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PAGE SIX Larceny (Continued from Pape One) flue cure tobacco missed by F. V/. Baker of Fuquay Springs. Route 1 resulted in indictment of four ! young people on charges of embez- I zlemen't, E abv Jean Cummings. 20, entered guilty plea to forcib’e trespass ana judgment was sus pended on payment of costs. Tho mas Wilbur Cummings, 27. submit ted to the same charge and drew six months in jail, suspended on condition he pay the owner around S6O 50 for the missing leaf. Joanne Tompkins and Perline Tompkins, j young girls of St. Pauls, indicted i in the same case, were acquitted ] No probable cause was found again- f st either. Clarence Graham. 33-vear-old Lillington Negro faced charges of bootlegging at his house within Lillington town limits and at Red Top Inn. a place allegedly owned by him in Johnsonville township. Gra ham requested a jury trial and his case was removed to Superior Court. Graham has been indicted previously on prohibition law viola tions, but has not. been convicted James Thomas McKay entered a guilty plea to illegal possession of non tax-paid whiskey. He re ceived six months on the roads, suspended on payment of sll fine and not violate any liquor law’ du ring the tw’o-year period. A 50-year-old Negro of Lillington. Route 1. Rufus Dixon, alias Rufus Harris was acquitted of possession cf non-tax paid whiskey. Dennis J. Brookshire entered a guilty plea to illegal possession of whiskey. He was taxed costs. Ernest and Stewart Langdon were acquitted of assault charges, and the prosecuting witness, Eliis Lang don, was taxed the costs. Joon Phillips was cleared of tlie charge of assaulting Mrs. Kather ine Faircloth of Coats, Route 1 with a board. The case against Paul Swann was dismissed w’ith leave to re-open. Sw’ann had been charged with iiring a gun in a store last August 13 near the heme cf Cc.imia Mc- Lean. Another case dismissed with leave to re-open was that charging Quincy McKay with non support. Several defendants entered guilty .pleas to public drunkenness. Fines ranged from five to ten -dollars and two defendants were let off with payment of costs. Two Arrested (Continued from Page One) and his 11-year-old brother, An ton. The boys were strangled or beat en to death on Chicago’s northwest side on Oct. 16. Their nude, mu tilated bodies were found stacked in a forest preserve ditch. Chicago police asked for the ar rest of Driscoll and Kline when they learned from a tipster that Driscoll had given up his factory job and left town on Oct. 20, two days after the bodies were dis covered. Politics Taboo (Continued from Page One) Mr. Eisenhower conferred for more than 30 minutes Monday with one of the key politicians of his administration. Postmaster Gen eral Arthur E. Summerfield. “We really did not discuss pol itics,’’ Summerfield said. “I thought it would be most inappropriate for me, under the circumstances conditions, to discuss politics witii the President, or frankly, with any one else.” This has been the administration line for every major visitor ap pearing in the hospital suite where the President is recovering satis factorily from a Sept. 24 heart attack. M Portraits M Commercial if, ■ Photography m H Photos For B Occasion M Mk •YtkToWtl Drunk Driving Costs Hodges Charles Rav Hodges of 409 W. j Broad St. in Dunn was found guilty of drunken driving in Dunn Re corders Court yesterday. He was also convicted of careless and reck less driving. On the two counts, he was sent enced to 90 days on the roads, su spended on condition that he pay a slls fine and court costs. Judge If Paul Strickland also recommend : ed revocation of his driver’s license. A spate of five careless and reck less driving cases, besides the one involving Hodges, were handled in court yesterday. Elijah Junios Sut ton of Dunn. Rt. 3, and Luther F. Whitehead. Dunn, Rt. 4, both pled guilty to the charges. Whitehead received a $lO fine and costs Sutton was sentenced to 60 days, suspend ed on payment of sls fine and casts. D J. Jacobs and William Gar land Ransell. also facing charges cf careless an dreckless driving, each pled not guilty. Ransell was con victed, fined SlO and costs. Jacobs was fined $5 and costs. Shelton Barefoot of Dunn, Rt. 2, charged with careless and reckless driving, and speeding, pled guilty to the speeding charge, was fined $lO and costs. Other speeders convict ed w-re Thomas Edward Blount, Fort Bragg, who pled guilty, was fined with the costs: Jerry Lynn Ammons, who pled guilty, fined $5 and casts; and Johnny Lou vert Barefoot. Dunn Rt. 2, who waived his appearance in court thmuen his attorney W. A. Taylor and was sentenced to pay costs. For operating a car without x driver’s license. Dellie Wilkerson, Fort Bragg, was fined $25 and costs, given 30 days suspended: Al fred Stewart, Rt. J, Benson, pled not guilty to "no lights,” but was convicted and fined $5 and costs. Walter H. Tart of Rt. 1, Dunn, pleading guilty