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Don't Bet Money On
Pearson's Forecast
We find Drew Pearson’s daily column, “The Washing
ton Merry-Go-Round,” quite interesting at times. It gives
quite a bit of grapevine information often not available
elsewhere.
But we have little confidence in Mr. Pearson’s ability
to predict the outcome of elections state, local or na
tional.
In his latest column, Mr. Pearson takes it for granted
that Mister Kerr Scott is already as good as elected to
the United States Senate.
We don’t know who has been feeding such propagan
da to Mr. Pearson, but we recall that four years ago the
headquarters of Dr. Frank Graham (or somebody) appar
ently kept him well supplied.
He plugged hard for Dr. Graham and predicted over
and over again that Graham would be elected to the Sen
ate. But Senator Willis Smith went to Washington in
stead.
We also recall that Mr. Pearson in 1948 predicted that
Thomas Dewey would be elected President, and he even
had predictions as to who would serve in the Dewey cabi
net.
Os course, Mr. Pearson frequently predicts correctly.
A man who makes so many predictions can’t miss all the
time.
Mr. Pearson is at his best when he confines his col
umn to the newsy bits of information he picks up in
Washington. He is out of his sphere when he starts dab
bling in local situations.
We give Mr. Pearson credit for being a fearless fel
low. We are among his fans and admirers. It didn’t bother
him a bit when the late President Roosevelt called him a
congenital liar and it didn’t phase him at all when Presi
dent Truman called him a “SOB.” Haw River might possi
bly be ahead in North Carolina’s Senatorial race at the
present.
When Scctt ran for governor, nobody gave him a
chance to win, but he did. The odds were even greater
against Willis Smith. He also won.
We believe the people of North Carolina will make up
their own minds when they go into the voting places next
year. And all that Drew Pearson writes or predicts prob
ably won’t change a half dozen ballots in the whole State.
The campaign is still young.
HILLSBORO, ORE., ARGUS: “Cooperation between
labor and management, not perpetual struggle between
them, has made America strong. The labor of both skilled
artisans and skilled executives is essential to the ever
greater productivity of our industries through which we
will reach the goal of an ever-better America. Let us all
remind ourselves that we are in the same boat and that
only by pulling together, not against each other, will we
reach the favored shore.”
“Government . . should not direct, control, obstruct
or enter into competition with private entrepreneurs
New Era, Deep River, Conn.
Frederick OTHMAN
WASHINGTON The thing to
do if you’vd still got a hangover is
quit straining your poor, tired eyes
on this dispatch and go back to
bed. Time, and plenty of it, is the
only cure.
For those who must be up and
despite their miseries, however, I
have been doing some research In
that citadel of the hangover, the
National Press Club bar. Here only
experts are in attendance: upon
their guidance you may depend.
They agree to a man that the
best fast-action hangover remedy
is pure oxygen in large gulps. They
recommend rousing your dentist out
of his own bed of train and getting
from him a whiff (if he hasn’t used
it all himself i from the gas tank.
Barring that, take an airplane
ride.
All nlanes, including the pres
surized ones, carry oxvgen for suf
fering passengers. Just ask the
stewardess and trust that she knows
what she's about. One of the hang
over specialists related in this re
gard a piteous talc.
He said he was coming home
from Chicago after a much-too-big
evening and asked the hostess—Ob
viously a new one—for an oxygen
mask. She took his order uncertain
ly. searched the front end of the
plane and the back, and finally
handed him a fire extinguisher. He
said for the rest of the tourney his
head hurt something awful.
Most of the other cures involve
premeditated medication and, sh
general, these are failures because
whoever heard of anybody saying
to himself ahead of time that he
intended to drink too much? If
there be such conscientious char
acters (arid I doubt It) then one of
the technicians in the Press Club
laboratory suggested eating with a
spoon a pint? of yogUrt six hours
before taking the first drink.
My own thought is that any
body doing that wouldn’tbe inter
ested in a drink afterward. A
somewhat- similar system involves
massive doses of vitamin B-l be
fore, during, and after the acquisi
tion cf a hangpver.
