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+WEATHER* NORTH CAROLINA Mostly fair and warm today. Fair and cooler tonight and Friday. m VOLUME II Doffermyre Cites Laws Governing ,Jury Trials Here Attorney Everette L. Doffermyre of Dunn, in a state ment today in which he clearly defined the law relating to trial by jury, cited the duty of City Judge H. Paul Strick land to continue allowing jury trials in his court, as pro vided by law. The prominent Dunn attorney, in a very scholarly statement in which lie traced the jury system all the way back to The Magna Charta of it 1215, points out that the law grant ing jury trials here is so clear that any person ought to be able to understand it. “In my opinion,” said Attorney Doffermyre, “a person with average intelligence who can read and write can understand the phraseology used in this law and a person does not have to be a lawyer or judge to understand it.” TWICE REVERSED _ Attorney Doffermyre’s position, Ushared in by practically all legal minds of the county, has been up held twice by the Superior Court. Two Superior Court Judges ruled that Judge Strickland is wrong and erred in his refusal. Mr. Doffermyre reminded Judge Strickland today that “the man date of the Suoerior Court ruling should be complied with until re versed or otherwise altered by legis lation or by judicial proceedings.” Judge Strickland still. refuses to Rgrant jury trials here and the cases continue to increase and clutter up the docket. Mr. Doffermyre took a sharn crack at Judge Strickland for his failure to follow the mandate of the higher court when he said: “It is difficult to understand how a Judge of any Court can expect to maintain respect when the Court itself has no respect for the man date of their Sunerior Court.” PLANS STATEMENT Judge St v ick!and has indicated he may have a statement on the matter soon. Mr. Doffermyre called on law yers and citizens not to stand idlv by and allow things to proceed and go on unprotected. “But,” he said, “if lawyers and citizens stand idly by and do not defend the causes entrusted to them to defend and allow things tA proceed and go on unprotectty ; A thev now ftre doing. might —tae/wgl) that everybody, be remind ® pd bt the following quotation, ‘OB, Justice, Justice, what crimes are committed in thy name.’,'” - HITS INCORRECT ,«TORY Also lashing out at those who write about things of which they know nothing, Mr. Doffermyre scor ed as “without merit or founda tion and absolutely incorrect” a statement appearing in a local news * Benson Mule Event Opens On Friday The final schedule for the Benson Mule Festival was announced today by the Benson Chamber of Commerce. Activities will start at 9:30 A. M., Friday, October 3, and will con- D* tinue through Sunday afternoon, October 5. The first morning events will be mule judging at 9:30 A. M„ mule pulling at 10 A.M., foot races at 11 A. M., and hog calling at 12:30 P. M. All of this will take place at the Benson Singing Grove. The parade for Mule Day will be led by the Pope Air Force Band, under the direction of Warrant Os Kilt 'ifvv. yitllig-gB * p . r 'jyL -V DISCUSS FALL PROGRAM District Managers and Field Workers of the Eastern N. C. District of the Woodmen of the World, met at Johnson’s Restaurant yesterday to disoass the fall program which got underway Oct. I, and which was mapped oat by State Manager Nick T. Newberry. Shown are; front row, left to right, Nick T. Newberry, State Manager; Charles A. Hines, National Director; and Claude •a G. Simmons, Past Consul Commander. Back row, left to right, H. A. Melvin, Assistant State Manager; “ Eugene Hood, District Manager; and Dr. J. H. Carter, Head Watchman. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 paper which attempted to white wash the matter and give only the judge’s side. Mr. Doffermyre reminded that, “A lot of the confusion is caused by people attempting to write art icles and explain things that they, themselves, know nothing about.” In his statement, lauded by a number of attorneys who read it in advance of publication, Mr, Doffer myre traces the jury system from the beginning and pointed to the fact that jury trials were granted under the old Ecclesiastical laws. OFFF.RS TO DEBATE Taking issue with Judge Strick land’s statement that three Super ior Court Judges have advised him to pursue the course he is follow ing, Mr. Doffermyre called on Judtre Strickland to name them personally. He said Judge Strickland’s state ment about this “is of no import ance” and offered to debate the judges, if he’ll name them, pub licly in the City Hall. Following is the complete text of the statement by Mr. Doffer myre: Much has been said about Judge H. Paul Strickland’s ruling in de nying defendants charged with a criminal offense the right to a trial by jury in the Recorder’s Court of Dunn. An article under a feat ure entitled “Uncovering Harnett. Trial By Jury” in the DUNN DIS PATCH! Monday's Edition. Sep tember 15, 1952, does not, In my opinion give an accurate appraisal of the situation. It refers to Dunn lawyers as a whole and states that Judge Strickland's ruling does not deprive a defendant of a quick and speedy trial by jury but only means that he gets a trial by jury in the Superior Court. The defendants do not get a trial by juiy in Lilling ton in cases originating in the Dunn Recorder’s Court because the Recorder’s Court act as amended states that in all caises of misde meanor/ committed in the Town of corder’s Court of Dunn shall have the exclusive original jurisdiction ond the only way the Superior Court can obtain jurisdiction is on an appeal and you cannot confer, by consent, jurisdiction on a Court. STATEMENT WITHOUT MERIT One phase of the article In the DUNN DISPATCH states “Just (8 aJvj no panupuoo) ficer Dunn. Included in the parade, which will start at 2 P. M„ will be the Benson National Guard, civic and profressional groups, church societies, and a number of floats. BALLENTINE TO SPEAK At 4 P, M. on October 3, The Honorable L. Y. Ballentine, State Commissioner of Agriculture, will give the only address of the day. Immediately following the Com (Uontlnued On Fan two* The Daily Record Runoff Vote Ss Scheduled At Irwin Stalin Declares Russia Planning No Attacks Capitalistic Nations To Decay, He Says MOSCOW (IP) Premier Josef Stalin said today that the Soviet Union will not attack the capitalistic coun tries. | But he also said, “In order to eliminate the inevitability of wars, it is necessary to destroy imperial isiji.” Stalin said that the capital istic system is disintegrating. In an attempt to cover up their decay, stimulated by loss of mar kets after World War 11, the cap italistic countries are resorting to such devices as the Marshall plan, war in Korea and rearmament, he said. “LIKE DROWNING MAN” They are acting like “a drowning man clutching at a straw,” he com mented. Stalin went to pains to assert that the Soviet Union poses no threat of aggression. His argument was that the crisis in capitalistic countries is inten sifying. His implication was that l Continued On Pae» tw«> GAMES CANCELLED CHAPEL HILL, N. C. (U>)— The University of North Car olina today cancelled its next two football games with the University of Georgia and North Carolina State Col lege,!-after four students were stricken with polio. A personal injury suit for $50,000 was settled out of court for *7,500, and a compromise was reached In an automobile damage suit yester day as Harnett Superior Court con tinued trial of a long list of civil cases. Trial will be resumed today In two long-docketed lasd suits. Rory Matthews is the defendant in both cases. R. G. Johnson and J. H. Wicker and others are plaintiffs suing to secure use of land they claim Matthews occupies without any legal claim. A jury has been selected and evidence will begin today. In the personal injury suit, Bob by Wilson, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil R. Wilson of near Lillington sought to recover $50,000 compensation from Fowler , Radio Company for neck injuries sustain ed in a wreck last July 7. At that time Wilson was a passenger on a company truck driven by Bob Hud gins of Lillington which overturn ed on the River Road around five miles West of Lillington. The driv er, then a company employee, was not injured. LAWYERS GET *2.150 Terms of the out-of-court settle ment, signed late yesterday by 'Continued On Page Two) DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 2, 1952 ■ V zj ■ jfj I ■! ig i 1 ; IM .r L : . 