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*WtA)Htl «+ Partly cloudy and mild today. Cool tonight, lour temperatures near 35 In mountains and 38-45 else where. Friday, considerable cloudi ness and mild with scattered show ers likely west and central portion. VOLUME 4 SOUTHERN COMMIES BEING PROBED Billy Graham, British Row Bver Morals ■LONDON (IP) Billy Gra- Rmm today rode out the sec fcnd wave of protest to break liver his London evangelical Krusade in a month. l-Oraham's comments on British Kinking, divorce, and illegitimate Hiths published recently in an ■tineriean newspaper brought testy ■abuttals from several London pa ■ftt was the British press’s most Kucuient reaction to the American Krangelist since he was denounced ■hortly before his arrival for hav- Hdk said socialism played a part in Britain's postwar troubles. Graham HRmoglzed for this, saying he meant Secularism, not socialism. HIGH IMMORALITY Btr his new summary of British written after a first-hand ■ok at Britain, Graham reported is becoming a na tional menace . . . immorality is at Hi all-time high ... one in four of Bsvfirst births are conceived out Bf wedlock." B*Tbe Dally Express retorted that ■fete divorce rate has dropped Bharply since 1947," while the per ■jtatage of illegitimate children has from 6.9 to S.S per cent ■ recent years. ■Foraham’s headquarters countered ■Eh a mimeographed handout say- statistics were taken from BlUable British sources. If those ■kttetics are proven to be lnac ■ttrate, (hen I will certainly see ■mt the. accurate ones do ap- B Graham added, however, that ■morally. Great Britain is stfl! pro ■ablv better off than the United ■iMI'IBBUBO. CaUf. (tin Ber- Bm ’ C.. Einstein,. 23-year-old, of scientist Albert Etn ■tein. was fined SIOO In justice court ■jtetairdsy for stealing 60 cents from ■pending machine. Wjh&M I I JUttle I JhitUfA 1 By HOOVER ADAMS Henry, hazel stroll; ■Kies yates struts ■irrLE NOTES. District Sohcitor Hut Hooks will not recommend a ■prole for Sam Cannady, Dunn ■mNdayer . . . He's still convinced Kuuiady should have been convlct ■t of first-degree murder . . . Pe ■gons for Cannady’s parole have ■ten circulated . . . Fred Smith will ■turn to Central Barber Shop, be ■nnlng Saturday. . Charles Wade ■ O, and W. Poultry reports that ■| barbecued chickens are selling Bkcey W. Wade ,of Durham, for ■ier Secretary of State, and his Lewis, were visitors in Dunn ■jisterdajr . . .They now own and southern Coach Company ■t;. Highway Commissioner C. A. ■tasty bf Maxtor and Division En- L. E. Whitfield also dropped *rhe Record office for a visit . . . fMfcorted that blueprints for the ■gw 301 are now in the making SSL The South River REA build- E. (Continued On Page Two! Waynes Gets More time In Prison felarria Haynes, Jr , 20 year old Monday for attempting to * TELEPHONES: Sill ‘ Silt • MM, *, ■ 'MjkjVLt Jc||J|L^'' ' IMfr ..#*Bf * • T^Biy^^iiii z* y ; M FRIENDLY CLUB CENTER GOES UP Workmen are shown here as they went about the task of erecting a new community center, near Buie’s Creek. Members of the Friendly Home Demonstration Club started the movement in 1952 and now their dreams are coming true. Members New Community Building To Make Old Dreams Come True By MRS. LLOYD JOHNSON Record Correspondent On a beautiful pine created knoll on the Lillington-Coats road. Just a few hundred yards from Bute’s Creek and almost mid-way between two community stores, that of Ha rold T. Butts and Corlis M. John son, a dream of a number of public spirited citizens for a community center is beglnnlne to materialize. In October, 1962 the Friendly Home Demonstration Club of that vicinity won a fifty dollar first prize at the annual Four County Fair in Dunn for their exhibit based on the 4-Freedoms. Later at a club meeting a discussion rose as to how to best use the awafd. citizens had long been aware there was no place In the commun ity for public meetings other than in the churches and in the school building at Buie’s Creek. As time passed it was unanimously decided that the prize money would form the “nest egg" for the beginning of a * y (Continue*? n Piß® *W) Willie McNeill IsConvicted Romeo Penn, Negro soldier from Ft Bragg, today entered a guilty plea to careless and reckless driv ing after earlier pleading innocent to the charge* Penn was involved in an auto mobile" accident near Angler on December, 1952 in which two