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WEATHER Partly cloudy tonifkt Jk Tuesday, scattered afternoon thundershowers; continued warm Tues, High yesterday 16 Low this morning 72 Served By Leased Wire Of The Associated Press VOL. LXXX--NO. 347--Vot. 10--No. 389 PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY and SUNDAY LUMBERTON, N.

MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1950 ESTABLISHED 1870 GOD and TRUTH EIGHT PAGES--Price 5 Centt MacArthur Urges Assistance To Formosa In Defense Talks Peace Treaty Also Reviewed By Officials TOKYO, June MacArthur today outlined America's defense position in Red-menaced Asia for Defense Secretary Johnson and General Bradley. He reportedly called it serious but not hopeless. The commander of "United States Forces in the Far East, it was understood, urged prompt American material assistance to Formosa, last-stand Bastion of the Chinese Nationalists, and for Southeast Asia. Military aspects of a Japanese peace treaty also were believed under discussion in the momentous three hour conference with the secretary and the chairman of the U. S.

Joint Chiefs of Staff. This would involve the vital matter of American bases in Japan. The talks here are expected to lay the foundation for decisions in Washington on Far Eastern policy. One informed Japanese source said the Johnson-Bradley visit is being watched with "the greatest anticipation ever placed on any mission from the United States." Efforts are being increased to reach agreement among Japanese political leaders on the question of future American bases. Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida hopes to get all parties--Communists excepted--to support a peace treaty with the Western Powers and continued American use of bases here.

To this end former Prime Minister Kijuro Shidehara is conferring with various party chieftains. All opposition parties came out in the June 6 elections for strict Leaving This Lumberton Minister Will Be With Youth Group In German) Rev. Forrest D. Hedden, pastor of Chestnut Street Methodis church, will be a member of a Youth Caravan from the North Carolina Methodist conference which will spend two months in Germany this summer working German Methodist young people and assisting in construction work. Mr.

Hedden will leave tomorrow morning for New York City, from where the group will fly Thursday to Brussels, Belgium. By next Sunday the caravan will be in Stuttgart, Germany, which will be headquarters for the summer. Fart of the time will be spent helping rebuild the Methodist church in Stuttgart, which was destroyed during the war. The group also will work in Methodist youth camps in Germany and lead in other religious activities. The caravan is composed of eight North Carolina young people, David Cozart of Raleigh and New Bern, an experienced youth leader, and Mr.

Hedden. While in Germany they plan to see the Passion Play at Oberammergao and take sightseeing trips to Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, and France. Mr. Hedden also will visit the German annual conference of the Methodist church. The Board of Missions of the N.

C. Methodist conference is sponsoring the caravan. During Mr. Hedden's absence, the pulpit of the Methodist "neutrality" and no foreign mil- churcn wil1 be filled visiting ministers each Sunday morning. At the evening services a series itary installations in Japan.

Both MacArthur's headquarters and Johnson himself have made it plain that the defense secretary is only secondarily interested in the political aspects of a treaty. Col. M. P. Echols, headquarters public information officer, said today Johnson's primary concern is the Far Eastern command side of MacArthur's dual job.

That means the actual military position' of American forces throughout the Orient. Matters concerning the Japanese occupation are secondary, Echols said. Asiatic political issues will be considered by Johnson as they affect the American military situation, Echols added. Presumably this means the secretary's view of a Japanese peace treaty will be primarily in the light of its effect on U. S.

defense. Detailed conservations on political phases of a treaty apparently will await tomorrow's return of state department adviser John Foster Dulles from Korea. cf films on the life of will be shown. St. Paul Stacy, Seawell Support Graham The candidacy of Frank P.

Graham for election to the U. S. Senate will be endorsed in radio talks tomorrow by H. Stacy, Lumberton attorney and ex-State Senator from Robeson. Mr.

Stacy's address will be broadcast at 12:45 Tuesday afternoon and again at 7 p. m. over --Staff Photo REV. FORREST D. HEDDEN Off to Germany Weevils Hard Hit By Poison Substantial differences in the soil weevil count in poisoned and unpcisoned cotton fields were noted last week by F.

F. Bondy, entomologist making a check-up Robenson county cotton fields Robeson county. Mr. Bondy examined eight Robeson county cotton fields-lour untreated and four dusted or prayed with poison. He made a count of boll weevils on 100 plants in each field.

