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+WEATHER+ y. : Considerable dottdtness And Wftrn through Saturday. Scattered show era«and thunderstorms, Saturday. VOLUMN 3 Bradley Says Defense Spending To Continue High mm--- - BWi WiFf n/ a |BH<' r HRl* - v ■;, s?'!■£' 1/ %| t MffcfcH it %, ■ Be m p-/§ - J&n m MmSm- v n k . jriffiKjggONHlK .^^^^^^■; : ::|:;\;;o’;B>' ; 1 r SB I .. IV tfitog-gj; ■■Pr 9 ■ ■gK| M W • . t xf- M ■.•• hHh >cw gHp?? " | «k* ’■» * w~iii»**"' 1 " y, | 9 • " ;•• '"P 1 NEW LIONS CLUB OFFICERS President-elect Jesse Capps an d other new officers of the Dnnn Lions Club are shown here, after their election last night. Left to right seated; are George Arth nr Jackson, third rice president; President Capps; and Jack Jackson, first vice president; standing; Engene Rood, secretary-treasurer;' Fr ank Belote, second vice president; L. A. Monroe, Lion Tamer; Jack Henuningway, Tailtwister; Raymond Oysirtle, Jdhn Thornton and Nathan Cannady, all new directors. (Daily Record Photo). Pearson Ordered 'To Pay s9,i) WASHINGTON (lfl A fed eral court jury today ordered Drew Pearspn, columnist and radio commentator, to pay $50,000 dam age to former Asst. Atty. Gen. Nor man 8. Littell. < Court-aßaehes said the awsjrfr. *h&.S e «S*St & 3^?iiSiU who bays hflfc w ptior libel action in Us life, announced promptly t{iat the wfll appeal. The jury decision came after three -datfa ,of deliberation and 2 1-2 weeks of testimony. COLUMN AND RADIO Littefl sued Pearson for state ments fa a newspaper column bf April 10, 1948, and a broadcast of May 2, 1960. In. bis column Pearson said the Justice Department vyas casting a; • quizzical eye” at Littell because 1 of reports he was acting as pro pagandist for the Dutch govern ment without registering as a foreign agent. ; The jury was unable to agree on another suit; which asked dam ages for- defamation on the basis of a broadcast -that Littell arranged to get Communist Polish officials £gy^WW^,«] President Speaks ‘ On Religious Faith WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -01 President Eisephower stood In the, speaker’s well of the colonial Vir “gfnla House of,Burgesses today and rededicatefT himself to the principle that government without a.fpunda- 1 tion of religious faith “makes no sense/' *v - . ' That chiefs executive, accompan ied by Mi's. Eisenhower and her mother, traveled overnight from Washington aboard the presidential yacht« Williamsburg to historic York town, Va., then motored to this site of Uvs"nation’s firetcolon- lal toJttrn day; The President's first stop was at the House of Burgesses, a recon structed version of the parliament Jurors Stage Drunken Party; Murder Case Ends In Mistrial r imaetK *V c young brunette- charged with Kg | Sayini; he Hid so because of a drunk- j Parker aimed the nnfar direr tin. , r'araer signea ine oraer mrecung; TELEPHONES: 1117 . 3118, 3119 Jesse Capps Named President Os Lions Jesse H. Capps, prominent Dunn business and civic leader,*, Thursday nigra was elected as president of the Dunn Lions dub for the coming year. t Ust AW. • News Shorts • NEW YORK (VI Two band its hold up two armored ear ser vice guards- at Brooklyn's Bush Terminal today and escaped with a $10,990 payroll, poßce reported. LAURINBURG OR gokeitor i M. G. Boyette asked u Scotland i * County Jury today to Mad Harry Howell to the gae chamber for killing a young policeman at an gir base. “HoweH didn’t show any mercy the night he shot Larry Graham and he certainly Is en titled to no merey new,” Boyette toW the Jury. He asked for a con viction on charges of first degree, murder without a recommendation for meroy, as ho finiohed the son ; 'Oontmuec on Page Two) ary hall which rang ip cue late l«th Ontury with words that help ed emancipate the colonies from British rule. " r \ *1 think no Amecioan could stand in’ these balls and on this spot without feeling * very