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‘ North Carolina Partly cloudy
to occasionally cloudy through Fri
day with scattered thundershow
ers Friday and west and south
tonight.
* VOLUME 4
HEARING OPENS WITH FIREWORKS
en * n f* 1 Se ™ tor I f“ rl Mun<lt l R >- 800111 si(te . »i* charged that the Army tried to • blackmail" the aubcom
“T n h rf’ i th * Benale subcommittee on investigations mittee, through handling of Schine, into laying off of its investiga
; ? bc .* r testimony on whether Roy Cohn, the subcommittee's chief tion of the Army’s treatment of suspected Communists. Washing
counsel, attempted to get special treatment for David Schine, the ton's hottest fight in a long, long time is omened. (International}
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KftPEOPLE AND THINGS
Colon Stephenson, Jr. of Buffalo,
New York, a Dunn native who is
4» now vice president of a large sur
gical supply manufacturing com
pany, is a good friend of Governor
•/ Herman Talmadge of Georgia, us
ually stays at the Governor’s Man
sion whenever he’s in Atlanta
; Tfeovemor Talmadge recently made
thfc Dunn man an honorary Colonel
in the Georgia National Guard . .
Dunn drug stores say the reduction
in excise tax has not made too much
I difference in sales, except in cos
metics .. It has meant much to
Jewelry stores, however ... M. T.
_ Maxwell of Falcon, general sales
" manager of Wellons Candy Com
pany, is one of the travehngist men
in Dunn Sometimes, he covers
thousands of miles in a single week,
hops from one state to another
.Incidentally, Wellons candy is now
' Hfeeing exported to several foreign
countries—Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Young and Mfir. and Mrs. A. B.
Smith Jr., have been down in Old
la Mexico seeing the sights south of
■tthe border . . . Bob will be oam-
Brpaigßing hard in his race for the
W State Senate . . . We erred in
that Thad Pope. Jr.
■Tis the Republican candidate for
” House of Representatives — It’s
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|v Alphin Will Head
I Lions At Godwin
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H' Jesse Alphin, well-known business
of Dunn, Route 4, has beer
H elected president of the Godwlr
Liens Club for the coming year,
t Alphin was elected at the annua)
Sj organisational meeting of the club
held last night in the Godwin Com
munity House.'
„ He succeeds J. M. Mclntyre, Br..
who is retiring after a very suc
cessful term of office.
OTHER OFFICERS
«t Other new officers are: T. O
■A Godwin, first vice president; Wal-
K lace Warred, second vice president;
p M P Smith, third vice president;
jpkd J. Edgar Lucas, reelected sec-
EMcted as delegates to the In
f ternational Lions Convention to b»
h«ld this cummer in New York
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TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
Dkkinson Admits
He Collaborated
WASHINGTON (IP) Sgt. Lyle W. Jacobson, Butte,
Mont., testified today that Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson spied
on him and seven others during a secret huddle on plans
to escape from a Communist prison camp in North Korea.
Jacobson told an Army court
martial of Dickenson that the fol
lowing morning he was called in
by the Chinese Communist offi
cials and questioned about the es
cape plans.
Jacobson said Dickenson had a
reputation of being an Informer.
Dickenson, who first refused and
then accepted repatriation as a
Korean war prisoner, is ' charged
with being an informer and col
laborator while a prisoner.
Wallace L. Dunham, Covington,
Ky., another former war prisoner
Husbands Hazards
In "Mrs" Contest
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. I®
Beautiful “Mrs. Amerita” contest
ants learned today that husbands
can be the greatest hasards of
•‘Operation Housewife.”
The SO housewives from the
United States and Canada are be
ing judged on their homework as
well as comeliness while here with
their families for the four-day an
-1 nual contest
But what can you do. moaned
pretty Benita Kirgis of Perry, Ia„
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22, 1954
also told the court that a Chinese
Communist quoted back to him
verbatim a conversation he had
with Dickenson on the subject of
communism.
LETTER OFFERED
The Army introduced a Commu
nist - line letter the young soldier
was said to have written.
The Army got the letter from
Dickenson’s mother through Alex
ander Luther, a neighbor who had
been a fellow prisoner of Dicken
son in North Korea but returned
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when your hubby mislays the trous
ers you are supposed to keep press
ed and goes off to 101 l on the beacb
in a bathing suit?
MUST KEEP. HIM NEAT
Keeping huggy’s clothes neat Is
something the judges are consider
ing, as well as cooking, sewing and
housecleaning in the competition
for “Mr*. America” title and the
$15,000 grand prize.
Bert Nevins, director of the con
test which got underway yesterday,
launched a search for the missing
trousers and also for Mrs. Kirgis'
electric iron, which she reported
was missing too.
