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SENATOR RICHARD B. RUS
»SIU of Georgia, who today was
Hbclnc boomed as a Democratic
candidate for President by South
ern member* of Concerns. Among
those known to favor Russell are
Senator Clyde R. Hoey and Sen
ator WIIUs Smith of North Caro
lina.
Rita Back in Films
Hi
w- '%
JAnik a three-year absence from
Rita Hayworth shows
■she’s still In dancing shape as she
marks bar return before cameras
on Aim capital set. (International)
ITS SNOWING
Snow jsvrs tolling thick
.and fast this afternoon 99
The Daily Record went to
press. It began snowing
shortly after 12 o’clock,
S#Verv little of the snow was
sticking to the ground,
however-not even enough
for a snowball. Children—
and grownups, too—had
high hopes the snow
wouSd become heavy
enough tor at least one
gbod-siaed snow man this
THE RMMY DURANTE
"1 don’t like the cask system. Maybe wo ain’t all
swjiwwss^- r~n u*
IWTRi tM ‘sawiy * ““
Th» chief drawback of tt* if-'
rSTS? ***
fc ss RJr&ieSH
dream is done, the ex-star awakens I
to a world of toothlww Won, *bab-1
Jimmy Ptoanto would ;oon too*
mg to Hollywood. But hn we
! TEiiranpms; «» nig .m$
Driver Os Death Car Is Held For Grand Jury
Illinois Chief
Executive May !
Be HST's Pick j
Editor’s Note: This is the last of
four dispatches presenting the i
views of announced and prospec
tive candidates for the Democra-
Uc presidential nomination.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent I
Washington W G<*v. Ajjl-;
lei Ewimr Stevenson pf lit- 1
nois would just about fit the}
Democratic presidential no.- i
minee taltwa if P rw 'ldent.
Truman decided to retire. [.
Stevenson is in the last year
a fnnr-year term as governor,
is 52 and an apnrent'ce seaman
veteri» n nf World, I-
In FOF’s eariy Agricultural Ad
just Administration. Stevenson was
general counsel. .AAA was held by
the Supreme Court to be unronj
stitut'cnal. The Governor held high
war time and post-war office In the
Navy and State departments. Ha
helDed put the United Nations to
gether and served as a General
Assembly delegate.
In general terms, .Stevenson' is
all out for Mr. Truman’s foreign
policy, lags a bit behind him‘on
some domestic questions. Steven
son Is not a state’s rights man.
But be is suspicioua of big central
government /and would leave n>Uch
more responsibility and power $0
the states than would Mr. Train*.
NO SCANDAL IN DIVORCE
The Governor and Mrs. JStlen
Bordfcn Stevenson war* divortUd
In December. IMS there was ho
scandal nor even hint of such. But
neyer Mitlcal a^eV
hate war, we have drawn tl*f|
know that force Srtthmtt Wto* M
tyranny end«4hat Justice ithoutf
force Is impotent-” ?- i
MacARTHUR: “No one ha# donTt
(Centtawed On Page PNe) *r.
Marine Charged
With Molestinq
Child In Church
KINSTON (W A Camo Lejeune
Marine, was held under 110,000 bond
todpv for grand Jury action follow
ing his arrest In a church here on
charges of molesting a fire-year-old
|irl
Judge Albert Cowper ordered Ray
mond Phillips, 91. of Stockton. Cal.,
held after a preliminary hearing
yesterday. Phillips also faces simple
assault and contributing to delin
quency of a minor charges in an
offense Involving a six-year-old boy,
Police Caot. Olasco Evans ar
rested Phillips in Gordon Street
Christian Church after a playmate
reported that the husky Marine
grabbed two small children under
his arm and carried them into the
emir* Saturday afternoon.
*bu*nte went believed he wee
SHU to begin With. end mended
by means of Ills acceptance
gt,^>ny SSZ&S*
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(Site Batlu
DUNN, v N. C„ TtIE»DA¥ tfl, 19&
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UNC COACH TO SPEAK HERE Pictured here is George Bar
clay, new assistant football coach at the University of North Caro
lina, wise will be th# top speaker at the annual meeting of the Har
nett chapter of The Educational Foundation to be held here Wed
nesday night at 7:45 in Johnson’s Restaurant. Secretary A. B.
Smith, Jr. has extended an Invitation to the public to attend. No
reservations are needed, but the dutch supper will cost $1.75 per
person. A Mg crow4.ii expected. . f
Rose Will Address
aureht tn Dtmfl.
