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Livestork North Carolina's gross farm Income dipped substantially last year--but the amazing growth of the state's young livestock industry partially offset the decline. "Facts of "State" on today's Editorial tells the story--and what it means to you. Jje JKxilxj Full Leased Wire Of United Press And International News Service-- United Press Telephotos-- Central Press VOL. 68 No. 67 Telephone 2111 KANNAPOLIS, N.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1954 Price- 5c Daily; 10c Sunday The Weather Increasing cloudiness 'and m3d today, with showers and scattered thunderstorms west in afternoon, spreading over state tonight. Saturday, cloudy and mild, showers, followed by partly cloudy and cooler west In afternoon. Today at Noon: 53 decrees Yesterday: 38-low 12 PAGES TODAY M'CARTHY WILL ANSWER ADLAI TONIGHT 'New Look 9 U.S. Defense Plan Under Fire Called Old Policy With Less Power GOP Explanations Fail To Satisfy Democratic Senators WASHINGTON (U.R)-- Two Democrats the Senate eign Relations Committee said today the administration's new look defense policy appears to be nothing but the old strategy with less military power. Sens.

J. William Fulbright (Ark) Mike Mansfield (Mont) made the claim as Secretary of State John Poster Dulles was called before the committee today to answer i about the much-discussed policy. It marked the first time Dulles has appeared before a congressional committee to explain the strategy since he announced on Jan. 12 that the administration has decided "to depend primarily upon a great capacity to retaliate instantly by means and at places of our own choosing In the face of rising Democratic criticism, administration officials, from President Eisenhower on down, have sought this week to coriect what they have a "misunderstandings." Their main argument has been that under the new policy 1) the nation is not relying solely on atomic retaliation; 2) in event of Communist aggression, retaliation would not be automatic but tailored to the special circumstances of 3) to meet the possibility of local wars, the United States is depending on building up local forces; 4) the Army can be cut because greater reliance is being placed on new weapons and a better reserve. The administration explanations failed to satisfy Fulbright and Mansfield, who were early critics of the new strategy.

Fulbright said in an interview that "the more they talk the more it becomes evident there is no new look." Mansfield said the administration's idea of a "mobile striking force" is fine. But he asked: "Where is this striking force?" He noted that under the administration's military the See NEW LOOK On Page Landis Bo A id Appoints New Alderman LANDIS Marshall, Deadmon today became a member of the Landis board of aldermen succeeding Earl Snipes who resigned at a meeting of the board here yesterday. Snipes said he resigned because he has moved to a new home outside of town. Deadmon is an electrician with, the Rozelle Lighting and Improvement Company of Landis. This is the first time he has held a public office.

He will fill Snipes' un- expired term which has a year to run. The board unanimously passed an ordinance proposed by Alderman Frank Lipe, resciding an old ordinance requiring all motorists violating a stop sign or stop light in the town to pay a fine The new ordinance says that every violator will be guilty of a misdemeanor end will be required to pay a fine not less than one dollar for the first offense and double that amount for each succeeding offense with the maximum fine not to exceed 55. FLYING BOMB Looking every bit as ominous as the flying bomb it is, the USAF B-61 Martin Matador points its sleek nose skyward during a demonstration at Baltimore immediately before the first Air Force squadron equipped with these pilotless bombers left for its new station in- West Germany. Telephoto) NO ONE ASKED ABOUT THE MONEY Alabama's Prodigal Banker Surrenders CLIO, Ala. (UP) Penniless residents were jubilant today over the return of the town's prodgical amateur banker although no one thought to ask him whether he brought back their money.

Royal Reynolds, whose disappearance with most of the cash thrust this farming community into economic chaos, returned Thursday night with deposit records of his unchartered Merchants Exchange. Two warrants charged Reynolds, 40, with taking all the bank's locally-held each estimated at $85,000 to $90,000 when he quietly left town 11 days before with nis wife Sue. Mayor Dan Easterling said the prayers of the penniless townspeople, had been answered merely by the deposit records, which were placed under an all-night guard. The records would help restore cash to this community of 850 population by freeing some $81,000 in cash that had been deposited with the First National Bank of Atlanta, Easterling said. The 40-year-old amateur banker who had faithfully handled the Former Pamlico Judge Acquitted Of Bribe Charge WASHINGTON, N.

C. (UP) -Former Pamlico County recorders court Judge T. Woodard was victor today in another round in his fight against charges of accepting bribes to influence decisions. A Beaufort Superior Court jury here yesterday acquitted Woodard on the first of five remaining bribery counts The other four charges will not be tried at the current court term. town's seed money, crop funds and merchants' accounts for years surrendered voluntarily to Solicitor Crew Johnston of Clayton, Ala.

