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VOLUME 4
PLANE WITH 23 CRASHES INTO SEA
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BIKE BUILT FOR FAMILY The A. B.
Johnsons of Dnnn took a ride at White Lake over
the weekend on a bike built for a family. Pictured
On the bike is Mrs. Johnson holding their little
daughter Sue. Others in the picture include, Mark,
seated at left, and Stacy.- Standing are Stanley
Man Is Injured
In Freak Mishap
Junius James Weaver, 59-year-old
resident of Bunnlevel, was hospi
talized here today with a broken
leg following a freak accident on
W. Broad Street.
According to observers. Weaver
was standing on the sidewalk talk
ing when a car knocked him down,
and broke his leg. The car. a 1952
Studebaker, was driven by Miss
, Joyce Margaret Parker of 403 N.
jjCtog Avenue, Dunn.
Police Cpl. E. J. Whaley said
/£¥ss Parker was just backing and
telu up on the walk. Assisting with
fine investigation was E. C. John
son.
In another accident this morning,
Dr. David Leonardis Bland, Jr.,
28-year-old Negro of 1291 W. Penn
Avenue. Southern Pines, ran into
the back of a 1948 Chevrolet driven
by Theodore Roosevelt Pope, 45, of
Dunn, doing $345 damages. Dr.
Bland’s car. a 1954 Pontiac, was
damaged S3OO and the Chevrolet
Was damaged $35.
The accident occurred on N. Ellis
Avenue, the officers reported. John
son and Whaley also investigated
this wreck.
- No charges were_ made.
Leaps Off Bridge
Just For Thrills
-NEW YORK (UP) A bearded,
j would-be singer from Brockton,
Mass., was to critical condition to
day after leaping 165 feet from the
Manhattan Bridge into the East
River “Just for the thrll."
I The man, tentatvely identified as
Robert Rerthlaume, 22. a former
•hoe cutter who came here in quest
of a pinging career, pulled himself
from the water and collapsed yes
today.
Suspect Arrested
On Kidnap Charge
An unidentified Negro man was being held in Dun».
Util today pending investigation of the kidnap and aban-'
Idpnrnent of a three-month old Negro boy in Dunn some-
Itime Saturday.
KlMeanwhile, chief Alton A. Cobb
Mid the infant has been hospital
ised here, and doctors report his
fcgndition “serious."
ESphief Cobb said the boy’s mother,
Minnie Ruth Short, around 16, re-
Htrted the youth missing Saturday
Bjpopnd 1 o’clock. However, she
gjas unable to give any clues as to
l?hat might have happened to him
H thit time, Cobb stated.
R Officers K. M. Fail and R. H.
■Mphin spent considerable time Sat-
Krflay looking for the missing boy
■nwere unable to locate him, Cobb
■•potted. The search was contta-
Hjlkd Sunday by officers E. J. Wha
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(left) and Mr. Johnson. The bike was built by
Dr. J. B. Walker, Jr., of Burlington for his family.
The Johnson’s cottage at White Lake is directly
back of the Walkers. The water bike-boat was the
fun of the lake Saturday morning. (Daily Record
Photo.)
Tom Chase Fails
To Show Up Today
Attorney Everette Doffermyre today requested Judge
H. Paul Strickland to issue a capias for Tom Chase when
Chase failed to come into court to hear the judgement’ in
an assault charge brought by Homer Pat Godwin.
Judge Strickland heard evidence
to the case a week ago but delayed
passing judgement until this morn
ing. He told Doffermyre that he
uhderstood some of Chase’s people
were sick.
“I can show that he is working
and doing nothing but trifling
with the court,’’ Doffermyre told
the Judge.
The attorney for Godwin Inform
ed the court that Constable Oscar
Pearce saw and talked with Chase
in town today and that he was st
work.
JUDGE IN NO HURRY
The judge said he was willing to
wait until Mhaday and see what
happens then. “If he doesn’t come
into court Monday, I’ll have a ca
pias issued for him,” Strickland
said.
