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denly had hours of is a to the as as night FEBRUARY 1958 FOUR THE PADUCAH SUN-DEMOCRAT Kidnapper, Remorseful Over Crime, Shoots Himself night when he saw Burton 'and Davis drive by in a 1956 blue-and-white Ford. Even Little couldn't explain what it was about the pair that attracted his attention. "Out of curiosity I stopped them to check on whether it was a stolen car," he said. The two cars stopped in front of a service station. Using his police radio he checked the car's registration, and found that it was listed as owned by Harold Wayne Davis of Redwood City, which tallied with the identification Davis gave him.

Again. for reasons he couldn't explain, Little asked the men to open the glove compartment. They did so, and Little glimpsed the butts of two automatic pistols. Not letting Davis and Burton know he had st seen the pistols, Little told, them to shut the glove compartment. Then he walked around the car, coming up on right side, where Burton was sitting.

He asked for the two pistols then, and Burton handed them to him, butt first. sud Little cordered Burton to come with him back to his highway patrol cruiser. Again using the radio Little checked the pistol registration and found that to be in order. As a final precaution, Little asked both Illinois and Missouri authorities to see whether either Burton or Davis was wanted for any crime. He Decided To Release The The reply was negative, the men.

He took Burton was still waiting. Before giving moved the ammunition clips Men so Little decided to release back to the car, where Davis back the pistols, Little reand emptied the chambers. "As far as I'm concerned, you fellows are clean," Little said he told them. But then, glancing into the rear of the car, Little saw what appeared to be the muzzle of another weapon under a gunny sack. He reached back and pulled the sack aside and saw a sawed-off shotgun.

"Oh, oh, this is it," Little said he thought to himself. Burton was reloading the pistols while Little was discovering the shotgun. Little made a grab for the pistol and wrestled with Burton until Davis reached into the back, got the shotgun and pointed it at Little. "Let's quit," he quoted Davis as saying. "That's a good idea," Little said he replied.

Carter County Sheriff Snowden Dell was at the scene, but unaware of the struggle for the gun until it wa's too late. The gunmen ordered Dell and Little into the service station, along with several "young people" who had happened to see the incident. Inside, the gunmen debated about what to do. The idea of a hostage was brought up. Little tried to talk them out of that notion.

He offered Burton and Davis his state car to escape in if Bandits Get $100 From Wickliffe Gas Station WICKLIFFE, Feb. 3 (Special) -J. B. Owens, Wickliffe filling station operator, told to-. day how he was robbed of about $100 by Harold W.

Davis and a Carl Burton, the two gunmen who kidnapped a Missouri state trooper Saturday night. Owens sead he was just check.ing the cash register and had counted "either a little more or A little less than $100" when a car drove up to the gasoline Gov. Chandler (Continued From Page One) ago, providing plenty of time in which to call a public hearing if one had been necessary on it. "What do you want?" he asked the membership. "Do you want to wait until the session is over? The black ink of special interests is written all over this bill." Thomas Fitzpatrick (D-Covington), a Chandler stalwart and former speaker, said he had been on all sides of the isi sue, "and now it seems there's another side." He voted for the public hearing.

The Senate Appropriations Committee struck from the budget the extra money appropriated by the House for control of the cattle disease brucellosis and for starting. a medical care program for the needy. Also taken out of the amended bill was an appropriation for fighting mosquitoes in Western Kentucky and extra money for free textbooks in public schools. Sen. Cassius M.

Clay (D- the only committee member not firmly lined up as a Chandler supporter, prepared a minority report to submit when both chambers reconvened at 8 p.m. CST. The majority report with every member except Clay voting for its adoption--earmarked $450.000 of capital construction funds for developing state parks but didn't change the 20 million dollar total contained originally for new building. It also added $50,000 for the biennium to add three commissioners to the staff of the Court of Appeals. Clay's minority report would erase all House amendments except the prohibition against removing the Health and for reducing the capital outlay by fund.

the amount deemed necessary to accomplish the transfer. Public hearings on the budget bill been terminated sudafter two questionis and answers Monday. U.S. Asks (Continued From Page One) East-West leaders. Bulganin's Netter mentioned possible talks via diplomatic channels but said these should deal only with "procedural and other problems" involved in drawing up a list of topics to be discussed later by chiefs of state who presumably would do the actual negotiating.

