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VOLUME L
Taft To Write
Book Explaining
Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON, March 27
—(lP)—Sen. Robert A. Taft -
“Mr. Republican” - said to
day he is preparing to write
a book enlarging his views
on foreign policy.
The work, as yet unnamed, will
let him spell out his foreign policy
program before the 1952 Republi
can convention, a,t which he will
probably be a major contender for
the OOP presidential nomination.
The Ohioan, the dominant GOP
voice in Congress on domestic af
fairs, has emerged as an important
Republican spokesman on America's
role in the world during the his
toric debate on sending U. Si troops
to defend Europe. Taft opposes
sending the troops unless Congress
first gives permission.
Taft said he did not know how
soon it will be before his book is
ready for publication. v
ELSEWHERE IN CdNGRESS
Crime The Senate Crime
Committee called in Income tax
officials to find out just how they
propose to catch underworld lea
ders who are cheating the govern
ment on their tax returns. The
committee said many, if not all,
of the returns submitted for the
gamblers and gangsters are fraud
ulent and the deceit may cost the
government hundreds of millions
of dollars. Internal Revenue Bureau
spokesman said their agents are
giving intensive scrutiny to the
tax returns of 126 underworld
figures and are checking about
2,600 in aU.
Corruption Sen. J. William
Ful bright, D„ said responsible
government officials, by “moral
blindness or callousness,” are con
doning “corruption in our midst.”
He said the spirit as well as the
letter —of the law should be ob
served. He warned that great
civilisations have been destroyed by
domestic corruption. Fulbright
heads the Sepate subcommittee
whbjh reoently exposed favoritism
aqd Influence in the Reconstruct
tion Finance
also «ld the recent listlflSSa
fixes are a logical mult «r the
corruption of the sport at its source
by pressure from alumni to win
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By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
PlCTUßE—Sketched In briefest
1 lines possible, this Is the composite
picture of State money for the
next two years: There is in pros
pect General Fund revenue ap
proximating thirty - five million
dollars more than was estimated
by the Budget Commission last
fall, which is almost If not entirely
enough to balance the budget on
terms of the appropriations sub
committee report. Some of the
lines going to form that picture
are these: The Advisory Budget
' Commission in 1948 estimated rev
enue for the fiscal year ending
next June 30 at $l2B millions. By
the fall of 1950 that estimate had
been upped to 8146 million, and
last week Revenue Commissioner
Eugene Shaw again upped it to
$167 millions. The Budget Com
mission last fall anticipated a
carry-over Into the 1951-52 year
of 811 mutton; now It is evident the
balance will be about double that,
or $22 millions, from which must
1 be paid about seven and a half
millions to effectuate the contin
gency schol teacher salaries (which
would have been paid out of thp
911 million) and perhaps half a
million in other special allocations,
leaving a carry-over of about 914
million instead of m net of 94 mu
ttons. With estimated receipts of
9175 million, that means availabil
ity of 9171 millions next year, in
stead of the 9150 millions consid
ered when the budget was made
1 up. Receipts for the year 1952-53
are now estimated at 9167 million
or more, Instead of 9149 million
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Air Force Accepts
.. _ 9 im for
terms of the
TELEPHONES 3117 • 3118 • 3119
Gregory Calls Back
Wafer Law ; Move Is
Asked By Erwinites
By Wade Lucas
Raleigh Correspondent
RALEIGH, March 27—In a move that caught Harnett
Senator Robert J. Young by surprise, Harnett Repres
entative Carson Gregory has recalled from the enroll
ing office the Senate and House-passed bill to empower
and authorize the Town of Dunn to purchase, lease, or
otherwise acquire the water distribution and sewerage sys
tems in Erwin.
Dunn, Angler Men
Named To County
Education Board
RALEIGH, March 27 Charles
U. Skinner, Jr., of Dunn and A.
C. Barefoot of Angier were nom
inated for four-year terms on the
Harnett County Board of Educa
tion in the omnibus county boards
of education measure introduced in
the House.
Nominees for members of other
county boards of education in The
Daily Record’s circulation area are:
For Johnston: Aubrey Austin and
Julius D. Corbett, each for a term
of six years; for Sampson: John C.
