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The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 46

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10-D the-knoxville -journal Sunday July 29 1951 1 omari Insanity lea ails To Sway Sa ntaFe wry Uncle Corner witness chair told her story after she had drawn a chuckle from the jury by her answer to question as to whether or not she knew what it meant to tell a lie said Linda with a wise look on her pale little face you get a red bottom and sometimes God punishes i The defense began its case with six witnesses including several nurse nuns to tell how Dr personality changed in the two or three months before the kidnaping Each of these witnesses who had associated professionally with Dr Campbell testified that she appeared distraught and extremely But on cross-examination by Kiker each of these witnesses fher in the Santa Fe jail after her tinued to perform her duties at St Hospital the Indian Hospital and a Catholic Maternity Hospital all in Santa Fe Dr Leroy Miller 'Albuquerque brain surgeon1 testified that when he examined Dr Campbell in the previous August after her fall he found a strong suggestion that she suffered from psycho-motor eplepsy He explained to her1 quite frankly that a person sufferings that type of illness might do unusual things i acts of extreme brutality such as murder rape and i BRAIN SURGEON EXPLAINS He described his meeting with that she needed a great amount of 'money and could not Obtain it by any other means said Zinn- had access to plenty of Zinn closed by saying he would show-the jury reports of brain examinations one made the previous August after Dr Campbell had fallen in the kitchen of her home -and another made after the idnaplng While the- defendant sat with frozen glum expression Judge Swope accepted recommendation aht the trial i be recessed briefly so that Dr Campbell might undergo a third brain wave examination in' St Hospital by a machine called an elec-iro-eneephalfigraph i When the trial resumed Lindai swinging back and forth in the Actress May Ride Pony To Opera Singer Ey'es Western9 Route To New Career HOLLYWOOD July 28 (UP) 4-Beverly Tyler may become the first person ever to ride her way onto the operatic stage astride a cow pony The red-haired actress says she is using Hollywood as a stepping stone to a career as an opera singer So far she has stepped herself all the way up to the of -a horse for the co-starring role with Audie Murphy in "The Cimarron af Universal-International Opera has been Miss ambition ever since her grandfather coached her' in singing and got her into a church chofr in Scranton Pa She is a lyrid soprano with a wide lange and even while appearing in pictures she continues to work on developing her voice Her role in "The Cimmarron is her first in a western but already she is convinced that "westerns for might not be a bad slogan CITES EXAMPLES wonder -the biggest male stars are making westerns or trying to get roles in she skid only are westerns the backbone of the movie industry fun to make They're so interesting and there is so much action in She thinks too many actresses have looked scorn on the horse-opera She said: Marlene famous comeback in Rides And The do a lot for Jane career? grabs every western she can get Colleen Gray scored in Jennifer Jones did herself a lot of good in in the It was that made a star of Claire i arrest: Starlet Says cess in the competitive world of the Her campaign has carried her now to Hollywood a long-term contract at Warner Bros and the romantic lead in a story of motion picture celebrities who journey to Travis Air Force base near San Francisco to entertain troops on their way-to and from Korea 1 Drunkometer Ruled Legal CHICAGO July 28 Chicago is no place to drive while intoxicated The city has 26 officers one for each police district who are experts at making tests with the drunkometer a machine that measures a degree of obriety or intoxication They were relieved of their special duties recently when the use of the drunkometer was challenged in court but the judges declared the machine legal and the cops went back to testing drivers I admitted that Dr Campbell con Means Work more hard word She commented I more than ever must prove my ability as an actress and dancer and singer Looks may be a best friend and grateful this honor but this girl is more concerned with what she has to give as a The 19-year-old auburn-haired beauty title was pinned on her by Antony Beauchamp artist-photographer in a national magazine I was a flustered but happy person when I picked Up the said Miss Rule my ambition is the to act sing and dance and when too old to