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+WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and little change in tem perature through Saturday. Widely scattered thundershowers in West portion today, and over entire state Saturday. VOLUME n BOY SAYS PARENTS CHAINED HIM IS HP" jl - * HSk ' *'. ■ f) J[j;|||f^ * '" ME JS&6& WKm *Jmmi ACCORDING TO 9-YEAR-OLD Charles Utter, at Camden. N. J, the auto chains held by Detective Walter Szalansld were nsed by hit parents to keep him from running away from home The lad’s father and mother, Zeahr and Dorothy Utter, were taken into custody on neglect charges. Three other children were sent to a county home. (International) J 5 Million More Voted For Bragg tally Caravan Tours Harnett A 20-car motorcade of Cumber land County citizens toured Har nett County yesterday to boost the candidacy of Mayor Joe Tally of Fayetteville for Congress. Candidate Tally rode in an open car and wfcved ait citizens and chatted with, them along the way; At .every stop, he also addressed ■ u #avetteville also spoke. In both Dunn and TErwin, Mr. Tally and Senator Terry express ed appreciation for the vote given Tally in the first primary. Tally carried Harnett by 831 votes. ATTACKS CARLYLE Tally also took occasion to blast Mr. Carlyle for'what he calls “No- Nothlng Representation.” The Tally motorcade was met between Dunn and Erwin and led into town by L. A. Monroe and Jesse H. Capps, who are managing tT Mr. Tally’s campaign in the Dunn section. ' < At every place along the route, Mr. Tally received a splendid re ception. The stop in Dunn was cut short by a shower of rain which came up a few moments after the motorcade stopped here. Mr. Tally told reporters he is confident of being elected by an ovei whelming majority. Carlyle Enters Naval Hospital WASHINGTON (01 Rep. F. Ertel * Carlyle (D-NC) was ad mitted to the Naval Hospital at ' Bethesda, Md., today for obser vation of a “painful foot con dition.” "Dr., George W. Calver, Capitol physician, said Carlyle’s general condition is very good. He said ftta foot ailment is “due appar ently to a peripheral vascular condition.” Enterprise Gets Maytag Franchise The . franchise for Maytag ap pliances has been awarded to the Enterprise Gas and Appliance Company, it was announced today by Arthur Northcutt, manager of the local gas and appliance outlet The firm la planning to carry the most complete stock of famous Maytag equipment In this area. (Continued On fags Twoiv industrial Survey Planned In Dunn Through 'the cooperation of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Chamber of Commerce, a com prehensive survey of facilities for ♦tybistrifti developement in the Dunn Area will be held soon, it revealed today by^Nwmaryßut- Sm&mb? udT x ‘SSKS; waL lat °* oundwork TELEPHONES: 3117 - 3118 - 3119 WASHINGTON (IP) A Senate subcommittee set its sights today on eliminating “wasteful expendi tures” from a House-approved $2,758,318,000 military construction ' bill. Chairman Russell B. Long (D-La) . said a “great amount” of the con struction authorized In the House bill can be postponed "without do ing any harm to the military es tablishment.” HEARINGS SET . v long sal J his armed service* sub committee will start hearings on the bilt,-Tuesday. Engineers and ..expem, jtye already Department. The bUI, carrying funds for ur gent Army. Navy and Air Forge 1 construction projects, was passe* by the House yesterday. The $2.758318.000 House total was about $269,000,000 less than the armed sen vices had requested. North Carolina, $44,378,000 4 ARMY. $15,325,000: Fqrt Bragg, Fayetteville, $15325.000. A NAVY $432,000: Naval auxiliary lending field, Edenton, $195,0005 'naval ah' facility, Weeksvillf, $237,000. AIR FORCE, $28,621,000: Raleigh ’ Durham Municipal Airport, Ra* , leigh-Durham, $18395,000; Seymour ‘ Johnson Field, Goldsboro, $9,726,000. Beard To Hear Three Problems Only three items have been pla ced on the agenda for the meeting of the Dunn city council Monday night, It was announced today by City Manager Oliver O. Manning. One of these Will be preceded by an afternoon meeting in the court room. Woodrow Hill, who operates a private business in City Hall, a pub lic building, has been asked by the Fire Department, by the City Man ager and by the Police Depart ment to appear before the board asking permission to remain. Reasons given for asking him to leave are considerable damage to the fire trucks, leaving the area in an untidy condition and crowd ing the Fire Department training i and drill area. } Mrs. Lloyd Wade, John Thomas and other citizens report an excess - lve infestation of Japanese beetle! • In Dunn. North Carolina State Col » lege Is sending, representatives down i for a meeting with interested citi f zens and leaders in City Hall at ;. 