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+ WEATHER + Generally fair west. Partly cloudy east portion today, tonight and Tuesday with chance of a few scattered thundershowers vicinity of coast this afternoon and even ing. Glu- B aily Kewrd VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3H8 DUNN, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10. 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 173 Emergency Tracheotomy Relieves Chest Injury New Yorkers Strike Head-On, 7 Injured An emergency operation was performed at Betsy Johnson Me morial Hospital last night on one of seven persons injured in a disastrous head-on collision near Ma’s Kitchen three miles south of Dunn. Solomon Spiegal, a 50-year-old resident of Queens, 'Dong Island, and others injured in the crash were reportedly improving today. Spiegal and Mrs. Mary Ander son, 61, of Forest Hills, N. Y., were both placed on the critical list when they arrived at the hos pital. Dr. William H. Lilly said that multiple fracture of the ribs and ether injuries required surgery on Spiegal and a tracheotomy was performed to insure proper brea thing. Several of those injured can ex pect long hospital stays. All are from New York State but there were no immediate plans for transferring them from the Dunn Hospital. Highway Patrolman David Mat thews investigated the accident, .which occurred Sunday afternoon at 2:35 p.m. on Highway 301. Spiegal was driving a 1958 Pon tiac, said Matthews, and both he .and his wife were injured as it crashed into a 1957 Chevrolet dri ven by 17-year-old Patricia Ann Negri of Floral Park, Long Is land. Victims of the wreck included Mrs. Spiegal, suffering from la cerations of the head and a frac ture of the left foot; Miss Negri, whose head was bruised and cut; the girl’s mother, Mrs. Doris Ne gri, 45, who had both legs bro ken; a brother Peter, 12, whose (Continued on Page Two) Man With 3 Wives Faces Trial WOODBINE, Ga. (UPI) — A Brunswick, Ga., car salesman, who has two more wives than the law allows, will face bigamy char, ges in Florida this week. Camden County Ordinary David Proctor said here Sunday his of fice issued a tnairiagfc license June 21 to Sam Cangialosi, 34. Cangialosi hustled off to nearby Kingslnad and a justice of the peace made Laura B. Coley, 33, of Jacksonville, Fla., Wife No. 3. Proctor said Cangialosi signed a sworn statement he had never been married before. The ordin. any said the first he knew of the man’s multiple marriages was when he read a newspaper ae. count that Cangialosi was to be tried for perjury. In Jacksonville, Wife No. 2. Mrs. Anne Davies Cangialosi, charged that he is married to an other woman in New York and has a daughter. Cangialosi and Wife No. 2 have two children. A CRAZILY BENT steering wheel and fiercely smashed front end give an indication of the ter rific impact that sent seven persons to the hospital Sunday afternoon—two of them in critical condition and others with broken arms and legs. Pontiac with smashed window (lower photo) allegedly pulled into opposing lane and head-on crash followed. 17-year-old was behind wheel of ’57 Chevrolet (top photo). These photographs were taken by bank official F.rmon Godwin. Runaway Boyf 12, Had Fun On Farm The excitement of tobacco bar ning appealed to a 12-year-old runaway who was placed tem porarily in a Harnett foster ho me while authorities sought his family. Richard Magarit had actually left the home of his aunt in Fort Bragg’s Wherry Housing Project and was trying to make his way back to New York by thumb ing. But he didn’t give that infor mation to those who befriended him. Instead, he gave his New York address. Taken in charge here a week ago Friday, Welfare auth orities didn’t learn that he was missing from the Fort Bragg project until a story appeared in the Fayetteville Observer. Then they quickly arranged a reunion with his family. Miss Lela Moore Hall, head of the Harnett Welfare Department, said one reason he was apparent ly contented in the foster home was because tobacco barnlng had started and he was fascinated with the farming operations. Richard had thumbed two rid es, she said, and the second man who picked him up turned him over to a rural policeman who then brought him to the Welfare Department. His mother had sent him down to Fort Bragg for the summer because she had to work away from the home and “didn’t want (Continued On Page Two) Young Gunman, Girlfriend Taken Helicopter Rescues Hostage Two Gef Slashed In Weekend Scrape David Evans has been arrested and a warrant has been issued for J. C. Draughon in a weekend cutting scrape which left both parties with injuries. The two colored men, both in their twenties, were allegedly fighting outside a small piccolo joint known as "The Lion’s Den. Police officer Raymond Thom as said