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High in the 70’s in the mountains
and 80 to 86 elsewhere
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VOLUME 7
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON,
AUGUST 7. 1957
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 177
CAPPS GROWS ’EM KING SIZE—W. H. Capps of Dunn,
Route 3 each year raises some of the finest hogs in the State. He’s
pictured here, right, with a real beauty he was having processed
today at Colonial Frozen Food Lockers and Abator in Dunn. The
big hog, of mixed Poland China, Hampshire variety, weighed a
total of 303 pounds dressed. And, brother, that’s a lot of hog. At the
lefLte Buck Peterson, manager of .th*. local Jecker plant. (Daily
Recond Photo.)
Oliver Hardy Dies
Of Paralytic Stroke
HOLLYWOOD (UP)—Oliver Hardy, the rotund half
of the famed Laurel and Hardy movie comedy team ,died
today of the results of a paralytic stroke. He was 65.
Royster To Speak
On Tobacco Crop
Tobacco problems will be the
topic tonight at the Godwin Lions
Club where Fred T. Rovster, man
aging director of the Bright Leaf
Tobacco Warehouse Association,
is slated as the speaker.
Royster will be introduced by
Dunn's own well-known tobacco
nist, Buck Currin, of Planter's
Warehouse. He will speak on pro
spects for this year’s crop and on
“discounted tobacco.”
It will be Agriculture Night for
Godwin Lions, and event they are
observing by having each member
bring a farmer as his guest. The
dinner meeting begins at 3 p.m. in
the Godwin Community Building.
BASHFUL BEAUTIES
WHITSTABLE. England (W —
Fifty of the 62 girls competing in
a beauty contest here backed out
at the last minute. They said they
were too shy to go out on the
stage In front of all those people
and be judged.
me plump comedian, who won
world-wide acclaim with Stan
Laurel over a span of more than
two decades, succumbed at the
North Hollywood, Calif., home of
his mother-in-law after a long ill
ness. His wife for 17 years, Lu
cille, was by his side. They had
no children.
Hardy, who weighed more than
200 pounds, had been in “very
poor” condition. He was paralyzed
and could not talk. He barely
could eat and make motions with
one hand.
A stroke Sept. 12, 1956, left
Hardy paralyzed. He had been
trying to tell his wife something
ever since the stroke but never
was able to write the message.
Hardy first was hospitalized in
nearby Burbank after the stroke.
Then he went to his own home
in North Hollywiod and, about six
months ago, to the home of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Monnie L.
Jones.
Hardy’s partner, Laurel. 67, suf
fered a stroke in June, 1955, and
was reported nearly recovered
from it. The pair was about to
start a TV series at the time of
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No Bond For Alleged Stabber
Twenty - eight - year-old
James Marler has been
charged with first degree
murder in the death of his
step-father Herman R. And
erson. Knife-wounds took
Anderson’s life at his home
in Meadow township Mon
day evening.
The accused man, now lodged
in jail without benefit of bond,
allegedly killed his stepfather in
spite of efforts by his own wife
and his mother to stop him. His
wife reported?) knocked him out
of the door with a chair.
Sheriff Barney A. Henry said
Marler, the stepson, has often
been convicted of illegal liquor ac
tivities. In the past, he said, Mar
ler reportedly had accused has
stepfather of tattling on his liq
uor operations.
The accused man’s mother—wife
of the man he allegedly killed—
said her son first came to the
home Monday morning. The first
visit was harmless—he was told to
come in and get some sleep or
go to his nearby home. On his
second visit of the morning, he
carried a rifle and threatened "to
kill them all,” his mother claim
ed. Returning a third time, about
noon, he threatened to kill several
persons, she said, bur sne had ma
naged to get the rifle from him.
In late afternoon, Marler re -
turned to the Anderson home with
a knife, according to the mother.
His step-father ordered him from
the house but Marler attacked,
she said. The dead man received
many cuts about his face and
head. He died before being taken
to the hospital.
Shortly after the slaying, Marl
er was put under arrest by a
highway patrolman stationed at
Newton Grove. Anderson will be
buried tomorrow afternoon, at 3
pm., at Hood's Grove Baptist
Church. Sheriff Henry and his de
puties are investigating the case.
Evangelist Preaches On Teenage Violence
Billy Says Christ is Answer
NEW YORK (UP)—Billy
Graham outlined plans
Tuesday night to help com
bat the recent outbreak of
teen-age killings and vio
lence in New York.
“Christ is the only answer to
this great problem facing police
and social workers,” the 38-year-old
evangelist said.
Graham said hg would devote
all six of his Madison Square Gar
den sermons next week to ‘‘New
Yorks number 1 problem,” com
batting violence by teen gangs.
“We’re contacting gang leaders
and ttieir members and many of
them are coming here next week,”
Graham said.
‘We’ll have outstanding teenag
ers from the city hero to testify
how Christ hes revolutionized their
lives. One of them will be a form
er gang leader whose best friend
was killed by a rival teen gang.
