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Mother of Kidnaper
Of Marcus Baby Says
Punishment Justified
Mira Loma, Calif. U.R) Mrs.
Ruth Berg, mother of Mrs. Betty
Jean Benedicto who kidnaped
baby Robert Marcus from a fan
Francisco hospital, says her
O daughter should be "punished."
"I think she should be pun
ished for doing such a heartless,
cruel thing," Mrs. Berg said,
"Any woman who would do
such a thing to a mother should
be punished."
Mrs. Iftrg called her daughter
a psychopathic liar." She said
ehe did not believe Mrs. Bene-
cncto was suffering from a frus-
trated mother complex as she
claimed because she "had no
normal affection for her own
daughter."
Baby Away
"The courts awarded her the
baby and she gave it away," said
Mrst Berg, who is raising seven
children by another daughter
who died. "I've said for years
that she was suffering from a
mental condition. She's a psycho
pathic liar. She doesn't ever tell
the truth."
Mrs. Benedicto at first claimed
that her first husband was killed
In a motorcycle accident. Mrs.
Berg said that the first marriage
ended in divorce and the hus
band received the child because
Mrs. Benedicto "gave it away."
"Her first husband is a fine
man," Mrs. Berg said tearfully
"He Is. happily married again.
Their little girl is now 12 jears
ola and he is bringing her up.
She s out of the country and
hope and pray that the little girl
never knows who her mother is.
Betty haso brought us nothing
. but sorrow.
No, I won't go to her. And
I hope she won't bother us any
o more."
Spaiion Indicated
Mrs. Benedicto visited her
here about a month ago when
she came to pick up some per
sonal possessions, Mrs. Bere said
Her daughter indicated to her
that she was separating from
her husband, tockton publisher
Marcus Benedicto, Mr. Berg
said.
Mrs. Berg said Mrs. Benedicto
calls her Tuesday night and
aid she and her husband "had a
chance to adopt a baby.
'I told, her to forget about
it, Mrs. Berg said. "I told her
. she wouldn't be ab to take care
of a puppy."
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CONFESSES KIDNAPING
Mrs. Betty Jean Benedicto,
27, wife of Mark B. Bene
dicto, 52-year-old editor of a
Stockton Filipino paper, sits
in Stockton, Calif., police sta
tion after her arrest for kid
naping tiny baby Robert Mar
cus Sept. 19 from Mt. Zion
Hospital in San Francisco.
Court Records
POLICE COURT
Walter Dick Woodcook, violation of
basic rule. $10.
Stella Bundock. violation of basic
rule. $10.
Elsie Maude Goodlin, violation of
basic rule. $10.
Elsie Maude Goodlin. failure to stop
at stop sign. $5.
S. Leon Miller, violation of basic
rule, $10.
DISTRICT COURT
Edward Freeman Hill, failure to
stop at stop sign. $0.
Bobby Regan Thedford. no opera
tor's license. $10.
Jesse Frank Graham, drunk on a
public highway, $15.
Jerry Victor Bianconi. failure to
stop at stop sign. $10.
ioyd M. Yost, overload. $56.
Darold Leroy Hargrove, failure to
operate on right side of highway. $15.
Emery D. Mayberry, overload. $135.
CIRCUIT COURT
Frances Carroll Smith vs. Max Ron
ald Smith,' divorce complaint.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Arthur Lester Welch. 28. of 400 S.E.
"I" St.. Grants Pass anri TWtv Fllon
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Katksrine Cornell
Undergoes Lung Surgery
Boston (U.P,) Veteran actress
Katharine Cornell underwent
lung surgery at New England
Deaconess Hospital today and
her condition was described as
"satisfactory."
A hospital spokesman said the
operation was performed by Dr.
Richard H. Overholt, a thoracic
surgeon.
Overholt said Miss Cornell
was suffering from bronchiechta
sis, a small chronic lung abscess.
Bend Man Dies
As Fire Damages
Home in Portland
Portland U.R) Fred Coffee,
66-year-old Bend resident, died
today when fire gutted the in
terior of a two-story frame house
here. One woman also was
burned.
Coffee, who retired to Bend
a few months ago after selling
his oil burner business here, was
taken from a second story bed
room of the house and was pro
nounced dead at Providence hos
pital. The " house was occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Harris,
their two small sons, and Mrs.
Nancy Anderson an.d her baby.
Mrs. Anderson, who was em
ployed as a baby sitter, suffered
second degree burns on one hand
as she carried her child to safety.
No one else was reported in
jured. Smelled Smoke
The fire was discovered by
Mrs. Harris who smelled smoke
when she got up to answer the
telephone shortly before 6 a.m.
She summoned her husband who
tried to locate source of the
blaze. Soon flames were shooting
toward the roof.
Cause of the blaze was not
determined immediately but one
officer said it may have started
in a first-floor davenport
Coffee, an old friend of Har
ris, had come here from Bend
yesterday, and the two planned
a hunting trip."
