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+WEATHER+ North Carotin* Considerable rloudlnesx and slightly warmer with some light rain today and in east portion tonight. Tomorrow partly rlondv with not mnch temperature change. • •TWMJME 1 *, ■jl#L'» -#' • ?flr ffiWtrSft • '," V®t «Bg|L *♦*«**. • - ROYAL COUPLE Donald Kelly, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kelly was chosen King and Jessie Anna Lee, center, was chosen Queen of the carnival held at the Lillfngton school on Friday night. Presenting them with loving cups Is Principal H. H. Hamilton of the Llllington schools, (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). (D Lillington Stages Halloween Event Lillington school officials were busy todov counting returns fropi the annual Hr-llmveer. carnival gif eh on Friday night, and found that stunts, spooks and carnival eveflts proved a profitable venture which netted around *I,OOO Proceeds will go for a three-fold purpose, ath letic fund, playgiound equipment and a cyclorama for the stage. Among the carnival features were a hat show, a cake walk, a picture . show, b'oao "tuner and a county fair. On the auditorium stage, first grade boys modeled various styles of ladies' hats, each style accom- Lillington Barn Is Lost In Fire Mr. C E. Hass of Llllington. a well known farmer who lives on ‘he edee of the (own limits, lost bis rented home hv fire about ten days ago. and his house was a total loss, 'the fire began while the Rosses ware awav from home. The cause of the fire was decided as being defective wiring. Last night., a large barn located behind the house in which an un known amount cf tobacco was stored, caught f>rc and burned to an almost total loss. A burned building is alwayr a disaster, but when two fires in such a short time effect the same person or persons, it is a most unfortunate circumstance. Some of the bv-standees seem to have their suspicion aroused over the unusual situation. Both burned buildings are on the property of Mrs. Telford Miller. BULLETINS WASHINGTON. _ (UP) lnterior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman sought today a rehearing by the Fourth Cir cuit Court of Aupeals on the long-standing dispute over who should build the $27,000,000 hydro-electric project at Roanoke Rapids, N. C. VIENNA. (UP) Wiener schnitzel, Austria’s most famous dish, has been barred from Austrian week-day menus by a government decree. The decree is aimed at easing the country’s acute meat shortage. NEW YORK (UP) Joseph P. Ryan moved to day to save his tottering “lifetime” leadership of East Coast AFL .longshoremen by ordering loyal dock hands to end the 10-day-old waterfront strike. WILMINGTON. (UP) About 800 Eastern North Carolina Methodists gathered here today for the open ing of their annual conference. Bishop Paul M. Garber of Geneva will preside over the six-day session. GREENSBORO. (UP) James M Waggoner, U. S. commissioner at Salisbury, faced a federal court order to day to pay more than S3OO to his tenants and in fines for over-ceiling rents he had charged. HOLLYWOOD. (UP) Actor Franchot Tone was arrested on a TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 paired by an amusihg placard. The library was the scene of a fair where vegetables, flowers, canned goods. Jetties, Jams and eggs were s<fld. All produce was- donated by school patrons. ROYAL COUPLE CHOSEN In the popularity contest for King and Queer, of the carnival. Jessie Anna Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrr John Pallance Lee. was elected Queen and Donald Kelly, son of Mr.’ an' - ' Mrs. Leon Kelly was chosen Kin?. The winners were nresented loving cups donated by the school with Principal H. H. Hamilton making the nresentations. Both the K'ng and the Queen are students in the fifth grade. Roth serve as presidents of their class The younr queen is a stu dent in Miss Cornelia McLauchlin’s room, while Mrs. M O. Lee is the teacher of the King. Jessie Anna is a consistent A grade honor roll pupil, president (Continued on page two) Bicycle Is Hit, Boy Is Injured A 12 ve»r old Negro lad of Bunn level, Robert Lee McLean, Is recuperating at h-« ’tome, from minor cuts and bruises suffered when his bicycle was demolished early Friday morning on US 15-A