* WEATHER *
Considerable cloudiness and mild
Tuesday with widely scattered
showers or thundershowers. High
temperatures in the 60s in the
Mountains and 70s elsewhere.
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\VOMANLESS WEDDING Mingo had a the bride. Highpoint of the ceremony was canght
big time with its farcical mating of Miss Cling in above picture. Note short dresses (extreme
Devine and Ben Struck played by George R. left).
Barefoot as the groom and Lester Johnson as
Witness Tells How Actors
Adopt Black Market Babies
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By HOOVER ADAMS
FAMED PSYCHIATRIST
ENTERS LOCAL CASE IN
Herbert Johnson, prominent Coats
businessman and farmer, is strong
ly opposed to the proposed 20 per
cent tobacco acreage cut and points
out that it will hurt the small
farmers far more than the large
farmers Herbert, for instance,
has a 70-acre tobacco allotment,
which sounds big But,” he
points out I have 13 families liv
ing on my farms sharing in the
income from that allotment A
cut would simply mean that I put
more acres in pastureland and
would have to let some of my ten
ants look elsewhere Like many
other smart business men Herbert
realised long ago the fallacy of th®
old argument about "soak the rich."
“It just can’t be done” he says
For example when the govern
ment puts a new tax on DuPont or
General Motors or Esso who plays
it? It’s passed right on down to
the little man of course Inci
dentally Herbert says the real estate
auction sales week before last were*
"a tremendous success and every
body was happy.” And, added
Herbert, "HI have to give the credit
to the advertising we did in The
Daily Record —Coach Jim Brown
of Dunn High says Dunn business
firms are the most cooperative Ws
ever seen . .‘ “When we askedVthe
merchants for funds for our athle
tic program, we didn’t get a single
(Continued On Page Two)
Letter Names Sheppard
'Killer'; Secret Hunt Is On
By THEO WILSON ■
Copyright 1955 By The New York Dally News
NEW YORK A letter written by a person who says
he was with Marilyn Sheppard’s bloodstained murderer
shortly after the pregnant young housewife was beaten
to death last year has touched' off a Jiighly secret inves
tigation in this country and Canada, THE NEWS learned
yesterday.
The contents of the letter have
been disclosed to THE NEWS. U
contains the name of the alleged
TELEPHONES SI 17 • Sllß
MIAMI (IP) The chief in
vestigator of the Kefauver
subcommittee said today
that many Hollywood mov
ie stars became adoptive
parents ®f Augusta, Geor-
children without ever
visiting Georgia or having
any contact with the juve
nile court there.
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn),
chairman of the Senate subcommit
tee on juvenile delinquency, probed
deeper Into the Georgia juvenile
court whose judge Harry Wood
ward was accused of using the
courts for profit in placing adopted
children.
CHILD TAKEN AWAY
Special counsel Ernest Mitler re
lated a case history of a woman
In Augusta who gave birth to a
baby in University Hospital there
and was told by “a woman” that
her infant was bom dead. She
was asked to sign a paper author
izing public burial.
“It turned out the paper she
signed w'as a consent for adoption. ’
Mitler said, "and several years later
after she bad moved to California,
she was shocked when a welfare
worker interviewed her about her
child.
“This chid had been placed by
the Richmond County August*
juvenile court with a California
family which lived Just a few miles
away from this woman’s new Cali
fornia residence.”
Many members -of the movie
colony are adoptive parents through
this Georgia court,” Mitler said.
The ones I talked with had never
been to Georgia and had no contact
with the court but had arranged
to get their children through the
(Oanttmed Oaf Page Six)
LIKES GOOD-LOOKING MAN
WASHINGTON Buxom 22-
year-old government girl Ricky F.
Gottlieb on why she accepted mo-
kliler and, the names off two per
sons who can corroborate the story.
Marilyn’s husband. Dr. Sam
Sheppard, is serving a life term for
(She JHailij llccnrd
Woman Kills
Baby ; Didn't
Drink Milk
GREENSBORO (W—Mrs. Naomi
Ctonch, 19, was held without bond
here today pending a hearing on' a
first degree murder charge in the
death of an infant son she admit
ted s riking because he “wouldn t
drink his mldc.”
