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ALLIES WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF SEOUL
*Both Smith, Carlyle Oppose
Drafting Os 18-Year-Olds
By HOOVER ADAMS •
Record SUIT Writer •
WASHINGTON—Both VS. Sen
ator Willis Smith and Seventh Dis
trict Congressman F. Ertle Carlyle
are opposed to drafting 18-year-old
AP>oys for military service, and both
of them are opposed to sending
great numbers of troops to Europs
until the European countries agree
to do their part.
Senator Smith and Congressman
gress to make it clear to the mili
tary leaders that no manpower is
to be wasted, and that only the
number needed are taken into the
service. . '
Cenator Smith and Congressman
Carlyle, like all other congressmen,
Age port that their offices are being
flooded” with letters from
every section of the State in op
Budget Hike Os sls Million
Asked By Department Heads
RALEIGH, Feb. 2 —(UP)— Re
quests for budget increases total
ed nearly $15,000,000 today and
the first amendment to increase
sales tax revenue was in the Joint
Fiance Committee mill as harried
members of the General Assembly
met for the usual early Friday sess
ions.
The Senate was scheduled to
convene at 10 a.m. and the House
at 11 ajn.
Amendments to change the sales
tax law have been mentioned earl-
Wer but the first to be formally pro
posed was handed the Joint Finan
ce committee yesterday by Rep.
Oscar Barker of Durham.
LIFT EXAMPTIONS ,
It would repeal the sales tax
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By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
m COLISEUM—The State Fair will
**get its million and half dollar col
iseum, or cattle judging pavilion, or
“cow palace” or by whatever name
called, unless the federal author
ities intervene to stop construction.
Not many people will be surprised
if the National Production Admin
istration puts a stop order on the
project. The report of the special
legislative committee which was ad
opted by both Senate and House
Wednesday virtually Invited Wash
ington to step In and accomplish
>r what the assembly was apparently
powerless to do.
CONFUSED—The whole coliseum
business has been confused ever
since plans for thg ultra-modem
structure were approved last sum
mer. Confusion got worse when
attempt was made to have the
State Board of Buildings and
groundi. approve a contract for
the building that left out essential
features and still went a good deal
-shove the amount available. WheA
‘“the buildings and grounds board
declined to act in a mater wherein
it had not been consulted before,
a meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture was hurriedly called
and an Jan. 8 confirmed the con
tract signed on Jan. 3 by Commiss
ioner L. T. Ballentine. The joint
resolution asking for legislative in
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—(U.P.)—Price controls were
relaxed on coal and military equipment today, and govern
ment stabilizers strove for quick action cm a general easing
erf the week-old wage freeze. '
ll The most severe whiter Worm in many years spread
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position to drafting of 18-year-olds.
“Every three out of four letters
that come to my office is in protest
to drafting these yang boys," de
clared North Carolina’s junior sen
ator. 1
HOEY RESERVES COMMENT
Clyde R. Hoey, the State’s senior
senator, said today that he was re
serving comment until after the
military affairs committee and the
Congress completes hearings sched
uled on the issue.
Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Carlyle
were very emphatic in their opposi
tion to lowering the draft age.
Mr. Smith did. however, make
the reservation that the emergency
could become so serious that it
might be necessary.
Even so, he added, he couldn’t
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exemption for motor vehicle fleet
operators. That exemption per
-1 mlts any person or company oper
ating five or more vehicles to buy
parts, supplies and accessories at
the wholesale tax rate of one twen
tieth of one per cent. The repeal
would raise their sales tax pay
ments to the three per cent retail
, sales level, 60 times the present
level.
The amendment would affect
practically all taxi lines, bus lines,
trucking Arms and even some farm
ers who have live or more trucks
and tractors.
Revenue officials were unable to
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Striking Railwaymen Spurn
Quinn's Back .Ta Work
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The coast-to-coast railroad strike
was slowly paralysing the nattatft
war effort today as trainmen ex
tended their walkout despite court
contempt proceedings and appeals
from their union to return to work.
The strike by about 10,000 mem
bers of the Bortherbood of Rail
road Trainmen had thrown 163,000
workers off their jobs In affected
industries and the total was expect
ed to soar over 200,000 by nightfall.
