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+WEATHER+ JU Jr*'? cloudy and vara tonlfht *TW.TTME 1 . REDS AGREE TO SUNDAY TRUCE TALK J?m m i' ■-■■■ • j|Mj pHHHgg L - , ''.'t GET A HORSE—A familiar sight to most Erwin residents is the pnmllng machine shown above, affectionately dubbed “The Doodlebug” for want of a more definite name. Made and owned by “Q" Beard, Erwin village watchman, the machine is used chiefly as a tractor, but can also be pressed into service as an automobile. The Doodlebug, powered by a nine-horsepower haybaler engine, is the product of four years’ effort on the part of Beard. Statistically, it is Just a shade over five feet long, stands three-and-a-half feet high, gets from 40 to 50 miles to the gallon and has the biggest and loudest hlr horn in Harnett County. Cost of the machine, which was completed four years ago, was about 1400—more than S2OO of which was spent on the one-cylinder engine. The Doodlebug can be fitted, through a switch of its chain-drive pulleys, for either plowing or the highway. (Daily Record Photo by T. Ml Stewart.) Czech Court Gives Oatis 10-Year Term VKMtfii, Czechoslovakia. July 4 —(TO)—A Communist state court sentenced Associated Press Corres pondent William N. Ostia to 10 yean in prison today as an Ameri . can spy. . Three Czechoslovak citizens for merly employed by the Associated | Press in Prague were convicted with Oatls of espionage and sen tenced to prison terms ranging from 16 to 30 yean. All four defendants accepted their sentences without appeal. They had been liable to the death penalty. Oatis, a 37-yeas-old American citizen from Marlon. Ind., will be expelled from Czechoslovakia on his release from prison. He will be eligible for release for good be havior after completing half of his sentence. CHARGED WITH SABOTAGE He was charged specifically with political, military and economic sabotage and complicity in the mur ' der of a Czech army officer. He was not asked to plead, but admit ted his guilt under questioning during two days on the witness stand. His three Czech colleagues plead ed guilty to the same charges and . likewise confessed on the witness stand. Tomas Svoboda was sen tenced to 30 years in prison, Pavel Americans Take Time Out To Celebrate 4th _ * By UNITED PRESS Millions of Americans headed tor the open country today for their annual Independence Day picnics and fi»mng trips. Safety experts urged the holiday celebrants to observe a safe and sane Fourth, warning that 130 per sons would die in traffic crashes unless drivers exercised exceptional care, - I Only a scattering of accidental deaths had been reported acmes the country early today. Highways were TELEPHONES: lift - 311« - 3119 Wojdlnek to 18 yean and Peter Muntz to 16 yean. The three Czechs also were strip > ped of their civil rights and their property was confiscated. Oatis made his final plea on the second day of his trial yesterday. "I am sorry I committed the crime of espionage,” he told the five-man court in Pankrac Prison. . “I did not do It because I am an enemy of the working class. I , came from the working class. ”1 did it because I listened to the ' wrong orders from above. I harmed 1 myself, I harmed my friends, I harmed the republic, I harmed the | cause of peace, and I helped the cause ox | He said’ the state security or gans had “behaved with great con ’ sideration” toward him and the 1 court had shown him every cour tesy. He spoke haltingly, but without 1 any sign of emotion. His defense : counsel said Oatis was “the victim j of a merciless capitalist effort.” SMITH IS WOUNDED I The. Defense Department has reported Pvt. Sheriff G. Smith, I Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bher i rill G. Smith, Sr. of Bunn level, Route 1, as wounded in I action. near the trig cities, bus, train, and airline travel also was heavy. The holiday was especially Joy ful because peace was so close that it could almost be felt in the air. But citizens, nevertheless, were mindful of the men still dying in Korea as the nation celebrated the 175th anniversary of the sign ing of the Declaration of Inde -1 pen den ce. Philadelphia, birthplace of U. S. freedom, reenacted the signing of the Declaration in an elaborate pageant in Independence Square. President Truman was scheduled CapUal*And the Amerind Legion BPKCIAL OBAERVANGES _ Altogether, more man .laMwO communities across the land held I Wxt Bailu I kttsftb 'Smoke Watcher' Warns 01 Att#: On Washington WINSTON-SALEM, July 4—Oh— Simon the Smoke Watcher walked toward Washington today to warn President Truman the Washington Monument will be attacked Dec. 18. Simon, who said he is 167 years old, stopped here briefly on his journey from Mirrah (The Secret Place). He said it was in the moun tains, but was so secret he could not say in what state. The little old man was carrying a black pot from which white smoke bellowed up in clouds. He put his face down into the smoke to take a peek—Just in case. He explained he had to keep watching because once the smoke told about something it wouldn’t repeat. He is still unhappy about missing the Lusitania. VISIONS LAST AN HOUR Really important visions last about an hour, he said, so he can take a peek once an hour and keep up. Smaller visions may last only a minute. “There’s always been a smoke watcher since the third genera tion of Man,” Simos said. “After Cod threw Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, he