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* WEATHER * / Partly cloudy and 000 l today. Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs day. No. so cold tonight. VOLUME 6 25 KILLED IN FRANKFORT EXPLOSION ft; ft Awr aX ifMjl nHHP||M " * m LY *w ■HHH^M^fIiHLZaiKL] WHICH WILL PLAY BILLIE? Tryouts were held last night for “Born Yesterday.” Although the part of Billie Dawn was first immortalized by Judy Holliday as the dumbest, sweetest blond on earth, it looks like the Dunn production may feature a brunette JhsAs Mils JAm* By HOOVES ADAMS LIONS, ROTA RIANS, AND A GAL IN BERMUDA SHORTS A brother of Mrs. Carl Fttchett, Jr. of Dunn was in news headlines all over the free world last week. . . Lt. James T. McQueen of Mullins. 3. C„ two American Con pressmen and the wife of one of them, were held at gunnoir.t for four hours bv Communist police end Russians in East Berlin Lt. MeOueen is servin'? with the Berlin Command Headquarters an one of his duties is escorting dig nitaries throughout the area and into the Russian sector . . The Communist police found the nartv had a two-wav radio and put them tinder arrest at gunpoint .Fin ally. the matter was cleared up and Lt. McQueen has made other trips since into the Red-omroied area 8o far, Mrs. Fitchett hasn’t heard from her brother except through the newspapers. . . .The young officer has visited the Fit ehetts in Dunn on several occas ions and was assigned to Oermanv last May. . . Jack T. Holt of Durham, purchasing agent for Er win Mills, Inc. was presented the Carolina-Virginia Purchasing Ag ents award as the ioijtstanding purphasing agent of the year at a banquet Friday night in Pinehuret (Continued on Page Two) "MR. ROBERTS" BEST MOVIf OP THE YEAR Jennifer Jones , James Dean Win Nations Audience Poll JENNIFER JONES TELEPHONES 3117-fllg LITTLE THEATRE CASTING BEGINS Tryouts For Play To { Continue Here •g«gr«S» ffi® Mrs. Lee Crail, director-manager of The Players who are producing the show, said today. Casting got underway last night when the Players met at the home of Mrs. Susan Black on West Cum berland Street. Mrs. Crail encouraged anyone in Dunn or vicinity who can make the rehearsals regularly to read for a part in the play If they have an interest. Rehearsals will probably not start until after Christmas. “We have an idea for the lead ing pert of Billie Dawn.” she said, “but we will still listen to others who want to try out. There are a number of other parts in the play, too —two major male roles And a number of smaller ones. “There are at least two speaking roles for women yet to be cast.” A second tryout wUI be held next week, time and place to be an nounced later. Anyone interested should call Mrs. Crai at Dunn 3388. BARBECUE The Mary Stew art P. T. A. will sponsor a barbecue pork and chicken dinner by Grif fin’s of Goldsboro on Thursday, December Bth from 5 until 8 p. m. Anyone wishing to buy a ticket may contact Mrs. E. F. Strickland at Fairvlew Florist. HOLLYWOOD (W The movie - going public gave its own version of the Oscar last night to. Jennifer Jones and the late’James Dean in the nation’s first audience award poll for the best perform ances of 1955. They were named by 14 million film ticket buyers in the first poll conducted in theaters around tho country by a motion picture The ater Owners’ Organization council. The dark-haired Miss Jones has an Oscar at home tor her first picture "Song of Bernadette,” But she excitedly announced that her audience award “Audle” sta tuette “means more than the Aca demy Award because the people who see the movies do the voting, and not the people who mike the Site B aihj Iknmi in the port. Above are five girls who read for the part last night. (From left, back row) Joan Jernigan, Mrs. Susan Black, Betsy Sills, Sylvia Slaughter, and Anna Merle Daniels. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail.) Schoolmates Proudest Os J. Thompson The Dunn High studennt council announced this week results of the first poll for “Student of the Month,” an outstanding high schooler picked by vote of the stu dents themselves, Jimmy Thompson, vice-president of the student council and a tackle on the high school football team, received the first nod. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Thompson of 608 West Cumberland Street, he is Junior class president: member of the Hi-Y, Beta Ciub and Allied Youth, besides being an active member of the Divine Street Methodist Church. Petitions of nomination are cir culated in the High school, follow ed by an election in which the stu dents vote for their choice. Jimmy was the November winner. mi HBHif ijM j . i JAMES BEAN DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7, 1955 Harnett Board Approves Four Rfikßequqsfc J Road petitions approved yester day by the county board of com missioners were as follows: 1. To add to the State Highway system that road in Grove Town ship which runs from Old Dunn Road to Highway 421 and is .two tenths of a mile. Petition was giyen to C*B McLeod for presentation ■to the State Highway officials at Fayetteville). 2. To add to the State Highway System that road in Upper Little River Township which runs from Lillington - Swann Station Road, West approimately one mile from highway 421 to L. P. Wells farm, which is a dead end road, a distance of four miles (Petition was given to Commissioner J. E. Womble for presentation to district highway authorities. ' 3. To add to State Highway Sy stem that road in Grove Township which runs from Ballard Road to (Continued On Page Four) • m ■ aj JR. Johnson Elected Master Os Lodge Nathan M. Johnson, Jr., president of Johnson Cotton Company, was elected master of the Dunn Masonic lodge at their meeting last night. , < Mr. Johnson, who has been active in the local lodge for years, was un animously elected to succeed Re tiring Master J. I. Thomas. Mr. Thomas has enjoyed a very success ful year as head of the lodge. In addition to his Masonic work ■ Mr. Johnson, the new master, is also active In other affairs of the town and community. Five other elective posts were New Apartment Collapses After Blast FpANKFURT. Germany (IP) A newly - built apartment house collapsed in a night mafjeh pre - dawn explosion ear|v today. Police feared the Blast killed 25 to 28 per son*, — most of them refu gee, I from communism. Fifteen bodies had been brought out Bf the wreckage eight hours afteAthe blast and officials said ther®was little hope for those still trapjw in the debris. St-ven per sons Wf ie hospitalized with injur- The thunderclap explosion that sent the building 'umb.ing down in spmtered ruins came while the otg'upMyts were asleep A tg|Rl of 32 persons lived is the hiwse. mod of them refugees who lad only recently moved in from a settlement in nearby Id- Vein. Three overnight visitors also were reported in the building. There was no fire. The collapse of the Toof. walls and upper floors snuff o(i| out whatever fiames may have faulted from the explosion. The\; house. completed three moixthf ago, was inspected and ap proved* by local housing authori ties only yesterday. Some rescue workers said they suspected a buried bomb left over from World War II might finally have gone off to cause the <Bs i A 4 - asicr. A ' - ft-.A, Lt. McQueen Is Promoted BERLIN (UV—The U. S. Army an nounced today that Hardld T. Mc- Queen, of Mullins, S. C„ who was arrested and held briefly by the Communists in Red Berlin last week, has been promoted to first lieutenant. He is a brother of Mrs. Carl Fit chett, Jr. of Dunn. (See photo above). A spokesmas said the promotion was automatic on McQueen’s com pletion of 18 months’ service. He said it had no connection with his brush with the Reds. McQueen, who guides distin guished visitors around Berlin, was Continued mi Page Six) .1 I TIIOMAS filled at the meeting, and the new master is expected, within the next week or two. to name six local Ma sons for appointive posts. OTHER OFFICERB New senior and junior wardens, respectively are Howard A. Johnson, who is employed by Dunn Furni ture Co., and J. Edwin Williams, the city tax collector. ” Re-elected as treasurer was Ray (Centinned On Page Twe) ■l** i * j x^ r M ftf *v5M . % 'immw 1 I HR w.. 