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VOLUME II
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g DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL standard bearer Gov. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois is pictured as he addressed some 25,000 Springfield residents
on his return from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Stevenson told the heat-wilted throng: “I am going to do my Job with
all the heart and courage I can muster." (International Soundphoto)
The Politicnl Front
AdlaiToClearDesk;
Dirksen To Back Ike
SPRINGFIELD, 111., (IP)
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson’s
aides said today they believ
he must clear his desk of
state business soon and
choose a andpol
iticai organization to Yafry
'on his presidential cam-'
paicpr.
The Illinois governor and Demo
cratic presidential nominee plan
ned to hold a news conference to
day at which he could be expected
to be asked about his campaign
ideas, if he has any yet.
The conference, to take place at
an undetermined hour this after
noon, was the first called by Stev
enson since he was “drafted” by
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Harnett Towns
Share In Tax
Harnett County will benefit by
the sum of $16,735.42 by the distri
bution of the intangible personal
. property tax collections made in
the state during the fiscal year
ending June 30, it was revealed
today.
The money represents shares of
the local governments in these tax
collections. Checks will be put in
the mail next yveek, according to
Secretary. J. C. Bethune of the
State Board of Assessment.
The state keeps 20 Rercent of
this money and the remaining 80
percent is returned to the counties,
cities and towns. The tax is levied
on bank deposits, stocks, bonds,
notes, charge accounts .interest
and similar items.
In addition to the share for
Harnett, individual towns will re
ceive amounts as follows; Dunn!
$4,037.70; Arfgier, $482.29; 1 Coats,
$241.70; and Lillington. $841.50.
Erwin, being unincorporated, its 1
Cousin Os Shop Bryan Beaten]
And Tortured By Chinese Reds
SAN FRANCISCO lff! An.
American attorney, emaciated and |
111 after 16 months of torture andi
lmprisonmen’ by the Chinese Com-|
munists, tolu today how he was
’ given a spinal injection and forced,
to sign “some sort of confession."
, Robert T. Bryan, 59, former
Shanghai law firm partner limped
down the gangplank of the liner
President Cleveland yesterday and
was reunited with his wife, Ger
trude, after a year and a half’s
separation. '
Mr. Bryan is a cousin of Attor
ney J. Shepard Bryan of Dana
and has Tidied here on several
occasions, the last time in IMS.
1 ..He and Mr. Bryan Attended the
University of North Carolina at
the same time and his son, K«dar
Bryan, was a roommate of J.,
Shepard Bryan, Jr. at the Uni
versity. /.
The Dunn attorney said today
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DENVER, (UV-Dwight D.
Eisenhower and other top
level Republicans will hold a
series of weekend meetings
here to lay the groundwork
a i^llitantai^j^^^hlt
er’s*
ed today. .
One of the purposes of the meet
ing was evidently to work for har
mony among dissident factions of
the GOP and extend a welcoming i
hand to supporters of Sen. Robert |
A. Taft of Ohio.
One of the Republicans scheduled
to attend the conference was Sen.
Everett M. Dirksen (R-IU), who
placed Taft’s name in nomination
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STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
LOUISBURG (W Fire offic
ials today investigated a blaze
which destroyed a lumber company
and caused damage estimated by
Fire Chief Herman Murphy at ritore
than $200,000. The fire at the
Pruitt Lumber Co. east of here
was started when a heavy wind
storm blew embers from a burning
sawdust Diie directly into the
lumber plant.
SALISBURY IW The Salis
bury Chamber of Commerce said
today it will propose establishment
of a North Carolina aviation com
mission at the state Association of
Chaoiber of' Commerce Executives
meeting Thursday 'in . Elizabeth
City.
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share goes to the county.
Benson will receive the sum of
$836.52 from these collections.,
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torney to vWt him here after his
conferences In Washington.
On Feb. 11, 1961 three Chinese
Communist policemen entered their j
Shanghai home and dragged Bryan;
away. He was charged with being t
an American spy. T
Bryan, the son of an American |
missionary, was bom and reared in
China and spent most of his life
-there. 'i
When Bryan arrived here from
Hong Kong yesterday he was a
changed man,
LOST 47 POUNDS
He limped on ankles swijllen
from beriberi. He had lost 47,
pounds. And snow white hair was
beginning to grow on his shaven
head.