Lillington school teachers, .Mrs W. E. Awbrey and Mrs. J. A Walker were Injured. A car driven by Penn, collided with another driven by Mr*. Walker cm highway 210 as Penn tOwlliMi mm Page Eight! Haynes was given' six years with SWS£Sr*J?SSS * t**OBE 1 Dunn is still under investigation Wat flailij of the commnnity are donating money and labor to the project. Rufus M. Mangum is chairman of the building committee and D. H. Green is chair man of the finance committee. (Dally Record Photo.) St. Stephens Plans Lenten Rites Friday The Reverend James F. Femey bough, Jr., Rector of St John's j Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, will I deliver the sermon at Bt. Stephen’s | Episcopal Church, Erwin, Friday night at 7.30 o’clock. Mr. Femey- j hough has been rector of St. John's I for the past ten years and is well ' known throughout this area. Evening Prayer will be conduct ed by the Rev. W. Robert Insko. Rector of St. Stephen’s, and there will be & Coffee Hour In the par ish house immediately after the service. The public is cordially in vited. This service continues a series of Lenten services begun on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent Next Friday, March 26, at 7:30, p. m. the Rev. Claude E. Guthrie, Rector of St. Bartholomew’s. Pitts fesm. N. 0., will deliver the sermon. Then, Friday week, April 2. at 7:30 p. m. The Right Reverend Edwin Anderson Peolck, Bishop of the Di ocese of North Carolina, will de liver the sermon, and administer the ancient and apostolic rite of Holy Confirmation. On Friday, Ap ril 9th. the Rev. Edwin B. Jeff rey Jr., Diocesan Director of Chris tian Education will deliver the ser mon. MAUNDY THURSDAY RITES On Maundy Thursday, April 15th, at 7:30 P. M., the Rector of St. Stephen’s will celebrate the Holy Communion, on the night which Jesus Christ Instituted it. The next day, Good Friday, the traditional three-hour service, from 12:00 noon until 3:00 p. m„ will tfe observe J at St. Stephen’s. On Saturday, the traditional time for Baptisms, there wIU be the administration of Holy Baptism at 3:00 p. m. Then on Easter Day there will be Holy Communion' and Sermon at 10:00 a. m. The Rev. Mr. Insko has invited the public to an these services and has announced that there will be a Nursery in the parish house dar ing each service that parents may have a place to leave their young er children while attending the m ~ n , . Security Risks DUNN, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1954 Prince Allen Gets 60 Days Prince Allen, Dunn Negro who has been tried a number of times for possession of liquor, went to Jail today for 60 days because he and Ws roommate owned a quart of liquor on halves. Judge H. Paul Strickland heard the case severer weeks ago, but de layed action until he could check the man’s record. He read the rec ord to the Negro today and told him he could invoke uie sentence passed on him less than two years ago. “However, Tm not going to do that," Strickland told the man. Prince ihanked the Judge and (Continued on Page Eight) BULLETINS MOSCOW (W Tass news agency said today Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov headed a delega tion of leading Government officials attending a North Korean reception. The party was given by North Korean Ambassador Lim Hi in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Soviet-North Korean agreement on economic and cult tural cooperation. BAHIA BLANCA, Argentina <W SocialistleaderCar los Sanchez Viamonte faces trial here far disrespect of President Juan D. Peron. Judge Carlos E. ed Sanchez indicted oh the basis of remarks the Socialist made in a speech here Monday. MONTEVIDEO, Urguay (W A refugee Argentine ICmtturi On Pag. Two) . .•■ ' 1 4* Kfitoro Kounaup + ON DEAN’S LIST James Tyruay Stewart. Erwin, was among titosaj Payoff Vote On Tax Cut Issue * Scheduled Today By UNITED PRESS The House headed for a payoff vote today on a con troversial Democratic plan to cut taxes by boosting in come tax exemptions by {IOO. Republican leaders conceded the vote would be close but were con fident they had the power to de feat the Democratic move. The Democrats are seeking to strike from a sweeping tax reform bill a pro vision easing stock dividend taxes and substituting their plan to boost income tax exemptions from S6OO to S7OO. Regardless of the outcome of the Democratic move, the House was expected to approve the