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Receive Safe Driving Awads In Saluda Preacher Shot, Neighbor Held Grieving: Do Adopts Doll Court To Listen To Arguments By Battered Body Of Missing Girl Taken From Lake ft Rams, Vancouver 4 LOS ANQELES (jnU.S. Judge Harry C. Westover will hear more arguments next Monday in the le VP ROCKINGHAM, N.C. UN The savagely beaten, knife-ripped nude body of 19-year-old Ida May Tread-away was dragged from Roberdell Lake here last night, ending an intensive search that started Friday. The Rlohmond County sheriff's office said a knife had been plunged Into the pretty blonde's back five times and that she had been smashed behind the ear and For Solace CHAPEt HTLL, If.O.

(It-A year-old Boston bulldog. fTiawiaf over the death of her only puppT. hat adopted ft doll aa ftS she Iht dog, named Pug, waa takes to the home of Mr. and Mr. Caif Dixon at Carrboro after losing he puppy.

There she spied l-yT-ol4 Bobby Jean Dixon's big, golden haired rubber doll. It was mother love a ftoaS sight, and Bobby Jean agreed give up the dolL Back home with Mr. and Mr L. M. Durham at Chapel B01 Pug Insisted on sleeping with the) doll In her box.

She spends hour nuszllng, licking, or just gaaing at the unresponsive but thoroughly satisfying doll. 1 1 I on top of her head. aaiapM gal skirmish between, the Los An-(teles Rams and the Vancouver of the Canadian League over the service of quarterback Rudy Bukich, onetime University of Southern California star. Westover heard the lawyer rep-resenting Vancouver argue yesterday for an injunction to restrain Buklch from playing for the Rams on the claim that he signed a valid contract with the Canadian team. The Rams contend previously had signed a contract with them.

Judge Westover said that after listening to more arguments next Monday he would decide whether fee has Jurisdiction in the case. In Superior Court. Judge Leon T. David took under submission a motion by Edwin W. Pauley.

Fred Levy. Hal Seley and Bob Hope for a demurrer to the way Dan Reeves, president of the Rams, sued for dissolution of their partnership. They maintain the National Football League should be I Ii III liV'J J. P. MANGTJM CHESTERFIELD J.

P. Mangum, president of the Peoples Bank of Chesterfield who died Sunday, will be burled tomorrow. The former member of the Stats House of Representatives waa 89. The four rural mall carriers of the Saluda post office this morning received their safe driving award pins at the postofflce there. Left to right are A.

T. Nichols, eight years; A. J. Nicholson, four years; John H. Jennings.

26 years, and W. F. Herlong, 26 years. The awards were started in 1930, with two of the carriers completing the entire period. There are five routes in Saluda, the other carrier being J.

R. Webb, who recently took over route three. (Index-Journal photo by E. D. Johnson.) a aeiendant, along with the Pau ley group.

Dallas City Council The hunt for the wife of a serviceman now overseaa ended at duck when Jim McKlnnon and Tom Adams, who live near the lake, spotted the body floating on the calm waters The body was Identified by the girl's father, police said. Two persons who said they saw Mrs. Treadaway oelng beaten and stomped by three men In a wooded area are being held in Scotland County Jail at Laurlnburg as material witnesses. They are Mrs. Bernice Quick Chandler, 28.

of East Rockingham, and 61-year-old Kenny Watson of Scotland County. They told officers they were with Mrs. Treadaway Friday afternoon and that the three left a road-house near Gibson with three unidentified strangers. According to Mrs. Chandler and Watson, Mrs.

Treadaway rode with two of the strangers and the third accompanied them. Police quoted them as saying the two cars pulled off Highway 74 onto a dirt road and the victim anu the three men went into the woods. Mrs. Chandler said she saw the men beating Mrs. Treadaway.

Bloody shreds of the woman's clothing were found amid several blood-caked patches of dirt hi the area. Edward Turley (left), 72, of Sarasota, was arrested for questioning about a shotgun blast that wounded his neighbor, the Wllmon Smith (right), 40, a minister of the Church of Godv Police Lt. Walter Whltted said pellets from Turley's weapon struck Smith In the right side as he was eating breakfast in his home next door to the Turley residence. No charge waa placed against Turley immediately. Officers said he gave varying accounts of the shooting.

neighbors told police they knew of no 111 feeling between the minister and Turley who had been a regular attendant of 8mlth's church until recently. (AP Wlrephoto). DEATHS and FUNERALS Last Union Veteran Laid To Final Rest Refuses To Bar Art By Comunists DALLAS CD The City Council DR. THORNWF.LL JACOBS CLINTON Funeral services for Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, 79, for Thieve Use Own Coins For Drinks WARWICK, R.

