F*«r to partly cloudy and not much
temper*tore chance today, tonight
VOLUME 1
RED ASSAULT FAILS TO CRACK ALLIED LINES
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Solons j Bicker Over Forcing
Bradley To Give Testimony
Western Union Walkout
Spreads Through Country
PHILADELPHIA, May 17 OP)
—A walkout of Western Union
operators spread rapidly through
the United States today, with tele
graphic service already crippled in
sections of at least 10 states.
Union sources said they ex
pected the entire eastern division
to be out shortly. This would add
another nine states to those al
ready affected by the strike.
A spokesman for the Commerci
al Telegraphers Union (AFL) said
the men were walking out every
where that the company Is using
supervisory personnel in the traf
fic department. •
The company and local officials
of the CTU scheduled a meeting
for 1 p. m. In an effort to effect
a settlement of the dispute.
Uhion spokesmen charged that
the supervisors were being trained
to handle telegraph equipment In
cooe the operators strike July 1
for a 25 cents-an-hour wage In
crease.
The strike started as “token"
stoppages In several sections of the
nation last night but developed
later Into full stoppages and then
began spreading to other parts of
the country today.
Service was severely hampered
In such big cities as Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, San Francisco and Oak
land, Calif.
Other states affected by the
stoppage were Oregon, Illinois,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Teonas
sMr*Belawgre and New Jersey. .
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By-LYNN NISBET |
BA LEIGH CORRESPONDENT
PLANNINO—The “County Rural
Progress Campaign” scheduled to
begin in North Carolina June 1 Is
based on long range planning, al
though specific prizes offered cov
er progress for the one year per
iod ending May 3L 1952. The State
wide plan was promulgated last
fall after several counties In this
and neighboring states had shown
what can be accomplished by con
certed and co-operative effort.
Outstanding records have been
noted in Haywood and Cleveland
counties in this State and York
County, S. C. Other Carolina and
Virginia counties hive shown con
siderable progress, and this year
Forsyth is at the problem in a big
way, business men of the county
having underwritten about $75,000
for the campaign.
PROGRAM—Sponsored by a doz
en organizations, agencies and in
stitutions the campaign is designed
to. promote better farms and farm
homes, rural schools and churches,
develop recreational facilities and,
most important of all, to sponsor
community organizations—that is,
organizations which co-ordinate for
the good of all the people, the in-,
dividual objectives and efforts of
each. To this mid Dr. Clarence Poe,
of the Progressive Farmer has
promised that his magazine will
award a prize of SI,OOO to the coun
ty Showing the greatest degree of
progress during the year. It is ex
pected that other prizes will be of
fered for leading communities, but
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Price War Starts
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TELEPHONES 8117 - 3118 - 31*
JL
U. S. Senator WillU Smith,
shown here, has acoepted an in
vitation to deliver the principal
address at the Charter Night
banquet of the newly-organized
LilUngton Lions Chib May 31,
President Meredith Senter an
nounced today. LilUngton Lions
will have as their gnests for the
event members of other Lions
dubs throughout this section.
ELECTRICITY TO Bfc OFF
The '.power will be off Sunday
vicinity in order that the Carolina
Power and Light Company crews
may make repairs to the Him to
avoid unscheduled and long inter
ruptions. This Is in keeping with
the company's plan to provide as
near uninterrupted service as is
practical, H.M. Tyler, district man
ager, announced today.
Severe Midget Storm Brews
Over Atlantic Off Florida
Fla.. May 17—Oh—A sev
ere midget storm boiled up in the
Atlantic Ocean off the. Florida
coast today with . near-hurricane
winds kicking up 30-foot waves. _
The unseasonable storm packed
winds howling Up to $0 miles an
hour, just 15. miles an hour beloW
full hurricane force. it was spawn
ed a month before the official op
ening of the tropical hurricane sea
son which begins June 16.
