# » WEATHER + Sunny and a afternoon and little warmer this Tuesday. VIII VI TM E sily Kaum THE RECORD IS FIRST ir^rrnunir, .111# 3115 DUNN, N. ( ., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14. 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 235 JUDGE BARS HOFFA FROM TAKING OFFICE A QUEENLY TRIO—These three lovely little ladies were imported by the merchants of Charlotte for the big Carolinas Fashion Show held is Ovens Auditorium there. Left to right are Dunn’s Becky Lee, Miss Virginia! Elaine Herndon of Durham. Miss North Carolina; and Jody Shattuck of Atlanta, Miss Georgia. A lovelier trio would be hard—indeed, impossible—to find. (Char lotte Observer Photo.) Ingrid May — Got Divorce ROME (U>) — Two Rome pa pers claimed today that Ingrid Bergman has decided to divorce her film producer' husband Rober to Rossellini after receiving an “ultimatum” from Indian script writer Sonali Das Gupta. The papers, Paese Sera and Momento Sera, said they received the reports from “Paris sources” but failed to identify those sourc es. Scriptwriter Art Cohn, a fre quent spokesman for the Rossel- : lini household, was not immedi atly available to comment. Mrs. Das Gupta supposedly ar- 1 rived suddenly in Paris last week ' and then disappeared somewhere in the city. ! There was speculation that she i had arrived to discuss with Miss 1 Bergman her much publibzed • and frequently denied alleged ro- t manee with Rossillina. Miss Bergman denied two days < ago that she had had any contact : with Mrs. Das Gupta. Her hus- i band has been in India for the i last nine months. New-Way Ballet In Community Concert Singled out for “the internation al award for the finest dance pro gram on television in 1956,” the Dance Drama Ballet will be the first presentation of the Campbell College Community Concert Asso ciation. Emily Frankel and Mark Ryder are the stars of the ballet group which will appear at D. Rich Me I morial Auditorium on Thursday at ! 8 n. m. There are eight traveling | members of the troupe. A large attendance is expected, partly because a number of Dunn ■ firms have been ( sold circulating | terested in fine entertainment but memberships “for young people in unable to afford it." Continued «u rw« 81x) Fireman Caught In Hose-Winder The old story about a boy who gets his arm caught in the clothes-ringer had a new variation here when fire man William Vaughn Hutaff caught his arm in the elec tric reel which hauls up the hose. Happened Sunday the fire de partment had been called to 20’ South Magnolia Avenue where ; 1948 Studebaker parked in th< back yard completely burned. Hutaff was one of 20 voluntee: firemen who went to the scene oi three trucks. His arm was caugh as he went to turn the machin< on, he snapped it off and freed ’ himself. Fellow firemen summoned i i a police car and rushed him to the 1 Dunn hospital. By coincidence, just the right ■ man was on hand at Betsy John i son Memorial Hospital — Dr. J. t W. Balus, well-known * bone spe (Continued On Page Twe) Harnett Youth Injured, Charged Wild Chase Ends In Wreck A Sampson County patrol man expects to charge Tho mas Barefoot, 19, of Dunn, Route 2, in a high speed chase and head-on collision that put four persons—Bare foot among them—in the hospital on Saturday night. The patrolman, Daniel Williams, :aid he met a 1956 Mercury, driven )y Barefoot, going west on North rarolina 24 at a high rate of speed, living chase, he said this car ip to 110 miles per hour. He followed the for* 13 miles, toing throught Roseboro at 100 niles per hour and entering lalemburg at 90 miles per hour, n Salemburg, the Barefoot car truck a 1957 Ford containing Mrs. iacksoiy Mrs. Cotton and two hildren. The children were not eriouly injured Those hospitalized were Bare oot; John Frink, 20, of Chadbourn, (Continued On Puce 61zl Man Found Dead Near Railroad kjuw vvauuu anu an aiLUiiuut evening were given by Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., as the probable cause of death of Joseph Howard Johnson, found dead a few feet from a railroad track on Saturday morning. Coroner Pate said no inquest will be held in the death of the colored man. believed to have been in his mid-thirties. Johnson was identified as one of a group of persons from Baltimore, Maryland, who came here to work in sweet potatoes. Others from the same \ group had gone on to Florida. A Negro woman. Winnie Holi day, discovered his body at nine o’clock on Saturday morning and informed local police. The coroner said that Dr. C. B. Codrington stated there was evidence of over indulgence in alcohol. Johnson was laying face down where he had vomited and there was a trickle of blood from his mouth. “We had a hard time finding out who he was,” said the coroner. “He was with this bunch living in an old house beyond Johnson’s Restaurant. There were sixty or so brought down here and some had gone to Florida to pick beans. “They said that Johnson had gone out on Friday night, telling them he was going to get some whisky. They said they didn’t see him again until he was