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VOLUME 5
RED CHINA BOYCOTTS UN MEETING
AVA SCORNS LEQ ART—Luscious Ata Gardner,
who ranks among thte best In the "cheese-cake”
line, said recently that she wants no more of
this sort of posing. She’s going in for the more
AVA DENIES ROMANCE WITH DAVIS
IThe Truth About Ava Gardner
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R By HOOVER ADAMS
JUST ONE LJTTLE THING
BIGHT AFTER ANOTHER
Mrs. Earl Mahone was lamenting
the fact last night that she hasn’t
been to Charlotte since she and
Earl took their vacation in August
she said—Their son, Earl, is
| manager of the big $400,000 Mer
chandise Mart in Charlotte, which
is the scene of most big gatherings
§£, In the queen City ...With all the
u sales meetings and showings going
f on, he's a busy mgn these days
■f Western Union service in Dunn has
been greatly improved .. Until re
cently, all telegrams sent Rom here
4k had to be relayed through Raleigh
Es or Charlotte .. Now, the local of
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Draft Is Extended
Until June, 1955
fe s WASHINGTON (W—The House Armed Services Cojn
-1 mtttee today approved 32 to oan extension of the draft
until June 30, 1959.
4
House leaders then scheduled a
vote on the bill Tuesday. The over-
EfviMefenlng committee approval in
fe cheated it would pass the House
draft now is scheduled to ex-
II Defense Secretary Charles &
i |;.WtoS»n i has. said the draft is the
only, way the nation could main-
tutu a scheduled 2 360,000-man
TV If ' fn.rui_i.
g|fs* committee approved two
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type of fries. In any pese, the Johnston
County ' glamour gaL looks rlambrous.
(Photo copyrighted by N. Y. DaUy News.)
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This is the tenth in a series of articles on Ava Gardenr, the God
des of Love from Johnston Couty. Copyright 1955 by the New
York Dally News.
By JESS STEARN
Ava’s sympathetic interest and her impulsiveness fre
quently get her into troublesome situatibns, according to
her .friends.
Currently, for example, intimates
and movie associates are disturbed
by reports in gossip columns link
ing her name to that of Sammy
Davis, an aspiring comedian with
whom she just recently made a
personal appearance on a Harlem
stage.
However, friends assert that the
actress' appearance with the com
ic had been miscontrued and that
she never appeared anywhere with
him except in the interest of help
ing his career, at his request.
/ "Ava,” a friend explained the in
cident, "goes out of her way to
help people she feels seed that
help. One evening she got a phone
call at her hotel from this come
dian. He was performing at the
Apollo Theatre and asked if she
wouldn’t take a bow on the stage
with him, since it would mean a lot
to him.
SO THEY HAD ONE
DRINK TOGETHER
"Ava had a, dinner date that
night with BUI Williams, a disk
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amendments to the present aw: i
1. Any man who has served stt
months or mote since Sept. 16,
1940, la not liable for Induction
except after declaration of war or
a national emergency. This Is
aimed at preventing re-drafting of
men who have agreed previously,
sometimes almost three years. An
estimated UfAfe men previously
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Accused Slayer
Os Baby Will
Receive Hearing
THOMAGVXLLE (UP)—Mrs. Dor
othy Broom, 30, will have a pre
liminary hearing in recorder’s
court here Friday in connection
with the death of an infant whose
body was found in a trunk on the
back porch of her apartment.
Police Chief Paul M. Shore said
yesterday that she had admitted
giving birth to the chUd but had
refused to say anything about its
death. Shore said she told officers
the chUd was bom without medical
aid Dec. 19 In her apartment*
The woman was arrested Mon
day in Capitol Heights, Md., and
was returned here on a warrant
charging her with murder. Dr.
MUton Block, Davidson County
coroner, saui the child apparently
died about Dec. 25.
The woman’s husband, Rmw
Mac Broom; is serving a term in
a South Carolina prison.
COLD IN SATAN’S KINGDOM
SATAN’S KINGDOM, Cwnxk—
(UP)—lt was IS degrees 'below
sere in Satstfs T»flaan today.
