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i 4WEAtH£R f Partly cloudy and slightly warm- ' er tonight and Wednesday with showers likely In mountains Wed nesday. Low temperatures tonight in upper 40s in west to upper 90s in eapt portion. , V OLUME 4 NOTED A-BOMB SCIENTIST BARBED Goldsboro Deslh i Toll At Five; t Cause Is Sought GOLDSBORO, N. C. (IP) Two more bodies were recov ; ered early today from the charred debris of a mysteri ?'• cus explosion that demol ' iihed a two-story building I here yesterday, bringing the I death total to five. ;•> A wrecking machine uncovered 4 parts of the body of a man at 1:40 t • , a. m. He was tentatively identified as Troy Holmes, about 50, assistant manager of a downtown furniture & store wnich v.as "disintegrated" in the rumbling explosion. 5 Shortly before dawn the body of 8? a Negro woman was recovered but WC identification was not made at once. The woman was thought to have been a shopper in the store, i Two Negro women were reported missing after the blast hurled r Jagged glass and bricks upon a score ■ of passersby m like battlefield if Wrecking machines continued to Er search through rubble caused by ■ /.the explosion which shattered win ■B|4o«s two blocks away and spread to three other business struc- Sheriff’s deputies described area as being “as bad as a HK battlefield." || V .Workers pulled the bodies of sec s;; retary-bookkeeper Eunice Collins f’’ 34; proprietor Marion M. Edwards, i 60, and a passerby, Luther S. Den £ Blfig, 16, of Four Oaks, N. C., from ' the furniture store wreckage. Den £ ning was crushed by a falling brick | wall. . -WBne?sesj;aperted hearing a wo- in the wreckage at TO exi>!osibri knocked a Negro'” ' . Janitor, Thomas McKenzie, from a (Continued On Page Four'. JhsL&s Jittlp I JhinqA %. By BOOTES ADAM? L MRS. DORIS STRICKLAND ; PLANS TO GO ON A DIET 4. Bubba Peay, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Peay. ts an honest ’ lad and he found out the other day ¥ that honesty pays off. too. i Bubba found S3O in long green i in the yard at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. N. McLamb, and he figured that Mr. McLamb must x. have lost it. . ! The McLambs were out of town 4; for the weekend, but Bubba kept |»‘ the money safely and as soon as B they returned home he took it to the prominent Dunn business man. Ktt£r|fir. McLamb has missed the mon • Tjt' hot had not expected to find sB it and he had forgotten about it. He was so impressed with Bubba s honesty that he gave him $lO of the 130 as a reward. j' LITTLE NOTES: There was quite K> lOenttnurd on par* two! R ■ * ; Postal Group Names Bunnlevel Woman Er Two Harnett County postmasters j£.ywere named to district positions at E* a meeting of postmasters hem Fri- R;day evening at St. Paul. Congress man Ertel Carlyle was principal speaker for the dinner meeting. Iff ■ Mrs. Hubert Byrd of Bunnlevel §M eras named chairman of the district pl t* ‘**place Berdis Stone, and M. D. Lanier, postmaster a t Lulling ton was V FAVORS SALARY HIKE f Congressman Carlyle ‘old' the iff .postal workers that he favors.a raise K; in salary for pest office employees, Est that it would be ap- Congressman post- JB^the 6 seventh e distr?ct la m«rtlng. Ipost- TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 ’•'gl 1 Bftfß ■ &‘ ’»V mSttß! i^^B* ;, V'. _ n t' Jy»f iflUCr B|'' aHtasT* -4^BiH^^B Hp ~ H£nr Ji FLOWER SHOW The hall of the Dunn Grammer School was filled with flower arrange , ments today made by the students of Miss Lillian | F.zzel’s fourth grade. Judges were on hand to in i spect the arrangements and give ribbons. Pictured I above, Mrs. James Davis of Davis Flower Shop,, shows three of the students how to put the fin Texas Contractor Arrested As Probe Begins Into FHA SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (TO FBI agents arrested S. Lee Davis, 46, a prominent paint contactor, today in a drive against fraudulent dealings with the government that purportedly run' into “mil lions of dollars.” Davis was arrested on charges of perjury and conspiracy to bribe. Asst. U. S. Atty. Brad Miller said Davis Is accused of conspiring with a “John Doe” to bribe Ralph H. Hall. Hall, the Fort