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+WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and warm today, tonight and Thursday. Risk of thunder showers this afternoon or evening. VOLUME II Manning Indicates *He Wont Attempt To Stay In Office City Manager Oliver O. Manning showed no inclin ation this morning to make any special effort to hold his job past the deadline Saturday at which time Mayor Ralph Hanna has said the office will be declared vacated. • “If they declare my office va cant,” said Manning,” there is nothing I can do but accept their decision. This is a trying job at best and without full cooperation it is practically impossible." Mr. Manning said he was glad that he had an opporunity at the last meeting to show the public what he had been trying to accomp lish during his period in office. "I think,” he said, "that those who were present have a much better • idea of the goals toward which I have been working.” (CITES ACHIEVEMENTS Pointing to the voluminous files he has accumulated in his eight months at his desk, Mr. Manning pointed out that he was leaving things in much better shape for his successor, than was the case when he entered upon his duties. All of the many complaints or requests f.or work have been care fully tabulated and filed, together V with the action taken on each "Since it is impossible to act on each complaint the day it is re . ceived, “he pointed out,” there '• a lag of three or four days, but, the files will be complete to within that time.” Mr. Manning said that he was quite well aware of the petitions being circulated on his behalf, but pointed out that he was taking no active part in this formulation or circulation. Even if they were suc • cessful, he pointed out, his position Workers At Erwin Protest Actions . itA groyp of, Erwin workfccs the weekly wioeai union meeting fast' night issued a statement charg ing “Another dose of the ‘democracy’ that Erwin inill workers are becoming accustomed to under A. F. of L. leadership was served up at Tuesday night’s meeting.” Rieve, Others •Are Named In SIOO,OOO Suit GREENSBORO (l» Leaders of a North Carolina revolt against the 1 extile Workers Union of America (CIO) have filed suit in Superior Court here seeking SIOO,OOO damages from President Emil Rieve and state officials of the TWUA. _ The suit asks $50,000 actual dam wages and $50,000 punitive damages on grounds that, they conspired to "harass locals ... by forcing them selves into buildings . . . laying false claims to properties, books, and records . . . and interfering with the plaintiffs' use of prop erties.” CONN IS PRINCIPAL Lewis Conn, former state direc tor of the TWUA and now state dir _ ector of the United Textile Work wtrs of America (AFL) was listed as the principal plaintiff in the suit filed here yesterday. Named with him were four joint boards and their presidents, and 17 lo cals. i The suit names as defendants along with Rieve, Kenneth Kram er in Leaksville-Sprav. Herbert 8. Williams in Durham, Blaine Camp bell in Rockingham, Siler Switzer in Cooleemee, Lloyd Davis in Er • win, and Hugh Brown, Wayne Der -9 noncourt and Cree Radcliff in Owensboro. All but Demoncourt were named by Rieve as special administartors “to protect pro peilies” of North Carolina locals iContinned On Page Two) Carlyle Will Speak 'At Bensons Sing The Hon. F. Ertel Carlyle, Rep resentative of the 7th Congression al District, will be the guest speak er at the 32nd annual North Car llna Singing Convention at Ben son, Sunday, June 22, at 11:00 a. m., it was announced today. Mr. Carlyle, a member of the House Committee on'lnterstate and I Foreign Commerce, is an outstand lng speaker, and his choice as guest speaker should prove an excellent one Mr. Carlyle has made an out standing record in Congress. , It 18 anticipated that approxi mately 30,000 people will attend • W TELEPHONES: 3117 - 3118 - 3119 would still be untenable unless the town board was behind him. SAYS BOATED READY Mayor Ralph E. Hanna says the city council will be prepared "with the reasons" if either City Manager Oliver O. Manning or his supporters demand a showdown. "We’re waiting for them to make the first move,” said Hanna. Intruder Enters Ladies’ Bedroom Awakening in the night with a stranger standing at the head of the bed looking down upon them, was the frightening experience of two Dunn women, Mrs. J. E. Reg ister and her daughter, Mrs. Merle Philips. They had retired and were sleep ing soundly, when a noise wakened them from their slumber. At the head of the bed, gazing down