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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER M, 195
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NO. 252
Patrol Killer Identifie
As
entail Patient;
Fled To Help Brother Excape From Death Row
Toronto Mother Hanged Children In Basement
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HANGS CHILDREN — Mrs.
Melville O’Donohue, above, 30
year-old wife of a prominent
Toronto lawyer, allegedly
hanged her four little girls from
a basement rafter, killing, three.
Man Caught
Before Flight
With $10,000
RALEIGH (IP) — A newly-hired
bookkeeper was arrested Wednes
day night with more than $10,000
in stolen cheek in his pocket
shortly before he planned “to
leave for Florida.”
The man. Jack P. Ellis, 29, of
Cary, said he had cashed about
1,600 in fraudulent checks stolen
from Parker Brothers and Co.
where he had been employed for
one month as a bookkeeper.
Detectives said Ellis admitted
stealing 42 checks from the back
of a checkhook and ruming them
through a company check writing
machine.
Ellis said he used the money to
purchase a car, a hospital care
insurance policy, clothes and oth
er items he couldn’t remembers.
Ellis said he had a crippled
hand from gun wounds in the Kor
ear War. He said he was honor
ably discharged, but not given a
pension for his wounds.
The veteran said he had been
unemployed for eight months pri
or to the bookkeeping job and
needed money. He is single.
BARBECUE—The junior class
of Dunn High School is now busy
selling tickets for its annual bar
becue. Chicken plates are $1.50,
regular barbecue (prepared by
Griffin’s) $1.25 for the Saturday
event. Hours will be 11 a. m., to
2 p. m.. and 5 to 8 p. m., on Nov.
16. Proceeds help finance the Jun
ior-Senior banquet-dance, the big
formal of the high school social
season. The date has not been set
yet for the Junior-Senior but it
will be in the Spring.
Billion More For Defense
WASHINGTON OP) — The
Eisenhower administration
has tentatively decided to
boost defense spending about
one billion dollars next year,
it appeared today.
A highly-placed official said the
military budget still is being
drawn up. But he made it clear
the administration has scrapped
its plans for a 38-billion dollar cei
ling on defense spending for the
fiscal year beginning ftext July 1.
Indications were the administra
tion will ask Congress for about 39
• billion dollars in actual defense
appropriations next year — also
an increase of one billion dollars
above previous plans. This woujd
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Williamson Heads
Grove Club Again
The Grove Men’s Club, which
has heard an assortment of out
standing speakers since it was
former 18 months ago, has re
elected its president, Highway Pa
trol Corporal Rommie F. William
son.
Williamson heads a list of of
ficers that also includes Floyd
Johnson, vice-president and pro
gram chairman; Calvin Johnson,
secretary; and Wallace Ray Core,
treasurer.
They were elected Tuesday night
and the results were announced by
Rev. George Hunter, pastor of
the Grove Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Hunter said that among the
speakers heard by the group since
its inception were Walter Ander
son, SBI head who took office in
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THREE OF FOUR CHILDREN DIE—Found dead hanging from a rafter in the basement of
their Toronto home were, left to right, Eileen, 3; Kathleen, 2, and Maureen O’Donohue, 4. A fourth
sister, 6-month-old Mary Jo, may live. Mrs. Melville O’Donohue, the children’s mother, reportedly
haneed the children with parcel cord.
Mnnslnuahter Charaed In Suoerior Court
Beasley On Trial In Death
Of Nine-Year-Old -Schoolchild
Molasses Thief
Must Give It Back
oi'l/oKlr 11 n cdc.
sion of Dunn Recorder’s Court —
still conducted in the town library
with the judge seated in a wheel
chair — Elish Ross of 104 East
Cole Street faced trial for shoplift
ing a jar of molasses.
Otis Jackson, owner of a grocery
store on North Clinton, accused
Ross of concealing the molasses
to take it from the store without
paying for it. The defendant, a 43
year-old Negro, plead not guilty
but was convicted.
Judge H. Paul Strickland, con
valescing from the broken leg
he received at the county' fa.r
earlier this year, fined Ross $25
and court costs.
Not only that, His Honor order
ed, “The molasses taken in this
case (shouldf be returned to Mrs.
Jackson.”
Also tried this morning was
Robert N. Stevens, 20-year-old Ft.
