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MARCH OF DIMES
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MARCH OF DIMES
Alleged Rape Victim Was “Willing,”
States Young Paratrooper On Stand
Noted Violinist Here Next Week
Large Crowd Packs
Courtroom To Hear
Dramatic Trial
VIEWS OF MAINE
The trial of three young para
troopers from Fort Campbell, Ky.,
for the capital crime of rape start
ed before noon Wednesday in
Moore superior court at Carthage.
By the time court adjourned at 5
p. m. the state had rested its
case, and Pvt. Harold L. Hill, of
Tarkio, Mo., had taken the stand
in his own defense.
It appeared the trial would con
tinue through Thursday and pos
sibly longer. It also appeared that
the issue would be the age-old one
—“Was she willing, or was she
forced?^’
In sworn statements by all
three defendants, and by Private
Hill on the stand, admission was
made of sexual acts with the 19-
year-old Negro wife and mother,
during “Exercise Southern Pine”
last August, but it was stated she
was “willing” and took pay. The
prosecuting witness, Mrs. Lula
Mae Artes, said she complied
through fright.
The fact that she said she could
identify none of the men weak
ened the state’s case considerably,
and by the end of the day much
doubt was expressed, ^ls to wheth
er a conviction could be secured.
Unusual interest in the case had
been aroused through the fact
that the defendants are white
men, and the prosecuting witness
a Negro; Two Negro attorneys
were assisting Solicitor M. G.
Boyette in the prosecution, but
beyond making an occasional ob
jection took no part in the first
An exhibition of water col
ors of the coast of Maine will
go bn view next week in the
Fine Arts room of the Libra
ry. Entitled "Paints of the
Boothbay Region. Maine," the
collection is the work of
Ethel Fowler.
The artist and her husband.
Truman Fowler, were for
many years residents of
Southern Pines, living in the
small house in the pines near
Emmanuel Episcopal church.
Mr. Fowler is a wood-carver
of note, while Mrs. Fowler,
besides carrying on her own
work, has taught in several of
the leading art schools of the
country.
The exhibition is expected
to open Wednesday, for a
period of 10 day&
Call Is Sounded
For Scrap Metal;
Drive Opens Here
Operation Star”
Brings Top Brass
Here Next Week
Local Officer Will
Take Course With
Blue-Ribbon Class
name
next
Four Boys Arrested
For W anton Shooting
In Northern Moore
Once again our country is
pinched for scrap metal. The
Men’s Fellowship class of the
Church of Wide Fellowship is re
sponding, in Southern Pines.
W. E. Blackwelder, president of
the class, said their scrap metal
collection starts this week and
will continue indefinitely. The
aid of everyone in the community
is asked in the donation of iron
da:^»‘pro^d'ings. Reporters and j and other heavy metals, also
a photographer from Negro news-, aluminum. Old pipe, old pots and
oaners were present,'as weU as pans. furnaces, bedsteads—all are
an Associated Press representa
tive, Courtroom was packed,
with Negroes composing about
half of the crowd.
Indictments against four men
brought here from Fort Campbell
were presented by Solicitor Boy
ette to the grand jury Tuesday.
True bins were brbught in against
TUn, Alec J. Felder, Jr., and Louis
Wilson, Jr. No true bill was found
a^inst the fourth man, Eugene
A. Shirley, and he was released.
On the arraignment of Hill,
Felder and Wilson late Tuesday
afternoon. Judge Zeb V. Nettles
of Asheville, presiding over the
current criminal term, announc'
ed that a special venire of 30
would be called for the selection
of a ^ry the following morning.
Difficulties were apparently an
ticipated in securing a jury, but
none eventuated, and the selec
tion was completed at 11:10 a. m.
from the regular panel.
State’s witnesses included El
bert Sanders, CID investigator,
who presented sworn statements
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FREDERIC BALAZS, brilliant young virtuoso of the violin, will
be heard in concert at 8:30 p. m. Thursday at Weaver auditorium. Mr.
