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Considerable cloudiness and mild
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east portion before noon. Partly
cloudy to cloudy and colder tonight
and tomorrow.
VOLUME 5
6
TACHEN ISLAND IS BEING EVACUATED
AVA AND FRANKIE IN HAPPIER DAYS —This there’s no hope for reconciliation. She has es
plcture of Avs Gardner and Frankie Sinatra was tabllshed residence In Nevada to divorce the
was made during around of golf at the peak of crooner. Ava looks good in sports clothes, too,
their romance. It’s all off now and Ava says doesn’t shß?
EARL TRIES TO PLAY <H|ID **
Ava—Queen Os The Gypsies
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By HOOVER ADAMS
RICH MAN, A BIG CAR;
OTHER LITTLE NOTES
A specially-built Cadillac sports
convertible stopped at the Big-4
Restaurant in Dunn Friday night
and attracted more attention than
a three-ring circus.
Just as, they do wherever the car
stops, throngs of people flocked
around to see and inspect it.
The long, sleek convertible meas
ures just 22 feet, 10 inches in
length a A is nearly three Inches
■ lower thai. a standard Cadillac.
w The standard Cadillac is only
about 18 feet in length,
gs It has all the usual modern gad
s gets— plus dozens of unusual ones.
The hood raises if push-button
and everything under the hood is
chrome-plated.
The owner of the car is John C.
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Sheriff Sends More Proof
To Identify Love Slayers
| Harnett Sheriff Claude R. Moore said today that when
% an extradition hearing is resumed on March 2 in Detroit '
for Edsel Heplip, 30, and Mrs. Dorothy Long, 19, he’ll
H have plenty of evidence in the hands of Michigan author!-
ties to positively identify the accused love slayers.
Br Technicalities delayed «fcradl
l| tion of the couple last week. They
I are charged with the murder of
L her husband, Pfc. Samuel Long, 21-
“ year-old soldier, in Harnett on
December 14th.
t
three bullets into his chest and
m then kicked him out beside toe
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
Earl Wilson, the famed New York columnist, has written tAs
special piece on Ava Gardner for The Daily Record. It brings to
a close and also a climax the special series of articles on
toe Goddess of Love from Johnston County.
By EARL WILSON
Special To The Record
NEW YORK For a couple of weeks now you’ve been
reading that interesting series of stories about Ava Gard
ner in The Daily Record and I’m sure you must have en
joyed them as much as I have.
Hoover Adams, editor of The
Record and one of my bosses, asked
me to write a piece giving you a
little different angle on Ava.
It really isn’t necessary to be
“too different” when it comes to
Ava, because she’s a very different
sort of girl.
I understand her birthplace isn't
too far from Dunn, so you folks
have a right to be proud of her.
She’s sweet!
I’ve been on friendly terms with
Ava for years now and am very
fond of her. I always find her in
tereesting. Just as I do when I go
to interview any beautiful babe, I
always take my Beautiful Wife
along when I call on Ava. The BW
thinks highly of Ava, too.
In fact, I’m the guy who tried
to patch up that romance between
Ava and Frank Sinatra.
As a Cupid, I’m stupid, for I
made a gallant effort to melt the
deep freeze between Ava and Frank
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road in Harnett and sat in their
automobile to watch him die. They
had come to North Carolina, they
said, to persuade Long to give her
a divorce.
When the extradition hearing
opened last week, Haslip’g attorney
argued that papers lrocn North
Carolina did not pooittvely Identify
i his client He said the papers 000-
(She Itattrd
200 Stitches
Taken In
Injured Man
William Hubert Page, 20, of near
Dunn, is in the Dunn Hospital with
more than 200 stitches in his sage
and head and awaiting trial In
court as the result of an accident
that occurred on a rural dirt road
in East Erwin.
State Patrolman Paul Albergine
said Page was driving a 1040 Che
vrolet at a high rate of speed, lost
control of the vehicle and turned
over.
He was driving after revocation
of his license.
(Continued from Pago Two) .
tamed no pictures or fingerprints
of Hesllp.
