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IIIUKSOAY, NOV fcrtlublt 28, 1(163 Aibin'UitD MAIL, wviuui.u, miwi'Uttli, OIltUON Detectives Work Dailv For Solution to Girls Murder The New York police force numbers almost 26,000 men. In the past three months, a size able portion of that force has been working on one case. It is the biggest man or wom anhunt in the city's history. By EDWARD V. MCCARTHY United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) - Shortly before 7 D.m.. AuB. 28. a po lice sergeant plugged In on a flashing light on the switch board at the East 104th Street police station and listened brief ly to a breathless man. Then the sergeant swiftly plugged himself in on a special extension leading directly to the dome - topped five - story building which houses police headquarters in downtown Man hattan. On the uppermost floor, in a quiet yet extremely busy room, a red light began winking on one of two switchboards the "emergency board. One of the five patrolman handling the "hot runs" picked uu me bou aim i ajiui j down the information relayed by the sergeant on a "com' plaint report" and stuffed it in to a little tube. He rammed the tube into a pneumatic system which sent it on its way some 35 feet to where four more patrolmen sat in front of radio consoles unit ing them to 522 radio patrol cars, detective cruisers and emergency squad units. Trouble Call One of the radio operators picked up the tube, opened the message and at 6:55 p.m. the airwaves crackled with one of 1,144 calls sent that day in Manhattan alone. The message was a simple one: "In the 23rd Precinct, car 593 respond to 57 East 88th Street. Apartment 3C, report of a sig nal ten-thirty." A signal 10-30 to New York policemen can mean several .L!.nn -.11 nf tU KorT T LUlllga ail vi iiiciu uau. can mean a holdup in progress. It can mean someone has been shot or stabbed. It means some kind of felony has been or ie be ing committed. A 6ignal 10-30 means trouble. , When the two patrolmen in radio car No. 593 arrived at 57 East 88th Street, they found big trouble. The police officers were met by a white-faced, shaken man who identified himself as Max Wylie, a well-to-do television ac count executive with a Madi son Avenue advertising agency. He led the patrolmen into the rear bedroom and pointed. On the floor, their wrists and an kles tied with strips cut from a bedsheet, were Wylie's daugh ter. Janice, 21, and Emily Hof fert, 23. Stabbed and Bludgeoned : Janice, a copy-girl at News week Magazine and niece of author Philip Wylie, was nude. She had been stabbed and blud geoned. Emily wore a shirt and blouse. She, too, had been blud geoned and stabbed repeatedly. In the apartment, the detec tives quickly ascertained cer tain basic facts. The two slain girls had lived in the apartment with a third voung lady. Patricia Tolles, 23, sharing the $250-a-month rent for the five-room apartment on tne fashionable mid-town East Side near the Guggenheim Museum. On the day of the killing, Miss Tolles, daughter of the dean of Hamilton College, arose at 7 a.m. in the bedroom she shared with Janice. Miss Tolles, who works for Time Magazine awakened Emily and both dressed. Janice continued to sleep. Patricia Tolles left for work about 8:30 a.m., she told detec tives, and didn't return until shortly before 7 p.m. More than 100 detectives were sent out in groups of two and three to "wear out some shoe leather and talk to people." The picture they got wasn't a complete one, but it was a picture of sorts, more more more more more Based on the detective teams' reports, it was determined that about an hour after Patricia left, Emily went downstairs and climbed into a borrowed sedan and drove to the exclusive Riv erdale section uptown to pick up her own car, a Fiat, which she had left at a friend's homo. She started back for the East 88th Street apartment at about 11 a.m. The trip back takes on ly about a half hour. This meant she got back to the apart ment some time between 11:30 a.m. and noon. ' Clock Radio Stopped One of the pieces to the jig saw puzzle had been supplied by chief medical examiner Mil ton Helpern. He told chief of detectives Lawrence J. Mc Kearney and assistant chief in spector Joseph L. Coyle that Janice was already dead by 11:30 a.m. This fitted in with another piece turned up by detectives prowling the apartment. A small clock radio next to Janice's bed was stopped at 10:35 a.m. Its plug had been pulled out of the electric outlet when Janice was struck down and her body fell