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+WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Fair and not quite so warm today. Little change in temperature tonight and Tuesday. ~ VOLUME II Harnett , Results For Governor HUBERT E. OLIVE 3262 WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD 2777 MANLEY R. DUNAWAY 24 For Lt. Governor LUTHER R. HODGES 2847 ROY ROWE 1163 BEN J. MCDONALD 761 MARSHALL KURFEF.S 429 ® For Supreme Court Short Term R. HUNT PARKER 2784 ITIMOUS T. VALENTINE 1311 WILLIAM M. BOBBITT 641 OSCAR O. EFIRD 480 Lone Terms R. HUNT PARKER 2324 ITIMOUS T. VALENTINE 1160 WILLIAM H. BOBBIfT 386 OSCAR O. EFIRD 412 • ALLEN H. GWYNN 405 •F. DONALD PHILLIPS 213 Insurance Commissioner WALDO C. CHEEK 3837 JOHN N. FREDERICK 1144 For Congress J. O. TALLY, JR. 2972 E. ERTEL CARLYLE 2141 ERNEST R. MAYHAN 89 For County Judge MW. O. LEE 1950 BILLY TAYLOR 1491 BRADFORD STEWART 7SI JOHN R. HOOD 394 f. Reaister Os Deeds INEZ HARRINGTON 4230 TRANK LEWIS 1875 For Commissioner District II D. E. LASSITER JR. 515 rtCOY LUCAS 394 v FRED W. BROWN , 349 ' For Commissioner District 111 RUFUS L. MANGUM 708 HERMAN S. HOLLOWAY 410 District ,W WORTH LEE BYRD ,811 R. E. BYRD 433 0 1 .., Fsr Constable f m Jrf~aoi—|gan Creek MANNING 84 GERALDINE ALLEN M SAM BRYANT 33 - ALONZO WILLIAMS 14 WAYMAN GRAVES 8 For Constable Duke Township PRESTON PORTER 371 R; H. BUTLER 200 JAMES E. NORRIS 122 JAMES H. COLVILLE 99 * Beard To Have New Members There will be two new members on the Harnett County Board of Commissioners next term, although the contest In District No. 11, com prised "of Duke and Grove town a ships, is not yet settled. Chairman Lofton Tart of Dunn, District I, was unopposed, as was B. B. Graham In District V. Commissioner Herman 8.. Hollo way, who was appointed several months ago upon the resignation of Vice Chairman G. G. Fields, was defeated almost two-to-one by Rufus L. Mangum, widely-known Harnett farmer arid civic leader. Mr. Mangum receded 705 votes and Mr. Holloway, veteran political <1 leader, received a 410 votes. v In District 'II, Coy Lucas, well known farmer, realtor and business man, Is expected to call a runoff with D. E. Lasater, Jr,,' well-known young man who led the ticket in making his debut In Harnett politics. <-' BROWN ELIMINATED Mr. Lasater received 515 voto,. Mr. Lucas received 394 votes and Fred W. Brown of Erwin received r Y 49 votes to be eliminated, wf In District No. IV. Worth Lee Byrd of Lillington won an easy Victory over R. Edward Byrd of Buhnlevel for renomlnatlon. Com missioner Byrd received 811 votes and Opponent* Byrd received 433 votes. , Harnett Will Vote On New Courthouse Harnett County Commissioners today Introduced an order calling on the people of Harnett County I to vote on a $490,000 bond issue to build a new court house with. Dote to a public hearing on the i court houpe matter was expected to be set by the commissioners fol t lowing the noon rsoess. Meantime W. M. Weber, Rrtelgh architect unfolded before the com- i “iMSTSL of functional! TELEPHONES: 3117 - 3118 - 3119 Steel Seizure Illegal, Murray Calls Strike U mstead Is Elected Governor With 26,000 Lead m -1 B| Mbwi r wMBmm 1 8wL % ||L¥ ■f # ■ Ilf ■F. •>-/>; ISHHI Pfecpbfc. > . jffcV .« COUNTING THE VOTES Superior Court Judge Howard Godwin, left, and Myres W. TUghman, right, prominent Dunn business man, are pictured liere as they assisted with counting the ballots Sat urday night at the Auto Sales and Service iCo„ voting place for Averasboro No. in. This soene was repeated in every precinct in the county. Judge Godwin, incidentally, wis an enthusiastic Olive Sup porter and Mr. Tilgbman was just as enthusiastic for Mr. Umstead. (Daily Record photo by J. W. Temple, Jr.) Harnett Gives Majorities Tq Olive, Hodges, Parker, Tally Dangerous Sex Rend Is On Loose In Dakotas BROOKINGS, S. D. (IPI A statewide alarm was broadcast to day for esn “extremely dangerous” sex maniac who escaped from a mental hospital and fled Brookings in a stolen airplane. , Brookings police said the escapee Identified as Earl Ross, was last seen headed west from the Brook-; ings Municipal Airport in a Piper; Cub. j Airport officials said the craft Governor Scott Fires His Parole Chief RALEIGH (IP) Gbv. Kerr Scott fired Commissioner of Pa roles T. C. Johnson today and named N. F. Ransdeli to the post The governor gave no reason for Johnson’s dismissal. Johnson, 55-year-old former Bap tist minister, was one of the /first top-level Scott appointees to an nounce hts support for Gov. - nominee William B, Umstead. Umstead won the nomination in the Democratic primary Saturday over Bcott’s choice, Hubert E. Olive. . BY SPECIAL MESSENGER Johnson was notified of his dls- .