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.
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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)
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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-
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He is also active in Boy
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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.
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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. Howeil
er of Sandy filed Tuesday as
a Republican candidate for
district attorney of Clackamas
county.
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