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MACARTHUR RIPS DEMOCRATS IN KEYNOTE SPEECH Here are two characteristic shots of j
A Gen. Douglas MacArthur as he tore into “tragic blunders” of Democratic domestic and foreign po- .
tides during the last 20 years. In his rrtle as key-noter at the Republican National Convention in j
Chicago, MacArthur called for a “crusade” to elect a Republican President in November. (Interna- i
tional Soundphoto).
Wilson To Test Judges Ruling|
On Jury Trials In Dunn Court
Education Advisory
Qmmittee Fort^ed
* Sidney G. Thomas, chairman of the county board'
of education, today announced the formation of a new
* citizens advisory committee which will work with the board
in the improvement of county schools.
District committeemen from the
county’s ten school districts were
invited to meet Monday morning
with the board in its regular July
session to discuss the cooperative
project, which is designed to im
prove schools through the devel
opment of professional a"' 1 lay
leadership in local communities.
Attending wore e‘ L. Hill from
Anderson Creek, Ralph Wade from
Duiin, Z. E. Matthews from Erwin
in the placp of chairman W. H.
Miley, Principal Guv Daves of
Lafayette, and I.loyd Stewart from
Boone Trail. There were no r“D
resentatlves present from Angler.
Lillirigton. or Buie’s Creek schooj
committees.
W Each local school committee was
asked to submit the names of three
or four capable persons from their
community who might serve on the
advisory committee. From these
suggestions the board, which will
meet again on July 20, will select
ai
Field Tests Show It
"Pays To Poison Lint
The showers that have been cur
rent throughout this section for
the past few days have meant thou
sands of dollars to the farmers of
the area, but County Agent C. R
Ammons warns that they should
be on the'alert for boll weevil In
festation.
f/L Ammons urges farmers not to al
low themselves to be lulled Into a
false sense of security by reports
that the hot, dry weather,, has
Dunns Celebration
% Set For August 23
,A1 Wullenwaber aryl Gene' Smith,
co-chairmen of the Chamber of
Commerce Agricultural Committee,
met today with Chamber Manager
Norman Buttles and President C.
E. McLamb to plan for the nec
essary committee" set-up to make
the forthcoming Town and Country
Festival a success.
Saturday, August 23 has been
picked as a tentative date for the
(Mvent. which will last all day and
a parade, beauty contest,
and other events, and end with a
dance.
Committees to be named will
inolude, publicity, parade, general
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28 members to serve from three to
three and a half years.
The advisory committee will be
asked to plan a long range policy
for local school units, to list prob
lems of the county system and of
local schools to foster plans for
training lay personnel in school
operations through study groups,
attendance at conferences and state
and notional meetings.
At the same meeting, board mem
bers set dates to open and close
schools for next term. A ruling was
also passed returning direction of
teacherages directly/ to the local
school committees. While the same
general rules will govern all teach
erages, employment ot matrons will
be left to local committees.
Chairman Thomas, and members
J. R. Baggett, Jr., of Lillington, A.
C. Barefoot of Angler, W. E. Nich
ols of Coats were present. Charles
D. Skinner of Dunn was the absent
member.
solved their boll weevil problems.
Although extreme weather con
ditions may have influenced weevil
infestations, and caused a drop in
some counties, it should not be
taken for granted that this will
lower weevil count in all fields.
The dictates of good judgment
will still influence the careful far
mer to continue to examine his
fields regularly, and apply the
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fry, traffic and physical arrange
ment committees.
Buries stated that the member
ship of these committees should be
formed and the committees be
ready to function by the end of the
week.
ST. LOOTS, Mo. %Jl chemical
sprayed on a river hefe to comljat
offensive sewage odors dkl a good
Job of eliminating the odors Jmt
produced flyiigt * fish. As tooip(j&&
the spray Mtojthe jratetf
wiggled vigorously. • j
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Attorney Duncan C. Wilson today
accused City Judge H. Paul Strick
land of taking the law into his
own hands in refusing to grant de
fendants a trial by jury and an
nounced that he plans to test the
recorder’s action in the State Su
preme Court, if necessary.
w /ears, is defending!
