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+ WEATHER + North Carolina Partly cloudy and hot today and Tnasdy with widely settered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Volume « 424 KILLED IN HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS 4th Observed By Thousands At Liberty Beil ? PHILADELPHIA OP)—The great and the small paid homage at Independence tHall today to the principle •of liberty incorporated in 'the Declaration of Indepen dence adopted 178 years ago. tn a message to the thousands celebrating Independence Day at the shrine where American freedom Was born. President Eisenhower voiced the hope than on this Fourth of July weekend the nation “con fidently strive toward the ultimate | triumph of peace and Justice in the world. . . .not by force, but through patient perseverance and the grow th of knowledge and understanding among nations and men.” Eventually, the chief executive ■aid, the Fascist and Communist conspiracies “are certain to go, be cause In the long run nothing can Stand before man’s intense desire PJtor personal liberty and his determ- Wination to worship in his own way.” NOTED SPEAKERS the thousands who attended the ceremonies at the hall heard speeches by U. S. Sen. James H. . Duff (R-PA) and Philadelphia May- Par Joseph S. Clark Jr. and saw the results of the attempts to re claim the historic Independence Square area and bring back the aura of colonial days. Duff and Clark took the occasion te stress the dangers we face from communism and to warn Ameri cans to remember the traditions of American freedom while rooting cut subversion at home. Clark men tioned Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (Geattamed On Page Five) JhsiM , JjiMe « JhinqA p vKf hoover AD AMP TRIP TO PENNSYLVANIA UNNERVES MRB. SPELL Among those who went fishing I this weekend were Oene Johnson, I Ottis Warren and Johnnie Purdle I , The Gospel Tabernacle of [ Dunn Is a very public relations- I minded church ..... It has put I up posters around town promoting I Sunday School attendance Lon the paster is a big picture of pPolice Chief Alton Cobb pointing I at you and asking: “Were your I children in church Sunday? If not. I why not? Win you help us deal I with Juvenile Delinquency? Chll- I dren brought up in Sunday Bchool I are seldom brought to court”. . . I A very clever appeal. . . .In case K you're Interested, you can fly to I Europe and spend 10 days In Eng- I land and Paris for about SBOO. . . . ■.And that Includes everything on I: lbs round-trip, Including tips. . . . ■ The Dunn Clinic building Is s ■ Swanky one, indeed. . .It’s so M pretty, sc comfortable and so pret ■ i|ly decorated that It makes a well ■ person wish he had a reason to go I." (Continued On Page Two) fuilted Lover Kills 1 Sweetheart, Self p A 22-year-old “jilted” lover Saturday night shot his sKpretty young sweetheart to death and then took his own j|lf§fe in a double slaying witnessed by the girl’s horrified Johnston County Coroner James Hpittman ruled that Seth Rose, son ■f.lp. and Mrs. Willie A. Rose of S»Four oaks, Route 2 murdered Ann iiHpMlcv If, and then committed IHhMi* Beasley who graduated this from Four *>>■* High School tftpEfcad enrolled In Atlantic Chris iKm College in Wilson, was the fMiiafetsr at Mrs. Clsude C. Beas- IlgEy of BentonvUle and the late TELEPHONES Sll7 - 2118 KEEPING COOL ON THE FOURTH Pretty little Debbie Warren, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Warren of Dunn, found the beat place to keep cool on Jnly 4th waa in the Dunn Benson Mayor Tells Police: "Clean-Up Town Or Resign" Dunn Weed Market To Open Aug. 17th The Dunn Tobacco Market will open on Tuesday, Au gust 17th, according to a tentative date set at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Bright Belt Tobacco Warehouse Association held Friday in Raleigh. Buck Currln of Dunn, operator of Planter* Warehouse, la a member of the board and was present at the meeting. —MAY BE READJUSTED— The board said, however, that the opening date tor Dunn and other markets on the Eastern Belt may be readjusted at another meet ing to be held August 7th. The board set July IS as the opening date for the Oeorgla-Flori da Belt, August 2 for the opening on the South Carolina and Border North Carolina Markets Dates for opening the Old Belt and North Carolina Middle Belt markets were postponed until the August 7 meeting. Norman Shepard of Smlthfleld spoke for a one week spread be tween openings on the Eastern North Carolina Belt and the Border Belt. He said more than 1,000 farm ers favor the Eastern Belt opening one week later than the Border Belt because of an early crop that has matured along with Border