Robesonian (Newspaper) - February 23, 1949, Lumberton, North Carolina 7 r f f i T T TTT WEATHER toy Hick yesterday Lew tM VOL 52 PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY and SUNDAY LUMBERTON N G WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 231949 Served By Wire Of Associated Press POPE DENOUNCES IMPRISONMENT Ill Mardi Gras Crowded City ESTABLISHED 1870 11 A COUNTRY GOD and 1 PAGES Cents Police Hunt Broad Shouldered Drinking Friend Of Victim j NewOrleans Feb lice hunted through a city hied with thousands of Mardi Gras visitors today for a vicious strang ler who killed a Virginia in his French Quarter hotel room A bellhop found the nude body of James A Mahoney 55 of Bris tol on the bor der after a request that he be awakened early yesterday ing The wealthy victim had been brutally beaten on the face and head A towel was knotted tightly around his broken neck The slaying must have been done by a strong man said As Coroner Philip No woman could have done it Acting Detective Chief John J Jackson said police are seeking for questioning a man described by an informer as about six feet with gray hair ruddy ion and unusually broad shoul 1 U ders He said the informer told of seeing Mahoney and the stocky stranger drinking together iri the i hotel cocktail lounge Stale College Jackson added thai the time j been for the es Avas about Iwo hours before of a textile library time of death at Announcement of the gift made day early by the Burlington foundation was i made here last night at a ri e millionaire s wallet is miss ing of the Carolina Textile my and police had a report from j Foundation Inc a photographic supply store clerk I that Mahoney had thumbed i through a wad of and SI 0 I that bills in making Pope Pius XII lett aims 1 addresses mure than a of a milliun people gathered before Si Peters Basi lica in Rome in a mass demonstration and imprisonment of Josef Cardinal Pontiff Uir to in prison a OHS anJ called the Hungarian and in AP via radio from Koine i Truman Speaks Plainly Ired At AAA m r t i A 1 ihc safest Start A Library 01 His Military Aide f aie Drew Pearson Not Mentioned But 11 eld i Sharp Talk r Feb Raleigh Feb 1 ics f Ilis sonal and blunt notice today Irom tition on highway jobs is picking President Truman that no SOB Road Deaths Dropped In 48 County Was Eighth In Total Of State Traffic Deaths Reb Dei ol Motor Vehicles re that 734 persons lost lues on North Carolinas and highways in 1948 I A decrease of 12 per cnt m fatalities over the 836 kill tlic preceding year j f The department said that 7490 sons were injured in accidents last vear com Senate Committee Votes To Halve Rural Road Program Feb Sen ate roads committee voted today lo cut Governor Scotts rural road program in half The committee adopted i proposed by a subcommit i lee under which t 6100000000 6024 injured in 12 bond 1311 accidents in 1947 j bc submitted to the people instead led all cities in the as by with 14 killed governor 1 was second with Before the bond had 7 WinstonSalem 6 favorably the committee and Burlington Greensboro and j adopted another amendment to four each make a proposed increase i was danj in gasoline upon da of the week for tra approval of the bond issue by the with 3382 of i people them Sunday was Won la Abolish Inspection second most dangerous while j The committee then gave a favi to i measure which would abolish the slates program i of motor as passed i overwhelmingly by the house last Scott Asks Bodies Allow Held By Czechs of 1178 defective vc inspection involved in a of j wi Bids Pour In On State Hi way Jobs total were and 35 of were in fatal accidents Bad brakes weie the most widely re n 1947 a total of 58 were involved in fa accidents r of accidents occur on straight level dry roads M E Campbell of State up says the State Highway is going to influence his appoint eaV eaher the report said school reported 400 room n making a purchase last year gave the college gifts Thc commission received 52 Police however found j bids yesterday on 11 new project Pr 014 members The house roads committee meanwhile its blessing to i measure which would allocate cities proceeds from one cent I of the gasoline lax The i would have aboul j a year to divide between them if this measure is passed Election June 28 The Senate committee Clarence of Jackson Miss is one of f S soldiers held kia since rarly two enlist ctl mvn border where they were arrested and with on a mission f AT in travelers checks in totaling the He singled out funds donated 3r foundation md Company man deliver that startling pro i in an earthy matter The bachelor millionaire who Company Inc won a prize as a n i average of 125 per job Thats the highest average in tvo yea rs T i i it i i i i u winner Low bids on which H his f Stevens 49 miles of work in 10 Eighty one Of j adopted amendments which would in fatal sct known for been drinking each j which would the 5 was highest in fa amount of the rived hor f David Clark of Charlotte the nere bunday He was sche to leave yesterday for Yu catan Mexico End Hearings On Labor Legislation