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Chicago Police Launch Great Manhunt For Murderer Of Two Young Girls Erjiitor's nte: Robert T. l.ouchran i Pnlirp eravp riptprtnr fpt Is icuran of 40 years with tnitei Police gave lie detector tests Frei. ami hat mnt most of that time to three men Tuesday night and covennc thiraroi police beat. Hit parlv tnriav . - One of the men, Walter Krantz. a railroad steamfitter. first denied and then admitted past stories include coverage of the ipone era's in( warfare; the post Horid War II stronr-arm and robbery Kancs: and the Suzanne Dernan slav inc. Hhich led to the rapture and con viction of the teen-aged William Uelrens. By ROBERT T. LOUGHHAN United Press Correspondent Chicago (U.Ri Police today launched Chicago's greatest man hunt for the killer of two teen aged sisters in the second vicious slaying of teen-agers to shock this city's millions. The unclothed, frozen bodies of Barbara Grimes, 15, and her sister, Patricia, 13. were found in a muddy ditch Tuesday by a construction worker taking an afternoon drive. It was the second time in 15 months that missing Chicago school children were found mur dered under strikingly similar circumstances. Open House Held at Loan Association About 100 people attended an open house of the Southern Ore gon Production Credit associa tion Saturday at its new office, 1212 Court st. Medford. Previous location of the association was in the Holland hotel building The new office building re cently was completed. Membership of the organiza tion now totals 750 farmers from Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson and Josephine counties, he said. Association board directors from Jackson county are Melvin Lat- tie and Lawrence Luy. . The association moved to the new location Dec. 1. Chest X-Rays Planned For Nursing Homes Chest x-rays for residents of nursing homes in Jackson couiv ty are being provided by the Jackson County Public Health association, according to Mrs. Robert Paris. . director of x-ray for the association. The Medford convalescent home. Rowell home, Gardiner home, Jackson county farm home and Mitchell sanitarium have participated in the pro gram, and plans are underway to complete the program in the near future, she said. Arrange ments were made through Miss Agnes White of the Jackson county welfare commission. The chest x-ray clinic is open to the public every Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. and the first Wednesday evening - of each month from 7 to 9 p.m7"The clinic is at Sacred pital. he telephoned police with a re port the sisters' bodies could be found in Santa Fe Park on the city's southwest outskirts. Their bodies were located only a short distance from the park. Admits Making Call Krantz admitted during the lie detector test that he made the satisfied" with the outcome of anonymous call to police last week, authorities said. He had been questioned last week, but released. However, Krantz denied any knowledge of the crime. Lt. James McMahon said when Krantz was asked how he hap pened to get the idea the girls' bodies were in Santa Fe Park, the steamfitter replied that he "dreamed it." McMahon said he was "not Krantz' lie detector test. The girls disappeared from their homes three days after Christmas when they went to see a movie starring their idol, singer Elvis Presley, for the 11th time. Pending an autopsy today, au thorities said preliminary indi cations were that the girls had been dead about two weeks. The autopsy had to be postponed until today because of the 51st Year Medford Price 10c Tribune -Full leased Wir Six Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY-23, 1957 Second Section V f iWJ A 11 ") t-- . ,. mrf - I - x ' , I MISS SNOW FUN Typist Joleabe Shaw, 22, of San Fran cisco, receives trophy from ski instructor Stein Eriksen after she was named Miss Snow Fun at the Heavenly Valley ski resort near Lake Tahoe, Calif. Eriksen was the 1952 Olympic Games double winner in ski events. Kenisfon Transferred From Medford 55 Office R. K. Keniston, claims repre sentative in the Medford Social Security office, has been pro- Heart hos- moted and transferred to Fres no. Calif., W. V. Nusbaum, dist- trict manager, has announced. Keniston, who has been con nected" with' the'local office for about two years, will be field representative effective Feb. 1 in Fresno. GOVERNOR'S MOUSE Indianapolis (U.R) Among souvenirs Gov. George N. Craig collected during four years in office was a toy mouse. He told newsmen one day that a mouse was living in his office, and quipped: "I feed him because I want to have one friend." As sociates later gave him the toy mouse. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day sisters' crumpled bodies. All Chicago and Cook county law enforcement agencies joined in a unified, all-out effort to solve the crime. Clue Search Hampered Snow, which apparently cov ered the girls' bodies and pre vented their discovery until this week's thaw, again covered the area Tuesday afternoon and night, hampering the search for clues. However, police laid a tarpau lin over' the ground to preserve any possible clues prior to the resumption of their search to day. The entire region was cor doned off and a nightlong guard posted. The frustrating lack of clues was one of the points of similar ity between the slayings of the sisters and the unsolved murder of three schoolboys in October, 1955. The slaying of John Schuess ler, 13, his brother, Anton, 11, and Robert Peterson, 13, touched off a continuing manhunt second only to the present investigation. Only Monday, a group of wealthy Chicago men organized a crime detection institute and pledged a reward of $100,000 for the solution to the Schuessler and Peterson slayings. Leonard Prescott, 39, Hins dale, 111., who spotted the girls' bodies, said at first he thought they were clothing store dum mies. Barbara's body was found ly ing face up on top of her sister's. There were three puncture wounds in Barbara's chest, which appeared to have been made by an ice pick. Patricia's face was battered and bruised. Fear Mass Killer Police threw some 9.000 men into the search, fearing, that a mass killer of children may be loose in Chicago. 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