across the wire. Janice had been viciously at tacked. The killer used a soda pop bottle to smash at her head. The bottle was broken. Pieces of the bottle were embedded in one of her hands when she tried to ward off the blows. The killer had stabbed her many times, using three knives taken from the kitchen of the apartment. The killer obviously was still in the apartment when Emily walked in. The murderer and Emily must f -: j I , w MURDER VICTIMS On the morning of August 28, 1963, these two young career girls, Janice Wylie, 21, and Emily Hoffert (R), 23, were brutally murdered in their apartment. The killing put the investigative forces of New York's 26,000-man police force to work looking for the still unknown slayer. (UPI) have confronted each other I Indications were, they said, soon after she entered the that she was forced to walk apartment, police theorized. through the apartment and view the mutilated body of her roommate. The killer, his or her identity now known to Emily, had to strike again. The killer cut up a bedsheet and tied the wrists and ankles of the dead girls, leaving them lying together, side-by-side. KUIer Vanishes Sometime between noon and 6:40 p.m., when Patricia return ed home, found the bodies and summoned Wylie from his near by apartment, the killer strolled out of the building and vanish ed among New York's millions. The picture puzzle still had many holes. If the killer was a man, he must have been cov ered with blood. How did he get out of the building and past the doorman in that state? It could have been a woman. A woman could have put on some of the girls' clothing and carried her own bloodstained garments out in 8 paper bag. MnKearnev and Coyle decid ed they could rule out neither sex in the hunt for the killer, n HMn't make sense for a worn' an to have killed the two girls. The killer had struck with such fury that two of the knives had hrnken in half. This would in dicate that the killer had to be a man. But that left unan swered the other question how did he get away in broad aay-light? The teams still go out every day. They ask questions. They wear out shoe leather. They makes notes. They report back to McKearnev and Coyle. Then the little pieces are tried for size. One day, all the pieces may fit. Dark and light colored egg yolks have the same nutritional value. . ' TliUKSUAY. NUV'bMUfcK 28. j)(i3 g Johnson's Knowledge of Government Eases Elevation To President made naturally.,. so naturally it's better Editor's Note: This Is the final dispatch on the career of President Lyndon Johnson. By HARRY FERGUSON WASHINGTON (UPI) - There was a time when the top secrets of the government never were revealed to the vice presidnt of the United States. Harry S. Truman had no inkling about the attempt to build an atomic bomb until the day Franklin D. Roosevelt died and the man from Missouri was sworn in as President. Things were different when Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office last week. Nobody had to brief the new President be cause he had been living at the very heart of governmental sec recy for three years. As Vice President he attended almost every meeting of the National Security Council. He not only knew the secrets; his voice and his opinions had helped shape mem mio policy. Johnson took command of the federal government immediate ly. He did not have to fumble and search for guidance and in formation. He began calling his key men into conferences, issu ing orders and proclaiming pol icy, such as announcing that the Kennedy program in South Viet Nam would remain unchanged. His intimate knowledge of the mechanics of government is one of the two sets of circumstances that should make Johnson's life easier as President. The other one is the great surge of sym pathy in Congress caused by the dy. At the moment the new President is in the middle of a sort of honeymoon with con gressmen who have been fight ing such key Kennedy bills as tax reduction and civil rights. It won't last long and, in fact, Senate Republican Leader Ever ett M. Dirksen already has put Johnson on notice to that effect. Must Go Forward "The work of the nation has to go forward. Once the shock of the tragedy has been ab sorbed, a country, like a family, is quickly faced with the reality of daily problems." Johnson's problem with Con gress is to devise some means to strike quickly and decisively in behalf of the Kennedy legis lative program. It is almost an impossible task. Sen. Harry Byrd the conservative Democrat from Virginia, is