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VOLUME 1
Senators Are
Undecided Over
* DPA Extension
WASHINGTON, June 13
—(lP)—Members of the Sen
ate Banking Committee ap
peared' txxtyy to be against
extending present controls
for one year, but for differ
ent reasons.
(f) Chairman Burnet R. Maybank,
D., 8. C., said the committee prob
ably would turn down a proposal
by Sen. A. Willis Robertson, D.,
Va., to continue the defense Pro
duction Act “as is” for 12 months.
It expires June 30.
Questioning of the 13 committee
members showed that some wanted
a larger extension - the two years
asked by President Truman - and
others wanted a shorter extension.
m So, the one year extension seemed
“ headed nowhere.
As the Senate group prepared for
a closed door showdown on the
proposal. the House Banking
Committee continued consider
ing controls legislation by dls
i cussing the problem of how much
power the government should be
granted to condemn private prop
erty for defense use.
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS
rt. Appropriations Penny-pincU
* ing senators predicted that one of
every 10 government workers
200,000 persons will be out of
Jobs. The bi-partisan economy bloc
scored a preliminary victory yes
terday In its drive to trim the
budget when the Senate voted, 58
to 24, to slash the payrolls of six
top government agencies by 10
per cent. It also told its approp
riations committee to take the
sams action on another appropri-
A atlons bill for 27 more agencies.
Beef—The Joint Congressional
"Watchdog” Committee on eco
nomic controls scheduled hearings
for tonight and tomorrow night to
learn whether cattlemen are strik
ing against the public. The com
mittee planned to question repre
sentatives of the big meat pack
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~Tbumnd
Capital
Squate
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
NUMBER TWO—There <s pres
ently less interest being mani
fested by Governor Kerr Scott and
his close political associates In the
governorship next year than In
the No. 2 place on the state ticket.
Apparently they are coasting along
waiting for the scheduled visit of
Ambassador Capus Waynick to the
state during July and August before
taking definite stand on prospec
tive candidates for governor. Mean
time, they are diligently seeking
an acceptable candidate for lieu-
tenant governor. None of the
avowed or frequently projected
candidates suit the administration
group. Governor Scott said at a
press conference some weeks ago
he thought Roy Rowe of Burgaw
would find unexpected opposition,
and it Is sommon knowledge that
the governor has no political love
for J. C. Pittman of Sanford. John
Larkins of Trenton, Frank Taylor
of Goldsboro or Junius Powell of
Whiteville, each of whom has been
suggested for the number two post
in state government.
SUPPORTER He probably,
feels a bit kindlier toward Vivian
Whitfield of Burgaw, rated a po
tential, but Governor Scott has a
long memory. He hasn’t forgotten
how vigorously Whitfield support
ed Charlie Johnson in IMS. The
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Swimmer Rescued
WHITEVILLE, June 13-flfl
—Mrs. J. 0- Poole, a lakeside
vacationer, was credited today
with saving the life of Mrs.
Paul J. Williams -of Roper
whose two daughters; -were
drowned in Lake V/sxamsw.
The victims were six-year-old
Paula Jean and eight-year-old
Nancy.
Witnesses said the youngest
child was chasing a beach ball
when she stepped into the hole
in the lake bottom. Mrs. Wil
liams and Nancy fell into the
££» j4 ttemp “ ng 40
Mrs. Poole heard cries for '
help and ran to their aid. She
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WAR VETERAN RETURNS Cpl. Floyd Godwin, Jr.. 20-year
old veteran of 10 months’ fighting in Korea, shows his mother,
Mrs. Felton Godwin Byrd, the Bronze Star Medal which be won
in battle overseas. Corporal Godwin also received tbe Purple Heart
and a number of campaign stars in the firhtlng in Korea. He re
turned to his home at 308 W. Harnett St., Dunn, last week for a
30-day leave before being reassigned to duty. (Daily Record Photo
by T. M. Stewart.)
Dunn G. I. Tells Os
Korean Experiences
“I sometimes doubt that the people at home ate
sure there’s a war going on.”
- This’lndictment has been made before by coutftlesr
thousands of returning Amwdcan veterans who had risk
ed their lives for this dfluhtry in wars overseas.
