*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.
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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
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(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 —<m— Elsenhower
backers said today that the front
running general is only 26 votes
away from a first-ballot nomina
tion for the Repulicqn presi-;
dential nomination..
They made the claim as the
GOP convention, entered Its
fourth day with a stop-Taft
coalition loaded for Eisenhower
in Majority control.
Nominating . speeches will be
tonight’s first order of business.
Balloting probably will start to
morrow.
Supporters of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, riding the crest of
a smashing victory over dele
gates, drove hard to pick up the |
26 votes they say are aH they
lack for a first ballot win.
Tonight's Program f
CHICAGO, Tentative time
table of the Republican national
convention today:
Called to order at noon CDT
today by Temporary Chairman
W ala ter S. Halianan.
Installation o f Permanent
Chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Report of the committee on
rules and order of business.
Report of the resolutions com
mittee and adoption of the plat
form.
Speeches by Reps. Katharine
8L George, R-NY, Walter H. Judd
R-Minn. and Ben. Harry P. Cain
R-Wash.
Nominating speeches for presi
dent.
Adjournment.
•MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH, (W—Today’s egg and
1 live poultry markets:
Central North Carolina live poul
i try: Fryers or broilers firm, supplies
adequate to short, demand good;
i heavy hens steady, supplies plenti
ful, demand fair. Prices at farm up
> 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
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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
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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
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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, sai<L.it tinuld pfgbaMy bf,«s. tost apflearaujge htiwe «MH-. y
qgrttolS- Ihe .crowtf, ktlcrrepUM' his speech with #ppiaw>e 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
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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"
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