The Miami Weather Bureau war
ned that winds mtoht reach full
gale force, between 65 and 75 miles
an hour, late today and tonight
along the coast between Cape Can
averal and Mayport, near Jackson
ville.
Center of the storm was believed
to be 135 miles offshore between
Daytona Beach, Fla., and Cape
Canaveral to the south, near the
Patrick Air Force Guided Missile
Base.
Westbrook Elected Auto
Dealers State treasurer
Bari McD. Westbrook, prominent
Dunn automobile dealer, business,
civic and religious leader, was elec
ted Btate, president’ oT.the. North
(Eke ]Hemrfr
WASHINGTON, May 17 (W
Senators fought furiously today
over whether Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley should be ordered to disclose
conversations with President Tru
man about Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur’s discharge.
A Democrat said such an order
would endanger the “secuhty of
our country." A Republican said
it was a test of whether legislators
are “mice or men."
The committee investigating Mac-
Arthur’s discharge approached a
vote on whether Bradley, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
should be ordered to divulge April
$ conversations between Mr. Tru
man and his top advisers five
da?s before MacArthur’s recall.
Ohalrman Richard B. Russell, D„
Oa„ of the Senate Armed Servlces-
Foreign Relations Committee cited
law and historic precedents to
support his contention that Brad
ley was "fully within his rights"
In refusing to destroy his confi
dential relationship to the presi
dent.
Russell said he regretted that
the issue had revoted “along party
lines, and that it has a political
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Legian Hut To Get
Generals' Pictures
Photographs of Dunn’s Major
General William C. Lee and Gen
eral of the Army Douglas Mac-
Arthur will soon be hung in Dunn’s
American Legion Building, it was
announced today by Commander
Paul White.
Kie Hudson, Immediate past
commander, suggested the hanging
of the pictures and was ..named
chairman of the committee.
biow-up u pwui^if
Inches in size, will be hung of bon
Oeneral Lee and General MacAr
“Dunn Legionnaires regard them
as the greatest of all soldiery"
pointed out Chairman Hudson.
Ceremonies in connection with
hanging and unveiling of the por
traits will probably be held.
A Navy hurricane hunter plane
flew out to get an accurate pos
ition, and the weather bureau said
it would issue complete informa
tion on the storm with that report.
Chief Forecaster Orady Norton
described the disturbance as “very
small.” But he added, “there’s some
thing out there."
' A ship—the R. P. Smith—re
ported from the .vicinity that winds
ranged between 50 and 60 miles an
hour with accompanying 25 to 30
foot waves. It took a barometer
reading of 29.68, which the weather
bureau said was “fairly low, but
not hurricane-low.”
The weather bureau ordered up
northeast storm warnings at 8:80
a.m. from Savannah, Ga., south
to Daytona Beach, Fla., and north
east 'storm flags from Daytona
Beach south to Fort Pierce. Small
craft warnings were hoisted from
Fort Pierce south to Fort Lauder
dale.
sociation at the State convention
which closed yesterday in Pine-*
hurst. ■
Jack Steele of Raleigh was elec
ted president of the association,
which heard addresses by U. S. Sen
ator Willis Sbulth, Richard Hark
ness, the radio commentator, and
piny.
Mr. Westbrook, who last year
served as area chairman of the
DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1951
96,000 itids Thrown
Into Second Round
Os Spring Offensive
TOKYO, Friday, May ld-r-fW—A force of 96,000 Com
munists attacked United Nations forces all across the
120-mile Korean War front today, but failed to collapse
the Allied line.
A dispatch from the east central
front said a large force of south*
bound Reds had crossed the Puk
han and Soyang rivers in a gradu
al buildup of round two of their
spring offensive. They swarmed'
over mountains and through vallejk,
the dispatch said. The rest of the
dispatch was censored.
Allied troops fell back on the
eastern and east-central fronts. A
U. 8. gth Army communique said
these were line straightening op
erations, although it was conceded
the enemy had knocked a big hole
in South Korean lines in the Inje
area, near the east coast.
