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Tlowa Parole Board's Talks Wire-Recorded By Prisoner ' CEDAR RAPIDS, la. -MP) An Iowa prisoner planted a micro phone in the warden'! conference room and made wire ecordings of closed sessions of the l ate board of parole. He also built a powerful radio transmitter within the walls of the state men s reformatory at Ana mosa, la. Before he was able to broadcast his whole setup was dis covered. " Before bis scheme was squelched however, the prisoner managed to smugglesome spools nf his wire recordings out of the institution. This story was disclosed last night by Jim Bormann. news di rector of radio station WMT, Cedar Rapids, in a copyrighted broad-cm'.. HELP STOP DISEASE Good health is every one's job. Your's ... to see to it that illness at home receives proper attention. Our's ... to fill your doctor's pre scriptions precisely as ordered. ... . . . , . ... MAYS Drugs .. bTW "Service For wljj Health 221 N5.JacK&n . Phone 8 Bormann !! he rtmt into cos- session of the recordings by keep-1 inc an aDDointment at the Chicago . airport with an intermediary or the prisoner. Bormann said he identified himself "by a prearrang ed set of words" to get tne spools. Aiwther D KMsrdins The prisoner who indulged in the electric eavesdropping, Bormann said, was Pete Hellyer, 47, of Wa terloo, la. He said Hellyer was enlenced J9 years ago for t sex I crime. I Bormann related that Hellyer had help from other prisoners in his activities and that one of them planted the microphone which nicked uo the oarole board's inter views with prisoners seeking clem ency. Hellver was In charge of the re formatory's radio shop. This shop handled the public address system L i which fed standard broadcasts to I all parts of the Drison. A recent issue ot tne reiorma- torv's nublication. "The Hawkeye," said that for 10 years Hellyer "has studied radio construction and ra dio physics." Rang. 80 Milts ' The clandestine transmitter, Bor mann said, had an effective range, of 80 miles. Bormann said Hellyer had been making the recordings for months He said the wire sdooIs were smug gled out hidden in elaborate hand- tooled' leather bags which Hellyer made in prison and mailed to per sons outside the walls. "The hidden mike," Bormann said, "was so sensitive that it pick ed up the crackle of paper on the table, the shuffling of feet, the whispered conversations between . parole board members . . . even the breathing of the parole offi i cials." I At Anamosa, Deputy Warden ' Rav Purcell declined comment but said Warden Foss Davis knew about the recording incidents and the transmitter. Davis himself was reported attending a warden's con vention in Colorado Springs, Colo. Gov. William S. Beardsley said i in Des Moines it was ail news to ! him. He said ne would asK tor an I investigation. i .. r-rz . f resident or Oregon W. C.T.U. 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