The idea of this is that the
vitamins have a tendency to repair
the nerve ends damaged by the
alcohol. It is so highly thought of
that one of this country’s leading
distilleries took out a U. S. patent
on a system of combining the vita
mins with the whisky, which was
to be labeled hangoverless.
The management foresaw a virt
ual monopoly on the drinking-li
quor business, until the Alcohol Tax
Unit kiboshed on the idea. It said
this firm could make medicine if
it wanted and it also could make
whisky, but it couldn’t put them
both in the same bottle.
Joe. the bartender, suggested a
medicament consisting largely of
green creme de menthe. He said he
did not favor that large class of
cures, including tabasco sauce', red
pepper, and taw eggs. These merely
burn a fellow’s tongue, he said, and
temporarily take what mind he has
left off ids more fundamental ail
ment.
One of his customers urged on
the sufferer a bottle of cold beer on
the morning after; another insisted
the beer should be warm and also
flat. A third said he’d found noth
ing so good as milk in large
quantities.
All this, of course, to me merely
is academic. Best way to avoid a
hangover is not to drink the stuff
in the first place. If it sneaks up
on you, stay in bed. This avoids
your bumping into the furniture
and, as I understand it, no woman
is so bitter as to wake a sleeping
spouse for speaking-sharply pur
poses. Remember that. Nothing ag
gravates a hangover so much as a
nonsympathetic wife.
FIVE MEMBERS OF FAMILY
KILLED
SNYDER, Tex. i!PI Police said
today f!Ve ' members ■ of a Snyder
These Days
£ckcUklf
HERBERT HOOVER - RED CHINA
Drew Pearson, in a recent col
umn, wrote that someone had told
him that Herbert Hoover had said
this:
“The United States can't go on
forever ignoring Communists China.
We simply can’t pretend that 400.-
000,000 people don’t exist. I thins
eventually we'll have to work out
some kind of arrangement whereby
we can start up some trade with
them. Os course we couldn’t send
any military items, but there are
a lot of other goods we could
trade.”
As Mr. Pearson quotes an infor
mant, he now has an excuse for
calling that person a lair. The
statement is so preposterous, in
view of the fact that at the moment
Herbert Hoover is a member of a
committee that is engaged in gath
ering signatures for a petition to
the President against recognizing
Red China, that I telephoned Mr
Hoover and he denied the allega
tion. the statement attributed to
him. and its implications. He au
thorized me so to state.
Mr. Pearson might well tele
phone to Mr. Hoover apologizing
for giving circulation to a frntas
tic statement provided by a liar
but that is his option. For what
the statement seeks to do is to
make R hypocrite of Herbert Hoover
in the sense that he is circulating
a petition in which he does not
believe. This is the exact wording
of enough of that petition to give
the heart of it:
“We hereby express our oppo
sition to the admission of the so
called Chinese People’s Republic
to the United Nations for the fol
lowing reasons:
"1. Such admission would destroy
the purposes, betray the letter and
violate the spirit of the charter of
the United Nations. The charter
dedicates the organization to in
sure peace by promoting freedom
and respect of human rights, and
subordinates the admission of new
states to their ability and willing
ness, in the judgement of the mem
ber nations, to carry out the obliga
tions defined above. The so-called
Chinese People’s Republic is con
stitutionally unable to do this
since it officially declares itself
to be a ‘dictatorslup’ based on ‘de
mocratic centralism'. (Articles I
and II of the Organic Law of the
Central Government of Communist
totalitarianism and excludes free
dom of discussion or criticism of
government; that is. it excludes
freedom and democracy altogeth
er."
Mr. Hoover has never been a
hypocrite, not even when he was in
the White House where noble men
are often debased by high office
and imprisoned by their entourage.
He might have been re-elected in
1932 had he less of the moral stiff
neckedness and more of the hypo
crite in his nature. He chose to
stick by his upbringing and his
consciousness that a man can only
do as he believes to be right, and
so he was defeated for re-election.
To say that he is not a facile
politician might be correct; to say
that he is a hypocrite, or to im
ply it, is an outrageous negation
of a long and useful life.