as it collided with a north-bound car driven by Dr. Hyman Ascher, •14. of Brooklyn, N. Y. State H'ghway Patrolman George M Carroll. Jr., who investigated, said that the boy attempting to cross from the left to the right (Continued on Page Two) (Zhe Bttilu Jtetnrfl REDS DEMAND LAND IN KOREA 14 Dead Or Missing, 13 Others Are Hurt In Harbor Disaster BUFFALO, N. Y. (UP) Authorities counted 14 men dead or missing today in a harbor disaster caused when a barge loaded with 31,500,000 gallons of gasoline col lided with a Great Lakes freighter and exploded. Thir teen men were injured. Nine were rescued unharmed. The 120-foot barge Morania, be ing pushed by the tug Dauntless. ! collided head-on with the 4.000-ton lake steamer Penobscot about 300 | yards off shore about 9 o'clock last night. When the freighter started to back clear; a spark ignited the gasoline aboard the barge. Flames leaped hundreds, of feet into the air and swept all three vessels. SKIPPER SAVED 20 The skipper of the 454-feot Pen- l obscot, Capt. Louis Gyette, 51, of Port Huron, Mich., was credited with saving the lives of 20 men aboard his vessel. With flames seething around him. he backed ' the Penobscot into the harbor breakwater so the crew could slide down ropes to safety. Gyette and his helmsman, Roy j Richardson, 56, also of Port Huron, died in the flames. Four Penobscot crewmen were missing. Os the eight men aboard the tug Dauntless, only Capt. Thomas Sor enson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was saved • when the vessel burned to the waterline. One charred body was recovered from the tug. Seven crewmen were missing and it was believed they had jumped into the rough waters of the harbor and had drowned Only two crewmen were aboard I the barge Morania. One of them, , Lars Stromsl&nd. of Port Huron, managed to escape after the ex plosion. Hospitalized in a state of shock, he told police his fellow , crewman died in the blast. Thousands of persons swarmed to the waterfront to watch the gas oline flames from the barge, which continued t 6 burn throughout the 1 night: DISASTER TELEVISED A local television station. WBEN, owned bv the Buffalo Evening (Continued on Page Two) First Meeting Os Benson PIA With the singing of the hymn. “Faith of Our Fathers.” the first meeting of the Buie’s Creek PTA. convened Thursday night at 7:30, October 25. in the Buie’s Creek School Auditorium Mrs. Ca'lie Ross, president, called t,h° meeting -to order. Miss Wil liams first grade teacher, led the group in an inspiring devotion. - Dean of women at CamDbell Col lpee. Mis c Ophelia Matthev/s, in- I troduced the sneaker for the even ing, a Campbell student from Bnts -1 sels Belgium. Miss Margarite Van , Doorslaer, who spoke on the topic, "What I Think About America.” ’ Following the speech, a brief bu - . iness meeting was held, during ' which the Hallcween Carnival for the following' night was discussed. Mrs. Ada Brickhouse, fifth grade , teacher, was in charge of the car- I nival. Several new teachers, Mrs. Smith of the eighth grade, Mrs. Tavlor of the seventh grade, and Mrs. Walker • of the second grade, were recog nized. Os the approximately 75 nersons attending, thirty - three became ■ members. The Record To Publish Roto ; Progress Edition Keeping abreast of other pro gressive cities and counties of North Carolina, which are making well planned And systematic ef forts to attract new industries and homeseekers, The Daily Record will publish an edition in pictorial rotogravure in the near‘future. It is planned to have this at tractive special number embrace every form of development and ac tivity in Dunn, Harnett County and surrounding counties, Erwin, Lillington. Buie’s Creek, Benson, Angler, Coats, Dunn and other com munities in this section will each have its own individual section in this deluxe publication, which will be • graphic presentation of the present day development of one of the state’s most progressive areas. In order to ntaintaln a high V ’ V ; • 'i ' : » DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 30, 1951 UlSingfQK War Mothers Group Is State's Best The Lihington Community Chap fer of the American War Mothers today was receiving congratulations on its selection at the recent state "onvention as