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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.
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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,
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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-
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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. Diplomatic sources in Cairo
have predicted the Commu
nists probably would take
over the Iraqi government in
a matter of weeks if the pro
Moscow drift there is not
stopped.
Aide Said Communist
They said Capt. Wasfi Ta
hir, presidential aide and the
man who allegedly shot pro
Western strong man Nuri es
Said in the July 14 coup d'etat,
was a Communist.
The sources said the Reds
also had infiltrated the Iraqi,
Economics Ministry headed by"
leftists Ibrahim Kubba, the
propaganda, and censorship.,
departments and the high,,
court. 1 -
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