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May was crushed and the baby was
reported drowned or frozen to
death.
MISLEADING NOTE
The sheriff said the accused man
was taken to an undisclosed Jail
for safekeeping because feeling was
running high in the small farming
community of Rowlands Station,
about six miles from here.
Investigators went to the farm
after Bratcher's son, Charles, fa
ther of Charlotte Ann, reported to
police that he had gone to visit
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his daughter Saturday night and
found a note 03 the front door I
saying “Baby is in hospital in
Nashville.” '
Charles Bratcher said he went to
police because he couldn’t under,
stand why he had not been notified
earlier 1s his daughter was sick.
The sheriff said that on arriving
at the farm home they first no
ticed the body of the Bratchers'
collie watchdog in the yard. Going
inside they found blood on the
floor of the kitchen and then be
gan searching the premises.
INFANT IN CISTERN
Bratcher’s body. was found hid
den in a nearby sorghum mill. The
bodies of the woman and their
daughter were hidden in a sink
hole while the baby had been
stuffed is a cistern.
A bloodstained shovel also was
found in the yard and officers
planned to drain the cistern, be
lieving there may have been an
other murder weapon.
Youngblood said Gibbs was driv
ing Bratcher’s light truck when
arrested. The sheriff said the ac
cused man also was found to have
sold some meat from Bratcher’s
smokehouse in a nearby commun.
ity-
Gibbs denied the murder and
aid Bratcher had lent him the
truck and authorized him to sell
the meat.
Ruby Hood's
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afternoon at 3 o’clock from the
Siloam Church at Harrell. Burial
will be in the family cemetery.
Surviving are his wife Mrs. Zen
ora Johnson of Harrell; five daugh
ters; Mrs. Ruby Hood of Dunn,
Mrs. Hazel Williams of Serecta;
Mrs. Louise Jackson of Harrell;
ville; Mrs. Thelma McPhail of
Autryville, Route 1; one son, John
Johnson of Harrell.
Bass, Bracey
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pears so doubt but what - he will be
a candid: te again.
Aside from Mr. Bass,' no other
opposition has been hinted. Mayor
Hanna won easy victories the past
three elections and, political ob
servers, Including 6ass, con
ceded that, “It’ll be hard to beat
him.”
Commissioner Bracey has been
saying for more than a year .that
he would not seek another term.
He has served two terms, one two
year term and Is now completing a
four-year term.
“I have enjoyed serving on the
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
Big-3 Meet 1
Now Being
Considered
. LONDON; UP—The West
ern Big Three foreign min
isters will meet next month
to set an early date for top
level talks with Russia, in
formed diplomatic sources
predicted today. ,
Officials said consultations among
United States, British and French
foreign ministers on a date and
place for a Big Three meeting
were about to start.
French ratification of the pacts
to rearm West Germany lifted the
logjam that has blocked the West's
diplomatic initiative. Russia inti
mated its willingsess to come to
a foregn ministers’ meeting.
The couse was now set for new
Allied diplomatic talks ranging
from Austria and Germany to dis
armament and over-all European
security problems. It could mean a
shift in the whole tempo of the
cold war.
Officials said the Western meet
ings would be arranged during or
immediately after the next North
Atlantic Council meetings, prob
ably is April, when Germany will
be admitted to NATO.
Foreigs secretaries of the United
States, Britain and France would
align their policies for talks with
the Soviet. Then the Big Four talks
probably could be arranged for
early summer.
RUSSIA GIVES HINT
If these talks succeed,_tfie four
power meeting might be followed
by a conference later in the year
of the heads of government of the
United States, Britain and France,
the sources said.
Russia’s first hint it might be
willlsg to attend a Big Four for
eign ministers’ conference came
from Premier Nikolai Bulganin
wfio 'said he welcomed President
Eisenhower’s suggestion.
Some Western diplomats tare
convinced that Russia must show
now whether it is .really ready to
ease world tension or to intensify
the world’s enormous arms build.
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board,” Commissioner Bracey,
“and appreciate the support and
cooperation given me by citizens of
the town, but I feel that I have
served long enough.”
Is there any chance you might
change your nrind?” a reporter
asked.
“No,” he replied quickly, ”1 don’t
think so.” «(
“You mean,” asked the newsman,
“that Jt would take a ground,
swelling of popular demand or
something like that?”
“It would take more than that,”
replied Mr. Bracey. “I’m Just not
interested in running again.”
POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
Meanwhile, a number of citizens
were reported as eyeing the of
fice. Among them are S. Dewey
Whittenton, local automobile deal,
er. Lonnie Baldwin and Cad Up
church, both of Whom operate sun
dry shops here; J. Edgar Black,
Jr„ local business man and assis
tant Harnett Coroner, Derwood
Godwin, local contractor and real
tor, Lewis Godwin, local grading
contractor; and Fred M Byerly,
local Insurance man.
“I predict," said Commissioner
Bracey today, “that there will be
no shortage of candidates.”
The filing deadline ends at noon
on April 11.
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Benson Sure
Os Contest
Benson today was assured
of a contest in the city pri
mary to be held on Tuesday,
April 5, but it remains to be
seen whether or not there
will be a race for mayor, city
judge and town constable.
Tuesday noon is the deadline for
filing.
C. M. Blackman, merchant and
insurance agent, so far is the only
candidate for mayor. Blackman
formerly served on the town board
from 1945 to 1953. Major J. Roscoe
Barefoot, who is completing a third
two-year term, has not yet an
nounced his intentions. Barefoot 1
also served as mayor from 1945 to I
1949.
Mayor J. Ed Johnson of the Ben. I
son Recorder's Court has filed for
re-election and so far is unopposed.
He was appointed to the bench
two years ago when the Benson
court was created.
Town Constable W. David Wood
has filed for reelection and so far
is unopposed. Two other candi
dates, Shelton Moore and C. M.
Dixon, filed against Wood but later
withdrew.
Five candidates have filed for
the four posts of town commission
er. They are: Emory Miller, Brant
ley McLamb, Robert Denning, new
candidates, and two incumbents,
Garland McLamb and Harold Med
lin.
Miler is a furniture salesman
and a former member of the board;
Brantley McLamb is a merchast
and Denning operates a feed mill.
They are seeking the office for the
first time.
Two present members of the
board, Bill Farmer, and C. N. Bos
tic, have not yet filed for re-elec
tion.
Grand Jurors
indict Agent
Carl C. Churchill of Fayetteville,
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit investi
gator, has been indicted by the
Harnett County Grand Jury on a
Charge of assault with- a deadly
weapon on James C. Raynor of
Spring Lake, Route 1 while the
officer was engaged in his official
duties.
The grand jury returned ,the bill
after hearing the testimony of two
Witnesses. «
Churchill, veteran Federal agent,
is accused t>f hitting Raynor on
■the head with a pistol following
an argument which arose when the
ATU investigator went to the Ray-
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quor stills.
The officer, who was represented
at the preliminary hearing bv
Lawrence Harris, assistant U. S.
District Attorney, claims innocence.
OTHER CASES PENDING
Two other charges against
Churchill, of assault on a female,
one on Mrs. Catherine Raynor Bar
rett, and another on Mrs. Pearl
West Lee, also of Spring Lake,
Route 1, have been transferred to
Federal Court in Raleigh.
The incident in which the char
ges arose took place last November
18 in a tobacco field near the
Raynor home.
Raynor claims the officer spoke
in a threatening manner to him in
the presence of several people, then
followed him 75 feet and hit him
on the head. He says Churchill
told him,“i wish I couid kill all
. of you.”
i Mrs. Raynor corroborates her
| husband's story. She claims she
was the person who twisted the
pistol of his hand. Both Raynor
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Tucker Freed
In Fatality
Walter Tucker, young Lillington
Negro, has been freed of all blame
in the highway death of David
Ross Stewart, 2G. of Broadway,
Route 1. which occurred on Febru
ary 16t'n.
The Harnett County Grand Ju y
failed to return a true bill against
Tucker.
A Jury impaneled by Assistant
Harnett Coroner Ed Black, Jr. had
ordered Tucker held for the grand
jury after an inquest at which
Highway Patrolman W. L. Lucas
testified that Stewart met his
death as the result o f his car .being
forced eff the road by a pursuing
and his wife admit numerous liquor
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vehicle.
Patrolman Lucas also said his
investigation showed that Tucker
was the first person to arrive at
the crash scene on the Johnson
vdle road.
DENIES GETTING CLOSE
Tucker, testifying in his own
behalf, said he had gone in pur
suit of Stewart's car some minutes
after it had sideswiped his own
car, which was parked in front of
a store about a mile from the John-
Sonville road.
However, he denied having got
ten close enough to Stewart to
force him off the highway. Two
other Negromen, one said he was
at the store where Tucker’s car
was sideswiped, and another who
testified his own car had been hit
by Stewart's vehicle, said they were
nly a short distance beyond the
young Broadway man when his
car crashed, but said they had no
part in the accident. The two men,
Clarence Graham and Clyde Fai-
J fII. were cleared of any criminal
implicaton by the coroner's jury.