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 3, 1955
Unfairness Os
Bottling Tax
Pointed Out
RALEIGH (IP) A new
group of spokesmen was
scheduled to protest the pro
posed state tax on soft
drinks today on the heels
of a warning to the Joint
Finance ommittee that it
will put 1,125 persons out
of work and chop sales vo
lume by one-fourth.
Annual payrolls of the 155 soft
drink bottling plants in the state
would be cut $3,125,000 by a tax of
three-quarters of a cent on each
bottle or equivalent, W. C. Daw
son, Elizabeth City bottler, told
the committee yesterday.
He predicted the tax would pro
duce only $5346,000 next year in
stead of the $7,125,000 anticipated
by the state.
But he added, “It’s been said the
Tax Research Department took
into account the drop in sales
volume,” in predicting receipts
from the tax. “If that is true, it
means they admit this is a disas
trous tax.”
W. R. Roberson, Jr., a bottler
from Washington, told the com
mittee when South Carolina enact
ed such a tax in 1925 “the smaller
marginal bottler was forced out of
business.”
Wesley Woodson, owner and gen
era manager of a Charotte bottsing
plant, recalled his experience and
- ■that' of btfier bothers in Pennsylva
nia after that state adopted the
soft drink tax. He said his plant
in Altoona, Pa., was identical to
one operated by his father in De
catur, HI., with only 3 per cent
of difference in sales volume.
When the Pennsylvania tax went
into effect in June 1947, he said,
his sales dropped 213 per cent be
low the preceding year while those
of his fathers plant continued a 5
per cent annual rise.
West Virginia enacted a similar
tax in 1961, Woodson said, but
since then the “governor, speaker
of the House and president of the
Senate have all stated publicly
that the soft drink tax is an un
suitable source of public revenue.”
Dawson protested the crown tax
collection procedure. He said a
bottler able to order a carload of
caps totaling 30,000 gross would
have to pay $6325 to the manufac
turer and send a check to the
state for $32,400 before be could
use a single one.
Mrs. Jessie Dudley
Dies In Hospital
Mrs. Jessie Watkins Dudley, 79,
one of DUnn’s oldest residents, died
Thursday morning in the Dunn
Hospital. She had been ill since
Sunday with pneumonia and had
been a patient at the hospital for
two days.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at
the Shady Grove Free Will Bap
tist Church in Sampson County.
The Rev. L. R. Ennis of Goldsboro,
pastor, the Rev. Minot E. Godwin
and the Rev. R. R. Gammon, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Dunn, will officiate.
+ Record Roundup +
YOUTH BANQUET TONIGHT—
The Rev. Henry Speight of Fay
etteville will be the guest speaker
tonight when the young people of
the Hood Memorial Christian
Church meet at the church for a
youth banquet. Plans tog the eve
ning were announced today by
Pat Lewis, who will preside. Spec
ial music will he presented by Art
Bishop of Fort Bragg. Time of the
banquet has been set for 41:30.
REVIVAL TO OPEN Revival
•ervlcta will be held at the Gospel
Tabernacle in Dunn February 15-
27, the Rev. Bane T. Underwood,
pastor, announced today. The
visiting evangelist will be the Bet.
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WATERMELON IN FEBRUARY Whether it’s
July or February, there’s nothing better than a
big slice of watermelon. These two Dunn men,
Amos Council and Wilbert Thompson, are shown
here as they put away a quantity of the stuff yes
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Three Bold Gunmen Captured
Solon Asks
Bigger Cafe >
For Congress
WASHINGTON (UP) Rep.
Clare E. Hoffman complained to
day that the crowde] House res
taurant is upsetting his disposition
and digestion.
What’s more, he said, “insuffi
cient nourishment” in the dining
room has resulted in his colleagues
“dropping off like flies.”
The Michigan Republican said
he intends to put an end to this
menace to congressmen’s health
by introducing a bill calling for
construction of a new and larger
restaurant. He said the present
dining room is entirely too small
and inadequate to take care of 435
congressmen.
“The President has sent us a
health plan for everybody and
we’re taking care of people all over
the world,” he said. “Well, it’s
‘about time we House members
took care of our own.”
