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WEATHER ■ ' Mostly Cloudy and mild today and tonight. Scattered showers tonight, beginning over west portion to* & ■: VOLUME 1 ♦ jgjjpy, »pgjy» •- .' v V ' \- : V ■ / /: -;>;/■’ .• • ; ' ; , ./!;■ •'•"■ '•■'■' .• : .-—'J DUNN’S NEW LEGION OFFICERS. Retiring Commander Kle Hudson, right, is shown as he con gratulated Adjutant Paul G. White upon his election to head the Dunn post of the American Legion for the coming year. The election of officers took place !ast night at the Legion hut. Left to right are front: A. L. Poarch, second rice commander; Mr. White, and Mr. Hudson; back row, Earl Lever, the new adjutant, and O. W. (Billy) Godwin, Jr., the new first vice commander. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) 'Paul White Elected 9 ToHeadLegionPost General Herskey Speaks At State RALEIGH, April 6 —(W—Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of $ Selective Service, was to report on the nation’s manpower status td day in a conference at North t Carolina State College on the ln ustrial situation in the South ast. . f s ****? - HL M B : vy Hi jßßßKjßttSSssg^ Cr i i Major Onml LrA B. Hvrshe» Speakers besides Hershey in cluded Warren T. White of Nor T folk; Va., assistant vice president of the Seaboard Airline Railroad; Donald F. Carpenter of Wilming ton, Del., former chairman of the P United States Munitions Board and now an official of the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co.; and i Dr. Seymour L. Wolfbeln of Wash- ( (Continued On Page Four) j I Cbwimd \ ■ fapM \ Smicite ' i * BAtXt CORRESPOND - enactment W Os revenue and appropriations bills the General Assembly of 1961 is approaching sib®! die adjourn ment. Indications are-Dintlt will adjourn Saturday night 4f next week, with pheettility of .a dAy or two Itttf, the big money biflajUKl disposal of here oufy the legislature Vijtt be MBs piishments of this session. . TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 * 3Uf Paul G. White, adjutant of the Dunn post of the American Legion for several years and prominent young business man, has been elected to serve as commander of the post during the coming year. He was elected at the annual organizational meeting held last night at the Legion building on Broad Street and will succeed Re tiring Commander Kie Hudson. OTHER OFFICERS Oliver W. (Billy) Godwin, Jr., was elected first vice commander of the post and A. L. Poarch was named second vice commander. The office of adjutant went to Earl Lever. Other new officers elected were: L. A. Qavin, renamed finanqe of ten, renamed chaplain; Roy J. Brown, renamed historian; Ralph Wade, service officer, and Carl K. Fitchett, Jr., athletic officer. Ap pointive officers will be named later. 1 Chaplain Morgan was among the original members of the American Legion who attended the charter meeting held in Paris in 1918. He Is one of the few North Carolinians who attended that meeting. During last night’s session, the Legionnaires discussed plans for the Legion baseball program this summer, discussed the possibility of securing a new site for the Legion fair this fall and took up'a (Continued on Page 7) Bill Asks Mors Pay For Judges RALEIGH, April B—Harnett Sen ator J. Robert Young today intro duced in the Senate two bills to increase the salaries of the judges and solicitors of the recorder’s courts in Dunn and Lillington. The Young bill calls for the salary of Judge H. Paul Strickland of the Dunn court to be increased from $lB5 to S3OO a month and, thst of Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan from $125 to S2OO a month. The salary of Judge Floyd Taylor of Die Lillington court would be Increased from $3,000 a year to $3,600, and that of Solicitor Neill Ross from $175 to $250, Young "This bill will give stability to the salaries of the officials of the Dunn and lillington recorder’s courts,” Young said. “ThMblll in creasing their salaries two years ago was a sort of flexiMb affair and made it so salaries could go UP or down.” •; V. Coats , Tart, Hall Enter Dunn s Campaign Three mm candidates filed for office today in Dunn’s rap idly-warming municipal elec tion campaign and a half des en others were reported abeut sJ political ih.>.