But his adfawembraced him and
exclaimed In me."
occasional j
(Eitv Bailg Jteoird
Klan Chief Given Four Years In Prison
Truman Ticket
Is Defeated
In Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, IIP)—-Four
Democratic congressmen, in
cluding outspoken Fair Deal
opponent Rep. F. Edward
Hebert, won-re - nomination
bids today but a fifth was
locked in a photo finish with
a colorful battle - scarred
campaigner.
Only six of the state’s eight rep
representatives sought re - election
in the rain-dampened congression
al primary yesterday, and one of
them, Rep. James H. Morrison of
the Sixth District, had no opposi-
Uon. The other two did not run.
Nearly all the candidates were
anti-Truman.
Rep. Edwin Willis of the third
District was the only one of the
five to run into trouble. He was
locked in an eyelash finish with
stocky Dudley J. Leßlanc, the 57-
year-old Southwest Louisiana Poli
tician who made a fortune with
Hadacol.
TIGHT RRACE HELD
The race between Willis, 47, who
is seeking his third term, and Le-
Blanc, who has tried three times
to become governor of Louisiana,
probably won’t be decided until-the
last vote is counted.
■ Returns from 246 out of 258 pre
cincts in the district gave Willis
23,622 to Leßlanc’s 22,698, a differ
ence'of 924 votes.
Herbert, a fiery critic of Truman
administration spending, unofficial
but nearly complete returns as
sured victories to Rep. Overton
Brooks in the Fourth District; Rep.
Otto E. Passman, Fifth District
and Rep. Hale Boggs, Second Dis-
Truman Appoints
Wage Panel Today
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (HI w
President Truman today named a
three-man arbitration panel In the
wage dispute Between North Ameri
can AViation, Inc., and the United
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Charlie 6. Suggs
Dies At Erwin
Charlie B. Suggs, 40, died sud
denly at his home in Erwin early
Wednesday morning. He died of a
heart attack at 1:25 o'clock. He had
lust some home off the midnight
shift at Erwin Mills. The attack
came suddenly and he was ill for
onlV a few Vnlmites.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock
at. the Church of God In Erwin
The Rev. J. B. Easom, pastor, will
officiate. Burial will be In the Er
win Chanel Church Cemetery, neat
Erwin. The body will He fn state
at the church for one hour prior to
thp sendees.
Mr. Suirgs was a native and life
long resident of Harnett County,
son of the late Jim and Ebbie Ann
Blackmon Sugcrs. He had been em
nloyed by Erwin Mills as a welder
for many years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruby
Byrd Suggs; one son. Harold Lavon
Suggs of Erwin: six brothers. Ben,
Frank, Jeff, Willis, Harvev Suggs,
all of Erwin; and Sam Suggs of
Fayetteville: one sister, Mrs. Louis
Faison of Erwin.
“I was shaving when they came
to arrest me. They showed me a
warrant and told me I was an
I American spy. Then they took me
to the Warde Road jail, put me In
i like ‘death cell'- and said I would be
Slot."
After he was in prison for four
days he was questioned In an at
tempt to make him admit that some
j of his actions as municipal advocate
in Shanghai were “illegal.” He was
again questioned on July 7 and
then left alone until March 25.
BEAT WITH RUBBER HOSE
“From then until April 15 I was
, questioned from eight to 10 hgjurs
a day. My hands were handcuffed
i behind my back and they beat me
with a rubber hose. I fainted four
or five times - mostly from my
j general weakness and not from
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30, 1952
MINK FOR THE BEACH -1
, Pit Conway routes at tha beach '
in her all-mink bathing suit. Pat
it a model on NBC-TV'a “Big
Payoff,” tha quiz show which of
fera mink coata, trip* to anywhara
in tha world, and many othar val
uable prizes each Sunday evening
every weekday afternoon.
Officials For
Whiskey Stores
Semi -serious consideration was
to the opening at liquor stews
in Dunn, ‘in order to secure funds
to meet the high budget and at the
fame time lower the tax rates, at
Sie meeting Monday night of the
unn city council.
City Attorney I. R. Williams re
marked that he thought it might
be a good idea to put it to a vote.
"If they were voted in,” he declared,
“it would be better than bootlegging.
“Os course ’’ He added, “I can’t
drink, but I would not take it
away from someone else who can".
Commissioner R. G. Tart thought
it might be a good idea, too, if it
would allow the tax rate to be low
ered and get rid of some of the
boot-legging in the area.
“Turning to Commissioner B. A.
