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Mostly fair and act much tem perature change today and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. \ ■ With “Protono” Astl-Freese Tea’se eri, you’re safe, you’re ■are. VOLUMN 3 PI /!' ' It'* wnF I JUST BEFORE THE RACE Herb ThomM of O lirim, winner in yesterday’s big Harnett Speedway event, is pictured here Jot* before the race chatting with a group of friends beside his famed "Fab- 1 ulous Hornet.” Thomas won SI,OOO cash prise befor e a crowd of more than 7,000 spectators. Left to right ar * : J n ? on,#s ’ b!s broU >«’. Earl, an unidentified friend, John Sorrell, Jr., owner of Harnett Speedway, i and Robert Strickland of Dunn. Thomas was Grand National Champion in 1951 and won eight straight .i!!*.. *” ace * * asf year *° en< * °P »*®ond for the season. He was ahead all the way In yesterday’s race. (Dally Record Photo). 1 Thomas Is Stock Car Winner Herb Thomas of Olivia, 1951 stock car racing cham pion, took first place and a SI,OOO purse Sunday after noon before a crowd of more than 7,000 people in a NAS . CAR-sanctioned Grand Na i tional Circuit race at Har nett Speedway. Thomas, who won first place in eight strait races last year and who ran second at the recent Daytona Beach event, won an easy victory Sunday afternoon in the first big time race ever held in Harnett and the first in North Carolina this vers dll -the way and when the race ended he was three Ups ahead of the . second car. , thf the time triah, he also cvn» out first, rounding the beautiful half-mile track in only $4.67 se conds. Dick Rathman of Los Angeles, also driving a 1952 Hudson, won se cond place and third place was won by Lee Petty of Randleman, driv ing a 1963 Dodge. t Finishing right behind in the following ord-r were: Dick Paaswater, Hershell Bucha nan, Mike Klapak, Tim Flock, Ray , (trou tinned on page two) Teenagers Caught Operating Still They’re starting bootlegging at a young age..them days. Two 18-year-old Meadow Town l> ship youths were captured when deputies raided a 56-gallon copper stUl In Meadow Township, Just across the ft* In Johnston Coun ty. Matthew Capps and Luby Cole were placed under ISM bond for their appearance In the Johnston County Recorder’s Court to face trial an charges of possession of the still for the purpose of manu facturing bootleg Uqner. t * Deputies E. O. Beasley and Eis aleen Creech reported that a third youth escaped. The officers pour ed out about 56 faOoas of beer. — : —•— {£, r..'V, v*v-. ,‘<f- -v • , /;£\ . a y : . TELEPHONES: 3117.3118 - 3119 Strickland Elected Rotary President John F. Strickland, well-known > Dunn busines man -nd popular civ- I ic and church leader, has been elec- I ted president of the Dunn Rotary J Club for the coming Jlear. Election of Mr. Strickland, who I has been active in the chib fo.* I years, took place at tha annual or- I panizational meeting c* the civic I automatical becomes rice PMrifj dent Os thfeclub. New direetors of : the c]ub are: fi ! President Strickland. BIQ '■ Cobb, F Willard Mixon, Herman Oreen, litw rence Baldwin and Paul Walter. Re tiring directors are J. Edwin John son, Carl Fltchett and A. B. John son. ©!--' ... '<• •’ \m Herman Oreen will Continue as secretary of tha club, a, post which he has held for several years. IN CLUB SINCE 1641 President Strioklahd Has been act (Continued On Page Five) YoungNegroßurglar Bound Over Today ‘ Although 18-year-oM Edward Mc- Koy, the latest one-man crime wave in Dunn, had confessed to six bur glaries, and even led Chief of Police A. A. Cobb to the residences he had entered, his attorney. D. C. Wilson, pleaded the youthful Negro not guilty at his hearigg in Dunn Recorder’s Court this morning. Attorney Wilson contended that since in none of the cases heard, hit client had forced an entrance, that his crime was not a felony, but that he was only guilty of larceny, a misdemeanor. DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 9, 1935 , . ' 'Kt ■ ■ ipN m&Wi * JOHN F STRhHKJM&P “However, Judge H. Paul