*WEATHI:R+ NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and cooler today. Scattered thundershowers in extreme East portion this morning. Fair tonight, cooler in East portion and contin ued cool in West. Friday fair and slightly warmer. VOLUME II Ike Gallops Rapidly Toward GOP Nomination As Taft Forces Intensify Last-Ditch Stand GOSPEL TENT IS WRECKED The windstorm yesterday afternoon in Erwin, completely wrecked the huge Gospel tent fn which Rev. Roy Douglas was holding healing services alongside the Church of God. The wind swept under the tent, snapped the heavy guy ropes like thread, broke one of the center poies, and tore the heavy canvass into ribbons. Rev. Mr. Douglas said the loss is only partly covered by insurance, and the claim will not gain anywhere near the amount necessary to replace the tent, which Is torn beyond A repair. The storm was a freakish afrair and swept only through a narrow path, overturning porch furniture and damaging trees. Rev. J. R. Easom, pastor of the Erwin Church of God, said the services conducted by Mr. Douglas will continue in the church. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn). Retired Mail Carrier Dies today at his homo in Lillington. He suffered a stroke a week ago and had been critically ill since that time. Funeral- services will be conduct ed at 4 p. m. Friday fro mthe Lil lingon Presbyterian Church due to the fact that the Baptist Church is undergoing alterations. The Rev. Ted Williams, Baptist preacher and the Rev. W. L. Lloyd, Methodist preacher, both of Lillington will of m ficiate. Burial will be in Harnett Mem orial Park. Wilder organized the first rural route out of Lillington Post Office carrier mail on Route 3 thirty years ago. He was widely known as a Baptist layman and singer. He is survived by his wife, four daughters and a son. Taft Aide Says •Dewey Dictating CHICAGO —(IP)— Sen. Robert A Taft's campaign manager charged today that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York is “dictating” to Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign forces and asserted the general has “slipped appreciably" since last • night. Pave Ingalls told an Impromptu press conference that Taft would receive over 500 votes “without any on the.first ballot, but ' declined to say whether this vote would exceed Eisenhower’s. TAFT HAS HUDDLE Taft himself declared that he still Is; in the fight for the nomination. (Continued On Page two) Russell , Truman *Are In Agreement WASHINGTON nf) Sen Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) said today after a talk with President Truman about his campaign for the Democratic presidential nom ination, that he was certain hr and Mr. Truman “understood each other.” ' | IS Russell asked to see the Presi dent today and admittedly dis cussed politics. •*I don’t think ft would be well for me to discuss details,’* Russell •Old, “but I'm sure the President and I understand each other.” While Russell talked with report sis outside Mr. Truman's office Ben. l*ndon B. Johnson (D-TtaL fav and sreetod the Georgia sens *sLSr** moratafc Kr ‘ Svnfc nit* interest - TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 Mayor Is All Out I'M Manager Plan Mayor Ralph E. Hanna seirtys critics straight this morning. He is 100 per cent, even 1,000 per cent, in favor of the city manager form of government. Answering charges that he and i members of the city council are trying to destroy the city manager 1 form of government here, the mayor said the accusations simply aren't so. 1 He made It clear, crystal clear, > that he favored and voted for the 1 city manager form of government here, he has worked for and with ' the system, and he still favors the system. OUR SALVATION “I think it’s our salvation,” de clared Mayoor Hanna. i The town has had three city , managers in three years and next week will have a vacancy. City Manager Oliver O. Manning has been fired effective next Tuesday Seventy-five days have come and gone and nobody has made any effort to find a replacement. Mayor Hanna, had an answer for that one, too this morning. In the first place, pointed out the Mayor, he doesn’t think he's en titled to all the blamme. He believes members of the board are just 'as much to blame. He pointed out that neither of the board members brought the matter up Monday night. FIGHT POSSIBLE In fact, pointed out Mayor Hanna, he understands that city Commissioner Leek Coats may plan to make a last-ditch fight to save Manning between now and Tues day. He said that necessarily was n’t the reason that the search for “If the Senate were about to dis rupt the soil conservation pl-ogram and I could nos go down on the floor and say something, I think I would explode In frustration,” he said. Asked to measure his pros pec ts for the presidential nomination, Russell said. “I would not exchange places at this moment with any of the other candidates.” He said he expected to have about 300 delegates on the first ballot. Newsmen were unsuccessful ,in getting Russell to expand on the statement that he and Mr. Truman andtaiWod each other. Advised tha< his wards might be construed in error as Implying suoort from Mr Truman, Russell said, "just quote my statement—l don’t, believe I have anywteg to adg.