+WEATHER*
NORTH CAROLINA Fair to
partly cjoudy, little change 1 In
temperature today, tonight and
Thursday. Chance of scattered
thundershowers In the mountains
Thursday afternoon and over south,
western portion today.
VOLUME 3
57 DEAD IN TWO AIRPLANE CRASHES
At Least 100
Persons Dead
In Heat Wave
By UNITED PRESS
The nation’s worst heat
wa,ve of the year burned
through its ninth day today
and health authorities said
it had killed at least 100
persons in the eastern two
thirds of the country.
The weather bureau said a cold
aii- mass had surged down from
Canada, into Montana and the Da
kotas But they doubted it would
go far enough to relieve the heat
in the baking Midwest and East.
Doctors warned dwellers in the
heat, belt to "take it easy” during
the 'hot spell to avoid heart at
tacks and heat prostration.
Some Chicago offices, Including
several branches of the police de
partment. closed before noon to get
workers out of stuffy offices.
EVEN CROOKS LAYING LOW
"Even the criminals are laying
low in this heat," a police official
said. "The crooks apparently have
found cook spots and are staying
there. We haven’t had a major
stlckup since Friday ’
Two thousand workers at a Phil
adelphia clothing plant refused to
go to work because of the heat
and two other firms let their 900
employes go home. Philadelphia
alone has reported 65 heat deaths.
At Toronto. Ont., the heat melt
ed materials on the roof of the
Graphics Arts Building at the Ca
nadian National Exh'bitlon and
caiuseff -ft -to sag 15 feet.
TOMATOES BURST OPEN <
At Heights,. 111., truck-’
loads of newly-Mu-vegted tomatoes
burst their skins as the heat ex
panded the pulp and Juice as they
were carted to canneries.
With a somewhat disjointed
sense of timing, the U. S. Civil
Service Board advertised for exua i
post office help to handle the j
Christmas rush.
Ottis McLamb
Faces Charges
* Ottis D. McLamb was booked
early this week on three offen
ses following an accident Mon
day evening.
McLamb’s 1952 Oldsmobile over
turner) while he was attempting
to make a curve too fast on the
Spring Branch Road. Patrolman
Paul G. Albergine stated that the
car overturned several times, com
pletely demolishing the ca t valued
at SI,BOO. ’
Following treatment at Dunn
Hospital for minor cuts and bruises,t
McLamb was charged with driving
while drunk, driving without a lic
ense, and careless and reckless
driving.
In another accident Sunday on
S. Street In Eiwin. Patrolman
Albergine stated thaf a car driven
by Mildred Olive, 34, failed to make
a stop at a sign, did through an
tntersectiohfl crossed a lawn, and
overturned.
Ily Johnson, in the car with her.
suffered cuts about the mouth and
brqises. Rcsalie Watkins received
a. broken left leg.
Olive was charged with careless
and reckless driving.
Officers Seeking
Clues In Robbery
K*. C. Matthews, Harnett County deputy sheriff said to
night there only scanty descriptions of the three robbers
who held up the Wateh Esso service station around 1 a.m.
Monday and escaped “with some small amounts of cash.”
Matthews said Dick Walsh, co
owner of the station told him he
blacked out after he was hit on
the head by the butt of a pistol.
WaUh said he was sure at two
things, he heard the cash drawer
open as he lay on the concrete and
he heard a car drive sway.
. WOT LINKED WITH BANK
Officers who have worked on
the ease the past 24 boors said
there was nothing to Indicate the
trio J>f rubers were same who
The three men oho snatched sl3,
008 from the Oamer bask are still
•ft Jargt.
Wakb told Matthews that three
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Patrolman Herman Ward lakes a iook as the wrecked car in which bur nice Henrv Poole.
, of # l^ Un * ton - * WM fatally injured on Friday night on 421 near Seminole. The driver lost con-
C * r ,® B * **’* and h,t * telephone pole. Poole was taken unconscious from the wreckage and
died Monday ra lee County Hospital from brain injuries. His death brought the county’s road fatalities
this year to 18. (Photo by T. M. Stewart)
Seven Murder Cases Slated
For Trial At Harnett Term
United Fund
Group Named
The Chamber of Commerce has
nominated 20 persons to serve on
the United Fund Campaign Board
lof Directors, Norman J. Buttles,
| Chamber manager, said today.
| Citizens of Dunn endorsed the
idea of using the United Fund
method of raising funds for chari
table organizations at a meeting a
few weeks ago.
