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Ulr cold Saturday elootf- aad warmer. High Yerterday TfeU MOTKia S7 VOL. IXXXH NO. 237 And Fight NcwEnglahder Urges General To Resign Job WASHINGTON tf) Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) said today that "if Gen.

Eisenhower wants to be President he should ask to be relieved of his present job and make his views on domestic issues known." "He should come out swinging and not be so coy," Aiken said, adding "and I'm from an Eisenhower area." Aiken's comments attracted attention here because he Jong has battled what he calls "The Old Guard" in the Republican party. Aiken's proposal followed President Truman's news conference statement yesterday that he will keep Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe as long as the general will stay. Mr. Truman, after repeating his previous praise of Eisenhower, said the general would have to resign if he wins the Republican nomination. "I think he better resign if he wants to win the nomination," Aiken told a reporter.

"He would greatly strengthen himself as a candidate if he lets voters know where he stands." Mr. Truman's news conference comment that he had been told Last August the general was a Democrat received quick verification from Kansas. The President indicating the announcement that Eisenhower is a Republican came as news to him, said a brother of a former Kansas governor told him the general was a Democratic precinct worker at the age of 18. In Olathe, Frank Hodges brother of the late Gov. George H.

Hodges, sajd Eisenhower as a young man made, a speech at a Young Men's Democratic club banquet in Abilene, Kas. Hodges said he told Mr. Truman about it in a letter. 'UaUSHKD OAILV SATUMDAV SUNDAY The Turmoil In Vain LUMBERTON. N.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1952 Britons Cheer Served By The A iated ESTABLISHED COUNTRY, GOD and TRUTH miles aft 8 Enterprise. SUIT aboard the freichter its Capt. Kurt Carlsea, and Keonetli Dancy, a male from helplesftiy arifUni ship, and experienced the storm lowered their chances of the vessel port. This picture was made from a lug following the crippled freitbter. (AP Wirephoto radio from London) Whiteville Auto Dealer Reported Flogged By Pair WHTTEVILLE, C.

Sheriff H. Hugh Nance is investigating the latest of a series of floggings reported in this area since a Ku Mux Klan rally last August The sheriff said the latest flogging victim was H. D. Best, an employe of bile firm. a Whiteville automo- Nanee quoted Best as saying two men came to his home near here Tuesday night and asked how' they might contact an auto dealer in WhitevUle.

After Best offered- to locate the man by telephone, his visitors seized him as he picked up a directory and a third man placed a sack over his head. Best was blindfolded and taken In an auto to a point several miles distant where he was forced to bend over a car fender and beaten with a heavy belt. Later, he waa let out of the car near his home. The sheriff quoted the victim as saying the men gave mistreatment of his wife as the reason for the flogging. P.

S. C. Admitted Into U. S. PEMBROKE Pembroke State College is now a member of the Association of American Colleges, Dr.

R. president, announced this morning. The announcement was made upon Dr. Wellons 1 return from Washington. He attended the association's annual meeting, at Mayor Explains Holdup In City Traffic Proposal Mayor Hector MacLean told which action on the p.

S. C. appli- members of the Lumberton Junior cation was taken. Chamber of Commerce last night Membership in the association gives the Pembroke recognizes what we have done, but gives us new standards to live up to," Dr. wellons said.

Membership in the Association of American Colleges follows closely upon the recognition recently givenlP. S. C. in the South, when it was accepted as a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The institution has been operated as a full four-year college since 1939.

Officers Continue Page Case Probe Neither Solicitor Malcolm B. Seawell nor Bladen County Sheriff John B. Allen had any new information for release this morning in the investigation of the death of S. Page. The Saturday night (December 30) shooting of the one-time State Senator in his store at Page's Lake opened an investigation by all "state law enforcement agencies.

Literally scores of persons have been questioned, either as suspects or as witnesses and sources of Mr. Seawell said this morning that any rumors of confessions or arrests, so far, have been false. The solicitor has prosecuting the docket in Bladen County this week and has' kept in close touch with the investigation being made by the" sheriff and the State Bureau of Investigation. institution Chestnut streets as one-way tho- was being held up pen- Executives Speaker Dr. Nash Proposes Powerful World Government, For Peace Most powerful influence on world affairs today is the growing idea that an economy of plenty am be realized in our own Dr.