Strick land produced a ruling upheld by the Supreme Court that said, in effect, that entering a residence, whether the door wps open or not, constituted breaking and entering. “People don’t have to barricade their homes in order to protect their property," the judge declared. Charges on only three of the war , rants were heard this morning. At the home of F. N. McLamb! Mc- Koy was charged with stealing a wrist watch and $22 in cash; at (Continued on Page 7) Wilmington Has $5 Million Fire Stalin Funeral' This Kerning In Below Zero Sold By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff. Correspondent MOSCOW (IP) Russia’s new premier, Georgi M. Ma lenkov, speaking at the fun eral of Josef Stalin, said to day the Soviets wanted to collaborate with the Western world but would keep their armed 'forces strong. Speaking from the rostrum of the Mausoleum where Stalin used to review Red army troops, Malen kov told ttv thousands assembled for the last rites for the Soviet leader: “Our sacred duty is to strength en by every means the mighty So viet armed forces. We must keep them in a state of fighting pre paredness for crushing rebuff to any attack of the enemy.” Malenkov Minister of Interior and Security Lavrenti Beria and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov eulogized Stalin. FIRST STATEMENT Malenkov used the funeral trib ute to Stalin to make his first major foreign and domestic policy statement. Red Square was a veritable forest of flowers flown in from the Soviet Union’s sub-tropical areas. The walls and buildings along the route the funeral pro cession followed from Hunter’s Row and the Union House to Red Square were banked with white and red roses, tulips, mimosa and narcissus. The weather was below zero and an .uncanny silence covered the ( (Continued on Page 7) &g22«e Cover - features Dunn A photqgraph of Dunn’s safety signboard i appears on the front npver of Electrical world, a trade magazine for the xijgptric industry. ||the March 2 issue of the maga featured the “Finer Caro contest sponsored by Caro- Jl jia Power & Light Company. Three Ifcide pages were devoted to pic of outstanding projects for | Community improvement. Dunn was singled out for atten tion because of the Junior Chamber of Commerce campaign for traffic safety. A picture of the Jaycees’ lighted billboard appeared on the magazine cover. Dunn received a SIOO prize for honorable mention among the towns competing in the largest popluatlon classification. This group included both top I money winners Hartsville, S. I C., and Sanford, N. O. Record To Sponsor Childrens Contest A contest to select this section’s outstanding babies and small children will be sponsored by The Daily Record, it was announced today. Decision to sponsor the con test was reached after many re quests for such an event were received by The Record. Any child no te seven years old mar be entered in the con tort. and the winners will be sel ected by an impartial board of jndges who are non-residents of the area. BULLETINS WASHINGTON (IF- The SuorenM Court convenes today after a four-week recess, with raOtkl segregation in , public schools among the issues that mty be decided. Ar . guments on five cases testing the constitutionality of ' school segregation were held in December. I WASHINGTON UP, A bUI to admit Hawaii as the 49th state faced a strange coalition of opponents in the House today. The administration-backed measure was cal led uo for floor debate at noon e.s.t. Republican leaders insisted it would past by a “com- WASFTNGTJptIIfI Gen. James A. Van Fleet has ad j vocated 'liiS- of atomic weapons in Korea. He ( TkS* trial . „ -- ~g - ARMY PISTOL TEAM HERE Members of the Camp Lee, Va. pistol team stopped in Dunn over the weekend with First Lt. Howard V. Hudson, a member of the team. The expert marksmen were en route to Tampa, Florida to participate in the Midwinter National Pistol Matches March 10th through 14tb. They’re shown here doing some practice aiming for the benefit of The Record’s photographer