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+WEATHER+ Scattered shewen today cedar an Wednesday. J V F3UJMEI , Harnett County Bootleggers Draw Fines And Sentences DUNN TOBACCO AVERAGE AMONG HIGHEST f I * ■ L^*B v !& */ vl|\ &4 lRaj K ®l*®’B PROUD OF THAT TOBACCO Judith Carol Tart, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Tart, Jr. of Dunn, Route 4, is shown here as she posed—and proudly, too— on tap of this pile of tobacco sold by her father for 67 cents a pound at Buck Currin’s Big-4 Tobacco Warehouse In Dunn. Mr. Tart has It acres of tobacco, (Daily ecord photo by T. M. Stewart). - . . • ■ * i • J, UN Accuses Reds Os Using Bad Faith In Negotiations PEACE CAMP, Korea (OB)—The United Nations command accused | the Reds today of negotiating for a Korean cease-fire in bad faith.” The Chinese Communist radio at Peiping >,t the same time charged that the U. B. was trying to stall truce talks until Congress approves a “military budget”, and then in tends to break them off. The four - man Joint artnistlce subcommittee talked through two hours and 10 minutes more of dead lock in Kaesong over the location of a cease-fire line and agreed to hold a seventh meeting at 11 a.m. Thursday (8 pjn. Wednesday EST). REDS SEND PROTEST The Communists sent a formal protest to the U. N. command charging that a UJN. aircraft straf ed and destroyed a Communist de legation Jeep Sunday morning ini violation of Kaesong neutrality. The Reds also said an Allied re -1 ply to their potest against the killing of a Communist military police patrol leader inside the neu tral zone Sunday was unsatisfac tory and again demanded the . “heavies punishment for those re sponsible." > i, The U. N. command radio, com menting on reseated Communist charges of Allied violations of neu trality agreements, said the Reds „ had turned the conference city ' “into a universal symbol for ba<f • faith.” • I The broadcast said that Korean] civilian partisans, not Allied troops, ambushed the Red patrol inside the I Kaesong zone. 1 969thEngineerUnit Builds In Harnett Operating five water points, con structing truck loading areas at the Dunn Quartermaster warehouMS and building five miles of access, roads are only a few of the cur rent operations of the 909th En gineer Construction Battalion, part «( the Third Field Army Service Under the oommand of Lt. Col. SS'HfS at Bunnlevel a month, ago fn® TELEPHONES: 3117 - 311* - 3119 , Man Wanted For Old Murder Is Arrested A man wanted for murder of his wife five years ago in Bal timore, Md.r was taken Into custody by the FBI Monday in LilUngton. Charles H. Brown of Char lotte, special agent in charge of the FBI In the Carolines, identified the man as Dilbert I Mitchell. 48-year-old Negro, known as Ed Capps, as he worked In LilUngton many months while Us picture adorned an FBI circular posted daily In the LUUngton post of fice. FBI agents arrested Brown as he was on the Job as a brick layer with a local contractor. His employer said he had beda at that particular Job not more then two months and was a good worker. Negro associates in Shawtown described Capps as they knew him, as a “quiet, | sober man.” However, they recalled they seldom, if ever saw him hi town and that he failed to attend church or large 1 public gathering!. manded by Capt. Victor H. Butt meter of West Brlghtwaters, N. Y., has Just completed contruction of the gasoline filling station-Ukr Water Point No. 3, aboub .seven miles south of LilUngton along a nearby P** the water. The water then passes A 0m a— - Am* atm Jlailu, lamrrd KILLED HIB WIFE Brown said MltcheU shot and killed his wife, Arneta Morgan, on October 19. 1948 at 1575 Eagf Preston St., In Baltimore and that officers had been on his trail ever since. , Technically. MltcheU Is want ed for unlawful flight to resist prosecution and having been given a hearing by U. 8. Com missioner Hon In FayettevMle the prisoner is now lodged in ■ 1 the federal Jail in Fayetteville without privilege of bond. Ex tradition proceedings wIU be necessary to return MltcheU to Baltimore authorities unless he waives extradition and returns voluntarily. The FBI reported MltcheU to a native of Apex, N. C., and previoualy resided In Durham. Unconfirmed reports were that MltcheU to also wanted In Dur ham County foe the alleged murder of a woman, LBy Mae Jones, as far back as 19*8.. Dur ham Coutoty officers could not be reached to verify lUivuwt. Maryland Seeks Harnett Sld^er CHARLOTTE. - OT> Maryland was expected today to request ex tradition of Walter Morgan, 46- year-old LilUngton laborer held by the FBI on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Morgan also has been known as Wilbert MltcheU, a name he used in Durham 25 years ago when his ' < *MorgM