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Newsman Enters Sherwood Case Drunkomercr Reading Disputed By S.F. Reporter in Testimony Oakland Tribune, May 11, 1 957 mm TOWN Bold Bandido Gets No Place With Jose Jfc ff 1 A- Caldwcll the drunkomrter read 10. Three other. witnee.s, ineludr nu' the pretty 23-year-old wife, Suanne, jjave A San Frantisco newspaper reporter today disputed key pru-srtutinn testimony in the drunk drivit.j! trial ot disc jnkey Don Sherwood. Terry Hansen, a if poller for the San Ki am-jMu New, te.sti- 0K' By GEORGE ROSS Dccoto farm hand Jose Guitcrcz has the police look ing "for a bandido with the soul of a recruiting sergeant.

This fellow picked up Jo.se hitch-hiking the other, night, drove into Haywaid whre ho stuck a .45 in his ribs and demanded money Jo.sc was flat broke. "In that case," said the gunman, "come with me and help out on a little holdup and we'll both have some." Jose jumped from the car end told all this to the Hayward police, who are still looking for the lone wolf. Candy's Now a Police Dog A lady Sheltip a police but "Candy" has developed special talents as a pet of a Richmond cop. So no one but the fugitivc-himself was surprised earlv yesterday when the cop telephoned home and dispatched Landy to catch the RUy who'd been eluding 10 other patrolmen for a couple of Officer D. J.

(Johnnie) Green, dispatching patrol cars A niir.ii FLATTENED BY TORNADO wreckage of Fremont. HI a brunt of one oi yesterday'i deadly black iunnels that ripped through the southeastern part oi Missouri. Missouri Tornado Deaths Reach 51 Continued -Aft -4 i ii into me vaacy wncre me a path of havoc six blockb ui tuui ana tsarrtu, also called his.wife. I'Seen anything or am one he asked. not a thing.

Lot of squad cars and policemen mound he. Bjlhe (Ji cor t( 1 llCCJ She's in the wash r-oom iU. Giftn said let TL -mTv said. The rest is history, and police record. The dog raced' toward the fence, growling arid snarling, at the calla lilies jn Wahet Moore vard next door, a guv jumped up and hurdled fences to find a npw -m r.

Err yS A naT)becTTheirmaii at 41st and B'aTfiFt Ivi'thin They re going to buy Candv a badge, a police radio of her own andfor true a T-bone Man With a Raccoon Coat The show will go on at Castro Vallev High. Oaklander A. G. Middents is loaning'his raccoon coat probably the only one left this side of the terrible 'twenties, tcUhe school's drama class to drape voung Garv esterman, who'll play Father in "Time Out'f or Ginger" Ginger, Gary, Director Elizabeth Fuller and the whoie class took time out to promote the coat, without which the drama of the roaring 'twenties would hardlv squeak. Middents is a furrier who keeps the thing just to wear in the Shrine East-West Game parade.

The Last Mile HOME DESTROYED Relatives learchrthr FremontMo Palmer, who were injured and hospitalized aayxt result oi testimony today eekinj; to prove that Sherwood had not an exttndf di unk pi ior Feb. 13 accident a. claimed by the prosecution. Mrs. Sherwood testified that she and her husband had dinner the night before the accident at the home of William Huchalter of 559 Inverness Drive in Daly City and that no drinking was done.

She said her husband left 1 1 cards alter, dinner because was suffering from insomnia iijnH hi- pvfs uirp n-H-rimrn'H a.s a jcsuii. Buchalter took the stand to that Sherwood had not been drinking when he arrived with wife for dinner andi they had no drinks during then; stay at the Buchalter home. BROKER ON STAND James P. McNair, a broker, of 2615 Lincoln Way, San Fran- t'iKfn nil ho utin vKffiar.laixxCJrpm Feb. 17 until 5 on'Feb.

1 and. Sherwcod had tmlv two beers during that defense witness, Mi-Op, bO. apwf pai attack yesterday after testiiving that Sherwood -was' "sober and a. retired OaWand shpet metal-worker of 1382 21st San Francisco, clutched at his chest and sank back in the witness chair after Defense Atty. Harry W'airrwright said he had "TTEitrECTtT'SCBER 7 The witness testified that Sherwood was "perfectly sober" when police "gave the entertainer a series of sobriety tests after his car struck Miss Ann Butler last Feb.

