Times Record News from Wichita Falls, Texas • 38

Jails Crrorb 2Crms Pa a 6 6C moVnBiV WICHITA FALLS TEXAS FAILIMI Detectives Study New Clues In Strange Disappearance up In the borrowed book list: 1 Orphan girl vanishes a man stages his own disappearance a woman flees her home to begin life anew a man runs away to escape problems a wife disappears without a trace a schoolboy vanishes on purpose More Disappearances Two books were concerned with the unhappy history of Mary Queen of Scots One was an autobiography of a leading authority concerning murders and disappearances By telephone from New York on Wednesday Risch said his wife was an avid reader of suspense stories but was unaware that a large portion dealt with disappearances If Mrs Risch is still alive where could she be? Droney quoted Risch as saying the only jobs he believed she could hold would be in a bookstore a library a publishing firm as a waitress tigation had slowed to a standstill Then Sareen Gerson editor of the Fence Viewer a local weekly dug into a six-month record of books borrowed on the Risch library cards with the cooperation of Lincoln Library trustees Hie results which came to the attention of the Boston Globe were so surprising that the newspaper placed them in the hands of the district attorney "Biggest Break" Even as two officers hurried to New York to interview Martin Risch about the reading habits of himself and his wife DisL Atty John Droney described the information as biggest break to date" He also said Risch a year ago expressed the view his wife was still alive He has kept his telephone number unchanged in case she called Here are themes that cropped LINCOLN Mass (AP)-Detec-tives who started 16 months ago on a vanished young wife's blood-smeared trail were suddenly interested Wednesday in her apparently strange reading books about flight and disappearance On the afternoon of Oct 24 1961 a 4-year-old daughter told a neighbor her mother was gone and that there was red paint on the kitchen floor From that day to this nobody has been able to answer the question: What happened to Joan Risch? The red paint was blood Reading llabits And now it is discovered that her reading included a book on a woman fleeing her home to begin life anew Martin Risch was in New York at a business conference Lillian returned home about 4 pm then came running back to the neighbor saying her mummy was gone that baby David was crying in his crib and that there was red paint on the floor The paint was not a lot mostly drops spots and smears consistent perhaps with a nosebleed or a head wound It was found all the way from the room to the kitchen where a handset phone had been ripped from the wall Blood On Telephone There was blood in the finger holes of the telephone dial There were more spots on the trunk of Mrs Risch's ear A search was conducted of woods and ponds Helicopter observers flew back and forth over the area Step by step state detectives and local police plodded back through Joan Risch's life They found no clue in her personal i pasL Rewards up to $5000 were offered tar Information The usual reports came of a woman seen stumbling along a country road Of a woman answering Mrs Risch's description here or there fngCrpnllB RWONI Police searched for reliable records of Joan fingerprints Satisfied that they had them they declared the bloody prints found in her home were not hers But after 16 months the inves Martin Risch a Fitchburg paper company executive and his 31-year-old wife had chosen Lincoln an attractive suburb northwest of Boston as the place where they wanted to live and bring up Lillian then 4 and David then 2 Mrs Risch the former Joan Nallras was born in Brooklyn NY She had been orphaned as a child Married to Martin three years her senior they lived in Ridgefield Conn before moving to the Boston area Devoted To Children Mrs Risch was known as a quiet home-loving woman She had emphasized her devotion to her children and that she could never bear to be parted from them Lincoln is a town where homes occupy generous lots where existing trees have been left standing on the grounds of the new houses The Risch family had lived there seven months when Mrs Risch vanished On that day Mrs Risch took her daughter to a dentist and returned home for lunch Then she put her small son to bed and sent Lillian to a neighbor's house to play Standing By Car The neighbor looked out and aaw Mrs Risch standing beside her car at 2:15 pm Later there were reports that a second automobile had been parked in the Risch driveway for a about 2:20 pm New Cause Of Birth Defects Is Discovered father is Italian conductor Armando Trovajoli Miss Fierangeli's second husband She was divorced from actor Vic Damone (AP Wirephoto) ACTRESS AND HER LEADING MAN Italian actress Anna Maria Pierangdi cuddles her month-old baby son Edward at her home in Rome The baby was born in London last month Proud PONYTAIL ONE DAY ONLY MEN'S SUITS ALL WOOLS-DACRON WOOL Sizes 35-50 reg 35-46 short long stout Knit Kwtnm Syndicate Iik IK WnrM righti rawrvnl ''Twte Pom MA6HZP POTATO rilTn Spring's 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and related dmp can cause birth defects in humans we all want to know more about the effect of delicate hormone balances on the growing fetus Dr Hoar's work with guinea pip offers on unparalleled opportunity for studying this question with great precision" i Recently Dr Hoar has obtained a supply of an experimental drug that suppresses the ability of the adrenal gland to produce hydrocortisone "With this compound" he ex-i plained can now turn the guinea pig's production of the hormone off for periods as brief as 24 hours Thus' we can perform 1 more detailed experiments than when we had to remove both glands That operation is a permanent cut off with more profound effects on the animal the new drug we can switch off the hydrocortisone supply at one particular point in the development of the guinea pig embryos then turn it on again and observe later what defects that brief hormone deprivation produces "The specific variety of defect we have produced has depended on the precise time 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