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* WEATHER * Cloudy, windy and much cooler today with snow flurries likely in the mountains. Friday generally far and cold. VOLUME S TRIAL OF LEE AND ROSS DELAYED ORPHANED BY SHOOTING SPREE- A in '-i.n fuMliade at G roes beck, Tex., orphaned these four children of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Andrews, Jr. Andrews, 35. who was separated from his preg nant wife, Audrey, 23, shot and killed her, her father and her uncle, and then turned the gun on himself. The children are, from left, Reba Qaye and Linda Kaye, five-year-old twins. Joyce May, 4, and Guy Dudley, 17 months. BIBLE SALESMAN HAD TOO MANY WIVES ’ ~~ Bigamist Says Lord Forgave Him ; Judge Gives Him STo 7 ~ JkoAC Jjjbtlff JhbiqA By HOOVER ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Judge George Fountain, who, in cidentally. is ose of the youngest Superior Court judges In the State, and Solicitor Jack Hooks, are stay ing at Hodges Motor Court in Dunn during this court session . . . We might also add that Judge Foun tain is also one of the most hand some fudges to be found anywhere , . . He’s a good judge, too, and lawyers and laymen both like him and the way he conducts court . . . Pat Godwin, home from Elizabeth town to attend to some farm bus iness, says he had a good tobacco crop this year and was well pleased with the prices he received . . . Pat is manager otf the farm ma chisery department otf Johnson Cotton Co. at Elizabethtown . . Harnett officers worked all night and until .early this morning sum moning witnesses for the trial of the county Judge and solicitor . . . Luther Turner is home from Duke Hospital, where he underwent an operation . . . Mrs. Shirley Bass says it takes A lot of work—as well as money—to get a daughter mar ried . . . Daphne gets married Sun day .. . She’s a very popular young lady . . . Dr. John Messick, presi dent otf Ea«t Carolina College (He married a Falcon girl) is among i Continued on Page Two) GOIPSON DRIVER EXONERATED Childs Death Brings County's Highway Death Toll Up To 21 A four - year -old Negro child was killed instantly in! Harnett Wednesday after- j noon, bringing the county’s highway fatality toll for the year up to 21. Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen derson of Dunn identified the vic tim as Mary Elizabeth Moore of Llllington, Route 3, daughter of Mrs. Fannie Moore. The child was struck when she i ran out Into the road in front of I TELEPHONES 1117 - Sllß Faced with two angry wives yesterday, Homer Chn dress of Burlington did whai lie could to stave off prisofr sentence on a blgatriy' chaise, hiit it Wasn’t enough. V Despite Childress’ plea that the Lord forgave him while he was in jail awaiting hearing. Judge Geor ge Fountain gave him five to se ven years in prison today in Hat - nett Superior Court. Childress, a six-foot tall itener ant logging and construction man who has been known to act as a Bible salesman and preacher, was convicted on the testimony of the wives he married in 1945 and 1949. HE LIKES ’EM YOUNG The second marriage was with out benefit of divorce. In both cas es, he had married 14 year old girls. His first wife. Glennie Martin when he married her and now a Mrs. Morse of Newport News. Va., is a slim blonde who wears glasses and is dignified looking. The second, whom he married four years later, is Runelle Smith of Duncan. She is a striking bru nette. Both testified Childress had told them he was 37. “You were deter mined to stay under forty, weren’t (Continued On Page Seven) Injured Youth Asks 5150,000 A suit for $150,000 damages was filed in Harnett Superior Court today against three defendants for injuries allegedly received by‘ Edgar Raynor Messer, 16, of Erwin. The suit was brought by his father W. A. Messer as next friend. Named as defendants are: the Brown Tobacco Company of Fuq uay Springs: James F McCutchen. a truck driver employed by the (Continued on Page Two) a truck driven by Billy Rives, 22, i of Goldston. j A jury impaneled by Coroner Henderson ruled that the fatality was unavoidable and the Goldston man was released. Harnett County ranks seventh among the ten top counties of the State with the highest number of fatalities so far this year on its I highways. j Coroner Henderson said Mrs. I Moore and the