Burial will be In the Dudley fam
ily cemetery in Sampson.
The body will lie in state at the
chord) for one hour prior to the
services.
LIVED HEBE SINCE 1913
Mrs. Dudley, who had been blind
since childhood, attended the old
State-Institute for the-Blind in
Raleigh for 12 years and while
there met her husband, the late
Julius Dudley. They were married
in 1910 and moved to Dunn In
1913.
Her husband was a piano tuner
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H. T. Spence of Memphis, Tenn.,
former pastor of the National
Church in Washington, D. C. and
now general secretary of the Pen
tecostal Hqfiness Church.
MORRIS TO SING Jeff Mor
ris of Lima, Ohio, lyric tenor, Will
sing the roie of Peppe in the Grass
Roots Opera production of “Pag
liacci.” to he presented at Camp
bell College Monday night. Last
spring, he was under contract with
the New York City Center Opera
Company. *
BUSINESS SEBSION A busi
ness meeting of Dunn Legionnaires
(Conttmed m !**• Twe)
terday morning. Cledus Naylor, local trucker,
brought the watermelons from Florida. “That’s
good eating,” said Amos.
(Daily Record Photo by T.M. Stewart.)
BOSTON (IP)—A series of i
holdups between here and
Florida was believed solved)
today with the arrest of
three gunmen.
The three were seized in a flat
yesterday after a fight in which
one* of them and a policeman were
hurt.
Arrested on armed robbery
charges were John J. Gunke, 20,
of Rochester, N. Y„ George E. Rus
sell, 21, of Lewisburg, Tenn., and
Gilbert L. Dyer, 24, of Syracuse,
N. Y.
Dyer and Detective Thomas Cpn
aty, 52, were injured in a struggle
for Dyer’s gun. Conaty was slugged
on the head and treated at a hos
pital.
ONE HOSPITALIZED
Dyer was clubbed by another po
; liceman while he and Conaty strug
’ gled across the kitchen and into
the bedroom for possession of the
' gun. Dyer was hospitalized under
police guard.
Police Lt. James Crowley said
the gang 10 days ago left Florida,
; where they staged at least six
; holdups of motels and taxicabs.
While moving .to the Crowley
1 said, the gang committed at least
five other robberies. The gunmen
said one of their victims was Louis
Ames, who was described as an
asistant to television star Dave
Garroway.
Crowley said they also staged a
$1,500 grocery store holdup at
Raleigh, N. C., stole an automobile
at Columbia University, New York,
and robbed the Hotel Lenox here
of $207 last Sunday.
FOR STAMP BOOST
WASHINGTON (lP)—Postmaster
General Arthur E. Summerfleld
maintains that a four-cent stamp
“will still be a bargain’’ compared
to the cost of mailing out-of-town
letters in other countries.
For instance, he said in a state
ment, it costs 8.5 cents to mail
such a letter in Sweden, 9.6 cents
in Germany 4.17 cents in England
and 5 cents in Canada.
STATE TAX DEADLINE
RALEIGh (TO—The Senate pass
ed into law today a bill postponing
the deadline for filing state in
come taxes to April 15 in time to
apply to this year’s filing.
It/ also completed legislative ac
tion on two companion measures
which delay from March 15 to
April 15 the deadline for filing
state intangibles and gift tax re
turns.
Teachers Told ?
To Wear Girdles
LAKE CITY (m Stan
ley R. Morgan Jr., president of
the Salt Lake Teachers Assn, told
members today they should always
wear “dignified" clothing.
Morgan suggested that male
teachers, except for those in gym
dames, not appear before daseee
in T-ehirts.
"Women teachers who ought to
wear girdles," he added, "should
do so."
The Record Is First
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COMICS AND FEATURES
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! Failure To
Buy Plates
Is Costly
Failure to purchase his 1955 li
cense plates brought trouble by
the gallons to Dan McQueen, 45-
year-old Negro of Godwin, Route
One.
State Patrolman N. O. Dickens
stopped McQueen near Godwin to
check his expired plates. Dickens
said McQueen also failed to stop
at a red light.