Balazs and his wife, Ann Goodwin Balazs (below) who plays his ac
companiments, are called “the handsomest couple on the concert
stage today.” Mrs. Balazs will play selections by Chopin and Debussy
as solos in her husband’s concert.
wanted, to make the scrap metal
pile grow bigger.
’The collection center is on Dr.
Daniels' lot next to the Five
O’clock club on South Broad
street. People giving metal can
take it directly there; or they may
call Mr. Blackwelder, 2-5233, after
6 p. m., or Dwight Hoskins’ phone,
2-7475, and transportation will be
provided.
No tin cans are wanted at this
time. The principal shortage is
felt in the heavy scrap which the
steel mills must have to stay in
production, providing the steel so
essential to defense. If tin is
needed, a separate drive will be
held later.
Proceeds from the sale of the
metal donated here will go toward
the building fund of the Chiirch
of Wide Fellowship.
This is the first scrap metal col
lection to be taken since the days
of World War 2. In Carthage the
campaign has been undertaken by
the Carthage Rotary club, which
has built a collection pen on the
courthouse square.
Varied Program
Is Announced For
Thursday Concert
A wide variety of selections, to, ^
please all types of listeners, will
Ki» nroconfH Viv th<» noted Hunfia-1 ^' j-
^^PoofV^—Went The Sweater
At least one sale of “poof’
sweaters was made in ths vicini
ty—and Chief C. E. Newton this
week issued a warning: if you’ve
bou^t any sweaters lately under
peculiar circumstances, watch out!
News of the inflammable gar
ments, which go up in a flash in
the mere presence of flame, has
been popping up all over the
country. Not until Tuesday, how
ever, when Mrs. Ella Doughty
made hex report to police was it
known whether any had been
purchased here.
Mrs. Doughty and her husband
operate the Dunrovin Motel and
Cafe four miles north of town, on
US 1. A couple of weeks ago, she
said, two men stopped for gas.
Her son, D. R. Salomon, Jr., wait-
• ed on them.
“They said they had been trim-
mmg some windows in Sanford
and had some sweaters left over
they would like to sell,” said Mrs.
Doughty. “They showed him sev
eral sets of slipover and coat
sweaters—^beautiful ones, fleecy
and soft.
‘They wanted too much at first
but finally came down to $5 for
the pair and my son bought a set,
maroou-colored. They turned out
to be too small for him, and I paid
him the $5 and took them myself,”
reported Mrs. Doughty. “I left the
slipover in the box, but I wore the
coat sweater around a lot and ev
erybody said how pretty it was.”
But then, she said, she got to
reading about the sweaters that
went “poof!”
Monday night some friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Riley Taylor of Aber
deen, were at Dunrovin for sup
per. They got to talking about the
sweaters and decision was made
to put the coat to the test on the
be presentd by the noted Hunga-
rian-American violinist Frederic
Balazs in his program at Weaver
auditorium at 8:30 p. m. Thurs
day.
The concert is the third in the
Sandhills Music Association series
for this season, and is promised
in every way to live up to the
high standards in musical enjoy
ment set by previous offerings.
The 32-year-old violinist, bom
in Budapest, is a naturalized
American citizen. He served four
years in World War 2 in the Field
Artillery. During part of this time
he was stationed at Fort Bragg,
and became Icnown in musical
circles in Southern Pines at that
time.
Since the war his career
has burgeoned, into national fame,
and he has become recognized as
one of the leading virtuosos of the
violin to be heard in this country
today. He has made a number of
highly successful tours, has play
ed as soloist with leading sym
phony orchestras and at present
holds the posts of orchestra con
ductor in Wichita Falls, Texas,
and professor of music at Mid
western university there.
His beautiful young wife, Ann
Goodwin Balazs, a concert pianist
in her own right, plays his ac
companiments and also on Thurs
day’s program will appear in
two piano solos. Entirely aside
Bernays On List
Of Speakers For
Business Seminar
stnne floor of the cafe. “At first I,
jdidh’t want them :to touch a from their musical achievements,
match to my lovely sweater,” j they are known as “the handsom-
Mrs. Doughty says, “but then I est couple on the concert stage to-
thought—I’d better know about,day.”
this, or it might catch fire while
A group of 100 to 150 business
leaders from all over the coimtry,
principally the East, will gather
at the Mid Pines club for a five-
day seminar nejft week, under
auspices of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce.