Sister Sued ,
By Brothers In
Land Squabble
Trial of a landsult between two
brothers and their sister in which
the bone of contention is an 18-
year-old verbal agreement contin
ued today In Harnett Superior
Court after consuming most of the
dav ■ vesterdav.
Plaintiffs in the action are; J. C.
and T. C. Bayles of Coats, who
brought action against their sister,
Mrs. J. B. Page, the former Ava
Lee Bayles, to secure a title to 51
acres allegedly due them from the
estate of their mother, the late
Mrs. Jo Emma. Denning Bayles.
Hie Bayles brothers are repre
sented by I. R. Williams of Dunn
and Franklin T. Dupree of Angler.
Mrs. Page’s lawyers are Neill Mck.
Salmon and Charles Roes.
Meantime, Judge W. I. Halstead
dismissed other Jurors yesterday
at 3 p. m. and Instructed them to
return Thursday morning at 9:30
o'clock. *
A damage suit arising out of an
automobile accident near Lilling
ton involving Milton L. Baker and
W. R. Beasley, which was booked
for Tuesday, was continued. Baker
Is represented by John R. Hood of
Lilllngtoß' and R. L. McMillan of,
Raleigh. The Raleigh firm of
Smith, Leach and Anderson also
appears as counsel for Beasley on
the other side.
Old Agreement
In the landsult, the Bayles
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BULLETINS
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DENVER, June 13 —(lD— Government rollbacks on
cDothinr prices will be announced in “a day er go,” Mich
ael V. DiSalle, federal price administrator, said today.
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WIESBADEN, Germany, June Hiiaainc
F-84 Thdnderjets were; reported today to have crashed
in Communist Czechoslovakia. The U. S. embassy in
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Wxt B aiitj Tlttnvfr
This time it was made by a sold
ier who speaks with the authority
of experience—Cpl. Floyd Godwin,
Jr., 20, of Dunn, a veteran of 10
months’ fighting with United Na
tions forces in Korea.
Corporal Godwin, whose body
carries a number of scars as re
minders of the brutal reality of the
war In the Far East, returned last
week to his home at 308 W. Harnett
St.
The corporal who turned 20 just
a month ago, was too young for the
global engagements of World War
n. But he was Just did enough to
be a candidate for slaughter when
the war in Korea caught the Unit
ed State flat-footed last June.
SHIPPED TO KOREA
When the war broke out Corpor
al Godwin, then a veteran of al
most three years service, most of
It in Japan, was stationed at Ot
su, on Honshu Island. It took the
Army less than three weeks after
the outbreak of war to get Oodwin’s
outfit, the 35 th "Cacti” Regiment
of the 25th Division, to the port of
Pusan in Korea.
And It took only six days more
for Corporal Godwin to earn the
Purple Heart.
Godwin saw his first action on
July 18, three days after he landed
at Pusan, when his outfit was mov
ed directly to the front. Three days
later Corporal Oodwin, a radio op
ertor with the Headquarters Com
pany of the Ist Battalion, 35th Reg
iment, drove his Jeep over a land
mine.
One of the three passengers in
the Jeep was killed outright and
the other two were badly wounded.
Corporal Godwin got off mor)
lightly, with a wound in his left
hprwl
■ With a shortage of trained fight
ing men making it necessary to
use every man who could get to the
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DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1951
General Lauds
Congress, Flays
Stale Advisors
i WASHINGTON, June 13
UP) —Lt. Gen. Albert C.
Wedemeyer credited Con*
press today with producing:
til the “constructive” Men*
, for dealing with China since
| the war and accused the,
| State Department of trying
| to block those ideas.
Wedemeyer testified for the third
day before the Senate committee
investigating Far Eastern policy and
the removal of Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur.
S :n. Rourke B. Hickenlooper, R,
la., asked Wedemeyer, wartime
commander of U. S. forces in
China, if the United States had
followed a policy of giving shrink
ing support to the Chinese Nation
alist government while the Chinee
Communists were getting increasing
help from Russia.
