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4-WEATHiR* . Partly cloudy and warm today, to night and Thursday with scattered ■bowers or thundershowers occurr ing mostly In the afternoon. hji i r - VOLUME 4 SCHINE TO TESTIFY AT HEARING I I•’s-sSjll cA.--*Ji*. s ■ • lfe«8& - .> .-.aA *y .--- ■: _ TART- i ill I I dMJt'lfir wf]|Tpii ffli*mSE ltm /r Npnq |jggfc|» IHt I MU : f jjirM *s ►A • 1 " E " .—■ : V* NEW DISPLAY WINDOW Pictured above to U»e new display window at Tart Coal afad Gas s Company's office on N. McKay Avenue. Owner ■ , L A. Tart, Jr. today announced considerable en * JhsAS atitiJs Dhl/ULA l . >~-^r««*-.•» By SOOm ADAMJf P ; ■ " ■ ■—■• .•■ ■ LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS James Yates, local theatre mana ger, has complete faith in the ftUwwtng power of Jane Russell. On the marquee of the Stewart Theatre appears these words: “Jane Russell in French Line. Need We I & Say More?” » , The picture is drawing crowds. "Bjtoo. The house was packed last Kmigftt for the 7 o’clock show and a few rows ° f sea *s were Mußed for the second. It will play KrVere for a solid week. THINOAMAJIGS: Herman Leder. popular owner of Leder Brothers, Inc. was In Dunn today for a visit j ... Woodrow Hill of Dunn, sec retary es the Harnett County Elec tion* Board, predicted this mom n»g -that there would be fireworks M the meeting of the board this afternoon ... It was expected to be a warm session . . . Incidentally, citisens of Anderson Creek are thfeatenlng a lawsuit over removal of the voting place in that town ship . ... A restraining order may be .taken out any day now . . . Robert Morgan, the candidate for Senate, Was In town doing a little campaign ing yesterday afternoon . . . Robert says campaigning is hard work and is ftoo expensive . . . Willard Mix on predicts Congressman F. Ertei Wariyle will' be reelected by an bmwhamting majority this year . . That seems to be the general consensus of opinion . . . Harnett Republicans are to be congratuiat ed for securing John Wilkinson as K their speaker Friday night. John ■ is one of the finest orators in the State . . . Even those who disagree (§3 with him enjoy hearing him speak Pi fCewthmed on Page Eight) Dr. Charles W. Byrd Named To TB Board Dr. Charles W. Byrd, Dunn phy ' itojfian. has been elected Represen tative Director from the Harnett duhty Tuberculosis Association to >, the'Boardsf Dlrectors of the North L Carolina Tuberculosis Association, E* according to a release from the TB ff AMMiatton headquarters. The announcement was made by Executive Secretory C. Scott Ven able following a meeting of the v HfiTih Carolina Association last . week. The session was held In Win- Dr. Byrd has been active In work raise funds for the Association week. The session was held In |; Dr. Byrd tos been active In work jp riacett was organised in HaraeU I jamStof m^T a^d lt w^ed he t w 0 I The Daily Record TELEPHONES 3117 -~ 3118 largement of the company's services. Hie display window will be used to exhibit stoves, and other equipment being sold by the company. (Dally Record Photo) Tart Coal And Oil Is Expanding Here L. A. Tart, Jr., owner of Tart Coal and Oil Company, Dunn’s only business operated with the aid of two-way ra dioes and telephones on all company vehicles, today an nounce considerable enlargement of the concern. 4Juwt. KM tank with a -capacity of SO/ltX 'gallons and a weight tS 40 tons was unloaded at the plant on N. McKay Avenue yesterday afternoon. Tart said the tank Was constructed especially for the Dunn concern at a cost of SIO,OOO to store LP (Liquid Petroleum), a line of cooking gas distributed by the com pany. The tank is constructed of steel one inch thick. Tart said. Besides the addition of the tank, the Dunn concern has also enlarged the show room and office space at the plant. A modern display section and additional offices were officially opened this ...Week. Offices of the company are air conditioned and equipped with modem furniture. The display window and front addition to the building is of brjck and glass, and is decorated with new signs. Around tl)e outside bf the building, red wash pots, fixed for flower pots, decorate the front and sides of the office and show room. LARGE DISTRIBUTOR The large gas and coal company is the local distributor for Butane- Propane gas, and other petroleums used for cooking, for use in re frigerators, for heating, for tobacco curers, air conditioning units, and most recently, has been used for motoring company