The seminar, on the theme "Ex
plaining Your Business,” will open
with a luncheon Monday, at
which Edward L. Bernays of Jlew
York City, topflight public re
lations counsel, will be the speak
er.
Mr. Bernays, termed by Time
“U. S. Publicist No. 1,” is consid
ered the founder of the modern
science of public relations.
The seminar will end with
luncheon Friday, at which Thomas
Reid of the Ford Motor company,
will fpeak.
Between these two events the
days will be filled with confer-
“Operation Star” is the
whi"h has been given to
week’s class at the U. S. Air Force
jiir-ciround Operations school.
Highland Pines Inn.
This will be a blue-ribbon class,
consisting of about one-fourth
general officers. Some of the
foremost leaders and history-mak
ers of both Army and Air Force
will be represented, attesting to
the growing importance of the
school to both branches, and its
recognition as a unique and vital
educational installation.
Brig. Gen. William M. Gross,
commandant of the school, has
greeted a large number of generals
as students since USAFAGOS op
ened here last June. However,
this will be the first class to con
tain 26 or more.
Arriving Sxmday for the one-
week intensive course will be the
following (several others are ex
pected, but were unconfirmed at
presstime so are not listed here):
ARMY — Lt. Gen. John R.
Hodge, commanding Third Army;
Lt. Gen. Edward M. (Ned) Al
mond, commandant Army War
College; Lt. Gen. Andrew Bruce,
commandant Armed Forces Staff
College; Maj. Gen. William M.
Miley, director. Joint Airborne
Board; Maj. Gen. Horace L. Mc
Bride, commandant Command and
General Staff College; Maj. Gen.
William A. Beiderlinden, deputy
commander Third Army; Maj.
Gen. William B. Bradford, assist
ant chief of staff, G-3, Office of
Army Field Forces; Brig. Gen. C.
H. Armstrong, Headqvjiarters
Camp Stewart, Gra.; Brig. Gen. S.
A. Wood, Headquarters Exercise
Longhorn, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas; Brig. Gen. Charles F.
Craig, commanding, Camp Kil
mer, N. J.; Brig. Geri. Homer W.
Kiefer, commanding. Fort Dix, N.
J.; Brig. Gen. Sterling A. Wood,
chief umpire, Exercise Longhorn;
Brig. Gen. Arthur Pulsifer, office
of Chief Signal Officer, Depart
ment of the Army; Brig. Gen.
Pearson Menoher, deputy com
mander Fort Brag^; Brig. Gen.
Sherborne, Fort Bragg.
AIR FORCE—Maj. Gen. DeF.
Barker, commandant. Air Univer
sity, Maxwell AFB; Maj. Gen. W.
R, Wolfinbarger, president Joint
Tactical Air Support Board; Maj.
Gen. E. J. Timberlake, command
ing, Ninth Air Force; Maj. Gen.
Hall, Hamilton AFB; Brig. Gen.
Joel C. Moffett, commanding,
140th Fighter Bomber Wing, Den
ver, Colo.; Brig. Gen. Jesse Auton,
Strategic Air Command; Brig.
Gen. Carl B. McDaniel, Air Train
ing and Replacement Command;
Brig. Gen. I^omas Darcy, Air De
fense Command.
Also newsworthy on the “blue-
pibbon list” is Lt. Col. John D.
Sitterson, Jr., the first officer from
Southern Pines to come to USA
FAGOS. Colonel Sitterson grad
uated from Southern Pines High
school before going dn to West
Point. His parents live at 260
South Ashe street.