—- :—v*— design will have all facilities on one floor. 1 Commissioner Herman S. Hollo way offered the .motion to agprove trie Introduction of-order which set In motion the first of A senes of legal steps neoeasary before citi zens can vote on a now court house. B- P Ingram seconded Hollo wav’s motion to call for Vote on bondtoue and approval was unan- I Commissioners present were Ohm- Itlsat at Duke Hospital Was'absent. (Stw* Baili], Jliearrd had about a two-hour supply of gasoline aboard, about enough to get Ross to the State capital at Pierre if he continued his flight to the west. Authorities said, however, there was a possibility that Ross had landed the plane in a farm field and stolen a fresh supply of gas oline, possibly from a tractor. Ross sneaked onto the airport on Pair Twm missal in a letter from the gover nor’s office delivered by special messenger this morning. The letter, dated May 31,' said: (Continued On Pag' Two* Mrs . Harrington Leads Ticket ; Run-Off SeenForCounty Judge Mrs Inez Harrington, the county’s popular Register of Deeds, led the entire ticket —both State and county— in Saturday’s election i n Harnett to win an easy vic tory of over two-to-one over Frank Lewis well-known Lil lington business . man . and veteran’s leader. The vote was 4,180 to 1,875. ' Mrs. -Harrington carried every precinct in the county except her own precinct ip Lillington. In that precihct,- the vote was close, 363 to Ml. From standpoint of service, Mrs. Harrington is one of the oldest pub lic official* in the county. She suc ceeded her husband, the late Ed win Harrington. Her long tenure of office was one of the principal issues used against her by Lewi£. Mrs. Harrington overcame this •“ t -’V'- -,v e DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 2, 1952 Harnett .County .Demo mocrats went to the polls more than 6,000 strong on Saturday to give majorities to Hubert Olive for Gover nor, Luther Hodges for Lieu tenant Governor, Judge R. Hunt Parker for the State Supreme Court; Waldo Cheek for Insurance Commissioner and Joe Tally for Congress. On the county level, Mrs. Inez Harrington led the entire ticket to be renominated by an overwhel ming majority for register of deeds, but a run-off is apparent between County Judge M. O. Lee and Billy Taylor, the runner-up. County Commissioner Worth Lte Byrd of Lillington won an easy over Edward Byrd of Bunnlevel in District IV, Rufus L. Mangum unseated County Commis sioner Herman S. Holloway in Dis trict 111, and a run-off may be held between Dick Lasater and Coy Lucas in District 11. In Averasbqro Township, City Juoge H. Paul Strickland won re>- nomination over Mrs. Hazel Young for Dunn City Judgej by a vote of 780 to 600. Mrs. Young is the coun ty’s only lady attorney and the first (Continued On Page two) obstacle, however, and proved to be, 1 s MRS. HARRINGTON Murray Issues Orders After Court Ruling WASHINGTON lU>) The Supreme Court today void ed President Truman’s seiz ure lof the nation’s stee mills and the CIO United Steelworkers were immedia tely ordered to strike against the private owners. Some picketing and walkouts were reported even before Philip Murray, president of the union which makes the basic metal for defense and domestic life, issued the strike call scarcely 45 minutes after the ruling was announced. The Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 that federal seizure of the mills was unconstitutional. STARTS IMMEDIATELY Then, Murray ordered a strike of his 600,000 members to start im mediately and at the same time called for the industry to set up new bargaining talks to write a contract M - ' Wage Stabi lization commer- afim fpr a ..f _-:r y:. crease AL - > . • - The cot *' <■ early in* Trumair-^.