4-WEATHER*
NORTH CAROLINA Partly
cloudy and continued hot through
Wednesday, except not quite so
hot this afternoon. Widely scatter
ed thundershowers this afternoon
or evening.
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TWO WERE INJURED Mrs. L. J. Porter suffered a bruised right leg and Mrs. J. B. Sweet, bruises
on both legs, when the pickup in which they were riding, driven by Tom E. Moore, Fuquay Springs
Route 1, struck the 1941 Buick, shown in t/ie picture, driven by Mrs. Margaret S. Yearby at the inter
section of Broad and Eilis, shortly before midnight last night. The pickup, a 1951 Studebaker, hit
the car driven by Mrs. Yearby, as she was attempting to make a right turn onto Broad Street. (Daily
Record photo by Bill Biggs).
•Paratroops Subdue Red POWs
Jaycees Get Behind
j ßecreation Drive
Dunn’s Jaycees are preparing to
work with the recreation commiss-l
ion in order to attempt to spear-1
head a drive to get the public park
in shape to be enjoyed by the
citizens of the community by July
Ist of this July.
“We are not by any means, try
ing to take over this protect from
the groups who have so tirelessly
been -working tcrw,_:«< this
Mack Watson, Jaycee
“We are only planning
to extend such material and moral
support as we may in assisting the
recreation commission in its work.’’
Watson, together with Jim Mc-
Millen and Norman Suttles, have
been designated by the Jaycees to
coordinate their efforts with that
of the other organizations working
•Clinic On Tobacco
Disease Is Slated
Plans for a tobacco disease clin
ic, to be held- in cooperation with
Howard R. Garris jn charge of
disease work_tor the State Colloge
Extension service, were announced
4f today by County Agent G. R. Ant
mens.
The clinic is scheduled for Fai
day morning, June 13, starting at
9:00 a.m. and running until noon
in the Agriculture Building of the
Lillington High School.
' Ammons asks farmers in Harnett
to dig up and bring to the clinic,
any diseased plants from their
fields sr from the fields of their
Lee Motors Selects
Ennis As Manager
?■ Lee Motors of Dunn, Inc. has just secured the ser
vices of John G. Ennis, well-known throughout the Dunn-
Erwin section, to fill, the position of General Manager,
it was announced today by Wilbert Lee, owner of Dunn’s
newest General Motors outlet.
Ennis has been working for the
past four years in' sales qf General
Motors products and parts as well
as Oldsmobiles, Cadillacs and CMC
trucks and accessories.
A native of Harnett County, he
has lived and worked within five
miles of Dunn all of his Me, with
the exception of 37 months dur
ing World War XI, when he ser*»
ved in the Air Force. Prior to his
enlistment and for some time af
ter his discharge he was enployed
by Belk’s Department Store.
' EXPERIENCED IN FIEIid
His liking for automobiles, how
ever, eventually led him into that
field, and he picked General Mo
tor* because he, himself, was thor
oughly sold on the excellence of
■Mr line.
.-During his career in Dunn he has
inquired a host of friends, and he
extends a cordial invitation to them
>» visit him at his new poat. ‘Tve
W»2gE\ my
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on recreation. A meeting of the
I commission and any of the public
I interested, has been set for Friday
evening at a place to be announced
later.
PLAN SOFTBALL LEAGUE
Another project of the Dunn
Junior _ Chamber of Commerce,
which oajne up at last night’s meet
ing, has in nicely with the rcrea
-ti». pw*ct. Thtfc jayretorjfcto to
spohsor’jthe formation of a soft
ball league in Dunn. *
Already many of the merchants
and business establishments in
Dunn havp signified their willing
ness to sponsor teams, and the
Jaycees plan to start the league
roiling and turn it ov6r to team
and league managers.
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j neighbors. The plants will be ex-
I amined, the disease diagnosed and
recommendations for control given.
In digging up the ’ plant, Am
mons recommends that as much of
the feeder root system be preser
ved as possible and that the roots
J>e wrapped in wet paper or a wet
burlap bag. Several plants from
an infected field should me brought,
to give a representative sample.
