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BULLETINS
RALElGH—Violence claimed at least five lives in North
Carolina over the weekend, a toll lighter than on any
weekend thus far this year, a United Press survey showed
today.
WASHINGTON (IP)—Sen, Estes Kefauver disclosed today
he is seeking administration support for establishment of
a federal crime commission.
TORYQ (IP>—-Two American jet pilots who shot down two
Communist MiG’s Saturday said today it was their first
brush with the highly-touted Red fighters. “They didn’t
show us too much,” Ist Lt. Charles D. Salmon of Port
Jervis, N. Y., said. “I had no trouble with them,” Capt.
George F. Williams of Austin Tex., told a press conference.
ST. GEORGE’S Grenda (IP)—Princess Margaret today
tours this nutmeg capital of the world which gave her an
enthusiastic reception yesterday. The 24-year old sister
of Queen Elizabeth II arrived aboard the yacht Britannia.
Wildly cheering crowds which had converged from all
parts of the 133-square-mile island lined the harbor to
greet her.
MIAMI BEACH (IP)—The powerful executive council of
the American Federation of Labor resumed its mid-winter
• i .< m' Vrrn' nlanning for
hnnortSiif merger discussion.-. u.M, . of the
CIO.
WASHINGTON (IP) The investigating Commission
the ’ Organization of American States reported last
night that rebel prisoners confessed attacking Los Chile%
Costa Rica, from Nicaragua.
NRW YORK (IP) The twenty-fifth annual life mas
ters individual contract bridge championship was won
by Noftnah Kay, Merchantville, N. J., early today with a
store of 1,411 points after five sessions of play covering
140 hands and 71 partners, many of whom were strangers.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (IP) The government yes-1
terday reduced the minimum export price of coffee from
67 to 55 cents a pound. Coffee circles said the cut may
soop be reflected in retail prices in the United States.
PARIS (IP) British prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn
and Roberto Anas, son of a former president of Panama,
were married as Hie Panamaian consulate here yesterday.
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HAVANA, Cuba IIP/ Vice President Richard M. Nix
on arrived here yesterday on the first stop of a month- «
long 7,500-mae good tour of the Caribbean and Cen- ‘
traj America.
ELIZARETW PITY (IP) Authorities intensified their <
search lor cjues to the identity of a fire-bug terrorizing ]
this citv today following the 21st general alarm blaze hqfa 1
in less ijban 'iir year.
WASHINGTON (IF/ The Senate’s delay in approving
the nomination of Judge John Marshall Harlan to the
Supreme Court is not expected to delay the high tribunal’s ;
school desegregation order beyond spring.
TAIPEI, Formosa (IP) Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride, com
pander of the mighty U.S. 7th Fleet, said today the eva
cuation of the Tachen Islands is going “according to
schedule.”
LONDON (IP) The ideological dispute that has raged i
in tjie top echelon of the Communist Party of Russia since 1
the death of premier Josef Stalin has led full circle right
back to where Stalin left off.
DUBLIN (IP) Liam Cosgrave, Irish minister for ex
ternal affairs, called on Britain today to end the north
south partition of Ireland “as one of the greatest possible
acts of statesmanship” toward strengthening the free
world against the dangers of Communism. [
WASHINGTON (IP) Sen. Walter F. George said todays
Red Pbjpa may come up with a counter proposal for a
cease-fire in Formosa.
WASJBJNjGTON (IP/ Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey warn
ed today that the United States must not let Communist
flare-ups in thd Far East divert its attention from the
“more critical situation” in West Germany.
WASHINGTON (IP/ The Reserve Officers Assn, today :
urged rapid establishment of a ready reserve of 1 million I
Combat-equipped minute men to help safeguard the na- i
tion against enemy attack.
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Slayer
cidtilts had been lrmoVe'd and
piled alongside a blood-soaked
inattresg on Which her body lay.
She had been raped and the marks
of thd kfller’s hands still were on
her throat.
BRILLIANT GIRL
Friends of the dead girl at Guil
ford College, a Quaker school at
Greensboro, N. C., where she grad
uated in 1963, described her as a
brilliant girl, “an idealist.” A for
mer schoolmate, Joshua Crane,
who once planned to marry her,
described her in a college year
book poem as “the most beautiful
soul that ever was, that ever is—”
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and head. The physician said that,
barring complications, Page should
recover.
When he leaves the hospital he
will face charges of driving after
his license had been revoked. He
was convicted of speeding in ex
cess of 75 miles an hour just a few
months ago in the Sampson Coun
ty Court in Clinton.