Chief Ralph; E. Hanna a* Sec
retary Lee are arranging the pro
gram for the occasion, Which is
one of the biggest events of the
year for the firemen.
AWARDS TO BE GIVEN ,
At this meeting, attendance a
wards for the year wUi be pre
sented to members Os the depart
ment of volunteer fire-fighters. The
Two Dunn Men
Are Taken At
Large Still
Two Dunn men, caught at a large
whiskey still in Johnston County
as they prepared to run off about
IJOO gallons of mash, were bound
over to Federal Court under bond
at a preliminary hearing held here.
Mrs. George Arthur Jackson, lo
cal United States Commissioner,
said the; men waived testimony at
U Th?*deft»ili»ts were, hated as
Linwood Blackman. 19, and Ben J.
McDowell, M. Ixjth Negroes of
D Blackman*was placed under $750
bond and McDowell was put under
* SO< ABBBBTKD by atu men
They were' arrested by Federal
ATU agents and Cumberland
County ABC officers. At the still
site the officers found K ferment
er* of 56-gallon capacity each. The
still was a 500-gallon submarine
type. No liquor had been run off,
h The fn was^fwnd
miles from
Dunn. . l
Capture of this still brought the
bootleg whtaE* and eight arrests.
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teg award will |o to Fireman John
S, Morris, who has** missed a
single fire in almost three years. A
number of awards wlB be present
special gttests for this meeting
will be members and wives of
Dunn’s newly-organised Auxiliary
Fire Department, hooded, by Chief
Buddy Jemigon. Other guests will
include J. C. Andrews, head of the
firemens' 'relief fund, and Mrs.
Andrews.
Chief Hanna will preside over
the banquet.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON (IP) Lt. Gen. Jam?* H. Doolittle to
day called the first meeting of ffgmpjminn
set up by President Truman to investigate eabdltlons ait
airports in congested areas. ->*
WASHINGTON Os) Senate itumilfstots recalled
Far. Eastern expert Owen Lattimore today for miffttMi
ing about the institute of Pacific grid »ts influ
ence—if any—on U. S. foreign policy. \
* WtPS> >l>y
If Took Measles To
Make Buster Absent
' .a- » • ■ v. '. k) •<
Old Nd measles did to Howard
M. (Buster) Lee, Jr. on Sunday
what rata, Motd, othor
types of ntauß sud «ws aa
I w«y*Mle,M«ip»irt taßto to fa.
toy, tt yyara
ho waa stay W toafto «M m 4
l * £&% Mg am raramri
truck Driver ?
Cleared In
Becker Death
Bv LOUIS DEARBORN
Record Staff Writer
A Coroner’s jury this
cleared truck driv
er William J.. Reichert in
the accident at the inter
section of Broad and Ellis
[Avenge February 17 that
dost tb* life of Howard Beck
er of New York and Drder
ed driver of the delath.
<!Br, .tpnas Orannick hejd for
the rh"* rid Jury under/lSond
of &hODO.
Grannick proved a poor witness
fbr himself. He declared that 1m
Was unable to remember anything
(rom before the fatal crash until
Be recovered his faculties later at
the Di’nn hospital.
He told the Jury that he and his
three companions had stopped at
Johnson’s Restaurant and eaten
and then had stopped across the
road for gas. He remembered ap
proaching an intersection, he said,
but remembered nothing further un
til his recovery at the hMoital.
BROUGHT ON STRETCHER
Grannick was . brought- to the
courthouse on a stretcher town the
Dunn Hospital, where he is still o«i
--fined as the result of his injuries.
Dr- Charles Byrd, who attended,
the injured related that he noted
that Howard Becker was the most
injured. He found Becker’s skull
fractured in several places and por
tions of brain running from hie ears.