In this connection, Bulganin might have had in mind a statement by James C. Hagerty, the President's press secretary, Jan. 26 that a summit session would be possible even if the foreign ministers could not reach agreement in the areas covered by the agenda. (Continued From Page 1) they would agree not to take a hostage. The gunmen wouldn't Finally the car came to the Cairo bridge, where a police agree to this.

roadblock sat helplessly while the bandits and their hostage sped by. Burton was for taking Mrs. Tommy Foster, 15, wife of the service station attendant. Davis was against this. They Made Service Station Man Fill Their Gas Tank "When I saw they were going to take a hostage, I asked Near Wickliffe, in Kentucky, the gunmen forced Little to them to take me," Little said, stop at the service station of J.

B. Owens. Owens, seeing the Pausing only to empty the cash register of about $45, they guns, realized what was happening, and he, too, was held under followed Little's suggestion. Burton took the Highway Patrol 8 gun. The bandits made him fill the gasoline tank and give trooper in the state car.

Davis followed in their car, them some cigarettes, and about $100 1 in money. Davis Crawled Into Back Of Police Car With that completed, the weird procession resumed. After driving about 200 yards Little was forced to turn left, and from About 10 miles from there, they stopped, and Davis left his this point on he wasn't sure which roads he was on. car and got in the back seat of the police car. "Drive straight ahead on 60," he told Little.

About here an unmarked car began pursuing. It was later learned that this belonged to the Cairo Police Chief. So began the weird chase. Missourf Highway Patrol headquarters had an inkling of what was going on, because Lit- The thugs made Little stop at the crest of a hill, and surreptitiously had his transmitter turned on. Burton got out and fired three shots at the car.

A bit farther on, the car turned off on a gravel road, and The first state police car was seen near Poplar Bluff. Burton took the wheel. "They ordered me to tell them to stay back," Little said. "They told me that if we got stopped at a roadblock, I'd be the They began traveling an involved route over many differfirst one to get killed." ent roads, and, 1 Little said, "all of a sudden we were in the middle of Paducah." Little complied with their orders. He radioed to his fellow The pursuing cars had been shaken off temporarily; but officers to keep their distance.

almost immediately, alerted Paducah police units sighted them. Cars, Closing In, Were Ordered Back By Little Then followed the wild chase through the streets of Paducah that lasted 30 to 45 minutes. Several Paducah units at one More and more cars began dropping in behind the kidnap time or another were in pursuit, and many shots were excar as it proceeded across Missouri. Every time one would get changed. close to them, Little would order it pack again.

Davis, the Little's' high Little said he thought Davis fired the first shot at a purin back seat with powered rifle close. suer. One Paducah officer, Patrolman William Cunningham, kept threatening to shoot any car that got was slightly hurt when, a bullet struck just at the base of the The thugs made Little pass civilian cars ahead of him windshield of the police car in which he was riding. A piece several times, then order the pursuing cars not to pass or they of glass struck his chin. That delayed the Paducah car long would fire.

enough that they lost sight of them at that time. Going through Dexter and through Sikeston, the bandits Little at first was not able to communicate with Paducah made Little turn on his top light and siren and speed police to tell them to stay back. Later, he reached headquarters through the towns. In Sikeston a civilian car failed to heed the warning of by an indirect radio route and the officers complied. the siren, and Burton leaned from the window and fired two Little himself had a close call with a bullet.

One fired by shots at the motorist. a pursuing Paducah car went through the back and emerged tanks. He sent his 12-year-old son David, out to see what was wanted. While David was filling the gasoline tank, Owens said he noticed it was a state police car and went to the door, still carrying the money in his hand. He opened the door and waved.

"Come on out," someone called. Owens said he went to the car and asked the state trooper who was driving what he could do for him. "A man in the back seat pointed a shotgun at me and said 'You can give us that Owens said he saw immediately that the state trooper was being held prisoner and promptly passed over the money to one of the gunmen. Gerald Bowman, an attendant at the station, was inside the station Owens was told to have Bowman bring a package of cigarettes. Bowman complied after that he had no money for the cigarette coin machine.

He finally was persuaded by Owens to take the money out of the cash register. After getting the cigarettes, the trooper then drove away. Owens said he then saw Kentucky State Trooper Lloyd Key drive by and tried to stop him to report the robbery and to tell him that a Missouri state trooper WAS evidently being held prisoner in his automobile. "I thought own, Owens said, "that Key drove right on by and that he had his car lights turned off." Owens did not realize until the news came out later that Key was trailing the kidnap car. 700-Lb.