great and deep sense of the debt be owe to the courage, the stamina and the faith of,our forefathers,” Mr. J' **m» JEFFERSON He spoks of' Thomas Jefferson and the other .Htßinians who con tributed tothe founding of the republic, i . ■ • “These men felt that unless we reoognlsed the relationship between our form of government and re ligious faith, that form of govern ment made no senae," he said. <■ * •»<#***-< y. ,•*s. v-‘ v ■■wm ■■■ Vi .ig ■ -i.y.Wi.Ln ■ ■„ j COULDN’T BIE QUOTED She Batin llccuril Mr. Capps, longtime leader of the Lions Club,, was unanimously*Cieet fs JP succeed Harwood aM»3i w>>o lft rlne afler . The Club has madeumisun 1 pro-’ greet during the past year and o6m pletea a number of outstanding pro jects. , Mr. Capps Is the owner of Para mount Cleaners. He Isa former city councilman, Is a leader in the Di .vlne Street Methodist Church and active in other affairs of' the town and community. Other new officers Other new officers are; Jack Jack son, first vice president: Frank Be lote. second vice’president; Oe.irge f Arthur' Jackson, vidfe presi dent; Eugene Hood,'secretUy- treas urer; L- A. Mcmroe, Lkm Tamer; i Jack Hemingway, Tailtwister. Nathan Cannady and John Thorii , ton Were elected as directors for a two-year-term, and Raymond L. Cromartle, Jr„ was elected as a dir ector fog one year. A number of other business,mat ters were discussed at the meeting. Bigßace Slated May At VM 1 Harnett Speedway will be the i scene of another big-time race - event Sunday afternoon when John i Sorrell Jr., popular owner of the speedway will present the fourth raeing event of the season there. I Time of the race It set tor 2:30 i With admission being $1.50, tax in i eluded. The race frill feature both. > modified and stock car raeing: Sor . rell said today that he was expect ing > another capacity crowd for Sunday’s event. i For the first time in this section citizens are offered big-time racing. : One of the main features in Sun-, 1 day’s race will be R. L. Godwin Jr., i at Dunn who will bs driving a new > racer which is said to be otic of the-fastest cars in the world. Among other, drivers who >vti) ap pear on the program are Raeiord ■ «I»'tinned Ml DSC (wo) (through it { there is no alternative other thati DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1953 / '' Flying Boxcars Crash In Flames HEMSBACH. Germany -th - Three U. 6. Air * orce Dianes, bi cludlng two C-119 Flying Boxcars crashed In flames near here today after a’ three-way collision. Yte/e was no | nufi»er of casualties. - r •nm-Ualted States 12th Air FoMe' headquarters at Landstuhl said the Dianes Involved were two of the big twin-engined planes which fre quently were used as troop carriers and a Jet fighter. JET PLOWED IN German eyewitneksd® said the disaster occurred when a jet plane p’owed Into, the two transport planes, sending all three' to earth Wilhelm Schoeder a Hemsoack resident who saw the accident said: ‘ '“I Saw a droop of American planes come flying in from the west, when suddenly a Jet collided with two transports. “The planes seemed to be flying low—about 1.500 feet—at, the time. Two. nrym tried to bail out, but they were so low their parachutes did not fully open. ‘<oo6 of the planes. I don’t know which one, exploded instantly in the air. The otljfer two plung'ed, to the ground and seemed to explode into a million flying pieces." Program Completed For Guard Banquet Members of Dunn’s crack Na tional Guard Battery today were ellshins; their bqttons and brass d making final arrangements to receive the Third Army’s coveted Training Trophv on Monday night. The honor—-htgbest which the Army has tb bestow upon a guard unit—will be presented to the unit Monday night for the second con secutive year in a big. star-studded ceremony, and celebration at the Dtenn Armor?. Newer before In history has a guard unit received the {rbphy two years in a row. •* . Major, General Charles D. W. Canham of Atlanta. Oa.. deputy commander of "the Third Army, Is flying to Dunn Jo present, the a ward to Lt. Edward Wade, com mander of the unit. ' . 