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Revenge listed as Possible. Motive like Executions' mug Four Persons Are Bound, Shot in New Jersey Town North Brunswick, N.J.-TCPD-Authorities today listed re venge as a probable motive for the gang-style execution of three women and a man at a wealthy surgeon's country estate here. Someone with a grudge against Dr. Francis M. Clarke apparently invaded his lavish country home, tied up his four victims and dispatched each with a single shot in the head while the doctor was oper ating at his hospital Tuesday. The defenseless dead were Clarke's invalid wife, her nurse, her maid, and the un witting taxi driver who brought the silent killer to the home. After 18 intense hours of investigation County Prosecu tor Warren T. Wilentz said revenge was the "only avenue left" to explore in the slaugh ter. Taxi Found Abandoned Wilentz said he had not ruled out robbery as a motive but so far there appeared no support for that theory. The killer fled in the gar ish red-and-black taxi which took him to the Clarke estate. Jt was found abandoned in neighboring Elizabeth, N.J., early this morning, its motor still warm. j Ihe only positive clue so far was the description of a man seen outside the Clarke home by gardener Daniel .Ploransky. The gardener de scribed him as medium height, white and about 35. Elizabeth police picked up one suspect fitting that de scription in an all-night diner near the abandoned car. But Ploransky, taken 15 miles to Elizabeth from North Bruns wick, failed to recognize him. The hunt turned to Clarke's past. Detectives launched an exhaustive study of his per sonal and professional back ground as a leading surgeon in this well-to-do community in the New York City com '. muting fringe. .Grievances Against Doctor Prosecutor Wilentz told newsmen at New Brunswick that there were "a half dozen persons who have real or imagined grievances against the doctor." He said all would be ques tioned and "hundreds upon hundreds of persons" who had dealings with the surgeon would have to be interview ed. Victims of the mass kill ings were Clarke's invalid wife, Edith, 60: Miss Dorothy I Moore, an elderly practical nurse; Mrs. Cora Jones Tha dies, 29-year-old Negro maid and Morris Michaels, 60, a Newark cab driver. The killings appeared as senseless as the shotgun slay ing of wealthy Kansas wheat farmer Herb W. Clutter. Clut ter, his wife and two of his children all were murdered in their Holcomb, Kan., farm residence last November dur ing a robbery attempt. , . ,t. . ; . v ,,..,,. ...... fmiitijtyr. . fU S-C " - GENERAL VIEW This is a general view Edith Clarke, wife of the physician; Mrs. of the house in which a surgeon's wife, two Dorothy Moore, an elderly practical nurse; women servants, and a taxicab driver were and Mrs. Cora Jones Thadies, 29, a part found bound and shot to death in North time maid. The taxi driver was identified Brunswick, N.J. The dead included Mrs. as Morris Michael, about 60. (UPI Telephoto) A cup of black coffee in Buenos Aires costs two cents. DR. FRANCIS CLARKE Home Is Death Scene MedfordTribune Regional Edition Page 2 Two Atlas Missiles Fired; Climax Day Of Space Activity Cape Canaveral, Fla. -(UPD- activities during the day the America's only combat-ready intercontinental ballistic mis sile thundered aloft from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts Tuesday night to climax the busiest day of rocket activity so far this year. In other missile and space Two Men Nominated For Jaycee Awards To Be Given Feb. 4 Central Point Two Cen tral Point men have been nominated for the dis tinguished service award to be given Feb. 4 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Chester L. Ayres, who was nominated for his Jaycee ac tivities, is employed at Vern Pendleton's Mobilgas station. George Johns, principal of Central Point Elementary and Junior High school, was nom inated by two groups, the Elementary and Junior High School Parent-Teachers asso ciation and the District 6C Teachers association. The award will be present ed at the banquet at Crater High school at 7:30 p.m. It will be the fourth such award given by the Jaycees. The banquet honors a young man between the ages of 21 and 35 for outstanding service during 1959. The DSA winner will be selected by judges on basis of contribu tions to the general commu- Security Insurance & Realty .tl III 1. -K . J 1 . 1 1 Your Property Insurance Should Cover All Those Improvements You're Making! If you're adding a recreation room or an extra bedroom, you increase the value of your home. Any smart homeowner knows that this added value should be insured. Make sure your policy covers every im provement you make. Call us for a complete checkup ... today. All Forms of Insurance! Phone SP 3-7325 48 Hawthorne Ave, Off Street Parking Vem Robinson -Al Potter John Ripley Hink Hart Chris Barker nity welfare, evidence of leadership ability, and evi dence of personal or business progress. Jaycee Activities Ayres has served as Teen age Road-E-O, Christmas Shopping tour, and Christmas Fund raising chairman for the Jaycees, and was president of the Jaycees last year. He is now on Jaycee executive board of directors. He is also active in Boy Scout Troop 40, served as a member of the Explorer Scout committee, and was ap pointed a city