Bragg serviceman, who pled guilty
to operating a vehicle without a
driver's license. He was fined $25
and costs with a 30-day jail term
suspended.
The only other persons tried this
morning were two men accused
of public drunkennes. Court last
ed about 45 minutes. Some cases
now pending in Dunn Recorder's
Court have been postponed be
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Hew Study !n
Lung Cancer
Deaths Made
MIAMI BEACH (UP) —A
professor of tire Medical Col
lege of Virginia reported to
day that a study among to
bacco company workers did
not show an increase in lung
cancer deaths even though
tobacco workers on the aver
age are much heavier smok
ers.
Dr. Harvey B. Haag dtlivered
the paper on “smoking habits and
mortality among workers in cigar- |
ette factories” before a meeting of
the Southern Medical Assn. The |
study was made by Haag and Hi- |
ram R. Hanmer. research director i
of the American Tobacco Co.
The Institute of Statistics of the
University of North Carolina com
piled the figures for the study,
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William utiTa Beaslej
vent on trial yesterday after
loon in Harnett Superior
Jourt at Lillington charged
vith manslaughter in the
ieath of a nine-year-old col
>red child near Harnett High
n Dunn last January 3.
Irene Smith was killed and hei
companion, Christine McBride,
seriously injured as they cross':
i street toward the school afte:
suying some candy at a nearb.'
store.
The state rested this mornin;
ifler contending that Beasley wa
speeding up the Jonesboro high
*ay at high velocity when his ca
struck the two colored children.
Two witnesses took the stall
for the defense and maintains
diat he had cut speed sharply 01
nearing the school and struck th
children only because they dartei
unexpectedly into the road.
One of the witnesses for Hi
state — private prosecutors ■
Shep Bryan and Robert C. Brya
are conducting the examination -
was the young survivor of the ac
cident, Christine McBride. Sh
said that Irene and herself wer
in the crosswalk at the lime th
were struck.
Isaac Williams, an eye-witnes
to the accident ,said he saw th
body of one of the children ”f!
up in the air.” Both children wer
knocked a considerable distant
by the impact according to the ir
vestigations of police officers •’
M. Joyce and Red Pope who wer
to the scene immediately after tf
accident. A truck driver, W. I
Moore, testified that a few second
before the accident Beasley pa
sed him going an estimated (
miles per hour.
The state contended that Bea
ley’s car traveled 143 feet befoi
and 97 feet after the impact.
However, two witnesses put <
the stand by defense atthrnm
Duncan Wilson and W. A. Join
son said his speed was not evce
sive. These two men, Elmer Pa
ker and Donny C. Adams, wei
passengers in his car at the tin
the girls were struck.
Testimony for the defense w;
! continuing this afternoon. Beasl*
lives between Dunn and Benso
He has had prior convictions (
traffic offenses.
FBI Chief Says Man
lias Long Record, Is
Extremely Dangerous
WASHINGTON (UP) The FBI announce today that
fingerprint on articles found in the stolen murder car in
the slaying of two North Carolina state highway patrol
men have been identified as those of an escaped mental
patient.
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said the escaper, Frank tidward
Wetzel, 36. fled from the Willard,
N. V., state mental hospital last
month.
Hoover said a nationwide man
hunt is under way for Wetzel.
‘He said Wetzel’s fingerprint im
pressions were found on an eleet
trieirazor adapter and a stolen;
license plate recovered from the
stolen 1957 Oldsmobile used in the
double slaving.
Patrolman Wister Lee Reese
was shot and killed by an un
known person on Nov. 5 while 1
operating a speed block near Rock- j
ingham, N.C. An hour later, Patrol- |
man .lames Thomas Brown was
shot and killed as he stopped the
driver of the same car.
Weapons in Car
The FBI chief said (lie car was
found abandoned at Chattanooga,
Tenn , the Bight of Nov. 6.
AJ&o recovered with the car,
TTodVt'r said, were^-veral logged
revolvers amj rifles identified as
having been stolen two days prev
iously from a Bradford, Pa., hard
ware store.
Frank Wetzel had been reported
planning to make an attempt io
free his brother, now under death
sentence in Parchman prison in
prison inmate several years ago.
