+ WEATHER <■ Mostly cloudy and colder. Friday considerable- cloudiness and not as cold with occasional rain. | VOLUME 5 WINTER KEEPS NATION IN ICY GRIP '0 SAINT OR SlßEN?—Beautiful Ava Gardner, the Goddess of love, has what it takes to play either role. In Photo at left, she has that alluring look which gives her a “away with the men.” She’s shown A RARE FEMALE - Sftfc'S MIXED UP .. ■' - - V ■ , a The Truth About Ava Gardner * JhsM m cffltlff JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS i » LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS [i < If you want a little entertain i, ment, you’d do well to meet a smil -1 t§hig little Negro boy who sells The > 5 Daily Record on the streets of r Dunn. He’s one of the cutest and richest j| young characters we’ve ever come in contact with. And he has that , Ipana smile. His name is Lindbergh Ray, 14* | year-old student at Harnett High School. He also answers to the : name of “Hot Dog” and “Hambur | Lindbergh says that everybody 3 "thinks he sounds like a girl when . he talks—and he does. “But Pm a boy,” he explains. We were looking straight at him. Lindbergh was by himself in the , office the other night when the phone rang. The lady at the other end of the line kept saying, “Yes, . Ma’am." “You don’t have to say ‘yes r ma’am to me,” protested Lindbergh to the lady, “I’m just a little boy.” Lindbergh says his daddy lives (Continued on Page Tn) f FREE COFFEE FOR CHAMBER MEMBERS Coffee And Idea Sessions Slated Members of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce are going to get free coffee “on the house” in a series of “Let’s Get | Better Acquainted’* meeting to begin in the near future, ■ Plans for the unique morning At these meetings, Manager Id K‘coffee sessions were made at the OarroU, President Aldredge apd iff monthly dinner business meeting other members of the board will ■' held Thursday night at Johnson’s exchange ideas with them on Ways Igvlfcestaurant. President Emmett Ah to improve and expand the town dredge presided. and community. Under the plan, members of the . COMPLAINTS WELCOME chamber will be invited to the “CriUdwM and complaints will K cha f lber m smaU groups be just, as welrome as su|gestlsm .Vi !i : « TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 This is the last in a series at articles on Ava Gardner, the God dess of Love from Johnston County. Copyright 1955 by the New York Daily News. By JESS STEARN Ava Gardner has never been particularly satisfied with her status at MGM, financially or picture-wise, Char actteristically, she has no qualms about expressing her displeasure. “The Killers” was probably the first picture to bring her promi hence, though she caught many an eye and whistle in the sleeper, “Whistle Stop.” “East Side, West Side," and “The Hucksters” put her in the big time. But she is loath to give MGM to which she is "bound by long-term contract, the credit it thinks it de serves. This U the last of the aeries by Jess Steam on Misa Gardner. On Monday, The Record will publish a feature written spec ially for this newspaper by Earl Wilson, our famed New York columnist “In more than 10 years at MGM,” she says, “I made more movies on loanouts to other studios than for MGM.” She points out wrUy that she was loaneed out to United Artists for “The Barefoot Contessa” for $200,000 and 10% of the picture’s profits, all going to MGM. „ ‘ “Just Imagine how rich I'd be,” she smiled with a bitter twist of her lips, “if I had 10% of the pro fits.” She gpts “considerably less,” she says, than the $250,000-a-year commonly attributed to her. During her recent sojourn in New York for “The Barefoot Con tessa” opening, Ava avoided MGM executives and refused to return (Continued, from page Two) (Sit? Baiitj Jt tt&tfy jf. JL | J| jfm •'4, ... VIL &A '-JrW JsLiiMmk at right in a pose that nukes her look almost angelic. She’s with Rossano Brazil in a scene from “The Barefoot Conttessa,’’ which, incidentally, opens Sunday at tbe Stewart Theatre in Dunn. Fath's Line Shows No Hips, Bosom PARIS (IB —A young widow striv ing to carry on the tradition of her late husband kept alive the great fashion house of Jacques Fath with a showing today of 1956 styles. Genevieve Fath put women back in the fashion designing picture with a show that had something for all shapes and sizes. From siren sheaths, curvaseous ly shaped, to prim English school boy styles, Madame Fath present ed beautifully . executed clothes which carried ttl the popular