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OBSERVE WRECK A large crowd of per.
••ns gathered soon after the train.ew accident
‘bat night at the W. Harnett Avenue crossing,
fflto cm, pictured above, belonged to Milton Ray
Damages Totaling $15,000
Ocuir In Car-Train Wreck
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HBonn Po/ice Probe
Series Os Theffs
. Jl Chief of Police Alton A, Cobh stated today that inves*
». ■Ration of seven or more break4ns to. Dunn during the
flKst two or thre weeks is being continued with nothing
‘Concrete to report.” :,,I' • ’ . -s • ' . • V.7
Cobb made the announcement of
the break-ins today following the
publication of a. partial list of the
robberies by a Dunn newspaper yes
terday.
Previously, he bad dismissed the
affairs with another reporter but
an agreement was made to with
hold the information for the sake
of thorough investigation.
Oobb add today he was sorry
the publication had. been made as
it often handicapped the Investiga
tion.
4T The last break-in reported was.
at Sexton Lee’s Grocery where the
thief tax* around 8500 In money,
entrance to the store was gained
through a window where an exhaust
fan had been. Cobb stated today.
The robber climbed up the back of
the store, broke the lock and en
tered. A filing cabinet In the store
was rifled, and the money In It
taken, but other .money In the
store was not found by. the robber.
So ether robberies during the
past two weeks, an attempt waa
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that this was nefe an actual tanafe
lb since the person who‘made the
was obviously locked-ln to
llilosing time. He authorised that
Mhe would-be thief must have been
an unexperienced band to sate
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nor, Jr. and was driven by Eugene Ennis. No one
was injured. The ear wee thrown 126 feet after
the trda hit ft at the Harnett Avenue crossing,
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NASHVILLE, Team. (m The
eveeuttvp committee of the South
ern Baptist Convention 'has IMS,-
*W In exnmdtturea ter Be* In
promotion to Sunday sehoel, titon
kM-Wton ant stadeot work.
CHARLOTTE IIP - Former Sttop
Inauranee Commissioner Waldo
Cheek has Men eleetod prerident
lUeiawN «o ns» teu
*•£• MR. KERMAN DIES
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g aajsi arsys
wto a brother of Mrs. D. & Hood
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 17, 1953
Iftumagey Which may range
from a trsdn - cal crash at
the W. Hal nett Avenue
crossirif last night around
The transmission on a ISSI Pon
tiac convertible, belonging to Mil
ton Raynor Jr., locked while Eug
ene Ennis, of Strife inland Motor
Company, was checking It. Ennii
told today that the car "had been
acting up” and that be was driving
It.
, When the ear started across the
tracks, the train was in sight but
far enough away to allow plenty of
time to cross, Ennis stated. Just
as the car crossed the tracks, the
transmission locked, locking the
back wheels. With the wheels lock
ed, the car wouldn’t crank.
. - GOT OUT AND RAN
Ennis seld by the time the wheels
locked, the train was “too dose
far comfort.” and that he got out
and ran. Raynor, who was also a
passenger in the car, got out and
tried to flag the train with his
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Kidnapers Will Eat Chicken;
Go To Their Deaths At 12:01
By WARD COLWELL -
(UP Staff Correspondent)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Ofl
Carl Austin Hall end .Skmaie
Brown Heady will meet for a last
visit In the Missouri Penitentiary
today and then await their trip
to the ges chamber to die side by
side at 12:01 a. tn. Friday for the
Bobby Greenlease kidnap-murder.
Double Suicide
Turns Out To Be
Bizarre Murder
NEW YORK (UP) Two
frail and scholarly youths
were hauled before the bar
of justice today and charged
with mixing poetry, cya
nide, and champagne into a
toast of death.
In one of the most fantastic
crimes ever to emerge from the
macabre files of the big town, a po
etry-quoting chemistry student lift
ed his glass in a poisoned toast to
his parents, police charged, and
then watched them writhe to their
deaths on the kitchen floor.
Then, calling police, he quoted
the poetry of Keats and Shelley as
he asserted he had found a double
suicide.
INSURANCE MOTIVE
Today, four months later, police
charged it was double murder.
They charged the motive was to col
lect some $150,000 In insurance and
savings.
They booked on homicide charges
Harlow Fraden, 22, the son; and
Dennis Wepman, 20, the companion
who spilled the story to a girl friend
when his conscience began bother
ing him.
The parents, who—according to
Wepman’s story had happily
thought they were toasting their
son’s decision to get a Job, were
Dr. William Fraden, 53, a City
Health Department director, and
his school-teacher wife, Shirley. 50
The strange case broke when
Wepman went out last week with
an attractive, 22-year-old, brunette
United Nations receptionist. Her
namW was not disclosed. After a
few Brinks, Wepman, a free-lance
4 dßlteitoJtotoftto he and- Fraden had’
platiSed and executed the plan.
Terrified, she told the pollee.
Tire two were arraigned ahort'v
before noon in Bronx maeinrate’s
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; Post Office Uraes
Do Mailing NOW
1 Postmaster Ralph Wade of Dunn
; urged post office patrons to get all
’ Christmas mail off as soon as pos
sible.
In a statement Issued today, Wade
; thanked thoee who l--«ve already
’ mailed packages and Christmas
■ cards, and urged persons planning
■ to mail Christmas things to do so
( immediately.
