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TALKS DEADLOCKED OVER ARMISTICE LINE
INSIDE THE USSR
Communist "Utopia"
Still Long Way Off
By DONALD J. GONZALES
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
' WASHINGTON. (UP) _ The
Russian people—3oo.ooo,ooo strong
are shackled to Communist govern
ment machinery.
They are watched by a police
system and prodded into Hercu
lean labor for the state. Their
masters demand that they attain
the long-promised high standard
of Communist co-operative living.
A survey of current information
on the day-to-day lives of the
Russian people reveals that Uto
pia is still a long way off and the
Russians know it
The “classless society” differs
Highly-trained Communist Party
members, secret police, high mili
tary officers, top-flight government
personnel and labor producers and
industrial supervisors live far bet
ter than the ordinary Russians.
Housing is scarce. Average living
space is estimated at scarcely six
square feet per person. The aver
age Russian s diet is made up al
most entirely of bread and other
food grains because of scarcities
of meat, fish and fats. Grocery
and department stores are poorly
stocked and luxury items are far
beyond the range of the average
Soviet purse.
TAXES HEAVY
Taxes and so-called “voluntary"
contributions to the state take
one-sixth of the worker's average
monthly earnings. A Soviet citizen
also is called upon to contribute
to the state loan program.
Women are required to work as
men. Nevertheless, the Communist
government urges Russians to pro
duce large families under a system
lot tax exemptions and prizes for
sjgraMlc mpthses Radio Mefemr
wCqNMH* mrtetaly t that “stagt*
mothers and mothers with large
families have, during ttik last five
years, received 1,000,000,000 rubles
from the state.”
Soviet workers labor under the
pressure of continuous competi
tive production campaigns. Re
wards for top laborers include va
cations at government-operated
resorts, higher wages and improved
living conditions. Moscow also
claimed on June 1 “dozens” of
miners in an unidentified mine
earn “4,000 to 8,000 rubles a
month under competition. Miner
Oolubyathikov works 300 to 350
per cent of his norm. Moscow said.
This high pay goes to only a few
and their norms become the state
goals for all.
CAN’T QUIT JOBS
Inside Russia, the desire of get
ting a new Job at better pay isn’t
reason enough to switch employ
ment The government orders Job
.transfers and controls labor move
ments through a system of labor
books and internal passports. '
Workers can be fired, fined or
"Off limit*" Signs
Arm, Available Now
Captain John Purds*. real,
estate officer for Exercise Eovth
era Pino, today annonneed that
“off-limits” signs are avaUnbio
to all land owners in the ma
noover area. The signs, to he
used in areas where troops are
forbidden to enter, may he ob
tained from the following men:
Frank Better at Hoffman, or J.
B. Collins of the U. 8. PMA
Office at LUUngtoa.
All property owners who have
already loaned their land tot
■ee In the maneuver stay se
cure signs signifying the proper
ty w -- bean patriotically ■»-
for the training of Army troops.
Land owners who have not
yepreaentativas should got hi
tooeh with Oho of the above
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imprisoned for reporting late to
work. They may leave Jobs pecause
of poor health, pensionable age, or
enrollment in technical schools
with government okay. Soviet
workers cant strike.
The average worker’s wage is 600
rubles a month. It is Impossible
to translate the Russian ruble into
accurate American dollar values.
Economists studying the Soviet Un
ion choose instead to compare the
amount of time Russian and Ameri
can workers have to spend at work
in order to buy various things.
A Soviet citizen, for example, has
to work for 1 hour, 38 minutes to
buy 33 pounds of white breed
whereas an Amercan has to work
only 14 minutes. A Rnssiau works
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Harnett Gets
Tax Money
Harnett County and four of its mu
nicipalities will split $19,655.80 in
Intangible personal property tax
.allections to be returned to North
Carolina’s counties and towns, ac
cording to Eugene G. Shaw, chair
man of the State Board of Assess
ment.
Intangible tax returns for the
1950-51 fiscal year ending June 30
hit an all-time high of $3,196,397.31,
of which the State is to retain
$799,09930, Shaw said. The re
maining $3,996,496.51 goes to the
The major portion of Harnett’s
•Ho®* l *—sl4336.6l—will gp to the
county government Dunn WB be
next, with $3,443.70, followed by Lil
lington, $666.33, Angler, $414.74; and
Coats, $384.43.
Distribution of returns in sur
rounding counties will give Benson.
$684.60; Sanford. $4,886 21; Broad
way, $68.74; Clinton, $3958.43 and
Fuquay Springs, $1,839.57.
