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r-- t-V-v \r-r +W EAT HER* North Carolina -1 Sunny and warm today. Fair and mild to night. Friday, partly daddy and warm. With "Preetone* Anti-Freese Teu’re set, yen’re safe, you’re sure. ioLUME S KIDNAPERS MUST DIE Joe Hamm, Dunn Dope Kino, Gets 10 Years In Pen —• • a aai I HAb| !• VJf \ plk JW| |>- fy j ly ■! *■ * Jfff s* t. ** a 1 i I I ;f7Hflj I I **< .V' , [ ■■' ?> «• ~'^W., ' ngf BIG TURNOUT Here to a scene made ear ** #>■>■''toS^^ I £Ttoir T to , a^Utor > w? rey being conducted there by the Chamber of Commerce. By neon the 344th woman had regis tered. Mrs. WnUe Glorer of Erwin to seen as she registered with H. B. Griffin, interviewer for the State Employment Service, and W. T. Fester, vet * There's Much Excitement in Daily Record Campaign T B Seals Mailed To County Citizens * Mrs. John Dalrymple. Christmas Seal aales worker for Harnett County, said today that 3,100 let ters containing 200 or more seals each have been mailed throughout the County. Harnett County's goal for seal aales this year has been set at 15,000. Last year the collections amounted to >*,250. Proceeds from the sales go to TB victims, Mrs. Dalrymple stated J. K. Bun ton, Erwin, Is serving as' president of the Harnett Sales organization. He succeeds Dr. C. W. Byrg who had served for two years. L. .A. Tart has been named he Id La Boheme Slated At Campbell Soon When the Campbell College Con cert Association presents the Grass Roots Opera production of LAE BOHEME at Campbell College Aud itorium, William Allen, lyric tenor of Raleigh will be heard in the role of Rodolfo. Mr. Allen to a singer of gSiP^JT3«rt£ board Opera Festival Group. Pled- 1 meat Music Festival Association, Cane Fees'Festival Association and the*Colony Optra Guild. With those various groups be bes appear- the trownm jerk la TELEPHONES: 1117 * Sllß ■ mss employment representative. Chamber of rmmni ofririoU mid thaT hmvS oft 1 ,ou women will register before Saturday at 9 p. m. ' White women 18 to 45 year* of age, Interested In employment, may sign np for possible jobs from 8:M e. m. to f p. m. Friday and Saturday. (Photo by T. M. Stewart) • sales chairman for the drive and all letters are sent out under his signature. , Mrs. Dalrymple stated that Mrs. Frank Wilson has assisted in mailing the letters this year. Sales will continued through Christmas, the stated. The Christmas seal are sent to various persons throughout the county on voluntary acceptance basis. Those who wish to purchase the Mato may do so by enclosing two dollars, or more if they care to do so, and mail the money back to headquarters. 'W ®te faitij B«m* DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 19, 1953 With but two more days remain ing in the first period of the Daily Record’s big “Everybody Wins” subscription campaign, ev ery participant is putting forth ev ery effort to earn the maximum votes allowed on new and renewal subscriptions. Saturday, November 21st. Just two short dav 8 away, marks the end of this all-important first period when votes for each s”bscriotion count the most, and, after that date, the vote schedule ttHpusti the second period wifi diminish. > These two days could well be termed the most, important for the entire contest. It is poeaible for anv contestant to roll up a vote total which might carry them through to ultimate victory on the closing day of this great drive, Saturday, December 19th. Many contestants in this con test have their sights set on that new 1>54 Dodge Royal V-8 four door Mdan which is first grand urize. But, to be certain, “Every body Wins” strictly In accordance with the amount of effort put into the moe And every participant will be rewarded from the top down to the last and final con testant in the race. During these final two days of (Cntfannl on mv six) Jh&M JhinqA By HOOTER ADAMS FATE SATED DUNN WOMAN’S HUSBAND Mrs. Yvonne Capps Johnson. Hamm Pleads I Guilty In I Surprise Hove / Joe Hamm, 40-year-old Dunn Negro described by authorities as a big operator in a powerful, nation-wide dope syndicate, was sen tenced to serve 10 years in Federal prison yesterday by Judge Don Gilliam in U. S. District Court at Wilming ton. In a surprise move, the Negro “Dope King” who once narrowly escaped the electric chair in a sen sational murder case here, appear ed In court without an attorney, pleaded guilty and begged for mer cy. Judge Gilliam gave him ten years on one count and two years on a second count, the two sentences to run concurrently. DRAMATIC APPEARANCE The flashily-dressed Dunn Ne gro, who formerly operated a Ne gro night club In Dunn and told the court his present occupation is that of a sort of traveling mu sistacit tJ. 8. Attorney Cicere Tow said “smacked of showmanship.” Hamm told the court he was trapped into the dope ring and denied that he was one of the big gest suppliers in this part of the country, as charged by Federal Narcotics Agent W. T. Atkinson. Atkinson said the government had been seeking Hamm for at least three years and that he was the go-between for a New York dope syndicate and Addicts in the Fort Bragg area. < Hamm Insisted that he was a poor boy and claimed his family had to go on relief after he was ar rested in the apartment of a New York woman on September 6th He maintained apartments In Dunn and New York, drove a big Cadi llac and, agents said, was accus tomed to high living. BEGS FOR MERCY He pleaded with the oourt and begged for mercy, but Judge Don Gilliam turned a deaf ear to his plea and observed; “I’m convinced you are no ordinary dope addict or peddler, but that you’ve been in the big-time.