Meantime, Strickland told Dof
fermyre he expects to check on
Chase’s alibi before passing judge
ment to the case. “I shall take that
into consideration when I pass
judgement,” he said.
Chase was convicted last week
of assaulting Godwin because of a
triangle affair involving Chase.
Godwin, and Godwin’s estranged
wife, MTs. Muriel Tew Godwin. In
a related case, Godwin was found
not guilty of shooting at his wife
and Chase.
Other cases heard in Recorder
Court today included:
(Oo?> tinned an pace hnl
ley and E. C. Johnson who were
also unsuccessful to finding him.
However, around 8 o’clock Sun
day, Clarence Washington, Negro
man who lives near Harnett County
Training School, reported finding
the Infant in a pea patch while
picking peas.
The boy was rushed to the hospi
tal where doctors said exposure had
caused his temperature to rise ‘to
108 degrees.
Chief Cobb said today that the
suspect was picked up sometime
after the Infant was found and
has been under Investigation slnse
(Oeatinned On Rage *we)
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DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 1954
Dunn Woman
Leader In
Prison Riot
A Dunn Negro woman, Laddie
(Lady Mae) Poe has been identified
by State prison officials as one of
the ring-leaders in a riot which
toe* place at Woman’s Prison Fri
day afternoon.
The riot was touched off by the
death of a young Negro prisoner,
Eleanor Rush, 18. The prisoner died
of a broken neck after being put in
an isolation cell.
The 30-year-ald Dunn prisoner
and the other ring-leaders, four
whites and three Negroes, told au
thorities they staged the riot to
call attention to the woman’s death.
Prison officials said disciplinary
action would be taken against each
of them.
The Dunn Negress is serving her
third prison term. She was last
sentenced for shop-lifting at Smith
field. Dunn police describe her as
“a professional shop-lifter.”
Carroll To Appear
On TV Thursday
Chamber of Commerce Manaeer
Ed Carroll will appear over WNAO
TV Thursday evening at 6 o’clock
to discuss the progress of the local
tobacco market, it was announced
•today.
Carroll, who also serves as sales
supervisor of the local market, will
, be on the Joe Foster—Mike Silva
1 Show.
The appearance is part of a pub
lic information program to inform
farmers of the high prices being
paid on the Dunn tobacco market,
Carroll said today.
Man, 90, Says He
Is A "Lover Boy"
LOS ANGELES (UP)—Dan. B.
Raymond, 90. says ho owes his
old age to being “» lover bov
“I slay young by going to dan
ces all the time and br sassing
in and oat of lore.” Raymond
said. “I got married for the
tint time at 75 and got divorced
at BS.”
GOP, Democrats
Disagree On
83rd Congress
WASHINGTON (IP) Re
publican and Democratic
leaders fired sharply con
flicting appraisals of the
83rd Congress today to set
the stage for a bitter fail
campaign for control of the
next Congress.
Chairman Homer Ferguson R-
Mich. of the Senate GOP Policy
Committee said in a statement pre
pared for the United Press that
the Eisenhower administration and
the Republican-steered 83rd Con
gress “worked together for peace,
preparedness and prosperity.”
But Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) said ih a
parallel statement that a Con
gress could be judged only by what
it does to promote peace and pros
perity. The statement reflected
his belief that the GOP has no
thing to boast about.
President Reports Tonight *
President Eisenhower will give
the nation his report on the achie
vements of the 83rd Congress in a
radio-television speech tonight
from the summer White House in
Denver.
House Democratic Leader Sam
Rayburn charged the Eisenhower
administration with following a
‘giveaway policy” and being ‘in
ept’’ in domestic and foreign af
fairs.
‘The situation is such between
the President, who has embraced
much of the Democratic legislative
program, and the Republicans in
Congress, who have resisted it,
that the country will be better off
If it returns a Democratic Senate
and House in the November elec
tions,” Rayburn said.
Ferguson credited the GOP con
gress with cutting taxes $7,500,000,-
000 a year and providing other tax
benefits to create jobs.
