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VOLUME 1
MONGOLIAN TROOPS REPORTED IN NORTH KOREA
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Ridgway Visits Front As Reds, Push Deeper Into South Korea
City Is Seeking Successor
« To Hobbs After Dramatic
Resignation From Office .
1 Mayor Ralph E. Hanna said this
morning that he thinks the pre
sent city council should immediate
ly begin receiving applications for
a successor to City Manager Tom
my Hobbs, but that the appoint-
I ment should be left up to the
' next city board.
Hobbs, who has been under con
stant fire for the past two months,
called the city council together
in a dramatic finale to his career
here to announce his resignation.
Commissioner Leek Coats made
the motion for acceptance and
Commissioner B. A. Bracey ac
• Nine-Point Program
Announced By Vann
City Commissioner Earl G.
Vann, candidate for Mayor in
Dunn's current campaign, today
.announced “A Nine-Point Pro
gram With A Purpose” in his bid
for the No. X seat at City Hall.
His program ranges from sup
port of the city manager form of
government to a balanced budget
and no tax increase and includes
a city-wide recreation program,
equitable distribution of street
funds, law enforcement, and close
cooperation with the Chamber of
Commerce to bring new Industry
MR* Is the first of three
tandldktes for mayor to annoudee
man Neighbors In the three-way
race.
HIGH MAN TWO TEARS AGO
In Ms campaign for commis
sioner two years ago, Mr. Vann
proved to be a real vote-getter and
defeated two other opponents, re
ceiving the largest vote of any
candidate for commissioner who
had opposition.
Mr. Vann said today that he is
conducting an all-out campaign
for the office.
Both Mayor Hanna and Mr. :
Neighbors lndlcatedy today that
Dunn Pharmacy Being
Enlarged And Remodeled
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C. O. WARREN J. L THOMAS
. . . .Looking ever the blueprints.
Plans for the enlargement, re-
Warren and J. I. Thomas, owners
and operators of the local drug
store.
Already. Dunn Pharmacy is one
TELEPIAjNES 3117 - 3118 - SI If
cepted it. The vote was unanimous
NO REGRETS EXPRESSED
Ordinarily, a resolution of re
gret is adopted by the council
when an official resigns, but there
was nothing but silence after the
vote yesterday, and no official
resolution was adopted.
Citing the importance of the
morning that he felt the board
should immediately begin search
ing for a successor and should
have a list of available men ready
by the time the new board takes
office on May 21. That is the
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they will probably have a state
ment concerning their program
within the next few days.
Mayor Hanna said in announc
ing that he Is running on his
record.
Following is the text of Mr.
Vann’s statement announcing his
nine-point program:
If I am elected as your Mayor,
I pledge you my" word that I will
work faithfully and diligently for
the following things:
Continued support of the City
Manager Form of Government
with the Board setting the poli
cies and the city manager admin
istering the policies.
upholding the laws df- our State
and the ordinances of our ToWtt,
An equitable distribution, of the
approximately $20,000 the Town of
Dunn will get to spend on fixing
its streets. The State Highway
Commission will pay this amount
in cash .to the Town of Dunn as
a result of the Powell Bill. As
Street Commissioner of the Town
of Dunn I have watched this bill
with great interest until It be
came law. It now means that cit
izens with street complaints will
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Work on the project has al
ready been started and Mr. War-
The sice of the store is being
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Top Commander
Says Battle To
Be Decisive
TOKYO, April 24 —(IP)
Rampaging Red armies
plunged nearly 10 miles into
South Korea in a break
through on the central front
today and Lt. Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway flew to the bat
tlefield to consult his field
commanders.
Ridgway, who succeeded Gen.
Douglas MacArthur as supreme
TJ. S. and UN commander, told
newsmen at the front that he and
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, com
mander of the Bth Army, were
“fully confident in the ability of
the UN forces on ground, air and
sea.”
On his return to Tokyo tonight,
he said the present battle. raging
along a 95-mile front across Korea
[may be the decisive one.
The communist breakthrough at
the center of the line came on the
third day of the mounting com
munist offensive. It was designed
to split the Bth Army in two and
roll up its flanks.
More than 40,000 Chinese JJed
troops and horse cavalry poured
through a widening hole below
Kumhwa, crossed the 38th Par
allel and engaged UN forces west
of Chunchon after an over-all ad
vance of 18 to 20 miles.