Bracey, one of the group remarked,
“Youd better not come out in favor
of it, or you’d probably have to
leave home." Bracey grinned, but
did not reply. *
“Speaking of bootlegging,” re
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Weed Export Loss
IW&Y Be Prevented
WASHINGTON, (IB—Southern to
bacco growers and the Agricul
ture Department have agreed on
| a method to “cushion” the U. S.
| effects of an expected 55,000,000
| pound cut In British tobacco buying
' this year, a department spokesman
| revealed today.
I;,'The spokesman said the arrange-
I ment is set up within existing price
t support operatioins. He described it
j.as "strictly a matter of price sup
port’’ and not aid to United King
dom tobacco buyers.
' Under the arrangement, part of
' the funds set aside for price sup
port loans on flue-cured tobacco
will be loaned to British buyers
to purchase tobacco at auctions in
the usual manner. The British buy
ers must pay any difference be
tween the support loan and the go
ing market price.
BULLETINS
BUENOS AIRES OR—Police reported today that anoth
er 802 persons were Injured hi. the crush of the crowds
seeking to view the body of Eva Peron which lay in state
in the Ministry of Labor building.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (IF)—Radio announcers broke in on
musical programs last night to iform vacationing British
troops to proceed immediately, to the Sues Canal Zone.
Names of the officers and men were announced over the
British “forces radio”.
NEW YORK, (V)—A 42-year old merchandt seaman
killed his seven-year-old nephew, seriously wounded his
niece and the n committed suicide test night because his
sister told him to “go to sea.” Police said Manuel Viego,
who lived with hh sfater’s famfiy, tato *» «a*wwmt
Others Given
Lesser Terms
By Williams
WHITEVILLE, N. C., (IP)—
Imperial Wizard Thomas L.
Hamilton of the Carolinas
Ku Klux Klan was sentenced
to four years in prison today
for his part in a series of
floggings.
Hamilton, pudgy, 44-year-old for
mer Leesville, S. C., grocer, heard
sentence pronounced without
emotion.
At least one other defendant, Dis
trict Grand Kleagle Joe Hardee;
also received a four year prison l
sentence. I
OTHERS SENTENCED
Other of 62 defendants received I
jail terms and some were given sus
pended sentences and fines ranging'
up to SSOO.
Judge Clawson L. Williams be
gan passing sentence on the
parade of defendants shortly after
1 p. m. EST. The sentencing was
expected to take an hour.
There was no immediate indica
tion of whether he would appeal.
Sentences were passed on pleas
of guilty or no defense to charges
that the defendants took part in at
least 10 Ku Klux Klan floggings
in a year-long reign of terrorism
in this area.
The sentencing session had been
scheduled to start at 9:30 a. m.,
but was delayed 90 minutes.
After Judge Williams took the
bench technicalities and con
ferences with attorneys caused
further delays.
NO DEMONSTRATION
There was no demonstration in
the courtroom.
Hamilton pleaded guilty to
charged of assault and conspiracy
to assault in the (tagging
gfleen Flowers,, a ChSlixXirn, k C..
Negro Woman. The wife of a tenant
farmer, she was seized by a band
of robed and hooded men on the
night of Jan. 18. 1951, after the
Klansmen had chased her husband.
Will Flowers, into a woods, firing
more than 100 shots at him.
Testimony showed that the Klan
planned to flog Flowers, but when
they were unable to catch him
seized his wife.
TIED HER LEGS
They tied her legs with plowline
an<t when she screaqied tore off her
slip and gagged her with it. She
was beaten with a thick leather
strap.
Klansmen who admitted their
part in the flogging testified that
Hamilton gave the Aders for the
Flowers floggings, telling them to
“do a good Job or you’ll have to
go back and do it over.”
It was the first of the series of
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Current prices of flue-cured to
bacco are from 55 to 56 cents a
pound.
ONE YEAR TO FAY
I The British buyer pledges his
; purchased tobacco as collateral and
i has one year to pay off the loan,
the spokesman said.
Trade sources in Great Britain
i have Indicated that their govern
; ment will release dollars to pur
chase only 45,000,000 pounds of the
1952 American tobacco crop com
pared with 100,000,000 pounds
' bought normally.
The British expect to make up
i for the loss in imports by tapping
i some of their big tobacco reserves,
i Hie agreement will be carried
- oh through the Agriculture Depart
ment’s Commodity Credit Corp.
' and the Flue-Cured Tobacco Grow
ers ooperattve Stabilisation Corp.
Harnett Woman, 53, Charges
Husband, 82, With Impotency
A 53 - year-old Harnett
County woman has filed suit
for separation and alimony
against her 82- year-old
bridegroom of four months,
charging him with impoten
ce and inability to carry on
normal marital relations.