in Lllllng ton * /Bnunues vr^ri|t oix; MATCHES UP ■ I DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1951 Places Raided In Coats And Anoier Region Robert Taylor, proprietor of Tay lor’s Restaurant and Bar B Que place, one mUe from Coats, yester day entered a plea of guilty to vlo laMon of the prohibition law In Harnett Recorder’s Court. Deputy Sheriffs W. R Stewart' and E. L. Jackscn. who raided Tayr lor’s place on August 17 found enough “whiskey and beer to stock a small bar.” Other deputies’ ar rested them. The seizure showed the proprietor apparently offered his customers a wide choice of tax-paid brands'. Officers, armed with a search war rant, confiscated 46 quarts of Kreu gers beer, six cases and three bot tles of Schlitz beer, one pint eacn of Schenley. Seagrams and Lord Cal vert whiskey. Taylor was sentenced to lour months in Jail, suspended tar two years, on condition he refrain from, violations of the prohibition law, and allow officers to search his place of business day or night with or without a search warrant. A SIOO fine also was imposed. Two other bootleggers also drew suspended sentences. G. R. (Jack) Matthews of Angler entered a plea of guilty to possession of liquor lor sale and was fined s#o and costs. He was also sentenced to at* months in jail, suspended two years op con dition ne refrain troi4 4 viohi#r!K the i rss’SfeSf ' with or without a search Warrant. SOLD IT BY DRINKS Constable R. C. Monday had tes tified that one Sunday he went to Matthews' home and found one jar of non-tax paid whiskey being sold by the drink to several customers there at the time. Matthews told Judge Floyd Taylor that his wife was ill and he had to be home all the time and had to do something “to get along.” , . “Just because your wife is sick and you have no Job is no excuse for selling whiskey,” said the judge. Matthews, you don’t know it. but I have had letters about the trouble you have caused your neighbors with the type of place you run. These letters were not signed so I can’t pay too much attention to them, but I doubt if the customers you were serving Sunday morning were in any shape to attend church. You don’t realize how many head aches you are giving your neighbor hoo<l WOMAN SENTENCED Vemel KeUy, LilUngton, Route 2, also entered a plea of guilty to pos iConcuiueu on Page Two) BULLETINS WASHINGTON ((»)—The world’s first atomic sub marine, which would revolutionise naval warfare and wipe out Russia’s edge in underseas craft, is on the way to being built by the United States. WASHINGTON (OP)-— Louis F. Budenx, former Com munist editor and party official, testified today that Owen Lattimore was described in party councils as the member of a Communist cell in the Institute of Pacific Relations. TAMPICO, Me*. ((IP))— Heavy rains and winds of 60 miles an hour lashed this tropical city today as a vicious hurricane packing 130 mile an hour winds began to move inshore from the Gulf of Mexico. Top Brass Studying Carolina War Games By CHARLES CORDDRY (United Freaa Staff Correopondent) FORT BRAGG, N. C. BR Topside officer* are closely study ing the now atomic bornl* 1 could te used to ad- I vantage, it wad learned today. j ■I i I i i - PLANNING LEGION FAIR— Commander Paul White, left, of Dunn Post No. 59 of the American Legion, and J. O. West, right, chairman of the fair committee, are pictured here going over plans tor the 1951 Four-County Legion Fair, to be held here September 3-8. Plans are being made for the {biggest nd best fair ever staged here. (Dai'y Record Photo). : - C ■ , i. Barnet) Co*!) Term To Open September 3 Harnett Superior-Court, slated to start a criminal term on Monday, September 3, in LilUngton, will not begin until Tuesday, the day after Libor Day. Judge, Henry A- Grady of New Bern, special judge assigned to pre side 6ver the September term, usually the heaviest of the year, yesterday notified Clerk of Court Robert Morgan the court will con vene on Tuesday. Morgan said he told the judge that county commissioners already have set aside September 3 as a holiday fdr county employees and Judge Grady agreed the court would follow suit All Jurors already summoned to appear on Monday, September 3, need not come until Tuesday, Sep tember 4, the clerk announced. Troons in the exercise. Including two National Guard dlvtotonea des tined for Europe, are receiving no training here in how to deal with rectors’ level and in planning staffs earnest attention to given to pos sibilities that might he revealed for using atomic weapons. FIVE CENTS PER COPY Hears Army Officer Hair-Pulling Case Is Tried An argument about rent between a Negro woman tenant and her white landlady ended in a vicious hair pulling which landed both in Harnett Re corner's Court