NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy
and continued hot and humid to
day, tonight and Thursday, with
widely scattered afternoon and
evening thundershowers.
VOLUME II
Russell Says !
•Bolt By South
Is Not Likely
CHICAGO, (IP)—Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell said today
that a “bolt” by Southern
Democrats this year over
the party platform is “high
vßy irr ir»'obable.”
The Georgian said a bolt is ‘al
ways a possibility.” But he feels
a party platform will be drafted
which will make it "highly im
probable that there will be a de
fection” by Southern voters.
Russell, a candidate for the pres
idential nomination, said he would
welcome President Truman's en
dorsement and is “very much in
terested” in getting the support of
Ghicago Democratic leader Jacob
4M- Arvey.
NO COMMITMENT
However, he told a news confer
ence he does not know who will j
be Mr. Truman’s choice. He said
he has “discussed politics” with
Arvey, and “I wish I could say I
got a commitment, but I didn’t."
He said he does not think thar
Mr. Truman’s endorsement would
hurt him in the South where his I
bedrock support lies. Neither did
he think he will be hurt by a state-
from liberal groups that he
*ls "unacceptable.”
Russell reiterated that “I am
more strongly in that position than
I have ever been.” 1
Asked about recurring talk of a
ticket with him as vice presidential'
running mate with Gov. Adlai E.
Stevenson of Tllinois, Russell said,
' “If you switch that around, I’d
welcome Gov. Stevenson.”
COULD DEFEAT IKE
The Georgian was confident of
if nominated. He said GOP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“will be a strong candidate but he
can be defeated and I am complet
ely confident I can defeat him . . .!
by a substantial number of elec
toral votes.”
On other matters Russell said
he felt that the states have' “never ;
lost title” to the disputed tide
lands lying within three miles of i
thanpoast. But he said submerged]'
0 1 He was confident his call for ‘
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Movies May Film j
Auction Contest
* One movie concern ha *• ex
pressed an interest i n Dunn’s
Town and Country Festival.
Paramount has advised (esti
val officials that a newsreel cam
eraman may be sent from At
twlanta to film the proposed to
bacco auctioneering contest.
John Thomas, chairman of this
committee, said today that two i
contests will be Waged, one for
professional auctioneers and an
other for amateurs. Much inter
est Is expected to be shown in
this event.
•MARKETS*
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EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH, (IPM—•'Today’s egg and
live poultry markets:
Central North Carolina live
poultry. Fryers or broilers steady,
supplies short to adequate, demand
.fair to good; heavy hens steady.
Supplies plentiful, demand gen
erally slow. PrVes at farm up to
10 a. m.: Fryers or broilers 2 1-2-
3 lbs. 29; heavy hens 20-22, most
ly 20.
(9 Eggs firm, prices on graded
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4 QUITE A UTTER Ordinarily, seven puppies fa a feed -stand Utter for a Pointer, flat this one
• shown here, owned by Junes fSnag) Jackson of ferna, gave birth to.a Utter of 16 ot Dr. T. R. Darden’s
kennels in Dima. tor. Darden declared It’s the largest and alae one of the finest Utters he’s ever seen
or heard of. The mother and all the little |ig(in are healthy and doing fine. The mother to two
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Russell's Managers Adopt New Strategy
Democrats Spurn j
South’s Wishes
On FEPC Plank
' CHICAGO, IIP) New
Deal Democrats today spurn
ed compromise offers of
Southerners, and demanded
party platform planks call
ing for tough civil rights leg
islation, an end to Senate
filibusters, and a denunciat
on of “McCarthysism.”
Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY)
proposed the plank condemning
“McCarthyism”—the methods used
by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-
Wis) to try to prove the adminis
tration is infested with Communists
and fellow-travellers.
Celler said he was particularly
concerned about this issue because
I McCarthy addressed the Republi
can national convention.
"We will serve our country ill
if we keep silent on this issue:"
lie said. “This is a damnable evil.”
A number of witnesses testified
before the Democratic platform
writing subcommittee, which will
make- recommendations for a plat
' form to the full resolutions com
mittee.
NO COMPROMISE
Middle of the road Democrats
and pro-administration Southerners
hoped to work out a compromise
on the civil rights plank in order
to prevent a recurrence of the 1948
southern bolt.
