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OK \-jjO ;■«. t ■ •• f\<n tiAtmiW \ NORTH CAROLINA -e Cloudy load mild With rain today, beeem ?*vv W warmer In West thU moraine. UUISaMWd »«<*> <"«** tonight. £?s to 25 la extreme West, M $ 28 in central portion and 30 t« ■ Min extreme East. Saturday fair A’liiLit' itt" . U N GIVES UP ISLANDS TO SPEED PEACE i I_T il ■ : = ■ If ; . —; • Fath&r Comfortable In Jail ; Mothkr jk 9 Children Shivering > H FAMILY ANB HOME - Photo aijtottom“*^ | . family has ooeapled for the poet f|»e year*. The gapbif hole At th# **t where, the dapboOrdter fallen off makes thU portion of the house Impossible to heat. In. ** ** • and tile six youngest of the nine children Hrlnr there are shown. W‘ *• £*% 2. Rebecca France*. 4, CUrence, I, Betsy Anne, A Larry, 5, Abner A, ondjtor Tfßttm. The >»yjn the foreground is the sole meane of keeping the old house aaiaa (Dally Record pnetae, ay Me Dearborn). •. *• ~ ~ •■ ■ ' .-' ' j \ '*>«. \«j >Ai BY LOUIS DEARBORN ' . " Record Staff Writer 41)i« WUkins will have a good Christmas dinner in the county jail—.but his wife and nine of , their children have nothing to ’ look forward to except the shiv ering cold and whatever Christ mas Joy citizens of the communi ty wish to provide. Their biggest problem . .right now—aside from food—is trying to keep warm in, an old, tumbie downJoigr^roQnri^unpa^t^^house, Kefauvmmas Wmm so mnd Corruption j‘ fnirr nolntr con gremteoal program to combat cor -were baaed on the-findings tices in f**ernment. -->* luilUllA! ■{ TELEPHONES: *lll- 3111 - tUi and out of jail and qn the roads for varying periods during moat of his life, hit surroundings in the comfortable, well-heated coun ty Jail are quite familiar to- him. He had only recently 1 a road term oil. non-support charges. , ( HU children would he tickled pink if they had any idea their Christmas dinner would be half r as good as the delicious maal Hell : be served in the county Jail. Probable cause was found against WUkins Monday in Dunn * Recorder’s Court on charges-of . rape preferred by his divorced wife Mrytle D. Wilkins, and Judge \ H. Paul Strickland ordered him study government *ethical stands (Ehv JBailg ttarfr DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AftTERNOON, DECEMBER 21, 1951 held Without bond. Mrs. Wilkins divorced Hhti M November. £ Before leavbfg Dunn City Jail, Wilkins invested wbat cash He had in tobacco in prapsarktlon for a long Jail sttpr’Bfe ,'under the circumstances,. he' comfortably arranged for Christmas. • This will Hot be the case With the Wilkins family. Mrs. Wilkins and nine of her twelye'children, living ill the little shack, have lit tle of joy to look forward to this Christmas season. CHILDREN CUT wood Ttys shack, for it Is little more than that, is heated by a jmaU laundry heater. Fuel tor the heat er is provided by such wood as the older of the nine children can cut And bring home from nearby wooded areas. During the cold Weather recently, the family spent most of its time huddled ever this heater, in a vain attempt to keen warm. . - /. *; Tltis stove is in the front room I which act* as a combination liv ing room and bedroom. One mite the I&T' . ' : RALEIGH -gR- oottoh quotations mRMUftg padstrict low middling baaed on I And Mtad SSSte MAO. | EOC^ANDFOULTRT Complete List Os Prisoners k Demanded By UN PANMUNJOM, Korea —flH— 'ftie United Nations demanded tonight that the Communists explain, why they omitted from their list of U V N. war prisoners more than 1,090 prisoners previously reported by the Reds. \ A sharp note from Rear Adm. R, E. Libby, U. N. member 6f the prisoner subcommittee, charged that the Communist list of 11,558 prisoners was’ full of "wide dis crepancies” and ’ was “wholly "til believable.” ASK EXPLANATION Übby demanded that the Com munists provide a “complete, dra per and satisfactory explanation” of the discrepancies. The note raised hopee that addi tional hundreds of American war prisoners beyond the 3,196 report ed by the Communists Tuesday may yet be found alive ’ in Red prison camps. “WHOLLY UNBELIEVABLE" It is said that CommunW propa ganda broadcasts, releases and other reports have nemed more than 1,000 U. officers and mad who did not appear on the latest Communist list. The note also said that the Com munist listing of only 7,142 South Korean prisoners out of the teds of thousands missing