Sam Houston con tract inspection chief, was arrested yesterday on federal bribery charg es and released in bond. He, Davis and “Doe” allegedly were involved in a painting contract of about |3,000 in 1952. { Miller said an investigation show ed the frauds “run into millions of dollars.” He said Hall accented a bribe of nearly $2,000 for “special consideration” on a $125,000 paint ing contract at Brooke Army Medi cal Center. WASHINGTON Itfi lnvestig ators dug into Federal Housing Ad ministration files today to smash a multi-million dollar home and apartment loan scandal involving both Republican and Democratic ad ministrations. A well informed source revealed that President Eisenhower ordered (Continued On Page Four) Postmaster Ralph Wade of Dunn also attended the meeting. . 45J Jlailu Iterant DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1954 ishing touches on a number of arrangements. With Mrs. Davis are, (1. to r.) Steve Owen, Jimmy Wil liams, (Mrs. Davis) and Gluny Aycock. Before the students, began work on the arrangements, Mrs. Davis had discussed arrangement making with the fourth graders. (Daily Record Fhoto) Dunn Tourist Group Plans For Summer Members of the Dunn Tourist Bureau mapped plans for the sum mer program today at a meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce office. Hugh Willie Tart, chairman | of the Bureau, presided. lirt praised the work of the Chamber of Commerce Sign Com mittee, and encouraged the place ment of more signs advertising Dunn during the next few months. The Bureau head pointed out that incoming from Fayetteville in the evening it has been noted that a number of tourist courts have vacancies while Dunn courts are filled. But, in order to inake this true during the summer months, more advertising with signs out of town will be necessary, Tart em phasized. TWO PROJECTS Membership of the Bureau out lined two points for continued pro gress in the future: (1) Continued placement of signs advertising Dunn out of the county. (2) Continuance of the "Tourist of the Week” program this sum mer. . Norman J. Buttles, publicity chalr . man for the Bureau, said today that the "Tourist of the Week” pro gram will probably begin within the next few weeks. "The program was very successful last year,” But tles stated. Tart announced that new mem bership cards are being printed and will be circulated in ’ the near fu ture. 1 Chamber Vetoes I Advertising Plan I The Dnu Chamber of Com- I merce has disaperoved plans of I so out-of-town firm to mil ad- I j vertWog to Dnnn merchants to II pat out aa information booklet ■ I on Dnnn. It was announced today |[ In a bulletin released by the 11 chamber 11 Mtntfcr Nwntn Settles of the I Chamber Is urging merchants net II fjujijo chamber Is new makinff I j .mb 1. Wtt a L U. |_o-__* I (lon book about Bus at a later II "We’re not flxhUnr the rav- $950 Damages In Car Wreck Damages estimated at $990 result ed from a wreck at the corner of W. Edgerton and N. Clinton Avenue Sunday afternoon, Dunn Police re ports Indicated today. Cleveland Daniels of Salemburg, Route 1, was charged with careless and reckless driving following the accident. Police said that Daniels hit a 1963 DeSoto driven by Mrs. Lillian K. Ammons of Dunn, Route 1. Mrs. Ammons was reported to have been driving West on Edgerton at the time of the accident. The Ammons car had stopped at corner of Edgerton and Clinton, and then proceeded across the in tersection on a green light when (Oswttausd aa puce two) BULLETINS JACKSONVILLE, Fl*. W lf you happen to see a grown man in a harness pulling a small red wagon up U. S. Highway No. 1 this summer his name is Dick Cook. Cook is the walkingest mat) in the United States. He walks all year long. He has walked from Maine to California, from Detroit to Florida. He’s walked 14,M0 miles, through every state. Right now he’s walking up U. S. 1 to the Ca nadian border. . » WASHINGTON (V CIO President Walter Reuther attacked the administration tax bill today as a “bonanza to the wealthy” which would provide no relief tor most • (O—awma so pajs twu) # Record Roundup 4 GETS PROMOTION - Clifford H. Hardy, formerly of Dunn, baa been elected Executive Secretary of the