+ WEATHER * showers near coast today. High 85 to 96. Tomorrow generally fair with moderate temperatures. VOLUME 4 MCCARTHY HEARING ENDS IN ROW Mendes-France Is Trying To Convince Allies \ PARIS (IP) —Premier Pierre Mendes-France sought to •day to convince his dismay ed Allies that France had hot abandoned the Western alliance in the European De fense Community EDC. . The 47-year-old Premier was re ported by political sources to be planning a flying visit to Britain . to consult Prime Minister Winston * Churchill on ways to patch up the Western European defense plans. - t. Mendes-France also was report ed to be preparing an “Important'’ Statement to the Assemby, pos l iby on an alternative plan for European defense. y' Mendes-France drove to his hideout at Marly late Mon day night after a bitterly-divided Rational Assembly voted 319 to 364 to end debate on EDC as a sub ject unworthy of further notice. **Tt is In the Atlantic framework that new solutions should be stud led."•Mendes-France said in a dec l laratlon issued from his hideout. •And this time we will not waste : three years.” . Three years ago France proposed the EDC setup and signed the treaty in 1952 but delayed taking — JAcac mb JhinqA 3y lOOTtt AD AMI -v ———■— /EBB'S STORY OF HOW WEE LYNN COT HER NAME Eight-year-old Wee Lynn Gor don, daughter of Mr. ants Mrs. Er .vin Gordon, has an Intriguing nkmet one (that’s different, so we called up her mother to ask her how she got it; } "That's an interesting story,” said Mm. Gbrdon, and-so it is. Wee Lynn; was a premature baby, weigh ed only four pounds when she was bom in a Miami Hospital. '■ ‘• Mr; and Mrs. Gordon had already decided to give her the middle name' of Lynn, but couldn’t decide on tße first name, t One of the nyrses suggested that ' since she was a tiny baby 'why not home her Wee' Lynn. Her daddy liked , the idea, #o that’s how Wee Lynn got her name. ‘ She’s a big, healthy and pretty little giri now. LTPTLK NOTES: Bill Cunning ham has been busy installing Cin emascope equipment in the Uiling ton Theatre,..The first big-screen picture to be shown there will be Marilyn Monroe In “How To Marry A Millionaire.”—Bill, who’s quite an authority on movies, says the cutest picture of the year is a light, gay movie called, “Susan Slept f1ene.?....1t stars Dick. Powell and Debbie Reynolds “Powell Is g bout twice as old as Debbie,” points out Bill, “but they make an awful (Ooc tinned aa Page SIX) Harnett Classes Begin Tomorrow k School bells, books, and new fe&ctmrs win the order of the day tomorrow as some 13,000, Harnett County youths return to school. fflfcwt Harnett County schools will tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock M. giving the students the gen eral |chedute of classes, passing out fOOkt, and getting the students in fee light place at the right time, f ,witt» : schools open, there is mWf, tor more room as the armory fIM toe church in Dunn is utilised toissrooms. The Dunn armory Ml bodse at least one class from aHrAjlgh school building, and one it 3Bgg£^i y :. .v: TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 • I' I •* _ .*\ t **->;• a SjsjSjl?- , TRIES OUT DRIVING S. P. Lockhart, sales manager of Westbrook Chevrolet, is pictured a bove as he checks his driving. Looking on Is ’ George A- L. Robart, Jr., regional exhibit repre sentative for the Chevrolet Motor Division ot Roosevelt Views Toward Reds Blamed For Yalta, Potsdam Harnett YDC To Hold Meet Roger Mann of Lillington. presi dent of the Harnett County Young Democratic Club, today called an Important meeting of the organiza tion for Thursday night at 8 o’clock in the county courthouse hi billing - ton. Mr. Mann said it would be one of the most important meetings before the fall election and urged a large attendance of Young Democrats from all sections of the county. He said it would be primarily an organziatlonal meeting for a dis cussion of business matters within the club. The club la now conducting a successful membership drive. The club already has 185 members, as compared with opjy,l3o last year. The goal is 300 members. Mrs. Carl Conner of Dunn is vice president of the organization. HE WAS IN IT HACKENSACK, N. J. CUP) —Al bert Kuiken, 64, has filed a (10,000 damage suit against Thodore H. Mastin for cutting- down a tree while Kuiken was, sitting in the upper branches. Assembly of God Church, Just across the street from the school building. ' r h i* ' (However, Superintendent of Schools O. T. Profflt says he ex pects the county enrollment to re main about the same it was last •year.