J. C. Draughon appeared to have taken a fairly serious stab wound in tbe back when he went to Betsy Johnson Memorial Hos pital here. However, the hospital reported this morning that Draughon was released after treatment in the emergency room. Thomas went to the scene of the fight after receiving a report and found that it had already broken up. He searched out Ev [ ans, who is about 26 years old, and put him under arrest. Evans (Coatteoed Ob Pa«o Two) YUMA, Ariz. (UPI) —Law en_ forcement officers from two states used airplanes, marine helicop. ters and large trailer truckers Sunday to make a dramatic res cue of a policeman held hostage for 4x hours by a young gunman and his 17_year_old girl friend. Police from Arizona and Cali, fiffnia dli ov* six trucks cross wise on U- S. 80 near Wellton to form a solid roadblock that hem. mend in gunman Jimmy Allen Crose, 24; his girl, Donna Marie Weidemann, and their hostage. Crose. wanted on1 suspicion of passing worthless checks, had vowed never to be taken alive. | While helicopters and two air. planes buzzed overhead, Crose, re i alizing he was trapped, put a re ! voJver to the head of Yuma police. (Continued On Page Two) Bragg Soldier Stops Police, Shows Corpse RALEIGH (UPI) —A Ft. Bragg soldier was charged with murder i Sunday after he stopped a city police car and pointed to the blood.covered body of a girl in the seat beside him. Coroner Marshall Bennet said Mary Lee Duncan, 19. died of a fractured skull. He said her body was sent to Memorial HOkSpita! in Chapel Hill for an autopsy. The girl had an X.shaped cut in the back of her head and her back was scraped raw, as if ;;he had been dragged for some distance. (Continued On Pag* Tw»l Attempt On Raul Castro At Wedding HAVANA, Cuba <UPI)—Sources reported today that an attempt was made Sunday night to kill Raul Castro, brother of Premier Fidel Castro and commander in chief of Cuba's armed forces. The sources said the assassina tion attempt was made while the younger Castro was attending the wedding of a revolutionary army friend. The attempt followed a weekend series of uprisings, reported inva sions and large - scale preventive arrests throughout the island. The assassination was attemp ted by an unidentified man who entered the church as th(> wedding was beginning and took a position ill front of Raul. As soon as be reached his posi tion, the man pulled a concealed pistol from his pants pocket and pointed it in Raul’s direction. Various members of the revolu tionary army were attending the wedding already were watchinu because their atten’ion had been attracted to him by his late en trance and his efforts to obtain a place near Haul, win alif-ady was in a crowded spot. They immediately jumped me assassin, disarmed hi'11 and lmst icd him outside. A number of them indieated their readiness to kill him on the spot. But Efigenio Ameijeiras. chief of the national revolutionary police, intervened to hold them off. The assassin presumably was de (Continued On rage Two) Father Of 3 Admits Baby Was His Ollie Hargrove, a Negro with three childien, admitted in Dunn Recorder's Court today that he was the father of an illegitimate child by Madie MeKoy. Charged with non-support, he was ordered by Judge H. Paul Strickland to pay $5 per week for the child’s support. The youngster is now three years old. Its mother testified from the stand that Hargrove had tried to provide comc support hut hadn t done much. She started to say that the Wel fare Department had suggested prosecution of Hargrove. Judge Strickland, in ordering Hargrove to pay support, said it wasn't right to expect “the taxpayers of Harn ett County” to take care of the child for him. Tunsfall Appointed To Campbell Staff William M. Tunstall, Jr., of Dur ham, has been appointed to the position of media specialist in the department of public relations at Campbell College, Roald H. Soren sen, director, has announced. I Tunstall graduated in July from the University of North Carolina with a degree in radio and tele vision. At the University he was employed as announcer and techni cian of Station WUNC-TV from 1957 until graduation. Earlier he ihad been an announcer for stations WEEB. Southern Pines, and WTVD. Durham. As a student at Campbell Col lege in 1956-57. Tunstall supervis ed the activities of the school's radio club He will resume this responsibility in his new position. An Air Force staff sergeant dur ing the Korean War, Tunstall now holds the same rank as an active (Continued on Page Two) \\ VI. tunstall After Slugging Battle With Police Beasley Vandalizes Dunn Jail By TED CRAIL Record News Editor Vann Buren Beasley, taken into < ustodv here alter a furious battle with Dunn police officers, tore up one jail too many. In Benson in mid-July he had set fire to his cell and in Dunn last, night he turned