18. At first, no one in the court realized the severity' of Mc-Gee's condition-as he slumped in The chair and haltingly announced that "I got.a terrible pain in my chest. I got a bad Then' San Francisco Superior Judge Harry Neubarth leaned from the bench to lend assist- anrj as others came to his aid, and an ambulance was s'um- Sherwood, obviously paced the court rtroom as McGeet was carried out by ambulance stewards and then sat down at the counsel table and rested his head in his hands. A spokesman at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, where McGee was taken, described his condition as "very grave." SECOND WITNESS McGee was the second witness summoned by Defense Attorney Harry Wainwright.

The lirst, Patrolman James Ronan. booking, officer at the San Francisco jail, testified that Sherwood was "not drunk, but appeared upset" when booked into jail by Ronan two hours after the accident. Ronan disclosed under ques tioning while bnerwooa was dressed like a bum, he was not drunk. Cohen Subpenaed CHICAGO. Mav 1 ckeyC-ohen, former, West CoSst underworld an-swered a subpena today to tes- FoHoral prarid iurv investigating the income taxesj" of Paul (The waiter) Kicca jhelicopters were pressed into service to blow with their whirling, rotors the water from the fruit.

One 'copter crashed on the first flight Monday and two more crait crasnea yesieraay. All three pilots, in craft from the Sharpe General Depot at Lathrop, suffered minor $3,000,000 LOSS The lateness of the rain, not the amount of it, hurt the maturing crops. In most places, rainfall totals are below normal. ine.one thing Civil Defense lacked, a few vears aco when Alameda County Sheriff's Reserve Platoon No 3 fied that "he poMtive" the drunkomettr leading, of Sher wood's breath, reported by Poiue Si. Kugene Caldwell, was .13 and not .20.: St.

Caldwell testified Monday that the reading en the ehcmical sobriety test key ttimony in -the trial was .20, which would render Sherwood quite drunk. Hansen, however, he twice questioned Caldwell at the scene of the accident, which led to the felony drunk driving charge against the former personality, and wa television! told bv AP Ircphotoi hotn of Mr. and Mrs. foe yesterday's tornado. little above normal for the sea son.

But. said Counts, "there is no definite trend to the whole pat tern." The jet stream is l'OOO mallv flows, placing it over California and the center of the United States at heights of about 30,000 feet, he reported. NO DEFINITE TREND' The wettest May in Northern California history Caused so much damage to crops that Gov ernor rnignt yesieraay issuea of emergency-proclama 1 1 tion in aneffort to bring to bear every means to forestall damage soaring to the multi-million dollar mark. In Alameda and Santa Clara counties, and a portion of the San Joaquin Valley, damage to high as $14,000,000. Alameda County loss in strawberries, hay, cereal grains and cherries was put at about S3.000.000, 7 Santa Clara's crop loss may double the Alameda County fig ure.

Ihere is as yel no.pii.ciai statewide figure. t- In the $5.000,0,00 cherry it A I iWk''- tin? joined up, was a mobile canteen vehicle, so the reservists salvaged a $50 junker from a wrecking yard, got it running, and filled a need. For several years, now-, the clunker has chugged to floods and accompanied searching parties and served, as a field kitchen at disaster drills, kept rolling bv volunteer mechanics in the platoon and on funds raised from dances and out of pocket, since CD monev can't be spent for the purpose. The other day the "ancient rig groaned and quit, its engine a total wreck, and they're trying to decide if it's worth rebuilding They'll come to a decision much faster if someone calls Capt. Howard Garrigan.

HI gate 4-2020. offering to donate a 1943-51 Ford engine the boys can put in running shape. Got one? This aerial photo thows the small town which bore the 4fidn'ts; -were lucky with aalx.threc.dead as, a twister wjde. Three otherpersons-- were killed at a-ttttmlv--ieumon-u it- farm home 15 miles northeast of there. O-7M McLe6d," a "miner of nearby Flat River who watched the toi nady hit Desloge, said it sounded like "a steam' engine with burned-out bearings pull ing a string of freight cars." The twisters did many Strang; Desloge it picked -up Bobby Tiefenauer's two-story frame house and turned it about face before setting it down 200 yards from its foundation.

It was unoccupied Only an hour before the storm struck, some 400 students at th Desloge High School had com pleted their, classes for the day and had been dismissed. The school" was heavily damaged. Only the walls were left stand ing. WOMAN PRAl'S Mrs. Leo Nelson was home alone with her two sons, age 2 and 6, when she heard the storm roaring down on Desloge, a town of 2,000.