Johnston said Reynolds quickly posted bonds totaling $7,300 on three embezzlement charges and returned Clio and went to bed without telling anyone whether he brought back the money. Reynolds refused to talk to reporters who reached his residence by telephone but his wife said they would "clear up everything" after they rested. "He didn't steal anything," Mrs. Reynolds said. "It'll all be cleared up." Mrs.

Reynolds said she and her husband returned immediately after reading at Clio's plight in a Roanofce, newspaper day-before-yesterday. "Our conscience was hurt," she said. Easterling said that although townspeople had sought to guarantee Reynolds immunity from prosecution if he would return, the case had since been taken "out of our hands." A preliminary hearing was set in Clayton for April 5 on embezzlement charges sworn out by two depositors and one general charge issued by the sheriff's office at Clayton. Israeli Leaders Call Special Meet Prime Minister Will Confer With U. N.

Officer On Massacre TEL AVIV (INS) Israeli leaders were called into a special conference today while funeral services were held for 11 persons machine-gunned to death Wednesday in an ambush blamed by Israel on Jordan Arabs. Thousands of persons lined the streets of Tel Aviv as the funeral procession passed. A i a touch was added to the scene as children wearing colorful costumes and comic masks for the joyful Feast of Purim, mingled with the solemn-''aced adults. Prime Minister Moshe Sharett met with other members of the Israeli cabinet in a special session of the parl'amentary security and foreign affairs committees. At dawn today United Nations observers renewed their efforts to follow the tracks left in the Negev desert by the killers who ambushed a bus and shot fatally 11 of its passengers.

A reconnaissance plane circled overhead to maintain contact with the ground tracking, parties. About 30 rounds of German ammunition of a type generally used by Jordan forces was found near two machmegun sites along the route. Officials who are investigating the ambush said no signs of looting had been found an indication that ithe attackers were not ordinary robbers. Radio broadcasts from the Arab side of the troubled frontier indicated an Arab fear of Jewish retaliation. Tht Pordan-operated Ramallah radio declared.

"Arab refugees in the camps adjacent to Israel have been transferred deeper into Jordan because of fear of Jewish vengeance Today funeral services wound slowly through streets of Tel Aviv with each of the victims wrapped in a blue and white See ISRAEL On Page 9 DETERMINED Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, shown above as he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, today asserted the Defense Department is "determined to eliminate" any proven Communists from the armed services of the United States. The Secretary was the first witness to be called by the committee which has begun a detailed study of the problem of Communists in the armed services. With Wilson, at right, is Army Secretary Robert Stevens. Solon Will Demand Texts Of Phone Calls WASHINGTON (UP) Sen.

Stuart Symington said today he-would demand that the Pentagon produce texts of "monitored" telephone Carthy was "holed getting Wisconsin Solon Will Speak Despite Illness Stormy Petrel Of Probe Tactics Row Confined To Bed With Laryngitis MILWAUKEE, Wis. (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, was in bed with a case of virus laryngitis today but said he would deliver his counterattack against Adlai E. Stevenson despite the illness.

His temperature had been Dr. Raulf Hanson examined McCarthy on his arrival here and said the senator had "a virus laryngitis with a sore throat and high I strongly advise against his working" today and tonight, but he insists he is going to." McCarthy tonight will answer, in a speech before the Milwaukee Young Republican Club, what he calls a personal attack upon himself by Stevenson. The defeated Democratic presidential candidate criticized McCarthy and President Eisenhower's' leadership of the Republican Party calling it "half-McCarthy half-Eisenhower." Vice President Richard M. Nixon made the official GOP reply last Saturday. McCarthy, who yesterday warmed up on CBS commentator Edward R.

Murrow, drove here from Chicago with a friend, Otis Gomillkm. The senator was scheduled to stay at Gomlllion's home, but Gomillion said McCarthy took to a bed at the Schroeder Hotel. While in bed, McCarthy polished his reply to Stevenson. An aide told newsmen that Me- Democrats To Continue Tax Fight Kennel Club Padlocked Pending Court Hearing MOYOCK (UP) The Cavalier Kennel Club here was padlocked today pending a hearing next month in Currituck County Superior Court. A temporary restraining order against the dog track was signed yesterday by Judge Leo Carr in Pasquotank County Superior Court in Elizabeth City.

Twin County Demos Plan May Meeting Cabarrus and Rowan Democrats will hold their precinct meetings at 2 p. Saturday, May 8. The county conventions will be held in the courthouses in Concord and Salisbury at 2 p. Saturday, May 15, and the state convention will take place in Raleigh on May 20. At the precinct gatherings, delegates to the county sessions will be selected.

Business at the county meetings will include the election of officers and the appointment of delegates to the state convention. Current officers of the Cabarrus Democrats are E. T. Bost of Township Nine, chairman; Fred L. Wilson of Township Four (Kannapolis), first vice-chairman; John Sharpe Hartsell of Township 10, second vice-chairman; Mrs.

