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+WtATHtR+ Fair and mild today. Cold tonight with scattered froat. Low tempera tures 25-JO except tt-M pn coast. VOLUME 4 IKE REFUTES DEMOCRATS’ TAX CLAIM 5 v • ■ k IHHilnfi' l - ■ : L **S~ Hk /HHBHFiIP -■ ■ I Kvfif ‘,; ? ■ > ■ M . wW jkjM BK'iI **'~v b TEil'*V' •' *• * .jH ,: BiaSMcyyfe »/-,.• -i b>- fc| ilHfli NEW LION INDUCTED SI Harrington, Erwin fuel denier, le •hewn here Igat night as he was Inducted into the Erwin Liens Club at Table’*. Amen* other things, he lost Us tie. Lien Lynwood Harps Is shewn with the other end of Harrington’s tie, wUch he stashed Into SBfees. The initiation, all In fan, was in' charge of Mr. Harris. Shown In the Z. E. Matthews and Club President Rotarians Memorial Jhsm Jjttb JhinqA By BOOTEE EDAMS il_. :—- BE THINKS HARNETT MEEDS SIX SHERIFFS 1 ! Here’s the best story we’ve heard yet on Harnett’s wide-open race for sbariff: ~ A Dunn man who formerly lived In Johnston County went back to antthfield for a visit a few days ■ago and somebody told him: ‘T ■see you’ve got a hot race for sheriff ■gown there.” ■jpgreah.’’ he replied. “We’ve get ■Six candidates already.” 9 “And," he added. “I hope every ■darned one of them gets- elected ■too. because w e need six sheriffs If (Continued On Page Twe) [Alfred Surles In Constables Race Alfred Surles, 41-year-old Dunn [business man. today announced as la candidate for toe office of con- TELEPHONES: till . tilt To Seek To Lee The Dunn Rotary Club has launched a movement to ask North Carolina’s leg islature to erect a suitable memorial to Dunn’s famed hero of World War 11, Major General William C. Lee. General Lee is recognised as the “father'’ at American airborne troops. He organised and trained the first' paratroopers and gilder in fantryman and then wrote toe air borne doctrine used in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Rotary President John Strickland announced today that the club’s board or directors had decided to sponsor the movement and he ap pointed a committee of five Ro tarians to push the project. COMMITTEE NAMED On this committee are: Dr. Glenn L. Hooper. Hoover Adams, George Franklin Blalock. Ed Wade and Dr. Charlie Byrd. Hooper was named chairman. All are former military men except Hooper, who was a close personal friend. Adams was a member of General Lee’s outfit and acted as his aide. The Rotarians will enlist Die support and backing of the Town of Dunn, the County of Harnett (ConUnned ss page eight) AFLRED SUELES Jlaittj Jl ttwcb/i Mighty Battle On Tax Cut Now Shaping Up By UNITED PRESS The House squared off to day for a mighty battle over the Democratic drive to cut taxes by boosting income tax exemptions by SIOO. It scheduled debate on a sweep ing tax revision bill backed by GOP leaders and the administra tion. Democrats are seeking to add a provision to the measure which would increase exemptions from S6OO to S7OO a year. House Speaker Joseph W. Mar tin Jr., (Mass) said Republicans are “very optimistic” that the Democrats will be beaten. He said President Eisenhower made a “very effective” speech avainst the Democratic move Mon day night. But Democrats refused to con cede defeat and fired back at Mr.' Eisenhower’s speech in a radio-tel evision reply Tuesday night. They said the Republican tax bill fav ors “the few” and offers “little or no relief'’ to 80 per cent of the taxpayers. The payofT vote wiil come Thurs day on a Democratic move to sub stitute their exemption hike for a GOP plan to ease taxes on divi dends from corporation stocks. The outcome Is expected to be close. BYRD OPPOSES BOTH Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va), a leading government economy advo cate, came out, meanwhile, in op position to both the Democratic move and the revision bill itself which would provide some selective tax outs. He also opposed a House passed bill now before toe Senate Finance Committee to trim excise taxes by ,on« billion dollars. The Virginian said taxes shottfif not be reduced until toe federal budget is balanced. OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Statehood: A band of Southern Democratic senators, led by Sen. James O. Eastland (Miss), spoke out Tuesday against statehood for Hawaii on grounds the territory is Communist-dominated. Civil Functions: The' House has passed and sent to the Senate a *430,9 3,700 money Mil to finance toe Army’s civil works program during toe fiscal year beginning July 1. Documents: Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY), chairman of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Com mittee, said Hanford, Wash., is not the only atomic plant where class ified documents are missing. But he said there is no evidence that theft or espionage is involved. Young Father Claims Rape By 3 Girls TOLEDO, O. <FI Virgil Ba mlaslrl, 84, married and father •f a 17-months old son, told po lice today he was “raped” by twe of three girls whe gave him a lift while he was hitch-hiking. SamlasU said he accepted their offer es a ride yesterday morn ing. When they reached the spot where Sominaki said