THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 10, 1995 TAG: 9506100305
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
LENGTH: Medium: 57 lines
VIENNA, Va. - Retired Army Col. Trevor N. Dupuy, who wrote more than 90 books on military history, shot himself to death at age 79.
Dupuy committed suicide on Monday, three weeks after learning he had terminal pancreatic cancer.
His books include ``Hitler's Last Gamble,'' published last year, ``The Compact History of the Civil War'' in 1960 and a series on both world wars.
Some of his texts are required reading at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated.
Dupuy served in Burma during World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Zhang Yun, six sons and three daughters. Burial is scheduled for Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Walter Frehm, who drew the syndicated ``Ripley's Believe It Or Not'' cartoon feature for 30 years, died June 2 at 89.
Frehm and his brother, Paul, drew the feature, which chronicled the unusual and the bizarre and is considered one of the most successful cartoons in history.
It appears in 175 newspapers in 42 countries.
Early in his career, Frehm worked on several cartoon strips, including Red Barry, a 1930s competitor to Dick Tracy, and Mirror of Your Mind, an illustrated column devoted to the study of the mind.
SEATTLE - Brig. Gen. Wesley Hamilton, the nation's oldest general, died Monday, five years after being debilitated by a stroke. He was 96.
In 1917, he enlisted in Tacoma as a private in the Washington Coast Artillery and served in World War I, becoming a first sergeant.
Active in the Washington National Guard Reserve until 1940, he was recalled to duty to start a new regiment. In 1942, he re-entered the Army as a major.
Hamilton commanded a mortar battalion that landed at Normandy with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in June 1944, ending his war service with the rank of colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1955 and retired two years later.
COLUMBIA, Md. - Malva C. Heffner, whose family was driven from Mississippi by harassment after inviting civil rights workers into their home, died Monday of emphysema. She was 71.
Heffner and her husband, Albert, were harassed in McComb, Miss., in 1964 for bringing together blacks and whites during the unrest that engulfed the city. After their lives were threatened and the family dog poisoned, they moved to Washington.
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