But. Celler and Northern and left
wing Democrats vehemently reject
ed any talk of compromise on the
issue.
j "We dare not descend from the
t mountain peak of 1948 as tq civi:
rights." Celler said. “Let not the
dead hand of reaction and intotor
,(&nce guMe our action.^
1 diseirtmina
tion In employment. Me 'Accused
i the Republicans, Hn adopting a
> plank opposing discrimination In
. principle, of merely uttering “pala
ver and Innocuous phrase*.” i
“Let us make one plank, plain,
simple, unequivocal so. that even
Eisenhower, with all his naivete
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STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
ASHEVILLE, N. C. —(W»— Ten
nessee Agriculture' Commissioner
Edward Jones is the new president
of the Southern -Association of
Commissioners of Agriculture, suc
ceeding L. Y. Ballentine of North
Carolina. ,'
BLOWING ROCK (IP) - The *
North Carolina Press Association
opened its annual convention here
today in the cool of the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
RALEIGH —(W- - Dr. Richard J
Preston Jr., dean ot the North
Carolina State College' school of
forestry, said today the school and
the extension division will sponsor
a short counQ in furniture finishing
at the Lilly Cp.
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NO ACTING HERE Pretty Miss Jeanine Ennis of Dunn, Route
3, star in several Dunn Little Theatre productions and a rising
senior at East Carolina College, wasn’t acting when this picture
was made. She was busy at work in her father's tobacco field. Miss
Ennis, who is majprlng in music, is in the band, orchestra! choir
and draipatic club at college. From May 28-June 7, she was music
director at the White Lake PHA camp.f’T like working in tobacca,”
w((b »^sly^^^ Ennis, well-known
States Delegation
Mostly For Russell
RALEIGH, (IP)—The North Carolina delegation to the
Democratic national convention, the South’s second larg
est, will leave Saturday for Chicago taking at least 22
possibly more—first ballot votes for Sen. Richard B. Rus-
sell of Georgia.
State Democratic Chairman Ever
ett Jordan, who will leave tomor
row in advance of the delegation
to serve in Russell’s headquarters,
thinks Nbrth Carolina will give
him 28 first-ballot votes. The Dem
ocratic state convention which se
lected the delegates in May en
dorsed Russell, but refused to bind
the delegation to him.
A United Press tabulation of the
first baUot choice gives Russell
22 votes, Illinois Gov. Adlai Stev
enson 1.V4 and Vice President Alben
Barkley Vt. Several members are
are known to lean toward Sen.
Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) as their
second choice.
BIG ROLE IN 1948
With a total of 32 convention
votes, the North Carolina delega
tion in 1948 played a steadying
role when civil rights issues seem
ed about ,to break the party.
DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 17, 1952
and demonstrations of the walk
out delegations at Philadelphia,
the group appealed for calm and
unity and refused to bolt.
Those leaders who refused to be
budged included Gov. Kerr Scott,
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Mrs. Truman Is Now
With Ailing Husband
WASHINGTON, (IP)-—Mrs. Truman arrived here from
Missouri today and hurried to the side of the President
who is receiving treatment for a virus infection at Walter
Reed Hospital.
The first lady looked tired and
rumpled as she stepped from the
train after the long trip from
Independence, Mo. But she gave
the photographers a cheerful “good
morning.” •
As she arrived, the White House
announced Mr. Truman spent a
“very good night” but that he
might run a' “little bit” of fever
later today. He is expected back
at the White House Saturday.
CONDITION GOOD
Nevertheless, it said his condi
tion continues good.
Mrs. Truman, who left the bed
BULLETINS
DAYTON, 0., IP)— An Air Force spokesman said today
some. 60 reports of flying saucers have been received dur
ing the past two weeks. He could give no reason for the
sudden increase.
/ PITTSBURGH, (IP)—The next move in the deadlocked
steel strike appeared today to rest with the CfO United
Steelworkers’ wage policy committee, which meets hoe
Monday to review strategy in the walkout.
— ' \ ——
ATLANTA, OR—The Department of Commerce reveal
ed today that on a basis of the performance of the South
east in 1948, only about one fourth of Its eligible voters
will participate in Hie general election this fall.
