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o Man, Woman Badly Burned in Atfe Torch Murder in Oakland Apartment mpted Oakland, Calif. (U.R) An Oakland waitress and a steel worker were critically burned early today when an intruder apparently slipped into a bed room, poured gasoline over them and set them on fire in an at tempted torch murder. The victims, Mrs. Alice Frank lin, 37, &.d Robert Leo Hand, 27, were in "very critical" con dition at Kaiser Permaente hos pital here, Mrs. Franklin with burns over 90 per cent of her body and Hand with burns cov ering 93 per cent of his body. Police said they were look ing for a man, who formerly went with Mrs. Franklin, for questioning in the gruesome murder ampt. Soaked "Wif Gasoline o Officers said Mrs. Franklin and Hand apparently had been out "on the town" during the evening and arrived at her apart ment at about 2:30 a.m. 0 0 Shortly after they retired to O the bedroom of Mrs. Franklin's three-room apartment the in truder apparently soaked the two sleepers with gasoline and poured quantities of the liquid on the bedclothes, rug and furni ture and then lighted it. A violent explosion rocked the building at about 4 a.m. and a roaring fire followed the blast. Firemen quickly extinguished Welfare Group Asks Teacher Pay Boost Portland (U.R) The welfare committee of the Oregon Educa tion Association called today for an increase in the state's mini mum teacher salaries. , DeVere Taylor of Medford, chairman of the committee, said a floor of S3400 was advocated for teachers with less than a bachelor's degree; S3700 for those with a bachelor's degree and S400 for those with a mas ter's degree. 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WEBCOR-TONY MARTIN SHOW NBC-TV MONDAY NIGHTS BOOKS GIFTS RECORDS the blaze and carried Mrs. Franklin and Hand out a win dow and rushed them to the hos pital. They were given a 50-50 chance to live. Building Damaged Police were unable to explain how the intruder managed to gain entrance to the apartment and pour gasoline on the bed without awakening them. The explosion did an esti mated $1,500 damage to the building. Officers were not clear on Mrs. Franklin's marital status. One report said she was in the process of getting a divorce and another said she was divorced about a year ago. Hand recently was discharged from the Air Force. Tenneson Says Conscience Guided Him To Communists Tokyo (U.R) American turncoat Richard Tenneson said today his conscience guided him to acceptance of Communism in Red China, but "I have betrayed no one." The former soldier from Al den, Minn., stopped over here en route home while his former "hosts" were announcing in Peiping that Mrs. Homer Brad shaw, ailing wife of an Ameri can missinary, will be released Dec. 20. Return Not Explained Tenneson during his brief stopover here failed to explain what made him decide to come home after choosing Commun ism with 22 other Korean war prisoners. He showed no remorse for turning his back on his na tive land. The 22-year-old ex-soldier ap peared happy at being able to spend Christmas at home with his mother, Mrs. Portia Howe. His stopover in Tokyo was brief. A little over an hour after he arrived he left aboard a Northwest Airlines flight for Seattle. Special Care Arranged The Communists said they had arranged special care for Mrs. Bradshaw of New York City during the train trip from Canton to the Hong Kong bor der. The Communists said she was given permission to leave last month but her physical con dition was so poor she was un able to sign her application for an exit permit. Her husband, a Presbyterian missionary, was reported still in a .Canton prison. Both the Brad shaws were on a list of Ameri can prisoners the Reds said they would free. Freezing Rain Falls In Portland Area Portland (U.R) East winds in the Columbia gorge slacked off last night but freezing rain fell in the Portland area at dawn and turned streets into skating rinks. The freezing rain was reported at Bonneville at 4:37 a.m. and at Gresham about 5 a.m. It spread to the Portland area, causing motorists grief during the early morning rush hour. The forecast called for oc casional showers through Fri day with decreasing east winds The wind reached one gust esti mated at 70 miles per hour at Cascade Locks yesterday. Last night the strongest gust reported in the Portland area was 31 miles per hour. Voting Completed in Klamath Pay Boost Klamath Falls (U.R) Voting in the Klamath Falls Weyer haeuser Timber Co. Unit on a 22J2 cent package wage and ben efit increase has been completed by local members of the Interna tional Woodworkers of America (CIO) Union. The ballots will be forwarded to Portland for tabulation next week. The offer affects about 750 men in the Klamath Falls area and some 7,000 in the Wey erhaeuser company. Fly Irritates Farmer; Escapes Bullet Unharmed Salem, N. Y. (U.R) Farmer Herbert Dillon sat on his porch one night to relax with a book and an after-dinner cigar. But a fly kept buzzin' around him. Dillon grabbed a .32 caliber revolver from a stand nearby and took a swat at the fly. The gun went off, leaving Dil lon with a bullet wound in his left thigh. The fly buzzed off without a scratch. Arizona Police Crack Counterfeit Plot in Making Phoenix 'CU.R) Phoenix police disclosed today that two men had been arrested in con nection with an alleged plot to counterfeit "possibly a million dollars" in an office of the Ari zona Highway Department. Capt.Orme Morehead identi fied