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£ -C .\£, L - i • A ■■■•.., »•? WEATHER Fair to partly eto4dy and oontin ■td ■ quite wam ,|*iday and te- VOLUME! REDS RUSH THROUGH GAP IH UH LIKE Hobbs Ten Per Cent Rajsfc For City Employes Asked City M&iager R. Thomas Hobbs packed a wallop like the last paragraph in an O. Henry short story into his | swan song before the new Dunn CitV Council last night. Hobbs, who wound up a .turbu lent nine-month stint with the biyt at the Monday night meeting, handed the nate touncil members a record 1051-6? bddget which even his bitterest opponents admired as a fine piece of%ork. The 30-year-bld city manager cornered every possible penny of f revenue on paper and found a use ful niche for it. And.he tacked onto the whopping *346,500 budget some proposals which will cause considerable lip - chewing among council members before the bud get is finally adopted. ' Chief among his suggestions is a proposed 10 per cent wage Increase for each of the city’s employes. The obvious reason for the cost of-living raise would be the ten . dency of town employes to wander • off to better-paying fields. Hobbs cited the loss of Fire Lieutenant Mann Norris, Jr., and Police Ser geant W- M. Denning to the better paying State Highway Patrol as an example. Seasons For Increase Hobbs explained that the new budget, some 17 per cent higher than the *298,470 earmarked for the 1950-51 /fiscal year, swelled tor t*ro reasons; Normal increase m ~ propertyJPui I added populo* f tiota an* hew services, plUi sonii *25,000 in Powell BUI funds for street maintenance. Alhong his reeottttendatlons was one to up the ad valorem tax rate, subject to approval by the voters, by 10 cents per *IOO of val uation to provide funds for a recre ation department. Os the estimat ed *B,OOO to be derived from this (Continued On Page Six) COwund Capitol SqiwM By-LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT AUTOMOBILES —Rising prloeb of automobiles occasion worry for State department heads beyond the big item of finding money to pay for them out of their bud gets. For several years there has been fixed policy that automobiles supplied by the state for use of | employees, with very few except ions such as the governor and chairman of the Highway Commis sion, should not exceed *ISOO in cost. Under that regulation it was possible to get brisk competitive bidding among manufacturers of • Fords, Chevi-olets, Plymouths, Bu icks. Dodges and several others. On one major purchase Bulck for some reason underbid Chevrolet and a good many Buicks were bought for the Highway Patrol. During mcent months prices rises Have taken same manufacturers - out of the range of State contracts. DISCRIMINATION—Then there were some officials who wanted heavier can than the run-of-pay roU State workers were furnished. Several arguments were advanced in support of upping the price lim- IContinued Op Pace Sis) a VFW will Stage Musical Comedy : The Dunn post of the Veterans of Foreign Wan has contracted with the Empire Producing Com pany,of Kansas City, Mo.|, to pro duce a musical comedy entitled "Going Places.” toXTtelrat for ‘the show, which will be strictly an with five men rt and two* women needed for thorn parte. • , • ■ ** a /STI “Ttl ♦ #. ,5k TELEPHONES 3117 - 311* - 31* Submits Record $346,500 Budget — - M , fgM Be 5 ii JiijSlL. ■ JhßH® (fc.'.i ALL TOGETHER, ONE-TWO-THREE —< The Fire Department’s venerable and asthmatic 1833 Ford fire boggy caused much embarrassment and consternation last night when it refused to go ste tm a fire call. With some urging from the ctiy’s newer Mack pumper, it was finally nudged out into the street and coaxed into spluttering, unwilling actio. When the picture above was snapped, members of the Fire Department were preparing to peer Into the machine’s vitals to find the trouble. It Is now abandoned at the rear of the Municipal Building. City Manager R. Thomas Hobbs recommended in his 1951-52 city budget that funds be sought for purchase of a new fire truck to replace Old Reluctant. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) Williams Plans Hog Market At Benson Army S«ts Off Biggest Non-Atom Explosive Charge DUGAWAY, Utah, May 22—<W— The Army prepared to set off the biggest man-made non-atomic blast in history about noon today. A deeply imbedded charge of 320,000 pounds of TNT will be ex ploded In Western Utah wasteland in an experiment to determine the effects of a heavy underground ex plosion on target buildings and bridges. The explosibn will have about one-fifth the energy of an atomic bomb. Newsmen and press photograph ers were restricted to a four-mile safety line from the blast. Army engineers, directing “op eration underground,” said that the carefully controlled and meas ured explosion of MO tons of pow der would be detonated as planned unless unexpected storms interfere. “Last summer in New Mexico, penetration tests were made by dropping inert bombs,” explained Lt. Col. C. C. Haug, head of the Sacramento Army Engineers’ dis trict. “We