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WEATHER Continued mild ami partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday throughout North Carolina. High yesterday Low this morning 60 THE ROBESONIAN Served By Leased Wire Of The Associated Press VOL. LXXXI! NO 175 PUBLISHED DAILY 9ATUHDAY int SUNDAY LUMBERTON, N. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1170 COUNTRY. GOD and TRUTH TEN PACES--Price Five CenV Huge Plane Brings 127 Wounded Men From Korea A huge U.

S. Air Force C124 "Globemaster II" lands at a base in Japan and unloads 127 wounded men flown from battle areas in Korea. Clamshell doors in the nose, operated by electricity, are open and a litter case is being carried out to one of the waiting ambulances. The "Globemaster" dwarfs other planes in the background. Oh its initial flight, it carried 70 wounded men on litters' arid 57 ambulatory patients (U.

S. Air Force Photo via AP Wire- photo). Cease-Fire Talks Remain Unsettled BY EGBERT B. TUCKMAN MUNSAN, Korea UP) Allied and Red liaison officers wrangled for three hours in Panmunjom today but got nowhere in their efforts to get the stalled cease-fire talks started again. Only hopeful sign noted was an agreement to meet again tomorrow at 10 a.

m. (8 p.m. Monday, EST). An official U. N.

summary said the Reds continued to insist on five-mile neutral zone around Kae- song, former site of negotiations. The Allies the five miles reduced to 3,000 yards less than two miles. This, and a Red demand that security arrangements be settled by the main delegations rather than by liaison officers, appeared to be tho main stumbling blocks in getting truce sessions underway again. One potential threat to the resumption of talks apparently was removed with the Allied admission that three U. N.

warplanes strafed the Kaesong-Panmunjom ares late Friday afternoon. Unofficial Communist sources indicated the Reds consider the incident closed. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway Sunday night accepted U.

N. respon- ciplinary action. The supreme Allied commander also expressed his "heartfelt grief" at the death of a 12-year old Korean boy and the wounding of the boy's two-year-old brother in the attacks. In his Sunday message to the Red high command, Ridgway said investigation "revealed beyond any reasonable doubt" that the strafing of the Kaesong and Panmunjom areas Friday was the work of Allied warplanes. In a separate statement issued later in a broadcast-in Korean over the armed forces radio, Ridgway declared: "The incident is doubly regrettable, not only because it violates standing U.

N. command instructions and consequently an agreement to which the U. N. command was a body, but even more so because it-resulted in the death of one 12-year old boy and the wounding of his brother. "I know I speak for every member of the U.

N. command in expressing sympathy and heartfelt grief for the bereaved'Korean family for their tragic loss." Apparently the attacks were made by three jet planes. Names of the pilots were not disclosed, sibility and promised prompt dis- For U. N. Control Atomic Proposal Renewed In Truman's Tar Heel Address WINSTON SALEM Iff) President Truman offered today to "sit down with Soviet Russia" to seek agreement upon disarmament and "free the world from the scourage of atomic warfare" In his first major foreign policy speech since he announced Russia's explosion of a second atomic bomb, the President renewed a proposal for United Nations control of atomic power which this country suggested "Jong before the Soviet Union got the atomic bomb." He asked Russia to lay aside its "phoney peace propaganda" and declared: "We are now, as wo have aHvays to sit down with the Soviet dnion, and all the nations concerned, in the United Nations, and work together for lifting the burden of armaments and securing the peace.

"We are determined to leave no stone unturned in this search not only for relief from the horror of another world war, but also for the basis of a durable peace." Mr. Truman's speech was prepared for groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Wake Forest College campus here. The Baptist institution is being moved here from Wake Forest, under a'multi-million dollar grant from the Reynolds tobacco family. The President held out little hope of reaching any real agreement with Russia until the free world completes its armaments program. But he warned against "sowers of suspicion and the peddlers of fear" at home.

"So long as one country has the power and the forces to overwhelm others, and so long as that country has aggressive intentions," Mr. Truman said, "real peace is unattainable. The stronger we become, the more possible it will be to work out solid and lasting arrangements that will prevent war. Our strength will make for peace." American policy, the President declared, "is based on the hope that it will be possible to live, without a war, in the same world the Soviet Union--if the free nations have adequate defenses" "As our defenses improve, the chances of negotiating successfully with the Soviet Union will in- crcasp," he added. "The growth of our defenses will help to con- vince the leaders of the Soviet Union that arrangements are in their own self-interest.