1 MODERN COTTON PICKING Pictured at the top is the new Allis-,Chalmers cotton picking ma chine at work on the farm near BunnlevW, operated by R. E. (Ed) Byrd. Rows at the left have been picked, and the picker is working up the two rows directly in front of the machine. Standing at left is Mr. Byrd and his son Roy is at the right. Bottom photo shows two of the wagons which Byrd provided to haul the lint to the gin. Each holds three bales and the third, not shown, was filled before the end of the first day with the new machine, making pine bales for the day which started at 10:00 a. m. with an hour out for lunch. Mr. Byrd plans to aid other growers in the vicinity with this machine. (Record photos by Louis Dearborn). Bunnlevel Farmer Gets 9 Bales A Day With Picker Faced with the heaviest crop in years, which he esti mates will run to about two bales to the acre, and the shortage of adequate help to pick the cotton, plus the high price per pound for picking, R. E. (Edward) Byrd, prominent Bunnlevel farm operator, decided to try mechanical picking as a so lution. He had heard of the successful use of these machines in this area, and, since he had large holdings planted to cotton, he decided that the purchase of one of these ma chines would be of advantage. After viewing several machines his choice settled on the Allis-Chal mers cotton picker, sold by Pur die Equipment Company of Dunn, and he ordered one of these. The first day’s use of the mech anical picker, sold Mr. Byrd thor oughly on its advantages. Starting at 10:00 a. m., he had seven bales picked and on their way to be ginned by 5:00 p. m. and two more (Continued on page seven) BULLETINS TOKYO (IP) Japanese police today found three crude firebombs in a vacant lot beside tlie wall of the American Embassy compound. The discovery was mad* after a tele phone tip. ATLANTA (IP) Sen. Olin D. Johnston of South Car olina said today Democratic presidential nominee AdPai Stevenson will stump the state before the Nov. 4 general elections. PANMUNJOM, Korea (IP) Communist armistice ne gotiators accused the United Nations today of a “barba rous and cowardly massacre” in killing and wounding prisoners of war who staged a riot in a Cheju Island pri soner of war camp. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (IP) Defenders of the historic (Continued; On Page two) Truman Resorts To Profane Language WITH TRUMAN (IP) President Truman took his “give ’em hell” campaign down the Pacific coast today after snapping angrily that Dwight D. Eisenhower’s statement that a sizeable tax cut was possible was “just a damn lie.” Mr. Truman’s Democratic road show was in high gear and drawing good-sized crowds as he lashed back at Republican critics, label ing them “doubting Thomases and false prophets” for failing to ack nowledge the “sound prosperity” of his administration. The President hammered away at his contention that GOP candidate Eisenhower is unfit for the presi dency because of his military back ground and what Mr. Truman calls his inability saying the cost of : Commute on Page Two> STATE NEWS BRIEFS ROXBORO —IIP— A bloodhound led posse tracked down and recap tured, Coy O'Dell Meadows, 28 of South Boston, Va„ today the fifth of 10 convicts who staged a mass break from the Orange County prison camp Sunday night. CHARLOTTE —UP— About 150 delegates from 75 local unions will gather in Raleigh Saturday for the sth annua] CIO. PAC state conven tion. North Carolina Director Franz E. Daniel announced here today. Gov. W. Kerr Scott will welcome tlie delegates, representatives of some 50,000 CIO members in the state, Daniel said. CHEJU ISLAND. Korea (IP) American soldiers who killed 56 Chinese Communist prisoners of war and wounded 120 in a brief battle yesterday broke up a planned mass outbreak by 5,800 hard-core Reds, it was disclosed today. •MARKETS* EGGS A POULTRY RALEIGH (IP Central North Carolina live poultry: Fryers and broilers steady, sup (Continned On Page two) FIVE CENTS PER COPY Next Election Set ! For October 17th Neither ol' the opposing unions in the National Labor Relations Board election held at Erwin Mills in Erwin yes terday managed to secure the necessary 51 percent majori ty and a runoff election between TJTW-AFL