+ WEATHER 4
Considerable cloudiness, *«rm
and humid today, tonight and
Thursday with scattered showers
and thundershowers occurlng most
ly In afternoon or evening.
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UR. GEORGE Cl'THRELI.
BI'SBEE POPE
L. A. TART
HONORED BY DUNN ROTARY—Three long
lime Dunn RoUrians with distinguished records
of service have been presented honorary mem
berships In the club. They are, left to right. Dr.
George C'uthreli. L. Busbee Pope. Sr. and l.ofton
A Tart. The citations honoring the three leader*,
of the club were presented by Thomas R Hood,
a past district governor and director of Rotary
International. illal.v Record I’hotos.l
escaped Prisoner Safely "Talked Down"
Steals Plane For First Flight
Ex-Governor
Collected Fee
To Aid Hoffa
WASHINGTON (UPI—A form
er Kansas governor acknow
ledged today that he collected i
fee of $1,554.09 for Intervening li
a 1953 house Investigation o
Teamster boss James R. Iloffi
which died on the vine shortly aft
er it began.
The ex • governor, Payne H
Ratner, told the Senate Rackets
Committee that, as an attornej
for the teamsters, he discussec
the inquiry with Rep. Wint Smitl
(R-Kans.) who was co-chairman o1
the House group conducting th<
investigation.
The 1953 investigation into Hof
fa's handling of union welfart
funds ended abruptly after a few
days of hearings. It w-as followed
by charges that pressure frorr
"high places” in the Eisenhowei
administration was responsible foi
Its demise.
At today's hearing, committe*
Investigators produced document!
showing Rather's role in the case
They put into evidence a lettei
from Ratner to Hoffa in which th<
ex - governor who is now a unlor
attorney said Smith had "gon<
along" with Ratner’s suggestior
for “treatment" of Hoffa at th<
hearings.
Bootleggers Try
To Beat The Heat
Harnett County rural police found that bootleggers have con
spired to beat the heat with a novel water-cooled system for their
KranH "urK itn lirrlitninn ' *
In a raid late yesterday near J
the Cumberland-Hamett county j
line, on what is locally known as
the “piggery road," rural police
captured four whiskey stills, fired
with gas burners. The stills were
linked by irrigation pipes to a
nearby creek, where a huge wood-1
en box, receiving the whiskey,
was cooled by the running water.
Officers seized 12 gallons of
the "cooled whiskey,” 1,200 gal
lons of mash, and 25 cases of
fruit jars waking to be filled with
the non-tax paid whiskey.
Buck Griffin, rural policeman,
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Dunn Loses To Jacksonville
Harnett Teams Both Downed
The Jacksonville team that ca
me unscathed through an earlier .
contest cut down Dunn-Erwin last
night in the North Carolina Jun
ior League Tournament
Now underway at the Dunn ball
park. the tourney comes to its
climax tomorrow night Jackson
ville advances into the seml-fin
ais tonight, scheduled to play Ca
ry
Raleigh West Rotary earned its
way to the semi-finals by defeat
ing the other Harnett County
team entered in the tournament,
an all-star squad from several
towns called the Little Champs.
Both of last night's games were
narrow coatests Dunn-Erwin was
beaten 2-1 and the Little Champ-s
3-2 with each going extra Innings.
Playing against Raleigh West
Rotary tonight will be Kinston
which beat the companion team
Raleigh Optimist, on Monday nite
The Kinston-Raleigh game start!
at seven o’clock while Jackson
ville-Cary play at nine Tomor
row's championship game will tx
played at 7 30 p m
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla (UPI)
— A National Guard prisoner who
had never flown before stole a
plane today but was "talked
down” safely into the arms of the
law after a hazardous low-level
flight from Savannah, Ga.
Jimmy Gingrich, traffic control
operator at the Daytona Beach
Airport, heard National Guard
Pvt. Charles Ward, 19, of Okla
home City, Okla., begging for
help over the radio and gave him
■ instruction for landing.
Ward broke out of the National
i Guard stockade at Camp Stewart
i near Savannah where he was be
‘ ing held on charges of being ab
i sent without leave.
Gingrich said Ward told him
several times he had never flown
a plane and didn’t have any idea
how to land it once he got air
borne.
Escaped Jail
Sheriff Rodney B. Thursby said
Ward escaped the camp jail at
dawn Tuesday, hid out all day and
night, then took off in a single
engine Dehaviland training plane
this morning.
