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* WEATHER * Considerable cloudiness and mild. Tomorrow showers turning some what cooler in west and north. ‘ VOLUME 5 NINE LIQUOR RETAILERS ARRESTED ROTARY WHEELS AT BIRTHDAY EVENT—Pic tured here with their ladies are four big wheels of the Dunn Rotary Club at the program held Friday night celebrating the Golden Anniversary of Ro tary International. Left to right are, seated, Mrs. Shepard Bryan, Mrs. Herman P. Green and Mrs. Earl Westbrook; standing are Lofton A. Tart, one of the charter members still in. Past Dis ' Another State Rejects Idea Oi~Extra Tax On Soft Drinks JhjL&e i c mis f JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS REMEMBER CACTUS JACK? A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T It’s funny, and also a little tra gic, how easily'the public forgets. A man or woman can be at the very pinnacle of fame one day, practically forgotten the next day. When we went Into Johnson’s Restaurant to have dinner Sunday, Carl Fitchett, Sr. called us over to his table to give us a tip. “A big Texan wearing a white hat just came in," said Mr. Fit chett,” and I think he’s John Nance Gamer. Anyway, he looks like Gamer.” So we started checking around. “Have you seen a fellow who looks (like John Nance. Gamer?’” we asked a waitress. (Continued on Page Two) Woman Kills Young Lover Julia Williams, 48-year-old Negro i woman who admitted that, she shot •, her 30-year-old boy friend to death i in the home they shared here, Sat- i urday afternoon, is in the county jail under $4,000 bond awaiting ac tion by the Harnett County Grand i Jury. Her young paramour,' Raymond': McNeill, died ten minutes after reaching the Dunn Hospital with a rifle bullet in his abdomen. McNeill’s mother said he was only 33, hut authorities said he appeared to be about 30. . The older woman and her youth ful lover lived in a residence at 703 North King Avenue. The wom an looks much older than the 48 she claimed. She appears to be nearer 60. INQUEST HELD A Jury impaneled by Harnett Coroner Grover C. Henderson, or dered her held at an inquest con ducted Saturday night in the city The woman took the stand and , related that upon returning from a shopping trip Saturday afternoon TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 trict Governor J. Shepard Bryan, who read the history; President Herman P. Green; and Earl McD. Westbrook, oldest member of the club from standpoint of service. Mr. Westbrook has never missed a meeting in his more than 28 years of membership, which may be an attendance record for Rotary International. (Daily Record Photo.) RALEIGH.—A proposed special tax ort soft drinks, similar to the tax now under consideration by the North Carolina General Assembly, has been killed in the Missis sippi Legislature, it was reported today by S. Tom Gaddy of Raleigh, president of the North Carolina Bottlers Asso ciation. Action in Mississippi followed by only a few days the defeat of a similar proposal in the Tennessee Legislature, Gaddy reported, and last week the West Virginia Senate voted 21 to 10 to repeal that state’s special tax on carbonated bever ages. BASED ON EXPERIENCE “The rough treatment accorded the business-killing, revenue-red ucing soft drink tax in these three states was based on the sad experi ence of other states which have tried such a levy”, Gaddy declared. “Only South Carolina and West Virginia now have such a tax, and the West Virginia Legislature has reached the half-way mark in get ting rid of the soft drink penalty imposed a few years ago, finding the tax unpopular with the people, expensive to collect, disappointing in revenue and harmful to business generally.” A tax of one cent on each bottled W fountain drink, the amount charged in South Carolina and West Virginia and proposed in North Carolina, was laid before the (Continued on Page U she asked McNeill for rent money and he gave her five dollars. She said she told him she needed more money to have lights and water ■WId A WILLIAMS (Ehv Uaihi, 'j&tt&tfr Ex-Stripper Admits She Killed Baby CHICAGO (IP) A former strip tease artist told police today she gave her 3-year-old daughter a fatal dose of sleeping tablets and then tried suicide herself. Mrs. Lola DeWitt Stewart, 27, told Capt. John Golden that she gave her daughter, Fancy, 10 cap sules into tomato juice last Friday. Then,' she said, she swallowed some tablets herself. She was found unconscious and cloutching her dead child in her room at the Hayes Hotel Saturday morning. WOULDN’T FROLIC She told' Golden she made the attempt because no theatrical (Continued on Page Two) turned on and that the request angered him. The fuss followed. She said her young lover ordered her to quit dogging him for money, slapped her and threatened to beat her head in with his fists. The, woman said she backed away from him into a comer, where she found the gun. She said she picked up the fiflle to scare him and that it accidentally went off. c • However, officers pointed out, it was an aunusual type of rifle that's hard to cock and fire. Apparently, she had no trouble, and the aim was good. “I didn’t mean to kill Raymond,” insisted tty defendant. “I