id the yard of Lt. Hudson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Hudson, on Dunn Route 3. Left to right are: Captain W. J. Dixon of Kenosha, Wis., Lt. CoL Elmo Prescott of WrightsviUe, Ga., Lt. Hudson and Lt. Col. George V. Grisselman of Washington. For news and photos of other area service men, see Service Men’s Roundup elsewhere in today’s edition of The Record. (Daily Record Photo). Assembly Begins Ninth Full Week RALEIGH OB The General Assembly begins its ninth full week of the 1953 session tonight, and the thoughts of the legislators were ; beginning to turn toward adjourn- ] ment and going home. \ The lawmakers will at least have : to get the appropriations bill,nut of i the way before they quit. House s Speaker & T. Boat Jr. predicted ing <jf tBS? busot.BMnov (Mil the legislature 'jjiould be able to ad journe by the second week in April. 1 With the session entering the late ; (Continued on page two, Mrs. Twyford’s Mother Buried Fun-eral services ware held in Chesterfield, 8. C„ Monday after noon for Mrs. D. H. Laney, Sr., 79, mother of Mrs. W. H. Twyford, Sr. of Dunn. Mrs. Laney died early Sunday afternoon at, : her home in Ches terfield after an illness of several weeks. The services were held at St. Paul’s Methodist Church and bur ial was in the Chesterfield Cemetery. Mrs. Laney was a member of a ! prominent South Carolina family. She was a member of the Order (Continued Op Page Four) There la no charge for entering the contest and photos of ail the babies entered will be published In The Dally Record. There will be two divisions, one for babies six months to three years rid and one for children ages S to 7 years. PRIZES TO BE GIVEN The first prise winner tn each division will receive a beautiful gold-plated engraved loving eup; second place winners in each div ision will receive a beautiful 11x14 (Continued On Page Five) ’ FIVE CENTS PER COPY Dunn A A Unit Is Planning Banquet More than 700 people are ex pected to gather in the Dunn Ar mory Friday night at 7 o’clock for the third annual banquet of the Dunn Chapter of Alcoholics Ano nymous. ‘ U. is the biggest event held in 'l|p»to,664ri-year aqd a record at (Ms ywi”r Members of the arrangements, committee reported today that al ready approximately 500 tickets have been sold and facilities have been arranged for 756. Practically all of Dunn’s civic organizations Rotarians, Lions Jaycees. various woman's groups and fraternal organizations—have voted to meet Jointly with the AA unit for this occasion. An added attraction a tthis year’s banquet will be an address bv one of the top orators in the national AA who will fly here from Bristol, Ta. for the event. New Area Is Being Searched For Plane GREENWOOD, «. C. OPt South Carolina Civil Air Patrol planes searching lor a small private nlane missing a week and a half, today shifted their base of operations here and resumed the hunt. The plane, a red and, silver Beech craft Bonanza flown by Worth Stewart, wealthy Charlotte. N. C„ theatre' executive, disappeared ten days ago on a flight from Jackson ville, Fla., to Charlotte. (Mrs. Ralph Johnson of Dunn, sis ter-inlaw of Mr. Stewart, returned to Dunn last night from Charlotte, where she has been for the past week with the family. “We wont give up until every possible hope is exhausted.” said Mrs. Johnson, who wp-essed appre c'ation for the many messages sent the family). Despite 36 to 40 mile an hour winds, search planes scoured the area from Charleston to Myrtle Beach and from the coast inland to the Santee-Cooper basin over the weekend. REWARD OFFERED Mrs. Stewart offered a SI,OOO re . ward to anyone supplying Infor- I ♦MARKETS* 1 HOGS RALEIGH RB Ho* market** » Rocky Mount: Steady at 30,00 for I good and choice 100-340 lit. bar -9 rows and gilts. i ■ Tarboro, Siler City, Wilmington, Washington, New Bern, Mt. Olive. . Wilson. Dunn, Goldsboro. Smithfleld. Lumber-ton. Marlon. Fayetteville Florence. Clinton' Slightly strong , or at 30.00. • Kinston: Steady at M.W e ' ? ■ 1-1 THE RECORD GETS RESULTS