To Ferguson, the administra
tion’s embattled farm policy pro
vided a long range program to keep
farmers independent and self-reli
ant. But Johnson said the GOP
program would drive farm income
down and depress the whole coun
try’s economy.
On foreign policy, Ferguson said
the administration has stopped the
fighting in Korea and confronted
world Communism with a firm de
termination to protect freedom.
Rayburn charged the administra
tion with indecision and timidity
in this field, and said all Asia
probably, will be lost to Commu
nism.
Pageant Is Given
At Church Meet
EVANSTON, 111. (IP) A report on the plight of the
world’s refuges came alive last night as 50 performers ac
ted out a pageant before delegates attending the second
World Council of Churches.
The “report” was based on the
Biblical text “By the waters of
Babylon, there we sat down and
wept when we remembered Zion.”
40 Million Refugees
The performers, moving across
the stage of McGaw Memorial Hall
on the Northwestern University
campus, became statistics in the
story of the world’s 40 million
refugees.
Three churchmen took part hr the
pageant to plea for aid for the
millions of homeless persons.
Bishop Frefidrich K. O. Diebelius
of Berlin, president of the Evangel
ical Church to Germany, told the
churchmen that 15 million Protes
tants to East Germany are strug
gling for religious life.
The Rev. Shin Hong Myung of
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BECKY TO SPEAK Miss Becky
Lee will be guest speaker when
the Business and Professional
Women’s Club meets Tuesday night
t seven o'cock at Johnson's Res
taurant, it was reported today by
Sarah Neighbors, chairman of
the News Service committee for the
the coming year.
D. A. R. BARBECUE—The Coroel
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MAYOR RALPH HANNA MISS BECKY LEE JAMES THORTON
Big International Caravan
Coming To Dunn Wednesday
The International Better
Living Motor Truck Caravan
featuring more than a half
million dollars worth of e
quipment, wiil come to Dunrl
Wednesday under sponsor -
shi£ of McLamb Machinery
Co., Inc., local International
Harvester dealer.
There’ll be a big parade at 10
a.m., followed by a big one-hour
show at McLamb Machinery Co’s
plant on the Benson Highway. The
show will feature James Thornton
and his Country Style Radio and
TV entertainers.
Pretty Miss Becky Lee, the cur
rent “Miss Dunn” and runner-up
for the title of “Miss North Caro
lina” will lead the parade.
OFFICIALS In PARADE '
Mayor Ralph E. Hanna city and
county officials and other digni
taries will ridein the big parade,
which will begin promptly at 10
o’clock from McLambs The par
ade will go through town and
then return to McLamb’s.
The McLamb brothers, A. M., Bill
and Clarence, today extended to
the public a cordial invitation to
attend the parade and the Open
House which will follow.
In addition to enjoying the free
entertainment, citizens will have
an opportunity to see and inspect
the entire caravan.
COMPLETE LINE
The Caravan is made up of a
cross section of the most complete
line of motor trucks and refrigera
tion equipment in the world. There
will be a transcontinental freighter
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the Presbyterian Church in Korea
said in his divided country “mil
lions of refugees have crowded
southwards. Towns and villages lie
in ruins and everywhere there is
overcrowding and hopelessness."
The World Council Director of
Refuge Service, Dr. Edgar Chand
ler, reported that more than 250,000
Chinese refugees are crowded into
paper huts and caves in Hong
Kong.
Meanwhile Holy Communion ser
vices were held for the delegates
at the First Methodist Church yes
terday as two churchmen debated
on whether the different faiths
should join to a common commu
nion rites.
A Scottish parish pastor, the
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lug Harnett Chapter D. A. R. is
sponsoring a barbecue supper pre
pared by Griffin’s of Goldsboro
Tuesday starting at 5:80 pjn. and
lasting till 8:00 p.m. at Johnson
| Cotton Company Farm Implement
Building. Barbecue chicken plates
i will be $1.50 and pork will be $1.25..