write books1 Talent is more important to me than I 1 Miss Rule started in show business at the age of 15 and has concentrated her every effort on her main objective be a suc- 1 i i Some Consolation i MUNCIE Ind July 28 A candidaate defeated in the Indiana municipal primaries said hated to lose but I was certainly glad to see so-and-so get beat I A native holds a small ham Scene on shore of Borneo merhead Fierce Hammerhead Shark One Of Man-Eaters IN PAST years I have written bout adventures 6hich people have had with hammerhead sharks but have told only a little about the formation of this fish It is one of the strangest objects in the ocean When someone speaks of a shark our minds turn to an ugly and vicious fish with heads which can be called Most sharks have heads which are nor mal enough however mean their natures may be" Looking at the hammerhead we see something different Its head is far from normal and seems to be from out of this world The head forms a kind of mallet very much like the head of a croquet mallet! HAS WIDE HEAD A large hammerhead may be 16 feet long and the head or mallet may be two feet wide or more At each end of the mallet is an eye We may wonder how a fish happens to have a head of such shape Experts have failed to figure out the reason but it must have Something to do with eyesight Perhaps this fish can see its enemies more clearly because its eyes are in that position If it had any friends it might catch sight of them more rapidly We hardly could expect the hammerhead to have friends It is a fierce and deadly monster On the under side of its head is a good-sized mouth and the jaws are armed with strong sharp teeth CENTER IN' TORRID ZONE Most of the oceans have hammerheads but these fish center in the Torrid Zone They Note On Car Saves Driver HOUSTON Tex July 28 (UP) The meter flag was red When Patrolman Dort Young started to write a ticket for the parked car however he noticed a small envelope under the windshield The neatly-penned note inside read: Enclosed is a coin The car parked here belongs to a medical representative who is calling on a local physician Because of a possible unfortunate delay in his office 1 would you please place the enclosed coin in the parking meter? Thank you very much for this courtesy" Patrolman Young put his ticket book back in his pocket' dropped the nickel inythe meter and walked away whistling i- Toww'Hltr'Jaekt)6t EAST PROVIDENCE I July 28 This town hit the jackpot It cost East Providence 44760 to destroy four' slot Machines seized in police raids However when the one-armed bandits were mashed open their coin boxes yielded $6458 So there was a profit of $1698 for the town She spoke in a monotonous voice and wore a poker face 1 was most impressed by her jack of concern for what she had done I remember one thing specifically that she said guess it wasn't a very bright way of getting money was She seemed to think that what she had done was silly rather than Dr Miller concluded his testimony by explaining that the final electro-encephalograph teslx indicated abnormality of the left temporal lobe of the This stregenthened his belief that Dr Campbell was either suffering from a type of epilepsy or a brain tumor Other doctors corroborated his testimony and several of them spoke of her hostility to men and her sexual deviations It was all very impressive until the prosecution called rebuttal witnesses who declared they saw nothing at all abnormal with Dr brain wave charts This apparently was whtft the jury wanted to hear It took them but 55 minutes to find Dr Campbell sane and guilty She was sentenced to spend 10 to 15 years in the State Penitentiary at Santa Fe When Zinn filed an appeal for her she requested him to withdraw it With good behavior Dr Campbell will be eligible for parole in four years and four months But she started very well Last May 12 she cut her wrists in an attempt at suicide HARD TO FIT? Wilbur Goon Shop 319 Clinch Are Ph 2-1975 Opposite Old Post Office Fit the Hard to Men Women and Children ft doNnmmD raoM page seven bathroom and the pictures on the wall -No Dr! Campbell have "get away with with this victim 'unless she resorted to murder 1 Since' no state lines 'had been-crossed ih the perpetration of this kidnaping no federal charges were filed The FBI men turned over the' evidence they developed to the local authorities At her arraignment in District Court in Santa Fe Dr Campbell pleaded not guilty But there was no -doubt by anybody including her lawyer A' Zinn that the doctor had kidnaped Linda for ransomHer shocked arid grieved friends wondered what would become of her I Soon the prisoner 'changed her idea Jo "not guilty by