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' ' v •• Weather PARTLY CLOUDY AND WARM TODAY AND TO NIGHT. VOLUME L 10TH. CORPS RETREATS TO NEW DEFENSE UNE Man Held On Three Charges After Wreck i Passenger Unconscious After Wreck: Theft Os Car Denied By Driver Ennis Smith, 30, of Dunn, Rt. 5, was facing multiple charges today after he alleg edly drove through a stop sign and wrecked a stolen automobile. A passenger in the auto mobile, James Manning Hai thcock, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Manning Hai thcock, is in the Dunn Hos pital in a serious condition. He was still unconscious this morning. Smith told State Patrolman David Matthews that he ran the car Into a ditch and wrecked it in an effort to avoid hitting two srttall children who ran across the road In front of the car. SAYS CAR STOLEN The automobile was stolen from Roy C. Tyndall at Jesie Tart’s Mill in Dunn. Smith maintained that Tyndall gave him permission to drive the car, but Tyndall claim ed the car was taken without his knowledge. Tyndall signed the warrant charging Smith with lar ceny. Smith was also charged with running past the stop sign at Min go school, where the accident happ ened. and with driving without a license. His license had expired. He was placed under S2OO bond (Continued On Page Four) IVIcA rthurneagesOff Crossing Os Border TOKYO, Feb. 13.—(UP)—Oen. Douglas MacArthur bald today on his return from a flying trip to the Korean front that any talk of crossing the 38th Parallel In faroe at the present time is "ptfrely aca demic:” From a military standpoint we must materially reduce the existing superiority of our Chinese Com munist enemy. . . Before we can seriously consider conducting major operations north of that geographic line,” MacArthur said in a state ment. * The statement was issued at 9 p. m. Tokyo time (7 a. m. EST), some 24 hours after the Chinese and North Korean Communists bad la unched their powerful offensive against the United Nations central' front. REJECTS UN PROPOSALS MacArthur rejected suggestions that the UN forces establish a line across the narrow waist'or Korea. First Period Os Contest Will End On Saturday Night By BILL and DORIS GUPTON, Contest Editors More general and concerted action has. taken {dace during the last few days in the big “Everybody Wins” prize subscription contest than at any other tiine since the race began. And, witty honors almost equally divided between sev eral contestants for leadership in the race, the “battle royal” now in evidence is attracting area-wide attention. Hundreds of thousands—yes, millions of votes—i-were cast by the various contestants. First one, then another would hold supremacy; battles were fought, won and lost and the race waxed fast and furious, So closely arrayed are present leaden, in tact, it depends largely upon individual effort of contest ants and the unstinted support' es loyal friends during the balance of this week—while the MAXIMUM number of votes are issued on sub scriptions—as to who win ultimate ly be winners of grand capital prises. - TEST 18 AT HAND The crucial test is Hbw at hand for potential grand prise winners! And this Saturday night will, to r considerable extent, tell the story. The matt* of sucorns lies entirely .... i..-. i Red Hot Race Is In Progress For 1951 Model Packard Sedan TELEPHONES 3117 • 3118 - 3119 Tribute to Uticoln A SERVICE MAN and Wfetfan visit the Lincoln Memorial Building In Washington to pay tribute to the Great Emancipator, on the 142nd anniversary of his birth. (Defense Dent. Photo from Intemaribwal) and said the U. S. Army had ac hieved local tactical successes. "We mu3t not fall Into the error of evaluating such tactical successes as decisively leading the enemy's defeat just a many erred Is asses sing our strategic withdrawals in the face of Communist China's com mitment to war as a decisive defeat inflicted upon us,” MacArthur said. “What the future has in store In Korea continues t 6 be largely de pendent upon international con siderations and decisions not yet known here,” MacArthur said. “Meanwhile the command Is doing everything that, could reason ably be expected of it. EXPLAINS STRAGEGY "Our Held strategy, Initiated upon Communist China’s entry into the war, and involving a rapid with drawl to lengthen the enemy’s supply lines with a resultant pyra miding of his logistical difficulties • (Continued On Page Six) in the hands of contestants them selves. We can help you only by telling you howl Now is the time, unquestionably, to secure an insurmountable re serve Vote; now is the time to.make reasonably certain