Plates may be taken out or tables
will be provided for those desiring
to eat there.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Ruby Tart Caught
Again With Liquor
Ruby Tart, well-known white
woman of E. Pope Street, was ar
rested again today and charged
with possession of non-tax paid. 1
and bonded liquor for the purpose
of sale. She was already under a 12
months sentence, suspended for five
years given her in 1952.
Rural Policeman C. E Moore
said this afternoon that officers
finally found the well-known liquor
dealer's trap door. Three an da half
gallons of white and three pints of
bonded liquor were found behind a
trap door in a rloset, he said.
After searching the house, the
officers went into the closet where
they began to push and pull sections
of the wall. Moore said he finally
saw a piece of sawed molding and
decided to pull that. And, behind it
Home Destroyed
By Blaze Here
Fire destroyed the home of Jessie
Jones on the old Fairgrounds Road
early Sunday morning according to
Howard M. Lee, secretary-treasur
er of the local Fire Department.
At the time of the fire, the house
was vacant, Lee said.
The fire trucks were called out
around 3:15 Sunday morning when
the house burst into flames. Sev
eral other buildings and a nearby
home were also threatened, but
firemen kept the flames confined
to the one home.
The total loss was covered by in
surance, Lee stated. However,
cause of the fire was unknown.
Twenty men were out for the
alarm.
Federal Pay Raise
Is Vetoed By Ike
DENVER (UP)—President Ei
senhower today vetoed the federal
pay raise bill.
In a long memorandum of dis
approval, the chief executive at
the summer White House label
ed as “unwise” the bill which
would have put through a five
per cent pay raise for about 1 3-4
million federal civilian workers.
He conceded the need for pay
increases, but said there were in
equities in the bill which he felt
should not become law because
it “ignores the necessity for re
venue to pay for salary increas
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Dolly Jones Gets
Six Months Term
Dolly Jones. 52-year-old Dunn
woman, has begun serving a six
monthes prison term for t*® ()•<•--
cenv of chickens
She was convicted by a jury to
Johnston Superior Court.
Chris Jones. 49, also of Dunn,
was tried with her on the same
charge. At the close of the State’s
evidence, however, a non-suit was
taken to the case against Jones
and he was freed.
In another case, Aaron Raynor.
37, of Benson, pleaded guilty to
charges of drunken driving. He was
handed a six-months road sentence,
suspended upon payment of 8100
fine and coots and was ordered to
surrender his driving license for
12 months.
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was a trap door and the storage
place for Mrs Tart’s liquor.
Assisting in the raid were Rural
Police B. E. Sturgill and A. W. O’-
Quinn, in addition to Moore,
FINED ONLY S2OO
Mrs. Tart was tried in Dunn Re
corders Court in January, 1952 and
given 12 months in jail, suspended
for five years on payment of -200
& cost, and on condition, that she
not have in her possesion any legal
or illegal liquor, & on further con- ;
dition that she allow officers to
search her without securing a
search warrant However, officers to
day secured a search warrant before
before raiding the home.
Weil known in Dunn for dealing
in liquor, Mrs Tart' 1 has been un
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Coats Business
Firm Is Robbed
Stewart Seat Cover Company of
Coats was broken into sometime
over the weekend and approximate
ly SSOO worth of material and a
number of tools stolen, Rural Po
lice C. E. Moore reported today.
Moore said he was called to the
business, which is operated by Mrs.
Pearl Stewart, Sunday. However, it
appears that the building was en
tered Saturday, he added.
The officer said indications were
that the robbers entered the build
ing by breaking in at the back
door. Nothing was missing besides
the material for covering seats, and
a few tools, Moore said.
State Bureau of Investigation of
ficials have been called and fur
ther investigation of the break
in will be continued today, it was
stated.
A W. WOOD DIES
A. W. Wood, well known pe
trolen dealer of Lillington. died
at Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill shortly after noon today Fun
eral arrangements are incomplete.
