EPES BEGINS HIS
LIFE SENTENCE
Enters State Penitentiary Irt
Columbia For Murder Of
Wife; Motion For New
Trial Already Filed.
COLUMBIA. S. C., Sept. 24.—
The world he knew has closed be
hind Lt. Samuel C. Epes, who to
day changed his name for a con
vict’s number and his uniform
for black and wmte stripes.
After more than six months in
the county jail, the 27-year-old
son of a wealthy Virginia family
settled down to routine in the
white-walled state penitentiary,
where he will serve life sen
tence.
Two avenues of hope lay open
for the dashing young medical
officer, convicted of drugging
and suffocating his school tea
cher wife and then burying her:
in an abandoned foxhole.
One was a new trial, the other I
an evidentual pardon or commun
tation. A motion for a new trial
has already been filed. It will be
heard later by Judge A. L. Gas
ton.
An all-male jury—women doj
not serve on juries in South Car
olina— convicted the handsome
young officer late Saturday after
deliberating three hours.
Its verdict—guilty of murder,
with recommendation of mercy—
made life sentence mandatory.
The State, which charged Epes
slew his wife because of his love
for a 19-year old Louisiana war
plant worker, sought to send him
to the electric chair.
Epes received the verdict
without trace of emotion. All
through the week-long trial
Truman To Make
‘Major* Speech
In Statesville
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—As
plans moved forward for the vis
it of President Truman to States
ville in November, the White
House revealed today that the
speech he will deliver will be a
“major” speech and that it will
be broadcast nationally.
Congressman Robert L. I/ough
tdn of the Ninth district received
a telephone call from the 1'hitej
House today to the effect that the i
President considered the North J
Carolina speech of major impor-j
tance. I
Just what he will talk about
is a matter of speculation, but
with the Democratic national com- i
mittee opening its 1946 cam
while he heard the details of his
98-pound wife's death and gro
tesque burial, he remained im
passive.
His only comment after the
verdict was to his jailer—"l
hope Mother doesn’t take it too
hard.”
The mother, socially pronunert
Mrs. Travis Epes of Richmond,
Ya., wept when she visited him
later in his cell and Epes sym
pathetically comforted her, jai
lers said.
Epes' lawyers, who elected
not to offer any testimony con
tended the State's only evidence
was the defendant's own state
ment, soon after his arrest, that
he secretly buried his wife in a
moment of panic, after finding
her lifeless body, but did not kill
her.
Epes first reported his wife, an
art teacher, as mysteriously miss
jng. Two weeks later, after at
tempting to kill himself, he led
ofiheis to the foxhole grafe.
NOTICE
For the Convenience of our Custo
mers our STORE will start staying open
on TUESDAY AFTERNOONS, begin
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2ND.
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LOCAL NAVY MAN ON USS CHICAGO IN TOKYO BAY
The heavy cruiser CHICAGO lies at anchor in Tokyo Bay in the shadow of fa
moust Mount Fujiyama. The CHICAGO was present during the historic signing of
the Jap surrender documents. The vessel is supporting the occupation of the Tokyo
area. _
Packages That Never Arrived
It shouldn’t happen to a dog:, barks this puppy mascot at the
Harbor fleet post office as be alts in a pile of poorly wrapper
pa. ked overseas parcels that met a sad fate while enroute b\
to l ie Pacific. Most of the packages contained broken (lass and ]
able food items which could not bo ro-ohipped.
paign, President Truman may
take the occasion to make a
strictly political speech along that
line, and thus tire the opening
volley of the 1*14(5 congressional
campaigns.
Cinder block must he treated
with a weatherproofing com
pound to make the building wa
ter proof.
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Aboard USS Texas
Aboard the U. S. S. TEXAS at
OKINAWA - only American
Hattleship to have fought in wat
ers off three continents, the hard
bitting 1 -year-old U. S. S. Texas
prepares for its biggest role— the
occupation of Japan.
Amoim her crew who have bom
barded their way across two oc
eans and thus helped bring about
world peace is Wilford Short of
Cberryville N. C. who joined fhe
I Navy, in June 1944 and then was
1 assigned aboard here in Sept 15,
1 1944.
Considered a “lucky ship”
; since her commissioning: in March
1914, this dowager of the U. S.
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I med one life and 14 wounded.
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| continued to hurl back her de
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: knocked out.
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few war ships to emerge from
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| suicide pilots. Three times the
! Kamikaze Corpsmen turned to
ward this ship, but each time they
! were discouraged by chunks of i
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CHEMICAL & DYE
TRANSFERRED OFFICE
The Barrett Division, Allied
Chemical & Dye Corporation, has
transfeerred its sales office for
this district from Hopewell, Va.,|
to 201 Granby Street, Norfolk:
Va. The move has been made to|
better serve the fertilizer indus
try in North Carolina and most
of Virginia and to facilitate the
distribution of “ARCADIAN",
John H. Beam In
England University
ISHRIVENHAM, ENGLAND— i
The U. S. Army University f en
ter in England, designed to give
soldiers a chance to get college
instruction while waiting to re
turn to the United States, has
started its first semester here
with an enrollment of 3,*>11 stu
dents, including.
Cpl John W. Beam, 25 of Rt 1
Crouse, North Carolina.
Cpl Beam was a member of the
17th Airborne, Division.
He is studying English. History,
Psychology. He attended North
Brook High School. His parents
are residing at the above address.
A selection of 300 courses is
offered in the fields of liberal
arts, science, engineering, fine
arts, journal sm, education and
commerce. Each student is allo
wed to register for three courses,
and his hours of instruc.i ni wdl
be equivaiant to a summer se
mester at a civilian institution.
Couises are t: light for tl ( most
t.ari by civilian educate, s from
the United Stales authorities in
their respective fields.
Farmers taking part in the
state five-acre cotton contest are
asked to keep complete records,
regardless of whether yields are
large or small. All records are
for a complete report. ~
Better use of land and farm
merchanizat ion can help reduce
production coats on many crops,
according to the exports.
the American Nitrate of Soda,
in this territory. Mr. ('. J. Ball.
Sales Manager of the Norfolk
District and formerly of the Hope
well office, is in charge of the re
cently opened Norfolk office.
WACO THEFT
UNCOVERED
Quick work on the part of Dep
uty Sheriffs Jerry Runyans ana
Joe Beam recovered $120 in cash
stolen from S. C. Suttle’s store
and filling station at Waco Mon
day night and led to the arresta
yesterday afternoon of George
Raves, a negro, who accol^'n£ to
the officers, has already admitted
his g uilt.
Mr. Suttle remembered count
:ng his money Monday night
when he closed his station and
recollected that he had eleven
tens and two fives in currency.
He also recollected that the sta
tion was closed all night and was
not opened until the next morn
ing when he went out the back
door a few minutes leaving this
door unlocked.
The officers found no evidence
of a break-in but consulted peo
ple who had been around the sta
tion a* about the time Mr. Suttle
left, the door unlocked. They got
the do (ration of a negro who
was seen hanging around and
caught him t.ear Waco. When he
was .inert ad ho had exactly the
d( nominf’t'ons of currency on
him which Mr. Suttle had desc
i ihv i! ;.iid was trying to buy an
aid 'mobile with it. He admitted
to the ('.peers that he had gone
in the back door of the station
when Mr. Suttle left it unlocked,
lie will In held for trial in Super
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