PAGE TWO Ite Jtatttt Jtootri) DDNN.SC fe V, RECORD pSimShBNG COMPANY - At 311 East Canary Street - —NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE J THOMAS F CLARK CO., INC.' Mi-217 E. 42nd 8U New York 17. N. Y. Branch Office* In Every Major City. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES ~ J JK cmiEß: 2* cents per week; S&M per year In advance; $■ for six months. 13 for three months, i IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL t ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: $6.S* par year; *3.54 for six months; 1.2 for three month. OUT-OF-STATE: $8.50 per year in advance; 35 for six months. M for three months. jSEniered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, sN. C.j under the lews of Act of March 3. 1879. Every afternoon, Monday through Friday House Occupants Says Lynn Nisbet in his well-read Capitol Square coftmm; “Question has been raised in some quarters about the | propriety of the governor of North Carolina going on a 1 ashing trip as guest of a man who sells a lot oi sand and J travel to tne State. Also there has been some criticism of B governor accepting ‘hospitality of owners oi private banes for trips over the country. '“During the past few days there has even been heard nerit aoout tne governor and high-ranking personnel le hignway department accepting entertainment and of-brief cases from the people of Fayetteville.'’ a very astute and thoroughly reliable re ; potter and observer of State affairs, expresses belief that •no doubt some of the criticism and the talk have been •grossly exaggerated. No doubt he is right. t ±‘k’he aiixerence between a free trip to Europe or a vacation in a swank Florida hotel and a weekend at the I I beach or a fishing trip on the coast is in degree rather than | •in kind,” points out Mr. Nisbet. 1 Then, he points out that Governor Scott is a man who ;has talked very glibly about cleaning up petty graft, and { ••recalls the old auage that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones and reverses it to read: “People! -who throw stones should not live in glass houses.” j We haven’t too much quarrel with our Haw River gov-' 'ernor for taking a fishing trip with a friend, or accepting! a little hospitality now and then even if those acts do tnrow •a shadow of suspicion about the governor. ; ;»fWhat we do resent is such utter disregard for the way ’ ihe*spends the taxpayers money. j jSuch as: that underpass ouilt across the highway so! cattle can travel from his farm to his brother’s farm with-) out crossing the highway, the way he used the State’s auto- ! mobile and gas last year to try to ram down the throats of ■the voters a candidate they didn’t want and couldn’t stomach, the extra expense ne’s added to the governor’s '.office, etc., etc., etc. (We could go on for pages.) * uJKe-have noticed particularly that when tne governor •makes a trip to some conference that he now takes both of JiJs secretaries and sometimes their wives. (He even took , *t° highway patrolmen as cnaffeurs on a trip to Colorado.)} * z It seems the governor could get along on these trips— «7oiich really amount to vacations—with just one secretary. iAud one of his secretaries manages'to keep him in hot •vl|tj££~so consistently that it looks like His Excellency happy indeed to find a good excuse for leaving j * that would be too practical and too economical. S4O Door Costs $594 < Down in Lexington, Tennessee, a newspaper has un covered the acknowledged fact that the General Services •Administration (whatever that might be) paid $594 to in- Stdlt two doors for the government which retailed at S4O. \ -But, before you go jumping at harsh conclusions, let us a'emlnd you that H. E. Harman, Jr., southeastern director ‘of GSA (the title sounds like a $12,000-a-year-man), says j there was nothing out-of-line about that expenditure. Harman said the job was advertised according to law Jand that the lowest bid was accepted. » That may have made the expenditure legal, accord png to law, but it seems to us only common sense and prac itical\that the government has the right to reject a bid for 'anything at 10 times the normal price low bid or high bid, for rip bid at all. * I *ln our way of thinking, the $454 difference ought to Iconte out of the salary of the stupid officials who let a thing }like that happen. And as soon as the $454 is deducted, his •salary ought to be terminated and he also ought to be de- insurance! rW. P. BAPTIST LADIES I ° rph ““f* on Sunday ' November TO MEET 1.30 p. m. AHmT Ladies’ Auxiliary of Long neMHA i? w n pvtiimVi t-T-wxv, are cordially invited to attend. BSr bS There wIU be no Mission charged, the Dunn Free-WiU Baptist wUI teken for i ♦♦•♦»*»»♦♦»♦♦♦♦•♦♦»♦♦»♦♦ mmm * nr—imjinii im ms m ere $ 1 aMHlfcy QUINN'S I 9HK FUNERAL HOME I 24-HOUR fixnreas have SERVICE I ALWAYS BEEN A I REMINDER OF' 1 DEEPEST AFFECTION HHONI 3306 [ lEFS FLORIST 211 W. HARNETT ST. ■fairground Rd. Dunn DUNN. N. C. ' H 11 L ll -"" 1 - M . I. i lini i-Jta mw* i l^ Ambulance Service I- Phone 7077 CROMARTIE FUNERAL HOME g &VSH. N. C. | Those Days A sty-re £ekcbkij THE DEED IS DONE Admiral Charles Maynard Cooke was in charge of the "Pennsylvania" at Pearl Harbor; he had 'been chief of staff to Aomiral King dur ing World War 11. He was in com > mand of the Seventh Fleet from 1946 to 1948. He was in command of all American combat forces in China after General Wedemeyer left that country. In view of this record, tire Mc- Calran Committee therefore sum moned him to come to Washington from Formas? where he is now engaged in a commercial enterprise, having retired from the Navy. In his testimony before the McCarran Committee, he filled in a number of gaps in our information con cerning the American relations with China, which are now of tremen dous importance to us because it is on account of our errors in that country that we are fighting in Korea with at ‘east 100,000 casual j ties. The following is extremely , pertinent: ! "Senator Ferguson. Do you know I anything about the supply of am ! munition to the Nationalist troops? | "Mr. Cooke. Yes. After (Wede • meyer) le*'t, around the Ist of Au gust. 1946. the supply was cut off. j "Senator Terbuson. Why? ) "Mr. Ccoke. Wei’. 1 didn’t do It, , and I can’t say why. I “Senator Ferguson. Did General Marshall ever discuss that with | you? | “Mr. C oke. discussed it in ; general without making too much comment except that he made the ■ observation to me that we. meaning j tlto United States, had armed the j Chinese, and now we were dis ' arming them. In other words, we had undertaken to equip 30-odd Chinese divisions, equip them with guns and things of that kind, and then we stopped the flow of am munition and made a complete embargo, -o we didn’t supply it or wouldn’t let them buy it for a pe riod of cbout ten months. I be j lieve. He just made that observa i tion to me. that is all. He wasn't called on to do tt. hut he did do it. “Senator Ferguson. It aroourrted to disarming them because they were not getting the ammunition i for the ■ weapons we had'supplied them? ‘■Mr. Ccoke. That is right. “Senator. Ferguson. What effect would the arming of the Nation alists have had as far as the Com munists were concerned? “Mr. Cooke. Os course, the Com munists were being very well sup plied in Manchuria by the Rus sians from arsenals and from cap tured Japanese guns and ammu nition. W? were practically certain that was going on. and of course in our White Paper reported from our diplomatic representatives in Moscow that it was going on. . . . “Senator Ferguson. And General .Marshall had told you that of course that amounted to the dis arming of the Nationalists? "Mr. Ccoke. Yes." This Chinese Communist Army was built up, while the NattonaJiats were di .s-med. end now we are lighting the Chinese Communists in Korea And for a number of years, our State Department issued propaganda to the effect that the Chinese Communists were buying American arms from corrupt Na tionalists. The State Department has also made many statements of sending supplies to Chiang Kai-shek which were was s od. T have from time to time stated that there wak an embargo against the Nationalists while tire Communists were being supplied. Here is Admiral Cooke's , sworn testimony on the subject: T “Mr. Morris. What was the na ture of the , embargo, Admiral Coofce? . “Mr- Coqke. fha United States woujd supply no combat equipment of any kind, including ammuni ; tion, ai)d