LEATHERS- Partly ciaudy and hat again. VOLUME 1 "Iron Triangle" Stronghold Is Imperiled By Allied Drive Operation May Settle Fate Os Reds In Korea TOKYO, Tuesday, June 5 —(lP)—United Nations infan trymen are hacking their way into the mountains modntains guarding the Chi nese Red Army’s “iron tri angle” fortress in central Korea today. The future of Chinese Com munist military operations In Korea may hinge on the success of the Allied drive into the Chor won-Kumhwa-Pyongyang triangle, it was reported. Throwing hand grenades as they crawled over rugged peaks honey combed with a. fantastic network of defenses, the Allied troops made gains of up to three miles Monday despite pelting .rain. The rain limited sth Air Force operations to 250 sorties. COUNTERATTACKS REPULSED The Communists threw heavy fire Into the advancing Allies and made three strong counter-attacks which were beaten off. From their bunkers and deep en trenchments. the Reds poured ar tillery, motar, machine gun and rifle fire into the UN lines. It was Indicated that the Allies have hit a main line of Communist resistance in fortifications which were built by the North Koreans before the war started. U. P. war Correspondent Robert Gibson said. The right arm of the two-prong ed drive advanced 1,000 to 4,000 yards Monday astride the road between Kfimhwa and Hwachon. The left nettled counter-attacking Chinese in the Call-Li sector near Yetchon. 13 mile* south-southwest, of Chorwon. At the eastern end of the line Communist resistance appeared to (Continued On Page Six) (fowimd Capitol SquaM By LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT ' JUDGES ln re-appointing all eight special judges for two year terms, Governor Scott followed pre cedent of his predecessors—which he had ignored in two major re spects in his first appointments two years ago. Governor Scott was the first chief executive to name the full authorized quota of eight special judges at one time, and the first to decline reappointment of a judge, except when it was deemed necessary to continue as many men on the special judges roll. Gov ernor Cherry did not reappoint Judges R. D. Dixon and Jeff D. Johnson, because he decided the full quota was not needed. When Governor Scott got around to nam ing special judges In 1949 he re tained only two of the incumbents, Judges Sumner Burgwyn and George Patton. He did not reap point Judges Luther Hamilton, Paul Edmon so n, George Bhuford, Charles Coggin or Peyton McSwain. APPOINTEES Os the original Scott appointees one died, Judge W. P. Horton of Pittsboro, and he was succeeded by Judge Howard Godwin of Qunn. The special Judges reappointed last week were: Judges Susie Sharpe of • ReldsviUe, George Patton of Franklin, A. R. Crisp of Lenoir and Harold Bennett of Asheville from the western cir cuit: Judges W. H. S. Burgwyn of ' (Continued On Fag* Six) Suicide Ruled In Decth Os McNeill Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen derson ruled today that the death of Neill Thomas McNeill, 37, of Broadway, Rt 1, was a plain case of suicide and said that no inquest will be held. McNeill shot himself to death with a 13 gauge shotgun Friday afternoon at the home of his brother-in-law, Ralph MCKimmon. Members of the family said they heard the shot about 13 o’clock and rushed to him and found him dead. Earlier, he had borrowed the shot gun "to go kill a snake.” Mr. McNeill left a note to the family in which he said ha was Coroner sheriff TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 -31 V Chief Stands Pat Over Star Chamber Request To Resign Police Chief George Arthur Jackson, scheduled to be ousted at tonight’s session of the city council, was still standing his ground this morning. He has not re signed and apparently has no intention of doing so. Acting City Manager Charles R. Storey said this morning that Chief Jackson has not withdrawn his application for reappointment, as requested by the board. At the last meeting of the city council, City Manager Storey was instructed to request Chief Jackson to withdraw hifc application for reappointment. Mr. Storey notified the chief of the board’s decision. The veteran police chief, who has served the town for 27 years, has conferred with members of the board, it was learned, but has not withdrawn ills application. "I never have been fired,” he was quoted as saying, “so I just think I'll let them fire me.” The action of the city coun cil was taken at the executive session held at the last meet ing after the new board was sworn in. , Although action of the request for Jackson's resignation was tak en in executive session, the General Statutes of North Carolina slate Harnett To Participate In School Improvement Plan A signal honor has come to Har nett County with its selection as