- • • . E. T. Malone, county attendance officer, has urged all parents to have their children in school to morrow so rHiwi may begin in order. He also warns that absences this year Will’call for advance per mission, if students stay out to Work. Before students will be admit ted for desses After missing a day of school, they must submit a per (CuiUneeA is page At) jSaihj Jtemrd DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31, 1954 General Motors Corporation. The tester of driving is part of the large exhibit being installed at Westbrook’s today. The show the advanced engineering that goes ' Into the General Motors products, Robart said today. (Dally Record Photo) WASHINGTON (IP) Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex) charg sd today that a letter writ ten to him by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt shows the -think? Ing attitude. of the Roose velts” which he said led to the “tragic blunders” at the Yalta and Potsdam confer ences. Dies’ salve was the latest in a series of sharp exchanges between him and the former first lady. Beginning Os Dispute The Texan touched off the dis pute recently when he said Mrs. Roosevelt once invited him to the White House in 1942 to seek a clean bill of health for a Joseph Lash .who was trying to get a Navy com mission. Lash had testified in behalf of the American/ Youth Congress be fore’ the House un-American Ac tivities Committee in 1942 when Dies was its chairman Dies also said Mrs. Roosevelt told him that Lash admitted to her he was a Communist. DENIES STATEMENTS -Mrs. Roosevelt promptly and vig orously denied Dies’ statements which were carried two weeks ago in a copyrighted Interview with U. S. News ,& World Report. She said Dies misinterpreted her words. ' Dies also had said that the late President Roosevelt tried to get him “to call off liis Investigations because they 1 might alienate liberal groups and hurt the Democratic Party. ’To this, Mrs. Roosevelt has writ ten Dies that she could see how her husband might “have said what you say he said, without meaning what you imply he meant.” "It Is true there was no hysteria in those days,” she continued, “and he (FDR) may haye felt' there were a great many liberals who were (Continued on page ilx) Motorists to Get Two License Tags RALEIGH (DP) North Carolina motorists will get two license plates for their cars and trucks In 1956 for the first time in several years. Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed Scheldt said production of the plates has begun at Central Prison and some 1300,000 pairs will be made. Reversing this year’s colors, the tags toll bear orange numerals on A black background. Big Chevrolet Exhibit Set Workmen were busy today instal ling a large exhibit at Westbrook Chevrolet today showing the ad vanced engineering of the General Motors Corporation. The showroom of the Chevrolet place will be opened to the public beginning at 8 o’clock tomorrow and will remain open until 8 p. m. Besides a large number of in teresting exhibits showing the way GMC motors are constructed and operated, the exhibit will also In clude a Skill-o-Meter to test the driving skill of motorists. Earl (Continued on page six) Guard Rounding Up Sin City Sinners PHENIX CITY, Ala. (IP)—National Guardsmen today rounded up persons charged in 545 indictments returned by a special grand jury investigating Alabama’s biggest crackdown on vice and political corruption. t At least 27 of the 59 persons ac cused in the record number of in dictments were arrested by Guards men, acting as law enforcement officers under martial rule, during the first few hours following the return of the Jury’s initial report on underworld elements here. + Record Roundup 4 COATS OPENING Classes will begin at CdAts School tomor row, September l at 8:30 School will dismiss each day this week at 12:30 