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WomenSlainInHawkinsChurch Hill ManBlames WitchingFor Killing TwoCar? Walters JetSMI# Death Of WomenAt Catmtry Store• By letxb- Bailey Tknes-News- WriterChur eh Bill — {Set.) — A Church Bill iroc, Carl Walters,. who claimed he was, bewtkh-esl,” shot and killed two women in a eotmtrj store- about 2' p.m. I’uesday six miles from- Gbureh HiXl, im- Carter's Valley, Hawkins. County, Sheriff Bradley- Blatr said,Blair said Walters, about 40. was hooked a.t the cmmtyjail in Rogersville on twocharges of murder.The vfettrss were:, i'dcr.tified as Mrs. Alberta Gibbons, 21, and her mother.,. Mrs. Alba Woods, 41185,000 In '50Carl Walters5-Year-Old GirlStruck By AutoEyewitnesses said Walters entered- the. store calmly, leaned against a counter, and then .suddenly whirled and fired at Mrs, Alberta Gibbons.They a»M she died withoutspeaking -as - 'her -Iff-month^old. son clung to her dress.Prank Hall, who saw the shooting, said wlters then turned-' and fired three shots at Mrs. Alfca Woods as she begged:, ••Mease don't fefll me.Mrs. Woods,, who lived about 700 yards. Irom- the- Larkin, and Larkin Store to Carter's Valley, died soon after arriving, at the Holston Valley Cemmtsnlty Hospital- where authorities- said.' she was shot in the chest.Walters walked into- the-Kingsport police station shortly after the killing and said,. 1 Just shot two. women: down- in HawkinsJ©s«phme Hensley Injured YesterdayCounty, Caph W. IS. (Bill) Tay- twm sister for Mrs, Hensley.Josephine Hensley,, five-year-old daughter of Mrs, Lois Sens-fey, 1524 Newborn Read,, re-mairtftd in critical- condition atHolston- Valley Community Hospital Wednesday after she was. struck by an automobile late Tuesday sJtoirnein,. The child was hit as she ran across Mne-eia Avenue after pufc* ■fctog some, toys in her mother’s 'car, a neighbor reported.’ Mrs. Harold Campbell, 1540: Pineola Avenue, said she had been keeping Josephine and herWashington — W — Ito all ' probability she draft is .going, to take far more men. this, fiscal year' than the 185,000 so far atrthortzed.That's the estimate of Maj.. Gen. Lewis B. Herehey, Selective. Service director.He told a reporter the- 18S-000- total was based m m estimate of needs made in July but now outdated by the- world situation,General Hersbey said the international situation. is- sa b-. settled nobody cm give an accurate .-estimate- of' jost how many men may have to be called in the neafr few months-. But he remarked that Congress now has- removed limits ©it the size- of the armed services.The draft director saM caKs have gone- cm# for 200,60© men —60-,s50- to September andjSg,-006 fc- Gctoher.Testimony given Aug, I andreleased yesterday by theBern® Appropriations- Committee disclosed -that Bershey had been, authorized: to draft18,0OO men In the year endtognext June 30-After the September and October calls far IfiSvQO men were filled this. wuM haw left only 85,000' to be drafted in the next eIgM mcmths-.“I ctont believe well try to get by with anywhere near as. low as- S.00O additional men,*’ .General Hershey $sM yesterday.• Hersfeejr t sM. the- esmmifctee he planned ta sal' another §#,-fil meii in November and he-■says bow that this- may-be to-ereascd. Ksr saMbe experts the call will get- out to a couple of. weeks.The Befense Departmemt estimates the- manpower it needs and' then- aufctuatiies Hetstaey (S«e Draft, Pxgeltt .Big Earthquakes Believed LocatedtWSXhinaSeaAnti-Red RiderSlows Controlslor said.Shcnfi Blair said. Wednesday that no preliminary hearing was scheduled and no bond: had bcaa■Walters, who. claimed he was, ‘“bcwi'tottecr' at the time f the double slaying Tuesday, was Involved la an earlier shooting Case la the same section. Sheriff Blah- revealed. The ease- wsss continued from- the spring terra ef the Hawkins County Circuit •She saM: the mother had, come for the girls abou-t fifteen, minutes before the- accident occurred, -and the twins had pat tsfeeir toys in the car preparing.to: go home.; She aaid bath girls not--across the street at the same' time,, feat only Josephine was Mtt.W.. L. Butfeertord,. 1026 Catawba Street, driver ef the car, said he was getog. home from workCourt, te aid. Write. «* tteTW^ »«*»«£•chavfced with shooting a man to (See Witching. B»ge 15porati-an when he struck the efelML.Manila —(/?)•— Three- heavy; jearttopskes were recorded ever !a Sve-^tomiT period by the Philippines weather-bureau, Tuesday; 'The locations could not be- pin-pointed bu# were believed to be to the South China Sea.The ■ Manila observatory estimated the qpake center 'about eSS EftSes' sotohwe-st of Manila.This- imM-place it to the South China. Sea somewhere betweenthe tip of the Indo-CMna pento-sul.a on the northwest, the Malay peninsula to the sntohwsst and Borneo- on the- east.It was emphasized by the observatory that the location is purely tentative- since the. shocks.w«e» sq great that there, has iSen »o- accurate estimate of the dManc®..There, haw been no reports .from any section- of the PMhp-pto« that people felt the quake.The first, was timed at 7:52.39 a.m.. yesterday. The second, and heaviest,, hit at 9:15.17 am EST, and the third- and lightest at12:44.31 p.m. EST.House Voles Today On Serial SecuritykctWill Topmw-.si:9Sfom■ Washto-gtOB — if?}. — Senate. p Bessocratic leaders sought today: to. turn back, a Republican drive-. t farce an antx-Communlst i16etssamendment tot® a bill giving -President -Truman, sweeping Same tim% controls.Wastotogton — — TheWeme v^ted 241- to 188 today to restore cily mail service' to-two deliveries a day... It passed and sent to theSenate a bill ordering the Post Office Bejiartnjettt to: eaneeA an Ajwil 17 order catting city hwne detiveefes- to one daily and rartailing etherThere were plenty of toctoa-tfwns that they faced an ■uphill jofa.The issue waa teo-ught to- alead yesterday when SenatorsNEOznft (R-SD1 and. Ferguson-fK-ttfich)- offered their biS re-
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Wed, Aug 16, 1950
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