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Armistice Agreement May Come At Meeting Tonite
Young Negro Assailant Shot To Death In Brawl Last Night
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17 mu or MMONK7 - The 17 men pictured here represent IT yean in the history of Dunn’i Masonic Lodfe (or each of them
SV served a year as WershlpfiU Master of the Lodce after going through the chairs and boldine ail the other offices. Ha Dunn lodge on
Friday night observed Past Master's Night, and these 17 past masters worn present and participated In the ceremonies. Left to right
are. front row, Henry Whitehead, James Snipes, A. P. Adcox, Willie Mess, Herman Neighbors and D. Vic Lee; second row. Wash Ban
nerman, John Snipes, Jack Jackson, Hush W. Prince, the only 33rd Decree Mason in the lodce and O. M. Leslie; third row, C. Oitis i
'Warren, Dr. J. A. Jemican, Clifton Brock, City Jndge H. Pasd Strickland, Bert Alabaster and R. U Cromartle, Jr. (Daily Record Photo). I
Cotton Ginners
■■ ii I |t|o6t nere
'^^V^SftS’Ss
. -of the Central District of the Car
*■ olinas Olnners’ Association.
Plana for the district meeting
were announced here today by My
res W. TUghman of Dunn, promin
ent cotton ginner and cotton mer
chant and president of the three
state organisation which also takes
In Virginia.
The Dunn meeting will convene
\W at 10 am. at Johnson’s Restaurant
and will continue through most of
the afternoon. There will be a
limcheon at 1 o'clock. !
TILGHMAN TO PRESIDE
P Mr. TUghman win preride over
:~„the meeting and speakers will in
clude representatives of ' agricul
ture, the cotton manufacturing In
dustry and officials of State Col
lege Extension Service.
Mr. TUghman said today that
a complete list of the speakers
I*lll be announced later.
Clifford Hardy of the Car olinas
dinner* office in BennettsvlUe, S.
c.. secretary of the argafcJsaUan,
wUI be present to assist with the
meeting. < C .
All phases of the cotton gin
ning Industry and the outlook
for this year’s cotton crop will be
discussed at the meeting.
Counties comprising the Central
District are: Harnett, Johnston,
Sampson, Cumberland, Roberson,
Nf Lee and Hoke.
Fisherman Finds
Safe On His Line
Carroll Westbrook of Dunn made
one of the most unusual catches in
this section on a weekend fishing,
trip to Raven Rock when his Une
jerked violently and he wav unable
to move ths object on the other end
of the Une.
■P Carroll had one of his pet plugs on
the Une, he said, and he was de
termined not to lose it; So, calling
• his brother who was fishing’nsarby
to hold the pole, he made his way.
iOwrihreod m sm» ■*»
Godwin And Salmon
oomea bor bendy
I Rd Rankta, tag-story to Cover- [
XecSojudges up for reappoint |
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Wilsoh Defends Cut
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Oft Defenae SeeFetory Charles E.
Wilson told senators “most emphatically” today the na
tion will continue to haye the best-not the second best—
Air Force.
Wilson, making his second ap
pearance before a Senate Appro
priations subcommittee which Is
studying the defense budget, de
voted most of his attention to dis
rupting statements made last week
by Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, re
tiring Air Three chief of staff.
Vandenberg told the subcommit
tee that pending plans, which con
template a shift from the goal of
148 wings by December, 1955, to
130 vfMgS, involve a risk to na
tional security which the old Joint
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CP6I Is Now Back
On Wilson Avenue
The Carolina Power and Light
Company has moved back to its
former location On Worth Wilson
Avenue in a beautiful, modernistic •
new buUding which replaoed the
structure completely destroyed by
fire last November sth. .
Henry M. Tyler, district mana
ger of the company, reported today
that the Mg task of moving has
been completed and the staff is
•back in full swing. Temporary of
fices were, set up in the Cotton Dale
Restaurant.
WtJ HQME IS CONTRACTOR '
The building was replaced *by
Nu-Hotne Builders and Supply Co.,
local contractors, headed by Tommy
Godwin and Dewy Godwin.
Other firms occupying quarters
in the new building, owned by Mrs.