overall bill which calls for some tax- relief for individuals and corporations. Today’s vote will be a major test for the administration. President Eisenhower has gone all-out In his opposition to the Democratic tax cut. He denounced it as "unsound” in a radio-television speech Mon day night. House speaker Joseph W. Mar tin Jr.. (R-Mass) predicted no more than a dozen Republicans will support the Democratic move while the Democrats expect at least that number to vote with the OOP. The Republicans hold a 219-215 voting prise over the Democrats. OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Feud: Sen. Estes Kefauver (D- Tenn) said he would ask the armed services committee to Investigate the angry feud between Sert.'Utts eph R. McCarthy (R-Wls) and the Army. Clergy: Thi House Un-American Activities committee reopened its Investigation into Communist in filtration of the clergy today. Call ed to testify was the Rev. John Hutchinsoii, professor of religion at Williams College, Mass. Communists: A House Judiciary subcommittee began hearings on whether the Communist Party should be outlawed in the United States. Statehood: Sen. A. 8. (Mike) Monroney (D-Okla) introduced a substitute measure for the Alaska- Hawaii statehood bill now before the Senate that would make the two territories commonwealths. Nows Shorts HOLLYWOOD BEACH, Fl*. ran An official of the National Association of Manufacturers said today thfc Taft-Bartley law should he amended to give more power to the states. Lambert H. Miller, gen eral counsel for the NAM, discussed the Taft- Hartley law before the group’s 26th institute on industrial relations being held here this week. HANOI, Indochina * Com mdnlst. Gen. Vo. Nguyen. Glap rushed in a new division of troops today to replace 1Z.99* dead and wounded and massed his forces (Continued en Page Eight) .. olln* as a graduate assistant pro - -e n--, - - ;W? FIVE CENTS PER COPT ||lpf EPHRAIM HORNER, 88, repeats a familiar scene in a Lakewood, N. J., hospital as he visits his wife, daughter, his 27th child. A retired (arm hand, Homer lives in a four room apartment with his wife and seven of their 13 children. His first wife died in 1924 after presenting him with 14 offspring. Now sup ported by state and federal pensions, he has no record of bow many grandchildren or grsat-g: sndchfldiea he has. (Inlernatior.al) Harnett Slayer Must Serve Term Bcpby Spencer o| Harnett County lost out in an at tempt/xo escape a 25 to 30-year sentenoe imposed for Sec- Ondjdfe r ®«‘* rau r <le r't* ’ ' * arm lourt Rules On larnett Cases The North Carolina Supreme- Court yesterday upheld a $25,045 verdict awarded R. H. Hamilton against Earl Henry, well-known Dunn business man. This suit grew out of an auto mobile accident which occurred about a year ago. Henry was the driver of one of the vehicles. The insurance company appealed the case to the high tribunal. The State Supreme Court also dismissed the appeal of Mary B. McNeill. Harnett Negro woman who held appealed a liquor conviction on grounds of illegal search and seiz ure. The court dismissed the ap peal because the defendant viola ted a rule of practice of the court. - Because the case was settled by agreement of counsel, in the ap peal the evidence was In question and answer form. The court also upheld the ver dict in the case of W. H. Laugh-* inghouse ys Farm Bureau Insurance Company. Laughing house was awarded a verdict of $450. Janitor Problem Solved By Judge Judge H, Paul Stricklann solved the town’s Janitor problem at the City Hall today when he sentenced a 1$ year old Negro to 30 days in the local Jail to serve as the building’s janitor. The new Janitor to Charles Freeman Lilly who was charged with driving without t license. * Officer Jack Black told th* court that the youth ran Into a light pole, breaking It down, and break ing several wires. Estimated dam age was set at SSO. Lilly told the court he wasn’t driving, but was Just sitting under the steering wheel while two other men pushed the car. He was in court some months ago on the same chiuge, and was once halted into Juvenile court for shooting a Strickland told the boy he felt that the 30 days in jail here would be worth more to him than 30 days ° n The* PoSw Department was ffcet to put the youth to work. When oourt adjourned, he was already busy sweeping the Jail. Larrragg.fcj,: ISO days. * f THE RECORD ] GETS RESULTS The State Supreme Court de clined to reverse the decision reach ed In Harnett In November 1953. Bobby Spencer, John Spencer and Lacy Murchison received lndenttcal sentences in the murder, of Thur man McNeill. McNeill went into a Lillington case operated by his brother on the night of Jan. 9. 