As our strength increases, we should be able to negotiate settlements that the Soviet: Union will respect and live up to." Declaring that "peace comes high in these troubled days, and we have shown that we are willing to pay the price for it," the President said "suspicion and fear" which he compared with that existing in some quarters today, nearly prevented the creation of Wake Forest College 117 years ago. A bill granting a charter to Wake Forest College, up for final passage in the State Senate, received a tie vote, 29 to 29, and passed by the deciding vote of the presiding officer. Mr. Truman said opponents argued that to incorporate the college would lead to "a proud and pompous ministry" and said a school of this sort would become "a curse to the Church of God, and to the nations of the earth." "Their objection, in modern terms, was that the college might turn into a subversive organization which would destroy the American way of life," the President said. Turning again to foreign policy he declared that the fate of civilization depends on what this country does, and added: "This effort is costing us a great, deal--in taxes, in energy, in unwelcome changes in our daily living.

It is even costing us the lives of some of our bravest and best young people who are fighting in the front lines against agres- sion, "Like any positive effort, this one is being questioned and criticized. There are people who ask whether it is worth doing." But most of us, the President said, have "no desire to backtrack on the path we have taken toward peace" or of "running out. on the obligations" to the United Nations. "To the sowers of suspicion, and the peddlers of fear, to all those who seem bent on persuading us that our country is on the wrong track and that there is no honor or loyalty left in the land, and that woe and ruin lie ahead, I would say one thing: Take off your blinders, and (Continued On Nine) Funeral Services For Mrs. Andrews Set For Tomorrow Mrs.

Neill Preston Andrews, 73, died last night at eight o'clock at a hospital here where she had been confined since April. Mrs. Andrews died of a stroke which followed a series of such attacks. She had been in declining health for two years. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon from the home on Chestnut street and-rbu- rial will follow in the family jplot in Meadowbrook cemetery.

Rev. Forrest B. Hedden will be assisted by Rev. Henry Egger, rector of Trinity Episcopal church in conducting the ceremonies. The has requested that no flowers be sent.

Mrs. Andrews was Miss Frances Rozier, daughter of the late Robert A. and Eliza Porter Rozier of Howellsville Township. The family moved to Lumberton just before the turn of the century. Mrs.

Andrews' late husband who died in 1937 was a general merchant in Lumberton and had extensive farming interests in 4he county. She was one of the oldest mem- dist church in years of membership. So far as can be determined only two persons are senior to her on the church rolls. For more than fifty years she has been active in the church. Surviving is one son, Robert Knox Andrews of Lumberton, one sister, Mrs.

E. A. Burham of Mullins, S. and three grandchildren, Robert Knox Andrews, Neill Preston Andrews, and Carolyn Andrews. Also surviving are the widows of four brothers, Mrs.

M. M. Rozier of Lumberton, Mrs, Frank Rozier of Orangeburg, Mrs. Estelle Rozier of Warrenton, and Mrs. R.

A. Rozier of Chipley, Fla. FCX Dedication Set Wednesday In East Lumberton Official dedication ceremonies for the $350,000 FCX Cooperative Fertilizer Service plant in East Lumberton are scheduled to be held Wednesday morning. Several hundred farmers from all sections of North and South Carolina are expected to be on hand for the exercises, as well as officials of the Farmers Cooperative Exchange from Raleigh. During the morning, the visitors will be shown through the facilities of the plant and then taken on a tour of grain marketing facilities at the nearby FCX Lumberton wholesale plant.

The formal dedication ceremonies will get underway at 12:30 p.m. when Pope Humphrey, chairman of the local board of the Robeson FCX Service, will deliver the invocation. Then S. E. Boswell of Summerfield, newly-elected president of the FCX, will bring greetings to the visitors.

Following will be M. G. Mann, Raleigh, general manager of the FCX, who will introduce the special guests. After a drawing for prizes, the crowd will be fed a barbecue luncheon. Meredith Morris of Lumberton, manager of the fertilizer service, said the local plant is now manufacturing about seven carloads -or 200 tons of fertilizer daily.

Six different analyses of plant food are currently being turned out. The plant has a storage capacity of 5,000 tons for bagged mixed goods and 3,000 tons for bulk ingredients. It was completed last spring. MASONIC MEETING There will be an emergent communication of St. Alban's Lodge No.

114 A. F. A. M. Tuesday night at 7:30 for work on the third jdegree Parade At Two Annual Jayeee Fair To Open Here Tuesday The carnival of the annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Festival here is in business.

