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I SHE’S QUITE A GIRL Late hours, a gay party
that caused the management to ask her to leave
a hotel in Brazil ail leave their mark, but Ava,
left in Brazil, keeps running. During filming of
"The Barefoot Contessa,” Ava’s name was linked
* AVA, SORE AT FRANKIE, TAKES OFF FOR BRAZIL
The Truth About Ava Gardner
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By HOOVER ADAMS
A TALE OF BISCUITS;
OTHER LITTLE NOTES
M. O. McLamb of Dunn is one
of the owners of McLamb Flour
Mill in Dunn.
Mrs. McLamb is a lady who be
lieves in helping her husband, tout
an effort she made to help adver
tise his famous “Hot Biscuit” flour
backfired the other day.
And she was the most embar
, rassed lady in town,
w The McLamtos had guests for
dinner on Sunday and she prom
ised them "the most wonderful hot
biscuits you ever ate.”
"I’m making them with Mc-
Lamto’s ‘Hot Biscuit’ flour, of
course,” she boasted with pride.
Mrs. McLamb, incidentally, is a
wonderful cook and is famous for
her biscuits.
So she made the dough nice and
fluffy, topped it with buttermilk
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{ Shepard To Leave
'Erwin Pastorate
The Rev, I. Clyde Shepard, pastor of the Advent Chris
tian Church at Erwin for the past 11 years and for four
years president of the Eastern Carolina Conference, has
accepted the pastorate of the Springfield Advent Chris
tian Church in Jacksonville.
His resignation, which becomes
effective February I, was an
nounced today “with great regret”
by W. B. Tew, chairman of the
Erwin church board.
The Rev. Mr. Shepard, one of
the leading ministers of his de
»nomination m the State, is going
'4 to the largest of four Christian
Advent churches in Jacksonville,
which is a promotion.
He will preach his farewell ser
mon at Erwin Sunday morning and
j on Sunday night will be honored
at a city-wide union service spon
sored by the Erwin Ministerial As-
W sociation. ,
I Chairman Tew said today that
the Rev. Clinton Wilson, assistant
pastor, would serve the church un
til the arrival of Mr. Shepard’s
successor.
4 MUCH PROGRESS
“ When the Rev. Mr. Shepard
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TELEPHONES 3117-3118
again with Miguel Dominquin’s. She's shown at
right with George Mankiewicz and Humphrey
Bogart. (Photos copyrighted by Movie Secrets
Magazine.)
This is tie fourth in a series of artfales on Ava. Gardner, the God-<
dess of Love from Johnston County. Copyright 1955 by The New
York Daily News.
BY JESS STEARN
It was a crucial time in the short-lived marriage of Ava
Gardner, the Goddess of Love, and Frank Sinatra, her
crooning hubby.
She felt he was running around and wouldn’t believe
stories to the contrary.
She refused to call him, though
she knew he was at the Waldorf.
Meanwhile, friends were trying to
to get him to call, and he wouldn’t.
They were like a couple of kids.
“The marriage might have broken
off there and then if it hadn’t been
for Sinatra’s mother, a warm kind-;
ly woman who recognized Ava's'
warmth and her love for Frank
and loved her as a daughter.
“Sinatra,” Ava’s pal continues,
“had opened at the Riviera club
over in Jersey. It was a big suc
cess, but Ava wasn’t there, even
though she had made a special ef
fort to get here for the opening.
One night, however, Frank’s mother
visited Ava at Hampshire House,
While she was with Ava she called
Frank at the Riviera and told him
what a wonderful wife he had and
why didn’t he stop being a fool.
She said that Ava would come over
and listen to him if he would ask
her. Sinatra finally agreed, and
Ava went over. When he won’t lis
ten to anybody else, Frank wiil
listen to his mother.
“That night, with Ava at a ring
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REV. CLYDE SHEPARD
The Daily Record
Marilyn , Joe
Reported In
Hiding Today
BONTON (IP)—Marilyn Monroe
and Joe DiMaggio were in hiding
together today despite their insis
tence they had not been recon
ciled.