child had Just gotten I out of a pick-up truck owned by JB&ilu Prince Wants Stripper Wife ; Family Objects TAORMINA. Sicily (OT—ltalian Prince Pier Francesco Borghese said today he feared the opposition of his nobie family might foil his plans to marry Ella Fudge, a 21- year-old strip-tease showgirl “I love Eila and we consider ourselves engaged,” the 28-year-old prince told reporters. “But my family is opposed to the match and I fear they will make things difficult.” Ella was known as Lynn Russell alien she appeared on the stage with Gypsy Rose Lee. She is tire daughter otf a $23-a-week London housepainter and has stripped in the United States, Spain and Itaiy. In Palermo the prince’s aunt. Princess Monc-ads di Patemo. said the prince planned to marry Ella in a Palermo church Saturday. The prince talked briefly with reporters in a Taormina night club where he took his fiance and her 16-year-old sister, Pat. Ella sent plane tickets to Pat in London and the young sister flew to Sicily yesterday. Prince Borghese, an architecture student, is a scion of one of Italy's most famous noble families. His father, Gian Giacomo Borghese, former governor otf Rome, died Sept. 28, 1954. her employer, James G. Holder, who had parked across the road from the Moore home. Mrs. Moore testified at the in quest that she suddenly heard the (Continued On Page Two) COLUMBIA, S. C. W The post office today reported He first 1986 letter to Santa Claus from fcmr year-oki Busan Morris. Susan asked for "some clothes for me and my doll baby . .and an Easter egg.” DUNN, N. e* THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 17, 1955 Baptists Take No Action On ASHEVILLE®) —The North Carolina Baptist Con vention wint on record to day as favoring a statewide liquor referendum but made no effort ito actively cam paign for One, The resolution “favoring a liquor referendum” fjsaa adopted by the convention aiijtk 'with & number of other routgte resolutions pre sented by Clyde E. fealcombe cf Wilson, chairman of the resolutions committee. | There was no attempt to put up a more aggressive resolution on li quor as proposed by the Little Riv er Baptist Assn. The Little Rivfr resolution which sponsors attempted to get on the agenda durljttf the first two days of the convention called for Bap tists to seek the signatures of two thirds of the state’s registered vot ers on a petition for a statewide referendum. Such a petition would make a referendum mandatory. Another resolttton adopted by the 125th annual meeting set aside the first Sunday in December as Temperance Sunday. The delegates disposed of two controversial subjects, church au tonomy and racial segregation, during yesterday* sessions Dele gates Voted yesterday to leave the question of segregation in church supported PWOmmI Mb teat tees of the individual institutions and approved a constitutional amendment affirming the prin ciple of local autonomy. The amendment, in effect estab lishing a “hands off" policy for the convention regarding local church affairs, was approved after dele gates beat down an attempt to strengthen it. Sponsored by Dr. M. A. Huggins, convention general secretary, it said the convention “does not claim and will not exercise any authority” over any Baptist organiation or church. Harold Williford Found Not Guilty Last night’s report that Harold Williford had been convicted of carnal knowledge of Donna Jack son, a statement which appeared in the Dally Record, was in error. There was a directed verdict of not guilty in this case. The Jury was instructed to bring hack a “not guilty” verdict by Judge George Fountain, presiding in Harnett Superior Court Mr. Williford was defended by the law firm of Young, Lamm and Taylor. The Daily Record regrets its error in reporting the result of the trial. Mr. Williford s» com pletely exonnerated of the charg es. Man Claims Moon ; Going At $1 An Acre GLEN COVE, N. Y. (W A local gentleman laid legal claim to the moon yesterday and proceeded to offer real estate in a lunar development at the rate of $1 an acre. Deeds to tracts in the Crater of Copernicus con ■* venient shopping centers already laid out come com-> plete with a map and directions for viewing the property by backyard telescope before taking off. Residents are granted access for purposes of enjoyment to the