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.WEATHER* lag or afternoon thundershowers. SjjjGßjjjj i British Export Firm Will Operate On Dunn Tobacco Market SAFE-CRACKER WRECKS OFFICE OF DUNN FIRM EM” 34 r rV*. • • . • *’-■ '• - v ' * " . • x ' n... ' •■* * BRPVnMi i SCENE OF BLAST These pictures show the interior of the Sash, Door and MiUwork Company on S. Railroad Ave„ rocked by a dynamite blast in an unsuccessful attempt to open the firm’s safe, and the homemade detonator (Insert) which set off the charge. The explosion broke all but one pane In the building's seven windows, tore the arm off a chair (center) and ripped the ceding panels. The safe-cracker was run off wfae na vial of tear gas inside the safe door was cracked by the explosion. The d<jtonator—two dry-cell flashlight batteries attached to a crude 15-foot wire—is shown by Police Chief George Arthur Jackson (right) and Sgt. A. A. Cobb, who are investigating the crime. Chief Jackson said today he will call in the 881 to search for fingerprints at the scene of the crime. (Dally Record photo by T. M. Stewart). » Sanders Will Speak .At Fall YDC Rally Two Harnett Schools Will Open Aug. 28 Schools In two of Harnett County districts will open Aug. 38, nine other schools will open Sept. 8 and the other two districts have not yet selected the opening date, vt The Harnett Board of Education give schools two choices, Aug. 38 and Sept. 5. Negro schools of the county will open Sept 10. Schools to open Aug. 38 are: Anderson Creek and Benhaven. Thjse opening Sept. 5 are: Dunn, Mary Stewart, Erwin, Coats, La fayette,' Buckhorn, Lillington, Bunnlcvel and Boone Trail. Angler and Buie's Creek have not yet decided on the date to f| open. . ; ♦Markets* 1 ► as. prices NEW YORK tflfl) Oct 34.45; Dee. 34.43. ft NEW ORLEANS (HI) Oct B*J7} W Dec. 3438. t BOOS ' RALEIGH (BID Hog markets: Clinton: Market steady. Top 33.50 for good and choice 180-340 lb. bar rows and gilts. TELEPHONES: 3117 - 311* -~3119 ~ Richard T. Sanders, prominent Durham attorney, has accepted an invitation to deliver the address at a fall rally of Harnett County's newly-organised Young Democratic Club Sept 7 at 7 p. m. Plans for the rally were announc ed today by County President Ar chie Taylor, Jr„ of Lillington. Rob ert Johnson is chairman of the ar rangements committee. A1 Williams of Asheville, State YDC president, is also expected to attend. , j Also scheduled to be piWnt are the various candidates for State YDC president, Including BUI Sta ton of Sanford and James Chestnut of Clinton. * BARBECUE SUPPER The barbecue supper will be held In Lillington «t the Legion But. , During the business session, dele gates will be elected to the State -oonventlon at Carolina Beach. Tickets for the rally, costing *1.50 nrgßmUnued Or THURS—-FRONT BULLETINS WASHINGTON (OH)--The United States, in a for mal note, today rejected Russia’s plans to present new proposals on the Japanese peace treaty at San Francisco. . _ .. .-ted 23 mem- SOUrces said were intended to smash a fOTßltttJofttiy plot. liv y • • Bail# ~}&ttnrfr £venJtA §n fijthf GENERAL TOURS HARNETT General Mark W. Clark, chief of the Army’s field forces and one of the top heroes of World War’ 11, made a tour of maneuver units stationed In Harnett County' earli er this week. General Clark, who led the fam ed Fifth Army through Italy, was briefed at ABCOM Headquarters, near Lillington, by Major General Crump Garvin, commanding gen eral of the Third Army Service Command. u. Gen. John Leonard accom panied General Clark on the visit to Harnett The Army did not disclose Gen eral Clark’s presence in Harnett until after he had left. ’ ;t POWELL BILL FUNDS 4 Harnett County towns will re ceive a total of 836,615 In Powell (Continued on Fag* Six) __ DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1951 Attempt To Crack Safe With Amateur Equipment Failure An amateur safe-cracker equipped with home-made blasting apparatus wrecked the office of the Sash, Door and MiUwork Company on 8. Rail road Ave. early this morning in a futile attempt to open die firm’s 40-year-old strongbox. Camp Meeting Opens Tonight Everything was In readiness to day for the opening tonight of the 52nd annual Falcon Camp Meeting and a large crowd was expected for the first night’s services. The Rev. W. Eddie Morris of Goldsboro, superintendent of the camp meeting and president of the North Carolina Pentecostal Asso ciation, has predicted that attend ance at the 10-day meeting will range from 10-15,000 people. This year’s preachers are: Dr. Harold Paul of Franklin Springs, Oa., a member of the faculty of Emmanuel College, and the Rev. Glenn I. Bailey of Toronto, Can ada. SYNAN TO LECTURE Bishop Joseph A. Synan of Mem phis, Tennessee, presiding bishop of this area, will deliver a Bible lectyre each morning at 10:15 MiiklC, this year will be inoharge cr’Rev: Rby Frazier of South Bos