“He was breathing, that's about all
you could say,” hs stated Becker
lived but a few minutes-
Grannick. Dr. B*tt sfddt htf «
fractured ankle, bruised frft Wrm
wem«i^7v;r
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; Lyin’ .lS*
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vtiti com FUR con"
; DRAMATIC RESCUES STAGED AS FIRE SWEEPS BUILDING
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TBAPPto Mi Ml theft swept through a Chicago apartment home and cost two Uvee, Survlvars mtt*
their way precarloualy down a ladder that arrived Just In time to rave them from death. Note wotaatt ■ •
and child Ma| carried down. At left, fireman Jamas O’Boyle, hero of tho bine, carries oat Blcbfipfi ’
toyhsr.fi.O’B&l* Who was on hi* da? ca,nnhed to the scene. He rescued ten people. (IntcniatiMMD •
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Senator Russell Is Boomed
As Choice Os The South
.;Tto Georgia Democrat Wlß‘keep
ing mum, however, at least until
after a conference Thursday with
a delegation representing the Geor
gia. - Btnte Democratic, Executive
Committee. Tfre ..Committee rated
raßwdaV. td ask Russell to be a
Sen. I Walter -T- George D-Ga.
declared Wmself "wjbolheartedly ln
acoort” with the-committee's ac
tion:' •}.,> •, r,; ,> . ..
’ “I . hope,; that ton- Russell will
comply . wlih the’ request,”; George j
said ' fl, think . that he should do
SO-’!'-' •
. : D|D NOT . REVOLT '
Russell, who' can pUy a; key r° le
in t>w DbUtfcal direction taken to
the south .this veer, was saoported
hv Southern* delerates for the 1948
Democratic presidential nomina
tlon. However, he did not Wn the
subseQuerit *Wtates rights” revcßb
arainst Pifeaident Truman.; .. ..
Russell bias been silent on po«-
tlcs so far’this year, and of
his Senate- Mends believe he 1$
holding hack to see what Mr. Tru
m«n W|» do; ' - : ■
If the president' should announce
t hat ...he K«1 not seek re-etecUon.
then would be mpeh lesa chance
of a new , third pdpß. movement |n
th ßiraav’.to. Hariv F. Byrd D,
2Sv : -<B. fararit^tar
the Democratic presidential noml*
MOVE
It was understood that Byrd, a
relentless critic of Mr. , Truman,
ss^^riir-ss 1
toTdraft tlftp
SCnktBB , >*AJS:
T . tesiMtatad R|» Twel : .
Young Bride Charges Dutm
Mon With Attempted Roto
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I or^ch
rg?jSl£&S
I tb>t young maroom on
Candidates Will Be
Invited To Debate
. If the two candidates accept the irfatatkm, Dunn may
be the scene of North Carolina’s outstanding political de
bate of the 1952 campaign. . |
William B. Umstead of Durham
apd Judge Hubert Oliver of Lex
ington,.. the two top. contenders in
i the: race for governor, will be in
vited to debate the issues of . the
camps ion before the Dunn Informa
tion Clinic. *
, Jim McMillian, founder and mo
derator of the clinic which brings
outstanding oersonalitles to Dunn
to discuss vital public Issues, said
invitations will go out this week to
both Mr. Umrteed and Mr. Oliver.
DATE IS OPEN
HO said the two candidates are
bring invited ear'v and asked to
set the date for the debate which
would be convenient for both of j
them.
kfr. .McMillan said he thought l
the clinic would give the candidates j
an excellent opportunity to pra
Cooley Thinks HSt
Will Run And Win
WASHINGTON «Pt - Reo. Har- .
old D. Cooley predicted today that
, President Truman will announce
“in the ‘next two or three weeks",
i that be is willing to run again. (
The North Carolina Democrat j
called on the President to urge
i htat So make in eerly-declsioo about 1
seeking re-election.
He emphasized to Whitt House ]
,-taygkpt that Mr. Truman did net
% ' 4 y -■ * \
MKcteQ occupy *n opataln ipitt
•Vßlt te fly iwwn. . j
«h him tapt* 1
JOIN THE
CHAMBER
Help Build Dunn
sb. a
sent their respective programs to
the people of this section an? would
also give the voters an opportunity
to meet and hear tha candtdatqa. ■
Pointing out that the ritato la
conducted on a very high ’ tfiaue.
McMillan said the candidates
be assured of receiving equal ooum
tesles, equal time and Area*
ment on the program. '’*****
He said that in the event Stay
agree to a question and aamrar
period from the floor, they would
nlso be assured of k courteous aud
fence.
“In other words.'* pointed out
McMillan, “w* pant the debate to
jbe informative.” He said; to- fdk
sure the candidates will accept.
'and that thrir nooearance “"torn
'would attract a large
neat interest.
1 ■'.l.YiWi ~-*8
give him guv aradfie t\
about whether he will run again
and when he will disclose jjFte
tentions • , ■ v 'vs3
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