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FOB CAROLYN JACKSON
UTILS NOTES: . Ada Jackson
and Margie Williams report that
they had a fine time at White Lake
a few nights ago—but definitely
not (35 worth... They got caught
k for speeding .. But It didn’t stop
f Margie..*.. She went back Tuesday
and Thursday nights... There must
be some attraction . there .. Mrs.
John Holland, commenting on the
I many beautiful gifts Shirley. Mc
i Lamb received at the shower last
Fight, recalled, “Back when t got
married, nobody ever thought about
Adding gifts." . Mrs. Holland
I say* Shirley will be one of the
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| Roberts Is Named
ITo School Board
■ Haywood RABeHs,' 33 year old merchant and fanner
I of Coats, was named last night by the Harnett County Ex-
I ecutlve Committee to fill the unexpired term of the late
■ -W. E. NlcholF on the County Board of Education.
■ one of W. Kerr Scott’* backers,
■ Roberts has been an active member
■ of the Coats community both in
I church and civic affairs.
H : The new Board member was born
■ta Coats where he attended High
■ School. Following his graduation In
■ dtU, he attended the Tennessee
S Military Institute where he gradua-
BOLDS OTHERp POSTS
■ Roberts consider Able ex-
H,nerieneJPTedicatiopal boards hav-
Mim senid oii the 1 Coats district
■hoard ter three Dr four years He
g Ev* mwnber |DI the ’Coats Fellow
ship Cltb an* a past president.
' adtition *3 membership in the
¥■ 4nn«»ih)n Cl up Roberts is a mem
os, «he Dtum chapter of the
s WpMMiA. member of ’Coats Bap-
Btist CbAb* and a fcAner dea
*aw fvih
•s * w &
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
(Wen for Randy yesterday afternoon at the Bran
- PSlft.eU..hh IU. birthday. It maderatfi a rarifc
plotare we decided to aae it on thl twit gott ta
etead of en the society page. (Dally Record Photo.)
Fantastic Murder
Plot Is Smashed
BARTOW, Fla. (W A prominent attorney and an
associate were charged today with a fantastic plot to mur
der for profit a wealthy widow and an elderly retired mil
lionaire calendar maker.
Sheriff Pat Gordon, who engi
neered the arrests, said the woman
In the case, gray-haired Mrs. Byrd
Roach, 51, agreed to become a fake
kidnap victim at great' personal
danger in a carefully-planned trap
to arrest the two men.
The other alleged intended death
victim was Identified as Kingsley
H. Gerlach, 81, formerly vice pres
ident in ‘charge of sales of the
Oerlach-Barklowt Co. of Joliet, m.
Emmett Dondelly, 60-year-old
attorney In nearby Lake Wales,
and Willard Durdqp, his alleged
accomplice, were brought here and
Jailed on:warrants charging them
with conspiracy' to commit murder
to rproflt. Their bonds were aet at
$50,080 each.
Many details of the case, which
lOmHwl On Ftaa Fear)
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Granny, 87, i
Says Hubby,
25, Is Bess
CAT HOLLOW, Ky. (W
Grandma Sprouse, 87, puffed a
long cigar today and admitted that
her 25-year-oM husband “is the
best man Isrvpjttad."
Orandmft MMM folks In this
rugged MB i uirWer eight yean ngo
when at 7* she Worried Delbert
(Short) Sprouse, thefctt.
But Granctaa Isn’t ranx “Me
and Short is Jest as hiflby as two
coons," she said.
She and Short have lived in their
cabin home near here farming
their 45-acre farm since their mar.
riage and “mindin’ our own busi
ness.” The cabin was built 70 yean
ago by bar first husband. Short
is her fourth.
Grandma did most of the talk
ing as Short was busy oooktng a
groundhog he’d just killed. When
asked what she thought was wrong
with the world today, she said:
•Television! Television’s what’s
wrong. Half of it’s the devil. Pteo
, pie eee things they shouldn't."
£ Short likes television. “He
to watch the girls on - TV
we’re watching it In town,”
dd. *T have to go after him
I to (top lookin,."
Even Grandma admitted (he
I liked one show. The Lone Ranger.
I She said she couldn’t help With
I much of the chorea anymore be-
I cause of high blood pressure and
I arthritis. “I don’t figure I’ll be
I here much longer,” she qaid.
