+WEATHER+ Partly cloudy and warm today and tonight. Wednesday mostly cloudy and mild. Showers west por tion. Showers and colder Wednesday. With “Prestone” Anti-Freeze You’re set, you’re safe, you’re sure. * VOLUME II X mr Ji 3 T-DAY AT HAND, HIS DAYS NUMBERED Thanksgiving, tra ditional turkey day, is at hand but the big gobbler being held by Charles Wade of G. and W. Poultry iCo. in Dunn doesn’t seem to realize his days are numbered. Mr. Wade’s company has processed thousands of turkeys for the Thanksgiving holidays and his staff today was still busy dressing the big birds til A will form the center piece for the holiday feast. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart). 9 New Ag Secretary Not A Po lit icon SALT LAKE CITY, UtaJi (IP) Ezra Taft Benson will move into the office of secretary of Agriculture vrtth littie .. A .i politician, but with the benefit of more two decades of association with the country’s farm problem^.! He was appointed yesterday by President- elect Eisenhower. As executive secretary of the j National Council of Fanner Co- i operatives hom 1939 to 1944, Ben son picked up an intimate knowl-1 edge of farm problems in all sec- j tions of the country. Friends describe the 53-year-old I •Westerner as mild-mannered but j dynamic. One Utah farm leader said Ben- i son “emphatically does not think! Mrs. Evans Manager t Of The Fashion Shop Twenty years of experience in selling dresses and ac cessories and in managing dress shops have given Mrs. Virginia Evans a thorough knowledge of what womeen will find most attractive in these lines. This knowledge is reflected in the array of beautiful frocks to be found at the newly opened Fashiqn Shop on North Wilson Avenue, of which she is manager. t“Of course,” she admits, "all of our staple lines are of the nationally advertised brands, but this is only common-sense merchandising.” Her late husband was an advertising agency executive, and she realizes the value of advertising. SIN,CE HIGH SCHOOL Mrs. Evans has been in this type Trying To Sell Secrets Umstead Names •Taylor As Aide DURHAM OP) Gov. elect William B. Umstead today ap pointed W. Frank Taylor of Golds boro, former speaker of the State House of Representatives, as his legislative counsel. Taylor has served in the State Senate and has represented Wayne county 12 years in the House. “I am sure that his advice, _ counsel and experience will be of W tremendous help to me during the next General Assembly,” Umstead, said in announcing the appoint ment. ii TELEPHONES: 3117 - 3118 - 3119 i the government should guarantee a profit to everyone, regardless of efficiency . . . but he realizes that j farmers cannot be set aside while the government guarantees mini mum wages to labor and subsidies ito mines and transportation. He I feels the policy has to be consistent j and agriculture is justified in ask- I ing for its share.” FIRST MORMON Benson will be the first member I of the regular Mormon church to I (Continued on page five) of business since her graduation from high school. She has been in stores in Columbia, S. C., Greens boro and Smithfield, the latter the main store owned by L. E. Fer rell, owner of The Fashion Shop here. A native of Four Oaks, while working in the Smithfield store she commuted between there and the nearby Johnston County Seat. Aiding her in the store here are Mrs. Joe Wilkins and Mrs. Wilson Stanley, both Well known in Dunn. TOKYO (IF An American Air Force sergeant was held incommuni cado today on a charge of trying to sell secret information about the 5-86 Sabrejet fighter to the Com munists in Korea. Court martial charges were filed Nov. 18 against S-Bgt. Giuseppe Cascia, 34, of Tucson, Ariz., a vet eran of nine years of service in the Air Force. * Cascio’s arrest on Sept. 21 cli maxed six weeks of work by Air Force Intellgence officers. It was the first case of alleged conspira cy with the enemy by Americans serving in Korea. * '' Cascio was specifically accused of “attempting and conspiring to sell military intelligence to the enemy.” Conviction could mean (Continued On Page two) (EJte ftaihj JL ttmb George Meany Named AFL President | Supreme Court Just Beside School issue WASHINGTON (IP) The I Supreme Court has indicated