Likelihood Os War With
USSR Seen On Increase
WASHINGTON (VI Defense
Secretary George C. Marshall was
disclosed today to have warned
congressmen recently that the like
lihood of war with Russia ‘Us
increasing.”
This is because “there has been
a constant build-up in the Soviets
and their satellites, of their mili
tary strength,” Marshall told a
House military appropriations sub
committee.
Marshall, in testimony delivered
July 18 and made public today,
warned also it probably would be
six weeks or more before Ko
rean peace talks reach a conclu
sion. That would be in early Sep
tember. •' %,
SEEKS RECORD APPROPRIA
TION | •)
He urged fast action by Congress
to approve a $60,000,000,000 defense
appropriation, biggest in peacetime
history, on the ground its passage
UNIQN TAKES CARE OF ITS OWN A three-man committee from Erwin's Local 250, Textile
Workers Union of America, called on Member J. T. Clark, stricken with tuberculosis, Saturday morn
ing to present him with a wheeled couch to make it easier for the invalided Clark to move around.
Presentation was made by (left to right) Harvey Williams. Local President B. F. Morrison and Lloyd
Lee. Mrs. Clark Is shown at extreme left. Uhion Man Clark was brought down by tuberculosis about
a year ago. Until that time he had worked at the mills in Erwin. The couch was donated by the
union as a means of helping Clark get around the house and yard mere easily. J. Thomas West,
manager of the TWUA local, said that such projects ard a regular part of a union policy designed to
see that union members are properly looked after in times of distress. (Daily Record Staff photo.)
70-Cent Top Paid
In Old Belt Sales
MARION, S. C.—(lf)—Opening to- i
bacco prices on the Marion market >
today ranged from 67 to 70 cents
a pound. One warehouse Reported
sales of 936 pounds averaging, |L3B ,
JSS&e*'
69 cents.
Tobacco growers eyed price re- ;
ports today as nine flue-cured to- :
bacco markets of the North and
South Carolina Border Belt open
ed their 1951 selling season.
Bight North Carolina markets
“will help us very much in getting
the decision that we want” at
Kaesong. ,
Subcommittee Chairman George
H. Mahon D-Tex asked Marshall:
“What is your considered judg
ment, General, as to the likelihood
of a major war now as compared
to two or three months ago?”
Marshall first replied that it was
about the same. Then he noted the
continued buildup of Soviet forces,
and said we unfortunately don’t
know much about that.
“The likelihood of an all-out war
is an ever-present consideration?"
Mahon then asked.
BED WANT ARMISTICE
“I think it is continuing,” Mar
shall replied, "and, from the view
point of. the enemy’s buildup, it is
increasing."
An off-the-record discussion fol
lowed, <me of many that marked
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DUNN, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 3«, 1951
and two others in South Carolina
will open sales Thursday,
t Marketing specialists predicted f
She highest opening prices on rec
ord, and -W.- P. Hedrick of th#
North Carolina department of ag
riculture estimated sales would av
erage SSB to $59 per hundred
pounds—s 2to $3 higher than last
year.
Hedrick said the crop is in “fair
to good” condition and about 75
per cent is ready for sale.
A too hot, too dry growing sea
son cut yields per acre but higher
allotments resulted in'more acre
age planted to tobacco this year.
Border Belt growers will harvest
some 130,000 acres in South Caro
lina and 91,000 in North Carolina.
150,004,090 POUNDS EXPECTED
Total production is expected to
run well above 150,000,000 pounds.
The markets opening today in
cluded Conway, Dillon, Hemingway,
Kingstree, Lake City, Lamar, Loris,
Mullins and Timmonsville. Two
other South Carolina markets,
Darlington and Pamplico, wiil open
Thursday with the Tar Heel mar
kets of Chadbourn, Clarkton, Fair
Bluff, Fairmont, Fayetteville, Lum
berton, Tabor City and Whiteville.
ATOM CRAFT
WASHINGTON—(IP)—The Atom
ic Energy Commission reported to
day that ‘we are certainly making
progress” toward perfection of
atom-driven submarines ai*» air
planes.
CASUALTY IN KOREA
The Department of Defense has
announced that Cpl. Robert L.
Grant, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Grant of Lilllngton, Rt. 3, has been
killed to action in Korea.
Weed Crop Hit
By Hail Storms
Two hail storms struck about
seven miles from Dunn in neigh
boring Sampson County during the
week end and did damages estim
ated at fram- $25,000 to $90,000.
th* hail
Durwood Hall, • who lives on
Dunn, Rt. 5, reported that he lost
12 acres of tobacco in the storms.
He said hail hit one time and did
considerable damage and that
shortly afterwards another shower
of hall fell for about 30 minutes.
