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+WEATHER* > . NORTH CAROLINA Fair and ' continued mild today and Wednes day. Cool again tonight. .... VOLUME 3 DUNN "DOPE KING” IS ARRESTED Chief Justice Fred Vinson Dies Unexpectedly \ I —•—* : 1 : If I HL jtm inpo ■> flB, . jg#.. "T jygP^^a Milt, • • 1 . . flSl~^Sy 7%8V / vHk '\ '| -: ??*•-■ jig| , I|S3l .: ' 'wS i . /^| «| * x x B, H QUESTIONED IN DOPE CASE W. L. (Doe) Griffin, right, a familiar figure on the streets of Dunn, Is shown here as he was questioned by narcotics agent following his arrest at Fayetteville yesterday morning. The government charges thqt Griffin sold more than “snake oil" and has charged him with 0 selling morphine tablets. Also arrested on narcotics charges was Joe Hamm, Dunn Negro, described as w one of the biggest dope operators in this section. For a picture of Hamm’s Etrdiand Nightland Club in Dunn, see page two of today’s Record (Photo by William Shaw.) P«nn Negro Is Sought For Murder Os Wife -•..-■ *lu -W •i* • • - 7 Couples Divorced ; P Other Cases Heard . " * • w ■ • if Seven divorces were granted Tuesday in Harnett Sup erior Court on groundaof two years seperation. - Couples divo ced include: Dor othy L. Stancil from Harold W. Stancll; Emma Spivey from Hurley Richard McGee; George C. Langston from Flora W. Langston; S’ I. G. Jackson from Ethel Jackson; Roy J. Rambeau from Doris Mae Jones Rambeau; Doris Dermis Mocre 'from Odis E. Moore; and > James E. Price from Bertha Mc- Lamb Price. Judge W. H. 8. Bu:gwyn is pre siding over the week's crowded criminal docket, which was called immediately after the divorce suits were finished. First case called by Solicitor Jack Hooks for trial was that of Joe Brewington of Dunn, charged with careless and reckless driving as , Lana Turner , New i Hubby Honeymoon TlmlN, Italy (10 Film actrefes Lana Turner honey mooned today with screen “T&rsan” Lex Barker at his palatial villa m the hills overlooking this industrial city. Miss Turner and Barker said their vows yesterday in a surprise wedding at the Turin City Hall. j The Amerioan consul at Turin ' said the weddtag plans had been kept so secret he was not informed i until the last mipute. However, the word must have m been passed around because a mob , ” of reporters and photographers were present when the oouplp ar rived from RevigUasOO. Where Writer is making a movie. Barker scowled, expanded hU chest and strode toward tty news'- m graphers exhibited a document which defined weddings as public TELEPHONES: 1117 • 1118 ■ result, of an accident June 4 which took the life of a four-year-old Negro child, Paul Adams. The child’s mother, Reva Adams and Charlie Draughon, Negro neighbor who picked the child up from the street, were State’s witnesses. Brewington offered no witnesses and did not testify. The jury was still considering i this case at the naoft recess. Trial of a second case was start ed just before the noon recess. El wood Oates, Dunn Negro, went on trial for assault with Intent to kill. The case has not been com pleted. Oates was indicated by the grand jury for hitting ttaac Lee Qet (Continued On Pape Five) M. saw rn Jk ■ 1 Wxt Uaiiu DUNN, N, C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 8, 1953 Harnett County’s Sheriff’s Department was searching today for Zebedee James, Dunn Negro, for the murder of his wife Gladys Stocks James whb died last night at the Dunn Hospital fol lowing a shooting scrape at her mother’s home Suqday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff B. E. Sturgill said this morning that James went to the home of Mat ie Stocks in Faersville, sometime early Sunday :ffte noon. While talking to. bis wife, he told her he was going to kill her. officers said. James took out p 25 caliber pis tol and fired three shots, Sturgill stated. One of the bullets hit, the | Hand of Gladys’ brother, Frank, Stocks, but he was treated at Dunn Hospital and released. Two bullets hit James’ wi'e and she was taken to the Dunn Hos pital where she died last night. , FLED FROM SCENE . Those who witnessed the shoot ing said that James got in his car and drove off and has not been seen Since. A warrant charging him wfth murder waa drawn this morning by the Sheriff’s Depart r ment. , James and his wife had been separated for sometime. He had gone to her mother to attempt to get her to return when the shoot ing occurred, officers said. No leads as to James’ where abouts was available at press time. r Last Minute News Shorts WASHINGTON IP) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy threatened to day to appeal personally to Pers ident Eisenhower for names of per sons who cleared alleged Commun ists far Army employment. He made Mo remarks after tangling with Maj. Gem. Mile* Keber, the Army's chief legislative liaison of ficer, who would not supply the 1 1 NEW YORK ** —drown Prince *LgWhito of Japan arrived bore from 1 Europe today for a month-drag tear of the United State* and,How by chartered plane for Washington. ■'f CHICAGO (»l Rogers Horns- U by, testifying at an iupuat into f the death as his “pemat! saoe