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Sunny today, high in the mid
50s in mountains and about 60
elsewhere. Thursday partly cloudy
and somewhat warmer.
VOLUME 5
IKE REJECTS CHURCHILL PROPOSAL
TAKING ANY CHANCES—A wary squirrel approaches a presidential golf ball as though
it might be loaded. Hoping to end the squirrel furor, Press Secretary James Hagerty said no more
of the animals will be trapped on the White House grounds and removed. The photographer got
the pjcture by placing some peanuts behind the ball, a gift from Ike.
Eight Nebraska Convicts
'Surrender After 65 Hours
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BOUQUETS FOR EASTER,
V PRAISE FOR DUNN COPS
i Along about this time every year
| our sweet little wife admonishes .
( us: “Now don’t let anybody talk '
J you in|p buying me flowers for :
Easter, because I don’t want any.”
She means it, too. Sending flowers 1
isn’t the custom in her home state
of Nebraska, and after nearly ten ,
years here she still can’t get accus
tomed to the idea. '
The first Easter after our mar
riage we .dutifully sent her. a cor
sage and she wanted; to know, j
are these for.?” We sug- 1
“gested she might wear them to ‘
church. \
“Well, I’m going to church just :
like I do nearly every Sunday but
I don’t need any flowers/’ she pro
tested. “I think it’s silly. Don’t ever ,
do it again.” She prefers her flow
ers at some other time.
Mrs. Edna Marshburn—a super
duper salesman who is taking or
ders for a local florist—didn’t know
this when she got us out of bed ,
yesterday morning to try to sell us
some.
“Have you bought your wife’s
Easter corsage yet?” she - asked, in .
a real sweet and ‘petite voice.
“No, Ma’am," we replied still half 1
asleep, “but I really don’t . . ”
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„ IN FEDERAL COURT
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Dunn Area Bootleggers Get
Prison Terms, Heavy Fines
i , A number of defendants of this section.were given,
prison sentences or fines on liquor charges by Federal
Judge Don Gilliam in U. S. District Court at FayetteyiUe.
, Dan McQueen of Godwin, Route
1, convicted for possessing T 7.5
_ gallons -of bootleg whiskey, was
given two years In prison, suspend- 1
gPed on payment of $3,000 fine or
Merce Hudson, 30, of Duim,
r Route 2, was given one year in
| prison for violating the liquor laws.
Robert S, Webb of Benson, Route
2, indicted jointly with HudSpn.
was tdveet 12 months in orison.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (IP)—Eight
famished rebel convicts sur
rendered today after boldine:
two guards and a fWttrSr
prisoner as hostages for 60
hours at the Nebraska pen
itentiary.
The three hostages emerged un
harmed from the isolated, three
story maximum detention building
where the rebels had been holed
up since 10:30 a. m. Sunday.
They and their captors had lived
since then on a single loaf of bread
and a little sugar. Their last real
meal was Sunday breakfast.
The diehard convicts finally sur
rendered to the pangs of starvation
and the stern demands of Gov.
Victor E. Anderson, who took per
sonal command of the .prison and
refused to compromise with the
rebels.
GIVEN HOT MEAL
The rebels’ first conditions of
surrender was a hot meal—right
away. Anderson granted it and the
haggard, red-eyed convicts hurried
off to eat.
But the governor’s terms were
hard: 15 days for each of the con.
victs in the prison’s “hole,” 60
days In solitary confinement, and
90 days in segregation.
In return, Anderson promised a
“fair and impartial" investigation
of the prisoners’ of grievance*)
While the rebels were eating, the
guards who had been held hostage
told the story of their orgeal to
newsmen.
Warren Miller, 43, said the rebels
had threatened him and Eugene
Swanson, 34, several times with
homemade knives^
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ftusfeetidkl ofl payment of a S7BO
fine and court ooats.
Crafton L. Autry, 36, at Autry-,
vine. Route 1, was sent y> Prison
lot. a year tv possession, of a
whiskey still end six gallons of
bootleg whiskey.
Rufus A. Herring of Dunn, Route
3 was fined $l5O on f minor liquor
John J. Jackson of Sunn, Route
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Operation On
Twins Is
Successful
CHICAGO (W—Two little girls
from the land that first reported
Siamese twins were given a “good
chance" to live normal lives today
after surgeons successfully separ
ated them.