The exhibit tent is also open but booths arid exhibits will not all be finished until tomorrow morning. The real beginning of the week-long celebration will be noted by the parade which will take off tomorrow afternoon.at two o'clock. The festival is set up on permanent grounds this year for the first time and facilities are much improved over previous seasons. The exhibits are still housed in a tent and it will be next year, at least, before a permanent exhibit hall is constructed. However, the tent is a tremendous one and more than adequate for the displays.

carnival is under the same management if last year but offers new equipment, new rides, and new shows. The location of the festival is near last year's site at West Lumberton. It is on the same spot used by the recent circus here on the west end of the old Lumberton airport. Parking space will be ample, off the highway and adjacent to the grounds. Tomorrow afternoon will be Kids Day at the festival.

There will be no admission charge for school students and the rides will be operated at reduced prices. Robeson Markets Among Five Open On Border Belt RALEIGH-- ffi --Flue-cured tobacco markets today entered a new week's sales against a background of record or near-record price averages last week. On the Eastern North Carolina belt, the world's largest, a new all-time weekly average of a hundred pounds was set. The Federal-State Market News Service also reported that about 75 per cent of the crop on the Eastern Belt has been sold." Price changes last week held to gains and losses of about $1 to $3. Better offerings were firm.

Medium quality leaf, lugs and lower smoking leaf gained slightly. The weekly average on the Carolinas Border Belt was 553.69, with prices for many grades at records for the 'season. Season sales through last Friday were 335,089,598 pounds averaging $51.83 at hundred-weight The belt is nearing the end of its season, with the Hemingway and Mullins, S. and Fairmont and Lumberton, N. C.

markets still open. These five markets closed last week: Darlington, Lake City and Timmonsville, S. and Clarkton and Whiteville, N. C. North Carolina-Virginia Old Belt markets averaged $52.73, a weekly high for the season.

Volume was 31,095,956 pounds, with low red smoking leaf and fair green prim- ings gaining as much as $4 and cutters holding firm. The average of $57.09 on the North Carolina Middlfe Belt was a weekly high for the season. Strong demand for leaf grades, which advanced $2 to $3, helped raise the general average $3.17 over the previous week. PJ.C. Yearbook Earns Honor In Press Contest (Special to the Robesonian) NEW a national contest, sponsored by the Columbia Scholistic Press Association here, the yearbook published by the students of Presbyterian Junior College, Maxton, captured high honors in its division Saturday.

Entered in the competition were 948 yearbooks, representing public and private high schools, vocational schools and colleges in 44 states, Hawaii, Alaska and Canada; the largest number ever entered. The Maxton publication, Bagpipe, received second place rating in the class for printed yearbooks Junior colleges. Judging was based on such criteria as typography, content, makeup and are work. The winning publications have been placed on exhibition at Columbia University. Drive Carefully 5 DAYS a Fatal Motor Vehicle Aceldeit In Rotawn Coutr.

Drtvtai WIN Thfc UP. Total fhta Tow 32 KILLED Drivint Will Thli DOWN Communist Resistance Fades Before Blazing U. N. Probes Sheriff In Pen, Wife Takes Over 1 Sheriff John Lynch hands his wife the keys to the Dadc county jail at Trenton, and leaves for a federal prison to serve a one year sentence. He swore in his wife as chief deputy to act in his absence.

He said he will campaign from prison for reelection. The sheriff was convicted of depriving- seven Negroes of their civil rights in surrendering them to a masked band of men who flogged them two years ago. The U. S. Supreme Court denied his appeal this week.

(AP Wirephoto). Boyle Quits, But Gabrielson Stays WASHINGTON (ffl--The resignation of William M. Boyle as chairman of the Democratic National Committee isn't going to be followed by that of his Republican counterpart, GOP Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson says. Boyle -announced his resignation Saturday night, giving health as his reason, and indicated he would issue shortly--perhaps today--a call for the Democratic National Committee to act on it.

Gabrielson, who like Boyle has been under attack from some quarters in Congress, was emphatic in saying he does not intend to step down. "I'm not resigning," he told reporters in Seattle. "I'm not going to resign. Is that plain I'm not resigning. You can put that in just as big letters as you want." Congressional critics, mostly Republicans, have been calling on both men to quit their party posts because of their relations with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), big government lending agency.