‘ If in Moscow the Communists
can get thousands ot young people
tc march under the hammer and
sickle, surely we can get thousands
hi rt in New You. to march for
Christ.”
Graham saic that the Protestant
Council of New York, one of the
organizations sponsoring his New
York crusade, is working through *
social agencies to contact leaders -
of some of the 60 known teen
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Ike To Name
Big Soap Man
WASHINGTON UP) —
President Eisenhower an
nounced today he plans to
nominate soap manufactur
er Neil H. McElroy to suc
ceed Charles E. Wilson as
secretary of defense.
He said the actual nonmination
will not be made, however, until
the Cincinnati businessman passes
an extensive but routine govern
ment investigation of his fitness
for the key Cabinet post.
The President said Wilson not
ified him some time ago that he
wanted to leave the Cabinet be
fore the Defense Department
starts this fall to prepare next
year’s budget.
Eisenhower called McElroy one
of the most capable men in Ameri
ca. He is president of Procter and
Gamble, a big soap manufactur
ing concern.
For the past two days he has
been conferring with Wilson and
other administration officials
about the job. He had a brief
conference with Eisenhower at the
White House Tuesday.
The' President’s statement con
firmed earlier reports that Mc
Elroy has agreed to take the post
and make whatever disposition of
his holdings of securities as re
quired to comply with the “con
flict of interest” law.
The 52-year-old business execu
tive left Washington at mid-morn
ing to return aboard his company
airplane to Concinnati.
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THEY'RE OfJ TRIAL—Fred and Marjorie Meade, operators
of Hollywood Research Inc., pass a police line at the hearing of
Confidential and Whisper magazines in Los Angeles. More than
100 leading movie stars and filmland figures are under subpena
—all on “two hour” call—awaiting the defense attempt to prove
the truth of spicy stories about them. The Meades are charged
with conspiracy to commit libel.
I tars To Testify On Scandal
Confidential Trial
Getting Underway
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., (UP)—The first of a parade of
witnesses that may include more than 100 reluctant mov
s stars take the stand today at the Confidential Maga
ne criminal libel trial which the state hopes to “keep
lean.”
The prosecution and defense late
uesday finally settled on a jury
f seven men and five women af
?r three days of questioning 71
respective jurors. The trial was
) open its fourth session with
pening arguments today followed
y testimony from prosecution wit
esses.
New York bankers Anthony Rag
ano and Max Bucliwalter were
xpected to be the first to take
he stand. The men at the grand
ous checks were issued by Confi
dential Magazine to Hollywood Re
search, Inc.
The state charged defendants
Fred and Marjorie Meade operat
ed Hollywood Research as a gos
sip-gathering agency for Confiden
tial. The Meades maintain that
they are on trial rather than the
magazine.
More than 100 celebrities have
been subpenaed to appear as ‘de
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Jayne Mansfield
Goes To Congress
WASHINGTON (UP)—Congress copes all right with
itoms, budgets and civil rights. But when it comes to a
curvaceous blonde, the greatest deliberative body in the
world is tongue-tied.
At least that’s what happened
Tuesday when actress Jayne
Mansfield showed up in the U. S.
Capitol with her husky small
mice, platinum hair falling over
ler eyes and her famous 40-18-35
igure displayed to advantage in
i tight blue sweater and pink
skirt. The figures are inches'
iround the bust, waist and hips
n that order.
RAYBURN GRINS
Senate Democratic Leader Lyn
lon B. Johnson blushed and stam
nered. Seventy - five - year old
House vspeaker Sam Rayburn
grinned like a schoolboy. Sen.
Sstes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) offered
ier a coonskin cap.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.)
eft the field in confusion when
she called him “cute.” Talkative
Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R—S.D.)
:hewed on his pipe in silent and
contemplative appreciation.
Observers agreed that in terms
)f her effect on the intrepid law
makers it was like Grant taking
Richmond. Only Miss Mansfield
ed her attack in teetering white
sequin — trimmed spike — heeled
shoes that required publicity
igents at each elbow to help her
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JAYNE MANSFIELD
Agreement
Needed For
Disarmament
WASHINGTON (UP) —
President Eisenhower said
today that world disarma
ment would follow almost
automatically from any
East-West agreement to free
the world from the fear of
surprise attack.
If progress is made on relieving
the world of the fear of surprise
attack, the President said this
would be the greatest ray of hope
on the dark world scene since he
has been in the White House.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference that he has the utmost
hope that Russia will agree to the
latest American-Allied proposals
for aerial and ground inspection
zones. These proposals were put
before Russia by Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles at the
London disarmament talks.
Other major points in his news
conference:
He said Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson had ncftified
him some time ago that he want
ed to quit before work started this
fall on a new budget. He said he
expected to name Cincinnati soap
manufacturer Neil H. McElroy to
replace Wilson, if McElroy passes
a thorough government investiga
tion of his qualifications.