at them, was the figure of a strange white man. Their startled screams awoke neighbors and frightened the in truder, who fled without molesting the women. Police were called and, although the neighborhood was combed, the man was not to be found. (Continued On Page two) The statement came from Har vey Williams, Ish Guy, B. T. Hall, Charles Hawley and Tom Byrd. They said: “The president of Local'2so was absent last night. When the elec ted vice-president, Hardy Johnson, took his rightful place as chair man, Tom West, business agent seiz ed the chair and announced that Howard Parker, a paid organizer cf the AF of L would act as chair man. Parker does not pay dues in the local and is not elected to any po-t by any tactile worker. Yet he was foisted upon Erwin workers last night, while their elected vice president was pushed aside.” QUESTIONS ASKED The statement continued: “In suite of this high-handed action these dictators were unable to pre vent questions coming before the meeting. It was brought out that the treasury of Local 250 amount ing to $5,961.56 of dues, paid in bv hard working Erwin workers, was fUNillnM mi gwr Iwmi Louis Jeffreys Dies Suddenly Louis M. Jeffreys, SO, member of onp of Dunn’s oldest families, died easrly Wednesday morning at his home at 506 East Pope Street. He suffered an attaek during the night and died early Wednesday morn ing. Funeral services Will be held Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the Hood Memorial Christian Church. Dr. George Cuthrell, pas tor, will officiate. Burial, will be in [ Greenwood Cemetory. | Pallbearers will oe: Freeman :Wood, Wilson Btanley, Pat Lynch, iCuutinu*4 m twi Iwmi are being made to accommodate a crowd of this size. Vacant lots are being cleared and other arrange ments made to provide for the parking. v - The Convention will open Satur day morning, June 31 in the Ben son Singing Grove and' will con tinue until late Sunday night. Por tions of the program wIH tie re corded and re-roadcast over several of the state radio stations. It is entlrely^hdn-denwninational of competition. ' > ' ..... .. ..... .. W. • (Ete Bathj JitmrU Committee Votes To Extend Controls Churchill Says England Is Now Near Bankruptcy LONDON OP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today that Britain- is in peril of losing all of her pos sessions and glory because she is dangerously near ec onomic bankruptcy. Churchill gave his warnings dra matically during a speech at a lun cheon of the British Press Assoc iation. Britain, he said, is standing on a “treacherous trap door" which may fall beneath it at any time. He was urging newspapers to put the facts of Britain’s economic plight before Britons and the world when he startled his hearers with his warning. The 77W year-old Conservative leader, whose public life goes back to the glories of the Victorian era, said that he looked with a great stirring of emotion last week when voung Queen Elizabeth II *c,tr a horse at the “trooping of the color” parade in her honor by her bril liantly uniformed household troops. But he could not escape, he said, “The terrible question: On what does it all stand?” "That is the question,” he said. “And it does seem indeed hard that the traditions and triumphs of a thousand years should be chang ed by the ebb and flow of mar kets and commercial transactions in the vast swaying world which has sprung up and is growing ever larger around us. “DIZZY EMINENCE” Never In history, Churchill said, has there been such a nation of 50,000,000 people like Britain, limit ed in agricultural production, at such a “dizzy eminence" and at the same timtf on such a precarious **B3?U have defeated in war of- rescued from subjugation are today more solidly sure of earning their liv ing than we, who have imparted our message of parliamentary in stitution to the civilized world and who kept the flag Os freedom fly ing in some of its darkest days, Churchill said. “This is not a cry of despair. It is the alert that I am sounding. It is more than the alert. It is the alarm.” CANNOT FLOAT “Our head is above water. But it is not enough to float. We have to swim and to swim successfully, And we had to swim against the stream.” STATE NEWS BRIEFS DURHAM (lfl C. Leroy Shup ing ’of Greensboro, attorney and former FBI agent, is the new com mander of the North Carolina Am erican Legion. Mrs. Jack' Wardlaw of Raleigh, is the new president of the women’s auxiliary. Both were elected at the Legion conven tion here yesterday. RALEIGH (W “Potatoes is po tatoes" is no longer the slogan