Ternon Nash, leesswf and historian, told the Urtwson County Execu- club last night. Research recent years has brought not only the atom bomb and the deadlier bacteria bomb, but also the possibility of great industrial and agricultural production for peace, he said. For the first time in world history, men everywhere realize that there can be a decent standard of living for everybody, and they are struggling to attain that goal. As the means toward that end, Dr. Nash proposed a world government strong enough to prevent war and enable productive capacity to be used for constructive pur- Drive Carefully 11 DAYS a ratal CkrefM Or.

0 KILLED OarrfM poses. This, he said, is not something new, but is the ultimate step a process that has been going on since men first formed a clan, then a tribe, a kingdom and a na- Transportation and communication developments have made the world one big, interdependent community, said Dr. Nash. A community sets up a government as a matter course, in order to protect itself from the greed and lust for power of individual citizens. The world community has this same kind of citizenship among its nations, but tries to get along without government.

Statesmen of all nations recognize me need for world government, Dr. Nash, but they are pessimistic, because they believe that their people will not sacrifice national sovereignty. Their pessimism is no greater, however, than that of the founders of the United States of America. The founders of this country -delegates from the original states argued and bickered and called names jist as the delegates of different nations do now. Finally George Washington suggested that, since the people in their home states probably would reject any that the establishment of Elm and ding the receipt and installation of additional stop lights and a master control system for "them.

Mayor MacLean spoke at the regular meeting of the group which invited him to discuss the city's traffic problems. Jaycees followed h3s talk with the passage of a resolution' asking for the r'of the one-way traffic plan for the business district of the city. Mayor MacLean added that a difficulty in the one-way traffic proposal lay in the fact that N. C. Highway 211 which follows Elm street could not be made one-way.

Jaycee member comment was to effect that this. difficulty did not seem a very difficult one to solve The plan undei- discussion would bar any north bound traffic from Elm street south of Sixth or Seventh street 1 Chestnut would carry north bound traffic only. Last spring the City Council announced that the plan be installed for a trial period, and that if successful one-way traffic would be tried on some east-west streets. Later the project was abandoned until after tobacco season. The subject has been brought up again and has so far resulted in the Jaycee resolution which follows: "WHEREAS, there is much congestion and confusion on the streets of the business district of Lumberton, and, "WHEREAS, this congestion and confusion creates a safety problem for the motorist and pedestrian, and, "WHEREAS, in a public opinion poll, taken in the spring of 1951, the people of Lumberton indicated a desire to see a one-way traffic system given a trial, now "BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the Junior Chamber of Commerce does hereby recommend to the Board of commissioners that one-way streets be set up the business area of Lumberton for a trial period." Cold Air Covers Both Carolinas By Tae Amwcialed rreiw A mid-winter cold wave locked every section of the Carolinas in a deep freeze today.

The cold air, spilling over the Blue Ridge mountains night before last, swept past the usually warm southeastern tip of South Carolina, pushing the mercury down to about 28 degrees in the region. Snow covered mountain areas of aiCclA North Carolina. A three-inch fall was reported in some sections of Watauga, Ashe and Alteghany Counties. The weather bureau said the temperatures will continue (to be low tonight with the afr warming tomorrow. Increasing cloudiness also is forecast for tomorrow.

Asheville, where a low of 24 degrees was recorded at the airport, was the coldest Carolina city today The mercury fell to six degrees on Mt. Mitchell. Here are Charleston I Greensboro, 26; Raleigh 27; Spar tanburg, 25; Wilmington, 29; Winston-Salem, 27; and Elizabeth City Bidding On Bonds In SL Pauls To End Oil Jan. 15 PAULS Sealed bids for $12,000 in water bonds for the town of St. Pauls will be received until a.

January 15 at Raleigh. The bonds were approved by the voters at an election on February 20, 1951, for enlarging the water system by installing an additional pump and connection lines. At present drilling is being done at the proposed location for the new pump, in west St. Pauls. The notice and blank proposal the.

sale of the boncis includes a detailed financial statement of the -town of St. Pauls. Some of the most important figures include: debt sewer, water, other, total $87,305. The principal and in'- terest of the total will amount to $107,442.20, considering the maturity dates. The debt jumped from $54,305 in 1949 to $96,105 in 1950, for $41,000 worth of bonds were issued in 1949-30.

The tax irate is $1.90. The assessed; valuation for "1951-52" is $1,574,593, and the levy, for the same year amounts Mo $29,959.05. The total revenue from the water and sewer department for 195051 was $19,007.27. The total expense for the same department amounted to $8,760.12, and $4,498.39 was used for capital outlay. $5,748.76 (Continued On Page Four) Sale Of License Plates In City Continues Slow The sale of North Carolina license plates for 1952 continues to be slow.

