The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 8, 1955 Page: 4 of 12
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TTIXDAY NOV
Rooftop Prowler Heard
Woodward Death Shot
MIXEOLA X V — (J1) — A prow-
ler admitted Monday he was blund-
ering noisily atop Mrs Ann Wood-
ward's bedroom roof at the very
moment she shot her huslxind to
death She had blamed a strange
noise for her panicky gunfire
The prowler Taul W Wirths
was quoted by police as 3ing he
broke a tree branch wrestled noi-
sily with a door and dropped a
loaded shotgun over Mrs Wood-
ward's bedroom early on the
morning of October 30
Story Support Claim
His revised story appeared to
supports Mrs Woodward's claim
that a noise in the night led to the
accidental shooting of 35-year-old
William Woodward jr multimil-
lionaire owner of the great race
horse Nashua
Detective Inspector Stuyvesant
Finnell quoted Wirths as saying he
heard the roar of Mrs Woodward's
shotgun The 23-year-old German
refugee added:
"It sounded like a cannon I
didn’t wait I got the hell out of
there”
Previous Attempt Told
Mrs Woodward said her nerves
were on edge because of her “fear-
ful dread" that the prowler would
Teturn and invade her home He
already had broken into a swim-
ming pool cabana and the 6-car
garage on the Woodwards’ 60-acre
Oyster Bay X Y estate
The beautiful 39-year-old blonde
told police she fired blindly into a
darkened hallway outside her bed-
room when she awakened in the
night and heard a noise She had
taken a loaded shotgun to the bed-
room with her when she retired
Woodward was standing nude
and unarmed In the door of his
own bedroom directly across the
hallway from his wife One charge
from the shotgun caught him in
the head and killed him
Meanwhile the filing of Wood-
ward’s will was put off until Mrs
Woodward's release It was to
have been filed Monday Under
state law she is entitled to at
least one third of Woodward’s es-
timated 10-million-dollar estate
Their two sons 11 and 7 also are
expected to share in the fortune
Police claim to have found noth-
ing to contradict Mrs Woodward's
story that she shot her hutbanri by
accident However an investiga-
tion still is continuing and a grand
jury is expected to make a final
decision on whether or not it was
an accident
Press Gripes
To Congress
Congress Is Openly Criticize’
By National Republican Lear
Admit Prowling
Wirths was arrested a week ago
two days after the shooting At the
time police said he readily ad-
mitted prowling the Woodward es-
tate but denied he was anywhere
in the Immediate vicinity at the
time of the shooting
The youth was held in 85000
bond on an unrelated burglary
charge and apeared to be elimin-
ated as a principal in the Wood-
ward case
However Pinnell said Wirths
sent for detectives Monday and
changed his story placing himself
for the first time within earshot of
the shooting
Band Festival
Set Saturday
Ex-GIs Favored
One hundred and thirty-two
high school bands with a total
membership of over 8600 will con-
verge on the OU campus Saturday
for the annual Band day festivi-
ties The 132 bands consisting of 65
class “D" bands 23 class “C"
bands 35 class “B” bands and sev
en class “A” bands will form on
the university's old golf course for
a parade that will start at 9:15
am and wrind its way through the
campus to the break-up point on
Main street
Gasses are determined by the
size of the schools the smallest
schools carrying a “D” classifica-
tion and the largest schools classi-
fied as “A”
The judges' stand will be locat-
ed at Asp and Felgar streets Tro-
phies for the outstanding bands of
each class will be awarded in Owen
stadium before the game between
OU and Iowa State
i By Courts Ruling
WASHINGTON— UP) -Ex-servicemen
cannot be subjected to
military trial for crimes committed
while in service the Supreme
Court ruled Monday
By a 6-3 vote the court struck
down a key provision of the 1950
Uniform Code of Military Justice
It permitted the armed forces to
put civilians back into uniform and
court-martial them for serious
crimes occurring before their dis-
charge - The ‘ruling with potential Impli-
cations to millions specifically ap-
plied to Robert W Toth of Pitts-
burgh As a result the Air Force
cannot bring Toth an honorably
discharged veteran to trial for the
slaying of a South Korean civilian
The decision was expected to
have a direct bearing on the fate
of three turncoat GIs arrested at
San Francisco last July 29 under
' the i ode of military justice The
trio— Otho G Bell of Hillsboro
Miss William A Con-art of Dalton
Ga and Len-ls W Griggs of Jack