The blonde movie actress and
the former New York Yankee
slugger drove out of Boston to
gether Tuesday in a borrowed car.
They have not been seen since.
The couple, married and di
vorced 4&st year, said there was no
reconciliation. They were spotted
together Monday night in a Bos
ton restaurant. A newsman asked
if the meeting indicated a recon
ciliation and Marilyn answered
“no.” •
The trip to Boston was "just a
visit,” Marilyn added.
Joe was besieged by newsmen
Tuesday at the home of his bro
ther Dominic and at the Wellesley
home of his in-laws, Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Frederick. Marilyn was not
with him and Joe refused to say
where she had gone.
Health Hero
Hiding From
I Angry Wives
| NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. HP)
Bernarr MacFadden, hiding in this
honeymoon haven from two ali
mony - angry wives, said today he
l “might stay forever” and set up a
Canadian physical culture resort,
j "I have a resort in Danville,
N. Y„” he said, “and many
wealthy Canadians go there. They
have always urged me to set up
a similar spot in Canada and I
I might, now.”
MacFadden, 87, stopped drinking
carrot juice long enough to ex
plain that he fled here Saturday
to escape an SB,OOO alimony claim
from one ex-wife and a $6,500 suit
from another.
The government also wants to
| talk to him about taxes.
“I might stay forever,” he said.
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DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26. 1955
Ike's Decision
Repudiation
Os Old Policy
WASHINGTON (IP) Pre
sident Eisenhower’s formal
decision to make a hot war
defense of Formosa against
any Red Chinese attack is
a sober repudiation of Tru
man administration Far Eas
tern policies.
Events long since drove Presi
dent Truman and his secretary of
state. Dean Acheson, to abandon
their position on Far East de
fenses: They abandoned it, literal
ly, under fire-artillery and rifle
fire of invading Korean Commun
ists.
It is exactly five years and 20
days since President Truman set
forth his original Formosa policy,
lie announced on Jan. 5, 1950, that
the United States would take no
action to defend Chiag Kai-shek’s
Nationalists on Formosa.
This surprise announcement
shocked congressional Republicans
to instant protest. It came three
days after former President Hoover
and the late Sen. Robert A. Taft
publicly had called for Formosa’s
defense. Gen. Douglas A. Mac-
Arthur and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff were reported at the time to
hold the same views of Formosa's
importance to United States de
fense.
BRjTISH RECOGNIZE REDS
On the day of Mr. Truman’s an
nouncement, the British Socialist
government advised Communist
China that diplomatic ’relations
with Chiang’s Nationalists would
be broken and that the Reds would
be recognized.
In the same week, United Press
Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht,
in Tokyo, obtained and reported
the text of a secret State Depart
ment memorandum circulated In
the Far East. The paper said For
mosa’s fall to the Reds was to toe
expected and that the public
should be convinced that Formosa
meant little to United States se
curity.
There were Immediate congres
sional demands that Acheson ex
plain the meaning and purpose of
that document. Acheson’s most
significant response was a Nation
al Press Club speech on Jan. 12
drawing the American defense line
in the Far East, excluding Formosa
and Korea.
Taft told the Senate a State De
partment “left wing group” sought
to get rid of Chiang and was op
posing China policy as laid down
by Congress.
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12 Divorce Cases
Slated For Trial
A dozen divorce cases are scheduled to be tried on Mon
day, February 7, the first day of a two-weeks civil session
of Harnett Superior Court.
It is the largest number of di
vorce cases docketed for a single
court term in many months.
Most of the divorce actions are
based on grounds of two years
separation.