for North Carolina, State Department of Agriculture officials said today. Before price ceilings on spuds were lifted Thursday, department offic ials were grading almost no po tatoes. But now there Is a heavy upswing m the number of potatoes being graded. RALEIGH (IS Smlthfield’s bus station received the lowest rating in the state, a report from the state Utilities Commission here showed today. Smithfleld received a 72 per cent rating last month. Other bus stations receiving less than 90 were: Lumberton 80.5, Wadesboro 83, Rcidsville 83.5, Oibsonville 84. Albe marle 84.5, Hendersonville 86.5. •MARKETS^ EGGS AND POULTRY RALEIGH (V) Central North Carolina live poultry: Fryers or broilers steady, supplies adequate to plentiful, demand fair. Heavy hens saeady, supplies plentiful, demand generally slow. Prices at farm up to 10 am. today: Fryers or broil ers two and one-half to three pounds 38, heavy hens 30-33, moet- Raietgh eggs: Steady, supplies short to adequate, demand fair to good. Prices paid producers and handlers FOB .local grading sta tions: A large 45, A medium 40, B , Urge 38; current collections 31-34. (CisHwei On h|i - r . DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 11, 1952 GOP Chairman /•’ ■ » Rep. Joseph Martin EDITORS: Here I* a recent picture of Rep. Joseph Martin (Mass.), House Minority leader, who is re ported to be the general choice for permanent chairman of the Repub lican National Convention. (C. P.) Ballentine Warns About Production ASHEVILLE Ilf) Problems of over-production which have plagued American agriculture in the past may soon become problems of un der-production, State AgriculfcUre Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine said today. “I am not an alarmist and have on intention of unduly arousing fears of famine. But if the American pub lic wants to continue enjoying its high) standard of living, it must face]the facts about our productive capacities," Ballentine told a con- & vjfer- Nona Carolina PrtxHgjluln Credit Associa tions here. Ballentine said an estimated 577,- 000,000 acres of cropland will be needed to maintain present dietary standards in 1975, or about 115,000,- 000 acres more than the country now is using. 79 MILLION TOO MANY “It is acres more than our projected possibility,” Ballen tine warned. “In other words, we have now in sight only about 45,- 000,000 additional acres available for food production. This estimate includes 30,000,000 acres to be de veloped through irrigation, drain age and other reclamation and 15,- (Continoed On Page Two) BULLETINS ROME (IB ltalian movie director Roberto Rossel lini applied today for permission to fly to Hollywood and defend himself against charges made against him by Dr. Peter Lindstrom, first husband of Ingrid Bergman. U. S. Consular officials said Rossillini, waiting for the actress to give birth to twins momentarily, applied for a visa to visit the United States. PARIS (IB Hundreds of Communist workers were fired from national defense factories and arsenals today for joining in Red-incited protest strikes. WASHINGTON (IB The Joint Chiefs of Staff have 'Continued on Pax* Two) Former Socialite Found Strangled NEW YORK Ft Detectives delved today Into the Bohemian life that Mrs. Marion Robbins, a former soc ialite, enjoyed before she was strangled in her Greenwich Village apartment. They questioned employes and regular patrons of the many vil lage bistros which the gay 62-year old widow frequented as they sought to find evidence leading to her slayer. Joseph Maher, i a building super intendent, found Mrs. Robbins’ al most nude body early yesterday sprawled across her bed in her lux uriously furnished' apartment off Lower Fifth Avenue. Her body was clothed only in a slip and stockings and one leg dangled over the side of the bed. Detectives said they did not know whether she had’been raped. EVIDENCE OF FIGHT They said, however, that MisJ Robbins fought furiously with her] assailant until he stuffed a rag In-1 to her mouth and garroted her with a pillow case. - Mrs. Robbins’ attractive face had' lwa »«l.kW »vl hndv bruis. {Ail Restrictions On Installment Buying Taken Off WASHINGTON (IB The House Banking Committee voted today to extend price, wage, and rent controls un til June 30, 1953, and to ab olish all restrictions on in stallment buying and down payments on houses. In a surprise move, it also adopt ed an amendment which would force the government to keep price supports at present high levels 90 per cent of parity for basic farm crops next year NO MORE CURBS The committee’s