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t •r + WEATHER + Continued warm and humid this afternoon, tonight and Friday with showers and thundershowers oc curring mostly in afternoons and evenings. The any Kern-so THE RECORD IS FIRST L VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 21, 1959 White Man Shot Negro Couple Johnson Draws Twelve Years An Anderson Creek white man who shot his Negro housekeeper and a male friend today was sen tenced to a total of twelve years in State Prison. Jack Johnson, jailed on May 1C a few hours , after the double shooting, pled guilty to both shoot ings and the only witness in the case was Rural Policeman Stanley Byrd. Judge Heman Clark of Fayette ville, presiding in Superior Court at Lillington, heard the evidence yesterday and this morning passed judgment oh Johnson. Neither of the two victims were present. Seriously injured, both are still under treatment at High smith Hospital in Fayetteville. Annie Sue Patterson was operat ed on earlier and a bullet was removed from just below her heart. Johnson had told Byrd that the shooting of Annie Sue was acci dental. James McGill was raked with a shotgun blast and was in critical condition when first taken to the hospital. Byrd’s investigation indicated that the shoottpg occurred as the housekeeper was about to leave Johnson’s form with McGill. The case was tried with only Byrd testifying and the defendant him self did not take the stand. Sheriff Wade Stewart said he would be sent today to State Pri son to begin his term. Judge Clark sentenced him to seven years foi the shooting of McGill, five years for the shooting,of Annie Sue Pat terson. TliF'sentences are to run in sequence. - . * *-**■'•-*«*>■ - ir r_ Pollard Named Southern Baptists Head By LOUIS CASS^LS United Press International LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) — Th< Rev. Ramsey Pollard, pastor oi the Broadway Baptist Church oi Knoxville, Tenn., today was elect ed president of the Southern Bap tist Convention, America’s second largest Protestant denomination. Pollard, 56, a native of Cle burne, Tex., was chosen in a run off election over the Rev. Roj O. McClain, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, at tht 102nd annual meeting of the con vention. Voting was by secret ballot anc the totals cast for each candidate were not announced. Pollard wil succeed former U. S. Rep. Brook: Hays (D-Ark.), president | of th< convention for the past two years The 15,000 messengers attend ing the convention voted over wbelmingly to let the trustees o: Southern Baptist Theological Sem inary here handle as they see fi charges made before the conven tion by the Rev. James S. Bui man of East Spencer, N. C. Disputed Doctrines Bullman told the convention tha one professor at the seminary— whom he did not name—has indi cated in his writings that he re gards some fundamental Baptis (Continued On Page Six) Asks Million for Libel Rape Victim Sues Newspaper HATTIESBURG, Mis*. (UPI) — The young white mother a Negro lynch victim was accused of rap. ing filed a one million dollar suit against a Negro newspaper Thurs. day. Mrs - June Walters, the alleged rape victim, filed the suit in U. S. federal district court here. The woman, of nearby Petal, Miss., asked damages for publi. cation of a story in the Memphis Tri.States Defender. She named as defendant Robert A. Abbott Publishing Co. of Chicago, pub. lisher of the paper. The newspaper published a story Saturday quoting an un_ identified white man as saying the woman “cooked up” the rape story to “hide a secret love af_ fair with another white man from her husband.” The woman, nearly two months pregnant at the time, told offi. cers she was attacked before dawn Feb. 24 by a Negro she la. ter identified as Mack Charles Parker. Her complaint included a copy of the newspaper story, which did not identify her by name. The newspaper said one of its reporters got the information from a white man who “feared for his life if his identity Is re., vealed.’* ‘The information said the young woman involved in the case was separated from her husband and had been carrying on an affair with another man,” the newspap. er said. “On the night of the alleged / rape he the unidentified white man claimed she had, gone to a nearby town where he said her husband wag playing in a band to pick up some money. They were trying to .effect a reconcili. ation, he added. The husband was driving her home, the man said, when his car broke down'. “The husband left his wife and baby in the car and while he was gone the lover reportedly came by, picked up the woman and her baby and drove them to a secret tryst in the woods. When the woman and her lover returned to the main highway the husband had returned and left the scene, a Defender report, er learned. The woman cooked up the rape story in order to ex. plain her absence” -j---1 Guatemala Claims Invaders Coming VJTUI EilVlALiA V/1A x VUfi; — Guatemala charged today that four schooners carrying arms and Communist invaders are on the way from Cuba to attempt a landing in this country. President. Miguel Ydlgoras Fu_ antes said the army, alerted last month to the possibility of sea. borne attack, is “ready to repel any mercenary invasion force that attempts to land oir Guate. mala’s beaches." The government