sonville Tex — are now held by
the Army at Fort Baker Calif
The three were captured by the
Communists in North Korea and
while prisoner were said to have
betrayed this country by informing
and aiding the enemy in exchange
for favored treatment They later
rejected the Reds and came home
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WASHINGTON — UP) — Some of
the nation’s top news specialists
told Congress Monday that infor-
mation “bout government activities
is being suppressed or "managed"
to an extent that seriously impair
the public's right to know what is
going or
This was the unanimous verdict
of a dozen editors publishers
writers and others who gave infor-
mal testimony as a House Govern-
ment Operations subcommittee
opened an inquiry into freedom of
Information
Promise ‘Made
Chairman Moss (D-Calif) prom-
ised “a long hard look at the
amount of information available
from the executive agencies for
both the public and its elected rep-
resentatives” James B Reston chief of the
Washington Bureau of The New
York Times told the committee
news suppression Is not the only
problem — that “a growing tenden-
cy to slant or "manage" news may
in the long run do more harm
Mood Change
For example Reston said aM con-
siderable effort” was made by
United States officials at the Big
Four conference in Geneva last
summer to give “an optimistic fla-
vor” to conference developments —
although later the word went out
that " it might be a good idea to
frown a iittle”
Columnist Toseph Alsop Jr de-
clared Washington newsmen are
subject to reprisals including feder-
al investigation when they publish
against the wishes of some offlcl
als news they consider of “life or
death importance" to the Ameri-
can people
News Hard to C-t
Alsop said it has become "Infin
itely more difficult" in recent years
to get information from critical
agencies even when the infrma'
tion is well known to unfriendly
foreign governments
Basically all those who gave
their views contended too many
officials misuse various “secrecy1
classifications to prevent publics'
tion of news which actually would
not enrlaneer national neouritv
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WASHINGTON — MV- GOP Na-
tional Chairman Leonard W Hall
said Monday the Democratie-eon-trolled
Congress faces "repudia-
tion" at the 1956 polls unless it
corrects what he called its “miser-
able failure" to hack President
Eisenhower’s domestic program
But Senator Humphrey (I)-Minn)
replied that "the Democratic Con-
gress will support its own pro-
gram" He added that “it isn't the
Democrats who will be repudia-
ted at the polls"
Democrat to Increase
And Senator Mansfield (D-Mont)
predicted in a separate interlvew
that the Democrats will increase
their strength in both houses of
Congress next year on their record
of offering alternative proposals to
those made by Eisenhower
Writing in' the Republican Na-
i o n a 1 Committee's publication
“Straight from the Shoulder" Hall
said Eisenhower's 1954 prediction
that a Democratic majority In Con-
gress would “cause a legislative
stalemate” had proved true
“Despite wholehearted support
from his own party his legislative
program was ditched” Hall de-
clared Cold War Predicted
Elsenhower said during the 1954
campaign that election of a Demo-
Kappa Phi Sets Tests
Pledges of Kappa Phi Methodist
women's service sorority will be
given pledge tests at 5 and 7:30
pm Tuesday at the Methodist
student center
All pledges must attend one of
the meetings Janelle Forrester
Columbia Miss pledge trainer
said
cratic Congress might bring1
“cold war” N't ween the p
He later acknowledged he
have gone a little too far i
prediction j
Hall’s assertion that the 1
crats had compiled a reco
“road blocking” the Prosii
program Indicated the Repub
plan to make an issue of ti
next year's election campaig
Called Failure
"The 81lh Congress has r
mlsearble failure so
said “On Capitol Hill
ing it the ’Road Block
A betwecn-Bcssions analysis
Republican National Commit
legislative actions shows t
ha earned that label despit
tensions of some Democr
support the President"
Hall acknowledged that
had been bipartisan support r
eign policy and most of the
hower defense program B
said when' the last session
nine of the President's 13
bills lay in House and Sena
eonholes and wastebaskets
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Meek, John. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 8, 1955, newspaper, November 8, 1955; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1809530/m1/4/: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.