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* WEATHER * Generally fair, hot and humid today and Tuesday with a few af ternoon showers or thundershow ers occurring mostly over north portion. VOLUME 5 HOLIDAY DEATH RATE STILL RISING . .. 1 - BP n ftSji j jB *jui ,_- SCENE OF BIG COTTON FIRE AT ERWIN Fire early Sunday night swept through a cotton storage shed at Erwin Mills, Inc. in Erwin and did damage estimated at about $140,000. Pic tured here are the ruins as workmen spread the burned bales out over the yard and began the huge salvage job. Edwin officials Erwin Fire Damage Is Heavy Cote Redhead Apparently Took Own Life NEW ORLEANS. July 2 (W A flame-haired divorcee whose body, clad in a brilliant red negligee, was found In a French Quarter hotel, apparently committed sui cide, an assistant coroner said to day. The woman was identified as Mrs. Valentine Chapeau Sheriff, described by her friends as a “citizen of the world.” Her body was found in the exclusive Hotel Maison de Ville. * Asst. Coroner Raphael Sanchez said the death apparently was a suicide. He said Mrs. Sheriff had been “despondent” and that large quantities of codeine and barbitur ates were found in her room. An autopsy was scheduled. Close friends said, however, she bad been happy, and cheerful m her last few days and had spoken of going to Paris. They explained the drugs, saying she had ‘‘enor mously high bloodpressure.” Only a few days before her death ! the 43-year-old Mrs. Sheriff had complained to police that a man ■ impersonating a doctor or sales man had got into her hotel room 1 and tried to attack her. But a coro- Continned on Page Sis) YOUNG AIRMAN CONFESSES Spends Night With Woman, Murders Her, Two Others GALVESTON, Texas (IP) Authorities said today they would take the rambling confession of Airman Ellis E. Lauhon directly to a grand jury for an indictment in the triple slaying of a Dickinson, Texas, family. Lauhon, 26, of Altus, Ark., waived preliminary hearing after signing the confession. Dist. A tty. Marsene Johnson said the waver paved the way for direct grand Jury action. 'Lauhon told police he shot Mrs. Ruby McPherson, 42, her son, George, 12, and her mother, Mrs. Zola Norman, 66, as they slept in their pine sheltered cottage on the . night of June 22. % Mrs. McPherson had picked him S 'up while he waa hitch hiking and befriended him, , he said. But he said he was afraid she would fell police he was AWOL from Sglln TELEPHONES 3117 • 3118 I *ire q® an undetermined origin fttrtv nigtit age sned at luisift muis, me. in Erwin ana aid dimage es timated at u>i4osiiHj or more. , Erwin and Dunn firemen battled the blaze for hours and prevented its from spreading into two adjoin ing yrartnouses where more than five million dollars worth of cloth is stored. The fire in the long cotton shed was discovered shortly after 6 o’- clock by a night watchman. He said he ha dpassed there 15 minutes earlier and saw no sign of a fire. When he reached the end of the yard, he looked back, and said the shed seemed to burst Into flames almost instantly. Assistant Manager J. K. Bruton said approximately 1600 bales of cotton were burned In the fire and estimated they were damaged to the extent of about 50 per cent. Some of the bales were compressed, some were not. Figuring the loss at 50 per cent for the 1600 bales at the current market price of 35 cents a pound, the total would have been approxi mately $140,000. Mr. Burton said, however, there was no way of ac curately estimating the loss at this j *ime. Workmen were put to work im mediately on the job of salvaging 'the unburned portions of the cot i *on bales. ' Mr. Bruton said the cotton was •lsured. Air Force Base, Fla., and had tried to rob her. BECAME -CHUMMY" He said he and Mrs. McPherson, the wife of a traveling executive, got “chummy" after he changed his mind about robbing her and they stopped several times on the highway for beer. She called him endearing names, he said, and took him to her home to spend the night. 1 . (Lauhon waa arrested Friday In Nogales, Mexico, while trying to sell an automobile which belong to Mre McPherson. (Eto <B ailQ JJwntJ estimated about half of many of the 16M bates could be salvayd. In the background can be seen the shed in which the cotton bunded. Cause of the blaze still has not been determined. Erwin and Dunn firemen kept the flames from spreading to nearby warehouses, where more than $5,006,000 worth of cloth is stored. (Daily Record Photo.)