Inez Shinn Helms of Georgeville, third vice-chairman; D. Ray McEachern of Township Six, secretary. Officers of the party in Rowan are Walter H. Woodson chairman; Mrs. Ed L.

Ketchie, first vice-chairman; Cordell Mills, secretary. MILITARY AND CIVILIAH CHIEFS DIFFER Communist Assault In Indochina Viewed As Result Of Dispute Between Red Leaders PARIS (INS) A highly authoritative French source said today that the current Vietminh assault on Dien -Bien Phu was the result of a dispute between Communist party leaders and Army chiefs in both China and Indochina. The informant, who has access to western military intelligence reports, asserted that Chinese military men, over-riding the advice of party bosses, gave the green light to the frontal attack on the French bastion. Furthermore, the source said, Vietminh rebel Gen. Vo Nguyan Giap defied instructions from hisj political superior, Ho Chi Minn, in bringing his army into an all-out battle with the French.

Giap was said to have acted under direct orders of Gen. Lin Piao, the commander of the Chinese Communist Fourth Field Army based in South China. If true, the significant report would mean that the military and civilian chiefs of Asian communism were split drastically on the best way Red doctrine and rule. The civilians Ho Chi Minh and tie Peiping bigwigs would seem to have taken the position that the rebel forces in Indochina should be kept strong and ready. They would then be useful as a threat at the Geneva Conference on Far Eastern problems scheduled to begin April 26.

The men in mufti would wish to use, their army as a big bargaining point. Their military counterparts, it would appear, believed that the Communist position at Geneva would be immeasurably stronger if the Vietminh could inflict a total defeat on the French Union forces holding Dien Bien Phu. Added to this, the informant Symington, a member of the subcommittee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, established at a hearing of the armed services group Thursday that the Defense Department has records of some of the telephone calls on which the Army partially based its charges. Pentagon Counselor H. Struve See TEXTS On Page '54 YMCA Membership Drive Ends The Red and Blue light on the YMCA porch were shining today ai the 1954 membership roundup drew to a close.

Both teams were flooding the office with the applications in the last hours of the contest, which was to close at 4 p. m. Results of the area-wide solicitation will be announced at a banquet for the Reds and Blues at 6:30 p. in the YMCA's a gymnasium. Cash prizes will awarded the campaign leaders.

The common objective of the opposing captains, Leonard Keever of the Reds and Reece Presson of the Blues, is to "get more in '54." Last year, the two teams signed up more than 11,000 members. said, is the desire of Red China's military chiefs to see the Indochina war ended by force of arms in order to impress the people of China and all Asia with the preeminent importance of bullets above words French Victory Now Dependent On Planes HANOI, Indochina (UP)--France threw every available warplane into the battle for Dien Bien Phu See INDOCHINA 00 Page calls involving Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's explosive clash with the Army. The Missouri Democrat said he would ask that the texts be turned over to the subcommittee investigating the dispute "to let the public know what's going on.

Pentagon officials seemed willing. They have been holding the records as reserve ammunition to back up Army charges that Mcarthy's chief counsel, Roy M. 3ohn, used threats and pressure seek special treatment for his and former McCarthy aide Pvt. G. David Schine who was drafted into the Army.

An investigation of the Army's charges and the i a and "blackmail" counter- a ge by Cohn and McCarthy is being conducted by McCarthy's own permanent investigating subcommittee. McCarthy has stepped down as chairman during the inquiry. R. Tucker Rites Slated China Grove Man Dies At Mooresville LANDIS Funeral services for Lonnie Robert Tucker, 55, of Route 3, China Grove, will be held Saturday at 3:30 p. m.

at the North Kannapolis Baptist Church. his speech ready. Ht is not seeing McCarthy and Gomillion drove here from Chicago where the senator spoke at a luncheon Thursday and a St. Patrick's ay banquet Wednesday night. McCarthy refused to rise to the bait when reporters asked him if Defense Secretary Charles E.

Wilson's defense of military security methods and Army Secretary Robert Stevens warranted comment. "I am satisfied Charley Wilson is trying to do a very good Job," McCarthy said. McCarthy called Murrow, who criticized the senator on a nationwide television program, a "TV commentator who sanctimoniusly tells us how truthful and honest he is." "Murrow says somebody is lying," and I agree. Murrow said on the TV program McCarthy had inaccurately a Mr. Tucker died Thursday mom- American Civil Liberties Union ing at Lowrance Hospital in Moor- "listed" as a subversive front esville after a six-day illness.

He was born March 14, 1899, at Rock Hill, S. a son of the late John Wesley and Sarah Luther Tucker. He was the operator of a grocery store on the Mooresville highway near Landis. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Wade H.

James, assisted by the Rev. H. T. Davis and the Rev. H.