SIGNED CONFESSION
Meantime, however, the woman
had signed a confession in which
she admitted the crime and named
Heshp as the one who fired the
trigger on Long at close range in
the automobile.
Alfred Fltt, legal aide to Mich
igan Gov. O. Mennen Williams,
said be would seek further identifi
cation of Hesllp from Sheriff
Moore. Once the additional Infor
mation is received, he said, Gov
(OiuHuwn Ob Page «ww»
DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1955
Pinay Accepts
Position As
French Premier
PARIS (IP) Antoine Pi
nay, a smalltown business
man who served as premier
for eight months and 15
days and didn’t like it, said
today he hoped to form
France’s 21st postwar gov
ernment by Thursday.
Pinay, 63, agreed Sunday night
to accept President Rene Coty’s
mandate. But when the National
Assembly voted him out of office
two days before Christmas, 1952,
he said, “I won’t go back before
that lion’s den again,”
Pinay began his drive for a new
cabinet with a touch of the same
brusqueness that won Pierre Men
des-France the nickname of “Mr.
France” before he was toppled
from the premiership Saturday.
But it was considered almost cer
tain the National Assembly would
reject Pinny’s first bid for office
so it could see who else would
be offered the job.
Pinay, a businessman who mar
ried the boss’ daughter and be -
came owner of a tannery, held the
job of premier in another period
of crisis. He tried for political
stability then but his plan to “save
the franc” tumbled before the di
vided assembly.
Pinay, after being asked by Coty
to form a government, accepted
desfalte avprevkw denial earlier in
thr crisis. He talked to the leader
of his own party, the National
Center of Independents, then short
ly after midnight told newsmen:
“I thlhk it will be possible to
present a cabinet to the National
Assembly on Thursday at the
latest.”
Few political observers shared
his optimism. The general outlet*
was bleak since France ' has no
government at time of the Formosa
crisis, it no budget to pay its
bill and it has no ministers to deal
with new troubles at home and
abroad German rearmament,
nationalist resurgence in North
Africa and a threatened political
breakdown in Indochina.
Willie Parker
To Get Hearing
Willie Parker of Benson, Route
2 will be given a hearing in Dunn
before Mrs. Mallie Adams Jackson,
local United States Commissioner,
Saturday, Feb. 12 at 10 a. m. on
charges of possessing a whiskey
still for the purpose of manufac
turing illicit whiskey.
The hearing was scheduled for
Saturday, but was postponed for a
Parker was indicted by Federal
ATO Agent C. S. Coats following
a series of raids staged in John
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+ Record Roundup +
REVIVAL Beginning Sunday
night, February 13 at Rock Hill
Baptist Mission revival services
will be held each each night at 7:30
pjn. The public is cordially invited,
to attend. Rev. James A. Faucett
will be the evangelist.
MARRIAGE LICENSE—A mar
riage license was issued on Feb. 4
by the county register of deeds in
LUUngton to Billie CUtts, 25 of
Coats, Route I to Nellie Rose Dup
ree, 20, of Angler, Route 2.
PROGRAM TOPIC Topic of
the demonstration to be given dur
ing February at each of the coun
ty’s 18 home demonstration clftbs
will be “Figure Flattery.” Clothing
leaders from each club, recently
trained by Miss Julia McTver,
clothing specialist of Raleigh, will
give the demonstrations. This stu
dy follows directly that of January
when ci«b women studied “What
to Wear When, or Dress for the
Occasion.’ As a follow-up of this
Instruction in sewing, March will
be devoted to a study of the art
of tailoring.
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: PLAYS ROUGH —ltalian
! movie star Anna M a g n a n i
cracked one of her costar’s ribs
and swelled the jaw of another
while filming “The Rose Tat
too,” in Hollywood. Anna wasn’t
mad at anyone, saying: “It’s in
I the script. When 1 play I play.”
West Almost
Dies From Cold
William West, 23, of Spring Lake,
Route 1, is in Highsmith Hospital
at Fayetteville in a critical condi
tion as the result of an accident
which orlurred late Thursday
night in Western Harnett.
He was pinned beneath hii au
tomobile all night Jong qp on} of
the coldest nights of Qie'year 7rfid
was almost frozen to death. He Is
still not out of danger.
