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PAGE TWO t BULLETINS t (Continued From Pace One) howerus the presidential choice of 2,188 editors of weekly them think President Truman **":•* .reelected by defeating Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O. H.QLLYOOD. (UP) German - born Countess starlet "Betsy von Furstenberg insisted today her engage ment -to hotel heir Conrad Nicky Hilton “is still on” de spite rumors she had called it off. HOLLYWOOD. (UP) Screen Queen Lana Turner; started the movieiland rumor mills grinding today by see-1 iMp' Khi'. ‘town on the arm of handsome Argentine Actor I Fernando Lamas. . CHARLESTON, S. C. (UP) Richard Smith Wha ley, retired chief justice of the U. S. Court of Claims, died a|-a hospital here yesterday at the age of 77. TCCSON, Ariz. (UP) A meteor expert said today the Tinning objects sighted in Southwestern skies in the past 11 days were “the most remarkable concentration of meteoc4ike objects in historic times.” . PARIS. (UP) Albert le Proust walked into a Paris policKit&tion last night with a kitchen knife between his shoulder-blades. “My wife’s work,” he muttered Doctors say he will recover. CHICAGO. (UP) Weather forecasters predicted todQTthat the nation would enjoy true November weather thffggh-end after a record-breaking, pre-seasonall taste NEW YORK.— (UP) —Rebel AFL longshoremen agreed today 'to-return to work “in the public interest,” ending the longest, costliest waterfront strike in the history of the na tion’s .largest port. REY W’EST, Fla. (UP) President Truman hung a “Dio Not Disturb" sign on his vacation White House today and embarked on a “One Point” program—sleep. CAIRO, EGYPT. (UP! The government-run Cairo radio broadcast today an appeal by a Moslem priest for a ;ainst the British in the Suez Canal zone. SIONVILLE, Fla.—(UP) —Squadrons of “enemy” lted Jacksonville and Sanford, Flia., with theo n bomb attacks early today as invading forces i “Lantflex 52” ploughed northward for an am phibious assault on the North Carolina Coast. BUENOS AIRES. (UP) At lest 12 persons were injured and a number arrested when police used tear gas last iiigfit to quell stone-throwing political demonstrators at awwnti-Peron rally. JSTONEY, Australia. (UP) Five natives adrift In’ tfio South Pacific for 3 1-2 months said today they be lieved the compass in their boat was rendered useless by » radio-active rainwater off Bikini Atoll. EUSTIS, Fla. (UP) A Negro youth, once con denift&d to die for the rape of a White housewife, has sworn that the Lake County sheriff and his deputy shot him as Jfc lay helpliessly manacled to a s;<ain companion. ]■ BTH ARMY HQ., Korea. (UP) Dogfights blazed in the air over northwest Korea today while United Na tions infantrymen repelled enemy probjng attacks in freez es weather. jj LOS ANGELES. (UP) A man with no hands was aaptured today in the holdup of a food mart and was iden tified as a “paper bag bandit” sought for many recent Holdups. He is James T. DuPriest, 31, an ex-convict, whose ■Sands were cut off by a metal press while he was in prison. ji WASHINGTON. (UP) The Federal Reserve Board {barged today that the Trans-America Corp. large West Boast bank holding firm, has been making a “steady march toward monopoly” for more than 20 years. j! CHICAGO. (UP) A resumption of the advance ip cotton based on yesterday’s production estimate re sulted in general buying in grains and soybeans on the Hoard of Trade again today. I! J! SAN FRANCISCO. (UP) The Japanese vessel Kinugasa Maru, with 42 crew members aboard, radioed mat it was in distress and required immediate rescue this ffroming, according to marine rado staton KPH. jj DES MOINES, la. (UP) Authorities pressed an j investigation today into hotel manager Joseph Whalen's fnarjfe that a waiter was given poison to mix in the sugar IPpplly of the Savery Hotel, where a strike is in progress. | 1* WASHINGTON. (UP) The Army estimated to qay fbat the Communists suffered 1,443,000 casualties in Korea*through Oct. 31, an increase of 13,000 in a week. BINGTON. (UP) The Salary Stabilization employers today they can pay Christmas and tohuses to executives and administrative cm sided they did so last year. ——————— NNATI, O. (UP) Charles B. Taft,, brother sidential aspirant Sen. Robert A. Taft, announc-! iat he would be a candidate for the Republican f for governor of Ohio in 1951. NGELES. —-(UP) The Los Angeles Times an- j (day it will increase the price of single copies of edition from IS to 20 cents beginning Not. 18,! f the continually rising costs of newspaper pub- ! d distribution.” F }i BARNSLEY, England. - (UP) Prime Sinister Wins- 1 ti>n Churchill’s Conservative majority in the House of Com mons has been trimmed to 16 seats following a delayed ttectiofi here. **'■**' ’ * t i*-' 1 ’ ..... . jj H()I SPRINGS, Ark. (UP) The stage was set R>day for the annual Southern Governor’s