they wouldn’t allow the , Chinese to buv any in the United States. Eventually I think they bought some spare parts and may be some transport planes, no com bat planes but transport planes like C-47's and C~Ws. "Mr. Morris. Will you tell us when this embargo went into ef fect? “Mr- Cooke. I can’t tell you ex actly, but It was about «he Ist of August, 1946. “Mr. Morris. How long did that stay in force? “Mr. Cooke. Until the following May “Mr. Cooke. May, 1*47? “Mr. Ccoke. Yes. “Mr. Morris. During the time that was in force wee the Chinese government able to buy any equip- JfATCNER AND SKINNER | Z JSL THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. ——— *——-—' - I I UJ HMBr mRI ff H ffl OCT. | I 0 k! w ! H 31 If «L JfilP r 3il rs hESSI. t'WkAi OR : . I I V liWWBI f * wh>\ “Trick or treat!” min AND MAIDS ,M, STMi Mrs. A1 Jolson, who came on for the Carnegie Hall tribute to him, had her blue mink coat stolen from the upper box In which she was seated, during the show! ln line with this column’s campaign, “Night of Stars” will pay performers Nov. 19th . r.. Charlie Trlppi, Chicago Cardinal quarterback, served notice on professional football coaches that hereafter, if a coach relays signals to his quarterback, the coaci: will have to take the blame for faulty judgment. Trlppi,. after the Washington Redskins upset, blasted Coach Curly Lambeau who had tried to make Trlppi the goat New Jersey State Fire Fighters’ Mike Smith replaces John P. Crane as vp of the Fnt’l. Association Next indictment by DA Frank Hogan will explode political bombshells! Monsignor Cornelius J. Drew’s campaign to build a Harlem school and community center spurred by Charles Buchanan’s pledge to raise SIO,OOO, plus th^Savoy owner’s personal check for SI,OOO. Ray Robin son, Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis all pitching in on this Harlem pro ject for kids TV excited over the teaming of Vivian Blaine and Pinky Lee Nov. 10th last day to apply for Marine Officers’ can didate class. If you're 20 to 27, contact Major Leitner, REctor 2-8000. ext. 362 .... Outside the Paramount stage door, bobby soxers wearing buttons: “Frankie Laine or President!” Sir Shane Leslie stopping Fifth Ave. traffic in his Scotch kilts Ray Barber calls it Holly weird.” HONOLULU MAYOR JOHN H. WILSON, commenting on a letter in this column from a mother whose GI son is burled in Punchbowl Cemetery, explains: “I understand all U. S. military cemeteries have replaced crosses and Stars of David markers with slabs, so there’s no reason why Hawii should be an exception to the rule. A very great many of those buried in Punchbowl Cemetery are Buddhists and for some reason, the Federal government refused the request that the Buddhist four square emblem be placed over their graves, so you can understand tthe feelings of their relatives, r.merican mothers can rest assured that the honored dead are being treated with the greatest reverence.” „ Suspended sentences predicted for those college basketball stars who tooperated with police Kansas City Star backing Eisenhower for the Presidency? Leo Durocher discussing a picture deal Paul Ames and Harriett Anneberg started their second honeymoon at El Morocco Top racket guys laughing at police reports that .WUUe Moretti was broke Colette Marchand, French star of “Two on the Aisle,” delayed her surgery until a successor is found Brazil’s Tony Veiga planing here to wed show girl Pat Gaston Judy Garland now doing a 15 minute afterpiece at the Palace. *They won’t let hey off .... Mrs. Harry Ruby ailing .... Gene Fowler'* son going into TV fUm production on the Coast They ought to change the name of Churchill Downs to Churchill Upset, wires Dennis James. Premier MAssadegh of Iran really in trouble: having chased the British oil experts and technicians out of Iran, the country is threatened with economic ruin: if he reconciles with the British, there’s a good chance of assassination MacArthur hasn’t revealed any political plans, even to his most intimate friends .... Rocky Marciano and his pretty wife, mobbed for autographs at Tavem-on-the-Oreen The Freddie Stewarts expect a small crooner John L. Lewis to blast President Truman as a prelude to the '52 campaign Joy Hodges