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+WEATHER* NORTH CAROLINA Partly cleuor and warm today. Cloudy west, partly cloudy east portion, uIM tonight. Saftirday consider able cloudiness, _ With “Prestons- Anti-Freeaa TWro set, you’re safe, you’re aura. VOLUME » STATE iiT/iree Harnett Negroes On Trial For Life In Slaying •n mm i i ■ ' * Hal \ \y%fk- I ft JWWcfMT Member* sf the Junior Class «r WMH Bilk School will present “Finders Creep „ f»ry>, evening at 8 <EZ!:** «<»>* djtfnSlflho murder. Rayßutter, Kidnapers Lodged 'Jn Death Cell |f7 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (0) Fed eral authorities acted quickly to day to move Oort Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Kandy to death cells in the same penitentiary where two years arc Hall tint started to plan the *OOO,OOO Bobby Oreenleaae kid naping. Transfer of the condemned kid napers from the Jackson County Jail here to the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson Citv was e*neotad m toon as prerovations were nMMM at the nrieon for , guards at their &:is in d»»*h row. % P*H!ND-THR-CLfVCK GUARDS Warden Rslnh Eldaon said he eould hot accent the nriso.net* until he had hired four soeclal matrons to keep a round-the-clock watch on Mrs. Heady, who was sentenced Thursday with Hall to die in the fas chamber for the kidnao-mur-> her of star-year-old Bobby Green - lease. , . > * .>■ .’. Hall recalled In hie confession that It was In the Miskmrl peni tential* .. while serrtnr time .foe armed robbery in rau that he first thought of kidnaping as “the one crime I could commit cnee and aaea 39 Cases Set For *Trial Next Week Judge Clawson L. Williams Is scheduled to head 39 cases In Superior wMdc in the second week of the November term of criminal court. Bwsrn is scheduled to face charges will adjourn Thursday in obaar- Monday, _ .... j ; I 9 TELEPHONES: 3117 . Hit TURNS right front row, playing the part of Mr. Quigley, pulls the sheet off Gmnny’a head. Other* pictured (L to r.) are, Btenfard Godwin, Claude, the care tekerj Peggie Rente, Frankie; Bobby Smith, m 'Div Brown) and Ann Thomas, the amid. (Daily Record Photo) [ Kidnapers Won't . ; Be Allowed To Become Married KANSAS CITV, MO, an Cart , Auatln Ha|l and Bonnie Brown i Heady aaay want to marry Mfure i they die for kidnaping and Ull . ing little Bobby Green lease, but , •** government win not The Justice Department said in Washington today that ttwould not anthorlao or permit such a marriage. The department mid the two convicted killers had sent word unofficially to the C. S. marshal > here that they wished to marry before they enter the cyanide gas chamber at tho state penitentiary tsrdieunDee.it. A rehabie source who has had Ml contact with Hall said today that the kidnaper still wants to 1 marry his alcoholic paramour, and 1 has said se since shortly after (Continued un page six) and other charges. For Wednesday, Liston Stewart, speeding; William Hassell Davis, driving drunk; Mark Tew, speed ing; Lonnie Oregory, driving after his Beenes was revoked; James L. Pops, public drunkenness; taster ifssswy, MUMflt; John Lewis Mc wia •um hub xjtjwo, nuiraer. on Missel an, Ammie Royals, public drunke- ®te sl etstrfr DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20,~1953~ Appliance Men To Meet Monday Bob Just is of Newport, Delaware, one of the country’s best known appliance dealers and a national official of the National Radio and Television Dealers Association, will address a meeting of appliance dealers of this area Monday night at 7:30 o'clock at Johnson’s Res taurant. Plans for the meeting were an nounced today by William 8. Wel lons of Dunn, area chairman for NARDA for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. TO FORM UNIT Purpose of the meeting Monday night win be to form a local unit of NARDA, Mr. Wellons said. A nomlnat'ng committee headed by Johnnie Purdie was named at a preliminary meeting last week and wUI iqak ea report at this ses sion. Wellons said the group Is partic ularly fortunate In securing Mr. Justls as the speaker. He is presi dent of Justls Brothers. Inc., a multi - million dollar concern In Newport He to a member of the hoard of directors of NARDA. . Mr. Wellons to urging all appli ance dealers of the area to attend this meeting. Last Minute News Shorts WASHINGTON W The Army's attempt to maintain rigid secrecy about It? deadly new guided mtadle. the Nike, broke dewn today-right nam. A precise scale medal of the kvilivlM anti-aircraft wtiptn vm fMOd nrimliMiitly dlvpbjrcd on a table In Bvauiref Pentagon office. The medal was open for exam ination by ass vtoiters, from re porters to foreign mffltary attaches. WASHINGTON (SI Alger Hiss, former State Department afflelal now serving a fire year prison sen tence far perjury, win get a esc end chance for panda within the next tew AapK officiate said today. In sii siinm no ———- -a- a_ •oBNRvw w oony Mil WOOS n reconrtdeMto raMng of ayearegn km the Lewfaburg, Pa* peuttsuti •T 8. C, insurance firm here wbßc antoasebite owners DOWN Jury May Get To Deliberate This Afternoon