davies said that in order to collect back pay and pension allowances he would have to sign a "separation" agreement with the department. This "form" agreement, he said, may prevent him from speaking out onr his case and other national issues. . Davies said the form agree ment which he would have to sign states that he has neither classified (secret) or unclassified material. Fears Gag Davies, fired as a security risk on grounds he lacked judgment, discretion and reli ability," said he feared that the paper "might be a gag." "I have no classified material" he told a reporter. But he said he thought the form agreement covering unclassified informa tion was "rather sweeping" and went beyond "the needs of na tional security." He said he is waiting to find out what the paper meant be fore he signed it to get his back pay and accumulated pension contributions. Moscow (U.R) Marshal Alex ander Vasilevsky sharply re buked British Field Marshal Vis count Montgomery Saturday for his recent statements on atomic warfare and warned that "you are playing with fire." Vasilevsky, writing in the of ficial Communist organ Pravda, bitterly attacked Montgomery for his "insistent appeals to un loose atomic warfare" and for "appealing to the Americans command to tell the Russians that 'we will give them the works. " "A well known proverb says 'who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind," Vasilevsky wrote. "I would not advise you, Field Marshal Montgomery, to take the role of a sower of atomic war." "Brains" of Victory Vasilevsky, now deputy min ister of defense, was appointed chief of the Russian General Staff in April, 1943, and was once called the brains behind the Russian victories of World War II. Montgomery, in a speech at Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 29, said the free world should be ready to use nuclear weapons if nec essary "even in small local wars" and suggested the allied politi cal leaders warn Russia "we will give them the works" in event of aggression. . "This flair for weapons of mass annihilation has taken such an insistent character in Mont- omery that some Englishmen have begun to ask themselves whether Field Marshal Mont gomery is suffering from atomic psychosis," Vasilevsky wrote. "When a British field marshal who has to understand clearly the horrors of this war especially f or such countries as England appeals for atomic war it is not simply senselessness but some thing worse. . "We, Field Marshall Mont gomery are a military people. We know what war is like and have now a clear idea of the destructive power of atomic and hydrogen weapons and the hor rible consequences of an atomic war." As for giving Russia the works, Vasilevsky said, there is a difference between the "desire to 'give the works' to others and the possibility of attaining it." "I could remind you, Field Marshal Montgomery," he said, "that the Russians are capable of 'giving the works' to all at tempting to disturb their peace ful labor." . Grofewohl Says Red China Promised Aid Berlin U.R) East German Premier Otto Grotewohl said Saturday Communist China promised at the Moscow Secur ity conference to fight side by side with the Soviet Union if war breaks out in Europe. Grotewohl told a press con ference the Chinese Commun ist observer informed the Mos cow meeting nis country win extend its 1950 friendship pact with the Soviet Union to cover European events. According to Grotewohl, ob server Chang Wen-Tien; said Red China decided to put this treaty in force if the Soviet needs help' in Europe. The East German Premier called this a "very, very impor tant" result of the conference. He advised the Western powers to consider this Chinese pledge before they ratify the Paris agreements to rearm West Ger many. ' ' ' . TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES ; Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100 CHILD KILLED Sacramento U.R) A nine year-old girl was killed and two other bystanders were seriously injured when one of two cars mvolved in an intersection ac cident jumped the curb and ran them down Saturday. Angelina Huizar, 9, was killed after be ing dragged more than 30 feet by one of the cars. Aurora Pul- ldo, 12, a playmate, and Mrs, Felippe Guarjardo, were injured Dead line Sunday Classified li at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for monaay: otner days 5:30 previous day. 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