J. W, Thornton, are Pixie Shoes and
Lewis Studio. Gblonial store was
previously located in the building- %
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I Noll MfflC. Salmon. orominent
ryiMiin.iAhk 11 nisivsi * r
tors from Harnett opposing the
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Chiefs bf Staff believe is beyond
‘inationajl prudence.” Vandenberg
said the new program would leave
the Air Force second best.
WILL HAVE BEST
“I assure you gentlemen most
emphatically that we are not go
ing to have the second-best Air
Force," Wilson said. “As long as
I am responsible to this govern
ment and to the people of the
nation for the Department of De
fense, we are going to continue
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Last Minute ’
News Shorts
Washington BH President
Eisenhower today nominated John
Strickier, 50, s Roanoke, to be U. 8.
district attorney for the western
district of Virginia, He will succeed
Howard C. Gilmer Jr., whose term
expired
RICHLANDS (If) W. Guy
Hargett, about 55, .highway oom
misrioner from the Second District
under Gov. W Kerr Scott, died of
a heart attack at his home near
here today. He .|s survived by his
Widow and two children.
PITTSBURGH WI President
David J. McDonald of the United
ssss ,^ffl£is, a;
her* Friday; presumably to hear
steel tor a general wag*
MOBILE, Ala. at A salvage
crew today raised section of the
fuselage and two enginm from a
FWbT'i*. '•. -
it was dfadamd today. 'Gordon j
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DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8, 1953
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Local Church
MtaAidti
WatL^^ttwi^gast
School, hat been named educa
tional director of the Pint Pres
byterian Church of Dunn and will
begin her new duties' on Septem
ber i. •
Appointment of toss Watt to
the offUfe was announced today by
the Rev. Richard Rhea Gammon,
pastor of the church.
The office has been vacant since
Mrs. Carl Fltchett, Jr. resigned to
be married.
Miss Watt is the daughter of
missionaries to Africa and was
bom in Africa. She is a graduate
of Flora Macdonald College at Red
Springs. -
She has taught at Meadow for
the past four years and has made
an excellent record in the teaching
profession.
The Rev. Mr. Gammon said to
day that the church feels unusually
fortunate in securing Miss Watt
for the pest.
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PARIS (IF! - Premier designate George Bidault has
pledged to raise the problem of France’s heavy Indo
chinese war burden at the Big Three Bermuda conference
if hv* wins parliamentary approval as head of a new gov
ernment.
LONDON (IF) Queen Elisabeth IT came back to
Buckingham Palace today from a weekend rest at Windsor
to swing into her second big round of post-coronation
activities.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (IP). United Nations
diplomats waited anxiously today for the* cease-fire in
Korea that wili! signal the beginning of political negotia
tions which may lead to peace in the troubled FAT East
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WASHINGTON (IF) Kurt Pohger and Otto Ver-
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AT M# GOP DINNER - Repres
enting Harnett at the big »50-a
--idate Republican Dinner in Cbar
totte Friday nignt were county
Chairman and Mrs. J. O. West of
Dunn wid Mr. and Mr*. 4. M. Tu
mored into a beautiful new home
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Abraham White |
Is Cleared In
fatal Shooting
Raeford Stacker, 18-year
old Negro youth, was shot
to' death in a brawl here
Sunday night and Assistant
Coroner Edgar Black this
morning absolved Abraham
. White of the slaying and
ruled it was
homicide.”
_ The jhootlng occurred Sunday
night about 10:55 o’clock at the
juke joint and store operated by
j White on North Wilmington Ave
nue and Stacker died at 11:45 p.
m. in the Dunn Hospital.
'if ~ Dunn police officers had just
been called to the establishment
> to arrest Stacker- on charges he
i was causing a disturbance. He had
left before they got there, how
jj ever.
POLICE HEARD SHOTS
As soon as the police drove off,
witnesses said, Stacker returned,
pulled out a pistal and fired twice
at White. One of the bullets lodg
ed in a showcase and the other fail
ed to go off. Examination of the
bullet showed that the hammer
had hit It but it did not fire.
Stacker had thfe gun up
against White’s stomach when he
fired the second Ume. Had it gone
off, White wouldn’t be alive to
-1 day.
j White told the authorities that
f he then took his own 88 pistol and
* shot Stacker one tjme. The load
entered his right chest and Stack
er fell mortally wounded.