Authorities had been seeking
him for several weeks in an effort
to forestall a prison delivery at
tempt. He was know to he heav
ily armed even before the North
Carolina killings.
, ' Prison Guard
! Gov. J P. Coleman of Missi.s
. sippi recently sent a detachment
of National Guardsmen to the
prison to bolster there, when he
was informed that Frank Wetzel
was bound for Misssissippi.
Wetzel, whose arrest record
' dates back to 1933 for such uf
- fenses as assault, burglary and
• grand larceny, escaped from the
the New York mental hospital on
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United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK (IP) _ In this 50th
anniversary year of the United
Press, thousands of present and
former “Unipressers" — toilers
glamorous and grubby hi the
round-the-clock business of glean
ing and winnowing the news of
the world under th'e U. P. logotype
— have been reminiscing about
:he life a newsman leads.
The term Unipresser grew out
of the eable address of the organi
zation: Unipress. Anyone who is
employed by the U. P. automati
cally becomes a Unipresser. And
yet, the feeling persists among its
newsmen and its far-flung alumni
corps that the word connotes ex
perience “under fire" in the some
times frantic race to catch up
with the news and master it.
Experience Anywhere
The experience can come ir
puzzling through a eomplicatec
court decision or scientific paper
It can come in the tedimu of vot<
counting, in rounding up for public
ation all sides of a labor dispute
in just sitting and watching i
jury wdiii h has reached a verdie
file slowly and gravely into th<
box.
It can come in the tinkling of ;
telephone bell in the middle of tin
night.
Take this instance, quoted frorr
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Story Of
Love, Illness
And Sorrow
CHICAGO IP) — It lasted on!:
six years, but Shirley and Donah
Woods “had a beautiful life to
gether.”
The romance of the Chip pew,
Indian and the x-ray techniciai
he married ended in St. Mary’
Cemetery Wednesday, the fina
chapter in a story of love, sieknes
and sorrow.
Woods, who came from For
Fraaneis, Ont., enlisted in the U
! S. Army when he was 17 years old
He returned from the Battle o
the Bulge carrying shrapne
wounds that forced him to spem
most of his time in Hines Vetei
: ans Hospital.
He met Shirley Goss at an ice
rink one day, and their romanc
blossomed into marriage in 1951
Later, Woods lost one lung an
contracted tuberculosis in th
other. A year ago, his wife wa
1 stricken with Hodgkin's diseas<
Woods, 31, was at Hines Sur
day when he was notified that hi
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institution for observation after
his arrest on Sept. 26 by New York
local authorities.
Hoover said Wetzel currently is
wanted by Ontario County, N. Y ,
authorities for violation of a five
year probationary sentence follow
ing his release from the Attica,
N. Y.. prison in December, 1954.
He was serveing a five to six-year
sentence for burglary and grand
larceny when he was paroled.
Criminal Record
Wetzel was born at Fayette. N
Y. He is 5 feet, 10 inches tall,
weighs 160 pounds blue eyes,
brown hair and a scar on the
right side of his upper lip. He was
described by the FBI as a non
smoker and neatly dressed.
In the past ,he has been em
ployed as a farmhand at Geneva
N. Y. He attended Waterloo. N. Y.
high school for four years, but
was not graduated.
H^lJk'lG and 1937 he was com
mitt* to the New York School
of Industry at Rochester, N. Y., i«
a juvenile delingquent. From De
cember 1940 to August 1942 he
served time at Elmira reforma
tory for burglary. He entered At
tica prison in April 1944 and was
paroled in .I line 1949.
The FBI said Wetzel may be
armed and should he considered
“extremely dangerous.” Anyone
having information concerning hi
w'hereabout should contact the
nearest FBI office.
In Raleigh, state patreil officials
said the FBI announcement evas ;
“real break — the one we’ve hopee
for.”
The search for the killer, prev
iously unidentified had been cen
tered in Kentucky and was ex
tended earlier this week througf
the Midwest and bordering states
A statewide alert was Hashed in
Indiana today for two men, one ol
them answering the description is
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j"Probably Histroy's Most Dangerous Hour"
G raham SaysNation
On Volcanos Edge
HOLLYWOOD (UP)—Evangelist Billy Graham warn
ed Wednesday night that America is “living on the edge of
a volcano” in “probably history’s most dangerous hour.”