announced that, Guatemala _ which now has no Navy.has purchased a 400. ton frigate from Sweden. The war. ship, mounting 75_mm. guns in its main' battery, is expected here early next month. i An “urgent communique” said the invasion fleet sailed Tuesday from Pinar Del Rio province, at Cuba’s western tip, crossed the Yucatan Channel and headed south dowir the coast. The official announcement said a Guatemalan - reconnaissance plane “shadowed” the schooners as far as the Mexican provincial capital of Chetumal. The course and speed of the ships suggest they may have reached Punta Gorda in' British Honduras Wednesday night, the communique said. Punta Gorda is on Amatique Bay about 30 miles northwest of Puerto Barrios, the principal city on Guatemala’s 50_mile Caribbean, coastline. ializes, it would be the second launched from Cuba in a month. About 90 Cubans landed in Pana. ma late In April, but! surrendered a few days later. Lady Mayor Wants Her Bottom Bumped MAIDENHEAD, England (UPI) —Mrs. Gladys Long worth, a 62. year.old grancmotner, said today she will fight for the right of getting bumped on .. her bottom when she becomes a mayor. “Bottom.bumping” is a Maid, enhead ceremony that goes back to 1581, the year a Maidenhead mayor was grabbed by citizens and dropped seat.first on bound, ary.line stones. Mrs. Longworth recently was elected mayor but the town cour^ cil refused to spend the $280 needed for ^bumping ceremonies at her inauguration. ‘‘I am sure everyone would like to see the mayor being bumped,” said Mrs. Longworth, “and II don’t mind.” In’ fact, she said, she will demand the ceremony. Withdraws As an Original Signer Morgan Denounces Sucker-Control Bill State Senator Robert Morgan of Lillington has helped put the kiss of death on the MH-30 bill which started a fierce farm controversy about ten days ago. In his original statement to this newspaper, Morgan had made it plain that he did not expect or want the bill to become law. He said his motive in signing, the bill was to give an airing to a matter which he felt farmers i were not fully considering. This was the possible danger to the tobacco crop, and hence the ■ leaf marketing, in North Carolina of using an excess of sucker-control ' chemical known as MH-30. Now, Senator Morgan, Senators ; Arthur Williamson and Wills Han ■ cock of Granville—all three of ■ them among the five original sign ers of the bill—in rejecting it outright. t Morgan and Hancock said they - would base their opposition on their belief that tobacco manu - facturers at a hearing last week t had not " made enough of a case” against use of the chemical. , SURVIVES VOTE RALEIGH (UPI)—Supporters of a bill to ban use of maleic hydrazide MH-30 for tobacco sucker control beaded off what appeared to be certain defeat to day and won approval for their measure in the Senate Agricul ture Committee. The bill facies a tough fight on the floor with three of the five original signers now opposing the measure. Two of the five issued a strong attack on the measure Wednesday night. BILL GETS SUPPORT The Senate Education Commit, tee salvaged a bill today that would have required the state's schools to change to a lO.month, 11 . year programs. The group showed strong support for the bill but admitted it would stand little chance of enactment unless it were permissive rather than mandatory. ,A BEAUTY QUEEN, like a president's wife, always has plenty of festive chores. This morning, Janet Sutton of LiHtngton, the 1959 Miss Dunn, was caught peering. Jfhropgh the pa»tJiol<-likc door on a drying unit at new automatic laundry in the Quinn, Shopping Outer. Sharing porthole space is laundromat president William I). Ward and at right i> Billy Wetloris. who will act as Wce-paMhiuil and treasurer of the new firm, (Record Photo by Theft Charge Reduced In County Court Harnett recorder’s court met Thursday in the Lillington town hall due to the fact that the reg ular court-room was in use for a term of superior court. William Bill Gaster, 16, and Joe Gregory, 17, Buie’s Creek youths h*d the charge of larceny reduced (o forcible -itspass after they en tered guilty pleas to the lesser charge. They had been arrested on the information and belief of Sheriff Wade H. Stewart that they stole and took away the following articles of personal property of Campbell College, to wit: cigarettes (Continued On pure Six) PEPSI “KING” DISPLAYS THE SWIRL— Crafton Tart’s Open Air Market Is the largest Pepsi-Cola retailer in this entire area and today he was proudly showing off Pepsi-Colas in their new Swirl-Shape bottle, which gives the popula' drink the bright, light look. Mr. Tart and re- - sentatives of the PepsiCola Bottling C . in Fayetteville are pictured here after completing t: jj work on a beautiful and massive Pepsi-Cola display containing hundreds of cases in front of Open Air. Left to rirht are: Elton Strickland, Pepsi-Cola supervisor; Howard Mason, Pepsi route salesman; Mr. Tart and V. H. Behm. as sistant to Pepsi President R. B. Minxes. (Daily Record Photo.) Blalocks Civic Faces Its First i ' Program Test SEE EDITORIAL CARTOON ON PAGE SIX Mayor George Franklin Bla - lock, who has promised the town a vigorous program of action, will have a chance to swin£ into act ion tonight. Facing his second Council meet ing—the first was relatively rou tine