to operating with out a driver’s license and running a stop sign: was fined $25 and costs, with sentence of 60 days on the roads suspended on the additional condition that he pay $206 for the "use and benefit” of Charles L Holmes for damages to his car. Leg Is Shattered By Shotgun Blast Robert Allen, 43-year-old negro of Rt. 1, Godwin, had his leg shat tered by a shotgun biast this week end. but neither he nor tfhe man accused of shooting him were talk ing. Allen underwent surgery in High stnith Hospital for a compound fracture of his right leg. Mean while, Cumberland County police lodged a charge of assault with a deadly weapon against Amos Armstrong 30 yea rold negro of the same address as Alien. The bla^i—from a 12-gauge shotgun—was fired at “Carbine” Williams' farm. Officers said nei ther man was giving details about the shooting. Bill Salmon (Continued from Page One) temoon pending arrival home of a sister, who is visiting in the moun ■ tains of Western Carolina. One of the best known law’ en forcement officers in the State, Sheriff Salmon served Harnett continuously for 22 years and dur isg that time was the investigating officer in some of the State’s most widely-publicized court cases, j He left office w’ith the unique record that during his entire term of office not a single felony had gone unsolved. He was also the son of a sheriff. His father, the late Silas Andrew Salmon, served Harnett a« sheriff for several' terms. He was a mem ber of a family long prominent in t ie Democratic Party in Harnett and in the State. Mr. Salmon was a native and lifelong resident of Harnett Coun ty. He attended the Lillington rr-biic schools, a private school at Warrenton and Bingham Military Academy at Asheville. After finishing school, he held a position for about ten years with the old Standard Sand and Gravel Company. He was first elected Sheriff of Harnett in 1932 and left office In December of last year after declin ing to run for another term. POPULAR OFFICIAL Throughout the years, he was one of the county's most beloved officials and election after election roiled up big majorities at the bal lot box. Citizens throughout the county today were paying tribute to the retired 1 official. He served overseas during World War I and made an outstanding service record. He wa sa member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Salmon was a prominent Presbyterian laymen, a member off the Lillington Church. He was al so a member off the Lillington Ma sonic Lodge and took an active part in various others affairs of the town and county. MARILYN MONROE Marilyn, Joe Decree Final HOLLYWOOD HP A final di vorce decree officially ended today the all-American match of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. Neither was present in the cham bers of Superior Judge Elmer D. Doyle yesterday when her final divorce decree was entered in court records. “What are the chances of a re conciliation?" Doyle asked the ac tress’ attorney, Jerry Geisler, who appeared for her. “That's gone by the boards.” Giesler said. "The time has pass ed.” Oiesler had sent Marilyn the final decree document to be signed in New York where she is living. WED IN 1954 The couple married Jan: 14, 1954, in a civil ceremony in San Francisco. Nine months later the blond beauty announced to a stun ned world of movie and baseball fans that she and the Yankee Clipper had separated. The couple dated after the di vorce. There were rumors of a reconciliation. The rumors ended after a party DiMaggio gave her on her 29th birthday in New York on June 1. The party wound up with Marilyn and Joe Battling, friends said. Roundup (Continued from Page One’ i corder’s Court Kyle Harrington who also was moving his records from the second floor of the court house to the new quarters. SELECTED DELEGATE Peg gy Barfield was among fifteen stu dents of East Caroiina College who have been selected! to participate In activities of tihe State Student Leg islature at Raleigh November 19. FELLOWSHIP AND HARVEST SALE—The Coats Baptist Church will have its annual Fellowship and Harvest Sae Wednesday night in the Church Basement. Supper of barbecue and baked chicken will be served from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. Plates will be SI.OO. A brief devo tional wib' be given at 7:30 follow ed with the sale of cakes, pies, handiwork and farm products. The proceeds will go on the church in debtedness. Rev. J. Ben Eiler, pas tor. Dale Carnegie (Continued from Page One) Carnegie published his famous book in 1936 and almost immedi ately It became a best-seller. He later established classes in public relations in major cities, using Carnegie-trained men as instruct ors. He began his career as a public speaking teacher in 1912 when he was 24, launching classes in a New York City YMCA. He charged each pupil a nominal fee but In two years the classes became so popu lar that Carnegie was earning SSOO a week. After his book