SPECIALIST
Groton, Conn. U.R) A sheet
metal worker at General Dyna
mics Corp., Alfred von Buehren,
has a rather exclusive line of
work. He makes lightweight
metal casings to keep cham
pagne bottles from hurting any
one when they are smashed
against submarine bows at
launchings,
DuPont Official
Speaks at Lions
Club-Meeting
Americans have become so ac
customed to industrial miracles
that they are in danger of for
getting what makes them pos
sible, according to Harlan L. P.
Wendell, Pacific district manag
er of the Du Pont company's ex
tension division.
Wendell spoke yesterday at a
meeting of the Medford Lions
club held in the Jackson hotel.
"The danger today," Wendell
said, "is that, in taking for grant
ed the progress we have made,
we may lose touch with the
sources of our national strength
and prosperity. If ever we, as a
nation, come to believe that our
position in the world today is
simply an accident of time, cli
mate and national resources, the
decline of America will be well
advanced. The danger is that we
shall forget that progress must
be continuously created, and
will forget the means by which
America does continuously
create it."
Wendell pointed out that to
maintain and improve the stan
dard of living of a rapidly grow
ing population requires that the
productive capacity of the indi
vidual be increased, and that
this becomes increasingly diffi
cult as the operation of our Am
erican economic system is inter
fered with.
"The productivity of Ameri
can industry has been multiplied
by the magnificent use of tech
nology," he said. "Technology
is simply the system, more high
ly developed in this country
than any other, by which busin
ess management, supported by
the invested money of many peo
pie, organizes . industrial teams
of men and women with skills
in the sciences, in plant design
and construction, in production,
in sales, and human relations.
"Working together they trans
late ideas generated in research
laboratories into new products
or improved manufacturing
methods. By this means they
create new industries, new jobs,
new opportunities for existing
businesses, new wealth for
Everyone."
Arizonan Elected
By lax Administrators
Salem (U.R) William Stan
ford, Arizona tax commissioner,
was elected president of the
Western States Association of
tax administrators yesterday at
the concluding session of the
three-day annual conference
here.
Stanford succeeds Samuel B.
Stewart of the Oregon State Tax
Commission.
MISLEADING NAME
Haviland, Kan. (U.R) Don't
let the name fool you City Mar
shal Truman Roosevelt Higgins
is a Republican. The Truman is
from his grandfather, and the
Roosevelt from Teddy,
NATO Forces Said
Not Strong Enough
To Repulse Attack
Chicago (U.R) Gen. Alfred
M. Gruenther, supreme Allied
commander in Europe, said
NATO forces are not yet strong
enough to beat back a Russian
attack.
But they should be in three or
four years, when German forces
will have become effective,
Gruenther told the closing ses
sion of the American Bankers as
sociation convention Wednesday.
Gruenther warned that the
"effective Soviet smile cam
paign" is currently melting a
"certain fear that acted like a
cement" in binding the free
world together.
The "smile campaign" does
not mean any real change in
Russia's ambitions, Gruenther
said.
The general said Russia has
d75 troop divisions, "the largest
land army in the world," as well
as 20,000 operational planes and
350 submarines.
In another speech, Clarence
Randall charged that some busi
nessmen "sabotage" the free en
terprise system.
Randall, board chairman of
Inland Steel and' a government
economic consultant, attacked
the "man who makes the dis
creet telephone calls to a com
petitor before he puts in the
new price."
Such a man, Randall said,
"has taken an axe and laid it to
the base of the stalwart tree,
free enterprise. The power to
determine prices will never be
allowed to stay long in private
hands . if he persists in that
practice."
Randall wondered whether
such men are not greater ene
mies of free enterprise than Com
munists. He also attacked the
businessman who uses "infinite
ingenuity" to "get money out of
the government and not get
caught at it."
Thursday, September 29. 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIB
TJNE 1
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Marie Dionne Back in Convent
Quebec City (U.R) Quintup
let Marie Dionne, who left the
cloistered life of a novice nun
when the strain made her ill,
was back in the quiet of con
vent life today and planned to
remain there for the rest of her
life.
Marie, now. 21 and one of four
survivors of the "famous five"
whose sister Emilie died last
year, returned secretly to the
monastery of La Congregation
des Servantes du Tres Saint Sac
rament Sept. 12. She originally
entered the order Nov. 3, 1953.
A senior nun at the convent
disclosed Marie's return Wednes
day night. She said the girl who
stayed close to home at Callan
der, Ont., while she was away
from the cloistered Roman Cath
olic order "looked radiant" when
her elder sister accompanied her
back here.
The nun did not say what in
fluenced Marie's decision to re
turn to live with other svomen
who devote their lives to wor
ship and are obliged to spend
their time at praCfer, including
an hour's adoration during the
night
"She just came back,' the
nun said. "She is very happy.
Her health is restored and she
intends to stay."
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