Trial of three Lillington Negroes on a first-degree murder charge the first to be heard in Harnett Su perior Court in over five years was expected to reach a jury late today. That- three men have been placed on trial for their lives at the same time Harnett. Two brothers. Johnnie and Bobbv Spencer, and Lacy Murchison, all In their early 20’s, are charged with the premeditated slaying of Thur man McNeill, another young Negro, In a Shawtown case last January. McNeill, shot on a Friday night, died four days later In Dunn Hospi • tal as the result of pistol wounds in the abdomen. NO DEFENSE EVIDENCE All three defendants have pleaded not guilty, and as the trial moved swlftlv this morning Defense Attorneys Everette Doffer myre and D. K. Stewart rested their case yithout sending any witnesses to the'stand. Neither of the three defendants testified. Doffermyre and Stewart are re- Irtng on the weahntte of the -State's evidence in an attempt to save them from the gas chamber. Judge Clawson L. Williams was scheduled to charge the Jury late this afternoon. District Solicitor Jack Hooks sent a total of four witnesses to the stand, who brought out drama tic and sensational testimony which named Johnny Spencer, a lanky Mulatto, as “the man with the , brown-handled pistol who got , Thurman McNeill.” 1 Bobby Spencer and Lacy Murchi- I son mere identified as standing within three feet when the fatal ’ shot was fired. Earlier that night, Bobby Spen cer and the dead man had an ■ argument outside of Moore’s Case In Shawtown and at that time ■ Thurman McNeill reportedly had a • knife. There was no evidence, how ' ever, that the knife was used. i A few minutes after the argu i ment, Bobby and Lacy Murchison lef and returned within a half hour with the alleged trigger man, who r did the killing, t EYE WITNESS HEARD Testimony of Clyde Sanford, a 1 young Nesrro, who was in the case ; (Continued on page six) Hall And Heady Will Not Apoeal KANSAS CITY, Mo. \ (UP) Judge Albert L. • Reeves and attorney Roy K. Dietrich issued a joint statement today saying > there will be no appeal of the death sentence im posed yesterday on Carl Austin Kill and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady. BUI&E9MS LONDON (UP) The British Foreign Offtoe an nounced today that experts of the United States, Britain and Canada will meet soon to exchange information on tiie effects of atomic explosions. MIAMI BEACH (UP) The Executive Council at the United Synagogue of America has expressed “deep dismay at the tone” used by the nation’s highest public officials in discussing current issues. RALEIGH (UP) Convicted former Ku Klux Klan boas Thomas L Hamilton, refused a parole last month, ; i • (Centtaued m pug* tore) ♦ Dammi DaiimJiim ■ ItGCOiu KOUnulip + FlßE—Fire completely dmtroyedll the inside of s IMS Studebaker be- 1 longing to Rev. O. D McNeill, He- , fro, of SOO E Cumberland, tost PROTESTS ■■■■■■HHHHHiHHiiHHIHHR^ /fjSSHnHsP .a ■ v ; . . ERWIN MXMBTER, WIFE HONORED photograph of the Rev. and Mr*. Forrest C. Maxwell of Erwin which win appear In the 1053 Minnte Book of the Little River Baptist Aaso ctettaa, which to being dedicated to them. The Rev. Mr. MaxweU to pastor of the First Baptist Church *f Erwin and is one of the eate standlng Baptist pattan of the State. He and Mrs. MaxweU are be ing honored far their devoted service to the nmociatlon and to the community they serve. England, Canada To Share Bond Info WASHINGTON OB The Atomic Energy Commission said today that this country will share information with Great Britain and Canada on that what A-Bombs and H-bombs can do to troops In the Held and the people of target cities. The ABC replied to questions about a British Foreign Office statement that the three nations will confer soon on he effects of atomic explosions. ABC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss had announced Nov. 11 that the three countries would step up their "technical cooperation” on atomic matters but had added that the Information exchange would “not involve weapons information.” It turns out that it does Involve information on weapons effects, thought not on design end manu facture of weapons; Today the ABO said the evchange “will cover the knowledge of the effects of nuclear erpioeincia on Monday evening. November M, at •:M, Rev. A. D. Herring announc ed today. SCOOT DINNER The dietrfct »oout dinner will to told at John son’s Restaurant Monday evmint at 7 o’clock. AC county Lout maa tere, eommitteemen, neignborhood commiaatonera. aaiMast aoout —»^ i> - ters, and cub matters an expect (ltottMi ea page atx) g» wl*. ./ * FIVE CENTS PER COPY personnel, structures and squlp ment.", Use of the word “nuclear” meant that the exchange will deal not only with atomic bombs, artillery shells, and other weapons, but also with the so-called hydrogen bomb. London reports said Prime Min ister Winston Churchill probably wUI discuss with President Elsen hower, at their Bermuda confer ence. a further exchange of atomic information, looking to a resump tion of the Allied wartime partner ship. Grange Favors More Markets