of the prite you most desire. Not to do so means that you will have to redouble your efforts dur ing the remainder of the race to make up for lost opportunity, just a good big bunch of “full limit" subscriptions NOW might be the ■— j 4. ■■ninnVi" fVvaf beatirfh 1951 P kardl th : 1 " (She (Haifa; Jlccurd Mayor Takes Issue Over Jury Petition Mayor Ralph E. Hanna this morning took sharp issue with Duncan C. Wilson, a Dunn attorney who yesterday charged that the city council’s opposition to the jury sys tem in the Dunn Recorder’s Court arose “because it inter feres with the town’s revenue.” “Even Mr. Wilson ought to know,” said Mayor Hanna, “that the town receives more revenue when a case is tried in the local court tlian when It is transferred to Superior Court.” CITIZENS OPPOSE JURY Mayor Hanna said the city coun cil advocates abolition of the jury trial system in the local court “be cause of the disgraceful manner In which It is operated and because we know that 90 per cent of our •itizens are opposed to it.” The mayor cited the fact that in 16 out of 17 drunken driving pases the defendant was acquitted, and pointed out that, “Most of them were Dune’s cases.” Yesterday. Attorney Wilson pre sented State Senator J. Robert Young a petition bearing 3T~ names of citizens asking Mr. Young not to cajry out a requesf"by the Dunn council to secure legislation abolish ing the jury system. Mayor Hanna declared today that if Wilson had shown the proper (Continued on Page Seven) FBI Identifies Third Man Involved In Bank Robbery Scott Speaks To Delegates ASH Vims, Fob. 13—<UP*— A speech by Gov. W. Kerr Scott high lights today’s session of the 15th annual convention of the North Carolina Farm Bureau after the delegates were told to stand on their own feet instead of depend ing on the government to solve their problems. Mrs. Charles W. Sewell i admin istrative director of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau, told the convention last night to “stop hollering there ought to be a law” when something did not go to suit them. She criticized “a growing Ameri can tendency to depend on the government” and urged farm lead, ers to keep their independence. “We should shoulder our own responsibilities to do everything we can for ourselves through or ganizations like the Farm Bureau, cooperating on work which we cannot do alone,” she said. NEED 16,000,000 BALES Earlier, Read P. Dunn, Jr., dir ector of foreign trade of the Nation al Cotton Council, said the United States' needs 16,000,000 bales of cotton this year. “The achievement of this goal will truely be the atom bomb that cotton needs to protect its markets (Continued On Page Four) $2,694.94 grand capital prize; they could hardly help but win one of the other major prizes or big cash awards. TAKES PERSONAL PRIDE A striking feature of the past few days is the personal pride that is becoming so noticeable. One con (Continued On Page Four) SUCCESS STORY Attention to all doctors in the Dunn area—the privacy of your op erating room, no longer holds the sacred poeltion that it use to. Bill Gupton said that several days ago one of the contestants for the Record’s big “Everybody Wins” Contest walked into the hospital to sell the doctors a subscription to trie Dally Record. Finding no one in the office, she walked Into the operating room where she found her prospective customer in the process Os removing a patient’s; Being able to cope with every sit uation, she proceeded with her In spiring sales talk. We have not heard the outcome of the operation, but we are happy tp report that our contestant's sale was a success. r.-,t ■ - - - •. ■ DUNN, N. ©., TUESDAY 13, 1951 Four Sentenced In Morals Case Two Benson residents—a 40-year -old man and a 27-year-old girl— were given suspended sentences and fines in the Cumberland County Court yesterday, along with two others, on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. W. M. Benson, 40, of Benson, was given 12 months on the roads and commitment to issue at any time in five years and fined SIOO and costs, and the girl, Melna Hodges, was given 12 months in jail, assigned to State prison in Raleigh, commitment to issue at any time in five years and fined SIOO and costs. OTHERS INVOLVED The two 'other defendants in the case were: Charles Engle, 50, (Continued On Page Five) CHARLOTTE, Feb. 13— (UP)— Special Agent Charles Brown of the FBI today identified the third sus pect in the $44,000 robbery of the! Bank of Granite Quarry as William Odell Black, 22, of Kannapoha. Brown said Black was one of 14m trio that stuck up the bank Wwwtafc escaped