**-" , Russell said he was “very hope -11 ?* tJjt Rs plank is adoaM4>--i /•: | (Ehv Jlaihj Jltenml a city manager hasn’t begun. Mayor Hanna said he planned to instruct City Clerk Charles Storey to advertise immediately in the city manager’s magazine for a manager to fill Dunivs vacancy. i The mayor also points out that he wants a good man this time, that he’s even willing to raise the present salary of $5,500 if that’s I Continued On Page Two) Ike Needs Only 26 For First CHICAGO — to 10 a. m.; Fryers or brollersJH t S lbs. 26-37, heavy hens 20-22, most ly 20-21. .yV , , ■ «*PPU« ■?»<*; de i mand good. Prices paid producers r and handlers FOB local grading, . stations: A large 4*-SO, A medium . 44-48, B large 42-43, current col | (Continued on page two) DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 10, 1952 Brock Funeral Services Set Jkfrs. Foya Barefoot Brock, 46, of Newton Grove, route 2, died early Thursday morning in Duke Hos pital at Durham. She had been in ill health for about a year and ser iously ill for seven weeks. She was a native of Sampson County, daughter of Mrs. Alice Wil son Barefoot and the late William Robert Barefoot. She was a mem ber of the St. Paul’s Free Will Bap tist Church. Funeral services will be held Fri day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the St. Paul Free Will Baptist Church, near Newton Grove. The Rev. War ren Mallard and the Rev. M. E. Godwin will officiate. Burial will be In Hillcrest Cemetery at New ton Grove. The body will lie in state , at the church for one hour prior to the services. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Alice Wilson Barefoot of Clinton, Route 3; her husband, Ira B. Brock of Newton Grove, Route 2: one son, Clarence Carroll Brock of Fayetteville; three daughters, M. Dixie Ray, Iris Gray and Alice Fay Brock, all of the home; six brothers, N. A. Barefoot, R. L. Barefoot and Grady Barefoot, all of Newton Grove; L. W. Barefoot of Elizabeth i Continued On" Page Twoi I Daytona In Uproar Over Nude Pictures I i . DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —(Hi— | City Manager Leroy Harlow said ] many husbands and fathers were “highly upset” today about the photographs taken through a trick mirror in the ladies dressing room of a swimming pool here. "In fact, there have been threats,” he said. "Many of the subjects were wives and daughter of porminent local people.” James D. Doc Young, 40, fired as city aquatic director although he denied. taking any of the 130 nude and semi-nude candid pho tos, said he has received two ear-* bending “tirades” both by telephone.« BULLETINS LONDON, OR—The House of Commons overrode ob jections of economy-minded Labor members last night and voted to give Qunne Elisabeth II an allowance of $1,330,- 000,000 a year. LOS ANGELES, Ob— A light earthquake jarred the Los Ingeles area at 1:46 a. m. PDT today, and some slight dam age was reported. the Ad- His Lead Over Taft Is Still Growing Larger CHICAGO (IP) Gen. Dwight Eisenhower gallop- j ed toward the GOP presi- j dential nomination today j with a commanding dele gate lead. His lead was slated for hefty boosts before balloting starts from pivotal Michigan and other states. A Stop-Taft coalition was in control of the Republican national convention. Nomi nating speeches will be clear ed out of the way tonight. Balloting is expected to start tomorrow but might get underway after tonight’s speeches. For the first time Eisenhower was leading Sen. Robert A. Taft in sure first ballot votes and the lead was growing. The latest United Press tablua tion showed Eisenhower with firm ly sewed-up first ballot votes 532 to 497 for Taft. The extra votes forecast from Maryland and Mich igan would boost the general even farther toward the 604 majority.’