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VOLUME II
Pageant Entry
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BARBARA E. TEMPERLEY, 20, of
Goflstown, will represent New
M Hampshire at the “Miss America”
beauty and talent pageant in At
lantic City, N. J., next month. She
baa had special training in voice
and piano. (International)
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“Miss Indiana," will compete in
the Miss America Pageant at At
lantic City, N. J., next month. A
Junior at Indiana University, th?
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Dunn’s Pantry
To Close Soon
Another Dunn landmark will
soon disappear from Dunn’s bus
§) iness district.
The “M” System Store, which
has been “Dunn’s Pantry” for the
past 20 years, today is announcing
a going-out-of-business sale.
Owner James Snipes announced
that the sale will begin Wednes
day morning and continue until the
stock is liquidated.
All the merchandise, he pointed
out, is being sold at cost.
For two decades, “M” System has
been Dunn’s largest independent
establishment. It is a
family landmark on Broad street.
FOUNDED 20 YEARS AGO
It was founded here 20 years
ago by the late Z. V. Snipeq and
his two sons, James and John. The
father died in 1947 and John left
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Ike Given Rousing
Southern Welcome
ATLANTA —(IP)— Dwight D. Ei
senhower, who said he likes to hear
rebel yells, heard a few of them to
day as he opened a two-day flying
tour of the Sooth, the first invasion
of Dixie ever undertaken by a Re
publican presidential candidate,
sh The smiling GOP nominee step
ped from his four-motored Constel
lation at the Atlanta .airport to be
greeted by a rainsoaked crowd of
500 persons including Gov. Hermah
Talmadge, Mayor W. B. Hartsfield,
TELEPHONES: 3117 ■ 3118 - 3119
Ike Asks South To Help Clean Up Mess
Grand Jury Indicts Two
On Manslaughter Charges
A criminal session of Har
nett Superior Court got off
to a fast start this morning.
Before noontime, the grand jury
1 indicted two defendants for man
slaughter, brought in true bills
against several others and Judge
Susie Sharp gave three Negro boys
suspended road sentences.
District Solicitor Jack Hooks is
prosecuting the crowded docket of
over 70 cases, which includes five
murder cases and the embezzle
ment ease against C. G. Fields, for
mer Angier banker and former vice
chairman of the Harnett County
Board of Commissioners,
Indicted for manslaughter this
morning were John Lewis McNeill
and Manuel Batencaurt. Both cases
involve highway deaths.
Ernest Hamlet was indicted for
larceny of an automobile.
SUSPENDED TERMS
Three Negroes received suspend
ed sentences for stealing supplies
from the Gentry School at Erwin.
They were: Thomas Pipkin, giv
en six months suspended for five
years; Paul McLean Jr., given four
months, suspended for five years;
and Charles Winston McNeill, giv
en three months, suspended for
five years. Each was taxed witft
one-third the court costs.
The case of William Ligglns,
charged with driving after revoca
Tobacco Market Will Exceed
First Million Pounds Today
Truman Lets Loose
New Blast At Ike
ENROUTE TO WASHINGTON, (W—President Truman
charged today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “who
knows better,” is rig used as a spokesman for “selfish
politicians in a I üblican effort to get votes with ir
responsible foreign jolicy statements yiat increase the’
risk of war.”
In a speech from the rear plat
form of his train at Parkersburg,
W. Va., Mr. Truman said that
Eisenhower, Republican presiden
tial candidate, had “helped vigor
ously” to carry out the administra
tion’s foreign policy.
But Eisenhower, Mr. Truman
said, now is being shown “how to
be a hypocrite in a few easy
lessons” by “some masterminds at
hand in the Republican councils."
HITS AT DULLES
Mr. Truman said one of thdse
masterminds had helped in formu
lating the administration’s foreign
policy. He appeared to be referring
to John Foster Dulles.
The President’s speech at Park
ersburg came as he resumed his
first stumping tour of the cam
States Democrats
Open Headquarters
RALEIGH, (If)—The state Dem
ocratic Party opened state cam
paign headquarters here today with
a prediction that the November
race is “potentially” the closest
to be fought in years.
A .number of expected notables
were absent, but National Commit
teeman Robert L. Doughton wrote
state Republican Chairman Elbert
Tuttle and other OOP leaders.