2:00 pm. Monday. A report as thb v meeting will be available for ttw s board meeting. O. W. Godwin requests a six met (Continued Q« Page fom) !i The industrial survey win bur the I jp-ountwark tor attracting industry r| able facilities and theft application > to industries that would be test t tar thtt particular , ■ The railroad officials expressed - their willingness * J“*g**&£ - through survey of this king,- Tt» i effects oni tp# for more eiUMte. (Ehv $ ailtj Braird Democrats Still Seek Seizure Ike, Taft Both j Claiming Unpledged Bloc WASHINGTON (IP)' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s campaign oorg a n i za t i o n claimed today that he is making steady inroads on the big bloc of “uncommit ted” delegates who may hold th§ balance of power at the Republican Presidential no minating convention. But supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft pooh-poohed the claim. They said that the swing has been away from, not toward, Eisenhower since his June. 1 homecoming. With selection of delegates for the July 7 GOP convention virtu ally complete, both Eisenhower and Taft devoted their primary atten ■ tion to wooing the upwards of 130 delegates who thus far have not committed themselves in the hard fmight contest. Eisenhower schedihed a meeting nt his Gettysburg, Pa., farm today with members of the 70-man dele gation from pivotal Pennsylvania. He confers with Michigan’s 46- member delegation at' Detrait to morrow. Taft also has scheduled meetings with the Pennsylvania delegation and with the 24-member Marvland delegation which vfsited Eisen hower Wednesday. ON OTHER FRONTS Other political developments: 1. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Qeorgia, candidate for the Demo cratic nomination, set off on a 15- state Western tour, opening to day with conferences with Ne braska Democrats at Omaha. 2. Eisenhower told New Jersey delegates yesterday that the fed eral government should aim at cut ting $60,000,000,000 to $40,000,000,- 000 from the budget, which is now running around $80,000,000,000 a the National fopterSjn tfew York, pledged HUnselt to low er taxes “immediately” and spoke of trimming the budget to $55,000,- 000,000 by 1954. 4. President Truman told his weekly news conference that he does not intend to do anything about the fact that Oen. Douglas MacArthur has accepted the role of OOP convention keynoter, des pite an Army regulation forbidding officers on active duty from taking part in political conventions. SEEKS BHOWDOWN 5. Lodge hinted at a New York news conference that the Eisen hower forces will seek an early showdown with Taft at the conven tion by challenging the selection (Continued On Page Three) State To Mark Campbell Site As part of the state historical marker program, one of these mar kers will be placed at Buie’s Creek designating Campbell College, it was announced today by Dr. Chris topher Crittenden, director of the State Department of Archives and History. The state's historical marker program, inaugurated in 1936, is conducted jointly by the Archives, Conservation and Highway Depart ments. Inscriptions for the markers are prepared by Edwin A. Miles, re searcher for the Archives Depart ment and are approved by an ad visory board composed of histor ians Horn leading odlleges and un iversities of the state. The inscription for the Camp bell College marker, one of the 18 approved and soon to be erected reads as follows: "CAMPBELL COLLEGE. A coed ucational junior college. Establish ed in 1887 by J. A. Campbell as Buie's Creek Academy. Since 1925 owned by the Baptist State Con vention." Tabernacle Bible School Planned The Dunn Gospel Tabernacle has announced plans for at two weeks Vacation Bible School to begin Monday, June 16, the pastor, the . Rev. B. T. Underwood announced • The School will be held each day i from 9:06 a. m. to 11:45 a. m. t This school promises to be a good one ted it is expected that the i enrollment will exceed one hun -8 lira B. T. Underwood Is Super r tatgutot^oyte I for the Rahnrtl . DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 13, 1952 I Umstead Invited To Dedicate New Dunn Fairground . Governor William B Umstead has been invited