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-Enters HOMErTOWN Sheppard Case His column will be re- Gtorge Rosa is on vacation, turned upon 'his teturn. Erie Stanley Gardners 'Court' Of fers Lie Test for Robber Who. Confessed 4. St -v I iW' 'VI ki' AC: 3 DELANO, July 17UW uel B. licrbcr, sind.

however, Marilyn Sheppard was slain Mystfry wniir Kile Stanley Gnrdmr's "Court of La.st Re- with a minimum" of 1T savage tiort" today offered to conduct blows to lh! head with a weapon" that "could not have i lie d'U'ctor for a newly confebd" but skeptically re been pipe of any diameter." Gerber further doubted, that tarded "uspect" in Jhe Shop-pard murder case. Authorities in where Sheppard, could Tiave been struck with, the pipe, which Wedler described as about nine Marilyn Slieppard was bludgeoned to death in 1954, discov inches long and an inch and one- ered this "25th confessor" toJ r1- Mi wa -1 i i i Hi half in diameter. turn up since Dr. Samuel Shep BLACK EYE ONLY pard was convicted of murder Sheppard "hud no injury but ing ills wife. Donald Joseph, 23, a convicted a slight black eye.

and there was robber, signed a confession that no evidence of injury though he he killed a Cleveland housewife complained of a sole neck," the MX St. -mJk ih a manner similar- to that of coroner said. At Cleveland, Detective Chief death on July 4, 1954. Thomas Murphy and Cuyahoga Sheriff Eidney B. Thursby County Sheriff Joseph M.

Sweeney said they would ex said that if Wedler consents he will accept the offer of Gard amine hursby report care SCn n--. ner "Court or Last Kesort to fully. But both officials indi investigate the purported Con cated they do not "put much credence" in Wedler's confes fession. OFFER BY 'COURT sion. 4 4 They said they believed Wed Criminologists of the unoffi ler might be attempting to trick rial "court" wired Thursby an his way.

out of the Florida jail. offer to fly Alex 1 "Weve hgard-a lot about sey graph expert from Detroit, to eral similar cases since the time give Welder a lie detector test The "court" already has given ju Marilyn Sheppard was mur dcred," Sweeney said. "Plenty of persons have con tests to relatives of Sheppard but has been refused permission 4 to test the young osteopath him fessed to that crime because it was' given such wide publicity in the newspapers probably all 1' 0" self. Welder told the sheriff he over the world," he said. struck his victim several times with apiece of pipe as she lay BUSHY-HAIRED MAN Qne of the factors appearing asleep and in rushing from the -4 i cf willrfFre AP H'irephsU climbed from Mono Village 3,000 feet up the steep slope toward Eagle Peak in a rocky area 15 miles west of Bridgeport! Marines located the body at (1).

fT7 i-'-- CENE 0ILIBAGEiarThi8.j8..aq penal view of the pre- cipitous area in the Siena where David Scott. 3, was found dead yesterday. He had vanished Saturday and rioTise, he strutk" "a stood in his way. The Cleveland coroner, Sam Sheppard's claim that a bushy haired man broke into his home, murdered his wife and knocked I iwnrn 4 Trlb rk( him out. Wedler has thick, bushy blond Trial Ordered hair.

The slender convict also told the sheriff he had been us Tragedy of Lost Boy Told by Shot ing heroin, a narcotic, while he was in aunng we iNavy iviiimg first week of July, 1954. 15 Left in Finals for Miss U.S.A. LONG BEACH, July" 17 Wl Fifteen of. the prettiest girls in EARLY MORrfING FIRE Firo swept through a room h6m at 182 Orange St. this morning, routing tho owner and his wile, awakened by barking oi their dog.

Dog Saves Couple From Home Fire In Columbus, Lt. Gov. Paul H. was found, Marine Chaplain general courtsmartial, on a Herbert, who handled Shep action following 1iis review of an exhaustive investigation of A pistol- shot-ehoed from the steep hills around Twin1 Lakes charge of premediated murder, pard's unsuccessful appeal to the the crimes aboard the ship. state supreme court, began I r.

irnrariqir in Harry W. Holland informed the distraught parents that David was dead. today was' ordered by Rear Adm. John R. Redman for JJl 1VAUI1U VUUIlljr JS-Hvi woj A -board of -medical officers search of his files for the name of a hitchhiker who claims he has reported Henderson was Jimmy L.

Henderson, 20, who shot. one. officer to death, and put an end to the search for a little boy who Had strayed from the Mono Village campsite. The Scotts, who have two legally sane at the time of the can identify a who might America still were in the run nthpr children, collapsed and The barking of a 10-months- shooting, wounded another on May 28 be- Marilyn's "real slayer." broke through the roof and the floor, damaging a vacnt apartment below. were taken to the Bridgeport ning today in the contest to SHOOTING IN CABIN aboard a Navy ship at Treasure Marine.

