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succeeded in getting it passed by
the House under suspension of the
rules.
The general impression of Har
nstt. Senator j. Robert Young and
Representative Gregory was that
the bill naming the 23 additional
justices for Harnett was included
in the scores of local bills passed
by the Senate In Its closing hours.
’ GREGORY PAYS FEE
But “today the Governor’s office
had found out that the bill had
hot' become law, - Tip. governor
received 1 a letter yesterday from
Robert Morgan, Harnett clerk of
Superior Court, asking that not
23 but 28 new justices be named
for Harnett, explaining that the
fall designed to name the justices
for tWp-year terms beginning last
.April 1. had failed to pass the
"senate, and that Rep. Gregory
requested 28 new justices be named.
; I( And- along with the Morgan
letter came Representative Greg
ory’s personal check for S7O as
the governor’s office charges $2.50
for each commission as a Justice
of the Peace the governor names
for a four-year term.
Mrs. Alma Corbett, a clerk in
Governor- Scott’s office, said she
is having to write Clerk Morgan
for addresses of the 28 new justices
■*thaTGfegory requested be named.
J Morgan listed the names of the
J 28 by townships, but not their mail
»ing addresses. The 28 justices can-
J not qualify for their four-year
| terms until they receive their
s commissions from the go-Amov,
'Mrs. Corbett said.
; OTHER MIX-UPS, TOO
i' A scorch today had disclosed
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LiIJS Clifton, 50, wife of Jesse
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Clifton died at her home early
Saturday morning following an
illness of several months. Ser
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died. s*. the Dunn Hospital Monday
morning at 8 o’clock. Funeral ser
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had been a member for several
years. The Rev. David Clark, as- ,
sisted by a former pastor, the Rev. |
Kern Ormond of Ahoskie, the Rev. I
Thurman Stone and the Rev. David'
Wood, 78, of Raleigh died
early Monday morning following
itn illness of several days. Born on
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that the Harnett justices were
not the only ones that got fouled
up in the closing days of the legis
lature. There were also mix-up*
in Mecklenburg, Caswell, Wash
ington, Chatham, Mitchell, Tran
sylvania, and Currituck counties.
The House-passed Gregory bill
was discovered late yesterday by
The Record’s Raleigh correspon
dent nestling with some other J.
P. bills in the pigeonhole assigned
the Senate committee on justices
of the peace. The chairman of
this committee is Senator J. Haw
ley Poole of Moore county, who,
along with Senator Young of Har
nett, represents the 12th senatorial
district composed of Harnett,
Moore, Randolph and Hoke coun
ties.
The 28 justices Gregory got Gov
ernor Scott to name after the mix
up by townships: Ernest Darroch
and W. E. Lassiter of Anderson
Creek; A. B. Adams of Averas
boro; G. L. Cameron and W. H.
Mason of Barbecue; W. R. Broad
well and C. E. Denning of Black
River; J. Leo Betts and L. B, Mc-
Kinnie of Buckhorn; Clarence
Cplville, G. W. Conard and Fred
W. Brown of Duke; Ralvin Mc-
Leod, C- J. Turlington, J. B. Will
iams and Bonnie Willard of Grove;
D. R. Smith of Hector’s Creek;
Ed. J. Gilchrist of Johnsonville;
Ferd D. Jackson, J. B. Keith and
Hal Butts of Neill’s Creek; Carl
of Stewart’s Creek; Carl
Holder, J. S. McLean, Dougald
Mcßae, H. M. O’Quinn, W. H. Sal
mon and E. W. McLeod of Upper
Little River.
Foreign and domestic wool prices
are continuing upward. The U. S.
farm price averaged $1.19 per pound
in mid-March, a new record. Prices
are likely to remain high as world
demand increases.
vices were held fronf the home
and burial was in the McGee
family cemetery, near the home.
Elder E. N. Clufton of Benson and
the Rev. C. C. Pollard of Benson,
Rt. 1, officiated.
Capps, will officiate. Burial will be
in Roselawn Cemetery. The body
will lie in state at the church one
hour prior to the funeral. He was
a member cf Relief Lodge 431, A.
