IKE TOURS SECRET HEADQUARTERS President
Eisenhower Is met my Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray
(right) and Lewis Berry (left), acting Federal Civil Defense
Administrator, as he arrived for a tour of the secret
headquarters he and mobilization officials would use if
gie nation suffered an atomic attack.
Portable Television
Sot Electrocutes Boy;
Declared Defective
Ch"l ago IW A group of elec
trical exports has decided that a
port.fple television set was dead
ly e(-ugh to electrocute a 5-year-
cM ny who died when he
toucli it.
Te electricians and television
service experts were assembled
by Cfc County Coroner Walter
J. McCarron in an investigation
Into the death Sunday of How
ard Ehrenstein.
"I( its present condition, this
television set could kill." the ex
perts ld McCarron after a 90
milutfe study late Tuesday.
engineers demonstrated
tlVt feign voltage leaks from the
unit's metal case were strong
enough to light a 100-watt light
bu'6 The bulb was pressed Into
test use when a voltage meter
was found to be defective.
'Rhyming Conductor'
Quits Alter 38 Years
Chicago W Dave Sax, who
has retired at the age of 65, be
came known as the Chicago
Transit Authrity's "ambassador
of good will" and proved it dur
ing his 38 years of service with
his philosophy, wit and poetry.
He became widely-k n o w n
here as "the Rhyming Conduc
w" Viernuse of iincles he com
posed and sang out to riders as
he accepted their fares or trans
fers. Sax discussed philosophy with
college professors with the same
ease with which he brought
smiles to the faces of passengers
with his genial greetings and hu
morous comments.
Sax ioined the CTA in 1918.
It was his first steady job since
coming to the United states
from the Ukraine in 1910.
Things were pretty tough in
those days, and young David had
no opportunity to go to school.
As he grew older. Sax devel
oped a great desire for book
learning, and read every book he
could get his hands on.
Now, he prides himself on
being completely self-educated.
He is also proud of his record as
a transit employee. In all his 38
years of service he never had a
chargeable accident.
Swifts, the most aerial of all
birds, never alight on the ground
unless hurt. They gather all their
food id nesting material while
flying, drink skimming over
water nd mate in mid-air.
The panel, headed by Prof.
Eric T. Gross of the Illinois In
stitute of Technology, also dis
covered the set had been dropped
after the youngster suffered the
fatal shock at his suburban Sko-
kie home. The group said it
would be difficult to determine
if the fall had anything to do
with the set's present dangerous
condition.
However, they agreed the set
appeared to be defective. They
said a minute laboratory exam
ination of every part would be
required to determine the cause
of the high voltage electrical
leaks.
McCarron said he would ask
an impartial engineering group
to undertake the detailed exam
ination, and demand that at least
"15 or 20 exactly similar sets
by the same manufacturer (Gen
eral Electric) be checked."
Ehrenstein fell dead in the
kitchen of his family's home
after brushing against the set,
which was placed on an alum
inum cart. The Ehrensteins. left
Monday for Pittsburgh, Pa.,
where services for Howard Jr.
are to be held today.
Erwin H. Greenberg. attorney
for the victim's parents, said the
coroner ordered the set impound
ed after the accident "so there
could be no question of its hav
ing been tampered with or
changed in any way."
Mert Jones, a Syracuse, N.Y.,
engineer for the General Electric
Co.. sat in on the preliminary ex
amination of the 1958 model TV
set, but did not take part in the
discussion.
Dentist Finds Long
Life in South Dakota
Hot Springs, S.D. IP Dr.
Patrick Hedges came to South
Dakota in the 1880's because he
won $100,000 in a poker game
in New York, but instead of
finding more money he found
long life.
Hedges invested his bonanza
in a herd of cattle, but the bliz
zard of 1886 wiped it out.
He resumed his dental prac
tice, often treating teeth in his
"pie wagon" as he traveled from
ranch to ranch.
He celebrated his 100th birth
day on May 15.
Hedges retired in 1931 and
has been in the Veterans hospi
tal at Hot Springs for several
years.
TEX PHILLIPS
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on my 1957 Chevrolet 4
door Bel Air"
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My car is like new, has V8 Power Pak, Power
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lite, washers, backup lamps, and many other
extras.
I will discount my car over $750.00 and
can take trade and arrange financing.
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Drivers Advised on
Bees Entering Autos
Madison, Wis. W Bees,
wasps and hornets that fly into
cars won't attack, the Univer
sity of Wisconsin department of
entnomology department re
minds drivers.
Many accidents caused by
fear of stings can be avoided if
motorists remember the insects
won't sting unless they are sat
upon, swung at or get under
clothing.