Suttles said those nominated by
the Board of Directors will meet
in the near future to elect their
own officers.
Plans are to have the Fund Board
of Directors hear request for funds,
and decide which organizations
should receive a share of all con
tributed. .
BOARD MEMBERS
Listed on the Board selected by
the Chamber of Commerce were,
Earl Westbrook, Earl Mahone,
Gene Smith. Bill Godwin. Clarence
McLamb, Lineberger, A. B. Johnson
Louis Baer, James Snipes, Mrs. Pat
Lynch, Mrs. Myers Tilghman.
Tommy Harrell. Mrs. Floyd Furr,
Dr. Gordon Townsend, Paul White,
Willie Biggs, Dr. M. B. Poole and
Emmett Edgerton.
LIKELY STORY
WASHINGTON iffi Police
said today that Thomas Cole gave
this explanation when he was
charged with larceny for ex.
changing the old engine in his
automobile for a friend’s new mo
: tor.
“I just put the engine, in my
own car to break It In. I was
going to return it."
men came Into his station in the
fork of IS-A and highway 210 one
mile north o( LUUngton and silted
for directions to Washington. D.C.
Walsh said he spread the road map
down on the counter. Within
seconds he was felled by the pistol
butt.
When Walsh recovered be tried to
summon officers by phone from
the station and failed. Deputy,Mat
thews found when he came that
5&,“£
less than a all* from the court-
SSSS&pA&S
these men had the jab earefutly
planned “when they entered the
station." v
Wxt Bttiltj Jl tmv&
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1952
The September ■ term of
3uperior Court, a criminal
session, will be one of the
longest ever tried In Harpett
County. ©Minting cases to go
before the grand jury, the
;ourt may hear as many as
seven murder cases.
Court will open next Tuesday
with Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn of
Woodland presiding. Jack Hook- of
Kenly is the solicitor and will pros
| ecute the docket.
I Cases going before the grand
jury will include two charges of
j murder, one of manslaughter, two
for carnal kn, wledge, ong for big
amy, three for larce'ncy, two for
forgery, one for breaking and en
tering, one for arson, one for pos
session of non taxed liquor for sale,
one for false pretense, one for
burglary, and one for assault with
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Murder cases scheduled to be
heard in cour are. Eula Mae Brown,
Mack Vinston, John Spencer, and
Wade Norman and Jesse Ennis.
| FOUR MANSLAUGHTER CASES
Judge Burgwyn is also scheduled
to hdar four manslaughter cases
including, Henry R Dalrymple,
Julian David Hart. Vada Ryals,
and John Lewis McNeill.
Including cases which are sched
uled to go before the grand jury,
court will heai six cases of posses
sion Oi non taxed liquors, five for
assault with a deadly weapon,
seven for murder, five for man
slaughter, one for burglary, five
for breaking and entering. ’ three
for larceny, two for forgery, two
for carnal knowledge, and nine for
drunken driving.
Members of the jury include, T.
Allen Johnson. Duke; Robert C.
Henry. Averasboro: Ivan Strick
land, Neill’s Creek: Benjamin Coats,
Averasboro: H. C. Whittington. Lil
llngton: Sion G. Harrington, U. L.
River; Ernest Stone, Grove;R. M.
L&ngdon, Neill’s Creek; John F.
Young. Black River; James M.
McLamb. Averasboro; Mrs. Gladys
Mabry. Black River: Ethel Strick
land, Duke: D. A. Clark. Johnson
vllle; Earl Coats, Averasboro; Lacy
Moore, (colored). Lilllngton; J. W.
Temple, Averasboro; V B. Dean,
LUUngton: Bruce L Gregory, Black
River; J. W. Satterfield. Duke; J.
Herbert Byrd. Stewart’s Creek;
Joseph S. Denning,
iJuUus Dawson. Duke; L. A. John
son, Duke: Marvin F. MUler. Duke;
Herman F. Ennis. Grove: M. E. Fish,
Black River: John A. Wade. John
osnvtlle: Langdon D. Barefoot,
Averasboro: Cecil Moore, Duke;
Hubert BaUy, Averasboro; Joseph
Ira Williams. Grove: Martin B.