Staff Sgt. Robert The hitchhiker was believed to be working as a merchant Hospital overnightr Island. pick the United States' repre- The bespectacled sailor shot announce that David Allen old poodle roused an Oakland restaurant-owner-Jand his early today as fire swept through their home- at -1 82 Orange St. The father, a plastering con-J Redman, commander of the seaman on the West Coast He srataiiyAJtaOlissruyerse. -Scott-who would-have been 3 the officer? in their, cabin after overpowering Verbeek and tak tractorr-had" not- rested 12th Naval District, ordered the Awakened by the dog, a pink-dyed animal named "Francois," Smiley got up to investigate and found the home in flames.

He said he was picked up by a contest. on Monday, had been found courtmartial at an unspecified nervous driver who had blood- ing his guard pistol. Davitf vanished from-the middle of. the popular trailer camp at The beautiful survivors of the dead. Routed by the flames were date at Verba Buena Island.

stains on his hands early in July, For six hours afterwards, Hen The bodv. clad only in a T- haricr-MrSrnilcyr 40 owner routwd---hwwiferand they fled fp.m; Saturday; -T -r ffrstThijscpmpetitionwUl If found guilty, Henderson, derson held a little Army of 1954 When Marilyn was Killed. to safety out a rear door with The bloodhounds were follow shirt, red, white and blue jocks 'and one red shoe, found by whose home is at Marin City, of the Pink Poodle restaurant at 60 Grand and his wife, Winifred, 40. parade their charms before'tne judges again tonight. The win ing a scent up the trail after faces the death penalty or life Marines and sailors at bay" on the flying bridge while holding Lakey hostage and refusing to O'Brien among boulders on the Wife Pleads Guilty Francois and a Siamese cat named "Chang Kong." Five pieces of equipment and one of the Marine mountaineer imprisonment stecD slope.

ner will become Miss U.S.A., Thef mrstaru-a -lrradin i ng located one of David's snoes. The-order-eharges Hendersonrjgi ve-ntrrthe-weaporr. fit" Mi jnif-Mrsr To Manslaughter disbursing clerk aboard the He surrendered meekly after who will then take her place in a field of 33 of the fairest of this room couchj according to Battalion Chief Robert destroyed t' front room, then Mrs. Irene i 1 1 i 46, io ii rein vn were aiApuicnea -iu the fire. Battalion Chief Costa estimated the damage at $5,000.

XdVlU, own Bobert Scott of San Diego, had climbed an incredible 3,000 feet ti a boulder-strewn treeless his-' mother and a Treasure The boy's brown play trousers have not been found, Thorington said, NO WATER ON ROUTE pleaded guilty yesterday in San attack cargo ship Uvalde, with four violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Island chaplain begged him to and many other lands. Francisco Superior Court, to a give up. area toward Eagle Peak, which Chosen from among 44 Ameri charge of involuntary man SCRAP FIRE Thorington said the boy prob SPECIFIC CHARGES -lowers 10.500 feet above sea Two Face can entrants alter appearing slaughter in the slaying of her ably died on Sunday or Monday. husband, PhiL 51, a U.S.

customs level. A team of bloodhounds and There wasn any water before the judges, first in evening gowns then in bathing They are: Murder and premeditated U.S. Ireland Envoy Offers Credentials SPREADS, PERILS inspector. along the he suits, were: Superior Judge Milton Sapiro added. "There was a stream murder in the shooting of Ens.

Arthur L. Morris, 26, of Stow, LUMBER MILL Miss Arkansas, Helen Eliza' DUBLIN, Ireland, July 17 UPi set Aug. 6 as date to hear argu 50 Marines from the nearby cold weather training station at Pickel Meadows were on the trail when O'Brien found the nearby in the next gully but ments on a motion for probation -ScoiLiMcLsod. new U.S. am beth Garrott, 19, of West Mern-fohio; assault in the near-fatal he didn't get to it." Indictment In Holdups phis; Miss California, Peggy made by Mrs.