If so, they will provide a direct
and happy contrast to their medi
.cal ancestors of the 19th Century,
Chang and Eng, who gave the
name of their homeland to the
phenomenon.
The twin girls, 22-month-old
Prissana and Napit Polpinyo, were
separated yesterday. The surgeons
gave them equal shares of the
, vital liver and severed a band of
flesh, bone and muscle five inches
in diameter from the chest to the
abdomen.
Chief surgeon Dr. Lester R.
Dragstedt said that before the
operation it was not known that
the liver was shared.
Chang and Eng were not so
lucky. They hod no access to
modem medical methods and were
, known as freaks.
CONCORD, N. H. OR—Fifty-one
OWL 6 will legislate In New Hamp
shire in 1955. The state’s 399-
member house of representatives
will be graced by 49 women and
two other members of the Order
of Women Legislators will sit in
the senate.
1 4, was given two, years in Federal
' prism for bootlegging.
Roy h. Guy. 23, of Dunn, Route
4. Ids companion in the distillery
i operation, was fined $l5O and
placed on probation.
Another man arrested with them,
i Leroy Lewis, was sent to prison
~ for 1$ ««««»«■
t In another case involving Jack
son, Berry W. Allen of Four Oaks,
i was fined $350 and placed on prop
• L
Kbby Tumags ,of Dunn, arrest
ed jvith them, was given U month*
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30, 1955
Ike's Foreign
Policy Hit
By Democrats
WASHINGTON (IP)—Dem
ocratic senators denounced
the administration’s foreign
policy tdday in words rang
ing from “outrageous” to
“hot and cold political
flashes.”
Their outspoken criticisms came
in the wake of conflicting state
ments by administration sources on
the imminence of war in the For
mosa Straits. These statements set
off new Democratic charges that
the Republican administrations has
•no clear-cut foreign policy.
President Elsenhower was ex
pected to meet this opposition as
sault at his news conference to
day. He also was believed ready
to take up the matter at White
House lunch conferences with con
gressional leaders from both par
ties. House leaders were invited
for today. Leading senators will be
lunch guests Thursday.
CRITICISMS FLOWS
Democratic criticism was both
vigorous and concerted.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.)
branded as “outrageous” a state
ment last week, attributed later
to Adm. Robert B. Carney, chief
of naval operations, that the Chi
nese Reds are expected to attack
the Matsu Islands off the China
coast about April 1. Mr. Eisen
hower later let It be known that
Carney, a member of the Joint
Chief# of Staff, was only giving
a N ify Viewpoint with which the
,P|*st*ent did not agree.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-
Minn.) told a reporter that “this
is no time for hot and cold political
flashes. What we need now is a
clear-cut statement of our for
eign policy for friend and foe alike
to know and understand.”
SPARKMAN ADDS SPARK
Sen. John J. Sparkman Gjf-Ala.)
said the conflicting statements
from high administration quarters
have led to the ! "plague of em
barrassment, uncertainty and the
generation of fear among the peo
ple."
Jatnes Snipes Wins
Cruise To Nassau
James W. Snipes, special repre
sentative for the Pilot Life Insur
ance Co, Greensboro, N. C., has
been officially notified by his com
pany that he has qualified pnd
won a five day cruise to Nassau
for both himself and his wife. The
trip will comprise only representa
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Frontis Services
Set For Thursday
Funeral services will be held Thursday (morning at 10
o’clock at Forbis and Murray Funeral Home in Greensboro
lor Mrs. Stephen W. Frontis, 34, of Greensboro, the former
Miss Kathryn Godwin of Dunn.
Mrs. Frontis, popular Dunn girl
and member of one of the town’s
oldest and beat known families, was
found dead in a room at the Manor
Motel at 1045 West Market Street
In Greensboro Tuesday afternoon
about 3:15 o'clock.
Police said that she apparently
dibd of an overdose of sleeping
pills sometime Monday night.
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TO 48SI8T TAXPAYERS
There will be a representative
from the United States govern
ment In the revenue office in the
past office building on April 1, $
and 15Uv to assist the taxpayers
In filing their Ineatne tax returns.