the most outstanding chapter in North Carolina. On appraisal of work actually accomplished for servicemen, Lil lington tcok first place and the silver loving cun with Raleigh and Smithfielrl given honorable men tion. It was the first time thtft the | cup has gone to a chapter located j in a town as small as Lilljngton. The cup, now on. display at the “rock Shop in Lillington. was pre sented Friday at the closing con vention meeting in Albemarle. At (he same convention Mrs. ••jfc. M. Shaw, new president of the lilling ton chapter, was named state lain. i Mrs. Charles Ross, retirinAjres i-lent of s he Li'Ungton chap&A and Mrs. J. N Fuquay both oKefaiom attended the convention dele gates, are past state officsto I£rs Ross has served as recordffci fer ret ary and Mrs. Fuquay a:i«<rth vice-president. Youth Group Slates Movie “South ,of the Clouds.” a sixteen millimeter sound film, will be the first program given by the Youth for Christ organization recently formed here, it was announced to day by Bill Marshburn. The picture portrays the experi ences of two teen-age girls who en ter college together, one of whom continues to live in accordance with her religious training and the oth er who does not. The picture draws a sharp con trast between the college careers of the two girls, and without undue I moralizing, stresses the advantage of living a life in keeping with Christian precepts. The picture is presented by an excellent cast and will prove not only instructive, but entertaining from start to finish. The program will also include special singing. ALL YOUTH INVITED Young people, regardless of de nominational ties, are urged to at tend these' meetings. Addresses, whpn they* are given, will be non doctrlnal and on topics acceptable to any denomination. Pastors of the churches in the area are especially invited to At tend and asked to cooperate ‘in making the movement here a suc cess among the young people. Saturday evenings have been de liberately selected for the Youth for Christ programs, because on this ni?ht, young neonle are often at a loss for suitable entertain ment. This night, too, offers less chance of conflict with other meet ings. Young neon!* of the area are (Continued on Page Two) reader interest, no display adver tising will be included in this at tractive special number. It •will consist cf pictures in ro togravure, shewing scenic views, points of histone interest, educa tional and financial institutions, public utilities, the civic and com mercial development of the com munities in Harnett and surround ing counties, wholesale distributing facilities larger commercial con cerns and other assets that It will be desirable to include in a work of this broad nature. Particular stress will be given to the number of persons employed by individual Industries, the value of annual payrolls ann other local ex penditures affecting the economic life of the city and section. TUs special number will be U- t i ssF imEwJicjilfifl tfeji Kul T 1. i Im| 1 111) gm MBri < ’ L 'iJSmM JP I rf ' GVL $ 1 ERWIN TALENT SHOW SUCCESSFUL The talent show staged by tiie Erwin Lions Club for the members of the cast to the stage. Pictured netted approximately 5230 which will be used to merits. Prior lo the final performance Saturday Eurrage of Dunn, played a group of selections for born). Little River Baptists Are Holding Session Today «>. i i *'■ i THfe 76th annual meeting of the Little River Baptist Association opened on an optimistic note this morning at the Buie's Creek Baptist Church, with the report of Moder ator L. H Campbell. However, he warned the group to learn from past mistakes. The moderator's report delivered ‘o the members of the association by Leslie H. Campbell, president of Campbell College was, on the whole optimistic. "But.” warned the mod erator, "if the best is yet to be, we must eagerly search for lessons from our mistakes and failures, al ways conscious that our future is now.” CITES ADVANCES Campbell r-nerted advances in every phase of the work of Little River Association There are now 8005 members in the 28 churches making up the association, an in crease of 174. All church organi zations have increased their activ ity. Total offerings amounted to .