+WEATHER+
Partly cloady and warmer to
night and Wednesday with widely
scattered afternoon thundershow
ers.
F3LUME 1
CHINESE GIVE REASOI FOR ENTERING WAR
MORE SOLDIERS ARRlVE—Soldiers are pouring Into this section by the hundreds ahnoet. dally In preparation for the big Army man
euvers which will get underway on August 13th. A whole troop train-load arrived in Dunn late yesterday afternoon and some of them ’
are shown here boarding tracks at the cotton yard after leaving the Coast Line train. The Army did not disclose the name of the
unit or the number which arrived yesterday. (Dally Record Photo by Lewis Studio.)
Negroes Saved,
Then Jailed, By
Good Samaritan
A Good Samaritan saved the
lives of four Fayetteville Negroes
last night, then turned Into an
avenging angel and gave them a
push toward the Jailhouse.
Cpl. R. T. Williamson, new com
mander of the Harnett-Lee High
wajMFatrol unit, found two of the ,
ttegroe* unconscious and the other
Investigating, he found that the
four Negroes had been overcome
by carbon monoxide gas which had
leaked through the floorboards of
the car from the engine manifold.
FINDS WHISKEY CACHE
While hauling the four men out
of the car, Corporal Williamson
found something else —a dozen
half-gallon Jars of illegal moon
shine whiskey.
The four men—Walter Perkins, '
23, driver of the car, John Charles
Marshall, 20, Johnnie McSwain. Jr.,
25. and Herbert Leonard McNeill, 1
28—were turned over to ATU ag
ents today for prosecution. All
four were charged with transpor
tation and possession of non tax
paid whiskey.
Corporal Williamson said that
the men were groggy and nauseat
ed from the effects of the gas.
but that they,had not been drink
ing. Since it was raining, the win
dows of the car were up, acting
to hold the poisonous gas which
is tasteless and odorless—inside the
auto, he said.
Meanwhile, the rour men, grate
ful for being saved from the pos
sible death, were nontheless cha
grined that their benefactor wore
a badge on his shirt.
. GENERAL FUND INCREASED .
RALEIGH, July 3.—(UP—Reve
nue Commissioner Eugene Shaw re
ported to Gov. Kerr Scott today
that the State’s General Fund in
come for the fiscal year which end
ed June 30 totaled *130,600,000, in
Increase of $27,600,000 over the pre
vious fiscal year.
General Fund collections for the
fiscal year, he said, were more than
31 per cent above the 1940-60 fiscal
year.
The increase was "mainly realized
in our income and sales tax,” Sha*
explained.
City Manager
Still Sought
Mayor Ralph E, Hanna said to
day that the town hopes to se
cure a city manager by August 1.
He disclosed that a total of 16
applications have been received
from cities in this and other states.
At the meeting last night, he
said the applications were studied
and that the field waa narrowed
down to three who are now under
VIBIT APPLICANTS
City officials are expected to vis
it these applicants and interview
■
TELEPHONES: Sin - 3111 *-
Price Ceiling May i
Be Placed On Pork '
Approval Os *
Road Projects
Is Delayed
Road petitioners, who appeared
in large numbers before the Coun
ty Commissioners Monday went
away empty-handed but with the
feeling "no news was good news."
L. A. Tart, chairman of the
commissioners, informed them that
while new allotments for the 1951-
52 fiscal year from the Sixth dis
trict highway office were expect
ed momentarily, they had not ar
rived. So, Tart added, with no
roads to approve, the county fath
ers could not approve what they
had not received.
However, at a conference held
In LllUnvton earlier this month
with Sixth District Highway Com
missioner George Coble, the com
missioners said they were told that
Instead of the 50 miles of hard
surface earlier tentatively assigned
Harnett., the county mav get twice
as much, or around 150 miles of
paving.
Commissioner Worth Lee Bvrd
said Coble said the saving result
ing from the state-sponsored road
building would make it possible for
the state to reoalr and fix links
that Join the hard surface high
ways giving the county around 305
miles of good roads.
56 MILES MAPPED
Two netittons for new roads were
forwarded ,to the district engineer.
