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+WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Partly ekady today, tonight and Friday. He so warm today, a little wanner Friday. VOLUME if Mother Cuts Throats Os •4 Children ’ FORT KNOX, Ky. (IP) The bodies of four small children, their throats slashed by a carving knife, lgy in a military morgue to day as doctors pulled their' mother through an unsuc cessful suicide attempt. Second Lt„ Joseph P. Coonan of Lancaster. Pa., foi-nd the 'bodies of bis children on a blood-stained bed la his small apartment last night. His wife, Mrs. lois Coonan, was unconscious on the bathroom floor with a ragged wound in her throat. | FATHER HYSTERICAL Coonan screamed and staggered to the street to summon military police. He was talking hysterically £rhen they arrived. Col. Frank Reece, Fort, Knox pro vost marshal wait i nuble to get I' any information from Coonan and Hint him to the post hospital to be treated fro shock. Mrs. Coonan anparently attemp ted to kill herself with the carving knife. Reece said. She stumbled into the bathroom and attempted to drink a disinfectant but could swallow only a small portion of the fiery liquid because of the slash In jher throat. It was pumped from yKer stomach. EXPECTED TO LIVE Mrs. Coonan was given first-aid treatment at the apartment by a next-door neighbor, a military doc- I Continued On Page Three) Erwins TWUA 4o Open Store A co-operative store, owned and eperated by the Textile Workers Union of America Local in Rrwln is in prospect, It was revealed to day by Business Manager, J. Thom as West. A 1 certificate of incorporation was filed yesfcijcfla with Secretary J of State Thad • Eure few the new h.- by West. WUBanj - Duto*. and F.wb The 'te arthorized for a capital stock of 175,000 max imum. Financing will be done by the sale of stock at $75 per share to members of the Union. The store wll lsel general gro ceries at established fair trade prices on a strictly cash basis. The exception to the cash rule win be the stockholders, who may pur *■ chase an amount up to 160 on Credit for each share of stock. 1 STOCK SALE LIMITED ‘ Sale of the stock will tie touted I Con tinned OB Pace Two) Primary Set For May 31st A County Elections Chairman Henry p. Strickland hasn’t yet announced Am opening of tiling books for Real offices, but here are the per tinent dates and deadlines, in ease you're interested in becoming a candidate. The primary election will be held May, 31, ind the general election la set for November 4. Candidates for governor, all State offices. Justices of the State Supreme Court, Congress and sott •wtors must file with the State Board of Elections on or before 18 o’clock noon of Saturday, March 'Candidates for the State Senate and county offices will file their notices with the Harnett board on eg before • p. m. of April 19th. I BOOKS TO OPEN MAY S The registration books Will be apened in all of the local preClnts at 9 a. m. Saturday. May 3 and A WUI close at sunset of Saturday, • (Continued On Page Three) FarmGroupOpposes 3ry Training. : ’ 4 * ."' ; ' \ TELEPHONES: 811? - >llß . 3119 Churchill Warns U.S. To Guard A-Bomb ■■ j■l I CLARENCE E. McLAMB Chamber President Outlines Program ciwMßCtf e. MrEwm. ay. mw'.i>oasHWis<sgff^|. Chamber of Commerce, toddywas chartering a course of action for the year and said top emphasis would be plac ed on attracting new industries—both home industries and outside industries. r y" J Senator Smith To Do Column For The Record WASHINGTON. The press 'corps covering copilot Hill and the National Capital for North Carolina newspapers soon Is to be supplemented by n distinguish ed colleague, It was learned here today. The new “correspondent" will be Senator Willis Smith, who is planning to begin soon produc tion of 'a weekly column of news and opinion for publication in Tar Heel newspapers. The Junior senator has offered the colsmn to many. If not all, newspapers In the state, and al ready has -signed up” at least a score of Dm smaller publica tions, including The Dally Recbrd. In private life, Smith IS an (Continued On Page Three) > -—,* Firemen Get Three Calls lltree fires,' all of which oc curred within a 34 hour period, were reported this morning by Howard M. Lee, secretary-treasurer of the Dunn Fire Department. Tuesday at 3:50 p. m., the fire iContinued On Page Five) Another resolution was adopted asking for premeasurement of to wwdd be assured thaTuie proper acreage^allotted^ww (Ehv BaiUillmird The program of action, Mr. Mc- Lamb pointed out, will be up to the chamber's bodrd of directors, but he outlined for the press some of the things he believes should be given attention during the year. He’ll have the full backing of the board, too. Mr. Mac, as most people know him, didn’t want to be pres ident of the chamber and insisted that somebody else be named. But the board was unanimous, along with local citizens, in agreeing that he was the best man to be found