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* WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler today. Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight, followed by rain Saturday. VOLUME 5 MURDER SUSPECT ELUDES 100 COPS PLANNING DUNN APPEARANCE Officers of the A Cappella Choir of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, planning the itener ary of their annual spring lour which this year will take them to engagements In five states. The forty-five voice Choir, will appear in Dunn at the Jh&M JjJtils JJwuja By HOOVfeR ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS .Buck Currin. widely-known Dunn tobacconist, says he isn’t worried Jbout the Governor’s proposed new ax on tobacco because he’s sure 4t will be defeated by the legisla ure .. Incidentally, reports that I Buck won’t operate the Planters A Warehouses in Dunn this year are untrue, just so much talk As a matter of fact, “Mr. Tobacco” has just signed a four-year lease on the local warehouses.. Two Dunn firms have unique trade-in event® during Bargain Days ... At’ Mattox Department Store, you can «trade in your old shoes and at The Men’s Store, your old tie is worth a half buck on a new one .. Major Geo rge Pope McKay, home from the Far East, will tell Dunn Rotarians about the situation over there to night .. Gilbert Porter is serving something new and different at Restaurant these days .. It’s Passion Fruit Jello ...No kid ding—that’s really the name of it . He gave us a two-pound box to take home the other night Manager Norman Suttles -of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce was here Wednesday night having a steak with Hubert and Emma Peay—didn’t say who was paying the bi 11... According to the ex perts, lace bathing suits will be the vogue for girls this sunjmer Dr Ran&fph Dofljermyre blossomed out in one of those new-tvpe green shirts the other day.. Everybody seems happy over Bargain Days ... BIRTHDAYS: Today is the (Continued on Page two) • ORPHANS WHO FELL IN LOVE Married Couple Finds Out They Were B rother / Sister HEREFORD, England (IB—Two young orphans, who i fell in love at first sight and were married, learned after the birth of their second son that they were brother and sister, the tearful mother said today. tgl The story of the tragedy was ”told ' by 24-year-old Marjorie Hughes, who separated five t. months ago from her husband brother Geoffrey Hughes, 23, a timber cutter, after an anonymous tipster tokl her of her true iden- Uty. f They have not seen each other since then but Geoffrey said, “I I hope to see her today to dear up this whole terrible mess.” Tbs mtxup began in 1934 when their mother died and the dliw TELEPHONES 3117-3118 First Baptist Church Sunday night at 7:30. Left to right are Betty Ruth Shelby, Secretary; Glen Privette, President; Herbert Cos, Business Mana ger; Warren Wierman, Director of Public Rela tions; and Shirley Kennedy, Reporter. Miss Mary Lou Frink of Dunn is a member of the choir. Negro Is Held In Highway Fatality Walter Tucker, Negro sawmill worker, was ordered held for the grand jury Thursday night in the death of Davifl Ross Stewlart, 25, of Broadway, Route 1, who was killed •m a-highway gwnWiwriDWmiiamny iflght about 9:45 o'clock} The Inquest was conducted by Assistant Harnett Coroner Ed Black Jr. of Dunn in the county court house. Bond for Tucker was placed at $1,500. Stewart was killed when the 1955 Ford he was driving went out of control and overturned 1.3 miles from Lillington on the Johnson ville road. The car swerved in a large semicircle and traveled 43 feet after)'the point of the im pact. The defendant and four other witnesses were heard at the in quest conducted by Mr. Black. TELLS OF CONVERSATION Fletcher Holder testified that Tucker told him after the accident and before the inquest that Stew art had side-swiped his automobile, while it : was parked at Clark’s Store and that he gave chase and ran Stewart off the highway and kept going. Clarence Graham, another wit ness, testified that he was at Clark’s Store when Tucker’s car was side swiped and that Tucker gSve chase. Another witness, Clyde Ferrell, testified that he saw two cars in front of him apparently racing each other. Ferrell said