As military and civilian au -
thorities began organizing a south
wide search. Ward and his plane
came barreling over the east
coast resort, skimming the tree
, toPs ' f * m
“He was a little snook up." Gin
grich said after the youth was
safe on the ground.
"I suggested that he try to land
at Daytona but he said he was
afraid of the heavy air traffic
' I cleared the traffic over the air
port, keeping an Eastern Air Line
passenger plane and another plane
| out of the traffic pattern.
“Tht first time he missed the
| runway by 50 feet. The second
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HST Has
Praise For
Ike's Speech
INDEPENDENCE. Afr>. <UPD —
Former President Harry S. Tru
man had woads of praise today
following President Eisenhower's
address before the United Natoins.
“It was a good consfructive
speech on which 1 hope the United
Nations assembly will act immed
iately," Truman said. He would
make no further comment.
Truman previously backed the
President’s move in sending troops
into Lebanon when the Middle
East crisis began.
Constable Hits
Pair Of Stills
Constable Lonnie Jackson pull
ed a lone-handed raid on two 10
barrell liquor stills out near Min
go Swamp Twenty barrels of
beer were seized and destroyed.
Jackson said that two men we
re working but one spotted him
and got away. He decided since
he’d been seen to feo ahead and
cut up the stills
School Gives
Tips For
Jiffy Meals
Lane Siler, who has made a car
eer out of clever housekeeping
knacks, taught a two-day cooking
school at the Stewart Theatre in
Dunn
For the final class this morn
ing, she lectured while keeping
a steady flow of dishes traveling
to the stove The object was to
show the students — most of them
experienced housewives — some
dishes they can fix in a jiffy
This "Beat the Clock" demon
stration ended with a table cov
ered with foodstuffs both fami
liar and exotic. Among the dish
es were enchalada pie, frozen ba
ked corn, buttered asparagus,
spaghetti, parfait pie, broiled Ha
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Ex-Policeman
Testifies At
Georgia Trial
former Illinois policeman who
turned to crime and murder tes
tified today that he discussed bins*
self as a priest to get through road
blocks
Convict Charles P (Rocky*
Rothschild was re-turned to the
stand for rebuttal testimony at the
murder trial of bootlegger A I)
Alien whom he implicated as hl<
accomplice in confessing the 193®
robbery slaving o: Charles Drake
Asked if he sometimes disguised
himself as a priest, the convicted
safecracker brought here from a
South Carolina prison said he had
done so many times to get through
roadblocks.
Rothschild said he confessed the
murder on July 4 to prevent a
tv»ice-convicted innocent man
from going to the electric chair.
This and other rebuttal testi
mony set the stage for arguments,
a charge to the jury, and jury de
liberation today on the fate ol
Allen, a former Winder. Ga.. used
car dealer brought here from the
Atlanta federal penitent 1 ary
Rothschild had been brought V
the stand to Identify a pistol he
said he used to Kill Drake In a
robbery attempt.
Gromyko Raps
j UNITED NATIONS, NY fl'PD
j —Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko today accused the Unit
ed States and Britain of “aggres
sion" against Lebanon and Jor
: dan.
Addressing the emergency ses
sion of the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly Immediately fol
lowing President Eisenhower,
Gromyko said Russia “cannot re
main indifferent to the fact that
in the immediate neighborhood of
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JEFFERSON. Ga -CPI
A
\V UMMiiuru '*11 ■ r ill*'
Grier To Represent Industry At Conference
Erwin Mills Chief
Going To Sweden
CHARLOTTE, N ('. «UJ*L Virginia textile tndu-M lalixt Wllliai
I Erwin will head a five-man delegation from the l S to an inter
national textile conference in Sweden Aug 25
The tfmnn headed hv Erwin elude R Hnuxtnri .Tewell vU e
I president of Dan River Mills Inc.
of Danville, Va., will represent
the American Cotton Manufactur
ers Institue at the International
federation of cotton and allied
textile industries conference In
Stockholm.
Erwin heads ACMI's Foreign
Trade Committee. Other mem
I bers of the ACMI group will In
! president of Crystil Sp-lotf*
Rleachery Inc of Chteamatiffa.
G* ; ¥ F. Grier, president of
| Abney Mills of Greenwood. S C ,
; and chairman of the board of
Krwin Mill* of Durham N C ;
.1 CralK Smith, pre-ldert of Avon
| dale Mill* of Sylacauga, Ala and
Robert C Jackson, executive vice
president of Af'MI from W,oh
I lntfton, D C
Churches Planning
Camp At Watha
I The Watha FWB Camp Meet-j
ing to be held at the Watha Camp
Grounds Wallace, N. C. will have
its annual meeting August 21-31.