The unusual suit was filed today
by Attorney Everette L. Doffermyre
with Acting Superior Court Clerk
Elizabeth Matthews.
Court officials said it was the
most unusual suit they had ever
heard of.
Attorney Doffermyer brought the
suit for Mrs. Lula Strickland of
Dunn against H. W. Strickland,
prosperous Nash Countv farmer.
Mr. Strickland previously had
filed suit for divorce against his
wife in Wilson County, charging
her with being impotent.
In her suit filed today, Mrs.
Strickland sets forth that it was
the husband, not her, who is im
potent. She is resisting divorce and
is asking separate maintenance and
alimony.
It is set forth In the complaint
that Strickland is the. oymer of 700
acres of land and carries an average
bank balance well in excess of
$25,000.
Mrs. Strickland not only charg-
County Budget Is Adopted
Harnett County’s tax rate
far? the fiscal year of 1938-
58 Wll be $1.30 on the sl#
valuation of property.
The rate, exactly the same as
last year, was fixed by the county
commissioners at a special meeting
on Monday afternoon at the court
house. At the same time,'a budget
calling for total expenditures of,
$1,233,790, tentatively adopted on|
July 7, was approved without
change.
Chairman L. A. Tart, and Com
missioners Bob Pate, and H. S.
Holloway were present. W. L.
Byrd and B. P. Ingram were ab- 1
sent.
Auditor H. D. Carson, Jr, pointed
put that the operation of Harnett
bounty now in the million dol
lar classification is the county’s
largest single business. He appar
ently did not take into considera
tion Erwin Mills or Johnson Cot
ton Co. Most county functions (all
within the scope of the activities
paid for by the general, poor and
health fund. In 1952-53 a total of
$292,240 will be set aside for this
fund, reflecting an increase of
$15,850 devoted to this activities
during the past year.
63 FOR GENERAL FUND
Out of the $1.30 levy, 63 cents
goes to support this general fund.
The other 67 cents is devoted to
schools. And the auditor noted not
a single penny can be used for any
purpose other than the one set
in the budget. Unless of course you
want to go to jail,” he added.
In almost every department cov-1
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Cotton Support
Is Put At 30.91
WASHINGTON Oh The gov
ernment will support the price
of middling 7-8 inch cotton from
this year’s crop at an average
price of 39.91 cents a pound, com
pared to 39.46 cents last year.
The Agriculture Department
announced yesterday the support
level is based on 90 per cent of
the Aug. 1 cotton parity price of
34.35 cents a pound. The average
support rate for middling 15-16
inch cotton will be 31.96 cents
per pound. ,
♦MARKETS*
HOGS
RALEIGH (in Hog markets:
Washington, Jacksonville: Slight
ly stronger at 2225 for good and
choice 180-240 lb. barrows and gilts.
Tarboro, Hamilton, Mount* Olive,
Lumberton, Marion, Fayetteville,
Florence; Steady at 2225.
Rocky Mount: Weaker at 22.00.
Dunn, New Bern, Goldsboro, Wil
son, Wilmington, Siler City, Kin
ston, Bmithfield, Clinton: Steady at
22.00. , \
EGOS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH an Today’s egg
and« Jive poultry markets;
Central North Carolina live poul
try: applies adequate to short.
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FIVE CENTS FEE COPY
es her husband with impotence,
but with cruel and barbarious treat
ment which she says made her life
unbearable and injured her phy
sical condition.
According to the complaint, the
elderly couple were married on
March 29th of this year and lived
together as man and wife in Nash
until May 15th, “at which time the
defendant willfully abandoned this
plaintiff.”
MADE LIFE INTOLERABLE
Mrs. Strickland sets forth that
after the marriage, “the plaintiff
and defendant returned to the
[home of the defendant with the
i high hope of happiness and love
! for the remainder of their lives,”
, and that “the defendant immediat
| ely began and continued to force
such indignities to the person of
this plaintiff so as to render her
condition intolerable and life bur
densome.”
Mrs. Strickland alleges that the
defendant attempted to have mar
ital relations with her and that
she "did all in her power to carry
on her model relationship with the
defendant, even at the sacrifice of
her own physical condition, but due
to the extremities of age, the de
fendant was unable to forego his
part of said marital relationship
and began to abuse, humiliate, in
sult and embarrass” his bride.
