+WEATHER+
Considerable cloudiness and warm
today with scattered thundershow
ers syr the west portion spread
ing to the coast by tonight. Seat
, tered showers tonight and over the
east portion by morning, clearing
by Friday. |
VOLUME l
UN TROOPS CLOSE IN ON RED STRONG HOLD
N. C. Supreme Court
Chief Justice Dies
At 66 In Raleigh
RALEIGH —UP)— Walter Parker
Stacy, 66, chief Justice of the Su
preme Court of North Carolina, was
found dead in his hotel room today.
The cause of his death was not
immediately determined, but Su
preme Court Clerk Adrian J. New
ton said Stacy had been undergoing
treatment at Duke Hospital for high
blood pressure. Howevet he had
been at work every dw.
"OVERRULED” SUPREME
COURT
The chief justice was a frequent
member i f national boards of ar
birtation to mediate labor disputes
during three presidential adminis
trations. An opinion by Stacy in
1922 “overruled” the Supreme
Court of the United States.
In a suit involving property in
Graham County, attorneys cited a
U. S. Supreme Court decision, but
Stacy’s opinion respectfully called
Senate Shows No Opposition
To Lovett As Defense Head
WASHINGTON (IP) Robert
A. Lovett appeared certain today of j
Senate approval to succeed Gen J
George C. Marshall as head of the
Defense Department.
Most congressmtyi praised selec
tion of Lovett as Marshall’s suc
cessor. X few Republicans took oc
casion to renew attacks on Mar
shall who at 70 now goes to retire
ment at his Leesburg, Va., home.
Most expressed regret that Mar
shall. after Serving, Ids country -Ar
50 years, wsS leaving.
FOSTER UNOPPOSED)
Nor was there any opposition ex
pressed so far to President Tru
man’s nomination of William C.
Foster, economic cooperation ad
ministrator. to succeed Lovett as
deputy defense secretary.
The Senate must act on both
nominations. Until he is confirm
ed, Lovett will direct the Defense
Department as acting secretary.
Lovett pledged himself to carry,
on Marshall’s policies of building
up adequate U. S. armed forces and
aiding other non-Communlst na
tions to arm as the best way to
prevent further Russian aggression
and a third world war.
Boy's Death Brings
Highway Toll To 10
The death of John Trice, Jr„ 13,
of Linden, Rt. 1, today brought
Harnett County’s highway fatality
score up to 10 for this year, Cpl.
Ronnie Williamson of the State
Highway Patrol announced this
morning.
Trice died in a Fayetteville hos
pital as the result of injuries rec
eived in an automobile-tractor ac
cident on Sept. 3 between Erwin
and Linden.
He was the third to die in Har
nett as the result of highway ac
cidents this week.
Trice was riding on the back of
a tractor operated by his father,
Paul Trice, 40, when a 1950 Ford
operated by Mrs. Thelma Fowler,
41, of Erwin, crashed into the rear
of the tractor struck the man
and two children.
BLINDED BY LIGHTS
Mrs. Fowler said a light on the
tractor blinded her and that she
could not avoid the accident.
Both of fee boy’s legs were bro
♦Markets*
DUNN TOBACCO MARKETS
Quantity, quality and prices were
up on the Dunn Tobacco Market
today and- the season’s total sales
were expected to pass three million
pounds.
Both warehouses were expecting
block Sales on Friday.
The highest price paid this sea
son went to J. D. Norton of Coats,
Rt. 1, who received *7B for a pile
of top'-gra<}e wrapper tobacco at
the Big-4 Warehouse this morning.
Warehouseman Dick Owen re
ported that there was considerably
more good tobacco on his floors to
day. He said there were at least
40 or 80 piles of *7O and *7l to
bacco at the Fanners.
First sale this morning was at
the Faqnera, which sold 88,820
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TELEPHONES: 3117 -' 3118 - 3119
attention to the fact that the
State courts -ieid precedence in de
ciding State issues.
ENTERED LABOR FIELD
He entered the labor field in 1927
when he was named to a federal
board of mediation as neutral ar
bitrator to settle a wage dispute
between the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers and certain rail
roads.