The Free Will Baptists of all Kast
em North Carolina are Invited to
I come.
i- "Rooms are free and the meals
reasonable,” said a spokesman.
There will be three services
dally—10:00 AM 3:30 PM and
7 45 P.M These services are ‘‘de
signed to meet the spiritual needs
of Christians and the unconvert
ed”
Beginning Friday, August 22,
' there will be ministerial classes
for all Free Will Baptist Minis-j
ters, deacons, Sunday School
peachers; and church officers
These classes will consist of
j Church Administration, minister
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R»v. Krnnrth
|{(M>Tn I OI< \ KIWI K It’s haul to sat ahHhrr II \rarolit
Judy Slrphrtisnn was startlrd to* thr prrlortnanrr »l hrt hrrocx on
thf hall IkU — or Ju»t by thr auddrn appraranrr of a lamrra
man. \t any rat r. hrr porlahlr radio was an unnrrt rsaarjr prria)i
thin against horrdoni brrauar thr tram «hr roolrd for laikson
*lllr — has prrfarmhl nlrrl* In thr rlulrhra Itrjtlna Hum last
night l»rr Sporta I’agr \ It ups hr ads loin ll*r srmi finals. Krrord
W>*to l>* I «• it ( I Jtl 1 ^
Air-Conditioning For All Patients
Anti - Heat Steps
At Dunn Hospital
The pal IrnU at Itetv Johnson
Memorial Hospital may not !«■ a*
happy as polar Iwarn hut they no
longer have to endure the tropl
cal blast* of hr at that have eonie
to tow n
Movie Green administrator of
the hospital confirmed torlay that
air conditioning ia Just about roiu
plele
The patients. he said are dr
lighted
A decision to take the anti •
welter step-. was made only fid
(lava ago Since then electrician
Karl Youngblood has worked
quickly, installing Individual un
Its in 50 patient*' room* and a
number of offices
The lobby an<l the ladle*’ »usl
llary room have also l>een air -
conditioned
Until now, only two rooms had
been alr-t-ondi tinned and these
went at .1 somewhat blither fee
than normal Hut (Sreen salt) the
hospital "not try to pay fur the
new units out of the patients’
bills ”
Beauticians
Stage New
Initiations
The startling serenade al the
Cottondale Hotel today was Just
part of the sorority initiation at
the Dunn College of Beauty Cul
ture
The five candidates were told
to go *ing "Cod Bless America’’
at the hotel at noon-time Th<**e
accepted Into Ha" Kana <the name
derives from beauty school oper
a'or Hank Hanna1 were Marjorie
f'reech Jean Mldklff Doris Smith.
1’atricla Taylor and Ann Bridger*
Originally formed here a few
months ago. the sorority Is head
ed by Naomi Strickland of Rroad
way, Route I
Tonight It is sponsoring a lec
ture by Mitchell of Cameron Vil
lage He will demonstrate ad -
vanced phases of hair styling
Non-members of the sorority ran
attend for t! The lecture starts
at eight o’clock
Do-It-Yourself Plan
Of Economy Given
I N 11 M > NATIONS \ \ l 1^1 Pv - iilrfii Ki<rnlMHv(*r tixf \
U'*»'«l criMtlnn of a .tanribv I nl‘r.1 Villon. mltlUrv forr0 ami
a do-U-vountlf rronomlc program f,vr ifm Aral* .t»t«* m , 41x point
j*rm *• plan for Ihi* MliMIr Ka*t I' '•
ii» **
Kui'uljowpi iddrviM'd thi* oitfii- i - —.......
| liu; mu Ion of a t n 11 f<t \ ilium
’(’ii-nml in lli'il into
MMrfrnn inerting to consider
thr Middle i ml crl*l« It h m hi*
flral *pjm a ram e before the l
bod} »lncr In mmlr hn dnnutlc
"atom* fin jiearr ' proposal from
ihr umr roatrum on IHt h IU3
Hr uni! Nan irt Foreign Minlatrr
Vndrtl (Iroimko were Ihr only
apeakrra llilnl at today'* mrrt
In If of llu k! t' \ nimilirr*
The I’rralik-nt denounced rfforta
of sm ir Premier Nikita N Khru
•hi hri to rrral' a mr hvaterta"
In ihr Midraat rrl«l»
Without mentioning Khruahehev ^
In namr Klfenhewer *ai(i i hr |
Humian leader'* rffort* to ri ,
ploll man's hornu of war'' rould I
In' rallril ''ballistic lilaikmail " I
Thr President *ald It wan "Im
portanf*' that hi* ala point plan
In- viewed ria a whole Mr Dated
lulled Nat Iona mm nil for la'\
Plan fur Mlilraat
It
'Vi
United Nation* measur*
prrifrvf peace In Jordan
"An end to the fomenting front
wIt how t of civil strife
'V lotted Nut Iona peace force
V regional economic develop
merit plan to »«»l»t and accelerate
Improvement In the living aland
ards of the people in these Arab
n»t!o«tt«
"Step« to avoid a new arena,
rave apical In the area."
