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NORTH CAROLINA lncrea sing cloudiness and mild today with showers and thunderstorms begin ning in West this afternoon. Show ers, thunderstorms and warmer to night and tomorrow morning, fol lowed by clearing and cooler. VOLUME II r JOE AND MARILYN 'JUST FRIENDS' it' > m WL y|i aJpr jm WC Mr jmm - JmM mm* TiM Bb M* ■\ V m i : IMI II i |l|lf LINKED ROMANTICALLY by columnists, Joe DiMagglo, ex-Yankee star, and dim star Marilyn Monroe are pictured on a Hollywood screen set. Questioned about the rumors, all they would say is “we’re just friends.” Later, DiMagglo left for New York where he is scheduled to start a new career as a television sports commentator. (International So undphoto) Buies Creek Going *.After Civic Award A mass meeting of Buie’s Creek citizens has been call ed for Monday night at 8:00 in the high school auditor ium to consider plans for the town’s participation in the civic improvement contest of the Carolina Power and . Light iJftWi ♦ ■> Already many citl£tiX» of the com i«l'’»n|utied in an all oifr ■■ effort to make Buie’s .Creek one of the most progressive villages in the area. The whole effort Is un der the general chairmanship of Leslie H. Campbell, president of Campbell College. The publicity committee and 7 project commit tees have been organized or are in process of being organized. Some of the committees are already at work. MRS. HOWARD CHAIRMAN Under the chairmanship of Mrs. B. Howard, the committee on beau tification <of the town is taking pphotographs of existing conditions Board To Be Asked To Quarantine Dogs Dunn’s city council will be asked Monday night to order a quarantine on old dogs in the city for a period of 30 to 60 days so that all dog owners can be identified and vaccinated and that stray dogs be eliminated. City Manager Oliver O. Manning pointing out that this is the season for rabies, declared there is prac tically no way tq get dogs claimed and identified except to impose a quarantine. - RABIES REPORTED Mr. Manning reminded that al ready one case of rabies has been reported in nearby Bunnlevel. The county’s two rabies inspectors, Dr. T, E. Darden and Dr. Belmont Kit trell, are now hard at work vaccin ating dogs. The city manager said he re ceives complaints almost daily about stray dogs. “Some citizen will call up,” said “and report that her neighbor’s dog is tearing up her yard. They always ask that their Students Need Chairs To Eat , So Mothers Are Baking Cakes iV . Because of an odd arrangement In appropriation of county funds for school cafeterias, members of Dunn’s Parent-Teacher Associa tion are going to be mighty busy next week baking cakes. , The Dunn High School was re cently provided with a handsome new cafeteria, converted from the old gymnasium. It’s a fine cafeteria. The county provided the funds for the remodel ling and conversion—but not a dime for chairs or .tables. Whether or not the students were expected to stand up or eat on the TELEPHONES: 311? • 3118 • 3118 to Ber^e - jt»jgftgt t; of “bt members of the committee are as follows: Mrs. B. M. Walker, Mrs. Leslie H. Campbell, Mrs. Hewitt Brown, Mrs. J. Lloyd Reardon, Mrs. T. H. McLeod, Mrs. F. M. Camp dell, Mrs. Wade Stewart, Allen Jones and E. M. Hight. The make up of the other com mittees will be announced later. Plans include a public recreation park, a fire department, beautfi cation of the triangle where U. S. 421 joins N. C. 40, tree planting, and a general painting and clean up of the town. names not be disclosed because they don’t' want to make their neighbor mad.” “So, I’m the one who ends up getting the complaints,” asserted the city manager. EXPECTING PROTESTS He said he was expecting a howl from dog-owners when the quaran tine goes into effect, “but we have to consider the good of the com munity as a whole.” Several other matters will crane up Monday night. C. H. Pope will protest that his water }>IU is too high. Manning said Mr.' Pope has five or six apartment houses at tached to one meter outside the city limits and that his bill for three months was S7B. He said he regard ed that as “mighty cheap for per sons. who don’t pay city taxes.” AVOIDED WASTE If local citizens hadn’t seen fit to provide same, the county’s in vestment in converting the build into a cafeteria whould have been just so much money absolutely wasted and a fine building would be standing idle. To help pay off a balance of $955 on the tables and chairs and to purchase a new piano tor the Dunn Grammar School, Mrs- Frank Spruill i and other purposes. 