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PAGE TWO BULLETINS /, ' i (Continued from pace one) HANOI, Indochina (IP) French bombers struck to day at 20,000 communist reinforcements rushing south to-the siege of French-held Dien Bien Phu where military eircles described the situation as “uneasy.” Communist »r --tilliery shelled Dien Bien Phu with renewed intensity dur ing the dkX >n a counter-effort.to prevent,the landing of French reinforcements at the ait strips,-but the badly - mauled Reds launched no heavy attacks during the night. WASHINGTON APl—The proposed merger of the Flor ida East Coast Railroad with the Atlantic Coast Line, fourth reorganization plan for the FEC submitted in a 23- year-old court battle. has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The court held 4 to 3 yesterday that “one carrier cannot be railroaded” by the Interstate Commerce Cont tnission “into an undesired merger with another carrier.” GEORGETOWN, British Guiana (IP) ; Armed police patrolled the streets today to prevent new demonstrations in this tense and strife-torn British colony. Riot squads broke up one demonstration yesterday by. followers of de posed Prime Minister Chedda Jagari, head of the extreme left-wing Progressive Peoples Party. LANGLEY AFB, Va. (IPi Air rescue craft searched the East Coast today for a trace of missing jet speed ace Col. William H. Council!’ who disappeared yesterday on a flight from Farmingdale, N. Y., to Langley. Councill, 42, former holder of the transcontinental jet speed record and a veteran of air warfare in the Pacific during World War U, was returning to Langley from the Republic' aviation plant at Farmingdale in a jet trainer when he vanished. GRIFTON (JPL : — Medical specialists will begin a sur vey here next week to determine the prevalence of blasto mycosis, a rare disease which affects the skin and lungs of its victims. Dr. Walter C. Humbert, Pitt County health ' officer, said yesterday that 10 cases, one of them fatal, had been diagnosed in this area within the past three months. COLUMBIA, S. C. (IP) The deadline for filing in the June 8 Democratic primary was 48 hours away today and two major candidates for governor had not yet paid entry fees. Lt. Gov. George Bell Timmerman Jr. and Columbia insurance executive Lester L. Bates were apparently plan ning to waii until near the noon Thursday deadline be fore qualifying for the race. Five candidates, including four incumbents, filed yes terday. CHARLESTON, S. ,C. (IB A contract has been signed to sell Charleston radio station WTMA to Charles E. Smith of Cumberland, Md., and George H. Clinton of West Virginia. Representatives of (he Evening Post Publishing Cp, holders of the WTMA brot (Hasting license, signed the contract in Washington Saturday. The sale must be ap r proved by the Federal Communications Commission. COLUMBIA, S. C (IP) A 9-year-old girl was credited • with saving her mot er’s life and probably her own ip a , fire which damaged their home shortly after mid night. Cathy Hall, d fourth grade student, was awakened by her mother’s coughing and discovered the bed in which they were sleeping was afire. WASHINGTON (IP) Bourke B. Hickenlooper R-lowa said, today, the buildup of the- nation’s air defenses against enemy atomic attack “vigorously and satis factorily.” The vice chairman of the congressional Atomic Energy Committee made the- statement as top atomic and . defense officials went before the Senat Armed Services Committee to explain the impact on recent atomic devel 1 - ? opments on national military strategy.' WASHINGTON (IP) — r Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee admitted, today they are very copcerm Pd about the possibility that the United States wifi be come deeply, involved, in the Indochina war. They express ’ ed their fears after Secretary of State John Foster Duties told them that the Chinese Reds dire -coming “awfully close” to the kind of intervention in Indochina that might provoke retaliation against China itself. WASHINGTON UP) American officials said today the United States probably will consult Britain and other - if it, ever, decided to iaunch an atomic counjter-at t*<* against ap enemy. v wake of a White House announcement that a ,1943 