the two men as David E. Stonehocker, 29, a multilith off set press operator for the High way Department, and William E. Shearer, 26, a salesman for the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. Federal Charges Due He said federal charges of counterfeiting were being pre pared against both men. He said police had been work ing "day and night since the middle of November" on the case. Morehead said that about 100 pounds of "quality bonded paper, enough to print about 3200,000 in counterfeit S10 and S20 bills," had been confiscated. He said of ficers also had' taken possession of "negatives on $10 "and $20 bills." Morehead said police believed no counterfeit money had been printed. Morehead said that police be lieved an office of the Highway Department was to be used for printing the counterfeit bills. Icy Gales Whip Western Europe London (U.R) Icy gales ac companied by torrents of rain lashed Western Europe and the North Atlantic last night and early today, killing at least eight persons. Three persons were reported drowned or dashed to death when the Belgian trawler Beat rix Fernande was driven onto Scotland's rocky coast by 70 mile an hour winds. Three more were drowned in flash floods in Portugal. A British Air Force helicopter crewman was killed and another was "rjresumed dead" when the gale smashed their frail craft into' Bell Rock Lighthouse, 12 miles off Scotland's southeast coast. The Icelandic freighter Tylin rescued the seven-man crew of the sinking Norwegian coastal freighter Spjeroey in a difficult sea rescue operation early today. Catholic Prelate Released by Soviets Berlin (U.R) Russia today released a Roman Catholic pre late who said he was held for 10 years in Soviet prison camps without ever being tried. V l c a r-General Alois Mar- quardt of the Roman Catholic See of Ermland in .the, province of East Prussia, now under Po lish control, arrived in West Berlin today along with 93 other Germans and Austrians freed by the Soviet Union. Marquardt said he was flown to the Soviet Union in 1945 for "interrogation." He said the Rus sians promised to return him within 10 days "but they broke their promises." v He spent the next 10 years in Soviet prison camps although he was never sentenced and the Russians never gave him any reason for his detention, Mar quardt said. PSC Enrollment Increase Expected Portland (U.R) Registrar Howard Impecoven today pre dicted that enrollment at Port land State College will go up 17 to 18 per cent next fall. He said enrollment probably would reach 3200 or 3400. Registration at the new school this year jumped about 19 per cent with a total of 2800. Impecoven reported that be tween 70 and 75 per cent of Portland State freshmen were from Multnomah county. Thursday, December 15, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Use Tribune Want Ads For Best Results! Mir'.: 514 r PRIVATE STOCK at A'o Extra Cost! W 1 Church To Present Christmas Story Here The Christmas story, depict ing the life of Christ in words and music, will be presented by the Medford Seventh Day Ad ventist church Friday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m., at the church, cor ner of Edwards and Beatty sts. Leonard Yost will direct music and narrations will be done by Mrs. Alvy Bowman and Donald Mclvor. Soloists will be Jim Kemp ster, Mrs. H. H. Bresee and Alvy Bowman. Marimba selections will be done by Mrs. Raymond Bresee and a duet furnished by Kempster and Melvin Fellows Other- selections will be sung by the men's quartet and the men's chorus and a woman's sextet. Landing Gear Fails; Passengers Escape Hurts Glasgow, Scotland (U.R) landing gear of a British Euro pean Airways Viscount airliner collapsed on a landing approach Wednesday night and the plane crash landed on a golf course. All 52 persons abroad escaped without injury. The landing gear gave way when the plane touch ed down at Renfrew airport. The plane plunged through a fence and onto the golf course. The island of Timor, shared by Portugal and Indonesia, boasts horsemen who rank with the American cowboy in skill, says the National Geographic Society. They hunt wild water buffaloes with muzzle-loading flintrock guns. On the upland savannas roam sturdy ponies and some of Indonesia's largest herds of cattle. GIRL SCOUTS Jackson Troops Brownie Troops 173 and 135 of Jackson school recently visit ed Severson's Candy shop accom panied by leaders, Mrs. Clifford Poulson, and Mrs. George Turn er. They witnessed candy-making. 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At Dallas, Tex., a re bate of S3, 998 was nearly half the annual premium. Illegal Fisherman Proves Good Sport Washington, Ind. (U.R) -Charles Davis, convicted of il legally "phoning" catfish, prov ed to be a better sport than the fish thought. Davis called at the local'news paper office to compliment the writer of the story about his conviction and to buy five copies of the paper. - "I want to send these to some of 'my relatives," Davis said. "The only thing they left out was that the game warden shot a hole in my boat." Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Milwaukie Bus Driver Easily Bags His Duck Milwaukee flJ.P.) Not many hunters bag their ducks as easily as Otto Lanting, a bus driver. Lanting was on his final run of the night recently when he heard the crash of glass. Stop ping to investigate, he discov ered a duck lodged in the destin ation sign at the front of his bus. 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