and ex. Paul Dudley won’t reconcile Carl Brisson clicking at the Persian Room .... Donald Bloomingdale planed from Parts to sfe his seriously ailing mother Shortest movie marquee signs: “M” end ”5", double-featured in neighborhood houses. Dunn Woman Is Model Winner Raleigh, N. C. An Official of i six weeks tour of North Carolina the North Carolina Motor Carriers | Fairs at Shelby, Rocky Mount, Association announced the winners. Charlotte, Wilson, Raleigh and of the scale model trucks displayed > Carthage. in the association's new "County j “The fifty-four winners,” Out- Fair Caravan” safety exhibit. ! law continued, “were part of over The executive secretary of the : 100,000falrgoers who learned of the Association, J. j. Outlaw, stated association's traffic safety and that the fifty-four trucks were courtesy programs while visiting mailed today to the different win- the mobile tfuck safety exhibit.” ners throughout North Carolina. Winners included Mrs. Thomas “The County Fair Caravan,” Out- Britt of Dunn. . law said, "has just completed a •— , st ment in the United States? “Mr. Cooke. Not so far as I know.! < I am fairly sure not.” ; 1 Surreptitious arrangements were ' ■ made to permit the Chinese Na tionalists to take obsolescent mum* 1 lions which the Marines had dump ed in Tsingtao. The only objection to aidingtlie Nationalists in this way came from Jphn Carter Vlh • cent. Here is the record: “ Senator Ferguson. What did’ (Vincent) ssy? ... | i "Mr. Cooke He Just said we ought to figure out away to de stroy it (the munitions). “Senator Ferguson. And not give r It to the Nat'onalifjta? “Mr. Cooke. That la right. . . “Actually we designated a place there Where we were going to ’ it, and we told them we were going to put it there. Wc didn’t tell them ! w we « Ibtog to give )t to them, bits we were putting Jt in this * Place, and they did S>me ted get ; R, and of course they did die “Senator Ferguson. Did Mr. Vta- «e r- cent assign any reason tor not Bivhw Jt to toe Chinese National ists in the way you proposed? -Mr. Cooke He just Indicated U was undesirable to do so. Mrs 14 Hour Road i * ••••••••••« I Frederick OTHMAN I WASHINGTON. Sometimes I the press can interview a man and I le*rp a lot; same,times as the I Democrats’ new boss discovered I it’s vice versa. Maybe this is all I to the good. Frank E. McKinney of Indiana- I polls, Ind., in any event, had been I Chairman of the Democratic Nat- I tonal Committee for an h6ur and I a half by the clock when he called I his first press conference. Plump, 1 4 wavy haired and well pressed In a I blue pin-stripe suit, he strode II briskly to his desk and took a seat I! beneath an almost life-size photo- I graph of Harry Truman in tech- I nicolor. I The desk was a whopper. Upon I its glass-covered walnut expanse I were two pencils, a pristine scratch I pad. and a large or politician-size ash tray. With a solid gold cigarette lighter McKinney ignited a fat - cigar and looked expectantly at his audience. He didn't have long to wait; there were almost as many newspaper reporters jammed in his office as had ganged up for a look at Princess Elizabeth the night before. This time they were primed with questions. McKinney apollgized for being a little late; he’d been held up a little at a conference with Mr. Truman. ■s “He say he was going to run >, again next year?” demanded a re i,; porter. II The chairman almost' swallowed e his cigar. Then he made a quick r recovery and said this wasn’t dis ci cussed. He said it was his own e opinion that if Mr. T. were in . | terested, he’d be a sure winner. ! ; He said he’d” suggested to the I President that he take out of poll >l tics Collectors of Internal Revenue e— several of whom lately were - fired for fiscal trickery and put - ’em under Civil Service. Mr- Tru d man agreed this was a good idea. “How serious a threat (to a ). Democratic victory) do you- think g * this internal revenue situation is?" g inquired one of the chairman's . new friends. I “I don’t think it’s serious,” he i said. “There’s beep an inference r j that there's dirt under the carpet.” ■1 “Inference!” exclaimed his in e quisitor. "They’ve been indicted, o haven’t they?” * McKinney took a deep puff on his cheroot. Then