reason of 1 she has a sid her friends as Judge Waldo Rogers ordered her submitted to an examination by a panel of court-appoihted phychia-trists' Because Judge Rogers himself had -been a victim of a kidnaper 40 years before when he was three years old'je disqualified himself and District Judge Edwin Swope was "assigned to case I A charge of venue to Albuquerque was granted Incidentally John Matthews own father lived in that town and was a daily spectator at the trial which began last April 16 With the approval of Stamm Special Prosecutor Modrail announced that the prosecution would not seek the death penalty A Kiker of Santa Fe a special prosecutor hired by Stamm outlined the details of the kidn'ap-ing I Zinn said for the defense that he was in very little disagreement if any with the facts He said he would attempt to show that his client did not know the difference between right and wrong when she committed the crime He said that Dr Campbell was driven to the kidnaping by the THE PEOPLE'S STORE 316 tnlmi Hal SOe Saws payment for tend Tawel Ensemble I agree te par Check 1st Choice Rose Check 2nd Choice Rose Name Address 'I' I City ft Employed 1 By Beauty Title HOLLYWOOD July 28 Janice Rule has just been picked as the most beautiful actress now in motion pictures She regards the honor as a mixed blessing She says it means Pair Reunite Fifth Time WHITESBURG Ky July 28 (UP) Sam' Sexton and Martha Kelly decided for the fifth time that they were meant' for each other They wanted tcf be married Their first four marriages had ended' in divorce So the farm couple each 61 years old walked into the justice of the peace office Martha said we are The squire understood He had married them twice before The Sextons were first married in 1912 They have 10 married children 5 about 50 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren Their last divorce was just four months ago However Sam had come as soon as the decree was granted I GAY ST KNOXVILLE TENN the Fairbanks Ward 4d-Pe' Mateked Directory Overlooks Family Record seem to be most common in the Indian Ocean but the Pacific and Atlantic also have many of them Although hammerheads like warm water they appear in parts of the JJorth Temperate Zone They are captured from time to' time along the shores of the United States as far north as Massachusetts Sometimes they are caught off the coasts of southern Europe I Some kinds of sharks eat people and some The hammerhead is one which does HUNT FOR FISH People are scarce in Aost watery where hammerheads swim and these greedy fellows want far more food than they can obtain by capturing human beings- They spend the greater part of their time in hunting and eating various kinds of fish The fish called stingrays are classed in the shark family This makes them relatives of hammerheads Hammerheads could hardly be expected to know that they are related to stingrays and I doubt that such knowledge would make any difference to them if they had it In any case they attack any small stingray which thdy may see The stingrays take revenge of a sort They sting the hammerhead while in its mouth or throat One large hammerhead was found to have the stingers of 54 stingrays inside its mouth! UcL aij For NATURE section of your scrapbook) August 10 1898 attended University of Nebraska member of Sigma Chi and Sigma Delta Kappa fraternities served in Army4 World War I gaged in the practice of law Sheridan Wyo member of the Wyoming House of Representatives 1945 1947 and 1949 Secretary of the Wyoming Interim Committee 1947-50 married Mary Newton Oct 19 1920 two children Maribeth Brewer and William Henry Harrison Jr elected to eighty-second Congress Nov 7 i He did not mention the fact that his grandfather was president that his great-great grandfather was also president for 30 days that his great-great-great grandfather sighed the Declaration of Independence Rather modest say The first Harrison came to Virginia about 1633-34 and during the next century and a half there were four or five Benjamin Harrisons The Declaration-signing Benjamin Harrison was bom in 1726 He received a classical education Was a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778 and as such signed the Declaration of Independence However he I resigned from Congress in 1778 and served in the Virginia Legislature 1776 to 1782 and from 1787 to 1791 It will thus be seen that while serving in the Continental Congress he was also a member of the Virginia State House Relegates two legislative offices at the same time He served as Governor of Virginia from 1782 to 1784 died in 1791 The Congressional biography closes with a surprising sentence: thought to be in Old Westover Church