know how deep a bomb* will go. Now what we Want to find out is exactly what happens when it goes off. By using heavily in strumented, buried chargee w e should be able to find out.” ■■ a-,..,,, G, REVIVAL SET Plans for a revival at Blackmons Grove Church have been completed It was announced this morning by the pastor, the Rev. Ralph Byrd. The revival will begin Sunday night May 25 at 8 o’clock and will continue for two weeks. Evangel ists, Ralston Butler dud Winnie Ham Butler will be the guest speak ers. Everyone is urged to attend. Murder Evidence Heard RUTHERFORD, May 2V « A Rutherford SHperlor Court Jury listened today to evidence against a 19-year-old orphan charged with murdering his orphanage superin tendent in an argument over girls. It took four hours yesterday to select a Jury to hear the case against charged with Alexande^ J. Noah Williams and J. A. Jones, operators of the Dunn and Smltllfleld hog markets and six others in the State, announced to day that plans have been com pleted for the opening of the Ben son Hog Market. The new market will be located on Highway 301, a quarter of a mile south of Benson near the Pure Oil bulk plant. The opening has been set for Monday, June 11. Mk. Williams said today that either J. P. Batten of Laurinburg or William Loftin of Mount Olive will be in charge of the new mar ket. Both are Experienced live stock men. OPENING DELAYED Mr. Williams said that he and Mr. Jones had planned to have the new market open by February 1, but that because of pressing business matters the opening had to be delayed. The two Smithfield men operate markets in Smithfield, DUnn, Mount Olive, Laurinburg, Warsaw, Wil son, Goldsboro and Clarkton. Some of those markets are operated by Williams alone and some of them are operated by both men. LARGE OPERATORS They are buyers for Klngan and Company of Richmond, Va., and are the largest hog buyers in the entire southeastern United States. In 1950, they bought a total of 92,207 hogs weighing 19,293,308 pounds and bringing the farmers a total of $3,400,080,70, To date in 1051, a total of *53,293 hogs weighing T 1,330,198 pounds has been bought for *2,612,412.11 by these markets. •-'*:* Benson’s new hog market will keep a truck available at all times, to pick up hogs free of eharge. Hogs will be bought every day and the facilities of the market will enable it to handle as many as 1,000 hogs per day. Both Mr. Wil liams and Mr. Jones have been in the hog business many years and all their markets have beensuc cessful. 4-’W: . " ‘r ■ Witnesses testified yesterday that Justice violated orphanage rules by teeing a 14-year-old girl at her dormitory. They said Justice be came angry and “stormed out of SwpattV Office" when Sweatt ac- Jerry Miles, a student, said he sa% Justice and Powell Ilia doorway DUNN, N. a, TUESDAY, MAY 32, 1951 House Takes Up Indfcm&aifi Loan Measure WASHINGTON, May 22 —(W Administration foreign policy was in for another mauling today in the House as it took up the grain for-India loan bill. A final vote on the measure was expected later this week - House Democratic leaders were confident cf passage of the bill to lend *190,000,000 to India to buy 2,000,000 tons of grain. However, some legislators were set to try to write strings into the measure—strings such as forcing India to lift an embargo on ex port of uranium in return for the loan. Some legislators are critical of India’s actions in the United Na tions and her “friendship” for Russia. India wants the loan on a long term basis with no strings attach ed. The Senate has passed a bill similar to that being considered by the HOUee. In other congressional develop ments: Un-American: Actor Jose Ferrer (Continued On Page Six) Cumberland Court Makes $1,900 Award Cumberland Superior Court last week awarded *1,900 and corns to Russell M. Buss as damage* re sulting from a collision in Dunn between a truck owned by Buss and a car driven by Bathe B. Bul lard Holmte. < • •. A■” ( The accident occurred at the in tersection of N. Ellis Ave. and W. Broad St. October 29, 1949. The plaintiff alleged that fats truck, driven by William Ireland, an employe, had the right of way at- the Intersection and that the defendant was negligent in fail ing to stop. • ’ Bus Strike Looms Its Si* Carolina Cities ' CHARLOTTE, May 22— W—Some 625 Dak* Power Company bus drivers ahd mechanics prepared to day to "withdraw frohragrrioe^m jmlraJtt Sfhotmefby the S£ The Brotherhood of Railway f ire Alarm Ushers In Council As Old Crew Chases Blaze , frhe new city council came to : town with bells pn last night—and I had to wait while the old council chased a few bells of its own. f Shortly after 7:30 p. m., when : the solemn ceremony of ushering : o t the former council and swear r b i to the new was to begin, the f e gong sounded. Since most of £ti e governing body—including * sypr-Fire Chief Ralph Hanna— a t members of the fire depart , n >nt, the proceedings were held u for a half-hour while ihe a gust body of smoke-eaters c ased after a minor blaze. Meeting