the water tap on and started a flood. The jail-vandalism and fighting with officers earned him a straight term of six months on the roads. Jt was imposed this morning by Judge H. Paul Strickland, who heard the ease in Dunn Record er’s Court. The 23-year-old defend. i nt still bore a black eye and other marks of his slugging set-to with the policemen. “I want to be taken away as quickly a> possible.” said Beasley. He had en'ered a plea of guilty to several charges including resist ing arrest, assault on an officer and public drunkenness. Solicitor Charles Lee Guy, Jr., : ose before sentence was passed and told the court that he felt something had to be done about recurring cases here of resisting j arrest and assaulting the police, j 'Will Get Worse' “It’s going to get worse and , worse unless something is done to | stop it," said Guy. Chief of Police Alton Cobb said several persons who witnessed the encounter between Beasley and the police had voluntarily offered to testify. But the only witness to take the stand was Policeman Paul Stogs dill who said “considerable force” was heeded to suhdue Beasiey when they attempted to get him into a police car. Beasley did not contest any of the policeman's statements. Blackjack Used E. J. Whaley, one of the arrest ing officers, said a blackjack had to be used to get him under con trol and that once handcuffed they had trouble getting the handcuffs off him again. From the stand, Stcgsdill de clared that Beasley was picked up for drunkenness near a grill on North Ellis Avenue. "He started to come with us and then hroke away," said the police man. Kept One Dry StogsdiU declared, “He gets a (Continued on Page Two) TRIPLE DEAD HEAT—A Russian troika team goes through its paces nt Roosevelt Raceway, VVestbury, N. Y. prior to a preface exhibition. The team was presented Cleveland industrlalis* Cvrns Fa ton by Nikita Khrushchev last year. U So He Hit Him Lucas Claims Coats Broke His Promise Bobbie Lucas, a Baersville youth accused of attacking Ben Coats of 206 $ King Avenue, testified from the stand in Dunn Recorder’s Court that Coats had broken a promise. ' “He said he would buy me two dollars worth of gas if I carried him to Gray’s Grill,” said Lucas. Judge H Paul Strickland fined the youth $10 and costs for simple assault. Coats had taken the stand at the outset of he case and claim. ed that a weapon was used on him though he had not definitely seen what it was. Lucas was charged with assault with a knife. Coats allegedly had to have 12 stitches taken in his mouth after the run-in with Lu_ cas. Henry Singleton, Dunn Negro accused of slashing up the cloth, es of John L. Davis, pled not gu. ilty but was convicted and order. (Continued on Page Two) Long Tells Voters He's Real Bargain KKENCH SETTEMENT, L a. (U PI i —Gov. Earl K. Long, male, ing seven more campaign speech, j e- for reelection before the state Legislature opens a special ses. sion Monday, told his listeners Sunday hr doesn’t need the nva- i «y. “I could hire out for three times what you pay me as governor if' I wanted to,” he told about 400 persons here. “Oh yeah, 1 could hire <>ut to these big oil compa. nies.” He said major oil firms used to send him "hams and stuff” be. fore he was committed earlie^ to three mental this summer wards. "They quit -ending them after I was sent to Galveston John Seal.'. Hospital in Galveston, but they've started again, thank goodness,'" he said Long also answered criticism by a New Orleans newspaper, the Times Picayune, which said that when he ducked into a bar in In. dt'i^ndeirce, La., on a similar stumping tour Saturday there ^as a dice game in session in the back room For ill I know there could (Continued on Page Two) Caldwell OK'd As State Head RALEIGH N. C. (UPI) —Dr. John Tyler Caldwell, president of the University of Arkansas, was chosen toa.iy to head North Caro lina State College here. Trustees ot the Consolidated University of North Carolina an, proved him with only "tie di sent. Ing vote. Caldwell, wno attended the meeting, accepted :.t once and said North Carolina was "being watched all over the world b“_ cause of its vigor which reaches out in the field of education.” He will be paid $17,000 a year (Continued On Page Two) One Killed, One Injured A 49-year-old Fayetteville man was killed and Perry Warren John son of Bragg Boulevard is still in Dunn's Betsy Johnson Memor ial Hospital as the result of an accident Saturday night. Carroll Huggins became the 13th person to die on Sampson County highways this year. He was a passenger in the car a’legedly driven by Johnson Patrolman D W William, who investigated the accident, describ ed Johnson as the driver The Bragg man was reportedly In | critical condition when admitted to (Continued on Page Two)
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