'ft Hl|/' m, ft jpP Mi* y. M *. i 3 •'A--’- "A BBL jk * ikf 3eJh9B mm ▲JLJ 9BHBP BROTHER OF DUNN WOMAN HELD AT GUNPOINT BY REDS Rep. Harold C. Ostertag (R-NY), center, and U. S. Army Lt James T. Mc- Queen, right, are shown as they tell * news con ference in West Berlin how they and two other Americans were held at gunpoint for four hours by East Berlin Reds. At left is Charles Owsloy, Wife - Slayer Fred Hall. Escapes, Still At Large Deqr Santa! Dear Santa Claus, How are you doing: I want you to bring me a bicycle with four wheels and a walk and talk doll and a jack-in-the box. My brother wants a big car that he can ride in and a train and Pinky Lee xydophone and terescope with two glasses on it. I’m eight years old and in the third grade. (Continued On Page Eight) TAKES LOVER AND $70,000 WHILE HUBBY GONE Love Story Ends With Her Slaying CHICAGO (IP) A love story that lasted through riches, poverty, oppression and revolution was ending in a jail cell today. Benson Doctor Freed By Judge Dr. B. F. Cliff, the Benson phy sician who was charged with dis pensing narcotics and not keeping a proper record of it, probably -won’t be tried after all. When Judge Clawson Williams ieamed that Dr. Cliff was suffer ing from cancer so badly that he couldn't make It to or from the court, he ordered that a nol pros be taken Under the law , it is possible to reopen a nol pressed case, but this is seldom done. Judge Williams is’ presiding over a two-week term of Johnston Su perior Court. He said Dr. J. Dan Royster, B*«sos physician, had written him about Dr. Cliff. (Continued On Pare 8»v) T>* leov«, usually bOQin It- turn *w alghtbefom the gKomimotton. ■?■ The Record Is First < IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY lin. Ostertag's wife and Rep. Edward Boland (D- Mass) were the two others detained by Commu nist police and Russians for “violating the laws of the German Democratic Republic by using a radio In a vehicle in East Germany territory. Lt. McQueen is a brother of Mrs. Carl Fitchett, Jr, of Dunn. (NEA Photo.) Fred Hall, the onetime Harnett in 1949 of killing Y prison yesterday. He is still at large aril wc warned the Mecklenburg jom: The life-termer crawled a wind ing, 150-yard route through a -team tunnel which he, as a plum ber and pipefitted, had helped build. , Workmen were preparing a 400- pound concrete slab for the tunnel manhole inside the prison when Hail made his escape. The tunnel’s other end opens into a boiler room outside the prison fence. Last nigh'.. State Highway pa trolmen, sheriff’s deputies, Madden- Only one of the leading charac ters was left 66-year-old Marcus Kammermann who beat his be loved wife to death because she wanted their 36 years together to end. “Until this week we had never been out of love through our 36 years of marriage,” he mourned. Even when his wife, Melwena, 55, withdrew the $70,000 from their joint bank account and gave him (Con Unwed On Page Eight) Godwin Takes Over Jernigan Firm Nine years in Dunn and still go ing strong, Marvin Godwin, 34- year-old Dunn businessman famil iar to thousands for his connection with Johnson Cotton Company, this week is in business for himself. It was December 1, actually, that Godwin took over the reigns of a business formerly known as Jer nigan’s Heating and Plumbing, now to be known as Godwin's Plumbing and Heating. He switched the arrangement of words, he said, because it's “easier said.” PLATS SHEPHERD That’s the only easy step of the week for Oodwin who is not only busy getting the new business in shape, but is also nearing the time when he must step forward as the Presbyterian Pageant’s leading male. (Cotattraed oa Pag* Eight) NO. 1 deputy sbqdWi convicted in his wife .Escaped from state orri<m prison, authorities have unuißty that he is dangerous. {■rtflMfeftrf police and State PrtflOn <3kpws with bloodhounds were still coikbing the dense thick ets of North Vtecklenburg. Hall Is 5-11,\ weighs about 166 pounds, has grey eyes and brown hair and may fither be wearing khaki shirt and trousers or blue overalls. He was sentenced May 28, 1949, from Harnett County for murder ing his wife in their two-room shanty in Harnett's Johnsonville Township. Hail entered a guilty plea before Judge Clawson William* told hten “You are lucky to escape the gas chamber.” Conviction followed testimony by his six-year-old daughter, Myrtle, one of the Halls’ three children and an eyewitness to the killing, that her father regularly beat and abused her mother and threatened her with a rifle. She also testified that he had beat Mrs. Hall with his fists and a broomstick before the shooting- Hall at one time served as a de puty sheriff in Hoke County. Caipt. L. W. McConnell, superin tendent of the Hustersville prison c&mp, said it is true that prisoners considers! to be dangerous are not asigned to the camp as regular prisoners. “But this man was one of 38 sent here on a prisoner construction crew to build a new cell block, (Continned On Pag* Six) t *ir •’ 'W J • MARVIN aODWBft J
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