Furthermore, Herbert Hoover has
never believed that recognition
should be a hurried process. He
opposed the recognition of Soviet
Russia from 1917 to 1933 and there
after even after Franklin D.
Roosevelt did that deed with its
disastrqus concomitants. Govern
ments that rise by murder and
continue by murder, that disturb
and aosorb their neighbors, that
employ slave labor and use slavery
as a political weapon do not ap
peal to Herbert Hoover. Where he
President today, he would not re
cognize Red China and also he
would never sit down to a con
ference with Malenkov. It would
be impossible for him to face a
man who, for political advantage,
had his close associate. Beria. shot
down for doing what Malenkov a
greed should be done. It is a mat
ter of personal morals.
On August, 10, Herbert Hoover
will be 80 years old. At such a
great age, he continues to serve his
people in a difficult public office.
He commutes between New York
and Washington weekly. He puts in
a very long day at his desk. He
serves without any compesation as
a final, he says, public service to
his country.
Such a man ought to command
the respect of those who disagree
with his views or who dislike him
personally. A story implying that he
is a hypocrite in the matter of the
rejection of Red China by the
United States can only have a ma
levolent purpose.
family were killed when their car
was struck by a Santa Fe railroad
freight last night.
The victims were identified as
L. D. Miller, 40; his wife, about
38; their son. Gary Edmund, 16, and
daughters, Brehda Jo, 10, and Lin
da Kay, eight.
The car was struck at an un
lighted crossing by .the westbound
train
TUB DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. UL
“Special delivery letter, dear . . . !”
I a
S®jfMERBY-60-Roia®
WASHINGTON. A iot of peo
ple have been asking me if it was
true that I had a visit with Harry
Truman in Kansas City the othe
day, and if so, what he said to me
and I said to him. The answer on
point 1 is in the affirmative. The
answer on point 2 is that we had
an extremely pleasant talk.
If anyone was looking for fire
works I'm afraid they’ll be disap
pointed.
I went out to Kansas City to in
terview Mr. Truman for a tele
vision program opening this week
in which I wanted to ask him
about his record for combating
Communism and the famous remark
about "R.ed Herrings.”
Since the interview, most people
have seemed more interested in
the personal side of the visit, doubt
less remembering some differences
of opinion we once had over Maj
Gen. Harry Vaughan, of whom I
was critical and to whom Mr. Tru
man was loyal. That came up only
in a very indirect manner.
Mr. Truman has a rather modest
office in the Federal Reserve Bank
at which he arrives just as early
as he did at his desk in the White
House. Though now 69 years old,
he looked in the pink of condition,
younger and more rested than he
did as President. When I told him
so, he replied: “I feel better than
I deserve."
Around his office were shelves
lined chiefly with history book:.
“I've always read a lot of history,"
he said. “And now I’m trying to
write some myself.”
WRITING HISTORY
On his desk was a huge stack
of mail, and when I remarked on
it, he said: “I get about 1.000 let-,
ters a day and do my best to get
it answered. A lot of it has to be
answered personally. But my job
is getting this book written. I try
to finish about 10,000 words a day.”
“As one who makes his living
writing," I observed, “That’s quite
a chore.” (
“It’s only in rough form so far,”
Mr. Truman explained. “My re
search staff comes in and I dic
tate from memory my recollection
of events Then they check my
memory back against dates and
ihe written record. We’ve already
finished about one volume.
“Sometimes,” mused Mr. Truman.
“I wish I hadn’t undertaken these
doggone memoirs. By the time I
finish paying taxes I won't have
any profit from them. But I want
ed to do this for history. I went
through some important and tumu
ltuous years ar.d I think it’s my
CUTIES’
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"I’m getting mai-ncd next month—and I’d like to get a
few things off my chest.”
duty to record them.
“This country has given me a lot,
and one thing I want to do when
I finish these memoirs is to go out
and lecture at colleges about the
duties and obligations of citizen
ship. I want to talk to the young
sters, not the older people, and tell
them what a great country this is
and the obligation they have to
keep it that way.”
CRITIC OF PKI SS
Mr. Truman talked of many
things, much of it off the record.