he thanked the girls for the ride, bat one polled a fan and said, “Yon-re going with os." Police Sgt Jack Dempsey said Somlnskl told him the girls tout tarns driving antll about dash last night, when they kicked him eat WnmlnWl nl he wae forced to have relations with ’one girl nam ed Terry, about *4, and another named Juanita, about M. He said tattoos with all three. Felloe asked him why he didn’t got eat es toe ear when they stoppsd fto- gas, bat Sumfeski ■old the ear kept going daring the whole tone, nearly « hears. ■9 —HE SptlenTkotwUh ne luck. **" Sominaki add all three were Iff**?! — ': - w; Rogers To Help Round Up Souls LONDON (W - Evangelist BIHy [to? to?children SatuiS? witTthi fatigjg- ~ _ DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17, 1954 ■ ’ *a. I ' ' It*. ,i-v I • *^w 7v ; THE SHACK Officially, the home pictured above is the home of a Dunn Negro cook and maid, but unofficially, it is the “Shack,” a busi ness of unknown quantity. The old run - down The Shack Is Popular Spot With Dunn Court Offenders EDITOR’S NOTE: This Is the fmufto in a series Arf . articles an cMhmunity problems, and the second Negro place of business to be feature*!. This Is the Record’s second candidate for a padlock. By CARL CONNER Record Staff Writer Here’s one for “What’s hi a name.? Across the rail road tracks from the notori ous Birdland Club, just in side the Dunn City limits, is the “Shack.” And in this case, the name of the build ing is just what it implies a shabby, run - down, un painted shack. To most people the “Shack” is something of a mystery “business,” but with some of the Negro popula tion of this area it has been well known for sometime. Shrouded be neath the dark, half fallen walls of the hut are the secrete that lie behind many of the crimes of Dunn—according to the admission of a defendant tried .recently In the local Recorders Court. You won’t find a shingle hang ing la front of the property, of ficially, it Is a residence. Living in the home is Clarice Scott, Negro cook and maid for Mayor Ralph Hanna. But Bartow Tohmpson, 41- year-old Negro of Dunn, admitted in court March 4 that he runs toe lOenUnoed on Page Eight) . BULLETINS LOS ANGELES OP) Frustrated authorities wonder ed where to look next today for a missing black panther after “huge paw prints” found near Yucaipa, 75 miles east of here, turned out to be those of a cocker spaniel. Undisguised skepticism was voiced by several police offi cers who spent hours Tuesday racing to various parts of metropolitan Los Angeles investigating reports by fright ened citisens. LONDON (W Scotland Yard was reported today to have increased its plainclothes guard at No. 10 Downing Street, official residence of the prime minister, to protect Lady Churchill against a death threat received by matt. Outside the official residence in Die one-block long street (CooHnasi Ob FBga Two) V, 7 ... ' . + Record Roundup + CITY COUNCIL Dunn’s City. Council will have a lull agenda, tomorrow^nighty City tT'take action on the W. ren building on W, Cumberland. row at 1:10 according to Roy I Brown, building is just what its name implies, a shack. This is the Record’s second candidate for a pad lock. (Daily Record Photo) Dog Track Closed By Supreme Court RALEIGH (IP)—The State Supreme Court today struck down as unconstitutional the 1949 act permitting a dog racing track and parimutuel betting in Currituck County. The high court held that the act Violated “toe principle of equal rights and opportunities to all, spe cial privileges to none.” In effect, the decision will close down the highly profitable dog track at Moyock, N. C., Just across the state line from the heavily populated Norfolk-Portamouth, Va„ metropolitan area. Its effect may also be to close the state’s only other dog track with pari-mutuel windows, that at Morehead City. REVERSES LOWER COURT The high court acted in reversing a decision by Superior Judge How ard Hubbard who allowed a motion Portsmouth men charged in test Uortsmouth men charged In test cases with betting on a race at the Moyock track. Associate Justice William H. Bob bit wrote the opinion in the case of the State vs. W. E. Felton. Iden tical reversals accompanied the Bobblt opinion in the cases of the (Continued on Faga Eight) ; r u Jsr. L^s? 2*» «■ »««■ { requested to ivwnG a pre-scnooi eUoic at the Dunn Orem max HALF HOLIDAY Dunn FIVE CENTS PER COPY Negro Given Prison Term James Thompson, Dunn Negro, was given a prison sentence from seven to ten years by Judge George Fountain In Superior Court yester day for assisting in the robbery of the Dunn Wholesale Grocery. Four other Negroes were awaiting trial for the same crime today. Thompson was tried In Record ers Court In Dunn March 4, at which time he turned State’s wit ness and told the story of the robbery. At that time, he Implica ted Bartow Thompson, William (Billy) McNeill, Lonnie Monds and Hurt is Coleman. When he appeared in court yes terday. however, Thompson denied all statements he made at the pre liminary hearing in Dunn and pleaded not guilty. He also re fused to testify against the other four men who were expected to go (Conttouad ob Fags Bight) News Shorts . RALEIGH (FI An escaped convict was on his way back to North Carolina today froaa Mis souri. The Prisons Department an nounced yesterday that Tillman J. Baxley, es Wades boro, had sur rendered In Nevada, Me, and wae being returned here to ftnhh his RALEIGH (VI Ths State Highway Commission today sought bids an road projects totaling more (ban EM miles The commission an nouncod yesterday It weald open kids March 3$ an the t$ projects to IS counties and weald review them at its meeting April 1. ATLANTA m A constated wssatotaw has testified that he btogfct |7S|MI worth c( w bmdi wit* jpyt * the n«.