Showers fell at the airport and
over most of Atlanta during the
morning, bq,t stopped a few min
utes before life’s plane landed at
11:48 a. m„ 13 minutes behind
schedule.
APPLAUDS CONTINUOUSLY
The crowd, applauded continuous
ly as Eisenhower stepped off the
plane. Polio* lines were ineffective
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3b? Baihj
tion of driving license, was sent back
to the Dunn Recorder’s Court.
Two-divorces were granted. Lila
Mae Ryals was given a divorce
from Lindbergh Ryals and Fred A.
Byrd was given a divorce from Nell
S. Byrd.
Following is a list of cases for
the rest of the week:
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3
Vetorial Canupp, manslaughter;
Frank Weaver. Sr., speeding; El
bert Strickland, hit and run; Earl
Colville, manslaughter; Earl Col
ville, operating auto intoxicated,
public drunkenness; Sherill Lee
Moore, manslaughter (three cases);
Elton Bullard V.P.L. (possession for
sale): Norwood Jackson, and Ed
ward Faircloth, assault on female;
Mary Elizabeth Ray, public drunk
enness, etc.; Howard Lucas, tres
pass; Eugene Moore, V.P.L. (p<fe
session for sale) (two cases); Mal
colm Byrd, assault with deadly
weapon, disorderly conduct; Pres
ton Holland, Jr., speeding, care
less and reckless driving; William
Liggons, Jr., operating auto after
license revoked; John Davis, V.P.L.
(possession for sale); Fred Moore,
operating auto intoxicated and
without license.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 4
Marvin Barbour, operating auto
intoxicated; Bessie McCray, V.P.L.
paign after a major Labor Day
address in Milwaukee where he
blasted Eisenhower as a “captive
candidate,” charged that the Re
publicans want to “turn back the
clock,” and slapped at the recent
Supreme Court invalidation of the
steel plant seizure as a “modern
Dred Scott opinion.”
In his address today, Mr. Truman
struck out at what he called “loose
talk” by the mastermind Republi
cans about liberating the enslaved
peoples of Eastern Europe.
He said the fate of the peoples
in the Soviet borderlands bd!\od
the Iron Curtain is “one of the
greatest and most terrible tragedies
of human times.”
He said that “we shall never
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that he had a good reason. He is
working to get Gov. Adlai Steven
son, the presidential nominee, to
visit North Carolina.
A number of candidates for state
office and party bigwigs gathered
In the suite at the Sir Walter Hotel
which will serve as the rallying
point for Tar Heel Democratic
forces in the November election.
The opening with informal cere
monies signaled the official start
of the Democratic drum-beating in
North Carolina.
STIFF FIGHT SEEN
Everett Jordan of Saxahapaw,
state party chairman, cited signs
that the Republicans will put up
stlffer opposition than usual In
North Carolina this fall.
“They are forming Elsenhower
clubs all over the state,” he said.
“I see a lot of evidence of hard
work, particularly in some of the
congressional districts.
“There’s no doubt in my mind
that the Republicans think they’ve
got a good candidate, and of course
he is a good man. They’re organ
izing as good as they know how.
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DUNN, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1952
(possession for sale); Marie Mas
sey, V.P.L. (possession for sale);
John Woodard Barnes, speeding;
Joe Brewington, careless and reck
less driving; Theodore Williford,
operating auto intoxicated and
without operator’s license; Eugene
McKay, assault on female; Cleve
land Harris, V.P.L. (mfg); Bob
by Spencer, assault on female;
Henry A. Johnson, abandonment,
etc.; R. P. Jackson, public drunk
enness; Eugene Moore and A. L.
Norris, gambling; Willie Baker, as
sault with deadly weapon, drunk
and disorderly, ■ profanity; William
Alvin Dudley, careless and reck
less driving, operating auto with
out operator’s license; John Bare
foot, careless and reckless driving
Labor Day Deaths
Lower Than 1951
By UNITED PRESS
Highway deaths during the La
bor Day weekend were less than
the record number set a year ago,
reports from across the nation
showed today.
But the accidental death toll
for the holiday beginning at 6
p. m. Friday and ending at mid
night Monday showed 568 acci
dental deaths from all causes.