In 1928 President Calvin Collidge
appointed him a rpember of ar,
emergency board to investigate a
railway dispute wes., of the Missis
sippi. He was arbitrator in other
railway labor troubles under presi
dents Herbert Hoover and Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Stacy was born in Ansonville, N.
C.. Dec. 26, 1884, a son of the Rev.
L. E. and Rosa Stacy. He was
graduated from the law school at
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GET ON WITH JOB
“The general’s wish was that we
get on with the job,” Lovett said.
"That we will do.”
As depqty secretary and a sort
of civilian chief of staff to Mar
shall for the past year, Lovett has
played a major role in both formu
lating and executing the five-star
general’s ideas on rearmament and
military aid.
Despue the Korean war, Lovett
has believed with Marshall that
main military job
abroad Is to join in strengthening
Western .Europe’s joint defenses
under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A naval flyer in World War I
and assistant secretary of war for
air in World War 11, Lovett long
has been a proponent of air power
of all iknds.
He also agreed with Marshall
against all-out mobilization. He
contends that “adequate” moderate
sized standing armed forces
backed by strong reserves of train
ed manpower and standby war pro
duction capacity comprise the
best way to safeguard the nation’s
military security without over
straining the national economy.
ken and one of them had to be
amputated before he died.
Mrs. Fowler was also injured in
the accident.
Corporal Williamson said this
morning that an inquest into the
death is scheduled to be held next
week.
The boy’s father received a frac
tured skull, a fractured shoulder
and other head and chest injuries,
and his sister, Agnes Trice, 12, re
ceived deep concussions of the leg
and lacerations about the head.
Big 3 Ministers Give Ike
Go-Ahead On European Army
WASHINGTON —(ID— The Big
Three foreign ministers gave Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower the go-ahead
today to create a unified European
army that would include German
forces.
They agreed at a special meeting
last night that it is the best plan tot
enlisting Germany in Europe’s de
fense and at the same time quiet
Continental fears that Germany
might again emerge as aggres
sor.
CLEARS WAY
The decision cleared the way for
Changes Made In <
Baptist Leaders
The First Baptist Church of
Dunn has elected new officers for
the coming year and they will be
gin their duties on Oct. 1, it was
announced today by the Rev. Er
nest P. Russell, pastor.
Several important changes were
made in the list of officers and
a number of leaders who had held
various offices for years were re
placed - r .
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COTTON COMES TO TOWN Harnett County's biggest cotton
morning these truckloads of unginned lint were lined up before
W. Edgerton St. All through the day cotton farmers continued
baled and put on the market. After two very had years marked
a comeback throughout this area. Against a total of roughly 12,000
bales this season. And, with the support price standing at 32
Pool Enjoyed
Best Season '
Dunn’s Memorial Swimming Pool
had its most successful season this
summer, according to a report
made by Coach Paul Waggoner to
the Chamber of Commerce this
morning.
Admissions tills summer totaled
a record 21.285. which is more than
double the attendance during last
year’s rainy summer.
Os the 21,285 admissions this
season. 16,000 were paid admissions
and 5,303 were free admissions.
July proved to be the most pop
ular month for the pool, and Aug
ust was second.
RECORD BY MONTHS
In June, there were 4,157 paid
admissions and 1.608 free admis
sions for a total of 5,765.
In July, there were 2,253 free
admissions. 6,697 paid admissions
for a total of 8,932.
During August and through La
bor Day, there were 5,146 paid
admissions, 1,442 free admissions for
a total of 6,588.
Both Coach Waggoner, who man
ages the pool, and Manager Joe
McCullers of the chamber express
ed pleasure that so many had tak
en advantage of the excellent local
swimming facilities.
OPS Men Here Friday
Businessmen who have been
thrown for a loss by Office of
Price Stabilization reports and rul
ings will have a chance tomorrow
to have their problems settled.
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action today on a “peace contract”
that in a matter of weeks may give
.the West German republic its In
dependence in return for full coop
eration in the free world’s defense
effort.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson,
British Foreign Secretary Herbert
Morrison, and French Foreign Min
ister Robert Schuman hoped to
wind up their crucial four-day con
ference today.