Five Children Die
As Home Burns
WATERVILLE, Me. (UP) A
flash fire roared through a two
story home here today and took
the lives of five small children de
spite efforts of neighbors and their
father rescue them.
The children, ranging in age
frem 15 months to seven years,
were found huddled on the second
floor of the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Vashon.
The victims were identified by
police as:
Patricia, 7; Daniel 6; Judith 5;
Stephen 3, and Ann, 15 months.
The baby died to her crib. The
bodies of the four older children
were found huddled in a -bedroom
owner.
Police said the fire apparently
started from a chimney backfire.
HEARD SCREAMS
“We heard them screaming. You
could see their faces ptu&ied again
NO. 187
15 Die, 48 Hurt
In Other Plane
Train Accidents
BULLETIN
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands
ilh The KLM Royal Dutch Air
! lines announced today that one Os
its DC6B airlines, missing for sev
eral hours, crashed into the North
Sea. The plane carried 23 persons,
including from nine to 12 Ameri
cans.
Two passengers identified only
by the name of O'Riordon, boarded
the plane at Shannon and officiate
said they might be Americans.
MASON CITY, lowa (IP)
Eleven persons were killed
and eight were injured Sun
day night when a hail
battered Braniff Airways
plane, searching for a land
ing, snapped a power line
and crashed into an oat
field.
The DC3, flying rrom Memphis,
Term., to Minneapolis, Minn., with
19 persons aboard, ran into a vio
lent wind, rain and hail storm near
thus northern lowa city.
The pilot, William Picertog, ra
dioed that he would try to skirt
the storm and make a landing.
But minutes later, the plane
• smashed to earth, flipping overt
and strewed wreckage over an area
equal to two square blocks.
The plane did not burn, prob
ably preventing a higher death toft.
The crash broke a 15-year old
Braniff record of 5.500,000,000 pas
senger miles flown without a fatal
crash. The last, and only other,
time a Braniff crash has claimed
liVes was at Oklahoma City, Okla,,
in 1939. Four persons were killed.
PILOT, CO-PILOT KILLED
Included among the dead to Sun
day night’s crash were Pickering,
40, Parkville, Mo., and the co-pilot,
W. B. Wilde. 31, Excelsior, Minn.
The stewardless, Bettie Ann Truly
of Shreveport. La., escaped and
was beieved to have been one of
the two women who stepped from
the scene in a daze.
LOMAG, ILL. (UP) —Four per
sons were killed and 37 were In
jured when the swank Santa Fe
“chief” left the rails and crashed
into refrigerator cars on a siding.
The crack Chicago to Los An
gers streaminer was derated
Sunday just east of this Mississippi
River town, and 12 of the 13 cars
went off the track. Only the diesel
engine and the mail car stayed on.
The other cars piled up along
the right-of-way, sldeswiping re
frigerator cars on an adjoining
track, and knocked severe of them
off.
A Santa Fe spokesman said that
the first chair car, which contained
the dead and most of the injured,
| received the most damage.
[ Rescuers used torches to cut into
the car to remove the trapped vlc
. time.
. The spokesman said that one
. person of the 37 injured was to
5 serious condition, but some who
suffered slight injuries were treat
ed and released. Those hospitalized
were in Burlington and Ft. Madi
son, lowa and Carthage, 111.
i Santa Fe headquarters in Chica
| go blamed the crash on a broken
I equalizer on the rear truck of the
I forward lounge car.
st the window one minute during
the fire,” Wardell Rancourt, a
neighbor said.
He and Randolph Michaud made
futile attempts to rescue the child
ren, as did their father. All three
were forced back by flames “which
poured out everywhere,” Rancourt
said.
The father suffered face send
hand burns to trying to get up
stairs before he was forced to rtim
for his life.
After firemen put out the Me
four bodies were found on the floor
and the fifth in bed.
The children's mother was work
ing at the Lockwood batije mffl
when the fire brahs out. &
A medical examiner who viewed
the bodies said the children all ap
parently died of sesoks inhalation
Though some suffered bums. .