“Whenever you w’rote anything
mean,” he said, “Roy Roberts would
play it up in the Kansas City Stai.
Whenever-you wrote anything nicr
about me, he would omit your col
umn altogether. It gave me and
others a lopsided opinion of what
you were writing.
"That’s the trouble with ‘he news
papers today. They only want to
print one side of the story. Roy
Roberts blames me for indicting
ium, but the fact is I didn't know
about it until w'ell after the Jus
tice Department had begun the
case.”
The Ex-President made no crit
icism of President Eisenhow'er.
though he did talk about some of
the big problems facing him.
“I’ve been very careful in what
I said about my successor,” he ex
plained, "but the biggest problem
facing any President is to sell th:
American people on a policy. They
have to be led foward. It’s - not t»
matter of keeping your ear to the
ground to find out what the Ameri
can people are saying and then
trying to please them.
“You can hear one opinion on
Grand Street and another opinion
a few blocks away on Baltimore
Street. And the President of the
United States has to mold that
opinion and lead it forward. That’s
the biggest challenge every Presi
dent faces, and one which he cannot
escape.”
. THE OTHER EX-PRESIDENT .
The conversation drifted round to
our only other living Ex-President,
Herbert Hoover; and the fact that
he was long ignored after he left
the White House.
“I was always glad,” said Mr
Truman, “that I helped bring Mr
Hoover back into the public eye. 1
thought it was a shame the way
they treated him. You may remem
ber that I appointed him head of
a commission to study Europe’s
food needs, and later appointed him
anj Dean Acheson as joint heads
of a commission to study the re
organization of the government.
They did a fine job and I was able
Waller
Winchel)
In
New York
Stage Entrance: When Beatrice
Kraft of "Kismet" goes into her
exotic dances, chorines copy her
shadows behind the scenery. They
are trying to inherit the role as
her understudy . . . The reason
Wm. Hawkins, critic for the World-
Telly-Sun, has the most distant
seat (among Ist Line reviewers) is
that he rejected the front pews.
“You can’t see a show from down
front!” he proclaimed . . . Uncle
Sam is raiding the Broadway chor
us-lad ranks for talent. Latest
(among eleven to be inducted) will
be “Almanac’’ dancer Geo. Reader
. . . Como and Fisher are the only
male yodelers on teevy with spon
sors. The »Crooners’ Paradise was
radio . . . Equity reports that the
average actor’s income in ’53 was
only SBOO. There arc no vitamins
in scrapbooks . . . “Can-Can” was
the only musiggl to attract Stand
ing Room. Only biz during the
dreaded pre-Yule lull . . . Philly
critics serenaded Eva La Gallienne
and Mary Astor in "The Starcross
Story" . . . Theatre Arts reviews
nine Broadway shows, six of which
have departed . . . The A. Godfrey
troupe (entertaming at Arctic army
bases) may return by flying over
the Top oi the World, 900 miles
out of their way ... If they take
that route, the McGuire Sisters
(and the other gals on board) will
be the first distaffers to wing over
the No. Pole.
Movietown Newsreel: Gmger Rog
ers lias filed a claim against the
estate of late playwright Luis Ver
nuil of France. Says she lost a
large bundle on his “Love and
Let Love" flop play in which she
appeared . . . H. Bogart’s blast: “I
don’t care what the critics say!” is
strange talk. They invariably praise
him via raves . . . Audrey Hep
burn won the Critics’ award as
Best Film Actress, but her best
film, “Roman Holiday,” is doing 40
percent less bit than anticipated,
according to Variety . . . Errol
Flynn is one movie actor minus
anxiety. His Warners contract has
8 years to run ... No truth to the
rumors that “The Barefoot Com
tessa" (being filmed in Rome) is
based on Rita Hayworth’s life. In
siders say the portrait in it is more
like Howard Hughes . . . Gina
Loliobrigida’s new starrer, “Times
Gone By” has been classified along
with the sinful “Moon Is Blue,”
which is packed-house insurance.