This clinic represents the first
effort to bring this type of ex
amination right into the county,
and Ammons feels that it will be
more effective in control of plant
disease than field examinations.
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KOJE ISLAND, Korea (IP)
Tough American para
troops whipped 6,400 fanatic
Communist war prisoners
into submission today in a
savage battle of tanks, bay
onets, flame throwers and
bare fists against primative
spears and arrows.
It was announced officially that
cne American soldier was killed
when a spear severed a vein.
Thirty-one prisoners were killed.
Fourteen Americans and 139 pris
oners were wounded.
Twelve prisoners died of severe
wounds inflicted by their own fa
natical Red commissars because
they refitted to fight or tried to
dbey the A'hed Order
of Compound 76'into" smaller 500-
man enclosures.
The battle raged for two and
-one-half hours in Compound 76,
center of resistance for the island’s
80,000 prisoners..
FLAMETHROWERS USED
Tanks and flamethrowers led the
way as the paratroopers surged
through holes cut in the barbed
wire around the compound. Com
munists were dug into trenches or
barricaded in compound buildings.
A shower of stones, spears and
arrows from made made bows
bounced harmlessly off three tanks
which spearheaded the attack.
Twelve other tanks with flame
throwers and 90-millimeter guns
stood outside, their crews ready.
CONFEDERATE YELLS
Confederate Rebel yells and the
paratroop rallying cry "Airborne”
mingled with the screams and
chants of defiant Communists as
troopers of the 187th Regimental
Combat Team hit the Red lines.
The victory in Compound 76. Red
“headquarters,” convinced nearly
12,000 prisoners in two adjoining
compounds—77 to 78—that resist
ance was futile.
The troops moved 12,759 prison
ers into the smaller compounds.
They shifted 6,410 from Compound
73. The 6,288 inmates of Com
pound 77, whose spokesman al
ready has fsaid they will . obey,
will be moved at 9 a.m tomorrow.
It was announced only nine anti
communists were found alive in
Compounds 76 and 78.
The paratroopers seized 15 Red
commissars, found a secret tun
nel linking Compound 76 with 77
and captured “battle plans” the
Communists had prepared for
breaking out and escaping into the
hills. Many of the Communists ap
parently attempting to surrender,
werp killed by their own leaders.
•MARKETS*
s COTTON
NEW YORK OP) Cotton fu
tures prices at I p.m. EST today:
New York July 40.17; Oct. 37.25:
New Orleans July 40.22; Oct. 37.23.
MASONIC MEETING
There will be an emergent com
munication of Palmyra< Masonic
Lodtye tonight for -work in the
Master Mason’s Degree. The Lodge
will open for the examination of
candidates at 7:00 and the Degree
work will follow. Visiting Master
Masons are cordially invited to at
tend
HOGS
RALEIGH (IP) Hog Markets:
Hillsboro: Market steady at 20125
'for good and choice 180-240 pound
barrows and gilts.
Fayetteville and Florence: Slight
ly weaker at 19.75.
Washington, Jacksonville and WU-
Marion:
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10, 1952
HST Asks Law To Seize Mills
Sears Plans New Building In Dunn
Will Be Third
Store In New
Shopping Center
Plans for a beautiful new
building to be erected for
Sears and Roebuck in the
modernistic new Blalock-
Stanfield shopping cer\ter
were announced here this
morning.
Construction of the new building
will get underway within the next
few weeks and is scheduled to be
completed by October 1 to fur
nish new quarters for an enlarg
ed and improved Sears Catalog
Sales Office.
Alfred Blalock, who owns the
shopping center buildings in part
nership with Dr. W. W. Stanfield,
announced this morning that he
has already signed the lease con
tract with officials of the nation’s
largest retail firm.
Necessity for larger quarters re
sulted from continuously increas
ing volume of business bnjqyed
by Sears’ Catalog Sales Office here.
Sears opened here three years ago.
MANY FINE FEATURES
The new building, which will con
form to Sears modernistic design,
will provide for better display of
merchandise, better service to the
public and will have many other
advantages.
