Statesville Daily Record from Statesville, North Carolina • Page 6

5TATESVILLE, N. DAILY RECORD Leading Newspaper WEDNESDAY, JULY 31,1946 COMPLETE RADIO REPAIR SERVICE FOR HOME AND AUTO RADIOS Phone 7SI 435 SMth Center St. LEDBETTER'S BUSINESS by McFeattors IB botUMM adnunutration and will ho4d a naff thouuuids CARNIVAL DICK TURNER otiee ya been illegally all dis time by a BRTH nor ALTHOUGH EARLY CALIPORNIANS SELDOM COULD READ OR PRACTICED THEIR THE BLOCK Hunts Slayer on Ship KEY WEST, July cloth-bound hammer found by divers in the waters under the destroyer Stribling was regarded here today by the four-man Navy investigating board as the probable weapon used by a homosexual killer to stun Benjamin Hobbs, Nebo, N. sailor, who was found strangled in a gun turret aboard the ship last Thursday. A pair of ripped shorts found next to Hobbs' body, caused Navy medical authorities to interject the sex angle in the slaying.

Meanwhile, sailors aboard the Stribling have been restricted on shore leaves and Navy officials indicated that the murderer still is on the vessel. Billiard Champ Ahitver HORIZONTAL 1,7 Pictured world billiard champion 14 About 15 Profited 16 Signal bell 17 Unemployed 19 Bog 20 Units 21 Rank 22 Goodby (coll.) 23 Nickel (symbol) 24 Diminutive suffix 25 Range 29 Worship 32 Sheltered side 33 Fish 34 Foot lever 36 Come in 39 Atop 40 Thus 41 Entry 44 Swine 48 Newts 50 Father 51 Level 52 Flap 53 Deletion 55 Elaborate 57 Term 58 Mourner VERTICAL 1 Carts 2 Satiric 3 Single 4 Ear lobes 5 He has won five times six years 6 Revise 7 Man 8 Above 9 Symbol for samarium 10 Casket 11 Jar 12 Sexless 13 Fancy 18 Two (prefix) 26 Aged 27 Vegetable 28 Lamprey 29 Era AT THE MOVIES TODAY, A MEAN WOMAN REFUSED TO TAKE HER HAT OFF THAT'S HER NOW--- LOOKINS IN THE VVIMOOW 30 Jacob's filth son 31 Worthless scrap 34 Balances 35 Total 37 Property 38 List 42 Epochs 43 Disorder 44 Demigod 45 Bake chamber 46 Earth goddess 47 Precipitation in winter 48 Slave 49 Tab 54 Ut infra (ab.) 56 Anent ifs GOING TO PARIS WITH VOU OUT.RAOUL---' I TOLD VOU WE COULDNtT MARRY- FORAUON4 MARRIA6E--' POUF' I 5HAIL NEED GOOD AJWUTi, THE SPRING PERHAPS--VOUR HEART WILL COMMAND- AND WE SHALL SPEAK THE WPfOH fM A BifX KIBBON BSM AT ONTO THt. HOPE THAT UNK WMMTS ONE OCAD KOK WHSN THIi 6UY NO! PLEASE: THINK OVER IT. 1 GIVE Mt YOUR ANSWER AT DINNIR! NOTHING LIKE IMS EVER HAPPENED TO ME IN MY WHOLE AND THEN WE ALL SOT TOGETHER AND OECioec? BUILD YOU A THAT'S HOW IT PULL THE LIGHT SWITCH 6AIN, DOUSE I TWlNK MRS, WOULD LIKE TO ATEAR.OR.TvAW IN PRIVATE MR. WADDY TELLS ME THAT UR.TUB&S BROU6HT VOU TO LOS LOCO FOR OBSERVATION IN THIS VERY HOSPITAL.BUT.

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