Both have been under investigation by a Senate subcommittee, one of whose members, Sen. Nixon (R-Calif), said last night the inquiry will continue. He added: "The disclosures of the future will make those which have come out to date seem insignificant in com- Highway Death To Come Under Study A coroner's inquest, reviewing the circumstances which caused the death of two-month old Edward Foley near St. Pauls, October 7, will be held tonight at the Lumberton courthouse. The foley child was killed in an automobile accident which also involved another vehicle and hospitalized nine others when the two cars failed to make a curve and overturned in a corn field between St.

Patils and Parkton. Driving the car in which the Foley child was killed was Howard Burke of St. Pauls. The coroner's jury will consist of H. A.

Biddell, E. A. Prevatte, Lacy Barnes, J. P. Coleman, W.

M. Sessoms, and J. P. Coleman, Sr. Current Session May Wind Up this Week current, session of Congress probably will wind up this week after putting the finishing touches on a legislative record which, whatever else may be said about it, cost the taxpayers more than ever before in a peacetime year.

Remaining on leaders' lists of legislation still to be finally approved are four more government money measures and a new tax boost to help pay the bill. Apparently fated to go over until next yetr, when the same 82nd Congress returns for its second session, are President Truman's request for revision of the economic controls act and a host of lesser issues, parison." Boyle had used a statement by Nixon--although he did not name the Senator--to support his reiterated contention that "I have at all times conducted myself with honor and propriety." He noted that a Republican member of the committee had said the inquiry record showed "no evidence of illegality or moral turpitude" on Boyle's part. The words: were Nixon's. Boyle's resignation came in the form of a letteripto President. Truman.

As head of the party Mr. Truman bears the burden of selecting Boyle's successor. Among those mentioned most prominently as possibilities were John L. Sullivan, former Secretary of the Navy, and Francis J. Myers, former Senator from Pennsylvania who was defeated last year.

Both now practice law here. Also figuring in speculation wore Sens. Clements of Kentucky and Anderson of New Mexico, Secretary of the Interior Chapman and Secretary of Labor Tobin. One advance rejection came from James A. Farley, former party head and postmaster general under President Franklin Roosevelt.

"The posLhas not been offered to me, andT doubt if it would be," Farley said in New York. "In the event, that it was offered to me, I couldn't possibly accept if under any circumstances." Infantrymen Push Further North In Drive On Kumsong U. S. Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea Red resistance 'aded on two blazing fronts today as Allied infantrymen drove deeper into North Korea. On the eastern front United Nations troops captured a strategic peak and- kicked lightly defending Chinese off at least four hilltops.

On the central front three Allied divisions stabbed nearly two miles closer to Kumsong, vital Red supply and headquarters city about 30. miles north of Parallel 38. The captured peak in the east is the highest terrain feature between the punchbowl and the Puk- han River. It fell to the U. S.

38th Regiment after a bitter three- day battle. The towering mountain is at the northwest end of Kim II Sung ridge, named by North Korean troops for their premier. West of Heartbreak Ridge, now held.by the Allies, American tanks rumbled up the Mundung Valley and blasted Red positions in the hills above. On the left flank of the eastern front South Korean troops smashed three and one-half miles north at one point. The central front drive netted the Allies five more hills, for a three-day total of 24.

Since the drive began Saturday the U. N. troops have pushed forward up to as much as five miles in places. Field dispatches said Red resistance crumbled completely at some points. The smash toward Kumsong was supported by huge Marine helicopters which ferried ammunition to the front and evacuated Allied wounded.

The Reds retreated along fighting fronts, but they stood firm at Panmunjom where liaison officers tried again Monday to get cease- fire talks The two sides argued for three hours without progress. The main stumbling block appeared to be the Red insistence that the five-mile Kaesong neutral zone be maintained, although the site of the talks has moved six miles south eastward to Panmunjom. Allied aircraft were dut in force in support of both major ground attacks. Forty U. N.

vvarplanes attacked an estimated 500 Chinese troops moving toward the front north of Yanggu. The western front was quiet after the fierce battles of last week. The central front drive was spearheaded by the veteran U. S. 24th Division, flanked by the South Korean Second and Sixth Divisions.

The 24th is the oldest U. N. formation in Korea. Most of the Chinese troops seen were teen-aged boys or middle- aged men. The comparatively easy advance against only "moderate" resistance raised two questions for the Allied high command: 1.