^etTi^prrOk- Ba Hu TiXttntfr Ending Korean War Up To UN, Speaker States Settling the war in Korea by peaceful conciliation is a job for the United Nations, not for any individual, according to a State Department representative who spoke here Thursday night. < Richard Friedman, information specialist for the department’s div ision of public liaison, said that ending the war through negotia tions is not up to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme allied com mander, who has made overtures to ; the communists in Korea. Friedman explained that the Uni ted States is only a contributor— UN SETS POLICY He explained further that United States foreign policy is based on the policy of the United Nations , and that a settlement cannot be effected by this country alone with out sanction from the larger rul ing body. Friedman appeared at Dunn Ar mory as the first speaker for the (Continued On Pbge Six) State News Briefs LUMBERTON, April 6 (IP) Striking employes of the Virginia and Carolina Southern Railroad Co. had until noon today to return to work or be fired. The 35 employes of the 27 mile long road walked off their jobs at midnight Sunday in a demand for pay increases, overtime pay and vacations. General Manager S. E. Jones said a 10 per cent in crease granted Feb. 1 was the maximum allowed under present wage controls. The employes do not belong to a union. WILMINGTON, April 6 (IP) John Lou Chaney, Camp Lejeune Marine found guilty of beating his three-month-old son with a belt, 1 was given a two year suspended i sentence yesterday on the rec ommendation of his wife apd a 1 doctor who examined the infant. 1 Judge H. Winfield Smith delibe- i rated the case 10 days before pas- ' sing sentence. ' ■ _< < Dr. L. Alfred Algrin, Camp Le- I jeune psychiatrist, wrote the judge that Chaney showed "no evidence i (Continued on Page Two) •'' •§ v ft *** ~ DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY, AffttlL 6,195 T Solons Seek | Free Rein For ' Gen. MacArthur; WASHINGTON, April Hg (IP)—New demands rose in Congress today to “untie”! Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur’s hands in Korea. Republicans generally ral lied behind MacArthur’s somber warning that “the fall of Europe is inevitable” if Asia falls to the Reds. The Republicans called for more authority and more resources for, MacArthur to fight the Korean War. ’ Democrats privately were grum bling that the general was stepp ing out of his military role Into the realm of diplomatic policy making. It apeared likely that sooner or later MacArthur’s pro nouncements—the latest to House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin) Jr., Mass.—would bring a showdown with the* White House and State Department. ELSEWHERE IN CONGRESS UMT—House members speculat ed whether supporters of universal military training had not sacrific ed much of the program in con cessions to get the votes to put it over. Some members thought House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson, D„ Ga, yielded so much that nothing is left of UMT but a flickering hope. Vinson denied he had made any great concessions and claimed he was simply trying to improve the bill. RFC—President Truman’s plan to reorganize the Reconstruction Finance Corp; under a single ad ministrator faced a showdown in the closely-divided Senate execu tive expenditures committee. Sup-, porters of the plan were hopeful, but all believed the vote would" "be close on a resolution to kill it The plan becomes effective April 20 - unless the Senate “vetoes” it. . DEFENSE LOANS—A House Ex- I penditures Subcommittee dug into] more defense loans and tax beneiH (Continued On Page Three) | Agent Named Residents of Lillington and' 'Sur rounding territory may expect 1 Im proved electrical service resulting from recent appointment of J. L. Roberts as full-time local represen tative for Carolina Power & Light Company, it was announced today ! J.LMBEBTB •* • i by Henry M. Tyler, District Man ager for the Company at Dunn. Mr. Roberts, a native of Golds- i boro, received his education in the Goldsboro Schools, and has been : associated with CP&L since 1940 i where he has served in the District i Operations Department in Golds boro, Asheboro and Southern Pines, i Married to the former Mary Eliz- : abeth Wallace, he is a . member of (Continued On Page Three) Pl® Eight UN Divisions Hit Red Defense Line Above Frontier House Group Kills Vets ponus Bill I RALEIGH. April 6—llPl—Chances lor a Veterans bonus from this General Assembly appeared dead Jfoday after the House Finance Committee turned thumbs down on a bonus bill. > The group acted after the auth or of the measure, Rep. George Long of Alamance, told them he OOuld not see how the bill as drawn would be able to produce d&ough revenue to make any sub stantial payment in a given year to eiigibile veterans. rRe admitted the most that could b® paid probably would