he was travel ing 65 miles an hour and that the other cars passed him easily. Tucker took the witness stand and denied the conversation rela ted by Holder. He admitted that his car was sideswiped and that he gave chase, but denied he ever saw Stewart’s automobile and knew nothing about the accident or his death. OFFICER TESTIFIES The other witness was State (Continued on Page Wo) sisters and three brothers were sent to separate county homes. Marjorie, barely 3-year-old at the time, was adopted by a family named Stanham and was known from then on as Marjorie Stan ham. MET AT DANCE Geoffrey remained in touch with his other brothers and sisters but did not meet Marjorie again until 1948 at a dance when she was a WAAF—a members Os the Wom en’s Auxiliary Air Forces. She was The Daily Record Tallulah Visited By Mamie, Solons WASHINGTON (IP) Tallulah Bankhead, noted for her sultry ro mantic conquests on stage, kissed House Speaker Sam Rayburn and former Speaker Joe Martin Thurs day night but backstage and only on the cheek. “I can’t compromise them,” Tal lulah explained, ‘they’re both bachelors.” Tallulah invited the two political leaders backstage after they had watched a performance of her play “Dear Charles,” a rowdy drawing room comedy which both visibly enjoyed. Tallulah greeted the “divine people” in her dressing room with “dahling," shouted above the yip ping of her maltese terrier. Both Rayburn and Martin knew Tallulah’s father, the late William B. Bankhead, speaker for four years before Rayburn took over iri ? 1940. The huddle soon became prac tically a congressional caucus' as Rep, Leo Allen (R-IDU.) who came with Martin, Rep. Frank W. Boy kin (D-Ala.) who came with Ray burn, and Rep. Carl Elliott <D- Ala.) filed into the crowded dress ing room. Mrs. Elsenhower visited Tallulah backstage earlier in the week. engaged to another man but fell in love with Geoffrey and broke the engagement. T kept in touch with two of my sisters but I did not hear of Mar jorie until I was 19,” young Hughes said. “I remember the night very well. I went to a dance at Hereford and met a very pretty WAAF called Marjorie Stanham. “I got very much interested In the girl ... we fell very much in love: we used to talk much of the past, but Marjorie could not tell much of her family because she said she had no near rela tives.’* They were married Sept. 13, 1961 (Continued On Page Fear) DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 18, 1955 Hodges Differs With Proposal On Segregation RALEIGH (IP)—Gov. Luth er H. Hodges differed sharp ly today with the author of a proposal that would per mit North Carolina to ab olish its public school sys tem and substitute state supported private education to presence racial segrega tion. Hodges called the proposal in troduced in the Legislature yester day “somewhat extreme and un timely.” It came “out of tile blue on the part of one individual,” Rep, Sam O. Worthington of Pitt County, Hodges said. The governor said he did not believe Worthington had discussed the bill with and legisla tive committee chairman or other leaders, indicated he had no ad vance knowledge of the measure himself. ■ Worthington told newsmen that he had advised the late Gov. Wil liam B. Umstead that some state action was needed last year after the Supreme Court decision on rac ial segregation, and urged Umstead to call a special session of the Gen eral Assembly. Umstead refused. Hodges already has endorsed re commendations on the school seg regation issue made by the special segregation committee which Um stead appointed. Among these pro posals, Already before the legisla tors, isjone to enable a op tion” method of retaining'segre gated classrooms or integrated of races. Hodges told his news conference today he feels that the earlier pro posals are all that is needed. “I believe what they had before them would take care of the situa tion, the governor said. A mea sure introduced earlier would transfer to city and county school boards complete authority for the assignment of: school children-. The governs said he felt Worth ington’s bill ’JyesKjday: to spread the sales tax a&oss c more items and lower the rare to two per cent would “hurt more people” than the proposed