(Mrs. Clonch. wife of a textile
worker, was arrested Saturday
night aftes an autopsy showed that
her two-month-old son had died of
a fractured skull. The autopsy sur
geon said he also found the boy
to have a broken spine and broken
ieg.
The mother told police that it
got the best of her” Fri
day when her son, who she said
had cried constantly for two weeks,
refused to drink hi* milk. She said
she became angry and hit him on
the head several’ times with her
fists.
She said that Saturday the child
seemed pale and cold so she wrap
ped him in blankets and placed
him on an oil stove. She said she
picked him up when she smeiled
the blankets scorching and saw
that he was dead.
She suptmoned her husband,
James, 22, and rushed the child
to a hospital. It was first believed
that the child died of pneumonia
but the father gave permission for
an autopsy after a doc'or noticed
a bruise on the infant’s head. *
vie actor Marlon Brando's invita
tion to a Treasury Department
lunch:
T like nice looking men.”
the murder. He has constantly
claimed he Is Innocent, describing
the true murderer as a feuahy
haired intruder” who broke into
their Bay Village. Ohio, home,
siew Marilyn and beat Dr. Shep
pard into unconsciousness on the
Lake Brie shore near the home.
WAS ANCHORED IN RAT
According to the letter the mur
derer came ashore early on July 4,
1964, from a small cabin cruiser,
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DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 15, 1955
Dunn Pastor , Wife
Going To Europe
JXyR&r J. W. Lineberger, pastor of Divine Street Meth
gjjJsU-effurch, Dunn, has been elected counselor for the
1956 North Carolina Conference European Youth Cara
van, according to Dr. J. E. Garlington of Roxboro, chair
man. Mrs. Lineberger will accompany Mr. Lineberger and
ten youth caravaners on the European trip and will serve
as assistant counselor. „
Lineberger. a native of South
Carolina, received his A. B. degree
from Wofford College and his B.
D. degree from Duke University
Divinity School. He was admitted
into the North Carolina Conference
in 1933 and has served/the follow
ing churches: Rougemoit, Stem.
John-Gibson, FaisoreKegieittjrfne,
Chnadbourn, Fuquav/ and
his present he
has been stationed mfhe 1952. He
is a trustee of Louidburg College, a
member of -he North Carolina Con
ference Board of Missions and the
Board of Managers of the North
Carolina Pastor?’ School. He has
been active in the North Carolina
Conference youth program for a
number of years.
iMrs. Lineberger, a native of Au
treviDe, S. C., attended LaGrange
College LaGrange Ga., the Univer
sity of North Carolina and Wofford
College. She was on the faculty of
Spartanburg Junior College for
three years and has been active in
the woman’s program of the
church.
Textile Workers
Meeting Today
The Textile Workrs Union schd
uled to hold its regular meeting
today—a split one that occure at 1
p. m. for some members, At 1 for
others—in the union hall at Erwin.
Lacy Dawkins, general manager
of the union said he wasn’t expect-,
ing anything new to'develop at the
meeting as a consequence of the
doffer strike which ended with the
plants going back to work Monday.
The meeting yesterday in Dur-
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Harnett Ranks 7th
In Highway Deaths
No Hi - Jinks
At Opening
Os The Met
NEW YORK rtfV-The Metropoli
tan Opera opened it* 71st season |
last night an atmosphere of
nostalgic splendor with both the
all-American cast and the audience
performing according to the tradi
tion off the famous oid opera hpuse
Every seat was filled for the first
night performance of Offenbach’s
‘Tales of Hoffman” and there
were 280 standees.
Those who watched the opera
from the 150 box and <3O orchestra
seats were dressed mostly in the
finery of the first nlghter—white
tie, tails, silk, lace mink: ermine:
and diamonds.
The cast vied with the audience
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♦ Record Roundup +
LEGISLATURE FOR STUDENTS
TO BE HELD The annual three
day mock legislature for students
from North Carolina colleges and
universities will be held at the State
Capitol building In Raleigh begin
ning Thursday, Nov. 11, with the
largest delegation expected from
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Among the alternates
to the legislature will be Jennie
Smith of Dunn.
