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+ WEATHER * Genciajiy fair and cool this af ternoon tonight and Thursday with scattered frosts in mountains and local frosts in Piedmont tonight. VOLUME 5 IKE. DULLES HOPEFUL lllil *- • J* A jfßilr' -.mHBSSSIP" POLICE PROTECTION FOR PETER ■' H\ P OI- I L-.ft ru* 1 ■ " by London police as a crowd crushes around him as he attempts to enter his car after leaving his apartment in Lowndes Square. Popular in his own right as the pilot who shot down the first enemy plane in the Battle of Britain, the 40-year-old divorced father of two children has become the center of speculation after two visits with Princess Margaret. GRIEF - STRICKEN PARENTS - THEIR HOUR OF SUPREME SORROW Their Sons Slain , they See No Reason To Live Jh&M JJiinqA by HOOVER ADAMS ; | ,> f i \ LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS The next time a celebration rolls around and the women dress up in old-fashioned clothing, Ge orge Upchurch is going to look at each lady who comes into his store just a little more closely. He thinks he'd better. On Saturday morning, a lady wearing a bonnet and long dress walked into his store and said, “Good morning,” “Good morning,” replied Unde George, very casually. “I’d like to buy a box of Tube Rose snuff.” said the ladv. “Yes. Ma'am.” replied the Dunn businessman. "Which kind did you want, sweet or plain?” “Sweet, of course," replied the customer, who had a tooth brush sticking out the corner of her mouth. Uncle George gave her the snuff and the lady gave him the monev and started to walk out, smiling all over her Self. She turned around as she start* (Continued On Pare Twtl Pruett Joins Staff OfT homasWalgreen Wr Pi- ... Wl ' fm% IRVIN PRUETT TELEPHONES 3117-3118 CHICAGO (IP) What do parents do when the news comes that their young boys have been murdered? They cry, of course. And they remember. • And they sit in their qhaifs,. spying at the w«Ua won dering how it could have hap pened wondering what they have left to live for. All these things, and more, were pdpg on today in two modest prick bungaiow homes os the northwest side of Chicago. JLasfc Sunday two brothers, John, 13, and Anton Jr., 11, left the An ton Schuessler home. Their friend, Robert, 13. said goodbye to his pa rents at the Malcolm Peterson home. About six hours later all three boys were murdered. Their naked bodies were found Tuesday, dump ed in a forest preserve ditch five miles from their homes. They had been strangled. The narents heard the news ober the radio and from newspaper re porters. Hours inter, the mothers sat numbly in their chairs. The fa thers paced about, trying at the same time to soothe their wives an* voice their own hit’emess. There was Mrs. Bchiiessler. 37, moaning ‘‘My life . . . my arms . . my legs . . . now gone.” Standing to shriek “I want my boys! I want my—” Her 41-vear-old husband returns from the morvue, pulling on a cigarette. He falls on his knees be fore his wife, sobbing ‘Mother, what kind of land do we live in " lit was not alwavs Sohuessler’s land. Bom in Chicago, he was ■ Serving as a combat medic in | World War II led Irvin Pruett to I adopt pharmacy as a career, but I he has been working in drugstores I since he was 15. ) Thirty-four years old and a resi- I dent of Indiana most of his life, I Pruett came to Dunn three weeks I age and Is now in his second week | at the Thomas Walgreen Drug I Store where he is serving as a re- I gistered pharmacist. | Pruetts wife, the former Bessie I May Stuart, is from Harnett Coun- I ty. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. 1 Kennie P. Stewart. Broadway, I Rt. 1. 3 “She was with me in Indiana I from 1947 for eight years,” said I Pruett. “Now I’m down here with I her.” They live at 902 N. Layton. WAS COMBAT MEDIC “ Pruett was on the lines for over (Continued On Page Four) The Daily Record raised in Germany, returning in his teens to become a tailor. IHe had only two sops—no other c%t£ dren. The Petersons’ home is only a few blocks away. They come home from the morgue to find their three smaller children, aged 3 to 7 crying hysterically. They try to be brave for their sake. Over and ofer again, there is the same refrain in both homes— “ They were attth good boys” And the murdered boys’ neigh bors and teachers agree. They were, indeed, good boys. One thing was sure—there was nothing of the juvenile deltsfuent in any of the boys. They played close to home and their parents geserally knew what they were doing. Untii Sunday. Jhe Wjcmhjn TFlowwe Stoty praps JJ i '■&s jy|Bpp* •' .a wKB ■ A % ¥ ~ , • * |llgg|t ** DUNN, N C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1955 City-Wide J Revivals I <?