Millerick's attor shooting of Ens. Richard D. Har Thorington said the boy was bassador to Ireland, presented his credentials today to Irish Doay near a uig i 5 BOL1NAS (Marin County), July 17 A fire smoldering in a scrap wood pile spread into dry brush on the Pala Marin rison, 22, of Grand Rapids, neys. Jacobson, 18, Downey; Miss Illinois. Marianne Gaba, 18, Chi in the trail.

too lightly clad to have with stood the night-time tempera assault in using a ham- President Sean O'Kelly Millerick" died from loss of hinnH nftpr hp was stabbed in Sherifl Cecil Thorington of mer-to-feeat-MachinistisMeU-McI cago; Miss iowajuaun-Ann TuTesT Which "slnlr to-about-40 Ranch near-h-last night and- iiriagepon sam ine uu, v. exmAMiWi, fcjcMusfio-andexposurttnp counle's home at 1402 20th sense of- kinshrp that far tran- 13th and unlawful deten The Marines carried the body littll Vvn i'ls iA R-r A 'i tr 4a irrtitl will be asked Monday to indict Council Maryland, Leona Gage, 21, Glen Btrrn ie; Sandra 'Ramsey, 19, Haverhill; tribsv been ordered. before it was brought under San Ffanckca. sceftded thenortnaiwtetjonships down "to" a two extconvicts-for the spectac A half hour 'after the body tion asti6stage of RoberfWv Lakey, 20, of Springfield, Ore. that were expected of two sover-l Maximum penalty would be a at the campsite.

ular but abortiveholdup of San Miss. Carply n. eign and sentence yeais-in-prison. The. district comandant took 18, Sidney.

OAKLAND'S El Sobrante taurant Sunday and the holdup of the Olympic Country OTHER CANDIDATES Miss Nevada, Joan Adams, 23, Club at Lakeside June 9. TRAFFIC TOLL Al Thli DU Killed Injarei firemen from theMarin County i ireUepaMmennrnd 40 volunteers the lames more than three hours. The fire burned through five acres of brush on the ranch, Vk miles west of here, which is owned by the Church of the Golden Rule. -No buildings were damaged. The suspects, Walter E.

Bige Vegas; Miss. New -York, Samita New York Man Killed low, 27, of 574 24th San Francisco, and Robert Mobray City; Kathrym Gabriel, 20, Cleveland; Miss South Jameson, 25, of Los Angeles, were identified by witnesses at 1957 31 1,244 Last year 21 1,641 .0 0 0 DANGER ZONE Foothill Blvd. from 14th to 21st Avi. WATCH for radar. Carolina, Jean Spotts, 20, Newberry; Miss Texas, Gloria Hunt, 20, Corpus Christi; Miss Utah, a police lineup last night They were also linked 4o ah On Highway Basil J.

Buzy, 64, of 4525 Dam Road, El Sobrante, was killed when struck by an automobile Charlotte Sheffield, 20, Salt apartment house robbery July 1 Girlf16Kept when SY4 was tanen, Asst. Dtst Atty. Cecil Poole Lake City; Miss Washington, Diana Schafer, 18, Bellevue; Miss West Virginiar Ruth Marie Parr, 18, Saint Albans. m.a nrnccpn iarn.rujiu. Jicai From Suicide TRAFFIC TOLt said he-will confer with police today, and that the indictments "most certainly" will be sought.

Their selection brought to an abrupt end the sense of fun and Louis J. Lalanne, proprietor Appian Way in El Sobrante last night. The driver of the car, Samuel Gardner, 49, of 350 Arroya Drive, Martinez, is held in the rnntra Costa County jail in Off Gate Span happy anticipation that marks of the Poodle Dog, 65Post SW the opening days of the interna- "If God wanted me to live he beauty contest There 50 Pet, Can Expect Death Or Injuries Mnrtinpz for investigation of would have stopped this," a 16- felonv drunk driving. were tears and downcast faces among the 29 girls eliminated in the opening" round, and most year-old San Francisco girl tentatively picked the pair as being among four men who barged into hisk establishment at lOMSlr.jfi. Simday, herded guestV apdL workers into storage cabipets and fled through a skylight after 30 armed goljce surrounded the Buzy was dead on arrival at Brookside Hospital in San Pablo.

wrote her "parents. i fjf f( ''S A'-i r' 0 of them made haste to leave the as crowds of photog I Tucking the note, into the SACRAMENTO, July 17 James B. Deitz, 26, of Rose raphers and well-wishers pressed An official of the National pocket of her blue jeans, she went onto the Golden Gate Bridge. Near the south side, ville, died yesterday in Sacra- close to the happy winners. The suspects, jailed since Whoever convinces the judges early Monday, have-'been gen Safety Council predicts "one of every two persons, in California jnciiiu ui flaming truck and automobile that she is the, most beautiful she stopped to stare moodily at erally uncommunicative, police sav.

and maintain they were will be. killed or hospitalized in of the American entrants will be up against some stiff c6m-petition when the international acciaent near xiounus Deitz' sister. 15, and "bar hopping on-Sunday. a normal lifetime by- traffic ac- 2'But when get down to the crjtieal'hour ofhe Poodle phase ville. were killed in the acci This grim forecast was made FORMIDABLE RIVALS dent on the Loomis-Folsom Dog job they simply say they are not going to talk any more," Insp.