to de- ] liver the principal address at the dedication of the new American Legion Four-County Fairgrounds on Septem- ! ber 15th. The invitation to the State’s j next governor was announced this morning by J. O. West, general chairman of the fair committee, and C. M. Rumpley, manager of the four-county exposition. Dunn’s Legion post, which has sponsored the Four-County Fair for the past five years, recently purchased a 30-acre tract of land— the old Hattie Hinson place—on the Jonesboro Road. The area is now being graded in preparation for development in time for this year's fair. LONG-RANGE PLANS Long-range plans call for erec-' Child Watches Grandad Murder His Grandmother BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Os) A five-year-old boy told today how he looked on while his grandfather shot and killed his ailing wife so sjie “won’t have to cry any more.” The child, David Gallagher, was the only witness yesterday when farmer Shelton Hamlin shot down his wife Hazel with a 12 guage shotgun and then killed himself with the same weapon. Hamlin, 53, may have intended his act to be a double mercy slaying, Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Corbin said. He fcqmmitted the shootings “pre sumably because of failing health,” “I Saw Grandaddy go to the BULLETINS WASHINGTON (IP) President Truman has con ; ceeded that his powers are limited in at least one respect. When reporters asked him, at Ws news conference : yesterday whether he “contemplated any action on the : drougth in parts of the Middle West,” Mr. Truman shook his head and said he can’t make it rain. LONDON (IP From now on, Fred Meier, 29, won’t have to suffer the humiliation of living in one room while ! his wife and her lover rear a family in another. Meier i received a divorce yesterday when he testified his wife, Irene, and Dr. Archibald Jeffery had been making illicit love for 10 years and that she had given birth to two children. BOSTON; Mass. IIP Debbie Collier, 3, and Grace Lyons, 4, climbed into an automobile and released the hand brake. The car owned by Debtee’s grandfather, i plunged down a hill, jumped a curb and sideswiped a tree before coming to rest. “We didn’t do nothing,” the : children explained when Mario Buono, the grandfather ’ hauled them oift. y i UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (IP An official United Nations correction in a radio-television transcript spar ' ed British delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb further embar ’ rassment today. The transcript said that Jebb, when ask .’ ed in an interview why he and Soviet delegate Jacob Malik often were seen chuckling together, replied: “It * is probably some perfectly personal joke about the bomb ' or I do not know what.” The correction change the word ! “bomb” to “barman.’ FORT WAYNE, Ind. (IP Paul Neukom said today that his romance with Peggy Perry, whom he will wed \ (Continued an Fag* Two) i f ' ; Rieve Defended By State CIO Leader Wayne Demoncourt of Greensboro, assistant TWUA- CfO State Director, today refuted & claim made by Tom 8 West, business manager of the Erwin AFL union, that 8 Emil Rieve is supported by the Communist Daily Worker. a * * * la a statement telephoned to The “ Dally Record, he also delivered a severe Mast at West for switching 7 from the CIO to the AFL and still drawing funds from the CIO end <1 called on West to explain to work e ers at Erwin “his handling of their - funds.” Mr. West, in a statement earlier - this week, blasted Rieve national ie president of the TWUA-CIO. and d charged that he has support of i- The Communist Daily Worker l tion of large agricultural and live- | stock exhibit buildings, a grand stand, a race track and all other modern fair innovations. , In addition to Mr. Umstead, , Chairman West said that a num ber of other dignitaries, including State Commander Leroy Shuping, are expected to be here for the dedication ceremonies. Mr. Rumley and Mr. West today were conferring over plans for an enlarged premium list and for an all-round larger and bigger expos ition than ever before. Carl Fitchett, Jr., is commander 'of Dunn’s Legion Post. kitchen door with a shotgun be hind him. Grandmommy was stand ing at the kitchen sink washing dishes and crying," the child said “Maw, you won’t have to cry any more,” he said Hamlin told the farm woman. David said his grandfather raised the shotgun, shot his wife and then turned the weapon on himself. Both were killed. Corbin said neighbors told him both Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin had been ill for some time and that was the only reason they could think of for the' -slayings. \ <fhe chidch-golng couple • ww» - reported -to be well-to-do -finan cially. wont released by the State CIO executive: , “Mr. West’s statement that Emil Rieve is being backed by a Com munist newspaper is Just a smoke screen,” said Wayne Dernoocourt assistant TWUA-CIO State Di rector today. Thera ottwman today wtetaTbaen viWtadMteSe & the columns of the Communist Murray Asserts He’s Sticking To The Finish WASHINGTON (IP Sen ate Democratic leaders, frus trated in four previous at tempts to arm President Truman with steel seizure powers, said today they “may” try once more to push an emergency bill through the chamber. They admitted privately that they had little hope ot success. With aj coalition of Republicans and South ern Democrats firmly in control the Senate was standing firm on its “request" that Mr. Truman in voke the Taft-Hartly law to end the 11-day-old strike of 650,000 CIO steelworkers. High administration officials pre dicted that Mr. Truman would hold off ‘.eeking an 80-day anti-strike in- 1 junction under the Taft-Hartley, law at least long enough to let the House act on his plea for seizure legislation. The issue was not ex pected to come before the House before late- next week. MURRAY SPEAKS PITTSBURGH Ilf) CID President Philip Murray told cheer - (Continued On Page Three) Wall C. Ewing Given Parole RALEIGH (IP) The State to day paroled Wall C. Ewinf, former state political leader who was con victed in 1947 of beating to death his frail wife and sentenced to 18 to 20 years for manslaughter. Ewing, now 61. served four years 11 months and 27 days, the parties compiission said, and counting galnte-Mmr hat mil MdTnMVthan eight and one-half years. In announcing the parole the commission said that the 12 mem bers of the trial jury unanimously recommended mercy for Ewing in open court and on May 27, 1950 recommended to Gov. Kerr Scott that the term be reduced to a period of not more than five years The sentence was not reduced however, and the commission said in releasing Ewing that he had served more than one-fourth of his l JUDGE DIDN’T OBJECT Judge R. Hunt Pqrker who pre sided at the trial filed no objection to the parole, the commission said. The trial Jury took two hours and 35 minutes and three ballots on Sept. 11, 1947 to convict Ewing of manslaughter in the death of his wife, Douglas. In passing sentence, Parker de clared “this court will not soon forget the merciless beating of a 100-pound woman by her 200-pound husband, nor her pathetic cries.” “The testimony brouht out at his trial has shocked the conscience of all who heard It,” Parker said. The judge told the jury that the case was built on circumstantial evidence, acceptable in the state “but in a felony or capital case the facts must be of such a nature as| to point conclusively to definite guilt.” Doctors Assert . Hershey Wrong CHICAGO (01 Doctors attend ing the American Medical Assoc iation convention disagreed today with Draft Director Lewis B. Her shey that the health of the na tion’s youth is on the downgrade. Hershey said that 45 per cent of the men eligible for military sendee had been turned down for physical, mental or moral reasons during the last four years. The health at the nation’s youth, Heishey toid a congressional com mittee, “not only has shown no improvement, but is less favorable” today than It was during World War n. BLAME OTHER FACTORS Not so, the .doctors said. They (Continued bn Page Three) •MARKETS* i BOOS RALEIGH (to Hog markets: Hillsboro: Steady at 3050. Jacksonville, BeaulavOle, Kenly Siler City, Benson, Elizabethtown i Mount Olive, Dunn, Warsaw. Kin ston, Rocky Mount. Smithfield Steady at 2000. Tarboro, "Hamilton yjg-OBajraaa (OmKom* *a gage t«») FIVE CENTS FEE COP* Former Harnett Official Sought In Embezzlement C. G. Fields of Angier, until last November vice chairman of the Harnett County Board of Commission ers and chairman of the Harnett County Welfare Board, was being sought by Sheriff W. E. Salmon and his aides today on a charge of embezzlement. The former Angier banker is i charged with misappropriation of more than $5,000 from the Anter- : lean Insurance Company. Mrs Elizabeth Matthews, acting Superior Court Clerk, disclosed that the warrant for Fields was sworn out by R. S. Boone, a deputy col lector for the State Commissioner of Insurance. Sheriff Salmon