-—_ - _. . over the mills and run them. A three-day strike began April 29 af ter a district court judge held that the seizure was illegal. It was this ruling that the Supreme Court up held today. There was tittle doubt that the .Strike would be lung effective In Chicago, only mfnutes after tH§ de- Wes .announced, U)eIHH|U. set tip at two of- its .plants, and a walkout had begun at a third. (fin the absence of a wage agree ment, our members have rid alter native other than to cease wort*’ Murray said. In the first ruling of its kind even handed down by a Supreme Court,! the high bench held that Mr. Tru man had no power—under law or by (Continued On Page Five) Carlyle Leads Tally By Vote 01 Only 932 A second primary today appear ■ ed almost certain in the nip-and -1 tuck' race for Congress between the ' incumbent Ertel F. Carlyle and - youthful Mayor Joe Tally of Fay -1 etteville. f Complete, but unofficial, returns from the seven counties of the dis l trict to give Carlyle 22.632 votes and y Tally 21,700 votes, a lead of 932. f Ernest Mayhan, Wilmington j. grocer, received a total of 1,964 - votes. - TALLY WON FIVE COUNTIES e Tally carried every county in the y district except Robeson and Cum berland. Tally carried every pre y cinct in Harnett but two and tied -- Carlyle in one of those, g Congressman Carlyle, seeking his •f third term, received an overwhelm - ing vote of confidence in his, own t county of Robeson. The vote was •Continued On Pace Two) the champion vote-getter of the en tire campaign in Harnett. County Judge M. O. Lee lead all three of his appointments Satur day, but failed to receive a majority and a re-run appears certain be tween Lee and 27-year-old Billy Taylor, youngest son of the late County Judge Floyd H. Taylor. TWO ELIMINATED Eliminated in the contest were Bradford Stewart, a Lillington ma gistrate who ran third, arid John John R. Hood, a Buie's Creek at torney. Lee received 1950 votes, Taylor 1491, Stewart 751 and Hood 394. Judge Lee led in the precincts of Bnckhom, Duke t, Duke H, Duke 111. Grove L Grave H. Johnsonville, Lillington, Stewart’s CrMk, Upper little River I and n. Taylor led in four precincts, An derson Creek, Bartgcue, • Krill’. m ta Council Expected To Make Room For Citizens Tonight Dunn citizens today were preparing to descend on the city hall tonight foi a second mass meeting with in two weeks and there were indications this morning that the city council will make room for the hearing. During the weekend, City Com missioner B. A. Bracey announced that the council would meet in the small clerk’s office, which was in terpreted as an attempt to bar the public since only a few people can get Inside that office. News of that decision spread through town like wildfire and a storm of angry protests was sweep ing the town today and a movement was underway to insure a still larger crowd. Spokesmen for the citizens group have served notice that they’ll hold their meeting out in the street if the .council forces them to do so, but added, “We intend to invite the tfouricil to come out ir’o the street an*; - °t with us e.- a’l us wo* be able to ‘ . .'•eth. nee.”' bo. w; ; Two city officials interviews*. The. Daily Record this morning ex pressed belief that the board will lbs In Conference With' Atrtfirs Brass V # V y-:‘ • ■ \ WASHINGTON <ot -V Q*n. Dwight D. Eisenhower plkngqd into a round of top - secret military conferences with Pentagon officials today after a hurried checkup at the Army’s Walter Reed Hospital.. Elsenhower arrived at trie' Penta gon 50 minutes ahead of schedule, and went immediately into aj closed-door conference with Gen:.. Omar N.. Bradley, chairman of thei Joint Chiefs of Staff. The meeting was called to give! Olive RamroJs Eat Olives OLIVE LOSERS ORDER BREAKFAST AND GET OUVEff Mince McLamb. left, and Wood***! Hill, right,, two ardent supporters of defeated Gubernatorial Candidate Hubert Olive, paid the pi.lftM this morning at Porter’s Restaurant. They ordered sausage and eggs and