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (IP)
Edward D, Layton was arrested on
a charge of overloading his tru. k
by 4,000 pounds. The cargo fet
thers.
Little Things
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Zimmox, owner and operator of a
big coal mine at Steubenville,
Ohio.
Zimmox bought a regular Cad
illac convertible and shipped it all
the way to the Burris Company in
Los Angeles, California to have it
lowered, lengthened, chrome-plat
ed throughout and also had all the
other gadgets added.
Needless to say, it cost a small
fortune. He wouldn’t say How
much. And he only gets ten miles
per gallon on trips, much less run
ning around town.
Zimmox had interrupted his
winter vacation in Florida to take
it back to Ohio to get a fender
straightened out and was return
ing to Florida.
Zimmox is a good-looking fellow
And girls, he’s still single. About
a dozen beautiful tailored sports
jackets were hanging in the rear
of the convertible.
"Are automobiles your hobby?”
we asked.
“No,” he smiled, and then ex
plained.
“I just like nice things.”
And, get this, he doesn’t own
just one of these specially-built
'■’"'’nine? ijo has another one just
!.'••. h ' a different color, in
| Miami.
His Miami Cadillac is white.
“You know how it is,” explained
Zimmox, “you get tired of driving
the same car all the time.”
He owns a little winter home
(the fellow with him described it
as a mansion) at 7491 N. E. Bth
Ave. in Miami.
“With two cars like this you
don’t have any trouble finding girl
friends, do you?” we asked the rich
young industrialist.
“You know how it is,” he beam-
ed. "There are an awful lot of
pretty girls in Miami.”
As he talked, he was casting ad
miring glances at pretty Bobbie
Jean Whittenton of The Record
staff.
“But not as pretty as she is,” he
flirted.
Just like the man said, he likes ,
nice things.
He said he’d be back through j
Dunn in a couple of months—at
the end of his winter vacation—
and will drop by The Record office
on that trip.
The line forms this way, Girls!
BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth- ,
days today are David Lee, Ed
Bringardner, Mrs. N. M. Johnson,
Sr. and Annie Mae Rowland.
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LITTLE NOTES: State Senator
Robert Morgan made up his Ro
tary attendance with the Dunn
club Friday night and, as always,
received a big welcome here',
The Youth Week sermon delivered
by Pat Lewis at the Christian
Church Sunday morning was un
usually good.. .That young fellow
ought to go places in the ministry
Mr and Mrs. Joe Wilson of
Elizabethtown were visitors here
yesterday... .Joe is a former Dunn
resident... Mutt Butt will leave ]
Sunday for a vacation to Florida.. ,
George Perry Lee says he’s work
ing so hard these days he has lit
tle time for the gi.ls, but he wasn’t
very convincing .... the romance
betmeen George and Ann Hock
aday, the Four Ooks songbird
and disk jorkey, is off It was
very much alive for several months
.... Despite the weather, Ava
Gardner’s new hit, “The Barefoot
Countessa” drew good crowds here
yesterday There’s a gasoline
price war on in Charlotte and the
price has now dropped to 17 cents
a gallon We hear there’s also a
war on—but not a price war—be
tween two groups of Johnston
bootleggers, so don’t be surprised
if you hear of shooting going on
in them thar woods A Dunn
nurse, Margaret West, is now man
ager of the seventh floor at Char- 1
lotte's big Presbyterian Hospital..
Ben Collins, a former Dunn resi
dent. is on the fourth floor of that
hospital with a broken hip.. .Mr.
Collins, who married the former
Ora Lee Ennis of Dunn, broke his
hip several weeks ago and has had
a rough time of it His mother
in-law, Mrs. Lee Daniel Ennis of
High Point, was in town for avisit :
last weekend . .Mr. Collins owns
bile concern in Char- 1
lotte and has done a ell there . .
Wr-Ilons Mercantile Co. in Dunn
has a big display of the new Hot
point appliances Mrs. Reta Whit- '
tenton is a woman who is always
doing something for others. .Sever- 1
al times a week, she bakes pies ’
and cakes for friends in the hos- ;
pital and others who are ill She •
never misses an opportunity to ‘
render an act of kindness to others 1
.... Emmett Adredge says the fish
ing in Florida wasn’t too good. (
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AUSTIN, Tex.—(lP)—A bill was 1
introduced in the current session
of the Texas legislature to put the 1
slogan “Tremendous Texas” on au
tomobile license plates. /
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
AVA GARDNER
Ava Gardner
(Continued From Page One)
and fixed everything up so good
that the freeze is now twice as
deep.