for the Job. They figured, among other things, that this smooth, easy-going good natured fellow who can sell more tractors than any other salesman in the whole country could also do a good Job heading and leading the Mr. McLamb is vice president and general sales manager of McLamb Machinery Co., which has Just re cently been declared the nations No. 1 Farroall dealer. HAS FINK RECORD The new chamber president has an outstanding record of public ser vice. He’s now serving his second term on the board, and. throughout the years has been a leader In practically all of the community enterprises here., Never a person'to shirk a call to duty, Mr. McLamb accepted the -office somewhat reluctantly, but L now that he’s in office, he’s enthus / iastically going about the Job of r building a bigger and better Dunn. •>- CITES GOALS This morning, he summed up his goals briefly, to include: induce ment of new industry; closer re lations between citizens of Dunn and rural citizens who regard Dunn 1 as their shopping center; liquida tion of the city’s swimming port debt and * sound financial program the city In efforts to bring about stricter control of tralfic conditions, (Continued on Page Three) EGG* AND POULTRY RALEIGH W - Today’s egg and P °CMiten?Narth : c Una live poul- PUNN, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOOft, JANUARY 17, 1952 - —\ Truman's Tax Plea Doomed; No Hearing Set WASHINGTON —flh— Chairman Robert I k Doughton D-NC said today his House Ways and Means Committee may not even bother to hold hearings oh President Tru man’s foredoonied request for'an I electlon-v°nr Increase of more ! th«" *5.000.000 000. - Other comm'tt*JF members warn ! ed tha’ even if 1 tbev should renort out » hill to raise' taxes. It mieht and be-nme a vehicle for cutting them instead. Buch was the temper of Congress after Mr. Truman’s economic mes sage called for higher levies and nhieglr" of tax “loonholes” to halve the prospective $lO 000.000,000 federal deficit in fiscal 1953. STRENGTHENED opposition His formal request merely crys tallised the st-ong opposition to any tax Increase this year which mem bers of both parti® had voiced be fore his message was received. Other major proposals In Mr. Truman’s message' also encounter ed a lukewarm-to-cold reception. Congressional leaders said there is a good chance of extending the (Continued Og luge Three) Moore Resigns Baptist Post The resignation of Rev. C. E. Moore as Assoclational Missionary of the Little River Baptist Asso ciation, effective op March Ist, was ennounced today. His resignation was tendered at a reepibjneeUng of the board of r , R«i Mr. Mdbre wfc (fcer the Little River Missionary work upon . the resignation of Roger Johnson, who went to Bladenboro to as- j 1 same charge of the school then M principal. He had been principal of Boone Trail School. Mrs. Moore is a member of the faculty of An , derson Creek School. Moderator Leslie H. Campbell of i the Little River Association, app ; pointed a committee to secure the services' of a missionary to take (Continued On Page Four) 1 1952 Buick To Be Shown \ FLINT, Mich., Jan. 17. Buick today introduced its 1953 line of cars and turned the spotlight on its new Alrpower carburetor, de scribed by Buick engineers as the greatest Improvement in carbure tion in a decade. The >963 line, freshly restyled Inside and out, includes 16 body styles in four horsepower ratings and four wheelbases. Eight models are offered in the Special Series and four each In the Super and custom-built Roadmaster Series. The new cars will go op display in dealer showrooms Saturday. January 19. The new four-barrel Alrpower carburetor, which is featured on the Roddmaster only, tops the list of engineering - improvements for 1953. Hits carburetor, along with a change in manifolding and an increase in the compression ratio, boosts the horsepower output of BULLETINS PARIS P Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vixhinsky said today there could be ne great hope (or success of the Korean truce talks because of the unreas onable demands bv “the latter-day cannibals” negotiat ing ft# the United States. I WASHINGTON w Influence peddler F,.nk Sm- I ."I.. 1 . --- - . . I I* A I- ' • W jfc, M A Ifu \J m w| i J ty# PROPOSED TOURIST GUIDE SIGN Above is a reproduction made for the Record by J. W. Temple, J»„ of a highway sign offered to the Dun n Tourist Bureau by Allen Outdoor Advertising of Greensboro, Signs similar to this would be,erected at varying distances north and south, to attract tourist trade to Dunn. A group consisting of Howar d Hodges, tourist bureau head, W. H. Tart, City Manager O. O. Manning. W. G. Malone, Elijah Ba refoot, Mr. and Mrs. Haeke, Earl McD. Westbrook and others are attending a meeting of the Highway 361 Association In SmJthfield with Chamber of Com **•"»*« Herman SutUes today, where plans for this and other methods of attracting visitors win be discussed. Jaycees Name Ladies To Help With