gßpl - ‘ Nation Mqjns Death Os High Court Chief i WASHINGTON (If) Fred I M. \pnson, chief justice of l the United States for the past seven years, died un expectedly today of a heart attack. Vinson, 63, suffered the' fata) seizure at 1:30 a. m. (EST) in his suite at the Sheraton Park Hotel and died at 2:15 a. m., minutes after a physician reached his bed side. Friends said Vinson had spent yesterday quietly with Mrs. Vinson and as son, Fred Jr., in the suite that was thei: home. Leading Americans poured out expressions of sorrow at the pass ing of the silver-haired Kentuckian whose 30 years of public service took him into the inner councils of all three branches of govern- 1 ment. IKE PAYS TRIBUTE President Eisenhower, vacation ing in Colorado, issued a statement expressing “shock and grief” at the death of the man who was his close peisonal friend and longUme bridge playing companion. The summer White House said Mr,Eisenhower would decree a period of national . mourning -for Amrtfca’s highest judicialTiSb^tioii - \i ■ ,iFred M. Vlnaon __ -in the 1'64-year history of the Su preme Court. “I share the nation’s shock and grief over Chief Justice Vinson’s untimelv death,”- Mr. Eisenhower 'said. “He was my close personal ; friend for many years, and a j statesman and jurist whom I ad mired deeply." TRUMAN’S STATEMENT Former President Truman, who . appointed the chief justice in 1946, (Continued on page two) + Record Roundup + SCHOOL school, will open Thursday,' September 10. ] Hours Thursday and Friday will, be 9 to 12. The shcjrt schedule will be used beginning Monday at • ARRESTS—Three persons were st and running until 1:16 B. M. rested during the past 24 noun, ac cording to Chief Alton A. Cobb. Arrested were: David Dixon, 509 E. Cleveland, public drunk>nnem;.Bes sie McLean. S. McKay, posession of non taxed liquor; Paul J. Rob erson. Thompson Trailer Court, Fayetteville, driving drunk, and careloss and reckless driving. 810 ENTERTAINMENT—An out standing program of entertainment will be presented in the Dunn High School auditorium Wednesday night by James Thornton and Hayden Ivey, the Bmiie-A-Wblle Boys. They’re sponsoring an appearance by the famous Chuck Wagon Oang and Wally Fowler and Ids Oak Ridge Quartet, both of whom are, nationally-known in hillbilly, circles and famous for their radio and f mtm president of the Bocson Chambm : * 'jt . RITA AND ALY Rita Gots j Million Divorce Settlement PARIS (IP) Lawyers for Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan reached agreement today on a $1,000,000 divorce settlement which ended the couple’s storybook romance and left the red - haired movie star free to marry again. New York attorney Bartley Crum, representing Rita, said that under the agreement, $1,000,000 will be provided by Aly Khan for the couple’s only child, Princess Yasmin, so she can be raised in royal style as a member of the Moslem fafth. 'ALSO GOT PAINTINGS Rita got three paintings by Penoir, Picasso and Toulouse-Lau trec in .the settlement, her only tangible souvenir of the 1949 mar riage that was splashed across the world’s front pages. Crum said the only thing holding up immediate execution of the settlement ia that a Nevada judge will be asked to advise on a legal' l technicality making the divorce : final and binding tHroughout the - world. , 1 The couple already has a Reno i divorce, but It is not yalld in Europe or South America since Aly was not represented at the prpceedings. > “We are going to ask Reno Judge , William Woodbum, a great expert, (Continued On Pago Five) of Commerce, tnnpunced today that j Former Governor W. Kerr Scott • has been invited to speak at Ben son’s annual Mule-Day Celebration on Friday, September 25. Mr. Scott has expressed a hope he will be able to attend and is expected to advise the committee at an early date. STORES OPEN—This is just an other reminder that Duqn stores r-e open all day on Wednesdays. There will be no more half-holi days Mmtil next summer. BIG SALE TODAY—Dunn's tobac co market had another big .sale - today. Sales Supervisor Norman 1 Buttles said today's sale should to i tal more than 306,000 pounds and ; put the market pvev the S-miUion > mark. i NEW OPPONENT Coach Paul i Waggoner of Dufm High, School an : nounced today that Aydeu has t, boon added to :9m Green waves > Schedule of home gems* The team I will play Aydeu m Dunn on Oct nefismen headad by Pted Bverlv Thurmhw %riU begin a campaign to gftt toason tickets tor Hl r FIVE CENTS PER COPY Harnett POW Flying Home Cpl. George B Campbell of Holly Springs, Route 1, in Harnett Couh ty. left Tokyo, Japan, today by plane enroute to the U. S„ ac cording to a United Press bulle tin. Campbell is the second of two Harnett County men released from Communist prison camps in Ko rea. Last month William Stogsdill was ‘ released from a- camp and (Continued On Page Five) Cooley Is Not Expected To Run SPRING HOPE W Rep. Har old D. Cooley (D-NC) was reported today to have counted himself, out of the race for the U. 8. Senate seat now held by Sen. Alton A. Lennon next spring. Sources close to Coley said