I. mp, Thieves ripped open a massive safe at the Warwick Building Materials Co. ever the weekend and got an undisclosed amount of money. They quenched their thirst while they worked" with oft drinks from a nearby vending machine. Police said they did not tamper with the light metal dispensing machine, but used their own coins to pay for the drinks.

mer president of Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga who died at DULDTH, Minn. UP) A drum and fife corps playing songs that Albert Woolson rapped out as a ClvU War drummer boy led the last of the Union Army's veterans to his final resting place his home in that city Saturday Death Takes Toll Here And Abroad By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STAMFORD, England Utt Fifth Marquess of Exeter, 79, who succeeded bis father to the title in night following several months of Breaks Into Bank And Takes A Nap NEWARK. N. lv Police aay the only thing Isaiah Matthews took in the bank was a nap. The 34-year-old Matthews waa found at bank opening time curled up asleep in a director's stuffed chair at the U.

S. Savings Bank. He was charged with breaking and entry and Intent to steal. refused yesterday to Insert a clause Into a contract covering operation of the Museum of Fine Arts which would specifically prohibit Communist art. Mrs.

Sue Boren president of the Public Affairs Luncheon Club, and Mrs. M. C. Turner Sr. appeared at the council session with a club resolution asking that the clause be Inserted In the contract between the Dallas Art Assn.

and the Park Board. The contract was approved yesterday. Earlier the club sparked a row over display at the museum of an exhibit, "Sports In Art," which was alleged to include paintings by four Communist or Communist-front artists. LAST DAT and was alde-de camp to the Fred Smith Co. Clearance of Summer Straws Including the Popular Dark Tones Dobbs Hopkins Chomp Regulars and Long Ovals Fred Smith Co.

The Stors For Men The drummers and fifers were waiting at the cemetery gates for the funeral procession, which had moved' slowly along a four-mile route, led by more than 200 marching military men. As the blue-clad Sons of Union Veterans unit from Mount Vernon, Ohio, led the procession in slow cadence to the hilltop burial plot, It played "Onward Christian followed later by "Sweet Bye and Bye" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Services were conducted by the Sons of the Union Veterans. A declining health, will be held from the First Presbyterian Church of Clinton today at 5 m. Burial will follow in the family plot In the church cemetery. Dr.

Jacobs' was a native of Clinton. He was a son of the late William Plumer Jacobs, founder of Thornwell Orphanage, and the late Mary Dillard Jacobs. Following his graduation from Presbyterian College, he began his career as a minister in Morgan-ton. N. C.

As president of Oglethorpe he founded the famed Crypt of Civilization now at the campus. He retired In 1943 at the age of 66. Surviving are three sons, Thornwell Jacobs Jr. and Dr. John Lesh Nasnvllle and Murfreesboro, Indianapolis and Evans-vllle, and at Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, died Griffin Orders New Probe Into le? Smashings ATLANTA Gov.

Marvin Griffin has ordered a new and complete investigation into the se TECHNICOLOR 'I0MI 8TS VILLAGE FOREST FIRES COLUMBIA ifl A -total of 213 fires destroyed 1.614 acres of for est land In South Carolina during June. TLL CRT TOMORROW small fern wreath, a lone rose late King George from 1920 to 1931 died yesterday. CHICAGO MB Sidney J. Wil-Hams, 70; dean of the traffic safety movement in the United States and director of the National Safety Council from its inception In 1924 until his semiretlrement In 1950, ded Sunday. LOS ANOELE3 OrV-Chester R.

Upham, 62, of Mineral Wells. Tex. a pioneer In the natural gas and oil producing industries and the founder and a former president of the Palomino Horse breeders Assn. of America, died aturday. He was born in Butler, Pa.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Iff) Charles H. Cunningham, 55, a partner with Santon B. Ingram of Annlston. In operation of hotels In and a minature flag were placed on the metallic casket during the Jacobs, both of Atlanta, and Fred graveside rites.

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Get FASTKKTH today at any drug counter. ries of leg smashings by Rock Quarry Prison convicts, who charge they have been ill treated by the guards. L. Jacobs of Whittier, two daughters, Mrs. Olson Slelds and Mrs.

Herman Coester," both of Winston, and several THE ENTERTAINMENT EVENT THAT WILL SWEEP YOUR HEART AWAY! The governor acted yesterday after a fresh outbreak of leg tended the services. A crowd of about 1.500 at the National Guard Armory, where other services were conducted, heard Lt. Col. Augustine P. Donnelly, a Presbyterian chaplain attached to the 5th Army headquarters in Chicago, sjnashing and a statement by an VUk HAMMERSTBNS admittedly guard that he had witnessed beatings, kit-kings, cufflngs and cursing." Jf jLSf otk mctuh at AtSl TNtMW ntts tou mi say: Warden Hubert Smith said there CAROUSEL "To few men has it been grant was "not a word of truth" in what tUlUH BJ ed to see such a vista of history.