Graham who was honored at a
testimonial dinner and on the
"This Is Your Fife" television
show, declared during his stay
here that “America had better
get on God’s side and get there
quick!”
The handsome evangelist ar
rived in I,os Angeles by plane
Wednesday to confer with officials
of a Hollywood religious film
firm. He was walking with a cane
as a result of an injury suffered
j when he was hutted by a bad-tem
pered ram on his North Carolina
farm four weeks ago.
Graham said he was taken by
surprise by the TV show, which
depicted his past life and called
together relatives and friends.
Several movie personalities, in
cluding Roy Rogers, Dale Evans,
Jimmy Stewart and Carol Chan
ning. attended the show.
Following his arival here, Gra
ham admonished that Americans
must not be soft and “morally
decadent.”
“World conditions are making
people think more than ever and
Christ is the answer to the world’s
problems and to individau prob
lems,” he declared. “This is an
era of fear and danger, a terrible
danger of annihilation, and we
can't go about with business as
usual or pleasure as usual.”
Graham came here from San
Francisco where he had been map
ping plans for a six-week revival
at the Cow Palace there, begin
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Negroes With White
Wives Reassigned
BAD KREUZNACH, Germany (UP)—Thirty-one Negro
soldiers who have married German girls will not accom
pany the 2nd Armored Division to Texas when it begins its
move Saturday, a division official said today.
All hilt nino of (ho colrltOrc hoin
been reassigned to units elsewhere
in Kurope, the spokesman said.
Five others are waiting reassign
ment and the remaining four will
go with the division of New York
and get new assignment — pre
sumably not in the South.
The spokesman said the Negroes
were told of a Texas law prohibit
ing mixed marriages several
weeks ago when the division first
learned it was being moved to Ft
Hood, 65 miles from Austin.
“All o fthose told indicated the>
division," he said. He added that
no Army regulations or division
rules prevent thei ror division
' rules prevent their wives from ac
companying them to the United
States or Texas.
"We were informed from ‘up
the line’ on the situation in regard
to the Texas laws and felt that
we had better plan for that even
tuality," he said. ‘‘We called in
the soldiers and explained the sit
nation to them. Their decision was
entirely voluntary.”
Arrives Home With Handsome Escort
Babs Denies Report
She'll Shed No. 6
NEW YORK (UP)—Barbara Button arrived here to
i day from Europe with a handsome young escort but she
i denied that she intended to divorce her sixth husband,
Baron Gottfried von Cramm.
The five-and-dime heiress ar
rived aboard the liner United
f States on her 45th birthday in
1 the company of 30-year-old Philip
l van Rensselaer, scion of a wealthy
. New York family. Rumor that
Van Rensselter was slated to be
. come Miss Hutton’s seventh hus
; band had preceded them.
“It's not. true,” Miss Hutton said
1 at a press conference. “It can’t
a affor dto travel with a charming
s young man without all this talk
, starting. It’s embarassin gto him."
Van Rensselaer, an ex-model
s and a would-be author, said the
rumors were “ridiculous" in view
of Miss Hutton’s present marital
status. He said they had come
back on the same ship “just for
company” and Miss Hutton added
that they had known each other
for 15 years.
“We thought it would be nice,”
Miss Hutton said. "Other people
do it.”
Miss Hutton said she was very
happily married to her tennis star
husband. She said was en route
to Cuernavaca, Mexico, not for a
divorce but to oversee the com
pletion of a house she is building
there.
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Plan Appeal
lo State's
Supreme Court
Louise Williams, on trial
for the murder of her hus
band in Harnett Superior
Court, was found guilty of
manslaughter by the jury.
Lillington attorneys Arch
ie Taylor and Robert Morgan
represented her. They pre
sented no evidence for the
defense, preferring to rest on
“the weakness of the state’s
case.”
The verdict has given no
tice of appeal to the Supreme
Court of North Carolina.
Judge Hoyle Sink passed a
sentence of seven to 12 year’s
in Woman’s Prison in Ral
eigh.
Her huband, Walter, was stab
bed to death on March 19, 1951.
The defendant, a woman about 10
years old, was said by her attor
neys to have acted in self-defense.
The state called Sonny McIntyre
and Minnie, alleged eye-witnesses
to Williams death, for testimony.