he changed the e subject. He said he did not seek 1 j his new job. “When I first read t ] about it in the newspapers back it j home," he added, “I thought some body was pulling a big joke on me.” “Maybe they jvere," suggested a s correspondent. The chairman blinked. Another questioner wondered whether he t believed the Democratic leader e ship over the years had gotton e away from the people. That was y an easy one; MqKinney snapped: y “I do not.” "Well, do you think the people i have gotten away from the leader s ship?” asked another inquisltioner. McKinney said if they had, he’d try to do something about it. He also said that he intended first to .. reorganize hi* committee staff and . then study some of the hot poli . tical problems. • “What hot problems?” he was * asked. The chairman said he din’t know 1 ; Dunn Hospital Patients ADMISSIONS Mrs Eloise Naylor, Rt. 2, Rose boro; Master Larry Martin, Smith a fisld; Mrs. Annls Liza McLamb, Rt. t S. Benson; Mias Bertha M. Bare j foot, Rt. J, Dunn; Mrs. Elsie Hurl Muter. Rt. J, Benson; Mrs. Cleta _ Mae Tart, Rt. 1. Godwin: Mrs.. r Ruby Lee Allen, Dunn; Mr. Jessie e B. Lee, Dunn; Mrs. Alleen Byrd, d Rt. 9. Dunn; Mrs. Audrey Stewart, g Coats. COLORED j Beatrice Baicom, Rt. 1. Godwin; Ida Bel] Watson, Rt. 1, Four Oaks; Lee Hagans, Newton Grove. ’ OO SHOPPING * Mrs. SUas Whittington and Mrs. Wade Farrell spent yesterday in j lt Rajeigh shopping. The first visiting nurse group in m this country waa established in Buffalo in 1985. Ifaifuslnt * Mrfaprjw Hr* * FrMnrs t • RanSM --- * Water Heatsr* | * rressrt I * • Washsri I rherc’s No Point Beta* Without Hoi Paint IRION'S WfebKfcsbA* Afternoon, 1, mi LYNN NISBET: Around tfapitoJ « [ JITTERY Question has been , raized in some quarters about the propriety of the governor of North Carolina going on a fishing trip as guest of a man who sells a lot of sand and gravel to the State. Also there has been some criticism of the governor accepting hospitality of owners of private airplanes for trips over the country. During the past tow days there has even been heard comment about the governor ; and high ranking personnel of the highway department accepting en tertainment and gifts of brief cases from the"people of Fayetteville. Not a single person with whom your reporter has talked thinks there is anything wrong in these matters. The adverse comment is regarded as evidence that some people are simply suffering from a bad case of Jitters because of rumors and developments of monkey-business among high ranking officials in Washington. BASELESS There is no real 1 justification for these jitters, but there is some excuse. The difference between a free trip,to Europe or a vacation in a swank Florida hotel and a week-end at the beach or a fishing trip off the coast, is in degree rather than in kind. There is an old adage to the effect that people who . live in glass houses should not throw stones. That might be referred to read that peo ple who throw stones should not live in glass houses. Stated an other way. the head man in an ad ministration which has made big capital out of proposals to clean up “petty graft” among State eme ployees, must need be more than normally careful in accepting com pletely honest and innocent fav ors. HELPFUL That idea should not be carried to the extreme point that a man must associate him self from all his friends Just be cause he. happens to hold public office. One of the main troubles with public officials is they do not keep enough contacts with the run of-mind citizenship they serve. The governor and the highway commis sioners and ( the other officials can do a much better job if they take time out from official duties to consort with contractors and bank ers and cotton mill workers and truck drivers and mechanics and reporters. All this stuff about the governor being seduced by a fish ring trip on a rich man’s bout or a dinner given by reporters who cover his office is a lot of Ush-tosh and bunk. Fact is, if governors and presidents and other big shots did that kind of thing more often they’d be better officials.' TAGGED Here’s a cute little human intreest story from Greens boro. A business man there took a bunch of magazines to the Masonic home and was