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* WEATHER + Some cloudiness and warmer to day and Thursday. VOLUME 5 26 DIE IN CRASH OF AIRLINER OPTIMIST LEADERS Pictured here at last night’s meeting of the Dunn Optimist Club are, left to right, Morris Todd of the Raleigh club, Dis trict Governor Thompson Greenwood of Raleigh, and Bob Price .of Dunn, who is heading the local ' t Jh&M gittlo By HOOVER ADAMS COPS AND, ROBBERS, AND . AN UNLADY-LIKE LADY The Dunn police department got a . call the other night that some , ; strange noises were coming out of * v ' the office of Principal A. B. John son at the Dunn High School. A couple of times during recent years, the big safe at the local school has been cracked by robbers. The call was radioed to Police men K. M. Fail and R. H. Alphin and they rushed to the scene. They parked the police car a good distance away and crept softly to the window of the building. Immediately, they could hear the distinct sound 01 metal tutt ing against metal. They figured the robbers were chiseling the safe open. I With pistols drawn and ready * for action, the veteran Dunn cops prepared to go in, after the safe crackers. About that time, Alphin hap pened to look up at the flag pole on the school ground. The “safe cracking” noice was coming from a piece of metal attached to a rope which was being dashed against the metal flagpole by the strong wind. , “There we were,” lhughed the officers, “with gun in hand ready to go in and bring out a couple of burglars when it was' nothing but the piece of metal blowing ag ainst the flagpole.” But, they added, they felt < re lieved and were mighty glad it was nothing more. * BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth - days today are Rochelle Pope, An (Con tinned On Page Two) Bond Issue Work Started By Board gar f . County commissioners in a leng- : ® thy session on-Monday set in mo tion complicated legal machinery necessary to hold a two million dollar school bond issue and au \ thorized construction of a new V cdunty library. jl; Meantime with these two new expenditures promised and others such as a possible salary increase L for elective officials full time dog ;£ warden in the talking stage and varied and sundry requests from county offices, the commissioners scrutinized every bill with one idea to to save money in small things to •* -riS, -V TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 movement. The election of officers was postponed until next Tuesday night, when Governor Green wood will return to address the group. (Dally Record Photo.) Fuller Trying To ( ' 1 ' Prove Character , defense continued its parade of character witnesses today in the trial of Albert Fuller, fprmer chief deputy sheriff of Russell County, for murdering vice crusader Al bert Patterson last June. The character witnesses repre sented a last-ditch defense effort to support previous alibi witnesses who wore Fuller was a block away in the county jail when Patterson was slain 17 days after he had been nominated attomew general of Ala. bama on a promise to clean up Phenix City, PADGETT TO TESTIFY The defense said it would delay until this afternoon the recalling of star state witness Cecil Padgett in a final attempt to shake his story placing Fuller at the murder scene. About 20 character witnesses paraded before the jury today, following the 16 who testified yes terday as to the good reputation of former Sheriff Ralph Mathews and others who have given alibi testimony for Fuller. The charac ter witnesses Included police offi cials, politicans, bankers, grocers, businessmen and housewives. Most of them testified they knew Mathews had been thrown out of office and had pleaded guilty to wilful neglect of duty when the (Continued mi Page Twe) Haymes Settles Up With Third Wife HOLLYWOOD Os) Singer Dick Haymes has ended his alimony troubles with his third wife, Nora JEddingfon Flynn Haymes, b7 agreeing to pay her a lump sum, her attorney said today. Haymes, now married to actress Rita Hayworth, did not disclose the amount of the settlement, but K was believed in the neighbor hood of $25,000. help pay for the big ones. Tentative date on the school bond election was set for May* 28. Voters will be asked to approve is suance of two million dollars In bonds to pay for new school build ings, additions to present building? and many renovation in every school district. The county library, homeless for seven months through circum stances beyond its control, will glia a permanent bt built on a newly purchased .lot on the corner of Ninth and Front streets. (OmMbbs* an h«i «we>* JUailt; ~£\ttnrfr ; Leaders Say War In Asia \ l May Be Near i # 1 TOKYO (ID—United States mfl > itary leadens In the Far East) have warned Washington tint a general war in Asia may be only r weeks away, well-informed sour- I ces said today. t Such a'war presumably would i Involve the use of atomic w*a r pons by the United States against mOitory targets. 