'Howard Lucas, 30, who is charged
assaulting his wife.
- Judife Strickland refused to grant
Lucas a Jury trial and announced
that he would send all cases In
which jury trials were requested
to the Superior Court.
• Two years ago, the legislature
passed a law specifically granting
Jury trials in the Dunn Recorder’s
Court and abolishing the old system
of automatic transferels.
Judge Strickland’s action was be
lieved to be the result of so many
acquittals by juries in the local
court.
“NOT HIS BUSINESS”
“Whether or not a man is con
victed is not the business of the
presiding judge,” declared Attorney
Wilson this morning. "His job is
to see that a man gets a fair trial.”
“The Constitution guarantees a
man the right of trial by jury and
the State law guarantees a defen
dant a trial by jury in the Dunn
court if he desires It,” reminded
Mr. Wilson. He pointed out that
the law even provides for jury
trials in Magistrate courts.
Mr. Wilson reminded that In
every case In which a person was
acquitted in jury trials here, the
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School Dates
Are Fixed By
County Board
Here’s a memo to Harnett
iCoonty school children and their
parents:
Starting dates of school for the
1952-53 term, fixed on Monday
by the board of Education, are
August 27 or September 3. Clos
ing dates offered each school are
either May 21 or May 28.
School teachers, Negro and
white, will each have a seperate
day off during the term to at
tend state teachers meetings.
Thanksgiving holidays will find
pupils and teachers away for two
school days, Thursday and Friday,
November 27 and 28.
At Christmas, schools will have
1 a seven school-day holiday from
December 19 through December
38 with schools re-opening on
December SL
Welcome break in the long
spring term will be afforded by
the Easter holiday, which in
cludes Good Friday, April 13
through Easter Monday, Aprtlj
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DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 9, 1952
Democrats Hit
Address By
Gen. MacArthur
1 WASHINGTON, (IP)—Can
didates for the Democratic
presidential nomination add
ed their bit to the Republi
can national convention
hullabaloo today by scoffing
at Gen. Douglas Mas Arthur’s
keynote address as “mean
ingless oratory” and “empty
promises.”
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee
charged that MacArthur made “a
political football” out of U. S
foreign policy. Averell Harriman
I said the general’s speech was HI-*
j led with “self contradictions.”
) Sen. Richard B. Russell didn’t
I join his rivals irP deridiv? Mac-
I Arthur. The Georgian predicted he
! will receive 300 votes on the first
I ballot at the Democratic national
I convention which opens in Chicago
i Julv 21.
i PLATITUDES, SAYS ESTES
I Kefauver, who claims to have
402 pledged first ballot votes,
headed into Illinois today following
I a three-day tour of Minnesota. He
j said in a speech at Eveleth, Minn.
< last night that MacArthur’s speech
I was a mass of “platitudes and in
i consistencies a series of general
j ities which show that he has not
I been keeping up with what his
party was doing while he was in
Tokyo.”
Tlie Tennessee senator said Mac-
Arthur "failed to offer a single
positive program for his own party
which shows how destitute is the
GOP.”
“COMPLETE IGNORANCE”
Harriman said in a statement
i released during a visit with West
Virginia Democratic leaders that
MacArthur "showed a complete
. ignorance, of the simplest economic
j "He claimed our standard of
| living has been cut almost in half
since 1941,” Harriman said* "where
as the truth is we have tlie highest
1 standard of living ever-about one
i third higher after taking count of
[ taxes and price rises.”
Russel made his prediction of
, 300 first ballot votes at a news
: conference In Little Rock. He later
• made a formal appeal to the Ar
, kansas delegation for support, but
said he had no desire to “infringe”
. on support pledged to Sen. J
, William Fulbright, a "favorite
i son.”