LIBERALIZE TREATY
Thev planned. to finish work on
the German contract and then dis
cuss liberalization of Italy’s peace
treaty, action to free Associated
Fk-ess correspondent William N.
Oatis from a Czech prison, and the
U. S. bid for bases in Spain.
Acheson and Morrison had been
cool to the European army idea
when it was first proposed by
France. But they shifted gears re
cently when Elsenhower gave it his
unqualified support.
Under the plkh, France, Italy,
Belgium, Luxembourg, the Nether
lands and West Germany would
form a unified force that would cut
across national lines and work with
other members of the North Atlan
tic Pact.
DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951
Ailing King Cotton Making
Comeback*-Ati&L~Leain Years
OES Chapters
Meet To Honor
Grand Matron
Harnett County’s three Eastern
Star chapters—Dunn. Erwin and
Lillington—will hold a joint meet,
ing tonight at 8 o’clock at the chap
ter room in Erwin to honor Mrs.
Maude Baynor Foy of Kinston,
worthy grand matron of the Grand
Chapter of North Carolina.
Plans for the meeting were an
nounced this morning by Mrs. V.
C. Swanson of Erwin, district depu
ty gland matron.
This will be the official visit of
Mrs. Foy, who is totiring all of the
chapters in the district this week.
Her visit to the district will be
climaxed with a school of Instruc
tion to be held in the Dunn Ma
sonic Hall orj Saturday for all 10
chapters of the district.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tonight’s events will begin at 5
p. m. with a buffet supper for the
visiting dignitaries and county of
ficers at the home of Mrs. Carl
Lucas in Erwin. The buffet will
continue until 7 and the general
meeting will begin at 8.
Mrs. Swanson will preside over
the meeting, and Mrs. Foy will
be introduced by Mrs. Stella Cald
well, worthy matron of the Erwin
chapter.
Mrs. Foy will deliver her mes
sage, and Arnold W. Kincaid of
Bessemer City, worthy grand pa
tron of the Grand Chapter of
North Carolina, will also speak.
Others on the program will In
clude Mrs. Helen Rimmer of San
ford, associate grand matron of
the Grand Chapter of North Caro
lina, and Hugh W. Prince of Dunn,
Czech Planes Banned From
Flights Over West Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany ((IP)
Allied occupation authorities
have banned all flights by
Czechoslovak air liners over
Western Germany, it was an
nounced today in what seemed
■ a retaliation for the imprison
ment of American reporter
William N. Oatis.
The ban, imposed by order
of the United States. British
and French high commission
ers, was made effective at mid
night Tuesday. The Czech gov
ernment was notified of the.
ban Monday, it was disclosed.
TRAIN UNMENTIONED
There were hints also that
harvest in many years lias begun roiling to the ginner’s. Early this
Tart’s Gin No. 1 (left) and General Utility Company's gin (right) on
to roll into town with a share of the 1951 harvest ready to be processed,
by boll weevil inroads and’ bad growing weather, cotton has staged
bales in 1950, Harnett farmers are expected to produce nearly 28,000
cents, that’s a lot of income. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart).
King Cotton, one-time heavy
weight champion of Southern ag
ricultural economy, looked like a
punch-drunk has-been after losing
two stiff bouts in 1949 and 1950
with rowdy, lusty opponents like
the boll weevil and soggy weather.
But the genius for winning is a
hard spark to quench in the breast
of a champion. Charging back in
the 1951 tussle with Nature. King
Cotton has regained his crown, his
honor and Iris place of eminence
in agriculture.
This picture, true throughout
every cotton-growing region, is ty
pified in Harnett County, where
cotton farmers have overcome great
obstacles including suggestions
that the one-time big money crop
be dropped for more profitable en
terprises to bring in what ap
pears to be a near-record harvest.
SEES. HIGH YIELD
T. D. O’Quinn, assistant Harnett
County agent, is highly enthusias
tic over the cotton farmer’s pros
pect for this year. He sees high
yields—up to 1.75 bales per acre—
and rich prices on the auction
block.
But O’Quinn also sees a joker in
the deck. With the nation set to
throw 17,291,000 bales of cotton on
a market which earlier was begging
for 16,000,000 bales. O’Quinn be
lieves there is a danger that farm
ers may glut their market by sell
ing lint too early.
