' ' 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—