MarchOt Dihrz&C—. . ass ♦ Instead rs iflylng 4n rghatr own effort* entirely to pOff oyer ttSs March of'Dimes drive in Dunn, the Diffin Jaycees, who are handling 1 the drive, have decided to ask fee aid of the ladles of the community. They will be asked to aid in stag ing a "Mothers March on Polio’’ In an effort to add to the successful completion of the task which the Jaycees have undertaken In raising funds to fight this disease. Under the plan, the community will be completely organized. One lady in each block in Dunn will be asked to volunteer to make a canvass of her immediate neighbors in that block. The hour for the concentrated drive will be set for sometime next week by Mayor Ralph Hanna. The fire siren atop the Muniolpal Build ing will be blown to signal the start (Cantinned On Page Three) MR. HARPER DIES A. H. Harper, 74. veteran employee of Erwin Mills,, died suddenly at his home in Erwin this afternoon about 12:45. He suffered a heart attack while at home for lunch. Mr. Hamer had been employed by Erwin Mills for the past 42 years and was one of the town’s most popular citizens. He was a former deputy sheriff. Funeral arrangements had not been completed when The Record went to FIVE CENTS PER COPY : Stripper, Bely Dancer Will Compete Tonight MIAMI BEACH HP) The . battle of the torsos gets under way here tonight when sultry , Sarnia Gama! unveils her famous , Egyptian harem dance and Lili St. I Cyr, in an all-out bid to meet the competition, revives the “old fash | toned" strip tease. Lili, lamenting the “rude and un mannered” reception her bubble bath and towl act has received here, said she had “tried to give them art but obviously they want nudity, bumps and grinds. “Well, that’s what I’ve decided to give this rude, unmannered audience ln fire engine red," she said. New York Turns Out To Welcome Car I sen .NEW YORK —rm— The skipper who fought alone against the sea came home today to the welcome that New York's millions give to men of heart and valor. Captain Kurt Carlsen of the Fly ing Enterprise, a reluctant horo but a true one. trudged up the storied “Canyon of Heroes” that is Lower Broadway and took over a new wumnand. HILARIOUS CELEBRATION And never did a master com mand such a hilariously celebrat ing crew. From the time he started up New York harbor in a Coart Guard cutter to the moment M walked onto a replica of the prow of hi* own ill-starred Flying Enter prim on the stepe of City Hail, the welcome by sea ahd by land was clost to riotous. The 37-year-old Danish-Amerlcan Wife Describes J the Record Is FIRST in CircuSaKon .. News Photos .. Advertising Comics .. Features DISCREET AND ARTISTIC She said, however, that the switch in emphasis from her “dis creet and artistic” boudoir panto mine bad nothing to do with the appearance of black-eyed Sarnia e( another night club up .the street Sarnia, meanwhile, emphasized that her act is “real Oriental art,” She said she had no fear it would be taken for anything else. Nor did her husband, millionaire Shephard Adbullah King HI of Texas, who will be seeing It for the first time, feel that her dance Is going to be unrefined. Mrs. King, who is half Arab, (Cautioned On Page Three’ who won the admiration of the world by staying aboard his crack ed and listing vessel until she sank from under him in the stormy North Atlantic, flew home early to day to. the arms of his wife and two small daughters. TEARS ROILED DOWN l Tears courting down his cheeks, he atood on a platform at the air port apd said: “Fallow ciUMus, I (Continued On Fagv Three. ————- IT Minli irfflipiMw "5 * For 46$ puplh tt the new Erwin NO.30 Pledges Britain To Stand Firm Against Commies WASHINGTON (IP) Win ston Churchill pledged Great Britain today to stand beside the United Sttftes against Communist aggres sion, but warned America never to give up the atomic bomb until it has some oth er means of preserving peace. “Be careful not to let go r»f the atomic weapons. un til you are sure, and more than sure, that other meth ods of preserving peace are in your hands,” he told Con gress. SUPREME DETERRENT He called the atomic wea pon the “suoreme deterr ent” to a third world war. In summing ud his speech, Churchill adjusted his spec tacles and spoke slowly: Many Dunn citizens daw Churchill deliver his speech to Congress on tel evision today. Reception was described as fust about perfect. “We must not lose patien ce, and we must not lose hope.” i [ “I have not come here to ask you for money money to make life more comfort able or easier for us in Brit ain,’’ he said. ( . * • m JChurchill was greeted with *n ovation when he began his impor rtnt "TMilirnn thcYthfffr tlmnj lie has spoken to a joint session <>f ; tpe * ■ i i i aH 1 House and Senate. laughter and applause when altorts at the outset he aid: -I I,™ not CM, Mr, to-J* yay wa. ir.aaragwa.ta 1 1 Into a consolidation prograißk jf#* J The three small white schools
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