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BULLETINS
TAIPEI, Formosa (IP> Nationalist warplanes bombed
Chinese Communist invasion concentrations in the Tai
shan Islands incessantly today.
WASHINGTON (IP) The Democratic-controlled Con
gress signaled the start of an income tax-cutting drive to
day in the face of administation opposition and angry Re
publican cries of “politics.”
BANGKOK, Thailand (U*) 1— Representatives of the eight
SEATO nations convergered on Bangkok today for a col
lective security meeting to halt Communist aggression in
Southeast Asia.
LONDON (IP/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief American
delegate to the United Nations, arrived here today to align
Anglo-American disarmament policy against a new Rus
sian propaganda drive.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (IP)—A 15 man team battled sub
zera weather today in the grim task of removing the bodies
of 16 persons from the wreckage of an airliner which
plowed into a rocky crag 15 miles east of here Saturday.
LONDON IIP) Moscow radio said today that Soviet
scientists plan to harvest several crops a year from farms
heated by atomic energy.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (IP) Vice President Richard M.
. Nixon recommends that the Eisenhower administration
junk the Foreign Opertions Administration, informed
sources said today. ,
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (IP) H. G. Stearns was arrested
for drunken driving Sunday when he stopped for a traf
fic light. A traffic cop on duty became suspicious when
Stearns brought his car to a stop for a green light.
PARIS (IP) Premier-designate Edgar Faure, 46, turned
today to the Socialists for support before making a for
mal decision on whether to try to form a cabinet and end
France’s 17-day-old government crisis.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (IP) Phil Walters of West
Palm Beach, Fla., claimed a new national sports car
speed record today after barrelling his sleek British Ja
guar over the measured mile at an average of 164.136
_ miles an hour.
| FT. BRAGG, N. C. (IF/ The Army called more witnes
ses here today to bolster its charges that M-Sgt. William
H. Olson collaborated with the Chinese Communists while
a prisoner in Korea. Witnesses already have told the
eight-officer court that Olson wrote anti-American, pro-
Communist articles for a prison camp newspaper and
made propaganda speeches for the Chinese.
SAN FRANCISCO (IP) Two sailors were killed, three
others were missing and presumed dead and four were
seriously injured when a series of explosions rocked the
submarine USS Pomodon at its berth in Hunters Point
naval shipyard, the Navy reported today.
LAo VEGAS (IP) The Atomic Energy Commission to
da> prepared a substitute nuclear device m case unsatis
factory weather forces another cancellation of the first
big shot of the 1955 A-bomb test series scheduled for
Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (IP) A “cobalt bomb - ’ might kill all
life on earth, Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson
said last night. Military authorities have said such a
bomb would be too deadly for anyone even to consider
making.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (IP/ Defense .attorneys today
sought to break the most “vital” testimony given in the
murder trial of former Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Ful
ler, accused slayer of Atty. Gen. nominee Albert L. Pat
terson. The explosive testimony of taxi driver James R.
Tayloer, of Columbus, Ga., set the stage for an all-out
contest today between Roderick Beddow, colorful defense
attorney, and chief prosecutor Cecil Deason.
WASHINGTON (IP) Sen. Spessard L. Holland (D-Fla.)
said today he hopes a Senate Agriculture subcommittee
can learn whv farm exports have dropped off so much
more than Industrial exports in recent years.
PITTSBURGH (IP) A high-speed freight train en route
from Columbus, Ohio, to New York derailed today in the
yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, sending 39 of the 69
cars hurtling across the right of way. No one was hurt.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (IP? Jonathan Daniels, editor of
the Raleigh News and Observer, and John B. Oakes, mem
ber of the New York Times editorial board, have accept
ed appointment to the 1955 committee for selection of
Nietnian fellows.
BOSTON (IF/ lnvestigators were probing the black
ened engine room of the Coast Guard cutter Eastwind
today, seeking the cause of a two-alarm fire that nearly
touched off the ship’s ammunition magazines.
