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Show 16-YearO!d Confesses To Slaying Pal By BRYAN PUTNAM United Press Staff Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12 (U.R) A fling at high living was ended today for handsome, 16-year-old Donald Cook Edwards, after he confessed to the Chicago slaying of his young companion in crime. Federal authorities held - Edwards Ed-wards at nearby Gretna, La., on a warrant charging unlawful flight He had been in custody for more than three weeks on an auto theft charge before he broke down and told how he beat and stabbed to death Morton Stein, 16, in a Steven Ste-ven hotel room last May 11. Edwards was then only 15. His shabby sweat shirt and blue denim pants contrasting with the flashy clothes he and Stein sport ed during their affluent Chicago days, Edward told police he had slain his friend in self-defense. "It was either kill or be killed," the youth asserted. In a statement to police, Ed wards said he had attended Senn high school in Chicago, where he took up with Stein, known to his associates as Flash Gordon, a youth who always had plenty of money of mysterious origin. The two left home and with Stein's money roamed the country coun-try and hung around dance halls and movie palaces, he said. They had been in New York for a week when they came back to Chicago and registered at the Stevens. "The night of the slaying we were lying in bed," Edwards recalled. re-called. "We had twin beds. I told Stein I was going to leave him. He was beginning to have hallucinations. He was always getting drunk. I was beginning to be scared he was going mad. "When 1 told him I was going to leave. Stein snapped out at me that I couldnt leave him." - Edwards said they had engaged in a violent quarrel, and Stein threatened to blame him for two robberies in which, he said, he had taken no part except to stand guard at the home of one victim, a Chicago bookie. "I told him, -'go to hcl!' and jumped out of bed. Stein jumped up and ran at me with a knife. "I grabbed him and fought him with my fists and kicked him. I grabbed a blackjack and hit him. I finally knocked the knife out of his hands." Edwards said he took hold of the knife. "I knew it was cither kill or be killed. I stabbed him. I don't know what part of the body." Edwards said he jammed Stein's body in a closet, hung a "do not! disturb" sign on the door, andi left town." SUNDAY HERALD stSYfocTwu: ws. PAGE 7. p. & R Q. Works On Panama Canal's Future Will Be Put Up to Congress Soon WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 (U. The Panama canal's future, in the light of the atomic bomb, will be put up to congress next week, it was learned tonight. Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Mehaffey, Panama canal zone governor, is en route here to ask congress for quick action to protect this country's coun-try's vital short-cut between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Mehaffey's recommendai ions- based on belief that the atomic bomb has made the present canal obsolete are expected to incorporated incorp-orated three points: 1. Immediate completion of the third locks project. 2. Immediate modern ization work on the present system. 3. Immediate study of the possibility pos-sibility of building a sea level canal. The third locks project call for installation of a new set of wider lockg more than a mile from the present ones. Work on the project began in July, 1940, but the outbreak out-break of war made it necessary to modify the project in May. 1942, so that work was continued only on a limited scale. Nearly all excavating work, both wet and dry, is practically completed, however, and war department de-partment sources here predict that the new locks could be opened open-ed for trafic within three years after the project is resumed. The third 'locks would be wide enough to permit passage of the navy s new Midway type carriers, which are too wide to pass through .a tne present iocks. Approximately $74,000,000 has been invested in the project to date, and completion would cost an estimated $300,000,000 more. The third set of locks would provide some protection against an atomic Domomg, aunougn canal zone sources have pointed out that the new locks are not far enough from the old to be positive proof against such an at tack. Faster Schedule Effective today trains traveling over the Moffat tunnel route between be-tween Denver and Salt Lake City will operate on new fast postwar schedules, R. K. Btadford, executive execu-tive assistant to the trustees, announced an-nounced Thursday. One and a half hours will be slashed off the westbound schedule sched-ule of train No. 7 and an hour and 20 minutes off. running time of eastbound train No. 8. The trains, formerly known as the Advance Flyer, will be renamed the Prospector, Pros-pector, in lieu of trains bearing that name inaugurated several years ago but discontinued during the war. American automobiles are being be-ing scrapped at the rate of 150,000 monthly. MEN'S FUR FELT HATS REG. 6.50 HATS ONE WEEK SPECIAL "Bates" and Style Sii Parks" Pearl Harbor Probe Hearings To Begin Soon WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U.R) The joint congressional Pearl Harbor committee announced today to-day that it probably will hold its first public hearings early in November. No-vember. Chairman Alben W. Barkley. D.. Ky., disclosed the committee's commit-tee's decision following a two-hour two-hour meeting. Barkley said that the state, war and . navy departments have pledged full cooperation to the committee in furnishing all pertinent per-tinent records for the investigation. It takes the average pedestrian more than four seconds longer to cross a street in the middle of the block than at the corner. 4 iea&H$ Sett&aU OU Oven tie TUUiont Gl Acquitted On Murder Charges LONDON. Oct. 13 (U.F9 Cpl. Leonard D. Robertson of Tipton.! Mo., was acquitted today by a UJ S. court martial of charges of mur-i der in connection with the mys-! terious "bubble" death of a 17-year-old pregnant English girl with whom he had been having "dates." The army court required ony one hour' deliberation to reach a verdict freeing the 23-year-old American soldier who has a wife in Missouri and a baby son whom he has never seen. Only three weeks ago Robertson was notified that his mother and father had been killed ?'n an automobile accident, ac-cident, leaving him. responsible also for the care of their three younger children. There was conflicting medical testimony in the trial and much of it was heard in secret because of its erotic nature. 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