Ten others were filed in the of
fice of Mrs. Inez Harrington, reg
ister of deeds, pending the new
road allotment. So far commisslon
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Bad Luck Dogs Driver !
Elton Barefoot of Lillington, Rt.
1, has an occupational hasard
which would break a lesser man.
The 38-year-old employe of the
John A. Senter Bride Company
has found that the trucks he drives
have a nasty tendency to hit—or
be hit by—other vehicles.
Barefoot’s latest escapade occur
red around • p. m. Friday night
when he rammed a tractor on High
way 301 about 400 feet from Mat
thews’Store.
The accident came three days af
ter another truck hooked a wheel on
a machine he was driving while
both vehicles iVere crossing the
bridge over the Cape Fear River
near I.llllpgton.
At the time Barefoot was awidt
Barefoot and Ulitagton Attorney
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UP)
—Prise Stabilizer Michael V. Di-
Salle said today he may place
celling prices on pork by the end
of the month.
DiSalle is prohibited from put
ting price ceilings on farm com
modities until their reach
RhrttW f*ripO&
farmers. Hogs are now swung at
M per cent of parity, he noted.
“If hogs reach parity we might
be able to place ceilings” In pork,
he said at a news conference. The
next parity report is due July 29.
DiSalle told reporters that at
least some manufacturers will have
to go through with price rollbacks
despite the fact that Congress, in
extending the Defense Production
Act for 31 days, banned further
rollbacks this month.
SM.OOO MANUFACTURERS
About 24,000 manufacturers—one
ninth of the nations’ total—have
filed with EMSalle’s agency new
price ceilings computed under the
manufacturers' regulation which
was scheduled to take effect July
2, DiSalle estimated.
Os this number, those who also
took some steps to put the new
prices Into effect before July 1
must stick to them, he s&id. But
he thought that most of the new
prices would be increases rather
than rollbacks.
DiSalle said that during July his
general policy will be to “maintain
the status quo" in prices.
But he warned that if all he can
l do Is grant increase, the nation
• will have “continuously higher”
i prices.
FIGHT FOR ROLLBACKS
> He said that he is still going
to fight to get his rollback auth
ority in new Defense Production
> legislation.
He said he is “going to see to
• it that Congress is informed" of
■ what the effect will be if he doe*
r not have rollback power. Asked if
■ he could “live with” the current
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i
. at the time and Barefoot struck i
1 the tractor from the rear. Tractor i
Driver Wade suffered a bruised i
! leg- I
i Barefoot was booked for reckless i
s driving and Wade was charged with
r displaying improper lights. Dam- i
age to the truck was *6OO. <
Last Tuesday Barefoot was driv
t tag another Senter truck north
- across the river bridge when a sec
- ond truck, operated by James A.
Tait, 23, of Bladenboro, pulled out
• of the line of traffic,
k WHEELS COLLIDE
> The left rear wheels of the ve
s hides met‘and the trucks crashed,
r Damage to Barefoot’s truck was
taoe.asdtoTatfs.Mfio.
Tait explained to Patrolman Pr.ul
. O. Albergtae that he pulled out
- from behind an Army truck to see
I If the was tor passing
t He was booked for careless and
; AS^S.StfS!-'
■ Iff trucks frfHngpH up, one tractor
a- I ifißitlsfl tmiAW j qm
I PMuy mauiea, tnowiw wuck. utuji
' Med and ess automobile put out
of commission. # j
DUNN, N, C., TOESDfife JtliY, 3, 1951
Armistice Not
To Affect U.S.
Defense Plans :
WASHINGTON, July 3—l»—Mof
biUzation Director Charlos E.
son told Congress today that ’lran
armistice In Korea would have MM
effect on the defense mobUizatttkj
drfccf 'a" tax Increase" EcHcesp
the program on a pay-as-we-go
basis and said it would be unwise
to do less than the *10,000,000.000
tax hike requested by President
Truman. \
Wilson testified before the Sen
ate Finance Committee, which is
considering Truman’s request and
the House-approved bill to increase
taxes only *7,200,000,000.
