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Sheppard Hears State's Attorney
Tell of Details of Wife's Death
Cleveland U.R) Dr. Sam H.
Sheppard sat with eyes closed
and face deathly pale today as
the state's attorney described
how his wife was beaten to
death and pointed the finger of
accusation to him as the
murderer.
The 30-year-old brain sur
geon's mouth trembled and he
wiped a hand across his closed
eyelids as assistant prosecutor
John J. Mahon calmly recited to
a jury of seven men and five
women the death scene last
July 4.
Opening Statement
The state was making its
opening statement in its effort
to send "Dr. Sam" to the elec
tric chair. It accuses him of the
deliberate and premeditated
slaying of his pretty wife, Mari
lyn, 31, after an argument
about his affairs with "other
women." 1
The defense countered with
the assertion that Sheppard had
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been a good husband who loved
his wife. Defense counsel Fred
W. Garmone in his opening
statement said the defense will
prove "that the last four months
of the married life of Marilyn
Sheppard and Dr. Sheppard
were the happiest."
Contract To Buy Home
Garmone said the doctor had
entered into a contract to buy
his home and had placed it in his
wife's name. He said Sheppard
took out 820,000 in life insur
ance on himself and made his
wiie and young son bene
ficiaries. "They talk about the illicit af
fairs Sam is supposed to have
had," Garmone said. "When he
received his salary checks, he
endorsed them, turned them
over to Marilyn and she went to
the bank, took out what was
needed to operate the home, and
put the balance in Sam's ac
count. "Does that add up to murder?"
Brutally Beaten
Mahori, 63, a widower who
has a record of 100 murder con
victions in 22 years as a prose
cutor, leaned back, half sitting,
as he spoke softly to the jury.
"Her head had been brutally
White Flag Signals
Victory in Phoenix
Phoenix, Ariz. U.R) When
a police car in Phoenix flies a
white flag, it's a symbol of vic
tory and not a concession of de
feat.
Every Phoenix city police car
and motorcycle has two sets of
flags black and white. When
there are no persons killed in
traffic accidents in Phoenix, the
police vehicles display the white
flags.
But when a traffic fatality
has been recorded in the city.
the black flags go up for a period
of three days.
Phoenix, which recently won
honors for improved traffic con
trol, showed its appreciation by
granting motorists one day oi
free parking in metered zones
when 100 days passed without
a fatality. Now, they say that if
200 rlavs nass without a fatal
accident, Phoenicians will get
the same bonus.
PAYS TO BE CHOOSY
San Francisco U.R) It
pays for election clerks to be
choosey in picking their job. In
nearby Corte Madera, clerks
were on the job for nearly 30
hours at a flat rate of $15 a day,;
a rate of about 50 cents an hour.
In San Francisco, clerks receiv
ed only $12, but with voting
machines were through about an
hour after the polls closed.
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Thursday, November 4, 1954
beaten," he said in describing
what police found in Marilyn's
upstairs bedroom of the Shep
pard Bay Village home.
"The evidence will show
there were about 25 blows on
the body, almost all on the
head," Mahon said. "They were
delivered with such violence
that the skull was all crushed
and fractured."
Voice Raised Once
Mahon spoke for 65 minutes.
He raised his voice only once.
That was when he told the jury
that Sheppard and his wife had
quarreled over his "activities
with other women."
The prosecutor told how
Sheppard last March had "lived
with Susan Hayes" for several
days at an osteopath friend's
home in California. Miss Hayes,
24, is a saucy-faced, red-haired
laboratory technician who has
admited intimacies with the
handsome, athletic doctor.
Ed Geary Eyes
House Speakership
Portland 4U.R) State Rep.
Ed Geary of Klamath Falls last
night said he is nearly assured
of the speakership Sf Oregon's
1955 state legislature.
' Geary made his statement on
the basis of Rep. David Baum's
defeat in Tuesday's general elec
tion. Baum, who claimed he had
pledges enough to insure his
election as speaker, was defeated
by Democrat Harry L. Wells, also
of La Grande.