F.&A.M.. and full Masonic grave
side services will be conducted. He
,was a former commissioner and a
I member of the Woodmen of the
World. Burgess was manager of the
'Benson Oil Mill for several years.
vices were held from the Overby
Funeral Home Chapel in Raleigh
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
The Rev. Robert Adkins of Ral
eigh officiated. Burial was In the
cemetery of the Wake Chapel
Church at Fuquay Springs.
These Days
By
MOM L HUUn
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THE ISSUE IS ACHESON
Now that General Douglas Mac-
Arthur has had his week and the
country has burst its bounds of
anger and enthusiasm, it becomes
clear that politically the quarrel
is over Dean Acheson. President
Truman has indicated beyond
doubt that he has confidence in
and supports Dean Acheson. The
Republicans will continue their ,
opposition to Dean Acheson and j
will make such an issue him
that his conduct of the statq de
partment will be before the people
from now until after the election
of 1952.
General Douglas MacArthur's
dismissal has proved to have been
a political error on the part of
President Truman. The brusque
method did not go with the country.
After all. General MacArthur has
been in the service of his country
52 years and to the public he is a
hero. Even those who disagreed
with MacArthur’s ideas or his con
duct felt that the President
might have employed some other
method than a disgraceful dis
missal
A President’s work is so arduous,
his responsibilities so great that
he too soon becomes a prisoner in
the hands of those whom he hires
to assist and protect him. Mr. 1
Truman could have been told by \
his associates that popular opinion
has been growing increasingly
irritable over the numerous fail
ures of our foreign policy. The
country is shoked by our isolation.
The machinations of Great Britain
have stunned the people.
I am not discussing whether
Dean Acheson or the British or
Herbert Hoover or Senator Wherry
is correct; I am trying to appraise
public opinion, and I am sure that,
the enormous mail I have received
during the past fortnight is public
opinion. For while there is dis
agreement and confusion, there is
also surprise and shock. India’s
attitude toward the United States,
Iran's attitude toward the United
States, and that amazingly .un
friendly speech of Lester Pearson-,-
Canada's 1 Secretary for external
Affairs, have made many whcf-eveir
thought well of Acheson’s policies
wonder at our stark isolation.
The presence' of General Mac-
Arthur in this country makes the
situation more difficult for Dean
Acheson. No man in the United
States possesses a more detailed
knowledge of the Far East. He
may even tell of his basic quarrels
with the State Department over
the attempt to load his admin
istration with pro-Russian com
munists and left-wingers. There j
is an interesting story in Mac- j
Arthur’s struggle with Dean Ache- j
son which lasted as long as the j
two men faced eaph other officially.
It is one of those fortutious cir
cumstances of politics that the
army officer who received Gen
eral MacArthur when he set foot
on American soil was General Al- 1
bert Wedemeyer, one of the most j
brilliant minds in our armed forces i
and a great authority on Far I
Eastern affairs. He, too, • tangled
with Dean Achesop on the Far
East and Acheson won the argu
ment. Although Wedemeyer’s use
fulness to the joint chiefs of staff
at this time is beyond doubt, he
has been situated at San Francisco
in a housekeeping job.
It is impossible to Investigate
the MacArthur dismissal and the
event that led to it without in,
vestigating the suppression of the
Wedemeyer reports on China and
Korea. Nor will it be possible to
avoid a study of Acheson’s ap
peasements, which he does not re
j gard as appeasements but as
i technincal negotiations. Acheson’s
speech to the newspaper women
in Washington did not establish
his denial of appeasement—which
has, since Munich, become an of
fensive word.
The fact that he chose to speak
on the Far East the night before
General MacArthur’s speech to
Congress, after a silence since
November, indicated to many that
Acheson realizes what he faces.
It was in that speech that he
reverted to MacArthur’s earlier
proposal for a Pacific alliance,
omitting Formosa, of course. But
as Oeneral MacArthur made clear
In his speech to Congress, the
Philippines would be , imperiled
from within and without, should
Formosa be held by either Soviet
Russia or Soviet China. At any
rate, on the subject of the Philip
pines, no man can speak with
greater authority and stature than
General MacArthur and he has
spoken of both the Phillipines and
Formosa. .