As the walkout spread to 47 rail
roads and 50 cities, the Post Office
Department placed a limited em
bargo on the mails which were
carrying heavy loads of military
correspondence and parcels.
The embargo stopped all mails
traveling between affected .areas!
Extend Dimes Drive Several
Days ; Campaign Lags Here
The March of Dimes campaign
has been extended for several more
days, according to word received
from state headquarters at Chapel
Hill.
Many of the communities in Har
nett County have reached their'
quota or excee<jßd it, but the city
of Dunn with a quota of $4,000
had hardly reached half of it’s goal
as of Thursday. ,In Dunn the
Shrine Club is promoting the drive
and members are urged to redouble,
their effort to achieve their quota
Tentative reports show that
$6,434.64 has been raised towards
a goal of SIO,OOO for the county,
Kipling, with a quota of SIOO has
raised $28939. The Rev. F. # R. Dali
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Four Negroes
Die For Rape
Last 3 Os Martinsville
Seven To Face Execution
Monday; Appeals Fail
RICHMOND, Va.. Feb. 2—(UP)
Four of seven Negroes whose death
sentences for rape created an in
ternational furor followed a doom
ed white man down the “last mile”
to the electric chair today in the
largest mass execution in Virginia
history.
The white man, George Thomas
Hailey, 25, convicted last July of
raping a schoolgirl and killing her
with a shotgun, was the first to
die at 7:40 ajn.
Lined up behind him in the red
brick prison located high on a bluff
over the James River were four
members of the "Martinsville Sev
en," a gang of Negroes who raped
a white housewife two years ago.
In the order in which they went
to their death they were Joe Henry
Hampton, 20; Howard Lee Hairston,
19; Booker T. Millrier, 20, and
Frank Hariston, Jr., 19.
HAMPTON DIES FIRST
Hampton was strapped into the
chair about 8 am. At 8:05 the
death-dealing current was sent
through his body and seven min
utes later he was pronounced dead.
The second of the Martinsville
seven to go was Hairston. He was
led to the death chamber at 8T27
am. and was pronounced dead just
five minutes later.
Next Monday morning, the death
chair will claim the other three
Negroes—James Hairston, 21; John
Clabon Taylor, 22, and Francis
Desales Grayson, 38.
The five men were electrocuted
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but exempted first class mail under
eight ounces, newspapers and em-
Mgency supplies such as medical
gods. Air mail, air parcel post and
purely local mail, including rural
routes, also were not affected.
CONTEMPT ACTION
Members of other “operating”
rail unions were joining the strike.
The government filed contempt
actions against the Trainmen’s
Brotherhood at Chicago, Washing
ton and Cleveland, alleging that,
the union was responsible for its
members’ defiance of court injunc
tions to refrain from striking.
At Ctdcago, meanwhile, a hear
ing was scheduled for today on a
contempt action filed last Decern-
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chairman, stated that LaFayette i
School raised 8229 of this amount ,
Erwin, where Roy Cameron is chair
man, reported $2,100 raised to date, ,
and that the Erwin School has done
a mighty job raising $336.57. ,
Coats has raised $630 thus exceed
ing their quota of .8600. Vic Lee is
the chairman there. Co-chairman
Selwyn O’Quinn and Leo Kelly of
Lillington stated a few days ago
that they had already exceeded
their quota of S7OO.
Mrs. Harvey O’Quinn, chairman
for Mamers reports that $406 has
been raised chiefly through the
Boone Trail High School where a
splendid Job has been done.
Mrs. Shep Bryan, principal Dunn
Grammar School, reports that
$219 has been raised, which is far
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Puppet Show
Tours Here
Harnett County school children
are going to receive a visit from
“Little Jack” again Oils year.
