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Dr. Sam Asks Appeals Court To Set Aside Murder Finding Cleveland, O. U,R) Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard Saturday asked the court of appeals to set aside his Dec. 21 conviction of second degree murder because of errors in trial procedure and evidence that someone else com mitted the crime last Independ ence day. The plea was in the form of a 365-page brief. The list of errors was similar to ones made earlier as basis for appeals, but refused. The new evidence and theor ies were made by Dr. Paul Kirk. University of California crimin ologist, who investigated the crime after the 31-year-old os teopath's conviction. Kirk in Berkeley, Calif., said his findings made a "very strong case" for the innocence of Dr. Sheppard, but added "that is for a judge and jury to decide." His conclusions were con tained in a section titled "cir cumstantial evidence" near the end of the paper-bound brief. They included the theories that Marilyn Sheppard's murder was committed by a left-handed sex deviate who probably was bitten on the hand by the victim. He described the position of the body to support the thesis it was a left-handed killer, and said tooth chips found under the body indicated Mrs. Shep pard had bitten her attacker. There were no cuts inside the mouth, he said, to show the teeth had been broken by one of the 25 blows that killed her. Kirk, 53, said "things just didn't look right" as he reviewed the state's case against Dr. Shep-' pard. He said details had been "overlooked" or not "adequate ly explained," and for that rea son he became "suspicious very quickly. The brief was the final legal step taken by Dr. Sheppard's attorneys in preparing their ap peal. Earlier, they had submitted a 7,391 page bill of exceptions including all the testimony of the lengthy trial and a 37 page assignment of errors ac companied today's brief. Although Chief Defense At torney William J. Corrigan 10 Hurt as Train Plunges From Rails Schodack Landing, N.Y. XU.R) The New York Central's crack Pacemaker passenger train was derailed Saturday and ten per sons were injured. The locomotive of the 14 car train plunged into the Hudson river. William Kelly, the engineer, was trapped in his cab but a young doctor who was a passen ger on the train crawled on lad ders out to the locomotive 30 yards offshore and helped free Kelly. The engineer was rushed to Albany Memorial hospital, eight miles north of here, in serious condition after a priest who also was a passenger had given him last rites. A landslide that swept away part of the tracks was believed to have caused the wreck. Some of the passenger cars flipped over on their sides, but only the locomotive went into the river. The tracks are only about two yards above the river here. Camp White Art Class Has Pictures on Display Here The first public showing in Medf ord of the work of members of the Camp White domiciliary art class, who have completed six months of instruction, opened Friday at the Art Center. The exhibit of 16 oil paintings will be on display during April. This gesture of recognition was made possible through the courtesy of John Ahern, promi nent local artist and vice-president of the Southern Oregon So ciety of Artists. The Camp White art class was formed through arrangements made by special services for vol unteer instruction given by Vola Tolman Blue, Gold Hill artist, who visits the camp each Tues day morning to teach the group of a dozen or more beginners. Pleased With Gesture Frank Glonning, chief of spe cial services, who is in charge of the volunteer program at the domiciliary, offered the follow ing comment on the showing: "I am very pleased with Mr. Ahern's gesture of inviting our artists, from Camp White to ex hibit their- work in Medford. It certainly exemplifies a health ful association of member rela tionship with the community that we so desire to foster at all times. "This will also do much to instill greater confidence in our exhibitors, through such associ ation. We hope everyone in the community will take advantage of this opportunity to view the work of our disabled veterans." Winfred Welch and Augustine Arnold have five paintings each in the exhibit! Eugene Roeder and H. L. Williams have two each ,and George Jennings and Dan Dyer offered one apiece. would not, identify which sec tions were based on Kirk's find ings, it was learned that those advancing the left-handed kill er and sex deviate theories were made by the West Coast expert, who was retained by the Shep pard family at $100 a day. The brief said the position of the murder victim's body on the bed, and the injuries she re ceived, showed a left-handed per son committed the crime. Her husband, it pointed out, is right handed. ' "The blows, the way they are placed, the position of Mrs. Shep pard's head, the fact that the right hand was used in defen sive action more than the left indicates that the blows were left-handed blows and the per son who committed the murder was left-handed," the brief stat ed. Judge East Warns Of Growing Dispute Between Law, Press Eugene (U.R) There is a growing conflict between the press and the courts, .a circuit judge said Friday during a panel discussion on "freedom of in formation" at the Oregon broad casting conference here. Circuit Judge William G. East of Eugene warned that unless some cooperative arrangements can be worked out the situation could "ultimately develop into some form of unsatisfactory leg islation against one group or the other." Speaks On Panel Judge East appeared on a pan el with Ralph Hardy, vice-president of the National Association of Radio and Television Broad casters; Calvin Crumbaker, former , Eugene city council president, and Tom Lawson Mc Call, Portland radio commen1 tator who acted as moderator. The question of whether phot ographers, microphones and tel evision cameras should be al lowed into courtrooms was de bated. Judge East said he felt it could cause great damage because witnesses might not testify as freely. Greater Privileges McCall said radio and tele vision were enjoying greater privileges and prestige at this session of the Oregon Legisla ture than ever before. But he criticized some legislators who, as former lawyers, he said car ried over their inhibitions against radio and television into the Legislature. 