Belt tobacco. The tragedy occurred Saturday night about llo’dock at the girl’s home In Johnston County. BROKE ENGAGEMENT The couple had been engaged to marry, her mother said, bu t Miss Beasley broke off the engagement cm June Mth when she found Rose paying attentions to Mother girl Mend. Rose returned from Navy eervlM In March and waa eagecad in farming, but had planned to attend (Continned On Page Twe) Wxt JJaihj JXtxvrfr DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5, 1954 pool. Debbie is shown here playing with a big bright ball in the pool. A large crowd was at the pool yesterday and again today as the town swel tered in abnormal heat. (Daily Record Photo.) Scantily-Clad s Females Draw Church's Ire GREENSBORO (If) A church group here declared war today on scanty dress by women, asserting It is shocked by shorts and the •bare midriff. The group is critical of “the present manner of dress—or lack of it,” because near-nudity is bad for public morkls. George Smith director of the Helphing Hand Evangelistic Assn., said Smith’s group Is seeking petit- 1 lons asking the Legislature to en act laws requiring more covering tn public. “W» want to check this thing before It gets out of hand,” Smith said. Death Os Angier Han Is Probed Kenneth R Gverby. 45. of Angler, fell dead In the back yard of his home Saturday afternoon at 2:15 o’clock The cause of his death has not yet been determined Assistant Coroner Ed Black of Dunn Investigated and Impaneled a, Jury after finding what he describ ed as “some unusual circumstances Involved.” Mr. Black declined to say what the unusual circumstances were. Only one witness so far has test ified. An uncle. Dennis Overby, told the Jury he was sitting in the house •when he heard his nephew go < outside and fall. . Mr. Black said there wgs no vis ; ible wounds on the man’s body. ' He said the Inquest would be re t sumed later. Mr. Overby was a son of Mrs. ! w«a Jane Buries. He was a mem i bar of the Masonic Lodge. ' 1 Funeral services were held Mon- Coattnod on Page Four Mayor J. Roscoe Barefoot of Benson today ordered members of the Benson po lice department to clean up bootlegging conditions in the town and to enforce the law against all known vio lators or turn in their resig nations. Mayor Barefoot, who has Just resumed supervision of the police department, called Police Chief Johnny Medlln and his force to gether and gave them their Instruc tions. “I’m tired of hearing complaints,” said the Mayor, “and I’m determln (Continued On Page Two) Child, 5, Killed Crossing Highway Joanne Benson, 5-year-old Durham child, was Struck and killed by a passing motorist late Sunday afternoon as she ignored the pleas of her father to turn back across the road. The father, Denton Benson of 1604 Binvlns St., Durham, witnessed his daughter’s death. The child was- rushed to the Dunn Hospital but was pronounced dead by Dr. Charlie Byrd on ar rival. State Patrolmen Joe Whittaker and David Matthews investigated the fatality. The car that struck the child was driven by William Ralph King, 20, of 309 Foust Street, High Point, who said he was going 40 or SO miles an hour. King Is employed by a furniture factory at High Point. Mr. and Mrs. Benson and their + Record Roundup * INTEREST Vice President Earl H. Mahone of the First Citi zens Bank and Trust Company to day reminded citizens that it's good time to save. All money plac ed In savings account at his bank before July 10th will draw interest from July 1. he pointed out today. And, added Mr. Mahone, there's no better security than a growing sav ings account balance. nr THE MONEY Herb Thom as at Oh via, Harnett County's pride and Joy on the racetrack, was still In the money Saturday and Bun General Clark Will Direct Probe Os CIA WASHINGTON <W Gen. Mark W. Clark will direct a government examination of the top-secret Central Intel ligence Agency later this year, with authority to make recommendations as to its “structure and admin istration.” Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy told the Army - McCarthy hearings last month he was checking CIA for alleged Communist infiltration. An attempt by the Wisconsin Republi can to investigate last year was blocked by the agency’s director, Allen W. Dulles. NOT OUT TO BEAT JOE Clark, former commander of U.fcS. ! Far Eastern forces, was appointed yesterday to head a CIA task force of former President Herbert Hoo ver’s Commission on Government Reorganization. Clark told the Uni ted Press he did not think the com mission inquiry was a move to beat McCarthy to the punch. Dulles said he “welcomed” the Hoover announcement, vhlch gave no hint of the nature of the study or of the reasons