The Intelligentsia: Don Herold’s
tickle-tome is amusingly titled
“Drunks Arc Driving Me to Drink”
. . . “This is Norman Brokenshire,"
the commentator’s moving repijrt
cn his conquest of alcoholism, ar
rives in March. The publisher re
jected the author’s first title: “Corn
in’ Thru the Rye” . . . Gene Cough
lin, Los Angeles reporter, has a
new book which local agents are
studying. The title: "I Used To
Be One Myself’ . . . Time, Inc.,
must be a cozy place to work at.
You hear staffers called Sweet,
Love and Darling a lot. Editorial
ass’t Donald Sweet, makeup editor
George Love and Personnel Direct
tor Dud Darling . . . The SEP Feb.
13th issue will front cover Bob
Hope, tile second male on the cov
er .i recent times. The other was
the President.
Quotogenic: R. Emerson: Beauty
is God’s handwriting . . . F. P.
Jones: The best way to resist temp
tation is publicly ■ . . Marceline
Cox: Most of us live as if we ex
pected to be judged from our epi
taphs rather than our conduct . . .
Dede Baron: It’s good to give with
out remembering and take with
out forgetting . . . Nelson Case:
When a woman turns a man’s head
she usually twists his neck . . .
Phyllis ißottome: She gazed at him
in a calm and detached manner as
if he were a train she didn’t have
to catch . . . Samuel Taylor: The
one who loves is the captive.
to get most of their recommendat
ions approved by Congress.”
I recalled to Mr. Truman that
Mr. Hoover had once made an off
the-record speech at the Gridiron
Club in high praise of Truman.
Tile other Ex-President said he
remembered it and added:
“At the Republican Convention
in 1948. the Republicans asked
Hoover tt> make the keynote speech
and wanted him to smear me. When
he refused, they got another speak
er. Mr. Hoover told me about it
himself.”
REMEMBERS DP COLUMN
Mr. Truman had some interest
ing tilings to say about the 1944
convention which nominated him
as Vice President and the fact
that he didn't want the nomination.
"Nobody will believe me when 1
say that,” he said, "but I was com
pletely surprised. I tried to argue
with those fellows at Chicago that
I didn't want to be Vice President
I told them: Look at all the Vice
Presidents in history. Where are
they? They were about as useful as
a cow's fifth teat.”
After our television interview end
ed, Mr. Truman said: “You have
forgotten it, but back in 1940 you
wrote a story that I’ve never for
gotten.
“The great Byrnes had allocated
the magnificent sum of $15,000 to
investigate national defense. And
you wrote that for the first time
in history a Senate committee v/e?
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, IS«V
Rape Case
iCooMum* iron pat* Ml
Joseph W. Parker promptly denied
the motions. Doffermyre declined
to argue the motions.
Barefoot, already under a sus
pended sentence for manufactur
ing whiskey, allegedly lured the
girl on a ride the night of Novem
ber 29 and criminally assaulted
her.
Barefoot and the girl live next
door in Johnston County and both
are ninth grade students at Mead
ow School. The frail defendent
weighs 90 pounds and the girl
weighs 120 pounds. The alleged
crime occurred in Harnett.
Argument in the case is expect
ed to require the rest of today
and part of Friday's session.
DOFFERMYRE LEADS OFF
Attorney Doffermyre led off the
arguments for the defense with an
impassioned plea for acquittal.
He told the jurors that under
the evidence and their oath U> be
guided by it they could not possi
bly do anything but find Barefoot
not guilty.
Doffermyre admitted the good
character of the girl and her fam
ily.
"There is no contention that she
was a girl of bad character," he
tuld the jurors. “We do not deny that
*n act of sex took place. But we do
contend that the girl was willing
and that W hatever took place was
just an sc; of human nature.”
Pro ccutcr Hooks followed Dof
fermyre in the argument and De
fense Attorneys D. K. Stewart and
Mayor J. Roscoe Barefoot were to
follow.
Doffermyre argued to the jury’
that Barefoot was guilty of no of
fense whatever and should walk
out of the courtroom a free person.
WITNESS PROVES HOSTILE
Hooks offered several more wit
nesses today before closing the
State’s case.
One of the witnesses boomerang -
ed and turned out to be a hostile
witness and was jo declared by the
court.