Sea of Tranquility; fishing, dredging and clam digging rights in the Sea of Nectar and permission to ski in the Lunar Alps. There isn’t any water in those seas, and there isn’t any snow on those Alps. In case you have the wrong idea, Robert R. Coles would like you to know right away that the Iterplanetary Development Corp. is a joke. But it’s all properly legal, and there’s nothing wrong with its astronomical details. Coles, 48, formerly chairman of the thoroughly respec table Hayden Planetarium and now a free-lance writer and lecturer, formally incorporated the development corpora tion with three friends as fellow officers. The deeds provide they aren’t much good unless the corporation has firmly established its own right to the property. Lgiiniti/ ~ i jaß* \i m JR • ■ymß A ? CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR—That’s why Santa Claus Lucky 8. Squire is signing np for a paathaMday ssamn jab in Naw York City. After all, San*!* * aa| the yes* pound. Eisenhower Has A Very Busy Day GETTYSBURG, Pa. President Eisenhower to day undertook the busiest day since his heart attack af ter medical examinations showed that his recuperation is progressing “most satisfactorily.” Smiling and chipper, the Presi dent spent most otf the morning working in his new office here in the Gettysburg poet office—coping with foreign policy, government spending, and the tax outlook. His office work began after a thorough medcal checkup at his farm home in the morning. Secretary otf Commerce Sinclair Weeks, who suffered an attack of angina pectoris 12 years ago, said after looking at the President as a fellow heart patient: “I feel he is going to be as good as new.” Weeks was the first caller. He spent 40 minutes with the Presi des! and later reported the admin istration is "leaning more and more” toward the “pay-as-you-go'’ theory of financing a multi-million dollar highway building program. The original Republican plan cafled for financing highway con struction by lnsuranceof federal bonds. A good number of Demo crats are backing the “pay-as-you go” method. BUDGET DISCUSSION After meeting with Weeks, the (Centime* Oa Page Seven) Ty Cobb's Wife Asks Divorce And Alimony MINDEN, Nev. OPI An impend ing divorce between baseball Im mortal Ty Cobb and his estranged wife appeared likely today to end in a storm court battle. Mrs. Cobb, 46, the former Frances Cass, filed yesterday a motion seek ing SSOO monthly temporary ali mony and preliminary counsel fees of $50,000. She estimated Cobb was worth more than 3 milion dollars. Her attorney, Harlan Howard of Reno, also filed on her behalf a 24-page bill of particulars in which she listed instances in which the 69-year-old Cobb allegedly drank to excess, used profane language and exhibited violent behavior. Cobb’s attorney, Clark Guild Jr. of Reno, said Cobb will file a bill of particulars against his wile. Cobb will Insist that the case be tried in open court, instead of closed court as is usually the case with divorce suits involving prom inent persons. Friendly Club Winner Os County - Wide Honor The Friendly Home Demonstration Clutwon Lilling ton, Route 1 was cited as the most outstanding club in Harnett County during 1955 at the annual Fall Achieve ment Night program conducted Tuesday night at Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Western Harnett. A1 WuUenwaber of Dunn, man ager of Colonial Lockers, annually donates a twenty-five dollar sav ing bond to reward the club of the year, nils year marked the first attend and present the award. But this time, due to conflicts in a church group, Mrs. Hugh Green, president of the winning club, was unable to be present. WuUenwaber then announced a new annual award —a fine ham to go each year to the club with the largest percentage of members pre sent at the annual Achievement The Record Is First 4 IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Defense Attorneys Vigorously Object The trials of Judge M. O. Lee and Solicitor Neill McK. Ross of the county recorder’s court on charges of gross misconduct in office were delayed again today in Harnett Superior Court after a tense exchange of words between defense counsel and District Solicitor Jack Hooks. Defense attorneys for Judge Lee, vigorously apposing what they de creed as willful and unnecessary delay