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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZlf iizarre Plot to: Free. log Inmates ::by;;Toituring Tutidaj. February 1, 19SS Siong Details of Scheme Called for Help Of 'Outside' Thugs OssiningN. Y. (U.R) Ward en Wilfred Denno told today of a fantastic plot to free at gun point every felon in the Sing Sing Prison death house by tpr turing the warden's wife. Details of the desperate scheme, disclosed in a copyrighted story by the New York Daily News, called for "outside" thugs to seize Denno and his wife in their home near the prison. The desperadoes then planned to torture and beat the warden's wife and threaten her with death until Denno agreed to help a gunman pass through the prison gates and into the. death house. "The scheme . . . was doomed to failure from the very be ginning," Denno told the United Preaa. A death house inmate, who apparently hoped to receive clemency, told of the plot last summer. However, the conspir acy was not made public until prison officials and detectives conducted a thorough invest gation. The Daily News said the plot centered around the three mur ders of a Reader's Digest , mes senger who are to be executed Feb. 21. The first tip .on the planned mass break came, the News said, from Romulo Rosario, 37, whose record includes arrests for drug peddling, compulsory prostitu tion and murder. The newspaper said Rosario produced a note outlining the escape plan. Handwriting ex perts traced the writing to -an other condemned man, John D. Green, who was later executed. The plot was called off, police believe, after fellow inmates of Rosario became suspicious over his frequent visitors. One-by one, four of the original eight plotters went to the electric chair, the News said. , , Although Denno took all pre cautions to prevent the planned break, he said today that Ro sario may have reported the al leged plot to obtain clemency. PREPAREDNESS Empire, Mich. (U.R) Bias Alonzo didn't take any" chances when he got into an argument with a fellow fruit picker. He called" a Traverse. City ambu lance to come to the orchard where he was working because he thought he would be stabbed, police said. But when the ambu lance arrived, the argument was over and he hadn't been stab bed. : .... W X) HAPPIER DAYS Serge KUDinstein, Russian-born multi millionaire who was found murdered in his swank Fif th-av New York town house, is shoyn with his wife, the former Laurette Kilborn, just prior to their marriage in 1941. They were attending a dinner party given by former pages of the czar of Russia. QUESTIONED Salesgirl Estelle Gardner leaves New York police station after questioning in connection with the slaving of financier Serge Rubinstein. She told police Rubinstein took her night-clubbing. South America boasts many an historic hero with a resound ing Irish name. Bernardo O'Hig- gins liberated Chile. An Irish sailor named William Brown founded the Argentine navy. Si mon Bolivar's chief aids includ ed Daniel Florence O'Leary and Francis Burdett O'Connor. ; Three Sentenced In Contempt Case Portland (U.R) Three Port land men convicted of contempt of Congress received fines and Jail sentences from U. S. District Judge George Boldt of Tacoma yesterday afternoon. Donald Wollam was sentenced to one year in prison and John R. MacKenzie and Herbert Simp son each drew 10 months. All three were fined $250. " The three Portlanders were convicted of improperly refus ing to answer questions before a House un-American Activities Subcommittee hearing here last June. Attorneys for the three im mediately announced they would appeal to the U. S. Court of Ap peals. Judge Boldt freed the men on $1,500 bail. The judge also set Feb. 14 as the tentative date for trial of a fourth man, Thomas G. Moore, of Los Angeles, who is similarly accused. Nicaragua President Lifts 'State of Siege' Managua, Nicaragua (U.R) President Anastasio Somoza lifted a "state of siege" in this country and ended censorship today as part of the national observance of his 59th birthday. Somoza also released a num ber of persons, arrested in con nection with a plot to assassinate him last year, who had been cleared by military authorities investigating the case. NEW! A WORLD OF FULL VISIBILITY! NEM TREMENDOUS ADDITIONAL POWER! NEW AMERICA'S SMARTEST TWO-TONING! AND NO NCREASE W FRCESf TH1 ULTIMA WI 8TA: Built by Sfudebalcer-Packard Corporation world's 4th largest full-line producer of cars and trucks Now here! Breath-taking Ultra Vista models a far-advanced addi tional line of 1955 Studebakers! Enormously increased visibility! Excitingly stepped up power! 185 h.p. President V-8! 162 h.p. Com mander V-8! 101 h.p. Champion 61 Sweeping new two-tone color effects! No premium to pay! No increase in Studebaker's low-level competitive prices! Come in. 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James, of Warwick, Va., has been dismissed from the service and sentenced to five years' imprisonment for theft and illegal currency deal ings. A court martial found James guilty of stealing a truckload of U. S. Army lumber, selling post exchange goods on the black market and obtaining military scrip and Korean currency from "unauthorized sources." Dead line Sunday Classifled 1s at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday Burglar Working In the Wrong Block Chicago (U.R) Clarence Pheonix, 43, broke into a cur rency exchange and tripped a burglar alarm when he began work on tha safe. The alarm stalled police squads on their way to the exchange and Pheonix heard: lhem on a police radio he car ried. Unworried, he ccntinued .to work. Suddenly, he looked up to face police with drawn guns. "I thought I was in the next block," he told them sadly.' Food Requirements in Liquor Outlets Asked Salem (U.R) William H. Baillie, state liquor control ad ministrator, has asked for legis lation to set minimum food re quirements in establishments serving alcoholic beverages. Baillie's request f or .authority to prevent liquor establishments from becoming "nothing more than the old time saloon" was presented to the Senate Alco holic Traffic Committee, which agreed to introduce the proposal. Other liquor commission pro posals would amend the liquor code to prohibit the serving of liquor to persons under 21 years of age, and would permit issuing liquor licenses to airlines. The code amendment was in spired by a recent interpreta tion that a person under 21 who is married is deemed to have at tained his or her majority. McKay's Car Used By Hero's Family Washington (U.R) The fam ily of the late Ira Hayes, one of the heroes of the Iwo Jima flag raising, called on Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay to day and got a surprise. . The family, here for the fu neral of the Pima Indian hero, was given the use of McKay's chauffeur-driven gover n m e n t limousine for a sight seeing tour of Washington. Hayes, who was found dead in Arizona last week -of expos ure, will be buried with full military honors at Arlington Na tional Cemetery tomorrow. McKay who, as secretary of interior is head of Indian affairs, expressed his sympathy to the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Hayes of Bapchule, Ariz., and their three other sons. Associated Dealers See Gasoline TV Show . Tidewater Associated oil deal ers of this area gathered at the Jackson hotel last night to get information on a new gasoline now being marketed by the com pany. The new . product is on sale today. 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