The thrust Imperiled the vital
Beoul-Chunchon supply highway
and railway.
LINE ROLLED RACK
Other elements of the 250,000-
man Chinese and North Korean
assault forces trailed back the UN
five miles north of the Parallel In
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Little Theatre
Plans Progress;
Name Is Sought
Plans for the establishment of
a Little Theatre in Dunn are
progressing in a splendid and
rapid manner and an unusual
amount of Interest has been
shown, according to Jim McMill
an of Radio Station WCKB, who
Is spearheading the movement
here.
The project already has receiv
ed the endorsement of local
ministers and other leading cit
izens, as well as the various tal
ent groups.
A meeting of members of the
steering committee will. be held
Thursday morning at 11:30 at
the Chamber of Commerce office.
McMillan announced today
that a contest is to be conducted
to find an appropriate name for
ty. organization. The person
/mo submits the winning name
will be given a lifetime member
ship in the Little Theatre which
means, among other things, free
admission to all performances.
The Little Theatre is expected
to All the gap caused by the loss
of the Cape Fear Festival Assoc
iation, which is being abandoned
after this year.
State News
Briefs
RALEIGH, April 24 81) John
Henry Rogers, 25-year-old Samp
son Negro convicted of the rape
and murder of Mrs. Eunice Kor
negay, placed his last hope for
life today in the hands of Gov.
Kerr Scott.
Rogers is scheduled to die in
the State Prison gas chamber
Friday unless the governor Inter
venes. "•
The Negro was convicted last
October of attacking the 48-year
old woman *as she tended a coun
try store alone last July 15. Her
badly beaten body was found in
a clump of woods across the road
from the store.
Attorneys for the Negro appealed
from his conviction on groun<*s
that a bloody footprint left on a
newspaper In the store was ad
mitted as' evidence at his trial.
The Supreme Court upheld the
ruling of trial Judge J. Burney
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CHAMPS AT TODAY’S BABE BEEF SHOW—winners were announced a few minutes before noon today in Dunn’s fourth annual
Four-County Fat Stock Show and. Sale. Dan Gardner of Angier, Route 2 is pictured at the left with his Grand Champion Baby Beef; and
at the right is Donald Ray Langdoq of Angier, Route 2, pictured with his Reserve Champion Beef. These two prize-winning calves were
sold this afternoon and brought a mighty fancy price, too. Today’s show and sale were acclaimed as the most successful ever staged here
and a large crowd was present. (Daily Rcord Photo)
Winners Are Picked As Fat
Stock Stmv And ;Sale Begim
Renn To Head
Legion Post
At a fish fry supper meeting of
the Lilllngton Post No. 28 of the
American Legion Friday night, of
ficers for the year 1951-52 were
elected, and delegates named to the
1951 convention which will be held
in Asheville in June.
The post voted to cooperate with
the Dunn Post in sponsoring a Jun
ior Baseball Team for Harnett
County, and to make a contribution
to help finance same.
Around 75 members were present
for the supper and election, and the
following officers were elected—Jim
Renn, Commander; Charles Loving,
vice- commander; Brantley Mat
thews, vice - commander; Prentiss
Sloan was re-elected Adjutant of
the Post Delegates to the conven
tion are: Casey Fowler, Jim Renn,
Prentiss Cloan, Brantley Matthews
and David Blalock.
Rieve Challenges
Mill Management
COLUMBIA, S. C„ April 24—(W—
Emil Rieve, national president of
the Textile Workers Union of Am
erica, yesterday challenged mill
management to take all grievances
to a new wage stabilization board.
Rieve told more than 800 strik
ing Pacific Mills workers here that
“I would recommend to our people
that they return to work and let
this case be decided by thfe'board.”
He said the union would “of course
rather deal “in the old American
way, around a bargaining table."
He said even President Truman
conceded the National Defense Act
could not “stabilize our economy.”
Rieve said the president had told
him that the > best it could hope to
do was “stem the tide.”