be S2O or $26 per year. BILL ALMOST UNWORKABLE ,“The bill as it now stands is al most unworkable,” he said. He add ed that it probably could be work ed’out if the committee were will ing to have a sub-committee study it and go into it thoroughly. But Rep. Marion Parrot of Len oir moved for an unfavorable re port and the committee sustained his motion .Nearly 300 veterans from Alamance County jammed the committee hearing room Wednes day to urge approval of the bill. It would have called for a State wide vote on a proposal to pay S6OO to veterans who served in the United States, $750 to those who (Continued On Page Four) Union Official Speaks At Erwin | She strike front at Erwin set- I tied down to routine today as the [wdjkout of 43,000 Southern cotton I and rayon workers entered its. [sixth day. - . ] sdseduled to nick up wWildtt ijjldanzi. era Union of AmArrca, CldT spreE to members of Local 250 in Erwin.’ Baldanzl will address the strikers in Erwin School Auditorium at 7:30 p. m. According to Local Manager J. Thomas West,. Bal danzi will explain the union’s stand in the strike and tell the workers what can be expected in future strike activities. West said that a few people are still reporting for work at the two plants in Erwin, but that the number Is small. Plant gates have been kept open by pickets to allow others to report to their Jobs and return from them- c' ~.. , N<ji violence has been reported in the Erwin walkout s •" .. • ' ■ w- Lillington Sots . Mark In Fund Drive Lillington workers in the Camp bell College expanfeion program “have set a new standard” by bring ing in more than $7,000 over their goal in the home area fund drive, according to Earl Westbrook, gen eral chairman of the area. W. A. Johnson, chairman of the Lillington committee, reported that $19,401 was collected in that com munity. The goal was $12,000. Centers are being organized in other parts of the State to help meet Die $150,000 goal set in the campaign, Westbrook said. The centers are in Smithfield, Raleigh and Fuquay-Varina. Other centers will be organized “as soon as lead ership and clerical help is avail able,” he added. Total collections are now over SIIO,OOO, with four oDier Harnett communities reporting collections above their goals. They are: Buie’s Creek: Dr. A. Paul Bagby, chairman; goal, $10,000; collected $24,143. ' Erwin: Dr. D. C. Woodall, chair (Continued On Page Six) ■ » ' iJyB '^ii FIVE CENTS PER COPY B imt f IjEjL ■ ■ ALL TOGETHER, NOW—Dean Robert Smith of the Flora Mac- Donald School of Music was snapped yesterday as he led delegates to the annual meeting of the 17th District Federation of Home Dem onstration Clubs in a bizarre version of "Jingle Bells.” At the meet ing, held at Buie’s Creek Baptist Church, officers for 1952 were elect ed and installed by the delegates. Nearly MO women from Harnett, Sampson, Wayne and Johnston counties attended. • { (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) District H BCYStfeti' Gathers At Buie's Creek Damage Suit Thrown Out A $35,000 damage suit was non suited by Judge Howard G. Godwin in Harnett Superior Court yes terday. Mrs. Florence McFarland of Patterson, New Jersey had brought suit for that amount against E. E. Johnson, operator of the Pine State tourist cabins, near Lilling ,ton. The evidence showed that Mrs. McFarland stopped at the tourist station to spend the night. She struck a match to light a gas heater, not knowing that the room was filled with gas fumes, and was critically burned in the ex plosion that followed. She was forced to remain in the Dunn Hospital for several months as the result of the explosion. After presentation of evidence, Judge Godwin ruled that there was not sufficient evidence for the case to go to the jury. Attorney Neill Salmon repre sented Mr. Johnson and Duncan Wilson and Bill Johnson represented the plaintiff. was awarded a judgement of $563 against Parrott Clark, also of Lillington. The case resulted from an open account. Fuquay Man Is OPS Information Head RALEIGH, April 6 Charles W. Daniel of Fuquay Springs, former man and former State adjutant of Easterns North Carolina newspaper the American Legion, has been named information officer for the Eastern North Carolina Office of .Price Stabilization here, it was an nounced today by Director John O. Clark. A four-year .Navy veteran of WAr 11, Daniel was graduated from Die University of North Carolina in 1937 with a degree in Some 600 representatives of the 17th . District Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs met in Buie’s Creek in an all-day