National Cotton Dinners Associa awara ofjnartt tag wadt aa a cWc Farm Law May Be Extended For One Year By UNITED PRESS Senate supporters of high level farm price supports to day appeared ready to give a little ground in their fight against the administration’s flexible price crop plan. Influential farm bloc leaders seemed to be leaning toward a sug gestion for a one year extension of the present farm law which guar antees price supports at 90 per cent of parity on six “basic” crops. They previously had talked in terms of a two year extension. Sen. MUton R. Young (R-ND) said he believes chances are good that President Eisenhower would approve a one year extension of the present law. which is due to die in December. But Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson said Monday he is “con fident” Mr. Eisenhower will veto any bill extending the high sup port law. If the present program expires on schedule, a flexible law now on the books would take ef fect. Under the flexible plan, Benson would have authority to adjust the support level between 79 and 90 per cent of parity in line with sup plies. In another farm development, the House voted tentatively Monday to add $2,196,639 to the Agriculture Department money bill for the com ing fiscal year to restore a cut in agriculture research funds voted by the House Appropriations Commit tee. Another vote on the issue will come when debate resumes on the appropriations btli Wednesday.' OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Taxes: CIO President Walter Reu ther attacked the administration tax reform bill as a “bonanza to the ’ wealthy" which would provide no relief for most taxpayers. McCarthy: The Senate Investi gating Subcommittee called a clos ed meeting to ask its regular coun sel, Roy M. Cohn, and its staff dir ector, Francis P. Carr, for a writ ten statement of Sen. Joseph R. Mc- Carthy’s charges that the Army tried to "blackmail” him into dropping his Red investigation. Surplus: Sen. Francis Case (R --SD) said the United States is “ex ploring” with several nations the possibility of using surplus foods to offset the cost of constructing over seas military bases. Statehood: Rep. A. L. Miller (R- Neb) said it is “quite possible” the House Rules Committee will recom mend a Senate-House conference committee on a Senate-approved bill to grant statehood to Alaska and Hawaii. Rouse, Ciccone Will Run Use The Southern Coach Company of Durham has announced the lease of the Dunn-Brwin bus line to J. B. Rouse Jr. and Johnny Ciccone of Dunn. Operation of the new line began yesterday, Rouse said today. (Oeattamet Or Page Twe) morrow by MfcfcasiML toUeher, that**he t^^t*°not* t be* < »tae ll uTi? tood tbs ursmqp l **. but that iome j:™" s* 11 ®? 11 p *°* lT * * award la his behalf. , FIVE CENTS PER COPY ' V;I , K ‘ W. B. (RED) WILLIAMS Angier Mayor Opens Gampaign For House Mayor W. B. (Red) Williams of Angier today opened his campaign for the State House of Representatives with a promise that, if elected, he will represent the people fairly and will oppose any measure which tends to array one class of people against another. The popular Angier mayor prom ised an intensive campaign to un seat Representative Carson Greg ory, who is seeking his third term in the House. A keen student of government who has made a success of heading the government in his home town, Williams is also an advocate of ec onomy in government and keeping the tax burden to a minimum. FAVORS ECONOMY “I believe.” he said today, “that government should be reasonably responsive to the needs of the people, but at the same time I be lieve in economy in governmental affairs." Mayor Williams stated that he desires to represent the people fair ly and that he is opposed to any measures which tend to array one class of people against another, “realizing that the best results can be obtained only by concerted act ion of the large majority of Amer ican citizens." Williams did not mention Gregory, his opponent, in his statement, but his reference toward pitting one group of people against another was obviously intended for Gregory. Mayor WUUams tried unsuccess fully, along with other municipal officials of the