Satellite (Continued From Page One) electronic instruments. In Philadelphia, Willy Ley, a world leader in rocketry, was predicting the United States will be able to send a manned satellite space within six years. Ley both this country into, and Russia probably could shoot rocket to the moon this year if they wanted to. Sen. Mansfield (D---Mont) commented in Washington that the Army's success with its first Explorer- indicated to him that the Army might have been downgraded too much in relation to the other branches of the armed service.

He discussed the situation on the Senate floor. at the same time sending the Army his congratulations. Explorer's two radio transmitters are sending back data on cosmic rays, meteorite particles and temperatures. Recordings of the coded signals are being deciphered by U. S.

International Geophysical Year (IGY) scientists here. After the evaluated it will information along to other nations, including Russia. Russia's reports on her two Sputniks arrived at IGY headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, today but Secretary General Marcel Nicolet said they contained "nothing new." WESTERN PEEPER TOLEDO, Ohio -A peeping tom with a western bent was the object of a recent police hunt. The peeper showed up in the back yard of Joseph Alexo, mounted on horse. Dubious policemen were convinced after Alexo" showed them the hoofprints.

through the windshield on the right side, just where Little was sitting. He had ducked only an instant before that shot. continued to drive at a terrific speed. Davis had Burton knocked out the back window of the car with two shots and was seated there firing at any car that pursued. Little said they sped through service station drives, over rutted streets and even lurched over the curbs of a boulevard Several times Burton whirled into a driveway and at one point.

waited while pursuing cars went past. All the while, Burton was driving without lights. "I thought I was a goner," Little said. "I figured he'd pile the car up." In the of the shooting Davis used all the ammunisawed-off shotgun. Then he switched to Little's tion of his He couldn't reload the clip in that so he high-powered rifle.

then emptied Little's service revolver. Eventually Little found himself on what he later learned was the Melber road. around for. a place to stay," said "They started looking Little. this house with a light.

on and a car in "Finally, they found told me to get out and ask if Bill Jones was there." front. They Little obeyed. "The people met me at the door. I asked if Bill Jones was there, and they said no. I said we had to go in and look for him and that 'I was a police officer.

Burton and Davis were behind me with a gun in my back." Once inside, Little explained the situation to the Sheltons. He told them that they wouldn't be harmed if they obeyed Burton and Davis. "The people were nice. They made no resistance. And I'll say that Burton and Davis never made any effort to harm them in ahy way." It was slightly before 10 p.

m. Saturday that the three men began their forced visit at the home of the Sheltons. After a quiet day Sunday, Burton and Davis began laying plans to split up. Burton departed at about 5:30 p. m.

Davis was to follow. several hours later in Shelton's car. Burton, given directions by Shelton, started across the field behind his house toward Highway 45. Shelton believed he intended to steal a car. He hasn't been seen since.

Burton took the trooper's service revolver and his own .32 automatic pistol then and left, asking directions from Shelton for Highway 45. Little said the bandits gave all three of the prisoners chance. to sleep Saturday night. They themselves took turns. Shelton and his wife were allowed to retire to their own bedroom, leaving.

the door open a crack. Little was allowed to lie on a studio couch in the living room. Burton sat in a chair beside him with the barrel of the sawed-off shotgun at Little's head and his finger inside the trigger guard of the safety-less weapon. Sunday morning Mrs. Shelton fixed breakfast for the entire party, and the men helped wash dishes.

Burton and Davis, taking turns, shaved and washed themselves. The morning was passed quietly. Mrs. Burton prepared dinner for the entire party. In the afternoon Burton and Little played several games of checkers, and Davis and Shelton played cribbage.

Davis and Burton kept trying to get news broadcasts over the Sheltons' television set. About 3 p. m. Davis and Burton apparently made a change in plans. It had been indicated at first that they intended to stay at the Shelton home until Tuesday, when the fugitives expected the "heat" to be off But at 3 p.

m. they asked for sandwiches in preparation for leaving. Little's car had been hidden in Shelton's tobacco barn about 100 yards from the house. One of the bandits went out there and returned with Little's handcuffs. They handcuffed him to a chair in the living room.