So here we enter upon another
debate which will be more vehe
ment. More articulate than the
“Great Debate.”.
The Far Eastern debate may be
come so tense as to affect all
and Dean Acheson have long sought
to prevent this debate from break
ling into the open. Now, it is in
the open and they brought it «n
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MacARTHURVILLE-ON-THE-SUBWAY
In a World Series game, it is not considered tactically secure to
kend the batboy up to bat for DiMaggio, with the bases loaded and the
clock running out.
White House designation cf Gen Harry Vaughan to meet Gen
Douglas MacArthur easily qualifies as a top boner, because batboy
Vaughan also has been charged with operating an underground club
house in used baseballs.
There aren’t many state occasions that Vaughan rates anyway,
but certainly he should have been kept out of this particular scene. He
i could have been assigned to guard the Japanese cherry blossom trees
; along the Potomac.
Public opinion seems to be running about 3 to 1 in favor of Mac
! Arthur. As Americans, aU of us are hopeful of an early solution of
the mess that gives comfort to the Kremlin. -
Dear Ed: You’ve finally received the top accolade! On Thursday
night, I attended the meeting of the National Council of Arts, Sciences
and Professions at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, attended by 2,50 d people
honoring Dalton Trumbo, John Howard .Lawson and Albert Maltz. In
the group were Paul Robeson, Isidore Rubin, Robert Lees (who, Wednes
day, refused to answer the House committee), Cedric Belfrage and your
old foeman, Sam Wannamaker. I thought you’d like to know that, while
speaking about “un-American, newspapermen,” John Howard Lawson,
commissar of Hollywood, blasted you personally as a reactionary col-
I umnist who should be purged. Sincerely, C. Michael Smith, Jr„
Chairman, Americanism Committee,
Catholic War Veterans.
Lawson's attack on me as “reactionary” has several areas of amuse
ment. Long before these dangerous crackpots started their Commie ex
ploitation of minorities, this column had pioneered in the fight for
linprities, but always in the firm belief that injustices could and must
ta£- Corrected within the framework of the American Constitution,
■ ’ ‘SLaiwson’s characterization of me as a dangerous opponent of Oom
muOisttt/is flatteringand accurate; Thq .Corpnpes know that what I've
Mone for minorities is a positive counterattack on Commie infiltration
because ft destroys them, at their own game.
In my argument with Sam Wanamaker, I asked him if he sub
scribed to the phrase in the Declaration of Independence, which states:
“That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights?”
I said that if he believed with me that these inalienable rights were
vested in us by God, rather than by the state, he agreed that the So
viet state then could not take away from its slave population the
boon of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Wanamaker, understanding the trap posed for him, refused to
answer the question. He hasn’t answered it, to this day.
If parlor-pinks would understand that tens of thousands of Ameri
cans arc working to relieve the minorities in injustices, but always
! working within the old-fashioned American bamework of godliness,
they wouldn’t be sucked in by Commie-fronts The job can be done
by Americans, along American lines of law and order Just how effec
tively it can be done is illumniated by Lawson’s attack on this writer.
Dear Ed: Am feeling a lot Jjetter now and have been playing quite
a bit of golf. They’ve got a good course down at Palm Springs after
I many years of nothing in that area and when you next come West,
i you want to be Sure to play It. It’s called Thunderbird Ranch—a nice
18-hole layout—good grass and greens and Johnny Dawson has done a
I wonderful job developing this project. Tell Byron Nelson that his golf
'lessons were particularly interesting to me, because-of my Interest in
\ golf, and I think I profited considerably by being reminded of the lateral
I shift—something which most of* us had completely forgotten about. It
doesn’t look like I’ll get East this Spring, which will be the first time
in many years this circumstance has arisen—too much to do out here
right now. Take care bf yourself, Ed, and warmest personal regards.
Sincerely, BING CROSBY.