“But I don’t-want you to think
I don’t wgnt your support on any
. ballot thereafter,” Russell said.
County Expected To
Keep Rate Os $1.30
County commissioners wil hold a call meeting on
Monday, July 28 to place final approval on the budget for
the new fiscal year.
A tentative budget was adopted
on Monday and there was every in
dication the tax rate would re
main at $1.30. However, county
leaders, faced with a hearing on
the new court house and an array
of other business matters, deferred
approval.
Notices of the budget have been
published in all county papers and
any protests about the financial
line-up for next year must be made
on July 28. No changes or additions
can be made once the budget is
formally adopted.
COUNTY HOME REPAIRS
Meantime; in line with grand
jury recommendations the commiss
ioners awarded a contract to re
pair the county home. Joe Moss, Jr.,
Lillington contractor, was the low
bidder on the job to paint the In
terior and exterior trim, sand the
floors and lay rubber tile on halls,
kitchens and bedrooms of patients.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, (IF»—American battle casualties in
Korea now total 112,128, an increase of 552 over last week’s
summary, the Defense Department announced today.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.dP)—Heavily armed, posses aided by
bloodhounds searched the North Mississippi woods today'
for two fugitives remaining at large after a Dayton, Ohio,
jailbreak and a $7,100 grocery store holdup here.
P JHTTSBURGH, (W—Officials of the striking United
. Steelworkers considered an appeal from the steel industry
today for immediate movement of iron ore from mines to
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fIUNDOM, (g)—A youngJNlptgn Office radio operator,
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BARKLEY PROUD OF HIS 74 YEARS
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VICE PRESIDENT Adben W. Barkley tells Washington reporters that he
does not consider his age—74 years—a handicap to his chances to win
the Democratic Presidential nomination. He declared that no Demo
crat should be nominated who “repudiates the New Deal and the
Fair Deal." Barkley said he would not make any speeches prior to the
convention nor would he seek out any delegations. (International)
Hoover Is Given
Greatest Ovation
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CHICAGO, dflS* gentleman won’t soon forget
it.
He stood before the 25th Republican national convent
ion, a wisp of a smile on his face, waving his hands in
gerttly circles to the thundering galleries.
Once or twice he opened his (
month as If to speak, but there was i
no stopping the demonstration. He
waited, his eyes shining with tears. |
Finally, the tumult subsided, the j
delegates returned to their seats, j
and the brassy crash of the bands;
died away.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” said
Herbert Hoover, “that was certainly
some welcome.
“I am grateful for It. I will long
remember it.” I
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Renovations will cost the county
$5,247.22.
Commissioners granted a dele
gation from the Johnsonville JRuri
tan Club, permission to auction off
an old community building stand
ing on county property. Proceeds
will be applied to finish the hand
some new community building built
on the same site. J. A. Darroch
and J. T. McNeill were the club
representatives* who appeared *'«-
fore the board. Years ago the
county gave the land for use as a
community building site.
ROAD PETITIONS
Several road petitions were pre
sented to the commissioners who
ordered all petitions filed with Mrs.
Inez Harrington, clerk to the board
to await future action. Chairman
L. A. Tart explained that the
board caa not approve road petit
ions, latgely for new roads, until
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! Then the only living ex-Presi
dent, now approaching his 78th
birthday began reading his pre
| pared speech.
I “This is the fifth time I have
| had the high honor of addressing
i the conventions of the Republican
Party.
MAY BE HIS LAST
"From the inexorable course of
nature, this Is likely to be the last
1 time I shall attend your conven
• lons.”
A great roar of “no, no” went
up from the audience.
Mr. Hoover paused, smiling faint
ly, and then went on in a calm, low
pitched voice to declare that Amer- I
lean freedom is being lost and that I
only a Republican victory in No- |
vember. can save it.