A husband also caused a crisis
(CwUsMd On Page Two)
TV, Radio Time On
McCarthy Hearing
WASHINGTON (V) The nu-
I Jot networks plan extensive cov
erage of the MeCarthy-Amy
hearings. The schedule:
TELEVISION
NBC, Dement, and ABC wHI
carry “lire" telecasts of all pro
ceeding*.
CBS will carry filmed digests
; from 8:M until •:$• p. m. EBT
Friday and thereafter from Is
- Is:Ss n. m.
RADIO
NBC win carry recorded high
light* at MtU p. m_ each day of
[ the kr-'-r
| ABC wttl carry from 11:15 a. m.
until IS:M p. at. for tint aaarien.
Plane far later hearings indefin
ite.
CBS will carry In dlgeet form
S:» mill 9 p. m. tonight, from M
Mutual KM carry from 11:15
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BloodTestT oo
Costly So He
Pays Support
Thomas Pridgen, Dunn Negro
youth charged with non support of
an Ulegitimate child by Helen Lilly,
told Judge H. Paul Strickland to
day that a blood test cost too much
so he had abandoned the idea of
checking to see if he is father of
the child.
Last week Pridgen told the court
that the child is not his, and asked
for a blood test. The request was
granted on condition that he pa.'
the cost.
The Negro youth was back m
court today to report that the blood
test would cost 150.
After the youths mother testified
that she had assisted her son in
1 supporting the child, Pridgen was
found guilty and given six months
in Jail, suspended on payment of
*5 weekly for support of the child
and payment of the court cost.
FRONT BETWEEN MAYORS
MOJI, Japan (VI An Amer
ican touch has been added to the
office of the municipal assembly
president where hang portraits of
solemn, unsmiling former mayors.
Placed between two stern, be
whlskered gentlemen is a three
foot picture of Mariyn Monroe
in ghe nude.
BULLETINS
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (IP) The weather caused
Democrats and Republicans bipartisan worries today.
Their annual inter-party baseball game was rained out
last night, may be rained out again today, and leaders of
each congressional team were fearful of what was up in
the enemy training camp.
BARTOW, Fla. IIP)—A headon car crash on U. S. High
way 98 north of here took the lives of two elderly women
and a 26-year-old Orlando man late yesterday. Police said
all three* victims were killed instantly. Authorities identi
fied the dead as Charles Edward Hiott of Orlando, Mrs. F.
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ERWIN GIRL WINNER Win
ners in this year’s high school cre
ative writing contest sponsored by
the North Carolina English Teach
ers' Association were announced to
day at Duke University. Among |
the winners is Barbara Hudson, of
Erwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jodar Hudson.
FIRE The Dunn Fire Depart
ment was called to the home of
Lucy Elliott at s2l. X. Divine Street
late yesterday afternoon when an
ft *B3 JPa&JXSSt £!£
resulted, accordliw lo Howard M.
Leo* •oerotory-tmouror of tho D«~
]Witnesses Say
McCarthy Used
His Influence
WASHINGTON (IP) Maj
Gen. Miles W. Reber testi
fied today that Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy (R-Wis) tried
repeatedly to get an Army
commission for an aide, G
David Schine.
Reber, former liaison officer be
tween the Army and Congress, was
the first witness in the Senate in
vestigating subcommittee’s public
Inquiry into a months-old feud be
tween McCarthy and the Army.
The general testified that he went
to work at once on McCarthy’s
request but that in the end Schine’s
application was rejected. Schine,
then an unpaid consultant of the
Senate subcommittee, eventually was
drafted.
Reber said McCarthy’s chief
counsel, Roy M. Cohn, also urged
speedy action on a commission for
Schine and that he felt Cohn put
him “under definite pressure.”
But he said in reply to a quest
ion by temporary subcommittee
Chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD)
that he never felt that the calls
he received from McCarthy and
Cohn were “improper" or designed
to intimidate him.
The investigation was formally i
opened at 10:23 a. m. EST and hit
a briefly delaying snag when Mc-
Carthy raised an objection to per
mitting Army Secretary Robert T.‘
Stevens and Army counselor John
G. Adams to speak for “the Army*’
rather than as Individuals.
On a point of order, McCarthy
referred to the two men, both prtn
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Tar Heel To Head
Congress Library
AUGUSTA, Ga. (V) President
Eisenhower today selected Lawrence
Quincy Mumford. new director of
the Cleveland, 0., Public Library,
to be the new librarian of Congress.
Mumfbrd's nomination will be
sent to the Senate later today.
Mumford, a Republican, is a 50-
year-old native of Ayden. N. C.
