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TESTIFIES IN THRILL' SHOOTING
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:li 3?6T. MARION L. PIPER, 21, Identifies a shotgun for Joseph L. Carr (left),
[glkSfOSecutor in the assault trial in Los Angeles of John Richard Jensen, f
[K'Pteer, a Marine, testified that Jensen offered him a lift in his car and
R : «s°t him with the gun which was rigged in the back of the car. Left
f| 4* r at the side of the road. Piper managed to reach help. Authort-
B Sjtet are trying to prove that Jensen is connected with two slayings,
■ Stinging the motive was to “get a thrill." (International Soundphoto)
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Howell Given
Prison Term
LABRINBBRG (W —Harry How
ell, 25, of Laurlnburg, plead guilty
to voluntary manslaughter, and
was sentenced to 14-20 years in
prison here today at his second'
trial for the slaying of an off-duty
Fayetteville pol'cemari.
Judge Fran): Armstrong pro
nounced sentence after hearing a
review of evidence in the shooting
of Larry Graham.
Howell, wearing the same blue
suit witnesses said he wore on the
night of the shooting, spoke with
difficulty because of a swollen Jaw
caused by a tooth extraction yes
terday. He said Graham knocked
him down and then reached a
hand Into his pocket.
"I was afraid he’d k'll me so I
pulled my gun and shot as I got
up off the ground,” Howell testi
fied. \
WISE DECISION
The judge tofd Solicitor M. G.
Boyette he thought the decision to
accept a plea of guilty to man
slaughter was a wise one. as he
had found no evidence of first de
gree murder In studying the rec
s ords of the previous trial.
Howell’s first trial last May end
ed in a conviction on a second de
gree murder charge and Judge
William Hatch sentenced h'm to
22-25 years In prison. On appeal,
however, the State Supreme Court
- ruled that Hatch erred in his
, charge to the jury, and ordered a
f new trial.
! U. S. Official
| iCentlnnea pram Fata One)
i that inventories will soon be in bal
| ance and a targe volume of new or
. ders will result.”
| Retail Sales: Holding up wefi
(one per cent below last year).
I Constriction: Three per cent
higher in January than a year ago;
| home starts down 8 per cent; new ;
' office building construction up 50 !
| per cent.
' Plant and Equipment Expendi
, tures: Three per cent above first
I quarter of 1953.
Electric Power Production: Bp 7
I per cent over last year and 60 per i
cent higher than 1947-49.
| Machine Tool Orders: Bp 15 per :
cent for January over December. ,
! New Businesses: Highest in 1953 ;
in five years. ,
I Barnes said the South Is “living ■
proof of optimism” In business, and j
| noted that Georgia added a new .
manufacturing operation every work- ,
| day since 1946—a total of
1 2,192.
Graham Plans
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I the newspapers, where It had 1
I crowded Prime Minister Winston
Churchill off Page One.
I Posters proclaiming the crusade
decorated the red double-deck bus
| es winding around Piccadilly Cir
cus. His face can be seen on sub
l way posters, in magazines, and on
bill-boards. The Billy Graham Song
I Book was a best-seller in London
' this week.
Sprackles Sheds
His Sixth Wife
VENTURA, Calif. HI Million
aire sugar heir Adolph B. Speck
els IT has filed a divorce suit
against his sixth wife after only
34 days of marriage, his attorney
disclosed todav.
Soreckels, 44, charged his wife,
pretty 22-veaT-old Judith Powel,
with crueltv in the suit filed here
yesterdav, lawyer Daniel Schnabel
■said. They were married last Jan.
21 In Las Vegas, Nev.
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THE DAILY RECORD, DtJNN, N. U
[ DESCRIBES HYDROGEN BLAST IN TERMS OF CHICAGO
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News Shorts
BARNWELL, S. C. OB State
Sen. Edgar A. Brown has an
nounced that A dial Stevenson.
Democratic 1952 presidential candi
date, will not attend the State
Democratic convention March 24.
CUERNAVACA, Mexico iff! -
Twelve bandits and three bystand
ers were killed yesterday in a 4 1-2
hoar gnnbattle between a band of
1M outlaws led by a former candi
date for governor and Mexican
army troops. It was announced to
day. Ruben Jaramillo, the outlaw
political chieftain who rose in arms
against the government after h»
was defeated in the 1952 elections,
was believed wounded in the run
ning gunfight. Six soldiers were
wounded.
ATLANTA 19) The House of
Delegates of the American Bar
Assn, closed a twoday meeting to
day after approving a bill aimed
at compelling testimony from reluc
tant congressional witnesses.
BRISBANE, Australia (V) Gov
ernment officials said In Mel
bourne today that Queen Elisa
beth’s tour of western Australia
may be curtailed if not cancell
ed because of an increasingly
serious outbreak of poliomyelitis.
West Australia health authorities
said the outbreak is getting stead
ily worse and there it Insufficient
gamma globulin for mam protec
tion.