Wilson admitted under question
ing of senators that “if there is
no war," a tax burden like the one
now comtemplated would ‘wreck’’’
the economy in the long run.
REDUCTION FORSEEN
Again using the qualifying phrase
—"if there is no war"—Wilson said
that by 1955 taxes and government
spending will have to be reduced
“substantially.”
He said he wanted to emphasize
that the defense program must con
tinue to go forward, that military
jequlrements must be fulfilled on
schedule, and that these goals must
be achieved "without weakening
our economic structure.”
“Some of you may be wondering
what effect a truce in Korea will
have upon our defense mobilization
program if current negotiations are
successful,” Wilson said. “The ans
wer is it will lVcve no effect.
“Our defense mobilization must
be based not upon the Korean fight
ing but upon what we know to be
the ultimate aims and present tac
tics of the Soviet Union. Until we
know that there is a genuine change
in ttys long-term alms of World
Communism, we cannot afford to
slow the pace of our own defense
buildup and our aid to other coun
tries.
CONTRACTS PLACED
Wilson testified that *42,000,000,-
000 in military orders have been
placed since the Korean war began
and that contracts are now being
awarded at a rate of (3,500.000,000
to (4,000,000,000 a month. Deliveries
and construction activity have
reached *1,500,000,000 a month, he
said, and will climb to *4,000,000,000
a month'within a year.
He told the senators that he is
not satisfied with progress in pro
duction. He recited steps being tak
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BULLETINS
NEW YORK, July 3 (W —Four missing members of
the American Communist Party Politburo failed to ap
pear in federal court tor jailing today, and their SBO,WO
bail was ordered forfeited.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 3—Oft—The government
announced today it has dsawndefl the recalß of three
United States diplomats on the grounds they helped Arch
bishop Josef Groesa in an alleged plot to overthrow the
Communist regime.
PRAGUE, Csechostovakia, July 3- (01 -Associated
Press Correspondent William N. Oatis, on trial for as
gonage,
'Prague as apte*^
| Commissioners Raise Pay Os j
KO County Employes , Slash j
pour Cents Off Tax Rate j
1951-52 Budget
Bf $1,177,260
Bets Approval
iTjiarnett County tax rate yester-
Paay was set at (ISO on the *IOO
jJiroperty evaluation, four cents less
Han. last year, and at the same
JSme 60 county officials received
LgQproximately 10 per cent salary
lurfhe raises, which are retroac-
Ewe to July 1. will range from *lO
HR *ls a month for all types of
i.lfcrk and will mark the first over-
SLanS adjustment ever made in sala
■jfljis of Harnett County employes
f Both commissioners approved a
M1j177,260 budget for the 1951-52
J—SCHOOLS GET 'FUNDS
■county
: school
et over
ig year,
armark
*l49,69o
id *83,-
e.
will be:
h fund:
03,750.
i: *47,-
0,000.
erasboro
building
possible
• school
ate,’wild
erty valuation was reported from
the office of the tax supervisor
aa over *3,060,000, pushing the coun
ty evaluation from *43 to *46 mii
-11 an, will make possible the sal
ary increase.
HOLDINGS INCREASE VALUE
The increased evaluations were
credited to a sharp rise in the num
ber of farm Implements, household
appliances and furniture, construc
i tlon and various new personal prop
erties. Real estate property was
1 reevaluated in 1848.
Salary raises will effect the
three elected officials—the elerk
: of court, the sheriff and the reg-
I (Continued on Face 7)
Lamm Asks For
: Postponement
i ' Attorneys for Carl Lamm
advised The Record this mor
; nine that they would request
a postponement In the hearing
scheduled to be given the
young radio announcer today
in Johnston County Recorder’s
Court at Smithfield. *
i-amm, the popular Country
Mayor” of Dnnn Radio Sta
tion WCKB, is frss under
52.500 bond sn charges of ns
, saulting and attempting to
rape Mrs. E. N» Snipes, wife
of a Benson policeman.
ASSAULT CHARGED
The woman claims that
assaulted her with his
i “hands and fist” on June »
k and attempted to fort* her In
! to illicit relations with him.
