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Considerable cloudiness, warm
and humid today, tonight and
Tuesday with scattered showers
and thundershowers occurring
mostly in afternoon and evening.
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VOULME 9
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N C. MONDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 20. 1950
FIVE CENTS PERCOPY
NO. 158
BOILING ALONG — The busy assembly line where locally
grown peppers are prepared for the worldwide market ay
II. P. Cannon Co. was boiling along today. Large photo
shows belt carrying peppers down two lanes of workers.
Sue Lambeth (inset) slices peppers as they start out on this
chain. (Record Photos by Ted Crail.)
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LITTLE NOTES ABOUT
PEOPLE AND THINGS
State Highmay Patrolman R.F.
Beck has been transferred from
Lillington to Hamlet and is al
ready at his new station.Other
patrol shifts in the county report
edly are in the making.Patrol
man and Mrs. David Matthews
have just returned from a vacat
ion at White Lake, where the po
pular officer enjoyed his favorite
sport of water skiing.And this
time David didn’t come back
limping or moaning of pains ab
out the posterior—he has master
ed the sport now. “But I won’t
ever forget those aches and pains
after my first few times at it,” he
recalled....Mr. and Mrs. Doug
Moore are vacationing at Myrtle
Beach this week. ..They go there
every year on vacation, and al
ways with the same friends, a
couple from Louisburg. Mr.
and Mrs. Jakie Bennett of Harts
ville, S. C. were here last week
and Jakie says Hartsville is a
bustling little town which has
■growing pains. Mrs. Beulah
Graham came home from a de
lightful vacation in Atlanta just
raving about a new eating place
called “The Riveria.”.Says the
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Man Wanted In
Sampson Caught
A man being sought by Clinton
police pn charges of obtaining
merchandise by fraud and who
has been the object of a wide
spread search by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has been
arrested in Yerington, Nevada.
Clinton police chief E. L. Crum
mie said he was notified Monday
that a man by the name of Gordon
Lobb had been taken into custody
on charges of impersonating a
Naval officer. Crummie said Lobb
also faces counts in other cities.
The Clinton police chief said he
did not know if Lobb would be
returned to face the local charg
es. He said it depended upon the
outcome of the Federal charges
against the man.
Lobb had been sought by the
FBI for several weeks. He is al
leged to have falsified records in
order to obtain employment at
Sampson Memorial Hospital, where
Ms wife, a nurse, was also employ
ed prior to their quick departure
from Clinton early on the morning
of May 4.
The owner of the apartment in
which Lobb, his wife and child
ren were staying, Mrs. Sannie
Jackson became suspicious when ]
•die not.' ^d a quietness about the
apartmen in which the family
was staying. She investigated and
found that the whole family had
left during the night or early
morning hours. Missing was all the
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\Ttoiler House
Unexplained
A still-unexplained fire broke
out in a parked, empty trailer
house near Holland’s Lake Sun
day morning and completely des
troyed it.
Dunn Fire Chief Ralph Hanna
led seven men to the scene on a
(truck from here but the fire was
too far along.
The cause of the fire was un
discovered said Howard M. Lee,
secretary-treasurer of the Dunn
fire department, who reported on
the blaze.
Lee said the 48-foot trailer was
parked at the abandoned Lake
side service station a mile north
of Holland’s Lake. The owner was
described as a “Mr. Southerland.”
The alarm was turned in by
Mrs. Malcolm Hodges, who oper
I ates a cafe at the lake. Firemen
left here shortly before 10 o’clock
and returned to town at 10:55.
Still
The Rev. and Mrs. N. D. Lucas
and family spent last week irr
New York City and Long Island.
Three-Car Accident at Buie's Creek
Five In Hospital From Wreck
Three youngsters and three ad
ults were hurt Saturday after
noon—five of them hospitalized—
as a big '58 Cadillac glanced off
the rear of a 1949 Ford and struck
a car coming from the other di
rection.
Highway Patrolman W. T. Har
ris said an investigation indicat
ed that the driver of the Cadillac,
dentified as Leon M. Hammer,
38, of Asheboro, may have been
traveling too fast behind a 1949
Ford that slowed for a left turn.
Hammer has been charged with
exceeding a safe speed. Neither
Velton Lee Stone, 17-year-old from
Coats, Route l, and driver of the
Ford, nor James Trotter, 40, of
Goldsboro, driver of a Chrysler,
was indicted.
Four persons, including the
driver, were injured in the Trot
ter car. James, the driver, had
stitches taken in his chin but was
released without ihospitalization
His wife, Ethel Trotter, 36.
daughter Deborah, 7, and Alicia,
5, were all seriously injured. Mr«,
Trotter had her right foot r
tured, according to the patro
Deborah had tdrei teeth kndCr.ea
out and her head bruised and cut,
Alicia also had head injuries.
In the Cadillac, Inez Hammond,
38, was hospitalized with a cut
above the right eye and her son.
Mack, 12, had an injured right
leg.
Seven children were riding in
| the two cars—three in the Cadil
lac and four in the Chrysler which
was traveling west through Bu
ie’s Creek when the Cadillac
struck it.
