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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1958)
r Authorities Launch Intensive Hunt for Woman in California Santa Barbara, Calif.- OD -Authorities today launched an intensive search for the body of Mrs. Olga Duncan, 30, whose mother-in-law has ad mitted impersonating her in order to dissolve the young woman's marriage. "We have gTave suspicions that Mrs. Duncan has met with foul play," District At torney Vern Thomas said, Olga disappeared Nov. 17 less than six months after marry ing attorney Frank Duncan. Search for the pretty young nurse, who was expecting a child in January, was spread to a wider area when police disclosed a missing persons re port showed several pieces of Chemist Held on Murder Charge As Student Slain Berkeley, Calif. - (UPD - A brilliant young chemist was held on a murder charge to day in the University of Cali fornia campus laboratory slaying of a German exchange student he said was his wife's lover. John W. Hampton, 31, who was graduated from the uni versity with top honors in 1951, told police he shot and killed Wolfgang Ludwig Marx, 26, of Herrnhut, Saxony, Ger many, early Tuesday because "he was my wife's lover." Couldn't Stand It "I loved Madeline and couldn't stand it any more," police quoted Hampton as say ing. This thing was driving me crazy." Hampton, said he had stalked Marx without success for two days before he final ly shot him without a word early Tuesday. Hampton's pretty German born blonde wife, Madeleine, 29, was taken to the home of friends and was given seda tives. She has three children. Hampton told police that Marx formerly lived with them. "It was my wife's idea to invite an exchange student into our home," police quoted him as saying. "Soon after he arrived in 1956, an affair began between Marx and my wife. They Staried Again "My wife confessed it to me. Marx left our home and went into the Army. But when he came back to Berkeley in Sep tember, they started again. So I decided to shoot him." Two days ago, he said, his wife told him she wanted a divorce. Hampton said that after drinking four or five martinis Monday night, he took a .22 caliber automatic pistol and went looking for Marx on the campus. He found him work ing in a physics laboratory. luggage were gone from her apartment. The mother-in-law,' Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan. 54. was held on 550,000 bail for traveling to nearby Ventura ill August with an unidenti fied man to have her sons marriage annulled. Duncan is representing his mother in the criminal pro ceedings, scheduled to get un der way late today. Ventura District Attorney Roy Gustafson late Tuesday night said Mrs. Duncan ad mitted paying a stranger $60 to pose as her son while she posed as Olga. They obtained an annulment of the marriage on the grounds that it had not been consummated. Two Men Arc Held She was arrested last Satur day when authorities said they learned of the confessed impersonation. Two men, Luis Estrada Moya, Santa Barbara, and Augustine B a 1 d o n a d o, 25, Camarillo, Calif., were held in connection with Olga's dis appearance, but police and FBI agents who entered the case on the assumption that Olga might have been kid naped, said no charges have been filed against the men. Part of the search for the attractive nurse from Canada has taken place in a construc tion area near San Julian about 30 miles north of here where the men formerly worked on a ranch. Olgas father, Elias Kup- 4-H Club News Antelope 4H The Antelope 4H Sewing and cooking club met Dec. 6 at the home of Charlotte Busk in Central Point. The Sewing club was called to order by President Nyla Murray. It was moved and seconded that we deliver door pieces to a rest home in Cen tral Point. The Cooking Club was call ed to order by President Kar en Jossy. The annual Christ mas party was held at the home of Jenifer Nevin Dec. 16. The next meeting will be held at the Geren home Jan. 3. West Side Blockers The West Side Blockers 4H club held a meeting Saturday, Dec. 6, at the home of Doug Moore. The members dis cussed the mistakes they had made on last year's record books, -and how they could' improve them. Plans for the year were dis cussed. These plans include tours and demonstrations. Craig Wright and Marsh Wat son, junior leaders, showed some slides. The next meet ing will be at the home of Bonine and Mary Cheney Jan. 3. Marsha Watson, Reporter. OWN REV MAJKX1V POTABLE STEK(WTH0PfWmC HIGH FIDBJTT"V1CTR0U" THE MARK XIV. lift-A woy Spaokar-UI contoint left channel tpeoker sytrem. 4 speakers 2 in Victroia," 2 in remov able lid. New Hiving Stereo tone arm. Charcoal Gray 'White simulated Ujllnr. (Model SHP144 You simply place the speaker-nd 8 feet away and you can thrill to True Stereo! Music so lifelike the musicians seem to surround you! All from this one compact system! ID COMTMNS SECOND SPEAKER SYSTEM Plays new stereo records and all others, too. Lightweight and portable New 2-in-l amplifier k Handsome luggage ease :ome in and near it loaayi oka cyzk, a section foreman of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Benito. Manitoba, said letters from Olga after her marriage complained that her mother-in-law came to her apartment "and reviled her every time her husband was at work." "She told us she was afraid of her (Mrs. Duncan) and then only two weeks after she was married she wrote us that she could not take it any longer and that she had separated from her husband." Feared for Her Life A landlady at the apart ment where Olga lived after the separation said Olga's estranged husband continued to visit her and often stayed all night. The landlady, who asked reporters not to use her name, said Olga told her she was deathly afraid of her. mother-in-law and feared for her life. "Then one day in Novem ber, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan came looking for Olga," the landlady said. "She wasn't home so she came into my apartment. She was raving. She told me she'd kill her if it was the last thing she'd do." The last time Olga was seen by the landlady was the night of Nov. 17. The next morning, MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Ore., Wednesday, December 17, 1958 5. Fall of Iraq To Communists Feared By Mideast Experts Washington (CPO Govern ment officials, anxiously scan ning reports from the Middle East, said today that it is touch-and-go whether Iraq's beleaguered government will fall captive to the Communist forces which support it. Officials were convinced Roundtree, assistant secretary of state, on Monday. They were awaiting Roundtree's first hand report on the situ ation in the Middle East. Preceded by Rioting Officials here disclosed that Roundtree's arrival in Bagh dad was preceded by rioting in Basra in southern Iraq, near the Persian Gulf. In Bei rut, official sources reported that armored cars and air craft were employed in fight ing around a former rebel strations against William M. that Communist elements in Baghdad planned the demon stronghold in central Leba non, j However, the Iraqi govern ment of Premier Abdel Karim when Olga failed to report to work at St. Francis hospital, the landlady entered her rooms and found all the lights on, the bed covers pulled down and all of her clothing intact. Her night gown and robe apparently were missing. Kassem was the principal sub ject of concern for Middle Portland Man Escapes Flames Portland (UPD - James C. Haggerty, 77, escaped with minor burns and cuts early today when a gas explosion and flash fire wrecked his home in east. Portland. Police and firemen said Haggerty might have been critically or even fatally in jured if he had not been in bed asleep. They said a per son standing in the house might have been blown through a window by the blast, which occurred shfcrtly after 2 a.m. One neighbor, across the street called police and an other neighbor, John M. Raser, ran to the Haggerty home. He found the elderly man staggering in a dazed condition, bleeding from head cuts and suffering from burns to the face and hands. Cause of the blast was not determine d immediately. Haggerty was taken to Providence hospital where his candition later was reported good. East experts today. Kassem's government, born in the re volt of July 14, has been be- Mount Olympus in the northeast part of Washington has up to 250 inches of precip itation, mostly snow, each year. set from the beginning by pressures from the Commu nists and from the supporters of President Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Repub lic. 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