-Is this a general collapse of (Continued On Page IVine) West Is Thumbed Egypt Rejects Invitation To Join Allied Defense Command CAIRO Egypt rejected tonight a Western invitation to become a keystone of the proposed Allied Middle East command. Fouad Serrag Eddin Pasha, minister of the interior and finance, announced the government's decision to a wildly cheering session of Parliament. He is strong man in the governing Waf- dist party. Thousands of excited Egyptians milled around the outside of parliament as the announcement was made. It amounted to total rejection of the Western proposal that an international force supplant British troops now defending the Suez Canal.

(The Egyptian answer has already been delivered to the ambassadors of the United States, France, and Turkey, a Parish dispatch said. A French foreign office spokesman the four would go ahead with plans to form the defense command without Egypt.) Following the dramatic announcement by the Wafdist minister, Parliament unanimously approved legislation cancelling the laws under which Egypt's 1936 treaty with Britain and the agreement of joint British-Egyptian government of the Sudan were ratified. Parliament also approved a decree providing that King Farouk be called henceforth "King of Egypt and the Sudan." Two other decrees won quick approval. These provided for Parliament to amend the Egyptian constitution to set up a constitution for the rich cotton-growing Sudan, and to provide partial autonomy for that territory of 8,000,000 people. Informants said the cabinet last night approved rejection of the "Western proposal, which was handed to the Egyptians only Saturday.

These same sources said a note outlining Egypt's stand would be given today to the ambassadors of the four would-be defense pact partners. The government was reported as feeling that creation of the five- power Middle East command- even though it offered Egypt membership would be tantamount to "continuing the present British 'occupation under a new label." The influential independent newspaper Al Ahram said the cabinet had decided not to discuss defense proposals from other nations until Egypt's demands on the Suez and the Sudan--that Britain get out--are met. The Egyptian press today published details of the four-power proposal, along with the fiat statement that Egypt was rejecting them. AI Ahram said the government felt the Western note "could not oven be used as a starting point for discussion. Festival Speaker Representative Harold Cooley, chairman of the culture Committee of the Hoiiaa of Representatives, wi speaker Wednesday in Springs when 15,000 persons ire expected celebrate the, nual Cotton Festival there.

Speakers and guests will be introduced at eleven in the morn- inir. The day will include a color-- ful parade, the awarding many prizes, including: a new automobile, and a calf-catchlOCr contest for farm boys. i BULLETINS NEW 1OAK --m-- An spokesman today closed the door to any further talks with Britain on the oil dispute except on the questions of indemnities and tho sale of oil. This development came just a few hours hours before Iran's Iran's aged premier was to 'go before the Security tell the United Nations whyTft should stay put of the British oil muddle. The spokesman, Hossein Fatemi, deputy premier of Iran, told a news conference that Iran resolved "to exploit its oil immediately, and since there is no sign of good will from the other side of the dispute we doubt that any recommendations for resumption of negotiations would bring- any useful result, and on the contrary, it may intensify the situation." PARIS Iff)-- The French foreign office said today, it has received Egypt's formal refusal to participate in a Middle East defense command with Britain, France, the U.

and Turkey. Parents Hope As Police Seek Clue HI" 1 l- lo Missing Baby MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. A bewildered father and a pain- wracked mother clung today to the hope that their plea to "take good care of our baby and bring him back" would be heeded. James Lyons, 37-year-old service station operator, "and his wife, in the nursery. Frances, waited in hope and 'fear as police searched garbage cans and sewers and questioned qotiht- less persons.

Atf The baby was Lawrence James Lyons, first child of 37-yearjold Mrs. Lyons, born last Caesarian section. He disappeared from his crib at St. Anthony's 'Hospital Saturday night. Police said they are virtually without clues.

They discounted the possibility that the Lyons baby was takeWy someone who just wanted a baby any baby. The boy was in a of cribs with others on both Police said a nurses' aid, lene told them sou asked her "which baby Lyons baby." That was two hours before another nil aid noticed the empty crib. "It looks like whoever did-'fl wanted that baby alone," Police Chief Arthur Menke said. Miss Lubs couldn't clues to the identity of the inquiiejr. "I didn't even look said.

"I was so busy, I "list pointed to the baby. I don't even remember if it was a woman." Kidnaping for ransom see unlikely. Lyons said he money and no enemies. Choking up so that he hardly talk, Lyons went on RiSno Station WIMS to describe baby's formula and plead, like to say please take good citre of our baby." TO APPEAR TODAY NEW YORK W-Irim'i premier, in high week's rest and physical goes before the Security) today to tell the U. N.

why thinks it should stay out Of Iranian-British oil muddle. iffi.