He accused the Democratic ad
ministration of spending too much,
taxing too heavily, coddling com
munism, tolerating corruption, pro- I
moting inflation, and committing
American boys unnecessarily to die I
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Committee Hearing
Delays Convention ;
Taft , Ike Confident
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, dpi— Dwight D. Eisenhower’s drive for the
GOP presidential noa got two powerful boosts in quick
succession today.
The Republican convention awarded him 13 contested
Louisiana delegates, 11 ol them at the expense of Sen.
Robert A. Taft.
Then the big California delegation decided to cast 57
of its 70 votes for the general’s side in a floor fight that
will rage late today or tonight over 17 contested
from Georgia. \
Both developments came as the
GOP’s 25th national convention,
more than 24 hours behind schedule
crawled through the third day of
its' 1952 meeting.
There was lots of mighty cam
paign oratory at convention hall
tut the dav’s tig rhow was in the
ornate Gold Room of the Con
gress hotel, where the credentials
committee heard the last delegate
contests from Louisiana and Tex
as.
MANY SPECTATORS
Nearly 1,000 spectators crowded
into the marble and alabaster and j
gold-plated room to watch the tele
vised battle over Southern delegates j
who Eisenhower camp says were j
stolen by the Taft machine. The
day’s, fiercest wrangle was nver the
38 delegates from Texas.
Award of the 13 Louisiana dele
gates to Eisenhower followed yes
terday’s decision to hand the L7
Georgia votes to Taft. The com
mittee vote was Taft
men have a majoriay on Ahe ere
-dentials committee, hin- thev dc
cided to let Bi>eflTßstfrer have the
Louisianans—for the sake of har
mony, they said, and to quiet Eis
enhower charges of “fraud.”
Taft told a group of Wisconsin
delegates that “it’s exceedingly
important that we win” the Geo
rgia contest. He said he was happy
with the Louisiana decision. But
he called the Georgia dispute “a
bare-faepd political issue of steal
ing 17 delegates to which we were
entiUed.”
The main convention session was
only eight minutes late in starting
today—a big improvement over
Monday and Tuesday. Temporary
Chairman Walter Hallanan said he
expected the credentials report
about 3 p. m.
Before that, there was oratory
from Pennsylvania’s Gov. Joohn S.
Fine and others, including Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin.
Off the rostrum, Fine said he
would tell his delegation his favor
ite candidate between today’s ses
sions. He controls a large block of
votes, and is believed leaning to
ward Eisenhower.
Whatever the strategy behind the
new Taft move, which reversed the
pre-convention Louisiana ruling of
the Republican naUonal committee,
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The Record
Gets Results
NO. 153
Taft Forces
Looking For
Compromise
BY DREW PEARSON
i
CHICAGO, Bitterness has
been so great between Eisenhow
er-Taft leaders that Taft lieuten
ants, figuring the jig is up, have
begun to look for a compromise
candidate.
They have in mind: First, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur; second. Sen.
William Knowland of California.
Privately, of course, Taft lieu
tenants do not admit that he will
lose. They are planning to make
TONIGHT'S PROGRAM
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8:38 p. v. (CDT)
Address by Rep. Katharine St.
George N Y.
Address by Rep. Walter H. Judd
Minn.
Address by Sen. Harry P. Cain
Wash.
The report of the credentials
committee on contested delegates
is expected to get floor priority
whenever it is ready for sub
mission to the convention. The
battle which it is sure to tench
off may disrupt the above of
ficial program.
a terrific fight on the convention
floor when the balloting starts.
But the Eisenhower victory on
Taft’s Southern delegates has MS
shaken, the Taft machlhe and so
increased bitterness that they
want to take almost anyone
rather than lose to Eisenhower.
Some of them feel that Mac-
Arthur did not make the show
ing they had hoped in his key
note speech, but they are stfll
canvassing the possibility of the
Pacific commander as a compro
mise. For that reason the fol
lowing proposition has been put
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