Wells Carpenter Jones, 90, former North Platte resident, died Thursday in a Carthage, Mo., hospital. He was born June 26, 1898, at Waldo, Ark., to W. Clark and Mary Almina Carpenter Jones. On Dec. 27, 1922, he married Jessie Maye Jones in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

A World War I veteran and a 1921 graduate of the university of Nebraska Law School, he was elected Lincoln County attorney in 1923. After his term, he went into private practice.

In 1946 he went to Tokyo, Japan, as a prosecuting attorney for World War II war crime trials. He returned to the United States in 1949 and worked as a law book editor for Bancroft-Whitney in San Francisco, Calif. He was also a judge advocate on the Okinawa Islands.

Mr. Jones retired from the U.S. missile program in North and South Dakota.

He was a member of the First Methodist Church, past president of the Kiwanis Club and former member of the Elks and American Legion.

Survivors include a daughter, Bea (Mrs. Bill F.) Wright of Joplin, Mo.; two grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1970.

Graveside services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the North Platte Cemetery with the Rev. Eric Anderson of the First Methodist church officiating.

A memorial has been established to the School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Mo.

Adams and Swanson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.