HAD NO INSURANCE
For hall to strike twice in the
same place in such a short time is
very unusual, he said. Hall said
he had no insurance.
It was reported that approximat
ely five acres of tobacco on a farm
owned by Mack M. Jernlgan of
Dunn were also destroyed complet
ely. Jernlgan had no insurance.
H. F. Puryear of Dunn, Rt. 5,
was among the other farmers who
suffered losses. Names of all who
suffered losses could not be de
termined this morning.
It was reported that the hail
rained destruction on an area a
half-mile in length.
First Open 801 l
The first open boll of cot
ton reported this season was
brought to town .this morning
by Jim Whitfenton, well
known fanner, of Dunn, Rt 3.
Whfttenton, who hat more than
68 acre* of cotton said he had
found several bolls which have
already opened.
This is unusually early for
cotton to open In this section.
Whittonton set a new record
back in 1948, however when he
krwnght a load of cotton to the
General Utility Company to
have ginned the earliest bale
•ver heard of in this section.
He increased his acreage this
year and reports that he has
a good crop.
Stop-Gap Money Bill
Is Pushed In House
WASHINGTON —(f)— The
Hense Appropriations Com
mittee sped action today on a
■top-gap money resolution to
keep the government in oper
ation after tomorrow night.
Congress, snarled In battles
ever economy cate, has failed to
pm ff v appropriations yy for
federal^ the
government
•peratimg since that date an
borrowed time natter a pro-
Van Fleet Warn;
Against Ambush
By Communists
By Earnest Hoberecht
UP Staff Correspondent
PEACE CAMP, Korea,
Tues.—(lft—Cease-fire nego
tiations remained deadlock
ed for the fourth day Mon
day over the fixing of an
armistice .line on the battle
front.
There were but two real agree- )
ments in the meeting Monday— I
that the fighting will continue un- !
abated during the negotiations, and I
that they will meeet again Tuesday, j
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, com
manding the Bth Army, warned his
men against a possible Communist
“ambush.”
Van Fleet said United Nations
negotiators were acting in good
faith and he hoped the Communist
negotiators were also. But warning
his troops to keep constant vigi
lance, he said;
1 NO AMBUSH
“We must not and will not per
mit this great U. N. Army to be
come a victim of s. Communist
” ambush.”
"Everyone is hopeful that the
cease-fire conferences will come
to a successful knd honorable end
so that peace may be restored. No
one is more conscious of peace
than the soldier.
“Our Army is stronger than ever.
Our morale is high. Together, we
will keep it the best fighting team
the wourld has ever known, and I
am sure every man will continue
to give his best as he has done so
willingly in the past. „
“I am confident that this season
ed and combat-tested Army can do
• anything that it .is called upon to
do. We can take great pride in the
fact that we are alert to the situa
tion and are always ready.”
END IN DISAGREEMENT
U. N. and Communist delegations
ended their 14th and longest single
session in Kaesong Monday still in
complete disagreement over estab
lishment of a truce line and de
militarized zone along the 135-mile
front.
It was reported that both sides
might soon agree tp a recess of
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UN Forces Hit
Red Stronghold
BTH ARMY HQ. Korea «B
United Nations forces battered at a
Communist stronghold north of
Yanggu on the east-central front
for the fifth straight day Monday.
They attacked the enemy-held
hill fro mthree sides. One U. N.
column struck from a mountain
peak 800 yards to the east captured
only Sunday.
The attack was the only sizeable
ground action reported along the
135-mile Korean front. Despite the
comparative lull in the fighting
during armistice negotiations, how
ever, an Bth Army briefing officer
reported that Allies killed,
wounded or captured 3,400 enemy
troops last week, i
The pro-NaUonalist China Union
Press at Talpeh, Formosa, said
Communst China is moving two
more full armies—the 41st and 43rd
—from South China toward Man
churia and Korea.
The Far East Air Forces again
took off in force despite partlv
weather. They hunted enen&
planes and smashed at Communist
troop concentrations, supply bases,
roads and airfields.
F-86 Sabre Jets and Shooting Star
Jets fought several swirling air
battles with Communist Jet fighters
just south of the Manchurian bor- i
der Sunday. A Shooting Oar claim
ed to have damaged a Russian
built MIO-15.
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WASHINGTON—The Atomic Entergy Commission
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
List Os Guests For
Field Day Released
A list of the more than 50 per- j
sons invited to tour installations
of the Third Field Army Quarter- t
master Depot No. 1. based in Dunn,
has* been released by Col. Murdoch
K. Goodwin, depot commander, and
Col Murdock K. Goodwin
Chamber of Commerce aMnager Joe
McCullers, co-sponsors of the event.