Policy Was Undertaken
Wedemeyer said he thought Hick
jenlooper had made a "fair state
ment.” He said there had
"uncertainty” about American
China policy in the postwar period
when the . Communists were dis
placing the Nationalists from the
Chinese mainland , t
Wedemeyer disclosed in other tee*
tlmony that he recommended fti
early 1945 that Russia be brounght
into the war against Japan to
shorten the hostilities. That recom
mendation was, he said, "a mis
take. an error in judgment, strate
gic judgment, there.”
Wedemeyer told Sen. Estes Ka
fauver, D., Tenn., however, that he
was "not at all involved” in the
controversial 1945 Yalta Agreement
which spelled out the terms for
Russia’s entry into the war in the
Far East.
“It seemed to me that any con
structive purpose or ideas with
reference to that area really had
their genesis in Congress.” Wede
meyer said, “and the opposition
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McCullers Gets Ariqy
Rest In Lillingfon
, ‘ Chamber .of Commerce Maiquor
Joe McCullers, a major in the, U,
S. Army Reserves, reported today
that his recall orders have been
changed to allow him to Join the
301st Logistical Command, a unit
which will be stationed at Lilling
ton during the summer maneuvers.
McCullers, slated to retlim to
the Army June 27, was originally
ordered to report to Fbrt Berm ing
Ga., to Join the infantry School
staff and faculty;.
He said that he has submitted
a request for a five-month defer
ment, but that a reply on that
request will not be received for
another 10 days.
Harnett's First
Polio Case In
1951 Reported
Harnett County’s first case
of polio during 1951 was re
ported today by Dr. W. B. Hun
ter, county health officer.
Tbe victim Is five-year-old
Margaret Ann McLeod of
Broadway, Rt. 1.
Dr. Hunter said the child was
treated last week by Dr. T. J.
Patterson of Broadway and
Duke Hospital later confirmed
his diagnosis.
The family lives near San
ford, Just inside the Harnett
County line.
Dr. Hunter said no new eases
of diphtheria have been re
ported since January and only,
one was reported that month.
However, 16 new tubercular
cases have been reported this
year and three of the patients
are still at home because fac
ilities ue not available in hos
pitals 4r sanatorium. ~
Negro Teacher Will
Try Again At UNC
KINSTON, June 13. (UP)
Gwendolyn Harrison, 25-year-old
daughter of a local Negro physi
cian, planned today to try for ad
mission to the second term of sum
mer school at the University. of
North Carolina after being turned
down Monday.
She said her application for the
first summer term had been accept
ed In the spring and she had been
assigned to .a rooal In ”C” dormi
tory. She added that she desig
nated her race on the room as*
Chancellor R. B. House told her
in Chapel HIU Monday, however,
the University had not been Mraiw
that she was a Negro, she said. •
The daughter of Dr cmd if re !
J. P. Harrison taught tbs Wt ybhr
at Johnson C. Smith University in
tart? £*Mtd 2? wtrttotal
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Reds Apparently Abandoning
Pyonggang In General Retr eat
Horse Show
Will Be Held
June 22-23
y . Residents of the Dunn area will
get a peek at some fine horseflesh
and a chance to win a new 1951
Ford next week when the first
horseshow in this area for a num
ber of years opens at the Dunn
High School ball park June 22.
W. J. “Bill” Dillon of Winston-
Salem, a professional showman
Who will promote the affair, said
that more than 100 show horses in
24 classes will be displayed during
pie two-day event.
Stalls for the horses have already
arrived at the ball park and are
being set up.
, Attractions in addition to the
drawing for the automobile will be
riding and showing exhibitions and
the awarding of *1,300 in cash prizes
for the top horses.
’’. Dillon emphasized that the draw
ing for the automobile is not a
raffle. The holder of the winning
ticket does not have to be present
.at the time of the drawing, he
Mdded.
Large Crowd Expected
He estimated that less than 2.000
Spectators will turn out the first
night, but that the second night's
attendance will top 5,000.
1 The event is expected to be one
bf the major horse shows in the
South this year, according to the
promoter.
Although show horses from five
states will be brought in for show
ing. local owners may enter their
own steeds in the appropriate
classes.