with Blalock suggesting that important issues shouldn’t be fa ced until he had “got his feet wet"—several large items con - front him. Blalock, of course, is head of the city administration but has a vote only in case of a dead split .by other members of the board. I Lacking the administrative au thority of the city manager and the lawmaking power of the city board, it is the mayor’s job to supply lungpower and leadership which will bring the city along the way he wants it to go. Blalock has indicated that he wants it to go this way: (1) Keep all public business public. (2) Get a new zoning law which breaks down the broad categories of Residential and Business. <3) Adopt a policy whereby the town accepts full responsibility in getting water-lines to the meters . of the water-user. * (4) Combine the town primar; and general election in order t save money. (5) Up court costs in Dunn Re i corder’s Court and use the increa 'sed funds “to buy police cars an police equipment.” (6) Consider building a nei city hall without resorting to bond issue (which, he beleive* would be rejected by local cit zens). All of these matters are slate for discussion either tonight or i the immediate future. During hi campaign for mayor, Blalock a so threw out several other idea which are expected to be discuss ed at future meetings of th board. They -dncluded his call for one-street overpass so traffic ca move through town even when a | Atlantic Coast Line train is mal ing a stop. He also suggested th ACL be approached on the poss (Continued on Page Two) Pleads Guilty on Five Counts McCoy's Attacker Gets Five Years Bud Ryals, the Harnett man v.'ho laid gun-siege to a house and tried to burn it down while in flight from a small posse, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Tried yesterday in Harnett Sup erior Court at Lillington, Rvais pled guilty to each of five counts. Three were for larceny, one for assault with a deadly weapon with .intent to kill, one for attempted arson. Sheriff Wade Stewart was among the witnesses in the case. Ryals himself did not take the stand to give an explanation of hifc ac tions. Officers had theorized that Ryals shot up the home of George McCoy because he felt the family had betrayed him to the police. But Ryals has never discussed his mo tives. The 43-year-old colored man was object of a search extending over several weeks when he reportedly 1 stole some chickens and an auto -nobile tire. | Sheriff Wade Stewart and B E. Sturgill attempted to arrest on Monday. May 4, when they ap proached his house and saw him | driving to it from another road. But Ryals sped off. ditched his car and set off across fields and : timber. A search was started, tempor arily called off because of rain and during this hunt-down Ryals came to the McCoy house and fired into it. Louise McCoy, a 14-year-old, was struck in the left shoulder by a .22 hullet. Ryals de parted when her father came out with a shotgun and drove him off. Officers found that the gunman had sprinkled gasoline around tije house and was apparently prepar ing to set it afire. Mass Roundup Underway For Top Racket Men WASHINGTON <UPI> — Feder. al agents and state police began a coast.to.coast roundup today of 27 big name racketeers who at. tended the 1957 gangland conven. tion' in Apalachin, N. Y. Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers disclosed that all of them were indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on charges of con. spiring to obstruct justice by re_ fusing to disclose what went on at the November 1957 underworld meeting. Thirty.six others, including Jo seph Barbara Sr., who was host at the conclave in his hilltop Apalachin home, were named *3 co . conspirators but not defen. dants. Some of the men were' routed out of bed at dawn as the na_ tionwide crackdown' began. At least two of the men were reported to be members of the ■ Mafia or ill.famed “Black Hand" society of Sicily. Crime Syndicates / The New York grand jury that returned the indictments had been conducting an investigation Of racketeering and crime syndi. dates, particularly in the ladies East Coast traffic in narcotics. Rogers said all 27 named; as defendants were accused of con. spiring to obstruct justice by giving false .and. evasive test!, many about the- rendezvous of. racketeer." at ApalacWn- * Three raced additional charged of per. jury on grounds they lied to po_ lice, Investigating committees and grand juries. The conspiracy charge carries a maximuni penalty of a $5,000 fine and five years in jail, or both, on each count. The maxi, mum penalty for perjury, per count, is a $2,000 fine, two years in jail, or both.1 Rogers said today’s mass ar_ rest was part of a long . range y (Continued On Page Six) • Badgered , Heiress Says ' She'll Wait GLASGOW, Scotland <UPI) — 1 Blonde heiress Katherine Dow i sett promised her irate father to s day she would wait until she was -1 cider to marry the former truck s [ driver with whom She eloped. Katherine and Edward Lang s | ley, 27, the truckdriver turned playboy, were in hiding from i shipbuilding magnate Harry a Dowsett somewhere in eastern l Scotland. Katherine issued her appeal e through newspaper^, her main - channel of contact with her fath (Continued On Pace Six)
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