in action con stituted a “wholly unbelievable ra tio under conditions of warfare in Korea.” • • ■ • ’ , : 'u Page Services To Be Sunday Ames Wiley Page, 71. of Godwin pi- J. died at 10:30 pm Thurs day RkWhe James Walker Hospital in Wilmington Funeral seryices will bit held Sun day at 3 pm. at the Antioch Bap -tist Church in Falcon. Burial Will be in the Church cemetery. The body will remain at the Hatcher- Skinner Funeral Home until 2:00 Sunday and will he in state at the Church from 2 till 3 p.m. Surviving aae two brothers John H. Page of Dunn and James W. Page e< Wilmington. Five daugh ters. Molly Page of Berkley, Calif., (Cesitlnweg am Page Seven) Nashville Editor Burned To Death NASHVILLE, Tenn. (W Herbert Mortimer Trull, 37. managing edi tor of the Nashville Banner, burn ed to death here today when the cottage in which ha lived was des troyed by the. Trull, who had been with the Banner since 1633, evxcept far war time service in the Navy, appar ently had fallen asleep on a couch In his bachelor quarters in subur ban Belle Meade before the fire broke out early tie morning. BULLETINS " . " ’ . r 1 ' " r . k , '*l PARIS (V) Communist Czechoslovakia charged today in the United Nations that U. S. plane* flew over Czech territory 116 times in 18 mdnths on esponage missions. # .T.v> \V. “ - - - - - - - -t -- . ’ ’ • ' WASHINGTON (W The Defense Department said to day that Ole loved ones of 861 soldiers may not know def initely for several days whether the servicemen are on the Communist list el Korean war prisoners. CHICAGO (IP) A delayed-action odM wave howled through the Midwest today as snow plows chopped through drifts in South Dakota that have isolated com munities for mm than two weeks. ROME IV) ltaly, with the biessing of the Western ' v i(C—Um*S Ob Pag* Tbrwe) .' .*y ■ " Record To Publish Issue On Saturday The Daily Record will Hot pub- dim j- ■Hu'jß- C . n , ' %, fm • I -ji ? k ! i ilS . COOKED JUST RIGHT Oliver W. Godwin, p romlnent Dunn contractor, is shown here as he «errad a big, dehcioui steak—cooked Just right—to City Attorney I. R. Williams at a Christmas party given by Mr. Godwin for his employees. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). Man Leaves Bride In SnowToDie JACKSON, Mich. (If) Wealthy Businessman Edward G. Spencer, She left his 21-year-old bride..lytng BL the snow in the driveway of and>ntto ■ ■BRL*va» coAiped with tier today. The sherifTs warrant was issued after the 44-year-oid trucking ex ecutive admitted leaving his wife, Lorretta, in the snowdrift where she had fallen Tuesday night. She was found nearly frozen the fol lowing morning and died an hour later bt.a hostptai. The handsome, silver-haired vice president of a storage and trucking company backtracked yesterday on his' story that he had no idea his wife was lying outside in the snow (OsnttwAad On Fags Three) Center View Has Gifts For Kids Children who attend the Cen ter View Drive-In Theatre between i Dunn and Erwin on Christmas Eve ■ are in for a real treat this year. Hal H. Jordan, popular operator ) of the theatre, announced today • that he will have candy and other ■ favors for ail children who attend i the theatre Monday night Center View has outstanding pic i tures scheduled during the holt day*. v «' , Meaty aw ChrbWwsa day and an pvkHiMl Monday wwM Cfewisiss*^' the Bate Swwi. which u . Spat toto.ed aa/etoar aJwer FIVE CENTS PER COPY JfejjJ l M|liy IWw?; Officials Open lalks DURHAM —iff)— Officials of Erwin Mills and the Textile Work ers Union of America CIO met here teday to discuss union re quests for wage Increases. Howard Parker, manager of the Durham Joint board of TWA, In dicated earlier that the union would seek the same eight cents Tough Policy With Hungary Demanded WASHINGTON (IP) men demanded a “get tough” poP i icy today to free the four Amerl- i can airmen imprisoned by Com- < munist Hungary. ' The lawmakers said it was high time the United States quit talk- i ing and started acting because 33 days of words have failed to pro- i duce results.' I Sen. Blair Moody (D-Mich.) said the government should apply “ev ery pressure short of war to force their release.” “COMMUNIST BLACKMAIL" Sen. Mike Monroney, (D-OUa.) said this country cannot submit to .