WASHINGTON (IP- Senate Democratic leaders esti
mated today that about two-thirds of the Senate is rea
dy to vote for the politically touchy bill to raise congress
ional salaries. The Senate was scheduled to take up a
measure sometime this afternoon to increase congress
ional salaries's7,soo a year and to provide proportionate
increases for federal judges.
WASHINGTON (IP? Sen. Albert Gore said today that
atomic and hydrogen weapons soon may join poison gas
in the arsenal of horror weapons which nobody dares
to use.
ROME (IP) ltalian search planes today reported they
have found and identified the missing Belgian Sabena
airliner which crashed eight days ago with 29 persons,
including four 'Americans, aboard.
Wife Slayer
y (Ontinned From Pace One)
man had been drinking and had
threatened to- kill his wife. She
said she did not take the threat
aariouftly since he had made simi
lar threats off and on for the past
10 years when he was drinking.
DAUGHTER TESTIFIES
Madman’s youngest daughter,
six-year-old Nellie Rose Blackman,
sat in her grandmother’s lap as
she tald of witnessing the slaying.
The child wept on the stand and
replied “yes" to almost every ques
tion asked her by lawyers on both
sides.
When District Solicitor Hooks
asked the child to tell what she
| saw, the little girl said, “Daddy
shot Mommy.”
Defense Attorney Levinson asked
I the little girl if her father wash t
Little Things
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days today are Billy Roberson,
Kack Butt, Mrs. J. H. Raynor, Me
'redith Cromartie, Betsy Johnson
and John Williams. Four who ce
lebrated birthdays Friday (they
were phoned in too late for pub
lication Friday) were: Mrs. Flor
ence McLamb of Dunn, who was
90 years young; Mrs. T. E. Spence
and Margie Lockamy. Mrs. Mc-
Lamb, a wonderful young .voman,
is the mother of Clarence, Bill
and Mince McLamb.
LITTLE NOTES: Manager Ed Car
roll of the Dunn Chamber of Com
merce is' an honorary Colonel in
the Mt. Olive National Guard unit
....They honored him with that
rank for his efforts in securing
the unit for that t0wn,...1n case
you have forgotten, tomorrow is a
bank holiday.... It’s George Wash
ington’s birthday... Janet Signor
says she’d about as soon not have
a holiday because she’ll have to
work harder at home than she
would at the bank Mrs. Beu
lah Graham reports the Mexicaij
Boys’ Choir program at Raleigh
last week was wonderful Thad
Pope says he likes New York, had
rather spend his vacations there
than anywhere else Nothing is
deader than talk about Dunn’s
forthcoming city election in fact,
there isn’t any talk Nobody
even mentions it... .Everybody just
takes for granted that Mayor Ralph
E. Hanna can have at least one
or two more terms merely by toss
ing his hat into the ring..,.One
of His Honor's old opponents sur
prised a friend the other day by
declaring: “I’m going to be for
Ralph this year no matter who
might run against him.” The
friend almost fell off the stool and
spilled his Coke “When did you
get that way?” he ..asked. .., “It’s
like this,” explained the mayor’s
good friend but old political op
ponent; “As the old saying goes,
when you can’t beat the other
crowd you might as well join ’em,
so I’ve joined.”... .In maiing in
her subscription to The Daily Re
cord, Mrs. Harold Godwin of Wade
Route 1 writes us: “I am ordering
your fine paper for a year. I read
my mother-in-law’s paper occas
ionally and like it better than/ffyy
paper I read.” Bless her heart!
We always knew that adver
tising in The Record gets results,
but, we think, a new record has
just been set....A fellow phones
us Saturday to say that he receiv
ed a total of 130 replies that’s
right 130 replies to a classified
ad he ran just twice in The Re
cord We’ll be happy to give you
the advertiser’s name on request,
if you want to verify it.
THINGAMAJIGS: Howard , Lee
has been fussing with us for about.
two months now He wrote in
this column that, Mrs. T. H. Sap
som is one of the best cooks in
town,” which she i 5.... Howard
misread the statement and thought
it said she was “the best cook in
town.”... ."It ain’t s<f, it ain't so,’’
sputtered Howard “You know
better’n that. You ought not to put
stuff like that in the paper.”
