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WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy and continued warm today and tonight. VOLUME 1 Erwin Union Official Predicts Wage Board May Settle Strike U.S. Government War Contracts May Cause Move The United Stats Govern ment may step in to settle the 24-day-old walkout of some 40,000 cotton and ray on textile workers in eight Southern states, a union of ficial in Erwin predicted to day. J. Thomas West, manager of Local 250, Textile Workers Union of America, said that federal ac tion may be taken in the strike in order to bring compliance by Erwin Cotton Mills, . Inc., with federal war contracts. West added that the new board will have the authority to settle wage disputes. Membership on the board is complete now except for L.bor representatives. Emil Rieve, president of TWUA, told strikers at Erwin last week the would accept an appointment to the new board if one is prqferred by Pres ident Truman. SECOND INJUNCTION ISSUED In other strike developments, Judge Clawson L. Williams drew up a second injunction Tuesday to supersede the injunction brought against the union by the company April 12. The new injunction differs from the first one in that it requires pickets to come no closer than 25 feet of company gates. The for (Continued On Page Three) State News Briefs •RArFIGBBfT'Api'n 26 —<W—Gov. Kerr Scott was to announce today whether he will intervene to Stop the execution of Sampson County Negro John Henry Rogers in the State’s gas chamber tomorrow. Attorneys* for the 26-year-old Sampson County farm hand con ferred with Paroles Commissioner T. C. Johnson yesterday and later with the governor in an effort to have Roger’s death sentence com muted to life imprisonment. Rogers was convicted of killing Mrs. L. B. Kornegay at her Piney Grove store in Sampson County last July 15 while her husband was away on a fishing trip. The woman’s badly beaten body was found in a wooded area near the store. Attorneys James S. Chestnut* and Robert C. Wells of Clinton (Continued On Page Four) Chwund @apiiol SquaM * By. LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT t ANNOUNCEMENT? Some stu dents of political affairs interpret the visit of Governor Kerr Scott to Washington this week as tenta tive announcement of his candid acy for the United States senate in 1954. Their reasoning is some what devious, but not too difficult to follow. Oovern.or Scott went to £ Washington with a delegation of Young Democrats to arrange for the Democratic presidential nom inee next year to come to the Scott farm at Haw River Just before the 1952 November election for a speech. Arrangements were sought to be made with William Boyle, national Democratic chairman. UNUSUAL—Tire unusual features In this situation which to some ex tent justify conclusion that Scott is ,g laying foundations for keeping a hand on State Democratic affairs and promoting his own interest are these: Nobody knows now who will be the nominee for president next year, and so any commitment made in behalf of an unknown could not bind him. Furthermore, nobody knows who will be chairman of the National Democratic Committe next year. It may or may not be William Boyle again. The new chairman will be named soon after adloumment § of the national convention which will nominate candidates for presi dent and vice president. PRESUMPTUOUS-Any commit ment made now by incumbent (Continued mi Page 7) TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 - 31* 2,360 Register As Book Is Closed For Election On Monday City Registrar Joe N. Creel, Jr., reported this morning that a total of 2,360 voters placed their names on the new registration books be fore the deadline yesterday. This is a third less than the 3,750 names on the old books, but Registrar Creel pointed out that the -old books had been in use for 40 years and hundreds of the names on it were of persons who have died or moved away. Indications today are that voting will be heavy in Dunn’s municipal election on Monday. A full field of candidates have announced for every office. BULLETIN Oliver W. Godwin, chairman of Dunn’s Citizens Committee for Law Enforcement, announced to day that his committee will not endorse or oppose any of the candidates in the current cam paign here. He said the commit tee will take a neutral position. Earlier, Godwin had indicated that the committee would come out for a ticket. Candidates are campaigning day and night, passing out cards, mailing out literature and doing plenty of pump-handling among the voters. HANNA TO BROAD CAST One of the candidates, Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, today was busy working on a radio address which he will deliver Friday afternoon at 1:05 over Station WCKB. Mayor Hanna's address will be rebroadcast at 5:15 o’clock. Mayo? Hanna did not indicate today