1 The Daily Record Nation-Wide Blackout Looms Ike Reported Preparing To Return To U.S. i PARIS (IP) Sources close to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower reported today that he was drafting his letter of I resignation as Allied su- j preme commander. Eisenhower is also making plans to leave for the United States short- | ly after May 15 to become an ac- j tive candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, the infor mants said. It was added that Eisenhower plans to send his letter of resigna tion to Washington soon, possibly next week, and that It is likely to go to both Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett and President Truman. ■CONFERS WITH LODGE The letter of resignation, and Eisenhower’s plans to go home were discussed today in a four hour and 15 minute meeting be tween him and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. R-Mass his campaign manager, at supreme Allied head quarters at nearby Rocquencourt. Asked about the report that the letter of resignation is being draft ed and that Eisenhower plans to '■Continued On Page Two) Light Court Docket Heard Only p few cases were tried yes terday in the Dunn Recorder’s Court. , L, C. Parker, issuing wodthtafs ’ Wat he pay the firm of Pope and Mixon $134.49. •George Anderson Vann of Erwin, Route 1, speeding, was ordered to pay the costs. George Herman Stancll of Dunn. Route 3, driving drunk, pleaded guilty and was given 90 days, sus pended for 12 months on payment of SIOO fine and costs and license suspended. Ruby McLean, drunk and dis orderly, 30 days suspended for six months on payment of costs and good behavior. Six defendants charged with speeding waived hearing. Two Dunn Men Taken At Still Two Dunn men, Julius Jackson and Carson Hudson, were arrested during a raid on a 400-gallon whiskey still yesterday in neigh boring Sampson County by Federal ATU agents and Cumberland County ABC officers . Officers, who watched the still for several hours prior to the raid, > said the outfit was in full opera tion at the time of the arrests at 8:30 o’clock. HAD TO BLOW IT UP The outfit was so large that the raiding officers had to use dyna mite to blow up the distillery. Jackson and Hudson were charg ed with manufacturing non tax paid whiskey. They were given a preliminary hearing before Mrs. . George Arthur Jackson, local Un i ited States Commissioner, and bound over to the next term of Federal Court in Fayetteville. Federal offices said these two arrests brought their total up to 15 during recent weeks. Numerous stills were destroyed In these raids. cafeteria buildings without equip ment is customary, that the county just doesn’t have the money. The county won't even provide a stove rrs'm system Whenever the couhty builds a new classroom, It provides chairs, blockboards and all other equip ment. But, apparently, cafeterias gif* regarded as luxuries and non- The county won’t even buy a kit chen sink for a cafeteria, but if school patrons buy a sink the DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY, AFTERNOON APRIL 4, 1952 Pearce Running For Third Term Constable Oscar R. Pearce of Dunn, one of Harnett’s oldest and best known law enforcement officers, went to Lillington today to file for for re-election as-Constable of Averasboro Township. Mr. Pearce is now completing his second term in the office and has made a splendid record. The Dunn officer has more than 24 years of service in law enforce ment. He’s a native of Franklin, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pearce. He came to Dunn in 1917 and has resided here since. Mr. Pearce served for two years, in 1925 and 1926 as a deputy sheriff, then spent 18 yegrs, two monjths and 22 days as a Inember .of police department W'ftSWfrvgf -4>M- - l m 1948, he was again named a deputy sheriff and the same year was elected constable. He has ser (CoDtimn) an Pare Two) General Utility's Fire Damage Light, The Dunn Fire Department an swered a call on April 4th at 3:22 a. m.' at General "Utility Co., owned and operated by Myres Tilgham in the 100 block of E. Harnett St. a building used for delinting and cleaning seed was on fire. Caused (■Continued On Page Two) Truman Says Peace Outlook Is Better WASHINGTON (IP) President