The best remedy is to stop the
car and let them out or destroy
them.
New Raspberry May
Revitalize Growing
Brant, N.Y. HP A new purple-type
raspberry developed
here may revitalize raspberry
growing in New York.
Three brothers who propa
gated and patented the "Bur
gundy" raspberry Joseph,
Conio and Leonard Loretto who
operate a fruit and nursery farm
in this western New York vil
lage have high hopes for it.
They say the berry's character
istics include superior flavor,
hardiness and high productivity.
The patent received by the
brothers recently from Washing
ton termed the new variety "of
very good flavor, being sweet
and sub-acid and of excellent
eating quality."
The brothers said their Bur
gundy grows' on land where oth
er raspberry varieties die off,
is easy to pick because of up
right, exposed position and few
thorns, does not drop from the
bush and out-produces most oth
er types by a 2-to-l margin.
i'Courf Offers To
Test 'Confessed'
Sheppard Killer
Deland, Fla. (IB Mystery
writer Erie Stanley Gardner's
"court of last resort" today of
fered to conduct a lie detector
test for a newly "confessed" but
skeptically regarded "suspect"
in the Sheppard murder case.
Authorities in Cleveland,
where Marilyn Sheppard was
bludgeoned to death in 1954.
discounted its "25th confessor"
to turn up since Dr. Samuel
Sheppard was convicted of mur
dering his wife. ;
Donald Joseph Wedler, 23, a
convicted robber, signed a con
fession that he killed a Cleve
land housewife in a manner sim
ilar to that of Mrs. Sheppard's
death on July 4, 1954.
Discrepancies Sean
But Coroner Samuel B. Ger
ber in Cleveland pointed out dis
crepancies between Wedler's ac
count and the trial evidence on
which Sheppard, a young osteo
path, was convicted of second
degree murder and sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Sheriff Ridney B. Thursby
said that if Wedler consents he
will accept the offer of Gard
ner's "court of last resort" to
investigate the purported con
fession. Criminologists of the unoffi
cial "court" wired Thursby an
offer to fly Alex Gregory, poly
graph expert from Detroit to
give Wedler a lie detector test.
Wednesday, July 17, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Hitch-Hiker Believed Able To
Throw Light on Sheppard Case
Columbus, Ohio (IP Lt. Gov.
Paul M. Herbert today identi
fied the "mysterious" hitch-hiker
who he feels can throw some
light on the Dr. Samuel H. Shep
pard murder case as Ernest
James Iolofolias, Inglewood,
Calif.
Herbert said that Kolofolias
claims he caught a ride near the
Sheppard home the night Mrs.
Sheppard was killed with a
motorist whose hands were
bruised and bloodstained.
Herbert revealed the hitch
hiker's identification as Florida
and Ohio authorities investigat
ed the story of Donald Wedler,
23, who told DeLand, Fla., au
thorities he killed a woman in
the Cleveland area the night
Marilyn Sheppard was killed.
Herbert said Kolofolias was a
chief boatswain's mate in the
Merchant Marine.
Dr. Sam was convicted for the
bludgeon-slaying of his wife in
their Bay Village home near
Cleveland July 4, 1954. Sheppard
was sentenced to prison for life
and is now a clerk in the inmate
ILLINOIS LEADERSHIP GONE
Springfield, 111. (IB Who's
minding the store at the state
capital Gov. William G. Stratton
is due in Washington today and
Lt. Gov. John W. Chapman is
on an out-of-state vacation. The
Senate president pro team and
the speaker of the House, who
are last in line, also have left
the area.
personnel section in Ohio Peni
tentiary in Columbus. Sheppard
has maintained he was innocent
of the crime.
Herbert, one of the state's top
trial lawyers, joined the Shep
pard defense after his trial and
handled the osteopath's appeals
to the state and U. S. supreme
courts.
Story Doubted
Florida and Ohio authorities
were inclined to doubt Wedler's
story. He was held in a Florida
prison as a fugitive from a prison
road gang, having escaped while
serving a term for robbery.
Herbert said that Sheppard's
relatives in Cleveland were in
terested in locating Kolofolias.
They want to ask him if Wedler
is the man who gave him a ride
near Cleveland the night Mrs.
Sheppard was killed.
JUDGE DONS BERMUDAS
Hamilton, Bermuda (IB A
judge, clad in traditional long
robe and wig, broke sharply
with tradition here Tuesday. Act
ing Chief Justice Sir Allan Smith
decreed that Bermuda shorts are
all right for Bermuda jurors.
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