Three Former
Phenix Citians
Die In Wreck
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   Three former residents of Phenix City and a relative of one of them met instant death late Tuesday when two automobiles slammed together on a sharp curve east of Slocomb, Ala. on State Highway 12.
   Dead were:
   William Rudolph Chestnut, 32, of Dothan, Ala,, formerly of Phenix city.
   Mrs. Jewel Hughes, 32, of near Hartford, Ala. and Phenix City.
   David Bradley Hamm, 12, her son also of near Hartford.
   Herman Coolidge Wood, 31, if Dothan, Mrs. Hughes' brother-in-law.
          Chestnut Alone
   Investigating Highway Patrolmen W. H. Hayes and W. A. Cameron  said Mr. Chestnut was the driver and lone occupant of one of the cars.
   Mr. Wood, who was driving the other vehicle, had met his sister-in-;law and her son at the bus station in Dothan  and was taking them to their rural home near Hartford.  The mother, along with her son, was returning from a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Robert J. McKnight, in Phenix City.
   Mr. Chestnut, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chestnut, 1116 11th St., Phenix City, was a native of Phenix City.  A graduate of Central High School, he had joined the Army just before the war and was a paratrooper.
   During the war he served with the 508th Airborne and parachuted into German-held France on D-Day, June 6, 1941 [sic].   He was captured by the Germans on July 11, and sent to a POW camp at Chartres, France.

      Witness In Trial
   Following hid release, after 10 months as a prisoner, and his return to the United States, he was a witness in the trial of Mildred E. (Axis Sally) Gillars, an American woman charged with making Nazi propaganda broadcasts from Holland. He testified that he met Miss Gillars at Chartres on July 15, 1944.  It was on an Axis Sally broadcast that his parents learned that Mr. Chestnut was alive.
   After his release and discharge from the service, he returned to Phenix City.
   Mr. Chestnut attended the University of Alabama for a short while, after which he entered the insurance business in Valdosta,  Ga.  From Valdosta he went to Dothan, Ala., about nine months ago, and was joined in an insurance business there several months ago by a brother, Glenn Chestnut.
          Wife, Child Survive
   Mr. Chestnut is survived by his wife, the former Miss Maxie Warren, Donalsonville, Ga. and a son Bill Chestnut, 15 months; his parents in Phenix City; his brother, Glenn, now of  Dothan; a sister Mrs. Johnnie Fay Salomi, Warrington, Ore.; several aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
   Funeral will be at 10 a.m., Friday at Ward-Wilson Chapel in Dothan.  The Rev. Max McNab, First Assembly of God, Dothan. will conduct the service.  Burial will be in Memory Hill Cemetery, Dothan.
   Mrs.. Hughes id survived by he parents; five sisters, Mrs. Eddie Dean Barrentine and Mrs. Maurice Gore, both of Columbus; Mrs. Pauline Sellers, Pahokee, Fla,; and Mrs. Mitchell Pittman and Mrs. Trudell Wood, both of Dothan; two brothers W.. D. McKnight, Bonifay, Fla. and Robert J. McKnight, Jr., Columbus.
   Survivors of the Hamm lad are his father David Bradley Hamm, Sr., Atlanta, and his maternal grandparents of Phenix City.
   Double funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at Pond Town Methodist. Church,  The Rev. Floyd Enfinger, will conduct the service. Burial will be in Pond Town Cemetery.