In Rye, N. Y., the Catholic Church has been undergoing repairs so
the parishioneers have been going to Mass in the firehouse. The re
sults have been spectacular, the youngsters in the parish arriving well
in advance to climb up on the hook-and-ladder, manha idle the lines
of hose, try on the fire helmets. Perhaps If schools were moved inljp
rehouses, or close to Hopalong’s ranch, punctuality problems would
be solved.
Rldgway
(Continued Fry;;-. Taje One)
the eastern Korean hills, fell to
the Reds.
The Hanton River line in west
central Korea and most of the
Imjin River line on the western
flank 23 miles northwest of Seoul
were abandoned to the attacking
Reds.
Ridgway flew to Korea from his
Aboard the Queen Mery —Hits beat la really ertormbus. 1 didn't
realize how big it was until I saw “Mauretania” on om of the lifeboats.
I tried to buy jomething very British In the ship’s store, but the
l clerk just sneerd at me. Imagine a British shop not having any Mink
teabags! ■ - h .
Last night toe put on a show for the crew and in the audience were
Leopold Stokowski and other celebrities. Stokowski assured me he lik
! ed my stuff, but T had my eye on him and all I cab say is that he
applauds With his fingers awfully close to his nose.
But I Tthi, u ooe you're sure
Tokyo headquarters lor a person
al look-see at the worsening situa
tion. He arrived at a front-line
airstrip on the western front soon
after the Imjin River sector was
hit by two communist divisions.
With Ridgway was Van Fleet,
who succeeded him as commander
of the Bth Army. They conferred
with Lt. Gen. Frank Milburo,
commander of the U. 8. Ist Corps,
and other field commanders.
The supreme commander returned
Frederick L
OTHMAN
WASHINGTON— Mortis Green I
is a nice little guy with an over
sized cigar.' He made himself 1
$85,000 selling us—the taxpayers 1
—some of our own trucks. Nothing i
illegal about this, you understand. ’
Only Morris had to pay off so )
many last talkers along line i
and defend himself in so many I
lawsuits that he's not sure yet
whether the profits were worth J
the trouble.
His brother Julius made ano
ther $85,000 on the same trucks. 1
So did his brother Seyniour, while <
one Edward Udelson profited by i
$170,000. Odd thing was that all '
helpers, finders, attorneys and in
spectors, including one who got (
SSOO Jot overlooking some dents 1
in the fenders, made more money
than all the brothers Green to- ■
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Benson Man
Dies After
Taking Fills
Funer<TT services were held Fri- ;
day afternoon at the Ro„e Funeral
> Home in Benson for Murray Lee )
I Ballinger, 46, of Benson. ,
t He was found dead in bed \
Thursday morning at his home.
Acting Coroner V. J. Underwood
reported there was no evidence of
foul play in his death.
Underwood said tnat Ballinger ,
Wednesday night had placed a
h&nufQl of tablets in his mouth ,
] and swallowed them, saying to his
wife, “Stop me now if you can.”
The acting coroner declared that
Ballinger had been threatening to .
kill himself for some time. The tab- ’
lets were phenodme, a drug to kill
pain, Underwood said.
(fcffltiaung at the services were
the Rev. Joe Whittington and the
Rev. Thurman B. Stone. Burial was
in the Benson Cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Let
tie Hudson Ballinger; three sons,
Murray 8., Elton Earl and Wil- 1
liam Gerald Ballinger, all of Ben
son; three brothers, Eugene Bal
linger of Wilson, Norwood Ballinger
of New York City and Earl Bal
linger of Porto Rico, and one sister,
Mrs. Lutlier Snipes of Goldsboro.
Dawes
(Continued Prom Page One)
p. m. CST. His physician, Dr.
George Dick, was summoned., but
Dawes was dead by the time he
arrived.
His death ended a fiery career—
punctuated by his verbal trademark
of “BeU 'N • Maria”—as lawmaker,
banket, diplomat, soldier, politic
ian, author and musician.
Another Dawes trademark was
his famous underslung pipe.