said today that he received tne warrant for Fields’ arrest on Wednesday, but that ne has been unable to locate Fields. C. C. Duncan, an employee in the office of the State Insurance Commissioner, said Fields was in dicted under Section '4-96 which pertains to the collection of funds ana failure to account for such funds by insurance salesmen. He said it covered cases in which mcney was collected for insurance premiums but not turned in to the company. Sheriff Salmon said Fields would be taken into custody as soon as he can be located. RESIGNED IN NOVEMBER Mr. Boone conferred with County Solicitor Neill McK. Ross, who dic tated the warrant for Fields’ arrest. Mayor And Council Invited Jo Meeting Benny O. Slaugnter, head of the movement to se cure retention of City Manager Oliver O. Manning, to day issued a public invitation to Mayor Ralph E. Hanna and members of the city council to attend a mass meet ing of citizens to be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the high school auditorium. “If the mayor and commissioners really want to kftow the truth and if they’re interested in finding out what the people of their town really think, they will be present,” said Slaughter. “Otherwise, they can turn a deaf ear, (evade the issues and stay away,” he said. Mr. Slaughter said he would give the officials a special seat on the Tally Denies CIO Financing Campaign WILMINGTON Joe TaUy, of Fayetteville, today challenged his opponent, Rep. F. Ertel Carlyle, in the race for Congress from the Seventh N. C. District to debate the issues of the campaign through out the District before the second primary on June 28. Tally’s challenge was prompted by a statement by Carlyle Earlier this week in which he accused the Fayetteville Mayor of evading ma jor questions. “The principal issue in this cam paign is whether the people will Fishbeck Takes Over Pastorates In Dunn •V V v . Rev. a. H. Fishbeck took over a, circuit of three Presbyterian Churches in the Dunn area on June Ist, and has been engaged tince in working out a schedule that wall give each of the churches j three services each month. The three churches, Grove, Unity j and Riverside Chapel, were estate ; lished through the First Presby terian Church of Dunn, in order to afford church facilities for neighboring rural areas. They have made a remarkable growth and now need a full time pastor. Mr. Fishbeck, a native at Michi gan, received his Degree of Bache lor of Divinity at Columbia H»ao logical Semina®' to Pwatw Georgia this year. He received a . Degree of techetor of Science to : . 7Wtapfrom the University of Mtasoi. During World tzis cducit— The Record Gets Results Power Until he resigned last November "to devote my time to private bus iness matters,” Mr. Fields was one of Harnett’s most prominent offic ials. lie had served three years as vice chairman of the county board, was chairman of the Harnett Coun ty Welfare Board and for six or eight years was treasurer of the Harnett Democratic Executive Committee. Mr. Fields served for years as cashier of the Angier branch of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Co., but was relieved of his duties there about a year and a half ago. He then went into the insurance bus iness. WAS ANGIER LEADER He resigned as Democratic treas urer when he first ran for the county board of commissioners. He was reelected by a good majority to represent the district composed of Black River, Neill’s Creek, Buck horn and Hector’s Creek townships. Prominent in the affairs of An gier. he was a trustee of the An gier Methodist Church, was a past master of the Fuquay Masonic , Lodge and a leader in other pub lic affairs. platform “so they can face the people while the truth is being dis closed.”! PREDICTS THEY WONT ATTEND He put the board squarely on the spot, however, and predicted that he didn’t think any of them would attend. Advised of Mr. Slaughter’s invi tation by reporters. Mayor Ralph (Continued On Page Four) retire a do-nothing Congressman,” ‘ Tally said. “If Mr. Carlyle is in terested in debating this and any other issues I give him the fol lowing opportunity: “I challenge him to speak from the same platform with me in the courthouse in each of the seven counties of the District before this second primary. I have been sat isfied to let the people decide be tween us. Is Mr. Carlyle willing to meet the same test?” “Tally emphatically denied that (Continued On page Three) NO, 135
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