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night Thursday fair and warmer.
VOLUME II
POLITiCAL SIGNS OF THE TIMES “I Like Ike” neckties
kooetlnt General Dwifht Eisenhower for the presidency went on
•ale here this Burning *t The Men’s Store and were creating con-
O *klerable Interest. First customer to buy one cl the Ike ties was
Jim McMillan, who’s organising a “Democrats for Eisenhower dub”
here. Manager Frank Belpte, left is shown here as he showed one
of the ties tp Assistant {'ity Clerk Clayton Black. Mr. Be’ote, who
didn't express his own preference, said he would probably stock
otber novelties boosting various other candidates as the campaign
progresses. (Daily Record photo by i. W. Temple, Jr.)
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DANCING CANDIDATE Tennessee’s Ben. Estes Kefauver goes
through the paces of a square dance with the pupils at Clay Elemen
tary School in 8t Louis. The senator, who is also an inspirsat for
* the Democratic Presidential nomination, Joined the children as they
demonstrated the dance for the American Association of School
Administrators. Kefauver had spoken to the group earlier. Harnett
Superintendent Glenn Proffitt is attending this meeting. (United
Press Tuiephoto).
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Schnozzola
- THE STORY OF JIMMY DURANTE
BY GENE FOWLER
EDITOR’S NOTE: The eighth instaUment from the book.
SCHNOZZOLA, recently published by The Viking Press.
A Woman Casualty Kissed by Durante Sued Jimmy for
$5,000 and an Actor Impersonating a Priest Caused his
'Arrest* for Assault and Battery - "As Innocent as a Little
Ram"
a “When.l sing a song I croon it for anybody else. It’s
; like the kiss of debt.” From the Sayings of Mr. ’
James Durante.
WAifraaon? pittsbcrgh
c .SSS 'sS2*'J%°sS s ' rrma ” ‘ OT
! Packed Theatres greeted Aim everywhere. But in
psburgh two experien hh??Stetress^
v Om afternoon Jimmy wait gal- Hotel.
gal!" The audience laughed and
The next day the ttaaed woman
fire thousand dollars. She said,
teutonewaew g then thlflXl that «Wa m.
TELEPHONES: JllT 1118 - 3119 DUNK, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27, 1952
Clayton returned to the hotel to
finTarreral palswaittag forhim
She JJailu, JXtmrfr
11 More Arrested
Ike Reported
Gaining Fast
In Midwest
WASHINGTON (IP) The
'Eisenhower for President or
ganization claimed an “up
surge of strength” today in
Sen. Robert A. Taft’s Mid
west bailiwick.
The claim was made in a special
statement by Sen. Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. R-Mass, manager of
the campaign to win the Republi
can presidential nomination for
Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower.
It came as the Taft camp was
issuing increasingly optimistic fore
casts that the Ohio senator may
win nomination on the first
ba'lot at the OOP convention in
July.
“An upsurge of Eisenhower dele
gate strength has occurred in re
cent weeks in the Midwest, hereto
fore claimed by the opposition
camp as solidly for their candi
date,” Lodge said.
“Eisenhower popular demand has
been coming irresistably to the top
and making itself felt in the Mid
west Just as it has in other sec
tions. ”
Lod“e referred to “rapidly grow
ing strength” tor his group in
lowa. Illinois, Indiana. Kansas,
Missouri and South Dakota.
Taft supporters have not made
any ma|br claims to Eisenhower's
homo state of Kansas. But they
have claimed Ulionis and Indiana
as Taft strongholds.
OTHED DEVELOPMENTS
, Elsewhere in the political arena:
_ I.‘ln a speech at Manchester.
N, H„ Robert A. Taft Jr. said Ms
father can win support of inde
pendent voters "because wary
American.admtoea a fl«Ater/a-nayi
f °2 'A^^Ve/oOif^^
Frederick O. Payne, an Eisenhow
er suMporter. announced Out ha
will oppose Sen Owen RNwStWT
R-Me.; A Taut man, for re-elec
tion. Firmer Atomic Energy Oom
missioner|Bpmi»er T., Mm, an
nounced that he will stay out of
the r»ce and support Pevne.
TOBIN FOR KEFAUVER
3. Sen., Sates Kefauver D-Tenn.
only declared candidate for the
Democratic nomination, won quali
fied support of President Daniel J
Tobin of the big AFL teamsters
union. Tobin praised Kefauver as
“a clean, courageous man and a
OContinned On Page Two)
Cancer Drive
Heads Renamed
Mrs. J. Grady Johnson and Mrs.
Meredith 8. Senter of LUhngton
will again serve as county co-com
manders of ftie American Cancer
Society, ft was teamed today.
A county fund chairman will be
announced at a later date. Mrs. W.
A. Johnson will act as treasurer
for a second year gad Dr. Charles
Byfd of Dunn and Dr. A. W Peede
of Llllington have agreed to serve
on tbs advisory beard.
• The annual fund drive, which
will be held in the county later in
the spring sbnaltaneously with
other oommunltlea across the na
tion, is designed to aid cancer re
search, treatment, and education
al activities.