Washington Feb lic hearings which the Senate la foundations at the present time State College best textile m due lo the contributed from the counties totaled Oratorical Contest At 8 were adopted without opposition Senator J C Pittman of Choose District Nurse Candidate At Meeting Here Eighth Thc diners were brought to Mecklenburg Guilford hc the Miss Eunice of ClintOn dangerous sharp attention as Mr Truman land were with 28 Plc ot North Carolina will 1 Addresses Joint Session After Referendum Hearings Are Completed Raleigh Feb Scott urged the General Assem bly today all the earnestness I possess to allow a statewide j on the liquor issue The governor who addressed i i joint legislative session at the cd of a week which has seen cuy i forces argue to a legislative com for a liquor referendum and wet spokesmen argue against it recommended ers pass a referendum measure such as the me proposed by Rep L A of Davidson The governor said the would thti people to decide between the lota pro of whiskey j ent plan of legislative control der which local option is ed Scott said he had pledged my self to do all that I could it elected governor to insure a referendum The question of bow any citi zen would vote n the election ir not pertinent to debate on matter Scott continued Tn referendum ft self i the Ours is a form f government but the people aie j sovereign f I would not say that tin j should be held whenever a small segment of the people manifest discontent with i law or a policy of the government But I do say j when the demand for j becomes strong enough to n j honest and reasonable doubt as j the will of the people that to an election is to subject oin democratic form if government tr contempt that is both unjust and j parted from his homey 1947 Mecklenburg had i satisfied if they are not given a School of Nursing in ly and turned to 19 and to vote on a J was selected as in n Senator LTH of Highsmith Hospital The joint on tions and grievances which lisl week heard the appeals of dry Nurse f A reminder is school ora i W J Carter of Greensboro and I other present officers of foun dation to m military aide with 32 bor committee has hokima on the Truman labor m jinx today if ter a month Still on the ex plosive how to avert strikes which endanger the na tional health and was scheduled day for Medical Association r Dealings the Carolinas and Thc committee is concerner j will take office next year Dr Russel Buxton of t by tl Lumberton urn tonight Wednesday j cause any of oclock The public discharged by me invited statement over At least five contestants wjn paper he has gol another think j compete for the title oi i counly winner slates Supt B E i r Movc Them t Lohr of the city schools The No commentator or Ifl prize is a savings bond second i ames members of my a bond The winner will or m staff I name them Dr K B Davis of Greensboro in a district j myself and when it is time for C is presidentelect of tio them to bc moved on I do the Heads Medics Of The Carolinas se people to be i Robeson and Rowan each had 19 ithe rural People who feel they arc I by during 1943 anci being discriminated against of Nursing Lum ver the air or and Gaston 18 each i Economy Safety Chief o Va Feb particularly with how to prevent such strikes in the coal It got the views officials late one back for cross examination to day The returning his i Indian School To Meet Morgan ton Feb 5100000000 was as much in the coal News Va yesterday was T of two industry to the presidency Drc will and called j N Wyatt of Greenville S C i nea else Thc official transcript of Trumans talk reJ vnT is scheduled and safety j leased later by the white house lo act upon whole I for dum gave the floor to 4 Arffue tj About 2000 advocates pf her Hospital School j states county option system of liquor sales turned ur of the evening was j and argued submission of made by James H Chirk of the question on i statewide roads of the North j Because of the size of the crowd i Carolina Medical commission j the committee had to move who spoke on The Future of I hearing from the hall of the house Nursing in North Miss i to Memorial auditorium C Johnson of Just as it had to do last week vote on a bond issue if it should of the 7th district j when some 300 drys gathered for be desirable He said he thought N C State Nurses their hearing ation presided Welcome Was ex Said Senator O L Richardson i of Union chairman of the I am unwilling to tie up in j bond issue all the i right of succeeding generations to Mr congregational conference of Cal could be expended with economy 1 tended by Attorney I M Biggs with response by Miss Mary The Indian Schoolmates rh any reference to the term 1 meet lit Green Grove school The Rev Elbert F Hardin was Joseph E Moody oi j stales The associations rule is to ro tate the presidency between the i Reynolds will speak on the School Mr Truman used only near McDonald Thursday night at i tne without spelling out his resignation to a filled 30 when Counly D sland for church Sunday morning Just Mr Truman to the Southern Coal Producers sociation Moody already