Although the rains ’over
the long weekend halted the
hauling in, of tobacco to the
Dunn Tobacco Market, the
market will go ovfer that first
million pounds today with
out any difficulty.
The big sale Friday pushed the
total poundage to 936,878 pounds,
and the sales today will nearly
equal in volume the sales on Fri
day. On Friday the market sold
a total of 259,412 pounds for $125,-
402.36 at a market average of $3824.
It whs the biggest selling day of
the present season and for the
first time this year sales were
blocked.
The quality of the leaf offered
has been, and still is low, but the
better quality leaf is expected to
come in this week. Much of the
superior leaf has been harvested
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Stevenson Is Pleased
With Opening Swing
SPRINGFIELD, 111, (IP)—Gov. Adlai Stevenson, pleas
ed with the results of his strenuous five-speech swing
through the pivital labor strong hold of Michigan, began
preparations today for a 10-day Western campaign tour.
He said the crowds that greeted
him in Michigan’s industrial centers
were better than I expected,” and
he was cheered by the applause
that greeted his demand that the
Taft-Hartley Act be scrapped and
replaced with new labor legislation.
During the week the Illinois gov
ernor was expected to talk with
several prominent farm leaders
regarding his appearances at Den
ver and at the national plowing
contest at Kasson, Minn.
Stevenson laid down his program
for a new labor law In his principal
Labor Day address, before an est
imated 40,000 persons in Detroit
BULLETINS
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, (ff)—A Brazilian railroad
sought today to settle a strike of its workers because of
ficials had forgot to reckon with their estranged employes’
wives. i
WASHINGTON, (V)—Beef production is on the way up,
assuring housewives more and better cuts at possibly
lower prices during the coming months. The Agriculture
Department reported today that U. S. beef production is
well ahead of last year—which saw the smallest supply in
eight years—and is continuing to rise.
LONDON, OP)—Western Big Three representatives
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New Hurricane,
Worse Than
First, On Way
MIAMI, (IP)—The weather
| bureau warned ships today !
to exercise caution for a
“severe” hurricane whipping I
the Atlantic 1,075 miles east-!
southeast of Miami with
winds up to 135 miles an
hour.
This hurricane, the second of the
season which formed as the first
petered out in the New England
states, is only two days old and
promises to be a "humdinger” the
weather bureau said.
“Highest winds in the northern
quadrant are about 115 miles per J
hour with gusts in squalls up to I
135 miles per hour,” the weather
bureau said in a 10 a.m. advisory.
“Further intensification is expect
ed.”
The storm was 370 miles north
i northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico,
I and moving in a northwesterly dir
ection at 12 miles per hour. The
advisory said there is a tendency
for the hurricane to turn more to
ward the west-northwest—a more
dangerous course to mainland res
idents.
SHIPS WARNED
“This is a severe hurricane and
all ships in its course should ex
ercise caution,” the forecaster war
ed.
Gales spread over 225 miles of
shipping lanes In the Atlantic north
of Puerto Rico. Hurricane-force
winds reached 75 miles north of the
I storm’s center.
Jaycees Hear
John Thomas
Dunn Jaycees, at a ditmer
meeting held last night at
Johnson’s Restaurant, were
given several suggestions on
low they could improve the
organization and its service
to the community.
The suggestions were made in an
outstanding address delivered by
John G. Thomas, editor of The
Dunn Dispatch, former manager of
the Wilson Chamber of Commerce
and organizer of the Wilson Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce.
President Bill Biggs presided over
the meeting and the speaker was
introduced by Ted Wells, who had
charge of the program.
Mr. Thomas, recalling formation
of the Wilson unit, pointed out
that there were only 800 or 900
Jaycees in North Carolina at that
time, but cited the fact that there
are now approximately 3,000 mem
bers in the State.
He congratulated the Dunn unit
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He said the Taft-Hartley Act is
a “tangled snarl of legal barbed
wire” that must be replaced with
a new law including emergency
peacetime seizure powers for the
president.
"I don’t say everything in the
Taft-Hartley Act is wrong,” Steven
son said. “I don’t think it is a
‘slave labor’ law. But I do say that
It was biased and politically in
spired, and has not improved labor
relations in a single plant.
