jAftbrnoon, njir i ism rwi«nir>— ——■■■■■l. I II ■ I ' " mmtmmmmmmmmmm ■■ Ex-Lover Murders Paramour s Hubby WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. The former lover of a four-times married blonde slipped into her home and shot her husband, an Air Force colonel, to death today while he slept, the sheriff’s office reported. 8 tariffs Investigator John R. Hiatt identified the victim as Lt. Col. .William A. Covington, 46. who was shot "five or six” times in the chest while he slept beside his wife, Violet Pearl Covington, 31. Orville T. Waldron, 31, a husky part-Indian of Fairfield, Calif., was ordered held on a charge of min der pending an investigation by a grand Jury. Hiatt quoted Mrs. Covington as saying she had lived with Waldron from 1948 to May 1953 in a com mon*law relationship, but had left him to marry-Covington at Tavares Fla. Waldron was arrested by officer Roseoe Trent Immediately in front of the Covington home this morn ing. Neighbors had heard the shots fired and called police. TRIP TO THE WEST Mrs. Covington told officers that Waldrion came here a month ago and got her to accompany him to Belen. N. M., but she said she left him after a few days, returning to Covington. She said Waldron apparently fol lowed her here. She said last night she and the colonel retired about | io p. m. and she awoke .to find Waldron in the bedroom with the lights on “and firing a .38 revolver Into the colonel’s chest.” Officers said Waldron apparently had "silently forced an entrance through the front door of the house t Jand went Immediately to the bed. lyoom. Officers determined that he Krrived in West Palm Beach about 11 pm. NEARING RETIREMENT Covington was rushed to the Palm Beach Air Force Base Hospital where he died two hours after the shooting. k Hiatt said Mrs. Covington had been married four times in addit ion to her common law relationship ■with Waldron. She had two children by her fizeto two marriages while Covington had been married once before and had a 14-year-old daugh ter. Hatcher & Skinner Funeral Home ' ' ESTABLISHED IN 1912 AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 2447 j Dunn ' N - c Look behind the day’s news n. ppr with George E. SokolsKy The forces that shape these turbulent days are not 1 strangers to George E. Sokolsky. He was an on- \ the-spot observer of the Russian revolution in 1917/spent 13 years In China. His first-hand knowledge of today's critical areas of the world is unmatched by any other columnist. And hin insight, scholarship and patriotism have won , George E. Sokobky many journalistic honor*. I Hi Every day In th# I -V • n ’*"'-** ■ j* k * 'Sy\ .. , Tin IWiu Pa#aJ ■ WWP* BPiifW rlvevlil 1 L Suttles (Continued From Put Tm) Fayetteville, having lived there while serving as Scout Executive for the Occoneechee Council. MARKET SUPERVISION In addition to serving as manager of the chamber here, he was also sales supervisor of the Dunn Tobac co Market. The Town of Dunn and the Dunn chamber has made much progress during Suttles’ two and a half years here. During this time, the town se cured two important new indus tries, the Blen Jolie girdle manu facturing Co. and the H. P. Can non and Son Cannery, which will go into operation here this month. Other achievements include est ablishment of the Dunn Curb Mar ket, the Dunn Recreation Commis sion, development of Tyler Park, and aggressive Tourist Bureau pro gram, and a year- round program of retail trade promotion. In addition to his chamber du ties, Suttles has been a community leader. MANY HONORS He served as State vice presi dent of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1953-54. was vice presi dent of the Highway 301 Associa tion in 1952-53, is a Scoutmaster, served on the board of stewards of Divine Street Methodist Church, as vice president of the Men’s Class of that church, is a member of the Rotary Club and various other, or ganizations. Last year, he received the Jay eees’ “Distinguished Service Award” ag Dunn’t “Young Man of the Year” Suttles is a graduate of Wofford College in Spartanburg. S. C. He is also a graduate of the National Trednlng School, for Scout Exe cutives In Menham, N. J. and a graduate of Southeastern Institute for Commercial Organization Execu- ■ I 1 I ( I i 1 ■ t r ..‘ h l-HWP.- - m :: TREES CUT Workmen are shown busy at work cubing trees on the corner of Clinton Avenue and Edgerton Street for a widen ing project on Edgerton. City Manager A. B. Uzzle said today the widening project is part of a city wide effort to improve streets in Dunn. INQUEST HEARS THORNE'S MOTHER wSffljp r ’ ' Hl *■ K Jn MRS. MARION THORNE answers the coroner's questions in Chicago at the Inquest into the mysterious death of her son, Montgomery Ward Thorne, 20. She wept as she said her son is “up there" and she could "thank God, for now 1 will always know where he is." The Inquiry also heard a coroner's physician report that Thorne’s atorrjanh contained a combination of wood alcohol, barbiturates-end morphine with “some thing else In there that doesn’t belong," which he did not Identify. He called the mixture “enough to kill." (International Soundphotoj Drinking >- Smoking Not For Bartender By BILL ROSENTRETER United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) He’s into his 67th year now as a bartender, and he’s never taken n drink nor smoked. At 81, he boasts, of putting in eight hours behind the bar six nights each week and says he won’t even think of retiring-for at least four or five more .years. That’s Eddie Gerber, a bold man, five - foot - six, ISO pounds, who moves with the speed and grace of one many years his Junior. Efdie claims the title of. “dean tives in ChapA Hill. "" Mr. and Mrs. Suttles have three children, Diane, age 10, Bill, 7 and Bob, 3. I Quality J n Parakeets* I All Colors * I ■ ;;->7V We Invite you to nee them ■t our aviaries. AVIARIES 