TAKES NEW POET—The Rev. GUI
Clary, paster of the Bunnlevel
a&hhStoh! H?preached hMlast
termon Sunday at the Bunnlevel
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MORE PAGEANT ENTRlES—Piotured here are two more entries
In the “Mbs Dunn" beauty pageant, to be held here April 7 and 8.
At the left is Mbs Nancy Catherine Mills of Coats, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. U. Staley Mills of Apex and at the right b Mbs
Patricia Ann Gregory of Benson, daughter of Mrs. LuciUe Gregory
of Benson. Mbs Mills b a student at Campbell, Mbs Gregory b a
student at Meredith. (Photos by Lewis Studio.)
BIG NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD
Kelly , Brando In
Race For Oscars
HOLLYWOOD (IP)—One of the tightest Oscar races in
Hollywood history comes to a photo-finish tonight at the
27th annual presentation of the motion picture indus
try’s famed Academy Awards.
More than 2,800 Hollywood stars,
executives, technicians and just
plain fans will Jam the Pantages
Theater to watch filmdom’s most
gala public event of the year. \
Millions of TV and radio set own
ers across the nation also will
“attend” the presentations which
will be beamed to NBC-TV and
radio stations from 10:30 p. m. to
midnight EST. ,
At post time, two comparative
newcomers, Grace . Kelly and Ma
rion Brando, were given a slight
edge to win the best acting honors
of 1954 over Hollywood veterans
Judy Garland and Bing Cro6by.
A straw poll of 15 per cent of
the 1-600 Motion Picture Academy
voters indicated Miss Kelly, a so
cialite beauty, would win her first
Oscar for her portrayal of an un
glamorous wife m “The Country
Girl.”
The vote conducted by Dally
Variety, a trade paper, indicated
Brando would be given the nod for
his violent character in “On the
Waterfront.” ,
GARLAND IN RUNNING
But Los Angeles newspaper film
critics yesterday predicted the best
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Investigating officer* said they
found over 200 barbiturate tablets
in the room with her. Mrs. Fron
tis and her mother. Mrs. Robert L.
Godwin, Sr. of Duim, checked into
the motel Monday and wereeoc
cupying seperate rooms.
HAD BEEN ILL
Mrs. Frontfe had been in ill
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church where he b completing a
successful three-year ministry. The
minister 1 and hb wife and young
son will move to South Carolina
.this week .
BARBERTUE SALE There
will be a barbecue sale at Pope’s
Chapel Chireh Saturday, April
2nd. from 10:00 AM. to 1:30 PM.
Plate* each will be SI.OO for adults
'^i
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Mpther Will
Take Drink,
Have Bth Baby
TITUSVILLE, Fla. TO—An attrac.
tive 39-year old mother who does
n’t like hospitals will give birth to
her eighth child at home next
month “all by myself.” ( ’
“I’ll take a few whisky highballs
to relax, chase the family out of
the room and have it unattended,”
vowed Mrs. Ellerbe W. Carter, Sr.
: It’s the only way to have chil
dren.”
This will be the fifth time Mrs,
Carter has delivered her own child.
Her 71-year-old husband, a retired
Army general, is getting used to it.
“The first time he seemed a bit
embarrassed,” the slender mother
said. “But I’ve been saving him so
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Johnson Sued
For $25,9(1
. Luther Laon Quin of Dunn, 19-
year-old youth, has filed suit in
Harnett Superior Court against
Jesse F. Johnson, also of Dunn, for
$26,000 damages as the result ofo
an automobile accident on Febru
ary 21.
The suit was filed today by hb
attorneys, Duncan C. Wilson of
Dunn and W. A. Johnson of Lll
lington of the law firm of Wllao*
and Johnson.
The suit was brought hi the
name of the manor's father, N. I.
Gum, as next best friend. ,
Accordisg to the suit, Guin waa
riding in a 1953 Chevrolet owned
and operated by Johnson at 10 p.
m. on the night of February 21
when the car went out of oontrol,
failed to make a curve and rolled
down an embankment.
The accident occurred a mile and
a half north of Dunn on Highway
301, near the Mary Stewart School.
It b alleged in the pfr*-*
that Johnson was operating the
car in a careless, reckless and neg-
Ugaat manner In violation at the
law and without regard hr the
safety and rights of othsn.