Patrolman Harris said the ac
cident occurred aNvt ’ p.m. Sat
urday on Highwa which goes
rfopgh the colleg. town. As the
ar-r i Stone slowed to turn,
.. aid Hammond, in the Cadil
lac applied his brakes, skidded
anu hit Stone’s Ford, causing $25
damage.
He then carommed into the
other car, causing $1000 worth of
! damage to that car and $2000 to
his own, estimated Harris.
Ike Criticizes
Congress For
Its Spending
WASHINGTON (UP1> — Presi
dent Eisenhower, asserting that
“skyrocketing of federal spending”
must be stopped, criticized the
Senate and House today for includ
ing funds to start new projects in
a pending public works appropria.
tions bill.
The President's sharp statement
was interpreted as a warning
that he might veto the bill, unless
Congress knocks out funds for
many of the new projects.
The chief executive’s views were
set forth in an exchange of cor
respondence with Rep. John Taber
(R-N.Y.), senior Republican on the
House Appropriations Committee.
Taber will serve on the Senate.
House conference committee as
signed to draft the final bill.
As it stands now, the bill is a
direct challenge to the President’s
recommendation against starting
any new public works projects for
development of the nation’s water
resources.
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In Slaying of Wife
Socialite
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI1— So
cialite Dr. Bernard R. Finch, ar
rested in the $150-a-month Las
Vegas apartment of his former
nurse, will be returned to the Los
Angeles area today to face ques
tioning in the slaying of his at
tractive wife.
Finch, 43-vear-old part owner of
a West Covnia. Calif., medical
center, signed a waiver of extra
dition Sunday night but refused to
make a statement to sheriff's dep
uties about the gunshot killing of
his wife, Barbara. 38.
She w'as shot outside thetr $80,
000 home in West Covina, a Los
Angeles suburb about midnight
Saturday.
The family maid said she saw
Finch chase his wife out of the
garage with a gun and then heard
a shot. Finch’s nurse friend said
she was there shortly before but
left when Mrs. Finch pulled a
gun.
Finch was arrested in the plush
apartment of Carol Pappas, 22. a
former nurse of his who for the
past month has been working
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Earl Wears Out
His Texas Welcome
EL PASO, Tex. (UPI) — Gov.
Earl Long of Louisiana.his wel
come worn as short as his tem.
per-planned to leave Texas today
for Denver.
The talkative, mentally.troubled
Long announced abruptly Sunday
night he was scrapping plans to
go to Monterrey, Mexico, as prev
iously announced, after a second
incident involving editorial criti.
cism by Texas newspapers.
In Denver, a spokesman for the
Brown Palace Hotel said theatri.
j cal agent Jack Blue had reserved
I five double rooms for the Long
| party for Wednesday.
The 63-yeur_old governor has
spent the last nine days in Texas,
with side trips to New Mexico and
Mexico, in a vacation punctuated
by <%n tyursts of pn.flanity and
threats.
He came to Texas for a rest
after being in and out of three
mental wards and suffering what
doctors said may have been one or
more slight strokes.
E. M. Pooley, editor of the El
Paso Herald Post, commented ed
itorially Sunday that "the papers
in this part of the country are dis.
gusted with Long,” and added that
Triple Love-Killing
Leaves 6 Orphans
j SLIDELL, La. <UPI»—Six chil
I dren were orphans today as the
result of a tragic triple-shooting
in which their father shot their
mother and her boyfriend and
then took his own life.
One of the children, a 12-year
old girl, witnessed the slayings.
Police identified the victims as
William Everett Purvis, 56, of
Hattiesburg, Miss., and his es-i
tranged wife, Gertrude. The third
fictim was Aubrey L. Darby, 28.
a Slidell lax driver.
Police Chief Ed Sschilleci said
the shootings occurred shortly af
ter 11 a m. Saturday when Purvis
visited his wife’s house and found
Darby asleep in one of the bed
rooms.
Purvis went to his car and got
a .22 caliber pistol and re-entered
the house. When his wife saw him
she ran from the house but was
overtaken in the back yard and
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As Sales Supervisor
Champion Appointed
By Local Leaf Men
The managers of Dunn's (..bacco
market handed newly - arrived
S Chamber of Commerce manager |
Ned Champion a new job today. (
He will double up as sales sup- l
ervisor for the leaf market here |
along w’ith his duties in the Cham. I
ber.
Char- jion, a 30.year.»ld former >
radib' announcer whose name lea- j
ves him open- to all sort- of bad !
jokes about being a sparkplugi,
had a pretty sparky weekend.
With his family, which includes .
a wife and three young daughters s
—ages 7, 6 and 4—he moved into
a new home on North Orange Ave
nue, reporting to work here early
this morning for his first day on
the job.
He admits that he doe- not ha.
ve experience as a sales super,
visor, will have to learrr it. His
predecessor in the job was a PTes
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-«LD CHAMPION
Doctor Questioned
WIN'S IMS CASE — Kirby Johnson had lust descended from
thp Dnnn ritv courtroom where he was acquitted of a charge of
driving on the wrong side in Jonesboro wreck. His arm was still
bound up from crash. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.)
