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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20, I960 Convicted Killer Chooses Possible Execution Instead of Spending Life in Insane Hospital By PETER J. HAYES Vacaville, Calif. - niPD -Suppose you had this choice: , Be confined for the rest of your- life in a state institution as insane. Or, be sent to San Quen- tins death row where you would face execution unless you could win a commutation to life imprisonment with possible parole in 30 years. Which would you choose? Erwin M. (Machinegun) Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Washington An air safety expert commenting on the theory that a transistor radio may have caused a jet air liner to stray off course and collide with another plane: "The United pilot sure didn't fly off course on purpose." New York Skin diver Marie Prendergast, on why she believes more and more women will take up the under water sport: "It'll be just like the women took up bowling. They'll wise up to where the men are." Washington A delighted 5-year-old Coleen Brashear, a cerebral palsy victim, on seeing Santa Claus at the annual Christmas concert for retarded children: "Santa wears glasses just like me!" New York Fire Commissioner Edward Cavanaugh, com menting on the scaffolding inside the fire ravaged carrier Constellation: "I never saw so much wood in a steel vessel in my life." Walker, 42, a graying, quiet spoken ex-Army officer who has been under sentence of death longer than the late Carvl Chessman, chose the second course. The former Signal Corps second lieutenant was sen tenced to death June 19, 1947 for the murder of California highway patrolman Loren Roosevelt during a year-long crime spree in the Los Ange les area. He also admitted shooting two policemen and when captured had an arsenal of six machine guns, eight .45 caliber automatics and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Prisoner Blames Nerves Blaming his crimes on "war nerves," Walker pleaded inno cent by reason of insanity, but was convicted of murder in a non-jury trial. The judge who condemned him called him "a menace to society be yond the possibility of reha bilitation." Walker was ordered to die in the San Quentin gas cham ber on Good Friday, April 5, 1949. But two days before that I Reason's : 1 S, -.-,1 ' tovo date he tried to strangle him self with a radio earphone cord. He was examined by psy chiatrists just 90 minutes be fore he was to be executed and they found that he did not know the difference be tween right and wrong. A superior court jury subse quently ruled that Walker was legally insane. He could not be executed unless he regain ed his sanity. Confined as Insane Since then Walker has been confined as criminally insane. But recently he was examined again by psychiatrists at the California medical facility here and this week was found to be sane. A full sanity hear ing in a Marin county court in the next few weeks will de termine whether he must be returned to San Quentin's death row. Dr. William C. Keating Jr., head of the medical facility, indicated that Walker might have feigned insanity in the recent examinations if he had so desired. Keating said the sandy- haired inmate realizes he is taking "a calculated risk" of being executed in exchange for possible eventual freedom "in the twilight of his life." He is pinning his hopes on commutation to life imprison ment by Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who is on record as opposed to capital punish ment. Then, with good behav ior, he might gain parole, in 30 years or less. He could not seek commutation while still adjudged insane. L JL lL&tiLiLK GREETING CARD-This is a copy of Presi- on the front cover are embossed in gold, dent and Mrs. Eisenhower's season's greet- and a red band runs, down the side of the ings card for 1960. The eagle and lettering cover. 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Just the same, the joke may well be in the making. Dr. M. Eidlitz, proceeding on what is called in science an "empirical" basis, gave at tention to the uric acid levels terol levels were normal in six and were still below what they had been in the others. By this time the uric acid levels also were down in all 10. Eidlitz then took his six men and four women off of aspirin and the cholesterol levels of four of them imme diately bounced up to near what they had been. Eidlitz practices in Jerusa lem and Tel Aviv, Israel. It was his formal conclusion that aspirin definitely worked on the cholesterol but he was unable to explain the why or how of it. Dclos smith Deputies To Return Suspect in Killing Eugene - IUPII - Deputies left Monday for Delano, Cal if., to get Donald Orric Nor they, 35, for questioning in the August slaying of Alice Louise Lee, 7, Dexter. Northcy was being held at Delano on other charges and has denied the slaying. He has waived extradition. The girl apparently was strangled after disappearing Aug. 29 from a bean field near Dexter. Newfoundland, like land, is free of snakes. Ire in the blood of patients who had had or might have heart attacks because of hardened arteries, rather than the chol esterol levels. Can Cause Gout The latter were quite high, to be sure, and he wanted to get them down but he figured that if you lowered uric acid levels the cholesterol levels would come down with them. Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism. Like cholesterol it is a normal blood constituent but too much of it causes gout. Now, cholesterol is a prod uct of the body's metabolism of fats and it is not unreason able to believe that fats and purine metabolism is inter connected in a number of ways. And it is also known that aspirin influences purine metabolism. Eidlitz tried his Ideas on 10 patients with abnormally high levels of cholesterol in their blood. Some had rather high uric acid levels. 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