PAGE SIX mutual Assault Case Is Settled In Local Court The feeling was mutual between Milliard Johnson, 32, and Don Ro berson, 30, Negro of E. Edgerton St.,-when they appeared in Dunn Recorder's Court yesterday. BEch had charged the other with assault with a deadly weaoon. Johnson said Roberson had attacked hm* with a bottle, while Roberson maintained that Johnson had as saulted him with a knife and an i Judge H. Paul Strickland said | Roberson -Was light and Johnson frong. Johnson received a 30-day aoad sentence, suspended for a ’year, on payment of costs, on con .ditlon that he not molest Roberson ■during the period of suspension. ; _ Roberson was found not guilty. NOL PROS TAKEN ;; Max L. Avery, 17-year-old Dunn, iRt. 3, youth who was the driver in ‘an automobile which struck a Dur ham and Southern Railway train ! Jan. 31, injuring himself and four j ■passengers, received a nol pros with " leave. Wilbert Cagle, 711, E. Edgerton ifet., brought in for abandonment •and non-support of his wife and 'three minor children, was given a ,12-month road term, suspended on : ■ payment of costs. He was further j Ordered to pay $lB a week for the ! mpport of his family. The case -was retained on the docket in jcase 'Cagle fails to comply with the J judgment • ■ Richard Jenkins, Fort Bragg •soldier tagged for driving while ‘drunk and careless and reckless .driving, paid SIOO and costs when his 90-day road term was suspend ed for a year. Judge Strickland 'revoked his driver’s license for a jyeai. 39 DATS OR $39 k* ■ ' A second Fort Bragg soldier, Pablo Gonzales, 25-year-old Mexi ■ can, paid S3O In preference to ' taking 30 days In jail for possession of legal whiskey on which the seal - had been broken and for driving without an operator’s license. i Frank W. Thornton, Jr., 25, of Dunn, Rt. 3 booked for speeding, careless and reckless driving and driving while drunk, pleaded quilty to the first count and paid costs. Prayer for judgement was continu ed to six months. Also marked off (he docket were four cases of public drunkenness. Pour out-of-town drivers charged wR»» speeding paid costs thSough waivers and didn’t appear in ‘court. Services Held For Patterson Funeral services were held Sun day, afternoon for James Graham PatOeraon, 48, of Broadway, Route 1. l*f. Patterson, well-known Har nett, farmer, died Wednesday night aMer an illness of several months. services were held at the Springs Baptist Church. The Rev. p. E. Ruffin of Broadway. Paster, officiated. Burial was in ' cemetery. ■Me was a native of Harnett County, son of the late Archie and Ha 'Wilson Patterson. He had lived in that section all his life and was highly esteemed by those who knew him. ' Surviving are his wife, the form er Blanche Thomas; five sons, Truman and Nello Patterson of Broadway, Route 1; Glenn Patter son of Fort Hood, Texas, Joe and Tillman Patterson of the home; one states Mrs. George Suggs of Greensboro and three grandchild- CANNING II SUPPLIES NO. 3& 2 TIN CANS FRUIT JARS || mm jfflrJK! 1 !!*; a* * * 1 HARRIMAN TALKS WITH SHAH'S KIN sb pfV f | if II * w r I 1 mmk If Iltf * • Jj| a f if MB il * I ON A SPECIAL MISSION to mediate the Iranian oil dispute, W. Averell Harriman (right) meets Prince Abdul Reza, brother of the Shah and director general, of Iran’s seven-year economic program. The Presi dent’s envoy took advantage of the Tehran occasion to discuss Ameri- I can interest in the country's rehabilitation, (international Radiophoto) Husband Knifed By Spouse Refuses To Press Charges RALEIGH (UP) Captain j Vaughan H. Banks refused today to press charges against his pretty | brunette wife, who stabu.., him in the back with a butcher knife “to keep him from going to Korea ” But police charged Mrs. Hilda V. Banks. 