About 5 p. m. Little was taken from the chair into the back bedroom of the four-room house and handcuffed to an iron bed. Little heard a long and apparently heated conversation between Davis and Burton, which he couldn't make out. He saw Burton give Davis some of the money, about half of it thought, that they had gotten at the service station holdup.

After Burton departed, Little had some conversations with Davis that at times were poignant. "Some are leaders, and some are followers," Little quoted Davis as saying once. "I'm a follower of a poor leader." Little said he asked Davis whether Burton was coming back. "No, and if he does, I'm going to shoot him," Davis replied. "Apparently Davis hadn't been in any trouble except for one five-year term at San Quentin." Little got the idea that Davis had been trying to "go straight" until falling under the sway of Burton.

About 9:30 p. m. Davis asked Little if he wanted to go to his car and radio word to his fellow officers that he was all right. He and Little went to the tobacco barn, but when Little asked for permission to back the car out of the barn, Davis refused, for fear it would Little explained that he was at the limit of his radio range and that his signal couldn't be picked up through the barn's tin roof. So that project was abandoned, and the men returned to the house.

At 10 p. Davis watched a television program over WPSDTV in which Paducah Police Chief Rulie Elliott was interviewed by Bill Turner. Little believes the telecast. somehow strengthened Davis' resolve to commit suicide. Davis said he was going to leave.

He said Shelton would "go with 'us." They stepped out the back door. Davis then said he had no intention of leaving, and announced he would shoot himself. "Go ahead," Little told him. Following instructions, Little and Shelton started toward the tobacco barn, while Davis walked toward the garage, near the house in the opposite direction. They heard the shot.

Both men dashed in the house for weapons. Little ran to the tobacco barn, backed out the car and radioed for help. His message was received by fellow Missourian, Trooper N. W. Copeland, who soon brought in most of the other officers gathered here.

Despite his weariness, for neither he nor the Sheltons had done much sleeping the night before, Shelton stayed on to help set up the search for Burton. Davis, after shooting himself, managed to crawl back into the house. Taken to Riverside hospital he was found to be in critical condition. The bullet had entered in the lower chest, ranged upward through the heart area and emerged from his back. Monday, Burton's troubled father, Ed Burton, was helping officers search for his son in the snowy fields around Melber.

"If.I can just talk to him, I can get him to give himself the elder Burton. Burton, according to records here, cattended Franklin Junior High School. He went to work for the Illinois Central Railroad in 1950 and worked two years. In 1952 he enlisted in the Navy. He returned to the IC in about 1956, keeping his seniority.

He hadn't worked long, however, before he moved to California. His father and mother are E. H. 1 and Edna Burton. The family formerly lived on Melber 1.

They live now in Paducah. He and Davis married sisters. A lead which was still being checked out by the FBI was the possibility that Burton was involved in a police slaying in California. He boasted to Little during the Saturday night pursuit that the pistol he was using had "already killed one cop in San Francisco." SHELTON HOME--This is home of Mr. and Mrs.

and Harold Wayne Davis held the Sheltons and Barn, in which Little's police cruiser was hidden, left front of picture but then managed to get back W. Germany Won't Pay For Troops BONN, Germany, Feb. 3 (P)- West Germany stood adamant today in her refusal to pay in the future for support of Allied troops in this country. Bonn officials turned 8 cold shoulder to an appeal by NATO Secretary, General Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, who flew here to try to mediate bitter dispute with Britain, the United States and France. After conferring with Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and other German leaders, Spaak tersely told newsmen it had been frank discussion on "a very difficult theme." The main bone of contention.

is Britain's demand for 588 million marks (140 million dollars) to help support British troops in Germany in the next fiscal year. The Germans contend further payments to the Allies will endanger the buildup of the new West German defense establishment. The Allies West Germany should help pay for the foreign troops helping to protect Germany since the Bonn regime has failed to bring its the promised NATO. strengths to anywhere near West Germany pledged a 000-man force to the alliance but 80 far has less than 000 men under arms. Bonn's; 1957-58 defense budget totaled nine billion marks 000) as opposed 1,420,000,000 pounds ($3,976,000,000) for Britain.