Dawes served under Coolidge
from 1925 to 1929 and refused to
run for a second term. He was ap
pointed ambassador to the Court
of St. James in London where he
shocked court circles when he
spurned the traditional “pink tea
diplomacy” associated with the
post.
to Tokyo tonight and told waiting
newsmen:
“It appears to me at this time
that- this attack is another major
effort by our communist enemy to
drive the United Nations forces
from Korea, or to destroy them,
i regardless of the further destruc
■ tion of his own troops and the
, 'continued Ssvastation of Korea.
“It appears also that this will
i be the heaviest offensive yet made,
1 through it has not yet attained
i its maximum strength.”
I Ridgway expressed satisfaction
; with the frightful losses being in
! flicted on the communists at
> least 15,000 killed or wounded in
the first 24 hours of the assualt.
An Bth Army spokesman said
Allied losses were only one-tenth
) those of the enemy.
I have announced my can
didacy Tor the office of Coxi£.
missioner in Ward No. I, sub
ject to the municipal pri
mary on April 30th.
Your vote and your sup
port will be welcomed and
greatly appreciated.
t -i*m*
gether. g
As for us taxpayers, we were
took. We bought this particular
lot of 1,000 heavy trucks at a
round $5,000 each for the Army,
which used ’em a while in the
Philippines. Then the Army made
a gift of same, badly banged up,
to the Philippine government.
The Filipinos, who couldn’t even
make trucks, run, sold ’em to the
brothers at' less than $250 each.
Freight charges and overhauling
came to better than SI,OOO per
copy and Morris said he guessed
maybe he had $1,500 invested in
each one.
He slipped $15,000 each to a
couple of Los Angeles auto deal
ers for tipping him off to the fact
that the trucks were parked in a
Philippines jungle. He had to
give ihe widow of somebody else
$42,000 for helping brother Sey
mour. He handed another helper
$20,000 and said, in fact, that he
had to pay off so many people
that he got them mixed up in
his own mind.
But there he was with 1,000
.freshly painted heavy trucks at
long Beach, Calif., in 1948 and
no chance of selling them here
.because the Commerce Depart
ment said they could be exported
only. So Morris handed some
Cleveland attorneys, who had pals
in Washington, $98,000 to persuade
the government to change its
mind. They earned their money.
The Commerce Department rul
ed that such secondhand trucks
now could be sold here at home.
So, fine. All Morris needed was
a customer. He got a phone call
.from one Morris Schnitzler of
Portland, Ore., wondering if he
had any trucks for sale? Did he?
Boy!
So Schnitzler brought his cus
tomer—who turned out to be the
Atomic Energy Commission —down
to look at ’em. Upshot was that
the government a bargin on its
own trucks. It paid $3,900 each
for White six-wheelers and $3,-
.400 for Diamond-T dumps.
Morris Green being a good and
honest businessman, paid Morris
Schnitzler $127,000 (still our mon
ey in away, taxpayers) for bring
ing him in such a fine customer
as the Atomic Energy Commis
sion.
There is no villain in this piece,
except the government itself,
whose right hand never seems to
know what its left is doing. Why
the Atomic Energy Commission
couldn’t have asked the Army di
rectly for trucks, instead of pay
ing the profits of all the middle
men, is something that the sub
committee of Rep. Herbert C.
Bonner (D., N. C.) hopes soon to
discover. «±r r ' £ %
Even so, said Morris, he gave
the government a bargai non its
own trucks. The Weyerhauser
Timber Co., had to pay him $5,-
500 each for 50 of the same ma
chines.
“Os course,” said Morris, “this
outfit wanted these jobs to be
perfect and it sent down Mike
Moore to inspect them. He passed
a few little dents in the fenders
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For Commissioner
Ward No. 11l •
For the past two years it
has been my honor and priv
ilege to serve you as Com
missioner in Ward No. 111,
r and I have J|or
reelection. ’♦
If the citizens of my town
see fit to reelect me to of
fice, I pledge that t shall
continue to serve to the best
of my ability. My record
speaks for itself. I hope
it justifies your continued
support.
THANK YOU.
JOE WILKINS