| ' I T —jar : . . —fr . .. - c - ’.A Diinn men Pap Fine On Larceny Charge Two Dunn men were convicted on charges of larceny and receiv ing in the county recorder’s court and received 12-months sentences, suspended on payment of SIOO fine and court costs and placed on pM bation for two years. ry The defendants were James Cottle, 27, of Dunn and Velton Bikini Suit - Is Unsexy, Survey Shows LONDON —The Bikini bathing suit is disappearing from Europe’s beaches because it hampers sex appeal, a United Press survey of 1956 swim wear indicated today. Shaptly swimmers . said they learned the old theory that the male is more Interested In women who subtly hide their charms. Now they are going into hiding in one piece swimsuits. He said he was married in Japan to Taeko Suzili of Fukuvka in a Shinto Japanese rite in 1952. “When she, Taeko, wasn’t around, I just went to pieces,” he said. He told police he was In bed at the McPherson home on the night of June 22 when he suddenly be came ‘‘worried about tomorrow" and whether Mrs. McPherson would report him. “I went into the bedroom of Mrs. Ruby’s mother. She rose up and said ‘Who Is this?’ I shot her and the boy. "Then I went Into Mrs. Ruby's room. I knocked her out with a blackjack I wanted to take her with me in the ear. I hit at her (CeattaMd Ob Page Paw) DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFfERNOON, JULY 4, 1955 Silas of DJfpn, Route 4. fhey wergi charged with break ing and enuring the used car lot operated b£ Albert Smith on Dunn, Route 4 and stealing six tires, six wheels and other equip ment valued at $65. Bother were found guilty of lar ceny and receiving. Vice Recorder L. M. Chaffin warned them that violation of the terms of their probation would lead them in prison for 12 months. Following is a list of the other cases tried at the Thursday ses sion of court: Walter J. Hood paid the cost for driving with an expired li cense. Louis McKay paid the costs for public drunkenness. A nol pros was taken in the case of Bessie Lee, charged with possession of bootleg whiskey. George Allen McLean got a year on the roads for manufacturing whiskey. 1 Continued on Page Twe) Dunn To Be Host At' Fraternal Meet Eastern Star members irom 14 cnapters comprising the Ninth District wiil gatner m Dunn on Saturday, a\> gust 13 for a District School of Instruction. Vi Hi jg . gj I ■s) PAUL DREW Scoff Attacks m Again On farm Surpluses | CARTHAGE, N. C. (IP) W. Kerr Scott today Recused the Eisenhower ad ministration of refusing to jcoopefjite in disposing of tSastjiloeks of agricultural which he termed 1 farm problem.” The: forufter Tar Heel governor attacked administration leaders in a talk ht a July Fourth celebration here sponsored by the Carthage Junior Chamber of Commerce. Scott, a member of a special Senate Agriculture subcommittee investigating farm surplus disposal policies, sftid “instead of making efforts to expand consumption of farm products in areas of the world Where hunger runs rampant, we are being told that farmers are producing too much and.should cut back." „ “It 1s obvious,” Scott said, “the Eisenhower administration is per fectly content insetting surpluses continue to pifc up and seeing farmers take less and less for what they grow ” He blamed top level State De partment policies for failure of American farm surpluses to move in world market channels. •He cited as an example ‘the State Department is opposed to sending any rice, which we bold for fear ft mfjht Tuflle tne SRI£ of Japan, a major rice producer." Meanwhile, because of growing farm ‘surpluses,,” Scott said, “our farm economy Is sick, sick to the bone, and no matter how hard he tries, Secretary Benson cannot convince the farmers that every, thing is rosy with his double-talk about prosperity." Record Roundup QUIET WEEKEND lt has been a quiet holiday weekend in Dunn and Harnett so far. Acting Police Sergeant H. Davison said It has been the quietest weekend in Dunn since he returned to duty. Only three arrests were made on Saturday and there had been none since, up to 2 p. m. today. Not a single arrest was made Saturday night, usually the busiest period of the whole week for police. Sheriff Claude Moore likewise said things had been unusually quiet over the county. (Continued On Page Six) Plans for the event were an nounced here today by Paul Drew, the newly-elected District Deputy Grand Patron of the fraternal order. Mr. Drew, who Is associated with the Hatcher-Skinner Funeral Home in Dunn, was elected and installed in the high post at the convention held a few weeks ago in Charlotte. The new district deputy grand patron, who has already started making his official visits in the district will be in charge of local arrangements for the school of in ' struction. All of the officers of the district, along with other representatives of each