DR. SAM D. TO SPEAK Every year the AA chapter has been trying to secure Dr. Sam D. Anonymous for their banquet, but have been unable to secure him previously. According to the. rules of the organization, members of former pastor of somA of tfife Jarg est churches of the cb'untry in his denomination. Dr. Sam D. is in great demand as a speaker and tra vels from coast-to-coast addressing AA banquets and other large gath erings. Dunn citizens who heard him at Fayetteville several years ago have been singing his praises since. CUTHRELL TO . PRESIDE Dr. George F. Cuthrell, pastor .of Hood Memorial Christian Church and president of the Dunn Minis terial Association, will serve as toastmaster at the banquet and will Introduce the speaker. (Continued on Page 7) mation leading to the location of her husband’s plane. A search party cut its way 10 miles through thick forests up the slope of Cold Mountain near Can ton yesterday In hopes of finding Stewart’s plane. But the wreckage previously spotted from the air turn ed out to be that of an Air Force B-25 which crashed several years ago. Col. Norman Young of the Civil Air Patrol said the area was a “reg ular graveyard of airplanes” with five old crashes scattered around the mountains. McCarthy Nam Convention Head l Blshoo waters four iue rktSn. 1 NO. Three Blocks On I Waterfront Are I Destroyed Today j WILMINGTON, N. C. (0) I —A fire raged out of control || for nearly four hours on thl | waterfront here today, doing .i damage estimated at $5,000;- 000 as it burned out a thredr .' block area. Thirteen firemen were injured, five of them seriously. Many of the injuries came as drums of sodium nitrate exploded, throwing flaming ’ timbers and knocking down £ walls. The wind-whipped blaze sweM Jj through at least six buildings at thft M terminals which handle the maja* * ;| part of general cargo moved through this port. It was reported undeg'|S control but still burning at 1:30 J p. m. . .; Destroyed were three large warlg'/J houses of the Wilmington TermiftlEfll Warehouse Co., several smalle* buildings and equipment owned bjr .Jj the same firm, docks and equips ment of the Wilmington Shtppti^'PS Co., owned by the same interest*, V and a huge sugar warehouse witjf M a value of $1,000,000 at the se%B d board terminal. State Ports Authority officials saMpl the blaze was a “major blow" the growing shipping industry henSfl SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS ujj Pockets of gas and highly-com bustible fertilizer materials touched m off a series of explosions which rat- -M tied dishes and knocked cans off 9 grocery shelves In downtpwn Wil- a mington for more than an hour, Destroyed was a full warehouMyl containing 25,000 tons of bulk eod-j J ium nitrate valued at $65 a too, s .Jja When heated the fertiliser «a- || terial gives off oxygen- and feeds J (Continued on pace |« |f| ■■■■ WASHINGTON (W administration today doned efforts to recomm«#H changes in the Taft-H«tl*s|« law until after congressiflaiM hearings are held on thffij The decision was disclosed Senate Republiw.a leader RofaejgS A. Taft, co-author of the controver*J| :-ial law, after he and other congressional leaders conferred the White House with President 88(19 enhower and Secretary c t Labor'll Martin P. Durkin. 'I Taft told reporters the adrainttg tration has given up the idea mi trying to recommend chan*es|jH this time. He said that Durkte agreed to the delayed approacfc.’lH “I think it was generally agtMH that the proper approach is to have : these »| i an official administration bill, *2 ! such to revise the law. Durkin has encountered difftctt«j| : in getting labor-management agree* i ment on prooosed change#. Tl|t£S administration’s first effort to mlh ■ ieve agreement ended in tallure la#S i week when Durkin’s tripartite visorv committee broke up tn.dt#| agreement over procedure bI.JiM 1 commending :k i 15-member group favored tekjjp 1 ■ . i vote on nronosed changes fettfce tMlj i c 0 »tl mie4 PIC
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