He was James Corbett Barefoot,
who was Miss McLamb's date on
the night of the alleged orime, and
a cousin of the defendant.
A dramatic, romantic episode
took place during his testimony.
Miss McLamb became so angered
she pulled off the engagement ring
he had given her and avowed she'd
never wear it again.
Barefoot was with Miss McLamb,
lje said, when the defendant came
up and asked her to accompany
him to the home of a girl friend
to show him where she lived. He
said he didn't object to her leaving
with the defendant, adding, “I let
her suit herself."
The witness swore that he had
seen the defendant kiss Miss Mc-
Lamb ”15 or 20 times" when they
were double-dating together. On
croas-examinatidn, however, he was
able to name only a few specific
instances.
GIRL DENIES KISSING
At that point. Solicitor Hooks re
called Miss McLamb to the stand
and she denied she had ever kissed
the defendant, denied ever giving
him a date, and denied ever having
been alone with him prior to the
night of the crime. She said he had
tried to kiss her once and grabbed
her around the neck on the school
bus, but that she had rejected his
amorous advances.
A damaging witness for the
State was Mrs. Bobble Lee Capps,
who swore that the defendant had
bragged about his sexual conquest
with the girl after the night of
the alleged crime.
The prosecuting witness said on
cross exairiination she was “so
frightened and upset” by what had
happened she did not tell her par
ents the night the alleged crime
took place.
On cross examination Miss Mc-
Lamb also denied she allowed her
younger sister to ride with Bare
foot, the .lefendant, following his at
tack on her. The witness explain
ed that when her younger sister
got into the same automobile with
Barefoot, there were “seven people
in the car."
DOCTOR TESTIFIES
Dr. W. W. Stanfield, Dunn phy
sician who said he had known the
prosecuting witness all her life, fol
lowed Miss McLamb to the witness
stand.
The physician said Miss McLamb
is a patient of his and he has
seen her regularly every three or
four months. Under questioning by
Solicitor Jack Hooks he told about
aij, operation for appendicitis Miss
McLamb underwent when she was
nine years old. At the time, the
doctor said, the patient had a rup
tured appendix and suffered peri
tonitis. As a result, he testified,
she was left with severe adhesions
and scar tissues.
This makes “the use of muscular
force very painful” the doctor said.
“For example,, picking up a heavy
object would be painful.”
Dr. Stanfield said he examined
Miss McLamb first on December 3
in his office. At the time she com
plained of a bruised left thigh and a
pain in her right shoulder. She told
the doctor she had gotten hurt
on Sunday night.
The physician said he didn't ask
the girl anything about how she
received her injuries. But he talk
ed to her parents about her.
SECOND EXAMINATION
On Dec. 10 Dr. Stanfield said he
made another examination and
found three lacerations. There were
tears, one sixth of an inch long,
going round the country investi
gating national defense and at the
same time cooperating with the ex
ecutive branch of the government.
“That was the beginning of the
Truman Committee, and that’s why
I’m glad to see you today.”
very redent, and still X eding,"
said the doe tor. I JJjg
On cross examination ur. Stan-)
field said he also was the family
physician lor the defendant t .10m
he described as having “a bone dis
ease.” He refused to change his
statement that the girl's injuries
were of a recent nature, probably
within a “48-hour period.”
The doctor was asked by defense
lawyers “Do you know this girl
can pick 200 pounds of cotton a
day?”
“I don’t know,' said Stanfield,
"but I doubt if she could lift It."
He admitted that the bone dis
ease may at times have impaired
the strength of Barelool. I*
BOV SEXUALLY NORMAL "
On redirect by Hooks the doctor
said, in reply to direct question,
“Barefoot is sexually normal as to
external examination.”
The physician said also that there
was nothing to indicate the 15
year old girl had ever had any
prior sexual relations.
CHARACTER WITNESSES
An array of character witnesses
from the Meadow High School gave
the girl a “good reputation." ,
They included K. W. Harriett,
school principal, E. G Gibson, and
B. G. Boyette, teachers. They all
testified the girl’s reputation was
“good" and that she was mentally
quick. As fer Barefoot they ail said
in answer to questions, “he is ave
rage."
