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DUNN, N. ( ., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14. 1957
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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."
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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
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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,
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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
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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
<it criminal trials. The court ruled
that if £ government informer
testifies, pertinent reports lie
made i rtviously to the ffLU must
l-o produced on' demand as a check
on his veracity.
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Start Solicitation
Of Negro Citizens
117 bUai> 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
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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
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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
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