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Show PAGE 12 T7"Sg!S-"f SUNDAY HERALD i Husband, 62, Faces Arson-Murder Charge In Romance With Girl, 16 By TOM KETTERSON -United Press Staff Correspondent NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Aug. 24 (U.R) Dwight Owen Carman, 62, today was slated to face a Davidson David-son county grand jury here on September 6, charged with the arson murder of his wife to clear the way for' his June-December romance with a once-wed, 16-year-old bobby soxer. District Attorney General J. Carlton Loser said that he would introduce an exchange of iove letters to prove that Carman had bec6me infatuated with pretty Bobby Ann Keith, who is about the same age of some of Carman's Car-man's 13 grandchildren. Loser said Carman had kept night trysts at a nearby tourist Colorado Family Wiped Out In Suicide-Slaying STERLING. Colo.. Aug. 24 (U.R) Authorities in this farm community com-munity today sought a motive for a' shocking double slaying and suicide which wiped out a prominent promi-nent Sterling family. Charles Milford. 54-year-old executive of the Great Western Sugar Co. here, apparently took his own life after murdering his wife and 15-year-old adopted daughter, police said. A neighbor discovered the pajama-clad body of Mrs. Milford, 50, yesterday, and Deputy Coroner Cor-oner Robert M. Jackson reported that she had been strangled and her throat slashed. The body of Ruth Milford, the couple's adopted daughter, was found in a pool of blood beside her bed. Authorities said she had been struck on the head with a blunt instrument. A hand ax was found in a bathroom sink where an attempt had been made to wash the instrument. Milford, described as a model citizen, barricaded himself in his garage and died by asphyxiation from fumes from the exhaust of his car. He was found slumped over the steering wheel of his Automobile. Jackson said that Mrs. Milford's early morning struggle with her husband had apparently awakened awaken-ed Ruth. The girl's room also indicated in-dicated a fight for life. Jackson disclosed that Milford had been treated at a local hospital hos-pital recently for a nervous disorder. camp where the petitte blond moved two weeks ago after having hav-ing -lived in the Carman home for two months. He also revealed that she had accompanied Carman to Jacksonville, Fla., last November. He charged the former Jacksonville Jack-sonville ice company worker with "setting fire to his house to take his wife's life because he was desperately in love with the young girl." Carman's wife, and mother of their five children. Mrs. Melissa Carman. 61, perished here early Thursday when the Carman home was destroyed by flames. Carman was arrested yesterday at the McMinnville home of a son, Ralph Carman. He had just completed arrangements for his wife's funeral at Sparta. Tenn. He denied that he had anything any-thing to do with the fire. Loser said baggage found in Carman's car supported evidence that he was preparing to leave with the girl on the morning of the fire. The car, found half a block away from the gutted home, contained clothing belonging to both Carman and the girl. Bobbie Ann, whose marriage to a 45-year-old man had been annulled an-nulled at 13. after her parents had found them in Indiana, was being held by juvenile authorities. authori-ties. No charge had been placed against her. Loser said he found the love letters in her tourist cabin home. The girl, whose mature appearance ap-pearance belies her years, said that she ' liked Carman only as a friend." She said the only thing she was interested In was in returning to school. She is in the sixth grade. Ex-Beauty Queen Is Polio Victim LOS ANGELES. Aug. 24 (U.R Mrs. Eleanor Hunt, former Ohio Wesleyan university beauty queen who was stricken with infantile in-fantile paralysis, has improved a great deal during, five months of treatment here, hospital attendants attend-ants said today. Yesterday she met her husband. Sidney Hunt. Cleveland advertising advertis-ing executive, when he arrived from Ohio by plane for a visit. i Mrs. Hunt, paralyzed from her throat to her toes when she was stricken in October. 1944. now leaves the hospital frequently. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 24 (U P With 120 new cases of poliomyelitis polio-myelitis reported in the city and county during the past five days, health authorities today sought additional berispace and personnel person-nel to curb the steady rise of the disease. The year's total which has jumped to 505 is still below that of the epidemic years of 1934 and 1943. Dr. GrorKC Uhl, city health officer, said. Carbon Veterans Draw Up Ticket PRICE. Utah. Aug. 24 (U.R) Utah war veterans today had made their first concerted move to take an active part in politics when the newly-organized ex-service ex-service men s non-partisan party-named party-named a slate of candidates for state and county races. The veterans emerged from their session after endorsing only on-ly two Democratic candidates. They were A. J. Ruggeri, candidate candi-date for Carbon county attorney, and John Bene, candidate for county surveyor. Both of these men are veterans of World War II. Other candidates drafted for the party's slate are: Max Bertola. Price, for state representative. Dist. 2; Walker Diamanti. Helper, for state representative. rep-resentative. Dist. 1: J. B. Willis. Helper: and Louis Bussmire. Dragerton: for county commissioners: commis-sioners: Joseph Holman, Price: for county sheriff: Geo. A. Rowley, Row-ley, Spring Glen, for county treasurer; John Goni. Price, for county assessor; Alden Burdick, Hiawatha, for county clerk. 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