Those seeking a divorce are:
Merle Tew Godwin from Homer
Pat Godwin, Edna J. Norris from
Herbert E. Norris; La Verne Tur
ner from Arlene Price Turner;
Arlene Price Turner from La
Verne Turner (these are counter
divorce actions); W. O. Grady
from Joan Pilgrim Grady; Hugh
+ Record Roundup +
PRISON ENTERTAINERS A
group of entertainers from State
Prison in Raleigh will present a
big two-hour show in the Dunn
High School auditorium on Satur
day night, February 12, under
sponsorship of the Dunn PTA. Bill
Bryan, chairman of the PTA Ways
and means Committee, said today
that proceeds will be used to buy
lunches for underprivileged chil
dren.
INSURANCE INCREASE—A hear-
JOHN DEERE DAY HELD HERE—A large crowd
farmers from throughout this area were enter
tained today at the annual John Deere Day pro
gram at Dunn Theatre by Johnson Cotton Com
pany. Pictured here, left to right, are W..C. Arm
srong, head of the company’s farm machinery div
Atomic Weapons To Defend U.S.
WASHINGTON (IP) De
fense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson disclosed today that
military planners are work
ing vigorously to make ato
mic weapons part of the na
tion’s continental defense
system.
He also revealed that the atomic
powered submarine Nautilus is
performing beyond expectations
and has paved the way for eventu
al operation -of atomic-powered
aircraft.
Wilson made these disclosures on
the development of nuclear weap
ons when he appeared before the
House Armed Serviues Committee
to defend military budget cuts be
ing questioned by congressional
Democrats. New Far Eastern com
mitments have heightened criti
cism of the cuts.
Wilson said a “vigorous research
and development effort” is being
made to use atomic weapons in
“the continental air defense pro
gram which is being pushed with
all practical speed.” He did not
give details but presumably these
would be atomic warheads in anti
aircraft guided missiles aimed at
blocking any massive air strike
against the United. States. They
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Jennings Norris from Renee Davis
Norris.
Bernard G. Mason from Mrs.
Anna L. Blahak Mason; Betty T.
Hill from Carl B. Hill; Agnes C.
Monk from Thomas T. Monk;
Joseph T. Lee from Margaret Hin
nant Lee; Carence E. Tripp from
Sallye B. Tripp; Lonzo Hinson
from Grace Matthews Hinson.
Superior Court Judge Chester
Morris of Coinjock will preside
over the two-weeks term.
In addition to the 12 divorce
cases, 75 other actions are listed
for trial.
ing has been scheduled for Feb.
2 on a proposal calling for a new
increase of $773,415.93 on hail in
surance rates for tobacco in this
State. Under the proposed increase,
the rate on hail insurance in Har
nett would be increased 50 cents.
BRUCE RESIGNS—Dr. W. B. Hun
ter, county health officer, an
nounced today that W. B. Bruce,
chairman, has resigned as a mem
ber of the board of health. The
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ision; C. H. Byrd of Benson. Route 3, Bob Bass,
manager of the Dunn department; P. E. Weaver
of Angier, Route 2, and Alton Carroll of Dunn,
Route 1. The event was a big success.
(Daily Record Photo.)
Dunn Lions To Hear
Patterson Thursday
Dunn Lions Thursday night will hear an address by I
Former Congressman LaFayette Patterson, brother of
Alabama’s slain Attorney General Albert Patterson, who
was murdered in his campaign to clean up Phenix Sin) i
j City, Alabama.
j Lillington Mill
Is Enlarged
The Lillington Roller Mills. Inc .
which recently added an electrical
ly powered custom grinding feed
mill to its current expansion pro
gram, will hold open house in the
new mill on Friday.
Neill M. Kelly, president of the
company, said visitors will be in
vited to tour the plant which re
quired more than eleven months
to build and equip. There will be
souvenirs and refreshments for all.
The new mill, third in a series the
company has erected in a row since
they came to Lillington in 1944,
is located two blocks East of High
i way 15-A on East McNeill Street,
popularly called the prison camp
road.
Wide parking areas near the
plant offer farmer friends easy
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SECRECY UPHELD
RALEIGH UPl—'The Senate to
day adopted rules recognizing
the ‘.‘inherent right” of legisla
tive committees to hold closed
meetings for deliberation.