“Little Jack” Is one of the most
snow .wfuen vou» uie omvc xor kpo
State Board Os Health tomeoarage
tour tne county beginning Monday,
Folloviß| L the schedule of per-
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VICTORY MEETlNG—Piefiared above are chairmen and members of solicitation groups which sought funds
in the Buies Creek area for Canftpbell College’s proposed $150,000 gymnasium. These workers brought in over
$24,000 from their community, Although the goal was only $19,000. Presiding over the meeting, held Thursday
night at the Campbell College dining hall, was Dr. A. Paul Bagby, chairman of the Buies Creek fund-raising
group. (Record Staff Photo by T. M. Stewart)
Buie's Creek
Exceeds Goal
The Buies Creek community came
up with a pile of money for the
Campbell College expansion fund,
according to figures released Friday
following a ‘victory report’ meeting
held at the college Thursday night.
Chairmen for groups representing
the college faculty, townspeople and
students reported total collections of
$24,277—m0re than $5,000 above the
community’s goal- of sl9,o6o—since
the Campaign opened in December.
"ThjNjunds collected in Buies Creek
the Home Area will be agphed to
a projected $160,000 gymnasium at
the junior college.
TOWNSPEOPLE LEAD
Leading the collections was the
Buies Cree«c center, representing the
townspeople, with $13,232. Os this,
$4,150 came anonymously from “A
Friend.” The township goal was
sio,qoo. ,*C ;;
Presiding at the meeting, which
began at 6:3o'p. m., was Dr. A. Paul
Bagby, chairman of the Buies Creek
cooimittiee.
The following amounts, in add
ition to the anonymous donation,
were turned in. hy vice-chairmen of
the lqcjp *riiup: Lyman McLeod,
$2385; Dorothea Stewart, $2,356?
Dr. B. P. Marshbanks, Jr., $2,335;
and Leland Stewart, $2,106.
Faculty collections, with a quota
of $5,000, came to $7,600. The take
was turned over to Chairman Bag
by Prof. E. M. Walker, chairman of
the faculty committee.
Hugh Green, chairman, and Ber
les Johnson, assistant chairman,
turned in $5,496 collected in thelr
district, the Neills Creek-Pleasant
Union community. Their goal was
$5,000.
Oscar Sewell, student campaign
chairman, reported collections of
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LARGE CROWD AT TRACTOR SCHbOL TODAY—J. C. Ferguson, Hgriciritu
ral engineering specialist from State College, is shown here as he addressed more
Cq. Inc. in Punn at one of kwa tractor maintenance schools held in Harnett todav
f. ~ *7 w *^S rm i ni piwneiH aeaiers oi ww county, was neiu
Friday afternoon at lilUnston. Bur Ferguson srave the farmers some valuahV
Booster Week To Offer Extra
Points For Contest Workers
Children Go
To Symphony
Matinee \
/ Students of Harnett County’s el
ementary schools were looking for
ward this morning to the appear
ance cif the North Carolina Little
Symphony, slated to play for the
children in a special piatinee at
Campbell College.
The matinee performance is
scheduled for 2:30 p.m., with
another performance, and a differ
ent program, arranged for adults
at 8 o'clock. Both concerts will be
heard in the auditorium of the
college.
When the children —about 1,000
are expected to attend—crowd in
to the auditorium, they will have
some familiarity with the music
on the program. Study outlines of
the works to be performed were
sent out to teachers in the county
schools in December. Since then,
the children have heard recordings
of much of the music, along with
lectures on music and musicians.
With this background, they come
to the concert prepared to enjoy
the music they hear.
The two appearances of the Little
Symphony at Campbell College are
sponsored by the Cape Fear Fest
ival Music Association. These con
certs are part of a series of mus
ical attractions offered to the pub
lic by this group during the current
season. Other events in the series
will .be announced.
Period Opens Saturday With
12,500 Extra Points For
£Mklwfe>Year. Subscription
By BILL and DORIS G
Swinging into line, all a
one of the many valuable
Record, the small but fairly
contestants are beginning to
ing race and henceforth the
grow by leaps and bounds.
Never before in this area
test for local people of such
offered are so highly desiral
variety, and the winning req
viting.
One feature alone is enough to
make it the most talked of event
in many years. That feature is the
offer to award a brand new 1951
Packard “200” automobile worth
exactly $2694.94 to the man, woman
or young person of this vicinity ob
taining the most votes on new and
renewal subscriptions to this area’s
fastest growing newspaper by Sat
urday noun, March 17th. That is
just six weeks away.