DOGS STAND VIGIL
State Patrolman Paul Lucas, who
investigated the accident, said
West, the only occupant of the car
besides two hunting dogs, appar
ently* ran off the road and down
an embankment and was pinned
.beneath the automobile.
The car ran under a large culvert,
which put it in a position that it
could not be seen from the high
way.
The two hunting dogs stood vigil
at the accident all night long and
It wasn’t until about 10:30 Friday
morning that West was found by
his brother, Harvey West.
His condition at that time was
acute from exposure to the below
freezing weather and loss of blood.
He was Immediately rushed to the
hospital where examination also
showed him to be in a state of se
vere shock.
Patrolman Lucas said West ap
parently had started out hunting
when his car ran off the road.
JUST PRAYING
MEMPHIS, Term. OB Judge
Beverly Bonshe dismissed charges
agalnt four men accused of
shooting dice when officers ad
mitted they found only a $lO
bIU but no dice on the floor.
The men testified they were on
their knees praying.
STUDY PUBLICITY—How to get
over to the public the interesting
story of what home demonstration
club work means to a county and
how to record properly club min
utes, both dillerentt subjects, will
be discussed at a special training
meeting to be held on Thursday,
Feb. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Lillington
Community Center. Miss Lela
Huntley, home agent, has an
nounced that MiSs Jean Anderson,
associate editor of the home econo
mics department of the State Ex
tension Service, will be toe guest
speaker. Miss Anderson’s talk will
be especially valuable to publicity
leaders to each club, and secre
taries of the local clubs and of the
county council. All club women
filling these positions are asked to
attend. ,
WOMAN’S CLUB The Wo
man’s' Club Will meet Tuesday,
February 8 at 4 o’clock at the club
house. The Education Committee
will be to charge of toe meeting.
The executive meeting preceds at
8:15 pm.
(Pentinned On Pngs Five)
U. S. Fighter 1
Planes, Fleet
Provide Cover
TAIPEI, Formosa (IP)
Troops and civilians began
a bloodless evacuation of be
leaguered Tachen Island to
day under a round-the
clock protective cover of
hundreds of American fight
er planes and the massed
might of the U. S. 7th Fleet.
Red planes which only hours be
fore had held complete air mastery
over the island disappeared, seem
ingly in an unofficial cease-fire.
United Press correspondent Wil
liam Miller reported late Monlay
night “the most significant thing
at Tachen Mondaf was the almost
dead silence.”
NO ENEMY CONTACT
A message from Vice Adm. Al
fred M. Pride received in Taipei
at 5 p. m. 4 a. m. EST, said
there had been “no enemy cintact
made during the current phase of
the operation” and that “every
thing is according to schedule.”
In Washington, Adm. Robert B.
Carney said the “first significant
lift" in the evacuation of the
Tachen Islands is scheduled to be
gin this afternoon, Washington
time. The Navy is ready to take
“necessary steps” if the Commun
ists intervene.
A “lift” in military parlance is
the transpirtation of people or
material.
Cfrney, chief of naval opera
tions, said the evacuation so far
has been on a “token basis.”
“There has been no reports of
operational incidents,” he told
newsmen. Everything has beeh
going “on schedule.”
REDS SHELL QUEMOY
The only report of Communist
activity in the Formosa Sfrait area
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Four Couples
Get Divorce
Four couples were granted a di
vorce in Harnett Superior Court
this morning as a two-weeks civil
session got underway. Judge Ches
ter Morris of Coinjock is presiding.
Mrs. Arlene Price Turner won a
divorce from Laverne Turner. He
had also filed a divorce suit against
her but took a voluntary non-suit
in his case, allowing her to divorce
him.
Others granted a divorce were:
Merle T. Godwin from Homer
Pat Godwin, Edna Josephine Nor
ris from Herbert E. Norris; and
Clarence E. Tripp from Sallye B.
Tripp.
Six other divorce cases are still
pending at the term.