And Ava and Frank, who aren’t
talking to each other, soon won’t
be talking to ME either.
Like every buttinsky, I meant
well.
“Those two sweet kids “I
mused, “Just a little father advice
from me ”
THEY GAVE IT UP
“Give it up, Earl!” Ava said,
with a laugh that the magazine
might call “a gay laugh.”
She was speaking of my amate
urish attempt to reconcile her with
Frank. I’d closely watched their
trans-Atlantic courtship, marriage
and bust-up, and now I merely
conjectured that they might yet
relight the old fires.
“You’re not still trying?” Her
laugh tinkled across the hotel
suite. “Frank and I gave up long
ago!” ,
Ava got up and limped across
the room—she’d sprained her ankle
the night before dancing. Plucking
at the collar of her Corgi dog, Rags,
she showed me the tag on it. The
tag read: “I’m dn my way to see
my mama, Ava Gardner.” Rags had
come in by air that day from Calif
ornia.
“No, it’s impossible.” Ava settled
back to her coffee and we browsed
through the ashes of her dead
romance.
We talked supposedly of other
things but when I went back over
them they were mostly Frank Sina
tra.
‘Rags, there,” I said, indicating
the dog, ‘isn’t he named for Rags
Ragland?”—meaning, of course, the
late comedian.
‘Yes,” she nodded into the collar
of the lacey white housecoat so
cool and neat. ‘Frank gave him
to me. He adored Rags.”
There was a mournful moment.
Then we spoke of her posing for
Life Photographer Philipe Halsman
to the accompaniment of a spring
quartet engaged from a symphony.
‘I had asked for music,” Ava
said. ‘Posing is so dreary that there
are two things that are very neces
sary. A big mirror so I can sec what
I’m doing. And music.”
‘At MGM when I go for portraits,
I usually bring my own music. Al
ways records.”
(flome by Frank Sinatra?” I
asked.
‘Sure! Naturally!” she laughed.
‘Always!”
SAW MICKEY ROONEY '
We spoke of her visit to the Er
nest Hemingways .in Cuba.
‘Poor Papa,” she said. ‘He writes
standing up. He showed me hik
work room, which he calls his ‘deep
freeze.” I wonder now if it’s pos
sible that he writes standing up
since he crushed his tummy In
that accident.”
‘I hear you saw Mickey Rooney?”
‘Poor Baby." she nodded, ‘One of
those girls chomped onto him sot
a lot of money. He says he’s very
happy now.”
‘One of those girls he married
was very pretty," I said.
“He always marries pretty* girls,”
she reminded me.
‘The photographers now say you
won’t pose for cheesecake.”
“I never did and I never will!
..What do they want me to do—
a striptease at the airport?”
STILL WEARS HIS RING
The subject came back to Frank.
Her voice drifted off. She was
wearing, I noticed, Frank’s wedding
ring, also a large frosty smile of
independence.
‘Frank,” I said, ‘was just great
at his Riviera opening. Had a
couple of little comedy touches..
I decided not to mention that
when he sings, ‘I Get A Kick Out
Os You,” he lets loose with a kick
which makes some people think
he means he thinks Ava’s kick
ing him.
‘That makes me feel awfully
good. A lot of people will have to
eat their words,” said Ava.
"So all right. I think YOU should
have been there,’- I announced.
‘WHY?” I froze my fingers try
ing to write down her inflection.
•W-w-well, you’re his w-wi-w-w
--ife. He needs you l’m afraid I’m
a lousy Dorothy Dix.” ij.Mi
GETTING NO PLACE
“Let me tell you, Honey, you’re
getting no place,” Ava smiled, but
I felt she was as uncomfortable as
I was about this.
She said she probably won’t go
to California now, may quickly
return to Europe (she’s there now),
couldn’t say whether she is seeing
attorneys, and implied that Ameri
can Tel & Tel stock won’t go up
if it depends on her to phone Frank
at HIS hotel.
Was she angry, I asked, ’cause
he didn’t meet her at the airport
when she returned from Europe?”
He’d been in Atlantic City.
’He couldn’t have made it, could
he?” I asked.
‘I think so!” she said. Well, we
were getting some place, anyway.
GETS PHILOSOPHICAL
“Can I be an intermediary?" I
asked. “I know a Jot about patch
ing up quarrels with wives. First,
the husband says it was all his
fault and after that everything’s
easy.”