i it wants all the help it can get in deciding whether to outlaw racial segregation in public schools. Monday the high bench accepted a fifth case dealing with the issue, this time from Delaware Negro parents have been successful in state courts in a challenge to Del aware’s segregation practices They obtained orders requiring im mediate admission of their chil dren to Claymont High School heretofore attended only by white children, and to a white elemen tary school in Hockessin. State au thorities appealed. TO BE AROUND DEC. 8 The case, and others dealing with segregation inn Kansas. Vir ginia, South Carolina and the Dis trict of Columbia, will be argue? before the court during the week of Dec. 8. The four cases already on the docket were all decided by federal courts and were lost by the Negro complaints. In addition, the court Monday took the unusual step of formally asking Kansas to step up and pre sent its views as to the constitu tionality of the state’s segregation law. The statute does not requirr separate schools for Negroes and whites but permits them in large cities. The Kansas case originated in Topeka. Three Hurt In Two-Car Crash Three persons were hospitalized during the weekend at Lee County 1 Hospital in .Sanford following a -gblllgwn 'PI 1 mi' Tffl 'Vai 1 ly -“Friday ion NC 87 eight miles South of Sanford near the Lee-Hamett county line. | Patrolman R. B. Leonard said a . 1952 Pontiac, going South and ; driven by George A. Dippolito, 22 1 of Ft. Bragg hit a 1947 Studebaker j travelling in the opposite direction. The driver of the Studebaker was | Eugene C. Wright of Olivia, also I a serviceman. j Wright suffered cuts on the face [ and bruises. Betty Jean Wright, 22, passenger in the same car, was cut (Continued On Page Four) Ballentine To Speak In Dunn Commissioner of Agriculture L. Y. Ballentine will speak in Dunn on December 8, to a group composed of eptton ginners and cotton pro ducers from four counties in this area, it was announced today by Clifford Hardy, executive-secretary of the Carolina Ginners’ Association. •MARKETS* EGGS AND POULTRY RALEIGH (IF Central North Carolina live poultry: Fryers or broilers steady, supplies light to moderate but adequate for fair de mand. Heavy hens steady, supplies adequate to plentiful. Prices at farm up to 10 a. m. today: Fryers or broilers 2 1-2-3 lbs 32. Heavy hens 24-26. Eggs: Receipts about adequate, demand good. Prices paid produc ers and handlers fob local grad ing stations: A large 62, A medium and B large 51-52. Mellons’ Staff To Hear Goorch Carl Goerch, popular Raleigh, radio commentator, will address j employees of Wfillons Candy Com- i pany at their annual Christmas j banquet here on Friday night, December 19th. Plans for the event, which will be attended by the company’s 250 employees and a number of special guests, were announced today by BHI Marshbum, sales manager, who Is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Marshbum will also serve as (Continued on page two) DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 25. 1952 WOMAN ACQUITED IN SLAYING OF HUSBAND—EuIa Mae Brown, 30-vear-old Dunn Negro woman, is shown here as she was questioned last night by Policeman Aaron Johnson in the slaying of her hus band. She said she shot him accidentally after he advanced on her with a knife. A coroner’s jury aequited her of blame. Beside the woman is her brother. (Daily Record Photo). Negro Woman Kills Husband Zollie Brown, 38-year-old Negro plumber’s helper, was shot to death early last night by his wife as he was advancing on her with an o pen knife. A jury impaneled by Coroner Grover C. Henderson heard the testimony of several witnesses and ruled) ttyat the shooting was acci dental. Tie slaying occurred sb-wtly ' before six o'clock at the couple’s home on North Fayetteville Avenue and climaxed Weeks of domestic difficulty between them. Eula Mae Brown, about 30, testified at the inquest conducted at Payton’s Funeral Home that her husband had been cursing and abusing her and started toward her with an open knife, threatening to kill her. DAUGHTER HANDED GUN She said their 11-year-old daugh ter, Beulah Mae Brown, pushed her out the kitchen door and hand ed her the .32 calibre pistol to