He said Ahe new wage board
which President Truman plans to
have In operation shortly could take
over wage disputes without a prior
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BULLETINS
LONDON, Ap*U l Atlee
plugged two gMp«>4a *lirdh*kg»i«dWM*t tokgtbut a third
one opened. au
Atlee appointed i two ilufw minioteoA tdiwoowd Ancurin
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Judging got underway Tuesday
■morning in Dunn’s Fourth Annual
Fat Stock. Show and Sale, with
W is set to begin during the aster
n at. the Big Four Warehouse
off the Benson highway.
Winners were picked in swine
classes during the morning by Prof.
Earl Hostetler, head of the division
of animal husbandry at N. C. State
College, who judged the. entire
showing. i
In judging lor animals entered
by 4-H and Future Farmers of
America members, Lenwood Jones
walked off with first prize for in
dividual hogs. He was followed in
second place by Ed Walters and in
third by Bobby Abernathy.
Charles Cameron took top honors
with a pen of three swine in the
4-H and FFA class.
In the adult claps, an entry
from Turlington’s Duroc Farm,
owned by H. A. Turlington, took
individual first prize. Other win
ners in Duroc judging were Byrd
Brothers of Bunnlevel and H. B.
Humphrey and Son of Buie’s Creek.
In pens of three swine, Freeman
Bass of. Dunn, Rt 5, won first
place. Others were H. B. Humph
rey and Son, second, and Byrd
Brothers, third and fourth.
CALVES ARE JUDGED
Following judging of the swine
entries in the lightweight division
for calves were trotted out. Pro
fessor H6stetter, commenting that
most of the 4-H and FFA calf
growers seemed to have gone “light
on the feed,” gave top ratings to
calves owned by Glen Miller of
Dunn and Lenwood Jones of Fu
quay;
Calves in the lightweight divis
ion were those weighing in at less
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CANDIDATE IN HOSPITAL
One of Dturn's candidates has
suffered a temporary setback In
his campaign.
Ed Tart, candidate for com
misaloner in Ward No. 11, is in
HlghsnUth Hospital at Fayette
ville, where he underwent an
emts’gfency nfpwkifttTnr.
Members of the family said
this morning that h>« condition
is satisfactory and he expect* to
he bock on the campaign “firing
line” by Thursday or Friday of
this week.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Number Os JPs
Raised To 28
By WADE LUCAS
RALEIGH, April 24 Governor
Scott’s office today planned to de
posit the personal check of Har
nett Representative Carson Greg
ory for S7O for 28 commissions as
justices of the peace the governor
named in Harnett county at the
request of Gregory.
The wholesale commissioning
came as a result of the discovery
that a bill offered by Gregory in
the closing days of the 1951 Gen
eral Assembly naming 23 justices
of the peace in Harnett in add
ition to the five Gregory had pre
viously named in the biennial om
nibus magistrates’ bill got “lost”
in the Senate after Gregory had
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Escaped Prisoner
Caught In S. C.
ROCK HILL, S. C.,' April 24—(IP)
—One of the three North Carolina
prisoners who escaped from a road
gang early yesterday surrendered
last night almost as calmly as he
had escaped to police officers af
ter being surrounded in a woods
near here.
John Cottle was arrested unarm
ed In the India Hook section, about
six miles northwest of here. Of
ficers used dogs and an airplane
in a determined search.
Meanwhile, more than 40 law en
forcement officers are combing the
woods for the two Other convicts,
Ralph Johnson and Robert Travis.
The two along with
Cottle, had overpowered a guard on
a work detail south of Gastonia
and had escaped in a prison truck
with the guard and other prisoners
locked up in the vehicle.
The men later stopped a car
driven by John Edwards of Gas
tonia and made their way into
South Carolina. They robbed Ed
wards of S3OO besides taking his
oar.
Charles G. Dawes
Dies In Illinois
CHICAGO, April 24—(W— Char
les O. Dawes, the “Hell ’N Maria”
vice president under Calvin Cool
idge, died late last night at his
suburban Evanston home of a
heart attack. Ke was 86 yean. old.
D&wvs’ death came as he was
preparing to make one of his rare
to recent yews
iSrtnS" ViSlt
His wife Caro was with him
Plant More
COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
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By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
FIRST HAND—Most of the 300
attendants at the Flood Control
Committee meeting were getting
first-hand knowledge for the first
time of the bigness of the scheme.