tobacco tax. Five Couples Seek Divorce Five divorce suits have been filed in Harnett Superior Court. In two of the oases, the custody of children is at stake. Barbara Guthrie is seeking a di vorce from Edgar M. Guthrie on grounds of two years separation. Archie Edward Mason is suing Viola Norris Mason for divorce on grounds of two years separation. Joan Allen Strickland is seeking (Continued on Page Two) Teenager Butchers 9-Year-Old Girl PONTIAC, Mich. (IB—Oakland county authorities to day sought jurisdiction over a teenager who admitted stabbing and stoning a 9-year-old girl to death last night because he was afraid she would reveal his sexual advan ces toward her. County Prosecutor Fred Zeim asked probate court authorities to waive jurisdiction over the youth, Floyd Diamond, 16. He was held in the county juv enile home on a tentative charge of investigation of murder after he confessed stabbing and crushing the skull of little Kathleen Mc- Laughlin, also of Farmington. * R««nl Roundup + ATTEND LUNCHEON Mrs. M. A. Peacock, and Mrs. J. C. War ren representing the local Red Crass organisation, attended the North Carolina and South Caro lina area luncheon of the organi sation held at the Sir Walter Ho tel in Raleigh on Thursday. BARGAINS BY THE ARMFUL Dunn today of Dunn. Visitors said they were delighted with was filled with shoppers and they were grabbing the big values found here. Bargain Days wilt con up bargains by the armful. Pictured left to right tinue through Saturday night, with free- parking are: Mrs. Tim Spell of Dunn, Route 5, Mis. J. R. all over town. (Daily Record Photos by t. M. Martin of Dunn, .Route a awdMfe. Coimjh CoHCtd Stewart.) 4 Bargain Days Crowds Larger; Shoppers Happy Over Bargains Dunn’s Bargain Days crowds grew larger today as shoppers from far and near flocked here to take advant age of extra-special savings offered by local stores. The city-wide Greater Bargain Days opened Thursday and will continue through Saturday night. Dunn merchants are going all out to make shopping worthwhile for visitors and the shoppers seem ed to appreciate it. Chairman Charlie Hildreth of the Retail Merchants Committee said this morning that indications point to a record volume of sales for the semi-annual event. Some stores reported that sales during the first day and a half ex ceeded total sales for all three days of the last bargain event. The merchants emphasized to day that new bargains are being brought out each day for late-arri (Contlnued (#n Page Four) The battered body of the girl was found in a pond near her home by her father. Her skull had been fractured and there were “10 or 12” knife wounds in the body, police said. Diamond said he stabbed Kath leen because she attempted to run from him after he had partially disrobed her in a wooded area <Contit»| - * On P»*' v«un MUSICAL VARIETIES—Mrs Reta Whitten ton has announced who will appear on her radio program, “Musical Varieties,” next week. On Monday, Mrs. Whitten ton will pre sent an organ program; Tuesday, Mrs. B. L. Frink will render piano (Continue* On Pago Fear) FBI Agent Sued By Harnett Man Lankin Nuchols Crissman, 26-year-old man charged with draft-dodging has filed a $25,000 pnitive suit in Har nett County Superior court against two FBI men he claims seized him without a warrant for the purpose of “intimida ting and putting . . . (him) in fear.” Mrs . Northam To Receive $8,500 Year Following a hearing held before Superior Court Judge Chester Mo£-. ris the sum of $8,500 was set sis a proper yearly allowance for Mrs. Rena Northam. widow of the late J. T. Northam of Lillington, pend ing final settlement of the estate. An exception to the previous $9.