3 This is the background of Sec retary of State John Foster - Dulles’ blunt war warning to l Comnumist China that aggree s sion would bring United State* j and Allied retaliation from sou thern, central and (northerns fronts. ONE DEAD, TWO PURT CHESERTON, tod. 01) One man was killed, two were injured and three were missing today when a natural gas pipeline blew up and set off a big fire in a field near here. The blast occurred while a seven man construction crew for the Wisoonsin-Midhigan Pipeline Co. of Detroit was working on a pro ject south of here. United Youth Rally Slated On Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock the young people from Dunn’s different churches will gather at the Hood Memorial Christian Church to stage a united youth rally. This rally is being held under the auspices of the Dunn Christian Youth Council, of which Exum Kirby of the Gospel Taber nacle, is plesident. The theme for the rally Is “Youth; The Living Witness,” and its purpose is to develop a greater (Continued On Page Two) > DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 9, 1955 Salary Issue Is Before County Board Requests for salary rais es for appointive and cleri 2al workers, chiefly those under the State Merit Sys tem, is nothing new to coun ty commissioners. Pleas ma de Monday followed the same pattern. Miss Wilma Williams, welfare superintendent, asked for a raise for Mrs. Betty Cannon, junior stenographer clerk. Miss Williams said that since Mrs. Cannon Has passed an examination for a salary increase she now rates SIBO month ly salary and a rating of senior stenographer clerk. The welfare superintendent also wanted to em ploy a new stenographer, a post now vacant but set up in her wel fa,re department administrative budget. She said the $l4O set aside for a clerk typist was not sufficient to allow her to get good help and since she now has hopes of secur ing a trained secretary she want ed the salary of the vacant post fixed at S2OO and the rating at senior stenographer clerk. Commissioner Bob Pate pointed out that it was bad policy to raise salaries in the middle of the fiscal year, that under the Merit System increases fall due twice yearly on January 1 and July 1. “But I can’t hre a new person at moty salary than the girls who have worked for three years are receiv ing* Mlss wnifaftis mslsted” l *> not think that Is fair.” She went on to say that clerical work in her of fice was pressing, that several mis takes had been made in her office last month because “girls had too much to do. Mistakes in our office can be more costly than employing sufficient help,” she added. Commissioners finally comprom ised and set both salaries at SIBO. Then after more discussion recalled Miss Williams and informed her increases will not be effective un til July 1. Meantime, Sheriff C. R. Moore appeared to remind the board that If they saw fit they could give his efficient office deputy Miss Ram ona O’Quinn a raise to bring her salary up to that paid the girl who formerly held that position.” Commissioners failed to com ment. The talk about increasing salary, of elective officials came unex pectaedly when State Senator Ro bert Morgan came to the meeting (Continued On Page Two) Baptists Planning For Youth Revival A Youth Revival for all the youth of Dunn has been planned at the First Baptist Church. The revival will be held on March 11 through March 13 with “Youth - The Win ning Witness” as its theme. The youth will have complete charge of the services. Each night different persons will be choir di rector, organist, ushers, and presi ding officers. Several committees are now working to make this weekend a success. Mr. Horace “Bdfies" McKinney, assistant basketball coach at Wake Forest, will be the guest speaker, and Bennett Straughn from Ral eigh will lead the singing and give + Record Roundup + WRECK The panel truck own ed by Sirena’s Florist and an au tomobile belonging to John Moses Gardner of Angler were damaged considerably in a collision Monday around 6 p.m. on Front Street in Ulllngton. Mrs. Sirena Phelps Byrd owner of the florist shop was driv ing the truck. Gardner had three pasaengers In his car and was tra velling on 421 returning from Greensboro to Angler. City Police man Buraice Tempi* said Mrs. Byrd had palled out of a parking place in front of her store and made a U tom In violation of