FALL BY THOUSANDS
Chinese and North Koreans were
falling by the thousands unflfer
Allied artillery, firing ,at the rate
of one round every. two minutei,
and bombs and machine gun bul
lets fired from warplanes. A late
report from the east central front
said estimated enemy casualties
credited to artillery fire in the last
two days was 7,150.
A nearly full moon illuminated
the battle field Thursday night
and 12 B-29 bombers dropped 96
tons of high explosive bombs on
enemy communications, and air
field targets. The much publiciz
ed Red air force had not made Its
threatened appearance. The fteds
wqre relying on small arms, mortars
qnd Russian-type 76 millimeter
Th breakthrough came
in the Inje area. South Korean
flanks were exposed and other
ROK units were endangered.
American forces rushed in to at
tempt to seal the gap.
Returning fighter pilots said-that
in strafing attacks on the east
central and west central fronts
they slashed to ribbons two groups
of Chinese infantrymen estimated
to number 1,000 each.
The pilots raid the long expected
second round of the Red spring
offensive was on, but it still had
not reached the “full human sea”
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Walter Byrd Has
Triple Trouble,
But All's Well
Like many another dutiful son
on Mother’s Day, C. Walter Byrd
Charlotte Equipment salesman!
came to his old home In Lilling
ton Sunday to see his mother, Mrs.
W. P. Byrd.
When he returned home h e
found it had been an eventful day
in Mecklenburg, His wife Betty re
ported: her car was stolen, his ped
igreed bird dog “Fly Boy” disap
peared, and daughter Jean, 4, de
veloped the mumps.
Luckily, Charlotte police found
the car abandoned a few blocks
away. “Fly Boy” turned up before
night. And as for the mumps, “I
had them on one side when I was
in school at Wake Forest," grln
ner Byrd. But his wife and son,
Tommy, 2 are prepared for the
mumps.
Mamorial Peppy
Is Described As
Flower Off Hope
The memorial poppy, which will
be worn to honor the war . dead
on Poppy Day, May 30, was des
cribed as a flower of hope' tor
disabled veterans and their fam
ilies by Mrs.- Louise Oavtp, presi
dent of the Dunn Unit, pf the Am
erican Legion AuxHikiV. the the
unit continued preparations for the
obeervancedf Poppy Day. . t i
■' “Contributions made on Poppy
Day are the main source of sup
port .for the extensive activities for
the welfare of disabled veterans
and needy children of veterans that
a T e .£ rr ‘? , w Uf SSSf* nUy .X£! e
auxiliary,” Mrs. Gavin said. “Be
cause of the generosity of the mil
lions et Americans who wear the
veterans and their families.
i fry our poppy workers 10 to ■ Rive
! Zsni—- iTUdi Za \d4 • •* ®
Solons Planning
To Cut Acheson
Off At Pockets
WASHINGTON, May 17— OP)
House Republicans faced with Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson’s
won’t quit declaration, hoped today
to hit him In the pocketbook and
force his ouster.
GOP legislators supported by
some Southern Democrats—work
ed on several Ideas to force Ache
son out by cutting off his salary in
the State Department appropria
tions bill due to come up soon.
One of the Republican plans also
might bounce John Foster Dulles,
the Department’s special GOP ad
viser, off tl)e payroll.
But anti - Acheson Republicans
faced a rough battle. Acheson told
news conference yesterday he has
■o intention of resigning. And
•resident Truman has raid repeat
edly that Acheson will stay in of
joemocratic House leaders adifttt
fid "they were worried. ThaW con
famous statement that he “wQi not
turn my back” on convicted Per
jurer Alger Hiss.
Democrats have been stalling the
appropriations bill, hoping the pres
sure would ease up.
C One amendment, proposed by
Rep. John Phillips, R., Cal., is aim
ed at ousting Acheson and some
of his closest advisers, including
Dulles.