Since the tags went on sale.December 1, 1951, only 5,620 have been sold according to figures released by Mrs. Frances Harrell. January 1 is the day for changing tags, but the month of January is a "grace" month After February 1, all drivers whose cars do not bear the white-on-red tags of 1952, will be considered guilty, of driving with improper license plates. With three weeks to go, before the February relatively few have purchased the tags. Mrs Harrell stated that she laid in a supply of 11,000 to begin with.

Shi has sold just a few more than half that number. The stow sale is very much according to the history of past years. Says Mrs. Harrell, "People put off until the last day and then have to stand in line and wait and wait-and wait." The actual sale of tags takes only a few seconds. If there are no complications, it's almost one a minute proposition.

Of course, if there is a question of a title that has to be. untangled, then it takes longer. In addition to the auto tags, there have been issued 52 motor cycle 1,047 private truck tags --3, for farm trucks and 660 for trailers. Lumberton city tags are also on Mrs. Harrell ordered 2,500 of these and has sold 1,275.

St. Pauk Citizens To Protest Increase PAULS People st. Pauls will protest a rate increase rolina Telephone and Telegraph company, according to Mayor R. Keith. Mr.

Keith says the town board and civic organizations plan to send letters of protest against a rate increase without better service. Needs for a service man, direct contact with Lumberton, the county seat, and for more rural lines in the thickly settled areas have been continually cited by St. Pauls leaders for a number of years. Unless some of these needs are filled, Mayor Keith says that people here are unwilling to pay higher rates. Captain Tells Story Of Epic Battle Of Sea FALMOUTH, Eng.

Oft Safe ashore, Capt. Kurt Carlseu told the story' today of his monumental fight with (he raging Atlantic-- 2-week battle against wind, waves and cold. He told a cheering crowd of thousands: deeply regret (lint was not in position (o bring the Enterprise back with me." From the deck of the rescue tug Turmoil he watched Ihc death throes of the Flying Enterprise i after uo leaped into the water'from the riving freighter. She went down in 40 fathoms (250 of water, 37 miles off this fishing port, after a thrashing, tHanlic battle with the sea. "That really hurt me, quite a lot," Carlsen said.

It was that "last pale" which struck the stout ship its death blow, the courageous, 37-year-old skipper told a packed news conference. "The last few clays' gale was tod much," he said. "There were high seas going and they were too much." His worst moment in the long ordeal, he said, "was the moment (Continued On Page Four) Community Fails Win Fight For Return Of School The citizens of little Abbolisburg in Bladcfi County struck out again yesterday' in an effort to get back their school. But the Stale Board of Education denied the request in a unanimous vote. The Abbottsburg School, until it burned some time ago, had four teachers and 196 pupils.

Those students have since been attending the Bladenboro School 4 miles away Bladen's Board of Education apparently intends to make the arrangement for' it has made no "request to the State for another school at Abbottsburg. A delegation from Abbottsburg argued before the State Board yesterday, that a new school should be built in their village. Bladon- boro's classrooms a terribly crowded; grade has eight teachers, the fourth grade 'eight teachers, they said. The Bladenboro cafeteria, they continued, has to accommodate 1,000 pupils. So lunch begins at 10 a.m.

and carries through the various shifts until 2 p.m. But the board had other ideas about the future usefulness of a new AbbottsburE school. It cited a survey panel report stating even if the school were rebuilt many pupils would continue to go to Bladenboro because of a better curriculum and better physical facilities. The Abboltsburg School would never be more than a three-teacher unit, probably never more than a two-teacher plant. It is doubtful the board felt, that it could be maintained.

The cost per pupil of replacing it would be far greater than the cost of expanding Bladenboro's taxed facilities. "It would be a great mistake from our point of view to undertake a new school at Abbottsburg summed up Dr. Clyde Erwin, State school superintendent. Robeson Men To Report For Exams The Selective Service system has announced that the following men have been ordered to report for armed forces physical examination January 14 at 7:30 a at the Robeson County courthouse in Lumborton. Rudolph Kee, Clatties McDuffie Winford Clark, R.

Livid Worley' Ernest Lee Jacobs, Alexander Mack, James Grantham Maynor Alton I-ocklear. Theodore Brewington, Fred try, Vemon McEachin, Ev der McKay, Neil A. Lowry, C. Pittman, Robert Cox, Sanford Oxendine. Hiawatha Alston, Garron Johnson, Delton LockJear, Marvin Locklear, Curtis James Um wood, Henry Frank Thompson, Hartley Gene Oxendine, James Curley Hunt.