She knew only one thing to do as she huddled with her children-jn- a closet she prayed. Her glasses were blown from her face as the house cracked and splintered. But she and her two sons were unhurt, and later she found her glasses under a table, unbroken. TORNADO Kansas City Counts-Toll: 37 Deaths KANSAS CITY, May 22 (JP) Disaster workers addqd up ado which hacked across Kansas City's southern suburbs Monday night: 7156 still In hospitals. 418 homes destroyed, 470 damaged.

44 business houses destroyed, 75 damaged. Gov. James T. Blair asked for $25,000,000 in federal relief funds to clear away the wreck age and restore public works installations streets, highways schools, water and sewer systems. The Governor asked a dis aster area designation for "Mar tin City, Grandview, Hickman Mills, and Ruskin Heights suburban communities a dozen miles south of downtown Kansas City.

The Red Cross started a spe cial campaign for disaster re lief funds and estimated it would need $1,000,000 to help 1,000 families. The last of the 37 bodies was identified last night after disaster crews had picked slowly through the wreckage all day 'long. A cyrfew was in effect in the hard-tut Hickman Mills-Ruskin Heights area and only those with- passes could -get- iA. -The passes were limited to those liv ing or having emergency business there. It was designed to keep back the curious who jammed the roads Monday night and hampered rescue work.

First two round trips and all service- after 5. p.m. canceled. Peak hour frequency-reduced from 22 to 30 minutes. All service canceled on Saturday and see what Thr iu Mr- TT he un wraps a "pet -gopher" town nestles about 4 p.m.

(CST) It sheared the seeond floor from 9 brssk. schoo.1 buihi- jnc and then roared on mto lt sounded like a jet plane a.s it came in from the west," Alvin Bell, one. of the survivors, related. He credited a tornado-alert four hours earlier with -batting at Wst 100 pet son, who took cover in storm cellars. -BUILDINGS SMASHED Only seven homes at Fremont were left intact.

In all, six busi ness buildings and 40 homes were flattened there. Thomas Hood and his son-in-law7BilT Harris, barely missed the twister at Fremont on their way home from an Arkansas They- joined the. rescue work, unaware that Hood's own home had been destroyed in another twister. "When we reached Fremont it looked like a ghost town," Hood said. "People were walking around dazed.

The town was so badlv destroyed there was no one to take charge. "No one was screaming but few women were sobbing quietly. It's amazing anyone survived. When Hood finally reached home, he- learned his wife escaped the Desloge twister only by taking refuge in a cellar. At Desloge, witnesses said the Key Wins Sharp Cuts In Service Continued from Pae 1 dav Saturday reduced from 45 minutes to one hour, Shattuck Ave.

Line Serv ice freauencv reduced from 20 to 30 minutes, 2 to 4 and from 15 minutes, to "ao average of 18 minutes 4 to 6 p.m. Other changes were authorized late night and early morning trips. Key SystemrpToposed that bus routes Piedmont and Clare-mont whichoperate nights and Sundays instead of trains, be elimianted, with passengers -1 1 itt. rrl.J iisinn a rau-uua miuuic, ah. PUC rejected this proposal but granted permission to cancel 12:32 a.m.

C. line schedule which leaves Piedmont daily for Reductions service and changes in schedule also were authorized for the following trans-Bay bus routes: Albany-Solano Ave. Two early morning and two evening trips cancelled, and midday shuttle service frequency reduced fromJ5 tofiO minutes. II Berkeley-Sacramento St. Two early morning trips canceled, daily midday shuttle service frequency reduced from 45 minutes to one hour, shuttle service eliminated on Saturdays.

Alameda-Santa Clara Ave. One early morning trip can-: celed, midday frequency reduced, from 30 to 45 minutes, Saturday and Sunday service reduced. -W- -AUmeda-EncHial Av One afternoon trip canceled. The PUC authorized the fol-j lowing reductions and changes' in. local bus routes: 57 MacArthur Blvd.