"Nobody can help us but our
selves,” she answered. “You must
talk, you must understand each
other. Listen to me. Lady psychia
trist!” • ’
“I still think you should have
been out there;” I said.
"I don’t have to defend myself,”
she’ saifl, “as long as Tm Sure in
my heart that I was right.”
We weren’t getting anywhere.
"JUST A GYPSY”
Here for the explbitation of her
new picture, "The Barefoot Con
tessa,’’ Ava said she may do some
' thing unusual next time—make a
picture in the U. S. She may go
to India on the next ofte, however!
She’s been away so much, she’s per
haps the only woman in America
who hasn’t an opinion about Mar
ilyn Monroe.
“I must see her in a picture,”
Ava said. *
“I understand the reason for
your failure to divorce Frank yet
is a difference ’about certain ex
penses,” T said.
"Love you, Darling, but I don’t
want to talk about it,” she replied.
“WHat ’’ do ybu consider your
home now?”
“I told my place in Hollywood
so «X don’t have a home any-more.
Barefoot
(Continued from Page One)
Just a year ago, he was placed on
trial for his life and acquitted on
a charge of raping the girl. His
lawyers are taking the case to the
Supreme Court on the grounds of
“former jeapordy.”
The only witnesses against the
youngster at the liquor trial in
Benson were Woodall and Police
Chief Johnny Medlin.
OFFICERS TESTIFY
The officers testified that they
arrested Barefoot as he tried to
make a getaway after they saw
him unloading whiskey on the
streets of Benson.
Woodall said Barefoot, in at
tempting the get-away, tried to
run over him with his automobile.
Another youth, Leroy Joyner, 27,
of Benson, was arrested with Bare
foot but has not yet been tried.
The officers also confiscated
Barefoot’s 1954 Ford, but said f t
“mysteriously disappeared” from in
front of the Benson police station
about the same time Barefoot left
police headquarters after pasting
bond. The officer said he was sure
the person wno had the other key
to the vehicle took it and it has
not been seen since.
The officers said they found
Barefoot and Joyner parked beside
the street on the edge on Benson
with the trunk of the car open busy
unloading whiskey. Barefoot’s pret
ty young girl friend, Jackie Ann
Hudson of Benson, was inside the
car.
The officers said Barefoot had
two half-gallon jars in his hands
when they spotted them and
quickly smashed them against the
cement and jumped in the car and
tried to get away.
Woodall testified that he reach
ed through the window and grab
bed the key out of the ignition to
prevent Barefoot from escaping.
In the meantime, he said, Bare
foot tried to run over him but
couldn’t get the car in motion fast
enough to do so. A case of whiskey
was found nearby.
BAREFOOT TESTIFIES
Barefoot took the witness stand
and told a conflicting story. In
with the law, this was the first
time he had ever taken the witness
stand in his own behalf.
Denying any and all connection
with whiskey. Barefoot swore that
he had parked beside the city street
to answer a call of nature when the
officers drove up.
The youth said the officers de
manded to search him and his car
and he asked them, “Where’s your
search warrant.” v
He denied that he was engaged in
he had any whiskey on the car and
said the officers went down into a
wooded area nearby and found the
ca*e of whiskey. The whiskey was
nos; introduced as evidence at the
trial.
Barefoot said he had no idea who
the liquor belonged to and infer
red that the officers were just try
ing to pick on him.
Miss Hudson, his girl friend, fol
lowed him to the witness stand and
corroborated most of his story.
Doffermyre argued the case for
the defense, and Solicitor D A
Parker argued for the State.
DAD LOSES TRUCK
Federal Judge Don Gilliam, at a
confiscation hearing in U. S Di
stftct Court at Raleigh, ordered a
1954 Ford pickup truck owned by
Therlo Barefoot, father of Sher
wood Barefoot, confiscated and sold
by the government.
The hearing was the outgrowth
of Barefoot’s conviction on in Fed
eral Court following his arrest in
a raid last August.
Through his attorney, D. K. Ste
wart of Dunn, Barefoot contended
that his new truck was not used
for liquor purposes.
Federal ATU Agent C. S. Coats
testified that he and other officers
watched Barefoot load whiskey
making apparatus on the truck and
that they later found the identical
/equipment in use at the whiskey
still which they* found and destroy
ed.
RELATIVE AGAINST HIM
Barefoot’s brother-in-law, Rud
olph Barefoot, testified against him
for the government'. He said fie was
wjto the officers at the time and
saw Tfierlo loading up the still
eqiiipmeht.