vehicles. Tart said today. Plans are to have the gas tank in position and ready for use with in a month, Tart announced to day. Explaining the services of the company, Tart said today the con cern Is able to give "quick and efficient’’ service because of the two way radios and telephones. Ord ers can gq out from the main office to delivery trucks anywhere they may be. Six of the company’s cars (Outlawed On Page Two! DR. CHARIES W. BYAD Man Who Shot Dog In Eyes Gets 4 Months Judge M. O. Lee, of the Harnett Recorders Court wants It known he believes a dog Is man’s best friend. The Judge handed a four months Jail term, suspended two years, to a defendant who was convicted of shooting a bird dog puppy in each eye. Cornelius C. Jordan of Fuquay Springs, Route 2 was found guilty of cruelty to animals. Jordan shot s Pointer dog owned by J. Q. Ste phenson, also of Fuquay Springs, Route 2. “Mr. Jordan, I know you are elderly and crippled” commented the Judge,” but I am inclined not to suspend this sentence. It ts suspended on the specific condition you not perform any cruelty to an imals. If you do, you will have to serve this term.” Jordan contended he shot the puppy because he disturbed a tur key’s rest and sucked the eggs. “There are other ways of dealing (Continued on Page Eight) .. News Shorts WASHINGTON (in Adm. Ar thur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today re ported to President Elsenhower on his recent London and Paris con ferences on the Indochina crisis. HEIDELBERG, Germany IV) The U. S. Army revealed today that It now has three “atomic” cannon artillery battalions baaed in West Germany. NEW YORK IP Wholesale food prices declined two cents on April j 27 to 1742, according to the Dun A Brads tract Inc., Index released today. STATESVILLE IV) Chairman W. W. FlUpatrick of the State Milk Commission told some 2M repres entatives of the milk industry to day there win boa reduction in the producer pries for milk “sometime, but I don’t know if Hie time is Hpe.“ RALEIGH IV) Approximately ITS delegates from schools in IS Eeuthmh states, arrived today for the 86th annual meeting of the Southern Association of College and Ualvonfty Wariness officers which opera ham tonight. RALEIGH m - The Carolina Safoty Loagae mid today that tts Is ass to a sarprUiagty read start ” Mrs. Beorie ft Mtotrthm, 'league ’ V\.,/. - '“‘V •„ L*-' 1 "* **«#." .» . -V . - U ‘ S’! V -/•*% JL\' •• si. DUN?*, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28, 1954" ' - , (8 Companies Have Assets Over Billion By ROBERT G. SHORTAL Copyright By United Press NEW YORK (IP! The list of American companies with assets topping one billion dollars rose to a record high of 68 last year, a United Press survey showed today. Their combined valuation o f $185,211,466,357 was equal to about two-thirds the total national debt, or nearly $1,160 for each person now living in the nation. TWO NEW GIANTS Two business giants Joined the “billion dollar club” for the first time in 1953, while one company dropped out. Membership in the club has more than doubled since the start of World War 11, although 1953 show ed signs of a levelling off in the tremendous growth of industry. In 1952 six companies Joined the list. Some people still refer to 1929 as the nation’s biggest boom year, but in that year only 20 firms had assets of one billion dollars or more. By the time of Pearl Har bor the list had swelled to 32. The spectacular growth of In dustry In the past 13 years result- ed from a combination of hot and cold wars, huge expansion pro grams, record consumer expsndi tures and waves In inflation. METROPOLITAN STILL TOPS Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., with it* esset* sweeping past thej 12 Union dollar mark for the first time, headed the list for the third straight year. The giant Bell telephone system, steadily narrowing Metropolitan’s lead, was in second place with as sets of $11472,707,089. Prudential Insurance was third with $10,944,- 480.590. The two new companies to Join this charmed circle in 1953 were Phillips Petroleum Co. and Connec ticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. In ternational Harvester Co., which Joined the club In 1952, fell out last year as Us assets dipped to *972,- 529434. This was the first time since 1943 that a company was dropped from the club's roster. Ten of the present group the Pennsylvania Railroad and nine banks showed year-to-year de creases In total assets. The survey showed that 17 of