Mr. Woolson has seen the loyal sons of the North and the South Join hearts and hands in several the guard said. The prison for incorrigible at Buford is about 40 miles northeast MISS KATIE SIMPSON DUE WET Miss Katie Henrietta Simpson, 57, died at the Abbeville Memorial Hospital Monday at 9:35 p.m. following an Illness of several months She was a daughter of the late J. W.

J. and Sahavana Ellis Simpson of Due West. Survivors Include two sisters, Mrs. Claudia Bowie of Abbeville and Led a Simpson of Columbia; three brothers. Mack Simpson of Due West, Brooks Simpson of Lynchburg, and Dewey Simp Gordon MacRae Shirley Jones Cameron Mitchell wars." HALF-DAY BARGAINS! Woolson died last Thursday at 109.

7:45 Tonitt of Atlanta. The latest bone- crushing Incident occured Sunday night at the Georgia State Prison Hospital In Reldsville, where 41 convicts were taken for treatment after they tried to shatter their lega with 20-pound hammers at Rock Quarry Prison. Seven men whose legs were not Commander son of Hopewell, Funeral arrangements wlU be announced by the Harri Funeral ENDS TONITE fHiwAYtaaMm Home. shattered In two sieges of multila- tion at Buford tried again. Dlrec fflEATRfi' MEN'S SLACKS L25J tor Jack Forrester of the State Department of Corrections said Guilty Of Hazarding Ship NORFOLK.

Va. W) Cmdr. Richard B. Varley Jr. was convicted here yesterday by an eight-officer general court-martial on a charge of "negligently hazarding" his ship, the destroyer Eaton.

The Eaton, with Varley In was involved May in a collision with the battleship Wis two succeeded. Kef auver Down But Can Not Be Counted Out Forrester said that after the prison hospital lights went out Low Star oi a Princess Reduced! JLli pr. Ernest O'Neal, a white man. oT ImMM broke his left foot by slamming a door On it. In addition, he said.

Jimmy Lee Stark, a Negro, ripped out a piece of bathroom plumbing consin some 50 miles off the Virginia Damages totaled about 11,300.000 but there were no Odd Lots, Broken Sixes! All Summer Fabrics! Other Better Slacks CHICAGO UP Estes Kefauver may be down but he Isn't counting himself out. The hand-shaking senator from Tennessee has renounced a 11 claim to the 1956 Democratic presidential nomination But the No. 2 ONEMASCOPE and COiO injuries. Shortly after the verdict was re 1 I ImKJUM kaaheaUXS fcalOBC Wosh'n Wear Others 5.00 -9 mum mi turned, Varley was sentenced by the military court to the loss of ISO unrestricted numbers in the spot on- the ticket remains open-so far as Kefauver knows, at least. Shows 7:45 9:50 Navy Register.

The sentence vast JSJ And for the big opportunity well, there's 1960. and 1964. And ly reduces Varley chances of stepping up to captain. maybe other election years. The verdict and sentencing cul So, to the surprise of early ar minated almost six days of testi rivals for this year's convention.

mony, most of lt dealing with speed Kefauver headquarters Is a buzz 0 IAU6H3 course, visibility and ship com ing, going concern. Nobody around the place seems to know quite what the, senator Is up to. But all -BESTEST- and broke his leg with it. Five other Negroes made unsuccessful attempts to break their legs. Both O'Neal and Stark told newsmen during interviews last week that they wduld break thelites rather than go back to Rock Quarry Prison.

Prison authorities had said they intended to return them to Buford yesterday. Frank Miller, 53, of Athens, a guard at Rock Quarry Prison, cited alleged incidents of brutal treatment of prisoners In an Interview with Atlanta Journal reporter John Pennington. Miller-said, he spoke out" because he was somewhat disgruntled at treatment he had received and because he did not' like to see people kicked around." 1 A Joint legislative committee held hearings at Buford and Reldsville last week but found nothing to back up charges of-in humanity. It did report instances cf abusive language, slapping and cuffing and called for an end of such practices. I mand in the moments preceding the collision.