MUST REMEDY DEFECTS
“We must have a new law, and
my conclusion is that we can best
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Caps. Finch Named
As Commander Os
Dunn's Guard Unit
I '
Captain Keith Finch has just assumed command of
jthe local unit of the National Guard here. He received his
appointment to succeed Captain George Franklin Blalock
after thorough consideration and high recognition of ms
services by Army authorities.
Captain Blalock nas commanded -gw***?.. • ~> J& ’ ->V $
the. unit from the time of its re-
Force, on the* 5 26th of April. 1946,
and held the rank of Captain un- CAPTAIN FINCH
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Umstead Will Back
Tourist Promotion
L LINVILLE, (UV* William B. Iltristqari Democratic nom- j
ttieV for
today in the effort to build an even greater tourist industry |
in the state.
The former senator told nearly
500 persons attending the official
dedication of a new road and sus
pension bridge on Grandfather
Countaln that the tourist trade is
the state’s second-largest "cash
crop.” *
“We should make every effort to
encourage and Increase the num
ber of tourists to every section of
our state where our recreational
and scenic attractions are unsur
passed,” he said.
Umstead paid tribute to Hugh
Morton of Wilmington for "his
energy and vision in developing and
promoting Grandfather Mountain,”
and urged other Tar Heels to fol
low the example.
CITES ASSETS
The state can list as definite
assets, he said, the most extensive
outdoor drama circuit in Ameri
ica, the largest state-administer
ed highway system in the nation
which makes vacation areas acces
sible, and the fact that there are
four distinct seasons.
He urged a more aggressive cam
paign to advertise the state’s at
tractions. but cautioned that reas
onable food and lodging prices and
“friendly treatment” sire essential
to keep the industry booming.
There is evidence, he said that
the tourist traffic since World War
II has increased faster than traffic
as a whole in the state. The in
dustry’s gross yield in 1951 was I
estimated at $239,000,000. Umstead
said.
School At Coats
Opens Tomorrow
R. L. Smith, principal of the
Coats school, has announced that
everything is in readiness for the
opening of school there tomorrow.
A full faculty will be on hand to
greet the children at 8:30.
The formal school opening will
take place Thursday morning at
ten o’clock. All parents and school
patrons are invited to attend the
formal opening.
New classrooms have been com
pleted, and all preparations have
been made for the school year.
•MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH (IP) Central North
Carolina live poultry: Fryers or
broilers steady following Monday’s
advance of one cent a pound, sup
plies adequate, demand fair to
good; heavy hens steady to firm,
supplies adequate, demand fair to
good; heavy hens steady to firm,
supplies adequate, demand fair to
good, prices at farm up to 10 a. m.
fryers or broilers 2 1-2-3 lbs 32;
heavy bens 21-23, mostly 22.
Eggs steady, supplies short, de
mand good. Prices paid FOB local
grading stations: A large dl, A
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
CAPTAIN FINCH I
Police Seeking
Prowlers Here
Prowlers were reported at a
number of Dunn homes over the
week end, according to the records
of the Dunn Police Department.
Mrs. Ockie Surles on Johnson
Street, told officers that she had
noticed a strange Negro prowling
around her premises.
Mrs. Hattie Thaggard reported
two such incidents and told the
officers who investigated that once,
the intruder had flashed a light
in her eyes.
Another report came from the
residents of a home at 305 North
McKay Avenue, where the occu
pants were awakened by someone
in the house who fled before of
ficers could be summoned.
Police are increasing their patrol
activities in an effort to catch the
prowler, or prowlers.
Many Schools
Opening Today
By UNITED PRESS
Most of nearly 900,000 North
Carolina school children went
back to their books today.
I State school officials predicted
the largest first grade class in
state history—about 10,000 more
than last year's first grade total.
The reason, officials said, is the
big increase in the birth rate im
mediately following World War
n.
It was also back-to-work for the
state’s 30,000 school teachers.
Neuse Plant Votes
To Return To ClCkl
The TWUA-CIO has won its second round to keoijit,.
employees of Erwin Mills in the CIO ranks.
