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The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 20

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Man Held In Holdup Francisco police are holding a young Charlotte man, Cadwallader Colles Bruns who is wanted in connec- SnL of a Green- yijie, b. finance company office on May 19th. Sf ci Agent William A. Murphy of the FBI said that Bruns had been picked by FBI agerits in the California city yesterday. A wide-spread search had been on for Bruns ever, since a lone bandit looted the Stephenson Finance Co of more than $16,000 in checks' money orders and cash.

The day after the holdup, a warrant was issued charging Bruns with armed "robbery. Murphy said that he has admitted his identity and has waived extradition to South- Carolina. Greenville police are en route to San Francisco to pick him- up. Two hours after the finance company looting, an'automobile with North Carolina, license plates was found parked in a textile plant lot. It contained a money bag, split open, with all the checks.and money orders taken in the holdup still inside, but with $1,793 in cash missing.

It also contained a. German Luger pistol, such as was used in the stickup of the office. The car was traced to Charlotte. Bruns' relatives told police at the time that he hadn't been home in a week and was believed to be in South Students Ask Immigration Bill tie Vetoed LAKE JUNALUSKA, Nl C. President "Truman has been" petitioned' by 250; Methodist 'College students, attending a leadership training conference here, to the McCarran immigration bill.

The group also asked the Junaluska Assembly to remove a ban on interracial swimming. The conference is part of the Southeastern Methodist student movement- They protested, in a letter to the President, that the McCarran bill "is contrary Christian and democratic principles In racial and political provisions." And in another letter to the board of trustees of Junaluska, the group said that since all.members of the' student leadership training conference not'permitted to use the -swimming facilities, "we as. a conference that each member refrain from using the swimming area." All but 12 of the. 250 students voted in favoV of the resolution. Negro the- group, Miss Vivien Tostell, Lakeland, Fla.

opposes the action. She said, "It would be. a shame for. you. to deny yourselves swimming privileges just because df me and, besides "I can't swim." 350-Acre Andrew Jackson Park Is Planned In S.C Cookies, Wifely Kisses Gut Off INDIANA' HARBOR, Supervisors trapped inside the "Iri- land plant were -still eating steaks today but striking steelworkers had cut off their supply, of cookies and wifely" kisses.

When the nationwide steel strike broke out June 2,.2,500 supervisory employes were locked inside the gates the inland mill. Their loneliness was broken though, by daily visits from wives and children who engaged in through-the-wire kissing and ch'at- ting. among the CIO United Steel workers pickets patrolling the strikebound plant decided that this was too much sentiment for tough steel puddlers. om Conwa i secretary of Local 1010 of the striking union, said the workers were dead serious about their walkout and would permit no kissing. "It got so it didn't even look as if there was a strike on," he said.

"There would be 50 or 60 women and kids at the fence making a holiday of Jt it go so it was breaking the morale of the pickets." AFTER FLIGHT FROM FATAL Colon, 33, stands outside his Brooklyn apartment in the early morning after fleeing a fire which claimed seven lives. Colon holds his artificial leg and a sack containing, his possessions. Awakened in his apartment. Colon smashed a window with his crutch but was prevented by flames from escaping by that" route. His wife, Marie, their two children, and Colon were rescued by neighbors who guided them along an outside ledge to (AP Wire- photo) LANCASTER, S.

C. South Carolinians have made another move in the long-standing argument between the. Palmetto State and its neighbor. North Carolina, over, the birthplace of Andrew Jackson. In a' ceremony at a point near lere, -which South Carolina says is the birthplace of the nation's sev- ent deed for a 350- acre Jackson State Park was presented to the State Parks Commission yesterday.

State Sen: Bruce Williams made 'he presentation for Lancaster County, which purchased the land two months ago, to Dr. R. F. Poole; Clem'son College and chairman of the State Forestry Commission. The'park, to be built yy the state, 350 acres of wooded picnic grounds and a 50-acre lake for swimming and fishing.

A small crowd, which attended the ceremony in, spite of sudden thundershowers, heard, a eulogy in praise Jackson by Rep. J. P. Richards, of the Fifth District Characterizing "Old Hickory" as a man "who could take dynamic action in this troubled world- of ours the legislator praised Jackson's loyalty and said his "love of country was sublime." The long-standing dispute, the Heel and Palmetto states over the site Jackson's birthplace, which is somewhere near the state line, was recognized by Richards in his speech. He said that it has conclusively" in the Library of Congress that Jackson was a native of South Carolina despite a "friendly argument with our great sister state of North Carolina." added, "the.blood-of peoples of North Carolina and South Carolina was the blood of Andrew fighter, general of the Army, lawyer, President and aigreat American." C.

West 1 Jacbcks, State Parks Commissioner; 'Charles -H. Flory State Forester; and John Wither- sppon, -of the State Forestry Commission were among the other officials present for the presentation ceremonies. Prisons Advisory Group Reorganization RALEIGH. State's Prison Advisory Council-wants reorganization program to go into effect July In a meeting yesterday, the council urged the Highway Commission to adopt the plan after eliminating the one point had caused an outcry. Eliminated was a proposal to chop the 10 prison division supervisors to three.

Prisons Director Walter Anderson and the council had hoped to centralize the duties of the supervisors- of the state's vast prison network. Major changes in the reorganization plan calls for the addition of two assistant prison directors. One would supervise 'all -prison 1 camps; The. other'would have charge of rehabilitation and The plan recommended yesterday also calls, for definite policy of mandatory retirement at 65 for prison personnel. The plan is similar to that of other state agencies in that an employe could be kept on after 55 if he is recommended by a superior and in good physical neaJth.

HAPPIEST COUPLE BEVERLY HILLS. (UP) President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman are America's happiest couple, the parents League- of America decided today. Mrs.

Beatrice Jackson, president of the league, said the group's annual gold rolling pin award was enroute to the Trumans as well as to six other well known couples which the organization's three- month survey chose the-happiest in 'the nation. The Trumans have been married 33 years. Elopement Foils to Aid Problem MEMPHIS, (UP) authorities refused to drop changes against a retired contractor today despite his elopement mth the French girl he is accused of bringing here for immoral purposes. William Stancell. 52..

and pretty Denise Guerard, 19, claimed their marriage yesterday in Clarksdale, proved their only "crime" was being in They motored to New Orleans for their honeymoon. That, indicated Thomas Fransworth, 'assistant U. S. district attorney, is a-question-for federal court to settle when Stancell goes an.trial July 9 on four counts of Mann Act violations. She is booked as material witness.

"Our present plans are to go right ahead with the prosecution," he said. "The fact that she is now his wife will not necessarily make her testimony The petite brunette from La Garenne-Colombes, France, walked out of. jail yesterday after Federal Judge Marion Boyd reduced her bond frprn 510,000 to 54,000, and the couple left town together at once'. A few hours later they were married in the study of the First list Church in Clatksdale by the Rev. W.

L. Pearson. Stancell said ie had put up most of Deni.se' bond. 'If. love, is a crime, I'm guilty because I love him," Denise wired tier sister Michelle, 17, who.came here from France shortly after the couple was arrested in a motel outside Memphis last March 17.

Michelle complained 111 1 against Denise's high bond and told the judge the sheriff and the FBI were "taking advantage" of her sister "because she was a little girl and frightened." Denise, a pianist, told authorities her parents consented for her to come to this country with Stancell after he -promised her marriage and a radio and television career Stancell'was divorced weeks ago. Greensboro Aviation Cadet Is Killed HONDO, Tex. Cadet Horace Snow Muse son of Mr and S. Muse Sr. of (404 Elam Ave.) Greensboro, N.

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