27, of Richmond. Va., with assault with a deadly weapon. She was held under $2,500 bond and police said she was "high strung and nervous.” "Something told me to save him,” sobbed Mrs. Banks. "I black ed out and the next thing I knew he grabbed me and told our son to call a doctor.” The couple and their eight-year- New SBI Head is Sworn In RALEIGH. (UP) James . Pswell was sworn in today as new director of the State Bu haa of Investigation. Powell, 41, has been a mem ber of the bureau since it was organised in 1938. He succeeds alter' F. Anderson who wiH take over as director of state prisons on Thursday. Powell’s installation was mov ed up a day to allow Atty. Gen. Harry McMullan to be present before he leaves for Se attle to preside ever the na tional convention of the associ ation of attorneys general of which he is president. The - SBI functions under the attor ney generaTs office.' , Uranium ‘Clock l Tells Carfh's Age WASHINGTON. (UP) The Atomic Energy Commis sion announced that its Ar gonne National Laboratory near Chicago has perfected new methods for determining the age of the earth by analysing ‘ the extent of radioactive decay in rocks. According to this “lead-uran ium clock,” the earth’s rocky crust was formed about 3,999,- 990,099 years ago. , old son were staying at a hotel | here. Banks, questioned at the hospital where he lay in serious condition, said he was packing a suitcase when he felt the knife plunge into his back. He said his wife always carried the knife when they were traveling, but he could give no reason for the stabbing. CEMETERY CLEANING SET Citiens who have relatives or friends buried in the George Riley Hodge Cemetery are requested to meet at the cemetery on Friday to assist in claning the cemetery and surrounding grounds. ACTING AG NAMED RALEIGH— (IP) —Gov. Kerr Scott today appointed Lt. Col. Thomas B. Longest to act as state adjutant general until Oct. 1. The present adjutant gen eral, Maj. Gen. J.Vanß. Metis, retired as of today. The new appointee,’ Maj. Gen. John H. Manning, will not tpke office for two month*. *• ~~ RALEIGH HE Gove Kerr Scott said today be probably will appoint a commission to study the feasibility of regulating whole sale gasoline prices in the state. Scott said he thought Atty. Gen. Harry McMnltaa’. suggestion was a sound one, but doubted the General Assembly would pass it at the next session. CONVICTS ESCAPE RALEIGH m Statewide alarms went out today for two short term convicts who escaped from the Johnston County prison camp. William Green Alley, 25, of Louisbur, and Harry Robert An drews, 27, of Raleigh, made their break leate yesterday, prison of ficials said. Alley was serving 249 days for careless and reckless driving, des troying state property, resisting arrest and speeding. Andrews' was saving two eight-month sentences for adultery and as sault and battery on a female. Diplomat (Continued from page one) have arisen from his association with controversial figures. -Includ ing the late Agnes Smedley. A War Department repeat, later with drawn, Identified her as a Com munist agent in China. But Davies skid {hat as long ago as 1937 he warned the U. a govern ment against Russian Communism. Dunn Hospital Patients Following is a lit of Dunn Hos pital patients admitted on July 30: Mrs. Mary Ann Hod nett, Benson Rt. 1, Miss Betty. Jane Barefoot, Rt. 3, Dunn, Mrs. Myrtle McLamb, Rt. 2, Dunn, Larson Bennett, Dunn, Mrs. Mildred Young, Dunn, James Smith Rt 2. Angler, Laudle Mae Elliot, adored. Spring Lake, Her mie Lee Smith, colored, Duhn„ ■2L.- ' ■ .> - Cheers, Boos Greet GOP-Dixiecrat Plan WASHINGTON— «!—Sen. Earl E. Mundt jR-SD) got a barrage of cheers—and cat calls— from his Senate colleagues today on his plan to beat President Trurfian next year with a Republican-South ern Democratic alliance. Some Republicans though it was a “splendid” idea to ieom up with Southern Democrats In picking a presidential ticket for 1*52. Others thought lt was funny. Still others called it "absurd.” Democrats, particularly Southern Democrats, did not want to talk i about the proposed .coalitiion. The i ) Southerners could count 10 months j before the Republicans hold their _ national convention, and did n Leaves Service l ,SAN FRANCISCO BE Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer has retired from the Army after 32 years of service. ■ Wedemeyer,. outspoken backer of Douglas