in trial of the official, an grily protested that it would be difficult for Judge Lee to receive a fair and impartial verdict if So licitor Jtvck Hooks follows his an nounced intention of placing So licitor Ross on trial first. Solicitor Hooks successfully con tended that the trial evidence against the two men was “intert wined” and tha: to develop it pro perly, It was necessary that Ross appear first. Judge Fountain up held Hooks’ position. Attorney Everette L. Doffermyre of Dunn, argued that the judge is being denied his constitutional right of a speedy trial and that the delay was contrary to the best in terests of the people otf Harnett. TO RESUME DUTIES He informed the court that If there is further delay In trial of the case that Judge Lee will re sume his duties on the county bench despite the criminal indict ment hanging over him. Both Ross apd Lee voluntarily relinquished their duties until after- the trial. Trial otf Ross was scheduled to begin this morning but was con tinued by Judge George Fountain after it was learned that his chief counsel, James R. Nance of Fay etteville, is in the midst of a civil triaf in Bladen County. At the opening otf court Monday, both Judge Lee and Solicitor Ross had requested that trial otf their (Continued On Page Eight) I Aged Slayer Gets Year In Prison An elderly colored man, George Baldwin, who is be lieved to be almost twice the age of Satchel Paige but nobody knows exactly was sentenced to twelve months on the roads this morning for the shotgun slaying of his son-in-law. Between 80 and 90 yeans ofd, he Is believed to be toe oldest person ever sentenced to prison in this county. The killing occurred around Christmas time 1954. Although two persons were present besides the defendant and the dead man, the actual circumstances which brought Robert Cameron to his death have eilided authorities ever since then. This morning’s trial dad not en tirely clear it up. Sheriff Claude Moore and Rural Policeman J. Stanley Byrd, who appeared for the proseouton, testi fied that the aged defendant had told them he shot Cameron because Night. Members expressed their ap proval with a round of applause. Mt. Pigah Club, headed by Mrs. Clarence Holder, was hostess to the approximately eight club mem bers and their families who gather ed for the event A barbecue and chicken stew supper was served cafeteria style from 6 to 7:30 p. m. The‘'program foUowed, with em phasis on a recreation hour led by the Rev. E. C. Shoaf of Llllington. Mrs. Delmer Ennis of Coats who is completing a two year term aa chairman of the Harnett County NO. 240 Ml. fSr IjflßMßjjr JOE A. WILKINS Wilkins New Coroner's Aide Joe A. Wilkins has been sworn ip as Harnett’s qew assistant Cor* oner. Coroner Grover Henderson, who appointed him, said he will be showing his assistant the ropes during the next few weeks. Wilkins’ most frequent duty as assistant coroner will be to inves tigate accidents, but he could bS called on to conduct Inquests ill Henderson’s absence. Resident of Dunn for a quarter (Continued on Page Eight) he came in noisy and drunk and didn’t quiet down when told to. The defendant pled self-defense, asserting that Cameron was threat ening the household with a pistof. Baldwin had both denied and ad mitting delivering the dhotgun blast, offcers said, at one time put ting it on his son Herman, also present. He pled guilty to manslaughter at the trial. Vagueness of all parties was well-iflustrated when neither Bald win nor his daughter (wife of tha dead man) was able to place hi* age. He Is believed to M between eighty and. ninety. Council of Home Demonstration Clubs presided. The Re?. J. B. Gar rett, minister of the Mt. Pisgah Church, led the devotional and a number of guests were recognized by the president. | Achievements of tho club yead were summarized In a report read by Mrs. Norwood *. Jones of Mft* , irters. Each year Mub member* .select new medium to highlight their accomplishments of the past 12 months. Last year they Utilized a story in song and music. Othef years they have relied on visual exhibits individual erporto, panel* and other mediums. This ye*% Mrs. Jones cited nine projects This was the list of what leader! b» 18 clubs terqoed most math wild* (CeaUnaed On It** Tw*t
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