Joe Wilkins of Wilkins Motor
Company will be ini charge of spon
sorship. Each class in the show
will be sponsored by a firm of
business man in Dunn.
Herman Green, director of the
Dunn Production Credit Associa
tion, will be In charge df ticket
' thay Tje Ttcfilght kTtTJBf
Chamber of Commerce office or
froih 'the driver of the prize auto
mobile, which will be taken on a
tour of the Dunn area.
Farm Outlook Is
Improved By Rain
With showers throughout various
sections of Harnett County bring
ing relief to parched crops during
the past few days, the outlook for,
farm people has Improved consid
erably, County Agent C. R. Am
mons said today.
Prevailing warmer weather, es
pecially at night, has aided rapid
growth of crops since the rains be
gan to fall lam week, he added.
. "It can be honestly stated that
this rain was truly a million-dol
lar rain for. farmers throughout the
county,” the" county agent said.
Tobacco and com crops were the
first to respond to the added mois
ture in the soil, observed Ammons,
and tobacco has literally grown by
leaps and bounds: The rain also
came at a good time for growers
who did not have a satisfactory
stand of tobacco to replant their
crop.
Field inspection of cotton fields
has brought out the presence of
boll weevils at this early date, the
county agent pointed out, and with
the beginning of the "squaring"
season, now under way, it is ex
pected that more and more weev
ils Will appear in Harnett fields.
The county agent's office will
make a field check on some eight
to 10 farms each week of the grow
ing season to determine the degree
of boll weevil infestation. The
first check was made Monday and
showed the presence of weevils In
three out of eight fields checked.
The emergence of weevils this
year is a few days later than last
year, Ammons said.. However, he
continued, judications are now that
a complete control program may
be conducted to Insure a maximum
State News
Briefs
CLINTON. June IS—Oh—Sheriff
Perry B. Lockerman held without
bond today a Negro he said had
been hunted for 17 years on a
-Lockerman^identitled the sus
[Pset aa Wilbert Graham, 37. But
ha said the Negro Insisted he was
Jaimes Graham and had never Uv-
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Hungarian Leader To Speak
At Meeting Os Dunn Lions
Dr. Laszlo Jekely, ’ Hungarian
judge and political leader, will
be the guest speaker Thursrjy
night at a meeting of the Dunn
Lions Club, Secretary Ed Gallo
way announced today.
Dr. Jekely will appear at the,
meeting, to be held at Dunn Ar
mory, through the cooperation of
the National Committee for a
Free Europe. The committee was
founded in June, 1949 expressly
to help outstanding and signifi
cant exiled democratic leaders of
'Eastern European countries.
Dr. Jekely was born in Buda
pest in 1906. For his efforts on be
half of democracy, Dr. Jekely was
chosen to be the local leader of
a democratic party. When World
II broke out, with its insidious
Nazi infiltration, Jekely formed a
resistance organization to hearten
the tyrannized Hungarians. AH
during the stifling destruction of
the Nazi occupation this resis
tance group, under the courageous
and farseeing guidance of Laszlo
Jekely, played an Increasingly ac
tive role. It became a widespread
liaison agency for all resistance
groups.
HELD RED CROSS POST
It was not long before Dr. Jeke
ly was appointed Secretary of the
Hungarian Office of the Swedish
Red Cross. His unceasing efforts
against all forms of Fascism and
Communism became known all
over Hungary. This particular
Paving Os 50 Miles Os
Roads In Harnett Asked
The Harnett County Board of
Commissioners, in a special exec
utive session yesterday afternoon,
mOpped 50 miles of road they will
CbMniissiort ’to be hardsurfaced un
der the road bond program. '
Chairman L. A. Tart of Dunn was
notified in a letter from George
Coble of Lexington, Sixth District
commissioner, that Harnett’s share
of paving in the new fiscal year
running from July 1, 1951-July 1,
1952, would be approximately 50 to
60 miles.
Coble asked the commissioners to I
make their recommendations be
fore final approval was made of
the paving projects.
After the meeting, which was
held in the office of Sheriff Bill
Salmon, Chairman Tart said: “We
want to have all of our recommen
dations in before the district of
fice makes its recommendations. It
looks like well have some mighty
fine roads if these are approved.