one of 10 North Carolina countlH to participate in a Bchool Admin istration Improvement Program, sponsored jointly by the Kellogg Foundation and the School of Edu cation of the Univerity of North Carolina. An invitation for Harnett County to take part in the program came from Guy P. Phillips, dean of the School of Education at the Uni versity, in a letter to C. Reid Ross, county superintendent of schools. Ross reported to the County Board of Education at its meeting Friday night that the small sum of $250 each quarter will be need ed from county funds to finance the program. The University and the Kellop Foundation, which will seek to continue the program here Two Persons Killed In Accident Near Benson Two persons were killed in ac cidents near Benson during the weekend. Cletus Barefoot, 23, of Benson, Rt. 2, died in Dunn Hospital early Sunday. The wreck in which he was fatally injured occurred six miles from Benson when the car in which he was riding overturned. Funeral services for Barefoot were held Monday at 4 o’clock at the Banner’s Chapel Church. The Rev. John W. Smith of Benson and the Rev. I. Clyde Shepard of Erwin officiated. Burial was in the Young Cemetery, near Fair haven Church. . Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Golden Barefoot of Ben son, Rt. 3; two brothers, Roland CAMPBELL GRADUATES - Shown above are the Harnett County students Who graduated Friday Wxt Baihj 'j&tmtb specifically in regard to council meetings that “every meeting shall be open to all persons.” NO SECRET VOTE In addition, the governing body of any municipality is enjoined from voting on or considering any question in private session. According to law, full records of council sessions must be kept and must be opened for the inspection of any voter or taxpayer. No men tion of the action in regard to the police chief was included in the printed report of the council’s May 21 session. The three “Citizens Committee Commissioners, Leek Coats, J. V. Bass and R. G. Tart, have been credited with originating the move to fire the chief upon demand of Chairman Oliver W. Godwin and the Citizens Committee for Law Enforcement. Whether or not Mayor Ralph E. Hanna and Commissioner B. A. Bracey voted and how they voted at the executive session has not (Continued On Page Six) for five years, will gay five dollars to every dollar expended by the county. Participation in the pro gram Will cost Harnett' less than 10 cents for every school child benefited, Ross said. Board members promptly approv ed including this item of expense in the tentative budget which is slated for submission today to the county commissioners. MAY SET PATTERN Phillips told Harnett education officials that the University, the cooperating schools and the foun dation grant will "enable us joint ly to develop a pilot leadership pro gram in the state which will he significant in the future of North Carolina public education and may become a pattern for other states.” (Continued On Page Six) and Wayne Barefoot, both of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Nadine Williams of Dunn and Mrs. Wil burg Ennis, Benson, also one nephew. In the other accident, Sylvia iLaßue Hall, 20-month-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Hall of Four Oaks, Rt. t, was killed when she was struck by an automobile near Hsnson Saturday night. According to State Patrolman Wallace L. Morrow, who investiga ted, the child ran out In front of the car as ft rounded a curve on Highway 301, five miles north of Benson. Morrow, who classed the accident as unavoidable, said that no charges would be preferred. DUNN, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1951 Hope Seen For Heat-Blasted Harnett Crops Farmers who have been casting hopeful glances at the sky and doubtful glances at their crops during the overlong drought got some solace today from County Agent'T. D. O’Quinn.* Mr. O’Quinn said the long dry s]>ell “looks bad.” but that losses in 1951 crops will be negligible if rain comes within a reasonable time. “A lot of old-timers are predicting rain for tonight.” he stated. “I fully believe we’ll get some within the next two or three days.” Pointing out that “dry weather is noted for scaring farmers to -death," the assistant county agent observed that most plants are in a healthy state now. and will doubtless survive if they get rain before the end of the week. Dry weather and record high temperatures combined over the Week-end to make life miserable for city dwellers and farmers alike in this area. Temperatures Near 100 With no wind blowing and not a cloud in sight, the thermometer nudged the 100 mark over most of Harnett and neighboring counties Saturday. Sunday and Monday were slight ly cooler, with some breezes noted. But the improvement was not