a town or dinance when she was hit bp the 4 t JE’7 m I lii , WEm MMhr | % FACES SECOND TRIAL— Minot “Mickey” Jelke, left, and his lawyer, Arthur L. Stellges, arrive at the General Sessions Court la Mew York City. Jelke, an heir to oleomargarine fortune, Is being tried on charges of compulsory prostitution. _ Call Girls , Ex-Cons To Give Testimony NEW YORK—Ciisttoikers of V-girls will -be called as witnesses and wiretap evidence will be introduced during Mickey Jelke’s second vice trial, Assistant District Attor ney Anthony J. Liebler told rospective jurors today in Gen eral Sessions Court, where the new trial is in progress. Both prostitutes and ex-convicts are expected to testify. Jelke, who will inherit millions in five years, is charged with compulsory pros titution. The state says he lived off the earnings of Miss Ward, a former girl friend. Jelke won this second trial be cause the press and public were barred by Judge Francis L. Vp.- lente from part of the first case. During the questioning of tales men, Jelke’s chief counsel, George Washington Herz, repeatedly ask ed whether the publicity about the first trial would influence the jurors. He noted that Mickey had been sentenced to a 3-to-6-year term last time; he pointed out that Mickey served an 8-month work house sentence for illegal possess ion of revolver. The jurors said chalk talks each night. Jimmy Ringgold, ex-professional football player, will be the guest soloist. Mr. Ringgold taught civics at Needham Broughton High School and coached baseball and backfield football for the high school until June, 1954. He is now a steel construction contractor. Mr. Ringgold turned church soloist'on Mother’s Day in 1951 when he sang a very simple hymn at the Hayes- Barton Baptist Church. To day he is known as one of the finest tenors In the Raleigh chur ches. Mr. Ringgold is also a dea con and Sunday School Teacher at the Hayes-Barton Baptist Church. In Raleigh. oncoming car. Gardner suffered slight cut on the face. Others were not injured. , MARRIAGE LICENSES Mar iage licenses were Issued, recently from the office of ’Mr*. Inez Har rington, register of deeds, to the following couples: on' March 7 to Roy Morgan Yoder of Sanford and Mattie Brown McFarland of Broad way, Route I; and on March 5 to Frank Weaver, Jr. of Dunn V d Shirley Rose Mayes of Dunn and (Oinll—l Ob Faga Tmm) they could be fair. Herz also asked whether Mickey's “Bohemian life” ... his career as a “high-flying playboy” .... would influence a juror adversely. “If the evidence shows that the defendant lived with Pat Ward for three or four months and had sex ual intimacies with her, would this prejudice you?” he asked the pros pective jurors. They said this would have no (Continued On Page temr) 23 Indicted In Housing Frauds PITTSBURGH (IP! A federal grand jury indicted 23 persons to day on fraud charges In connection with the handling of Federal Housing Administration home im provement and repair loans. FBI agents, whose six-month in vestigation led to the grand jury action, said the charges involved 75 loans totaling about $150,000. The defendants are small con tractors and salesmen. They were accused of pushing through fraud ulent applications for loans aver aging about $2,000 each. Betty Hutton Weds Livingston LAS VEGAS, Nev. OP) Actress Betty Hutton and Alan Livingston, left for Hollywood today after be ing married In a quiet ceremony last night. The marriage was made possible when Livingston flew to Ac*r»"lco, Mexico and obtained a “quickie” divorce from his wife, Elaine. Mrs. Livingston was awarded a Califor nia decree recently but It is not final for a year. Miss Hutton divorced her second husband, dance director Charles (D’Curran, in Las 'Vegas earlier this year. Jones Infant Buried Todav Ramona Jean Jones, three-day old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor wood E. Jones of Dunn, died Tues day afternoon In the Dunn Hospi tal. Graveside burial rites were held Wednesday afternoon at two o’- clock at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Dunn. The Rev. D. A. Harding officiated. In addition to the parents, the baby is survived by the grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Janes of Erwin, Rt. 1 and Mr. and Mrs. J T. Moore of Dunn Rt. 4, and a great grandmother. Mrs. Mattie Barefoot of Dunn, Rt 3. The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION. .. NEWS PHOTOS...ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Mountain Top Catches Fire In Collision GUADALAJARA, Mexico (IP) Twenty-six persons in cluding four American tour ists were killed on Tuesday when a Mexican airliner crashed into a 9,000 - foot peak of the western Sierre Madres and exploded with a blast that set the moun tain top afire. Rescue brigades set out at dawn from the nearby Rancho el Mosco to reach the wreckage of the twin, engined DC-3 airliner a few miles from the village of Talpa de Al lende, 100 miles west-southwest of Guadalajara. They were halted on Tuesday night by darkness. A rancher on horseback, who climbed to the scene late Tuesday, reported all aboard “perished hor ribly.” He was prevented for more than three hours from approaching the area because flaming gasoline touched off a series of brush fires. The San Francisco Chronicle said the victims were Edd John son, a member of its editorial staff; Dr. Clifford Hays, an Arca dia, Calif., dentist; Dr. Russell Ingle, Jr., a Montebello, Calif., dentist; and R. S. Hall, a Whittier, Calif., grocer. Hays, Ingle and Hall had been on a fishing trip, the Chronicle said. LOST RADIO CONTACT * The boarded the plank at the rustic coastal resort of Puerto Val larta for the 125-mile night to Guadalajara. The plane rose swiftly to clear the mountains which rise abruptly from the coast but crashed 20 minutes later, only 30 miles from the Puerto Vallarta airfield. There was no explanation. Radio contact was lost shortly after take off. * Those aboard included three crew members, two Mexican in fants and “several women.” It was the second air disaster in Mexico within 24 Hours but toe first for the airline In five years. Jorge Pasquel, Mexican millionaire (Continued On Page Two> Compromise Seen On Cut In Tax 1 By UNITED PRESS . Senate Democratic leaders hoped to agree today on a compromise bill for cutting income taxes. If they do, it will be made public by mid-afternoon. A compromise has been sought since Senate Democrats split over the House-approved measure to give everyone a S2O tax cut.' This proposal, strongly opposed by the administration, cleared the House despite some Democratic defec - Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (Tex), meanwhile, tions but has little chance of doing so in the more narrowly divided Senate. It was understood the Senate compromise will provide for re covering part of the revenue loss resulting from an income tax re duction. There have been propo sals to do this by repealing the Republican-sponsored tax relief Man In Fined For Owning Distillery Lennis Young of Benson, Route 2 was given a 90-day suspended sentence and fined SSO and costs In the Benson Recorder’s Court for possession of a whiskey dis tillery. Judge Ed Johnson ordered him not to violate the liquor laws for a period of 12 months. Deputy Sheriff J. T. Smith told the court he and other officers saw Young enter the woods with dis tillery equipment and followed him to the still site: Following is s list of. ease*: Ben A. Goldwaaaer, Mamarc neck, N. Y, speeding. Called and failed, S3O bond ordered forfeited. John D. Parker Benson Route NO. 67 4SlL**' ' '■K?’ V-' ROYAL NEWS-According to' the London Mirror, Princess Margaret is now deciding whether to renounce her rights to the British throne to marry Group Capt Peter Townsend. They are shown above in Bechuanaland during her 1947 visit to South Africa. Meg's Lover May See Duke k BRUSSELS, Belgium ftf)—Group Capt. Peter Townsend dropped out of sight for hours today, touching off speculation he might be ar ranging a meeting with the Duka of Edinburg to discuss his reported romance with Princess Margaret. Townsend and the duke were close friends when the RAF war hero served as the Queen’s equerry at Buckingham Palace and one newspaper, Le Soir, asked in a bold headline “Is the Duke of Edinburg poming to Brussels?” The duke was In toe south of France on a holiday, visiting his aunt, the Marchioness of Milford (ContiMwd On Pag* Twe) , provided for stock dividends last ■ year. 1 The House-approved bill to slash 1 income taxes would cost the treas i ury about in a full ! year. ■ assured GOP leaders there will be - no filibuster on the tax issue in , order to put the administration la : a financial squeeze. t Other Corigressional news: Stocks: The Senate Banking : Committee was told the stack mar* - ket Is booming because investor* 3 feel sure the nation’s economic fu ■ ture will be prosperous. Winthrop - H. Smith, an official of the na* s tion’s top brokerage firm, said In-, E (Continued Oa Pag* Two) 2 publicly drunk costs. , * John J. Parker Four Oaks 2 publicly drunk costs. . § .Carson McLamb Benson pub- Gerald C. Arnett Tampa Fig* improper passing, costs. publicly drunk and damage to 2 town property, costs. Costs to in clude payment, for damage to Richard Hepworth, Quebec, Cam,
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