Truman said today that the chances for maintaining world peace are “steadily increasing” as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization builds up its defensive forces. But he warned that the 14 treaty nations must not relax their re armament drive, even though it en tails “heavy burdens and sacri fices.” Mr. Truman spoke at Constitu tion Hall ceremonies celebrating the third anniversary of the his toric Atlantic treaty. Queen Juli ana of The Netherlands, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and other BULLETINS PANMUNJOM, Korea (IP) Allied and Communist itaff officers reoeised prisoner talks today to give both sides a chance to confer aL higher levels on how to break up the deadlock holding up a Korean armistice. ,-a WASHINGTON (V) - House economy forces today cautiously considered still deeper cuts in a military spend ing bill despite congressional warnings that it may al ready have been slashed “too much.” COLUMBIA, S. C. (IP) South Carolina Constabulary officials filed flogging charges against six men, including a former police chief, as a two-state drive to stamp out Ku Klux Klan terrorism in the CarpHnas continued to- WASHINGTON (IP) Queen Juliana of the Nether lands wound up her three-day Washington visit today with a merry-go-round of speeches and press conferences and a chat with wounded war veterans. 4L CtPilmi Ott puygb. yngi Phone, Steel Strikes Now Seem Certain By UNITED PRESS A nationwide .communi cations blackout was threat ened today bv a scheduled telephone strike coming on the heels of a system-wide Western Union walkout, while a crippling steel strike seemed inevitable. A simuUaneotis wn“:out by 41.000 members of t.he CIO Communica tions Workers Union in Michigan. Ohoi and Northern California along with 15.000 Western Electric instal lers and distributors in 43 states was set for 6 a.m. (local time) Mon day. And botn threatened strikes hinged on a settlement of the steel disnute, a union spokesman said, which brought little hope that they could be averted now that the steel talks had collapsed. Western Union, meanwhile, said it would re-open offices for a 12- hour day in 40 key cities. The strike by 30.000 Western Union employes seeking a 50-cent hour package wage increase' closed 2,000 main offices and 1.000 branches. But looming largest of all on the nation's dark labor horizon was the economy-disrupting steel walkout scheduled for next Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Industry spokesmen said the vast shutting-down process of Besse mer Converters would begin today after the wage talks collapsed when the CIO United Steel Workers turn ed down a 16-cent hourly wage hike offer. “I am quite pessimistic and be lieve now that a strike will def initely takp place,” said Phillip Muarry, president of the steel-work e« union andthe CIO. ' Big Me&cal Firms Miss Allene Warren of Dunn, a senior in the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Caro lina, has returned to Chapel Hill after visiting three of the world’s l&tgest pharmaceutical concerns. The class visited and inspected the William S. Merrill Company in Cincinnati, the Parke-Davis Com pany in Detroit and the Upjohn gan. Miss Warren is the daughter of Mg. and Mrs. Ottis Wartren of Dunn. high officials of the Pact powers attended. MOST URGENT TASK Acheson said the building of “greater strength for defense" is still the “most urgent task” of the Western allies. Warning that “danger is still with us,” he said: “There is not yet enough strength (Continued on Pag* Two) JUDGE BURNEY ADDRESSES SHRINERS Superior Court Judge John J. Burney of Wilmington, center, Imperial Potentate of Sudan Temple, is shown here last night being congratulated by Presi dent Joe Wilkins of the Dunn Shrine Club after delivering an outstanding address to the group. Looking on at the left is Attorney Duncan C. Wilson, prominent member of the Dunn Shrine Club. (Daily Record photo by J. W. Temple, Jr.) ' School Destroyed , Two Debd 14 Hurt As Tornadnes^tiik NEW ORLEANS (W Tornadoes hit New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., today right »n schedule of a weather bureau forecast. Two persons were killed, at least 14 were injured and an SBO,OOO scho ol was demolished. The weather, bureau warned that small tornadoes could be expected in Southern Alabama, southwest ern Georgia and extreme north west Florida. Even as the