BURLINGTON, Vt. m Re luctantly acceptlnng a “closed shop" in agriculture, the National Orange dosed its 87th annual con vention today with a demand that the Eisenhower administration help solve overproduction problems by expanding markets. In a policy statement handed to Secretary of Agriculture Mm T. Benson, the farm group agreed to temporary continuation of price supports and either marketing quotas or acreage allotments—the so-called “closed shop.” Present regulations forbid, eg* cept in minute fashion increases in acreage of four of the sht baste commodities tobacco, peanut, wheat and earn. Cotton appears certain to come under time regu lations. New producers are vtotaql ly barred from raising these com modities and violation of assigned Quotes brings penalty airerments of W per cent of the value.of ttw The .Grange agreed to them vl!?ui wnsoo they new markets mrm mmntit -i ■mremw are fippv*awK U m ON Work Will Proceed On Relocation As Originally Proposed Three Highway Commissioners meeting at the Com munity House in Lillington today turned down the pro test of the Harnett County Commissioners and the City Council of Dunn on the Relocation of Highway 301. Following a morning, the group dismissed at lunch and met this afternoon at two o’clock to an nounce its decision. On the reviewing board were Commissioners. H. Maynard Hooks, E. Heide Trask, and Forrest Lockey, chairman of the group. R. Brookes Peters, attorney for the Highway Department, read the decision of the Commissioners. Most of the protestants who spoke at the morning meeting were not present this afternoon, but those who were took the decision good naturedly and left the session smiling. NO ACTION STATED There was no indication at the meeting this afternoon that any more action wUI be taken by the Dunn officials. Hugh WiUie Tart, president of the Dunn Tourist Bureau, asked the Highway Commtaslonars “not to feel hard at the County Com missioners for the protege® ' Attorney Peters assured Tart that the Highway Department did not SBI Agents Probe Tractor Black Mart Sheriff W. E. (Bill) Salmon has called in agents of the State Bureau of Investigation to help with a probe into black market tractor operations which are reported to be growing extensive here and in other sections of the State. vtlhraa Clarence O. McLamb of Dunn, assistant foreman of the grand Jury and the nation’s largest Far mall tractor dealer, called the black market operations to the attention of the grand jury and to District Solicitor Jade Hooks. Solicitor Hooks suggested “that SBI agents be called in to conduct an investigation so that evidence can be gathered and presented to the grand Jury for possible indict ments. After a conference with Sheriff Salmon, the SBI was called Into the probe. ■ TRACTORS IMPORTED Dunn tractor dealers and others in the area have oomplained that the black market sate of tractors has proved Injurious to farmers of Big Event Slated At Spring Branch Dr. Mare H. Lovelace, profcaaor of archaeology lit Southwest Baptist Seminary at Wake Forest. wW delNir the principal address at the annual Harvest and Hotfift coming Day to be held Sunday at the historic old SprtiK Branch Baptist Church on Dunn, Route 1. Plans for the annual erent at * the MS-year-old church wore an- f today by tho Hoy SUch&nS £ Smith, pastor. He said Ore church 1 Is ntrandy fortunate to hayy mh £ cured Dr. Lovelaoe aa the speaker, f! There will be *Mekl music tori both the morning end afternoon progrey. new piano. | /’ fwgl I] Tha Record Tta i ■ Gets Results 1 NO. 246 301 work that way. “This is just an > other example of the way a dem i ocracy works,’’ he stated. IN MOBNING SESSION • The meeting tills morning has , attended by approximately 75 pokMe , representing businesses of State and surrounding area. A number • of persons who wiH be affected* by ! the road in Johnston County «nd ; other towns north of Dann gis» ! attended and expressed their optn t ion. WESTBROOK SPEAKS ’ - l Former Mayor Earl Westbrook of Dunn was the principal speakes|tir the Dunn group; with the toJgHtt ; court owners also expressing tfeqh r opinions. ! Mayor Ralph E. Hanna was'jggj) present when the meeting opCMd F but arrived before the recess "tip I filed a written statement. t In the statement for the Cite of Dunn Hanna told the highway commissioners that neither he nor t any member of the board “own t (Continued so page six) the county as well as to the in dustry Many of the tractors have J bean brought in from western states and serial numbers removed of de faced to prevent proper registra tion. Under an act pasaed by the Mat legislature, tractor aerial numbers must be properly registered an*s* is a criminal, offense to remoVa dr deface them. It was pointed out that farm*!* face a risk when they buy there tractors because they cany too serial number* as proof of cwtoir ship and no mantltectaren’ WUr rantly as to quality and servloe. , .. It was indicated today that in vestigation by the SBI may t*£e sometime before other action WS stituted. m
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