Johnson Acquitted
In Wreck Trial
Kirby Johnson, an' 18-year-old
pickup driver accused in the i
wreck at the Jonesboro overpass,
this morning was acquitted in
Dunn Recorder’s Court of driving
on the wrong side of the road.
Former Superior Court audg^
Howard Godwin, acting as solicit,
or, recommended to the court at
the conclusion of state's evidence
that a verdict of not guilty be re.
turned. Judge Godwin said the
testimony did not seem to ad.
quately support the charge against
Johnson.
When he came to court today
Johnson's arm was still contained
| in a heavy cast and a witness,
Charles Edward Autry, 17, was
, still suffering from a fractured
jaw. Autry was a passenger in the
accident.
The pickup had collided at the
mouth of the overpass, located a
few miles from Dunn, with a car
driven by Bruce Allen, 25, of Ro
me 2, Dunn.
The collision was near the ho- I
me of SBI agent Bill O'Daniel, i
who left his bed to rush to the
scene, summoned a tfire truck J
and other help with his police
Batman-Like
Entry Made
By Thieves
Thieves who broke into a cloth
ing store here over the weekend
nttsdown through the roof and
'1 <a table piled with clothes!
mao.-’a good landing-place as they
I jumped down from- 1.
Their batini stj f.„ was
facilitated by a; sh ,nt on jp of :
f the building, whici. tad been cov.
* ered with a board opening fixed 1
1 from inside with two catches.
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radio. The pickup was on fire
when O'Daniel arrived and hj^
pulled a youth from under it.
Judge H. Paul Strickland de_
dared Johnson not guilty follow,
ing the statement by the acting
solicitor. The youth was repre.
sented at the trial by Robert C.
Bryan. Dunn' attorney.
! Company Men
Sealed Off
Inside Plant
PITTSBURGH (UPH — Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp. asked the
courts today to break up mass
picket lines of striking United
Steelworkers which the company
declared have "unlawfully” im
prisoned supervisory employes in
three Pennsylvania plants.
The legal action, first of the six
day walkout of 500,000 basic steel
workers, came as the govern
ment's top •' ‘hator, K.
Finnegan, was stri :ng in X^w
York to get negotiators for the
urion and industry back to the
bargaining table.
President Eisenhower received
I another report on the strike situ
! ation from Labor Secretary
Jamies; P. Mitchell. The president
j also discussed the steel walkout
with Raymond Saulnier. chairman
oi the Council of Economic Ad
visors.
J&L, the nation's fourth largest
producer, tiled requests for in
junctions in both the courts of
Allegheny County and Beaver
County court and Thursday at
Pittsburgh. ^
Hundreds Trapped
J&L charged that USW mem
bers had through ‘'malicious con
duct’’ sealed off its mills, even
blocking deliveries of milk to the
hundreds” of supervisory work
ers trapped in the plants.
The company asked that the
courts limit picketing to two men
at each gate, spaced 10 feet apart
and in motion. It asked a bar to
any form of intimidation of per
sons entering or leaving the prop,
erty. Should the injunctions be
granted as outlined by J&L, even
a jeer by a picket could be con
strued as contempt of court.
Dunn's Leaf
Market To
Open Aug. 18
KINSTON (UPI) — A tobacco
warehousemen’s committee today
unanimously set Aug. 18 as the
date for opening 1959 sales r»n
North Carolina’s big Eastern Belt,
which includes Dunn.
The six - man group had talked
earlier of an Aug. 16 date for
llue_cured leaf, but decided that
the later date would give buyers on
the Georgia - Florida Belt more
time to arrive on Eastern Belt
markets.
Man In Panties
Faces Charges
GREENSBORO (UPI) — Lloyd
W. Dagenhart, 47, was to appear
in Municipal-Cot1 ;y Court today
to answer a ha,, dozen charges
of indecent exposure and molest
ing women.
Detectives said Dagenhart was
wearing blue ladies panties”
and other female underclothing
when he was arrested Wednesday.
Three young girls and three worn.
en identified him in lineups as
the man who molested them and
exposed himself.
Dagenham was first attested
Tuesday night after he allegedly
grabbed the leg of a young worn
brief interlude officers said he
leased under $200 bond for ap_
pearance in Municipal Court Wed
nesday. However, he failed to
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Widow,Teen Girls
Men In Sex Orqies
. N'EW ORLEANS 'Ll’! Police
said today that a 45-year_"ld wid
[ ow staged sex orgies in her home
.involving teen,aged eirls and as
many as 30 men.
Three men were arrested in ad
dition to Mrs Thelma C. Daigr^
. pout who-e 15-year.old niece eon
j fess^d to police about the orgies.
Patrolman Roland Fournier of
j the police juvenile department
1 said when the investigation is fin,
'ished possibly half a dozen girls
and as many as 30 men may be
involved.
Kounier s.dd Lawrence Kanca
tore. 18. IL’land Baudin, 24, arid
John Attardo. 25, were charged
with contributing to the delln.
quency of a juvenile and Mrs
Daigrepoin with contributing to
i l|e delinquecny of a minor
Tile girts involved, Fournier
said, were apparently all around
15 and 16 years old. He said the
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