what tone his address will ta|(a, <)>ut merely said he planned to discuss the issues. The two other candidates for mayor, Herman Neighbors and Earl Vann, said this morning that they had scheduled no radio ad Navy Board Probes Plane Crash Which Took 43 Lives KEY WEST, Fla., April 26—(IP)— A Navy board of inquiry met today to fix the blame for a “night marish” collision of a Naval plane and a Cuban airliner in which 43 persons plunged to an ocean death near President Truman’s vacation retreat. The twin-engine Navy plane, with a four-man crew practicing blind flying, and the Cubana Air line’s DC-4, with 34 passengers and five crew members, rammed together about noon yesterday over this southernmost tip of the United States. No one survived. Navy rescue workers wearing face masks and foot flippers dived 30 feet to the floor of the Atlantic and brought up 17 bodies before darkness closed in last night. The bodies of two Navy fliers floated to the surface. v Because of the ocean currents, the Navy said the bodies of some of the victims might never be recovered. There were 28 North Americans, including several pro minent U. S. citizens, aboard the big silver airliner, operated by a subsidiary of Pan-American Air ways. Most were flying from Miami for a holiday weekend in Havana. The Navy board, headed by Lois Byrd Writes “30” To Job On Capitol Hill MhaLetoßyii ®te JHailtj |tmroi dresses during the campaign. Candidates for commissioner are: Ward I: L. L. Coats, incumbent, and J. Leon Godwin. Ward II: J. Vernon (Crow) Bass; Jesse H. Capps and Ed Tart. Ward in: Joe A. Wilkins, in cumbent, and R. G. Tart. Ward IV: B. A. Bracey, incum bent, Lewis C. Godwin, and Empie D. Hall. Duke Gets SIO,OOO Grant For Research DURHAM, April 26—0P1 — I The Am erican Cancer Society, has awarded a *IO,OOO grant to a Duke Univer sity team studying a cancer-like disease of fowls which resembles leukemia in humans. Dr. Joseph W. Beard, professor of experimental surgery, and other Duke scientists are seeking to iso late and examine the virus known to cause fowl laucosis. In fowl one virus appears to cause the disease which appears in sev eral forn*3. It may affect the bloodforming organs giving rise to leukemia. It may affect the liver, nervous tissue and lymphid cells, or it may produce tumors or even bond changes. Mrs. George C. Marshall, State commander and executive vice-pres ident of the North Carolina divis ion of the Cancer Society, announ ced the award. "Dr. Beard’s project is a valu abie link in the scientific chain be ing forged to shackle capcefc" she said. -“-This research project was se lected by the committee on gtdwth of the national research council from hundreds of applications for grants in-aid made by notable scientists throughout the nation.” • Capt. R. S. Quackenbush, Jr., com mander of the Naval air station here, began questioning eye-wit nesses last night. Hundreds of horrified sunbathers saw the DC-4 plumment into the surf Just 1,000 feet off the public beach, Mrs. Walter A. Simson, who was on the last day of her honeymoon with her husband, a New York advertising salesman, was on the pier fishing when the plane crash ed in front of her.” “LIKE CRAZY MOVIE” “It was like some crazy movie, or like one of those terrible nightmares you have when you’re a little girl,” she said. Navy officials and civil Aero nautics Authority inspectors were unable to determine in the early stages of the investigation why the two planes, as one witness said, "seemed to scrape together.” Capt. Quackenbush said it was not learned whether the Navy crew was flying blind in the Beachcraft at the time of the collision, “but when they do, one of the pilots has clear visual observation at all times.” “We have flight patterns to pre vent this sort of thing," he said. Much of the air over this island (Continued On Page Three) By WADE LUCAS Raleigh Correspondent RALEIGH, April 26—Miss Byrd, the Lillington neswpaperwoman who got a leave of absence from The Dunn Daily Record last Jan uary to become an information Secretary in the office of Governor W. Kerr Scott for the duration of the 1951 General Assembly, today had written “30” to that Jdb. “30” is the traditional symbol of Working newspaper folks to indi cate the jobs they were doing had been finished. And Lois Byrd wrote that “30” at 5:30 pan. yesterday, regular quitting time for State of the late Walter P. Byrd of Lilfcngcon, longtime Republican leader In Harnett County, has, In the eyes of cynical newsmen covering the office of the always unpredictable Governor Scott, dome a fine job at the desk at which his- out eon- DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951 Chicago Turns Out To Meet Gen. MacArthur CHICAGO, April 26—(IP)— Gen. Douglas MacArthur flies to the nation’s heart land today to be honored by millions of persons during a triumphant two-day