Warren, A. Russell Jones, Dr. A.
N. Johnson. Walter D. Peterson,
and Hubert Carr, each for a term
of two years; for Lee: Stacey Budd,
for a term of six years; and
Cumberland: D. A. Calhoun, for a
term of four years.
APPROVAL EXPECTED
The omnibus bill, which is in
troduced every two years, was sent
to the House Education Committee,
which is expected to approve the
inclusion of nominees for the 100
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Korean Doctor To
Speak At Armory
Dr. Sung 800 Han, a native of
Xpnn who is now a staff doctor
with thfe North Carolina Sanltor
nessbtf
me** in the armory at Ub
Mrs. Sara MoKltt will be JR
charge of the program during the
monthly dinner meeting of the
club.
Dr. Han is studying in this coun
try on a two-year United Nations
scholarship. He plans to return to
Korea in July.
Tax UnHWill
Study Criminals
WASHINGTON, March 27—(IP)—
Treasury Secretary John W. Sny
der said today that he is estab
lishing a special fraud section in
his department to wage war against
“major league criminals” through
their tax accounts.
Snyder made the disclosure to
the Senate Crime Investigating
Committee through a statement
which he prepared and which was
read by Treasury Undersecretary
Edward H. Foley.
The new fraud section will he
placed under the Internal Rev
enue Bureau and will center at
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MASONS WILL MEET
An emergent communication of
Palmyra Lodge No. 147, A. F. and
A. M„ has been called for Thursday
night at 7:30. The purpose of the
communication is for conferring
the sublime degree of master Ma
son.
Flower Festivals Will Meet
Deadlines Despite Weather
WASHINGTON, March 27-^-fIP)
Two of the nation's mo* beautiful
flower festivals are expected to
meet their deadlines this year—
despite the westher.
Here in the Capital, the cherry
blossoms are expected .to break
through their buds in time far a
big show beginning April 9. Some
are peeking through already.
At Wilmington, N.C., the multi
colored Asaleas promise to come
out in time for the fabulous floral
BEAUTIES—AND NO BLOOMS
(Ete Mttiin Jltmvfr
Gregory said he recalled the
bill, which only awaited ratifi-,
cation before becoming law, “at
the request of some 50 or 75
Erwin people who want to appear
before the State Utilities Com
mission here and find out more
about what the water bill does.”
The Harnett House member
said he told the group, including
James Glover, Mrs. V. C. Swan
son, Redden New, “and some
others whose names I can’t re
call just now”, that he would
hold up final action on the bill
until April 3.
Meanwhile, Senator Young,
who said “the bill is merely per
missive and was introduced at
the request of th.a Erwin Cotton
Mills Company,” declared: “I am
through with the bill—it is now
in the hands of Representative
Gregory.”
As it passed the Senate and
House last week, the measure pro
vided that in event Dunn leases,
purchases, or acquires the water
distribution and sewerage systems
in Erwin the rates to be charged
Erwin residents by the Town of
Dunn, which owns the water plant
that supplies both Dunn and
Erwin with water, will be fixed
by the State Utilities Commission.
This was agreed to several weeks
ago at a conference held here by
Mayor Ralph Hanna, Mayor Pro
Tem Joseph Wilkins, and Town
Attorney I. R. Williams, all of
Dunn, with four of the five mem
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Godwin To
Preside At April
Civil Court Term
Judge tiowarfl C. Godwin of Dunn
will preside when the April term
of Harnett Superior Court opens in
Lllllngton next Monday.
Judge Howard C. Godwin
Facing the judge will be a doc
ket listing 35 cases, of which seven
are divorce cases. Length of the
term will be two weeks.
Following is the -docket set for
April term:
Motion docket (for settlement
without trial):
Coy L. Guy et als vs Louis Bear
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The Japanese cherry trees at Ti
dal Basin, a gift from the Emperor
of Japan, have been a headache
periodically—thanks t 6 the weather
and the Department of Agricul
ture.
The first shipment arrived in
1909. The Alert D. of A. set them
all on fire when bettles were dis
covered in the branches.
Tfae second shipment, planted in
1912, was bug-free and has been
growing ever-since. If only the
blossoms weren't so delicate and.
