+WEATHER*
FORTH CAROLINA Mostly
fair today, tonight and Thursday,
except for scattered light show
ers on the Coast. Not much change
in temperature.
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SALES GOOD ON DIINN MARKET The Dunn Tobacco Market today sold a total of 83,676
pounds of tobacco for *42,446.30 at an average of $50.72. Buck Currln’s Big Four sold 54,322 pounds
for *27,300.15, a $50.25 average and Dick Owen’s Farmer’s warehouse sold 29,354 pounds for $15,146.15,
an average of $51.59. Pictured is the scene at the Big Four Warehouse, with Buck Currin, second
from left, and a group of buyers traversing the line of baskets during the sale. (Record photo by
T. M. Stewart).
’Many Entries Are Expected
At Legion Fair Next Month
Ike Ready To Put
Campaign On Road
NEW YORK, (IP)—Gen. Dwight t). Eisenhower made
arrangements today to put his campaign on the road next
week with the idea of hitting every “nook and cranny’’, in
country before election day.
Aifclnst .iv ' Wckg.ound of erttt
i clim* that he'was starting too
slowly, the Republican presidential ,
candidate sqt up a whirlwind plan; >
trip to Id states in 10 days start
ing Sept. 1.
It includes speeches or political :
conferences in New York. Atlanta, j
Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa,!
Fa., Birmingham, Ala.. Little Rock l
Ark., Philadelphia, Chicago, Roch- j
ester, Kasson and Minneapolis,.
Minn.; Cleveland and Indianapolis,
Ind. I
Within a few days after his return .
to New York headquarters Sept. 10 I
he will start out anew, this time*
Rankin Defeated
After 16 Terms
JAGKSON, Miss., (IP)—Aging Rep. John E. Rankin lost
his bid to prolong a colorful, 32-year congressional career
in a Democratic primary contest yesterday with Rep.
Thomas G. Abernethy.
An almost complete ballot count i
gave the younger Abernethy a I
6,000-vote lead in an unwanted race
made necessary by the recent con
solidation of their two districts be
cause of population shifts.
Rankin, 70, his fiery style rem
iniscent of the late Sens. Theo
dore Bilbo and Huey Long, was
seeking his 17th term. Abernethy,
49, has served in Congress 10 years.
Returns from 340 of 358 pre
cincts in the newly formed First
Congressional District gave Aber
nethy 26,769 votes and Rankin
Gov. Scott Admits He Acted
Against Interest Os Public
RALEIGH, (IP)—A storm
of protest Qver Gov. Kerr
Scott’s allocation of $750,000
for rural road improvements
in his home county subsided
today following the gov
ernor’s announcement that
he has changed his mind.
In reversing the controversial al
location for Alamance County roads
yesterday Scott said only that he
had decided the move “would not
be in the best public interest” In
addition to public protests, the un
precedented action had aroused the
threat of legal action aimed at
blocking the allocation.
In his announcement that he had
"reconsidered,” Scott said he will
make no recommendation to the
highway commission with regard
to the money.
TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119
on the«>adibima\.camP*4»>k SWi*
for a whisthr !>top tout that wnr
■ blanket the comity. v 4?‘
COMING SOUTH
He already has promised that by
the Nov. 4 election day he will car
!ry his time-for-a-change campaign
! into every section including the
I traditionally Dtps —-"tic Rqljd South
I which Republidit, * ' ' -j?
jthe best chancatf V.. *JH).
The Dixie drive' starts with an
airplane tour Sept. 2—after a La
[ bor Day speech in New York be
fore a convention of the National
I Association of Letter Carriers (AFL)
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1 20,670. Rankin conceded shortly
I before last nignight.
KEEP PROHIBITION
In a statewide liquor referendum
Mississippi voters also overwhelm
ingly favored keeping their 62-year
old prohibition law, handing their
legislature a mandate to put some
teeth in its enforcement.
Returns from 1,454 of the state’s
1,775 precincts gave 122,405 votes
for continued prohibition against
75,854 for county option over liq
uor control.
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SAYS COUNTY NEGLECTED
But he reiterated his earlier, posi
tion that his home county’s roads
have been neglected. He said dur
ing his term as governor he had
made many sifeh allocations
“where definite hardship existed
and regular highway funds were
not available to relieve It.”
“I followed the same reasoning’
in deciding upon a special allocation
to relieve the hardship on the rural
population of my own county which
in my estimation had been grossly
.neglected for many years,” Scott
said. t
"I remain convinced of the need
for these improvements, and of the
inequities that have Prevented them
being made in the post, but I have
also reached the conclusion
that such an allocation would
create other inequities and there
fore would not be in the best public
interest.”
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With a total of $2,070 in
cash awards to shoot at, ex
hibitors are urged to get
thseir entries ready for the
big Foiir County Fair, spon
sored by the Dunn Post of
the American Legion, now
only a little more than two
weeks away.