“Communist blackmail” and urg ed “retaliatory measures.” The congressional demands were Talus Talk Too Hot For Jury To Hear NSW YORK on Mrs. Evlyeen claims actress Tallulah Bankhead claims aertess Tallulah Bankhead punched her in New York and hit her and threw her out of a dress ing room in San Francisco. Mrs. Cronin, M, a graduate of burlesque and vaudeville who even tually Mias Bankhead’s maid and secretory, is being Med on charges of stealing $4,284.60 from the actress by raising the amounts of M checks. Taking the stand as the first de fense witness yesterday, she ad mitted raising >0 to 75 checks The Record ITJ Is FIRST In Circulation .. Novß lr| Photos .. Advertising . Comics Features ■HP *NO ii* Xn hour incrMSe piss a cost of living formula granted at JuHiard Mills in North Carolina and Georgia last month. Union officials met here earlier this week with the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. and discuss ed wage boosts but Parker said “no progress” was made. voiced amid indications that Mos cow may order the fliers tried as spies to baok up its campaign in 1 the United States td pin espionage charges on the United States. 1 Moccow claimed the Air Force crewmen were on a spy mission when Soviet fighters forced their C-47 transport plane down in Hun gary Nov. IP. In three stiff notes, the United States denied the charge and said the plane merely lost its way on a flight from Germany to Yugoslavia. This government has demanded the immediate release of crew and plane. WHINING POLICY Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) branded these protests as inade quate and accused the State De partment of adopting a “sniffling, whining appeasement policy.” Secretary of State Dean Acheson has argued that the government is doing everything it possibly can to free the fliers. He said he views (CWiH—ll ew sage twe* Orphan Children f j At Y u le-Party Todd# I POPE AFB -flh- Nearly 1,400 1 excited children from orphanages throughout Eastern North Carolina 1 sonnel. Reds Expected To Meet Other Allied Demands PANMUNJOM, Korea —HP)— The United Nations agreed today to give up all the islands it holds off the east and west coasts of Com-r munist North Korea in a major concession to speed Op an ar- r m’-Ure. U. N. staff officers attached no strings to the offer, but a spokes man said it was made to anti cipation that the Reds Would yield later to other Allied demands —► perhaps on the key issue of rota tion of troops during wiraog, « The U. N. gave to to the Com munists on the island question at a two-hour morning meeting of three Allied and two Communist staff oficers. AGREE ON GROUNDS RULES Altogether the staff oficers agreed during the morning on three “ground rules” for carrying out an armistice, but they faced the most controversial issuM notably the U. N. demands for uh (Continued On Pag* Three) STATE NEW* BRIEFS LOUISBURG (IP) —An elderly 4P tired farmer was found dead be neath his bicycle at the foot QUA 1 * steep highway embankment Mpk,.' yesterday and officers believed .gpL death was accidental. V- Sheriff C. W. Perry said 7)As, Hart, about 60, of near OxfqMw apparently missed a turn on High*, way 56 and plunged down the dhc bankment into several large hOWw era. y-m ft co. DEAR SANTA: Dear Santa, • •’’’3 I am a little girl eight years OM and to the third grade at M&r? Stewart School. I study hard and like my teacher. Santa MMI I bring me a ring, typevwlter, fflatm. Please bring my little sister Jennifer | a doll and coloring books and Cgjjpt Jj Thank you. ■ Brenda Joyce Yogng- Benson, N. O. , Dear Santa. i,uW)A» Please bring me a I£pe Raftfgr j cow boy suit, can with. glafiaes “In front of it trlcvcle. cap-pistol gad % a drum. That is all for Christmas but next Christmas I wUI SMHBfe <| something else. >»i, 3m" - Onndbve. «• WUliara Cameron, -*m Erwin. Dear Santa, ' - I want a cow boy bools and Mrs pH and hat. I am seven years m j and to the second grade. My daijF j| is over seas. He has i betav>~MpM l | there most two years. Please bMDE Daddv something. ,» Marvin Smith, Jr. Angler, N. C. “ near Santa, ' jo I am a little boy five years oMC jK JS forgot to tell you the bQier day® town to bring me a pair of boxidg along with my d^anOj Pope Field organised “Operation Christmas” last YMKi ft small scale. They rrtaiwifitf' to entertain 'the childiHH etlßgl Falcon Orphanage near vine, but the idea it was expanded to inefodte*MiliKll at Dunn and Oxford, a^j^tt homes or ffltytttntil $l& i ,|
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