1953. While a cou ple of customers began wrestling, McNeill pulled one man away. This led to words and Bobby Spencer in vited McNeill outside. . The two men went outside the case but did not fight and soon afterward came back Inside. later that night, i the three defendants surrounded McNeill near a piccolo and State Witness Dorothy McNeill said she saw a knife go up and come down on Thurman McNeill's head. She said McNeill was “beg ging” the trio to leave him alone. Witness McNeill said she turned to get help when she heard a shot. She saw Thurman McNeill on his knees, his hand holding his ab domen. John Spencer admitted he did the shooting, she said. SECOND DEGREE Hospitalized with the gunshot wound and scalp cuts, McNeill died four days later. 'Originally charged with first de gree murder, the three men were found guilty of murder in the sec ond degree and sentenced by Judge Clawson L. Williams. Bobby Bpencer in his appeal con tended that Judge Williams should not have allowed the case to be consolidated for trial. He also con tended that a mistrial should have I been declared after a witness, in . the presence of the Jury, had told j a defense attorney, “if you put me (O—tiwt ws Mi two! Pleasants In Race For County Board Jarvis M. Pleasants. Grove Ttsywhlp fynor, has Ated with tn t County Boara or Elections ior the poet of County Commissioner in the Second District composed of Grove and Duke Townships. A life long Democrat, Mr. Meas- Methodist onuren ana supermtena «»t of Be tea PflA COMMITTEEMAN t 1 "N 095 Lawyer Refuses To Say If He Is A Communist NEW ORLEANS (IP) Lee Schemer, a Miami, Fla., at torney, refused today to tell a Senate subcommittee in vestigating communism in the South whether he was a Communist on grounds he might incriminate himself. In his refusal to tell Sen. Jame Eastland (D-Miss), acting chair man of the Senate Internal secur ity subcommittee which opened hearings here today, Scheiner cited the first, fourth, fifth, eighth, nin th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution. As he attempted to list the legal reasons for his refusal to answer the questions. Eastland shouted: “Keep your mouth shut. I know about your Communist tactics and I don’t want you to take over the hearing.” SERVED AS DIRECTOR Scheiner was listed by the com miteee as a director pf the South ern Welfare Conference Fund which is being investigated by the sub committee for “alleged Communis! influences,” He also testified he had been an employe of the Office of Price Administration under the Department of Agriculture. CROUCH TAGS HIM After Scheiner refused to -give his politics#, affiliation, Eastland called Paul Crouch, a former Com munist who has claimed there are about 1.100 active Communists In the (South. Crouch testified he knew Scheiner as a member of the Com munist Party when be was in it. ‘3 itnaw him personally.” Crouch item. “He was an important mem ber of the Red Party in Florida. His duty would be or waa If the Communist Party went underground to take over its leadership.” Crouch, who is a "friendly” wit ness,- testified that Scheiner was one of the three top Red leaders (Continued mm Fats » All Dogs Must Be Vaccinated Dr. T. E.‘ Dardew, Dnn vet erinarian and Barnett rabtea in spector, today reminded d#*- owners that dogs mast be vacci nated this year. Failure of dog-owners to have the canines vaccinated wIH re sult in penalties. Fail are is also a criminal violation. Dr. Darden will he in his of fice in Dnnn Saturday of this week, which U the last day of the clinic. Raping Os Man Turns Out Hoax TOLEDO, O. m Virgil Sum inski, 28. who told police yesterday he bad been “raped’’ by two.girls, admitted today his story was a hoax. Suminaki. father of * 17-months old son. said he had made up the story as an alibi to explain to his wife why he had been away from home all day. He had told police that two of three girls who picked him up white he wa*. hitch-hiking had forced him to have relations with them. Sumtaski confessed attar he was given a fie detector tost
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