Barefoot, Anderson Creek; D. R.
Dupree. Black River; Charlie R.
Smith. Stewart’s Creek: Alonzo Lee
Jackson. Grove; And Paul C. Bar
bour, Duke.
GRAND JURY CASES
• Ha-nett County’s grand Jury Is
scheduled to he»- 17 cases when
It convenes Tuesday. Included In
the cases wiU be two murder charg
es end one manslaughter
Cases include, for murder. Leroy
McNeill Mid Thomas Cameron,- Mid
James Howard Phillips; manslaugh
ter. Anne Pearl Naylor; vernal
***sStMe? ke MoorsTandj
Road Deaths
-fv> p, A * * '-Atr*'-*'*
Now Total 18
Harnett County’s traffic accidents
took a toll of three persons In Aug
ust as against two for 1952, Cpl.
Romie F. Williamson of tile High
way Patrol said today.
During August, 20 accidents were
reported to the Highway Patrol.
Williamson stated. Last year dur
ing August, 29 persons were in
jured besides the two killed.
The tlv.ee deaths lasi month
brought Harnett Countyjs death
toll to 18 for the year, as compared
to 16 for the same time last year.
FOUR IN DUNN
Os the 18 deaths that have oc
curred this year. 13 were In ru
ral areas and four in Dunn, while
one pedestrian was killed in Coats.
In the acci-lents last month 23 per
sons were injured.
Property damages last year were
$12,428 for the month of August
compared to $14,715 this year in
August. Total property damages so
far this year in 238 accidents has
amounted to $141,759 while damage
In 236 accidents at this time in
1952 amounted to $3#7,903, Wil
liamson stated.
BULLETINS
TRAVIS AFB, Calif. (IPI - Sixteen more sick and woun
ded repatriated prisoners of war arrived from the Far
East early today and three other planes were enroute from
Tokyo as Operation Freedom Flight reached its peak. A
Military Air Transport hospital plane carrying the 16
men, 12 of them ambulatory and four on stretchers, set
down at this base north of San Francisco at 1:45 a.m. PDT.
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. (IP Richard Dix Jr., 18-year
•old son of the late movie star, was killed in a logging ac
cident Monday at Pondosa, 39 miles east of here, Deputy
Coroner Lloyd B. Nobile Jr., disclosed today. Noble said the
accident took place when young Dix was unloading logs
and rolling them into a pond.
ST. LOUIS, Monn-r- Weston A. Cate Jr., Hartford, Vt.,
today was named winner of the “Why I Teach” contest
+ Record Roundup +
BAND Plans are being made to (
enroll youth to Dunn in band class-i
es. High Schpol Band Director!
Harold Grant said today. Parents]
who are interested in getting child- |
ten in the grades in the classes,
should contact Mr. Grant.
ARRESTS Three arrested wen*
recorded during the past 24 hum,;
all for public drunkenness. Arrest
ed were: William H. Canady, Rose
boro; Faison E. Smith, 800 W Bar
nett: and BVander Canady. W.
Broad.
TOBACCO STILL UP Prices on
the Dunm tobacco market continued
•high yesterday as sales eater the
Dulles Issues
Stiff Warning
To Red China
ST. LOUIS (IP Secret
ary of State John Foster
Dulles warned Red China
today that it will risk re
taliation against its home
land if it commits a “second
agression” against Indochi
na or Korea.
Noting that Red China is train
in?, equipping and supplying com
munist forces in Indochina, he said
there is a "risk that, as in Ko
rea, Red China might send its
armv into Indochina."
The Chinese Communist .regime
should realize that such a second
aggression could not occur with
out grave consequences which
might not be confined to Indo
china,” he said. "I say this soberly
in the interest of peace and in the
hope of preventing another aggres
sor miscalculation.”
WOULD SPREAD TO CHINA
In a speech at the American
Legion convention. Dulles told the
Chinese Communist regime bluntly
that if the Korean war were re
newed, it likely would spread to
"hina itself. He recalled that the
16 United Nations fighting aggres
sion in Ko'aa had declared they
will resist any new outbreak of ag.
gression there and that the fight
ing might spread beyond Korean
boundaries.
