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VOLUME 1
ALLIES FALL BACK AS RED OFFENSIVE OPENS
Scott Reappoints
JPs To Get Gregory
Out Os Bad Spot
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Crime Probers
Set To Question
More Witnesses
WASHINGTON, April 23 OPI
The Senate Crime Committee may
take a last whack at some "left
over” witnesses before closing up
shop, It appeared today.
The witnesses, some of whom
have been dodging committee sub
penas, include Rocco Fischetti and
Murray (the Camel) Humphreys,
both identified in oommittee hear
ings as leaders in Chicago’s Capone
Syndicate.
3en. Alexander Wiley R., Wis., be
lieves the witnesses should be ques
tioned. He thinks that even if they
refuse to talk they should face the
same risk in being cited for con
tempt as those witnesses found ear
lier in the investigation.
The committee is writing its fin
al report now and it is expected
to include recommendations to stif
fen the narcotics laws and halt in
terstate transmission of bets an
gambling information.
Other congressional develop
ments:
MacArthur—Sen. James H. Duff,
R., Pa., called for more information
i from both President Truman and
Gen. Douglas MacArthur on their
differing Korean War strategies.
Duff said it was "tricky” of Mac-
ArUmrH he claimed Joint Chiefs
that approval actually was 10am
Armed Service# Bothmlttee inves
tigation probably will begin next
week.
Un-American—Actor John Gar
field was called to tell the House
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By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGI# CORRESPONDENT
POWER The Bugg’s Island
dam nearing completion on the
upper Roanoke River, along with
other dams embraced in an overall
army engineering plan for the
Roanoke Valley, still some of the
flood control elements for which
it was ostensibly projected. But
It is now openly considered as
primarily a government power
producing project That fact
stood out in the speech made by
Col. William F. Powers, district
engineer, at the annual meeting
of the Roanoke 1 , Flood Control
Committee, held at Castle Heights,
Virginia, on a hill just above the
mammoth Bugg’s Island , dam. last
Friday. The colonel averted very
briefly to possible recreational ad
vantages stemming from the 51,-
300 acre artificial lake with a
shore line of 800 miles. He dwelt
somewhat longer on the advan*
tages and potential ' saving of
lives and property because of reg
ulation of the flow of the tur
bulent Roanoke waters. But his
-main emphasis was cm the electirc
power to be generated at Bure's
Island and other proposed ihg
stallations on the river.
EXPANDED He noted that
the scope of idle project was ex
panded last fall after construction
was well under way. Orginal es
timates of cost were $76,000,000.
Decision to anothei^turbinc
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Governor W. Kerr Scott today
finished some business left unfin
ished by the General Assembly and
by doing so got Harnett’s repres
entative out of an embarrassing
situation.
The governor reappointed 23
Harnett magistrates for four-year
terms thus enabling the Justices
of the Peace to continue the work
disrupted when their appointments
expired with trie legislative term.
Under the custom, the Superior
Court Clerk every two years certi
fies to the representative a list of
magistrates in the county who have
performed their duties faithfully fqr
reappointment.
Ordinarily, the magistrates are
included in the amnibus bill. It
wasn’t until near the end of the
term that Harnett Representative
Carson Gregory realised that he
hadn’t put in the names of the
magistrates for reappointment as
given to him by Clerk Robert Mor
gan.
He immediately intorduced a bill
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45 Head Entered
In Stock Show
Twenty-two registrants have
already entered 45 animals in the
Fourth Annual Fat Stock Show
and Sale, to be judged at the
Dunn Hog Market Tuesday, ac
cording to J. M. McCullers, man
ager of the Dunn Chamber of
Commerce.
Deadline for all entries was 4 p.
m. today, McCullers added.
Tomorrow judging and sales will
in swine andj-attle
first place. $10; second place.
S7AO; third place, $5.
In addition, a special trophy
will be awarded by the Dunn Hog
Market to the owner of the grand
champion hog.
Registered service breeders will
Compete for ribbons in the adult
class for swine.