tea, borrowed car and stole another In tbak ffigltr from the FBI, State Highway Pat rolmen and local officers. He said officers were seeking Black in two states. The other two gunmen, Kenneth Eugene Jackson, 20, of Kannapolis, and James Josey, 18, of Granite Quarry, were captured last night by State Highway Patrolmen and both have admitted their part in the robbery. TWO ARRAIGNED 1 Jackson and Josey were arraign ed last night before U.S. Commiss ioner James Wagoner of Salisbury and bound over for the April term of federal court there. About $15,000 of the stolen money, (Continued On Page Six) (hound Qapiiol SqwnM By LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT FREE HAND Senator Willis Smith was clearing with majority leader E. W. McFarland about 'Pro bable doings in the Senate early this week. Senator Smith was billed to speak at the ’’’arm Bureau conven tion at Asheville Wednesday night and wanted to know if he would be needed on the Senate floor before Thursday morning, “No,” said Sen ator McFarland, ‘There will not be any matters of consequence on the floor all week. I told them Republi cans they could have the week to get rid of some of their stuff and well take up important business again next Monday.” DIVERSITY Some Tar Heel boosters were apologizing to Senator and Mrs. McFarland for greeting them with snow and Ice on their first visit to this State, since they were accustomed to such hot we ather in Arizona. The McFarlands proved to be as good boosters for the variety and diversity of climate In their state as were the North CaroUnans. They pointed out that In comparative weather bureau re ports, Yuma Is one of the hottest plaoes In the nation and Flagstaff one of the coldest. Preseott Is a mile high, and you still have to go up hill to Flagstaff. Southern Arizona is a winter reeort area, while the northern part of the state is filled with summer resorts. As (Continued From Page Five) fi Jr Rt -j llififi ...IQ JjaUt; W' . *'■ ’ ■. CARMEN TROUPE—Some of the players who will appear In the Grass Roots Opera Company’s production of “Carmen” at Campbell College this month are shown above. From left to right, they are: William Allen as Remendado; Marie Van Hoy as Mercedes; Sophia Steffan as Carmen; Justyn Carter as Frasquita and John DeVogt as Cancairo. The single performance will be given Feb. 20 at 8 p. m. Marriage Ends Ring Quarrel A wartime romance, stalemated for five years, was brought to a happy conclusion in Lillington Monday: While he was stationed with the Army in Florida during World War 11, Edward Mario Cerni of 585 Washington St., Boston, Mass., met Miss Jennefer Margaret Vance of 1446 Wolf St., Jacksonville, Fla. After knowing Miss Vance for some time, Cemi asked her to marry him. To clinch the deal he gav». hzr an engagement ring and, liber, a arid, the marriage somenow -itidzcw come off. Cemi returned to Boston after his discharge to enter the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. After a while the projected flier at matrimony melted away and five years slipped by. ASKED FOR RINGS With an eye to his investment, (Continued On Page Seven) May Have Vote On April 14 A vote on. the projected city manager form of government will come April 14 if a bill introduced into the Senate last night by Sen ator J. Robert Young is passed. The bill was one of three affect ing Dunn which the Harnett leg islator dropped into the Senate hopper. The other two are con cerned with the creation of a bird sanctuary here and forbidding ad valorem tax levies in the county on sweet potatoes, peanuts and tobacco held for curing or processing by the producer. RETURN TO OLD SYSTEM Under the vote bill, the city will return to the Mayor-council form of government which existed before the present city manager mayor-council plan was instituted in 1950. (Continued On Page Seven) BULLETINS HONG KONG, Feb. 13—(IP)—Chinese Communists shelled the tanker Caltex 11, owned by the Texas Company and flying the British flag, as the ship passed Lintin Island in the Pearl River Estuary today en route to Hong Kong. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 13—(W—Union teachers today picketed public schools, closed by a janitors strike since Jan. 23, and halted a general reopening arranged by Gov. Luther Youngdahl. Pickets, members of the American Federation of Labor Men Teachers’ and Women Teachers’ Union, showed up at schools throughout the city within an hour of schedul ed class opening time, 8:30 a. m. (CST. 9:30 a. m. EST.) ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 13—(IP)—New snowslides killed, at least six persons in the Italian Alps today, rais ing the two-day toll to 16 dead and 17 missing. The missing were presumed dead. This raised the avalanche toll in the deadliest white? in Alphine history to 297 dead or missing in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Opera "Carmen" Coming To Campbell College Feb. 20 State News Briefs SAYS WAGES TOO LOW CHARLOTTE. Feb. 13.—(UP)— President Truman had before him JMky a protest from the CIO or ganizing committee of North Caro lina that wage scales aetjftfc con rtructlon work at the' Savannah River atomic energy facility rifcr Aiken, S. C., were insufficient. In a telegram to the president yesterday the committee said that if the scales set over the weekend by Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin were allowed to stand “it will be the greatest injustice that could be perpetrated on the working people of this Southeastern region.” The telegram pointed out that the Labor Department’s scale of 90 cents to $2.60 an hour would not be sufficient compensation for con struction-camp type of living that will have to be endured and will force many of the work force to leave their families and support double domiciles. The committee predicted that costs of living at the project would (Centinned On Page Five) COURT IS OVER Superior Court Clerk Robert Morgan said this morning that there would be no further sess . ions of the civil term scheduled to be held this week. Judge Q. K. Nimocks adjourn ed court yesterday because of the illness of Mrs. Carrie Speight Edwards, the court stenographer, but said he would be happy to return today If a stenographer could be found. Mr. Morgan said this morning that no stenographer had been found and that court Is ever for the week. The Cape Fear Music Festival Association announced today that Bizet’s opera, “Carmen”, will be presented at Campbell College Feb. 20 by the Grass Roots Opera Com pany. The production, which will begin at 8 pr m. in the college auditorium, will be completely in English. ORGANIZED IN RALEIGH The company was organized about a year ago by A. J. Fletcher of Raleigh, who saw the need for op portunities for talented North Caro lina singers to gain experience in A slffger him self, Fletcher realised Hut excellent enter tain ment, but had never been accepted as such by the American public as a whole. The average American shudders slightly at the thought of going to an opera. He associates the word “opera" with some very unreal performance in a language he can’t understand. Fletcher and his Grass Roots Opera Company set out to prove that the public generally can be brought to enjoy and attend operatic productions if skillfully produced in English. He says that this has been proved in (Continued On Pafe Six) tuted as a carrier for a few days when her brother James, a recdMgg Plant More COTTON For 'Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. Reds Push 20 Miles Through Allied Line Elements Os 21 Chinese, *2 North Korean Divisions Take Part In Fighting TOKYO, Feb. 13 — (IP^— Counter - attacking Reds broke through the central Korean front almost to WoH gu today and sent the em battled U. S. 10th Corps reeling back to a new de fense line. The bulk of U. S. and South Korean troops broke contact with the enemy in the latest retreat and up to noon GO p. m. Monday), the Communist hordes had not reached the new defense line. Although whereabouts of the new line were a military secret, out numbered Allied troops in some sectors lave fallen back nearly 20 miles since the counter-offensive began Sunday night. Hoengsong, 10 miles norlh of Wonju, was abandon (Continued On Page Six) Discrimination Charge Denied GREENSBORO, Feb* 13—(UP)— Chapel Hill school officials were on record in Middle District Federal Court today with a fiat denial that Chapel Hill school facilites discrim nate aganst Negro pupils. School Superintendent C. W. Davis and the board of trustees of Chapel Hill Graded Schools filed ; statement in answer to charges , brought by Preston Weaver and i other parents of Negro school ehiUUJj that it is their custom and practice to deny to the plaintiffs and other Negro children—solely and wholly on account of race and color, edu cation facilities and training comparable and equal to the edu- 1 cational training and facilities for white children similarly situated,” the answer filed here said. Negro children make up about 45 per cent of Chapel Hill’s public school enrollment. State School officials, also defen dants in the case, filed denials to the charges earlier. ■ |B TnoTso
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