His report County Farm Owens showed: Unpoisoned cotton-- Agent O. P. Folks Across River Have No I Waier Supply BY PENN GRAY There has been no "Across the River" for a week now; no water to drink, no water to bathe in, no water for chickens I and animals, and no water to wash clothes in. Monday. Nan Thompson says, i folks didn't have a way to get water from Doug McMil- lan's artesian a mile and a half! away were forced to drink raw river water.

Soapy clothes couldn't be rinsed when the artesian wells i dwindled' to a trickle. i North of the new route of U. S. 301, almost every house depends i on an artesian overflow for its en- I tire water supply. Along the Fair- mont road most have hand pumps but a large number, depend on natural flow.

There is a city water main i along: East Fifth "street extend- ing to the Robeson Manufactur- ing and then south parallel to the Fairmont Road; there is a main down the Fairmont road to the city limit and a branch west of the highway. But relatively few of the houses have 4 aken advantage of the possibility of using city water, it costs money. Folks with pitcher pumps have had no difficulty. Folks with ar- tesians who have put on pitcher pumps haven't had much luck; some have gotten water that way but its muddy, and others have been completely unsuccessful. An old well digger said this morning no artesian pipe has a filter on the bottom and that the suc- tion of a pump stirs up the sand and clay and sometimes clogs the pipe entirely.

The land is low and the water is forced to the surface by pressure of underground streams. But Monday a test was begun on the new City of Lumberton well- pump, and in a matter of hours every "flow" as far out as Nye Oil Company was dry. In 48 hours an estimated two million gallons of underground water was removed by the big pump and then it was shut down Wednesday at 8:30 a. i but the hadn't come' Makes Way For Vote oration Tax Increases Repeat Primary Saturday Field No. 1 9 weevils back this morning.

Field No. 2 24 weevils Field No. 3 22 weevils Nan Thompson told about the trouble. She's been there her 65 Poisoned cotton-Field No. 1 2 weevils Field No.

2 weevil Field No. 3 1 weevil Field No. 4 2 weevils Can You Vote? Radio Station WTSB. Solicitor Malcolm B. J.

C. Hutto Named To State Merchants Post Jasper C. Hutto, secretary of the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce has been appointed to membership on the Finance Committee of the North Carolina Merchants Association, it is announced by Jacob Winstead, of Rocky Mount, president of the organization. in Mr. Graham's behalf on Thursday.

Small Fire Damage In Two City Alarms 1 Field No. 4 10 weevils years and she's never seen any-, thing like it; too much water when there was a flood, yes; but never a shortage. They used to have on shallow wells but in late years most have put down i deeper pipes and have gotten not only easier water, but cleaner wa- jter. Last week Nan, like others put a pump back on the pipe. But it still didn't get her water.

Doug McMillan, well out on the Fairmont Road still has a sood flow and everybody i welcome to it. But a cow takes a lot of water; and taking in washing takes a lot of water; and few haveia way to transport it from Doug's well. The big pump won't These scenes will be rp-enacted Saturday for the benefit of Senator Frank P. Graham and his opponent Willis Smith, as well as for Burt Ivsy and Jesse Carpenter in Lumberton and for Bub Everette and Herman Brisson in St. Pauls.

These are pictures made at Lumberton Precinct No. 4 (above) South St. Pauls Precinct Intensive Final Pushes RALEIGH, June Seawell ers who were eligible to register at the first primary a month ago. The predicted vote for the second primary ranges from 30 uer cirri to 50 per cent of the May 27 tally. Only the U.