SEOUL, Koreh. (V)—U. S. warships carried the war
to the Communists while bad weather begged dtown U. N.;
Arvey Reported ;
; Ready To Back
Georgia Solon
BY LYLE C. WILSON
CHICAGO, OP) —Georgia’s
Richard B. Russell and his
presidential campaign stra
tegists were bolting the con
servative South today in a
bid for support of racial
groups and organized labor
in next week’s Democratic
national convention.
Russell himself jolted Democrats
by calling for repeal of the Taft-
Hartley act for which he twice
voted in 1947. The second vote was
to override President Truman’s
veto.
The senator’s platform strategists
meanwhile moved for compromise
on the civil rights issue which
aroused the Southern state’s rights
rebellion in 1948. This move by his
friends was undertaken indepen
dently of the senator.
Both maneuvers meshed with re
ports that some big city bosses
including Jacob M. Arvey of Chi
cago, were seady to “talk busi
ness” with Russell if he can square
himself with the administration’s
left wing and labor allies.
Informants said Arvey had sent
word to Russell that “getting right”
with labor was even more impor
tant than the troublesome civil
rights issue.
NOT REGIONAL CANDIDATE
Russell’s effort to shake off the
regional tag on his candidacy was
further demonstrated by his orders
to the band which- greeted him on
his arrival here.
Such songs as “Dixie," "March
ing Through Georgia,” and “Deep
in the Heart of Texas” were not
to be played. The band concentra
ted on Georgia college songs] and
JObn Philip Sousa marchi s. '
Russell and Sen. Estes Kgfauver
reached Chicago almost together
yesterday, and other Democratic
presidential hopefuls were stream-j
ing toward the convention city to
day in batches.
KEFAUVER STILL BHINES
With four days to go before the
.convention gets underway, the race
was still wide open. The latest
United Press tabulation of delegate
votes showed Kefauver still out in
front with 267, Russell next with
117 1-2, Averill Harriman In third
place with 113 (-2, and 16 others
bringing up the rear.
The largest bloc of 384 1-2 was
still in the ‘‘uncommitted” column
and no candidate was even in sight
of the 616 required for nomination
While Russell made the news
with his Taft-Hartley statement,
Kefauver won their first on-the
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side of her own ailing mother to
be with her husband, wore a black
suit and a white straw hat with
red flowers. A waiting White House i
limousine drove her to the hospital.
Secret Service men refused to
allow reporters to talk to her, in
the interests of hurrying her on to
the hospital.
Meanwhile, medical specialists
scheduled a series of exhaustive
tests to determine the physical toll
seven years In the white House
have taken of the president.
Mr. Truman’s personal physician,
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is spectacular “cloud
swing” at the barbecue dinner given for Erwin Mill employees and their immediate families Sat
urday morning.
Program Is Completed For
Big Barbecue At Erwin
A. Lincoln Faulk, manager of
radio station WCKB, has agreed to
be the master of ceremonies at the
barbecue dinner to be held Sat
urday on the Erwin School
grounds for the employees ot Er
_Wto_ Mills and their immediate
families.
Gates will be open at 8:30 A. M.
I Saturday, music will begin at 9.
Final preparations for the big af
fair, are being rapidly completed
by the committees. About 6,000
people are expected to attend.
TWO BIG ACTS
In addition to the featured speak
er, Mr. Wm. H. Ruffin, president
of Erwin Mills Inc., there will be
two spectacular acts. One of them,
known as “Les Chambertys” con
sists of the Chambertys brothers
who came from France only two
years ago with their sister. Andrea
Chamberty married Mildred Moore,
a famous American gymnast, and
it Is she who performs with the
brothers ih a thrilling, comic ac
robatic act using a trampoline, a
horizontal bar and a trapeze. Les
Chambertys are descendants of a
very old circus family in France,
and since their arrival in this
country have appeared with the
Ringling Brothers Barnum and
Bailey Circus, and played for six
weeks at the Radio City Music Hall
in New York.
PLUNGES HEADFIRST
Billy Barton and his spectacular
“cloud swing” is only 22 years old.