all-powerful on tax matters. Doubtless he mourns Kennedy as deeply and sincerely as any man, but that is unlikely to budge him from the position that there cannot be a tax cut without reduction in federal expenditures. The voice of Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is muted at the moment, but he will recover his powers of speech instantly when and if the time comes to lead a filibuster against the civil rights bill. All of Johnson's formidable powers of compromise and con ciliation will be tested in the coming months. He knows all these men personally. He re spects them and they respect him, but many senators and congressmen have life-time al legiances that run much deeper than their personal liking for Lyndon Johnson. Johnson almost but not quite fits the classic pattern of the presidency. He was born, not in a log cabin, but a small frame house near Johnson City, Tex., on Aug. 27, 1908. But his parents were poor. His father was a school teacher and there was no money to send Lyndon to college when he was gradu ated from high school in 1924. He worked in a road gang for $1 a day, then traveled to Cali fornia picking up any job he could on the way. Wanted Education Three years of this convinced him he wanted an education and he returned to Texas and en rolled in Southwest State Teach ers' College. It was a hard life. He tried to earn his way by selling books door to door and working as a janitor. There wasn't enough money coming in; in 1928 he dropped out of college and took a job teaching school. But he accumu lated enough money to go back to teachers' college and was graduated in 1930. For two years he taught school in Hous ton and then was offered a job as secretary to Rep. Richard Klebert, D-Tex. From that mom-1 ent politics was in his blood and in 1937 he won his own way into Congress by winning the seat in the 10th Congressional District of Texas. On Nov. 17, 1934, Johnson mar ried a pretty Texas heiress named Claudia Taylor. They have two daughters, one attend ing the University of Texas and the other a private school here in Washington. When Mrs. Johnson was a baby, a nurse remarked "why, she's pretty as a lady bird" and at that moment the name Claud ia ceased to exist except when Mrs. Johnson signs legal docu ments. A few weeks ago Mrs. Johnson was interviewed on a local television station and was asked how she would change her husband if she had the pow er to do so. She thought about that one a long time and then said: "Well, I would make him tell me every afternoon whether he was coming home for dinner and, if so, what time." Government of Guam Working on Projects AGANA, Guam (UPD-The U.S. territorial government of Guam is working on two proj ects here to offset some of the damage caused by two disas trous typhoons during the past year. Plans are under way for con struction of a new air terminal to replace the wind-battered quonset hut now in use. The other project envisions building of low-cost housing on government-owned land to provide new homes for residents who lost their houses in typhoons. Johnson's Role as President Expected To Help Candidates World Food Output In 1963-64 Seen To Be About Same WASHINGTON (UPI) The Agriculture Department pre dicts the world food output in 1963-64 will be about the same as in 1962-63. The department's Economic Research Service (ERS) said generally increased output in many parts of the world and a record wheat crop In Canada of more than 700 million busneis largely offset the smaller grain crops of Eastern Europe and reduced output In some other regions. The ERS analysts indi cated production declines in cer tain crops will be made up in many regions by increases in other crops. There were highly unfavorable weather conditions for .1963 grain production in much of Europe. ERS said Western Eu rope's adverse weather reduced yields from last year's record high and Injured the quality of wheat and feed grains. Wheat imports, therefore, will be sub stantial, ERS said. The imports of feed grains by Western Europe will be influ enced by the increased availa bilities of home-grown feed grade wheat, and the extent to which the feeding value of grain was reduced. ERS said the domestic food supply in the Soviet Union in 1963-64 will be less than the pro ceding year. This will require considerable imports of grain instead of normal exports. Can ada already has sold a consid erable amount of wheat to the Soviet Union, and it is antici pated that the United States also will sell a large volume to the Soviet