Mrs. Betty Byrd
Dies At Age 75
Mrs. Betty Byrd, 75, of Linden,
died early Monday morning after
a long illness.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’cock at
Parker’s Grove Methodist Church
in Linden. The Rev. W. C. Feltman
will officiate. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
(Surviving are one stepson, Jessie
H. Byrd of Linden; one stepdaugh
| ter, Mrs. J. P. Crumpler of Dunn;
i four step-grandchildren and sever
. al nieces and nephews.
JOHNSTON'S "BAD BOY"
Sherwood Barefoot Founded
Guilty Again At Benson
Sherwood Barefoot, the perennial “bad boy” of Johns
ton County, today was awaiting sentence on a new liquor
conviction in the Benson Recorder’s Court.
The 18-year-oki Meadow High
School student who last year es
caped the gas chamber on a first
degree rape charge and last month
reoelved a prison term to Harnett
for a sex crime, was convicted after
brief deliberation by a jury.
Judge J. Ed Johnson postponed
sentencing Barefoot until Mon
day, February 14th.
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GARDNER’S FIRST AGAlN—Gardner’s Dairy Products, Inc. of
Dunn, always first with the finest and most modem innovations to
thp dairy field, is now putting out these big electric milk. YSadtoC
machines. You merely pat in a dime and get a carton of definHM
plain or chocolate Gardner’s milk—cold and refreshing. Manager
Janies Surles of the Dunn plant is shown here admiring one of the
new machines, manufactured by the Vendo Company of Kansas City.
The first machine went into Erwin Mills and is provinghlghly popu
lar. (Daily Record Photo.)
Sadistic Slayer Os
Raped Girl Sought
NEW YORK (IP) —Police toured the haunts of Green
wich Village’s bohemian today in their search for the sad
istic killer who raped, strangled and stabbed a pretty New
York University co-ed in what a veteran officer described
as this city’s “most brutal” murder.
The victim was brown-haired
Anne Yarrow, 23, a quiet, deeply
religious honor graduate of a
North Carolina Quaker College. Her
body was discovered in a dingy,
sparsely furnished flat of a friend
where the girl had gone 10 days
ago because she “wanted to be
alone” to forget an unhappy affair
with a boy friend.
The tenement was on the fringe
of Greenwich Village and a half
block from the Bowery, where Miss
Yarrow had spent much of her
time in preparing for a master’s
degree in psychology and sociology
at NYU. ,
The murder occurred just one
year to the day after that of
Maxwell Bodenheim, the forlorn
Greenwich Village poet and novel
ist who, with his wife, was mur
dered by a madman ex-convict.
HAD BOHEMIAN FRIENDS
Miss Yarrow, who once bought a
poem from Bodenheim, knew his
Bohemian friends in the village
and spent much time with them,
was found in the apartment of a
friend.
She had been stabbed 49 times
and mutilated from her neck to
her ankles. Except for a sweater
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The 90-pound tenth grade stu
dent was acquitted by the jurors
on three other counts —assault with
intent to ktU on City Pbliceman
C. 0., Woodall, possession of whis
key for the purpose of sale and
transporting. ,
Etefctois Attorneys nverette L.
Doffermyre and D. K Stewart of
Dunn requested the delay to sent-
NO. 45
Post Office).
At Linden
Is Robbed
Federal authorities today were
investigating the week-end robbdry
of the Linden Post Office. |
Postmaster V?. C. Melvin said he
discovered the robbery Sunday
morning when he went down to
open the building.
The Post Office safe had hfcen
entered, he said, and approximately
S3O in cash was missing. He told
stamps, money orders and other
valuables in the safe were not
bothered.
Entrance to the building was
gained through the rear door. The
door facing had been torn off, ap
parently with a crow bar.
The Third Class Postoffice is
located in the business district of
the Cumberland County village."'
Postmaster Melvin said t here
were no clues as to the identity 1
of the robber.
encing Barefoot for the purope *
of getting a ruling on a pohfbpf
law in the case.
APPEALING OTHER GMKg
Meanwhile, the attoratp»Mh|
busy working' on Barefoot’s jtHj
reme Court appeal in his TTm|j||f|
conviction for carnal k.nowledgjj§||
a female under 16. Judge
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