councilman last month. He has lived for 23 years in Central Point where he makes his home with his wife, Dorothy, and their two children, Margaret and Reggie. $90,000 Saved in PUC, Hill Reports Salem -(UPD- Elimination of "certain unessential and over lapping personnel functions" will save the department of the public utility commission er about $90,000 in the cur rent biennium. The estimate was made by PUC Commissioner Jonel C. Hill. He said that during 11 months of last year 12 posi tions were eliminated "through attrition or the com bining of responsibilities". Four more posts remain un filled for the same reasons, Hill said. This Friday will mark one year since he took over the PUC duties. The first made -made nu clear reactor was created in 1919 by Ernest Rutherford. Navy launched a 10-million cubic foot balloon to a height of almost 22 miles from an aircraft carrier in the Atlan tic; the U. S. and Canada rocketed 50 pounds of instru ments 600 miles up over Wal lops Island, Va., and an Army Redstone missile at Alamo gordo, N. M., ejected a cap sule designed to carry a tele vision camera on surveillance missions. The Air Force called both Atlas shots, here and at Van denberg Air Force Base, Calif., successes. The 85-foot Atlas fired from Vandenberg by a Strategic Air Command missile crew landed "in the general vicinity of Wake Is land." . The Atlas fired here soared 5,000 miles down the Atlantic test range to test a new nose cone. Crews searched the South Atlantic late into the night in efforts to recover a data capsule carried in the nose. The Army Redstone missile fired at the White Sands range in New Mexico was the first in a planned series. It was fired by U. S. troops in NATO forces just returned from Europe. The Navy-launched balloon which went aloft from the aircraft carrier Valley Forge 540 miles east of Guadaloupe in the Atlantic carried 1,600 pounds of instruments to gather information on high energy, cosmic rays. A Javelin rocket carried the instruments in the Wallops Island launch. The instru ments, .which were not re covered, radioed back infor mation about space "noise." Election Slated on Salem Annexation Salem -(UPD-Salem city al derman have approved an an nexation step which would up Salem's population to nearly 52,000. At present, it is 49, 544. The area proposed for an nexation is a tract on the southeast edge of the city and -with other property-would bring Fairview home and Hillcrest School for Girls within the Salem city limits. A special election on the is sue has been set tentatively for March 18. Authorities Seek To End Mystery In Diana's Death New York -(UPD- Authroities today sought the solution to the mystery of the death of Diana Barrymore. Deputy Police Inspector Joseph McLaughlin said Tuesday night the death of the 38-year-old actress would remain under investigation but added that there was no indication of suicide or foul play. The body of the daughter of matinee idol John Barry more was found Monday afternoon in her $230-a-month East Side Manhattan apart ment. An autopsy Tuesday failed to disclose "any evident cause" for her death and a chemical analysis of her vital organs was ordered. The body bore no signs of violence, police said. Miss Barrymore was known to have given a party in her apartment the night before she died. Police found three empty liquor bottles one scotch, one gin and one ver mouth in the kitchen. Seco nal tablets and other seda tives were found in a bed room cabinet. Police said, however, there was no indication she had taken an overdose of drugs. Mrs. Essee Kupcinet, wife of Chicago columnist Irv Ku pcinet, one of several persons who dropped in at Miss Barrymore's apartment Sun day night, said the actress ap peared depressed recently and had a foreboding she was soon to die. . "She had been full of con cern about dying," Mrs. Ku pcinet said. "She told me "I want you to get a nice black hat and veil for my funeral it's going to be soon." "All last week she kept saying 'I am running out of time' and 'I will die soon'." Symington Gets Into Controversy Of Missile Gap Washingtn-flJPD-Sen. Stuart Symington, frequent critic of President Eisenhower's de fense program and Democrat ic presidential hopeful, today jumped into the growing con troversy over Soviet missile strength. The Missouri Democrat, Air Force secretary under President Truman, scheduled a news conference to discuss new U.S. intelligence esti mates downgrading the Rus sian missile threat. The latest word in the con troversy came Tuesday night from Central Intelligence Agency director Allen W. Dulles. He said the Russians were trying to make the "un sophisticated" believe that they have over-all military superiority. He said such su periority does hot exist. . Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and other Democrats have charged that the new estimates, disclosed by Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. were "too rosy" and were based on a "danger ously risky" system of calcu lating Russia's missile-building intentions. At his news conference Tuesday, President Eisen hower backed uo Gates' re vised appraisal of the Soviet rocket potential. Like the de fense secretary, the President said the new estimates were based on better intelligence. Dulles also defended the method of the new estimates, based on Russian "intentions" to produce missiles in con trast to earlier forecasts based on Soviet "capabilities." Some Democrats have criti cized the new method as something like trying to read Soviet . Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's mind. Qouj Ssionee Stops Useless Gouflhing vjith a Tinv Tablet and asioof ujafor! What r unlets coughing? There are two kinds of coughs: 1. 'reductive the occasional useful cough that clears the throat ana bronchial tubes. DONDKIl dees not interfere with the useful cough. 2. Nero Productive the nagging cough that racks the body, uselessly, and serves no purpose. DONDRIL stops useless coughing. Controls nerves that control coughing due to colds and excess'tvi smoking. 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DONDRIL is a trademark Stock Market Said Mixed Earlv Today New York-(UPD - The stock market was a mixed affair today, with many of the lead ing industrials falling a point or more below their previous close. Industrial shares lost ground in their average with DuPont off around 2 and Chrysler down a point. General Elec tric eased. v Steels showed gains of a point or more in Lukens and Youngstown Sheet. U.S. Steel countered with a loss of more than 1 as did Republic. Beth lehem eased. Iu the autos, Ford, General Motors and American all showed losses of around a half or more. Texas Instruments lost more than a point in the elec tronics where IBM added a point. American Home Pro ducts and Carter Products both gained a point or more in the drugs. ' New York-(CPD-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 639.84, up 0.77; 20 railroads 154.19, off 0.09; 15 utilities 86.45, up 0.24 and 65 stocks 211.00, up 0.24. Sales yesterday were about 3,060,000 shares compared with 2.790.000 shares Monday. Yesterday's prices on selected stocks: Alum Co. Am. American Can American Mtrs AT&T Anaconda Copper Armco Steel 96 V 42'B 82' i 81 64 4 68 Bendix Avn 68'2 Bethlehem Steel 51i Boeing Air 30 - 32 V 64U 42 Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler Corp ... Continental Can ,, Crown "ellerbach 4 Curtis Wright 28 Dow Chemical 96 Du Pont 233 Eastman Kodak 100 Firestone 129 General Electric 88 General Foods 100 General Motors 50 Georgia Pacific 47 Graham Paige 3 Greyhound 20 Gulf Oil 33 Homestake Mining 41 Idaho Power 47 I. B. M 416 Int. Paper 121 Johns Manville 46 Kenecott Copper 93 Lockheed Aircraft 28 Katy 5 Montana Power Co 23 Montgomery Ward 47 Nat l Biscuit 54 New York Central 29 Pac G & El 62 Penney. J.C 119 Penn RR 16 Radio Corporation 62 Richfield Oil 79 Safeway 37 Sears 48 Shell Oil 39 Socony Mobil Oil 39 Southern Co 40 Southern Pacific 22 Standard California 46 Standard Indiana -. 41 Standard N.J 47 Sun Mines 6 Texas Co 77 Texas Gulf Sulfur 17 Tex Pac Land Trust 16 Transamerica - 26 Trans Wld Air 16 Tri-Continental 36 Union Carbide 144 Union Pacific 29 United Aircraft 38 U. A. L 32 U. S. Rubber 56 U. S. Steel 93 Youngstown S & T 123 Men are overweight almost twice as often as women in the United States. 31 Koreans Are Trampled to Death In Train Station Seoul, Korea -(UPD- A crowd of nearly 4.000 holiday-makers stampeding for a train piled up in a stairway at the Seoul rail station Tuesday night. At least 31 Koreans were trampled to death and 38 injured. Trans portation Minister Kim II Hwan and stationmas ter Yoon Ki both resigned, each claiming responsibility for the incident. Shin Hyun Dae was chosen to succeed Yoon, but no successor for Kim was announced. Many persons in the crowd headed for the country to cele brate the lunar year had been waiting for hours for the 10:50 p.m. train to Mokpo in south west Korea. By the time the train came, the crowd was so big that au thorities ordered the train held while additional cars were added. The stampede started when someone mis took the whistle of a switch ing engine for a signal that the train was about to start. Someone slipped and fell on the snow-slick stairway to the station platform, and in a matter of moments the stair way was blocked by a mass of pushing, screaming humanity. Nine men, 15 women and 7 children were killed. One of the dead was an infant strap ped to its mother's back. Tax Committee Ends Salem Session Salem-OIPD-The Legislative Interim Tax committee ended its meeting here Tuesday aft ernoon with some more facts and figures from the State Tax commission. Commission Chairman Dean Ellis completed his report to the committee by suggesting two ways in which Oregon's tax base might be broadened. One way is through a net receipts tax, he said, and another by cutting the num ber of allowable exemptions. Ellis said he personally favor ed the net receipts system. Also before the committee was George Pederson, tax economist of the commission. He gave revised commis sion estimates for estimated receipts for the rest of the year. His charts showed an increase in expected person al income tax collections from 84 million dollars to $90,500, 000. Estimated corporate tax income was upped to $22,500, 000 from 21 million. HAS DRAFT ADLAI PLANS Madison, Wis. -(UPD- Attor ney James E. Doyle, former head of Americans for Demo cratic Action, says he will an nounce Thursday plans of a nationwide group to draft Adlai E. Stevenson for president. FILES FOR OFFICE Salem-WPD-Ruth E. 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