«4 MI Which th* fed***! rownment elaimi •f Chatowiih, Ga., nOd fta MM vmlrpA!. *vL* h . Wi>U lAfti wnra wwwnn [ THE RECORD ] [ GETS RESULTS Quotes Figures To Show Claims Are Incorrect WASHINGTON (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower today said Demo cratic congressional leaders were wrong in charging that the Republi can tax bill would help rich people primarily. The President’s tax remarks came scarcely an hour before the House took up a Republican tax reform bill which the Democrats claim is favorable to the rich and discriminates against the poor. Biggest controversy over the GOP measure centers around a provision to give tax relief to stockholders by eas ng the tax on dividends. The Democrats propose to cut taxes a little for everyone by in creasing exemptions from S6OO to S7OO a year. The big showdown in the House will come tomorrow when the Democrats try to substitute their higher exemption proposal for toe Republican provision on tax relief for stockholders. The President was questioned spec fically about criticism of the GOP tax bill which came last night from Rep. Sam Rayburn, (D-Tex) and Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga). They said only a comparatively few and wealthy people would benefit from the div idend tax proposals in the new bill. QUOTOB FIGURES The President in reply cited sta tistics concerning the U. S. Steel Corp. to show that most Os Its stockholders are In salary" brack ets even below the national aver age. To say that the Repubi can bill was designed to help the rich peo ple was and here the President paused to pick his word carefully an error. He declined to say whether he would veto the tax bill If it finally contained the Democratic proposal for Increasing the personal income tax exemption. He said he would have to wait until he receives the (Continued on png* rigwt) 1 Recreation Group Maps Out Program The Dunn Recreation Commission and the Chamber of Commerce Park and Recreation Committee will work together in carrying out a program this, year, Willie Biggs, chairman of the Committee said today. Biggs made the announcement this morning following a meeting of the Committee and members of the Commission yesterday after noon. In a statement issued today by Biggs, he said that a program will be worked out with the Comission and Committee “striving to put on the best co-ordinated recreation program that could be worked out with the monies available.” Roy Lowe president of the Com mission, said that the City group will work with the Committee for (Csastinaed an Page Eight) Martha Deri Lee Enters Pageant Miss Martha Deri Lee, II year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Lee of 301 Bast “F” street, Erwin, became the third candidate for the Dunn Junior Chamber of Com merce beauty contest. The pretty candidate Is a graduate of Erwin High School with the INS class. She it now at tending Campbell Collece where she is a sophmore. t pother candidates who^have^an wtll ben^he^Jaycew"l»4 NO. 74 Shillelagh Queen y|m S ml, '' CATHY STANLEY, 17, of Union City N. J, named 1954 Shillelagh Queen, is ready to lead a delega tion of Irish colleens in the New York St Patrick’s Day parade. The shillelagh she holds to 600 years old. (International) Corinne Colvet Sheds Bromfield 5 HOLLYWOOD (ffl French film actress Corinne Calvet, who divor ced actor John Bromfirid because he refused to let her have a- baby, will receive 10 per cent of Brum field's earnings when they exceed $20,000 a year. The 29-year-old actress was granted a divorce in nearby Santa Monica Tuesday after testifying tearfully that Bromfield- suggested she take Up sports when she told him she would like to have a baby. She said she married Bromfield, 31. in Boulder City, Nev, Nov. 7, 1948. John Lewis Pope Given 18 Months John Lewis Pope, 21, of Dunn, Rot e 4, today entered a no con test ■ plea to a charge of hit-run driving and manslaughter In Hkr. nett Superior Court, in the death of Benjamin Wood of Erwin. Judge George Fountain gave Pope 18 months In prison. He «a(d he was giving him a light sentence because he did not contest the act-' ion. , V* f) Allen Salmon of LiUington plead ed guilty to assaulting his wife and was given six months on the roods, suspended for two years and put on probation. He was ordered to pay the costs and to refrain from drinking for two yearn.
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