Uncounted® thousands visit the
Tidal Basin annually when the blos
soms are at their peak and those
who have seen them In the past
139 yearn easily run into millions.
More than 1100,000 visitors gath
up to watermelon red. They are on
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1951
Acheson Urges
Republics To
Stop Communism
WASHINGTON, March 27
(lP)—Secretary of State
Dean Acheson asked the
American Republics today,
to carry out swiftly a three
point program to meet the
“mortal danger” of corn*]
munism.
"Never before have we faced *
menace of this magnitude.” Ache-'
son told a conference of foreign,
ministers of the 21 American re
publics. “It call? for action now. ,'
. each must do his full share.” • j.
Acheson urged this program:
1. Curb inflation on an
tional scale; increase production
of raw materials.
2. Prepare at the earliest possible,':
time a coordinated defense for
hemisphere.
3. Tighten internal securi w
against communists, but at the
same time'protect “basic democra
tic institutions.”
This was the conference’s first
direct reference to civil liberties,,
which include freedom of the pres*.:
NO MENTION OF PAPER
Acheson did not mention thir
closing of La Prensa, the gres&
Buenos Aires newspaper, but del~
egates who have followed the case)
of La Prensa carefully noted Adj-$
eson’s words.
"We should consult as to the
practical steps we may take, to*'
gether and individually,, to ensure
the maximum protection and
strengthening of our basic demo
cratic institutions. They are the
■heart of what we are seeking to
defend against communist under
mining, and to safeguard these in
stitutions while we prevent their
abuse requires our constant vigi
lance.”
Acheson’s idea of international
consultation on preserving “demo
cratic institutions” was interesting
in the light of a press conference
held Friday by Argentine Foreign
Minister Hlpolito Jesus Paz. He
said that he could tolerate no “for
eign interference” in the case of
spoke, it was iqakped
that the United States has-qu«sfc
circulated among the Intin dele
gates copies of three U. S. resolu
tions. A resolution on economic
problems asserted that each gov
ernment should be willing to im
pose price controls, allocate raw
materials with priority for defense
needs, and coordinate transport
facilities.
The resolutions made it dear
that the United States would offer
Important technical assistance -to
the other American republics to
step up production of foodstuffs
and raw materials, improve diets
south of the border, combat disease
and generally increase living stan
dards.
Tax Collector
Warns Delinquents
That man is here again.
D. P. Ray, Jr., Harnett County
tax collector, warned all property
owners in tile county today that
delinquent lists will be published in
the newspapers beginning the first
week in April.
The lists will contain the names
of those who have not settled up
their 1950 taxes, Ray said.
If payments are made during
March, the collector added, two
per cent should be added to the
total bill. If mailed after April 1,
he said, the addition should be
two-and-a-half per cent.
The collector said that he will
be at the First Citizens Bank and
Trust Company in Dunn April 28
for the convenience of latecoming
taxpayers.
SHOW IS EXTRAVAGANT
A sight to behold.
Wilmington would be disinclined
to be accused of copying anybody—
Washington, even—when it comes
to putting on a show. But It is no
less -extravagant There will be a
queen out of Hollywood, tfae $lO,-
000 PGA Azalea Open Golf Tour
nament, celebrities from hither
and there, a coronation ball and
to top it all ff the beginning of
the Southeastern - United States
Checker Tournament.
Wilmington has two big advan
tages over Washington.
The asaleas bloom far several
weeks. The cherry Wossnms come
out fast, and disappear fast—and
a heavy frost could kill them quick
I "2^ ou L the „ whole shoW
»it who wants a cherry tree to
the parlor, particulary one that
South Korean Forces Drive
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■ SHADES OF ’4l lt’s beginning to look like old times again in the junkyards throughout the
tountry, with tons of scrap being hauled in for conversion to war materials. Like many a man 10 years
pgo, Hubert Goodwin of Dunn, Rt. 5, is selling off chunks of old car bodies for eventual use by the
Steel industry. He was photographed today as he weighed in his haul at Moss’s junkyard in Dunn.
(Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Mill Officials,
Union Men Meet
'DURHAM, March 27—IUV- Er-
Sin Mills officials left here for
Washington today to meet >ith
■fofre 1 the federal mediation and""
conciliation service.