Some of them had seen the mad
Roanoke run wild and they ob
viously were pleased to see al
ready its force is being controlled
and channeled through concrete
and steel sluices. They climbed
down a thousand steel steps Into
the bowels of the great dam, and
up again the wooden stepped in
cline, after being warned by a
guide that those with weak hearts
or high blood pressure should not
attempt the trip. One man stood
and watched the waters boil out
of a tunnel, angrily beating up
small timbers and working itself
into a forth of wrath, and com
mented: “Get mad all you want;
you can’t do much damage now.”
MEETING The meeting was
presided over by Judge W. H. S.
Burgwyn, chairman of the com
mittee, who paid tribute to the
persisterlce and energy of Con
gressman John Kerr, Frank Wil
liams, John Clark, Eric Rodgers
and others who had worked for
flood control In the Roanoke val
ley for ten years. Eric Rodgers,
secretary of the group, who had
arranged the meeting, said he had
expected 200. About 300 came. Im
posing a heavy burden on facili
ties to feed them. Emergency con
ditions in Washington prevented
attendance of several dignitaries.
Telegrams of regret with adequate
explanations were read from Sen
ators Clyde Hoey and Willis
Smith, Congressman Kerr and
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Mac Arthur Busy Planning
Tour Os Midwestern Areas
NEW YORK, April 24 (UP)—,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur stayed
out of sight again today but was!
busy making plans for his Mid-1
western public apearances later I
this week. j
Chicago will give the deposed)
and a gigantic civ- j
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Europeans Jap
Prisoners May
Be In Fighting
WASHINGTON, April 24
—OP)—Officials have received
unconfirmed reports that
Soviet - trained Mongolian
troops have entered North
Korea, it was learned today.
Some of the troops were said to
be from Inner Mongolia, which is
under Chinese influence. Other
troops were said to he from Outer
Mongolia, which is virtually part
of Russia.
The reports are not firm enough
to justify United States military
or diplomatic action. Nevertheless,
they fall into a pattern that has
caused anxiety to rise.
The reports recalled House
Speaker Sam Rayburn’s recent
warning that troops other than
Chinese were massing oh the Man
churian border. He said that the
nation faced the greatest danger
of an “expanded war” since World
War 11. At the time many con
gressmen said Rayburn was “cry
ing wolf” to prod passage of a
draft bill, but his remarks in-,
creased war tension in the Cap
ital.
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
United Nations commander in
Korea, warned Sunday that “mis
cellaneous so-called volunteers”
were ready for action with the
communist is Korea. Van Fleet did
not elaborate, but Washington of
ficials said they had received these
reports:
1. During the winter, the Rus
sians trained Mongolian soldiery
and also Japanese war prisonerSf”
Two divisions of Mongolians
entered North Korea early tld#
year, and then withdrew to the
Manchurian side of the Yalu
River. There they were joined by
a third division, this one definite
ly from Outer Mongolia.. It had
been stationed previously at Ufga,
the Outer Mongolian capital. The
soldiers numbering about 20,-
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Burning Japanese
Commuter Train
Takes 97 Lives 3
YOKOHAMA, Japan; April '24.
—Oh— Ninety-seven persons, in
cluding seven U. S. soldiers, were
burned to death within minutes
today in a fire in an electric 00m-
Thirty persons were injured, but
saved their lives by* smashing j
windows. Only four or five poenyl
engers escaped unscathed.
Witnesses said the flames rav
aged the first car of the train |
from end to end when an overhead .
power line broke and set fire tp> |
the train as it entered a Yoke- ,
hama station.
“Within three minutes, the car
was mostly ash,” said Hiroji Oshi
ma, a teletype operator.
Americaif victims wpre identi
fied by Army dog tags found hjt |
the cinders. Their names were nifcg
released pending notification as!
one woman believed a foreigner—*
were Japanese.
Akio Kawabe, a dry goods d«al#|
er, said he escaped through jpJ
smashed window. Jl
was pac^T^lw^si^a
>pen. It was a burning Hell. |
Taylor said over the AmertOfgff
Broadcasting Company network ■
that MacArthur had received an
official directive from Washington!
at 9 am. EST, Wednedsay which,
said 4 the address had to be cleartgra
the f A be h
order, the message was withdrawn
and the general gave his
without Interference, Taylor SES
“At nine o’clock in the morning
(April UK T '-