Phillips, a member of the House
Appropriations Committee wants
to cut off pay for any one in the
State Department who has worked
in any way for a foreign govern
ment during the past five years.
“The outstanding case is Ache
son,” Phillips raid, adding that the
secretary’s law office represented a
foreign country during that period
while Acheron still was associated
with the firm."
Rep. John Taber, N. Y., ranking
Republican on the appropriations
committee, said he thought Con
gress could specify that Acheron
alone be lopped from the payroll,
although previous attempts to elim
inate individuals by name have been
locked by ths courts.
State News
Briefs
Fayetteville, May 17—(UP)
The Public Works Department is
studying the cost, and equipment
needed to fluorinate Fayetteville’s
water supply, the city council said
today.
Several medical groups* here have
endorsed fluorinaUon of city water
aa an aid In preventing tooth de
cay. ' • , • .
Raleigh, May~lf— (UP) At
torneys met hate for a final con
ference today bifore filing's pe
tition with the United States Su
preme Court in thje States legal
fight to keep Negros out of the
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Cut Expected In
Loaf Selling Tima
HKND*RSON, stay 17 » -
. Limited faeUtUes <of tobacco re
drjrtng plants May force ware
houses to cut dally selling time
daring the Itti tobacco market
ing season. Fred 8. Royster, pres.
Went of the Blight Belt Warehouse
Royiter i six-man commit*
tee Is studying the problem end
wiH report to the board of gover
nbn of the warehouse association
asJg. groups meeting next
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
THE OLD PEANUT PARCHER IS BACK The old-fashioned
peanat parcher, which vanished for years from the streets of Dunn,
has returned. Doug Thigpen has stationed several of them about
town. In charge of the peanut brigade Is Addison Smith, shown
here bookie one of the old devices of years gone by. Eastern Carolina
may see more of these peanuts, parchers, however,
Lynch Manufacturing Company has. announced that he’s going
to start manufacturing thorn. (Daily Record Photo bv T. M.,
Heavy Docket Set
At May Court Term
Girl Survives
Fall From Car
Joyce May Weeks, two-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie
Weeks of Dunn, today was report
ed to .be much improved after ex
periencing a close call when she
fell out of a moving automobile.
Mrs. Weeks raid this morning
that the child has now regained
consciousness and physicians be
lieve she will recover without any
serious effects.
The mother said the child acci
dentally opened the rear car door
and fell out day before yesterday
as fhey were returning from a visit
with Mrs. Week’s mother, near
Benson. The accident occurred in
front of Elijah Barefoot’s tourist
home. The little girl’s head struck
the pavement.
Mrs. Weeks said she didn’t be
lleVe she was going more than 40
miles an hour at the time, If that
ffttit.
The child was brought to the
Dunn Hospital and later taken
home after X-rays had been made.
MAKE PHI BETA KAPPA
Wade M. Brannan of Dunn and
Edward H. Austin of Four Oaks
were among 9k seniors and,.-Juniors
Initiated into Phi BMa Kappa, na
tional honorary scholastic frater
nity in ceremonies gat the Uni
versity of North Carolina,last night.
li> be eligible, a student must
maintain a three-year average of
991A in all courees.
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WASHINGTON,; Hy 17—Iff)—Steel for automobiles j
Plant Mora
COTTON
Fop Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
Two murder cases and a variety
of others are scheduled for trial
at the one-week criminal session
of Harnett Superior Court which
will convene Monday morning at
LilUngton.
Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fayette
ville WiU preside over the term, and
District Solicitor Jack Hooks wiU
presecute the docket.
Scheduled to be tried for murder
are: Richard Jones of LilUngton,
Route 1, and Charlie Stephens, a
Dunn Negro.
. Jones is charged with the knife
slaying of a neighbor. Otis Johnson,
38, on December 23. He is free un
der $4,000 bond.
It is doubtful that the case
against Stephens will be tried, since
he fled after aUegedly slaping Carl
McNeill, 16, another Negro, and has
not been apprehended.
