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. s-WEATHER* ■ '■■■'’ ' t NORTH CAROLINA lncrea sing cloudiness and warm todaf, scattered. showers in West and Cen tral portions this afternoon. Partly dandy tonight. Thursday partly eloody and cooler. VOLUME n >4| •I ■ RED CROSS LEADERS MAP CAMPAIGN Officers of the Dunn-Erwin chapter of the American Red Cross met last night to map out plans for the 1952 Roil Call, which will begin on March 3. Fund Chairman Oliver W. (BiKy) Godwin, Jr., right, is shown here conferring with Mrs. Grace Swain, ex ecutive secretary of the chapter. (Daily Record photo by J. W. Temple, Jr.) Porter Must Face Trial . On I Charges Os Immorality Schnozzola THE STORY OF JIMMY DURANTE * BY GENE FOWLER Papa Bartolomeo, the Barber, Handed Out Jimmy Money to Passers-by on the Street Durante Had a Whirl At Being a Prize Fighter and Labor Leader and Wps a "Bust" at Both J , j-r* ■ ■ -■/« ■ i 1 ra-,VU.. ■ j BOTTOR’S MOTE: This Is the thtfd tastallmwt of the Saga of Jimmy She fw-taial life story of aim «f oar •rcaEfeetertainen. Getfe wrbr, the author, is one of America’s noted biographer*. These installments are from the book, SCHNOZZOLA, recently pub lished by The Viking Perns. “In aH the niehts mv nop stood eward on the elevated, nobody ever stole a crirder offn him.”—From the Sayings ■ of Mr. James Durante. CHAPTER THREE THE LITTLE SHAVER AND THE OLD Jimro.v PuAnte’s father. Bartolomeo the barber, lived to be nfpet.v-tbree vears old. In rood times as well as bad. the ynunror Durante saw to it that his father had “something for the rocket”. The sprv old man with the white hair and the long, white mustabhe. this blue eved old eentleman would tin his hat to the men as well as the women. A stranger or not, he would offer you a present or a coin. When Jimmy bevnn to make his monev to her father in quarters thousands In nightclub*—beginning and dimes. in m3—he rave his father as mnch Jimmy D»rante was bom at 90 ns fifty dollars at S time. The Catherine Street. in Manhattan’s smiling old gentleman passed out. cast side. February 10. 1893. a short these bills severally to the first t’me before Omver Cleveland Wan persons he met on the street Jim his second administration els Presi de vised a more sensible oltn: he dent. An Italian midwife delivered made his sister. Lillian, the bank- this fourth child of the Durantee. er. She doled out the pocket (Continued On Page Two) •Biti B I .. - > . •;-5' . (Eke jHailn TELEPHONES: 311? - 8118 • 311» By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer Robert Bob Porter, 35-year-old old Fuquay Springs radio announcer must face trial in March Superior Court on charges of assault with intent to rape an 18-year-old Er win girl following a hearinv givefi him yesterday in Harnett Record er’s Court in Lillington. Vice-Recorder M. O. Lee found probable cause against Porter after the state sent only two witnesses, Ina Mae Wood, and'her father. John Mack Wood, to the stand. Porter, who entered a not guilty plea, de clined to put any of his 18 wit nesses on the stand, nor did his attorneys, Young and Taylor make any arguments. % UNDER $1,090 BOND nouncer sl,ooo’. He was aceort»t>anted by his wife and four Year old son who sat in his lap during the hearing which (Continued On Page 4) RECORD EDITOR NAMED .. .. Hoover Adams, editor of The Daily Record, has been appointed to serve on a special edmmittee to publicize North Carolina " history and the State Literary and Hist orical Association. Editors of a number pf outstanding North Caro lina newspapers were named to the committee, according to an an nouncement by Dr. Christopher Crittenden, secretary. B. Graham Refused Interview By Truman ~ By ROTH GMEINER TURNED DOWN FLAT WASHINGTON (H) After a five- week religious campaign in the na- 1 "The only one who has turned tional capital, evangelist Billy Ora- n** down Is President Truman,” ham set out today to tod the 1952 Graham told the United Press. “I presidential candidate with ’’the wM not ask for another appoint strongest moral and spiritual plat- roent.” vni.no .n n «iM The evangelist. who has attracted . “5 evangelist pre- ( tremendous following with his dieted “the Christian people of the “ ‘ ,H,“Toh!v,F nation will vote as a bloc” next No- u and wit? weekUv ß radio vember and will follow "thfe instruc- “ r ?. < ! tlons of tttelr religious leaders.” n „ h i lclv Between now and election day. he not pubUcly * n dorse.any candidate, hopes to interview every potential But »» expects to confide his per candidate sonal choice to a number of re- He already has talked to Sen. Wous leaders Vho probably will Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) Before use my views as a guide.” sailing for Europe in two weeks he He was delighted with the results will confer with Gen. Douglas Mac- of the Washington crusade, despite Arthur. In Paris, an interview has the failure of some political leaders been arranged with Gen. Dwight to show “the slightest bit of qon- D. Elsenhower. cern.” BULLETINS ———t —- - ■ ■■■ —1 ——— Committer I cons^ered i today^a^pro^sal