these 68 asset giants also chalked up sales or gross revenues of one billion dollars or more In 1953. In their respective fields, Metro politan, Bell, DuPont, Standard Oil (New Jersey), Pennsylvania Rail road, Bank of America, General Mo tors. Sears, Roebuck and Oeneral Motors Acceptance Corpor. were the largest in the world. NINA FOCH TO WED HOLLYWOOD (V) Film act ress Nina Foch said today she will go to New York next week to be married to Broadway actor James Upton next month. BULLETINS VIENNA, Austria (IP) Two Czechs have been sen tenced to death and four others drew prison terms rang ing from 22 years to life for treason, murder and espio- 1 nage for the United States, Prague Radio announced to day. The six were convicted by the Supreme Court of Csechoslovakia and the sentences handed down Tuesday night, according to the broadcast. I CAIRO, Egypt (IP) Egypt’s Revoluntionary Council arrested 12 cavalry officers today and charged them with conducting a Communist plot against the Egyptian army. The council announced after a night-long emergency lOnottomd an page twni + Record Roundup + CITY COUNCIL MEETING Dunn’s City Council will hold a spe cial session tomorrow evening at 7:20 at the City Hall. The meeting was called at the request of Mayor Ralph Hanna. THEFTS Rural policeman C. E. Moore and othal- county officers to day were lnvestigxtlng reports that radios, beaten and other car acces sories ware removed early today from the parked automobiles of Er win mu workers between midnight and 2 a. m. Owners of the auto thSto^cSSV 1 wo * 4 M ** i —— —— W '' i I' ■ ■ <*3 ” jpUP^toa. v ■ « B! I* 2»r iVliiil S B|f mr 'JHBHI rnrnm mBBI . 4 1 y, J n * Sl' f \ gfv' ALVIN WINQFIELD Alvin Wingfield Conducting One-Man Campaign For Senate CHARLOTTE The nerve cen- ■ ter of the Alvin Wingfield for U. I S. Senate campaign Is the den of the candidate's rented home at 367 Ridgewood Ave. It contains two typewriters, a duplicating machine, I a telephone, several hundred copies of the Soviet newspaper Pravda, a garish Nazi rally flag, assorted Ger man weapons, and a diversified ec onomics and history library. Shining through this polygot col lection is the pristine and prevad lng confidence of Alvin Wingfield that he has the ariwers to nearly all the perplexing problems of 1954. Part of the answer to all of them can be found, he feels, In opposing socialism. "The first Wingfield came to the TJ. S. in' 1607 and helped set up Jamestown colony on a socialistic basis,” mused the candidate. “They nearly starved to death.” TAKES EXCEPTION He takes marked exception to the right wing label which'has some times been applied to him. “I’m as pure a liberal as there is to be found in these parts,” he said. Tm an advocate of the greatest ; amount of Individual liberty com patible with the necessary function of government. “I believe in the tradition of Jefferson and Paine, that the func tion of government Is to restrain ' (Continued on Page Eight) .SCHOOL BUDGET The big Harnett County school budget Is . ready for the county commission- 1 [era, but county school Chief <3. T. Profflt wants the commissioners to 1 get the first look at it before any details are released. The county board of education met on Mon day morning at his office to give FIVE CENTS PER COPY*" | John Wilkinson Will Speak Here John A. Wilkinson of Washington, N. C., prominent Republican leader and one of the best known orators in the State, will deliver the principal address at a meeting of Seventh District Young Republicans to be held Friday night at 7 o’clock in the Dunn High School Cafeteria. The banquet meeting Will also serve as a kickoff to open the cam paign of Harnett Republican Chair man J. O. West for Congress. Thad Pope, Sr., secretary of the Harnett GOP, said today that Wil kinson had accepted the invitation and would deliver an address of “great importance and unusual, significance." ARNOLD TO PRESIDE Bill Arnold of Raleigh, State Young Republican president, will preside over the supper meeting. This is the first time that Young Republicans have come to Dunn for a meeting. Harnett Republicans for the first time in history this year are holding a primary. There are seven Republican contests in the county. Mr. Pope said today that the group felt extremely fortunate In securing Wilkinson as the speaker. In 1950, he was the Republican can didate for United States Senate. Girl Still Loves Mother Who Broke Bones, Tortured Her NORWALK, Calif. (IP) Doctors fought today to re store the