Seven swine growers have en
tered 35 head, while 16 head of
cattle have, been listed by 15
growers.
LIST OF ENTRIES
Following is a list of the entries;
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State News
Briefs
FAYETTEVILLE, April 23—rtPt—
l School board trustees decided to
, day to meet Wednesday night to
, investigate charges that a 15-year
old junior high school student was
| “unmercifully beaten” by a tea
i cher.
Mrs. Ira W. Ayers, Sr., com
; plained to board officials that her
- son, Cary, 15. was beaten by an
, Industrial arts teacher, D. T.
Newton.
I V. R. White, principal of, the
junior high school, said the
! charges were exaggerated. The
i youth was punished after he was
> warned seven times about talking
during class. White said.
WINSTON-SALEM, April 23 OF)
; —Glenn Bumgardner, 20, of High
, Point was held under $5,000 bond
[ today and police charged him with
. holding eight persons at pistol
point and. capturing the first two
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• Budget Worries For Another
■ Year Descend On Town Hall
Consumption of aspirin around
; the Municipal Building is due for
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Election Likely
As Members Quit
British Cabinet
LONDON, April 23—OP)— A
second British cabinet mem
ber Resigned today, height
ening the possibility that the
Labor Government would
fall and thus bring on a
general election.
Harold Wilson, president of the
Board of Trade, tossed in his job
in support of fiery Leftist leader
Aneurin Bevan, whose resignation
as Minister of Labor was an
nounced last night.
The growing revolt presents
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee
with the gravest crisis to his
Labor Government since it swept
into office in the closing days of
World War n.
The surviving members of the
split cabinet met at 11 a. m. (5 a.
m. EST) to survey the damage
created by the leftwing rebellion.
There were report? of further de
fections impending.
CHURCHILL WOULD RETURN
Public polls Indicate an early
election would return Conservative
Leader Winston Churchill as
' prime minister.
Bevan was expected to explain
his spectucular bolt in detail be
fore Commons this afternoon. He
was expected to cause the walkout
of at least two other ministers In
addition to Wilson.
Supply Minister George Strauss
and War Minister John Strachey,
staunch members of Bevan’s bloc,
were reported wavering on the
issue of whether to quit.
Bevan’s decision to resign rather
than support a budget giving re
armament priority over social ser
vices brought the first major
cleavage in cabinet ranks in the
Labor Party’s/aktigear rule t *fc ..i
wftfeh A'tflee was least able to cope
wltb, U Mid at a time when
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Damage Suits
Total $19,1#
Two lawsuits asking for a total
of $150,000 damages have been
filed in Harnett Superior Court by
Attorney Everette L. Doffermyre,
plaintiffs’ attorney, as the result of
a highway accident which occurred
between Dunn and Godwin on'
March 19th.
Named as defendants in the suits
are W. B. Adams and F. C. Tate
of Alexandria, Va., trading under
the firm name of Adams and Tate
Construction Company and Abe M.
Nober of Hew York City.
Mrs. Ruth Karpf, 31-year-old New
York City housewife who was crit
ically injured and barely escaped
death in the accident, is asking for
SIOO,OOO damages and court costs in
one suit.
CRITICALLY INJURED
In the other suit, B. H. Runyon,
61, of New York, head of a large
construction company, is asking for
$50,000 damages as the result of
the serious injuries which he re
ceived in the same accident.
Attorney Doffermyre filed the
suits with Court Clerk Robert Mor
gan. They are among the largest
damage suits ever filed In Harnett
Both Mrs. Karpf and Mr. Runyon
are still patients In the Dunn Hos
pital and, according to the com
plaints, are permanently injured for
life. ■
HIGHWAY BEING RESURFACED
The two accidents occurred on a
stretch of Highway 301 which* was
under repair by the Adams and
Ttate Construction Company, which
has the oOntract fqr resurfacing
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HAY BE OUT MAY 3$ ~|
After all the sheets are returned
to him, Hobbs said, the estimates
will be balanced against estimated
revenues. Then the budget will be
be tasuwi
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BASEBALL CZARS HONOR wtOß—Baseball has officially recognized and honored Herbert B.