T. Cannon. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church 30 minutes prior to the service and will remain at Linn- Wright Funeral Home, until taken to the church. After 7 o'clock tonight the body will lie in state at the funeral home.

Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Ethel Ragsdale; one daughter, Mrs. Merle Wentz of DeLeon Springs, one sister, Mrs. Edna Heath of Route 3, China Grove; and four grandchildren. Gen. Mark Clark Inaugurated As Citadel President CHARLESTON, S.

C. flNS) -Gen. Mark Clark was inaugurated today as the llth president of Charleston's venerable military college. The Citadel. Army Sec.

Robert T. Stevens, who arrived in Charleston yesterday, delivered the principal address at ceremonies this morning. Clark, who has already assumed duties as President, retired from the Army last October after serving as United Nations commander in Korea and the Far East for more than a year. Cook Transferred To Baptist Hospital S. W.

Cook of the Winecoff community, stricken at the Winecoff Lions Club's first aniversary banquet last week, has been transferred to Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem. transfer was made Thursday. Cook's condition is still regarded as "critical." In Today's Independent Editorials Page 4 FuJton Lewis Facts Of State Westbrook Pegler TV Schedule Worry Clinic Resurrection Story Women's News Church News Sports Entertainment I Comics 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 M'CARTHY On Page Durham's 'Kiss Bandit' Confesses DURHAM (UP)--A married, 28- year old salesman has confessec fiis role as a "kiss bandit" who forced unsuspecting coeds into petting parties at the point of a pistol police said today. Detectives arrested William Dennis Steele of Durham and placet him under $5,000 bond on investi gation of assault on a female. They said Steele was identified by two Duke University coeds as the man who offered them rides in his car drove to a secluded wooded spo and forced his attentions on them Dels.

E. Whitaker and C. King said Steele confessed to fore ing attentions on a total of fiv coeds in the past six months. Two of the incidents were reported to police, the last on March 8. WASHINGTON (UP) Democrats carried their fight for income tax cuts into the Senate today but their chances of winning ooked very dim in view of their defeat in the House.

By a 210-204 vote, the House late rhursday rejected a Democratic )lan to boost income tax exemp- jons from $600 to $700 a year. It then went on to pass the GOPs leneral tax reform bill by a humping 3394)0. The votes were a major victory for President Eisenhower who went all-out to defeat the Democratic proposal. Even If the crat plan passes the Senate, some key senators believe it now almost certainly" will not win final congressional-approval. Treasury Secretary George M.

Humphrey wired House Republican leaders that the action was fortunate for the, country" since the reform "cornerstone of the administration's'program to make America a better country for us all" House Speaker Joseph W. Martin said the vote shows President must rely mainly on Republicans in Congress to "make his administration a success." la the decisive ballot defeating the Democrat plan, nine Democrats joined 201 Republicans to sustain the administration. The Senate Finance Committee See TAXES On Page Spinner Order Backlogs Rise In February CHARLOTTE An increase of 11,000,000 pounds -in order black- logs of carded cotton sales yarn spinners during February marked the second consecutive month in which spinners improved their sold-ahead position, the Textile Information Service reports. Since the beginning of the year unfilled orders on spinners books have increased 37 per cent, Information Service noted. the On February 27 backlogs represented 7.95 weeks' production and were 3.75 times stocks on hand.

On January 30, unfilled orders equal- led 6.78 weeks' output and were 3.07 times stocks and on February 28 last year backlogs amounted to 8.36 weeks' production and were 8.82 times stocks on hand. Total yarn in stock at the end of February, Including yarn made for future deliveries against unfilled orders, amounted to 2.13 weeks' production compared with stocks equal to 2 21 weeks' output on January 30. At the end of February, 1953 stocks amounted to 94.9 per cent of a week's production. SEPARATE BLOCK FOR JUVENILES Rowan Board Discusses Jail Enlargement Plan SALISBURY Plans for enlargement of the Rowan county jail to provide a separate block of cells for women and juvenile prisoners were discussed here Thursday afternoon by the Rowan Board of County Commissioners, meeting with A. Early, chief inspector of correctional institutions for the State Board of Public Welfare.

The proposed addition would be at the rear of the existing jail structure, immediately behind the courthouse. Its size and facilities, Board Chairman P. K. Dry said, would depend upon how much revenue can be found for the work in the coming fiscal year. Necessity for larger facilities for women prisoners became urgent recently when the board of commissioners closed down the county home workshop.

Until that action, all female prisoners serving less than six-month sentences were confined in the workhouse. Currently, the county jail can accommodate not more than six or seven women prisoners without causing an overcrowding of male prisoners. No county jail facilities exist, at this time for juvenile prisoners. Early was invited by the board of commissioners to recommend improvements for the county jail. His recommendations, to be put in See JAIL Oa Page 9 SPAPFRl.