It will also enable the firm to
keep a supply of seasonable mer
chandise on hand for immediate
delivery.
Mrs. Beulah Lamm, manager of
the local store, said this morning
that the staff "is exceedingly
pleased” over the plans for a new
building. Mrs. Lamm expressed ap
preciation to the public lor giving
(iOMUMHI. On Vi(i Tw«)
Taft Asserts
Wall Street
Backing Ike
WASHINGTON (IP) Sen.
Robert A. Taft’s campaign
headquarters said today a
poll of leading bankers and
brokers showed that “Wall
Street is for Eisenhower.”
It said the Rogers C. Dunn sur
vey polled 1,800 Wall Street finan
cial leaders on their preference for
the Republican Presidential nomin
ationation. Os 1,008 replying, 557
perferred Gen Dwisrht. D. Elsenhow
er and 421 favored Taft.
The statement was the first di
rect attempt by the Taft headquar
ters to pin the “Wall Street” label
to the Eisenhower presidential cam
paign. Some of Taft’s supporters
have been following that line for
some time.
Os the Dunn poll, Rep. Howard
H. Buffett (R-Neb), director of
the Taft campaign speakers’ bur
eau, said:
DISCOUNTS POLL
“Generally speaking, we do not
put much credence in polls but this
particular poll cannot be ignored.
It shows clearly the truth of what
we have been contending., that Wall
Street is for Eisenhower'and Main
Street is for Taft.”
Taf|, meanwhile, laid out his
own schedule of ’ meetings with
OOP national convention delegates.
Eisenhower already is embarked on
a series of talks with delegations
from many states.
The Ohio senator told reporters
that he intends to confer with New
Jersey delegates—a majority of
whom are committed to Eisenhow
er—at New York Thursday. 1
Taft reported that he also plans
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BULLETINS
WASHINGTON (If) You soon may be paying a pen
ny a can more for beer. The Office of Price Stabilization
today authorized wholesale price boosts for beer that
could mean a one-cent retail jump on some brands in
some areas.
STROMBOLI, Italy (IP) The 3,000-foot volcano on
this tiny island, 50 miles off Sicily, erupted again last
night. '
WASHINGTON m Cols. Francis T. Dodd and
Charles F. Colsen. reduced from rank of brigadier gen
earl for their part in the Koje prison fiasco, today de
fended their adßh as “fully justified.”
CHICAGO (W Eisenhower forces today fought
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Slaughter Asserts Board
Should Stand For Count
„ As City Manager Oliver
O. Manning went about his
duties in what may be his
final w’eek in office, support
ers today were busy in his be
half and Some of them ex
pressed belief that the city
council may back down its
request for Manning’s resig
nation.
Unless the council does reverse
it previous decision, Manning will
go out of office Saturday. On Ap
ril 23, the city council requested
him to resign not later than June
15th.
Petitions are being circulated
asking Manning not to resign and
other petitions are being started
asking the city council to retain
him in office.
MAY BE UP TO BRACEY
According to best information,
Commissioner B. A. Bracey may
hold the deciding vote. Mayor
Ralph E. Hanna and Mayor Protem
R. G. Tart are reported to be firm
in their stand for firing Mann
ing: Commissioner Leek Coats and
Carlyle Accuses Tally
Os Avoiding The Issues
> LUMBERTON (IP) Rep.
F. Ertel Carlyle of the Se
venth Congressional Dis
trict has demanded that
challenger Joe Tally of Fay
etteville “tell the people
where he stands” during the
second primary campaign.
Carlyle said that “the young
mayor of Fayetteville has told the
people he is opposed to commun
ism, waste of public funds and
high taxes. He is on safe ground.
“He has skillfully avoided some
of the most perplexing issues which
confront the people today” Car
lyle said.
WANTS STAND ON FEPC
He demanded that Tally state
his position on fair employment
practice and said “in view of the
fact that the CIO is strongly sup
porting the candidacy of the young
and inexperienced major, the peo
ple should know how far he has l
gone In promising the members of i
that organization full support of |
their program.”