Entries in the livestock exhibit
classes already arranged will pre
sent piore than 40 head of cows
and an equal number of swine,
Cftotemap 3 ..’West
'On the basis at the present, entry”
list, he said Shis fair should be
the best ever from this standpoint.
The.bigest prizes on the list, how
ever, will be presented, not to ex
hibitors, but to some lucky persons
present. The top prize in this cater
gory, of course, is the tractor, to be
given away on Farmer’s Day, Sep
tember 17.
“If the winner doesn’t have a
farm,” joked chairman West, “He’d
better hang on to the tractor any- '
way. We might give away a farm ■
to go with it next year.”
Tickets for the white Children’s I
Day, Thursday, September 18, will
be distributed to all school children,
and each numbered stub will en
title the child to a chance on the
pony to be given away that day.
On Friday. September 19, Negro
school children will have their
day at the fair and some lucky
child will receive a bicycle in ex
change for the lucky ticket.
A generous aDportionment of the
award money has been made for
group exhibits by Veteran trainee
units, 4-H, FFA groups, school
groups and Home Demonstration
Clubs.
Prizes for exhibits by each of
these groups will be awarded as
follows; SSO, first; $45 second; S4O,
third: $35. fourth; and S3O, fifth, j
A total of $360 will be awarded
in the dairy cattle class, with ex
hibits limited to veterans, farmers,
4-H. .FFA and FHA members re
siding in Harnett, Sampson. Cum
berland or Johnston Counties.
SWINE DIVISION
Any farmer or veteran residing
•GonMnued on Two'
NO INEQUITIES KNOWN
State highway officials and en
gineers, had said they knew of no
inequities in Alamance County
roads and the State Association of
County Commissioners had pro
mised action at a meeting next
month - aimed at securing legis
lation to remove the governor’s
power to make. such allotments.
Such a move failed In the last
general assembly.
Alleged Robber
Submits To
Lesser Charge
Donie Gaudlner, one of two
Spring Lake men, charged With
highway robbery of Brady Johnson,
entered a plea of -guilty to simple
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DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 27, 1952
Stevenson Calls On Legion To
Help In Fight On Communism
Radio Writers
Are Dominated
By Communists
WASHINGTON, (IP)—The
Senate Internal Security
Committee reported today
that Communists and fellow
travellers “dominated” the
Radio Writers Guild, whose
members produce 90 per
-ent of network programs.
Chairman Pat McCarran D-Nev.
said extensive hearings convinced
him that the television industry is
“very susceptable” to the same
kind of Red infiltration.
Senator Willis Smith, D-N.C.,
conducted some of these hearings.
McCarran released the first vol
ume of testimony heard by a
special subcommittee on subversive
infiltration of the radio, television
and entertainment indurtries. It
detailed charges of a pro-Red
power grap in the union and al
leged pro-Communist influence on
the nation’s air waves.
PETER LYON BRANDED
Subcommittee Chairman James
O. Eastland, D-Miss. said he is
convniced that Robert C. Lyon, Jr.,
Lyon and Millard Lampell are
“hard core Communists,” who as
prominent radio writers lead the
pro-Communists Guild faction.
Testimony between April 27, 1951,
and last April 1 included allega
tions that pro-Copimunist elements
in the radio and advertising indus
try “boom” Red sympathizers
into. tQftjartijp writing jobs-and bust
ahtLCommunists.T "i, MWp?
McCarran said M an accompany
ing statement there is a “strong
possibility” that the Radio Writers
Guild will obtain Jurisdiction over
television writers,
SEIZEDI CONTROL IN 1943
“A * small group of Communists
aW pro-Communists seized contnel
Os the Radio Writers Guild in 1943
at the direction of Alexander Trach
tenberg, the Communist propa
ganda chief, and continues to dom
inate the organization,” McCarran
said.
Both Lyon and Lampell were
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Dunn Lions To Hear
District Governor
District. Lions Governor Lyman Austin of Albemarle
will address the Dunn Lions Club Thursday night at 7
o’clock at a dinner meeting to be held at Johnson’s Restau
rant.
Plans for the meeting, at which,
12 new members will be Inducted, j
Were announced today by Presi- j
dent J. N. Stephenson, who will
preside over the meeting.
Mr. Lyman is governor of Dis
trict 31-D, which includes a large
section of the State. There are a
bout 14 counties in the district. He
is an outstanding speaker.
NEW MEMBERS
New members to be inducted are;
BULLETINS
SAIGON, Indo-China, (If) —The Communist Vietnam
101st Regiment was cut to ribbons by a major air, land and
sea assault of French and Vietnam forces in Central Viet
nam, French Army headquarters said last night.