Johnson alleges that be suffered
a concussion of the brain, a {ma
tured skull, lacerations about the
bone ana mm naans sum painful
injuries. He sets forth that fas Is
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Defends His
Farm Program
From Critics
WASHINGTON (IP)—Presi
dent Eisenhower politely ob
jected, today to British, Prime
Minister Winston Church
ill’s suggestion that big pow
er discussions begin with a
conference of chiefs of state.
Without referring to Churchill
by name, the President pointed out
at his news conference that an
eminent source had proposed a
top-level meeting without an
agenda. ’
He said there would be many
dangers to such a meeting. He said
it might look like a social gather
ing to many people in the world
who woud be expecting more from
such talks than could be delivered.
But the President said again the
United States would meet with
other major powers on any basis
so long as such a meeting would
not raise any false hopes,
He thus maintained his basic
position of a week ago—that it
would be better to hold exploratory
talks at a lower level, probably
foreign ministers, and then see
whether a chiefs of state meeting
might follow.
On other subjects the President
said:
. Europe: He is so delighted with
the West German and French hati
fleation If the German rearms#
ment pacts that he couldn’t Mb’
sibly exaggerate in
satisfaction.
Formosa. There ta too much
speculation on the possibility of
war in the Far Bast, but he does
not plan to rebuke Adm. Robert E.
earner, chief of naval operations,
for saying he expects an attack
on Matsu next month.
Police: He has great respect and
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Attorneys Argue
Jelke Vice Case
NEW YORK TOAttoraeys for
both sides sum up .today In the
re-trial of oleo heir Minot Mickey
Jelke, accused of compulsory pros
titution. The case will go to the
jury tomorrow.
Chief defense counsel George W.
Hera, who brought the former
playboy's defense to an abrupt
close yesterday, was allotted the
entire three-hour morning session
to plead his client’s oaae
Asst Dist. A tty Anthony J. Lieb
ler preaests the state’s summation
in the afternoon session
Hodges Will Serve
As Pageant Judge
A distinguished four-star general today was added to
the list of judges for the “Miss Dunn” beauty pageant, to
be held here April 7and 8 under sponsorship of the Junior
Chamber of Comjnerce. » , -
Chairman Corky Cretini announ
ced this morning that General
John C. H., Hodges has accepted
an invitation to serve.
Other judges already announced
are: Mias Betty Jo Ring of Lex
ington, current “Miss North Car
olina,” Luloog Ogbura Medfln of
Smi’hflekl, farmer “Miss Jlorth
Carolina” and Jim Reid of Radio
Station WfF at Raleigh.
John R. Hodge was born at Gol
oonda, Illinois, Jhae- 12, 1893. At
tended the University of Hliooto.
Lit. August 15,
lUI HftVie Honorary Degree. Dr. of
IMW from Souel University in j
Distinguished Service Metal, 2 Oak
Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart at Bon- J
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DR. W. P. HOLT
Doctor's Day
Is Observed
Members of the Harnett County
Medical Society Auxiliary today
were observing “Doctor’s Day” in
Dunn and throughout Harnett to
honor the medical profession and
its members.
In observance of the day, the
doctors’ wives paid special honor
to Dr. W. P. Holt of Erwin, 85-
year-old dean of Harnett doctors
and one of the oldest doctors In
the State both in age and length
of service.
Mrs. Ralph Johnson of Dunn
served as chairman of the observ
ance and, on behalf of the auxiliary
presented a check to Good Hope
Hospital at Erwin to be used for
beautification of the hospital
■ -grounds in honor of the beloved
Erwto physician.
. ,'D*. Holt founded Good Hope-
Hospital in 1928 and served as its
head until six years ago when he
retired. Dr. Holt practiced for more
than 50 years.
He was the doctor who delivered
the late Governor William B. Um
stead soon after he begun practice
in rural Durham County before
moving to Erwin.
Dr. Holt served for six years a3
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Judge Frances L. Valente an
nounced he would charge the jury
tomorrow morning and it was like
ly they would begin deliberations
before the lunch recess.
Jelke, convicted at his first trial
two years ago and sentenced to
three to six years, would face a
maximum sentence of 20 years on
both.
each of two counts of compulsory
prostitution, if found guilty on
The jury could recommend mer
cy, as the all-nude jury did at his
first trial, but Valente would not
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