7 -' ? iri i i iv pc lectric iieaxr ask these questions BEFORE you buy! 1. Will it prevent LAYERING of heat from ceiling down . . give much more comfort and cut your heating cost? 2. Will it cost you 22 less per month to operate than any other type of electric heat? 3. Does it eliminate "MOISTURE ON WINDOW" PROBLEMS? 4. Is it LIVE, TURBINE-CIRCULATED, WHISPERING heat, not DEAD, dry, oppressive, LAYERED heat? i. Does it heat the floor FIRST?- (You live on the floor higher tempera ture at ceiling level is WASTE heat.) 6. Will it keep floor and ceiling within the same temperature range? 7. Is it impossible to SCORCH furniture or drapes, or burn children, even if they are up to the heater? 8. Does it give "WHISPERING" heat AT YOUR FEET? 9. Does it give DUAL-PURPOSE use. Live Heat in winter-cooler air cir culation in the summer? 10. Does 4500 watts of automatic heat cost you ONLY $89.25? 11. Does a (25,000 hour) neon pilot light tell you a a glance when heater is on? 12. Can you use decorator colors on your heater, so a to blend it with your walls? - 13. Will any wattage heater fit between your 16" wdl studs cutting your installation costs, and giving you more wall area for furniture ar rangements? 14. Will the heat gently flow to aH corners of the room-leaving NO " COLD CORNERS? 15. Finally, will a total heat installation cost you from 20 to 50 Less than any other type of electric heat, or fuel-burning heat? . YFS1 the answer to every question is W if vour electric heat is TURBINE-CIRCULATED "WHISPERING" HEAT IIS " STEPHEN A. MITCHELL Memorial Dinner Speaker Former National Democratic Leader Slates Talk Here Stephen A. Mitchell, former Democratic national chairman, Chicago lawyer, will be guest speaker at the fifth annual Roos evelt Memorial dinner to be held Saturday evening, April 23, at the Medford Junior High school boys' gymnasium, according to Democratic County Chairman Robert A. Boyer. Mitchell, a close friend of Ad lai Stevenson, Sen. Paul Douglas, Oregon's two senators and Demo cratic leaders throughout the na tion, recently made it clear that in accepting the Medford invita tion he was making an exception to his previous decision "not to speak this soon," Boyer said. Praises Group "The spirit and idealism with which the Democrats of Jackson county have launched and built this unique Roosevelt Memorial dinner has a special, werm ap peal to many of us," he said in a letter. "I not only gladly accept this invitation but shall try and induce Mrs. Mitchell to accom pany me on the trip." Elected Democratic national chairman in September, 1952, Mitchell, following the national election, faced the task of elim inating a campaign deficit and rebuilding and strengthening a party suddenly out of power after 20 years. His work took him into 42 states the first year, where he met party leaders and rank and file workers. During his first year as chairman the party initiated the "Democratic Digest" as Well as a program of publicity, research and speakers' programs. Wartime Service During World War II Mitchell served as chief of the French division of the Lend-Lease ad ministration, as chief advisor for French economic affairs of the State department and advisor in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. Mitchell, a native of Rock Valley, Iowa, attended Creighton university and is a graduate of Georgetown university law school in Washington. He is 52, married and the father of three sons. "Dinner tickets now out are in the hands of a committee headed by Attorney William A. Death erage, chairman, Medford. As sisting him are Mrs. Albert Straus, Mrs. Thomas Higgins, James Main, Bruce Manley, Cecil Norris, Medford; Mrs. Doris Sunday, April 9, 19S8 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE 'Welfare State' Finds Most Violet Critics North From Arctic Circle in Finland (Editor's note: This is anoth er in a series of. articles writ ten for The Mail Tribune by Walter Maltila. Portland news perman who Is now touring the Scandinavian countries.) By WALTER MATTILA Mall Tribune Special Writer ' Kemijarvi, Finland (By Air Mail "The welfare and secur ity social aim" of Scandinavian countries in general finds its severest critics here well above the Arctic Circle. This country can afford to have only a part of the usual Scandinavian attention to every citizen. An automobile dealer who was harassed by critically low quotas for the foreign car he sold said even his crew did not care for all the "welfare devices cooked up in Helsinki." Must Have Cook He said he could pay his employees considerably more money if he did not have to maintain a cook and lunch room for them in a city of 15,000 and numerous restaurants. He complained he never knew what his payroll was when he showed up at his office, because it would vary with every addition to the families of his employees. Automatic pay increases are pre scribed for the father. The new father also receives a minor child support contribution from the state. Many Subsidies The auto ' dealer said the tax load on his business was 'in creased by "absurd subsidies" paid to farmers. One of these called for a farmer getting a sub sidy on jwhat he, his wife , and children consumed. Admittedly there are corpulent housewives on the farms. ' ' Finnish agriculture, however, appears to suffer seriously from small unit operation. In Sweden the Labor government has been studying the conversion of the least economical farms into tree growing. Some foresters contend aLr.ost a fourth of Swedish farm land could be devoted to tree farming without a serious de cline in national revenue and no huger pains in the Swedish stom ach. Swedes eat well. Face Tasks All Scandinavian businessmen who sell foreign products, such as cars trucks and tractors, are faced with almost insurmount able tasks in getting permits to import their stock in trade. This situation generally is . getting worse, with the least restraint evident in Sweden. But the eco nomic forecasts indicate that pur chasing of American cars will run into "dollar difficulties." Sweden's imports from the United States are much larger than her exports. In Finland the foreign car im porter is facing ruin. Although Russian cars are more expensive and have an amazingly ' short, useful life, the Finnish govern ment is pushing them on the people. In contrast to the serviee provided by the distributor of American cars, those handling sales of Soviet models have, show rooms. 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