and TVVUA CIC must be held tc decide the issue. The CIO group came out ahead in the voting by a scant eight votes j polling a total of 725. A total of 717 workers voted for the UTW- j AFL. while 498 of the workers voted for no union. A total of 2031 workers were eli- i Bible to vote in the election. Os the votes cast there were 1,943 that j were valid. The ballots declared ■ voided amounted to 26 and there! were 10 challenges. Louis Walberg, who was in Charge j of the election for the NLRB set : a tentative date for the runoff for j October 17, although the election j may be held sooner if arrangements can be made. At the other two mills of the Erwin chain in Durham and Coo- I leemee. the UTW-AFL won a de- i cisive victory. This leaves the mills [ at Erwin the only mill in the chain { where the issue is undecided. At Cooleemee the UTW-AFL j polled a total of 792 votes, while a total of 170 votes went to the TWUA-CIO. There were IS2 votes | cast for no union. At the mills in Durham the pro- j portionate vote was about the same with the UTW-AFL taking a total i of 1,122 of the votes. The TWUA - j CIO polled 382 votes and 171 em- ! ployees voted for no union. PLANNING STRATEGY Today leaders of both unions are , taking a breather before making.; preparations for the coming run/ off. Both sides are planning strategy which, they hope, will enable them to gather the votes which were cast for no union and which may decide the issue between them. The run-off election will deter mine which union will represent most units in the company. Workers at Stonewall and Neuse are represented by the CIO. Stone wall workers did not bolt: Neuse workers bolted but returned to the CIO. PARKER’S STATEMENT Howard Parker UTW-AFL of ficirl in Erwin, stated today that National Labor Relations Board of ficials had declined to hold the runoff election prior to October 17th, and that date has been definitely set for the election. Parker stated that since the com pany has stated publicly that it I will begin negotiations in Durham and Cooleemee as soon as certifi cation is received from the board,” we have been advised that we may expect this certification in a few days and are extremely hopeful 'Continued on page two) T ' V : m JhL Jf I j— * mL : mWK&L %W/ * * l . . J-.. . M x & I mx A d-7 -M LA „ > ir ffl ■3 1 ■' 9 I wmM t ' 1 Mr Z-JLr • Jh •: r ■ PLAN VOTE DRIVE Shown are four of the leaden ia tst “get out the vote” drive to be conducted by the member* of tMft Junior Chamber of Commerce here. They plan to supply car* tag haul voters to register and vote and to make appeals by phone *nf in person to urge voters to come to the polls. Shown are, loft right, seated; Jim McMlUen and Norman Suttles, standing, left ML right, Bob Leak and Woody Carroll. The tag McMlllen holds it W type to be given each voter and reads “I have voted, have (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn). Jj Dunn Stores Open All Day Wednesdays NO. 213 j* l 1 TO SPEAK HERE —F. R. Eld ridge, shown here, a representa . tive of The Watchtower Society, 1 will speak Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Kingdom Hall in Dunn as the feature of a special week of Kingdom Service being ob served by Jehovah’s Witnesses. His subject will be “The Truth— Where To Find It.” Mr. Eldridge, an ordained minister for more than 30 years, is an outstanding speaker and the public is cord i ially invited to hear this free )j Bible lecture. F. N. McLamb, lead er of the group in this area, said today he is expecting a large crowd to hear the outstanding : speaker. Cordell Hull Is 81 Today WASHINGTON OP) • Former ! Secretary of State Cordell Hull to day celebrated the 81st birthday his physicians never thought he would I reach. He showed few signs of severe illness which nearly caused his death only a month ago. His eyes : have recovered their old sparkle and his mood is as chipper as ever. The venerable elder statesman, ! sometimes called the "father of the United Nations.” still has to spend most of his time in his Bethesda Naval hospital suite. ' | The State Department said he is ' “making a good recovery" but can l not have visitors yet. So there was 'no special birthday celebration.
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