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el nrtAIHER* North Carolina Fair to part ly cloudy and mild today. Partly cloudy and warmer tonight. In creasing cloudiness and mild Sat urday, with scattered showers west and central portions. VOLUME 4 TELEPHONES: >ll7 • lilt EIGHT - STATE VICE RING IS SMASHED Dunn's Board Reports No * Water Shortage By CARL CONNER Record Staff Writer Erwin was assured in a resolution passed by Dunn’s City Council last night that there is no reason to worry about a water shortage. And if a shortage should devel op, present customers in Er win and Dunn, along with customers who live out of the city limits, will receive f first consideration. DLscurston of the water supply of 4. the two towns flared up last night ,4 when a large delegation appeared to Investigate rumors that water might be short in the near future. Council pointed out that there is ho reason to worry. The misunder standing occurred over an article printed recently In a local news paper regarding the water problem, the delegation stated. However, facts set forth in the article were gathered from a release sent out by City Manager A. B. Uzzle. Norman J. Buttles, appearing on behalf of the Chamber of Com merce, told Council that ‘Erwin V residents are quite upset over ar ticles on the water sltuaUon." He pointed out that it was a matter of a misunderstanding, but that a resolution should be passed to clear up the matted FITCHETT SPEAKS Carl FJCohett, Jr., Dunn business man, told Council that he had spent f sometime inErwin during the past |_ two days, and that there was con -1 siderable hard feeling regarding the I water supply. A move is underway to I circulate a petition to boycott all Is (Cottoned on page sixi I f -Tittle I JhinefA 1 By HOOm ADAMS I KENNETH MAKEYS BACK I IN DUNN TO MAKE HOME K \ and Mrs. Kenneth Makey HU (she’s the former Ann Stewart) of V Coming, New York have returned I to Dunn to make their home.. Ha i has accepted a position here with ■ ' Led&r Brothers.. Kenny said it was p wanning up when they left Coming ■ -. .Hie thermometer got all the way Egg pp to zero.. .It had been down to 1. ten below.. .Corning is a nice town, I home of the big glass works... But I . Kenneth says Ann wanted to get 9 home and he likes Dunn, too.. .The I Dunn Rotary Club will celebrate Its I 30th anniversary August 7th... 9 Lofton Tart who has a birthday Hr?- (OtwCteaed Oa Page Pawn Lasater Announces tin Sheriff's Race | County Commissioner D. E. (Dick) Lasater, Jr., of Erwin, Route 1, 38-year-old Marine veteran and one of the county’s most popular officials, announced today that he is a candidate for Sheriff in the May 29th Democratic • Mr. Lasater said that after long | and careful consideration he had R decided not to seek reelection as a county commissioner, but was of fering himself as a candidate fur I He printed out that citizens ffom I ell parte of the county had asked 1 Mm to run and had also pledged k- t|wlr support to him for the coun- MADE WITH 1 Bp*- TASTY DRINK Janet Harrington, left, 4-H dub member from Boone Trail School, needs little urging from Mias Margaret Bay, county 4-H girls leader, to try this drink. Janet knows it Is good, because she made It. Milk is chief Ingredi ent of the “strawberry flip” and sandwich filling. Judge Sends Commies To Pen; Suggests They Go To Russia Many Items Tabled By Dunn City Board Dunn’s City Council had a tabling, good time last night as a number of matters were pushed aside for "further study.” However, one am endment to an ordinance was pass ed. B. H. Westbrook, S. Washing ton, reappeared before Council to ask permission to make two taps on one sewer line which he ran two years' ago. The line was six inches in diameter in order to han- i die the disposal from the two hous es, Westbrook pointed out. | However, a few weeks ago Coun cil passed a new ordinance which made It unlawful to tap two houses on one line. The ordinance was pissed In an effort to' prevent multi tapping which might liter cause stoppage of the lines. When the ordinance was passed, there was some consideration given to allowing persons who had al ready begun multi-tapping to con tinue. However, no action was tak en then. Last night an amendment to the ordinance gras passed which would allow persona who had already be gun multi-tapping to complete the work. However, Council pointed out (Continued On Page Neri Kfratasai . Jtaihj %tmrd DUNN, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 19, 1954 Janet prepared the concoctions at a dairy foods demonstration she gave in Lillington on Wednes day afternoon. Purpose was to show adult club leaders how such demonstrations help teach cooks to use more milk. (Photo by T. M. Stewart) News Shorts WASHINGTON IV) Atomic weapons to put teeth into the na tion's retaliatory power strategy already are to the stockpile, and plenty mere are building. Con gressional sources said this was ths assurance that came out of a [ three-hour closed-door meeting yesterday between the Joint Atom ic Energy Committee, Adm. Ar thur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Btaff, and Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomlo Energy Commission. RALEIGH IB Milk prices were down one or two oents per quart In stories here today as the wholesale price war spread to this area. RALEIGH IB President Celal es Turkey said today school children who took his country's flags from stands along his par ade route