White sahl he hid repeatedly
ordered Stacker to Rave bis place.
Three witnesses, James Melvin
Stake* John Suries, 4r., and Kd
na Williams, corroborated White's
Etnnh police said Stacker TtAs not
! known here, His only identifKMtfan
’ was in 'a billfold.
Police officers K. M. Fail mid
; John Brockington, who invwMtga
-1 ted. said they heard the pistol
- shots as they left the place.
Assistant Coroner Black ruled
. that no inquest was necessary and
, absolved White of all blame.
! ’MARKETS*
’ EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH (VI Central North
t Carolina -live poultry.
, Fryers and broilers steady sol
s lowing one cent decline, supplies
j adequate; heavy hens about steady,
supplies plentiful. Prices at farm
up to 10 a: m.: Fryers or broilers
r 2M to 3 lbs. 35 cents; heavy hens
> 35-37, mostly 36.
l Eggs steady, supplies adequate,
demand good. Prices paid produc
ers and handlers FOB local grad
- ing stations: A large 58, A medi
:" B
'riwnHnaag an Pan* T*»l
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Sessoms. Jessamine HiaU, Geral
dine Pepi, A. L. Butler. Estel Roy
al. Wrietael Royal. Jack Stafford.
FYeddie ’Butler, ntifiii Clifton,
Ft»d Hall, Evoistte Peterson and
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(i (Centtraoi on pkge Owe)
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! High Court Rules
D. C. Cases Must
Not Deny Negroes
WASHINGTON (IP) The Supreme Court ruled to
day that restaurants in the District of Columbia are re
quired to serve Negroes.
The tribunal, in an 8 to 0 decis
ion, upheld the validity of at least
one ‘lost” anti-discrimination law,
long since vanished from the dis
trict’s legal code.
Two anti-discrimination statut
es were resurrected in 1950 after
Thompson’s restaurant refused to
serve three Negroes. The district
government made a test case of
the incident.
Justice William O. Douglas wrote
the court's opinion. Justice Robert
H. Jackson did not take part in
the decision.
The laws required proprietors of
eating places to serve all well-be
haved persons. The laws, however,
did not apply to anti-discrimin
ation in general.
IMPORTANT DECISION
. .Because the laws stem from act
ion of a legislative assembly—and
not Congress—the Justice Depart
ment said the case has an import
ant bearing on how much home
rule is possible for the Distrcit un
der the Constitution.
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Four Bootleggers
Seized In Raids
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J^Dunn’ s bee^^pflcqediug
a false sense of security. HowfeVer, Friday night, in R series
of raids in two ears, office# under the direction of Chief
A. A. Cobb, staged a new series of raids,
~ s We used two cars on purpose."
Chief Cobb said. “As soon as a raid
is made in one [dace, the news
spreads on the grapevine, and these
places are alerted before the of
ficers have a chance to crack
down. By using two cars, we could
raid in two directions, before the
word got out.’’
The raids proved eminently suc
cessful, and four peitons were
caught in the roundup and book
ed for trial Thursday morning.
About 16 gallons of assorted white
and bonded liquor was seized in
the* raids.-
CACHE UNDER TAjfcLE TOP
The liquor was found by the
raiders in various places in the
raided premises. Including 9 Jars
of white liquor in an ingeniously
contrived cache under a table top.
, Search warrants had been se
cured prior to the raids for all of
the suspected premises, and the
officers gave each a thorough go
ing over in their search for the
liquor.
Those arrested were Bessie Mc-
Cray, Oeoar McDowell, Wadey
Baldwin, and Will McLean, all
colored.
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STATE PRISONS CHIEF GETS A HAM Walter F. Aadenan, State Director at Prisons, uMfresUMBS
i a “Basse* Night” meeting at Damn’s Inter Chanter at Commerce Friday night” arte to apj**
far hi* talk the Jayeees presented him “a ban what an," a chaise hate precened and cared hf|
I Wstewatet iCotosdal Lockers. Left te right are; Roy Lane, who was tadncted a* new
at tea Jayeeea; Mr. AHtaWia. who is admiring the has*. Mrs. Anderson, who'll do the cooking,. (
■atlrtnt layer* President 810 Biggs. (Daily Baeard.Fhate).