trend seen In the current battle of tbe bosoms. The buyers and experts gave warm applause to this fallant at tempt to carry on the high stanl ards for which Jacques was fam ous. All were happy to see her succeed. Two silhouettes predominated: the “drinking straw” line which revealed neither bosom nor hips, and the “suspended fullness” skirt, (Continued On Page Two) \/ , ■ ROUGH WEEKEND AHEAD RALEIGH OB— The weather bu reau said today there Is a “defin ite risk” Out sleet and snow may “affect-the streets and highways” in North Carolina by Saturday night. The forecast said rain or sleet would probably begin in the western port sometime Saturday. " • ■ - 1 j - —, DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 4, 1955 \ Work Approved For New Area Dunn city council Thursday night voted to install water and sewage and storm sewers in the new $200,000 Latimer residential development on Pearsall Street and Ann Avenue in the southwest ern area of town. Request for the improvements were made by C. T. Latimer, prom inent Dunn realtor, contractor and developer of the property. Mr. Latimer has already erected 108 new homes in Dunn. Mr. Latimer and other property owners in the area will pay their proportionate cost of the project. The council also agreed to clean out a ditch which crosses the prop erty. TAG CHECK ORDERED Police Chief Alton A. Cobb was instructed to have his force stop all automobiles in the city, begin ning immediately, to determine what local residents have not pur chased their 1955 city tags. (Continued on Page Two' Boy Tortured To Death By Aunt PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (IP) A 90-pound woman, fac ing possible death in the electric chair for the torture murder of her 5-year-old nephew, said today she has talked with God, and he “promised he is going to work things out.” VI know the Lord is on my side,” said Mrs. Virginia Thompson, 29, an ex-barmaid who has been des cribed by her brother as a “relig ous fanatic.” County Atty. Raymond Burger said he would seek the electric chair for Mrs. Thompson, who is charged with the death of Lloyd George Stanley. No woman has ever received the death penalty in Oklahoma. + Record Roundup + MUSICAL VARIETIES Mrs. Re tv Whitten ton has announced the schedule tar her radio program, “Musical Varieties.” On Monday Mrs. Warren Mitch ell of Benson win be the featured vocalist, Tuesday Hasel Jones will play piano selection*. and Wednes day Mrs. Whitten ton will present an organ program. The vocalist Thursday will be Mrs. J. Edgar Biaek Jr., and on Friday, Mrs. WMttenton will present the choir Cram the Baptist Branch Sunday SchooL Hudson River Is Frozen Up In New York By UNITED PRESS Winter kept its numbing grip on the East today, freezing the Hud son River solid in a New York City suburb, and snow, sleet, and freez ing rain swept unchecked up the nation’s midsection. Big ice floes clogged the Hudson at New York, delaying the French liner Liberte from docking for two hours and posing serious naviga tion problems to tugs an\ Month's Permits TotalSS,Ml Building permits for new con struction, additions and repairs to taling $25,000 were issued in Dunn during the month of January, ac cording to a report released today by City Building Inspector John E. Norris. New construction accounted for all but SSOO of the total. Following is a list of the permits Issued: Joseph Johnson, E. Godwin St., $5,000; Brady Hollingsworth, E. Godwin St., $5,000; Carl Fitchett, N. Layton Avenue, $1,000; Wil liam S. Wellons, W. Godwin St.. $1,200; D. H. Godwin, Carr Heights, $2,500; O. M. Hamilton, N. Wayne Ave., $7,000; Malcolm Hodges, S. Washington Ave., $3,500, all new construction; and H. P. Johnson, S. Clinton Ave., $7,000. The boy died in agony yesterday from beatings, stimpings, electric iron tortures, 19 broken ribs and holes punctured inf his mouth and throat. “I’m sorry for what has happen ; ed,” Mrs. Thompson sobbed in a i television interview. “If my life [ isn’t taken. I’m going to do the i best I can to make up for what ! I’ve done.” (Continued On Page Four) DINNER MEET The Harnett County Farm Bureau will hold a dinner meeting on Tuesday, Febru ary 16 at 6:30 p. m. in the Lilling ton School Cafeteria. Purpose of the gathering U to discuss legisla tion affecting farmers now pend ing in tbe N. C. General Assembly. Plus also will he made for the an nual membership drive. James Tart, Lillington, Route >, county president, will preside. ARRIVE IN TUBKEf-Mrs. Ma eOonttaued an Page Three) ML: ilßk J§4 ? FARM YOUTHS RECEIVE HONOR—Vice Presi- College. They were selected from a group of over dent Earl H. Mahone of the First Cittizens Bank, 100 eligible youths. Left to right are Jeff Denny, left, is shown here presenting checks to Bobby ag instructor at Dunn. High, Mr. Mahone, who is Stewart and Joel Johnson to defray their expenses also Key Banker for Harnett County, Stewart and. at the annual Agricultural Short Course at State Johnson. (Daily Record Photo.)