yesterday are welcome to keep them. The disappearance of the Turkish flags was "no theft,” Bayar said, but merely “the collec tion es souvenirs, ” CHICAGO IB A ran-a-way rocket from a parked Jet plane ricocheted into the Bide of a girls’ school in Des Plaines, HL, yester day. None of the 365 occupants was injured. The rocket bored an eight inch hole in the three-story brick building, and shattered windows from ground to roof. The 2.75-inch missile came from an F66D Jet fighter on the ground at O’Hare Meld. ALBANY, N. Y. IB Son. Joseph R. McCarthy, fueeh from a scrap with Army braes ever their iHoiod “coddling’’ of Cnmttriitßi today resumed an investigation of ployes of the General Electric Co The Wisconsin iwuntor summoned to testify at hearings today and iOmUmw on rase «) Banks And P. O. Will Tako Holiday Dunn’s Postmaster Ralph Wade announced today that the local post office will be closed February 32, and dispatches will *be made, he DETROIT (IP) Federal Judge Frank A. Picard sen tenced six convicted Com munists to terms ranging between four and five years and maximum fines of $lO,- 000 each today after offer ing to help them move to Russia “if any of you would care to go.” None of the defendants, five men and one woman, took up the Judge's offer. The six were found guilty un der the Smith Act by a Jury of five men and seven women on Tues day of conspiring to teach and ad vocate the violent overthrow of the government. “That’s akin to treason,” Judge Picard said. “You have been convicted of the gravest offenses of which a citizen may he guilty, a plot to overthrow your government by force and vlo (Continued on page Bigot) + Record Roundup + N. C. REVENUE AGENT— D. B. Youngblood, deputy collector with the N. C. Department of Revenue, will be in the Recorder’s Court Room in Dunn February 24th to as sist anyone in filing state income taxes. Mr. Youngblood will be at the Agriculture Building in Lilling ton February 25th. The agent stres ses the fact that the state offers this service as a courtesy and there Taylor Enters Race For Clerk Os Court William A. (Bill) Taylor, popular young Dunn attor ney and member of a family long identified in public af fairs of Harnett, today announced his candidacy for the office of Harnett Superior Court Clerk. Taylor was the flnt to announce for the office being vacated by Court Clerk Robert Morgan, who la not seeking reelection. He is the son of Mrs. Floyd H. Taylor of Buie’s Creek and the late County Judge Floyd H. Taylor. His father served es county Judg; Jmfl 22 years, longer than any other man in Harnett’s history, and also served for eight yean as dark of court. He served as Sergeant-At-Arms of the State Senate last station Mr. Taylor said today that he had been requested to run by dtiaens from every section Os the county He said be would issue a formal statement later in the campaign, fh* vmme VfttAFtn It a nimhAr vote nil AB • UICUIUCt Dunn Robbery Solved With Arrest Os Two The robbery of Sexton Lee’s Gro cery Store of around ‘ SSOO some weeks ago has been solved accord ing to the local police. And, the robbery was solved with the help of the State of California. Chief Alton A. Cobb announced the solution to the crime which oc curred here December 15. He said that he is holding John Willie Mc- Allister, a 16-year-old Negro youth, in default of SI,OOO bond. Also char ged with conslpracy in the crime is John C. (Bud) Monds, Negro laun dry operator, who was released un der a SSOO bond. Cobb said that when he found out about McAllister, he was in California. On contacting officers in California, he was told that the youth had been to trouble there, Cobb stated. The officers told Cobb they would put the youth on the bus and send him home where he could be picked up. KEPT IN JAIL Cobb said that he kept the Ne gro in jail several days before he would admit the crime. Finally, he admitted breaking through the back door of the Dunn Grocery Store, and cracking the safe. He took the SSOO and went to see Monds, the youth said. When he told him about the crime, Monds wanted to know how milch he would get to “keep quiet," McAl-, lister stated. He said he gave hlm| $290 out of the SSOO. In addition to that, he gave him another $lO to take him to Fayetteville, and put 42 worth of gasoline in his car, McAllister stated. The ticket to California cost an additional SSB, leaving him with $l4O. He worked shining shoes and doing other odd Jobs until the mon ey was gone, the Negro youth ad mitted. Monds admitted having taken McAllister to Fayetteville, but said he had no part in the crime. Monds was due for trial in Dunn Recorder’s Court yesterday, but the case was continued on request of his attorney, Duncan C. Wilson. If he is charged under the warrant, he will face possible conviction of a felony, Judge H. Paul Strickland told Wilson yesterday. The war rant charges conspiracy to commit the crime. The case was contin ued for trial Monday. Is no charge. All residents of N. C. have to file. MISSIONARY MEETING The Missionary Convention of the Glad Tiding Assembly of Uod, Dunn, : begins tonight at 7:30 with the showing of a mm on the work of the Assemblies of Uod in mlsston i ary work. A special missionary • (Centime* m Bags SI ! 