The tour will be conducted Wed
nesday afternoon, beginning at
Dunn Armory at 2:30 p. m. and
ending in an Army bivouac area
at 6 p. m.
Colonel Goodwin explained that,
while he would like to see every in
terested person who desires to do
General Fired For
Accepting Favors
WASHINGTON—OB—The Army
fired Brig.' Gen. David J. Craw
ford last night as commander of
the Detroit Tank Arsenal for ac
cepting favors from defense con
tractors and taking government
material for his own use.
Crawford got the stlffest pun
ishment short of a court-martial
that can be given a high-ranking
army officer—a formal reprimand
and relief from command.
DIDN’T MEET STANDARDS
Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr.,
ordered the disclipinary action. He
said Crawford “has not met the
high standards required of .a n
Army officer.”
Steps have been taken. Pace said,
to make Crawford “reimburse” the*
government for government ma
terial which he used to build plea
sure boats for himself, and for
transporting personal 'goods from
Detroit to his Maryland home at
the Army’s expense.
Crawford said in Detroit that he
“did nothing that anyone else
wouldn’t have done—only someone
caught me at It.”
SUCCESSOR NAMED
Pace said that Crawford would
be succeeded by Brig. Gen. Carroll
H. Deitrick, now commander of
the Watertown, Mass., Arsenal.
Crawford was ordered to stay in
Detroit pending his next assign
ment.
The Army secretary said he fired
Crawford on basis of a report by
the Army inspector general who
was sent to Detroit last week af
ter public hearings in the motor
city by a House armed services
sub-committee.
Pace emphasized that the Army’s
investigation revealed no evidence
of “any contractual irregularities
on the part of Gen. Crawford.”
Crawford admitted that he oc
cupied a suite in Washington’s
I Congressional Hotel twice during
June as guest of a representative
of the Continental Foundry and En
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The Record
Gets Results
2 -jSB
|so tour the installations during
Army Field Day, the size of the
group had to be cut to the barest
minimum. Reason for this, he stak
ed, is that the tour will be con
ducted during a working day and*a
larger group might disrupt operh-,
tions in the depot area.
RETURN COMPLIMENT
| He remarked that the tour origi
nated as a return compliment to
the local and county authorities,
private citizens and business heads
who made the Army welcome when
the depot moved here. '~+
The visiting delegation will tour
the Quartermaster Headquarters to.-.:
the armory, visit warehouses, a r»- ■
tion breakdown point and other
spots of interest in the Army en
campment.
The guest list includes city and
county officials, civic leaders, pihj
isters, businessmen, out-of-town
guests and press representatives.
• Those issued invitations by both Vtm
Chamber of Commerce and the de
pot commander are;
LIST OF GUESTS,
Maj.-Gen. Crump Garvin,, com
manding general, Third Field Army
Service Command for Exercise
Southern Pine;
Mayor Ralph Hanna and Com
missioners L. L. Coats, B. A. Bra
cey, J. V. Bass and R. G. Tart of
Dunn;
County Commissioners L. A. Tart
of Dunn, chairman; C. G. Fields Os !
Angler, R. L. Pate of Erwin, Worth
Byrd of Lillington, and B. F. In
graham of Mamers;
Dunn Chamber of Commerce Di
rectors E. W. Smith, president; W.
(continued On Page Five? ,
Paratroops Drop
On Maxton Field
MAXTON AIR BASE (VI Ap
proximately 4,590 airborne troop*
parachuted into the Carolina
Sandhills today in 111 i llmlu—g |
training for Exercise Be_lL’Mb:.J
Pine which opens Aug. 13.
The paratroops Jumped tram
72 C-46 Commandos, the largost
flight of troop carriers sine* Use
Rhine invasion in Germany.- aft
The drop Included an entire
advance attach unit' with- Mu
supplies. The planes stag re
moved simulated “wounded”*! J
This abandoned World War'
II airfield was reacUv»t*ft*4H|
serve as headquarters for MI troop
carrier activity in the earning
giant field exercise.
New Recruiter
Takes Over Heres
A new recruiting sergeant Inks
moved to the Dunn Post Office to
replace Sgt. Winfield Pickett, wRo
has been assigned to the main jimp
cruiting office in FayettevOie.M
Sgt. J. L. Whitehead, a native M
Fayetteviyye, took over the dutMfj
of recruiter tor the Army and Ah'
A veteran of World War H, Set-'
geant Whit-head has had axpidHg
ence in boS. the Navy and tHi
Army. He served for two year*
the Navy—lo months of that tttfjil
on an aircraft carrier—besH*» j|H|
tag the Army some three years tiMjuS
Sergeant Whitehead is on detapf...
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