DUNN, N. fc., WEDNESDAY AITERNOON, FEBRUARY 20, 1952 * UN Rejects Red Proposal Kerr Possible Darkhorse In Democratic Race Editor’s note: This Is the third of four dispatches presenting the views of announced and prospect ive candidates for the Democra tic presidential nomination. By LYLE C. WILSON » United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON m Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma is one of the men to whom President Truman might of fer first Diace on the Demo cratic ticket this year if he chooses not to run himself. Kerr wr.s born 65 years ago in a ’og cabin in that part of the pre sent state of Oklahoma then known as the Indian Territory. He ,is a ) wealthy man new. Kerr made it in oil. Barring a matter or two bearing fjomewhat on the industry with which he is connected, Kerr is a down-the-road supporter of Mr. Truman’s policies at home and aboard. He is a crack orator who hones his words and phrases to >Dznr sharpness.*On Sen. Robert A. • Test (R-0.,) for example: ”1 will say that Senator Taft has ' been consistent In the field of tor -1 elgn policy. He has been consistent ■ ly wrong.” > REPUBLICANS SUSPICIOUS On Republicans: “I never saw a bunch of men 1 more suspicious of each other than the present group of Republican • leaders. Nor have I ever seen sus -1 piclons better founded’” - Kerr’s greatest' service to the ad ' ministration was his land, sea, ahd air attack on Gen. Douglas Mac -1 Arthur after Mr. Truman fired hlfe 1 from high office in Japan. Fess politicians •edged to take on the r * JOwT Oana4ir- 'MflUted &&& Arthur’s ideas of strategy as “mad | ness” which would lead inevitably ; to war with the Soviet Union. His 1 barbed speeches were the admini stration’s defense. IN NEBRASKA PRIMARY Kerr is In the April 1 Nebraska i presidential primary. He is a 1 candidate for President, however, > only if Mr. Truman does not choose 1 to run. To Kerr the man in the - White House always is “our great i President. Harry 8. Truman.” Their biggest break was on the ! Kerr natural gas bill which would ■ remove independent gas. poducers r and gathers from Federal Povfer (Continued On Page Two) ■ Reds Attempt I To Label ! 1 USSR Neutral 1 PANMUNJOM, Korea (ffl —United Nations negotiat ors rejected for the fifth straight day Wednesday a “booby - trapped” R e d—at- t tempt to name Rus£fi£ a 44 “neutral” in the Korean Kl war. aBI Os the three remaining taSSSC is- tm sues blocking quick peace in Korea, ; Red insistence on naming Russia as 4 one of six neutral to i a enforce the peace was the only one ' j which brooked no compromise^; Both the question of repatrigiion of war prisoners and construction of Red airfields can be compromis- ; ; ed, U. N. negotiators believed; » ;||| The Allies rejected Russia orthe ||i grounds that, although not figgjjng p| in Korea, Russia is a of yi both Red China and North Korea. 441 PAVE WAY FOR PROPAGANDA U. N. sources are convinced that 4 S the Reds are insisting on Russia J as a "neutral” in a deliberate at tempt to pave the way for a prop*- | ganda campaign painting the Sov iet Union as a "peace” leader. w ....... ~ * The U. N. made another coihpro- in REUNITED AFTER KOREAN FIGHTING Dixie R. Thornton, right, and Woodrow W Thornton,* mise a t <-he Wednesday meeting, ! left, brothers, of Dunn, have been re-united after spending several months in the fighting in Korea offering to cut troop rotation during ,1 with different military units. Dixie, the youngest of the two, spent more than 9 months on the fighting a f ruce from 40,000 to 35,000 men front with an infantry combat team of the U. S. Army and was wounded in the Korean righting Wood- a month. But the Reds rejected it. ‘jf row ,the eldest brother, fought for more than 11 months with the U. 8. Marine Corps. On an inactive ll * ,a * , bell * v ‘*f. th ' Redstoight || status now, he plans to transfer to the Afmy. Both boys sre planning to make the Army a career ((Continued On Page Two) and remain in the sendee until they retire- (Dally Record photo by J. W. Temple, Jr.) ■“ \ w Cotton Meeting Scheduled Here County Agent C. R. Ammons jirg * ,sa all pmwonyntoreetod to the jot, ton program in Harnett County* to attend the special meetings of the Cotton Industry Group, consisting of ginners, fertilizer dealers, bank ers, production credit, civic club and agricultural leaders set for Dunn and Lillington tomorrow. The first of the meetings will be held in the Dunn Armory at 9:30 tomorrow morning. A second meet ing for leaders from tl\g western part of the county will follow at 2:00 pjn. in the courthouse in LU llngton. Ammons is particularly anxious to have a representative group at these meetings because the topic will be “The Cotton Program for 1952.” The goal for Harnett County, he points out, is 106 percent of the 1951 quota. Although the crop produced last year was one of the best in the past ten to fifteen years, it will take the combined efforts of everyone to get a good crop grown and' meet the new quota, Ammons says. Invited to participate in the meet ings are people interested in the cotton