Upon searching his automobile,
the officer found 77 and one-half
gallons of bootleg whiskey.
McQueen was given a prelmin
ary hearing before U. S. Commis
sioner T. L. Hon and was bound
over to the next term of Federal
Court under bond of SI,OOO.
The government also poured out
his whiskey and confiscated his
automobile.
Girl Friend Left
SIO,OOO By Rubi
NEW YORK Serge Rubinstein
remembered only one of his many
girl friends in his will, but took
care of his mother, his two daugh
ters, his butler and three secretar
ies.
While police continued their
search for the strangler of the
forty-six year old playboy last
Thursday, his will—dated Dec. 24,
1953—was filed for jßobate yester
day in Surrigates’ Court. It gave
no indication of the size of his es
tate but assessed it legalistically
“in excess of $100,000.” Estimates
have placed it as high as $10,000,-
000.
Harnett's Birthday
Plans Shaping Up
Plans for Harnett County’s centennial celebration today, j
were taking shape rapidly.
At a meeting of a temporary
steering committee Friday night
in Lillington, the tentative date
for the celebration of the county's
100th birthday was set for some
time during the week of October
10. The committee decided to . con
fine the celebration to two days
and two nights with exact dates to
be announced later.
The week selected is one week
prior to the N. C. State Fair and
at that time all county schools wiH
have completed at least one month.
Meantime, arouiid BO persons
NO. 43
Refuses Plea
To Discuss
Cease-Fire
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., 1
Feb. 3 (IP)—Red China today
refused to send a represent
ative to the United Nations
Security Council to debate ’
a New Zealand proposal for
a Formosan cease-fire.
Communist Premier Chou En-lai j
informed U. N. Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold that Red
China would take part only in de
bate of a Soviet resolution which
would brand the United States an
aggressor in Formosa.
Even then, Chou said, Red China
would agree to be represented only
if the Nationalist Chinese, who
occupy China’s seat in the United
Nations, are “driven out.”
The blunt Red China reply shat
tered virtually all hopes a formula
to end the Formosan shooting and
eliminate the danger of a general'
war can be worked out through '
the U. N.
RUSSIA BOOSTS ARMS
„ ~ MOSCOW (UP)—Russia today
ordered a 12 per cent boost in
. her arms budget and publicly
announced the scrapping of the
short-lived consumer goods pro
gram in favor of more heavy in
dustrial production.
Even before the Peiping reply 1
was made public, the major efforts
to end the Formosan crisis had
shifted to London where .India’s
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nebru
was attempting to arrange outside
the U. N. a conference of princi
pals to end the shooting.
The Red Chinese rejection of the
U. N. invitation was announced by
the Communist New China News
Agency and broadcast by Radio
Peiping.
The broadcast said Chou sent his
reply on Jan. 31, but Hammarsk
jold’s office here said the message
had not been received.
REFUSE COMMENT
United States delegates to the
United Nations refused to comment
on the gloomy turn of events until
they have had an opportunity to
see the official text of Chou’s re
ply-
Chou’s reply, as broalcast hy
Peiping Radio, said Red China is
of the “firm opinion that the
United Nations Security Council
should condemn the United States
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SIO,OOO FOR SINGER
Rubinstein left a SIO,OOO bequest
for Betty Reed, a singer, and spec
ified that his daughters, Diana,
who will be nine on May 13, and
Alexandra, who was seven on Aug,
4, are to divide the principal when
they reach fifty.
Rubinstein did not mpndon his
aunt, Miss Genia Foresta, eighty
two, who was in his home at 814
Fifth Ave. the morning he was
killed, nor his divorced wife, Mrs,
Lauretta Lockheal, of 617 Hbrqufl
la Palos Verdes Estates, Ridono,
Calif.
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throughout the county will be in
vited to serve on a general can*
tennial committee which will
a public meeting on Friday, Feb. $
11 at 7:30 p.m. at the courthouse
in Lillington. Sise of this odeav > -
mi ttee will be flexible, and suggest
ions for- additional members frees ?
each community will be «tv«~4 ;
at that time. •
TO NAME CHAIRMAN
direct the infalsalhin vfl ba