LOS ANGELES, (IF) —An immediate truce in Korea was
called for today by Progressive party presidential candid
ate Vincent Hallinan. Hallinan, here for a campaign
speech tonight, said he sent a joint message to GoV. Adlai
E. Stevenson and Dwight D. Eisenhower, the presidential
nominees of the major parties, to petition President Tru
man to effect the truce.
MURRAY BAY, Que. (IP)—Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
said today he would be ready to campaign for his former
rival, Dwight D. Eisenhower, as soon as he returns to Wash
ington from his Canadian vacation.
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Federal revenue agents seised
10.207 illicit stills, 5,700,000 gallons of fermenting mash and
9,850 aicohol tax law violators last year, the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue reported today.
MIAMI, (IP)—The pack of squalls forming 1952’s first
big tropical storm drifted sluggishly through the Atlantic
today, showing no fresh sign of becoming a full-blown
hurricane. ' ,
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Legion Asks
For Dismissal
Os Acheson
NEW YORK —IIP— The Ameri
can Legion demanded today the
immediate dismissal of Secretary
of State Dean Achegon.
The resolution was presented to
the 34th national Legion convention
by the foreign affairs committee
and was adopted without debate.
The resolution also declared that
the United Nations as presently
set up and operating, “Is ineffective
as an instrument tor world peace.”
Until fundamental changes in the
U. N. are made, it said, “we must
rely for our security upon our own
strength and the cooperation of
other free nations.
“The Korean war must be ended,
and it must end in a military vi
ctory.”
Last Minute
News Shorts
TEHRAN —(IB The American
and British envoys met today with
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh
and the shah was reported exert
ing pressure for a settlement of
the Anglo-Iranian ail dispute.
LOS ANGELAS -*4T— Mrs. Mil
licent ▼. Hearst, widow of thd late
puNhther WttlUnt Hcar^.
day in a milt arato'st »* exec&tdrs
of his estate. v
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. — m—
The United Nations disarmament
commission rebuffed Russia’s germ
warfare propaganda campaign to
day, voting down a Kremlin de
mand for full debate on bacterial
weapons and punishment of coun
tries which use them.
NEW YORK —(IB Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey of New York said today
that Dwight D. Eisenhower is doing
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. Eugene Hood, Skinny Ennis, A1
' Compton, Loften L." Tart, R. A.
| Palmer Davis, Louis God
win and George Perry Lee.
President Stevenson also announ
ced . today that the club will spon
sor a sale to be held on Septem
ber 11, 12 and 13th for the benefit
of the blind.
A large attendance is expected
at Thursday night’s meeting to wel
come the new district governor on
his first visit to Dunn.
Property Owners
Are Angered Over
Mayors Remark
BY LOUIS DEARBORN
Record Staff Writer
The inference made by Mayor Ralph E. Hanna at the
meeting of Ihe town board Monday night that thev were
holding back the progress of the town of Dunn by prevent
ing the inclusion within the city limits of property they
own winch forms an “island” between the town line and
the Morris Fleishman property, has brought a storm of
indignant .protest over the Mayor’s remarks.
The majority of the property
owners affected, insist that they
were never asked to come into the
town but that they would be will
ing to do so. Some, however, in
sist that water and sewage facili
ties be extended out General Lee
Avenue before they do so.
"I didn’t even know that there
was such an issue,” Bert Alabas
ter, one of the property owners
declared this morning. “I certainly
would not do anything to hold
back the development of the town.”
NEVER APPROACHED
Alabaster said he had never been
approached with regard to bring-
I ing his property into the city
j limits and that he felt it was un
fair to make an issue of the matter,
without first asking him to come
in. He said he would be perfectly
willing to go along with the maj
ority of the property owners on
fbfcjtrtp-
Dallas Mattnews, another owner,
aajd he would be willing to come
lout the town if the majority of
theowners would go along. “Un
til now, I hadn’t thought about it
one way or another.” he admitted.
LESLIE ANGERED
O. M. (Joe) Leslie, too, was an
gered at the mayor’s remarks that,
he would block progress. “I bought
the lot, but I just haven’t con
cerned myself about it,” he said,
“I had not built anything on the
lot, but was planning to come in
some time in the future, when I
did get ready to build.”
“If they want to extend the city
limits past my property, I am per
fectly willing to come in,” Leslie
declared. “However, I do think
they should have asked me.”
Mayor Ralph Hanna said this
morning that one of the owners,
Frank Wilson, had told him on
several occasions that he would
like to come in but that he had I
been unable to recommend the in
clusion of the Wilson property be
cause it. by itself, would create one
of the “islands” they are trying to
avoid.
UP TO .CITIZENS
He explained that under the pre
sent system; no property owner is
invited to come Into the town,
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STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
ROCKY MOUNT (W Eastern
North Carolina public leaders had
an invltatibn today from the chair
man of the State Board-of Con
servation and Development’s water
resources committee to be present
in Raleigh this fall when the com
mittee presents its budget request.
