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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1033 5 Dog Does the Hero Bit Miiioiiiaires Son Shys Buddy in Fight ver IHebt By I I.OKA I5K I. MUIU (Stall Correspondent of THE NEWS Van Nuys, May 9. Julian Hammer, son of millionaire New York art dealer Dr-. Armand Hammer, told police today how he shot and killed a pal after a champagne-splashed argument over an old gambling debt and a double-or-nothing coin toss. London Greets Pretty Kitty Hammer, 2(1, a technical writer for an engineering firm, was booked on suspicion of murder in vesterday's shooting of Bruce Whitlock, 28.

Hammer said Whitlock telephoned him Saturday to say he had just been released from the Army after two years in Europe. Hammer suggested they join in celebrating Whitlock's release and Hammer's 2t5th birthday. The pair had roomed together in Huntington, VV. about eight years ago when Whitlock managed a clothing store there and Hammer was a student at oi- Mill ''tW (NKWS foto by Joe rtumla) Major gets a hug from Joyce Hayes and her brother, Lloyd. Marshall College.

Out to Celebrate Hammer's wife, who Ia expecting a second child, cooked a birthday dinner and then all three went out to celebrate with cham pagne at a bunset Strip The late Albert Payson Ter-hune, writer of dog stories, would have loved this one about a collie named Major. Fire early yesterday threatened the caretaker's cottage on Terhune's former Sunnybank estate at Wayne, N. and Major barked and scratched un til he aroused the occupants, Mrs. Lloyd Hayes and her children, Joyce, 11, and Lloyd 10. The fire started with a heater explosion in a shed behind the cottage.

Within a few paces of the shed is the grave of Lad, collie hero of many Terhune stories. After they returned to Hammer's San Fernando Vallev home here early yesterday morning, the two men got into an argu ment over a years-old debt. "I owed him $200 from losing to him when we bet on the flip of a coin when we were room mates," police quoted Hammer as saying. "We had quite a bit to drink. i Congress Steps On On Big Polio Muddle Double or Nothing "He offered to flin double or nothing for what I owed him.

I iost the toss and he wrote out a note for $400 which I signed." Hammer said whitlock then de Congressional com-the "muddled con- Washington, May 9 (U.R). Two mittees ordered investigations into manded cash instead of the note. "He said he was going to take away our new car it 1 didn pay fusion" of the polio vaccination program today as most states went along with the government plan to halt right away. Hammer said the argument in inoculations. (United r-, fuiul Wearing a big bow and a bigger smile, singer Kitty Kallen prepares to leave her plane at London Airport after her arrival from New York.

Kitty, whose records are popular in both the I'nited States and Britain, is in London for an engagement at the l'alla- dium Theatre. the bedroom continued until Whitlock knocked him down, took a beer bottle, broke it and advanced threateningly. Hammer said he took a cal iber revolver from a bedside night table and shot Whitlock twice in cently he owned one of the world's largest Aberdeen-Angus cattle herds on his estate at Bed Bank, N. J. His wife, Angela, a the chest.

A third shot slammed into a clock, stopping it at 6:15. Call the Tolice' Hammer came out into the liv Clemente of Tennessee, committee head, said he was "very optimistic that the Salk vaccine will stand as an effective weapon in the polio fight." He and Govs. Robert Meyner of New Jersey and J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware conferred for three hours with Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, on the government's decision to suspend vaccinations while it rechecks supplies and production.

Thirty-one states and Alaska agreed to halt vaccinations. Other states had completed inoculation of first and second graders and thus were not faced with making any decision at present. iormer concert singer, nas tiled a $10,000,000 divorce suit against him. Chairman Brent Spence (D-Ky.) announced that his house banking committee will question Surgeon General Leonard A. Srheele latei this week in an effort "to get all the facts." Scheele testified before the committee only last Friday.

A companion inquiry was ordered by Chairman Warren G. Magnusozi (D-Wash.) of the Senate Commerce Committee. He said "Congressional action in the muddled situation is mandatory." Highly Confident Confidence in the vaccine was expressed today by a three-man committee representing the nation's governors. Gov. Frank ing room and told his wile: "1 just shot a man, call the police." Mrs.

Hammer became hysterical and Hammer called the police himself. Hammer's father, who fiew Man Dies in Plunge An unidentified man in his 00s fell to his death about 10 A. M. yesterday from the roof of a six-story apartment house at 218 W. St.

The body was taken to Bellevue morgue. here from New York, is president of the Hammer Art Galleries at 51 E. 57th and of the United Distillers of America. Until re- Cop Asserts He Never Saw Girl Suspended Patrolman Francis Conway, 33, of 479 Ovington Brooklyn, yesterday denied in General Sessions that he had even seen 19-year-old Joan Wheeler, a former race College student, whom he is accused of assaulting in the BMT subway station at Fulton St. a year ago.

Testifying in his own defense before Judge Francis L. Valente and a jury of eight men and four women, Conway further denied that he had been in the subway at the time the girl said she was molested. Miss Wheeler claims the assault took place on a mezzanine platform of the station, that Conway pointed a gun at her and ran when he heard footsteps. He was arrested several days later when a friend of Miss Wheeler saw him in a car near the station. The cae will continue at 10:45 this morning.

2 Officials, Quizzed in Payoff Probe, End Lives By MAGGIE BARTEL The chief of detectives and a fire commissioner of Elizabeth, N. J. both of whom testified recently before a grand jury investigating police-gambling tie3 committed suicide yesterday. No notes were left explaining either death, which occurred two hours and 30 miles apart. The two suicides were: The grand jury, now in its 11th week, indicted Elizabeth Police Chief Frank Brennan March 30 on charges of malfeasance and obstruction of justice for allegedly ordering his vice squad to destroy a slot machine seized in a raid.

Winkelmann testified before the jury April 26. He was one of nine high police officials who were subpenaed with Mayor some 45 miles south of here. He and his wife. Marguerite, moved in just six weeks ago. Winklemann, a veteran of 39 years on the force, had a quiet breakfast with his wife yesterday morning, then went for a drive along Manasquan Inlet, parked his car, stepped out and shot himself.

Witness Calls Police An unidentified eyewitness called police. Winklemann was rushed to a hospital and given four blood transfusions but died without recovering consciousness. De Stephan, or 24 S. Fifth Elizabeth, operated a tavern in linden and was president of the Nicholas La Corte Association, a political group. Capt.

August F. Winkelmann, 65, detective chief, who shot himself through the right temple with his own revolver only one mile from his home at Manas-quan. He died five hours after the 9:30 A. M. shooting.

Walks Into Raritan Bay Francis De Stephan, 39, one of Elizabeth's five fire commissioners, who walked fully clothed out into the rising tide of Raritan Bay near Laurence Harbor at 11:15 A. M. His body was spotted by a Coast Guard helicopter and recovered 100 feet offshore. Police were unable to establish any connection between the two suicides, or to link them with the Union County grand jury probe. Step Ufi Shot Program The Health Department and the Board of Education agreed yesterday on a tentative plan to inoculate all first and second graders with first shots of anti-polio vaccine in one, stepped-up five-day program.

The date for the program's tart depends upon when vaccine is made available, and in what supply. The school year ends June 30, Nicholas La Corte. The jury also sent financial questionaires Elizabeth and Union police covering their 30-page to 64 County finances since 1950. Winkelmann, who went on terminal leave April 1 and wa3 due to retire June 1, recently built a new home at Manasquan, (NKWS foto hf Jo I'ctrella) Capt. August F.

Winkelmann Shot with own revolver.