He advises that the 1951 cotton
harvest be fed into the market as
demand opens up to insure max
imum profits to the farmer who
grew the crop. Even though the
government has placed a support
price of around 32 cents per pound
on cotton, says the assistant coun
ty agent, the farmer may nonthe
iess realize more profit by holding
back his cotton until he can bene
fit from higher prices.
FACTORS COMBINED
A number of factors have com
bined to make 1951 a lush year for
the cotton farmer, O’Quinn points
out. Following the lead of the De
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the return of a Czech railroad
train, which an engineer drove
across the border into the Am
erican occupation zone in Ger
many, might be delayed in con
nection with the Oatis case.
It had been forecast that the
plane ban would be imposed
unless the Cseehs freed Oatis.
It means that Czech air lines
will have no direct access to
any country in Western Europe.
They now fly seven flights
weekly over Germany.
The train and 87 “reluctant”
passengers who want to return
to Czechoslovakia were being
No Inquest Set
In Wreck Which
Took Two Lives
Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen
derson announced this morning
that no inquest will be held into
the Sunday night accident in which
two people were killed and another
critically injured.
The official said that the case
will be sent to the Harnett Grand
Jury when it convenes in Novem
ber.
Allen B. McLamb, 63. of Ben
son Rt. 2, died in Dunn Hospital
Tues. morning as the result of the
accident, and Allen B. Raynor, 43,
of Four Oaks, who was riding with
him, died early Monday morning.
MAY RECOVER
The third occupant of the truck,
Emerson Coats of Four Oaks, is
still in a serious condition in the
Dunn Hospital but is expected to
recover.
State Patrolman David Matthews
said tjday that it still has not been
definitely established who was driv
ing the truck.
The truck cut out of the line
of traffic and crashed head-on in
to a new Plymouth operated by
Donald Lee Adcox, Jr., of Erwin,
Rt. 1. Adcox, his wife and baby
and his mother and father were
all injured in the accident.
AVERAGES OVER *7O
J. C. Montague, farmer of
near Angler, today sold six piles
of tobacco on the Dnnn market
for an average of better than
S7O a hundred. Four piles went
at *7O, two others at *7l per
hundred. For 1,538 pounds,
Montague received *1,080.68.
held under U. S. constabulary
guard at Selb. The passengers
were housed in army barracks.
REFUGEES QUIZZED
Engineer Francek Jar da, who
piloted the “freedom” train and
the other *8 passengers and
crew members whe asked pol
ieal asylum here were taken
to Straubtng for questioning
and processing.
Army officers indicated high
level negotiations would be ne
cessary on the return es the
train and its passengers. These
talks they said certainly would
turn around Oatis.
The Record
Gets Results
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
U. S. Mustang Lost
In War's Greatest
Night Air Assault
By WARREN P. FRANKLIN
UP Staff Correspondent
BTH ARMY HQ., Korea ((IP) —United Nations troops
closed in on a Communist stronghold commanding Red
supply lines to the central front today as they burned
and blasted their way up to five miles deeper into North
Korea.
OPS Men Make
Survey In Dunn j
Seven special agents of the En- j
forcement Division of the Office of ,
Price Stabilization for eastern North
Carolina conducted a general sur
vey of all business firms in Dunn !
Wednesday.
The survey was called to deter- ,
mine what needs of this commun- j
ity and its business houses could |
be fulfilled by the Raleigh office. 1
"We are anxious to find out I
whether or not regulations have |
been made available to those con- j
cerned.’’ said P, B. Telfair, in |
charge of the group, “and als o j
whether or not enough clinics have |
been held in this immediate area, |
whether or not the average busin- i
essman is adequately informed of j
the regulations and, if not, wr.at j
steps the Raleigh oftice can take j
to correct this situation.”
ALSO ON SURVEY
With TelfsTr were Agents Sam j
Aronson. William Aycock, W. R. I
Bryant, Henry Boone, Leslie Row j
and A. G. McLeod.
er from the business and profess
ional men statements reflecting
their opinions on what the public
needs from the Office of Price Sta- I
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Reds Renew Charges, Show
No Desire To Resume Talks
TOKYO <(lf)) —The Communist
radio bombarded the United Na
tions today with new charges to
keep alive Red allegations of Kae
song neutrality violations and gave
no sign of desire to get the cease
fire talks started again.