In the final argument, the de hands are sure Kefauver hasn't lt4-EST- FUNNIEST EVERf fense attorney, 'Cmdr, Robert W. resigned himself to political ob scurity. REMNANTS now lh price f) Big Assortment! Wells, conceded that while Varley might be guilty of an error of It's obvious at the moment that 1A Judgment, he was not negligent in he means to make his deep, ami able-sounding voice heard at the that his actions merely followed a chain established by Capt. Terrell Connor and Lt. (J.g.) Peter "We thought of closing up shop Van Shoeffel.

entirely." says one of Kefauver'a chief aides, A. Bradley Eben. Connor was screen commander Good Sewing Lengths! of four destroyers, including the "But then well, we had the space I reserved, we were coming to Chi Eaton, In a formation of ships maneuvering in foggy weather off the Virginia Capes and was aboard the Eaton at the time of the col cago anyway, and were just isn't space at Estes' personal quarters I'f MMiaa for all the people who 11 be dropping in." lision. 2 Shoeffel waa the Eaton's officer So, Instead of a bleak, canceled- of the deck. out Kefauver floor at the Conrad Wells said Connor had the 6 Only 9x12 Cut Pile Rugs hi t.

bridge control of the Eaton and Hilton Hotel, there are 20 brightly furnished and well equipped rooms. And the welcome mat la gave the order for the ship to en gage in a rescue pattern for out. Colli Print Draw Drapes Kefauver Is urging his backera to switch to Adlal E. Stevenson the rescue of a man erroneously reported overboard that put the Eaton on a collision with the Wisconsin. but some will take a bit of con WxW Evcrlon Net Panels 75c ea.

Drip Dry, Stay Crisp! Little Ironing; Ivory! 300 Keaucea in rncei f) Save Plenty Now! 15 Orders Issued by Connor were vincing. Averell Harrlman claims a mass shift of Kefauver delegates to himself. "negligent to the point of reckless pr. ness," Wells said What about Kefauver for vice The defense attorney said Shoef president? Rayon Acetate! "if sentiment should develop ror Floral Prints! fel added to the chain of events by failing to tell Varley of the man overboard report and that the the senator, then we'll have an V- lit NELSOK MORROW organization ready for action on his behalf," Eben said. SAVE! SAVE! Ice Cream Melted 'From Pure Meanness' NORFOLK.

Va. (Pt Cecil Cana 8ARAGREV KOOREHCAD PAUL JONES SAVE! Wii-Viaw" te I LOW PRICE! I I Men's Twill Work Pants jf 5 iVt Ox. Army Twill! Broken Sizes! Bedouins Forget Sheep, Look For Land Mines CAIRO, Egypt Ufi A bunch of Bedouins who used to herd sheep are working at a more dangerous Job now In Egypt's western desert. They're huntinor still-buried land mines of World War II. Ten or the Bedouins have been blown up.

But with the thrills, steady pay and all, the rest seem to like this switch from their once peaceful existence. "I've spent most of my life sitting by sheep," an ex-herder remarked. "This is much more exciting." Wired iron rods and Mars-like earphones replace the hooked stick and flowing garb which have characterised their profession since the days of Moses. The Bedouins' lob Is to clear the de.sert of hundreds of thousands of mines planted by three different armies Italian, German and British. They are spread from Berga, on the Libyan border, to El Alameln, only 60 miles southwest of Alexandria.

The sheepherders turned mine dow.sers are directed by German and Italian experts under contracts with the Egyptian army. E. L. Profiry, a former captain in Italy's Fascist army who took part In the planting of the, mines, is one of their experts. The experts estimate the job may take up to 13 years.

Two Tables I Women's i i Shoes Denim or Twill Women's Jeqns NORMAN TAUROG -SIDNEY SHELDON Th Moon" Th Wind. Th Win Eaton was moving toward a rescue. This "created a dangerous situation" that existed when Varley took charge, Wells said. Varley knew Connor was aware of 1 the position of other strips in the formation, Wells said, and he was relying on Connor's knowledge as a seaman when he believed that the Eaton would clear the Wisconsin. The defendant testified he had asked, Connor, on assuming command, to check the radar to make sure ihe Eaton would clear all ships and the division commander had assured him it would.

Connor told the court he did not recall such a conversation. JERRY DAVIS 3 da, co-owner of the Best Ever Ice Cream says he's got a pretty good Idea of why there were two trucks of melted Ice cream and two Inches of water on the office floor when ne arrived for work. His theory Is that storebreakers, angered because they found no 1) 'k mm a (2)(o) flso 1 uhM 125 money In the office, made the big 1 mesa "Just from pure meanness." Rirvr 1 HiVhlicrhti Sizes 10 to 20! VISTA Plus: "Rocket Byt Baby" "Travlin' West" One Lot Cotton Poplin ff umm y'I Pants Now 2.00 I Flats or Sandals! Parking Problems Special Priced! 3" TORNADO HITS MARTIN, S. A tornado struck the tiny community of Martin In southwestern South Dakota last night, destroying one large building and damaging the hospital. An undetermined number of people were reported injured.

TODAY Thru Wednesday TAMPA, Fla. il Jim Fair rode a bicycle to the courthouse and filed as a candidate for mayor of Tampa. Fair, operator of a discount house, said he will keep on riding a bicycle until Tampa gets straightened out on what he called its parking problems. Feature Starr PEN NEY'S: Where Greater Greenwood Shops To Save! win 1 i.

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