Mother Confesses Butchering Two Sons
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GATHERED GIRLS LIKE NECKTIES—Serge Rubinstein always was
surrounded by beautiful girls—usually, young ones. Top photo shows
him Patrica Wray, left, and Jean Tell, right. He’s shown below with
Betty Reed, whom he left SIO,OOO in his will.
# SELFISH AND EGOTISTICAL
1 Serge Rubinstein
This is second in a series of articles on Serge Rubinstein, the fabu
lous international financier, mult-millionaire, draft-dodger and case
society plyaboy. Copyrighted 1955 by The New York Daily News.
By FLORABEL MUIR
Serge was living thaat summer of 1952 in a sumptu
ously furnished house in Beverly Hills that belongs to
Barney Glazer, one-time famous movie director and pro
ducer who has been more or less on the retired list lately.
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By HOOVER ADAMS
AN AUCTIONEER, CADILLACS
CAKE MIX, OTHER NOTES
Lloyd Stephenson of Benson,
I Route 1, widely-known tobacconist
1 and farmer, has accepted a position
as auctioneer for Dunn’s Big-4 To
bacco Warehouses and is now hard
«at work promoting the Dunn tobac
-1 co market ..Mr. Stephenson is
known far and wide in the tobacco
warehouse business .. He has
many friends in Dunn, including
%: Norwood Stephenson, cashier of
} The Commercial Bank .. They
graduated together at Cleveland
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Bryan To Present
Dunn Club History
A feature of the Friday nigJR
Rotary program, which is a pro
gram celebrating the fiftieth an
niversary of the Rotary movement
in the world, will be a reading of
the history of the Dunn Rotary
Club by J. Shepard Bryan, former
president of the local club and past
district governor of Rotary Inter
national.
The Dunn Rotary Club was start
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There Is a tennis court on the
grounds and a huge swimming
pool. The guests at the dinner par
ty were as oddly assorted as I’ve
ever encountered. Some of them I
never did dig. But one and all
seemed to be there with the idea
of promoting something for them
selves with Serge and he appeared
to know jt and basked in their
fawning attentions.
His mother, Mrs. Stella Rubin
stein, sat in the patio as if she
were the grand duchess looking ov
er the assembled peasants it pleas
ed her darling son to invite to his
home. If they amused him she
could tolerate them. I found her
the most interesting person there.
Most everybody, including Serge,
drank too much and the party
wound up wth everybody dancing
to wild gypsy music. Serge did that
Russian dance with the bended
knees over and over again until he
i wore me down just looking at him.
Strange to say, I found Mickey
Cohen and Serge Rubinstein had
: a good deal in common. They were
■ both inordinately selfish and ego
■ tistical. Both suffered from a
l gnawing inferiority complex. Both
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ed in a meeting here on July 21,
1924, by a group of eighteen com
munity minded citizens of Dunn,
This first meeting was followed by
other meetings in contemplation of
the organization of a Rotary Club
in Dunn; and on August 7, 1924,
the Dunn Rotary Club was offldkslr
ly and formally organised.
The reading of the history will
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The Daily Record
Bodies Found
Cut Up Info
Tiny Pieces
HOUSTON, Tex. OP) The
dismembered bodies of two
young boys were found in
a shallow grave near here
last night and the victims’
mother, a five-and-dime
store clerk, nonchalant y
told police today that she
had butchered them.
Slim, quiet-mannered Mrs. Ann
Williams, a 28-year-old brunette,
made the admission to Sheriff C.V.
Kern after officers trailed her
through the night and battered
down a rooming house door at 4
a.m. to capture her.
Mrs. Williams denied killing the
boys, Calvin, 9, and Conrad, 8, but
she confessed carving up their
small bodies with a razor blade,
officers said. She was charged with
murder.
Mrs. Williams told ponce the
boys died of an overdose of a nar
cotic, but officers said an autopsy
report showed the boys died of
fractured skulls.
The dissected bodies wrapped
in layers of plastic and cotton
sheeting—were found at 9:45 p.m.
behind an auto repair shop run oy
Morris Johnson, a friend of Mrs.