visit in Chicago and Milwaukee. Almost 6,000,000 persons were ex pected to see the general, either in person or on television, during his tours of the two cities. Thousands traveled to the two towns by spec ial train and bus from nearby states to participate in the celebrations,, Chicago, the nation’s second larjf-: est city, surrendered itself com pletely to give the general one of the lustiest receptions in its hisr tory. Big factories shut down. Loop, stores closed. Schools were let outs' Upwards of 3,000,000 lined the 23-mile route from the aiport, where MacArthur’s plane will land at 12:3Q P. M. CST (1:30 P. M. EST), through the south side, north over the Outer Drive, and then through the downtown area. Many took up stations on the curbstones early in the day to be sure of a good view of the gen eral, his pretty dark-haired wife, and their son. VISIT MILWAUKEE FRIDAY Milwaukee, which MacArthur lists as his legal residence, was pre pared to give him a hero’s welcome home tomorrow. MacArthur’s automobile trip over the 90-mile route from Chicago to Milwaukee tomorrow morning will rival the celebrations accorded re turning conquerors who rode their chariots along the Appian Way to ancient Rome. Almost every - town along historic Sheridan Road planned to turn out in force as he passed. Troops and contingents of sailors will line' up for the general’s inspection at. Fort Sheridan and the Great Lakes Naval Station. Chicago’s reception for the Mac-; (Continued On Page Three) Investigation | Os 'Hollywood ? 10' Continues WASHINGTON, April 26.—(W House Un-Amarican Activities Committee members hoped today that at long last they were getting real “talkies” from the motion pic ture industry. Film Director Edward Dmytryk, one of the silent “Hollywood 10” who went to Jail for not talking in 1947, broke the ice yesterday by speaking freely of communism in ,the film capital and naming names. Dymtryk admitted being a com munist in 1944 and 1945 but said he is now convinced the Com munist Party is guilty of treason and should be outlawed. He named 28 other movie figures as past or present communists. Committee Chairman John S. Wood, D., Ga„ said some of the others of the Hollywood 10 may also break the silence they main tained in the committee’s 1947 hollywoop investigation. ELSEWHERE IN CONGRESS MacArthur Senate Republicans challenged Democratic plans to conduct the investigation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s dismissal in secret. They demanded a "back to Yalta” review of Far Eastern policy at public hearings. Sen. Robert A. Taft, 0., Republican policy leader, led the GOP de mand for public hearings that could be televised. Sen. Richard (Continued On Page Four) Ministers' Meet At Falcon Ends Friday The eighth annual Ministers’ In stitute, staged at Falcon by the North Carolina Conference of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, is scheduled to be closed out Friday following an 11 am. session. The conference is a combined meeting of ministers from the North Carolina and the Western North Carolina conferences, accord ing to the Rev. W. Eddie Morris of Goldsboro, superintendent of the North Carolina Conference, who is in charge of the meeting. The Institute opened at Falcon Monday. The Rev. Mr. Morris pointed out that this is the first joint meeting of the two conferences. Classes are held each morning at (Continued On Page Three) MACARTHUR STORY Was MacArthur right, or was he wrong? Was Truman within his rights in firing the supreme allied com&nder in the Pacific area? Whatever your own convictions on the questions may be, the latest documentary film on the career of the famed five-star geheral may help clarify your opinions. The story of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s life is now being shown at the Stewart Theater. Allies Stem Red Thrust Above Seoul, Mount Counterattack ; IIS' IPM JH E[ iM Hi i Mmm It; :3i 1 JH fl *■ , - WBL aMMmmm. '* _ — ,* ■ '~*'"V* f . *■& * jjS&afc. .—.) *>■. '■ *■ , ■ AUTO DEALERS PLAN SILVER DOLLAR EVENT—The weight of the automobile industry, one of the biggest businesses in Harnett as well as the whole nation, is going to be felt very effectively this weekend when automobile dealers of the county pay off their employees in those hard—and hard-to-p** silver dollars. Some of the leaders of the industry are shown here with 15,000 —that's right, 15,000 — of the cartwheels piled before them at The Commercial Bank. Left to right are: Dewey Whittenton, dir ector of the Harnett Automobile Dealers’ Association; Henry H. Sandlin, president of the county or ganization; J. N. Stephenson, cashier of The Commercial Bank, which secured the hard dollars for the group; and T. Brown Williams. So when you get a silver dollar in change this week end, you can thank the automobile dealers of Harnett County. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) Train Hits Log Truck, Kills One r ROAMOKE RAPIDS, April 26 rfM—A speeding Seaboard Ait Line mftght train smashed" Into » trufik at a crossing near here last night, killing John Pike, about 30, an dseriously injuring L. E. Wright, about 50. Sheriff H. A. House said both men were from near Littleton! Engineer N. C. Howell of Raleigh said his diesel-powered train was running 50 miles per hour when he saw a soft drink truck ap proaching the crossing Hollowed, by the six-wheel log truck. He turned to answer a question from Fireman George S. Schultz of Raleigh, Howell said, and when he looked back the soft drink truck had crossed the railroad and the log truck had its frdnt wheels on the track. Howell said he was then only 50 to 75 yards from the crossing and there was no time to stop. The train ripped through the cab of the truck. Sheriff House said he thought an inquest unnecessary but that Coroner Rufus Britton would de cide after investigating the ac cident. Picket Freed Os Assault Charge Judge Floyd H. Taylor Wed. ac quitted an Erwin picket on charges of kssault in the first case grow ing out of the strike now under way at Erwin Mills. Mrs. Joyce Stewart had charged Prentiss Farmer of assaulting her as she started through the picket line. She accused Farmer of kicking her on the leg and shoving her up against the gate. She said he al so grabbed her husband around the neck and waist. Mrs. Stewart said a union rep resentative who was touring the area with a loudspeaker in his automobile told her to let Farmer and her husband “fight it out.” She denied on cross-examina tion by Attorney Neill McK. Sal mon that she opened a knife or that she cursed or threatened the defendant. Stewart took the stand and co (Continued On Page Four) Give A Calf Enough Rape .... Halifax, April. 26—tm— After a year and a half of good behavior In Halifax County Jail, Negro Trusty Robert Boone came and went almost as he pleased. In another three weeks he would have finished his sentence for stealing chickens. But Halifax Sheriff H. A. House placed a new charge against him today and said Boone had extend ed his privileges a little too far. The sheriff charged that Boone broke into the court house and helped himself to a gallon of whiskey from the room in which officers stored confiscated booze. FIVE CENTS PER COPY Cartwheel Flood To Hit Harnett County ‘ Harnett County will be tfh&fled with those big, heavy, hard-to-get silver dollars this weekend. Henry H. Sandlin, president of the Harnett County Automobile Dealers Association, announced to day that the 14 member-dealers of the association will pay off all their employees this weekend in silver dollars. The purpose, of course, is to im press upon citizens of the county just what an Important part the automobile industry plays in the economy of the county. , Secretary - Treasurer Paul L. Strickland pointed out today that the annual payroll of just these 14 dealers totals more than a half million dollars a year. And this figure doesn’t include allied industries and businesses— such as filling stations, auto parts concern, vulcanizing companies and other associated businesses. PROPOSED BY WESTBROOK The idea for the Silver Dollar Weekend was proposed by Earl McD. Westbrook, area director of the State organization, at the first meeting of the dealers held here earlier this month and was en thustically adopted. The Commercial Bank has given its full cooperation to the event. President Lofton A. Tart made a special trip to Raleigh and loaded down his Cadillac with the 15,000 cartwheels, obtained through the Federal Rqserve Bank in Rich mond. Guy Stewart of Coats is vice president of the Harnett Automo (Continued On Page Five) TALENT HUNT TO END The climax of the 16-week Sun day radio programs in The Ex change Club of Clinton’s Talent Hunt, seeking out hidden talents in the community, will come when the big final show will be held at the Clinton High School auditorium Friday night. Some 33 contestants from Fayetteville, Clinton, Gar land, Ingold, Newton Grove, Autry ville, Stedman, Faison, Warsaw, Magnolia, Ivanhoe will vie for the prize of $25 cash and many gifts from local merchants. The pro ceeds will go to the Crippled Children fund of the Exchange Club. BULLETINS WASHINGTON, April 26—The Post Office Depart ment told Congress today that eight Mississippi postal officials have been “separated” and 40 others face formal charges as a result of the Mississippi job-selling investiga tion. PUSAN, Korea, April 26—(IP)—Charges of barbarism, corruption and inefficiency in the South Korean Army led to the resignation of two mor cabinet ministers today. WASHINGTON, April 26—(V)—President Truman to day restated in behalf of this country the hope that the conflict in Korea could be limited as far as possible. Plant More COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. Campaign Date Change Asked The Dunn-Erwin chapter of the American Red Cross has pet itioned national headquarters for permission to hold the annual campaign here in October of each year instead of March, it was an nounced today by President Dave Kimmell. This action was taken .after a report made at the last meeting showed that the chapter is now SI,BOO short of its 1951 goal of $8,771. Mrs. Grace Swain, executive sec retary, pointed out, however, that this is the first time since a per manent organization was establish ed that the chapter has ever failed to attain its goal. Several factors were blamed for the shortage this year. A big factor was the fact that the strike at Erwin began before the drive had been completed. Last year’s short cotton crop is another factor. Mrs. Swain said today that (Continued on Page Two) Young, Taylor Form Law Partnership . With the 1951 legislature cooling in its grave, Senator J. Robert Young has decided to resume his law practice. Senator Young and Archie Tay lor of Lillington have formed a partnership for the general prac tice of law. The firm, with offices both in Lillington and Dunn, will go under the name of Young and Taylor. Attorney Taylor, son of Judge Floyd Taylor of Lillington, recently passed the State bar exam after graduating from law school at Wake Forest College. He worked formerly with the Bureau of Internal Revenue and will specialize in tax matters. Mrs. Hazel Young, wife of the senator, will remain in the law bus iness with her husband. NO. 98 Main UN Force Fails Back To New Positions TOKYO, April 26 (IP? United. Nations forces stem med rampaging Red armies 17 miles northwest of Seoul today and counter-attacked two miles into the enemy bulge northeast of the form er capital. Both actions were in the nature of delaying operations, however, while the main Bth Army forces fell back to new defense positions under attack by 500,000 Chinese and North Korean Reds. An Bth Army spokesman admitt ed that the situation due north of Seoul was ‘ obscure,’’ but sgid the communists still were about 20 miles from the city there. Civilians streamed out of ruin ed Seoul in the obvious belief that the old capital was about to change hands for the fifth time in the 10- month-old Korean War. REDS IGNORE BOMBARDMENT Red troops swarmed south across the hills and valleys like so many locusts in apparent disdain of the murderous Allied aerial and artill ery bombardment that has killed or wounded more than 35,000 Reds in the five-day-old communist of fensive. Haze and the smoke of battle partly blocked out the front from the air today, but U. S. planes claimed at least 450 additional communist casualties to mid-day today. Allied guns joined the slaughter with 1,000 shells an hour. Communist MIG - 15 jet fighter l planes made their closest approach to. the battlefront today, but were intercepted over the Kunu area, (Continued on Page .7) Czechs HoMAP -> Correspondent On Three Charges PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April 26 IIP) Associated Press Corres pondent William N. Oatis has been arrested on charges of activities hostile to the state, the com munist government disclosed to day. Dr. Bedrich Runge, assistant chief of the foreign press section of the Czech Foreign Ministry, notified the U. S. embassy of Oatis’ arrest. The 37-year-old American, a native of Marion, Ind., has bee nmissing since late Mon day. Runge told Tyler Thompson! counselor of the embassy, by tele phone that Oattis had been ar rested on three charges: I. “Activities hostile to the Czech state.” 2. “Gathering and dissemin ating information considered .secret by the Czech government. 3. “Spreading malicious infor (Continued On Page Three) . Strikers Ask For Cease Fire Order WAKE Forest, April 26—(UP)— Striking Royal Cotton Mill work ers circulated petitions for a “cease fire” order today amid charges and denials that non-striking workers openly carried weapons through picket lines. A petition signed by some 400 5* textile union members and other local citizens proposed a company —union agreement for peaceful contract negotiations without fur ther outbursts of the violence that has flashed through three weeks of the strike here. The petitions charged that “non- j striking employes openly -carry J shotguns and rifles through ’the picket lines.” But Police Chief Floyd Whitman disputed the state ment. “I have been at the mill very time the shift has changed am} I know that's not trre,” Whitman said. The petition also said that a bus (Continued Or Page Six) Record Gets New Advertising Mon A new name was added to Ihe ,» Daily Record’s staff a week eaWM when Harold Cannon of atm&tM Hill went to work in the adrikH9 tag department. from Mount Olive, where b*~wsg
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