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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1955)
EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 15, 1955 117 S. CENTRAL s. - FREE- COUPON CO $!0 doi ' errns. otor .Term. ' Christmas. Seals will keep 70U eafa from tuberculosis, says Hol lywood star Dorothy McGuire In a special TV film to be shown throughout the country during the current Christmas Seal Sale of the tuberculosis associations. Confessed Slayer Gf Woman To Face Additional Charges San Francisco flj.R) A 30- year-old ex-convict, who casually admitted the kidnap-slaying of a Kansas City, Mo., housewife, faced today still other charges of attempted murder, kidnaping, rape, burglary and car theft. The suspect, Arthur Ross Brown, had vowed never to be taken alive. He was arrested yes terday without a struggle when FBI agents and police found him asleep in a stolen car with two loaded pistols at his feet. An 'FBI agent testified at a bail hearing yesterday that the stocky, blond ex-convict admit ted the kidnap-slaying of Wilma Allen, the attractive 34-year-old wife of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer last Aug. 4. Held on Bond U. S. Commissioner Joseph Karesh ordered Brown held on $100,000 bond pending action by Kansas City authorities. He was held on a charge of transporting a stolen car across the state lines. Mrs. Allen's nude body was found in a field 25 miles from Kansas City three days after she disappeared from a fashionable shopping area. She had been shot twice in the back of the bead. The FBI said Brown confess ed he forced his way into Mrs. Allen's car and made her drive out of town where he killed her and dumped her body in a field. He drove the blood-spattered car back to Kansas City and adban doned it near the Union Station. Intensive Police Hunt The murder of Mrs. Allen, a mother of two boys, ages nine and eleven, touched off the most G intensive Kansas City police hunt since the kidnap-slaying of Bob by Greenlease in 1953. Federal authorities said Brown was also wanted for investiga tion of burglary, attempted mur der and assault in Sheridan, Wyo. for the kidnaping of his own Qwife in Kansas City, and a rape-, burglary in San Jose, Calif. Nun Plans To Take Plea Before Pope London U.R) A penniless nun planned today to appeal to the Pope against a British court's rejection of her claim for damages from her mother supe rior and a nursing home on the ground they falsely imprisoned her. Sister Priscilla, 57, whose real name is Margaret McCann, said she had twice written Pope Pius XII but "I don't know if my let ters ever got there." Sister Priscilla charged that she had been assaulted and im prisoned bv Mother Plascidus local superior of the Order of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth at Hammersmith. She further charged that she was imprisoned and assaulted at St. Joseph's nursing home, whose trustees include Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Catholic Pri mate tf England. Search Continues For Newport Hunter Newport, Ore. (U.PJ --Search continued today for a 30-year- old hunter reported missing in the Kings Valley area since last Thursday. The hunter was identified as Jerald Powe, who lives eight miles east of Toledo. Benton County Sheriff, C. N. Lilly said a thorough search of the Kings Valley region showed no sign of Powe or his automo bile. Lilly said he may have changed his mind and gone hunt ing somewhere else. Hi'lskoro Sheriff Suffers Heart Attack Hillsboro 01.F.) Sheriff Rich ard H. Busch. 57, was in critical condition today from a heart at tack suffered shortly before mid night Sunday. 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