“ The assistant district attorney had read out Hamm’s long criminal record, which Included the Dunn murder charge, an armed robbery (Centinaed an Paga Six) BULLETINS JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. (UP) Hie fourth victim of a two-car collision which killed four persons and injur - | ed four near here Tuesday has been identified as Mrs. Carrie Jane Shelton, 34, of Marshall, N. C. TOKYO (UP) The United States made plain today > it intended to push its drive to have Japanese troops take over their own defenses in the Far East fight against communism. In a major policy statement which strongly reiterated the program for which America has been work ing quietly, Vice President Richard M. Nixon told the Jap anese they would have to rearm whether they like it or not * WASHINGTON (UP) Rep. John W. McCormack D- Mass said today he hi informed a workable defense against ■ Record RoundiiD + “ "i FOR PLANT BEDS A tobacco plant bed demonstration wing M C. 2 gas to kill nemotodee and oth er 'destructive insects and weeds ; in the toil, will be given on TW. Mday. Nov. 19 at 1 p. m. at Buck HHj I < GREGORY AND HIS PRIZED BOAR Harnett Representative Canon Gregory to shewn here with hie champion bear at the Mg Spotted Poland China Heg Shew end Sale held Saturday at the Blg-4 Warehouse in Dunn. Auctioneer A1 Howard to shown an the platform rigid behind Gregory. This hoar wen first prise at the State Fair. Hep. Gregory reports that Saturday’s show and sale was a Mg ehe eesa. (Daily Record Phot*.) Blizzards Forecast For Western States By UNITED PRESS The first blizzards of the season were forecast today for the western prairie states, but balmy Indian summer \ weather made a last stand east of the Mississippi. A heavy storm last night and early today had already blanketed the Rocky Mountain states with up to 11 inches of snow, almost para lyzing traffic and posing a threat to big game hunters camped In i em District, an imd IT ooun ! tames. I _____ j FIVE CENTS PER COPY wilderness areas. * J At El Reno, Okla., several hun dred persons were evacuated from 1 their home early today when a “ cloudburst dropped nearly rightin'- \ ches of rain In about four hours. 1 No one was injured In the sudden storm although a 4-year-old girl t was swept away from her father i and was in the water for several hours. Firemen, national gnards (Continued on Page Eight) s W • * V, n etftfE * " i; ij ijjj j. I w« jLr INmhtt -■« ;'A i übmoiii *iwnpifmNWf ..WP» .. 1 jjjyg f Off iMdBH the mnomm|; dfikr fnr BCayt*g k«r*. fie* i tarri iktn at the aaoessoMMat •* tka at# I «•****&*«*> 0*S hCT,U ’ *** * * e * to ' r * Mrs. Heady Smiles At Hall As Death Sentence Is Given By CHARLES NETHAWAY United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) - A federal jury de cided in an hour and seven minutes today that kid* nap-murderers Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady should be executed and they wera sen tenced to die in the prison gas chamber on Dec. 18. Hall and Mrs. Heady, who confessed to kidnap ing and murdering six year -old Bobby Green lease for a $600,009 ran som Sept. 38, took the verdict with the same sto ical calm they had dis played through the trial. She Smiles Mrs. Heady looked up and smiled in Hall’s di rection but he did not see Jrxis resting Jgte chin on his paimwtth Ms elbow on a table and look ing at the floor. Robert C. Greenlease, Bobby’s wealthy, 71-year old father, stared intent ly at Hall, but his face re mained impassive, except for a brief cording of muscles in his jaw. The prisoners were call ed before the bur, Hall standing on the right of U. S. District Judge A1 bert L. Reeves and Mrs. Heady standing on his left. Their sleeves almost touched, but they looked Hp and straight at the judge, never at each er. Judge Reeves, a somber, TB-year old man in black robes, asked Hall whether he had anything to say. Hall said, “No, sir,” the first aud ible words he has uttered Since his trial started. He asked Mrs. Heady the same thing and she farmed the words, “No sir," with her Ups, but the words themselves could not be heard, except possibly by Hall. P*rt of the hour and seven m!a-| utes the Jury was out was con sumed in selecting a Jury foreman. DEATHLY HUSH A deathly hush fell over the court (Continaed an Page Eight) Uve for Maytag: and Jebunny Furdie, The Record Xii Gets Results NO. 245 LILA LEEDS Lila Leeds Caught Again JOLIET, m. (ffl Showgirl Lila Leeds, a central figure in a Holly wood dope scandal, was arrested during a visit to state prison hero yesterday with narcotics and a hy podermic needle in her brassiere. After questioning, the blonde en tertainer was released. She came here with her two small sons to visit her oonvlct hue band. pianist Irvin Rochlin, 37, who is serving a (me-to-two year sen tence for armed robbery. Miss Leeds was once oonvicted with movie actor Robert Mitchum of possessing marijuana and was Jailed in Los Angeles. A prison matron found the needle and narcotics in Mias Leeds’ under garment while searching her per son. She had stuffed a bottle of morphine pUIs and a bottle of Hi. uld codeine into the bmasiero.
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