1 Day Phone 2446 Nite 22M DPNNNC - - fHR DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. of American mixologists.” He says he has been a bartender all his working life, having learned the trade as a boy In his father’s sa loon in Monroe, Wisconsin. Eddie was 15 years old then, bade in 1887. That was long before most of his colleagues In the trade were bom. “When I develop a h«fbit, I stick with It,” he said. Perhaps that accounts for the NEW MYSTERY IN THORNE DEATH iA. .Jh'.T TVTt •Wrnm™* . JmL'm MEK.; ■ " ’ - THIS PHOTO of MpgtgqpfEy jfard jhiproc. heir to a mafl order fortune. I nr^*" 1 " Ragen as chtof beneficiary. She la • granddaughter of Johnson To 'Continued From Fan Onoi fire proof structure which the ci tizens have expressed a desire to own. Plan 3 call for the building to be leased on a long term agree ment to a manufacturer of men’s sport shirts. Coming of the new industry was contingent of the erection of a sui table building. However, the erec tion of the building and manage ment of the property will have no financial ties with the new indus try which will occupy it. The build ing, home owned and financed will be governed by the officers chosei) yesterday. Johnson has served as a llason man between the Lillington citi zens. the factory seeking to locale in the county seat, and the indus try committee of the State Depart men of Cpnservation and Develop ment. Ray, the county tax collec tor and merchant, is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce In dustrial Committee. Sexton is pre sident of the Lillington Chamber | of Commerce; and Wilboum is one of the five men who subscribed the first stock which made possi ble the purchase of a site for the plant. The land, bought from the A. N. Waddell Estate, borders the A & W Railroad and Highway 15-A. Aiken Continued from pa re one ance, military and cooperative hous ing programs. Subversives: The congressional outlook for passage of the adminis tration’s anti-subversive legislative program brightened as chairman William Langer (R-Nri-s announced his Senate Judiciary Committee will have most of the anti-subver sive bills ready for action before adjournment. CHICAGO (UP) The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said it will have to raise a mini mum of $2J00,000 in a emergency March of Dimes drive next month if it is to continue its programs of polio prevention and patient aid. fact that he has voted the straight Democratic ticket for 60 years. ’Tin not about to change,” he said. Eddie recalls two incidents most vividly, as he looks back on his long service to America's drinkers. “I remember sitting on John Ringling’s lap in my father's sa loon when I was a boy,” he said. “And I remember very well, too, listening to John Callahan tell ,a bout how he ran Carry Nation out of his place with a siphon bottle-. She got soaked and never did come jback.” Eddie said it was no accident that he never did take that first drink. He credits his father. “He used to swell me up in his own place, boasting to crowds of people: That’s my boy, Eddie, never took a drink in his life.’ “He bragged about that so much, I Just knew he got real pleasure telling people. I just couldn’t take a drink.” Eddie’s health, save for four bat tles with pneumonia, has always been good. He attributes his un usual condition to “a routine life." “t live the same every day,” he said. “Eight hours of sleep every night, regular food, and I keep busy. That’s the main thing keep busy.” In recent years, Eddie has been serving night - time visitors to the Plaza Roy ale, in Kansas City’s fashionable plaza district. It is a tribute to his mental alertness that he is able to call most of his cus tomers by their first and last names. In his younger days, Eddie turn -1 ed to billiards and pool for recre i ation. He admits modestly to hav -1 lng been “pretty good.” “I played an exhibition with Wil lie Hoppe in Omaha in j 903,” he : said. “But I haven’t played now ; for quite a few years.” “He's playing golf now,” a lis tener Interposed. : “Oh, no, I’m not,” Gerber re torted quickly. “I’m not old enough s yet for that gams” NEW SMAU AE> FORCE JET EXCEEDS 1.000 M.P.FF. THE U. 5. AIR FORCE reported that it has a new thin-wing •’air-superiority* Jet fighter—the XF-104—de signed to attain supersonic speeds in combat, more than t,OOO miles an hour. Above is an artist s conception of the new Jet craft. The XF-104 Incorporates in its design all the benefits of test data obtained with the Air Force and Navy “flytng laboratory " The small Jet fighter is capable of developing 15,000 pounds of thrust from one of the most powerful engines of its type, now in mass production. ( International) IKE ADMIRES WONDERFUL PINS' j | ■j*' s ■ WHEN PRESIDENT EISENHOWER told these high school band cowgirls from Sterling, Colo, that they were wearing "wonderful pins," he was referring, lt appears, to the T Like Ike” button! they wore on their visit to the White House. Shown Siuar. j f ' LOS ANGELES (IB Owner ship ol a hit and nm car which killed a 9 - year . old boy has been traced to George Tobias but police said today the actor was not involved in the accident. 1 PHENIX CITY, Ala. 6B Acting Atty. Gen. Bernard Sykes announced today that a blue rib bon grand Jury will be empaneled soon to Investigate every known Loans-Financing ft Make Loans On New aad j Uaad Awtwnfljfoi INSTALLMENT LOAN DEPI.. . FIRST-CITIZEN BANK;& TRUST (X). Btkwart Theatfe MU' PAGE FIVE | crime in Phenix City from gamb ling to prostitution. : WASHINGTON HP) Clare ! Boothe Luce, ambassador to Italy, expressed optimism today about the Trieste situation “in (j 'the not too far distant future.” Mrs. Luce gave her optimistic views on the Trieste problem fol lowing a 30-minute talk with Pres ident. Eisenhower. | ‘"■ilijmiyr ■sllSf * auax— -_-a we: *k* siaaiM Ji ■r” w , Mr*. L J. Dwmy sm * i,, D^NN # Nett :