November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times - AP, page A-21, Relatives Who Wait Are Also Victims,

November 22, 1978, Los Angeles Times - AP, page A-21, Relatives Who Wait Are Also Victims,
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Samantha Tucker of Tulsa, whose mother, Mary Rogers, was with the group, was told by the State Department before last weekend that her mother was alive. The two women had not spoken in four months.

"They (commune members) couldn't talk on the phone," Mrs. Tucker said. "They couldn't hardly write or send messages. All their mail, all their passports and all their money was kept by him (Jones)."

Flora Scott, 60, of Muskogee, Okla., does not understand why her daughter, Doris lewis, 38, of San Francisco, joined the goup and took seven children to Guyana.
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In Detroit, the Rev. Robert B. Hicks, 76, hoped his two daughters and two grandsons were safe---and wondered whathad happened to change Jones since Hicks had shared the platform with him three years ago, when "he had an attitude and a spirit that was beyond reproach." His wife, Mary, agreed but added that she hadn't heard from her daughter Shirley in six months, and only had a three-minute phone conversation with her daughter Martha about two months ago.

Mrs. Polk wants to know the fate of her sister, Isabel Davis, a 53-year-old divorcee who joined the temple in 1977 after the sudden death of a son who had also been a member.