Wayne Demoncourt of Greens
boro, assistant State director, an
nounced this morning that work-1
ers at Neuse have voted unanimous- |
ly to rescind their previous action
and return to the CIO.
In May, the Neuse union took
action to leave the CIO and join
the UTW-AFL.
UNIONS NOT REPRESENTED
According to Mr. Dernoncourt,
neither CIO nor AFL represen tat- j
ives were allowed to be present ]
whoi the Neuse employee* voted.
The members made their decision
independent of union represent-1
atives. 1
The CIO official pointed out >
Dunn Stores
Open All Day
Wednesdays
NO. 191
Says Democrats
Count Southern
Votes In Advance
I ATLANTA. (IP>—Dwight D.
; Eisenhower carried his
! search for votes into the
| Deep South today—the first
i time a Republican president
j ial candidate has done so—
coupling a reminder of Sou
thern pride with a denunc
iation of the Democratic ad
ministration.
He asked the South to help clean
out a "top-to-bottom mess” created
by men “too small for their jobs
; too big for their breeches and too
! long in power.”
WANTS “WHOLESOME
CLEAN-OUT"
The only cure, he said, is “a
wholesome clean-out of the politi-
I cal bosses in Washington.”
Eisenhower flew here for his
speech in downtown Hurt Park, and
1 was to make othe- addresses to
i day in Jacksonville and Miami.
! Tomorrow he eoes to Tampa. Birm
ingham. and Little Rock.
I RECALLS SOUTHERN SERVICE
i The retired five-star general re-
I called his Southern service at Fort
Benning, Ga.. and Fort Sam Hous
ton. Tex., and spid he number*
“by the hundreds my • friends
in the South.”
However, it seems that some of
I the opposition spokesmen look up
i on this meeting as a revolution,”
i Eisenhower said.
“For them, this is a revolution.
Through generations they have
been counting the votes of the
South ahead of time along with
the cemetery tombstones and the
vacant lots that they carry in the
election rolls in some of the cities
thev run up North.
“For me and for you. however,
it is the most natural thing in the
world that an American, nomtn
(ated for high political office, should
ijjranjt to talk oyer,the problem# oß_.
T matter wherpTnev VIS v nw*
HITS INCOMPETENCE,
STUPIDITY
Lashing out at the opposition for
1 the first time in the campaign, he
opened his two-day Southern tour
using such terms as “incompetence
stuoiditv and corruption’ and "ped
dlers of privileges and destroyer*
of decency” who are “careless with
‘the truth and the taxpayers’ mon
: ey.”
| He set the theme of the Southern
! swing with a speech in Atlanta at
' tacking the “mess in Washington”
as a nrodnet of the Democratic ad-
S ministration.
TOP-TO-BOTTOM MESS
“This Washington mess is not
a one-seency mess or a one-bureau
mess nr a one-department mess.”
he said. “It is a top-to-bottom
l me«s.”
“It was t+ewed by scheming
nolitfcians whose idea of public ser
! vice is service to their own purses
■ or their own nnwer . . . This mess
i is the inevitable apd snre-fire re
sult of an administration bv too
many men who are too small for
: their fobs, too big for their breech
es and too long in prayer.”
j He said the “mess” had gone too
far to be cured bv any half-meas
urps or the “refreshening” nrom
ised by Democratic candidate Ad
lai F Stevenson.
ASKS SOUTH TO BREAK '
The Renublican candidate invited
the South to break awav from it*
traditional ties with the Democratic
party and join him in the Nov. 4
election in a crusade to "restore
decency and honestv and integrity
to the nation’s capital."
He recalled the North-South split
at the recent Democratic national
convention when “they tried to
| “hogtie the South with a loyalty
I oth—“not Vo your state or to the.-
1 nation, but to a political nominee
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that the Neuse union tothe second
I out of five mills in the Erwin chain
1 to reject seccession and stay with ,
| TWUA-CIO.
In May, the Erwin union '
stonewall, Miss , voted to remd|t
with the CIO textile union. &&£
The UTW-AFL now has pt|L
lons for elections at the
in Erwin, Durham, Cooleemee atMP
Neuse.
Mr. Demoncoort said this mSißtmi
j ins his unton to offering
i a consent NLRB election In
Isrys
lauur “