We though, for a minute he want
ed to start a fist fight because he
was in dead earnest. .... “Well
who is the best?” we asked ....
“My wife Mrs. Juanita West
brook Lee is the best cook in
town and there ain’t no question
about it, and there ain’t no doubt,
about it,” Howard almost shout
ed "And you tell ’em I said
so, too.” To prove it, Howard
who is skinny everywhere e.se
pulled up his vest and patted a
stomach that is beginning- to re
semble a certain-type of old
- stove...,We aren’t go
ing to be foolish enough to get
into any argument as to who’s the
best cook in town but we recall
eating about a dozen of Juanita's
hot biscuits a year or so ago and
they were so good we’ve never
forgotten them Jimmy Suggs is
getting ready for the grand open
ing of The Suggs Company, Dunn’s
newest furniture store It’s lo
cated across the street from the
Post Office 'beside Cad’s Jim
my worked for a big furniture
store in Baltimore... .He’ll have
Hotpoint and many more famous
lines of furniture Most merch
ants agree that Bargain Days were
very successful Larry Baird
says more people visited Pure
Food Store Saturday morning than
during any half day since he op
ened eight years ago After hear
ing Major George Pope McKay’s
address 'on the situation in the
Far East Friday night at the Ro
tary meeting, Roy Tew turned ar
ound to Dennis Strickland and
said, “Well we might as well get
ready to reenlist.” Major McKay
delivered a mighty fine address,
and gave some startling, interest
ing and enlightening facts about
conditions over there... .Local res
taurants were filled Saturday night
after the tourney closed at Camp
bell And fans of the winning
Camels were plenty happy.
handing her motner the gun when
the weapon fired and she replied,
“Yes.”
A Negro neighbor, Chesloe Dove,
testified that he heard the gun
fire. He said Blackman ran away
from the Irnuse shouting for help
and saying *he had shot his wife
accidentally.
Junius Barbour, Mr. and Mrs.
Ham Johnson, Jimmy West, Joe
Allen and J. M. Roberts all testified
that Blackman was a man of good
character except for drinking.
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
Jealous Lover
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widowed secretary of Chattanooga
and Atlanta, underwent surgery
last night and doctors gave her a
good chance to recover. A slug from
Treadaway’s .22 caliber automatic
pistol had passed from right to left
through her abdomen and she suf
fered a severe cut on the top of
her head from a blow.
Mrs. Cone was employed as a
secretary for the Branchard-Ham
ilton Corp., a woodworks plant In
Chattanooga.
Mrs. Warren’s 19-year old daugh
ter, Marilyn, who lived at another
address, told detectives that Tread
away was insanely jealous of her
mother and had previously threat
ened her. Detective W. D. Brown
ing quoted the girl as saying Tread
away called Mrs. Warren yesterday
morning to tell her he was “coming
out to the house” and warned her
“those other people better not be
there.”
Police Capt. E. O. Mullen said
records showed Treadaway was
arrested at Mrs. Warren’s home
last Nov. 27 on a charge of assault
ing an Army officer who was re
ported visiting at the time. Tread
away was fined $lO5 and released.
Mrs. Cone, partly incoherent,
said she was in bed when Treada
way burst into the room with the
pistol in his hand.
“I was standing up and he shot
me. He was determined I wasn’t
going to get away. I started run
ning after he shot me and then
he hit me on the head with the
pistol,” she "said.
She said she must have been
unconscious for more than an hour
before she came to gnd rushed
next door to the home of J. M
Werbin, a retired rabbi, who called
police. 1
Grady Hospital doctors who were
among the first to arrive said the
bodies of Treadaway, Booth and
Mrs. Warren were in one bed-room
with twin beds. Unfired .22 bullets
and empty shells littered the floor
said the doctors.
The body of Lane was found
near the door, just inside the ad
joining bedroom. Doctors said the
body was in a crouched position,
“as if praying,” and a bullet hole
was in the back of his head. He was
fully clothed except for his shoes.
The body of Mrs. Warren, clad
in a black negligee, was half off
and half on the twin bed nearest
the bedroom door. Booth, fully
clothed and wearing a topcoat, died
in a pool of blood at the foot of
the bed from a bullet wound in the
face.