yester day where Mrs. Lena Dorman Nor ton, Angler landowner, clutched a fist full of hair in proof” I had the hell beat' out of me.” Mrs. Norton, 40 who on cross ex amination by defense attorney Franklin Dupree admitted ’ I have been known to fight" indie ted 24 year-old-Kat. -:-ine Johnson, and her husband Willie, for assault or June 30 at the Dorman home near Angler. FIST OF HAIR . Passage of more titan a month’s time had dimmed Lite black e)0 Mrs. Norton said she received, but she showed the court the bite on her finger and the fist tali of hair. It matched hers in color. Katherine, whose attorney sent (Continued On Page Two) i Senators May Lighten Tax WASHINGTON. lff) Senate tax-framers today promised most individual income taxpayers a somewhat softer tax increase than the House has voted. Their plan would Inject a new idea Into federal tax laws by ap plying a special ‘defense tax” to' what the taxpayer has toft after computing the’ federal taxes due under the present law. The Senate Finance Committee, tentatively approved the plan yes-j terday to boost personal income I taxes about $2,435,000,000 a year; •ajBMOO.OOO voted by the 'House, j Meet, of the difference would t*j who woukUreTa heavy jSt'undfcri the House bill. Low-bracket t£ Mtoa Utile higher than under the The Record Gets Results Major Albert W. Footer, 443rd. Quartermaster Base D .pot address- j ed the regular dinner meeting of the Buies Creek Civic Cluo last night. His subject was the current maneuvers in North Csiouna wiilv special reference to problems of procurement and supply. "It Is now ten minutes past eight,” the major began. “In ap proximately 1 1-2 ium-s.wc have reason to believe that the city of Dunn will be under attack by Ag gressor paratroopers and our whale quartermaster installation may be wiped out." He went on to explain that r.o actual jumps will be made. The enemy will proceed by truck un der flag of truce to iht area in which they would be expected to jump, then fan out from ihere. The cinrcnt maneuvers ate en tirely for training ourpcsis. 90 percent of tne’ troops engaged are national guardsmen and reservists who were called bncx into active service about a yeai ago. Mist of the combat troops a.e .tom the 28 th and 43rd national guard divi sions. These make up tne 2nd Field (Continued on Page' Six) Barefoot’Warren Esso Will Open On Friday j H 1 mM The new Barefoot-Warren Esso Service Station, operated bj Cail ton Barefoot and Elton Warren will hold Its grand opening here Friday morning at S o'clock, the owners announced today. NO. I*2 Today's Sales Lightest In j | Market History Sales on the Dunn To bacco Market today were the lightest in history— || ; with most tobacco still in ! the fields and not ready for; 1 marketing—but the ecvf*', * j rage set here both yester- ‘ | : day and today was ofte of I the highest on ettiiQD'the Border or East “rn’belt* 3 Till- open mg day s .average' yes terday was $54.09. as compared with <i an average of only $52 fob the en tire belt. Today's average was still higher, $54 76 per hundred. ,£ The sales today totaled only 51,834 pounds, which brought a to- ” tal of $28,381.94. 1 Opening day’s sales totaled 135.460 pounds for a total of J $73,337.06. or an average of $54.09 c| Sales for the two days totaled [i 187.294 pounds for a total of slOl,- f.J 719.00. Following is the sales by ware- J houses: » TUESDAY’S SALES Big 4 Warehouse: 74,620 pounds MSB for a total of 540,582.7 b, an *ver- | age of $54.08. Growers’ Warehouse: .60,840' Id pounds for a total of $32,734.30, an average of $53.80. ' '.M TODAY’S SALES Farmers' Warehouse: 15,14# pounds for a total of $8,546,90, an ■»--= average of $58.44. Bjg-4 Warehouse: SM»4 |i age of $54.07. Averages were higher at betfa9|l warehouses today and sa *M the J market's average. Sales Supervisor Joe McCullero ‘ J said early this afternoon that tiie quality today was only fair, with lugs and non-desenpt tobacco m | abundance. He predicted that the volume ;;; would prooably douoJe or perhaps triple by the end of next week. J Farmers expressed pleasure at | the prices received note. Sales Still Light On Entire Belt M , m By UNITED PRESS ;|§ Eastern Belt tobacco sales were . I still light today while Border Brit 1 markets continued to operate at al- S most top speed. Early reports from Wilson, Rocky • j > Mount, Greenville and Kinston, the s four largest Eastern Belt markets j • indicated that farmers could not “ expect any sharp increase in prices ’ [ soon. Quality of offerings was still ‘ » running low and early marketings S; • I reflected the near-SSO per hundred a 1 ' average indicated in yesterdayxSH iContinued On Page Hixi | operated by Lacy -Jackson
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