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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1959)
Authenticity off lllpgeiil : M Masterpieces . ..Challenge 0 Harden, Ariz., had agreed in advance to accept te deci sion in Utah. Oregon Mercury Readings Higher; More Rain Seen By United Press International Mild temperatures and at least a temporary halt to heavy rain highlighted Ore gon's weather picture today. A new Pacific front was expected to bring more rain to the northwest part of the state Tuesday. Astoria got 1.85 inches of rain, during the 24-hour per iod ending at 4.30 a.m. and Newport had 1.68. Inland Portland had 76 and Salem .56. The brunt of the latest storm hit in western Wash ington where slides, bridge washouts and high water was reported. No .Major Roads Closed State police said no major road closures were reported in Oregon. The weather bureau . pre dicted slight to moderate rises in the lower reaches of principal Willamette river tributaries today. The San tiam river at Jefferson rose 4.5 feet in 25 hours and was about a foot and half under flood stage this morning. The weather man said at 9 am., today a high pressure ridge should force the storm track north of Oregon for 36 to 48 hours. However, the air mass remaining over the state is so moist that any substan tial clearing during the night would be followed by fog in a few hours. 2 Reporters Join Mail Tribune Staff - Two reporters have joined the Mail Tribune's news staff in recent days.- . . Greg Nokes has been as signed to the city hall beat, covering city of Medford af fairs, as well as other assign ments of a general news na ture. He succeeds Eric Went- worth in the post. Wentworth is now a reporter for the Portland Oregonian. . Robert Walters, who joined the staff this week, has been assigned to supervise and edit the news from the area of the Mail Tribune's cover age outside of Medford. Nokes is a 1959 graduate of Willamette university in Sa lem. He is married and the father of a baby daughter. , Walters has worked- pre viously for the Eureka, Calif., newspapers, and an English language publication in To kyo, Japan. He is unmarried. SNAKES FOR IRELAND Washington -flJPD- Officials of, the Washington Zoo admit they don't know what St. Patrick would think of their latest project. The '.Washing ton Zoo has a surplus of snakes, and is shipping the extra reptiles ' to the Dublin, Ireland, zoo. 1 1V.Tvnvr-i Regional Edition RIBUNE Page 2 Electronics Pace Firm Stock Ma rke t New York-CPD-Strength in leading electronics, paced a firm and moderately active stock market today. i Zenith featured in its group with a gain of nearly 1 Mother Held on Charge of Murder Oregon City -UPD- A young mother of three children was held on a first degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting early today of her husband, Sheriff Joe Shobe reported. " . ' .. The victim was Travis Bar nett, 24. Being held in the county jail here was Char lotte Barnett, also 24. Shobe said Barnett had been shot once through the neck with a hunting rifle. He said the sheriffs office got the call about 1:45 a.m. after the woman had called authori ties in Portland to report the shooting. He said she blamed marital difficulties. The couple's three small children were taken to the women's protective division in Portland. The couple lived near Port land, just over the Clackamas county line. 5. IBM and Motorola padded more than 2 each, and Varian tacked on more than a point. Ampex lost more than 4 on profit taking after a 12-point run-up Friday. Texas Instru ments lost around 2. Universal Controls, listed on the American Stock Ex change, rose Va to 21. The steels, which rose and fell as hope of a steel settle ment waxed or waned last week, continued to labor un der the steel uncertainty. Bethlehem and U.S.. Steel while Youngstown eased. Thiokol rocket fuel was strong in its section rising more than 2 points. Minnesota Mining, a feature last week, advanced more than 3. Ritter dropped more than 2 and Revlon more than 1. The autos were mxed. Correcton Given in Auto Accident Story . Kathryn Asher, 5923 Har ris rd., Central Point, was cited by city police for failure to yield right of way, as the result of an accident last Thursday on Table Rock rd, The Mail Tribune earlier reported that Ruth Mary Knutzen, Jacksonville, the operator of the other auto, had received the citation. J; I. 7 if'1.' ' " v , it.', , v jut , V t .7 t CLAIMS CRUELTY Mike Zimmerman, 21, of San Diego claims he was beaten severely by, Mexican police while being held in the Tijuana, Mexico jail. The junior college student was arrested last weekend along with Delores Mary Cavallaro, 23, daughter of bandleader Carmen Cav allaro. They were picked up on a narcotics charge. 