Williams at nearby Algoa, who'dug
t&e grave. . , J
KNIFE "TOO DULL
“The children were dead when
I came home from work last
Wednesday,” Kerns said Mrs. Wil
liams told them. ”1 was scared.
I was afraid people would accuse
me of not being a good mother.
“I took the children from the
bed of the trailer, wrapped them
in a quilt and carried them to my
car. Then I took them to another
apartment I have and put them
both in the bathtub. It was late
at night and nobody saw me as I
carried them up the stairs, one at
a time.
“After they had been in the bath
tub three days I decided that I
had to get rid of them. I tried to
cut Calvin’s head off with a
butcher knife, but it was too dull.
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Sampson Man
Held For Murder
CLINTON A Negro man, L. B.
(Till) Owens, 39, of near Laurel
Lake in Honeycutts township, Sam
pson County, is being held in the
jail here on a charge of murder.
He is alleged to have shot a 21-
year-old Negro man, Albert Ben
nett, of near Roseboro to death
with a pistol about midnight Sun
day at the juke joint operated by
a Negro, Albert (Sergeant) Brown,
one mile west of Roseboro on NC
Highway 24.
Sampson Sheriff W. D. Hall and
Deputy Ira Hatch were called and
picked up Owens at the home of a
son in the rear of Sergeant Brown’s
place.
Details of the* affray are incom
plete but it is known that the al
leged murderer has been in difficul
ties with the law on several occa
sions.
The man killed Sunday had been
employed as a dish washer at the
Sampson Memorial hospital here
for several years.
Ap inquest in the shooting will be
held in the Sampson courthouse at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday by Coroner
Coleman Carter of Garland.
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DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23, 1955
HOLDING REVIVAL The
Rev. T. B. Henry, shown here,
widely-known evangelist, is con
ducting a revival meeting at the
Pentecostal Holiness Church at
Falcon and is drawing large
crowds each evening at 7:30 o’-
clock. The Rev. Mr. Henry is an
outstanding pulpit speaker and
is proving very popular with the
increasingly-large crowds. The
Rev. W. W. Thomas, pastor, said
today the evangelist campaign
will continue through Sunday
night.
Church Event
Success
Rev. Robert Palmer, pastor of
the Gla<j Tidings Assembly of God
of Dunn, reported today that the
annual missionary offerings at the
church have increased from $11L59
in 1945 to $6,841.63 in 1954 just ten
years later. Mr. Palmer said that
much of tWs increase can be at
tributed to the Annual Missionary
Convention which is held In Feb
ruary daph year.
The , Fifth Annual Missionary
Convention was concluded this
past- Sunday night. During the
three day event $5,366.70 was
raised for Home and Foreign mis
sionary enterprises of the Assem
blies of God. Os this amount $3,-
667.70 was in cash. This is the
largest offering ever received in a
Missionary Convention at the lo
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Governor Approves
Higher Ed. Board
RALEIGH (IP) Gov. Luther H. Hodges strongly en
dorsed today the recommendation that the Legislature
create a state board of higher education to coordinate
programs of the 12 state-supported colleges and universi
ties.
The governor told a joint meet
ing of Senate and House commit
tees on higher education that “in
the face of the fact that college en
rollment will double In the next
15 or 16 years, we must . . . plan
for the future In a coordinated
fashion.”
“If we don’t,” he said, “it is
my humble opinion our state will
be wasting a lot of money.”
The governor assured the legis
lators his commission on higher
education had no intention “to tie
the hands of any educational in
stitution or to make subservient
the boards of trustees of the sev
eral institutions.”
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UNION SERVICE A Union Ser
vice, in. Observance of World Day
of Prayer, will be held at Lee’s
Chapel original Free Will Baptist
Church, Finlay night, Februaxji JtS
at 7:30 pm. The service will be
sponsored by the Mingo, Spring
Branch, Bethesda, Union Grove, and
Lee’s Chapel Churches. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend.
