The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, December 15, 1955, Image 21

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Vengeful Man Slays Wife,
Three Children, Then Kills
Self During Police Fight
DALLAS. Tex. if An unem-i "I'm like i r.illlpsiiako I warn
ployed uto repairman who warned before 1 strike," she said Calhoun I
"I n just like a rattlesnake ' killed 1 added.
his estranged wife and three in-1 r',iu,. it . u- . i
fant children early Tuesday, then ! .,lh.f al ' rh'
fatally wounded himself as officers J1' V,4 . ra,,e ''
, j , a m. and said. 1 suess you know
Mrs. Marv Calhoun. M, her son. '.Afli;r f,'w
BoM.y Lvnn. 19 months, and her.'"' " if " T i '
twTh daushters. Pamela Sue and calM ba'k 15 minuU, la,,,r
Patricia Lou, 3-nionths-old. were1 Alwut 20 relatives huddled in her
shot and bayoneted to death in their home while officers searched
throughout the town for Calhoun.
The sister-in-law said Calhoun j
talked extensively about the shoot- j
int;. Kavini; ne oroKe lllio ine House
Kast Dallas home about 4:30 a m
Her son-in-law. 19-year-old John
Warren, was critically wounded.
The husband, Buford V. Calhoun,
32. died more than eic.ht hours and asked his wife to return to
later after police cornered him in: him.
a big suburban drug store on the -she wouldn't. I wasn't intending
east edge of Dallas. They had l0 kill her until she started scrca ill
traced a telephone call he ! jng. . usl,(i mv bayonet on her
made to a relative and trapped then. I saw mv little bov sitting
nun while he still talked in the and crying. 1 had to shoot him.
phone booth . Are they all dead-'.'
Police bullets whined through the Poli(.e , , ,. M I)(lwl(v talk(,(
Bui doctors said the one bullet ' l'' from , 'n'.
wound in Calhoun's right temple VrteiAonJ h oo h
indicated he shot himself. Officers,111 '., 'etillonc booth,
believed earlier he was felled by I whll' Ddy kept ( alhoun en
their guns. j Raged in conversation for about 20
Customers screanfed and ran asl"11'1" ca" WJS ira'u in me
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MEDITATIVE -The
famril Finnish composer .Iran
Sibelius pose in this rare and
recent portrait from llfhlnki.
He crlebratnl his 9((h hirlh
day on Decrmber 8.
FLYING SANTA STARTS LICHTHOUSE TOUR Edward Rowe Snow. "Flying Santa" load
ed his plane at Boston as he started his 19th annual trip to drop Christmas packages to the
lighthouse keepers on the New England Coast. His wife, Anna-Myrle and four-year-old
daughter, Dorothy, helped him with the 60 packages for day's trip from Bar Harbor,
Maine, southward along the New England coast. (AP WIREPHOTO)
Dorothy McGuire, Godfrey Singer, Sues For Divorce
BUNNELL. Fla i Singer
Dorothy McGuire. a member of
the Arthur Godfrey broadcasting
troupe, and her husband are sum?
each other for divorce. Both
charge cruelty.
Miss McGuire, 27. has several
times complained that her married
life with Set. John Henry Brown
of the Air Force was overcast by
too much publicity.
Public interest in the marriage
began two years ago when former,
Godfrey singer Juhu LaKosa, 21.
was dismissed from the troupe dur-
ing a broadcast. At the time he'
said he loved Dorothy and wanted
to marry her if she could gain her
freedom.
The divorce suits were disclosed
Christmas Trees
U Cut Or W Cut
And Deliver.
Phont OR 3-4816 .
Tuesday night by Miss McGutre's
lawyer, Charles E. Booth. He said
Brown filed the original suit here
last Aug, 16. seven months after
she publicly announced reconcilia
tion.
Miss McGuire filed a countersuit
Walter Winchell's Cirl
Has Depended On Friends
LOS ANGELES Mrs. Walda
von Dehn says she quit a $l.ooo-a-month
job with her father, colum
nist Waller W'inchell. to marry hotel
man Hyatt von Dehn but had to
depend on friends for support after
their separation.
Mrs. von Dehn, 28. was awarded
$400 a nnjnth temporary support
yesterday pending trial of her con
tested divorce suit.
Von Dehn, 40, blamed a recent
heart attack for making him "a
very difficult man to live with."
The columnist's daughter testi
fied she may be expecting a baby
and should know for certain "in
about a week."
on Aug. 30 and the two are now
! waiting for a court decision on
which suit will be heard first.
The couple, who have no chil
dren, married on Julv 30. 1951 in
'Dorothys hometown of Miamis
burg, Ohio.
When told in New York of the
divorce action, LaKosa expressed
surprise. He said he had not seen
Dorothy since "three days before
last New Year's."
When pressed, he said he did not
know when he might see Miss Mc-
uuire acdin ana added, one can
never tell we're both in show bus
iness, you know."
bullets tore through the big new ' suburban drug store and officers ii . L 0 r (SC Twft
tore rushed there. Thev found him slill''VUrner V 1 I WU
Must Stand Trial
A divorce suit filed by Mrs. Cal-: In lMe Pone ,)00Ul
houn was scheduled for court nextj Relatives said Mrs. Calhoun left
rnday. In a telephone, call Mon- her husband about a month before
day night Calhoun said, "I don't the twins were born. "He had CASPER, Wyo. (.ft Mrs. Rose
know if I want to go to trial Eri j threatened the entire family and i Alexander, stocky mother of two,
.Inhn Warren's 16-vear-old 1 evcrvbodv was keen in b uiiard
wife, Shirley said. against him," one said.
W. J. HARRIS DIES
PORTLAND .ff Walter J.
Harris, '46, of Portland, injured in
an automobile accident here Dec.
10. died Tuesday fh a Portland
hospital.
If officials decide his death was
due 1o these injuries, ha would be
Portland's 37th traffic victim this
year.
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