appeared his lec ture tours attracted large crowds at cities throughout the nation. Carnegie was divorced from his first wife In 1931 after 10 years of marriage. He was married again Nov. 5, 1944, to Mrs. Henry Price of Tulsa, Okla. He married' the former Miss Mar tha Faircloth off Conway, S. C„ a registered nurse. Surviving axe his wife: one bro ther. Neill McX. Salmon; one sis ter, Mrs. O. S. Atkins, both off Ul lisgton; one nephew, Neill MfeK. Salmon, Jr. and 1 one niece, Mia Frances Louise Atkins, a (so of Lll lington. THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN. N. & Boy Held In School Breakin The SBI think they have caught the attempted safe-braker at Ben haven School—l9-vear-old Jackie Sloan who drew a gun on officers when they tried to arrest him in a cemetery. Officers had -to shoot Soan in the seat of the pants to quiet him, but he was not, they said, serlousiy wounded. Sloan Is suspected of the Benhaven break-in and of a series of safe robberies around Rocking ham, Moore. Hoke and Harnett counties. During a gunfight with officers R. A. GillLs and B. F. Reynolds, Sloan fell as though he had been hit. When they approached to check his condition, he bobbed up with gun in hand. It was then he got shot in the seat of the pants. Two Critically Hurt In Wrec k Two persons who were hurt in separate Wrecks in the vicinity of Lillington during the week end re main in critical condition. Jimmy Lester Bennett, 15-year old youth of Lillington, Route 2 is in Dunn Hospital following a col lision between a car and a tractor Bennett w’as driving one mile south ot Lillington on highway 15-A. Sammy Ray Matthew’s, 20 of Lillington. Route 3 Is in Lee Coun ty Hospital in Sanford with a sev ere head injury received when a car in which Matthews was a pas senger went out of control on a curve, hurtled through the air 402 feet and overturned three times on the Spring Hill Church road, near Mamers. Both accidents, investigated by Patrolman Herman Ward, happen ed on Friday night between 6:30 end 9:30 p. m. Bennett was driving a 1947 John Deere tractor South on highway 15-A when he was hit from the rear by a 1950 Buick driven bv Walter B. Duke of 902 East Eden ton Street, Raleigh. Mr. Duke told highway patrolman Ward that he had just met a car and hit the tractor, which had no lights, before he knew it. The Raleigh man suf fered a cut lip and his wife, Mrs. Eva Prince Duke, 47 who was rid ing on the front seat, received a possible skull fracture, and lacera tion of the right arm. She was ad mitted to a Raleigh hospital. Bennett, given first aid treat ment at Dr. J. K. Williford’s office in Lillington was taken by ambul ance to Dunn Hospital The youth suffered a lacerated head. Injuries to his right knee, and possible in ternal injuries. The patrolman said the tractor was totally demolished and dam ages to the Buick were estimated at S6OO. i Investigation of the accident is i continuing. In the accident eight miles West of Spring Hill Church Patrolman Ward was assisted in the investl ■ ationgation by Rural policeman Walker O’Quinn. They said they i found that a 1953 Chevrolet driven by Thomas Franklin Johnson, 25, of Broadway, Route 1 was travel ing South when it went out of control on a curve, and overturned • The driver escaped without injury but Matthews was badly Injured The officers said Matthews suffer ed considerable loss of blood be > fore he was rescued by a passing motorist and rushed to the San ford hospital. No charges have been filed pending a report on the con dition of Matthew’s. Johnny Podres Is Facing Draft WITHERBEE, N. Y. (TO-South paw Johnny Podres, -who pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their first world championship last month, has been oMered by his draft board to report for a physical examina tion on Nov. 14, members of his family said today. Podres, 23. w’as rejected for mil itary service on a previous exami nation In 1952 because off a back injury. Out of action part off the time with arm trouble, Podres won only nine games for the Dodgers. Glass Vase Is Deadly Weapon? Court Says Yeh Remember all those cartoons where a wife throws a vase at her husband or beats him with it? Well, Ava Chapman appeared In Dunn Recorder’s court yesterday for just that sort of thing. She was accused of “assault with a deadly weapon” for hitting hus band Henry on the head with a glass vase. Vlrs. Chapman pled guilty. Judge H. Paul Strickland let bar off with court caste and SO day suspended sentence, but no fine, on that during the ensuing 13 “she shall not unlawfully assault her husband.” NOW YOU GET A VALUE IN TWO WAYS When You Buy From The Appliance Department At Johnson Cotton Co. From Now Until Dec. 17th You Can Come In and Register for the MINIATURE JkunfaM Also We Will Have A Thunderbird Special Each Week. . . , •• •• ••gnop .rYaraa I ■ _ Math at i 7 r hU Jb The 7 funuferkint AMP Ij 7kuhtterbirt! 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