) The warrant was sworn out
i five days later. Lamm sayu
t there is no foundation for the
e charges and professes absolute
3 innocence.
Lamm’s attorneys said to
s day that postponement would
be necessary for them to com
plete Vheir preparation of the
defense.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NEW RED CROSS OFFICERS—C. M. (Mike) Crawford, left, of
Erwin will head the Dunn-Enrin chapter “of the American Red
Cross during the coming year a* chairman, and Henry B. Sandlin,
right, of Dunn is the new vice chairman of the chapter. Both
have Men leaders in the Red Cross for years. SandUn served as
Roll dill Chairman for the recent campaign.
* 1 ~~ S
City Council Cuts j
Tax Rate 5 Cents j
• i
Dunn’s city council gave the tax
t payers a break last night and
'Monied a nickel from the tax levy
to]
*1.66 per *l6O of evaluation. Tile
old rate had been In effect for about
three years.
At the same time, the council
tentatively approved the budget
drawn up by former City Manager
R. Thomas Hobbs and submitted
by him at the May 21 council
meeting.
Originally estimated at $346,500,
the budget was pared down by 43,-
000 at the Monday night meeting.
Cuts were made in the general
fund, knocked down from *208,750,
and debt service, dropped from
*21,800 to *21,000.
The utilities budget item—*lls,-
950—was not affected.
NEW PROPERTY
Reasons given for dropping the
tax rate included appearance of
new taxable property in town and
lower debt service. Taxes will be
levied on an estimated *8,200.000
worth of property, but city offi
cials voiced a hope that the ac
tual figure would prove to be
higher.
Hie budget will now lie open for
20 days for the convenience of the
publicfl It may be approved at
the first August meeting of the
council.
The controversial matter of park
ing meters brought forth a resolve
for stricter enforcement of pres
ent meter laws. The councilmen
refused to raise the fine from 10
100-tinned on Page 11
UN Approves Peace Call
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„ July
3.—(UP)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridg
way’s call to the Communists to
start preliminary Korean cease-fire
talks on Thussday brought enthu
siastic approval from United Na
tions diplomats today.
A UN spokesman said that Ridg
way’s reply denoted “good pro
gress” toward peace.
UN delegation leaders were gra
tified that Ridgway was working
to get the main talks started be
fore July 10 to stop the killing U.
Korea as quickly as possible.
DIDN’T KNOW TERMS
Although Warren R. Austin, chief
U. S. delegate and his deputy,
Ernest A. Gross, conferred for a
half an hour late yesterday with
UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie,
r they were not aware then of pre
cisely what Ridgway planned to
* say, an American spokesman dis-
I cloeed. Hie delegation bad known
only that Ridfway had been given
authorization by the unified oom
, mand in Washington to accept in
1 general the Communist conditions
) fw
‘ almost 40 hours tram receipt of
the Reds’ acceptance of the idea
of cease-fire talks. One diplomatic I
1
■ rani* to whatever qmw I
:sKr ,^’«.°nsss
•ttuattoo- ----- I
The Record
Gets Results
. I
Whjbf—li
AMatew (mM
Sat At Benson
A big July 4th Hillbilly Hit
Parade and Amateur Contest will
be held Wednesday afternoon from
2 to 6 in the Benson Ball Park
for benefit of the Benson Knee
pants League.
.A number of professibnal musical
groups and scores of contesting un
its from as far away as Rock Hill,
8. C., and Knoxville, Tenn., will
be present for the afternoon of
music.
GETS FREE TRIP ,
The winner of the amateur con- (
test will be given a free trip to
the “Grand Old Opry” In Nash- 1
ville, Tenn. Second prize will be (
SSO in cash and there will also be (
smaller cash prizes.
Among the well-known units to ;
participate will be Homer A. Briar
hopper and His Divle Dudes, the ;
Southern Serenaders of Greensboro
and WCKB’s Smileawhile Boys.
Winners at the recent Benson
Sing, including the Melody Mas
ters from Four Oaks, the Sullivan
Sisters, and others, have been in
vited to take part and have accep
ted.