“It would greatly help the post
office department if residents would
get all Christmas mail off by Sat
i urday, Dec. 19” Wade stated. To
i assist late mailers, the office will
I be open all day Saturday, he add
i! ed.
II The post office will be closed
i Christmas day with only special
delivery mall being delivered. I
Prison officials said the kidnap- <
era* who had not seen each other
since they entered “death row" at
the prison Nov. 20, acted calm and
resigned as they began their last
full day of life.
TO OET LAST TALK
Hall and Mrs. Heady were to be
allowed to talk to each other today
In the presence of guards and min
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JONES AND FAMILY
Emin Man Cant Talk With
French - Speaking Children
1954 Chevrolet
Goes On Display
More power, an extension of the
automatic transmission option to
all cars, and design revisions to
accentuate the low, flowing beauty
of the three body series hlghspot
the 1954 Chevrolets. . 1
The beautiful new Chevrolet line
will go on display tomorrow at
Westbrook Chevrolet Co. In Dunn.
The latest models, scheduled to
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i lsters. Then they will eat a last
meal of fried chicken tn their wid
ely-separated cells and will not see
each other agav x until they meet
late tonight in a small cell ad
i Joining the gas chamber.
I At one minute after midnight,
barring delays, deadly fumes of
cyanide gas wljl painlessly apd
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
By CARL CONNER
Record Staff Writer :
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An Erwin, Route 1, aerv- 1
iceman who speaks only
English will have to resort
to sign language soon if his
two children, who speak on
| ly French, don’t learn Eng 4
! lish.
Staff Sgt. Odis Jones 25, was
faced with the language problem
1 on returning from England where
; he spent 18 months as an all
' police Investigator.
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Jones’ wife, a French Canadian,
■ returned to Ctmsda to live with her
parents after her husband left for
England. Now the two-year, eight- ,
month old son, and bis 15 month
old sister understand and speak
only Trench.
Sgt. Jones was horn tn Erwin and
attended public school there. Fol
lowing his schooling, he was em
ployed In Erwin Mills until he Join
ed the U. S. Navy in December, IMS.
The following year he was released
t from the Navy and two yean later,
- In January, 1948, enlisted In the
i Air Force.
t It was while on duty In Maasach
- usetts in April, 1950, that Jongs
married Miss Lucille Demands of
;, Quebec, Canada. At that time she
f was working In a thread mill In
1 Massechusetts. While she was born
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THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
1954 Pontiac
Will Be Shown
PONTIAC, Mich. An entirely
new. line of cars—bigger, longer and
mors luxurious—plus an Improved
and newly styled line of Chieftains
for 1954 was announced today by
R. M. Crltchfleld, general manager
of the Pontiac Motor Division.
The new Pontiac line will go on
display here Thursday at Strick
land Motor Co.
They will go on display in deal
ers’ showroom across the nation for
a two-day announcement period be
ginning Friday, Dec. 18.
I The new line, to be known as the
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+ Record Roundup *
PIKE—A Gulf OH truck caught Are
yesterday and the local Fire De
partment wes called to fight it, but
the fire wae extinguished before
the truck left the station, Howard
M. Lee, secretary - treasurer of the
Department, said today. Twenty men
were out for the alarm.
COMPANY PARTY—Wellons Candy
Company will entertain employero
" NO. 9
Russia s Most
Feared Man Is
Held In Treason
MOSCOW (IPI The So
viet government said today
ousted Secret Police Chief
Lavrenti P. Beria had been
ordered to stand trial before
Russia’s highest court on
treason charges which could
result in his death.
A state prosecutor’s office
announcement disclosed al
so that six high officials of
the secret police would share
the prisoners’ dock with Be
ria, No. 2 man in Russia un
til his downfall.
Beria was accused of “the
gravest crimes against the
state,” of plotting to under
mine the government in the
interest of foreign capital,
and of conspiring to wreck
the Soviet defense structure
and its economy.
By HENRY SHAPIRO
(UP Staff Correspondent)
Lavrenti P. Beria's expulsion from
:he government and his arrest has
proved one of the most popular of
s long series of measures charact
erizing the “new look” of Prem
ier Oeorgl M. Malenkovs regime.
MOST POWERFUL
Beria, the second-ranking
in the country, liras one of the
most powerful and certainly the
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Dear
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Met* letters to Santa bask
page of Second section today.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am two yean old. I want you
to bring me a doll, a toll stroller,
sod a flro track. Don’t forget the
other little boy* and girls. They
win be looking far you too.
Love, NtoL
Betty Aim Starling, v
Angler, Jtt. I. >
Dew Santa: *
I am a big boy, nine yean old.
I am la the Sth grade. I am In
Miss H. H. Ragland’s roam and I
love her very much. Please bring
me a basketball set and a pair of
boots. Merry Christmas. Please
don’t forget the other boys and
girls.
Archie McNeill, “
Erwin, N. a
DEAR SANTA, W
I am a little boy asm yearn &
and rm in the second grade and I
go to school to Mary Stewart. MV
name is Anthony Norris. Please
bring me a watch and a gaa and
holster, and some tooth— I want
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of the company tomorrow evening
at 7:00 o'clock, to Urn ink?
Christmas party to the Dunn H*h -
' School cafeteria. A dog show is to
be featured, it wto to
day by Bill Marshburh, sales maa
■ agar of the company.
MARRIAGE * TTTffirr niniailm
Is the month moot favored far wed
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