; Geary said he had received
more than 30 telephone committ
ments yesterday supporting him
for the speakership.
Thirty-five Republicans and
25 Democrats were elected to
the House in the election Tues
day, making it the most even
session in years. The Republicans
outnumbered the Democrats 49
11 in the last session.
Canadian Chairman
Of Motor Association
San Francisco (U.R) Some
70 delegates, representing 11
western states, closed the 27th
annual Western Conference of
the American Automobile As
sociation Motor clubs yesterday
with the election of officers.
F. Walker Blake, Edmonton,
Canada, was elected general
chairman. Other officers chosen
were J. C. Grey, Seattle, vice
chairman; Dave C. Guilbert,
Spokane, secretary; and Phil
Townsend Hanna, Los Angeles,
recording secretary.
The group voted to hold next
year's convention at Banff in
Alberta, Canada.
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Lamoree (left), Stauffer sales executive, to Mr. and Mrs. Orin
James, Hamilton, Mo., who raised steer. (International)
Around Hollywood
Hollywood U.R) Jean Pet
ers, back in Hollywood for the
first time since her surprise mar
riage, served
notice today
she doesn't in
tend to stay
long.
The quiet,
attractive act
ress amazed
H o 1 1 y v ood
and her co
workers at
20th Century
Fox studio last
May when she
Aline Mosby
turned up married in Washing
ton to wealthy Stuart Cramer
III.
The couple is spurning movie
town as a home base and will
live in the East. Jean will re
turn to the cinema capital only
once or twice a year if her studio
has a role for her.
"If they don't, I won't work
because I'd never work at an
other studio," she shrugged.
Not Retiring
But Im not retiring from
pictures," she insisted. "I like
being an actress. I just don't
want to do one picture after
another. By cutting down I
don't feel I'm giving up any-
Oregon Gets Funds
From National Forests
.- Washington (U.R) Forty
states and two U. S. territories
have been given $16,393,583
from National Forest receipts
for the fiscal year ending last
June 30, the Agriculture Depart
ment said today. ...
Under federal law, each state
and territory collects 25 per
cent of the income from Na
tional Forest lands within its
boundaries. The payments to
states, earmarked for public
schools and roads in counties in
which the forest lands are locat
ed, are made to replace local
real estate taxes.
National Forest receipts come
from the sale of timber, grazing
fees and other forest uses. Pay
ments to states this year ranged
from $97.49 for North Dakota to
$4,988,206 to ' Oregon. Other
large payments included $2,
836,437 to Washington and $2,
537,323 to California.
Heils Canyon Brief
Deadline Extended
Washington U,R) Hear
ing examiner William J. Costello
today extended until Nov. 24
the deadline for initial briefs in
the controversial Hells Canyon
case before the Federal Power
Commission.
Costello said he extended the
deadline from Nov. 10 at the re
quest of Mrs. Evelyn N. Cooper,
attorney for the National Hells
Canyon Association. She re
quested the extension because of
need of additional time to write
her brief.
The Idaho Power Co., which
seeks an FPC license to build
three low dams in Hells Canyon
on the Snake river on the Idaho
Oregon border, opposed the ex
tension. Costello did not disturb the
times for submission of reply
briefs, Jan. 10 and an. 31.
Record 45,000,000
Vote Believed Cast
' Washington (U.R) Unof
ficial estimates indicated today
that about 45,000,000 Americans
voted in Tuesday's congressional
election, a record number for
non-presidential year balloting.
The previous record number
of votes cast in an off-year elec
tion was 40,700,000 in 1950.
The United Press estimate of
a' 45,000,000 vote was based on
a projection of the vote in states
which accounted for more than
half of the votes cast in 1952. "
Off-year voting usually is
lighter than balloting in presi
dential years. In 1952 a record
number of 61,552,000 voters
went to the polls.
An average railway passeng
er's journey in the U.S. is about
72 miles, according to current
tabulations. ; . .