found dead. We're in touch with his father in Baltimore and he’s coming down here. “The body was found across from the pepper plant, about eight or ten feet from the tracks.” Coroner Pate said that nearby where Johnson was found is a house reputed to be a bootlegging place. The dead man had no money on him. "Apparently he had bought his liquor, spent all his money and was headed home,” said Pate. “But he didn't get there.” FIGHTERS—Two Benson men have been admitted to the Dunn hospital for treatment of wounds obtained in' a skirmish which is under investigation by Benson Po lice. They were Identified as Syl vester Capeland, 42, and Thomas Hill, 64. Both were admitted to Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon. Big Crowd Sees Fair Going Up RALEIGH (IP) — A throng es timated at more than 25,000 jammed the state fairgrounds Sun day as workmen put the finishing touched on exhibits and demon strations. The fair opens officially Tuesday. Officials predicted a record at tendance for the exposition. Sgt. Richard Chadwick, in charge of a highway patrol unit assigned to direct traffic, estim ated the Sunday crowd of curios ity-seekers at 25,000 to 30.000. Also drawing crowds to the fair I Con tinned On Pag* Six) Court Reverses Scales Conviction WAsmiNiiTUiN —me supreme Court today, with Justice Department consent, reversed the convictions of two Communist leaders—Claude M. Lightfoot of Chicago and Junius Irving Scales of Greensboro, N. C. The court said it acted today “upon consideration of the entire record and the confession of er ror by t^e solicitor general.” The court’s brief order revers ing the convictions was based on i its Jer.tks decision of last Juno | requiring production of FBI re-' ports under certain circumstances n *» ftrwA Tr HoilHc , rl»ar "l.... . 4 _ l_. a committee of Negro citizens whc are aiming to raise $1000 in Dunr toward the over-all United Func budget. Dafford and his co-work ers have started solicitations thij week. "Negro citizens,” he stated to I-t * V u ^ u “ avvvn (II vm. I United Fund agencies. Units of the ; Boy and Girl Scouts are active among the Negro community. The Red Cross works as much with the Negro as it does with the whites. Other agencies represented in the (Continued On Page Seven} 1 Continued On Pare Six) Car Stolen Here, Found In Virginia Virginia police made short work of the search for a 1955 Buick roadmaster stolen early Friday morning from the home of Her man Strickland, owner of the Mod ern Laundry in' Dunn. Strickland's car was reported missing at 6:55 a. m., on Friday and by two that afternoon there was a call from Lexington, Va., where authorities had picked up the car and two men. Earl Harris, 17, and Donald E. Tucker, 18, were described by the Lexington police as soldiers ap parently AWOL from Fort Bragg. Since the charge against them is transporting an illegally obtain ed automobile across state lines, they have been turned over to the FBI. Union Members Get Injunction Against Group WASHINGTON (UP) — A federal judge today tempor arily barred James R. Hoffa and other newly elected of ficers of the Teamsters Un ion from taking office. Hoffa was elected president of the union at the recent convention in Miami Beach. Federal Judge F Dickinson Letts signed a temporary re straining order, in effect suspend ing the convention's decision, and set Monday, Oct. 21 for a hearing. He ordered Hoffa to show cause why he should not be , prevented from taking office. The judge acted on a plea by 13 rank - and - file teamsters who charged that 80 per cent of the convention delegates were illegal ly selected to insure victory for Hoffa and his slate. Letts ordered the teamsters to show cause why other proceed ings at the convention as well as the election, should not be de clared void. The union made sweeping changes in its constitu tion at the meeting. The judge also tentatively act a $5,000 celling on any transaction by the union subject to his find ings in the hearing and indicated he will bar the union’s leaders from taking reprisals against the plaintiffs in the suit. Letts agreed that the rank-and file group stood little chance of union remedies.” lie said there accomplishing anything by “intra was danger that the union would ENGINE OF DEATH—Andrew lleck Kelly, 42,-year-old Negro of Liljington, Route 3, was killed Sunday at noon when he was thrown oof of a car which went out of control. The body of the dead man can be seen wrapped in a sheet to the right. The car In which Kelly and three oth ers were riding was completely demolished. Wreckers had to wire the car together to pull it off the highway. This marks the second death on llarnett highways in the past fo#ir days. (Photo by Carroll Vaughan.) Harnett Man Dies In Crash Andrew “Huck” Kelly, 42-year old Negro of Lillington, Route 3, was killed yesterday as the ear in which he was riding went through a curve and turned over several times. At least two others also were injured. Ke ly, married and the father of threet children, was a farm labor Jfe was a passenger in the 1950 Buick which went out of con trol on Highway 27 about eight miles from Lillington' at twelve o'clock yesterday afternoon. Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., said that Pitul McLean of Lillington, Route 3, was allegedly the driver of the car. McLean and Fletcher' Stacker, 33, of Lillinggton, Route 2, are both in Dunn hospital with serious injuries. The hospital had no report on Henry McDougald, described as another passenger in the car. Pate said no decision has been taken as yet on whether an inquest will be necessary. Highway Pa trol R. B. “Black” Leonard is in vestigating. One of the riders admitted, said Pate, that “all of them had been drinking and the car was travel ing at high speed. Small Take For Window-Enterers Thieves who entered Jackson’s Fish Market back of the Atlantic Coast Line station on Thursday night didn’t make any killing, j They obtainet} three dollars and I fifty cents in'pennies plus three dollars in “drinks and Nabs”, ac cording to local police. Entry was made through a window. No arrests have been made yet. \ Asked whether children or grown ups were suspected. Policeman' James Southerland said, "It could be some of these people getting | through the cotton picking season ar.d low on funds." Man, 54, Held For Rape A year oia isegro oi An gier, Isaac Smith, charged with rape of a colored girl, Louise Smith, on October 6, has waived the preliminary hearing in County Record’s Court and was bound over Thursday to the Superior Court, The request for waiving the hearing was made by his court-ap pointed attorney, J. R. Hood. Judge Robert B. Morgan, Sr., ord ered Smith held without bond. In other cases heard Thursday in tne Lillington the court dis patcled cases stemming from a variety (.1 otfeoses. Sam Blue, Negro man of Angier, Route 2, receive-! a six months road term, suspended on payment of cosfs, for assiu'.tjKg Ethel Blue with an ice pick Thurman Dorman, Erwin, was acquitted of assault with a pocket knife on Ray Priest, Ft. Bragg sol dier. Charges of non cuppor: of an illegitimate child made by Her lene Smith, Erwin, Route 1, ag ainst Curtis Smith were dismissed. Sent To Hospital Charles Alfred McLean, Negro veteran of World War II, who con> tracted tuberculosis while a pris oner of war in the PacLie Theatre was indicted tor failure to tatc^ treatment for the communicable disease. McLean told officers be was “tired of being confined in Institutions,” that he had been in hospitals sin e Auoust, 194U. Judge Morgan ordered the man commit fed to the Staio Sanitarium for treatment.. County Health Officer W. M. Hunter who took out the warrant against McLean as a health haz ard said that with treatment Mc Lean's chances of recovery were ;xcellent. Rifles Stolen Testimony of two jnveniles clear ?d three older teen agers of the Continued uu ntf« atx) Kasper Must Serve One Year Jail Term WASHINGTON (UP)—The Supreme Court refused to day to review segregationist John Kasper’s criminal con tempt conviction for interfering with integration of the Clinton, Tenn., high school last year. The court’s action' means Kas per must serve the one-year jail sentence for contempt imposed by s federal district court in Ten nessee. The sentence was upheld last June by the United States Court of Appeals. Kasper has been free on $10,000 bond pending ac tion on1 his request for a Supreme Court review. Kasper, who has figured in sev eial school desegregation disputes, was convicted of "wilfully violal | ing” (hi* district court’s blanket restraining order against picket ing and otherwise interfering with integration at the Clinton school in’ August 1956. The conviction stemmed from a speech he made to a crowd of mere than 1,000 persons that the restraining order did not mean anything and that the Supreme Court’s 1954 school desegregation decision was not the law of the land. In Parade Of Economic Progress Hodges Hails N. C. As Southeast Leader NEW YORK (UP)—Gov. Luther H. Hodges said today that North Carolina is the leader in the Southeast’s “pa rade of economic progress” because of its determined ef fort to utilize th,e state’s resources in a “planned program of economic development.” .Moages, heading a week-long in dustry-hunting expedition in New York, told a lunch of business and financial editors that the Southeast is the most rapidly ex panding market in the nation and “its vast potential cannot be over looked by forward-thinking busi nessmen.” He said his purpose was not to take industry from other states “but to point out the advantages of an uncrowed state.” Hodges noted “modernization” of the state’s corporation income tax structure by the 1957 General Assembly giving multi-state corp orations 14 million dollars in tax relief in the next two years. He said “reasonable and fair tax treament of business and industry is a fixed policy” of the state. Hodges also listed among North Carolina's industrial advantages A reservoir of at. least 160.000 “efficient and dependable" work ers available. A “splendid” record of labor i Continued On Paf« 8lx,