deformed bodv of 9-vear-old Celia Sanchez who said she stii: lovei lie • ...riite 18-months of tor ture in which the mother: Twisted her arms until they broke “With a crunching noise.” Struck her so hard in the face she was blinded in one eye. Beat her back into a mass of welts with a rubber hose. Knocked out six of the girl’s up per teeth. Squeaaed her hands until the bones broke. Smashed the girl's nose by break ing It several times with the hose and her fists. Sheriff’s deputies, acting on a tip. raised Mrs. Trinidad Vera, 2*. and found Celia cowering behind tS to 'f- v&a- - & Hv •«£ 'Jb The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES Yasmin To Gel Million, Half NEW YORK (ttl Actress Rita Hayworth prepared today to sign an agreement offered by her third husband, Aly Khan, which would make their daughter, Princess Yas min, a millionairess on the install ment plan. Aly signed the agreement Tues day Just before he left for the rac ing season in London and Paris. Her lawyer, Bartley Crum, said Rita studied the document until late Tuesday night to be sure a bout custody clauses, but he said no "difficulty” was expected. • Aly's attorney, Charles Torem, said terms of the agreement would settle about $1400,000 on a 4-year old Yasmin by the time she Is 18 years old. Aly will place *IOO,OOO a year In a trust fund In a Swiss (Continued on Pago Eight) a pile of dirty clothes In Mrs. Vera’s home. EXPECTING EIGHTH Mrs. Vera has seven children, including Celia, and is expecting her eighth. Celia broke into tears when the officers said they were taking her from her mother. . my moth * r '” * he • obfced ed that savagely a'trf syiKem- I ' NO. 104 Stevens Says His Treatment Was Unusual WASHINGTON (IP) Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens said today he was told that Pvt. G. David Schine paid fellow soldiers to clean his rifle, did not wear Mis uni form all the time, and es caped kitchen police duties while serving as a draftee «it Ft. Dix, N. J. Stevens also testified that he re ceived reports that Schine had an unusual number of leaves for a draftee. Asked about a report that Schine told his company commander that he had been sent to Ft. Dtx to ‘modernize and streamline’" it, Stevens said he had heard sorrfe thing like that, but not in detail. Stevens gave the testimony under questioning by counsel Ray H. Jen kins at the Senate investigating subcommittee's hearings on the con troversy over Schine’s military ca reer which began Nqv. 3. CLAIM PRESSURE Army officials have charged thgt Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wlx? and his aides brought heavy pres sure on the Army to get special favors for Schine, a former Mc- Carthy aide. McCarthy has counter-charged that the Army tried to use Schine as a “hostage” to halt his investiga tions of alleged Reds at Ft. Mon mouth, N. J. CHARGES SMEAR . McCarthy broke Into Jenkins’ questioning about Schine’s conduct at Ft. Dix to protest that it was “highly improper . . . completely unfair” to let Schine be "smeared without a chance to answer." Re demanded that Schine be brought to the hearing as a party to the dispute. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) (Continued on Pace Bight) Board Reports 6 Delinquents ~ The Harnett County Draft Board today named six men as delinquent registrants. Names of the men, released In Lillington today by Local Board 44 of the State Selective Service in clude the following: John William McDougald (col ored) Rt. 1 .Broadway; John L. Spearman (colored), Rt. 1. Bunnlevel: Charles Edward Lucas (coloreff? 506 S. Clinton Ave. Dunn; ' Raymond Vaden Baker (white) Rt. 1, Dunn; David Jones (colored) Rt. I, Box 100, Dunn; Lindsey Hampton Byrd (white) Rt. 3. Dunn. Regulations of Selective Sendee provide that delinquents shall be ordered to report for Induction ahead of other registrants. Unless delinquency is removed within a reasonable length of time, the de linquent men will be ordered to re port for immediate Induction. If they fail to report for induction, they be reported to the United States District Attorney for crimin al prosecution. All delinquents today were urged Gammon To Bogfct- Series Os Lessons f At the regular evening serflee of the First Presbyterian Church at 7:30 Sunday the pastor. Rev. R. ft Oammon, will begin‘a aeries of Mi#*! sons on the Book of Kphestens. This is the intensive Bible study of the Women of the Church, and as man| '"if* any doramrt
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