marked. Throughout the county streams and swamps have dried up entirely or shrunk to mere trickles. The resulting lack of water has been bad for small grains in par ticular, Mr. O’Quinn said. however, has also taken a bad lick ing. Early-set tobacco is not growing off normally, but hardening, he pointed out. Most losses have been in later-set leaf which was put out after the dry weather moved in. Corn is suffering from the lack of moisture, he continued, but will produce a reasonable yield if it gets rain in the near future. Cotton, which can stand a lot of d*j) weather without suffering, is / (CoattMMd On Page Five) Life Os Faith Is Stressed By Dr. S. L. Stealey Dr. S. L. Stealey, president of Southeastern Seminary at Wake Forest, advised yp graduates of Campbell College Friday “the only thing big enough for man is an adequate man, and that man is Jesus!” ‘To put your faith in Man economic, or Man psychological, or Man intellectual is to give frag mentary meaning to life,” he warn ed. Lamenting that “our world for the past 400 years has tied itself up with a mess of tin whistles”, Dr. Stealey pled with the grad uates “not to pay too,much for your whistles.* After processional by Mrs. Bessie Campbell Lynch and invocation by the Rev. Charles B. Howard, the college choir, directed by S. David Smith, with Ruby Gray Baker at the piano, sang Tschenanohoff’s “Salvation Is Created” and Saint Saens’ “Praise Ye the Lord of Hosts”. After diplomas were presented, President L. H. Campbell wished for the 101 graduates, whom he de scribed as "public relations repre sentatives,” “a life that grows” and sweeters with the years." Dr. J. W. Angell pronounced the benediction. | Marietta Gates of Otsego, W. iVa., was valedictorian of the soph omore class, with Dewey Yarley of Coats as salutatorian. Ann South erland of Smithfield had the highest average ' tor the gne-year commercial students, with Dolores McGee of Benson as runner-up. (Continued on Page 8) Red Threat In East Prompted Concessions To USSR At Yalta Move Was Aimed At Conserving U. S. Strength WASHINGTON, June 4 (IP)—Secretary of State Dean AGheson said today that cohcessions were made to the Russians at Yalta be cause of “grave danger” they would wait until we had spent our strength defeat ing Japan and then “come in and do what they wish ed.’ Also. Acheson told Senate Mac- Arthur investigators, military lead ers at that time anticipated a “very bloody and terrible” battle in at tacking the homeland islands of Japan, and “it was of the utmost ifnjortance that the Russians should come into the war in the Fa* East, in time." return for entering the war against Japan, Russia under the 1945 Yalta agreement won the southern half of the Sakhalin Is lands ariß restoration of her former rights in Port Arthur and Dairen, Manchuria, and of her former in terest in two Manchurian railways. Republican critics of the adminis tration have called the agreement a t'sell-out” of Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist Chinese government by the United States. Defends China Policy In his third day before the Sen ate committee investigating the dis missal of Gen. 'Douglas MacArthur from supreme command in the Far East. Acheson put on a fighting de fense of American China policy dat ing back to the 1945 agreement. ’Now there was very little doubt that (the Russians) would c«nae in (iato. Far Eastern tern to i*), but -IBB' grave danger was thax they would really wait until the wa* was over, and they would then come in and do what they wished." Besides, said the embattled Sec retary of State, the late President Roosevelt didn’t give the Russians anything at Yalta that they could (Continued Os Page Six) First Large Army Group Arrives Today Officers and men of the 443rd Quartermaster Base Depot rolled into Dunn this afternoon and started settling down for the big Army maneuvers which will get underway on Aug ust 13th, and continue through September 2. Colonel Murdoch K. Goodwin of Philadelphia, commanding officer of the unit, arrived in town sev eral hours earlier and was on hand to greet the troops. Colonel Goodwin point ed out that the 125 enlist ed men and 30 officers who arrived today are the (Continued On P»ge Six) State News Briefs RALEIGH. June 4 OR —Two white men escaped from the Samp son County prison camp last night, State Prison officials announced today. The fugitives were identified as Allen Colon Ward. 32, of White ville, and Walter Stanley Lawson, 36, of Orrum. Ward was serving terms totaling 10 to 14 years for secret assault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill. He was convicted in Col umbus County In February. 1948. Lawson was convicted In Robeson County last November of forgery and sentenced to three years. FORT BRAGG, June 4~