his told Mic that the mnv i previously he had called tonights congregational session After the Bond Issue and an open forum tne country club conducted by C A Arlington Vn to join speak pastors announcement chairman i chairman of the Robeson v Bound Over On Of After hearing to Hemy Vano of chairman of the Quinn said action on an or all president Rev J H Jr l wet referendum would tnt rector of Trinity Episcopal church come until after the Governor give the invocation A choral group from Rep Shelley B Caveness of under direction Guilford chairman of Mrs R S Davis rendered know his group vcll coal si ke Dl Wallace c i Sparian Ihc safeguards in the i barg for SouJi ley law are continued Carolina Other officers for the include Dr W T Harris of Troy Board of Commissioners AH are president for North Carolina iul urged to he Governor Barnes leacher in tlic Pembroke is president Supper will be served by and Little Shepherd j would act on legislation before Elections the associa lOlh 1 rip lion i is only 11 j meetin yesier day miles from ou the way But for 3 returning from Golden Glove boxing in other night it was way over 200 George back after tho boxing matches in which several bvs were entered Hc pad two passen gers Frank McNeill ol the cur and Hurry Gwin It was past midnight and both these men were asleep Mr Knudson been in since he WH but had not driven lo to Hamlet ond made a right the highway tuns left menl of Green Grove school which Mrs Lucille Lowry teacher i two lor trie clis UMJ ge E McA title were Judged on aptitude j blem rightly is a county one and r for of service attacked charges that held personal appearance I were denied the righ to over mrl I the Charge Church Influence Object Of Communist Iron Curtain Plot j Geneva Feb Churchmen here who have hud of church direct contact and correspondence i fluence in the Iron Curtain Europes religious tries is moving with the precision i leaders say campaign follows of a timetable Western church j these rigid rules officials here today said Outlive Persecution J Charlotte Feb ers of Vaughan Car of the Stover Boyr A prog mm of music was i would lei vote on Ihs Edward F fhc hc had drive accused of i i rendered by Mrs R A 1 Question of continuing county the cen authorized to offer the mother was bound i violinist and Mrs J A Martin pii or up the whole over to Mecklenburg superior Speakers before the court today j tuo for the yesterday declared the liquor uro Court Judge Currie ordered Stover old father of six children held personal appearance without bond after Stover waived i scholastic and leadership the preliminary on a murder j a talk more 23 UP I fog charge in the death of Mrs Mary on The Advantages than a referendum lo slightly Woolen Career and Miss witnesses agreed thai Mrs Woolen mother of an Riddle on The Nurses Part the night the medal was t shot down on Community presented taking down the name and Warsaw busy street corner here yesterday i Gift j of those refusing request to j Miss Johnson presented the win THUMAN VACATIONS Afterward Pearson that Raleigh Feb 23 wilh said er i of from the district j Washington Feb Arrested a few minutes j association Miss Elmore will now j ident will fly to Key the slaying Stover told officers he compete in Uie third annual West Fla March 6 lor a two remembered very of the j wide contest to be held it Mej weeks vacation shooting saying I loved her auditorium in Raleigh on j Thc White House announced TIP ter than 1 love anything i at 8 p m I plans today It also scid that Adjutant General of said the aides job of 12 of difficult md not all parades ward of deacons No reason was HK balls Drew and for lne resignations rade home economics Pearson Criticized Pearson radio criticized Vaughan for accepting i decoration from President Peron of Argentina Tinc t rinK v i He Ihc Argentine 3l and j has declined in counties I which have ABC liquor sales Some churchmen who have maintained contacts in Eastern the whole is so carefully and A ii ii appears lo have been die ter figuring nis way blocks he saw sign again and hour or so laier lie woke up he men Do you know where is he asked Sure Thais IP near Char lotte Well thats where are That morning Mr Knidson ws at work extra early He goi his j he Cardinal of Hungary land forthcoming trial of 15 1 not persecuted openly is in the early days of the Russian Revo I u I ion 7 while this country is spending bil Id broilers steady at 27 eggs lions abroad to help democracy steady A large 43 and while President Truman has spoken thousands of words about saving Democracy his military aide partly nullified this and accepting a high decoration from a dicta 1 lor who has ridiculed all the things in buying j m South Carolina Chicago Feb opened firm on the boari of trade today Corn led the advance Ear Iy in other markets had Officers quoted him as saying j The report of tho judges was he and Mrs Woolen had lived given by Mrs Paul of man md wife here and Southern uid that Truman talks aboul Columnist Replies Wisconsin while in Florida Mr Truman will go lo Winter Park March 8 to judges receive