action on con sumer credit would junk all re maining credit curbs on purchase of housing. These curbs are con tained in Regulation X. This regu lation was relaxed, effective today, by the government and permits lower down payments on houses. The committee also would aholish the present voluntary credit re straint program and prohibit the government from restroing install ment buying curbs which .were sus pended recently. FINAL ACTION TOMORROW The committees actions were taken as it drove to hammer out new legislation to replace the pre sent Defense Production Act which expires June 30. Aides said the committee may complete fi*»ai ac tion on the bill tomorrow. The Senate already has voted, to extend controls over prices, wages and rents for eight months until Feb. 28, 1952. The controls measure on which the Senate still is working provides, however, for a one-year extension of allocation and credit control authority. Baby Given Up For Undertaker V Is Revived PHILADELPHIA —— (IP) A two-and-one-half pound girl who was found alive more than an hour after two physicians pro nounced her dead was named “Mary” today by her thankful, 19-year-old mother. “I shall call her Mary for the Blessed Mother who gave her back to me,” said Mrs. Catharine Hughes, of Minersville, Pa. The baby, born prematurely last Saturday in the Hughes apart ment, was pronounced still-born by an attending physician, and later by an obstretician, and was (Continued on Page Two) ed by the killer as they struggled. Other rooms in the apartment i were in good order. i Empty whisky bottles and high- | ball glasses were scattered about i the apartment. Neighbors said Mrs. j Robbins gave parties cohstantly and I staged a big soiret Monday night | ENTERTAINED MEN i Police questioned several known | acquaintances of Mrs. Robbins; without finding a clue. The neigh-j bors said she entertained many men I in her apartment. i She was well known in the pic-1 luresque bars of the Village as a| good spender awl a lavish tipper, | but police discounted robbery as a; J motive for the slaying,"even though i her purse was empty. , I Mrs. Robbins was "the widow] |of socialite John Wolcott Robbins, of New York and Hartford. Conn. 'She had two grown ■ttas.John a. RrJ«fi^~"'" *~ liWiii * l '” ™>*^ PS?*~^b :; •* a *fe 1 _ r - - ■ ■COME IN THE WATER’S FINE Now that the repairs on the Dunn Swimming: Pool have b»<m completed, the warm weather is keeping it filled to capacity with youngsters of all ages. During the day, they congregate at the pool, and at night .when they usually find something else for amuse ment, their parents take over. According to Norman Suttles, Chamber of Commerce Manager, the number using the pool this early in the season makes it a safe prediction that this will be the biggest year since the pool was opened. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn). Plans Are Made To X-Ray All Adults In Harnett County By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer Plans to x-ray the entire adult population of Harnett County in an effort to de tect and arrest tuberculosis were made at a conference held Monday in the Lilllng ton Community Center. Dr. W. A. Smith, chief of the tuberculosis section of the State Board of Health/ met with Dr. W. A. Hunter, county health officer, and a group of representative citi zens from all sections of the county to discuss management of the mass X-ray project. An allocation of $3,100 by the county commissioners in the new county budget will provide clerical help and clear the way for the state-financed survey. Doctor Smith said dates of the x-ray campaign will cover 29 work ing days, December 10 to 20, and January 6 to 31. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays will break the time into two divisions. FOUR UNITS COMING Four mobile x-ray units will be in continuous operation from 11 A. M. to 5 p. m. during the dates mentioned. Volunteer hostesses will be furnished by the communi ties in which the units are assigned County funds will pay the clerks. State funds will provide the four x-ray units, seven x-ray technicians, two health educators,, one chief clerk supervisor, two publicity clerks and technician who will be left for an additional month to make follow-up x-rays. All persons 15 years or older will be entitled to free chest x-rays. Doctor Smith estimates SiiTO per sons in Harnett fall within this age group. Reports of the x-rays will be made within three weeks. First reading of the small x-ray plates will be made in Raleigh by the State Board (rontinned On Pace