Leroy Martin, Lester Jayc der, Leon Smith, Henry Lane, gus Gilbert Medlin, Billie Ray lard, Stacy Britt, James Russell Musselwhite. Lee Oties Hunt, Wilber William Wright, Worley Fred Titus, Wilbert Carson Toon, Delton Brewer Quincy Godwin, Levi Jones Conward Cobb, Mayfield Buddy Gurley, George Washington Cogdell, cell Woods, Joseph Earl Lowery Karl McLean, Leo McLean, Tyner, Chester Edmond Hunt, ton McMillan. Au- Evan- M. Willie Pink tarvin Under- Jr. Caul- An 'Bui Cecil Lay- TWELVE PAGES--Pric.

Fiv. Venturesome Red Jets Lose In Flight South Five Hurt In Crash In Snow Five persons. a seriously injured, await an ambulance In Boston, after their car skidded into a tree. A policeman and tu-o pawing give aid. Myron Quinley, 35, the in the in the' 7 a i 17, is still the front seat.

Fred Fairbrother, 23, and Mfcs Armi.ndaLugner.i32. are in the backseat. (AP Wirephoto) Hoey Group Puts Off Ships Probe WASHINGTON ffl-- Chairman Hoey. (D-NC) said today his Senate investigations subcommittee has put'off until February a probe of the ribh profits from war surplus ships made by a group of big-name figures led by Washington lawyer Joseph E. 'Casey.

'Until Hoey announced the d.eci- sion, the surplus ship case had been listed by many as No. 1 on the probe parade. Casey has acknowledged thai he and his associates reaped a Strokes Fatal To Former City Resident T. W. (Teddy) Boycc, for 17 years a resident of Lumberton prior to 1943, died last night in a Lancaster, S.

C. Hospital. He suffered two cerebral strokes earlier this week. Mr. Boyce, about 48, was an executive of the monster Springs textile mill chain ami lived in Lancaster, management headquarters for the A native of Due West, S.

Mr. Boyce came to Lumberton in 1926 as a clerk for Mansfield and Jennings Cotton When he left in the spring of 1943, he was assistant secretary and treasurer of Jhc mills. His other business interests included the Robeson Building and Loan Association of which he was a director and vice-president. He was an elder iri the First Presbyterian church here, and as a member of the Luniberton Rotary club he served as its president in 1937-38. Funeral services for Mr.

Boycc will be hold Saturday afternoon at three o'clock in Lancaster. The family has requested that no flowers be sent. While iri Lumbcrfon he married Miss Elsie Crews of PleasantHill who was a teacher here and who now survives him. Also surviving are two daughters, Misses Sara Crew Boyce and Miss Jane Winfield Boyce. There are two brothers and one sister.

Goes To Jury 000 profit on $100,000 they invested in five oil tankers purchased from the government after World War H. The late Edward R. Stettinius, war-time Secretary of State7 and A'clm. William (Bull) Halsey also shared in the said Hoey said, his group will "look into many the complex deal, which defended vigorously. Casey, a former House member from las year blocked a Senate banking subcommittee investigation of the transaction with a challenge of its jurisdiction.

Meanwhile two members Hocy's group demanded investigations in new fields: 1. Mumtt (R-SD) announced he will call for a study of the Agriculture Department, based on the mysterious firing last August of Jack I. Cowart. Secretary of Agriculture Brannan has refused to say more that Cowart, assistant to the Production and Marketing Administrator was fired as a matter, of "internal discipline. 2.

Sen. Nixon (R-Calif) moved for an investigation of Frank Cohen, head of the old Empire Ordnance Co. of Philadelphia and a variety of other enterprises doing business with the government He said the study should cover a $68,000 profit acknowledged by Democratic National Chairman Frank E. McKinney on $1,000 invested in common stock of Empire Tractor another of Cohen's enterprises with which the government has done business. McKinney says there was "nothing improper about it." School Insurance Pupils in the Robeson County schools who did not enroll in the school insurance plan, may do so for the rest of the year beginning February 1.

The fee for this period is 75 cents. The fee for fhis period is 75 cents. Under the school insurance plan, pupils are covered for injuries're- ceived while on the way to and from school, during VthJetic contests sponsored by the school, and on trips in school chartered busses under the supervision of the school. Four Migs Shot Down In Fierce Southern Fight SEOUL, Korea Red lashed south almost to Parallel J8 today and paid for their audacity with loss of four MIG-lSs. They were shot down, a ifth was damaged, in five blazing battles with American Jets.