JUDGE ILL Judge Chester
Morris who held court in Lilling
ton last week is in Johnston County
Says Democrats
Lack Courage
To Face Issue
WASHINGTON (IPi—Presi
dent Eisenhowre toady de
nounced the proposed Demo
cratic S2O-a r person income
tax cut as the height of
! , fiscal irresponsibility.
In a strn and sometimes fight
ing mood, he told his news confer
• ence that the Democrats lacked
• the courage to submit their pro
jj posal on its own merits. Instead,
he said, they tacked it onto an
aministration zill to continue for
one year the present corporation
and sales tax rates which are
scheduled to be reduced April 1.
He expressed the fear that the
Democratic proposal would throw
the governement into more serious
deficit spending, something he said
would amount to the most insidi
ous thing that could happen to a
free economy.
He said the United States simply
in a responsible government,
could not have this kind of thing
in a responsible government.
NO VETO THREAT
Asked whether he would veto the
tax bill in its present form, the
President said he would have to
wait and see the exact form of
the measure as it reaches him.
Repeatedly he Challenged (the
Democrats to test their tax
a separate bill without proposing
it as a rider on the administration
measure.
But House Democratic leaders
pushed ahead confidently with
their plan for S2O tax cut for
every taxpayer and dependent, ef
fective next Jan. 1.
Democrats, in support of this tax
cutting plan, quoted from the Pres
ident’s budget message to Con
, gress last month. _
. In a majority report lio the
| House, the Ways and Means Com
. mittee pointed out that the Presi
’ dent expressed a “hope” of tax
, cuts next year, and said such cuts
. should be spread “fairly among
. all taxpayers in away which will
be the most effective to relieve
! individual tax burdens and to in
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But he noted the commission re
port showed North Carolina rank
ed 47th among the states in pro
portion of its population in college
while it ranked 32nd in state ap
propriations to college and univer
sities on a per capita basis.
Spokesmen for colleges indicated
that clearly defined provisions re
garding the board’s powers and re
sponsibilities would have to be in
cluded in the bill before it gets
their complete approval.
President Gordon Gray of the
' consolidated university questioned
whether the bill might not leave
trustees of an institution with re
i ponsibility to carry out functions
while not retaining necessary au
thority.
Hospital after suffering ah heart
attack while on the bench presiding
at a term of superior court in
Smithfield. Judge Morris was re
ported to be confined to his bed
and not allowed to receive visitors.
Harnett Court was adjourned when
he was called home because of the
illness of his wife.
LILLINGTON CLUB The Ex
ecutive Board of the Lillington
Senior Woman’s Club will meet
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CAT WHO CAME TO DlNNEß— Dressed for the occasion, “Sparky” licks his lips as he waits
for someone to pour his milk. Infinite patience got this picture for the photographer, Mike
lanetta, 17-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, high school student.
$72,000 Reported In Drive
President Emmett Al
dredge of Dunn Investors,
Inc. reported today that
$72,000 worth of stock was
pledged during yesterday’s
driva for construction of the
ilew'plant for Benjamin and
Johnes here
A group of about 50 business and
professional men working on the
project fell short of their goal of
$150,000, but the drive was still on
today and leaders were confident
the amount would be raised.
, In making the announcement to
day, President Aldredge pointed
out that reports had not yet been
received from many of the workers..
He also cited the fact that many
citizens who have expressed a de
sire to purchase stock were not
available yesterday and could not
be contacted.
“I am naturally a little disap
pointed that we were not able to
raise the entire amount in one day
as planned,” said President Ald
redge, “but I still feel sure that
the people of Dunn are not going
to allow this splendid industry
which means so much to all of us
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CRITICALLY ILL
Carl O’Quinn of Mamers, who
underwent a brain operation on
Monday at Veterans Hospital in
Durham is reported in a critical
condition. Mr. O'Quinn, who prev
iously had been a patient at Vet
erans Hospital in Fayetteville for
several weeks, was transferred to
Durham for the operation. He is
a brother of Mrs. Sion Wilbom of
Lillington.
Dunn Pageant
Group Named
President Hubert Peay of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
day announced the appointment of
committees to direct and stage the
“Miss Dunn” ageant of 1955, to be
held on April 8 and 9.
