Truck driver thought murdered

Jan.2-(UP)-Alva posses today searched along highways and under culverts in northwestern Woods County for the body of Ed Cox, missing Oklahoma City truck driver. His abandoned truck, its seat blood stained and a bullet pierced hat indicated, officers said, that he had been murdered. The white hat which Cox was wearing when he left here at 1 p.m. Friday had a bullet hole through it and contained blood. Truck Not Occupied. It was found in the truck, left parked with the lights burning on the main street of Waynoka, Friday night. Finding of the blood-stained hat led officers to fear Cox had been slain and his body hidden.

S.A. Rogers and Everett Agee, deputy sheriffs, learned from the missing man's wife Sunday that Cox, 49 years old, left here Friday for Kansas after a load of furniture. Accompanying Cox was a railway employee owner of he furniture. Mrs. Cox, whose home is in Oklahoma City did not know the man's name or the name of the Kansas town, but said her husband told her the town was 200 miles away.