Water Successfully Douses Oil Fires DALLAS -Water, long thought to be a spreader of fuel fires, has been used successfully to extinguish oil fires. In a test a lubricating-oil fire, ignited by a leak to hot steam pipes, was put out with 8 continuous water spray. At the same time a steady flow of water was used to cool the pipes below the re-ignitiont. temperature of the oil. The island of New Guinea attracts naturalists and.

pologists, but its swamplands, jungles and forests do riot atI tract farmers. Calvin Shelton, Melber community, where Carl Burton Missouri State Policeman Bill Little captive for 24 hours. is at far right. Davis shot himself in the general area at into the house where police found him critically wound- Driver Of Death Car The Missouri patrolman also shot at the car with a shotgun, McAlister said. No charges have been filed in connection with the case.

'McAlister is, an insurance salesman, working out of Paducah. (Continued From Page 1) Miss English was born and reared in Paducah and received her education at the Seventh Day Adventist Church School here. She was employed at the nursing home oplerated by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus English, at 1823 S.

4th St. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Besides her parents, she is survived by three brothers, Claudie, Jessie and R. B. English, all of Paducah; one sister, Mrs.

Norma Jean Cornwell of Paducah; two halfbrothers, Ernest English of Paducah and Marvin Leadicker of Alton, and a halfsister, Mrs. Mildred Peck of Little Cypress. Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending arrival of relatives. The body is at Lindsey Funeral Home. An autopsy was performed on Miss English's body Monday night but Coroner James Davis said a report would not be available before Tuesday morning.

He also said it was possible results the autopsy would not be, released until' an inquest scheduled at 2 p. m. Thursday at McCracken County court house. Bandits 'Nice And Polite', Says Calvin Shelton Family "They were polite and nice and respectful they could be under the conditions, the tension they were under." Carl' Burton -and Harold Wayne Davis were thus described Monday by Mr. and Mrs.

Calvin Shelton, who were suddenly caught up in the tragic adventure Saturday when Burton and Davis invaded their home and held them hostage along with Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper Bill Little. "They never at any time said anything out of the way to my wife or to anybody," said Shelton, a 50-year-old farmer and well repairman. Almost from the first, the Sheltons said, the whole company was on a first-name basis. Except for the presence of the gun, always in the hands of the two gunmen, an observer might have guessed that the Sheltons were being held prisoner. Shot" Near Garage "It was 'thank you' and 'may I' all the time." said Mrs.

Shelton, who is night supervisor at Western Baptist Hospital. "Not even the furniture was misused. They kept their feet on the The 24-hour ordeal ended when Davis shot himself near the Shelton garage about 10:20 p.m. Sunday. Burton had departed on foot five hours earlier.

The atmosphere was almost friendly. Davis, especially, was friendly toward the people. "Even though we were his prisoners, he kind of got next to me," said Shelton. "I mean knowing the man was going to destroy himself, and him SO calm about Shelton said Davis talked about suicide several times Sunday. He told Shelton he couldn't stand to go back to the penitentiary.

Standing Outside Still, it wasn't until. shortly. after 10:15 p. m. and he, Davis, and Little were standing outside the Shelton house that he felt sure the adventure would end in Davis's try at suicide.

Until then the talk had been that Shelton would. be forced to accompany Davis in Shelton's car as a hostage. But outside the house, Davis said, "I have no intention of, going." "That was the first time I knew for, sure that I. wouldn't be going with him," said Shelton. Mrs.

Shelton was left in the house. Davis told Little and Shelton to walk toward the tobacco barn where the police car was hidden, about 100 yards away. Davis said he himself would go to the garage, nearby in the other direction, and shoot himself. Told Little To Wait For some reason, he told Little to wait three hours before giving the police tions to the house. The Sheltons have no telephone.

Both men 'heard the shot and broke for the house to get Little's shotgun. They feared Burton might return. Then Little went to the patrol car to radio to his fellow officers. Shelton took his wife to the home of a neighbor. Visitor Sent Away Four times during the ordeal Shelton had to send visitors away without letting them know what was happening, while inside the gunmen kept careful watch.

The first visit occurred at 3 a.m. Sunday. When Mrs. Shelton didn't appear at Western Baptist Hospital for her job, hospital authorities were puzzled. They contacted the Sheltons' pastor, the Rev.

A. W. Landis, pastor of Melber Baptist Church, and asked him to see what the matter was. Shelton told Mr. Landis then that his wife had taken ill at 10 p.m., and that he couldn't leave her long enough to go to a telephone and notify the hospital.

The explanation satisfied Mr. Landis. In the afternoon Shelton had to send away Mr. Landis again, Mr. Shelton's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. 0. M. Shelton, who had missed them at church that morning, and a neighborhood boy, Jimmy Gifford..