just wanted to scare him away.” Missie McNeill, the dead man’s mother, was the only other witness who testified. She said she was at her home two doors away and heard some fussing over money, then saw her son come out the door and fall to the ground. A neighbor rushed him to the hospital. Police Chief Alton Cobb; who in vestigated, told Coroner Henderson (OeaHnasg Ob Page Twe> DUNN, N. C. t MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1955 White House Says Cut Would Cost Little Folks Jobs WASHINGTON (IP) The Eisenhower administration told the Senate today the income tax cut passed by the House would be bad medicine for “the little folks ” The administration viewpoint was given to the Senate Finance Committee, already hostile to the House-approved plan, by Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humph rey. Humphrey used such terms as “unjustified” and “irresponsible” gesture” in referring to the provi sion to give a S2O a year tax cut for all taxpayers and dependents. He testified as the belief was growing here that Mr. Eisenhower will veto the tax bill if it goes to him with the income tax reduc tion voted by the House. The mea ure also includes administration backed provisions to extend present corporation income tax rates and some excise tax rates scheduled to go down April 1. Meanwhile, Sen. George A. Sma thers (D-Fla.) reported that Sen ate Democrats are seeking a com promise which would avoid a party split j over the measure. So m • Democratic senators have sided with the administration in oppos ing the cut at this time. Humphrey told the senators that the income tax cut should be struck from the bill because it is contrary to the public interest. He said the administration has cut federal spending and has moved toward a balanced budget. Tjie administration favors fur thft tax reduction, he said, only VfWr (tyre are further cuts in Youth Is Arrested Following Robbery A young Polish refugee from Cleveland, Ohio, was .arrested by two Dunn police officers Saturday morning a few minutes after he mashed tty window of a Dunn jew elry store and scooped out several hundred dollars worth of merchan dise. Eugene Zarczynsnki admitted the theft and also confessed to Police Chief Alton Cobb that he had sto len the car he was driving from his brother and admitted one other Jqwelry store robbery. The. boy was given a prelimi nary hearing this morning in Dunn’s city court. Judge H. Paul Strickland bound him over' to I Superior Court under bond of SI,OOO. ANOTHER MAD DOG Sheriff Moore Says Those Dogs Must Go The mad dog and rabies situation in Harnett County today was reported as growing steadily worse despite the fact that a second 90-day dog quarantine is now in effect in the county. As a result, Harnett Sheriff Claude R. Moore issued a warning that, effective immediately, all stray dogs will be killed on sight— without exception. During the week end, the fifth mad dog in recent weeks was re ported killed in Harnett, and nu merous other mad dogs have been reported as still roaming. + Record Roundup + Leonard Lloyd of Buies Creek, was one of the 40 candidates who pass ed tty North Carolina State Board of Pharmacy Examinations which were held recently at Chapel HllL BASKETBALL GAME The P. T. A. will sponsor a basketball game, Friday night, March 4 at 7:15 in the Dunn Armory. Hu mothers will play tty lady teach ers and the men will play the men spending and economic growth in creases revenues. “To vote a S2O tax cut now before we know we can afford it next year and without any indication of where the money is coming from,” he said, “is nothing but an irresponsible gesture. It is based only on hopes as yet entir ely unrealized ...” Humphrey said it is untrue that the administration has neglected “the little folks” as Democrats have charged. He said all income taxpayers got a tax cut last year (Continued on Page 7) High Court Denies New Trial For Reds WASHINGTON (IP)—The Su preme Court today refused to grant a hearing to 13 second rank Communist leaders con victed of conspiring to overthrow the government, at whose trial turn about witness Harvey Ma tusow testified. It was the second time the court had refused a hearing to the 13 Red leaders. The petition for a rehearing was based in part on the about face of Matusow, one of the gov ernment witnesses at tty (1953 trial. Mntnsww now claims\his testimony was false. Chief Cobb said Zarczysnki claims to be only 15 but appears to be about 18. He said the man obvious ly was trying to avoid punishment as a juvenile. His record is now being checked In Cleveland. CAUGHT IN TWO BLOCKS Policemen K. M. Fail and R. H. Alphin were patrolling the streets on the police car Saturday morn ing about 2 o’clock. They noticed that the plate glass window in the front of Stanley Jewelers on East Broad Street had been smashed and at about the same moment they spotted Zarczysnki run down the street and jump into his au tomobile. They apprehended the boy a (Continued On Pago mi YOUNG BOY DIES Last fall, a Buie’s Creek youth died from rabies as the result of a bite received from a rabies-infected dog. A 90-day quarantine went out of effect in Harnett early in February and