BOSTON (IB _ Boston R.-« Sox
slugger Ted Williams was operat
ed on today to sored the healing
of a fractured collarbone 'offered
a week ago daring his first 10
minutes of snetqg practice at Sar
asota. Fh. Williams w-nt under a
surgeon’s knife at 10:25 a. m. and
was wheeled from the operating
room at 11:29 a. m. A report from
the attending nhwMans said “ev
erything Is satisfactory.”
RALEIGH (IB Revenue Com
missioner Eurene Shaw announced
todav that the state office here
and 50 field offices theourhopt the
state wHI be onen Saturday to as
sist taxpayers In filing income and
Intangible tax returns due March
13.
WASHINGTON i*i A Renob
llean senator today accused Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy of «doing hH
hoot to shatter” the Republican
Party. Sen. Ralph E. Flandrrs of
Vermont ab>« *ald in a Senate
speech that McCarthy’s Red-hunt
ing eampalrn it diverting the na
tion’s attention from the “danger
oua problems” faced abroad.
WASHINGTON (VI House mil
itary loaders today rejected Sen
ate amendments to a Howe-ap
tewved MO authorising the Air
Faroe to build its own 125 minion
doßar academy. Bids means that
a compromise siust be werfced opt
by o House-Senate conference
I'MimHltu, But final passage of
the bill is amnrod.
WASHINGTON HI Army See
rotary Robert T. Stevens Wiß pre
sy the Medal sf Honor to parents
Loans-Financing
Pvt. Brown Takes i
Course In Virginia 1
' FORT EBSTIS, Va„ March 4
Private Rudolph C. Brown, son of '
Mrs. Evie B. Capps of Llllington, I
N. C., recently graduated from the I
Transportation Corps Leaders
Course at the Army’s Transporta- <
tion School, Ft. Eustls. Va.
. The TC Leaders Course is a rig- *
orous, eight-week program design
ed to teach the fundamentals and *
practical application of sound j
leadership. The cand’dates study !
public speaking, instructional
methods and other pertinent aca- (
demic subjects in addition to their ]
intensive field training.
A graduate of Llllington High
School, Private Brown was In at
tendance at Campbell College pri
or to entering the service. He was 1
very active on the football, basket- 1
ball, baseball, and track teams. j
of a North Carolina soldier who
loot hlr life in Korea at a Penta
gon ceremony tomorrow. The m*d
al awarded to Pfc. Charges George,
29, a member of the 45th Infan
try Division, will be received by
his father. Jacob George, Whittier,
N. C. His mother. Mrs. Lucy George
also will attend the ceremony.
WASHINGTON HI The Ben
’ ate completed action yesterday on
legislation to establish a 125 mil
lion dollar Air Force academy at
1 a yet-to-be chosen site. The House
1 has already passed a similar Mil
; and differences between the two
measures mnst be ironed out be
fore the final Mil is submitted for
President Elsenhower’s signature.
VATICAN CITY (IB Vatican
• source* sold today Pope Pins now
Is »p«ndlnr »n to four honrs a dax
I out of the bed to wMch he .hat been
confined off and on* for 4* da»«.
, These sources said the Pone, for
I the na«t three dare, has b»»n rn
. Inr to the stndlo adiolnlnr his W
room a* '.*oon and working there
1 several hours on church affairs.
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NEW YORK (IB Warren
Young, a 31-year-old unemployed
bus driver, planned a surprise for
his wife, Patricia.
He wrote her a letter last Satur
day, dropped it in a mailbox, then
went home and told her to watch
for it.
Yesterday it came. Young watch
ed the mailman deliver it and walk
away. Then, as his wife opened the
envelope, Young went into a bed
room.
Just as Patricia realized the let
ter. contained a suicide note, she
heard a shot. Young had fired a
fatal bullet into his brain.
LEAVE FOR COM
Mrs. Alfred Blalock, Mrs. George
Franklin Blalock and Mrs. Hubert
Peay left by plane from the Ra
leigh-Durham airport this morn
ing for a ten-day vacation in Cuba.
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Outbreak Os
iConttnaed from IM* owl
the cemetery. He recalled an
epidemic of stealing there several
months ago. .
PLANTS DBG BP
A Dunn woman leported that
about a half damn boxwoods had
been dug up on her cemetery lot
and carried away.
Chief Cobb said he received an
other report from Mrs. Lillian
. Adley Hood that bushes and shrub
bery had been stolen from a va
cant lot that she owns. This lot.
however, is not located in the
cemetery.
.Chief Cobb pointed out that his
men patrol the cemetery area
nightly but said he just didn’t have
enough money to keep somebodv
stationed there at all times.
Benny's
fOonOMHitf Praos Psao Owl
pay for it—and it’s not deductible,”
Benny complained.
Some 300 guests have been in
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pagne reception aftenwarGs, in
cluding Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Cole
man, Bob Hope, Barbara Stan
wyck, Marilyn Monroe, Eethel Mur-
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