She says she returned to her
home in Harnett for fear that the
Powers mth
Government Girls
WASHINGTON (IP)—The Powers
school for models teaches gals how
to sit, stand up, dress right, pow
der their snozzles and even how to
take care of the thigh bulge and
the plump upper arm.
Reason for this piece is that a
Powers school is being opened by
the old master here today for gov
ernment girls—and maybe even
wives of politicians.
The manager of the new place
dropped by to talk about the pro
ject. She is a vivacious little lady
named Celestine Marbeth, of Gen
Agent Reports On
801 l Weevil Count
Following the same pattern as
in previous years, the average per- :
centage of squares punctured by
weevils increased sharply during i
the past week to ten days. This |
increase is no doubt influenced by
two major factors, (1) heavier and
more general emergence of weevils
from infested squares, and (2) a
decrease in the number of squares
present particularly in older cot
ton. Our counts here in Harnett j
County for Monday, July 28, are ,
as follows:
J. A. Wilkins of Fuquay Rt. 2,
29% infestation; C. P. Kelly of
Lillington Rt. 1, 82% infestation;
Erwin CIO Seeks
Return Os Funds
Sheriff W. E. Salmon last night served sunundK
on a group of former leaders of the Erwin Local of t9H
Textile Workers Union of America, who had bolted to t£p§
AFL, demanding a return of local union funds and recoHSp|
The summons were the results
of a complaint filed Tuesday at
the office of Clerk of Courts, Mrs.
Elizabeth Matthews, charging that
these leaders, as responsible CIO
officers, violated their responsib
ility when they took over these
funds and records.
The complaint demands the re
turn of these funds and records
and enjoins the officials from fur
ther using their reputations as <3O
officials In the Interests of a eom-
Nametf In the complaint were J.
Manager or me uiu Local union,
Frankie Morrison, fanner Preet
hoods, worxers supply u»c.. ana
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NO. 167
I conduct of her new husband would
: certainly cause her to suffer a heart
attack. „ \
BEGGED HER TO RETURN
Mrs. Strickland said her husband
j called on her, begged her to re
turn to him, admitted that he had
done wrong and promised to mend
the error of his ways, that he would
cease to force these Indignities to
the person of the plaintiff and
would be a good husband to her
for the remainder of her life and
leave her in a comfortable staUon
of life.
She said she agreed to a recon
ciliation and took her 10-year-old
daughter and went again to live
with him with renewed hope. The
woman claims that immediately up
on her arrival at his home in Nash
County he again began to force
indignities on her.
The suit claims that, knowing
his wife’s physical condition, Strick
land would “drag her over the bed
and down to the foot of the bed
where he would try and attempt
to engage in sexual relations” and
that she tried in a normal manner
to carry on marital relations with
him.
“PHYSICALLY UNABLE”
“The defendant,” sets forth the
complaint, “was absolutely physi
cally unable to accomplish his sex
ual desire . . . and would fly into
a fit of temper and abuse this
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esee. Pa. A blue-green-eyed beauty
on her own in a cool black garer
dine and wearing a picture hat
she bought in the “straw” market
In her last visit to Florence, Italy.
You would think that sitting down
was pretty simple for anybody who
ever sat down. But according to the
lessons that our G-girls and wives
of politicos will take for a price
you should do it like this: Approach
the chair from the side. Have the
outside foot forward, with the foot
next to the chair in back.
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Billy Byrd of Bunnlevel, 20% in
i festation; Hardee Byrd of Bunh
level, 3% infestation; M. E. Thorn- ■
i ton of Dunn Rt. 4,2% infestation;
| Mr. Blackmon of Dunn Rt 4, 22%
. infestation; Willie Cameron of
| Bunnlevel, 3% infestation; Henry
I McDougal of Bunnlevel, 5% infes-
I tation: Robert Elliott of Dunn Rt
4, 37% infestation; Made Tucker
lof Dunn Rt 4,5% infestation.
I We have repeatedly called at-
I tention to the variation in insect
[lnfestation from field to field and
the necessity of evaluating the In
festation in each field before de
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its manager Fred W. Brown and i
the Commercial Bank of Dunn.
The complaint was signed bjr
Scott Hoyman, CIO administrator
1 for the local union, Uoyd LMKd
Hardy Johnson, Nathan nuWMfcJ
! Tom Byrd, Lacey Dawkins, JoaefSh
L. Smith, and TWUA President RdPH
il Rieve on behalf at the nttwHH
I union. “ .
“It is by no means our IrfiMl
' h^ 8 SfgH*!