4 X’,, "l , 1 ; „ V ■: , : .j,'? 'tV . ; ' f viflf v . ■■ „ . „ ■ .. . '•'' JOILET, m m - Nathan Leopold who murdered |ke May Seek pension 01 Profits Tax f 'Ey UNITED PRESS -House and Senate leaders predicted today that Presi dent Eisenhower will ask Congress next Tuesday to . extend the excess profits tax for six months. The lawmakers iay it would be bad politics to give big business a tax break before individual income taxpayers. The excess profits tax is due to expire June 30. A six .months extension would have it die on Jan. 1 when individual in come taxes are due to be cut 10 per cent. , ' . . Although there was widespread belief Mr. Eisenhower would ask for the excess profits tax extension. GOP leaders insist the President has not disclosed his plan to them. One Senate leader predicted Mr. Eisenhower will “accent the pos itive’’ by emphasizing the savings resulting from budget cuts and the prospects for lower taxes in 1954. | OTHER HAPPENINGS Other congressional news; Big Two: Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.) asked for an early ‘TBig Two” conference between President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to close the U. S.-Britfeh rift over Korean war policy. Mail Fraud: House Investigators called former Attorney General James P. McGranery today to give his side in the 1945 dismissal of a. $185,000 mail fraud case. A House Judiciary subcommittee is trying to find out If the Justice Depart ment was "Improperly tndused” to jtomtts chages gkatnst Investigators today offered to’-lel “mystery man” Henry W. Grune wald explain what he did ia 1939 of 1940 to earn $50,000 to $60,000 for getting favorable settlement in a tax case. Appropriations: The House pass ed a Treasury-Post Office appro priation that waa only 3.5. per cent under former President Truman’s budget request. The House Appro priations Committee .added SIOO,- 000,000 to President Eisenhower’s Agriculture Department request. The $1,254,808,328 farm bill now goes before the House. HEARINGS SLATED Tldelands: The Senate Interior Committee slated hearings startle* Saturday on a bill to govern oil and gas leases outside the so-called Tldelands which Congress has voted to give to coastal states. The House has already passed a bill, to give the federal government cortrol of submerged lands beyond the sties’ historical seaward' bWinuarie: \ V BALLENTINE TO SPEAK L. Y. Ballentine of Raleigh. State Commissioner of Agriculture, frill come here as Governor William B. Umstead’s personal representative to address the banquet. Gov. Um stead expressed regret at being unable to attend because of his physical condition. Lt. Wade will preside over the which wfll get underway at 6:30 o'clock. Guardsmen and their wives will be on hand for the event. , Mayor Ralph *. Hanna will wel come the distinguished visitors to Ballentine will be by Brig. Gen. Eugene Ortftin of Louttburg. Major General John Hall M “j&a.is s%i. tar* FIVE CENTS PER COPY “pH i ' "X- SPEARS ; ; Post By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer ' . Appointment of John Spears, cashier of the Bank of Lillington to the state banking commission provides reco : nition on a statfe-wide basis of a banker who has served the Korth Carolina Banking Association in various capacities. Governor William B. Umstead named Mr. Spears late yes -1 terday. ; In the bankers association, Spears at present, is vice-chairman of” Group Four, an area which • includes 11 Counties, Harnett, Wake, i Johnston, Catham, Orange, Dur i ham, Person, Granville, Vance, 1 Warren and Franklin Counties. 1 Last year he served the same : gtoup as treasurer, a nonpaying » position which probably calls for ; more voluntary time than any of • the group offices. v *.