S. Senate seat and two Recorder Judgeships will be at stake. --Norment German Women rives To Tour County Next Thursday will speak on the same schedule i the May 27 primary but who did not, may not vote in Saturday's primary. Persons who have become eligible since May 27, however, may register to vote for the second primary. That's the word fror The Lumberton Fire Depart- Maxwell, executive secretarv RALEIGH, the last primary.

ator Frank Graham and Willis i statewide radio talk make a behalf of Farm Bureau members of Robeson, the County Agent's office, and the Lumberton Tobacco Board of Trade will put out Smith today on their seven i Smith--also tomorrow. the welcome mat Thursday for two Graham is not scheduled for women who arrived in league boots for their last mten- stalewicle a 0 address except for Raleigh Saturday to begin an sive campaign drives. Saturdav either Graham Friday night. Smith, will make a i a from Asheville tomorrow eight-day visit to North Carolina. The women, part of a group of Declines To Cut Rate On Cigarettes BY FRANCIS 3L LE MAY WASHINGTON, June The House ways and means committee threw out of its new tax.

bill today a proposal--once ap- proveed--to cut the federal tax on ''economy brands" of cigarettes. The action cleared the way for a vote next on whether to boost corporation taxes about 000 (M) a year. Some members contended a rise in corporation taxes would put a "veto proof" tag on their bill cutting wartime excise taxes by 100,000,000 (B). These excises are the taxes on furs, jewelry, luggage, moviev telephone bills and scores of othar things. The committee voted 13 to 12 against cutting the tax on "economy" cigarettes.

The Federal tax is now seven cents a pack of 20 on all cigarettes, regardless of their selling price. During hearings, the makers "economy" brands such at Wings, Marvel and Aval on argued their smokes should have a lower tax than cigretates selling at a higher price. The committee then decided tentatively to set the tax at 4.9 cents a pack on cigarettes retailing for 12 cents a pack or less, exclusive of state and local taxes. Today's vote wiped out that tentative decision. Chairman Doughton, Democrat from tobacco-growing North Carolina, had argued the proposed cut would result in lower prices to farmers.

The treasury had figured it would cost the government about $90,000,000 (M) a year in revenue. Democratic Congressional leaders reported after their regular Monday morning conference with Pesident Truman that tax legislation had been discussed. Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) told I reporters that Mr. Truman was "very anxious to have a tax bill passed" but declined to speculate on whether the President would approve the bill now being shaped up by the ways and means committee. Mr.

Truman's position has been that he thinks the wartime excise taxes should be cut, but that there should be increases elsewhere to offset the cuts. Smith will be nominated in a run- which will be piped through the Germans visiting American homes ment was called out twice Saturday to extinguish small fires that caused little damage. Four o'clock Saturday morning the truck Was called to a cold drink stand across the Seaboard railroad in Moccasin Bottom. The fire is thought to have started a TM run a Democraticm Senatorial i will appear on a television to observe our way of life, will Farm Markets NEW YORK, June 19. lUtUTCS Opened tO DO a a Smith ran second in a a Greensboro Wodnes- the State Board Of Elections.

The election laws provide, ha said, that a second primary shall be under I fjil the same rules and regulations as i to lift a quarter million provided for the first pimary summer most enough for the City of Lum- 1 Ma 27th primary in a field of day. make a statewide broadcast bertons entire needs on the test. four. Graham led him by 53,000 Thursday But where it pumped a million votes, but failed to get a majority Friday night. gal cms a da it may be called on and Smith called for a morning, and another For their i a week of stump- cept that tration of voters other than such from faulty electric wiring and a ma have become legally quali- resulted in about $100 damage to ied after tne primary elec- the small building owned by J.

In announcing the appointment, President Winstead explameu the Finance Committee has jurisdiction over all matter relating to the finances of the association and, pursuant to the association constitution, it is required to audit the accounts of the secretary and the treasurer. Colum a chiel's amang he'll print it a Ttiiiimiiiiiimiiiimmtiiiimiimini miiminiimiiHiiiiiimmmmiiniim A LETTER from Henry McKinnon to Lacy Stone, treasurer of Daystrom Laminates, a copy of which was sent by Senator McKinnon to The Chiel, strikes a plaintive note in its opening para- M. springs. Saturday night at 8:00 an automobile caught fire in front of radio station WTSB on W. 5th Street.

The owner of the car, Clarence Hammonds, said he thought that the fire resulted from his dropping a lighted cigaret on the front seat. 1 takin' notes and faith! BURNS. i mimwiuiiiHiiutmniiiumiiinmHiiiiiiiiiiHWUtiimmmimiimnuinunrc Daystrom. The story said along toward the end that Henry was asked about changing the name and that while he didn't really mind he did sort of hate for a Yankee corporation to start mess- tion." These may register on the day of the second primary and shall be entitled to vote, Under this provision, said Maxwell, those who would be eligible after the months. The artesians ing.

each candidate i invade campaign managers. expected to star flowing again. areas where, relatively speaking. Gaham-- todav he knows how long it will I he made a weak Rowing la Hoe are the itineraries for both candidates as released by their i i Extension Service to provide be taken to various points of interest during their day in the county. Their visit is a direct result of the efforts of Farm Bureau, its Associated Women, and the people 1 Germany with close stumping with our customs and Ous close: July 33.37, Dec.