Carlyle challenged Tally to re-1
veal his views on world federation, I
Taft-Hartley, U. S. policing the |
world, rent controls and other con- i
trols, universal military training, |
socialized medicine and government;
competition in private enterprise, j
Theft Os Autos
Reported Here
Car thieves, balked in their at-]
tempt to start one car, apparently
abandoned it and stole another late 1
last night, according to records of
the Dunn Police Department. |
A 1948 Ford, stolen from the yard
of Daniel Bracey, was found only!
about a block away with its igni
tion “straight wired."
However, a 1950 Mercury coupe,
stolen from the yard of Mrs. Grace
P, Carroll on North Layton Avenue,
in the same neighborhood has not
been recovered. Both were stolen
at about’ the same time late last
night
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BENNY SLAUGHTER
J. V. Bass are reported to be firm
in favor of retaining him.
Mayor Hanna nas reported that
. Bracey at present is also for firing
Bergman Defended
By David Selznick
HOLLYWOOD (IP) Film producer David O. Selz
.. nick thinks actfess Ingrid Bergman has been “perse
cuted enough” for leaving her husband to marry Italian
director Roberto Rossellini.
“The public is with her,” Selz
nick said in court yesterday.
The film producer testified as a
witness in. a court battle between
the actress and her former husband
Dr. Peter Lindstrom, over custody
of their 13-year-old daughter Pia.
Selznick, who brought Miss
Bergman to Hollywood in 1939, was
called to support the Swedlsh-born
actress’ plea that young Pla be
permitted to visit her in Italy this
summer.
Lindstrom has objected to the
proposed visit on the ground that
the child might be "exposed” to
Rossellini, whom he has described
in testimony as a narcotics addict
"with a habit of living with mis
tresses.”
Selznick said he could not com
ment on the subject of Rossellini’s
morals and did not believe Lind
strom was familiar with them.
NOT STRICTLY SEX
“Morals are not entirely a mat
ter of sex,” Selznick said.
But the producer said Rossellini
was “a fine, talented man . . .
something of a god in the South”
and a “man with a bleeding heart
for the poor
He testified under direct exam
ination that he found Rossellini
ann Miss Bergman “a most devoted
couple” while visiting them in
Rome and that the director “went
out of his way to be a playmate
with the children.”
“Seldom have I seen an extra
ordinary fine relationship,” he said.
Isaac Pacht, Linstrom’s attorney
cross-examined Selznick and cited
a statement made on the floor of
the U. S. Senate by Sen. Edwin
C. Johnson of Colorado that Ross
ellini had been a Nazi collaborator
and a narcotics addict with a Ger
man mistress.
Selznick retorted that Johnson
made his charge under congress
ional immunity. He said reputations
were being “maligned l«tt. and
rigtyt” in the current “difficult
times.”
The producer said he did not
think he should judge Rossellini
after “hearing only one side.”
He had tken asked what hk
thought of a married man. In this
case Rossellini, having intimate re- 1
lations with the wife of another
man who had befriended him.
"That would be a blow to his re
putation if true,” Selznick mid.
Pacht asked Selznick if he khew
that Rossellini, “while still married
to Marcella de Marzchlse, whom
he wed . . . in 1938 and who bore
him two children, was keeping a
FIVE CENTS FEE COPY
Manning. There are other reports,
however, that Bracey has decided
to vote to keep Manning. Bracey
himself declined comment this
morning.
Meanwhile, Etnny Slaughter,
veil - known Dunn business man
and church leader, today issued a
statement calling on the city coun
cil to “stand up and be counted”
on the Manning issue.
PRAISES MANNING
He characterized Manning as “a
symbol of what any public official
could and should be —competent,
efficient and honest.”
Mr. Slaughter branded the coun
cil’s action in requesting Manning’s
resignation as “unofficial.”
He declared that citizens seeking
retention of Manning are acting in
behalf of the moral issues involved.
‘‘Since he has had no reason,
v/e have had no reason and the
board has ventured no reason (for
the firing of Manning), it becomes,
therefore, our responsibility to get
the reason if our welfare dees
count for anything.”