Conference here Jlext week, but no one could teU whether the curtain arising would reveal a full-fledged political revolt. ’ PARIS. (UP) —Yugoslavia appealed to the United ifc Batins General Assembly today to take dp aggressive me- Br itons by Soviet Russia and its satellites against Marshall ft to as an “important and urgent matter. J A Day With Highway Psrpl (Continued From Pio Due) at the Dunn Police Station for the next 15 minutes. Raleigh Head quarters must know where each patrolman in the district is at any given moment. At the Police Station a man is waiting more or less patiently to have a newly acquired pickup in spected. This too, is one of the duties of the patrol. When the fif teen minutes has expired and the man’s companion has not return j ed with the pickun. he is told to bring it to Lee's Truck Terminal, | our next stob. ALWAYS IN MOTION The pickup inspected, we start a leisurely cruise down Highway 301 in the general direction of Fay etteville. On patrol, the car is al j most constantly in motion, the ra dio turned on and ceaselessly chat tering to care in the, area. Whitaker calls Raleigh occasionally in order to inform them of his whereabouts. Our leisurely cruise ends abrupt ly when a car passes at high speed and we are off in pursuit. We over- | take the speeding vehicle, a Buick with a New York license, and- ad just our pace to his for a mile or more. The needle hovers at 70 miles per hour. When we resume the pursuit the speeding driver, evidentally sens ing that the car behind is the “law" slows down to the legal 55. When the siren pulls him over, he denies excess speed, “I’ve got my family with me,” he explains. However, at the Dunn Police Station he readi ly signs a waiver and pays costs. ASSUME INNOCENCE "They’ll do it every time.” Whit akers remarks, referring to the way the speeder slowed down when he spotted the patrol car. “Then when you pull them over they assume an air of injured innocence. That’s why I always clock them before I pull in close.” "Another thing that happens ; when a driver spots the car in pur ! suit is that the driver takes the | first side road." Whitaker said. I “Often when you catch up with ' them they are lost, without the vaguest notion where they are." j One more car inspection winds ! up the morning’s activities and we j home via Baersville and East 1 Erwin to Erwin and lunch We call Raleigh and tell them that the next j | hour will be devoted to food, ra- i j tlier than patrol. "If anything hap- ! pens while we are at lunch. I’ll ; pick you up." Whitaker says in i parting. Nothing does, fortunately, j Resuming patrol after lunch, we spot another New York car, cut- ; 1 ting in and out of traffic at high | speed. In cutting back in at the | foot of a hill, the speeding driver barely shade it. It took three miles ! of high speed driving to overtake him. but this time there was no ar- | gument when he was told he had I been followed for tire last three miles. He. too. signed a waiver. ! . A word here about these waivers. They are used as a matter of cgn venienee for out-of-state drivers** The driver admits guilt. Waives ap pearance in court, and is taxed coqts, $1.15. This courtesy is only given out-of-state drivers and saves them the necessity for appearing in court. They are allowed to pro ceed. j A Cadillac with Pennsylvania ; plates travelling in the opposite direction flashes past and we spin around and take up the chase. However, the speeder is blocked in traffic and forced to slow down before we can clock him so we abandon the chase. Cruising down the road, an Ohio ! car makes the mistake of passing 532, without recognizing the insig na or noticing the aerial. At *0 miles per hour he walks away, but we gain a bit at 85. Boxed in by 1 by traffic on a hill, he pulls over! ; at the sound of the Siren. Charg’ed i with speeding at 80, he is allowed ] to post bond of $25. We resume the endless cruising ! and are headed back toward Dunn when two cars pass in the oppo site direction at Ma’s Kitchen. Us ing Ma’s drive for a quick turn, we reverse direction and fall in-be hind the speeders. At 85 miles per hour, the two cars creep away from the pursu ing police vehicle. At 90 we gain I almost imperceptibly. We only man age to catch the pair because traf fic slowi them down. “Thought I i wasn't going to get this pair," Whitaker remarks. While Whitaker was interrogat i ing the driver of the lead car. a Btudebaker Commander with Penn sylvania plates. I looked over the second car. 1949 Chevrolet with a colored driver, and Florida plates. Three of its tires were worn with : practically no tread remaining and the fourth wets entirely smooth. "I’d sure hate to be driving- at the speed you were making with those I tires,” I told the driver. “I can’t I afford new tires,” he replied. I When we arrived at the Dunr. Police Station the driver of the Studebaker readily