*200.379.50. an increase of $45,583 68. There were 459 baptisms, an in crease of 120 Nevertheless Campbell quoted a Methodist radio preacher as saying that there exis's in America “a Christian minority facing a secular majority ” To combat this majority the moderator advised taking les sons from business leaders. “Busi ness knows what it wants," he said, “and bends every effort to realize its goals Christians often donate only left-overs ... It took 25 church membeis last year to provide one baptism.” EFFICIENCY NEEDED i The churches must emulate the i efficiency of business organizations, i The churches must be manned from top to bottom with the most ef i ficient workers Just as business can not succeed under absentee ownership, churches must realize that thev cannot sncceed with ab (Continued’ on Page Two) ■sued in the convenient tabloid form, stitched for permanency and con venience in mailing. It is the pur pose of the p"blishers to have it serve as an attractive and effec tive piece cf areawide publicity for state and rational distribution. It is projected to tie in with and supplement the work along these lines being done by the various chamber of commerce bodies and the state authorities. A number of extra cories will be printed for outside distribution, as well as to provide increased circulation local ly. This special pictorial rotogravure edition will be circulated in state and locally by The Dally Record. The work of preparation is already under way. , FIVE CENTS PER COPY ■ linalp which concluded the final performance of the the benefit of the Erwin School Rand brought all is tiie group who played in the production. The show help defray the amount still due on tiie new instrn cvcning, the band, under tlir direction of W. L. • the audience. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dear- New Tax May Result In Gangster Warfare CHICAGO ilk- A wave of gang warfare e-mailing the violence of the Prohibition era may be set oif by the government's new gambling tax which goes into effect Thurs day underworld sources said to day. Police officials were inclined to agree. Both enforcement officers and gamblers said the new tax may cause open wai between the na tion's crime syndicate and upstarts in tiie gambling field. HAS OWN LAW NOW “Up until now the syndicate has bpen a law unto itself in the gam bling business.” one officer said. “It set up its own rules and en forced them. “Now the government steps in with this tax law and, for a time British Order Troops To The Middle East CAIRO, Egypt. (IPI Scores of volunteer battalions armed them selves secretly throughout the na tion today for the “liberation” of Egypt from the British. Interior Minister Fuad Sirag el- Din disclosed last night that the government was aware of the growing movement but will not take steps to check in unless the volunteers break existing laws. LONDON. (IP) The War Of fice announced today that Bri tain's Third j Infantry Division has been ordered to the troubled Mid dle East. Cairo newspapers said the bat talions have been organized by the *Markets+ ""’omN^POBACC^MARKET 1 ™ The Drnn Tobacco Market sold a total of 69.484 pounds of tobacco yesterday for $40,477.07 at an ave rage of $58.25. Offerings were good and the average foi all warehouses high. Sales yesterday brought thq to tal for she season to 8,450,642 pounds for- a total of (4315,089.88, an average of (51.04. The Big Four yesterday sold 58396 pounds for (33395.21, an ave rage of (5331. The •rowers’ Ware house sold 4.088 pounds for (6,481.86, an average of SSB 45. • HOGS RALEIGH HR—Ho* markets: (Continued on page twe) The Record I Gets Results at least, the syndicate is caught off base. A lnt of guys are going to figure this is a good time to start into business. The trouble is going to come when the boys start de fending 'heir territories." Oldtime mobsters here said the situation parallels that which ex ited after liquor vas prohibited. The liquor industry was a well run. closely-re?u)ated outfit before Prohibition,” one said, “When liq : uor was banner’, t-rotlegging start ed anti a lot of guys shot up each other fighting for the business. ; GAMBLING WELL-REGULATED "Legal or not. the gambling game is well-regulated now by the syn dicate. But this new tax is going to throw