• Big Success The exciting days of Cea tennial Week have been suc ceeded by large - scale refe gious observances in DunßEt Churches. Simultaneous re vival services are being in the several congregations. For this “Church Loyalty Werf” —the first in Dunn's history—visiß ing ministers have been invited here to conduct regular daily and evening services. RECEPTION HELD Last evening there was a recep tion at the home of the Rev. E. P. Russell, pastor of the First Bap tist Church. This was attended by all visiting ministers, and by local ministers and their wives. A luncheon will be held at Hood Memorial Christian Church on Friday. Each morning of this week, radio station WCKB has featured a 13- minute talk by one or another of the visiting speakers. On Monday and Tuesday, the speakers were Rev. J. Glenn Blackburn, visiting the First Baptist Church. Rev. J E. Carlington, visiting Divine SL Methodist. Today’s radio message was de livered by Rev. Don Carroll, who is at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God church. Thursday the speak er will be Rev. Claude MacDonald, visiting Hood Memorial Christian, and Rev. O. N. Todd, speak er a k Gospe!*S!abern#Crtj M Dhfne Street Methodist has been (Continued On Page Seven) 1956 Plymouth Will Be Shown Plymouiths new aerodynamic 1956 cars wifi be displayed by dealers in Dunn and Coats beginning Friday morning and huge crowds are ex pected to see this wonderful new low-priced car. It will be shown at Dickey Mo tors and at W. and S. Motor Com pany in Dunn and at Coats Moror (Continued On Page Four) PART FOUR Marilyn Monroe has been a restless, hungry dreamer most of her life. Many of her dreams have been summoned to drive away old sadnesses. Her youth was not a happy one Born Norma Jean Mortenson, she never knew her father, and a long illness kept her mother away from her. Until she was 1 1-2. she was a public ward She lived at 12 different foster homes in Los Angeles. , Shy. puzzled, skinny; the kids at one school called her “Norma Jean the Human 3ean.” Her first foster parents told her dancing, card-playing and movies were “works of the devil.” At her next home, where phe lived with a pair of movie extras, she was taken to the picture shows and taught to do a little-girl "Hula” dance. Her childhood is a memory of going to a new school alone, of sitting atone at long afternoon movies, of a foster mother who asked a teacher to take Norma out of a class Christmas play be cause she was afraid this bashful, stuttering girl would forget her lines. I It was the sort of life to drive a child to dreams and to se»f reliance. The orphan invented solitary, games. On a reading spree she acquired a crash on Abraham Lin coln which she still possesses, (“He’s like a father to /me"), and her dreaming brought her her first artistic recognition i nthe form of a (Continued on Page Two) r>:. ■-rwr::- 1 ... LD , T i . li * : i REV. EARL SHOTWELL EVANGELIST AND SINGER Revival services are now In progress at the East Erwin Baptist Church. Rev. Ed McGee, pastor of Calvary is the evangelist and Rev. Earl Shotweli, student at: Campbell Col lege, is leading the singing. Ser vices will coptiiras each night;at 7:30 through Thursday October T7. Rev. Blly Fox is pastor sf the church. New Chemical Controls Weeds RIVERSIDE, Calif. HP! A new weed control technique expected to save commercial rose growers thousands of dollars has been de veloped on the University of Cali fornia campus here. A single application of the new chemical has been found to pro vide effective control of weeds dur ing the spring months when grow ers normally are forced to weed by hand. : Mf. sy. V||||h^B_ i - MHT 1 f • i ml wv jaap l #i *, ’ ! ’ ; ' mVHaIhI jfcfcjfs- .. •> . 