The jury trial amendment to the
civil rights bill as adopted by the
Senate would seriously hamper
the operation of the federal
courts system. He declined to say
whether he would veto the rights
bill if it reaches him in the Senate
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Russian Spy
Is Indicted
NEW YORK (IP — A Brooklyn
federal grand jury indicted Ru
dolph Ivanozich Abel, a Russian
citizen arrested in McAllen, Tex.,
on spy charges today in connec
tion with collecting national de
fense secrets for the Soviet
Union.
Abel was reported to have been
held on charges of transporting
photographs, photo negatives,
maps and notes on the U. S.
national defense system. Some of
the information was described as
atomic energy program data.
The grand jury named four co
conspirators in the indictment,
but not as defendants.
It was not known immediately
whether Abel’s activities were
connected with the espionage ring
headed by confessed spy Jack
Soble. Soble, his wife, Myra, and
Jacob Albam are scheduled to be
sentenced on conspiracy charges
j in federal court, Manhattan, Fri
day. *
Abel is scheduled for arraign
ment in Edinburg, Tex., this aft
ernoon before U. S. Commissioner
J. C. Hall. He was held in
McAllen’s house of detention for
aliens.
BLANKET GIVEN—Mrs. J. A. Campbell, “grard” mother of
Campbell College, proudly exhibits the fifth baby blanket she has
knitted and crocheted for each of her great-grandchildren. This
particular blanket has been awarded to two-month-old Lesley Pame
la, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dali of Havelock, North Caro
lina. Mr. Hail is Superintendent of the high school at Havelock
Mrs. Dali is the daughter of President and Mrs. Leslie H. Campbell
of Buies Creek.
United Fund Sends
Participation Bids
Invitations to submit budget estimates were addressed
to participating agencies in the Dunn United Fund this
week it was announced today by Herman Lynch, chairman
of the Budget and Admissions Committee.
In addition to the eight agencies
represented in last year’s drive,
the following agencies were invit
ed to join in the 1957 effort: North
Carolina Tuberculosis Association,
North Carolina Division, American
Heart Association, National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis, and
the American Cancer Society. All
these agencies conducted their own
campaigns during the past year.
The agencies included in the
United Fund, and expected to con
tinue in the 1957 drive are: Boy
Scouts of America, Salvation Army,
Falcon Orphanage, Free Will Bap
tist Orphanage, Girl Scout Council,
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Deserting Mother Claims Beatings
Choker, Bayonetist
GunWielderRapped
Albert McNeill, a 28-year-old colored man who lives
at 801 East Edgerton St., in Dunn, has been sent off to
the roads for 60 days for striking and choking Gertie
Russell.
He pled guilty to this charge but
not guilty to the charge that he
had broken the lock on the door of
the Harnett Chapel Church and
then broken part of the door down.
Convicted on both counts, he was
ordered to Jail when he failed to
pay a fine of $10 and costs in the
first case and costs plus $12.50
damages in the church-breaking
case.
Two men who had indicted each
other assaulting them were both
iouna guiny Dy me juage ana giv
en exactly similar sentences. Glen
Johnson was accused by Lacy E.
Maynard of threatening him with
a bayonet Maynard allegedly drew
a pistol on Johnson. Both pled not
guilty.
Judge H. Paul Strickland, pre
siding in Dunn Recorder’s Court at
the regular Monday morning ses
sion, gave each a 60-day sentence
on the roads, suspending this on
condition that each should pay a
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Bomb Fired As Group Prays
| ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev.
i (UP)—The Atomic Energy
; Commission unswervingly
I fired the llth in its summer
series of nuclear devices to
day while pacifists conduct
ed a prayer vigil 30 miles
away.
The device was triggered at
5:25 a m. e.p.t. from its suspen
! sion equipment hanging from a
67 - foot diameter balloon at a
height of approximately 1,500 feet
above Yucca Flat. Its field was
estimated as nominal, probably
I equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.
I Troops from Ft, Lewis, Wash.,
scheduled to take part in maneuv
ers later in the series, sat at the
observation point some 10 miles
trim ground zero in full battle
dress. Also at the view point were
30 Canadian soldiers from the
Queen’s Own Rifles, of Calgary
Canada.
Just before shot time the bal
loon holding the device was clear
ly visible in the dawn - breaking
sky.
The blast shook observers or
News Nob violently and an un
manned Navy blimp drifting some
8 miles from the general area oi
ground zero burst Into flames anc
shuddered to the ground where ii
continued burning five minute!
after the shot.
Visible On Coast
A smoke ring — shaped cloud
drifted upward and fused togeth
er into the farpiliar shape of a
mushroom. An tft’ea several miles
in diameter on the grofhd was ob
scured in dust sucked up off the
Nevada desert floor after the
blast, forming the stem of the
mushroom.
The flash was plainly visible in
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los
Angeles. Atom - watchers in San
Francisco described it as “one oi
the biggest flashes seen here.**
Some 30 miles way a $"
of demonstrators conducted
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