and no lunch period will to given. Open house will be observ ed Thursday beginning at 9:30. Be ginning Monday ot next week, a , regular lunch period win to given. ___ l LIONS MEETING - The Godwin i Legion Favors UMT Program For Young Men WASHINGTON (IP) Thd American Legion will go on record Wednesday in favor of a Universal Military Training program calling for 16 weeks basic training for every able-bodied young man, informed sources pre dicted today. These sources said the plan also will call for an additional 20 months of duty in the armed services or their active reserves. The Legion’s long campaign for UMT was given renewed impetus by President Eisenhower on Mon day when he told the Legion’s 36th annual convention that he will give up military reserves. top priority next year to beefing Although the administration has -not spelled out its new reserve program yet, it appeared certain to include at least a modified UMT plan. DMT Passage Expected The Legion has not pushed its UMT plan for the past two years because of a belief that It had “no chance In the 83rd Congress.” But now Legion leaders are opti mistic that its DMT plan has “a reasonable chance of success” in the next Congress. Legion leaders on legislative mat ters proposed that Legionnaires support only congressional candi dates favoring UMT. f Special Legion committees sched uled secret sessions before this afternoon’s parade to hammer out policy resolutions on DMT and other major issues. Proposed resolutions in the for eign relations field called for break ing off diplomatic and trade rela tions with Russia and its Red sat ellite nations, and continued sup port of the Nationalist China. National Commander Arthur J. Connell voiced confidence that the convention would adopt the pro- Nationalist China resolution after Madame Chiang Kai-Shek made the principal address Monday night at his banquet for distinguished guests. Shorts-Wearing Gals Get Laugh FRANKFURT, Germany (UP) American women who have been prohibited from wearing shorts in public chuckled today over a re port that the Air Force may adopt them as part of the standard sum mer uniform. Wives of American servicemen still fuming at the directive against shorts issued earlier this month by Coyl. John Dilley, commander of the Frankfort Military Detachment, wondered what he would do if the Air Force adopted shorts. MURDER CHARGES Three first degree murder indict ments were among those handed down but special solicitor Conrad Fowler said about 56 of the 59 persons Indicted were Involved In vice cases. (Centtaaed On Page Six) Lions Club will meet tomorrow ev ening at 8 o’clock In the clufaroom. All member* are lequated to at tend. YESTERDAY* ATBRAGBB— av - eragee on the Doha tofieeto mar ket were released today «P Sales Supervieer Ed Oarroll. Tetai pounds Ttoerday wen tor (lgl,- 001« or an average as (64.48. FIVE CENTS PER COPY IBUfflir frcpf SPEAKS HERE SUNDAY Dr. I. G. Greer, prominent Bap tist and civic leader of Chapel Hill, pictured above, will be guest speaker at the First Baptist Church of Dunn Sunday. Earl Davjs Farthing will speak at the evening service. Dr. Greer is noted 2s beings one of the most outstanding speakers in North Carolina. h- ' : Meeting Proclaims God As Only Hope EVANSTON, 111 (IP)—The Second World Council of Churches ended its history-making assembly today with a call to all Christendom to “rejoice in hope.” Hurricane Heads Into New England BOSTON OF) A tropical hur ricane swept across heavily - po pulated Long Island today and into New England, smashing heavy seas against docks and beaches, toppling trees and power lines, and sweeping small craft from their moorings. WARCICK, R. I. (IP) Four bodies were washed up today an hurricane-swept Oakland Beach police reported. Hurricane warnings were posted from Block Island, R. 1., to Port land, Me. The storm center passed over the western end of Long Is land and across Long Island Sound to the New England coast. Full gales swirled around its quiet “eye” center. The storm moved up the coast at unprecedented speed of 30 to 40 miles per hour after striking the North Carolina coast line during the night. Beach communities were isolated along the Long Island and