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Believed Merely Copy ; Father Bellucci said after seeing photographs of the California painting that he be lieved it was merely a copy of a painting which has been in the gallery of the Jeroal mine Friars in Naples for 300 years. Even the original, he said, is not by Caravaggio. The painting whose authen ticity Father Bellucci chal lenged was one of 10 found in the home of TV repairman Alfonso Folio in Pasadena. The paintings were describ ed in Hollywood reports as ancient Italian masterpieces worth anywhere from $8 to $10 million. Zlatoff-Mirsky said one of them was "Madda lena" (Mary Magdalen), Cara vaggio's "lost masterpiece," and was worth $1.5 million. Only Restored Paintings Zlatoff-Mirsky sad howev er that he had only restored the paintings and that the identification was made by Prof. Amadore Porcella of Rome. Porcella told United Press International in Rome last Friday that he had positively identified only seven of the 10 paintings as "genuine mas terpieces." These, he said, in cluded Caravaggio's "Madda lena." Today, Father Bellucci said the painting in California was only a copy of a "Maddalena" which has been in the Naples gallery since the second half of the 17th century. v He said the original is at tributed "on the basis of safe elements, through tests and comparisons,"" to Gian Battis ta Caracciolo, surnamed "Bat tistello," a Neapolitan painter who was born in 1570 and died in 1637. Battistello was a contempo rary of Caravaggio, who was born in 1569 and died in 1609. The Neapolitan painter is far less famed than Caravaggio. Identification Questioned The identification of all 10 paintings discovered in Cali- fornialias been strongly ques tioned by Italian, and Ameri can experts. In Rome, Porcella, when in formed of Father Bellucci's statement, told United Press International that things were the other way around. "The 'Maddalena' found in California is the original and the painting in Naples is a copy," Porcella said. He also reiterated, that there was no doubt in his mind that the painting in Pasadena was a work of Cara vaggio. The existence of -copies, including the one in Naples, was known," Porcella said. "The Very fact that copies were made proves that it is an important painting." Knows Work Well Porcella said the painting in California was "absolute ly" by Caravaggio, but sug gested that the Naples copy could conceivably have been done by Battistello from Cara vaggio's original. I know Battistello's work well," Porcella said. "In fact, some time ' ago I recognized him as the author of a 'St. Joseph With Child' in the gal lery of Lausanne, Switzer land, which until then had been attributed to Caravag gio." .. - I Afghan Airliner Crash Fatal to 24 Beirut, Lebanon - (CPD - An Afghan airliner crashed in flames onto . a hilltop near Beirut Saturday night, killing 24 persons including two Americans. Three passengers survived. The Americans were listed as Gordon Hay Clark, 48, a Nebraska physician, en route to Kabul from Rome, and Frank William Shepherd, 51, an accountant en route from London to Kabul. Both Americans were re ported employed in Afghanis tan. Their hometowns . were not immediately available. Most of the passengers were frnm Turkpv (?7:pehoslovakia. Afghanistan and India. 1 Steel Workers Return to Jobs at Utah's Kennecott Corp. Under Terms of New Contract Salt Lake City -HPD- The first of about 2,000 steel workers of the Kennecott Copper Corp. returned to the plant today following ratifi cation of a new two-year con tract. Acceptance of the company offer by the five Utah locals was by a "practically, unani mous" standing vote. -' The back-to-work proces sion was expected to be com pleted by the end of the week. fhe company package was estimated at about 22.3 cents an hour over the two-year length of the contract. 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