* Harnett Farm Boys Honored Two Harnett County farm youths have been selected to represent the ,gaunt?, fct the annual Agriculture Short (ipurse to be held at State College in Raleigh in a program sponsored and financed by banks of the county. Their selection was announced today by Earl N. Mahone of Dunn, vice president of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company and Har nettt’s Key Banker. Those selected for the honor are Bobby Stewart of Dunn, Route 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Stewart and graduate of Dunn High School; and Joel Johnson of Lillington, Route 2, son of Mrs. Myrtle W. Johnson and the late Colon John son and a graduate of Lillington High School. Making the selection were Mr. Mahone, and County Agent. C. R. Ammons, in cooperation with the various teachers of vocational agri culture in the county. They were picked from a group of over 100 farm youths eligible for the award. Requirements were: graduation from high school, the fact they have chosen farming as a career, outstanding records in 4-H and FFA club work, and the fact they did not plan to enter college. Mr. Mahone said both of the (Continued On Page a lx) AN EARL WILSON EXCLUSIVE Rubinstein Had Been Slated For Kidnapping , Shanghaing By EARL WILSON Special To The Daily Record NEW YORK CITY Ser ge Rubinstein was to have been kidnapped and taken out to sea on a tramp freigh ter not murdered. Enemies in the business world had hired kidnap experts to tie him up, toss him aboard this freighter which was in their hire, and shanghai him. Then the ship’s skipper—he was also a part of the p’o*—to notify the Coast uuarci tlu he'd found “some ‘stowaway aboard.” The hated financial wizard was then to have been delivered to U, S. immigration authorities. And for the rest of his life he would have been a man without a country," beating his hefcd against the technicalities of the law, trying to get back into tbe U, S. to resume his money-grab bing ways. This theory of Rubinstein's sen sational death—fantastic as it may seem—has been turned over to po lice— seriously—by one of Ms few (OmMhhl On rage Two) The Record is Firsi IN CIRCULATION . . NEWS PHOTOS. . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Carroll To Speak At NCEA Banquet Dr. D. D. Carfoll, former Dean of the University of North Carolina Comm#rco. School an dnow chairman of the faculty, will be the speaker at the annual banquet of the Harnett County unit of the North Carolina Education Association Wednesday night at 7 o’clock ’in the Dunn High School cafeteria. Plans for the meeting were an nounced today by County Superin tendent Glenj Proflit and Miss Bessie Massengill of Dunn, county supervisor. Miss Martha McLeod of Benha Gen. Chiang Says Formosa Is In War TAIPEI, Formosa (Hi Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek said to day Formosa has entered “a state of war” and that the day for "launching a counter-attack on the mainland is drawing near.” Chiang made the statement shortly after three waves of his bombers flew through heavy anti-, aircraft fire and Communist night fighters in pre-dawn raids on Com munist invasion buildups in the Tachens. ■ ' -r| ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY PRETTY GlßLS—Serge Rubinstein, whose murder is baffling New York poDee, was a Stem with teHHK and plenty of girt friends. He’s shaws Jmmw ~*i NO. 44 ven school is president of the Har nett unit and will serve as toast master. Principal A. B. Johnson and members of the Dunn district faculty will be hosts. Miss Ophelia Matthetys Os Dunn High School is (Continued On Page Two) The Nationalist leader made the statement in a \message to farmers on “Farmers Day.” He urged them to heighten their vigilence and double their production efforts. It was his first public statement since the current crisis began. Chinese sources said the state ment indicated the firm stand Chiang is determined to make against any pressure to get him to agree to the idea of “two Chinas.”