* ACTIVE IN ASSOCIATION When the N. C, Bankers Associa . tion- meets in Pinehurst May 21-24 Spears will serve as a member j>f the nominating committee to sug gest a slate of state officers. For several yemx he has been the “key banker” in Harnett ■ County and as sfleh has taken the New Concern Opening Tonite iiiiPMiit&i w * i si • ‘ ‘ . t • T ’ * J When Baldwin and Mattox new c sundry shop opens formally te* « night, the patrons will become ac- j quatnted with one of the most c modem and up-to-date places of its a kind anywnere in this area. f The beautiful new modernistic j I comp ? ~ ,| '{s' • ’ .4^ THE RECORD GETS RESULTS leadership in the sponsorship of the Green Pasture, Contest and the speaking tourneys for high school students. Spears has been cashier of the Bank of Lillington since March 1, 1937. The ban£ was founded by his father, the late Henry T. Spears In 1903. Prior to ooUiing to Lillington Spears was employed by the Wachovia Bank, and Trust Co. in Raleigh from 1941 to 1947. Dur-, ing three years of that period ht served in ‘the navy where he ob tained the rank of Lieutenant commander. 1 He will be the first banker from Harnett County to serve on the | state banking association. He la married to the former Miss Rachel I (Continued On Page Ffve) 2iJSB papers, magazines, patent medi-i cines and similar items, and hast a finely equipped fountain. The owners, Dwight Mattox and! Lawrence Baldwin, 1 are both ex-j V (v j - vj‘ : \-A : ’ Nft 113; Warns Against Rigid Economy _ In Arms Budget WASHINGTON UP) —. Gen. Omar N. Bradley said today that even if the Ko rean war ends the United States will have to spend a round $3,000,000,000 a year for defense and foreign mili tary aid “as far into the fu-II ture as we possibly can see.” The retiring chairman of my Joint Chiefs of Staff madr this cost estimate “for the long run bf the purely cold war” in an Arnied .Forces Day speech before the Wo men’s National Press Club. ’ <*..• •. Warning agalnt putting "econ omy ahead of security,” Bradley ad ded: “I know of no intelligence which reveals any change of attitude on the part of the Soviet Union or tfhich would give as reason to dim inish our preparedness effort. “The risk continues to be great. The possibility of war is still •us.” Assume peace comes to Korea—* “The sustained burden of milltaty aid to our allies and the adequate" support of our own defense,” Brad ley said, “will cost us on the order of $3 000,000,000 a month as far intq the future as we possibly can see.* WILSON'S ESTIMATE ..Defense .Secretary Charles K. Wilson said on Monday ttwffi h« hopes to get defense spending down to $40,000,000,000 annually *h the fiscal year starting July 1, W 54. Bradley saw no possibility for appreciable cuts thereafter • “To those who would put economy ahead of security, who an i wtsh fully hopeful in regard to Commun ist intentions, iay#-ediction ai -am ou st be a giootfy one,” he said. ; *yaut this tenuous, neaoe, ■’ cold war overtones, Is *e> costly than total war that we should willingly pay the ptiqe." ■ Bradley, who will be succeeded as Chairman of the Joint Chief* j&f August by Adm., Arthur W. Mftk, ford, said a worldwide agf«dMK| for complete disarmament WOUft be the “greatest announcement that could be made on armed forces day.” ♦MARKETS* * HOGS :"- v raleioh m Hog marketer Clinton and Slier City: Market 50 cents higher at 23.78 for ghoi..' and choice 18-240 lb. barrows gilts. Tarboto, Marion, Rocky Mounts Steady at 23,59. ; Goldsboro, Dunn, Mt. Olive, son, New Bern. Wilmington, 4adst sonville, Smithfield, WasbteggjlM Kinston: 25 cents higher EGGS AND TO RALEIGH Ilf) Centra! North Carolina live poultry: I Fryers or broilers steady, edjfj&MP generally adequate, demand good;; heavy hens unsettled, suoplies geis< (C. *,tinned an .UMmmm TEXT
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