Emu Rieve, president of the
Textile Workers Union of Amer
ica, and representatives of five
textile concerns were scheduled
to attend the meetings. The sess
ions were called in an effort to
avert the cotton and rayon tex
tile workers strike set for Sat
urday.
Police Go To
School Here
Schoolbells will clang again to
night for law enforcement officers
who are attending instruction
courses being given by the city in
the Recorder’s Courtroom of the
Municipal Building.
Instructions in the 12-week
school are being given at present
by Judge H. Paul Strickland and
Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan. Class
es meet for two hours each Tues
day and Thursday, beginning, at
7:30 p.m.
The present course, on the laws
of arrest, is being taught by Judge
Strickland. The next four-weeks
course will be taught by Solicitor
Bryan and will be concerned with
the laws of search ‘ and seizure.
Judge. Strickland said that no in
structor has been selected for the
third course, on rules of the road,
but that another member of the
bar may be asked to do the job.
STARTED AT UNIVERSITY
The school is an outgrowth of a
Statewide meeting of judges, solic
itors, police chiefs and sheriffs
held to Chapel .Hill a few weeks
ago by the Institute of Govern
ment, the judge added.
The purpose of the schools, some
60 of which are planned or in oper
ation throughout North Carolina,
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Ex-Rupresentative
Pays Visit To House
RALEIGH, March 27 Former
Harnett Representative A. L.
Overby of Angier, who represented
Harnett to the 1945 and 1947 ses
sions of the House of Represent
atives, paid the House a long visit
last night. He was acompanied by
Mrs. Overby.
The Overbys sat with Harnett
Carson Gregory to
chain placed back of the ohe
On motion of Gregory, the
Overbys were given cotirtesies of
the lobby by House Speaker Frank
Taylor. Overby also was given
courtesies of the floor as a former
SPONSOR BAftRSCtJE, DANCE
ved trosi 8 to 3 p.m., with the I
House Buckles Down
To Revenue Problem
; iBA LEIGH, March 27 (IP) —The
State’s money-raising revenue bill
H«£
picture was to be handed to the
Joint Appropriations Committee in
a secret session afetr 2 p. m.
Speculation placed the revised
spending program at slightly more
than 500,000,000.
The committee voted in a
special meeting last night to go
into executive session to receive
the revised budget, provisions of
which still are a closely-guarded
secret. The group explained re
porters could attend but no de
tails of the spending program
could be publicized until the full
committee gave a go-ahead.
The special committee scheduled
to turn over the report has worked
since March 2 redrafting the or
iginal $459,500,000 budget proposal
to include the most vital of re
quests for additions totaling nearly
$81,500,000.
GETS FAVORABLE REPORT
The bill that determines the
State’s earning power for General
Fund purposes was reported favor
ably in the House last night by
Rep. E. T. Bost, Jr., of Cabarrus,
co-chairman of the Joint Finance
committee. i
Officials of the Revenue Depart
ment have estimated it will earn
$292,753,000 for the General Fund
during the coming two fiscal years.
Income of the Highway and
Agriculture funds were expected to
boost total state income to $450,-
982,000, with the excess in spend
ing to come from the unspent
General Fund balance at the end
of the current fiscal year.
But Sen. J. Hampton Price, Fin
ance Committe co-chairman, has
estimated that the General Fund
income will be $35,000,000 to $38.-
000,000 above the original esti
mates.
In addition, the latest revenue
report for the current fiscal year
indicated that the State will be
gin the new biennium with a
credit balance more than twice as
great as anticipated. That meant
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HITT ¥ FTIUTS!
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WASHINGTON, March 27—W— I The chief of the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics said today that the Chine**
Communists are dumping opium on the world market and
thrttt is being smuggled through Japan to the United
Committee.
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Plant More
COTTON
For Tour Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
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State News
Briefs
FAIRMONT, March 27—(UP)
Vice President Alben Barkley ten
tatively has accepted an invita
tion to speak here April 12 during
the second annual Fairmont Farm
er’s Festival, officials here said
yesterday.
Sen. Clyde R. Hoey alfio has
accepted an invitation to speak on
the program, officials added.