in less than two weeks the Harnett County Board of Health imposed another 90-day quarantine (Continued on Pago Two) AWAITING WORD Harnett Representative Carson Gregory said today he is ready to introduce two bills requested by Dunn’s city council. One would authorize ap pointment of an assistant court clerk and the other would raise fees in civil cases. Rep. Gregory said the city had promised to advise him what was desired in the bill, but that he has not yet heard tram the local officials. (Continued On Page Five) Undercover Federal Men Buy Whiskey The Federal government cracked down on Harnett County’s flourishing liquor retailers during the week - end and today six of them were awaitipg trial in U. S. District Court. Three others were arrested by Harnett Rural Policemen. Working with informers and us ing undercover government men to buy whiskey from the bootleggers the agents directed their efforts primarily in the Dunn-Erwin sec tion. A number of well-known boot leggers, most of whom were des cribed as the 25-cent-a-drink va riety, were among those arrested. Harnett County’s rural police force was busy at the same time and arrested three other persons in the same area as liquor -retailers. In the raids made by the Fed eral officers, the bootleggers were caught red-handed in tty act of trying to sell or selling the Federal undercover men whiskey. HUCKLEBERRY’S TIMING BAD A well-known Dunn “court per sonality,” Robert Brantley (Huck leberry) Jackson, 51, and Felix Warren Chestnutt, 34, were arrest ed at Chestnutt’s home near Er win for possession of two gallons of whiskey and removing and con cealing whiskey to defraud the government. WUHe one government agent was inside tile house buying whiskey from Chestnutt, Jackson drove up and -brought in another gallon and a half and tried to sell two of the plainclothes government agents a drink for 25 cents each. CAR lb SEIZED The government agent then iden tified himself, arrested Jackson, seized his whiskey and confiscated his ahtomobile. . Jackson has figured frequently in court trials in this area, usually for gambling and whiskey. Both Warren and Jackson were given a hearing this morning be fore Mrs. Mallie Adams Jackson, (Continued On Page Two) Erwin Youths Badly Burned Two young Erwin boys are in Good Hope Hospital suffering from severe burns received in two sepa rate accidents that occurred on a trash pile, at Erwin. Those burned were Wayne John son, six-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Harold Jahnson, who received third degree bums, and Jerry Hud son, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gorman Hudson, whose burns were not as serious. Both boys were among a group of children picking up Coke bottles (Continued On Page Two) THIS ONCE WAS AN AUTOMOBILE—Here’s all that’s left of the Plymouth in whfchVbgil E. Jor dan waa killed early Sunday numbly. It was liter * 4 * ;Vf> ?v The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION. .. NEWS PHOTOS. . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY MARILYN—The one end only Marilyn Monroe holds a handful of tickets and points to the calendar in a New York restaurant. March 30 is the day you can see her riding a pink elephant while wearing a dress that “splits here and there,” if you’re in the Big City. Marilyn will head a list of entertainers in opening night of the Ringling Brothers and Baraum and Bailey' Circus. It’ll all benefit the New York Arthritis and Rheumatisnl Foundation, which will get the proceeds. Three More Taken In Liquor Raids Harnett rural police officers, continuing their war on bootlegging, directed their efforts toward the Erwin-Coats section this weelf end and rounded up three alleged boot* leggers. Those taken in the raids were Log Bradshaw, about 35, of Erwin; Daniel Morris, 45, who lives on the Coats-Benson highway; and Wade Evans, about 45, of Coats. At Bradshaw’s home in South Erwin, tty officers found a gallon of bootleg whiskey on the table. Bradshaw admitted ownership of the whiskey but said it was for his personal use only and denied he Soldier Is Killed Virgil L. Jordan, 19-year-old Fort Bragg soldier from Gary, Indiana, was killed instantly early Sunday morning at Erwin as he aped away in a car he had stolen a few min utes earlier in Dunn. It was Harnett County’s sixth highway fatality of the year and the fourth oils month. ally wrapped around a light pole and it task sere % wreckers to tear H loose. The ear had ham Mateo in Dam (Daily Record IMM NO. 60 was selling it. CORN IN CORN In the raid on Norris, the officers found corn hidden in com. They found a gallon of com liquor hid den in a com pile in his bam and found another quart of com in his home. He too admitted owning the whiskey but said he wasn’t engag ed in retailing it. Evans denied ownership of the (Continued On Page Two) Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen derson termed Jordan’s death as “a case of involuntary suicide.” He ruled that he died as the result of his own negligence and said no Inquest would be held. The acci dent happened at 12:30 A. M. Jordan was driying a Plymouth (Continued on Page Twe)
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