agree mast between Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime .. Mmister Winston Churchill op.atomic war is no longer valid. Under the pact, the two nations agreed not to use • the A-bomb against each other or against any other coun try unless both agreed. WASHINGTON S*ngfe. investigators .today call ed a former Washington magazine writer in a resumption ° f thjmriPqupy into the Harry Dexfer White “spy” case. Sen. Wduam E. Jeuner. R-Ind, chapman of the Senate In temal Security Subcommittee, said that Jonathan Mitch ell, a Washington correspondent for New Republican Mag azine from 1933 to 1940, would appear at a public hear ; ' £ ,Amerij ' tilat Martin would > speakers will inelude Ken Kramer, executive editor of ’ SMII • * i<ur H. P Johnson. 8. Clinton. S6ot; J. H. Creech. South canton. $600; Fayetteville, $800; and V. M. Hod ®**' S Elm. SSOO, • ■ I school auditorium i {; Two HeWFor Federal Court Two Johnston County Negroes to day were awaiting trial In Federal Court after their arrest at a whis key still in Banner Township. The defendants are: Dennis Dyers, 66, and Joe Brasier, 34, both of Dunn, Route 2. Federal ATTJ agents and John ston County officers arrested them at a moonshine plant. They are charged with possession of an un registered distillery, making and fermenting mash. Officers des troyed the still and poured out 1800 gallons of mash and 56 gallons of whiskey. - - The defendants were given a pre liminary hearing in Dunn before Mrs. Mallie Adams Jackson - and bound over to the October term of FederaJ Court In Raleigh. Bond was set at SSOO each. Making the raid were: AT l Agent C. S. Coats and Deputie; Ersaleen Creech of Smithfield and Ernie O. Brady of Four Oaks. Little Things (Continued from pace one) thought maybe he had been (after McCarthy) too much lately—he was glad to hear differently." . . . Jack was well impressed with Arilai . . . So were Lofton Tart, Norwood Ste phenson, Worth Lee Byrd and Dick -Lasater. who saw him in Char'otte Saturday . . . ‘‘l’m for Afllai 100 per cent." declared Mr. Tart . . . A number of Dunn people were in Raleigh last night to see "South Pacific'' and there’ll be more to night . . The new home of Nay lor Dickey Motors, located in the building formerly occupied by Pur die’s. has some of the most im pressive signs in town . . . THINGAMAJIC- 13 : 'Sadie Thomp son" drew big crowds to the Stev.ar. Theatre here Sunday . . . “But if people think that movie was a little torrid in spots.” pointed out Man ager James Yates, “wait until Jane Russell’s new movie “French Line” comes soon . . . George Upchurch says he sold the Saturday Even ing Post as a boy 50 years ago, when it only cost a nickel a week . . . "I’m still selling it,” he point ed out today, "but now it costs 15 cents a copy.’’. . . The Dunn Cham ber of Commerce and civic organi zations of the town ought to get on the ball and' plan a “Henry Tyler Night" or some other honor for him . . . Dunn is losing one of its best families and so far we haven't done anything to show them we’re sorry . . . Mr. Tyler will ret tire in July as district manager of the Carolina Power,and Light,Co. and is moving bacl] to RiottAond . . . Few families) if angrdjhave done as much for this community as the Tyler family . . . Donating the park property to the town was just one of.thg many services . . . We doubt that any one family in the town’s history ever contribu ted so much actual cash to worthy causes . . . Long before the local schools had cafeterias, the Tylers were providing free lunches for the children . . . Long before the town had a hospital, the Tyler family provided us with the Convalescing Home . . . Hundreds of families each year knew there was a -Santa Claus because of their generosity . . . The list could go on and on . . . Henry Tyler, incidentally, was the first man ever to be named Dunn’s “Man of the Year.”