Thanks qiving .-WEATHER-: Cloudy and colder tonight, fair and cold Friday. With “Prestone” Anti-Freeze You're set, you’re safe, you’re sure. VOLUME II liMl V ■ DUNN PILGRIM Pretty little Margaret Lewder, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lowder of Dunn, today was celebra ting Thanksgiving in the old fashioned way— pilgrim costume and all. The pilgrim costume was sent to her by her granny, Mrs. James J. Longhi of Plymouth, Mass. Margaret is a first grader in the Marks School here. (Daily Record Photo by Mrs. George Marks). Ike Leads Nation In Carving Turkey NEW YORY (IP)— President-elect Eisenhower romped with his grandchildren and carved the turkey today on a Thanksgiving holiday that contrasted sharply with his grim chore ahead, a visit to the Korean battlefront. The Republican president-to-be took a day off from the bustle of his midtown headquarters to remain, 'according to members of his staff, at his residence on Morningside Drive. Removed for the day, at least from the task of putting together an administration and from the tense planning for his Korean trip, Eisenhower devoted himself to his family. James C. Hagerty, Eisenhower’s press secretary, said the president elect planned to remain at the house all day, but would have a 'heavy list of official engagements tomorrow. Celebrating Thanksgiving with 10 Sentenced To Death For Treason .VIENNA, Austria (IP)— Former Communist Czech For eign Minister Vladimir Clemerftis, Rudolf Slansky, once chief of the Czech Red party, and nine other one-time party and government leaders were sentenced to death today on charges of treason and espionage, Prague Radio said. 1 Three other defendants were sen tenced to life imprisonment, th( radio said. The 14 defendants were found guilty on all charges of treason “espionage and attempting to over throw the Red Regime of Presl dent Element Gottwald, Rrague Radio sakL' TO BE HANGED Sentenced -to be hanged with dementis and Slansky were: Bed rich Geminder, former deputy sec retary general and once the Krem lin’s international representative ir Czechoslovakia; Gen. Karl Svab former deputy minister of national _ security; Lt. Gen. Bedrlch Relcin. W former deputy minister of defense and chief of intelligence; Ludwlk Frejka, former economic adviser to Gottwald; Rudolf Margolius, for mer deputy minister for foreign TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 ! the former general and his wife, > Mamie, will be her mother, Mrs. , Elvira Doud of Denver. , The center of attraction, how : ever, will be the three grandchil dren of tl>e President-elect - Dav ; id, 4; Barbara Anne, 3; and the - baby of the family, Susan, 10 : months. They are the children of , Maj. and Mrs. John Eisenhower, s Mrs. Eisenhower will be on hand with the children today, but the son > of the President-elect is on duty ■ in Korea. ■ TURKEY AND TRIMMINGS i Haggerty said Thanksgiving din > ner would star the traditional turkey and customary trimmings. l r«ntininM on nwr twa> trade; Andre Simone, former writ er for the official Czech Com munist newspaper Rude Pravo, whose real name is Otto Katz; Jo sef Frank, another deputy secretary general; Otto Sling, former party chief in the Brno District and Otto Fisl,- former ambassador to East ern Germany. Sentenced to life imprisonment according to the Prague Radio were: Arthur London and Vavro HaJ du, former deputy foreign minis ters under Clementis, and Evzen Loebel, a former deputy foreign trade minister. Os the defendants only Clemen tis. Svab and Frank are not Jews. The sentences followed six days of testimony in which the defen dants pleaded guilty to treason, espionage, murder and attempted murder, Prague Radio reported. Wxt Jlailg jLittxxtfr 14 Women Die In W. Ya. Hospital Fire Holiday Turkey - - But With The Navy WITH U. S. 3RD DIVISION, Korea IIP) Cpl. Harry Wise of Spring Hills, Pa., chosen as the "outstanding soldier” in his re giment, got his award today— a thanksgiving dinner with the Navy. Icy Highways Boost Toll Os Holiday Deaths By UNITED PRESS Icy, wind-whipped high ways left in the wake of the season’s first blizzard helped to boost the toll of Thanks giving traffic deaths today. A United Press tabulation showed that at least 22 persons had died in traffic accidents. New York and Indiana topped the nation with four each. Deaths caused solely by the Wiz ard rase to 31. The count jumped sharply upward when four persons drowned in Michigan’s St. Clair River. , „ . , Authorities said the four victims returning to an Indian colony home on Walpole Island in a small boat when eight-foot waves lashed by the howling winds capsized the craft. BUZZARD BLOWING OUT The blizzard which ripped into an area from the Texas Panhandle northward through Minnesota ap peared to be blowing itself out. The heavy snowfall abated, but gale winds remained to pack the snow into waist high drifts. A nine-inch snowfall that hit Minneapolis nearly wiped out the city’s street maintenance fund. City Engineer Hugo Erickson said the snow cost the city about SIO,OOO an inch. New Packard On Display Friday The 1953 Packard, acclaimed as America’s most exciting car, will go on display here Friday morning in the showrooms of Strickland’s Auto Service on East Broad Street. “It is the most beautiful auto mobile we have even been privi leged to show,” declares Robert Strickland, who recently attended a showing of the new Packard at the Waldorf in New York. Accompanying him to the show ing were Mrs. Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Strickland, Jr., and Mrs. Charles McLamb, ar Howdy Youngblood. MANY NEW FEATURES The 1953 Packard features many new engineering improvements, along with beautiful new designs interiors and other features which will make the car in great de mand. It’s a big car value at medium car cost. Packard has the world’s highest compression engine, and Packard is the only car that has Ultramat ig, ,'the automotive drive proved unsurpassed for super-smooth per formance. Packard offers many body styles and the most fashionable inter iors. ENGINEERING HIGHLIGHTS Following are listed some of the 1953 engineering highlights for Packard Clippers and Deluxe Clip pers: ENGINE L-head, eight cylin ders in line. Specially treated alum inum alloy, steel strut pistons. Re movable precision-type main and connecting rod bearings. 14 mm. spark plugs. All capacity: 7 quarts. Deluxe Clipper: displacement 327 (Conctmien ” HARDER TO HANDLE - State Fire Marshall C. A. Raper said the inmates were “harder to handle than normal people.” One patient, he said, hid under a bed j and defied rescue attempts. The State Budget Commission recently approved a request for |. $1,000,000 to fire-proof the building i and three others at the hospital. The request was to be submitted to the Legislature in January. The building housed 295 patients —77 elderly women on the first floor, 121 violent cases on the sec ond floor and 97 retarded cases on ! (Continued on page two) Hux To Durn Two Dibles ROCKY MOUNT. N. C. OP) A Baptist minister declared a “holv war” today on the new revised standard version of the Bible anc 1 said he now plans to burn twr j copies for the benefit of an ex pected overflow crowd here Sun- j day. The Rev. Martin Luther Hux of Temple Baptist Church said he would burn one copy inside his church and then go outside and burn another for those who can’t get in. Hux said he has received letters from as far away as Canada and California and expects many (Continued On Page two' Edwards To Head Jolly Boys Club The Jolly Boy’s Club is the temporary name of the new club a group of local boys organized in a meeting at Char lie’s Grill Tuesday evening. Aims of the club are to promote ] better youth recreation in their :ommunity and to provide whole- i some entertainment for it’s mem bers. The club now has eleven charter , members. Other boys will be sent i cards inviting them to join if they j wish to. Officers for the club were elect- j ed as follows: Pres., Eskiel Edwards; j vice-Pres.: Louis Strickland: secre- ; tary, C. W. Surles; treasurer Frank; Campbell and sergeant-at-arms, , Raymon West. The group elected Mr. Empie Hall as the sporsor of the club. QUITE A DIFFERENCE KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —HD— The Thanksgiving bill of (are in county jail here today: Chicken and all the trimmings. The menu in city jail: Bologna. The Daily Recorc Gets Results NO. 252 f:. ;.S PBk I '*■ * * lm.l § lliflfc >*#***» saßl Brt A .HI M sHHHBHi^Hi TAKES NEW POST Cor poral Francis Hall, pictured here, has accepted a position as spec ial detective for the Atlantic Coast Line and this week is end ing his duties with the Dunn po lice department. Corporal Hail has served with the Dunn foree for about two years. Sheriff Salmon Is Fast Worker » Some stolen goods that were taken from the Walter Tucker Store in Shawtown were recovered before the robbers had time to make use of any of them it was reported by Sheriff W. E. Salmon today. Sheriff Salmon said the SBI agents are still working on the Turlington safe robbery which took place at the R. M. Turlington place in Lillington. Robbers carted off the safe and knocked it open after finding it to difficult to open at the Turlington place. None of the valuable papers in the safe were missing when the safe was found on the Old River Road. The sheriff thinks all the thieves x ; will be captured soon. Today Happy One For This Fellow NEW YORK (IP Gustave Kopezcel. 42. had the “happiest Thanksgiving of my life” today. A judge yesterday set aside a five-to-20-year sentence Kortex cel was given in 1944 for robbery on grounds Kopezcel had been mistakenly listed as a second of fender. The court said actually Ko pezcel had served six years more than necessary for his crime. As Kopezcel left the courtroom. Judge Louis Goldstein gave him a seven-pound turkey. JHT ' Wm ' nn ? I - 3 \ \3 K SKILL EDWAKDB