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FRIDAY, NOV. 23, 1951 5 The Telephone Was Left Dangling—
IT'S A CONTRACT—Gloria Swanson in Philadelphia reports that she would leave the Broadway-bound production of "Nina." Although she admits reports published on her views of the play are correct, she squelched rumors of her departure by saying, "I'm under contract. It's a run of the show contract.”
Medical Phenomenon—
Says Drinking Saved ‘Deep Freeze’ Woman
By ARTHUR J. SNIDER man said why they worked is s
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CHICAGO, Nov. 23 (CDN largely a mystery. He said aniNine hours of drinking before she mal experimentation is urgently wandered in the sub-zero night needed to answer several of the
probably helped save the life of questions raised by the case.
Dorothy Mae Stevens, Chicago's Mrs. Stevens was found frozen “deep freeze woman medical and in a coma by police in an alreport suggested Friday. ley about 8 a. m. last Feb. 8. She Dr. Harold Laufman apparemtly had slipped on the ice treated the 23-vear-ol yman at about 9 p. m. the previous night Michael Reese Hospital said and was unable to get up because alcohol probably hastened a drop of her drunkenness in body temperature by opening Police assumed she was dead the blood vessels and thus expos- because no breathing was de-
ted. At the hospital,
ing a greater volume of blood to te
the cold air. her temperja-
The criti-
The quick temperature drop ture was 64.4 degrees. slowed up her body chemistry, cal level in humans is considered enabling her brain to get b) to bé between 68 and T4 small’ amount of oxygen, the. Dr. Laufman said her fingers » doctor sald. and hands were like ice. They Dr. Laufman’'s report on ould not give under pressu
head could not be moved ex-
survival of a person
temperature had i y exerung great force than that ever recorded before ir was no. eye reflex to a medical history appears in the strong light. It was impossible current Journal of the American to open the mouth Medical Association. Not until 5:15 p. m. did the pa- . tient open her eyes. a 5:40 Still a Mystery p. m. she began to respond to In describing the steps taken to'loud questioning by shaking her save the woman's life, Dr, Lauf- head
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Man Kilis Wife, Son Who Called For Help, Then Himself
By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov.|
|23—An 8-year-old boy's telephone
® life. \ | Police
plea for help that “my daddy just] killed my mamma’ was cut short when his enraged father shot and killed the ‘boy, then took his own|
said the boy, David] Smith, witnessed the= murder of|
his mother, Opal, by her estranged |
husband, D. C. (Porky) Smith, 36. His mother had come to the home| to see her son. David ran to the telephone and| called Mrs.. William. Peddicord, | who frequently had . cared for him. { “My daddy just: killed my mamma,” David gasped. Mrs. Peddicord said she then heard a shot and the telephone went dead.
Police Kept Outside
slaying occurred | officers waite
The triple while two police
outside the home, kept at bay by|
Smith who warned them away with a pistol when they tried to gain entrance. { The murders and suicide or-| phaned the estranged couples’ 12-year-old daughter, Harriet, who was at the home of an uncle when the slayings occurred. Smith, a former police chief at Woodward, Okla., had been living here with David. He had been separated from his wife, Opal, who started divorce proceedings 1gainst him last June. Mrs. Smith came to Oklahoma City from her home at Daingerfield, Tex., where she lived with her daughter. She telephoned Smith and asked if she could see David. Her husband told hef to come over. Mrs. Smith's brother, Perry L.atham, and Sam Grimes of Daingerfield, who told police he inted té marry. Mrs. Smith when ~ divorce became final, heard she had gone to see her e stranged h usband.
ten
Phoned Police
“As soon as we found out that - she was there we phoned the poHi ce and came out,” Mr. Latham said. Officers Tom Mapes and Fred Ramsey went to the Smith house nd knocked at the door. Smith nswered. He carried a pistol in his hand and he told .the policemen that he would kill Mrs. Smith if they came in. Officers Mapes and Ramsey returned a few minutes later, and this time Smith threatened to shoot they didn't go away. The offic
them if ers were standing outthe house trying to determine a way to get inside without endangering David and his mother when they -heard three shots.
closet. Poli there from the telephone when his father threatened him.
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