The air! war flamed within 30 miles of the Panmunjom One fight was nearly 180 rom the Yalu River boundary be- wecn Korea and Manchuria. This far south of MTG Alley the jets usually fight. The new outbreak of air war, after jets were snowbound yesterday, raised me Allied bag for the week to 11 jets shot down and 13 damaged. One jet destroyed today was'hit' over Sariwon, 150 miles southeast of the Yalu. No MIG had been bagged so far south before.

One MJG was downed in same battle by America's top ace- Col. Francis Gabresln of Oil Sty, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Ving Commander. It was his fourth MIG and his 32nd plane in two wars. Whis battle, between 22 Sabrejets and 60 very' aggressive Russian- type MIGs, raged for 35 over a 75 mile area. It was as long as any jet battle recorded.

All of the day's kills were by F-86 Sabrejets. But the southernmost fight involved F-85 Thunderjets. Three MIGs attacked them near Kum- chon, 180 miles southwest of. Yalu and only 11 miles north of 38. This was the most southerly jet (Continued Four) Membership Meet For Chamber Set i Monday, Jam 21 1 Annual membership meeting Ijf the Lumber-ton Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has been set for Monday week.

January 21, to be held at 7 p.m. in the Lorraine, hotel. President Wyman Scarborough said the "date, tentatively set at, a directors' meeting, had been con-: and that plans were being made for a banquet and speaking program. Leslie Huntley is general chair-" man of the meeting, which brings together the full membership of the new directors are to be elected. Nominees Proposed.

Eight nominations are to be made by a nominating committee, and other nominations are 1 to be invited at the meeting. The committee nominees are: H. P. Allen, Wilson Blackmon, Herman Crump, J. C.

E. McLaurin, 0. C. Norment, Anderson' Rountree, E. Weinstein.

The men elected are, to aerve three-year terms. Retiring directors whom they are: A. J. Brinson, George Ben Crofton, William E. Elmore, Marvin H.

Gerrald, Robert A. Mclntyre. J. A. Sharpe John A.

Tudor. L. B. Eisenhart Other directors who have unex- pired terms yet to serve are: one year H. Franklin Biggs, Donald Fuller, B.

G. French, L. J. Huni- ley Hector MacLean, Charlie S. Mclntyre, Wyman F.

Scarborough, Erwin T. two years Furman K. Biggs, J. C. Carr, Robert E.

Freeman, John F. Greene, E. K. Howard, B. Littlejohn, J.

s. NewboM, John p. Stedman. MASOKKJ MEK1TKG There will be an emergent com. mumcation of St Alban's Lodve No.

114, A. F. ft A. M. tonight at 7:30 for work on the second degree.

Second Degree Charge Sought Against Farmer By BRTAX HAISUP NEW BERN, N. C. Craven County superior court jury today began deliberating the fate of Newton Hanes, wealthy gentleman- farmer accused of murdering one of his Negro tenants. The jury was given the case at 10:29 m. after Judge John J.

Burney told it that it could return one of three verdicts: guilty of second degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years; guilty of manslaughter, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years; or a verdict of acquittal. The state has sought a second degree murder conviction during the four-day trial. Hanes, who was 37 yesterday and a member-of a prominent Wmston-Salem family, testified he killed Ishmael Simmons, 40, in self defense. He also told the court wife had been raped by Simmons. Under a 2-hour cross-examination by Solicitor William J.

Bundy, Hanes said he shot Simmons as the tenant advanced on him with a butcher knife in Hanes' home following dispute over $30 in tobacco money. He testified that his wife told him of the alleged rape nine days before the shooting and that during the row he threatened to nave Simmons indicted. Dr. S. D.

Craig of Winston-Salem, an uncle of the defendant, said Hanes and his wife came to his office several days before the shooting and told him of the alleged rape. Simmons' widow and daughter testified that the slain mfin was working in a field with them all day of the day of the alleged rape. Hanes said the day after his wife toW him of the alleged rape they went to Winston-Salem to get medical advice. They returned to his 500-acre Trent River term the afternoon Simmons was shot, He said he went to pieces after the shooting and attempted to Simmons' body became "It was first time I ever fired a fm at anybody." Sheriff C. B.

Berry and Sheriff C. Weatherly Hanes had a bad drinking and, erry, "for.