chapter, are expected for the event and several hundred are ex pected to register. It will be held in the Dunn Mas onic Hall, one of the largest and most bea.utiful in Eastern Carolina. Miss Hilda Haliburton of Clyde, (Cwtlrod on Page Two) 4 mm. Jf J*' ! TWk •. % x '"i€i Jj H ’Wvm £** '*^-1 HE’S RIGHT AND READY lt Ikkws a tophat and beard at least a moustache to sell peanuts in centennial-minded Har nett County these days and peanut vendor L A. Smith of Dunn, Rodte 3 was ready for business this morning as he entered into the t»<t Erwin’s colors ul Fourth of July celebration in they park. r V f »IMHPlM|iim.d her* oStAMrmAr as he WtjJ hi* wares. Anybody want some hot ’uns? (Daily Record Photo.) MOTHER PRAYS FOR RETURN Two-Year-Old Girl Snatched ] By Bear LIBBY, Mont. (IP* Anrtiysterical mother prayed to day that searchers may find and rescue her two-year-old daughter who was snatched by a bear yesterday and car ried into the woods. The mother, Mrs. Mortimer E. Curtis of Libby, watched in horror as the bear took her child, Ida Mae. from a tent and loped into Heavy timber. \ Mrs. Curtis said the bear may have been a grizzly. It held the child with its left front paw and disappeared Into the thicket run ning on three legs. Officials at the logging camp where the Incident occurred stop ped Mrs. Curtis from chasing the bear. " * They immediately organized a search party of 300 men who fan ned over surrounding area. The - -j £ IL /1 - LEMONADE INSTEAD OF A TICKET “You mean I get free lemonade instead of a ticket gee but this is wonderful," declared Mrs. Drucilla Long of 519 Maple Avenue, Burlington, as Charles Johnson of the Erwin Woodman of the World serves her a cup of lemonade as Patrolman Paul v t he Record Is First* IN CALCULATION .. , NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY search continued throughout the night and loggers said the bear may have taken the child into the high cabinet range mountains. Some of the searchers said moth er bears who have lost their cubs have been known to take small children. A spokesman said two older Cur. tis children saw the bear enter the tent where the family was staying on an outing. They ran down the road to tell their mother. Their father was working in the woods a short distance from the scene. The Curtis home is in Libby but the family spent the weekend in (Continued On Page Eight) Albergine, left, and Corporal Ronunle William son right, look on all amflea. Her Uttle My la the back seat was also enjoying a cup of the re freshing lemonade. Refreshing the motorist* *M part of the holiday safety campaign la Harnett, (Daily Record PhotoJ NO. 150 Officials Fear I New Record May Be Made By UNITED PRESS One of the biggest traffic * jams in the .natfwn’s history sent holiday traffic deaths climbing towards record heights today. Cars clogged the high ways across the nation as the long July 4th weekend hit its climax. In the East* a blazing heat wave lured added millions to the roads r . and pushed the toll higher. By 11 a.m. EST, a Press survey showed 280 deaths on the highways since fi pjn. Friday. Di-ownings were in the high num bers. as usual during a midsummer holiday when temperatures are i high, and totaled 123. There were I six dead in plane crashes and 88 V“ from miscellaneous causes for an j overall fatality total of 497. / California had 30 traffic lowa 15. Michigan 14, Illinois IST Pennsylvania and Tennessee U each, Georgia and Texas 10 each, i , The National Safety Council safl the death rate on Ibe highways was keeping pace with M animate of a record 380 traffic deaths by midnight tonight. Deaths were run ning about 40 ahead of last yAir, when 324 persons died, and the previous record of 356 for a three day July 4th weekend appelired Sttfe to fall. iwi'KOili^iiifdiil. » «>:poph 1 Rj'mntfriflfl Hwn of th9 State at 1 p.tn. this that there has been only oßwwiinor accident in Harnett since the long holiday weekend began. Continued on Page Six) Hew Lovelies .■>'' 4 „ < * Filling Gap In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD OPI Star short age? Movie studios are filling the demand with a raft of new love lies. and one studio even is risking a million-dollars to turn out a Grade A star overnight. Hollywood’s current top stars— the Humphrey Bogarts and Lana Turners—are so few and familiar that theater operators are crying ’’for new faces. Nearly every film factory has launched a campaign to build new beauties and handsome profiles in to new stars. But only one, Para mount, is daring to manufacture a movie star in capital letters in a hurry. (Continued am Page Twe)
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