MOREHEAD CITY, March 27
(UP)—Four men held here on
charges of attempted rape of a 12-
year-old girl were scheduled for a
hearing in Recorder’s Court today.
M. M. Ayscue, ABC officer who
accompanied Highway Patrolman
W. L. Olagon in making the ar
rests, identified the men as Benny
Lewis, 26, his brother Bradley, 17,
James Frost, 19, and Thurman
Gray Morton, 19, all of Morehead
City.
The men were arrested about
3 p.m. Sunday while driving with
girl in the car. 'They picked her
up at a theater at 8 p.m., Ayscue
said.
SPARTA, March 26 (UP)—Fire
men searched the charred ruins of
a five-room frame house five miles
east of here today for the body of
one of four Negro children burned
to death last night.
Gene Erwin, Sparta clerk of
court and member of the volun
teer fire department, said a grand
child and three children of Dean
Gambill died in the flames about
10 o’clock last night. Gambill had
been out and came home to find
the flames out of control.
Three of the bodies were recover
ed last night. None of the victims
was identified except as Gambill’s
children and a two-year-old grand
child.
The cause of the blaze was un
known.
NO. 78”
ROK Units Take
Village 3 Miles
Above Frontier
TOKYO, March 27—0P1
South Korean troops struck
deeper into North Korea
in force today from cap
tured Kaunpo, thrde miles ;
north of the 38th Parallel.
The republican troops pushed up
the east coast highway after the >
first mass crossing of the old com- i
munist frontier since the AHied f
retreat into South Korea ldiit '.
December.
The brief South Korean an- ;
nouncement of the fall of Kaunpo
gave no details, but the village
was believed to have been, captured
yesterday. There was no mention
of any communist resistance.
The South Koreans were advanc
ing along the same highway they
followed all the way to Chongjin,
some 250 miles north of the Par
allel and only 55 miles from the
Soviet Siberian frontier, last win
ter.
ADVANCE CAUTIOUSLY
This time, however, they were"
expected to advance much more
cautiously to protect their flank.
There was no expectation they
would go more than a few miles
into North Korea at present.
An Bth Army spokesman scoffed
at reports the South Koreans were
defying the United Nations com
mand with a headlong plunge
across the Parallel. All their ad
vances have been on orders from
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
commander of the Bth Army. M
Qther Bth Army forces were on
or within artillery range of the <
old between South and , ■
.Communist North Korea all across ?
the 140-mile-wlde penutsula.
i Front dispatches indicated the
pomanmists were throwing up new
defenses or ’.’delaying positions at • -ij
key spots ranging from just- south
of the border in the west to north
of it in the east.
The Reds apparently were plan
ning to make their strongest stand
in the west athwart the roads
mnning from Seoul, capital of
South Korea, to Pyongyang, capital
of Red Korea.
Rear guards of the Chinese 28th
Army launched a company-sized
counter-attack against the ad
vancing Allies some 11 miles north |
of Uljongbu on the easternmost,
Seoul - Pyongyang highway early |
today.
However, it was easily repulsed
and seven prisoners were taken.
The action took place about seven
to eight miles south of the 38th
Parallel.
First T-41 Tank
Rolls Off Line' r ||
CLEVELAND, 0., March 27—WV— J
The first tank produced by a civ- a
ilian company since World War It |
began rolling off the wfrflt lines 1
here today, three months ahead of |
schedule.
The tank is the light T-41, and §
is named for the late GeD. Walton ji
H. Walker, killed in a Jeep-accident
last December in Korea where he .3
commanded the Bth Army.
The “Walker Bulldog” is the first !
new tank to be designed for
Army since the last war. 3j|
Described by Army Secretary ij
Frank Pace, Jr., as a tank that Will %
“outfight, outgun, and outmaheljpya
ver anything of its class In the :■iS
world,” the Bulldog weighs 26 tons
and has a new type high-muasel 'M
velocity 76-MM gun.
The tank is being built by tb*iSl
Cadillac Division or General Mot
ors Corp. at the World War It Jj
bomber plant at the Cleveland AJr*lyi
port.
Cadillac announced as top Artoinli
brass from Washington and Detroit
toured the facilities that H.W’Jj
machines, tools and miscellaneous |