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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 23, 1957
State, National, International News
Sheppard May Take Lie Test Wednesday
COLUMBUS, Ohio — (UP) —Ohio Penitentiary Warden Ralph W. Alvis said Monday he expected the lie detector test for convicted wife-killer Dr. Samuel Sheppard will be given at the prison here Wednesday.
The warden said he expected a definite time to be set although he has not heard from representatives of the Court of Last Resort which was authorized by the governor to give the test.
Members of the unofficial court headed by mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, however, were scheduled to arrive in Columbus Monday.
Hotel reservations were made also for Alex Gregory, Detroit; C. B Hanscom, head of the University of Minnesota's department of protection and safety; John Reed, Chicago; and Dr. Lemoine Synder of California.
Gregory gave the series of tests to Donald J. Welder, 23, the convict held at Deland, Fla., who confessed killing a woman in the Cleveland area around the time Marilyn Shepard was bludgeoned to death at her Bay Village home on Lake Erie, July 4, 1954.
Gov. C. William O'Neill Saturday announced after a conference with Alvis that the warden would be in complete charge of the polygraph test given Sheppard. The osteopath is serving a life term for second degree murder in the slaying of his wife.
Sheboard Refused Previously
Alvis said he has not determined if the rules agreed upon by himself and the governor at their meeting will change Sheppard's mind about taking the test. Sheppard previously refused to take such a test.
He agreed to the test, however, when his attorney, Lt. Gov. Paul Herbert, said the Court of Last Resort would conduct the examination
The new setup for the scheduled test calls for the polygraph of the State Highway Patrol to be used. The governor said Sgt. William George, the Patrol's polygraph expert, will represent the state.
GMC Refuses Access To Books
WASHINGTON—(UP) The General Accounting Office said Monday General Motors Corp. is refusing to let government auditors see its books on incomplete defense contracts.
"I don't know what they are trying to cover up," said Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D.La.), chairman of an Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee, "but it's very suspicious."
Herbert promptly offered the General Accounting Office (GAO) the use of Congressional subpoena to get at the books.
Powers (GAO) testified on a report which said GM made $32,940,500 profit on the contract whereas a $15,481,300 profit has been "contemplated."
General Motors, in a statement included in the GAO report, rejected the GAO charges. GM termed its profits reasonable. It also noted that its defense profits, on an overall basis, still are subject to renegotiation.
The plane contract was "let in 1952 and completed in 1955. The planes were built in GM's Buick-Oldmobile-Pontiac assembly division in Kansas City, Kans. The contract called for "repricing" after delivery of the first 71 planes and again after delivery of the 209th plane. It was to this repricing procedure that the GAO directed its complaints.
It said GM failed to report "known reductions" of $1,700,000 in subcontractors' prices; that it over-estimated its labor costs by $842,000; that it over-estimated its overhead costs by $15,000 per plane and its administrative expense by $355,000; and that it charged $333,000 too much for spare parts.
Other representatives of the state will include an official from the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation at London, Ohio.
O'Neill also said only practices and procedures followed by the patrol in conducting lie detector tests will be followed.
Meanwhile, the Cuyahoga County common pleas judge who presided at the trial that ended in Sheppard's conviction took issue with "a. group of purely private individuals" entering the investigation.
Docking Reported 'Satisfactory'
Judge Edward Blyth called on the Ohio Attorney General to prevent further unofficial investigation of the murder case by the Court of Last Resort.
LOS ANGELES—(UP)—Governor George Docking of Kansas today was reported in "satisfactory condition" at St. Vincent's Hospital where he underwent a hernia operation.
the governor and his wife arrived here last Tuesday for a 10-day visit with friends. He was stricken Friday and a doctor ordered immediate surgery.
The Governor was confined to bed in the executive mansion at Topeka over the July Fourth holiday when the hernia condition first was diagnosed. When it became worse doctors ordered immediate surgery.
Docking was expected to remain in the hospital for a week and convalescce another week before returning to Topeka.
It's All In The Line Of Duty
LAS. VEGAS, Nev.-(UP)-James Argenbright learned the hard way than an umpire's word literally is law. Argenbright got into a heated dispute with Umire Bob Everett while watching a local baseball game Friday. At the height of the argument the umpine pulled out a police badge and arrested the startled spectator for disorderly conduct.
Comedian's Son Visits Pope Pius
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He received the medal from Pope Pius XII during a private audience Sunday morning during which the Pontiff received comedian Red Skelton and his family.
He didn't mention Richard's illness, but told them "life is eternal because of God."
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/“So,” he said, “if life is taken away from one person in a family they are never separated because the family will always live together in eternal life with God.”
Plus took Richard and sat him on his left behind the mahogany-topped desk where he receives kings and statesmen.
Then the Pope gave Richard the silver medal.
Skelton said it was "the most moving thing I've ever seen in my life."
"It was the clearest feeling I've ever had," he said. "It was like walking into a room full of flowers."
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Lana And 'Tarzan' Part Ways
Screen star Lana Turner Monday was granted an interlocutory divorce from her movie Tarzan husband, Lex Barker after she testified he had an "uncontrollable temper" and hit her in the face during a breakfast table argument.
The screen siren, dressed in a black silk suit and showing nervous strain, told Judge Edward R. Brand in Santa Monica Superior Court that Barker had been something less than a gentleman at times while in her company.
Miss Turner, 37, said her husband engaged in frequent arguments with her "and had an uncontrollable temper which he showed too many times."
gations because of her "upset and agitated" condition.
On one occasion during an argument at the breakfast table Barker hit her in the face, she told Judge Brand. She said it was very difficult to look after the home and fulfill her professional obli-
Her testimony was strengthened by Helen Young, a friend of 13 years who said the actress frequently was in tears after the arguments.
The actress and Barker, 38, were wed Dec.24,1953 and separated in February of this year.
Yeah. Some Double Life!
A community property agreement had been reached earlier and the actress was given permission to resume use of her maiden name, Lana Turner, when the divorce becomes final.
CHARLES CITY, Iowa — (UP) — Francis A. Weaver, 30, began a new double life Sunday as a bridegroom and a convict. The same justice of the peace who sentenced him Saturday to eight years in jail for involuntary manslaughter married him to Elsie Miller, 36.
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