George Heeg, head of the The lovIy invaders from for yesterday by-John C. Hall of San FFan'cisco, National Safety Rflad- eign lands walked off with the the water. ft was thefe that Highway Patrolman Allyn Bragg found hef late yesterday and balked -wiat 'appeared to be" -saicide: Hysterical and. struggling as he grabbed her, she was taken to Park Emergency Hospital." There she refused to give her name but told attendants she had attempted 'suicide some months ago by cutting her wrists and that she swallowed- Still in critical condition in Council regional representative, robbery detail, said, last night first two awards to be presented. at a meeting of G-e-v-ernor Canada's Gloria Noakes winning Sutter Hospital in Sacramento is Mary AniTRilje, J3, cf Rose- A pillow case, in which was nearly $1,000, left behind at the Knight's Traffic Safety Commit the Miss Popularity title and tee.

Poodle Dog, several, rolls of ad Germany' Gerti Daub being ville. She has tmra aegree burns. A truck struck the rear of Hall, noting that California hesive tape and two hats left in judged Most Photogenic. ranks high in -traffic accident the restaurant are bejng sent to Miss Noakes, 18, of Toronto. Miss Furnejrs automoDiie, rup- tVio oac.lanlt and.envelOD- prevention work, said: the State Bureau of Criminal iseyeral "white, JiiUs." "There -is" neiieeato- worry won her award as a result of ballots cast by some of the spectators who watched the Investigation in Sacramento in jng the car flames.

about spending money on acci- injg on the yesterday. She was- taken Jatet to. San the Jiope they will provide new "6 contestants in the Miss Uni ciuesrHeTg said, Mrs. Doree Konkel, 39, owner dent already paying the bilL Accidents cost $456,480,000 last year in insur- verse parade Sunday. Miss Ger Under fire because the bandits i 1 AN lha Kne.

I uie niliuil icauii were permitted-to escapefrom Francisco Hospital for observation. Police say she has been a wardTxf the juvenile court since her parents were divorced several years ago. many placed second in the popularity poll With Miss Italy, Valeria Fabrizzi, 21, of Bologna, nce payments, medical expenses sian suffered a broken Tight leg and severe cuts of the the Poodle Dog. Chief of Inspectors Dan McKlem told Chief and property This does "lace and body when ner auto not include job time lost. Frank Ahern yesterday that in third.

Miss Daub, a lovely blonde mobile was hit by a slow moving Knrf hwestern Pacific passenger Hall said, however, that de nocent bystanders might have been hurt had police shot it out spite California record train in Santa Rosa yesterday. was selected for her award by the photographers covering the traffic deaths last- year, the with the robbers. A Investigators said Mrs. ft.cn' event. Miss Italy was second in State registered some solid gains in highway safety.

kels auto siauea on uie. He said -that a waiTtr" who, fled the building as train was appion.in"6 He said the death rate for each "Please understand, mother and father," she began her note. "Don't I'm just trouble, it should never have come about thaTI was conceived just. call it fate, Dr. (here a name had evidently been torn out) will talk to you.

She continued: "If God wanted me to live, he would have stopped this I hope He will help you to be happy now. "I am sorry to do this to you." and she tried to jump out. She the -voting and Miss Brazil, Terezinha Goncalves Morango 20. tlurd. The only American among the to- alert police to ihe-TTOtaupT aid that the bandits could leave million miltes of tiavel lait year FffJALISTS These 15 girls face the judges totight in the Miss JJV.

finals, a prelimi either through the front door orj was caughranoTtfragged for 5p feet' as the locomotive hit the car. She was taken to Sonoma nary phase of the Universe contest They are (from left front row): Helen Garrett was half that of 10 years -ago. Said Hall: first five in either category was by the freight elevator. Policej Miss North Dakota, Anne Marit The rate for 1956 was 6 3 per covered these exits, but the County hospital. -George B.

Argall of San Fran hundred million miles of travel. Peggy Jacobien. Marianne Gaba, Judith HalL Sandra Ramsey. Second raw: IfOnd Gage. Carolyn McGirr.

Joan Adams, Sanita Pelkey; rathrym Gabriel: Back rowf loan Spotts. Gloria Hunt. Charlorle Sheffield, Diana Shale? and Ruth masked men chose instead toj Studness, 19, of Devils Lake, who placed fourth among the This was slightly lower than the risco was the engineer of tfte climb through a skylight. public favorites. 6.8 rate in 1953." southbound train,.