New Jersey shores; campers were evacuated from Connecticut beach parks. FIRST DEATH ..The first death was reported in (Continued On Page Six) Dulles Calls For Emergency WASHINGTON (UP) —Secietary of State John Foster Dulles today called for an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Coun cil to weigh the "tragedy” caused by French rejection of the Euro pean army plan EDC. Dulles, in a strongly - worded statement, said the action of toe French Assembly yesterday In re jecting the plan by a 319 to 284 vote, "obviously imposes On toe united States toe obligation to re The Record Is Firsi IN CIRCULATION... NEWf PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES • The delegates, representing 161 faiths and 48 nations, came to the close of 17 days of heart-searching deliberations on the basic concepts of “Christ, the hope of the world” and the unification of Christendom. HISTORICAL EVENT The assembly, called one of the most important events in religious history, held its last plenary ses sion in McGaw hall In toe North western University campus. Dele gates then attended closing wor ship services at Evanston’s First Methodist Church, where the coun cil was formally opened. The council’s greatest achieve ment was approved last night when the delegates, by a standing vote, approved a “message” proclaim ing Jesus Christ as the only hope for uniting the world. “We affirm our faito in Jesus Christ as the hope of the world, and desire to share that faith with s( all men.” the message said. _ “Only at the cross of Christ, (Continued on page six) Johnson To Head Buies Creek Club Berles C. Johnson, Harnett Coun ty tax supervisor and civic leader, has been elected president of the Buie’s Creek Civic Club for the coming year. Other new officers are: Coyte ; Lanier, vice president; Worth Lan ier, secreetary; S. David Smith, treasurer; Dr. George Swann, pub >'tv, director. Members of the executive com- « mlttee are: Coyte Lanier, Leslie H. Campbell, Dr. Bruce Blackmon, ; Hendrix Kivette, Berles C. John- ' son and Worth Lanier. President Johnson has announced | the appointment of the following i committees for the year: Program, Leslie H. Campbell, G. ! T. Prof fit and L. E. Chenault; j membership, Coyte Lanier, chair-11 BjjeggJggSi ■•'i . ‘ t -“Y .r' V-V hI iiiill NO. 193 McCarthy Says He's Proud Ot Fighting Reds WASHINGTON (IP) The first session of a special sen ate committee hearing cen sure charges against Sen. Joseph It. McCarthy broke up today in a shouting, ga vel-banging exchange be - tween McCarthy and com - mittee Chairman Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah). The flurry was touched off when McCarthy demanded to know whether statements attributed to committee member Edwin C. John son (D-Colo.) by the Denver Post were correct. The paper quoted Johnson as saying Democratic lead ers loathed the Wisconsin Repub lican. JOHNSON DENIAL Johnson had just told the com mittee he never said he personally loathed McCarthy. When McCarthy pressed Watkins to say whether the story was ac curate. Watkins silenced him with gavel banging. “It is not material to this hear ing,'’ Watkins shouted, pounding bis gavel as McCarthy insisted up on the right to an answer. “You are out of order," Watkins said. “I have a right to know ’’’Mc- Carthy broke in, Watkins’ pounded his gavel again, “You are out of order,” he insisted, his voice rising. “We are not tgoing to bi interrupted by these diver sionA” MEETING RECESSED He immediately ordered the com mittee into recess until 9 a. m. EST, tomorrow. There were these other highlight! as the special six-man censure committee opened its hearings: (ConUnusd On Page Six) Solons Differ On McCarthy WASHINGTON (IF) Two Re publican senators differed sharply today over how much to blame Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in tbs Army—McCarthy fight. Sen. Charles E. Potter R-Mich. released his individual views which assailed every principle in the dis pute. He said McCarthy knew about but made no effort to block, former subcommittee counsel Roy M Cohns “unrelenting” pressure On the Army to obtain favors for Cohn’s friend, Pvt. G. David Schlae. ENDORSED EDITORIAL But Sen. Everett M. Dtrksen