aCan it be this distinguished-patroit is buried in an unknown and an unmarked grave? SHAME ON AMERICA! His son William Henry Harrison nipth president of the United States was born February 9 1773 in Berkeley County Virginia received a college education and was a licensed physician He was a soldier In many wars against the British and the Indians and settled in what is now Ohio but then known as the "Territory Northwest of the River He represented this territory in Congress 1799-1800 He was territorial governor of Indiana from 1801 to 1813 was elected as a whig to the 14th Congress and served from 1816 to 1821 was elected to the US Senate from Ohio and served from 1825 to 1828 when he resigned' to become minister to Columbia in which capacity he By PATTON When a new congress is sworn in on Jan 3 of the odd years a new Congressional Directory is printed It contains the names and address of each senator and each representative the states they are from and usually a short sketch of their lives However this is not always done in the matter of a biography For instance Dewey Short of Missouri has been a member of the House for many years He was a soldier in World War I has a license to preach and one to practice law He is a graduate of Oxford College in England and is one of the most effective speakers yet the Directory for 1951 has this about him: Short Republican Galena But he has nothing on Pat Sutton who represents the seventh Tennessee district His biography is as follows: Sutton Democrat Lawrenceburg The Tennessee Blue Book shows that he was bom at Lawrenceburg in 1915 that he is a college graduate a licensed lawyer that he is a Mason member of the American Legion and a mfember of the Church of Christ But it is about a Harrison that I want to write In the 1951 Congressional Directory I find that thfe state of Wyoming is represented in the Senate by one man who was born in Massachusetts and another bom in Illinois that thft population of the state is 250742 just a little more than Knox County But each state is entitled to two Senators and at least one member of the House Delaware Vermont and Wyoming are the only states with only one Congressman The biography of the Congressman from Wyoming is one of interest The two Senators from that far western state are Democrats but we find this in regard to the Congressman: HENRY HARRISON Republican of Sheridan' Wyo born in Terre Haute Ind Attention Reserviitt Get Your Uniforms nd Uniform Supplies at 1502 Cumberland served from May 1828 to September 1829 He is one of the exceptions in the presidency he was a candidate for that office and defeated in 1836 but was- elected four years later The first president to die in office and served a shorter term than any other president William Henry son John Scott Harrison was bom 1804 studied medicine but gave it up and became a farmer! He was elected to Congress as a Whig and served 1853-57 Defeated for I e-election He was the son and the father of a president Benjamin Harrison son of John Scott Harrison grandson of William Henry and great-grandson of Revolutionary Benjamin Haf risen was bom in Ohio in 1833' Re was a college graduate became a lawyer enlisted as a private in the Union Army in 1861 and came out with the rank of brevet brigadier general He was defeated for Governor of Indiana in 1876 but was elected to the US Senate and served in that body from 1881 to 1887 Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland for the presidency in 1888 and was in turn defeated by Cleveland in 1892 He was a member 'of the Presbyterian Church and it is said he passed the collection plate in his church in Indianapolis on Sunday after his retiremen from the White House Chauncey Depew says he was the greatest lawyer ever to occupy the White House At any rate he represented many foreign governments in siiits He was the attorney for Venezuela in its international suit against Great Britain Benjamin Harrison member of the Continental Congress signer of the Declaration of Independence Governor of Virginia William Henry Harrison territorial 'delegate sman Senator Governor of a Territory defeated for the presidency in 1836 elected President four years later His wife did not accompany him to Washington and he died before she got there Benjamin Harrison Brigadier General member of the Unjted States Senate President from 1889 to 1893 His name was John Scott Harrison his name was John Scott William Henry Harrison grandson of Benjamin Harrison is now a Congressman from the State of Wyoming What other family in America can show as many illustrious names? i Sheet JIUS TT SM CMAIHKGIE IT! 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