SECOND PRIZE: $750
And, as another big feature, to
the one scoring second best in this
contest, a second grand prize of
$750 will be given. Which in it
self is an award of unusual value
for just a little interest and spare
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COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
lUPTON, Contest Editors
-tingle with high hopes to win
prizes offered by The Daily
y representative list of active
) hit their stride in this excit
i interest of all concerned will
a has there been a short con
i magnitude, where the prizes
ible and of the “hard-to-get”
quirements so liberal and in
) time effort during the next few
t weeks.'
5 Then, too, under a unique and
L very equitable arrangement, spe
t cial cash bonus awards will be
i given to third, fourth, fifth and
■ sixth place winners, making, In all,
1 six prizes offered.
s Nor is that all; To insure ample
■ and immediate compensation to all
; active participants in the race, a
special fund has been set aside for
the purpose of paying 20 per cent
cash commission ($1 on every $5),
of individual subscription collec
; tions each week in accordance with
! the plan outlined! in opening an
’ nouncement of contest.
| As yet no one has a “walk-away”
• for that beauUful new 1951 Packard
1 automobile, nor for the other ma
jor awards at this early stage of
the game.
Neither is there a single one on
the list too far behind, but that *a
mere handful of subscriptions
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Pioneer Dunn Store
Purchased By Belk
Hatcher-Skinner To
Enlarge Funeral
Establishment Here
The Hatcher-Skinner Store on
Bast Broad Street, operated here
since 1912, has been sold to Belk’s
Department Store, but the Hatcher-
Skinner Funeral Home will be con
tinued and enlarged, it was disclosed
this morning.
Announcement of the sale was
made Jointly by Charles Skinner,
owner of the store, and Marvin
Raynor, manager of Belk’s.
Skinner, in making the announce-
NO, 43
Combat Team
Excapes Red
Encirclement
Bth Army Told To Take *
Seoul, Push To Border
In "Limited Offensive" “*
TOKYO, Feb. 2 (U.P.)—
United Nations forces drove
within artillery range of
Seoul on Korea’s western
front today behind a shatter
ing ground and
bardment.
Farther east ,a Franco-American
regimental combat team 10 to 12
miles north of Yoju on the central
front was out of danger after link
in up with a rescue column - from
the 'S&uth and smashing Commu
nist encirclement attacks in a 13-
hour battle.
DRIVE IN 9TH DAY
Allied forces jumped off at dawn
on the ninth day of their western
front offensive aimed at Seoul.
They pushed slowly north on a
broad front through deeply-en
trenched Reds.
A security blackout cloakil exact
progress of the Bth Army’s spear
heads. but they were known to be
less than nine miles from the Han
River bending south around Seoul.
Mased allied artillery and swarms
of planes plasted a path north for
the ground troops. An Bth Army
spokesman reported steady advan
ces all along a 45-hiile sector runn
ing southwest to southeast of Seoul.
The ultimate objectives of what
the Bth Army still calls a “limited
offensive” were secret, but a Wash
ington report that the Army has
been ordered to retake Seoul and
advance to the 38th Parallel was
greeted with approval at the front.
REDS OFF BALANCE
/'{We’ve got the Chinese off bal
ance apd my men and i sire tired .
- offlttstriehning forward in our fox
holes,” said Maj. James H. Dee of
Dallas, Tex., commander of one of
the atjvance spearheads below Se- .
oul.
An Bth Army spokesman refused
to confirm or deny the report, while
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Council Will
Get Petitions
Opponents of the city manager
form of government are ejjjJected
to present petitions to the City
Council Monday night asking the
board to secure passage of .bill in
the legislature to give the* citizens
of Dunn a vote on the managgy
system of city rule.
For the past two weeks, several
petitions have been in circulation
here and it was reported this morn
ing that more than 1,000 names
have been afixed to the petitions.
Under the usual 15 per cent re
quirement, only about 220 names
would be needed.
COUNCIL MAY APPROVE
it would not be compulsory far
the city board to approve the pet
itions, but Mayor Ralph EL Hanna
has stated that he thinks the City
Council will do so. ■ »
Mayor Hanna said this morning
that, in his personal opinion, he
did not believe an act of the legia- j
lature would be necessary. He ex
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