two) New Electric Shop Opened In Erwin Three Erwin electricians, Festus McLamb, Dalmas Lashley and James T. (Tye) Stewart, have com bined to form the Erwin Electric Company. They have opened a shop in East Erwin, in the building formerly occupied by the Hi-Way Auto seat cover concern. All are excellent mechanics and capable of competent handling of any type of electrical service. They are arranging for the agency for several lines of nationally adver tised appliances. C Os C Committee [Schedules Meeting l The agricultural committe of the i Dunn Chamber of Commerce head- I ed by Gene Smith and A1 Wullen jwaber, has scheduled an important i meeting for Friday afternoon at 4 .o’clock in the Chamber offices. I Discussion of a number of lm , portant projects In this Held will be held and the committee mem . here are urged to make every es ! fort to be present. five Dents per dopy Court Rules Buyers Cannot Be Forced RALEIGH (IP) The State Su preme Court today held that the Kinston Tobacco Board of Trade mov not force buyers to attend a fifth sale at its tobacco auction. The court reversed a lower court injunction which had ordered sev eral tobacco companies to furnish buyers for the fifth sale. The court said “the business of operating an auction warehouse is u:idoubtedy affected with the pub lic interest and is subject to rea sonable public regulation but tins fact alone does not clothe the Kin ston Tobacco Board of Trade, Inc., with the power to establish a five sale market and invade private rights to the extent of requiring Harnett To Vote On Five Runoffs Candidates in three different Harnett County races will have their names on the ballot in the second Democratic primary set for June 28. Official requests for three run offs were filed late yesterday with the county elections board, Dou gald Mcßae, chairman, reported. Legal deadline for a request for a second primary fell at 6 p.m. Positions at stake are Judge of Harnett Recorder’s Court in Lil lington, Commissioner in District II which is composed or Duke and Grove townships and constable in Stewart’s Creek Township. Bill Taylor of Lillington who was second high in the judge’s race has challenged M. O. Lee of Lillington, the acting recorder, to a run-off. Taylor, 27-year-old son of the late Judge Floyd Taylor, seeks the place his father held 22 years until his death a few months ago. Lee was 16 Dunn Graduates Will Enter College ‘Sixteen members of the Dunn High School graduat&fT class of 1952 will attend college next fall, it was announced today by Principal A. B Johnson. The largest number going to any i one college is three to N. C. State College. The University of North Caro lina,, Wake Forest College, Camp bell College, and the Woman’s Col lege of the University of North Carolina will get two each. Following, is a list of the stu dents' 1 who have announced plans to enroll at the colleges indicated: Susie Britt and Rita Fleishman, Woman’s College in Greensboro; Fay Jackson, Peace College In ffeal The Record Gets Results individuals or piivate corporations to participate” CREATED BY RESOLUTION The Board of Trade created the five sale market by resolution in 1949 and the Supreme Court said “uirected defendants and other buyers to participate in the tilth sale as they had in the other four.” The defendants to the suit were Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., American Suppliers; Imperiol To bacco Co., Ltd., Export Leaf To bacco Co. and the Kinston To bacco Co. BLOW AT FREE ENTERPRISE The Supreme Court said “the (Continued On Page two) named acting recorder by the coun ty commissioners on the death of Judge Taylor and asks to retain th° office. Coy Lucas of Erwfn will take on D. E. Lasater, Jr., who was high man in a three-way contest in District II as nominee _£n the county board of commissioners. Geraldine A’jpn of Bunnlevel, runner-up for constable in Stew art’s Creek, in a six-way race will compete with Eli Manning, the in cumbent. An 18-vote margin in fa vor of Manning separated the two men in the May 31 vote. Already on the state level J. O. Tally of Fayetteville, has chal lenged Ertel Carlyle of Lumber ton, congressman from the seventh district, to a run-off. "William Bob bitt who was in second place In the race for a seat on the state supreme court has asked for a\ run-off with R. Hunt Parker. i TO STUDY NURSING Sallye Whitehead. Bast Carolina / College Mary Williams, Ml iIJIMi _ pital Sehool cf Nursing in Char lotte. L. C. Draughon,' Jr., State NO. 133
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