When we see Mr. Coble we will
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DR. LASZLO JEKELY
Red Cross organization aenieved
nation-wide scope and carried oil
many varied activities along all
resistance fronts. It became the
beacon of hope on a very black
shore: Its most important and
humane function was the rescue
of tens of thousands of Nazi vic
tims from certain torturous death.
For his valiant and tireless ef
forts on behalf of his democratic
countrymen, Jekely was decorat
ed with the highest resistance
order ,the Silver Star of the Hun
garian Freedom Order. He was
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have some suggestions about addi
tions to the county system.”
TO MEET WITH POBLE
Mr. Coble said he be hapj^>
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Negroes Booked On
Prohibition Counts
Two Negro men, Simon Smith
and General Johnson of Erwin, Rt
1, were bound over yesterday for
trial at the October term of fed
eral court in Raleigh for violat
l ing prohibition laws.
The men were given a hearing
in Dunn before U. S. Commissioner
Mallle A. Jackson after Cumber
land County and ABC offic
ers charged them with possessing
a non-registered distillery, a quan
tity of mash and a small quantity
of .non-taxpaid whiskey.
Johnson was released under S3OO
bond, but Smith was held in Fay
etteville jail in default of SSOO
bond.
NO. 132
UN Patrols May
Have Entered
Ruined Red City
TOKYO, Wednesday, June
14—HP)—Red Armies appar
ently are abandoning Pyong
gang, last anchor of their
shattered iron triangle, as
part of a general withdraw
al across the entire Korean
front.
Two powerful Allied tank-in
fantry task forces, supported by
planes were driving an Pyong
gang. 29 miles north of the 38th
Parallel, from Chonron and
Kumhwa, southern anchors of
the triangle which already have
fallen.
I
j Front dispatches said they were
meeting on significant resist
ance.
It was believed possible here
that a United Nations patrol
might already have entered the
ruined city of Pyonggang.
On almost every part of a 76-
mile front United Nations infan
trymen were advancing against
slight resistance.
Allied planes swept ahead of
them in force, raking columns
of retreating Chinese Commu
nists with machine gun, rocket
and gasoline jelly bomb fire.
Hundreds of Red troops, travel
ing in heavily camouflaged re
treat columns, were killed by
the plane attacks.
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BY HOOVER ADAMS
LITTLE NOTES: Colonel Murdoch
K. Goodwin, commanding officer
of the 443rd Quartermaster Depot,
says he’s indebted to the local to
bacco warehouses for leaving
plenty of handtrucks available..
.. Nineteen huge ran loads” of .
equipment arrived day before yes
terday There were hundreds-of
tents weighing 200 pounds, or more
each Now that the Fair Trade
prices are off, don’t be surprised to.
see a price war started by a couple
of local concerns It’s cojniflig
unless some agreement' is reached 'i
Dave Kimmell has been trying |
to find time to go to New Yorlt,:
but the remodeling and expanstOfi
program at Louis Baer’s Depart
ment Store is keeping him -teat
busy ...He did manage to get
to Charlotte to buy some new mer
chandise for the beautiful new
store the other day Department '
store sales in the Richmond aWd 1 '
increased three per cent last wegfci
while the Philadelphia and
areas reported no gain and MM--’
neapolis reported a loss Mnr%
York sales increased 18 per cent—:
thanks to the price war....l®jj|;
Beulah Lamm, the popular man
ager of Sears Order Office bc£(ff
points out that the new S«HI
midsummer sales catalog cost the -
company more than $5 apiece)—|
and one of them is yours for gfii|
asking —The midsummer catalog;'
is the largest ever issued' and’fßt
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ABC Sales Up
RALEIGH, June 13-dii-Le*
gal liquor sales in North Caro
olina last month totaled more
than $4,000,000, an lncfttw M ..
nearly 16 per cent above taggS
same month last year, a report ]
from Robert Winston, Alcohol!® v|
Beverage Control Board Cha@M
man, showed today.
vg'- * *
Winston said sales OggHH
counties,°Tbe mrt d ie<^«g|l