Yet, he has performed his miracu
lous feats in midair in circuses, and
on television shows. He plunges
headfirst from a rope swung be
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Gupton Funeral
Set For Friday
Aubrey J. (Dick) Gupton, 40, of
110 North Layton Avenue, Dunn
died early Thursday morning In
the Dunn Hospital. He had been in
111 health for about a year and
seriously 111 for a few hours.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
the home. The Rev. Richard Rhea
Gammon, pastor of the Presby
terian Church, will officiate. Burial
was In Greenwood Cemetery.
The family requests that no
flowers he sent.
Mr. Gupton was a native of
Franklin County, son of Albert. S
and Lula Foster Gupton. He war
educated In the Franklin County
schools and attended N. C. State
College in Raleigh.
Me held a position as a farm
machinery salesman In Goldsboro
until a year ago but had to resign
because of ill health. He was en
gaged in part-time work here. He
came here a year ago.
Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Edna
Barefoot Gupton of Dunn; one
son. A. J. (Dickie) Gupton. Jr. of
the home; his parents: Mr. and
Mrs. Albert B. Gupton of Louto
burg, Route 3: two toothers, Nack
Oupton of Loutotwrg. Route 3. and
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Left-Wing Demos
Insisting On FFP^i
CHICAGO, (IP)—Left-wing Democrats howled down
compromise talk today and threatened a sit-down strikft
on election day unless the party adopts a tougher-than
ever civil rights plank.
! That challenge was flung down
to the middle-of-the-road Demo
crats and the right-wing Souther
ners by Stanley Gerwitz, chairman
of the national executive commit
tee of Americans for Democratic
Action.
In testimony before the Demo
cratic platform-writing committee,
Gerwitz said the Democrats can’t
beat Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Republican ticket in November
without the independent, liberal,
labor and minority group vote the
ADA claims to represent.
“To those Democrats who con
Erwin Union Now
Preparing For Vote
In preparation for the hearings’
In Durham before the National La
bor Relations Board, which aue
scheduled to start Tuesday, both
sides in the Jurisdictional battle
between disaffiliated former CIO
textile workers, who are now mem
.' bers of the UTW-AFL, and the i
' TWUA-CIO to which they formerly
belonged, are preparing their cases.
Business Manager J. Thomas |
West, leader of the group who j
have swung over to the AFL. de- .
Clares that more than two-thtrds j
of the former TWUA Members j
are now enrolled in the AFL, not I
only in Erwin but throughout the
Erwin Mill chain.
If they do not use a lot of de
laying tactics we will win our re
quest for an election," West de
clared confidently, “if -they do.
however, It will take longer, but
we will win In the end.”
West cited as an example of the
delaying tactics, a hearing held In
Raleigh for the Stirling Mills of
Franklin., West said that only three
members remained with the CIO !
Dunn Park To Get
Miniature Train Ride
Negotiations were being com- >
pleted today for the purchase of,
a miniature train ride and. barring !
an unexpected hitch, the train
should be Installed In Dunn’s city.
park sometime next week. |
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tend that the liberal-labor coalition
in ADA and the great independent
and minority vote in the country
will have no place to go—Just one
word of warning,” said Gerwitk.
“These groups don’t have to go
anywhere. They can just stay home.
The margin of victory in 1952 will
be the gap between passive in<}lf
ference and the enthusiastic sup
port of these groups.”
GERWITZ BIG GUN
Gerwitz was the big gun in a
line-up of witnesses before the 21-
member committee to argue for
1 UVimlnnfd on wv tmi
I "Bob Cahoon CAFL attorney)
brought in two or these who had
signed with the AFL, but the CIO
lawyers got a continuance to pre
pare briefs and file papers, al
though they only represented onk
worker.”
CONFIDENT OF VICTOBV
Scott Hoyman, leader ot the
CIO group in Erwin, also was OMt- : ?
I fident of victory for his side. "The
initiative, of course, is with . the
AFL,” he pointed out. “since they -
| are the ones who have asked
j the hearing.”
! Hoyman pointed -aut that a few
years ago the board was very strict
on schism cases, but relaxed some
what when the United Electrical
Workers was tossed out of UH >
CIO for being a Communist front
organization and a new CIO oIN
ganization formed for these worttr
ers. However, he added, the board
has since tightened up.
STILL FUNCTIONING
T believe we have a good chance
of preventing the AFL winning on
I iron timed On Bans twS:-fcai
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