RALEIGH (ID The State Su
preme Court agreed today to re
view the case of a young Negro
sentenoed to die for the ambush
shooting of a white farmer last
Thanksgiving Eve.
The high court granted a peti
tion for a writ of certiorari asked
by attorneys for parolee LaFayette
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♦MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH —*)— Central North
Carolina live poultry: Fryers or
broilers steady to firm, supplies
short to adequate, demand fair to
good: heavy hens steady, supplies
short, demand good. Prices at
farm up to 10 a. m.; Fryers and
broUers 2 1-2 3 lbs 31, few 32;
heavy hens 21-22.
Eggs steady, supplies short, de
mand good. Prices paid producers
and handlers FOB local grading
stations: A large 61, A medium
and B large S 3, current collections
3S.
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WEARING a bikini suit, Fanny
Landini displays the form that
prompted judges to select her as
"Miss Italy” in a contest in Rome.
She will represent her country at
the "Miss Europe” beauty pageant
I to be held in Naples August 19.
Keys In Car;
Car Vanishes
An unknown thief accepted the
invitation offered by keys left in
a parked car to make away with
the 1946 Plymouth, owned by Har
old Wilson according to the re
port at the Police Department.
Wilson told officers he left the
car parked on South Wilson Ave
nue, alongside the Rouse parking
lot, with the keys in the machine.
It bore dealer’s plates. Sometime
between 7 and 10:30, the vehicle
disappeared.
The State Highway Patrol was
notified to be on the lookout for
the stolen vehicle.
Hurricane Heads n
Toward Mainland fll
MIAMI, (IP)—A full-strength hurricane developed MEm
the Atlantic 1,050 miles from Miami today, from what haft
been a “squally wave” gradually gaining power over
past two days, and took a course toward the mainland. \-^
The strongest winds were esti
mated at as miles per hour.
If the hurricane intinues its
present course. It could first hit
the Bahama Islands group, about
900 miles to the west-northwest of
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Dunn Stores
Open All Day
Wednesdays
No. 187
Delivers First
Major Speech
To Legionnaires
BY RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Staff Corres
pondent
NEW YORK, (IP) GOV.
Adlai E. Stevenson asked the
American Legion today to
help protect the nation from
communism without burn
ing “down the bam to kill
the rats.”
In a blunt speech prepared for
delivery at the Legion’s national
convention in Madison Square Gar
den, the Democratic presidential
nominee gave his own definition
I of patriotism as “love of this re,
public” and “not hatred of Russia.”
He complained that ‘patriotism*
sometimes has been used “as a
club to attack other Americans*
and the “patriotic cloak of anti
communism" to undermine the BUI
of Rights.
attacks McCarthy
Stevenson’s “non-political” speech
clearly was intended a* an attack
on the methods of men like Stfc.
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wti) -in
their efforts to expose Communists.
McCarthy has enjoyed widespread
support among Legion members J
| and has received expressions of eft*
dorsement and praise from several
state conventions of the American
Legion.
Stevenson referred to the attack*
on the “loyalty and motives” at
Gen. George C. Marshall, wartime
Chief of staff, as a “shocking ex
“ There are men among us who
use ‘patriotism’ as a club for at
tacking' other American*;” StWH ,
enson said.
“Unhappily, we find some things
in American life today of which we
cannot be proud,” the governor
said. *
"Consider the groups who sedt
to identify their special interest*
with the general welfare. I find It
sobering to think that their pres
sures might one day be focused on
me.
"And I should tell you now,” Ms
warned, “as I would tell all id||
organized groups, that I intend to
resist pressures from veterans, ta&
if I think their demands are e**
cessive or in conflict with the pair
lie interest, which must always pa
the permanent interest.”
FIRST MAJOR ADDRESS isfe
The Legion speech was St*ven r
son’s first major address since mp :
nomination. It was scheduled u'.tH
start of a two-day round of a£>
pearances in and near New York.
His program included a tridf
talk tonight at the Democratic j
rally near Asbury Park, N. J., aqd -
(speeches tomorrow mirtit befoid «
the New York Democratic and LM- |
eral party conventions. 'ikf '•
Stevenson, an apprentice Seamjßt
in the Navy in World War
a civilian employe of the Navy B»-
partment in World War n, is a
Legionnaire and a member of Ad- i
men’s Post No. 1 in Chicago. & jg
He told the Legion that he thinks
patriotism “is based on tdtaMMi •
and a large measure of humUßg
“Surely intolerance and pubas
irresponsibility cannot be clsmß 'J
in the shining armor of rectitwj* j|
and righteousness. Nor can the ds-9j
nial of the right to hold
are different—the freedom at
to think as he please*."
Stevenson said he thinks many .
threats to freedom arise from “a
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