recognized by one of the "guests" frdm several previ ous visits. The guest, an elderly woman, spoke to him and said: “You are not a Mason, are you? The man sort of shame-facedly admitted he was not. “I was sure you were not.” said the woman, because no Mason ever brings us anything." That’s a true story yet. The qquestioners then led J him throligh a discussion of why he'd refused to accept the 835.000 salary of his new office and how he'd divested himself of most of i his business Interests. “I’m only retaining my banking, radio, and real estate interests, “he said. "That all?” one of the writers. The chairman sighed. And ' I must report in ail honesty that he acquitted himself well at o.ne of the iqost difficult ordeals the press conference that the top men here must undergo. v - ~ Baarswfz. % m [ "Amazing* | PREEM-, £,titty lnswzassmresss* scientific way tt heef ytur floors hotly JP~ VQM flfVft bmJ HYuk M MAM, Wlttf) fU to, SK-I". ° ’" asaacs^s-77-.yri;, Las. that can be supported with names and dates. Os course, the good woman was exaggerating; but names and places can be substitut , ed and the story will pretty nearly stand up anywhere. BAND Some Carolina fans *t the Tennessee game Saturday • were concerned at first because the V ; Tennpsseans did not have their very fine band along. There was 1 some discussion about why toe band wasn’t along. During the half re cess period, one of the fellows who had been worried brightened up. He had found the answer, and he expressed it in ungramattical but forceful language; “The Tennes see folks just knowed they didn’t need no band.” His crude but hon est comment was Justified by toe score-board: Tennessee, 27; Caro- ** 1 Una, 0. Another Carolina chap wasn't so philosophical about it/ He said he felt he was entitled to somq good music for Ms ticket, since he didn’t see a good football ' game. NICKELS As a result of Sat urday’s election among purchasers of commercial feeds and fertilizer, ! the agricultural research program in North Carolina will get enough a extra nickels next year and each * , year thereafter to add between $150,000 and |200,000 annually to the fund available for such use. Leaders in the movement are both happy and disappointed. They are happy at the preponderant majori ty rung up for the plan of adding five cents a ton to the purchase price of feed and fertilizer. The vote was approximately twelve to one. They are not at all happy over the fact that only about 700.- 000 eligible voters took the trouble * to express an opinion. Advance In formation was that approximately half a million persons could vote. CONCENTRATION Children suffering from cerebal palsy got a break last week. The State as sociation of beer distributors at Its State convention voted to concen- % trate charitable contributions to that cause. Instead of spreading the dollars over a diversified field 9 the association voted to adopt one major objective. Spokesmen for the group made it clear this action does not preclude’interest in other worthy projects; but like tjie Lions Clubs concentrate on aid to the blind. Shriners on aid to crippled children, Kiwanlui* and RJks on generally under-privileged young sters. the beer distributors will amounts varied all the way from two thousand to forty thousand dol lars a year, with mast eommooly accepted figures between Ore and ten thousand, to b* mads Tail able tor the overall project In this State for helping kid* who are pommonly known as “spastica.” JOKE Whether it was delib erate or inadvertent, whether It was serious or a Joke, and Who (he Joke was on. are still unanswered questions. Anyway, a lot of "folks tk are still chuckling about one item in Governor Scott’s opech to the | recent State CJO-PAC convention. 1 The governor was talking about conservation of water resources ’ through federal development of multi-purpose projects on State I streams. He used, |o support his contention, several quotations from statements made many yean ago by William Howard Tgft, served the nation well as president and chief justice of the United at States supreme court. The last w president was father of Senator Robert A. Taft, co-author of the Taft-Hartiey act, whose name is ’ anathema In any labor union group.