One divorce case is listed on the
calendar released by Clerk Robert
Morgan. Dorothy Marie Norris is
seeking a divorce from Hugh Jen
nings Norris.
Nine new grand jurors will be
selected from the group of 46 sum
moned for jury duty.
Following is a list of the cases
MONDAY: Dorothy Marie Norris
vs Hugh Jennings Norris, a div
orce action; Dorothy Graham, lar
ceny; Chester Stewart, abandon
ment, etc.; S. F. WqodeU, assault
With a deadly weapon; Earl Cam
eron, assault with a deady weapon;
Jesse Till, trespass; Ernest T. Tuck
er, abandonment; Jasper M. John
son, assault with a deadly weap
on with intent to kill;
Bernard Elmo Coggins, forgery;
Bill Ray Johnson and Bari Brown,
breaking and entering.and larceny;
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-NQ^lt*
USSR Protests
Ban On Arms To
Chinese Reds
FLUSHING, N. Y., May 17
(IP) Russia today chal
lenged the right of the .Un
ited Nations General Assem- •
bly to ban arms shipments
to Communist China. The
Soviets contended that sanc
tions could be voted only by
the Security Council where
they could use the veto.
Chief Soviet Delegate Jacob A., ,
Malik launched a bitter attack on .:
the proposed embargo, on the Un
ited States, and on the procedure '
the UN seeks to follow as a tense ,
meeting of the assembly’s 60- na- |J
tion political committee opened to
debate the embargo plan which
was approved last week by the spe
cial committee on Korean sanct
ions.
Russia, Malik said, would not
participate in the consideration ol
any such proposal.
CITES SENATE HEADINGS
The Senate hearings on Oen.
Douglas MacArthur's proposals tor
Far Eastern policy and action by
both houses of Congress in unani
mously demanding that the UN
adopt an airtight, worldwide em
bargo against the Chinese Reds
were used by Malik in > his attack
on American policy.
"The Senate and the House of
Representatives." Malik said, “have
hastily and with an extraordinary
procedure adopted a decision de
signed to help the aggressive quar
ters of the U. S. to impose on the
UN in committee and in the Gen
eral Assembly this shameful resol
ution which they want to foist on
the world.
“General (Defense Secrtfcry
George C.) Marshall, in his. testi
mony before . the Senate
tees m M»t ii, openly recognized
that the State Department had
exercised pressure by all means at
its disposal on countries which art
members of the American-led blocs,
particularly England and France, sh
order to constrain them to vote for
this embargo.”
The Security Council, Malik said,
was the sole UN organ charged
with keeping peace and maintain
ing security and—despite action
voted by the General Assembly last
fall—the 60-nation world parlla- 9
ment had no jurisdiction in this
matter.
Merchants Group’
Official Speaks
At Coats Tonight
Thompson Greenwood Of-CMMSfiI
secretary of the North' Carolina'
Merchants Association, will address
the newly-organized Coats Mer
chants Association tonight at t
o'clock fn the Community, ptplding. '
Plans for the meeting wese an
nounced this morning by L. B.
McKnight, president of the Wgari-: 1 ;
ization.
Mr. Greenwood Is an'ckitatanding
speaker and is expected to give the
Coats merchants many valuibfs*;
ideas in getting their organlzatMt it
off to a good start.
OPS Cotton
Ruling Issued '||
RALEIGH, May 17— A primary J
cotton textile manufacturers’, ref*.
ulation (CPR 37) .effective MapiSl
has been issued by the Office of «
Price Stabilization, it was announ
ced today by J. G. Clark, ButiiM
Carolina OPS Director. s!
This regulation is designed to ap
proximate more closely the naafl
of one of the nation’s majeejßl
dustries at the manufacturing level.
It will afford at least . UotlMf'Sl
lief to most cases of inequity tin
fteacTor Jtio* ion