Treadaway, the pistol near his
hand, was sprawled dying nearby,
an apparent self-inflicted bullet
wound through the mouth. The
construction man, who was divor
ced, died about 20 minutes after he
reached the hospital. •
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Mis. Warrents 19-year old daugh
ter, Marilyn, told police that Tred
away, 46, had been dating her
mother and resented any atten
tions paid to her by other men.
The motive behind the Hoover,
Pa„ slaughter appeared to be sex
perversion, Fayette County offi
cials said. ,
The house of death was discov
ered after Anthony Rivak, 34, stag
gered into a tavern and said Miller
shot him when he refused to go
on a “sex date.”
The bodies of Miller’s wife,
Helen, 41, and his" daughter, 17,
were found in the -basement -buried
in a coal sack. Police said the wife
was killed with a hatchet Wednes
day or early Thursday and the
daughter 12 hours later.
Miller’s body, his wrists slashed
and a bullet wound in hi chest,
was found on a first floor bed.
An unclothed young, man, his head
battered in by hatchet -blows, lay
nert to him. Another nunclothed
young man, ki'Jed by the same
weapon, was on an upstairs bed.
Allen Facing
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to find probable cause against him
and he was released.
ATU Agent Coats said the 125-
gallon whiskey still was being mo
ved when he captured the outfit
and the two men.
The federal officer also reported
that he found a 50-gallon coppeF
still and three barres of mash in
another raid in MeadoW Town *
ship, near Dunn, but this still was
not in operation and no arrests
were made.
42 Killed
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Ten persons, including live chil
dren, spent a night in a snow-ma
rooned car near Ogalalla, Neb., and
rescue crews reached 10 motorists
who sought shelter in an isolated
farm home near Cheyenne, Wyo.
John Edmondson, 34, Cement,
Okla., who struck out from a stall
ed car to seek help for three com
panions, was found in a ditch
where he had spent more than
ise\{en hours during) three-above
weather. His shoes were gone and
his hands and feet were complete
ly frozen. Edmondson was in criti
cal condition today in a Sidney,
Neb., hospital.
BABY IS BORN
At Scottsbluff, Neb., a snow plow
saved the day as It cut out through
drifts to get Mrs. Laverne - Keller
to a hospital. She gave birth to a
baby girl.
DON'T MISS THE AMAZING STORY OF
SERGE
RUBINSTEIN
THE MAN WHO WANTED
TO BUY THE WHOLE WORLD
•' '; T , : ■
He Loved Money
And Beautiful Girls
—Multi-Millionaire
—Draft-Dodger
—lnternational Financier
I : • ; - ; vL ■
—Case Society Playboy
—He Loved Beautiful Girls
—•Suave And Charming
BP*
—Shrewd, Calculating, Success
—Man With An Entree Into The
The White House
He Died At The Hands
* «i* I- w - *. - • ;*• •*; ■ '■ i- !
Os An Underworld Strangler
The handsome 46-year-old international financial wizard was J
found bound, gagged and murdered In his Swanky Fifth Avenue apart'
ment on /an. 27. His muirder spotlighted the fabulous life he led.
This Russian immigrant was kicked out of France, but blamed
it on a love affair, He caitie to America,, made millions, was entertained
at the White House the night before his marriage, dodged the draft
and landed-in prison. ”V., . ,
Prison life humiliated him, but he bounced back. He loved luxury,
lived in it. He was an authority on stocks and bonds the world over,
v The Wall Street Joumal was his Bible. •
* He gathered pretty girls around him like neckties, kept them in
luxury until he tired of them then.got another set.
But he was scornfed and despised, wasn’t welcome at the Stork
Club, so he threatened to buy its rival?! Club. He made enemies by
• Hie droves, ran roughshod ov£r thehi and died violently.
Muir, a/girl who knew him personalty, tells the story of
his life,, his loves, hfa weath, his drivings ambitions in this sensatonal
series or articles. '..V'
Don-rtfe A Single Chanter 01 This Exciting
Incredible Story Beginning Tuesday In
The Doily Record
MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1955