the vete.an representative has decided against making the race against Lennon, preferring to retain sen ority he holds on the House Agri culture Committee. Cooley figured prominently in speculation as a possible successor to the late Sen Willis Smith before Gov. William B. Umstead appointed Lennon. ■ vyrngHglp Body Found On Beach Mgy Be Houston Jernigans J Speculation circulated In Dunn , today that the body of Hons- | ton Jondgau may have been j found. Carlyle Core, Dana, Haute t, stated that a week ago last Sat urday ho waa flaking about five miles South of EUoabotti City i when a gaaae warden stopped him : on a routine check of fishing He ■ "After telling Core and Mb fiah- Ingj, party that wore near The Records Gets Results Joe Hamm Arrested In New York; Dunn Police Aid In Case Joe Hamm, 40-year-.old Dunn Negro “Dope King”, ar rested Sunday on narcotics charges in New York, today was described by Federal narcotics agents as “a big operator in a powerful, nation-wide dope syndicate.” W.T. Atkinson of Greensboro, chief i of the Federal narcotics squad in I North Carolina, told newsmen the Dunn Negro ex-convict was one of the biggest suppliers in this part of the country and that the gov ernment had been after him for at least three years. He is under SIO,OOO bond for his appearance at the September 21 term of U. S. District 1 Court at Fayetteville. Asked by newsmen if Hamm were a big operator, Atkinson ex claimed. “Oh, my goodness, Yes.” The Federal officer pointed out that within a matter of minutes after Hamm was arraigned in New York, syndicate lawyers and bonds men appeared with the SIO,OOO bail. Hamm, a flashily-dressed Negro who drives a Cadillac convertible, formerly operated the “Birdland Night Club” in Dunn and reported ly still owns the establishment, maintaining another 1 apartment in New York. " + INVOLVED IN MURDER In 1932. he escaped a death sen tence by turning State’s witness in a famous Dunn murder case in which one of his accomplices went to the electric chair and another got life imprisonment. Hamm and two other defendants escaped with light prison terms. Two of his brothers, Avant and David Hamm, have been convicted M Federal narcotics charges. Avant recently completed a prison term for dealing in dope and David is now serving a term in New York, Atkinson said. Ironically, their father, the late Cater Hamm, who died here last month, was one of the town’s best known and most highly respected Negro leaders. I Atkinson said Hamm not only dealt in dope, but actually was de frauding his customers. DILUTED THE DOPE He said he was selling 10 per cent heroin for S2OO an ounce and i Continued on pag* two) Adenauer Seeks Unified Germany Bonn, Germany (IP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, stered by a landslide election victory for his coalition government, today set as “our goal” tne “ftJdiMp of the 18,000,000 inhabitants of the Soviet zone frora.|pa4R He said that with their libera tion “a free, unified Germany can take its place in united Europe.’' The 77-year-old chancellor, who hailed Sundays election as proof that West Germans want to rearm and stand beside the West, began work on the new government to run the country for the next four crucial yea:s. -»V v • , I “We picked up a body of a man | out her* a few days ago that was i | so badly eatea by crabs wo | cowMml Identify itthe warden direct lino with the stow which NO. 193 Bigger Cotton Crop Is How Being Forecast , WASHINGTON (W The Agriculture Department to- ’ day forecast a 1953 cotton crop of 15,159,000 bales, up 554,000 bales from last H month’s estimate 9 , The hike virtually assures stiff f| federal marketing quotas will be isked for next year’s cotton <3rop.|t3 | Department oflSfcials hStve f 'figi(redte tSat because of jhsinking surpluses V a crop between 11.500,000 and 11,- M ootfooo bales would be big enough to call for a farmer-vote on quo- f 'i tas to: 1954. Farm law requires quotas or greatly reduoeu priCo * « preps on cotton when supplies ex* oeed demand by tco'great a margin*; 'The department estimated that i 23.737,000 acres of the 24.618,000 la : cultivation oft July 1 will be har- S vested this year, with yields aves»r aging 30(6 pounds 3f (fnt per ,| SOME ABANDONED | That means about 3.6 per' cent of the planted acreage is expect ed to be abandoned because of ] drought cr other damage during the growing season. The 10-ytar I average abandonment is about 111 ! per cent. Last month the depart- m ment figured abandonment this : year would average about 46 per ( ! The 1953 cotton crop last month i r was forecast to hit 14.605,000 bates. 1 Production last year, when yields (Continued on page two)”#. SOCIALISTS PU2*Ua£ ; i His badly-beaten opponents, the Socialists, met to find went wrong with their campaign against West German rearmainttt-'lf Adenauer’s coalition seats and full contrr f the Bun destag or lower houae of MjHNHH ment in test Sunday’s^etee&m*. f«, , a The My warn M*ht day, after -•*£*»■ ovef Ute breakm^^^^^H would try to seethe tmrllllj| ' -
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