SURPRISE WITNESS
Surprise witness was Ertis Wood,
18-year-old school bus driver whit
testified for the State that he had
a conversation with Barefoot about
the alleged crime on the school bus.
Wood drives the bus on which ithe
prosecuting witness and the deSen
dant ride daily to school. I
Under questioning by Hooks (the
driver told how Barefoot. wAom
the witness described "as tall stand
ing as I was sitting down, cAmc
up to my seat and volunteered Ithe
remark that he was missing I on
Monday, the dav before, because*»hf
had a case in court.”
Wood quoted Barefoot as saying
about the case, “I beat it.,. Then
he went on to boast about his sex
ual conquest,” Wood testified. . .
“And she's mad as H— with me:,
A bunch of boys wanted trie Jjame
thing and I beat them to it.T
Wood said at the satru'" _ jm
had observed Miss McLaf
quietly and with a seriousno« 'MB
her face at the back of the bos. ”
Cn cross examination Wood de
nied he wanted to get back into
good graces cf the McLamb fam
ily. “I just said I would tell the
truth about it” he replied when
asked if he had talked about, the
rape case.
FATHER TESTIFIES
Malan McLamb, a well-dressed
man and obviously upset father, was
the next state witness. McLamb
spoke in an erne Lion-filled vole*
and told how the two families whG
live 500 yards apart had never had
anv trouble until this happened,
“And I think this is enough,” said
the witness.
He said that it was not until af
ter his daughter talked with her
mother on Tuesday that he heard
about what had happened. He said
he spent a wretched Wednesday
and that it wasn’t until Thursday
he talked with the defendant.
The father said Sherwood Bare
foot came to his house and denied
the crime. “I didn't do that,” Mc-
Lamb quoted the boy as said. He
said the boy told him the girl had
promised to be intimate Wflth him.
The father sain that Thursday
morning he had taken hj jughf
ter to the doctor and i 1 Aesui
conferred later in the davmm Golds
boto with Solicitor Hooks. The
warrants were issued after his con
versation with the solicitor.
SAID SHE WAS FOOLED
Returning to the earlier part of
the week the father said that when
he questioned his daughter, she
said, “Sherwood fooled me into go
ing to get a girl and this happen
ed." The father said he cried too
and that he did not get but a ward
or two at a time from his daughter.
The fatlieV said he heard his girls
come in cn Sunday night, Nov. 29,
around 9 p m. the night of the
leged attack, and that next morning 3
he was up first and had finished his
breakfast when ..ie girls came to
the kitchen. He testified he heard
Ruthlene tell her .nether, !‘l’m
sick." .
It was Tuesday about dark that
McLamb had his conversation, Ihe
said, with his daughter. It was on
Thursday that the defendant snd
McLamb's own sen. Carlie C., cne
to sec him.
The father said he denied BRe
foot’s request to have the girl put
there in the yard at the same tme
to hear his side of the story. “She
was in no shape io come out the*,”
the witness insisted. “She would
at a moment's notice.”
THREATENED SUICIDE t
McLamb said Barefoot was iso
disturbed and quoted the yojng
boy as saying “I’m going to jclll
myself before I get locked up. "na,
ruined." McLamb said he told Bale*
foot that when an indictment lias
taken out, he would know it. T
WASHINGTON IIP) Chairngn
H. Alexander Smith R-NJ of lie
Senate Labor Committee today
postponed until Feb. 23 scheduled
hearings on a civil rights bill. Sin.
Irving M. Ives R-NY proawf
objected to the delay.
READING, Pa. (IP) A sales
of rumbling earth tremors rattled
windows and knocked down sevnil
chimmeys in the Reading area
ly today. Many residents, awakerim
by seven distinct shocks, feared a
powerful explosion had occurifd.
WASHINGTON HP) A setup J
House investigation was ! '"lenAy 1
today into reports that kttiaV
congressmen spent close ®h> SW.-
000 in “blank check” foreign c|r
rency, in addition to travel fouls
provided by this government, On
overseas trips last summer and
fan.