behind it. CIA is the government’s top clearing house for intelligence from all over the world . TASK FORCE Clark said he would meet Hoover, “a close personal friend,” In Wash ington in about two months to dis cuss the study, and then the task force will go to work. Clark is now head of The Citadel, a military school at Charleston, S. C. He said he accepted the neW assignment “because I felt It was so important for the welfare of our country I could not turn it down.” Other task force members will be appointed later. Wei lons Farm Now In Association Wellons Farm, Dunn, has been elected to membership in the American Aberdeen-Angus Breed ers' Association at Chicago, an nounces Secretary Frank Richards. Wellons Farm was one of the eight purebred Aberdeen - Angus breeding establishments from North Carolina elected to membership during the past month. children were visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Kelly Harper at the time of the accident. —FOLLOWED DADDY— Mr. Benson said he went across the road to a garden and looked back to see Joanne following pim. He said he saw the car coming and yelled to the child to turn back, but It was too late. He heard her cry “Daddy” Just before the car crushed her skull and fractured her right leg. Officers said an Inquest had been set by Coroner James Pittman of Johnston County for Wednesday night. day. Thomas won a national As sociation Star Car 100-mfle race at Spartanburg, 8. C. Saturday night. On Sunday, Thomas sped his 1963 Hudson Hornet to victory again in the 100-mite Grand Na tional Circuit race at Ashe ville-WeavervlUe Speedway. GHOST TOWN - Dunn was al most like a ghost town today. Ex cept far a few tilling stations end restaurants and The Defly Record oßlde everything wait closed There •esmedtobe few Pjopte to town. FIVE CENTS PER COPY KEPT THEIR MARRIAGE A SECRET IF • MOVIE STAR Linda Darnell, 32, and her husband, Philip Liebmann, 39, pose at International Airport, Idlewild, N. Y„ before boarding a plane for Venezuela to begin a belated honeymoon. They revealed to report ers that they were married four months ago in a civil ceremony at Bernalillo, N. M. It is the second marriage for each. (International) Dunn Is Quiet But Area Has Tragedy Normal activity was virtually at a standstill in Dunn today as citizens took an extra holiday to celebrate the Fourth of July. Stores and offices were closed and literally hundreds of cltzens I were away at the beach or at other vacation spots. i Police Chief Alton Cobb said I Dunn. He said there were only a few arrests during the long week- ; end holiday, most of them for public drunkenness. But there was plenty of tragedy elsewhere In the county and in the area. —Brother slays Brother— Clayton Howard, 21-year-old Negrq, was beaten to death with a soft drink crate Friday night at his home near Olivia by his brother, James Howard. A Jury impaneled by Assistant Corcner Ed Black of Dunn is still investigating the death of Kenneth R. Overby, 45, of Angier, who fell dead in the yard of his home Sat urday. Mr. Black said “some un usual circumstances are Involved.” Jack M. Rowles, 33, of Dunn, was drowned at Beaufort Saturday when a motorboat capsized. Joanne Benson, 5, of Durham, was pronounced dead on arrival at Duun Hospital late Sunday after being struck by an automobile in front of her grandparents’ home on Benson, Route 1. Aa Bentonvllle, Seth Rose, 22- year-old ’Jilted lover, murdered his sweetheart, 17-year-old Ann Beas ley, and then took his own life. There were other minor incidents In the area. Dope Suspects Go To Wilson Three people arrested in a raid near here early Thursday morning for possession of dope have been turned over to Wilson County au thorities in connection with the robbery of a drug store at Lucama. Harnett Rural Policeman B. E. Sturgill said they were turned over to Wilson authorities today and transferred to the Jail there after a chain of circumstantial evidence linked them with the break-in. The trio was listed as: Beannle Horgan, 27, of Los Angeles, Cal.; her brother, James Lee Conley, 22, of GleanvlKe, W. Va., and Chester P. Lee, 30, of Speed, a former Har nett County resident. Arrested after an all-night watch at a house near Coats, officers said they found a quantity of narcotics In their possession, and also found a hypodermic needle. During the night, they said, about a dozen people visited the house. The woman, a professed prosti tute, told police she had been using narcotics for ato“t ' vrir a- * -’.'it her husband, Charles E. Horgan, had died in a Portsmouth, Va. jail while waiting to begin a prison term on a narcotics charge. Policeman Sturgill said the trio apparently