GEORGE EARNSHAW ON PRO
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REV. J. W. LINEBERGER
Skirt - Slasher
Is Arrested ;
Admits Crime
MIAMI (IB— Police today held a
32- year-old shipping dark who ad
mi Med he was “overcome ’ with the
desire to slash to ribbons the skirts
of women who balloon them out
With crinoline petticoat*. .
Jbhn Joseph Walsh- was arnstod
after several months investigation
of skirt slashing in Miami theatres
and department stores.
Detective Ralph Emerson said
Walsh admitted the fall skirt craze
caused him to be overcome with
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Harnett County, which is among
the 10 counties in North Carolina
having the most highway fatalities
this year and kept up the bad work
yesterday, will be taking special
pains with Safe Driving Day this
year.
Whether they can come up to
last year Is something else again.
On the day set aside a year ago
for maximum attention to the de
mands of safe drving, Harnett man
aged—whether by luck or care—
I to get through the day without a
single accident being reported.
It wants the same sort of record
this year, and Corporal Rommie
Williamson of the State Highway
Patrol, announcing plans for this
year’s observances, adds that safe
driving in all the days preceding
and following Safe Driving Day
wont hurt, either.
The announcement was given in
creased Umeliness by the gruesome
accident yesterday in which Siler
City resident Reuben Worfford
plunged to his death in the Little
River bridge.
- Dunn Chairman for Safe Driving
(Continaed On Page Three)
GRAM Approximately five hun
dred parents of students attending
East Carolina were guests on the
campus Sunday afternoon, as the
college observed Parents’ Day. Se
veral events took place during the
afternoon, including a program on
music given in honor of the parents.
George Eamshaw of Erwin, bari
tone, was among thc*e singing
solos. ,
HONORARY FRATERNITY
(Canttaaad Oa Page Three)
ANNOUNCES
Declares Demo
Administration
Is Important
CHICAGO (IP) Adhti E.
Stevenson today announced
he will run for the 1956
Democratic presidental nom
ination.
Stevenson issued a long
awaited statement saying, “I
shall do all I can to persuade
my party” to give him the
presidental nomination a
gain.
HALL’S COMMENT
COLUMBUS, Ohio Republican
National Chairman Leonard Hall
commented on Adlai Stevenson’s
announcement on whether he wili
seek the Democratic presidential
nomination:
“The only thing that would sur
prise the American people would
be if he announced he isn’t going
to run.’’
He gave three reasons for seeking
the nomination:
1. “1 believe it important’’ for
the Democratic Party to take over
the national administration.
2. He has been “assured" of sup
port from “representative people in
and out of my party throughout
the country.”
3. He believes ali citizens should
contribute what they can •'to the
search for a safer, saner world.’’,
TEXT OF STATEMENT
Text of statement: ,
“I shall be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent x*st year.
"I shall do all I can to persuade
my party to entrust that immenee
responsibility to me again, be
cause:
“First, I believe it important fog
the Democratic Party to resume
the executive direction of our na
tional affaire: >
Second. I am assured that my
candidacy would be welcomed by
representative people in and out of
my party throughout the country:
‘Third, I believe any citizen
should make whatever contribution
he can to the search for a safer,
saner world.
“It Is off first importance to re
turn the executive branch of our
government to the Democratic
Party because it is apparent that
wisdom and responsibility began to
reappear in the conduct of our af
fairs only with the return of Con
gress to Democratic leadership in
the 1954 election.
CITES OPPORTUNITY
“Seldom before has the United
States faced a period of greater
opportunity and greater danger.
“Our great opportunity lies in
the fact that our prosperity and
wealth can now be used to give all
our people the highdr standards
and wider opportunities which are
mankind’s universal’ dream. These
are now within our reach, not sim
ply for the favored few, but: for
every family in America. ,
TO OUTLAW WAR »
“Our danger lies in the'ambition
(Continaed on Page Eight)
Jute Mann's
Brother Kilted
John H. Mann, 85, of Anderson.
S. C., brother of Jule T. Mann,
prominent Dunn business man-, was
killed instantly Monday night
about 6:30 In a head-on collision
between two «l
so seriously injured six
The fatal accident occurred on a
city street in Anderson.