declared He had been too hard on them. So] he made one of their grandchild ren a smoke watcher and gave him the power to see future thinks in tht smoke.” Smoke watchers live a long time, he said, because they don’t work —too busy watching the smoke i and because they can foraee dan (Continued mi Page 7) ; Dunn District Gets 6 Teachers .... . . • Principal A. B. Johnson of the Dunn School District this morning announced the appointment of six ; new teachers to serve in the dis trict next term. , 1 In announcing the appointments today, Principal Johnson cited the 1 growth of the district. He pointed 1 out that during the coming term 1 I Dunn will have six teachers more lltnan in 1949-50. Two teachers were Igained last year. y *.J | .The Dunn school was the only lone hi the county to gain a teach ler during the year. The county as 'l* whole showed a gain of only lone new teacher, which means that I some districts lost teachers. ABot jment of teachers is based on atten- DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY, iULY 4, 1951 Conference Set In Kaesong To Arrange Cease - FirCt Talk By Earnest Hoberecht UP Staff Camqidndent TOKYO, July 4-r IIP —Thfl‘®ojmmunist command agreed tonight to a battlefield inference in Korea to arrange cease-fire talks, but agkttl that it be postponed I from Thursday to Sunday. i’v Battered Reds Retreat From Key Mountains > BTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS. Korea, July 4. (UP) Battered Chinese Reds retreated from the key Sobang Mountains on the cen tral front today after losing 1,500 dead and wounded in a bitter four dav battle. The Reds staggered back to a new defense line in the vicinity of Py onggang. 29 miles north of the 38th Parallel at the apex of the old Com munist “iron triangle," under merci less Allied air and artillery bom bardment. However, a front-line officer said the enemy retreat was orderly and “definitely not a rout.” FOURTH OF JULY VICTORY It was a Fourth of July victory for the Bth Army, and may prove to be the last major battle of the war. Arrangements for a cease fire conference were underway. Sk Doughboys took the highest peak in-.the mountain chain yesterday and held, it against t Cinupw o3shier-attt»ok last utghL w T». 1 m4i had been expected to fight as ferociously as ever to hold the re maining heights, but suddenly broke contact and pulled back north during the morning. UN casualties in the four-day battle were said to be “moderate” despite the savage fighting. Sweat soaked Infantrymen had to dig the Reds out with bayonets and gre nades when the enemy's deep rock and log bunkm proved Impervious to shells and bomb 6. Simultaneously with the Commu nist withdrawal below Pyonggang, Communist artillery and mortar fire decreased sharply along the remainder of the 100-mile battle front. . BEDS WERE CRIPPLED Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of UN ground forces, (Continued on Page 7)' Army Unit Begins Issuing Supplies To 8,000 Troops , The 443rd Quartermaster Base Depot, stationed in Dunn, has i 8,000 troops already stationed in the Dunn-LlUington area, Colonel Murdoch K. Godwin, the command ing officer, disclosed this morning. 1 onel Murdoch K. Godwin, the i this morning. | Only about 25 tons of supplies , are being Issued flatly at present, but the amount will increase to 700 tons per day when the rest | of the 80,000 troops arrive in the ! area. Issuance of supplies here be gan yesterday. Previously the ap proximately 50 units stationed in the area have , been drawing sup plies from Fort Bragg. MORE TROOPS COMING Colonel Godwin estimated that approximately 9,000 move service troops will arrive in the area prior to the beginning of man ’ elvers on August 13. There was no holiday at the big tobacco warehouses here to day. Troops were,as busy as bees > I Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. su preme United Nations commander, was Stpected to accept the post ponement, even though it means k formal armistice parley cannot begin belore July 10 at the earl iest. ; Chinese Nationalist intelligence report* suggested the. request for a delay might be due to urgent con ferences in Moscow between Chin ese Communist leaders and high Soviet officials. CONFERENCE REPORTED L. On* report said Chinese President . Mao Txe-Tung is consulting Soviet . Premier Josef Stalin on Korean | developments, especially on what steps .to take at the formal cease- Another report reaching Taipeh, Fonujjpan seat of the Nationalist | government, was that Mao is ac companied by Premier Chou En- Lai, but the presence of neither in ’ Moscow could be confirmed. Slmtwaneously with thp Chin i ese acceptance ot Ridgway's pro , posal Ar a preliminary battlefield confermtce, Communist resistance slackeAi on the. fighting front. Battwed Chinese Reds retreated r from t&e strategic Sobang Moun tains At the centred front after ■ losing VOO dead and wounded in . a bltteß four-day battle and Com tuunistMuHelrx and mortar fire : decrea£T shagpßsttloeg the rest * nrmHJbinflTV * m. (5 a. m. EDT), Juht2BL-2 houls ' after the UN commander's tnes i sage was broadcast. REPLY TO BROADCAST r The reply was broadcast by ’ Peiping and Pyonggang capitals of • Red China and North Korea, and ! was signed by Gen. Peng Teh-Huai, ■ commander of the Chinese “volun : teers” in Korea, and Kim II Sung, i North Korean premier and com mander In chief. The Communists agreed to all , Ridgway's conditions for the pre liminary meeting at Kaesong, 1 1-2 > miles south of the 38th Parallel • on the western front, except the date. Ridgway had proposed that the , meeting be held Thursday, but the , Communists asked a delay until (Continued on Pago 7) receiving and sending out sup plies. Supplies are stacked in moun tain-like piles at the warehouses —eggs by the thousands of do zens, a pile of hundreds of wa ter melons, hundreds of crates of cantamupes, and like quantities of other perishables. Sixteen huge refrigerated vße type trucks have arrived and will be used to transport the per ishables to units in the field. TO ISSUE FIELD RATIONS At present, the troops are on <‘A” rations, and are being ser ved the same food as Soldiers in i barracks at Fort Bragg. When maneuvers begin, however, field rations only will be issued. The- Dunn depot will issue sup plies to six supply points, stra tegically located in the area, and the individual will then draw their rations and other supplies from these points. Several additional units arrived in Dunn yesterday, but names ot the units were not disclosed. FIVE CENTS PER COPY Train Wins Right-Of-Way Argument Sm jp» r~ nr*"**I*' 1 *' Islm!3 MbHp • • • .. m pig **■■■* ■ * Ww' ' ' ALL THAT WAS LEFT Here’s all that’s left of what was .irT automobile until an Attahtie Coast Lint train hiPU early this morn ing at a crossing at Wade. The car, owned by Carl Roberson, a blind man, had stopped on the track and the driver was attempting to push It off when the train came along. The oow-catcher on the train was also damaged and had to be cut off by the Machine and Welding Company when the train stopped in Dunn. The 4uune es the driver was not known. Nobody was injured- This picture was made this morning at Lee’s Truck Terminal, whose wrecker pulled It in. fflffiffi fflffl Peeper Picked Wrong Window To Do Peeping If Robert Jackson, a Negro soldier In LilUngton on army maneuvers, wanted to play at being a “Peeping Tom” Sat urday night, he was a poor picker. Jackson was convicted yester day In Harnett Recorder’s Court of peeping Into the win dews of the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Taylor on 12th Bt. Taylor, a LKlington attorney, it the son of Judge Floyd Tay lor who sentenced Jackson to 96 days in JalL Chief of Police W. F. Hock aday and Constable Fletcher Bethune testified they round the soldier near the Taylor res idence after the Taylors had called police. Officers said Mrs. Taylor told them the man peep ed Into several windows on two sides of the house. Jackson denied the accusa tion. He said an unidentified white man paid titan five dol lars to secure whiskey in Shaw town, and that he thought the Taylor home was the place he was to meet him. When “the man” failed to show up Jack son said he decided to look in side for him. Still Operator BuUk Norris, 33. of Dunn, Rt. 3, captured b) a raid by Federal ATU agents and Cumberland SSfto o*B. Site tog held bmkteettToSSp gallon submarine type still to The Record Gefs Results Britain Shelves Evacuation Plans LONDON, July 4 —HD—Britain has shelved plans to remove her oil workers from Iran and will “sit it out” unless violence breaks lut, a government spokesman said to day. The cabinet was said to ha ye changed its previous policy on ad vice from its ambassador in Teh ran, Sir Francis Shepherd, and Eric Drake,, managed director of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Abadan. Opposition leader Winston Churchill will be briefed on the new policy in a meeting with Prime Minister Clement Atlee tonight. Churchill asked for the meeting, his second secret session with At lee on the Iranion oil crisis. DECISION STILL STANDS Officials said the decision to close down operations in Iran still stands <C»-Ummd an Page »i NO. 147 Pastor, Family At Junaluska Rev. and Mrs. J. V. Early and son, Virgil, ate spending this week at Lake Junaluska Methodist As-, sembly. The Rev. Mr. Early is attending the "School of Evangelism” for the Methodist Church. He was appoin ted to attend this meeting by Rev. E. B. Fisher, District Superinten dent of the Raleigh District. The pastor will return to Dunn. Saturday and fill the pulpit ay Divine street Methodist Church at . 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m Sunday. : Li- PLAYING SAFE ■: playing il safe and sound dur ing Independence Day. .N* highway deaths were reportad, up till noon by the State High-' way Patrol, although 18 persons were injured in road mishaps. In the Dunn nreu, neither ] Dunn Hospital or the local pot- J Ice department reported any ' mishaps through auto wrecks, drownings or accidents. i . mr Dunn Man's : Father Dies Mayor William S. Terrell, Jr., of Norllna, father of Major Was ( liatn S. Terrell, HI, of Dunn, 4m| > at his home Monday night sfU* an illness of three weeks. ‘ Major Terrell, who married tiki ' former Margaret Johnson of .PtjlM ’ was enroute home by plane fmlf Paris when his father died. , ’■ Mr. Terrell was the son 'of late William Solomon and Ajfjl Harris Terrell of Warren PIIMM . He was a member of the WBfliiM s Plains Baptist Church, a membW of Johnson Caswell Masonic Lodge, . of the JOUAM and the BARA Norlina. I Until his recent illness, ha heMI I a position with the Seaboard-Mutts- I road and at the time of -hiS”BWgh I was serving his second- Suaßj]%« I mayor ow Norlina. . surviving are ms
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