program on a state level, in (Continued w Pace Twe) C. of C. Renders Many Services Many of the activities of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce are of the type that render services to the citizens of the community as a whole rather than the specific bus-, inesses who are members of the organisation. Some of these ser vices am; Employment Ale: Many busines ses are sided In finding employes and wock is found for many young men and women of Dunn and the surrounding territory through this service. Renting bureau: An up-to-date me Is kept at house and apart ment listings to aid the many new comers as well as the local resi dents in finding suitable places to live. - Call station: This is operated for gg ' ■ -MARKETS — EGGS AND POULTRY 4 RALEIGH m— Today’s egg trr. end broilers FIVE CENTS PER COPY Brothers See Action Long Candidate In Separate Outfits Suffers Defeat '1 4 , LOUiS^ARBORN turned from the Korean fighting front where they had been separa ted by the fact that they were fighting in different units, are now re-united and planning to make their careers in the same branch of the service. The boys. Corporal Woodrow W. Thornton of the U. 8. Marine Corps and Corporal Dixie R. Thorn ton of the 187th Regimental Com bat Team of the U. 8. Army, plan to continue their careers in this latter branch of the service. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. H: Ivey of Dunn. Eldest of the pair. Corporal Woodrow W. Thornton, has been placed on an inactive status with the ’Marines after 11 months and -19 days of Korean conflict. He has completed six years in the Marines. He is married to a girl he met on the west coast shortly after his enlistment in his branch of the service and the couple have two children, both daughters. He plans to transfer his activities to the Army. Corporal Dixie Thornton served with an* Airborne combat team, and was wounded In action on the Ko rean front. He has 31 months in the service, nine of these in Ko- Both credit the Chinese with whom they were recently in com bat as tough antagonists who knew how to fight. For the most part, the boys say. they are equipped with Russian weapons, although some American equipment, possi bly captured from the Nationalists, sometimes appears. Woodrow says that Americans falling into Chinese hands have a much better chance of survival and good treatment than those who fall to the North Koreans. Often, he says, wounded Gl’i are treated (Oenttured an Page Two) I Stages Event By LOIS BYRD (Record Staff Writer) A supper meeting and open house, given lairt night at Lillington's new V. F.*W. hut complimentary to the wives of the .membership, was en hanced by the presence of three top-ranking officials of the state organization. Visitors were Earl D. Knauff, Jacksonville, past commander of the North Carolina Department of the V. F. W„ Mrs. W. J. Moody, Greensboro, Department President of the Ladies Auxiliary of the V. F. W., and Mrs. J. R. Graham, High Point Auxiliary Department Chap s •Contlnu-d ttn Paso Two- Harnett RepubHcans i| Call For Convention Harnett .Republican Chairman J. O. West, getting ready for a campaign he predicts Will lead to a Republican landslide throughout the nation, today called Harnett Republicans to meet in county con vention at the courthouse in UU lngton on Friday afternoon, March 7 at 2 o'clock. The purpose of the convention, he said, will be to nominate can didates for the various offices and to select delegates to the Judicial, Congressional, Senatorial and State 1 Another item of lywinaso will be' JOIN THE f CHAMBER Help Build Dunn J NEW ORLEANS (IPI Judge Robert F. Kennon won a pohdoai < forecs tl> s^M£ H '~ Earl R. Long in a runoff election Tuesday against Long’s person*'' ?! choice for the governorship, Carlos rfflf E. Spaht. As late returns this morning spread the margin between the candidates, m Spaht issued a statement conced ing that his opponent had won. SPAHT CONCEDES Spaht sent a telegram to Kennon .YM congratulating him when Kennon, who twice before had bowed to the ■■} I Longs in political battles, .was lead- J| ing Spaht by 150,000 votes. The returns from 1.564 of the' | state’s 2,122 precincts gave Kennon* a vote of 387,863 to 218J43 Js Spaht. An estimated 756,000 votes were cast in the run-off primaeg,-'. . fig which is tantamount to election-to'4 one-pavty Louisiana. “You may rest assured,^- Spagt ' 431 told Kennon, “that I will work with *) you and jwmMate with you on wH things t&Pkre for the bed; BP K J terests of the state.” ;‘S to elect a chairman, vice chairman. J£9 secretary- treasurer and executtve -gB committee. Mrs. Fred H. -Farley was serving as vice chairm|n» but 39 is no longer a resident of the coun- j ty. ■ , . ..tyok* • ..toi&iiiMhaiaß The State convention will be in Charlotte on March HITS MISSOURI MISRULE 4! Chairman West, an old liggMMt can warrior, declared today that he is confident the Republicans Will win a national victory this year , ; and said there is a good poosibi | lily of a Reimbltaan vtetwyta the SO. 44
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