. The Taft camp, however, claimed the senator* will get 520 to 530 first ballots votes, despite his lossj of -32 Georgia and Texas delegates in last night's trawling content--on the convention floor. ' Also Apparently* In the bag for Eisenhower were 32 votes from Michigan where he previously had been scored for only 11 sure ones on the first ballot. STILL IN RACE Both Gov. Earl Warren of Call 'fornia and Harold Stassen said they are still In the race, and not think ing about giving their votes away Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland said his state will be al most unanimous for Eisenhower on the first ballot. Taft men were'far from counting their man out, however, and fa vorite son candidates were hoping ,the two big fellows would kill each other off and clear the tracks for a dark horse. WON DELEGATE BATTLE But as delegates headed toward the amphitheatre for the fourth day of the angriest GOP conven tion In 40. years, Eisenhower was riding the crest of a smashing victory in the “Battle of Stolen Delegates.’’ Whatever his backers were say ing, Ike himself wasn’t bragging about last night’s delegate vic (Continued On Page Five) * j “I have a deep sense of guilt in the matter, mostly my own stupidi ty,” Young said. He said he did not blame Harlow for firing him, since his job made him responsible for goings on at the swank Welch pools here. WAS EXPERIMENT Young said a woman photograph er made the shots as an “experi ment” over a 10-day period about two f years ago, using the one-way glare secretly installed for women guards to watch for dressing room thefts. The "compromising pictures” were found stored in a closet be (Can tinned On Page tm> |P^ \r' M ■ jr H ■I f MjfaMfT i ■ m C’* r tjML Use 111 1K wmCPiID HOOVER ACCLAIMED —Former President Herbert Hoover, elder statesman of the Republican Party, is pictured here receiving a great ovation after his address to the Republican National Caw . . vention in Chicago. The address of the ex-president was f acclaimed as the * k his long and colorful career and brought delegates' to their feet in a wtid, roaring ora ,-ljo in tribute to the nation's Only living ex-president. Standing betide Mr. Hoover is Senator JMnt A Brieker of Ohio. Mr. aow 77, saie 59 F«*nhed Press TeiepitotWP Peace Is CHICAGO (IP) The Re publican Party today un veiled a 1952 plotform pledg ing a speedy buildup of U.S. air power, reduced foreign aid spending and “an end tp corruption” in government. The 4,800-word campaign docu ment, sent to the convention floor for approval today, charged that the rearmament program is "dis gracefully lagging’ under the Tru man Democratic administration. It called for the "quickest possible’ achievement of a "completely ade quate" defense force with empha sis on air power and atomic wea pons “in abundance.” The foreign policy plank-a com promise carefully tailored to satis fy both Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower and Sen. Robert A. Taft rejected isolationism and pledged GOP support of “collective sec urity.” But it said foreign aid programs can and should be con ducted more economically lest the United States “bankrupt” itself trying to bolster it allies. FOR BALANCED BUDGET The GOP also promised to dc away with “injurious wage and price controls” and to balance the budget so that “a general tax re- I (Continued on Page Two) the Grand Opening of the Firview Flower Center thtomorning. A term "umbrewere on lured FIVE CENTS FEU COF* Platform Keynote Little Puerto Rican Steals The Big Show CHICAGO (IP) The little Puerto Rican delegate got/ the laughs while Ike got the votes. The iaughs probably will be remembered by the gates to this Republican national convention long wfter the bitter Eisenhower-Taft fight is forgotten. f Platform Highlights CHICAGO (IP)— Highlight of the 1952 Republican platta-m: FOREIGN POLICY The Democrats have “lost the peace;” they fumbled and vacil lated in a futile attempt to “con tain” communism They invited , war in Korea, then refused to fight | it to win. Republicans will clean < Continued On Page Two I The Record Gets Results NO. 154 | Marcelino Romani J rolled the : delegates in the aislm, quite an-t j ! intentionally. The delegates registered tuMir j that he won’t be around for the ; | rest of the convention to ret the - ; rib-tickling laughter booming to the ceiling a&atn. HE W ANTED “POLLS” During the fight last night over the seating of pro-Eisenhower or pro-Taft, contested delegates. Ro mani cooled tempers or both sides 1 by asking in a heavy Spanish < accent, for “polls.” j Tiie stage was set for Romani's i unwitting comedy act by a roR ' call vote of the state and territorial" (Continued On Page Five) M