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* WEATHER + Mostly cloudy and warmer today. Warmer tonight. Tomorrow occas ional rain and cool. VOLUME 5 17 CHILDREN DIE IN TWO FIRES COUNTRY GIRL BECOMES GLAMOUR GAL— Luscious Ava Gardner has come a long way since her cotton-picking days in Johnston County. Pic ture at left shows her as a native country girl; * FROM FARM GIRL TO FULL-FLEDGED SIREN The Truth About Ava Gardner • -—_^ r .... JhstM . attiilst JPuWfA By HOOVER ADAMS MOVIE VISITOR, PEGGY LENZO AND H. BENNETT One of Hollywood’s top produc ers ate supper in Dunn Saturday night . . . George Cukor, producer of Judy Garland’s big new bit, “A Star Is Born” drove up to John son’s Restaurant in a new $14,000 German-made car en route to Florida for a vacation ... He 9 turned out to be a regular fellow and very talkative ... He was un der the impression that Kay Kyser lived somewhere around Dunn and wanted to drop by for a visit . . . Said he had produced a couple of Kyser’s movies .. . Among other things he wanted to know if Kyser still has the same wife . . . “Kay made a lot of dough and then quit,” said Cukor . . . He pointed out that Kyser “or nobody else can make that kind of money with taxes the way they are today.” ... He said Kay made his before (Continued on Page Two) ' Hobgood Conducts * Big Purdie Event , , -. *>"• jL |v. . * l.fyA, I A. T. HOBGOOD TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 i.SiSMr . v-- shot at right pictures her as a sexy siren and god des of love. The country girl learned to wear glamour like a custom-made gown. - This la the eighth in a series of articles on Ava Gardner, the Godt dess of Love from Johnston County. Copyright 1955 by the New York Dally News. By JESS STEARN While off on location, actresses Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly went on a shopping tour together. To the astonish ment of Miss Kelly, daughter of a Philadelphia millionaire, Ava bought up about every toy on the store counters, laughing happily all the time she was making her pur chases- ,4 y “Butj Ava,” the blonde Miss Kelly protested, “what are you going to dq With all those toys? You’ll never squeeze them into that room of yours.” The green-eyed goddess of love gurgled contentedly. “I k/ndw, Grace. But don’t stop me, please. I Just can't resist all those beauti ful toys—l never had the money for them when I was a kid.” The Hollywood beauty has come a long way since her barefoot days back in North Carolina, but she has never quite got her child hood out of her system. “After three broken marriages,” a friend observes, “Ava has only her own family to cling to. It seems to be the only secure spot in her life.” At the recent premiere of “The Barefoot Contessa,” Ava, despite her separation from Frank Sina tra, was her radiant best because she was surrounded by her kin folk from North Carolina. These included her bachelor brother Jack, her married sisters, Mrs. John Grimes and Mrs. D. A. Creech of Smithfield, N. C., and their fami (Continued on Page Two) A. T. Hobgood, who formerly was connected with Purdie Equipment Company’s sales staff, has return ed to Dunn to conduct a gigantic furniture sales promotion for Pur die’s. Announcement of the sales event is carried in today’s Daily Record, an event which Mr. Hobgood says will make furniture history in Dunn. A new time payment plan is being put into effect, and new drastically lower prices have been established throughout the store. Mr. Hobgood says the new plan permits the purchase of furniture on much easier terms, payments made within 90 days are without carrying charges, with very low charges for extensions after this period. NEW SALES PLAN Mr. Hobgood states that the new sales plan, based on higher volume and lower profits, assures the buy ( Continued mi Fag* Bight) The Daily Record Nudity Not Obscene But Watch Angle WASHINGTON (IP) ln photo graphing nudes, avoid overexpos ure. This was the lesson to be learned from a ruling yesterday by Federal Judge James R. Kirkland who made a page-by-page, picture-by- analysis of photographs published by two nudist magazines. Some were art, others were lewd, the judge found. Those ruled ob soene were ones showing what shouldn’t be seen. “Nudity is not per se of itself obscene,” the Judge held. “How ever, we must steer a course be tween what js art on the one hand and what is pornography on the other. The case involved the February issue of Sunshine and Health and the January-February issue of Sun. Both are published by the Sunshine Publishing Co. of Mays Landing, N. J. They were banned from the mails by postal authorities. Attorney O. John Roggs, representing the mag azines, said he would appeal the decision. Two Arrested On Liquor Charges Rural police raided two houses in Erwin Monday morning and made two arrests for violation of state liquor laws. Two Jan of non tax paid whiskey were seized in a raid on the home of Pete Mason in South Erwin. Officers found one jar smashed on the kitchen sink as Mason’s wife tried to empty it of its colorless contents. Martha Hodge Snipes, who lives near East Erwin, was charged with Illegal liquor possession for pur poses of sale. Three quarts of “white” whiskey were found by officers on the floor by the sink in her home. The woman already is : under a two-year suspended sen tence for liquor law violations. Officers Leon Smith, Stanley Byrd, Walker O’Quinn, and O. E. Moon participated in the raid. DUNN,N. C , TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 1, 1955 China Demands Support Os Red Resolution UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. OP) Communist China de manded today that the Uni, ted Nations junk a New Zealand proposal for a For mosan cease-fire and sup port a Russian resolution labeling the United States as an “aggressor.” The demand was a broad hint Peiping would reject the United Nations invitation to participate in Security Council discussion of the New Zealand measure but would be willing to sit in on discussions of the Russian measure. The Security Council held up further discussion of the Formosan ituation until an official reply is received from Chou En-Lai, the Chinese Communist premier and foreign minister. But Pieping Ra dio broadcasts announced in ad vance the reply would be negative. The Security Council voted 9 to 1 Monday night to invite Red China to New York and an hour later Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold dispatched a cablegram to Chou. The United States voted for the invitation but made it clear its vote did not affect U. S. opposi tion to Red Chinese membership in the United Nations. Nationalist China, which voted against inviting Red China, was bitter, over the U. S. move. LITTLE WAR CONTINUES Th« “little war” off the China mainland raged unabated and Communist artillery shelled Tach en Island where the mighty U. S. 7th Fleet, now including five great carriers, stood by ready to remove the nationalist garrison. Formosa dispatches indicated the evacua tion order was being held up in hopes a cease-fire could ,be ob tained first and there would be no conflict 1 between the United States and yd China. Children Mixed In St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo. (IP) Negro and white children in St. Louis public high schools prepared today to attend classes together, with no advance hint of racial trouble. The schools were integrated ad ministratively yesterday, and the first mixed classes were set for this afternoon or tomorrow, as a new semester begins at non-tech nical schools. Thieves Frightened Away By Officer The county sheriff’s office today was investigating an early Saturday morning break-in at Coats Milling Co., located on the Coats Erwin highway, where two would be-robbers were surprised by the timely arrival of rural policeman Clarence E. Moore- Policeman Moore said that in an swer to a telephone call from a friend received around 1 a. m. about unusual noises in the vicin ity of the mill, he dressed and im mediately rode to the feed mill. The officer said he drove his car in the yard without lights, and as he cut them on unexpectedly he saw two men run out of the office, jump off platform and run toward the woods. They left behind in their haste a 1953 Studebaker pick up truck with key in the switch. Moore said he found an outside + Record Roundup + THEFT REPORTED—Two visiting truck drivers, Ernest Sword and Robert Hatcher, both of Spring field, Ohio, reported to Dunn police that sl3l in cash was stolen from them Sunday night in their room here. Sword said the thief toook $Bl out of his pocketbook but left sl3: Hatcher said all of his SSO was ta ken from his billfold. They are employees of Howard Sober Co. of Lansing, Michigan, and were mak ing a trip through Dunn. Local police are investigating. . V ■' I •; jpl ' K, J&- ; i Imp '“-vr i < 'lliik Jg J —dr MRS. ROSALIE HERMAN HOOD Mrs. David H. Hood Dies Here At Age 82 Mrs- David Henry Hood, 1 most beloved citizens, died in afternoon at 12:15 o’clock. “Mama Hood”, as she was known to most residents of the town, had been in failing health for Some time and suffered a heart attack Monday night. She was taken to the hospital shortly afterwards. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Hood had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Hugh W. Prince, on West Divine Street. Funeral services will be held at the Gospel Tabemace Church here Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. LIVED HERE 63 YEARS Mrs. Hood, member of a family (Continned on Page Etghti window had been prized loose with a crowbar, later found in a chair in the office. The desk was rifled and the key to the coke machine was missing. Owner Graham Byrd was notified immediately. Meantime, an investigation re vealed that the truck was stolen from the used car lot of the W. and S. Motor Company in Dunn early Friday night. However, offi cer Moore said his investigation had shown that the lock on the parking lot gate had not been dis turbed in any way. LOTS OF TRANSPORTATION Thq State Department of Motor Vehicles reported today that a to tal of 15,307 passenger cars are registered in Harnett County. And Monday night was the last day for buying license plates. BAND CONTEST—Director Harold Grant announced today that members of the Dunn High School Band will go to Raleigh on March 11 to participate in the annual dis- - (O—turned Oa Page Three) 82, one of Dunn’s oldest and l the Dunn Hospital Tuesday Mother, 30, Is Held For Killing Baby THOMASVILLE, N. C. (TO—Mrs. Dorothy Broom, accused of mur dering her new-born son on or about Christmas Day and fleeing to Maryland, was returned here last night by Thomasville and Davidson County authorities. The 30-year-old mother of six children is accused of placing her baby in a shirt box and leaving him in a trunk on the back porch of her apartment in almost freez ing weather. She was arrested yesterday in a small town in Maryland which po lice did not name. Police said Mrs. Broom had been living with her mother and four of her children in Maryland since the baby’s death. Monroe To Speak Wednesday Night Dr. David Monroe, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, will speak in the Campbell College auditorium at Buie’s Creek Wednesday night at 7 o’cock. he will be the third in a series of speakers on economic education, sponsored by Harnett schools. Miss Bessie Maseengill of Dunn is in charge. Dr. Monroe will speak on the topic, “State and Local Govern ment,” with emphasis on North Carolina. The_ public *« • A ipadofot It a folio— win | charges mom for itw diagnocb than for ffw curt. ohm# The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION. . . NEWS PHOTOS . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY |6 In One Family Trapped, Burned |ln Virginia House ! AMSTERDAM, N. Y. (IP)—At least 12 persons, 11 of i them children, were trapped and burned to death today i when a spectacular fire raced through a brick-frame tene j ment building. | Firemen said an exploding oil i I stove touched off the fire. Among the dead were a Puerto | Rican lather and five of his chil- | dren. Eight bodies had been removed j from the smouldering ruins by mid-morning. Police and firemen searched for the missing. The known dead were: Juan 1 libera, 42, his children, John 14, Ilda 11, Domingo 9, Angel 5, and a baby about a year old. Missing and known to have been trapped were: Anne Mateka, 14, her sisters Veronica, 6, Patricia 9, and a bro ther John 12. Also missing were Donna Heaton, 3, and a baby, believed to be her sister. CHUCKATUCK, Va. llP)—The six children of Negro tenant farmer Robert Lee Eley were trapped and burned to death in a four-room shack here last night. The victims were trapped in an I attic bedroom. Eley, his wife and mother-in-law were away from the home when the blaze started shortly after 9 p. m. GRANDFATHER HELPLESS The children’s grandfather, .Wil-. lie Weal, about 50, was sleeping with the children. Weal suffered burns in escaping down a narrow stairway. He was unable to rescue the children, who ranged in age from three to 12 years. Chuckatuck, a village of about 500, has no fire department. The house had burned to the ground before volunteer firemen arrived from nearby Smithfield, Va. The Eleys lost their only other child in a drowning tragedy about a year ago. i Love Slayers Deny Positive Identity LANSING, Mich- (IP)—Technicalities delayed extradition today of Edsel Heslip, 30, and Mrs. Dorothy Long, 19, wanted in North Carolina to face murder charges in the death of Mrs. Long’s husband. At an extradition hearing yes terday, Heslip’s attorney said pa-' pers from North Carolina did not positively identify his client. He said the papers contained no pic tures or fingerprints of Heslip. j Alfred Fitt, legal aide to Mich igan Gov. G. Mermen Williams, Bennett's Trading Post Opening Set Bennett’s Trading Post, this section’s newest business firm, will hold its grand opening Wednesday night at 7 o’clock with a big sales event, an auction sale and free refreshments for all who attend. HOWARD BENNETT NO. 41 I \ Daring Plot Is Revealed At % Sing Sing OSSINING, N. Y. (W—Warden Wilfred Denno told today of a fan tastic plot to free at gunpoint ev ery felon in the Sing Sing Prison death house by torturing the war den’s wife. Details of the desperate scheme, disclosed in a copyrighted story by the New York Daily News, called for “outside” thugs to seize Denno and his wife in their home near the prison. The desperadoes then planned to torture and beat the warden’s wife and threaten her with death until I Denno agreed to help a gunman pass through the prison gates and into the death house. “The scheme . . . was doomed to failure from the very beginning,” Denno told the United Press. A death house inmate, who ap parently hoped, to receive clem ency, told of the plot last summer. However, the conspiracy was not made public until prison officials and detectives conducted a thor ough investigation. The Daily News said the plot centered around the three murder ers of a Reader’s Digest messen ger who are to be executed Febru ary 21. The first tip on the planned maw break came, the News said, from Romulo Rosario, 37, whose record (Continued on Page Two) (said he would seek further ldentl ■ i fication of Heslip from North Car • ] ollna. Once the additional infor ; i mation is received, Williams will ) | order the pair’s extradition, Fitt ’ said. Heslip and Mrs. Long are ■ charged in Harnett County, N. C, , I (Continued on Pago Eight) Plans for the opening were an nounced this morning by Howard Bennett, popular young Dunn bus iness man and owner of the es tablishment. Benett’s Trading Post is located in East Erwin in the building for merly occupied by Fowler Radio Co. The building has been com pletely renovated and redecorated. The new store will carry a com plete line of used clothing and fur niture with everything for the home and for the wardrobe. NEW TYPE BUSINXBB It’s something new and different, the only store of its kind In this section of the State. Mr. Bennett has just returned from a two-weeks buying trip- to New York, where he bought mer chandise for his company. Bennett’s Tradfa* Poet win fog and sell used furniture and cloth ing and win engage tn the whelm ffMfo.* Om wrn Vnjg
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