Two daily early morning round trips canceled, three early morning round trips canceled on Satur-j dav and Sunday. 59-6-Broadway Terrace-Mont-r lair Two late night roundtrips canceled, frequency reduced on daily schedules from 22 to minutes One early morning round trip canceled on frequency reduced from 21 to 29 minutes. First two trips carte celed on aunaay ana irequency reduced from 30 to 60 minutes. 60-Southern Pacific Mole 1 Child Prodigy What's with the Bav Area's press cameramen, 8-year-old kid as guest lecturer, at.the. National-Press-Photographers' Annual Short Course on Photo journalism in S.F.

next October? All ya gotta know, say the flashbulbers, 'is this: The kid's name is Junebug (s'helpme) he's the world's youngest professional photographer, he'll talk on "My Life as a Photo-Journalist." he made free-lancing -with a Leica in 1956. Oh! HIGH SPIRITED BOOZE A tornado ripped out -one end of -a -liquor stor-at the-out-slcifts oi Desloge, yesterday as it swept through the town of 2.000 but it left the liquor untouched standing in neat rows as if they had been glued down. World of Sports I thought the zanies had their innings last weekend, with the annual Jumping Frcg Jubilee at Angels Camp( but here's today's publicity from Coahnga: The 21st Annual California Horned Toad Derby will Rain Havoc Blamed on Off-Course et Stream 1 il 7 be. held at Coalinga City Park Friday and Saturday, according to a guy named Harold Grove, billed as the "racing They expect thousands to witness this classic sporting event. Here, Comes Summer It's almost and, the school kids are out beating the bushes looking for summer' job.

One little go-getter calling on prospective employers in Walnut Creek will make a much better impression though -The record and 'ruinous Call fornia May rains, the terrific downpour in Texas and possibly the Missouri tornados came from the off-course jet stream xacW-eastwjirdJrpm-e Jie-iui at 200 to 300 miles an hour. Blame for the freak weather plaguing parts of the nation was placed squarely on the Pacific jet stream Corday Counts the Bav Area's chief weather forecaster. He predicted fair and slightly warmer weather locally, through tomorrow with northwest windi of 10 to 20 miles an hour. HIGH PRESSURE AREA A large area of high baromet ric pressure has built up over the' Pacific TOTrrrofethan 1,200 mile off the California coast SEA TRANSFER Bay Coed Nabbed as Stowaway Two Matson liners paused midway between Hawaii and Tahiti yesterday and transferred four reported stowaways, one a pretty, blond San Jose coed. "Jean Braswell, .21, a former student at Chico State College, Was found in the crew's quarters of the Mariposa, which left Honolulu for Australia Friday night.

Like three Honolulu youths aboard the ship, she had no ticket, steamship officials tsav- The four are now headed back to Honolulu aboard the Mon terey, scheduled to arrive there Friday morning. U.S. Atty. Louis Blissard Honolulu said it has not been determined whether Miss Bras-well stowed away or got caught aboard accidentally when the Mariposa Her mother. Mrs.

Eleanor Tennyson of San Jose, takes the atter view. "This must be all a Mrs. Tennyson a4 d. "Jean wouldn't do anything-'like that." Her daughter, she. explained.

flew to Hawaii last week with a Mrs. fay wire ol a San Francisco attorney. Hrj'ayrj-jrnt as long lasting snake from his aim and goes it With Fathers Day coming up June 16, the East Bay Fathers' Day Committee is looking for the Smallest Father. Biggest Father, Oldest Father (of a child 13 or-under)' and Youngest Send data to 600 16th Committee headquarters The brave little housewife near Niles did' almost everything right when her house- caught fire the other day. She got the kids out of the house; raced, back in and called the fire department, said "My house is on fire and hung up By time thev traced the call and got there well, let it be a lesson to vou President Eisenhower todav, extending into the t-" jet stream accounts for the "topsy turvy" vfeather conditions plaguirlg the country, bringing about a complete reversal of normal conditions.

The jet stream, first discov ered over Japan by high-flying B-29 bombers during World1 Wsr II, has shifted its eastward course to a "tine much farther south. Counts said. If it continues in its present position, California may expect a cooler summer without any appreciable rain. It Would be windier in the afternoons aad there would be more The principal jet stream right now is directly over Northern California. 30'Sundav.

had his chance to get another degree in response to of Alaska, The W'eathef -Bureau com mented: "This high assures no new storms from the Pacific for several days." The five-day fojecast, through next. Monday; said there should be little or no rain in the north ern counties in that-period, and nome in the central third. 7-Arlington-Euclid Ave One dailv midday trip canceled. 17-Alcatrai-Chabot Road-Some daily peak hour trips canceled: 67-Spruce SU One morning Eighth Grader Judy Fnck invitation to attend the Last Ave. School's graduation in Livermore June 6 but couldn't make it: Hfe had Sherman Adams write a nice "Dear sending "Best wishes to you and the members of the class and his hopes that June 6 is a very, happy day for you all." Temperatures7 should range a trip canceled..