bloc. ERS said that the domestic food situation in many oilier Eastern European countries will be spotty. The extremely severe hurri cane season in the Caribbean area hurt growing suwr cane and other agricultural crops--, particularly those for local use, ERS said. Some drought condi tions continued this year in oth er Western Hemisphere coun tries, as well as the United States. But in a number of temper ate zone areas of Latin Ameri ca, including Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay, growing condi tions were improved and the level of 1963-64 production Is ex pected to be somewhat above that of the previous year. Ex panded production generally is expected this year in Central America and Venezuela. To Require Imports ERS said over-all 1963-64 food production in Western Asia should about equal that of 1962 63, since an expected rise of grain production in Turkey of 10-20 per cent above 1962-63 would offset reduced production in some other areas, such as Jordan where severe di ought prevailed. Production appears to bo on Increase in most of Adieu, ERS it said. Increased commercial wheat Imports and increased corn exports are expected by the Republic of South Africa. ERS said food production in the Far East, Australia and New Zealand shows little over all change in 1963 compared with 1962. Unfavorable yields from early summer crops in Japan and Korea were followed by unusually good tall Harvests of rice and other crops, lor Taiwan, The Philippines,1 Ma laya, Mainland China, and In dia, no major changes from last year are reported, according to ERS. The agency said wheat im ports by Red China in 1963 al ready have exceeded those of 1961 or 1UK2, ana tnnt us crop prospects appear no hotter than year ago. 4-H NEWS Gold Hill Livestock The Gold Hill Livestock 4-H Club met recently at the home of Bob Gall. Election of twi cers was the main order of business. Officers elected were Candy Gall, president; Bill Jones, vice president; Elizabeth Tate, secretary; Peggy Martin, treasurer; Mane Jones, re porter; Clare Lou Martin, his torian, and Kenny Martin, ac tivity chairman. R. C. Gail was chosen leader. The club decided lo have a Christmas Party at the Fred Martin home on Fools Creek. Dec. 17. There will be a gifl exchange. The meeting was adjourned and the club joined in singing. Refreshments were served by Mis. (..an. Marie Jones, Reporter Zippy Sewers Zippy Sewers 4-11 Sewing club recently met at the home of the leader, Mrs. Russell Thomp son. 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He has criss crossed the area in past cam paigns for present incumbents and others. And this region con tains the Democratic Senate seats which have been regard ed as most in jeopardy. Twenty-four Democrats and nine Republicans are up for re election next year. Unlike most tests for the Democrats, only three of the seats are in the so-called "Solid South." Democrats have been most worried about the West Utah, Wyoming, California and North Dakota. Even Texas, with one Republican senator, has been shaky Democratic ground. Two In Danger Two Western Democrats who have been viewed as in danger from the GOP drive to nar row the 67-33 Democratic mar gin in the Senate are Sens. Gale McGee of Wyoming and Frank E. Moss of Utah. McGee said that even though GOP strength had been over-estimated and President Kennedy had "surprising" su- port in Wyoming, resident Johnson can only increase what we have." "Lyndon Johnson is a West erner," he said in an interview. "He talks our language cattle and oil. Wyoming has always been ready to identify Itself with Johnson." Kennedy Preferred Throughout tile West, Demo crats contend, Johnson would draw votes from the segments of population attracted to Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., the GOP presidential front-runner. McGee said that a "secret" GOP poll on Wyoming political tides, conducted for the Sept. 3-11 period, showed Kennedy preferred over Goldwater by a 3 to 2 margin. He said Democrats "stum bled" on the Republican poll, which he claimed also showed him favored 8 to 7 over any of six Republican senatorial prospects. The poll findings, he said, ran contrary to press speculation that Wyoming was almost a push-over for the Republicans. California's Sen. Clair Engle, D-Calif., has been recuperating from brain surgery and is a question mark for reelection. Other Western Democrats fac ing reelection contests include Sens. Quentin R. Burdick, N.D., Howard W. 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