MacArthur’s demand that Manchuria be bombed, gave up command of the Sixth Army yes terday to retum*to civilian life. He will become vice president and di rector of the Avoc Manufacturing Georgia-fTorida (Continued From Page One) last year. The Federal and State Market News Agency reported that a larger proportion of low qualities and non descript held down the averages. Most of the reported gains were $1 and $2 per hundred pounds. * FLOORS ARE CLEARED The bulk of marketings consisted of low to fine lugs, low and fair primings and cutters, and non descript Most warehouses cleared their floors In the four-hour selling time and light sales are forecast for the next several days; • Deliveries to the stabilization cor poration ranged from 10 to 25 ped cent ‘on Individual markets. Last year the corporation took about four per cent of first sales, which totaled 6,989,914 pounds and sold for an average price of $56 per hundred. House Probes (Continued from page four) Dodgers,” McCulloch said. “The Dodgers have improved,” i grumbled Rep. Emanuel Celler, . D., N. Y., a fan-of-the Dodgers but r apparently not of Durocher. • Cellar said baseball's reserve - clause agreements with teams lit Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and ) Panama make the game an lnter - national cartel—"no reflection on - baseball,” he added hurriedly, The clause binds a player to ii* dub with which he originally signed un less he Is sold or traded. « | Celler accused the game of BRtCk listing player* who violate the re serve clause. Frisk objected that the player is merely "ineligible" to play for or against any organised baseball team or in a park be longing to an organized club. • ' Frick finally admitted that : amounted to a blacklist. l Frick said that baseball iwmor , tal Ty Cobb’s suggested long-term >, contract as a substitute for the , reserve clause would not wofjt be s cause such contracts would lend to e a “Marxian principle” of standard* - lied pay because payrolls would be „ loaded with men who did not make , the grade. u Both Frick and Cobb said the was asked how to Improve it, he , I k“w that ! I Miss Hall Paid i Honor At Kitchen Shower Miss Dorothy Hall, bride-elect, wss honored at a Kitchen Shower Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. R. L. Godwin, Jr. i The honored was presented a lovely colonial nosegay by the hos tess. 1 Mrs. Godwin and Miss Hall greeted guests at the door. Two appropriate contests were > led by Mrs. Layton Norris. Miss Haffye Sewell of Erwin was declar ed winner of the first game and received a can opener. Miss Hall won the second contest and her prize was a green and white box containing her shower of gifts. Miss Gladys Wood, August bride elect, was remembered with a gift from the hostess. 1 Mrs. Godwin Was assisted by Mrs. i Ed Wade and Mrs. Layton Norris in I serving bridal cakes, nuts and mint : lemonade. A green and white color scheme was carried out in the refreshments and in the house decorations. Those attending the party were the honoree, Miss Hall, Miss Gladys 1 Wood, Mrs. Roland Hall, the hon ored guest’s mother, Mrs. Harvey Strickland, Miss Patricia Wood worth, Miss Betty Cathy, Miss Mar garet Cathy, Miss Emily Graham, Miss Ellen Ruth Davis. Miss Haf fye Sewell, Mrs. Billy Wellons. Mrs. Ed Wade, Miss Jeanne Goff and Mrs. Layton Norris. Co. in New York. ACCEPTS POSITION He also has accepted member-1 rhip on the board of directors of the American Burea for Medical i Aid to China, Inc. Wedemeyer served nearly one- j third of his career in the Orient, i During World Wgir II he succeeded I Gen. Joseph Stillwell in command of the China theater and was chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In 1947, President Truman named him special envoy to survey con ditions In China and Korea. His re port was released earlier this year. In 1949, he became commander of the Sixth Army. The famous flamingoes at Hia leah, Fla., are fed a special diet of cooked rice, dried shrtihp and ground dog-biscuit. * I ATTENTION TOBACCO GROWERS 1 I HOLLIDAY S - FRYE'S No& I & 2 1 I