session Thurs day to install 1952 officers and dis cuss activities of the past year. A new slate of officers to pre side over the next annual meeting, to be held in Goldsboro in 1952, was installed in a candlelight ceremony at Buie's Creek Baptist Church, scene of the 1951 gatherin. Installed were Mrs. Alton Gur ley of Wayne County, district chair man; Mrs. C. B. Strickland of Wayne County, secretary; Mrs. Kirby Langdon of Johnston County, vice-chairman; and Mrs. T. L. Caviness of Harnett, historian. The service was conducted by Mrs. Mary L. McAllister, South eastern district home agent. Outgoing officers were Mrs. W. ; R. Langdon of Harnett, chairman, who presided at the Thursday meeting; Mrs. J. E. Dupree of Harnett, secretary; Mrs. Alton Gurley of Wayne, vice-chairman; and Mrs. E. E. Seay of Sampson, historian. SPEAKERS AT SESSION Speakers at the event were Miss Ruth Current of Raleigh, State home demonstration agent, and Dean Robert Smith of the Flora (Continued on Fug? Two) Smithfipld Man Dies At Age 94 SMTTHFIELD, April 6 lff) Funeral services were to be held today for Edward Stanley Abell, 94, who was Duke University’s old est living alumnus. Abell received his license in 1879 and practiced there contin uously until the time of his death. He was chairman of the Johnston County Democratic Executive Com mittee for 16 years and served three terms in the State House of Representatives and two in the State Senate. SBi lff| jj| .&a 1 • |H m1 i the House of Commons today calling for an expression ol Plant Mora COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. Chinese Fight To Gain Time For Spring Push TOKYO, April 6 (IP) - % Eight United Nations divis ions hacked their way into the enemy’s first major de fense line north of the 38tH Parallel along a 35-mile front in central Korea to day. U. S., British Commonwealth, Greek. Thai and South Korean forces advanced up to eight miles beyond the parallel in savage fighting against deeply-entrenched Chinese Reds. The communists were putting up their stiffest resistance in mare than a week in an attempt to gain time for more than 500,000 troops assembling farther north for an expected Red spring counter-off ensive. i. 'f.;j FIGHT TO DEATH The Chinese fought to the death in their foxholes, holding their positions even in the face'” of American bayonet charges. ”TTWy threw everything up to 105-milli meter artillery fire at the advanc- ’ ing UN columns. The Reds also were bringing up tanks to challenge the Allied arm ored columns. UN planes intercejit ed at least 14 of the tanks and destroyed or damaged all before they could reach the front. Even the elusive communist air force came to life. A single uni dentified plane unloaded three bombs behind the UN lines north- :M east of Chunchon under cover of jh darkness early today. Far to the northwest, 30 Russ- ME ian built MIG-15 jet fighters £jj jumped 12 American F-86 Sabre jets near the Manchurian frontier. » The six-mile-high battle lasted 15 J minutes and ended with the rout . j smoke and dropped dhunks of fuse-' 'TS lage or wings. The U.B. planes were not damaged. i-.3| HIT SUFPLT LINES Other Allied aircraft ripped Into enemy supply columns rushing x | (Continued On Page Three) ~J Mobil Service Center Opens , J The Mobil Service Center, ae- 1 claimed by tourists and others as As one of the most beautiful and most i modern stations between New York and Miami, has been opened jm the Fayetteville highway hers-dm- -Wt side the S. and S. Grill 6y George Franklin Blalock and Jim Ward. , •f J They have leased the station from Fitchett's Home Oil Company J the new distributor for Mobil' jjfo- 1 ducts in this section. Os modernistic design, the new : f<s Mobil Center has all the latest ■} automatic equipment and inno*** ; vS tions. .. Spacious in size, the station Is In yB (Continued on Page 7) • -- ■ Ike vs Truman In 1952 Predicted r-M MIAMI, Fla., April 6-flt—LytfeS C. Wilson, Washington manager ot. » the United Press, predicted. .IMrlm night that President Truman MU face General Eisenhower in tbs 1952 presidential campaign.' ' ’dll Wilson told the Miami ChamMfli of Commerce he would not count j President Truman out of the race r "until I hear him say for the tec- A ord that he is not a candidate and will not accept the nominahkKYlf ’ 3 offered.” i He said he believed would be the Republican chid(jj»i»V.%i '■ cause the general has oowertgtMhJli ganized support and the eonfidebbe - I ’4 of tens of thousands o{. scattered H Republicans and independenti?^ NO. 85
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