agreed to post bond. The colored driver, however, i Was a bit recalcitrant. “I’m a po | liceman. myself. i‘he told Whitaker, | producing a badge as auxiliary po ! liceman of the Philadelphia Police i Department. j He said the reason he had been speeding was that he had received a message that his father was at I the point of death in Florida. When . asked to produce the message he 1 hesitated for a moment and then replied, “They telephoned me.” “That’s a . frequent • explanation offered by a speeder,” Whitaker re marked as we left the Police Sta tion. “Wouldn’t It be something if he found his father dead when he readied Florida and he had been telling ah untruth in there. He’d never forget it." During the afternoon our radio had been comparatively silent. Whitaker explained that during the i time of the football games the pa \ trolirren were ordered to keep traf fic (radio calls) at a ntim.iun ia [ THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN. N. C. order to keep the channel clear for calls incident to handling ganje traffic. We found a ear awaiting inspec tion at the truck terminal that was unusual, to say the least. It was a 1929 Overland Whippet, owned by Herman E. Holmes of Four Oaks, Route 3. In spite of its age. the car was in perfect condition. New lights had been added but otherwise all equipment was original. Holmes, who had moved to Four Oaks from Green Bay, Va„ in Lunnberg Coun ty. explained that his father “had bought the car new and had rare ly used it. '“lt’s in better shape than a lot of new cars I have inspected. Whitaker said as he wrote out the approval certificate so that the driver could obtain North Carolina plates. ACCIDENT CALL Cruising north on Highway 301 j I near Benson, the radio .calls for a Harnett car and when Whitaker j responds he is informed that there ; is an accident on Brock Road near ! Bunnlevel involving personal in-j jury. We are nearly 20 miles from the ; place Indicated and Whitaker sug- j gests that the dispatcher try to contact the other Harnett car which may be closer. However, we head for the scene of the accMent, Just in case. When we reach Raynor’s Service Station the dispatcher tells us that he has contacted the other car, so we resume our patrol. While ' proceeding tow’ard the accident we had been going over the posted 35 miles speed. ' "I hate to speed in a 35 mile zone.” Whitaker said. “The peo ple who see you pass do not know that you are heading for an acci dent scene and think that is your normal rate of progress. The only time I pour it on is when speed is needed.” From then until time for supper j our cruise was uneventful. Raleigh i j called and asked about the supper j hour which Whitaker set for from j 7 until 8. During this period, of ; I course, Raleigh could call the pa- ■ trolman at his home in case of ) 1 need. | These car radios are an interest- ! ! ing item of equipment. Plans are underway to equip ail cars with j car-to-car outfits as w'ell as the j ; present car to Raleigh equipment. Some cars are already so equipped, but most calls from one car to j another must be relayed by Ral ! eigh. By listening in the patrolman i can keep in touch with activities in other areas as well as his own. | items which come over the air j j often make a story by themselves. For example, Raleigh called one ! Alamance Patrolman and he re ported, "Unable to proceed, no lights: generator burned out." A ’ ■ dot in ' trouble was dispatched instead. Resuming our patrol at 8:00 we encountered a car passing another on a slight rise. The driver, colored, produced a license bearing the home town of .Nakina, “Where is that?’’. Whitaker asked. "It’s south of Hallsboro, right next to Bug Hill,” was the response. Even pa l trolmen have trouble keeping up with some of the small town ram»s. After telling the driver why he had been stopped and cai-tionlnv j him to drive more carefully, the patrol was resumed. A car, parked on the shoulder, with bright lights j on, attracted Whitaker’s attention WOMAN GETS WARNING The woman driver explained that she had just exchanged places with her husband, and that she was not aware that her lights were on bright. She was allowed to proceed but warned to use dimmers when I parked. * > Going up the road through Baers- j ville, Whitaker noted a car ap- i preaching from the rear at a high rate of speed. He pulled into a brightly lighted filling station and remarked. “Watch him slow it down when he spots the patrol car.” Whitaker’s guess was wrong, in stead the driver “poured on the coal.” We paced him at 75, with the driver swerving from one side to the other of the road, then over took and stopped him. Brought back to the Dunn Police Station he proved to be an old of fender, and he booked on charges of speeding at 75 miles per hour. We resumed our ceaseless prowl ing. Covering miles of road without incident*. “Guess the’ cold weather tonight must be keeping everyone indoors," Whitakers said. “It’s not usually this slow on Saturday night." A driver with one light claims to be on his way home and is releas ed without an arrest. Another speeder, “smells trouble" and turns into the first dirt road, leading to the light of the main highway. We' overtake him on general principles but he is “clean." "Guess we may as well call it a night," Whitaker remarks, looking at his watch, which registers mid night. “If anything further turns up I’ll wake you up." Fortunately nothing does. However, all patrol men must consider themselves on 24 hour duty, subject to a call at any hour. Whitaker went back oh patrol at 1:60 p. m. Sunday doing excellent job To sufn it up. these boys are do ing an excellent job of sarety for you and for me. Each is a complete master of his machine, able to stop on a dime, make quick turns in either direction and reverse di rection fast. I learned things about a %?*,!** * ev * r *•<•*- , before ana I have been driving all my Hie. * ■ They <*serve the rules of safety to a grealer extent than the aver age driver. They go at high apted when necessary, but except- far [ tmergeuciti or pursuit, observe the 1 1 STILL IN GOOD RUNNING ORDER Patrolman Joe Whitaker is shown here inspecting the 19Z9 Wlllys Overland Whippet, owned by Herman E. Holmes of Four Oaks Route 3. In spite of Us age, Patrolman Whitaker, after thorough inspection, was unable to find anything wrong with the machine. Inspections such as this are another phase of the day’s work for our State Highway Patrolmen. Any car, not previously licensed in this state, must be innspected and approved before North Carolina plates can be issued. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn). CAR 53Z AND ITS DRIVER The Pontiac shown here is the patrol car'ln which Highway Patrol man Joe Whitaker, shewn at the door, makes his tour of duty. In motion almost constantly during the time the patrolman is on active duty, he sees to it that the machine is kept in as nearly perfect condition as possible.' Radio equipped, the driver is constantly in touch with headquarters at Raleigh, and through Raleigh, with other cars in the aret. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn). . legal limit. In this particular day we pur- sued seven cars, and cited six of jj* S * 4% p m 'jam ’ . 11 7 OFF Qt. I / SALE r£L / FALlCOATS ■ * AT ,: NOV * I°™' \ mw %M $19.95 V 3130 "fljQ yp $ 29 .95 19.95 S^B 50 Blouses $45.00 30.00 fmT MM Slightly Soiled $49.95 .... 33.35 /If IHHi --1 « ,/ „ $55.00 36.65 r f Mmß i 12 ott $59.95 39.95 I §■■ 100 Dresses $69.95 46.65 sizes,** $75.00 50.00 • li ’ %to V 2 off $85.00 ... 56.65 Q A l ' - USE OUR LAY AWAY ' The Pleasant Shop Angier, N. C. <.vj *■ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBERS, 1951 STATE NEWS Briefs DURHAM —(IP) —Dan Edwards, former Durham mayor and outgo ing assistant secretary of defense, visited friends here today jmd be gan making plans to go to London as vice U. S. deputy on the North Atlantic Defense Council. HILLSBORO (IP! Hobart Lee is back in jail today withou bond after a preliminary hearing re . quested by his attorneys to size up I state evidence to back up the charge that he murdered a 71-year old eccentric Chapel Hill spinster. Justice of the Peace Edwin J. Hamlin ordered the 33-year-old bulldozer operator bound oVer for trial on a charge of killing Miss Rachel Crook, a Confederate Gent, eral's daughter who studied at the University of North Carolina. She later operated a fish market and remanant shop in Chapel Hill. RALEIGH —(IP)— Arthur Eugene Davis of Wilmington began a life I prison term today after pleading guilty to accessory before the crime of murder in the shooting of his wife Nellie on Oct. 2. RALEIGH (0>» Most of the prisoners who staged a sit-down strike at the Halifax County camp j have wearied of isolation cells and | are ready to cooperate, Prisons Director Walter Anderson said to day. ~ >.. FAYETTEVILLE (IP) Police searched today for two Negroes dressed in army clothes who air legedly raped a middle-aged house keeper near here. The 49-year-old woman told police sh was assaulted at gun point. She said both Were carrying army .45 caliber pistols. | For higher egg production, many poultrymen boost the hen’s work ing day to 13 hours by using lights. the drivers into court. In each case the charge was for a lower rate than the driver was actually trav elling. They are not on the highways to persecute drivers, and in case of trouble they are ever-ready to help. Saturday night, as a courtesy 1 i Whitaker used his machine to push another vehicle with a colored driver, who was unable to start his machine. Unfortunately, his lights were shorted and he had to park anyway. r We think the patrol is doing an excellent Job. What do you think.
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