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
'thing because I never tried be
ing a 'movie star', anyway. I
never went on a campaign to get
starring roles.
"I never really lived a Holly
wood life. We don't intend to
live here because I've never been
crazy about Los Angeles and
neither is Stuart. We'll live in
New York or Charlotte, N. C."
The standard leading lady in
Fox films has been an enigma in
the land of glamour girls. She
usually kept to herself and sel
dom mingled with filmsters.
"I guess a lot of people were
surprised at my wedding," she
laughed.
Jean admitted the story of her
romance sounds like a script
from a Fox production. They
never were introduced but met
by chance in an airport in Rome
15 months ago. She was return
ing to Hollywood after working
in "Three Coins in a Fountain"
and the North Carolina oil man
was on vacation.
Luggage Mixup
"There was a mixup in the
luggage and we got to talking,"
she said. "He flew to Hollywood
three weeks later on business
and we dated."
After her wedding, Jean took
a leave of absence to stay in
Washington with her husband.
She returned to filmtown to star
in "A Man Called Peter" because
"I felt I owed the studio a pic
ture." She enjoyed Washington,
she added, because she lived
there.
"It is a very sophisticated
city," she said. "A motion pic
ture actress doesn't make a very
big dent when you consider the
much bigger celebrities there."
Jean thinks her ""secret" ro
mance 'proves a film queen can
have privacy in Hollywood.
"So many people scream you
can't," she said. "But I even
ordered 800 wedding announce
ments at a department store be
fore the wedding and the word
never got out. My best friends
helped me get ready and I asked
them not to say anything. We
wanted a quiet wedding."
Navy Halts Search
For Plane Survivors
New York (U.R) The Navy
has abandoned the search for
survivors from a transport plane
that crashed in the Atlantic
ocean with 42 persons aboard.
Vice Adm. Laurance T. Du
Bose, commander of the Eastern
Sea frontier, said the search for
the missing Super-Constellation
was being called off "due to ex
treme weather conditions."
The plane took off from Pa
tuxent, Md., for the Azores and
Africa last Sunday. It was last
heard from 90 minutes later
when it was approximately 480
miles at sea.
Grange
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Live Oak Grange met October
28. After committee reports, the
master announced election of
officers would be held at the
next meeting, November 11, and
,a good attendance is desired.
The annual bazaar and rum
mage sale will take place Satur
day, November 6. Cooked foods,
work w.ill be offered. Lunch
will be served in the dining
room.
Jackson County Pomona
Grange will hold initiation in
the fifth degree at 8 p. m. at
Central Point Grange. on Satur
day, Nov. 6. All Grangers who
are not Pamona members are
invited to the meeting for the
degree.
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Portland (U.R) John Al
fred Holm, 64, Milwaukie, suf
fered fatal injuries last night
in a headon collision on South
east Lake road.
Jack Edward Nelson, 18, of
Clackamas suffered numerous
cuts and deep shock as the re
sult of the collision with the
Holm car. His condition was not
considered serious.
Aubrey Crawford, Milwaukie,
told officers he was forced to
swerve suddenly off the road to
avoid the Holm car which he
said was approaching him on
the wrong side of the road. The
Holm car barely nicked the taxi
and went on to crash into the
Nelson vehicle, police said.
Holm was so' tightly wedged
into the twisted steel of his car
that he was unable to breathe
until freed by rescuers. He died
two hours later in a Portland
hospital.
Rayburn No. 3 in
Line for Presidency
Washington (U.R) Rep. Sam
Rayburn of Texas, a Democrat,
will become the No. 3 man in
line for the presidency when
the new Congress convenes
Jan. 5.
The ' speaker of the House
ranks behind the vice president
in the line of succession for the
presidency. Rayburn will be
named speaker when the new
Congress convenes. He will re
place Joseph W. Martin Jr., of
Massachusetts, a Republican.
The president pro tempore of
the Senate ranks behind the
speaker in the line of presiden
tial succession. Sen. Walter F.
George (D-Ga.) is slated to be
elected to this post.
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