Colonel Sitterson will arrive
this weekend from Fort Sam
A quartet of youths 16 to 20
years of age were placed under
arrest last Friday by Moore Coun
ty officers after a series of epi-
odes involving wanton gunfire
over again, and accelerated by
the subrtitutiori of an automobile
for horses, as the youths rode
about shooting up vehicles,
houses, mailboxes ^d any other
briefly terrorized the northern;target that presented itself, with-
part of the county. i jout regard for possible hurt to
Roy Cagle and Larry Cagle, human beings.
brothers of Montgomery county,
were released Saturday under
bonds of $2,000 each, and Floyd
McNeill and Junior Kennedy of
uuper Moore of $1,500 each, for
their appearance Monday in Moore
recorders court.
According to the officers, it
was the wild and woolly west all
The house of Mrs. Bertie ^dred
and the home and car of Lem
Sanders were recently shot at, it
was reported by Sheriff C. J. Mc
Donald.
All-Star Teams
Will Fight It Out
Here Wednesday
Latest, and worst, of the epi
sodes, however, occurred last
Thursday night as Calvin “Bud
dy” Spivey was returning at night
from his work in Robbins to his
home on the road to Spies.
He was suddenly fired on by
an automatic rifle. He stepped on
the gas and sped toward his home.
An automobile pursued him, spit
ting bullets into his car.
As he turned sharp into his
driveway, the Mercury sped past,
still shooting. He got a shotgun
from his home and lay down be
hind some stumps in toe yard. His
returned again and
An All-Star basketball program
presenting, some old favorites, and
many players new to the local
scene, will take place Wednesday
evening at Weaver auditorium,
sponsored by the Southern Pines I pursuers
Lions club. j again, raking the front of the
The double-header will start at {home with rifle fire at least three
7:45, and proceed through two ex- jtiuies.^Spiyey fired ^back, but the
citing hours, presenting four pow
erful adult male teams in fighting
spirit.
The event is for the benefit of
the school activities bus fund,
which will get all the proceeds, it
was announced this week by Wal
ter Harper, Lions club president.
“We hope to go over the top on
that down payment, and maybe a
little bit more. We just don’t care
how much money we take in, to
help pay for that new bus,” Har
per declared,
First game win see a cl^h be
tween the Pinehurrt Lions club
and the local All-Stars. This bids
fair to be an historic event. Line
up of the Pinehurst team was not
available, but the locals will in
clude Norris Hodgkins, Gene Cog-
hill, Page Choate, Bobby Dunn,
Walter Harper, Dub Leonard, Har
ry Chatfield, Steve Van Camp and
othms. Page Choate is manager.
Second game will see the first
public appearance of the Airmen,
a snappy outfit made up from the
4425th School Squadron of USA
FAGOS, Highland Pines Inn.
These boys, who come from all
over the United States, have been
doing a good bit of practicing at
the gym and advance reports in
dicate they form a crack team.
The Airmen will play a semipro
outfit from Red Springs. No line
ups were available from either of
these teams.
Referees will be A. C. Dawson,
Jr., and Irie Leonard of the South
ern Pines schools.
An interesting door prize will
be offered. President Harper said.
bird shot had no effect.
At least 10 bullets went into
I the house, and narrowly missed
Mrs. Spivey as she threw herself
prone on the floor. Luckily, their
two children were not at home.
Furniture in the home was shot
to pieces.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald and
Chief ABC Officer C. A. McCal-
lum spent all the next morning
investigating the matter. They re
turned to Carthage at noon, took
out warrants, picked up Deputy
Sheriff A. F. Dees and left for
Biscoe. There they met Montgom
ery County Sheriff Elwood C.
Long, who helped them find the
men they were seeking.
A short time later, another came
and surrendered. One of the
I’m wearing it.”
At the first touch of the match
—poof! A flash of flame. No
sweater left—^hardly an ash.
“It went away in a hurry,” was
Mrs. Doughty’s rueful description.
She still has the slipover, pack
ed neatly in its box, with toe
name ‘'Embassy” and a “guaran
tee” but no indication of the man
ufacturer.
She’s planning another sweater-
burning Saturday evening, with a
number of friends invited. If you
want to see the fire, go along, but
hurry—it won’t last more than
about two seconds.