Harold Grant is general chair
man of the pageant, at which
and was the widow of Leslie
compete in the Miss North Caro
lina pageant to be held later at
Wilmington.
Miss Betty Jo Ring of Lexington,
the current “Miss North Carolina”
has already accented ri
to serve as a judge at Dunn s con
test.
Corky Cretin!, chairman of the
entries committee, said today that
entries have already started com
ing in.
Following is a list of the other
committees:
Program, Willie Biggs, Derwood
Godwin, Hubert Peay, Ed Boyette
Cretin!; finance, Lamar Stone,
James Johnson; awards, Bob Leak
and Robert S. Hill; staging. Tom
my Godwin, Faison Lee, Robert Lee
Smith. Earl Murphy and Robert
Page; judging, Bill Lawrence; tick
ets, E. J. Sealey and Floyd Furr.
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Man Is Bound Over
On Burglary Count
Probable cause on first degree breaking and entering
charges was found in Harnett Recorder’s Court yesterday
against Lewis A. Wilson, young white man of the Mamers
section.
Wilson was charged with firing
two bullets through the closed door
of the home of W. T. Ferguson.
The first shot pierced the foot of
Mrs. Ferguson who is now in ser
ious condition in the Lee County
Hospital in Sanford. The second
lodged in the facing of the door,
testified Ferguson.
The husband of the injured wo
man was the first state witness.
He told the court that after his
wffe was shot, he cracked the door
to “give him his baiby.” Wilson’s
wife and child were at the Fergu
son home at the time of the shoot
ing, the witness said.
On cross examination by defense
attorney A. R. Taylor, Ferguson
admitted Wilson had been to the
home “at least a half dozen times
earlier” that night. He denied he
opened the door to admit Wilson.
“Somebody did,” Ferguson said.
“But I was busy with my wife.”
Attorney Taylor asked that the
court dismiss the breaking and
entering charges and amend the
warrant to charge assault with a
deadly weapon.
Solicitor Neill Ross argued, “You
don’t have to kill a person behind
closed doors to show intent to
oommit a felony. This was supple
mented with a drawn weapon.”
Wilson was ordered held without
bond by Judge M. O. Lee, who
overruled the defense motion. The
defendant had an arm h-oken i'i
two places and suffered several
heart attacks after his confine
ment in jail last week. He was
treated at Veterans Hospital and
returned for the hearing.
Paper Work Costly
To U. S. Taxpayers
WASHINGTON OR—The Hoover
Commission reports that- it costs
as much for federal paperwork to
day as it did to run the entire
government only 24 years ago.
The commission on government
reorganization said it costs the
average American family of four
more than SIOO a year in taxes
just to pay for such paperwork.
Such costs are unnecessary, it
said.
The commission is headed by
former President Herbert Hoover.
It submitted to Oongrem a pro
gram designed to cut down on the
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Americans
Cut In On
The Queen
LONDON IIP A London news
paper reported today that three
Americans cut in on Queen' Eliza
beth n during a dance she at
tended last night at the home of
American Ambassador Winthrop
Aldrich.
The London Evening Standard
said word . was passed that that
sort of thing “just isn’t done."
Thereafter, it said, the American
guests formed an “ unofficial
queue” to await their turn to dance
with her majesty.
The Queen and her husband tha
Duke of Edinburgh obviously en
joyed themselves greatly. They ar
rived for dinner and stayed for
bacon and eggs, served at 3 a. m.
The Standard said the Queen
“looked surprised, smiled and
changed her partner” when one of
the American guests cut in on an
other American who was dancing
with her.
The same thing happened later
in the same dance, and again in
the next quickstep.”
It was THE party of the London
social season—such a must that
prominent Americans invited made
special plane trips to London. j
number of letters and directive*
written and filed by government
officials.
The commission suggestel a lot
of papermork would be eliminated
if many government employes
would write clearly, briefly, and to
The government creates to bil
lion pieces of paper each year, not
counting pamphlets and poiadfr*
cals, it said. This amazing output,
it added, require# the employment
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