before a small crowd In ; t e upstairs courtroom of the S anicipal Building, the old coun c , consisting of Mayor Hanna, re turning Councilman B. A. Bracey l ahd L. L. Coats and outgoing ; numbers Earl G. Vann and Joe Wilkins, dispatched their business ii£a record half-hour. flach incoming member was given aired carnation (or his lapel, courtesy of Wade’s Flower Shop. Negro Driver Indicted For Manslaughter Free On Bond is. Fiery Defendant’s J%ssionJFJamerL._ Something new In ceurting tech niques—a smoke bomb—was rt vealed in Harnett Superior Court late Monday. It came out in the testimony of William Herbert Wilkins, Dunn Ne gro, who was pleading innocent to stealing paint from the outhouse of Dr. C. D. Codrington, Negro physician. Wilkins: without counsel and con ducting his own case, was ques tioned about bis past record by Solicitor Jack Hooks. The defendant who recently re turned to his home town after 11 years residence in New York City, admitted he served about two years In a hospital for the insane. “Ws«n’t that for arson?” asked Hooks. “Tell the court you were trying to burn up the house where your girl friend lived.” “No, sir,” Wilkins protested vig orously. “I Just threw a smoke bomb in the house to run out my girl friend.” Wilkins later admitted he was sent to Bellevue Hospital In New Ycrk City for mental observation. Too Matty .Wives Bring Jail Term GREENSBORO, May 22 W Ernest Morton, 68-year-old Negro minister, went to Jail today be cause he had too many wives. Morton, who said he was a vet eran of the Navy in IMS, the Army in World War I and the Coast Guard in World War n, told the court he had married three times without obtaining a divorce and bad a third “wife” Whom he never married but who bore him six children. Judge Dan K. Moore sentenced him to six months lh prison. Morton said his most recent marriage was to Carrie Jones of Greensboro oh May 7. 1860, in York, 8. C. His first W«s to Sailie Whar ton in Alta Vista, Va., in 1803. Be left his first Wife in 1806, the minister said, ahd “took up with” uma Bloks in Philadelphia ip 1910. They had six children before Moton left and married Annie Dick of Greensboro in Danville, Va., In 1928. . Both Moton’s Greensboro wives appeared in court to testify sbout BIRMINGHAM, Ain.. May 2 IVt Southern Conference Com missioner fiernie Moore skid last night be woh|d .mrttq a letter, of FIVE CENTS PER COPY Wade’s also provided a tall basket of white gladioli to brighten up the dingy, 40-year-old courtroom. VOTE SEVERANCE PAY On a motion by Vann, the council voted unanimously to give City Manager R. Thomas Hobbs, who sat in on his last meeting last night, a severance pay grant equal to three months’ salary, provided the action is approved by State Attorney General Harry McMullan. If the move is sanctioned by the attorney general, Hobbs would col lect *1,250, a quarter of his yearly salary. i Hobbs, who is scheduled to go i back into the Navy June 15, told ■ the council he “enjoyed every minute” of his stint with the town. ’ The old animosities were forgotten : as the councilmen wished him well ’ and went on record as regretting i his loss to the Navy. When the old board disclosed at i 8:30 p. m., incoming members J. , V. Bass of Ward Two and R. G. (Continued On Page Two) John Louis Brown. 48, Lillington Negro facing an indictment on ln tfteptery manslaughter following »I Saturday automobile accident «Heh took the life of * LUUnqton school teacher, today was see under *2,000 bond. The Harnett County grand Jjairy,' now in session at the courtho'ust' yesterday returned *• ffvw against Brown, who earlier.', had been held for investigation follow ing the coroner’s inquest. Chester Brown, Lillington businessman, and W. A. Patterson, Negro undertaker, furnished bond. Hie defendant will be represen ted by Attorney Archie Taylor. In the meantime. Presiding Judge Q. K. Nimocks continued to hear a variety of cases in Harnett Superior Court. The majority of today’s sessions was devoted to the hearing of two eases which originated in Dunn Recorder’s Court. The poiirt re cessed as the State was presenting evidence in the case of William Herbert Wilkins, Dunn Negro charged with breaking and enter ing and the larceny of two gallons of paint from Dr. C. D. Codrington. -Earlier the court heard part Os the evidence in the case of four teen-age boys from Brooklyn, N. Y., accused of stealing a car be longing to Daily Record Sports Editor Joe Caviness of Lillington. SENTENCE DEFERRED In the automobile theft case, the Judge delayed the case pending a report from New York authorities and parents of ihe boys,;three of whom, Highway Patrolmen told the court, .were recently cited as (Continued On Pago Six) Jfflggr TAKE OATH OF OFFICE- Dunn', four eouncllmtn « shown above at they took the oath «f office, administered In the Municipal Building Courtroom by lodge Howard G. Godwin of Gena Heft). " Shown are Commissioner B. A. Bracey (back to camera), Conuai»*ioner J. V. Boon Ceaimtotloatr It Tart Ond C.bmMair t L. Coate. In the