the waitress, Mrs. Erneagriife Britt, brought them a dish of olive. Instead—courtesy of Umstead Supporter Locke Muse, who srmMMt the sour payoff. “But,” Insisted Mr. McLamb and Mr. HiU, -We did all right for Mr. Olive in HacMft&f carrying the county by a big majority. Olive just bad the wrong crowd working for him in those «pi££ counties.” Note the exuresskm on their faces. Mr. Muse had also arranged a serving of ettvusoal Nathan Cannady and Fred Byerly, but they failed to show up this morning. Umsteadtte Jesse .CariflK swears it was on purpose that they failed to show up too ” (Daily Record photo by t W. Temple, Jr.) Two well-known prominent Olive supporters had olives for breakfast this morning. , ■'. The spur political payoff took place at Porter's Restaurant, where a group of prominent Duan busi ness men have breakflkst every t’s more than that. It's also a FIVE CENTS EKK t’OI'Y yield to the citizens and will hold the meeting upstairs in the city courtroom. But even that is ex pected to be far too small to ac comodate the crowd. “The only practical thing to do,” pointed out Commissioner J. V. i Bass this morning, “is to hold the . meeting wherever it best suits the crowd.” Many citizens agreed that any effort to bar the public from the meeting might cause serious trouble i due to high feeling in the matter.. WARN AGAINST AGITATION “The situation is bad enough.” , they said, ’“without agitating the ■ people and causing further trouble.” i Two weeks ago, the council re: 1 cessed a mass meeting of angry c , tizer~w’tf tonight and those seek £ * Police ■ i have r —•—i. _ tum ■ out tonight when stni uuicr heated lj (Continued On Page Five)- Bradley a final accounting of -the progress Eisenhower has made toward building up Allied forces in Europe against the threat of Communist aggression. IS GIVEN CHECK-UP The retiring supreme Allied commander, who returned late j yesterday from his 18-month tour . of European duty, drove to Walter (Reed for a brief checkup at the eye and dental clinics. I Continued on nace two! forum for the discussion of poll- < tics, local §tate, national and ) world affairs. _ —• i Mince McLamb and Woodrow i Hill came In this morning, just as usual, The Record Gets Results NO. 126 Several Races May Be Decided In 2nd. Primary ? RALEIGH UP)—The strong possibility of a new primary election on June 28 loomed today before North CaroLin ians who elected William B. Umstead governor on Satur day with the largest number of votes ever cast in a gu bernatorial primary. The former U. S. senator from D'irham won the state’s top post With a lead of nearly 26,000 votes on incomplete returns, but winners still were undecided in the race for lieutenant governor, both long and short terms as associate justice of the state Supreme Court, and In three congressional districts. A!) may be decided in a run-off primary on Jupe 28. OLIVE SENDS 4hj| CONGRATULATION! jC9 Hubert E. Olive, thsfortnwr jvwl from Lexington backecNrpOov. H; _ Scott, wired his Umstead yesterday with return* missing from about 80 of 2.017 precincts. “You and your entire tii9PPM| have my loyal and. active support,” Olive promised in lil 'rgl'inngii to lb# victor. Umstead must run against a Re publican opponent in November but Democratic nomiiurtion virtually as sures him the attibe. aST* v3Mi HODGES WAY AHEAD The second-running cafuniHMtfp! .the dose four-way race to the ueu fenant-govemar’s , nomination was undecided early today about calling for i run-off primary ..against Bf dnstrialist LUther Hodges of LealS viHe. -ow Roy Rowe. from Burgaw, said he wanted tic wait until the votes were canvass ed officially before deciding defin itely. Although nearly complete un official returns gave Hodges a lead of nearly 69.600 votes, the balloting for Marshall C. Kurfees of Wins ton-Salem and Ben McDonald of Wilmington prevented the leader from winning the clear majo#RY needed for outright victory. PARKER IN LEAD Judge R. Hunt Parter of Roan (Continued on Page .8) ever they warded to hand laughed Mr. Mae, %tt we weren't exactly prepared for what we act toßS(C<miS«r.
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