'W| m - . v aMU. 1 is|' -4-' jj*^| , : , jj^EZH^pp. *fvwl OVER GENEVA Conference Is Held At Denver Today DENVER <IP Secretary of State John Foster Dulles reported after a conference with President Eisenhower today that he and the chief executive shared a “meas ured hope” lor concrete achievements from the forthcoming Big Four for eign ministers meeting in Geneva. Dulles, following a 25-uninute ses sion at the President’s bedside at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, said re expected no “spec:acuiar results” from Geneve but that ‘‘any results at all would mark an advance on most if not all of our prior confer-- ences with the Soviet Union.'' Dulles covered the Geneva agenda! again with the President and reported the chief executive was pleased that he, Dulles, plan ned to stop in Rome for brief con ferences with top Italian leaders before going on to the foreign min is.ers conference. CERTAIN RESULTS EXPECTED ‘‘l go to Geneva with the assur ance that I have behind me a President who fully knows the is sues and who has given me a full and comprehensive mandate to speak for our nation at that con ference,” Dulles said at a news conference. He( said he thought the Geneva meeting promised to bring forth (Continued On Page Three) Harnett Hogs Win At Fair RALEIGH l?>—Double Z Ranch of Durham won blue ribbons today for the open champion bull and North Carolina champion bull in the Hertford class of beef cattle judging at the 88th North Carolina State Pair. Harnett and Johnston County farms almost *wept honors in the Duroc class of the senior swine (Continued on Page Two) <■ The Record Is Firs* * IN CIRCULATION .. . NEWS PHOTOS ... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY .ps ia^nL LITTLE MAN, BIG NOISE Drummer for the Dunn High School band is Joseph Campbell. He’s shown here marching with the band during <the Centennial Celebration parade here Saturday. , Joseph is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lundy Campbell;. (Daily Record Photo.) j “STOLEN AOVE WILL BRING YOU SORROW" ~~ Romance Ends In Murder, Suicide MIAMI (IP) A soldier’s suicide note today told the story of his love for a major’s wife that began with their headlined flight across Germany and ended in blazing gunfire, suicide and murder at a busy Miami intersec tion. “This ends what was once a beautiful romance,” the note said. George D. Bryson, Jr., 32-year old combat veteran of two wars, wrote the note Tuesday a few hours before he pumped two bullets into his mistress Mrs. Sylvia Dahl Hess, 22, then shot himself in the temple John Hodiak Dies Os Heart Attack HOLLYWOOD (IP) Actor John Hodiak died of a heart attack today at his home in the San Fernando Valley. The stage and screen star, who first won fame for his portrayal in a “Bell for Adono,” was 41 and a native of Pittsburgh. Hodiak was the son of Ukranian immigrants Walter and Ann Pa gorzelliec. The family moved to Detroit when he was eight, and he began his ac'ing career three years later in Russian and Ukranian play's in a parish there. The young actor, talented to the extent he won a scholarship in Shivers Tells Adlai ; Quit Playing Coy POINT CLEAR, Ala. (IP) Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, who led his state into the Eisenhower column in 1952, saick today Adlai Stevenson “cannot lie behind the log and bo coy if he hopes to be nominated” for President by the Dem ocrats next year. i Shivers made his comment at the Southern Governors Conference here. The only official business on the conference agenda today was a panel discussion on water conser vation, but Shivers held a news conference at which political sub jects were mentioned. The Texas governor, who confer NO. 227 and fell dead across her body. , Witnesses said Bryson met Mrs. Hess at an intersection near where she worked as a waitress. They quarreled violently and slapped at each other. Then Bryson took a gun (Continued On Page Seven) dramatics at Northwestern Univer sity, turned down a professional baseball offer in preference to act ing. , His professional career actually began with radio parts and, in 1940 he originated the part of “Li’l Abner” in a Chicago show. Two years later MGM signed him. He was married in 1946 to ac tress Anne Baxter. They rater were (Continued On Page Seven) red with Stevenson early in th« 1952 presidential campaign, said h# hopes the Democrats will nominal* a man in 1956 he can support. He said the party has "a world of vary fine men.” He said he personally does n<4 believe that Stevenson, “one of th« (Continued On Page Sevan)
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