had stolen the dope dur ing the drug store robbery. R. L Pee-Bah FOSTER, R. L—(UP)— A ban on dual office tedding would Just about wipe out the government of this northern Rhode Island town Edward B. Winslow Is town tax as sessor, health officer, tax collector and social welfare director. The Record Is Firs ( IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES Pregnant Young Mother Brutally Slain In Home BAY VILLAGE, O. (UP) Po lice believed today that a crazed addict seeking narcoties may have bludgeoned to death the pregnant wife of a prominent young physician and attacked her husband when he sought te aid her. Mrs. Samuel Sheppard, a pret ty 31-year-old blonde, was beat en to death with what police said was a “harrow, dull instrument” when she apparently surprised an Intruder in her home in this ex clusive Cleveland suburb on the shore of Lake Erie. Policeman Found With SIO,OOO In Stolen Goods COLUMBUS, O. UP Police estimated today that a special policeman arrested for Investiga tion of burglary had “more than $10,000” in stolen merchndise stacked in a room of his heme. Police held Carl Lee Parker, 55, an employe of a private police service agency, who admitted stealing furniture and other mer chandise because “I wanted to open up a store of my own some day.” Detectives .said .Parker, had probably been stealing from busi ness places for the past seven years, ever since he was employed by the police agency. Five dollars was the average value at the mine of a ton of bi tuminous coal in 1953. Inquest Is Slated In Death Os Rowles UCK rowles I NO. 152 Highway Deaths Not As Heavy As Predicted By UNITED PRESS The nation’s motorists; exercising heightened cau tion and good sense, cut In dependence Day holiday fa talities far below expecta tions Monday. A United Press survey showed 424 persons had been killed in all types of accidents since 6 p. m. Friday. These included 251 highway deaths, 110 drownings, nine plane fatalities, one fireworks death and 53 miscellaneous acoidents. NC AMONG HIGHEST Michigan showed the highest state traffic total, 24, followed by California. 22, Texas, 17, and Ohio and North Carolina 13 each. The National Safety Council had estimated that highway accidents would kill 430 persons before the holiday ends at midnight tonight. This would be an all-time record for a three-day July 4th holiday. But Council President Ned H. Dearborn said the comparatively low figures offered hope that the final tally “could well be as low as 300.” "The nation is doing a good Job of holiday driving,” he said. “If the present death rate is not In creased, the traffic toll will fall far below the pre-holiday estimate. GIRL KILLED Fireworks claimed their first vic tim In the Chicago suburb of Har vey, 111., when a skyrocket, zoom ing 100 feet across the ground, struck Carol Hayward, 12, in the stomach and exploded. She died a few minutes later. All fireworks except cap pistols are illegal In Illinois. The two men who had been setting off the sky rockets were to appear at a coro nfer’s inquest Tuesday. Meanwhile, four persona were Injured .toy. fire works in the Chicago area atone. Dearborn warned that the high way deaths would increase at motorists jam the highways for homeward journeys today. FATALITY RATE He recalled that holiday fatality (Continued On Page Two) Truman Is Now Out Os Danger KANSAS CITY, Mo. (IP) Former President Harry 8. Tru man is out of danger and will probably leave Research Hospital in 10 days, his doctors said today. Physicians said Truman, a tough 70-year-old, has shaken off the ef fects of a double emergency oper ation and the more serious conse quences of his violent reaction to anti-biotic drugs. A hospital bulletin said he It able to get out of bed, change his pajamas, eat at a table, and leaf through tall stacks of magazines. The bulletin, issued yesterday, said “today it is even more ap parent that Mr. Truman is con tinuing to improvt. It Is now the conclusion of the physicians that he Is out of danger.” A hospital spokesman, who asked not to he Identified, said to e day that the former President - should leave the hospital to 10 days, barring complications. A coroner’6 Inquest will be held Wednesday night at Beaufort te determine whether Jack 1 it Rowles, 33, of Dunn, died as the result of drowning or over-exhaustion from swimming. Rowles and an unidentified friend were out in a motorboat Saturday night about 11:30 when the boat capsized and overturned. They swam for about an hour and a half and reached Shore, but Rowles died shortly afterwards. The Beaufort County oorooer ex pressed belief that Rowles died aZJuT*!;**
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