I She said there would be no edte-
I bratlon today becauae 'Tm Just
I not as pert as I used to be,
I ■' ■
I
I WASHINGTON -* (Ma
lm weald have te pay higher
I prices for dairy product, msder
|i the terms es a seen* draft es a
jpeateh-air farm bOpepdlag ha
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DUNN, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 3, 1914
Carlisle
To Supreme Court Beivdl
House Scheduled
To Vote Today
On Farm Support
By UNITED PRESS
The House Agriculture
Committee scheduled a vote
today on an administration
opposed proposal to extend
the present high level price
supports on basic farm
crops.
The committee was to start vot
ing on provisions of a “catch-all"
farm bill. Price supports was the
first Issue to be decided.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON W> —The House
Agriculture Committee rebuffed
President Elsenhower today and
voted for a one-year extension
of rigid Ugh price supports for
basic crops.
The committee voted 81 to 8
against allowing flexible and
somewhat lower supports to go
into force next year as. recom
mended by the Resident and
scheduled under present law.
The committee rejected by only
one vote—ls to 14—a prnpssol
that rigid high supperto be made
permanent.
Republicans are sponsoring a
promal to continue price supports
on wheat, cotton, com .peanuts and
rice at the gmeant W 0 per cent of
party. The Democrats are-phiggmr
.».
buff for President BfrfaiMfer. Ho
has recommended that mandatory
90 per cent supports <« the five
crops be penult ted to expire as
scheduled at the end of this year.
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
War: Key Congressional sources
said President Eisenhower may de
cide in matter of daya whether
to ask Congress for authority to.
intervene directly In the Indochina
war.
Immunity: Atty. Gen, Herbert
Brownell Jr. was called before a
House Judiciary subcommittee this
morning to give hla views on the
granting of Immunity to balky wit
nesses who refuse to.; testify In
court ease* or in congressional
hearings. .
(CeatSuaed On Pago tat)
Charlotte Armory
Destroyed By Fire
CHARLOTTE tm A smoul
dering fire erupted into Oamoi min
ly today and destroyed the historic
armory-auditorium constructed in
1829 at ths cost of (itb.ooo.
Fire Chief. Donald' Charles said
the fire apparently bad beta smol
dering and building up Inside the
building For a Hong ttoeT be
cause when It got enough ’ oxygen
to break through the not and win
dows “there was no stopping It." I
“Me
as two
BULLETINS
GENEVA OP)— lndochina cease-fire taßa «ntfP*d a do
or-die phase today with Soviet Foretell Minister V. M.
Molotov seekinr public endorsement (ts hit p)amt lor end
ing the war. Diplomats at the six-week-old Nf East con
ference described the new phase aa “final add dccMve.”
Some believed it would leod at least to an end of the shoot
ing in Indochina.
WASHINGTON W The FCC yesterday cancelled, at
the company's request, the pomit isaaed to th# Goldsboro
Television Corp. far station WTVX on Channel 34, Golds
boro, N. C. ; *2. " ‘.id - *
* m DaJIAMM DaHmJaRII ■
f Kecora Kounaup +
SHOWS MAPS - H. W. Stevens, ,
City Planning Engineer of Raleigh,
presented s number of sups to I
Dunn’s Planning Board last night
outlining future dswelnpaeent Most
of the plane gave bites Iff Mm j
BJUDOa OOMHSHP City
Manager A. A Ml announced
today that anew steel nJgOtmA
lH|HHn6il i
Wt'
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bud general manager es ths Carolina Fewer end Light Company, win
be tbe prlaielpel speaker here Wednesday night at 6 o’clock at a cele
bration honoring Henry K Tyler Os Don. Sutton ha* held many state
and national honors in the pews* Industry.
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Lucas And Jackson
Won t Ask Runoff
‘ R. L. (Bob) Pate will be the new county commissioner
‘ In District Two -and Lonnie B. Jackson will be the new
i constable in Averasboro Township.
Coy Lucas, prominent business
man announced today that be would
not ask for a runoff with Pate,
and George Arthur Jackson of Dunn
announced that he would not ask
for a runoff with Ms brother for
the constable's post.
In his Democratic Primary, Fete,
a farmer msmmß' of tbs board,,
led Luces by a vote gs 884 to 602,
a margin of 82. Ysg*Tathe* candt
datm, JafHS PliMCil and w. An
dereon Sawyer wore dKmtpated.
LUeas, who was also (candidate
two yean ago, Issued * .statement
today expressing for
.from one side to the door of the
[house. Usds said ths Midge cost
[ approximately (500.
REVIVAL SPEAKER Rev D. L.