-. . . The least we can do now that they're leaving is to show apprecia tion in a big way . , . Wade Drake is now managing -one of. the ’Stew art theatres in Fayetteville-. - County Chairman J. O. West says he’s expecting a big crowd at the Republican convention on Friday . . . The changes In weather ought to help the drug business a: id . -Should bring plenty of bad colds. JACK LAIT— ONE OF THE BEST We weren’t lucky enough to meet the great man personally, hut. felt a sense, of personal sadness when the news came over the wire last week that Jack Lalt had died .. .He was one of the best newspaperman, who ever lived, a prolific writer l of the knock-down, drag-out school' of Journalism.. Lalt was editor of The New York Mirror, but he was better known to most people ak.the co-author of the three books, “Washington Confidential.” Chica go Confidential,” and “New York Confidential. .. AU best - sellers... He had also written 1,560 short, stories. 1$ other books, eight play, and had written, the stories for 47 movies and a number of Broadway plays. ..Lait was also a columnist, playwright, critic and novelist, a very versatile fellow.. Basically, he was a newspaperman, an expect in the sentimental tough guy school ol prose. ..He was hard-working, brilliant and ruthiem . He believ ed In going after, the story- - -H» knew his way around, which 4s the most important thing for any re porter Any simpleton can write aS*'wh‘e t re ta^ thf newsTriS thing that count* most..,.Whan *hot him down With a barrage of bullet*. Jack Lait was with- tham. and had •*» exclusive, eye witness story. . Before even the ■ ' ■' *■ ll . '■ —- younger drangctaugtrter. Sue John- I ffjf i THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. PULLING THE WHISTLE Locke Campbell, left, superintendent of the Durham and Southern shops In Dunn, is shown here aa he tried out the whistle on the new diesel engine which began its Maid Os Cotton Defies Dior; She Won't Raise Her Skirts PARIS (IP) lt took a Texan to come to Paris and defy the French fashion king, Christian Dior. Lovely Beverly Pack, 20, Ameri ca’s Maid of Cotton for 1954, bare ly arrived here to show off cotton fabrics to Europeans before .she set Old Maestro Dior back on his heels Os Dior, the man who introduced the “shocking short” skirt line with its 16 1-2 inch hemline for chic wo men, Beverly said coolly: "Very nice, but I certainly don’t intend to raise my skirts for him. -Fourteen and one half inches is plenty for me." ferr • Nixon (Cenflk’tf From Page Oia) Jordan- said it was “unprecedented” that a. faculty member would give out any information regarding act ir« on a nomination for an honor ary, degree, but be indicated an of ficial staement would be made later today. , v .... #, The newspaper did not identify its source, stating that the spokes man had requested that his name be withheld. Nixon, a graduate of Duke law school, was scheduled to be Duke’s commencement speaker this June but cancelled the address. His Washington aides said he cancelled the speech and several others because he didn’t want to leave- Washington any more than necessary while the Senate is in session. - ... Nixon was nominated for .a, de gree by a, secret -faculty committee hut. his name was tabled, after the vote by about one-fifth of .the uni versity’s faculty members, the Her ald said. - - Chicago newspapers knew what had ’ happened, the Mirror’s presses in New York were turning out an ex tra with Lait’s vivid account That’s the way he did things —4r- He was a taciturn, tireless dlgge;, lor news.... Jack Lait wasn’t al ways too popular with some of the people he wrote about because be wrote the truth,-and- he-,calftd-'* spade a spade, but the readers-lov ed him—He always substituted for Walter Winched when Winchel) went on-vacation or wag ill—Some of The Daily Record’s readers phon ed in that they liked Lalt’s col umn better than WincheJl’s.. Lait knew that good reporting is a hard Job- 1 Comparing it once with fie-; tion writing, he said, ’’Fietion is a cinch, automatic.. % Just set the screws in my bead-tor 2,800 words, and, out it comes. Not only,’do I not r*wi4t», Jdon’t read them,’!.... Few people can do that—particular ly for the prioe he was paid fo h*a. *hrff,,, lAit. was at his best when he was writing human in terest 'stories, about people, ‘ about the drama of everyday human life ..i-When he was doing m Job, he appeared sometimes to be hard, cold and’ callous, at £mes almost 4KM«ta»..r ..But Jack Lait. his dose- friends and intimate* said, was one of the softest most tender hearted -persons in the w0r1d,,.. There waatt