ton, Va., song leader; Rev. Harvey Johnson of Wilmington, who win perside at the Hammond organ, and Hrs. Joe Russell, Jr., pianist. Serving as young people's leader for the event will be Miss Elsie' Moody i of Lumberton. Falcon's camp meeting is one of the oldest and largest in the south. News Os . Soldiers Sent To Families By Hood Employees Three employees of Rood’s Drag Store are conducting a “good neighbor” policy which has brought responses from as far away as Cuba and Gennany. The policy is a brainchild of H. B. Young and it works fhls way: When a soldier attached to Army units la.this area comes to Hood’s, one of the employees takes his name and the home town address of his parents, wife or sweetheart. Then Mrs. Paal C. Hood or Mrs. Elizabeth Bates sits down and writes a postcard to one of those persons to assure him or her that the soldier is getting along welL So far the 880-odd letters written by Mrs. Hood and Mrs. Bates have brought back more than 180 replies—some of them running to a number of pages. Deadlock Problem Is Handed To Four-Man Subcommittee NoUSSR Block To Treaty Seen WASHINGTON. tm Presi dent Truman said today he does not believe Russia could succeed In any effort to Mock the Japanese peace treaty In San Francisco next Truman, who will open the treaty meeting on Sept. 4, also told reporters he would be most JjWjW to UiytMr Andrei A. Oro '■m dealWteferfV-;..:'--./;'- 1 y Police Chief George Arthur Jack son said today the would-be thief was driven away when a protective vial of tear gas hidden hi the safe door burst, filling the smali cinder block building with acrid gas. The Mast, which merely dented one of* the safe's double doors and 1 knocked off a handle and the com bination knob, literally turned the offioe into a shambles. SINGLE PANE LEFT Only one pane of glass in the building’s seven large windows was left Intact. Window screens were blown away and the Impact of the explosion pulled nails from the bathroom ceiling. Billy Peaisall, owner of the firm, said that last night’s attempted robbery was the second unsuccessful tty at cracking a safe in that office Within the past three years. Chief Jackson declared today that hp will seek the aid of the State Bureau of Investigation in a search her clues to the unknown safe cracker. The millwork firm is lo cate* in a remote spot located near the edge of town, and the chief mid he could find no one who wit hered or heard the explosion, TO* charge was set off at i*:47, . - CENTER TO CLOSE Chairman Joel Layton an nounced today that the special events which, have been held during the past weeks for ser vice. men at the Lillington Com munity Building will be dii • continued after the end es maneuvers en August 87th. One frantic mother gladly took advantage of the opportunity to aak Hood’s to get In touch with her son to' tell him his father was going to have an emergen cy operation. Others, visiting their soiw, husbands or sweethearts in Dunn have dropped by the drag store to express their warm apprecia tion for such hospitable acts of kindness. Replies have eome in from Germany, Cuba and, in this country, Now Mexico, In sddi-' tlon to closer locales. Young thought of the gimmick as toon as the first soldiers be gan arriving here. He and the two women went to work Im mediately, and vow that they will continue the policy as long as the soldiers are stationed here for maneuvers. PEACE CAMP, Korea HI Cease-fire negotiators, today turned the deadlocked problem of an ar mlsttoe buffer zone over to a four man . subcommittee for solution, then receeeed to await its report. The subcommittee will begin it* work in Kaeoong at 11 a. m.. Friday <8 P. m. Thursday EST) under a virtual new blackout. The Communteta accepted the United Nations proposal for a sub committee on the 18th day of dead lock over the location at a cease fire line across Korea and estab lishment of a demilitarised buffer BIGGEST STEP TAKEN Hie biggest step yet toward ISmuL** thfSSdeuSe o** 0 ** ***' 10. FIVE CENTS PER COPY OnrdCa, a , I, E ' iflrl * JrS?- gOj^S SAFE WITHSTANDS BLAST Dunn's Police Chief George Arthur Jackson points to a slight dent where a handle pnd the combination knob were blown from a safe In the office of the Sash, Door and Millwork Company on 8. Railroad Ave. An attempt by an unknown safe-cracker to open the ancient safe failed early this morning when a dynamite explosion released tear gas from the strongbox, hlef Jackson estimated that two sticks of dynamite, touched off by a erode dry-cell battery detonator, were used in the blast. (Daily ecord photo by T. M. Stewart). pE■ f• * • | § For Accused Killers July Was Red Ink Month For City The Town of Dnnn spent more money than It took in daring the month of July, ac cording to a report made today by Acting City Manager Charles R. Storey. Revenue for the month to taled $17354.83 and expenditur es totaled $88385.64, or a def icit