Hildreth Heads Merchants
Charlie Hildreth of The Jewel I
Box, popular young business man. j
this morning was elected chairman j
of the Dunn Retail Merchants |
Committee for the coming year. |
He was elected at the annual
organizational meeting of the mer
chants to succeed Paul Walker, j
who is retiring after a very sue- S
cessful year in th» of
- OFFICERS
Mrs. Beulah Heflin, manager of I
Sears Catalog Sales Store here,
was elected vice chairman of the
group, and Dwight Mattox, owner
of Mattox Department Store, was I
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MRS. CAMERON DIES .
Mrs. Drucilla Cameron of near
Lillington died in Lee County
Hospital at Sanford this morning. I
Other details were incomplete} I
today at noon. The body was |
brought to Quinn Funeral Home
here.
The Record Is First
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The former Alabama congress- \
man, now a resident of Raleigh,
will speak to the club on “The De-‘
terioration of A City,”
He is expected to tell the story
of how Phoenix City was taken
over by hoodlums and racketeers 1
and earned for itself a nation-wide
title of "Sin City.”
HOOPER IN CHARGE
Plans for his appearance were,
announced today by President :
Frank Belote. Lion Glenn Hooper, j
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FOUND NUDE WITH GOLFER
Socialite Divorced
On Adultery Charge
NEW YORK UP) Cotton broker Joseph Austin Wade
Jr., 40 won an uncontested divorce from his beautiful so
cialite wife, Pamela Curran Wade, 24, when two detectives
testified they found the former debutante in the nude in
golfer Robery Sweeny’s apartment.
The divorce was granted yester- 1
day oh grounds of adultry by Su- j
preme Court Justice Benedict Di- f
neen.
Neither Sweeny, a Britisher and |
former husband of Joanne Connel- 1
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Group Gives
Approval To
Ike's Request
TAIPEI. Formosa UP' Jet
lighters and fighter-bomb
ers from the powerful U. S.
7th Fleet patrolled the skies
north of Formosa today in
a warning to Red China ag
ainst interfering with Am
erican defense strategy in
this tense area.
WASHINGTON !IP—The com
bined Senate Foreign Relations
and Armed Services Committees
today approved President Eisen
hower's Formosa resolution by a
26-2 vote.
A member of the Armed Services
Committee who did not want to be
identified said Sens. Wayne Morse
1 1.-Ore.) ..and William Langer (R
--i ND> cast the "no" votes.
Senator Homer Capehart tP.-Ind)
said the administration proposal
, was approved without change after
two substitute proposals were de
feated. 20 to 8. One. by Sen. Estes
Kefauver. (D-Tenn), was described
i as a resolution which would have
j put the Formosa problem up to
; the United Nations.
! WASHINGTON IP—Defense Sec-
I vetafy Charles E. Wilson today
i described the Formosan crisis as
I " lust a little ripple” and no reason
I to abandon planned reductions in
j u. S. armed strength.
j The American warplanes—some
i 300 strong—are on hand to cover
I and assure the success of the plan
ned withdrawal of Generalissimo
i Chiang Kai-shek's 10.000 National
ist troops and 20.000 civilians from
1 the invasion—threatened Tachen
; Islands.
j A formal derision by the govern
, ment to proceed with the Tachens
evacuation, tightening Formosa’s
, lipes of defense, was expected mo
mentarily.
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden told the House of Com
mons today he believes the Formo
j san crisis can be settled peacefully
"if all the governments concerned
work for it." He paid high compli
i ments to President Eisenhower for
| his message to Congress in what
j Eden called a “dangerous situation.”
SINK RED SHIP
I .Waves of Nationalist heavy bom-
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ly Patino, nor Mrs. Wade was in
court when private detective Jos
eph Barrett testified about the
raiding party he led into Sweeny’s
suite at the Westbury Hotel last
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