32.55. i. Previ- Oct. 32.60, NEW ORLEANS, June 19. --Cotton futures opened steady today, unchanged to 50 cents a bale higher.

Previous close: July 33.20, take for the pressure to build back i month. up? Who knows for how quarter million gallons them off? First tests of the pump a month led by prominent person? ago slowed dow the artesian flow! Statewide radio broadcast? i but didn't stop it; this time the also be numerous. Governor Scott through Durham county and i people, through the International I 32 5 ec. 32.47 up in Lillington. Tomorrow a i Women's Exchange.

i Smith has selected the vvest. he tours through Cumberland, Bla- will Gaham the east. 'numerous rallies Both i have and possibly Fender coun- t'neir behalf had sanity restored after that date 14 Fatal Accidents or who have had their citizenship supply diminished restored after that date, or a person who has become naturalized." Avoter who would be 21 before the November election would have been eligible to register in the first primary. Maxwell.said failure to do so would not permit such a person to register for the second primary. ties.

Wednesday he is slated for Onslow. Jones, Craven, and Lenoir, Thursday it will be Wayne, Greene, Wilson, Edgecombe and purnp stopped artesian water in a make a transcribed 1 5 i i jvash. All of Friday will be spent i i through i i Smith's program has been Senator completed. However, he is slated who ran third in to hit the mountain area a tomorrow, winding up with I his Buncombe county courthouse speech at Asheville. couple of hours.

The bio- pump i talk tomorrow night in support persons who may have is for excessive summertime needs i Graham. city. i the underground; Former U. S. in Rice Reynolds, MASONIC MEETING There will be an emergent communication of St.

Alban's Lodffe No. 114, A. F. A. Tuesday night at 8 o'clock for work on the third degree.

All visiting master masons are invited to attend. CHICAGO, June 19. Wheat was not able to get anywhere at the opening of the board of trade today, but the rest of the grain market was quite firm. Wheat started unchanged to cent higher, July Corn was to one cent higher, July to S's. in the newspaper a number of times but hasn't seen such a news story without some error or misinformation.

"I he says, "It is hard to get everything just right." The Chiel just as plaintively Henry's statement admits truth of the charge that a itory about him has never been without error, and adds that Henry is not a hard man to please. The Chiel sighs resignedly when- iver he starts another Henry story --there's -going to be something wrong with it you just cross rour fingers and trust Henry to big about it and not object too itrenuously. LATEST BUSINESS with Heny stems from a hanging the name story about of Alma to A Family Affair LOS ANGELES, June 19. If the preacher has a little Tar Heels Die Bv Violence BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS between the end of a bed an thr At least 14 persons met violent wall of the beroom in the f.uv.iiy's deaths in North Carolina during home, the weekend. Seven of the deaths! John E.

Auston, 69-year old Convenes Here Tobacco warehousemen of the Mining Key Roads West Allies Reported Setting 1 Stalls In Case Of An Attack were by drowning. tired railroad a i of Moivoe, Carolines operating in the South 119 brides will be a mother and daughter. ing around with Scotch nomen- i They'll stand up this way: Mrs. May Forgy, 64, and Jess 70; Mrs. Forgy's daughter, Mrs.

trouble keeping things straight at i i sister Patncia 6 drowned yas- a triple wedding next Saturdav terday in a sma11 nd rt it shouldn't be surprising tor the Daniel David Shannon, 9, and committed puiude i a. snotgun Carolina-Border Belt wilt assem- reported mining key roads and clature. Next thing the Chiel knew somebody was saying it's no such Merle Kelly Thomas, 34, and thing--that "Yankee" business-- Ramsdale, 29, and Mrs. and besides with as many people Thomas' daughter, Miss Darleen on the payroll as Daystrom Laminates, has who cares whether a damyankee or a rebel is writing the checks. THEN HENRY wrote the letter mentioned first above.