Taylor of Dunn, founder and of the Kneepants League, for his contribution to the sport. Base
ball Commissioner A. B. (Happy)'Chandler sent Taylor a pass to all major league games and President
George M. Trautman of the National Association sent him a pass to all minor league games. Both passes
were sent to The Daily Record, Orfßch designated Attorney J. Shepard Bryan to make the presentation
at the' Rotary meeting Friday Bryan, left, is shown presenting the coveted Annie Oaklies to Knee
panter Taylor as Rotary President Marvin Raynor looks on. (Daily Record Photo by Lewis Studio.)
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Taylor Is Honored
By Baseball Czars
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School Heads
" * rtaSSce L. Corbett
elected chairman of the Dunn scheoi
board for his seventh eonseeutive
term and Principal A. B. Johnson
was re-elected to head the sabools
for his sixth term at the annual
organization meeting of the board.
Present for the meeting were
retiring County Superintendent C.
Reid Ross and incoming Superin
tendent Glenn T. Proffit of Hills-,
boro. j ■
The county school officials were
invited to attend the meeting in
order to discuss school plans for
the year and also some needs of
the Dunn school district.
PROFFIT WELCOMED
Members of the board extended
to Mr. Proffit a hearty welcome
upon his return to Harnett to head
the county schools. Mr. Proffit has
also served as principal of .the Dunn
district.
Both Dr. Corbett and Principal
Johnson were unanimously re
elected and members of the board
gave hearty endorsement and ap
proval to their work.
Other members of the board are;
Ralph Wade, Duncan C. Wilson,
Floyd Altman and T. Brown Wil
liams.
Union, Mill
Negotiations
Bogged Down
The third week of the walkout of
some 40,000 Southern cotton and
rayon textile workers found both
management and labor unable to
settle the dispute over wages and
pensions.
J. Thomas West, manager of Er
win Local 258, Textile Workers of
America, reported today that Erwin
Mills, Ipc., turned down a union
settlement offer made Friday mom
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Raids Net Three
Stills, Two Men
Federal ATU and Cumberland
• County ABC officers. In a series of
raids conducted in Harnett, de
stroyed three large whiskey stills
ami captured two operator*.
John Smith, 30, and Eugene Mc-
Neill, 19, both at Erwin, Route 1,
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the alleged operation of a 275-gal
lon still In Anderson Creek -town
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B. Taylor, the "daddy”
M Dunn’s famed Kneepants Base
ball League for boys of kneepants
. age, has been honored by two of
America’s top baseball czars in rec
ognition of his more than a quarter
jAf ,a.«entnry
. Through Hie Daily ReoUl of
Dunn, Mr. Taylor has been pre
sented 1 a 50th Anniversary pass to
all American League games by Al
bert B. (Happy) Chandler, com
missioner of baseball, and a pass
to all games in the National Asso
ciation of Professional Baseball
Leagues by President George M.
.Trautman.
Commissioner C. hand 1e r and
President Trautman sent the passes
to The Daily Record for Mr. Tay
lor and they were presented to him
at a meeting of the Dunn Rotary
Club by J. Shepard Bryan, a past
district governor of the organiza
tion.
In making the presentation, tir.
Bryan pointed hut that Mr. Taylor
had brought honor not only to him
self but to the Rotary Club and to
the town.
CHANDLER PRAISES WORK
Commissioner Chandler said in
his letter: “This pass is sent Mr.
Taylor for his good work done with
the Kneepants League. I hope that
he has frequent opportunities to
make use of it.”
Said Trautman in his letter;
“When men like Mr. Herbert Tay
lor take the time and go to the
expense to use baseball as a com
munity enterprise such he is do
ing with the Kneepants League, all
of 'us identified with baseball should
be grateful.