- 005 allowed was filed by John Mc- Leod, one of the heirs to the large estate which ncludes, among other (Continued On Page Two) HAS HEART ATTACKS, BROKEN ARM Man Accused Os Breaking I In Hqi,,g, Shooting Woman Lewis A. V%on, 33-year-old Harnett man, is in the i Veterans Hospital with his arm broken in two places, suffering from five heart attacks and awaiting trial for first degree burglary. He is also charged with seriously wounding an aged resident * of Broadway, Route X who may lose her foot as the result of a shotgun blast fired through it. Harnett Rural Policeman Walker O’Quinn, who investigated, said Wilson allegedly went to the ho- Dunn's C/iy yy Wide I UREATER DARGAIN L/AYs| FIVE CENTS PER COPY Crissman alleges that Robert B. Hurley and Charles E. Chapman both stationed in Fayetteville, cams> to his home at Broadway, Route the afternoon of November 30 anti forced him into theifl car at pistol point, then drove, him some 40 miles away, out: of'•Harnett County. The suit" further alleges the seiz ure Was without “warrant or other process” and was “highhanded and malicious. Crissman charges the two men came into his front yard about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and be fore he could speak to his wife or children was forced into the car and driven off. He identified Hurley. Fayetteville FBI agent, as the one who drew the pistil and “pointed it at his chest.” He said Chapman grabbed him by (Continued on Page Two) me of W. T. Ferguson, Jr. Tuesday night with his shotgun, swearing violently and threatening to kill i the Fergusons. He was drunk at , the time. Mr. and Mrs. Ptergueon said they fled from home and went acroes the road to the bean* of hie par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Fergu- NO. 53 , Ex-Con Makes j Escape After Gun Baffle NEW YORK (IP)—A man I believed to be the assassin in a gangland ride killing eluded arrest twice today and then apparently slipped through an elaborate block ade of police armed with machine guns, shotguns, rifles, revolvers and tear gas. The suspect was identified'*s Augusto Robles, 41. Police san evidence indicated he was the maij who shot and killed Joseph Arono- , witz, 40, on Tuesday, only a day before be was scheduled to go into*, a Baltimore courtroom' and “tell P all" about a bungled stickup. An ex-convict with a record stretching back to 1927, Robles vf&»- described by an acquaintance as “hot-tempered” and recently had* .bragged that "police will never - take me alive." Three detectives, Joseph Keenan, George Thomaszewski, and Peter Buckley, first caught up with Rob-; les about 4 a.m. in the Harlem tenement apartment of a woman identified as his girl friend, Car- - men Gusman. GETS POLICE GUNS As the woman cautiously open ed the door, the detectives kicked it open and rushed in. But Robles slipped behind Keenan, put a gun' m his back and told the detectives tv “Make one move and Til kill you!" They , obeyed Robles’ command to drop J-their guns and he scooped thenAup and Qed, j th*h an hour later, four 1 olfffifC detectives again made con tact “With the slippery Robles, this time r j4ear his niece’s apartment iQ a housing project - and Dennis McCann knocked on Out door of the apartment on the sixth floor of the 14-story building. De tectives Frank Maleba and Frank" Nolan stood nearby before a stair- \ way exit. Suddenly, the exit door opened and Robles appeared holla ing a revolver. The detectives threw themselvei"! to the floor and opened fire. RoMesi • returned two shots and then fled, apparently with a confederate, the officers said. ESCAPE IN DARK In response to the detectives' call (Conthmed on Page Two! 5, Benson Group . To Hear Hulme Stephen A. Hulme, of Raleigh Public Relations Director in North Carolina for National Old Line In “Sijrance Company of Little Rock, Arkansas, will be the guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Ben son Chamber of Commerce Friday night, February 25. x Mr. Hulme is a former Chants'- ber of Commerce executive and for 22 years was engaged in newspaper and radio publicity and promotion work. During World War II he ser ved as an official Army correaporfw' dent in the European Theatre and was editor of the Stars and Striped' edition published in Southern Ger many. “We feel very fortunate In having Mr. Hulme as your speaker,” stated Z. v. Stephenson, program corn mil tee chairman. "Although he Is r a newcomer to our state, he is \ widely known throughout the South for his public relations work within the Chamber of Commerce (Continued On Page Five) • / son, Sr. H They said Wilson followed them| and the two couples locked thW.Fj j door and were standing behind the - i } door bracing it to keep Wilecm. from breaking it down. j
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