1 five cents PER COPT |h jßr mm jg j'> m ■BS ■ \\j g£ B * NEW HOUSE NUMBERS This week every resident of UJling ten received from Town Board a. cord boaring the official w for hi* house or place of business, 1$ was up to the owners In' assure totir #, ”L5? ,, 2F a,1, • ever med county seat. Here, Mrs. Gladys Watts Murchison, receptionist! for Dr. J. K. Williford, tacks a number on the doctor's office, Mo'Ninth Street. (Photo by T. M. Stewart) * •. • . ■ ' Marilyn Now Feels Like A Movie Star WITH MONROE, Korea (IF) Marilyn Monroe said today she feels like a movie star at last. Two Caught At Whiskey Still Two alleged bootleggers, arrest ed at a whiskey still in Johnston county, were bound over to Fed eral Court at a preliminary hear ing held here today before Mrs. George Arthur Jackson, local Unit ed States Commissioner. The defendants were listed as Malcolm Bunnell, 27, and Hassell Mack Tucker, so, noth of Benson, Route 2. They were charged with operat ing a distillery, carrying on the business of a distillery and pos session of 400 gallons of mash and 50 gallons of non tax-paid whis key. Making the raid were federal ATU agents and Johnston county deputies. The defendants waived hearing and were ordered held for the next term of Federal Court at Ra leigh under bonds of SSOO each. Quigg Breaks Kiss Record BEDROOM A. Car 2601, (20th Century Limited) (B At the aw ful risk of being fired, I kissed tdonde film scorcher Cleo Moore non-stop for five minutes and 21 seconds today. Jack Eigen was a piker. He kot fired Tuesday night from his Chi cago television disc Jockey show for kissing her for five minutes fiat. Hundreds of women protested that element'of J ft*last? 1 kissed Mias Mom through Tanytown, Irvington, Ardsley-on- Hudson? southern^ tv Dunn's Bargain Days Continue Through Saturday “This trip is the climax to every thing in my career,” the blonde actress said of her four-day tour of Korea where she has appeared before 50,000 enthusiastic soldier fans. “I never felt like a movie star until I came over here.” Marilyn said she owes her suc cess to soldiers in Korea. She said she could get nothing but bit parts in movies until fan letters started pouring in from this theatre. “I sort of feel the guys over here were responsible for a lot that happened to me. They are very close to my heart,” She said. FIRST LIVE AUDIENCE This tour was the first time Mar ilyn has ever played to Uve aud iences and she said, “R was so (Continued O- Page Fear) Morgan Announces m For State Senate I A fight for the State Senate loomed in Harnett today jj when Robert B. Morgan, 28-year-old Superior (Smart rWnT □ officially threw his hat into the ring. V ■ Morgan, who announced a tow weeks ago that he Is retiring as Clerk or Court to resume the pri vate practice of law, said today that he is a candidate for the Senate, subject to.the May 2wn Democratic Primary. The popular young official said he would lame a formal statement at a later date. Morgan wiu oppose State Sena tor J. Robert (Bob) Young at mum senator Young has not yet formally announced butaaldto centiy that he plans to make tike rmr ] wsa elected wituout opposition. j NO. 56 Girls Used In Houses, Hotels; Some Beaten NEW ORLEANS (IP) FBI agents and police made lightning raids in four states today to break a Lou isiana white slave ring, de scribed as the “biggest vice ring since Lucky Luciano’s operation in New Jersey in the 1930’5.” Sixteen persons were arrested in Louisiana, Florida, Texas and South Carolina. The suspects were indicted yes terday by a federal grand jury, but the indictments were kept sec ret until the raids were made. The indictments charge eight persons with conspiracy to violate the white slave traffic act, per jury and obstruction of justice, and eight are held as material witness es. The FBI said those arrested were alleged to have transported var ious women across state lines for the purpose of prostitution in eight Southern states. They were alleged to have been taken to or from Duson, New Ib eria, Baton Rouge, Eunice, LaFlaoe and Crowley in Louisiana; Houston, Port Arthur, Texarkana and Oat veston in Texas: Dothan in Ala bama; Fort Smith in Arkansas: Biloxi in Mississippi; Panama City in Florida; Aiken in South Caro lina; and Savannah in Georgia. THE DEFENDANTS Among those charged with con spiracy are Ray Edge, ft, Aiken, S. C„ and John Stmry Prescott, 42, Starke, Fla. The others In volved are Louisiana residents. Four others were indicted bat are already serving prison terms. U. S. Atty. George Blue said the women involved in the ring “trav eled in what appeared to be a pat terned route between known hous es of prostitution to southern Loui siana and similar house* and ho tels located in the other Southern states.” He said that many victims of the ring, described as attractive voune women, “were induced to prostitution at an early age” and that “on several occasions the vic tims were brutally and severely beaten.” PISTOL-WHIPPED “One of the victims was pistol whipped and suffered numerous face and bodv lacerations and a number of broken ribs,” Blue said. “The subjects of this conspiracy nad some of the wit nesses called before the grand jury In the Investigation. In one case, the life of a witness tote threat ened if tile gave information Abut the operation and involvement of one of th« subjects to the ring.” A " The attorney said that some of the victims were induced into pros titution by "promise of marriage and others waft forced to prosti tute themselves against their will* lowing lus graduation from East 1 Carolina College k OrteutQUi j ' with aB. 8. degree. Hkjator won §1
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