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RIG TRUEVISION SHOW
Cltisens of this section saw a
New Jet Ace
Mo). William T. Whisner
AMERICA'S newest Jet ace ft MaJ.
William T. Whisner, 28, ctf Shreve
port, La. He accounted for hit fifth
Communist MIG-15 to save the
Use of a fellow pilot during a sky
battle over the YaJu River in
northwestern Korea. The cq»
dangered flier was MaJ. Dob
Adams, of Mt Clemens, Mich,
whose plane had been hit and ba
was unable to evade enemy fire.
Fire, Water
Units Lauded
Dunn was complimented on the
excfltence of its fire department
and its water plant by W, O. Allen,
District Engineer of the Southeps
tern’ Underwriters Association of
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Tuesday night *Ht"the u“
Ungton Presbyterian Church by the
members of the Young Adult Bible
Wte. Proceeds will go toward the
Shureh building fund.
. RETURN TO DUNN
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Beasley,
focWrr Dunn residents have moved
badk. td- Dunn and now reside on
Godwin St. They have lived in
Portsmouth, Va. for the past sev
eral months.
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Angier Kiwanis Club
Will Sfage Minstrel
The Angler Kiwanis Club will
present its Tihrd Annual Minstrel
Show, “Tobacco Bam Jubilee,” Fri
day; Feb 29. at 8:00 pm. in the
Angier School auditorium.
Those six popular Endmen, Joe
Currin, Carl Young, Ellis Parker,
Orady Earp, Graham Talley and
Clyde Adams, are again featured
in the program of songs, dances,
blackface comedy, and specialty
numbers. Kiwsnian D. W. Denning,
Jr., stars again as the Interloc
utor, heading a cast of approxi
mately 50 persons.
Specialty numbers include such
talent as Cecelia Young and Mabel
Hunt in a comedy routingof song:
Graham Byrd, local radio artist,
with his rendition of hillbilly songs;
David Smith, head of the Camp
bell College Music Department, and
a quartet of songsters from' the
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Group Accused
Os Kidnapping
Negro Woman
WHITEVIIsLE, N. C. (IP)
State and county officers ar
rested 11 former Ku Klux
Kansmen today on kidnap
ping and assault charges in
Klan - ridden Columbus
County.
Those arrested included six of the
10 men arrested recenily by the
FBI on and violation
of clvl' rivhts charges.
Sheriff Hugh Nanre *nd
Director James W. Powell led the
officers in the ro-ndup and more
arr«-'» wero promised.
WHIPPED HER IN WOODS
The men were brought here and
Placed under *5.000 bond each for
the March 31 grand jtirv. All were
charged with seising Esther Lee
Floyd, a 23-year-old Negro, taking
her into a woods, whipping her and
cutting a cross in her hair.
Nance said the woman was “slap
ped a few times with a belt” and
not whipped severely after she told
the hooded and robed men that she
was pregnant.
Nance said the klansmen cut a
cross in her hair and told her to
go to Whltevllle and “tell all the
niggers that the Ku Kluckers got
you.”
THOSE ARRESTED
Nance listed those arrested as
Early Brooks, 44, former leader of
the Fair Bluff, N. C. klavern dis
solved by Imperial Wizard Thomas
Hamilton, in January, his son, Bob
by Brooks, 18, who was picked up
by police in Raleigh; Steve Ed
(Continned Oh Page Two)
S' t
Quartet so Sing
At County Churchy
storefte**th«n*
March T, when the Columbia Quar
tet froth the Columbia Bible College
in Columbia, 8. C. will present »
musical procram at Pleasant Union
Christian Church.
The Rev. Franklin Pearce, the
pastor, said the quartet is npi on
tour and the Saturday night en
gagement was the only date avail
able. The program which will be
gin at 7:30 p. m. is open to the
public without charge.
College, in a series of vocal num
bers; and students of the Bedding
field School of Dance, Raleigh,
Tommy and “Chee” Davis, also
Sonny O’Neal and J. S. Moore, in
tap dance routines, and acrobatic
dancing by Johanna Johnson and
Susanna Coley.
CARL YOUNG TO BING
Kiwanian Endman Carl Young
is scheduled to make his debut' as
a professional singer with his ren
dition of “The Chicken Song.”
Ladies of the chorus include Mis
ses Kay Lee, Maxine Pleasant, Ann
Bachman, Jean Dupree, Rachel
Mangum, and Mesdamei Blanche
Dupree, Magdalene Stephenson, Jo
Ann Gyady. Grace Denning, Oolda
Young, and Jerry Wgtd. W. B.
“Red” Williams, Leonard Ogburn,
Winfield Talton, A. T. Brown, Bob-
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STORE TO OPEN Pictured here is the interior of the new Jayson’s Shoe State, *
which will hold its formal opening here Thursday morning. Almon D. Jackson, owner of the store, and
Mrs. J. T. Pope, are shown here today as they completed last-minute arrangements for the opening.