“Since 1950, the forces of aggres
sion have been supplied, equipped
and protected by air, from un
molested bases in China, just north
of the Yalu," he said. “If. however,
the Communists desire to resime
they now know that faey
could no loader count on this ‘prlv
ildied sanctuary.’”
LAYS U. S. WANTS PEACE
Jpulles emphasized ' that the
United States wants peace and said
he served the warnings on Red
China only in the interest of peace.
’Peace requires anticipating what
it is that tempts an aggressor and
letting him know in’ advance that,
if he does not exercise self-con
trol, he may face a hard fight, per
haps a losing fight.” he said.
Dulles noted that President Eis
enhower has linked the Korean and
Indochinese wars together as pail
of a grand Red offensive and said
the United States “does not make
the mistake of treating Korea as
an isolated affair."
Gen. Wainwright
Dies At Age 70
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (IPV |
Gen. Jonathan M.
VVainright, 70, the hero
of Bataan and Corregidor,
died at 12:27 p.m. CST
today.
(second million pounds. Yesterday’s
sales went tor an average of $55X6
iper hundred. Sales Supervisor Nor
man J. Suttles said that 154X80
(pounds sold for $80,728.50.
IJAYCBES MEETING Dunn Jay
eees will meet tonight at 7:20 at
the Carolina Power and Light
Company office. A review of the
first quarterly board meeting at
Rocky Mount wiU he given by
President Roy Lo#e su>d other del
egates who attended the meeting.
DANCES Dunn’s tofeuifN but
win open Saturday night and will
be open each- Safoutfl? for (Unc*
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Pm p
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diu Rural policemen seized four stills fai an early !
raid Tuesday on the Cape Fear near Buie’s Creek. They arrested two...
Negroes, Clyde Green and Robert McAry, as they were loading cases
of nop tax paid whiskey in this car. The 1936 Ford and*.the Wrecked
stltlcfafe seen Inside the jail fence of JLillington. In all, officers' found
of mash and 102 gallons of wMskev. (Photo by T. M. Stewarfr -
Legions Parade
Marred By Tragedy
ST. LOUIS, MO. (IP) The American Legion’s 35th an
nual convention, it’s mammoth parade spoiled by tragedy,
buckled down today to settle pdlicy disputes over the con
duct of foreign affairs and Air Force budget cuts.
The Legionnaires will also hear
a major foreign policy speech by
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles.
St. Louis’ scorching 100-degree
heat Tuesday killed two Legion
naires in the 100,000-nian, three
mile parade through downtown
streets. At least 230 spectators and
marchers felled by heat prostra
tion jammed city hospitals.
The dead were Legionnaires Wil
liam P. Randolph, 51, Hot Springs,
Ark., and Saleen A1 Hatem, 61, 139
W. 47th New York. Hatem was
carrying a flag when he collapsed.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
marched the entire route to the re
viewing stand with the California
delegation and said he didn’t mind
the heat.
Today the convention was sched
uled to take up the matter of the
United Nations as its first order
of business at Kiel Auditorium,
mendations regarding the adminis
tration’s $5,000,000,000 cut in Air
Later it is due to act on recom-
Force funds. The Legion’s Aeron
autics Committee has voted to en
dorse a resolution urging Congress
to restore the funds.
U. N. IS OPPOSED
Opposition to the United Nations
was given impetus at the opening
session of the convention Monday
when the first speaker, past Na
tional Commander Donald R.. Wi
lson, Clarksburg. W. Va„ warned
the Legionnaires that the U. N.
must be watched lest it take away
basic American rights.
Wilson’s attack brought a mixed
reacUon from leaders of the vet
erans’ organization. Most were cri
tical of the U. N. but few advocated
withdrawal of the United States.
'Twasn't Funny,
Says Patrolman
Patrolman .Herman Ward is
■saaHy a calm, collected man.
.. Bat one Bight this week, riding
alone in hie patrol car from LU
iagton to hk home In Bmtnlevel
ke felt sharp nails an the back
es Ms neck and the hairs ram an
an Ms htn 41 "
In Ms Imagination, the officer
cnald see a man crouched boh toil
the eeat, ready with a knife or
n gen So he somng Ms ear swiftly
arowad with the idea that It.