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President Eisenhower has come
out for home rule and an end to
racial segregation here. The ad
ministration, as a “friend of the
court,” made a strong plea that
the laws be upheld.
Douglas said Congress had auth
ority under the Constitutin' to
delegate its lawmaking authority
to the assembly, much as it dele
gates legislative power to territor
ies. He said the authority was
broad enough to include a prohi
bition again.lt “discriminations
against Negroes by the owners and
managers of restaurants in the
District of Columbia."
The court, also ruled that the
acts were not abandoned or repeal
ed as a result of ‘non-use and
administrative practice.”
WASHINGTON (V) The Su
preme Court today put off fur
ther argument next term—Oct. 12
—five cases testing the constitut
ionality of segregation in public
f Con tinned on nage two)
Officers taking part in the raids,
in addition to Chief Cobb were,
E. J. Whaley, John Black, Faison
Popefl Corporal K. M. Fail, John
Brockington and Raymond Thom
as.
Harnett Man
Ends His Life
Coroner Grover C. Henderson
ruled today that the death of
James Dillon Worrell, 36, of Ma
mers, was a plain case of suicide
and said no inquest would be held.
Worrell shot himself to death
with a single-barrel shotgun late
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Worrell told officers that
she witnessed the suicide and that
she begged her husband not to do
it. She said her husband had
threatened suicide several times
previously.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Eunice McCauley Worrell; four
sons, Jerry, Jimmy, Lynn and
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THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
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Cease-Fire Line
Is Chief Issue
Up For Decision
PANMUNJOM, Korea Tues
day— (IP) United Nations
and Communist truce teams,
with an agreement on pris
oner repatriation signed, J
meet today to work toward
, their final step —a Kill
, armistice agreement tsfat
will end the shooting in the
three-year-old Korean was, ■
It was indicated that the dele- *i
gates, at their meeting at 11a.m.
(9 p.m. ES'r Monday) might take
up the chief issue still oustand
ing, the fixing of a new cease-fire
line.
The chief obstacle to peaceis&y
not between U.N. and the Cofii
munists, but between the U.N.: and
the Republic of Korea governausftt. •:*
SOUTH KOREANS BITTE* 1
So bitter are the South Korkin*
1 at what they call an Allied ear-,
render to the Reds that tHey talk
t of fighting on alone to compter
North Korea and unify the conn
try. ;
With an armistice agreement Aw -1
apparently oniy a matter of days M
! away, Communist planes bombed ‘" "I
• the peacetime capital of Seoul to
: night. The city was thrown Mi* 4 ,
near panic. At least 15
ploded, and seven persons were jn- ''4
jured. '
On the battle front. South Ko-tSU
rean troop 6 jumped off in a last- --i
hour attempt to regain position*
they lost to enemy attack* last -\j
week. They want to regain the |;.
ground before the new cease-flrer-:|
line is set.
1 PANMUNJOM, Korea jm
w Allies and the, CoiWpun&l^jM:-
ing tlttt no war prisoner *3B '
■ to returned against his wfftaHH
removhtg the major stumbPng
block in the way of ’a
Korea. .
However, cautious United IfiHHl
negotiators warned that “This tifSjS
not the armistice agreement. TheWiSl
1 are still some other adminstna|H
matters to be negotiated.” *$
1 WASHINGTON IV)' AmeAMH
officials said today the signia|^«||j
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BunJjwyn Presides
Over Court TeM
Judge W. H. *S. Burgwyn of WoeA Si
land is presiding at a civil faji'lwMwH
Harnett Superior Court whicl*9®iß
■ pened this morning in tiillinfftytt. S
1 Judge Burgwyn replaicea Judge 'S. ?
: Paul Frizzell, who will return far
the second week starting June TlM||rH|
1 In the opening session TiinraMPM
t four divorces were granted
3 grounds of two years separation!
1 They went to: Lillian Norris BfflUr- r ,
5 rington from W. J. Harrington,*#- ,r‘
cille Coats. Barefoot from JuM§||f3
!• Hardy Barefoot: Edna Bsmlii
r Crook from Jack A. Crook: Mgg|i||
i King Roberts from Nannie P. '-AOrvIS
torts.
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