pro tect herself. The mother said that she didn’t want the pistol and was handing it back to her daughter when it went off. The load struck Brown in the left chest and he fell to the ground mortally wounded. The woman said she couldn’t re member pulling the trigger and had no intentions of killing her husband. Policeman Aaron Johnson testi fied that the woman was hysterical when he arrived on the scene. He said he found the gun under the tree, where she told him she threw it, and that he found the open knife beside the dead man’s body. STORY VERIFIED The daughter testified and cor roborated her mother’s story. There were no other eye witnesses. Alice Melvin, a neighbor, testi fied that just before the shooting the couple’s six-year-old son, Lar ry, ran over to her house and told her his daddy was trying to cut his mother. Shortly afterwards, she (Continued on page two) BIJIIETIXS WASHINGTON (IP): The White House said that Mrs. David H. Wallace, President Truman’s 90-year-old mother-in-law remained in a critical condition today. Maj. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, Mr. Truman’s personal physician, said there was no change from yesterday. Mrs. Wallace suffered a stroke last Saturday. HANOI. Indo-China (IP) French forces turned the massed fire-power of their land and air forces against 25.000 Communist Viet Minh troops who were grouping today for a second and more powerful attack on the last ditch French stronghold at Nasan. BUDAPEST, Hungary (IP) Hungary demanded the j immediate recall of the ranking Yugoslav diplomat in Bud i apest today, accusing him of using his legation as a “spy | ing center.?’ COMOX, B. C. (IP) Eight Canadian airmen were kil led last night when a Lancaster bomber under shot the runway at this coastaß air base and crashed into a swamp. SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, 111. (IP) _ Jet ace Maj. James Jabara, with six Russian-built MIGs to his credit, (Continued on Page- Eight) U. S. Super forts Blast Supply Depot SEOUL, Korea (IP 1 —Okinawa based American super fortresses blastema CrrJnaun’ pbpp yit >ot a" Hoeo lan ; aA iritis K*'ano Austialiah soldiers hai'v.seu Chi nese outposts on the western front with commando-like raids. Bad weather, which stalled Allied war plane missions yesterday, cleared slightly today and fighter bombers hit road and rail supply lines and enemy line positions. The 12 superfortresses took off from Okinawa and dropped 500 pound bombs through a solid over cast before dawn today to wreck the 18-acre Red supply depot east of Pyongyang. B-26 raiders bombed two bridges, 1 Bullet-Proof Guard Os Ike Is Arranged .... SEOUL, Korea (IP) —U. N. Commander Gen. Mark Clark flew back to Tokyo today after making “concrete” arrangements to safeguard Dwight D. Eisenhower during the President-elect’s forthcoming visit to Korea. Clark spent 24 hours in Korea in secret conferences with Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Eighth Army commander, and Lt. Gen Glenn O. Barcus, Fifth Air Force com mander, the two men whose re sponsibility it will be to see that Eisenhower has “bullet-proof pro tection.” “We naturally discussed plans for General Eisenhower’s visit,” Clark said at an air base near Seoul. over which Red supply and ammu nition convoys moved and de stroyed 85 trucks. Clouds hampered these operations also. On the ground raiders from the Royal Fusiliers and the Royal Austrailian Regiment smashed through Chinese lines overlooking the Sami River Valley east of Yonchsn shortly after midnight 10 a m. Mon. and captured an outpost. : 1 “Concrete arrangements have . been made, you bet your life. We ■; are all set to take care of it. “That’s all I can sav,” Clark said. (Continued On Page 4) m : m , MMi - V— —ML* rjß r J I T HARNETT SCOUT LEADERS I— The annual meeting of the Harnett County Boy Scout District was held last night at Buie’s Creek, pictured here are some of the leaders. Left to right are, seated. A. R. Marley, Erwin, retiring commissioner; Glenn L. Hooper. Jr. of Dunn, new county chairman; John Follett, Buie’s Creek, new commistioner; standing. Scout Executive Spurgeon Gaskins, Raleigh; Retiring Chairman Waite Howard of Doip; and Norman Suttles of Dunn. (Daily Record Photo <