everything out of kilter i and somebody's going to get hurt.” (Continued on page two) militant Moslem Brotherhood un der the leadership of retired Egyp- 1 tian Gen. Aziz Ah el-Masry Pasha, plenty of arms were available on battalions have been collecting arms with no help from the gov ernment. He said, however, that plent yof arms were available on the black market. Fuad declared his government based its struggle against Britain on iustice. not force. If the time came for taking up arms, Egypt, he said, would do so openly and (Continued on Page Two) Judge Parker Denied Grade Death Suitm Superior Court Judge R. Hunt Parker in Cumberland Superior Court today non-suited damage suits totaling $150,000 brought against Atlantic Coastline Railroad by survivors of three soldier killed at the Cumberland St. crossing in Dunn on November 17, 1949. The throe paratroopers were kill ed when the outr. In which they were riding collided with the West Coast Champion. Survivors had asked (50,000 dam ages in each of three cases. Judge Parker ruled that the evi dence Was insufficient to go to the Jury on the grounds that testimony shewed *hat the automobile did not come to a stop before entering the 'Vr .'V - .''v:'- V' \ ■ iV/- . t l .... NO. 232 UN Officials Refuse To Admit Deadlock PANMUNJOM, Korea- (UP) The Communists 1 today stubbornly stuck to 1 their demand that the Ah j lies give up what a U. N. ne | gotiator called “a couple of | hundred Heartbreak ridges’* | as the price for A Korean truce. I U, S Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, chief U. N. representative On a cease-fire subcommittee charged with fixing a ruce line acrors Korea, said (he Reds have made "no concessions, no trades and r.o , offers for a reasonable solution” in six days of ta'ks. Furthermore, there is no indica tion the Communists may come up with a new proposal, he said. lie indicated the U N. also would stand pat except for "minor refine ments." Hodes said that the only agree ment with the Communists reach'd at the morning session of the ceata fire subcommittee Tuesday was t» go to lunch. NO DEADLOCK YET But it is too early to talk of.a deadlock, he added. I think everyone hopes so: a reasonable solution." he said. The subcommittee will continue its debate at 11 a m. Wednesday, 9 p. m. Tuesday. EST. A U. N. communique said the Communist subcommittee mam- , bers insisted throughout Tuesday'* two sessions that the Allies with draw five to 15 miles in central and eastern Korea. In return, it said, the Reds of fered to give up uncontested riee fields in swampy Ongjin and Youan . peninsula in western Korea. j EXPOSED TO ATTACK , “Sfich a withdrawal to the Communist-proposed line of demar cation would leave U. N. comr and combat forces exposed to attack for more than 100 miles across the major portion of Korea,” the V. N. communique said Hodes told newsmen at- an out door briefing that the Communist proposal was “absolutely meaning less of how equitable it might ap pear on the map. "It would force us to give up k hell of a lot of Heartbreak i dges on our lines —a couple of hun dred." he said. He said the Communists were asking the Allies to abandon terri tory bought with blood for mili tary useless peninsula# the -ii N. never has even tried to’take.—’ >r HST To RislT !| Wider Break . With South 1 1 WASHINGTON (UP|l§| President Truman apraf-j ently has decided to ris': wider split with South erai Democrats by naming lrdi anapolis banker Frank <jH McKinney as his choicfr%sH new Democratic natto:il|| chairman. William M. Boyle. Jr„ who fljl stepping down as party i liulil ■(■ said last night that he win aw«H nate McKinney to succeed jaMS when the committee meets hSTOyi tomorrow. ELECTION SURE Boyle, who said ill health for-Api him to resign, revealed that (Continued on page two)' ' crossing WERE NEGLIGENT Hr said this f-ct constituted cistatory negligence. Attorneys for the plaintiff argtMjf‘| that a box car parked at in? prevented the driver ing the approaching train. ' jjjßß donee showed that the tnlttPlH travelling at 90 miles per houjßj paid of Emithfield argued tflSlß), tion for non-flit for the Assisting him in the trial was HjSf Sanford and Charles Rose, JtFj
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