Mr. Mann was a widely known
building contractor asd farmer.
THOSE INJURED
The injured, all residents of An
derson, were identified as Mrs.
Elizabeth Elrod Hudgens, 37: Mary
Joyce Hall, 15; Jerry AiVin Hall.
13; Mrs. Marie Owens Hall, 37;
Mrs. Myrtle Porter Owens Hail. 37:
Mrs. Joan Owens Martin. 19.
Mrs. Hudgens, who suffered hand
’ and Internal Injuries and a frac
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Sheriff Says Jail
No Hitching Post
ORLANDO, Fla. (IP) Sheriff Dave Starr said today
he strongly opposes plans of shapely Rosa Marie Finley
to re-marry her former common-law husband who is in
jail awaiting trial on charges of murdering her ex-boy
friend.
“I don’t intend to make the
Orange County Jail a hitching post
or marriage center as they have
in Las Vegas,” the sheriff said.
“As far as Tm concerned they can
wait until after the trial Is over.”
Miss Finley. 26, recovered from
wounds she also received in the
triangle shooting and applied for
a license to marry Bernard H.
Davis.
T fove him very much,” die an
nounced.
She got a divorce from Davis
early this year after two years of
common-law marriage.
Davis, 39-year-old television re
pairman. will be tried Dec. 1 for
first degree murder in the slaying
of Joel Cohen, 38, last July 24 at
Miss Findlay’s home.
Miss Findley said she hoped to
marry Davis in a church iff it can
be arranged, or even in jail on
Thursday even though her attor
ENTERS "NO CONTEST" PLEA
Rose Given 8-10
Years In Prison
Mike Rose Jr., about 31, of Dunn
and Erwin today was sent to pris
on for eight to ten years for assault
with a deadfy weapon with intent
to kill- his in-laws Mr. and Mrs.
Jm Hodges of Dunn, (Route 3.
Superior Court Julge George
Fountain of Tarboro, presiding ov
er a two-weeks session of Harnett
Superior Court, passed sentence on
Rose immediately after hearing
facts in the case.
Defense Attorneys Jake Lamm.
FVv Taylor and J. R. Young this
morning estered a formal plea of
"no contest” to two charges off as
sault with a deadly weapon vnth
ir.terr to kill. Thi« Is a technical
plea of guilty.
Judge Fountain gave Rose eight
to ten years on each count, to run
Sncurrently . On another charge
.careless and reckless driving,
speeding and carrying a concealed
weapon, judgment was suspended
in view of his other prison sentence.
Mr. and Mrs. Hodges elderly
Dunn couple, were shot on August
2 and remained hospitalized in A
NO. 246
seys have advised her it won’t pre
vent her from having to testify
“Our fe--nvatt.»lntf'%ig be the best
thing for both of UA* she said,. “I
know it’s going to be hard while
he is in prison but somehow I will
make out.
“We’re not getting married to
gain public sympathy,” she added.
“It will a'ear away that common
law status of our first marriage. I
never liked that status.”
Valuable Panties
Os Actress Stolen
BEVERLT HILLS, Calif. IW
Actress Gloria Rhodes told po
lice that the 18 pairs of panties
she claims a thief stole from her
clothesline were worth $l5O be
cause “they were embroidered
with a fig leaf and had rhine
stones on them."
critical condition for weeks.
Mr. Hodges, who had a narrow
escape from death, book the stand
and told how his son-in-law drove
up to his home on the afternoon
of August 2. He and Mrs. Hodges
were sitting on the front porch at
the time, he related, and Rase
whipped out a pistol and emptied
It at them. He said had no
reason for the shootiaß
Other witnesses inehlO# Patrol
man W O. Grady, wlw arrested
Rose after the shooting and fl
chase to Dunn which ended Whe4
Rose’s car crashed into a trea,
Sheriff Claude Moore and Rural
Policeman B. E. Sturgill.
ROSE TESTIFIES
Rose took the witness stand id
his own behaif and admitted tha
shooting, but said he didn’t intend
to do it; hadnt mean to kill *ha
couple and that he was sorry of
his act David Lucas, an East Er«
win barber, also testified for Rosa.
Officers previously had quoted
Rose as saying he meant to kW tfcf
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