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. ■ • Jtart* Carlin* Sunny with little change in tentpertrture tb- I F>tr Te«*re eat, ycu’re ante, you're sure. VOLUME 3 NEARING ON WHITE POSTPONED 10 Murder Cases 85 Others Set For Trial In Harnett Aft || (WlSv . ' YJ| ■■mbtimfe*' LI Jm. m ffife S3* Ef"iwi ' fe -- it -..••■• jPFn fIL Ij JtK Kg* ’’Mt'k?' " iHfeHn ' ip|» ■ flmjHi t v i Pttife-. LEGION DINNER Principals at the Amer «MJr l**t night to honor of Harnett JfgjpW* iff W)Wi are plotted above. Shewn #f» IMMSS, g%' lto r-) Ray Brown. Cewnaader WJBMmA lAfton Poet; and Roy L. MeMIIHan. Pnt PepariWßH Oweeitr and an attorney or TSurrn Legion Celebrates Armistice , Honors POWs if eared Operation, f Man Ends His Lite I I * A man who declined to undergo a badly-needed oper -1 atipp because he leaned it might' prove fatal committed a sutekte. .at his home on Dunn, Route 2, yesterday after- I "• _ • ' _ I HUIQI. a IvUlvJj I St. Paul. Minn. RB .Adlal E. I Stevenson told the national Young I Democrats convention today the I to appear in l~ m T‘ >r «*-- --■ . P ANNUAL TMTHONBS: 1117 • »11» BeMlgh. Back raw. (L to r.), J. O. West, Dam at torney Wba introduced the speaker;-and George Franklin Blalock, who presented the monetary awards to the fathers of the two POWs. (Dally Record Photo) Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen derson s«ld Floyd McLamb, 27, of Dunn, Route 1 died'in Dunn Hos pital late yesterday afternoon as the result of a self-inflicted rifle wound. .y.^ Members of the family told Cor oner Henderson that McLamb re cently went home fro* the hos r*tal He had' been in poor health but members of the family said he was afraid to undergo a hernia operation for fear it might be fa tal. He went into the bedroom of his home about 3 o’clock and fired it J* rifle bullet into Ms forehead. Mrs McLamb said he took the shotgun the night before and' tried to. kill himself but they managed to take the gpn away from him Mid talked him out of it. Early yesterday morning he went to the home of a relative and tried to borrow another gun, but was refused. He then borrowed one from a neighbor who did not (mow of HOPE WENT FOB HELP Jp;E£= | seif. He was found a few minutes ; ; $ -■ .. .- . ‘ E I 7SU& (£itP Harnett County's two prisoners of the Korean War were honored last night at an American Legion dinner held here. Neither of the men was able to attend the din ner due to shock received from their prison experience, but their fathers were present to receive the honors. Honored were William StogsdUl, Erwin; and George Campbell, Hotly Springs. Route 1. Fayette Stogs dtll, father of William, and James E. Campbell, father of George, ac cepted honor eeroqcates for their sons. Commander Roy Brown present ed Mayor Ralph Hanna who gave MW certificates to the fathers. Hanna stated that he had been called on many ,tim« to take part In veteran ceremonies, but that to pay honor to the POWs was on®- of the most solemn duties he had ever performed.. Mayor Hanna paid tribute to the soldiers who suffered at the hands of the Communists and were un able to attend the meeting last night due to their shocked con dition. PRESENTED CASH Following the presentation of the honor certificates, George Frank lin Blalock was introduced by Corn minder Roy Brown to present the Monetary awards to the fathers of the two POWs Commander Brown stated that *lO6 was presented to each of the fathers. Organizations contributing to the fund were: Dunn Lions, Dunn Jayoees, Dunn 'Ceatteaed on page two) Large Crowd Is Expected ■ mi aa r For REA Meeting Friday ■ Approximately 3,000 mem bers of the South River Electric Membership Corpo ration will meet at the | Dunn Armory tomorrow at 1:30 n m. to open their an nual business session, it was stated this week by Manag er R. R. Edwards. WU' •anotate?i 1 iUUmooa. DUNN, N. U., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12, 1953 Judge Williams Will Preside Over Session A • record number of 95 cases.— including 10 mur der trials and a large assort ment of other cases ranging from rape to arson are scheduled for trial at the criminal term of Harnett Superior Court which will convene Monday morning. Resident Judge Clawson L. Wil liams of Sanford, returning to Harnett for the first time in several years, will preside over the congested court term and Solicitor Jack Hooks will prosecute the docket. The calendar, believed to set an all-time high in the number of felonies and other serious crimes, was released today by Court Clerk Robert Morgan. Court officials have little hopes for clearing the heavy calendar during the two weeks term. It'was pointed out that it wiU take longer than two weeks to even try all the murder cases. Twenty-three of the cases wIH go before the grand Jury. ' * Court officials said they couldn’t recall when Harnett ever before had so many capital cases pending for trial, .. ■ In addition to the ten murder cases, there are two rape cases, one case of arson and five man slaughter cases. » »aiJNK DRIVING CASKS There are also 1* cases of Giv ing drunk, eight cases of breaking and entering, two bigamy cases, four cases of forgery, and scores of other cases involving whiskey, lar ceny, etc. Most of the murder cases in volve Negroes and some of them are old ones. PORTER TRIAL SET Scheduled for trial after more than a year’s delay is. the case of Robert (Bob) Flßrter, self-styled “Country Tfreacher’’ of Radio Station WFNG at Fuquay Springs, charged with assaulting and at tempting to rape Ina Mae Wood, pretty 19-year-old Erwin High School senior. Porter, a suhve, married mus tached man, allegdly lured the young girl on a wild ride over (Canttaaed an page taral