He was named to AH the vacancy
caused by the resignation last July
; of Dr. Luther H. Evens.
Americans Saved
More Last Year
1 WASHINGTON I*l Thf Amer
i lean people saved a near-rec
t ord $13,000,000,000 tn banks, cash,
Insurance, saving* and loan ac
r counts, securities investments and
1 other forms last year, according
to the Securities and Exchange
Commiasion.
The record, set In 1952, is
$i3,:0e,000,M«.
The commission said there was
a sharp rise In securities invest
ments in 1953, a reduction In
checking account*, lens savings in
the form of government insur
ance and pension reserves, s
trend toward larger saving in the
more permanent types of invest
ments.
partment. Twenty men were out for
the alarm. Lee said that 21 men
were out for a practice drill Tues
day afternoon. >
NAMES HISTORIAN Helen Ad
ams, Angler, hap been named his
torian of the Beta Kappa chapter
of PI Omega Pi, national honorary
business education fraternity at
East Carolina College, Oreenville.
MINGO GRANGE MEETS The
Mingo Orange met Thursday even
ing at the Mingo School fore bnef
•eseton with CrenfcvdMcMUlan of
the Orange presiding over the raeet
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FIVE CENTS PER pOPY
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GUEST EVANGELIST AND PASTOR Dr.
Travis White, left, president of Atlantic Christian
College at Wilson, is holding revival services this
week at the Hood Memorial Christian Church in
Dunn. The native Texan is a powerful pulpit
Scott Favored Brannan Plan
Os Socialized Farm Prices
RALEIGH The support
given by W. Kerr Scott, as
Governor, to the Brannan
Plan, which many farm
leaders termed “socialistic,”
was criticized sharply today
by U. S. Senator Alton Len
non.
Under the Brannan farm sub
sidy plan, proposed by President
Truman’s Secretary of Agriculture,
i the market prices of perishable
foods would be nermitted to drop
to their natural levels, based on
supply and demand. If they went
below a point considered fair to
farmers, government bureaucracy
would determine and pay direct cash
subsidies to the farmers. Congress
defeated the proposal as being un
sound.
WOULD COST BILLIONS
As Governor, Scott endorsed the
Brannan Plan, which, Senator Len
non said, would have cost the Amer
ican taxpayers perhaps as much as
seven billions of dollars a year and
would have put the farmer at the
mercy of government hand-outs and
a burdensome bureaucracy that
would have pried into every sale they
made.
Over two-thirds of the North
Carolina Congressmen present vot
ed to defeat the Brannan proposal.
It was opposed by both the Grange
and the Farm Bureau.
LENNON FOR PRESENT PLAN
‘‘Since I’ve been in the Senate
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DURHAM MAN HEADS SEVENTH DIS-
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speaker and is drawing large crowds to the local
church. At the right is Dr. George F. Cnthrell,
pastor. Services are held each evening at 7:45
o’clock. The public is invited. (Daily ltecord
Photo.)
Dunn Jaycees Host
At District Meet
Carl Sapp of Durham Wednesday night was elected
vice president of the Seventh District of North Carolina
Jaycees at the annual organizational meeting held at
Johnson’s Restaurant in Dunn.
Jaycees from six counties gath
ered here for the meeting and elect
ed Sapp unanimously. He succeeds
Retiring Vice President Norman
Suttles of Dunn, who presided over
the meeting.
Sapp is president of the Dur
ham Junior Chamber of Commerce
and is manager of the, Durham
Chamber of Commerce. He has been
active in Jaycee work for years.
PLEDGES HIS BEST
In a brief speech of acceptance,
he expressed appreciation for the
honor bestowed upon him and pled
■ ged his best efforts to the task be
' fore him.
As vice president, he will head
i Jaycees of the Seventh District,
' which is comprised of the counties
, of Harnett, Wake, Johnston, Dur
i ham, Lee, Wayne and Lee.
Durham sent a bus load of 23
delegates to the district meeting.
President Roy Lowe of the Dunn
(Confined an gage its)
Wednesday night. -At the left is Ha&ertPeity,
newly-elected pmtilit of Dean J»MM* tad M
the right i. Roy Lowe, retiring Du* preoMent.
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Guests Enjoy
Dead Hosts
Liquor, Cigars
DETROIT W Guests at A
“wake” tor a wealthy Detroit indus
trialist who died last November
trudged home early today loaded
with articles from his $500,000 es
tate.
Otar F. Clarice, a 79-year-old
bachelor who “loved beautiful wom
en, good books, good liquor and
good food" bequeathed 2sl of his
personal effects and a lavish party
to 50 of his long-time friends.
With a ghost as host, the party
was staged Wednesday night at
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