The store carries a complete line of well-known shoes in every price range for men, women and chi Id
!*“• ®” »P«»ins day. there’ll be gifts for all the family. Story on page two. (Dally Record photo
by J. W. Temple, Jr.) r
Brothers Convicted In Second
Round Os Porter Morals Case
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Record Staff ’Writer
The young Erwin men who vis
ited Robert (Bob) Porter, Erwin ra
dio; announcer at his studio “to
get things straightened out” after
Porter allegedly kept their teen
age sister out all night by force,
were found guilty in Harnett fte
corder’s Court yesterday of trespass.
- Vice-Recorder M. O. sLee taxed
John Mack Wood Jr., and Robert
Wood with the costs, but the de
fendants through their attorney, fil
ed notice of an appeal Both de
fendants were cleared of assault
charges. *
J. H. Wood, the father id the boys
and his daughter, Ina Mae Wood,
who were indicted by Porter in the
same warrant were cleared of both
assault and trespass.
Porter, 39, and married, is out on
bond pending his trial in March
Superior Court an chargee of as-\
sault with intent to commit rape
(Continued on Page Two)
UNCFansTtT
Hear Barclay
The meeting of the Harnett
County Chapter of the Educational
Foundation at Johnson’s Restaur
ant tonight at 7:45 will be open to
the public, it was announced by A.
B. Smith, Jr., secretary-treasurer
giving other than members an op
portunity to hear George Barclay,
new assistant coach at U. N. C.
Barclay will be the' principal
speaker at the meeting. He will be
accompaniedw by two other assist
ant coaches, Jim Gill and Jim
Camp. Also in the party will be
Jake Wade, a Dunn native, publi
city director at the University.
“Anyone who wishes may attend.”
Smith pointed out. “A person
doesn’t have to necessarily, be a
Carolina fan to attend.”
Dr. Ralph Johnson of Dunn to
president of the county unit. T.
Brown WUliams of Dunn and Bill
Johnson, LUUngton attorney sft
vice-presidents.
No reservations win be necessary
for these who cars to attend the
meeting. The restaurant has as
■urod the arrangement# committee
that there will be ample facilities
for all who attend. The coet of theJ
meal win be 11.78.
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Sen. Smith Stands Firm
Against Negro Protests
•WASHINGTON, Feb. Senator Willis Smith, to the sarpriae -of no
one, did not yield an inch of ground to a delegation of North CiNton
Negroes visiting him this week to talk about civil righto legislation
hot he did win recogniton from them as a “brave man.”
The delegation, headed by KeMy Alexander, of Charlotte, state head
es the National Association for the Advancement of Catered FMple,
called on Smith to demand that he modify his opposition to anti-poll
tax, anti-lynching and fair employment practices legislation, and to
a change in Senate rules to facilitate shutting off debate. ’ t
Smith met the delegation face to face, and subjected himself' to a
lengthy period of discussion, questioning and erees-questioning from
Alexander and his associates, who knew in advance, of course, that ths
Senator did not agree with their views.
Nothing the delegation said, none of the gesteuhttin* had finger
pointing and none of the implied threats of reprisals at the (polls, shook
' the Junior senator. But when the delegation left, one of the members
said in good-humored and open admiration: ' ' Vi'TaBKS
"WeM, he sure is a brave man; you’ve got to hand him that.*' ””
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Fowler Plans Big
Opening On Friday
The beautiful new and enlarged
Fowler Radio Company at Lilting- !
ton will hold its grand opening FW- j
day, it was announced today by Mai- '
colm Fowler, president and owner of j
the, store.
Since Mr. Fowler opened the or- |
igioal store at LiUington 18 years :
ago, two new stores have been added
in Dunn-Erwln. r /
The LiUington store, erected a bon. j
a year ago. has been enlarged and |
completely remodeled to provide the
finest facilities for displaying the’
company’s many lines of electrical
appliances and for servicing the ap- ,
DEMONSTRATIONS SET !
Ip connection with the grand j
opening, Miss Doyle, noted home
economist for General Electric, wfll
be at the new store Thursday and
Friday from 3:30 to dosing to
demonstrate the complete General
Electric Kitchen which to on dis
play. • sj
A representative of the Necchi -
Sewing Machine Company win also,
Ae on hand to demonstrate that'
I nationally-advertised sewing mttej
feme Win be free refreshment
tad door prizes so- those who a* .
Itw>a1 tw>a “tow’rea unbw H
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Help Build Dunn
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a big complete line of jthodfograpfe
records. J-/•>. fvi**
i Since Mr. Fowler established' jittp
' firm, it has shotm rapid growth
and progress and is one of the
! largest of its kind in this secUon
1 of the State.
; BUI Warren is manager Os the
Erwin store and serves as assistant
I to Mr. Fowler in operations of the
| company. *
i Members of the staff of Is
lington store include: BIU BuroeS,
sales manager; Stewart Carsoct jra
dio and television techniclanrftoder-'
ick Byrd, service manage*;
Marshburn, assistant service man
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