And the letter, besides being plaintive, says that while some ouch remark as was quoted about a yn- cee changing the name or Scotch town is readily admitted, The Chiel forgot to say "That's a joke, son!" But- the thing Henry aid stress on was fact that he made the "joke" six or seven (Continued on Four) Pantation near Southport while playing with toy boats. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Shannon of near Southport were the children's parents. David Earl Lc ng, .34, of Lock in Lumberton Thursday for a bridges throughout West Germany meeting of the South Carolina- olher arts of Europ t0 StaU Haven, a killed in a plane i Border Belt Warehouse Associa-! any possible Soviet attack, mishap near a i Falls Sat-i tion.

The meeting, to be held in i These preparations to ugni urday. Long, a chief designer "for the Lumberton Armory at 11:00 yesterday when a German maga- Roy Lee Brendle ,1.3, son of Mr. the Piper -nanuf i a. will be presided over by J. xine published pictures ui and Mrs.

Columbus Brendle a bailed out of his i I Johnson of Lumberton, presi- i highway around tamea Webster, drowned while swimming I rung plane and his parachute a i dent of the association. mountain thr Rnm rc led to open. i T. tn French zone. The pictures showed.

FRANKFURT, Germany, June comes. The Western allies are The plans call for evacuation of civilians as rapidly as possible. Emergency signals have been given all dependents of S. Army and Air Force officials to be prepared to pull out if and when an alarm is flashed. Indications are that the Western defense chiefs have drawn up a master plan for similar defense preparations in other European in a lake near Sylva.

Kelly, 16, and Ralph Lester, 18. more lives. Lyman HamricK. 52, Gaffney, S. textile executive-, and Clarence Reynolds, also of Gaffney, drowned when their boat overturned.

Eugene Jones, 16, of Ridfjecrest, drowned in Ridgecrest Lake yesterday after his canoe overturned. Clyde Leak, 16-year old Rockingham Negro, drowned in a pond yesterday while A boating accident on Lake! Nathan Gardner, 26, of Wilson, ness pertaining to tne Summit Friday night claimeJ two lineman or Wilson utilities marketing season, Drive Carefully 4 DAYS Since a Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident in Robeson County. Careful Drivtnir Will Keep This UP. Total Fatalities Tear. 12 KILLED Carefnl Driving Will Keep Tufa DOWN.

near Lilesville swimming. Mary Jane Angel, 11-month old draughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Angel of West Asheville, accidentally hanged herself Saturday. The 3n, of Leaksvillc, fatally when his cnr overtuned on Highway 70 three cast of L.

Pickard, 40, of Swepsonville, died when car io a curve and struck a stone in Graham. child's body was found wtdged' Edenton. In addition to matters of busi- coming constitution department, was electrocuted and set of by-laws for the organ- vv-hon he touiMcc! a pow-r line dur- I ixation will be a ing rapair work yesteday near The gouth Carolina Border Belt Warehouse Association is one of the belt associations making up the parent organization, Bright Belt Warehouse Association. Some 75 to 100 warehousemen are expected in Lumberton for the South Carolina-Border Belt meeting. In addition to President Johnson, two other Lumberton men serve as officers of the association, R.

E. Wilkins being a director and A. T. McLean, secretary-treasurer. a row of holes being drilled in the road and then covered with concrete caps.

Explosive charges dropped into the holes tumble the highway into the Rhine at one of its narrowest points. American headquarters declined to comment. But a French source in the Koblenz area said: "It is not only on this route on which such measures are taken Giorge EOenton, Rt. was kJJJed- when was stru.x by an automobile Highway six miles north of making preparations. It the Allied High Command which ordered this." Plans have been in the for more than a year for Allied occupation forces in Western Germany to Jight a delaying action, if countries.

The pictures touched off a furor in the Russian-controlled East German press. The Communist newspapers did not mention any possibility of a Russian attack, but declared the planned destructions were "part of an American aggressor's plan to march against the Soviet Union." One newspaper said the Americana are preparing to follow scorched earth policy. The Red press also claimed French planned to blow up tht side of Lorelei mountain, damming the Rhine and flooding country for rnilet around. this report as "nonienM'.