There was nothing conciliatory
about the broadcasts.
But no official reaction came to
yesterday's JJ. N. apblogy for the
accidental strafing of Kaesong.
On its part, the U. N. made no
comment on the Communist com
mand’s rejection of Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway’s proposal to pick a
new site for the cease-fire talks.
POSSIBILITIES OPEN
Ridgway could send a new mes
sage to the Reds asking that the
talks be reopened at Kaesong since
the Communists do not want an
other site. Or the Reds might feel
the apology for one of 11 Commun
ist-claimed neutrality violations is
face-saving enough to let them
agree to their suspension of nego
tiations.
The newest Red radio attack
came from Peiping, which quoted
Communist correspondent Wilfred
| Burchet of the Paris paper Ce Soil.
| Burchet charged that Ridgway had
I sent “insulting denials and reject-
I ions” of the protests and “has ord
ered the Air Foroe to carry out
further incidents.”
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON ((IP)—Robert A. Lovett was
unanimously by the Senate Armed Service Committee '!*•
day as successor to pen. George C. Marshall as ucntip
of defense.
WASHINGTON ((IP))—The Air Force disclosed tnilW
that it possesses, and is setting up a brand new squadr*||
to handle, a newly perfected Jet-powered guided missile—-
presumably capable of delivering atomic weapons.
WASHINGTON ((IP)—The Big Three foreign minif|
ters are near final agreement on a peace “contract” to*
Germany, diplomatic informants said today. The %ff|
may be finished before the day is out. • I
WASHINGTON ((IP))—British Foreign Secretary He*
bert Morrison today strongly defended Britain’s tiwe
Russia and recognition of Red China on ground* .ofc JIjHH
tical need.
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The central front drive gained
!lVi miles and swept up four hills
while U. S. Marines in the eastern
sector burned stubborn Reds off a
key ridgeline and two hills with
flame throwers and point-blank
' tank fire. A five-mile advance was
! made on the western front,
j CLOSER TO SUPPLY LINES
j The capture of the hills brought
' the U. N. troops close to a strong
j enemy concentration guarding the
main Communist supply routes to
the front, There was no estimate
iof Red strength in the mountain
! area controlling routes frorii Pyong
jgang and Kumsong.
Perfect weather brought the
war’s greatest night atr as
sault, ending at dawn Thurs
day. and the Reds sent out
1 their jets for the sixth con
i secutive day. A U. N. P-51
Mustang was shot down by
three Communist jets i n
Thursday's first air combat.
The Air Force said there was
' no chance the pilot survived.
RED JETS DAMAGED
i In Wednesday’s air battle, three
Communist jets were damaged and
j one American Tliunderjet was shot
down but the pilot was saved,
i Night fighters and bombers made
1119 sorties through the night, four
more than the previous record, and
boosted the air arm's 18-day toll of
, supply vehicles. to 8,853 de
istroyed or damaged,
j The Reds threw more than 75
I jets into the air Wednesday. In
i the main skirmish over Si:nan. 30
|U. S. Thunderjets and 35 MIG-15S
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Church Curtails
Service To Gl's ~
The Servicemen’s Recreation Cen
ter of the First Baptist ChurcJS will
convert to limited acthrttiejujfn
mediately. Chairman George W.
Williams of the Servicemen’s Com
mittee announced today:
The Sunday evening fellowship
hour has been discontinued, but the
recreation rooms will still be open
to servicemen for letter-writing:,
games and other varieties of recrea
tion which have previously’-been
available. » s * I
The program is being~curtailed
because many of the servicemen
previously stationed in this ‘ area
returned to their bases at
the end of “Exercise Southern
Pine,” Chairman Williams ex
plained.
Williams estimated that Dunn
Baptists have entertained about 2,-
000 servicemen in their recreation
center since it was opened In June.
In addition, the Rev. Ernest P.
Russell, paster of the church, has
sent the parents or wife of each
serviceman who attended chureh
services a letter to the effect‘that
such men had attended services
while stationed In the area. > *