of $3,771.88 for the month. However, officials pointed out, revenue is ahray light daring the menth of July. Tax collections during July totaled 12jt7.1t. The dty clerk's office is new buy preparing 1951 tax notic es, which wiR ho mailed on Monday. Those taxes are due Oct. L and payable without (Continued on Page Eight) Aid Plan WH " Insure Peace WASHINGTON (HI) Chairmar James P. Richards of the House Foreign Affairs Committee salt today that war is not inevitable and that the new *7,848,780,000 for eign aid program will insure peace The Western world, he said, soot will have a common defense an strong “that Russia will not dan to attack.” The South Carolina Democrat 1 ) The Record Gets Results WASHINGTON (HI) An Italian court has asked the United States government to extradite two former American Army secret agents who are charged with killing their war time OSS leader behind German lines In Italy. The court at Novara in Northern Italy asked that ex-Army Lt. Aldo Icardi, Preakness, N. J., and Sgt. Carl O. Lodolce, Rochester, N. Y„ be sent to Rome for trial under Italian law for the murder of MaJ. William V. Holohan, of New York City. Seven years ago the three Amer icans parachuted behind enemy lines in Italy on a clock-and-dag ger mission with SIOO,OOO in gold and currency to akl antl-Fascist partisan forces. ‘ The mission enaea when Icardi and Lodolce reported that Ger mans had ambushed and killed Hol ohan. their commanding officer. After long investigation, the Ital ian police said they had sufficient evidence to prosecute the two for the slaying of Holohan. The police (Continued Chi Page 81x) AVENT-BUCHANAN REUNION The Avent-Buchanan families will hold their 3lst consecutive Ma nual reunion at Buckhorn Metho dist Church at Corinth in Chath am County Aug. 36. All members and friends of these families are Invited to attend and bring along a picnic lunch. ' Wilson Man Chosen Editor Os Dispatch John G. Thomas of Wilson, a re- I porter for the Wilson Dally Times I and former manager of the Wilson t Chamber of Commerce, has accep ted a position as editor of Thei Dunn Dispatch and is scheduled to ! begin his duties Monday morning. The well-known Wilson news paperman was here yesterday look ing over the town preparatory to j NO. 178 Market To Have Full Buyer Set For First lime When the Dunn Tobacco Market opens next Tuesday morning for its fourth, sea son, it will have a full 8&t of buyers for the first time in. history. Sales Supervisor Joe Mc- Cullers announced this mor ning that Imperial Tobaoco Company, a British export firm, has assigned a buyer to the Dunn market. Howard Simmons is the buyer * assigned to the Dunn market oy Imperial and the company has rented a prize room in Buck Cur rln’s New Big-4 Warehouse. “It's the finest thing that ever happened to the Dunn markM,” declared Supervisor McCullers. SOUGHT FOREIGN BUYERS For four years, intensive efforts have been made to »ecuse fortfgn buyers on the Dunn market. lie pointed out that it is also a tribute to the Dunn market. Many older markets in the State still dc. not . have foreign buyers. Assignment of Imperial buyers to Dunn will give the local market representation of four big comp anies, including the three big dom estic companies, and at least five independent buyers. Companies which will have in- , dependent buyers here are A. C. ■Monk of Farmville, O. W. Dudley if Richmond, Va., Bright Leaf and. v %oMay of Bmithfiehi, North State ® of Fuquay Springs and Garrett--m. Fifcklin of Greenville. Currin estimated this morning that the presence of the foreign. " buyers will mean “at least two or IN three million dollars more tobacco for the Dunn maruet.” He pointed out that many farmers will not sell on a market which does not have a full set of buyers. GOOD SALES. AVERAGE Despite Uie absence of foreign buyers in the past, the Dunn roar i Continued On Page Six) ■ PIO Commended Captain Hunter Haines, Public Information Officer of the 301st Logistical Command, near. Liflinir ton, has rereived a letter of com mendation from Ma.l. Gen. Crump Garvin, commanding the unit, for “outstanding performance of duty < , as public Information officer.” S? Captain Haines of Cinrfßgp, N-.-ttx ' has served with the 3(HSt since it was called to active -duty ’'itjJjf September. A graduate Golno» bta University in New York City, wo wee riir-vtor of researcfi.ftl f tftggP Encyclopedia Americana an£T t£g Book of Knowledge In New York City at the time of his recall. . ; In his letter of commendation General Garvin stated that I’your ability to translate technical and adminisrative data Into news- wor-( < thy stories with wide public inter- “S | est has been of material value ini , interpreting the organization and ! capabilities of this command to) j the public." The 361st Is serving oj Tihrd I < Continued On Pare Six I i . -
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