Carl Lamm of WCKB and Joe
Reaves, announcer for WPTF, will
serve alternately as master of cere
monies.
PROPAGANDA TWIST
When Ridgway, in response to
Russian Delegate Jacob A. Malik’s
suggestion, first proposed truce
talks, Peiping and Pyongyang au
thorities kept the world waiting
39 hours before they replied. The
Red propagandists were certain to
spread the word behind the iron
Curtain that the Communists com
manders—far from weary of the
war—took their own time about
accepting the UN request.
Rldgway’s refusal to hurry a re
ply to the Communist counter
proposal might have been design
ed to show that the UN was not
desperate to end the war. Heavy
action by his Allied troops on the
battlefront bore out this lmpret
sion for t.h<> Communists' benefit
PREPARED tTHtAIT
UN diplomats were prepared for
a long wait of about four months
before the Korean problem pa wee
from the military to the political
d&“*
oration of Far East problems «,
sembly session in Paris the moat
NO, 14#
Broadcast Says
Reds Willing
To Talk Peace |
TOKYO, Wednesday, July
4—(IP—A Peiping broadcast J
said today that
China, entered the Korefun
War largely to protect Man- '
churia and is willing to talk '
about a lasting peace if the '
American “threat” to her
frontier is removed.
The broadcast was recorded a |
few hours after the United Na
tions agreed to Communist pro- 1
posals for cease fire
in Korea and suggested a prelim- i
Inary meeting on the battlefield j
Thursday to arrange details.
FIGHTING BREAKS OUT 1
But meantime fighting broke
out at both ends of the Korean ‘
battle-line.
Allied and Communist artillery „
fought a three-hour duel Tuesday
on the eastern front. One Allied
officer said, “we never encount
ered anything like it In the way j
of counter-battery fire.” On 1 the
western front Allied
captured a dominant peak after*'
a bitter three-day battle. “ vH
Peiping's broadcast was not in
reply to Allied Commander Gen. -
Matthew B. Ridgway, who sought '
to speed up cease fire tala. ’ v/ «
starting them tomorrow instead of
between July 10 and 15 as the Reds
proposed. Quoting an editorial ta
the Chinese Communist
People’s Daily of Peiping, the
broadcast said.
“Disregarding the desire of the
peoples of the world for peace aiM
the repeated warnings of the Chin- 4
ese people, tile American govera-J
ment . . . ordreed its lnvasMj
troops to cross the 38th Parallel,
and made a fierce and headlong
drive, .toward
EXPLAINS “VOLUNTEERS”
“The Chinese people, of cottWtji
could not sit idly tar In the faoA
of such a serious situation, which
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Army Unit
Arrives In
Lillington j
The 301st Logistical Command.!
under the leadership of Generatl
Crump Garvin, ,has arrived at ita
field command post near Lifflngtoti 7
to perform a Key roll ta thaainH
coming Joint Army-Air Force ex-' 1
erclse, “Southern Pine.” 7*TI
This unit’s station is at .Camp*
Rucker, Alabama, although -4* has
been at Fort Bragg for
two weeks awaiting movement Ital
to the maneuver area^
Mission of the 301st will be to :
direct support for all majoa Army
elements engaged ta the maneu
ver The command will function
as the US Third Army SerrioO
Command (3ASCOM) supporting
the US Third Field Army and IM
attached units.
Will Go to Mackafl
In addition, a detachment oCi
men and officers selected front
the 301st headquarters will tUtM
ction as the Aggressor SentiM’
Command (AGSCOM) at Ca iM
Mackall under the command ME
Colonel Donald P. Wylie duiMH
the joint exercise.
General Garvins, commandtam
the unit, gained wide experumw
as commanding general of tiM.ffi
nd Logistical Command ta SWM
During World War n he hxqitS
distinguished record with combat
units in the Pacific fighting Sm|
Guadalcanal to Okinawa.
The 301st will direct
supply operation for the UltiWE
i •
Firms, Offices WfU
route IhaK
X 555
Dunn's taT banks the