HITS “HUSH-UP” MOVE
Mr. Slaughter today also lashed
(ComlDurd on pare two'
mistress known as Anna Aagrani?”
“I don’t judge people on gos
sip,” Selznick said. “I don’t know
—not without the facts.”
New Policeman
Is Named Here
A new member of the Dunn Police
Department, W. W. Lassiter, will,
start his duties this afternoon, it
was reported today by Chief of
Police A. A. Cobb.
Lassiter, a native of Rockingham,
has been employed in Fayetteville
for the past ten years, as manager
of a motion picture theatre, and in
sales Work. This is his first ex
perience in police work, however.
HAS RELATIVES HERE
He is married to the daughter of
Mrs. Katie Jones, Belk Department
Store employe, and one of his chief
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Mac Arthur Is Named
Keynoter By GOP
CHICAGO (IP) Gen. |
Douglas MacArthur seas
named today as the keynote
speaker for the Republican
national convention which
will open here July 7.
The convention arrangements
committee named MacArthur by a
voice vote, after his name was the
only one placed in nomination. A
spokesman for the arrangements
committee said there was a scat
tering of “no” votes but that the
overwhelming preponderance of
the committee voted “aye”. Mac-
Arthur’s name was placed in nom
ination by G. Mason Owlett, na
tional committeeman from Penn
sylvania.
There were no speakers against
the nomination.
“GREAT STATESMAN” J
Owlett caned MacArthur *a great i
soldier, a great statesman, a great j
American.”
-The speeches of this man have j
convinced American citizens that)
he is endowed with a religious fer- 1
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The Record
Gets Results
Makes Unusual
Appearance
Before Congress
WASHINGTON (IP) Pre
sident Truman asked Con
gress today for a law auth
orizing the government to
seize the steel industry and
run it until the contract dis
pute is settled.
Mr. Truman, in an extraordin
ary personal appearance before a
joint session of Congress, said a
“properly drafted” seizure law can
assure steel production, treat both
parties “fairly” and encourage ob
jective bargaining.
“I hope the Congress will act
quickly,” Mr. Truman said. “The
issue of peace or war hangs in
the balance, and steel is a vital
element in the outcome.”
UP TO CONGRESS
“The issue is squarely up to con
gress," the President said. “I hope
the Congress will meet it by en
acting fair and effective legisla
tion.” Mr. Truman said use of the
Taft-Hartley law injunction would
be “grossly unfair” to the 650,000
striking CIO United Steelworkers
because they had postponed their
walkout many time before finally
striking June 2.
If, however, Congress wants to
obtain an injunction against the
strike, the President said, it should
direct the President to seek such
a court order without waiting for
the appointment and report of a
fact finding board as required by
the Taft-Hartley Act.
The Taft-Hartley approach, Mr.
Truman said, “would be “unwise,
unfair and quite possibly ineffect
ive.”
.ttMttamtft went Wore .thst ia**,
session 16 hours after the steel ne
gotiations collapsed at the White
House last night.
But while the nine-day-old strike
of the 650,000 steelworkers went
on, preparations were rushed to
resume production at steel plants
turning out the goods for the de
fense effort.
MEETING CALLED
Acting Defense Mobilizer John R.
Steelman called government offic
ials to a meeting to decide which
plants should reopen to provide the
critical needs of the Korean war.
CIO President Philip Murray
promised last night that workers
would return to the plants the gov
ernment deems necessary to keep
running to turn out war gods. The
steel workers had walked out min
utes after the Supreme Court nu
lified ( Mr. Truman’s April 8 seiz
ure of the industry.
Mr. Truman said ”we cannot ex
pect to get enough steel in this
way to meet all of the essential
needs of the defense program.”
In asking for a seizure law, the
president indirectly asked also for
authority to raise workers’ wages.
Noting that the Constitution pro
tects property owners during a per
iod of government operation by
“requiring that they be given just
compensation,” Mr. Truman said:
“The law should give similar pro
tection to wage earners. This means
that changes in wages and working
conditions driring seizije should
not be prevented by law. If they
were, the seizure would mean that
workers would be compelled to work
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