“I enclose herewith with the com
pliments of the National Association
of Professional Baseball Leagues a
1951 pass which will admit him to
all Minor League parks where or
ganized baseball is played. Deliver it
to him for me and tell him ‘May its
frequent use bring many hours of
pleasure to him throughout our
Golden Anniversary Year.’”
STARTED IN 1916
Mr. Taylor organised the Knee
pants League here in the summer
of 1916 and since Mat time more
thah 1300 boys have taken part in
the league.
The age limit is 9 to 14 and a
half. The League has four
Athletics, Dodgers, Yankees, Indians
and players observe the strictest
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NEW YORK, April) 23—(W—Gen. Douglas MacArthur
“to this day has never been informed of the reasons for
his summary dismissal,” his personal advisor said today.
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•J LANSING, Mfch., April 23—(ITV—Blair Moody, hand
some 49-year-old Washington correspondent for the Do-
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Linden Youth
Dies In Wreck
Walter B. Lucas, 23, of Linden,
Route 1, died in the Dunn Hospital
Saturday morning about 9:39
o’clock as the result of injuries
received in an automobile accident
that occurred about 7:15 near
Runn level.
>jP>» QCi a sharp
tffrve near-Byrd’s pond: Wfien Thi
cas, traveling alone, failed to make
the curve and turned over.
State Patrolman R. B. Leonard
said Lucas lost control of the 1939
Mercury sedan he was driving and
the vehicle turned over. Witnesses
told the officers that Lucas was
thrown out of the car by the im
pact and that the vehicle rolled
over his body.
SKULL FRACTURED
Lucas was brought to the Dunn
Hospital but died shortly after ar
rival. His skull was fractured and
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Interest Mounts
In Election For
Top Legion Post
By WADE LUCAS
Raleigh Correspondent
RALEIGH, April 23 lnterest
Is mounting in the forthcoming
election for commander of the
North Carolina Department of the
American Legion.
The election will be held at the
annual convention to be held at
Asheville May 31—June 1-2.
Prospective candidates Include:
State Senator John D. Larkins, Jr.,
of Trenton, Jones County; John
Nixon of Sanford, William W. Sta
ton of Sanford, G. E. Bobbitt of
Raleigh and Terry Sanford of Fay
etteville.
INTEREST IS IN LARKINS
Primary interest at this time
seems to be centering around Lar
kins, a veteran State senator wlyo
served as chairman of the powerful
Senate Appropriations Committee
of the recently adjourned 1951
assembly.
This interest was apparent at
a big meeting staged by the Don
nerson-Hawldns Post of New Bern
in the coastal city last Wednesday
night when portraits of the late
Captain Tom C. Daniels and R. C.
Godwin, native of Dunn, only two
New Bemlanß ever to be> elected .
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Plant More
COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
Elements Os 700,000 Man
Chinese Force Crack Allied
Line Along 95-Mile Front
TOKYO, April 23—(IP)—A 700,000-man communist
army shoved out-numbered United Nations forces back
toward Korea’s 38th Parallel today despite an unprece
dented Allied artillery and air bombardment that slaugh
tered thousands of Red troops. "
UN guns and planes ripped into
human waves of Chinese wedging
into the UN line all along a jagged
95-mile front in the long-heralded
communist spring offensive.
The sth Air Force announced in
a preliminary report for the day
that its planes alone killed 1,800
communist troops. The final sum
mary later tonight was expected to
boost the toll over 2,000.
Massed Allied artillery ranging up
to 155-millimeter “Long Toms" was
expected to account for as many
or more of the attackers. One ar
tillery officer on the hard-hit cen
tral front said:
"The gullies in front of us are
full of Chinese dead and we intend
to keep adding to the piles.”
WITHDRAW IN ORDER
An Bth Army communique re
ported that the Chinese Reds had
driven the Allies back in key sec
tors along a front stretching from
Korangpo, just south of the 38th
Parallel in the west, to a point
north of Inje, five miles above the
parallel In the east.
“The UN forces are withdrawing
in good order,” the communique
said.