Stewart argued tfiat the truck
was riot seized by the government
until several weeks after the raid
and that, if it had‘been used, it
should have been seized at the
•tltae. He pointed out that so much .
time had elapsed since the time
of the raid and seizure of the truck
that the officer and Barefoot could
have been mistaken.
Jhdge 4 Gilliam ruled against
Barefoot, however, held that evid
ence was ' sufficient tb confiscate
the truck and ordered the district
affiomey to sell lt at auction. The
JUst Nevada, till I get my divorce
....and after that I’m just a
Gypsy.”
Queen of the Gypsies, If you
ask me. '
MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1955
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MILLER JOINTS WEST’S STAFF—R. A. West, right, owner of R. A.
West’s Esso Station across from Piggiy Wiggly, is shown here wel
coming R. C. Miller, left formerly of Benson as a new member to his
staff. Miller is well known throughout the area. His wife is the for
mer eraldlne Wooten. West’s Esso has just completed a very success
ful drive for the March of Dimes. During the annual campaign, ft
donated a share of all its gasoline proceeds to the fund.
Sheriff Sends
(Continued From Page One)
ernor Williams will order the pair’s
extradtion back to Harnett to be
placed on trial for their lives.
Solicitor Jack Hooks has an
nounced that he will demand the
death penalty for both of them.
WANTED DIVORCE
Detroit police, who arrested the
pair on clues and information pro
vided by Sheriff Moore, said Mrs.
Long told them Heslip shot her
husband during an argument about
a divorce.
Sheriff Moore today refuted the
claim of Heslip’s attorney that
identification proof was not suffi
cient.
Sheriff Moore said he had al
ready sent to Michigan a sworn af
fidavit from a Fayetteville tour
ist court operator identifying Mrs.
Long and Heslip from photographs
made of them by Detroit police
and returned to Harnett for identi
fication purposes.
AFFIDAVITS PRoVIDED :;3 '
The tourist court operator swore
in the affidavit that the pictures
were of the same two people who
had spent the night at his tourist
corn on the night before the slay
ing.
Harnett’s sheriff said today that
he was sending additional identi
fication and other evidence -to
Michigan authorities so therfe can
be no possible hitch in their ex
tradition back to this county.
Warrants charging both the man
and woman with premeditated,
first degree murder have already
truck was valued at about $1,500.
Barefoot has been convicted se
veral times on liquor charges.
Hatcher & Skinner Funeral Home
Phone 2447 ESTABLISHED IN 1912 Dunn, N C.
AMBULANCE SERVICE
Charles Skinner p au i g Drew
I FEED GRINDING
We have just installed one of the largest Hammer Mills In the
State. It is 180 h. p. and will grind to fast as you ton onload.
An you have to do is dump your feed In a pit and the hatdmer
mill does the rest You can have molasses mixed with your' fw»d
We chn also supply all kinds of supplement and minerah to —**
fcny kind of feed you want. Yes, we grind ear corn, shuck and
aU, com cobs, and all kinds of grain. You can feed ydur cows
cheap with ground ear corn or cobs or hay mixed with molasses.
Just think quick grinding, mixing and molasses all at the same
place. ’ ‘ 1
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been sent to the Governor’s office
in Lansing.
Harnett authorities today brand
ed the latest legal maneuver as
just another effort to atempt to
delay triaj of the couple.
Willie Parker
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ston County on Wedneslay.
Assisting Coats with the raids
were C. C. Churchill of Fayette
ville and Cumberland County ABC
Officers Perry Dees and Bobby
Caldwell.
Coats said the officers located
the 250-gallon submarine still, 400
gallons of mash and 25 gallons of
j bootleg whiskey in Banner Town
ship, between Dunn and Benson.
OTHER STILLS FOUND
The officers uncovered another
still in operation, but the opera
tors were warned of the approach
of the raiders by, the firing of
shots. The 400-gal Jon submarine
still, 1,500 gallons of mash and 36
gallons of whiskey were found in a
pit four-foot deep x 10 x 25 feet,
one half mile south of (Beulah
Church in the same township. The
pit was covered with chicken wire
camouflagel with leaves and straw.
In the same series of raids, a 300
gallon submarine still and 12 bar
rels of beer found in the edge of
Meadow Township. It was not In
operation. d
All three of the stills were
stroyed.
WEEK-END IN ERWIN
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Creech of .
Tarboro spent the week-end in Er
win with. Mrs. Creech’s mother,
Mrs. Paul G. Parker. ""