Mom es Charlotte, formerly at Clo
hria, New Mexico will he the evan
syn’ss^’g’ias;
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Girdle Plant \
Off Hold]
Confab Hsre
Officials of Bien Jolie Oarmsht j
factory in Mew York were In Dura
today going dver tentative plans I#
construction of a new Industrial <
building here.
The factory is currently located
In the Bear Building on South (Hin
ton Aveniie.
' Holding conferences with Norman
J. Buttles of the Chamber of Com
merce and O. W. Godwin, Sr. and
Bast Westbrook, local Industrial
MMed citizens, have been Harry.
ST Erions, phußfning engineer of
the factory in New York, and Sam
Lasaara, production engineer.
Buttles said today that as yet
nothing has been completed on
the building. However, incomplete
plans arp for enl. egement on the
building. However, incomplete plans
are for enlargement of the pre
sent factory to employ 300 persons.
Only 08 are employed in the fao
• tary now, $
Bing Crosby, Son
Suod For (155,0911
SAN JOSE, Calif. « Bolts I
against crooner Bing Crabby and
Ms son Gary as the result of a
. high war accident base risen tea
totei oT (155,005.
Carlos Alvernaa, 24-year-old
MSrtca form laborer, filed a saR
i for (16,000 yeeterday for Injuries
i be received In May 84 crash wfih
’ Gary* car.
Suit, totalling (150,000 were pre
. vtously filed three other Injur
ed field haato. Another oocupant
[ of the ear, Mix OUvarea, was Mil-
The Record /| Ftfc '
IN CIRCULATION .!
PHOTOS . . .
COMICS* AND FEATURES
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Winston - Salem
Lawyer Will
Replace Ervin
RALEIGH (IP) Gov. Wil
liam B. Umstead today nam
ed Carlyle W. Higgins, 64,
of Winston - Salem, Demo
cratic national committee
man for North Carolina, as
associate justice of the State
Supreme Court.
Higgins, former tJ. S. district
attorney and prosecutor of Japan
ese war criminals, was named to
succeed Associate Justice Sam
Ervub Umstead appointed Ervin,
last Saturday to the United States
Stnate seat vacated by the death
last month of Sen. Clyde R. Hoey
He served as Governor Umsteads
campaign manager.
Higgins, a native of Alleghany
County, has been practicing law
Bn Winston-Salem since 1947, fol-
Mring assignment in Japan for
IHk than a year by the Depart-
Justice as prosecutor of
war criminals
i:HdKK DISTRICT ATTORNEY
had served as United States
attorney for the Middle Dis
|H of North Carolina from 1934
graduate of the University of
Hxth Carolina, Higgins received
HJaa. B. degree in 1912 and his law
■Bke in 1914. His first state office,
was ts a member of the state'
House of 1925. He was elected to
serve -ta the state Senate in 1929.
For a number of years, i.Uggins
served as a law partnes of the late
Rufus Droughton and was solicitor
of the 11th Judicial District.
PRAISES RECORD
Umstead said Higgins “is .widely
known and recognized ta the state
as an outstanding lawyer, a man of
striding character and splendid
judgment, with a fine sense o f
fairness and justice. In my opinion
he will make a splendid Supreme
Court judge and will measure up to
the highest traditions of our court
of last resort.”
Hlggin* was mlrried ta 1916 to
the highpt traditions of our court
of last resort.”
Higgins was married ta 1916 to
Myrtle Brymnt of Sparta and they
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EVANGELIST the Rev.
Franklin Pierce of FqquSy Springe,
shown here, will speak Sunday
at Homecoming exercises to bo
held Sunday at the Coats Me
thodist Church. He wiH also hold
revival service* at the Coat*
Church every night at • o’clock
during the week.
Royster Case J
Delayed Again
( , A case against Dr. Dan Royster
l es Benson ta wliich he 1* charged
’ /With assaulting Evltte Barefoot a
I; ■tnenth and a half ago, wae eofit “
r tinued in Bensoh Recorder* Court
) yesterday on request of Duncan 0.
. Wilson, attorney for Barefoot. .
i (Continued On Page Five)
Lennon Won't Ask
Short Term Runoff
RALEIGH ftfi Former Gov.
• W. Kerr Scott won a majority Os
1 the vote for nomination to a reg
) ular term in the U. 8. Senate, but
i failed to win a majority for the
1 short tenn.
> The State Board of Election*
t canvassed the returns here yeeter
day and officially ottered the ra
} suits ta the records,
t Although Lennon legally waa en
titled to call s second primary for
j the short term, from November te
f January, he declined to exercise
the rj|»t, tho board yu.ttt