BULLETINS BATON ROUGE, La. (UP) Louisiana State Univer sity has expelled its first Negro undergraduate pending a possible final ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court. The university yesterday voided the registration of 17-year-old A. P. Tureaud, dr., following a reversal by the U S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals of an injunction under which he had been enrolled. WASHINGTON (UP) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland of Calif, has called on former Presi dent Truman to volunteer to explain his handling of the Hairy Dexter White case to the public. > UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP)—The United Nation? studied a compromise disarmament plan today to a new attempt to end an eight year East-West deadlock. (Outlined aw page fra) , had ttat b^i | rectors wUPtS'* / • . j ' i' • m m ' pf ’ >" jAfiF ilk I * 'lk - J. BERNARD STEIN Stein To Address Rotarians Friday ' J. of prominent State hds* iness mid civic leader, and one of the South’s best-known merchants, will address the Dunn Rotary Club Friday night at 6:30 o’clock in the General Lee Room of John son’s Restaurant. . \ ; TT- He is president and owner of The Capitol at Fayetteville, one of the State's largest department atores. Mr. Stein recently returned from a trip to Europe and will addrees the Rotarians on the subject, "Trav el In Europe-’’ Rotarian Hoover Adams is in charge of the program and will in troduce Mr. Stein. In announcing the program, Pres ident . Strickland said the club felt extremely fortunate in securing Mr. mein as the speaker. Mr. Stein is an outstanding speak er and has been in demand for I tats Will sing for the members of addresses to various civic clubs and other groups since his return from Europe. » ~ ”• NATIONAL -AWARD WINNER - Known as “The Merchant Prince of Eastern Carolina” Mr. Stein is one °f the nation’s top retailers Last year, be won far The Cap itol the Brand Names Foundation’s first prise award in nation-wide competition, and' earned the title, “Retailer of the Year." This it the highest honor that can come to a retailer. .*.•'.•'.7 He is the only North Carolina merchant ever to receive this award and was honored at a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, attended by prominent merchants from, all over the nation. • For many years a leader In the affairs of Fayetteville, Mr. Stein has served several terms as pres ident of that organisation. He has also served as president of the Fayetteville Lions Club and (CewttoMd en page tore) V „ .v> . . * "~~ • * «MW'*y*' ~—<fo*«*» „ » • • «tu. m ± , ** -*l'. ?*•*>, . H§i|f ||R vj Jte PREPAING FOR BIO DIAMOND HUNT - FIVE CENTS FEB COPT Truman Refuses To Testify; Says It Is Duty To People WASHINGTON (UP) Former President Truman today refused to comply with a House Un - American Ac tivities Committee subpena in the Harry Dexter White case with the declaration that the committee had no pow er to issue it. • Truman notified the committee of his defiance shortly after Chair man Harold H. Velde (R-Ill.) had postponed indefinitely tomorrow’s scheduled quizzing of the former chief executive. Velde described Truman’s action as "very unfortunate.” He said he would take It np with the toll com mittee bnt would not say when. BULLETIN COLUMBIA, S. C. m Gov. James F. Byrnes said today he Is confident that former President Truman would have halted the nom-. ination of Harry Dexter White as executive director of the Interna tional Monetary Fund on Feb. «, 1946, had the Senate not already confirmed it- The committee subpenaed Tru man to answer charges by Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell. Jr.,that he promoted White despite two FBI warnings that White, then assis tant secretary of treasury, was a Soviet my. ' TSBMRfc. surrounded Iff WMb' iff and friends, rand his defiance of the subpena with smiling confi dence at a locked-door press con- County Farm Bureau Holding Meet Today R. Flake Shaw of Greensboro, executive vice president of the N. C. Farm Bureau, will headline the program for the annual meeting of the Harnett Farm-Bureau toddy (Thursday) at 2:20 p. m. at the Lillington school. The annual barbecue for mem bers and their families will fol low on the school grounds. During the business session new officers are slated to be elected and four delegates and alternates will be chosen for the State Conven tion to be held in Raleigh on Nov. 15, 16 and 17. Convenient location of the state convention city is expected to at tract a large group other than of- Pick cut a diament, If it's The Record Gets Results NO. 240 Church Women Wilt Meet Here Ladies of the First Presbyterian Church of Dunn will be hostesses to the annual First District meet ing of Women or the Church <* Fayetteville Presbytery at an af ternoon and night session here FM» day. A number of prominent speakers will address the chunch women, who will come here from several counties. Registration for the conference will begin at 5:45 o’clock and a sup per will be held at 6:16. The even ing conference period will begin at 7:15 o’clock. • The program will include an ad dress by Mrs. H. Lacy Godwin qft Fayetteville, president of Woman of the Church of the Presbytery. Her topic van be “Looku* Ahead.” There will be reports on: "How Have We Witnessed?” iff various local presidents, including: Mrs. W. (Continued on Page Time) flcial delegates to the State meet township committees and act upon resolutions from each of the pre- Preaent officers of the Harnett Bureau now completing its annual membership drive, are: John W. Spears, Lillington, president; Wal-
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