county, to persuade Rep. Gregory to support the Powell BUI, which was passed and gives badly-needed help to towns of the (Cmtinned On Page Pear) Erwin Church Slates Rises The Rev. D. A. Tetty, pastor of the Erwin Methodist Church an nounced a series of services begin ning at the Church Sunday, April 18. and naming through the week. Rev. Petty will be deHvericg the Sunday letmwi with the Rev. W. C. Martin preaching Sun day evening, and the Rev. J. J Boone preaemng enrougn we wee*. During the week the adult junior choir wm be presented In special music. Rev. Petty announced. The pastor staled this week that gg&gijgggggi THE RECORD 1 GETS RESULTS Negro Mystic Accused Os Luring Girls CLEVELAND, O. Off “Music mixed with liquor,” not hypnotism, was blamed by poUce as the reason nearly a dozen teen-age girls al legedly prostituted themselves for a Negro “bearded prophet.” Emmett Cobb. 32, who claimed to be a Moslem mystic, was in dicted yesterday on 11 couhts, sev en of them pertaining to violation of the white slave laws. Police Lt. Martin Cooney, who conducted the investigation into Cobb’s activities, said the fez-wearing, bearded de fendant also is under federal in quiry for possible violation of the Mann Act—transporting' women gawa imaa kaal Haver, Mac Murray Appear Altar-Bound HOLLYWOOD (V) Actor Fred Mac Murray, wto went house - hunting with June Haver, today offered*#? | sell the home in which he lived with his late wife for*lv NO. 93 Allegedly Held UpH-bombWotk; Friend To Reds i WASHINGTON (ID The | government disclosed today, that Dr. J. Robert Oppflki heimer was stripped of ac cess to A-bomb and H-bomb’ secret? by President EiseH* hower on the basis of “stliF stantial derogatory infor mation” reported to him ,hy the Justice Department. j This disclosure was made by the Atomic Energy Com- J mission which stated in ad* j dition that the world ia>. m mous “Mr. Atom” has been | suspended not only as a sci entific consul tant of the AEC but also as member of | the Defense Mobilization Of fice’s Science Advisory Coni mission. au ; J The AEC spoke out after Oppen heimer himself had released to the / ■ press documents detailing chazges against him and his reply DELAYED DEVELOPMENT ■ 1 The noted nuclear phyriciA 41; credited more than any othek ti*" *■s§ dividual with masterminding Vie- i; velopment of U. S. atomic weapons. 5; is accused of two main charges: ) Past close association with Commu nists and Communist causes, apd with delaying U. S. H-bomb . de velopment. A special AEC personnel security , 1 board headed by former Army Secretary Gordon Gray, now head ,of the University of North Carolina, is hearing the charges against Three Arrested i Running Sil j Harnett County’s rural policemen today announced the capture of an 800-gallon whiskey dtetWery and the arre«t of its three operators. Rural Policeman C. E. Moore said j he and the other officers watched the three defendants bring In the barrels and fire up the still and ? then closed in on them. 4 Arrested st the still site, located U in Upper Little River Township, i were: Wayne Cummings and Archie | Worrells, both about 30, and John | . McLean,- 31-year-old. Negro. { The officers said Cummings and J [ Worrells drove up to the still Site 1 . on a tractor loaded with bartfcls j . and then all three of them flred'flp I the plant to begin its operation, r They said the vats were full, of | I beer, indicating that one run | • already been made. It was a tin-type submarine H&l I 1 with copper condensers. Officers participating in the toga § s were: Moore, B. E. Sturgill, l*W#e I i, Stewart. Stanley Byrd and A£*W. 1 - O’Quinn. The defendants were book- } ■ ed for trial in the county recorder’s i court 1 The still was destroyed and (be tractor was confiscated. : ; 1 ■ The offer and Mac Murray's fe|p> J chase of a new home hi Brentwood yesterday increased speculation that he win marry Miss Hi mi, who entered a convent last mfe?* to become a nun hut later rettMMl L to Hollywood. 4 msm - MaeMurnay. accompanied ' Miss Haver, paid naft.No for'Jft •; Brentwood home. His home, about two miles been offered for sale at the smk it price. . JIhH
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