Allied planes chalked up their
biggest single toll for the day
against communist troops striking
across the waist-deep Imjin River
near Korangpo on a 15-mile front.
The communist assault appeared
heaviest on the central sector, how
ever, where the Bth Army had
penetrated 10 to 12 miles north of
the 38th Parallel into the commun
ist homeland on thfe approaches-to
the- twin bastions of Clfdrwon sipa'
The Reds so far haj
in strength ranging from regiments
to dlvttlona, keeping their main for
ces in reserve to exploit any break
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ELON MAY QUEEN Miss
Flora Gilbert of Dunn will reign
as May Queen over the forthcom
ing 1951 Elon May Djny festival,
which is . scheduled for May 5.
Miss Gilbert, a member of the
senior class, was chosen by vote
of the Elon student body in an
election held earlier this year.
She is the daughter of Mrs. T.
C. Gtlbret of Dunn, Rt 1. A
member of the Tau Zeta Phi So
rority, she was the winner of the
“Monroe Award” for scholastic
improvement at the commence
ment last spring. She was also
the winner of a watch last year,
‘given as a prise for leading ail
EJon girls in raising contribution*
for the Elon College gymnasium
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Bill Rouses KKK
COLUMBIA, a c.. April ,23—(to —
The South Carolina Senate will
probably take final action this
week on a 'tough antl-lynch hill
which has stirred the Ku Klux
Klan to vigorous attacks oh it.
The bill, sponsored •by Rep. Er
nest F. Hollings of Charleston, is
• ready for third reading approval in
the. Senate. It passed the House
NO. 95
AEC To Test New
Atomic Weapon On
Kwajalein Atoll
HONG KONG, April 23—(to—The
Atomic Energy Commission, will
conduct “an experiment of a mili
tary nature” within a,, few days
at the Kwajalein Atoll In the Pac
ific, Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D.,
Wash., said today.
Magnuson said he would leave
Hong Kong in three days to witness
the experiment and remain in the
Kwajalein area for "a week or so.”
He declined to reveal the exact
date or nature of the experiment.
It was announced In Washington
some time ago that atomic tests
would take place on the atoll in
the spring.
The Atomic Energy Commission
was believed to have scheduled a
test of a new atomic weapon.
Magnuson arrived this afteincqt,
after touring Korea, Japan and
Formosa.
He parried newsmen's questions
on whether he believed a third
world war would break out in the
near future. He said, however,
“there is more danger of trouble
starting in Asia than In Europe.”
Vogeler To Stay
•til Prison Until
Terms FuUfmd
BUDAPEST, Hungary April 23
(UP)— American businessman Rob
ert Vogeler probably will remain
in prison until the United States
fulfills the terms of an announced
agreement with Communist Hun
gry, informed sources said today.
The Hungarian government an
nounced Saturday that Vogeler, a
vice president of the Intrenational
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, will be released from his 15-
year term on espionage charges. It
said the U. S. had agreed to Hun
garian terms for his release. f:
The sources said -Hungarian
terms were believed to include re
opening of Hungarian”consulates
in New York and Cleveland, shut
down after Vogeler’s arvest iiCJfo
vember, 1949.
The demands also were said 9H
call for lifting of an American baa
on tourist travel in Hungary.
The sources doubted that Vogel
er would be moved from his prison
cell until the aleged agrement was
carried out or at least U. 8.
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The Dunn Grammar School has
received high praise from a State
education official.
Dr. Dorothy McCusky, * educa
tional consultant at the UnlvegSKK';
of North Carolina, visited the local j
school and noted a number of low |
provements.
It was her first visit to the,,
school since the completion oj the j
new cafeteria and *4flaswMdM|
Many improvements have bteijl
made in equipment and drOMHj
curriculum, and there 1 are teiHK|
evidences of continuous growtjfe^gf
Dr. McCusky visited with stu
dents and faculty members. Mpg
was shown about the school Sgi
Miss Bessie MassenglU, count#,
for the work done by Mtes l
engili. Mrs. J. S. the
the faculty.