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8 Thursday, Marefi 5, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon Mrs. Duncan Denies Seeking Slayer for Girl Ventura, Calif. (UPD The worst "crime" matronly Eli zabeth Duncan would admit today was refusing to cut the apron strings that bound her 30-year-old son, Frank. She denied she had bar gained for the death of his pregnant wife, Olga, mur dered by Louis Moya, 22, and Augustine Baldonado, 25, last November. They said the defendant of fered them $6,000 to kill Olga, but she said they were black mailing her. Following the completion of direct examination today by defense attonrey S. Ward Sul livan, Mrs. Duncan faced a session with prosecutor Roy Gustafson. Cross-Examination The tall, calculating prose cutor, an outspoken supporter of an eye for an eye punish ment, was expected to relent lessly cross-examine the 54-year-old matron. In testimony so far in the trial, Mrs. Duncan has been sketched as a conniving, ob sessively jealous mother who "shopped" for killers to mur der her daughter-in-law, a Canadian-born nurse. From more than a half doz en persons, Gustafson drew : testimony that Mrs. Duncan had sought to hire someone to kill Olga. Taking the witness stand Wednesday in the opening day of her defense, she denied all the stories, one by one. As Sullivan went over the testimony of 19-y ear-old Diane Romero and her husband, Ruby; Mrs. Emma Short, 84; Ralph Wintestein, 26; Rebecca Diaz; Esperanza Esquivel and the confessed killers, Moya and Baldonado, Mrs. Duncan said: "No, of course I didn't say that. No, I didn't. No. No. No." Admits Dislike for Victim Mrs. Duncan admitted she didn't like Olga, either as a prospective daughter-in-law or as her son's wife. She said she once had Frank's car locked up so the nurse couldn't drive it. "Did you resent Olga?" Sul livan asked. She broke into tears and sobbed, "I just know I wanted him home. I didn't resent her so much. I just wanted him home. I didn't object to her having him. I just wanted him home." Earlier, she said she had called Olga on the telephone and objected to her associa tion with Frank. "I accused her of sleeping with him at night," she said, "and she admitted it." Then, she said, she dis approved of any woman who would stay with men at night when they were not married. Truman Swings At Newspapers, Time Magazine Columbia, Mo. - (UPD - For mer President Harry S. Tru man took healthy swings at newspapers in general and Time magazine in particular Wednesday night. , He spoke at a banquet closing the three-day Press Congress of the World at the University of Missouri. "I don't know what a free press is - I have never seen one," the former President said. "I want to be a tele graph editor or one of those blue pencil men. Then could get what I wanted in the papers." Earlier, Jose Dutriz, editor of La Prensa Grafica of San Salvador, sent a cable to the congress accusing Time mag azine of an "unethical atti tude" in publishing material which led to a riot in Bo livia. . Hem Regretted Dutriz asked the congress "to deliver an exposition of those unethical practices of journalism and condemn Time's editors." Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of Time, . said he re gretted that an item in his publication had been the oc casion for anti-American vio lence and said the story was a "factual analysis of Bolivia's economic difficulties." The congress took no ac tion. But Truman remarked: "What a nice thing it is to have Mr. Clare Boothe Luce in the grease in Bolivia. He spent a lot of time trying to put me in the grease but never succeeded." William F. Harden estab lished America's first express service in 1839. 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