an honorary degree from l Rollins college He will speak Continued on Page Four j briefly and informally Pines Other 2 of tne church on j public life must bc eliminated the taled by a authority posi church must bc brought under j the Cominform Communist j government control bureau 3 Any They say the whole structure or State Funds For Health Endorsed By Municipal Group r Truman is trying to dis thc right of fair comment Expanded service by the state of all schoolchildren Much of lilies A road running I church tern Communist i Sec Broad Plan The life sentencing of f i n n J sleep the next night g by i church leaders on civil or I charges 4 The backbone of Ihc church Josef j must be broken by si it from stale and another The men he has think health was endorsed n his by Robeson Counly Municipal Ihc added cost it is believed would bc offset by savings in hos of patients whose ill through Drive Carefully 6 DAYS Since a Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident in Robeson County Careful Will Keep This UP Total Fatalities This Year 6 KILLED Driving Will staff are his though i association Monday night in a the taxpayers have lo foot the meeting at j ness is detected at an early stage near Lumber Bridge But when his members A motion offered by Mayor H P accept medals from a military i of and tnp Protestant leaders of Bulgaria are sidy and thus freeing the people of jonly the headline developments in j responsibility for supporting the i sh burrowing into the founda church or by seizure of church tions of established religious life properties through land 1 according to these informants thus depriving the church of BIBLE PICTURE AT i Churchmen in this International j 4 CHURCH dictator whose principles jously approved by the municipal government has denounced Ihen i officers Robeson business and i county legislators to support ad point say hundreds of j 5 A suitable church or group The Life of Christ will be j church officials and pastors arc jor churches must the tool i by a film cither in prison or living in en forced retirement Christian schools are being forced under state sponsorship i youth movements are being dis solved relationships with foreign churches or religious organizations broken abruptly of the government Christian church tonight at I year state aid to counties in carrying out preventive medical work The state appropriation for this purpose now is sup federal and The increase prof at ihc First I amounts to a In Reverse Order The health proposal also drew endorsement from a school man Mayor C E Morrison of Rowland who pointed lhal the stales program appeared to be in reverse order million for roads and million for schools for ex public health funds Endorsing the proposal lo allo counly I cate one cent of states cent gasoline lax to 6 All contacts with the West according to announcement by the Object of the program would be must be cut Roman Catholics are pastor Rev E B Quick The to add personnel to the county regarded as particularly dangerous views are taken from paintings by health departments enabling each because of Romes international I Harold Copping emphasizing the j county to give more frequent influence and Protestants also to public ministry of Christ states In Robeson the extent that they maintain coni Rev Mr Quick The public is j county at present 5 to 6 years is J iif IAM t n rJi l t 1 j i tacts With Western churches i cordially invited ties Mr Morrison said he could nt conceive of anything more un fair than raising hte gas tax on build rural roads only aiding towns Approximately half thegasoline sold is estimated to be used by city and town dwel lers who pay paving assessments required to complete examination j on in their own of farm land may bc paved without extra cost to tlie farmer whose properly is improved by it he pointed out Favors School Bonds As a school man Mr Morrison called lo bond election for of Robeson county schools and de the present limit he pointed out firemen answering a distress call from another town would receive no compensation for injuries re more than 12 miles from their home town The Lumberton chief said he was authorised to answer emergency calls from nearby towns but asked that such calls be made only by the fire thai he could see no way chief mayor or any commissioner out of the school predicament un less we support the countywide bond issue Tn per capital expenditure for schools he reminded North Car is among 48 states and Robeson is among the 100 N C counties Would Extend Limit On recommendation by Fire Chief Ed J Glover of Lumberton a guest at the meeting the asso endorsed a proposal calling for extension of the limit on compensation Under of the town endangered by fire Mr Glover expressed the ion that the Robeson Municipal association is doing more for of this county than any organization and said he hoped to see similar organizations in other counties Mayor E H Alexander of Red Springs chairman of the associ ation presided He reviewed the recent action taken by ita execu tive committee in appearing before Continued on Page Four