bulletin was issued in Washington, reports came in of windstorms that hit a half a dozen Louisian localities in the New Or leans area and 12 miles west of Mobile. The early casualties were repor ted from Louisiana. TURNED INTO RUBBLE The Baker high school building near Mobile was turned into rubble and Bates Field, the municipal air port, was damaged. The school stu dents were on holiday because of the state teachers convention. Hit by the wind were Bridge City, (■Continued On Page Two) ♦MARKETS* EGGS AND POULTRY RALEIGH (W Today’s egg and live poultry markets: Central North Carolina live poul try: Fryers and broilers steady with weaker undertone, supplies adequate to plentiful, demand fair to good. Heavy hens steady, supplies plenti ful, demand fair. Prices paid pro ducers FOB farm: Fryers and broil ers 27, heavy hens 23-26, mostly 25-26. For the week: Fryers and broil - (Can tinned on Page Two) Student Murders Wife , J Lives With Body 8 Days CHICAGO I® A 35-year-old Markham told police it referred to University of Chieago student told the three bullets he fired into his .police today how he killed his pret- Wife. ty wife, then slept, ate and studied Another penciled note was found for eight days while her half-clad in the bedroom. v body lay on the bedroom floor. “It was lovely to know you, my Harold Roland Markham led only.” it said. Police Lt. .Frank O'Sullivan to his CAME AFTER ARGUMENT South Side apartment where the Markham, a bright student in body of his wife, Mary Elisabeth librarian practices from Marietta. Markham, 37, was found clad in a 0., told police the slaying came as black slip and white blouse. the climax to an argument March SHOT 3 TIMES 27 between him and his wife over She had been shot three times, her working and a trip he wanted once in the face and twice in the to take. FIVE CENTS PER COPY NewClean-Up Drive Slated To Begin WASHINGTON OP)— Pres ident Truman called in a new attorney general today to salvage the corruption purge that was all but wreck ed by a violent feud which blasted J. Howard McGrath and Newbold Morris out of the government. Mr. Truman assigned the monu mental task to Federal Judge James P. McGranery of Philadel phia after firing McGrath from the cabinet. McGrath had disposed of Morris as corruption cleanup chief less than four hours before. MAY GET FREE HAND McGranery was expected to go to the White House today with ad vance assurances that the Presi dent will give him a free hand in ridding the government of wrong doers. But Republicans and some Dem ocrats in Congress were openly skeptical that the cleanup drive will get any further under Mc- Granery than it has moved in the four months since Mr. Truman hastened back from a Key West Fla., vacation to take “drastic action.” CALL IT “SHAM” They said the ouster of Morris, who had tried to circulate financial qauestionnaires to McGrath and other top officials, showed that the anti-corruption program was never 'Continued nn rare two* NO. 85 Big Auction Set For Monday Noon Some of the most desirable land in this section will be sold at pub lic auction Monday at noon, it was announced today by Attorney J. Robert Young. Property to be sold is the Hattie Hinson farm and house, located just about a mile out of town on the Dunn-Jonesboro road. T” Mr. Young pointed out that UHs property is desirable for buffoing lots as well as for fanning, and is ideal for a new residential develop ment. ~ Both the home and farm are be ing sold at auction under court order. Myres W. Tilghman is the administrator and A. R.-TaytarMs the commissioner. HUNTER TO SPEAK - Dr. W. B. Hunter, county health officer, will address the Dunn Rotary Club tonight to till o’clock at Johnson’s RestMMMt in Dunn. Dr. Hunter win talk almjij Dunn's new health center. _—■ —4 Changed Her Mind CHICAGO im cook Cornety Clerk Richard J. Daley woman returned her marriage 8e» en«e with the declaration; "I am most happv to iufOOM you that this marriage dig mi ...i and will not take places” r’wgO'fl He put the gun to his head thgn ' ■ lest his nerve, he said bSKof Thereafter, he said, he we&tyßgpjgl his activities as usual. Ite aMjBIIgH ed classes at the unlveiffty, home in the evenings, ate-his',4Mh M and studied as before. • HER BODY AT HIS At bedtime, he went tp the bed with his wife’s on the floor at hlsjeet. "j “began to bother n»e" as hey
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