anything he wculdh’t do for * Iritisd or a person in; need... -He came up the hard way | v.. His first Job on a newspaper j was as aa errand boy.. He roae] to great height and riches ...He] became >• big executive of the KtophSfa , [twos, kinder orUriendfieT pSI [great feets of Jack Lait rreUrter aga. .vrc * bßlwAiU'lbawxiww > ’< ■ 4 run on the railroad today. At the right' ia H. A. McAllister of Durham, vice president and general manager of the railroad. (Daily Record Photo:) She will visit Dior's collection be - fore she leaves for Frankfurt April 11. but her mind was made up in advance. HER FIRST BIG TBIT Beverly, making her first trip outside the American South, is do ing all the things every tourist la Paris dreams of. Patting her 23-inch waist, which with a 36 1-2 bust and 36-inch hip 3 has not escaped observant French men she told the awful truth. She forward to the French cookery. “Only thing that worries me is that 7 won’t fit into my 52-costume wardrobe after a week here,” she Dr. Jones (Cwntlnaed From Pwt ope. operating illegally And •'gave* them to the Grand Jury, i With the cooperation of CLg, Ma nager, Mr. Arthur. Owens, every thing was organized and alt these places were raided at the same time. Police officers were brought to the town from many parts of the state to aid in the raids. Many places were padlocked and quite a number of people were sent to prison. The Judges of the city promised -that there would be no suspended sen tences. When several appealed from, the police court to the city court, the City Judge increased the fines and sentences. The results has beer, that to this day Portsmouth has had a decrease in crime rate. HEADED COLLEGE, Mr. Jones served as President of Emmanuel College, Franklin Springe- Georgia. 1926 through 1929. Follow ing this he served as General Youth Secretary in his’ denomination which activities led him to work in chur ches all over the United States and' Canada. When Dr. 'Jones went to Ports mouth In 1936 he had a Sunday School of 24 members. The .Sundav School is now in the 500 claa*. The growth of His congregation has been nhenomtaal. The church has recent ly bought an acre of ground and is constructing $160,000 plant. . -,r In 1947 he took, a world tour, spending three weeks in. the Holy Land. He was one of the last A mericans to have a conference with King Abdullah, of ( Trans-Jordan. The conference was conducted . at l his winter palace at (Shunneh, about 3 miles east of the -Jordan river. He was’ also a guest of King Far ouk’s Minister of Industry and Commerce in Cairo, Egypt. Again last April he made a return trip to the Holy Lang. .. , . Rev. B. iy. Undgrwood Secretary of the Dunn Minister’s Conference announces that tbUservices wIU. be conducted daUy at 7:30 p. m. and Id 10:00 a. m. " I’*% r“ New Diesel * , c —““ good deal of that time as an en- OFFICIALS HEBE ! pany were also on hand to see the | change over. Official* of Dunn and of the Chamber of Cdmjnerce were jUso present. Mayor Hanna den Chamtoof* 011, PrCSl ' Officials .Imre far the first diesel said. - • In addition to the gowns made for her in the United States, Bev erly will get five creations here from famed designers. Jacques Heim put together a white and gold cocktail dress which combines stunningly with the Texas beauty queen’s dark brunette locks. Pierre Balmain, working from her photograph, designed a pink ev erglaze cotton evening gown. Jean, Patou contributed a middy blouse and pleated-skirt sports ensemble,; while LeComte eame up with a‘ white and beige print cocktaU gown and-black cooktail-dress. 6a" . Ike Says -« (Continued From Page ,O<M) servers agreed it was extremely ef fective, the best Mr. Eisenhower has done yet. He leaned casually against A desk in the White House broadcast r00m,.: be spoke calmly and easily, although: he only had notes on reminder cards to guide] him, and his earnestness carried across the sceens., , “I don’t mean to say aijd no ons can say to you that there are nf] dangers,’’ he declared, “but we do not have to be hysterical. -We cab he vigilant, we can be Americans. We can Stand up and hold up our heads ...” The danger of Communism at homev be said, has been “greatly, exaggerated." He advised the puhj Uc to put :tts trust: in the “great: bulwark’' of -the :FBI. , Instead-,dL dwelling an the 3,700- 006: unemployed, he said the nation should think, abouti the 60 ndUtoa. employed—“very near an aU-time high.” Unemployment—a symptom of the'transition from war to peace —-“happily shows signs now of lev eling off 1 ' he said.’ - <-r The massive hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific have led -to worldwide concern, about the ch*n<- ces of. an atomic Utr. But Mr.. Ei senhower .. warned, against "hysteri cal thinking,” “the Jitters or any kind of panic," . . , r- - He .said, the “men in the Krem lin” are .well .aware of the “sober ing" effect that, would flow from such a conflict. And of all.of these, he added, “none is greater than the-retaliation that would certain ly be visited upon them if they were to attack any of our nation or any part of our vital Interests aggress ively and to order to conquer.” Mr. Eisenhower .said that in ad dition to, the H-bomb, the United States must fashion an effective civil and . continental defense “in order to make certain that we lama the best possible chance to live through such- a catastrophe" should the Soviets break through the bar riers of.Judgment and *tart<* war. He counseled a level-beaded America. He saM he did not want to minimise this- particular threat, but that- thereare only about 25.000 j “doctrinal Communists ’ in America j today and "the FBI knows pretty] well where they are.” i The President, himself, linked] company. « J look at the engine, congratulated 1 the out-of-town officials, agAdjMM for the company, jHe, reminded the] .Besides the diesel, thJdrnadeXbeg cf- the Dunn shop. .VV.-aw*. ■ ; TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APlllL Fryer To V ; (Continued From Page One) this sermon over an amplifying system. Also while at New Bern he made a good wiH trip tor the City of New Hem to Bern, Switzerland. En route, he was received by Presi dent Truman at the White Hpuse. - .'While in Dunn, he served as a member of the general board -of the North Carolina State Conven tion and as a trustee of the Bow man-Gray Baptist Hospital In Wln- He was a member of the board of DWm Hospital, Inc., and a leader tatdther affairs here- Both the Dunn and yew Bern churches voted unanimously not to accept his resignation, but later did so at his persuasion. MANY HONORS While at New Bern, he was elec ted moderator of the Atlantic Bap tist Association, which was com posed of Baptist churches in five counties, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico, Carteret and Craven. Since taking over the pastorate at Moffett in Danville, the church there has purchased two residences adjoining the church and conver rted them into annexes to house ' the rapidly expanding Sunday School and church program. The Rev. Mr. Fryer, one of the most forceful pulpit speakers in the South, is in great demand for evan gelistic programs throughout the State and in northern states as well; , : . , Dr. Charles J. Smith, provost iat Roanoke College, in announcing that Mr. Fryer had been elected to receive the Doctor’s Degree, said. “He is one of our most loyal and able alumni." Alabaster i Continued from pace earn man of the Dunn board, was re appointed to another three-year term. Dr. Corbett Is the oldest mem ber of the board from standpoint of service. Other members of the board. the fear of Communist infiltration of the government with “the fear that we will use Intemperate in vestigative methods, particularly through congressional committees." . — — QUINN'S ' I|J runofcii lloiTi SERVICE I 1 m I'irn yawp w- ivn 1 il-'l | OUR (91 n, whose terms have not yetwl and were not up for are: Jerry Butler, Duncan qSf| son and Floyd Altman. -Mr. Alabaster, who has twoiM ren, has been a leader in iiflaMi] (the town for a number oDjSj He is active in the Chaaihwr’j Commerce and In other cogppi ity activities. He owns and apgM the Western Auto Associate i-Btfl In Dunn. win a woitdarilH prize on * I pMm } A World of Fan and j sensalionol l ijuli show featuring 1 PRIZES GALORE! I YOU WIN W Ft Ell At Prince'll LISTEN TO wdij 9:30 .a m. • $3.95 Slip 53.95 CiJ • $4.95 Vogue Loaf«rf REGISTER JI PRUicrsfl DEPT STOiJj
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