(Osnthmed an pngs two)
DUNN STORES
OPEN ALL DAY
WEDNESDAYS
New Hurricane
Is On The Way
MIAMI (IP) A howling
tropical hurri cane with
winds of 90 miles an hour
boiled through the Atlantic
today, but it was still hun
dreds of miles east of inhab
ited land masses.
The weather bureau at San Jan,
P. R., located the tropical storm
season’s third big blow in a 11 a.
m. E. S. T. advisory at approxi
mately 485 miles east of the island
of Guadeloupe in the French An
tilles.
The big blow was headed in a
west-northwest direction. The wea
ther bureau ordered hurricane
warnings hoisted on the Leedward
Islands of Antigua and Barbuda.
They have an estimated 45,000 res
idents.
The forward movement of Hur
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18 Persons Killed
At Fort Bragg When]
Bridge Collapses j
FT. BRAGG, N. C. (IP) An Army spokesman said that
18 men were killed today when a pontoon bridge collapsed |
at this huge Army base. j
The accident occurred at 10:16
a. m. E. S. T. on Smith Lake at Ft
Bragg, the spokesman said.
"Personnel involved were from
the 40$ engineers brigade conduct
ing a routine engineering training
problem." the spokesman said.
He said the bridge was “pontoon
i"* ’VSK’IK.m™.
He mid IS men were “known
no.ikdß
15 Service 1
Men Killed I
In One Crash!
BULLETIN I
I SEATTLE, Wash. (IP? —I
! The burned wreckage on
j a missing DC-3 plane!
I found today near Vail,!
I Wash., and the bodies of!
15 dead were counted, the!
Air Force said. I
Capt. James Lynch of!
the 43rd Air Rescue Squa-I
dron at McChord Air!
Force Base, said that 19 1
Fort Ord, Cai.’if.; service- 1
men were aboard the Re-1
gina Airlines plane. Lynch I
said there were also two I
crew members. I
The plane passed over I
Portland, Ore., last night I
but failed to report at its!
next check station at To-1
ledo, Wash., about 601
miles north of Portland. I
BARCELONNE TTeI
France (IP) Forty-two perl
ions, including violinist Jacl
ques Thibaud, died in tha
iery crash of an Air Franos|
Constellation in to a 9,369
] foot peak in the French!
Alps, a rescue party learnedl
tfday. j
fithe four-engine plane smashed
'into Mount Cemet and burst Intel
flames shortly befeij; inUSnilfhtJ
Some of the bodies were hurt£d
1,6000 feet from the wreckage. J
i A party of police, soldiers and
civilians dispatched to the scene]
reported that Thibaud, 72, and htaj
1 accompanist, Rene Herbin, wetw
i among tjiose kilted. They wtersi
] scheduled to play soon in TokyoJ
NO AMERICANS
The plane, bound from Paris to]
Saigon, Indochina, carried nd
American or British passengenJ
Most of those aboard were French]
and Viet Namese. One infant WWB
among those killed.
The plane was 90 minutes outi
of Paris and was scheduled to tanffi
lat Nice in 20 minutes whsn it
(struck Mount Cemet. Flames im
] mediately shot up over the peak]
1 and were visible 10 miles away]
1 at the winter sports village of Bar-j
celonnette for three hours.
It took five hours for the 40-man
I rescue party of police, soldiers and:
! civilians from Barcelopuette t»
make its way over the barren, rug
ged. rock-strewn route to the crash
I scene.
] They radioed that they found the
! burned skeleton of the Lockheed
plane but no survivors -
Baer's Event
Opens Thurs.
1 The 30th anniversary celebra-
Itian of the Louis Baer Department
Store will get underway here,
Thursday morning at 9 o'clock and
is expected to draw a huge threnf.
According to Manager Dave Klm
mel and Louis Baer, founder of the
store, all arangements for the big,
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dead." and four other! hospitalized, 4
Two men were unaccounted far tonfel
a search was being conducted fuel
their bodies.
there Mthtegh they were euppoM#
said. : *
(Contflnoai