A* a means of preventing out
• Ide sources from stirring up
strife from within the President
proposed ( \ monitoring of ra
dio broadcasts ‘ directed across
national frontlet- in the troubled
Near Hast area '/S
The President aid carrying 1 Hit.,
lean plan could mean in
short vests" that the la1
and Jordan crises would^
"the beginning of a great
of
hla
a few
banon
mark
II on tinned On l*a*r Sl»>
Two Georcji
Mysterious
omen
Beaten
* »It I r PIN Iti.l I |*l A 1}
two rl y widow-. with In an inrh n
Ing the night but spared t»n -.mat
ported today
I
nu* victim*, both ellnglng to
life today wore Mrs .1 M Smith '
mother of Advertising Manager'
Russell Smith of the (irlffln Dully ’
News, anil her slater, Mrs Jim
mie la-e lutes. Both worn* n ire,(
In their flit*
Smith, who dlseovered the bid
to* at the suburban home this
morning found the small children,
Officers Find Unique Wafer-Cooling System
MoonC razed Ex-Con
Confesses -Slaying
Dll,CON H C iUI’D "Moon-» i l/i-tf «*x-4-onvict Quincy Bui
lock today ilgnrd a full conf>M-don adiAlttiiuf th«- full-moon Auk 1
murder of Mri Carolyn Barfield W rt-< -Vol-h' in a Dillon County i-eme.
j Sheriff PH*- Rogers said the N>
I gro dishwasher would b«- Iran*
| fcrred la tor today from the Dll
Ion County jail to the state peni
tentiary at Columbia where he
will be held on a murder charge
(hillock, 46. who varbatly admit
. tod the slaying during question
ing last week, signed the confes
sion early this morning after
spending most of Tuesday telling
and retelling the story to officers
j Bullock, who previously served
seven years for attempted rape,
i told officers he was a "Moon
baby” who often did straugs
I things when the moon was full.
During questioning by state
agent i'olln King. Sheriff Rogers
Janfcl-^jy^er officers. Bullock ;aid
f hfr ijjaynt* told him many years
: aV^T'tjf.was a "naoon baby," mean
,inV.h«'#was born when the moon
1 wgs(full
I 'VKfng" talked the Negro precisely
bowVjip; full moon affected him
/itjdt Bullock replied it made him
</U/> • U .was at this point In the
interrogation that Bullock began
to gi^tv details of his action on
theVi>{fcht of the slaying.
*> Mrs.i WaUchoch, a widow with
foilr'TVhitdren. was killed while
' pAlced^fin a wooded cemetery
"lovers’l lane" with a 24-year-old
Lake View. S.C., man.
*“AI .NIK*-- l,ovr
Orranti4(lun «Ur Anne
*«M»n to hr irrn in
inri w h«i »
with Howard
“HmxU o# Krir,” in
rniwriou» rvr Q wtirn
I nr M’aiitlfu? jn
former hraiitt quern,
at nhr llkm to *er 4
rovrrrd ami rlefalit “|
rvrn th«»U(h the\
;> 4 woman to attrai t ’*
MU* llr% wuint i*
who doesn't like to
r !• M tH vital *t.«tU
it*e-niHnnt *.iva*»'Iv fx*;i f
i's w itti m Iron pip# dut
children authorities re
nd li<iu Ann, unharmed
f'frightened to give a ro.
Mint 1,1 .-.hr liipiit n*-<J.
•.THTirf' Jo*- I Hur on aid tho
i> tlll.iAA be I the women wl’h an
IrnVi ^flpi ' i.it Imre and "elbowr
lii^/lt?1 «»’ It riul inked ollt tele*
[diiitil** yiiiinerllini Illd r**d la
M> 4 Hie* i n
f It. , i hildi ™ *.11, found lying
• U^int'inird On l'a*r si\
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