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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rriday, November 18, 1955 Graham D enies Komosng o er To Collet insurance Denver (U.R) John Gilbert Graham denied in county jail late Thursday that he time-bombed a United Air Lines DC6B and hinted that his mother one of the 44 victims of the crash might have set off the explosive herself in a suicide. In a copyrighted story, Al ICakkula, a Rocky Mountain News reporter, quoted the 23-year-old suspect as saying he signed a written FBI confession because ''they told me they were going to put my wife In jail and I'd better get it straightened out myself." Graham said FBI agents start ed questioning him at about noon last Sunday and "didn't stop until I signed a confession about 4 a.m. the next morning." When asked if he put a "pres ent or a bundle of dynamite" in his mother's luggage, Graham replied: "I didn't put anything in her luggage. I only bought some straps to put around the luggage . . . the hinges on the suitcase were breaking. I don't want to discuss the present." The Nakkula asked: "Did you have a premonition of your mother's death before -you had been formally notified of it?" Mother Called Friends To this question Graham re plied: "I didn't, she had. She called everybody she could think of before she left." Graham said his mother, Mrs. Daisie King, had been ill and was hospitalized twice last sum mer, and was "sort of depressed or nervous since Mr. King died last year." King was the wom an's second husband and Gra ham's step-father. "I don't have any theories as to the cause of the crash or what happened," Graham said when pressd for an explanation con cerning the explosives that rip ped the plane apart in flight and set it hurtling to the ground. Reconstructed parts of the blast-torn plane will be used in Graham's murder trial: He al legedly admitted dynamiting the airliner to collect S37.500 insur ance money on his mother. Graham, who was granted an 11-day stay of arraignment Thursday to secure "adequate counsel," was calm and confi dent when he appeared before District Judge James M. Nolan of Durango. Graham asked Judge Noland for a 30-day stay of arraignment but his request was promptly turned down. Late Thursday, District Attor ney Bert Keating disclosed that he was virtually certain Mrs. King had signed the $37,500 in surance policy and' made her son the beneficiary. The district attorney said Mu tual Omaha, which owned the vending machine from which Mrs. King's policies were pur chased, sent him six policy forms. Two of them, he said, were blank; one apparently was signed by Mrs. King and made out for the $37,500; another was made for the same amount but not signed by Mrs. King, and two were made out to. Mrs. King's sister, Mrs. Helen Smith of St. Genevieve, Mo., and to her daughter, Mrs. Helen Hablutzel of Anchorage, Alaska. Keating . said the company would not pay off on the pol icies mad out to Graham, and had not decided whether to honor the ones made out to the sister and daughter. SEE THE FABULOUS, EXCITING NEW 1956 NOEIGE LAUNDRY MAIDS 1 a m. imm m BACK TO WORK President Eisenhower starts his first day of work in his temporary office in Gettysburg, Pa., as he confers with Secy, of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. Marines Body Found In Ocean Off Tokyo Tokyo (U.R) The body of a marine corporal missing for eight days in a boating acci- Jtalian Education Minister To Visit US Rome (U.R) Education Min ister Paolo Rossi leaves Sunday for an official visit to the United States which Rome newspapers hailed as further evidence of Italy's growing prestige in Amer ica. The visit was arranged by the U.S. State Department and the Boston "Salute to Rome" com mittee. Rossi, 55, will fly to New York and proceed immediately to Washington talks with U.S. ad ministration officials and lead ers of cultural life. dent was found Monday five miles out at sea from the en trance to Tokyo bay, the U. S. Marine Corps announced today. The victim was identified as Corp. Donald D. McGlasson, 27, route 3, Molalla, Ore., one of five U. S. servicemen and three Japanese whose fishing boat overturned Nov. 6. Three of the servicemen and one of the Japanese were res cued. One American still is miss ing and the bodies of two Japa nese, including a woman, have been recovered. Announcement that McGlas son's body was recovered was withheld pending identification and notification of his parents. Statements By Real Division Wi Two Governors Point emiblican Par Lyle C. Wilson Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Two Re publican governors have just been heard from on the subject of the 1956 GOP presiden tial nomina tion. One govern or hopes Mr. E i s e n h o wer will not run again. The other hopes he does. What they had to say adds up to considerable support for the idea that Mr. Eisenhower is the GOP's indispensable man, after all. Governor No. 1 was Utah's J. Bracken Lee. Lee is for Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland of California for the Republican presidential nomination. He said health con siderations should forbid Mr. Ei senhower running again. What he had to say is cited here as evidence of a real divis ion within the Republican Party. He repudiated Eisenhower's for eign and domestic policies, espe cially on ground of failing to re duce government spending suf ficiently. The governor said the Republican administration was conducting give-away programs begun by the Democrats. He wants farm subsidies discon tinued. Magazine Favors Knowland If that is not sufficient evi dence of trouble on the Republi can front, there is the material in a new weekly publication, "The National Review." The first issue laid down strategy by which conservative Republicans hope to nominate Knowland for president. Knowland evidently is will ing. He had a story in the maga zine titled "Peace With Honor," assailing Eisenhower adminis tration foreign policy. He wrote that foreign policy would be a big issue in next year's cam paign. Magazine publisher is William F. Buckley Jr., who with Associate Editor L. Brent Bo zell was co-author of a book de fending Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.). The conservative rebellion against Mr. Eisenhower sparked by Lee, McCarthy, Knowland and others was a political dud after it undertook an organiza tional meeting in Chicago some months ago. Bozell conceded in his strategy discussion that the anti-Eisenhower movement was embalmed until the President's heart attack achieved a miracu lous restoration. All of the foregoing is evi dence of a real party split as well as the division in the Demo cratic Party. The Republican breach would close instantly with announcement that Mr. Ei senhower would be a second term candidate. The right wing would fold. Governor No. 2 Is Fred Hall of Kansas. He told National Re publican Club diners in New York this week that the Repub lican Party is in a bad way for several reasons: 1. Too marfy Republicans op pose Mr. Eisenhower's philos ophy and program. 2. The party is turning away the support of millions of Amer icans, especially those on the farms and in labor unions. Hall said it must get in step HOW ABOUT TARPAULINS Any desired type of canvas covering for any purpose. TeH as your needs. 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