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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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