The inflammable quality of the
off-brand sweaters, which resem
ble fine rayon fleece, was first dis
covered when persons wearing
them caught fire lighting cigar
ettes. While no serious bums
have been reported, the danger is
such that officers are working
hard to find out where they come
from and who is selling them.
Season tickets for the SMAjences, with part of Tuesday after
series may be used for this con- Loon and all of Thursday after-
cert, and single tickets may be
purchased at the Barnum Realty
company or at the auditorium
door Thursday night.
The program follows:
By Mr. Balazs:
1. The Devil’s Trill, sonata, by
Tartini.
2. Sonata in G-Minor for Violin
Alone, by Bach— (a) Adagio; (b)
Fuga; (c) Siciliano; (d) Presto.
3. Mother and Child, by Still;
Popular Spanish Suite, by DeFal-
la; Sonatina, by Bartok.
Intermission.
for recreation-
By Ann Balazs:
4. Ballad in A Flat, by Clfopin;
Fireworks, by Debussy.
By Mr. Balazs:
5. Berceuse, by Donath; Roman-
za Andaluza, by Sarasate; Intro
duction and Rondo Carriccioso,
by Saint-Saens.
noon left open
golf, riding, etc.
The seminar is open to interest
ed persons only on toe conven
tion basis, for the whole week or
any one Lll day.
Among the speakers will be,
besides Mr. Bernays and Mr. Reid,
Don Phillips, nationally known
authority on group communica
tions; Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, di
rector of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce’s economic research
department, who will speak for
a brief period each morning; Dr.
David Rodnick, Washington, D.
C., social scientist with the Mutual
Security Administration; William
Machaver, training director,
Johnson & Johnson, New Bnms-
wick, N. J.; James Turrentine, as
sistant to the president, Pitney
Bowes, Inc., Stamford, Conn.;
Oilman Smith, vice-president of
Opinion Research
Princeton, N. J.
Houston, Texas, where he is tem
porarily located at Fourth Army
Headquarters, and is on the Joint
Army-Air Force staff. He will
take the longer, lO-day course at
USAFAGOS.
in
boys was released outright Satur
day, while the Sheriff set stiff
bonds for the other four.
After the boys were in jail Fri
day night, the officers returned
to the Browns Chapel and Browns
Mill sections where they question
ed people until after midnight.
SBI Investigator Lee Phillips
arrived on their request to ^ist
with further investigation Satur
day. They were not tipping their
hand as to the evidence they have,
but they say it is plenty.
The possibility of a personal
grudge or “ku klux”. activities as
motive for the shooting appeared
slight when it turned out that
neither toe boys nor Spivey knew
each other in the slightest degree.
Getting Well To Music
Magic Program At
Auditorium
Wallace the Magician will bring
his ducks, rabbits and a stageful
of apparatus for the creation of a
host of baffling tricks, in his re
turn performance to be given at
Weaver auditorium tonight (Fri
day).
The show will begin at 8
o’clock. It is sponsored by toe
Southern Pines Civic club.
His entertainment here a year
ago left his audience gasping. It
is understood that this time his
tricks will be even more mysti
fying.
Among the famed magician’s
treasures is a ventriloquist’s dum
my, which he claims is Charlie
McCarthy’s first cousin, also one
Corporation, |of the largest libraries on magic
in the south.
It looks like fun—^though everybody knows it’s no fun to have
polio. Young Alexander P. Fields, 3rd, of Southern Pines, likes to
play the accordion, and the exercise helps his fingers and arm
muscles at the Central Carolina Convalescent hospital in Greensboro.
The lO-year-old accordion player is toe son of Mr. and Mrs. Alec
Fields, Jr., who live on US 1 between Southern Pines and Aberdeen.
He was stricken with polio last October, and has been at the Greens
boro hospital since that time.
Thanks to dimes and dollars given in the March of Dimes, he is
getting along well. Like thousands of other young polio victims all
over the country, Alec has the best of care to help him fight the rav
ages of the dread disease. The 1952 March of Dimes is now under
yfscy—and your contribution will help young fellows like Alec win
their fight.