backgreond, left, to City Attorney L R WtUtoma Saag at the back, under the calendar, to Mayer Ralph Hdtraa, who waa sworn to later. Chaste* Start*. mBBaH clerk and acting ittUnf manager, to Mated with kto back to the camera. (Daily Record Photo gM|| Plant Mon COTTON For Your Country'* Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. South Koreans Fold; Spearheads Push 25 Miles Below Border TOKYO, May 22—(IP) —Thousands of Chiifljjse -flSBs swept more than 25 miles south of the 38th Parall<£LJ6- day through disintegrating South Korean forces eastern front. *■*•*»' \£ End-Of-War Means Sought By Republicans WASHINGTON, May 22. —HP The Senate’s MacArthur investiga tion resumed today with Republi cans demanding that Gen. Omar N. Bradley tell what it would take to end the Korean War. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs bf Staff, was recalled for his fourth appearance before the Senate Armed Services-Foreign Re lations Committee. The committee is Investigating Korean War policy differences which led to the dis missal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as Far Eastern commander. Bradley has said the Joint Chiefs approved the ouster on military grounds, but he has refused to dis cuss confidential White House con ferneces on the subject. After the committee voted 18 to 8 last week against ordering Brad ley to tell about these confidential discussions, Sen. Alexander Wiley, R„ Wls., formally proposed that President Truman be asked to let the participants tell wh|fr was saidi Russell.' D.. Ga„ in'li~niwl sis wait ready to put Wiley's let&fbWore the committee out did not do so yesterday because Wiley was then SO trie of the GOP committee members conferred about questions which they thought still should be - (Continued On Page Five) State News Briefs CHARLOTTE, May 22—(ID—Some 300 textile manufacturing execut ives will meet here tomorrow to re view the effects of the govern ment’s new ceiling prices on their products. The Office of Price Stabilization will place the cotton textile indus try under a general order May 28, allowing manufacturers to charge pre-Korean prices, plus increased labor and materials costs through 1950. The meeting here Is one of a series to enlighten cotton manufac turers, sponsored by the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute. The first meeting is slated for At lanta today. New pricing regulations will be explained by James L. Rankin of Chester, Pa., attorney for the insti tute, and B. D. Bradford of A. M. Pullen Co., a Greensboro auditing firm. ' NO. 11* A heavily-censored dispatch fwm Bth Array headquarter* reported United Nations troops were fight ing desperately against time and unfavorable terrain to close the gap in the Alied line east of Pan gam. Enemy spearheads already were south of Soksa, 25 miles belotf.fte 38th Parallel, the dispatch said. But censors blacked out the exact width and depth of the Communist break through. An Bth Army spokesman called the situation in the breakthrough . Elsewhere along the 120-mile. K orean front, however, the Bth Army beat off diminishing attacks on the east-central sector and sflUPk north within eight mites «f the 38th Parallel above Beoul on the heels of retreating Chinese. Fresh Chinese troops and tanks were reported moving east and southeast either to exploit the Bok sa breakthrough or for a new as sault on the battered but rein forced U. 8. 2nd Division. The 2nd Division was ready for them, but didn’t expect them to give much trouble. It# commander, Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner, said the division already had broken the back of the Red offensive on the east-central front. "The Red units in front of. us | are no longer capable of launch- 1 ing a potent attack,” he said. “The boys have stopped them oold.” I The Communists threw two bet* J tallons—l.6oo or more troops-. ; . (Continued dOn Page Six) Interest Groups Hit Control Pkm WASHINGTON, May 22—HD The administration’s drive for more economic controls was rocked today by cattlemen, homebuilders ami farmers. The cattlemen told the Housing Banking Committee that If beef price controls are not scrapped they will have to depend on the "black market” to save them from "dis- 1 aster.” The cattlemen suggested, that consumers, likewise, would bo be|N| ter off with a "black market" as long as price ceilings stay in force. The National Association of Home Builders said that housing credit controls are heading the na tion "right back into * sefious housing shortage, perhaps even more acute than the postwar shor tage.” Four major farm organizations issued press statement*, condemn ing the price control methOC* of dealing with inflation. | Newsom, master of the Grange, said the program is moti vated by politics rather than cere effort to curb Inflation. * % Other organizations \ criticMng 4 the program were the National Council of Fanner the National Milk Producers Vener ation and the American Parm*®*r-; Q cau Federation. ‘&4>
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