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yOLUflIEXXXV. NO. 15.
- Judge M^een
Sentmces E^tit
Tuesday Murning
Judge W. B. McQueen sentenced
eight Culprits at the regular session
of recorder’s court Tuesday. Oscar
Fairley, negro from Scotland county,
pled guilty to being drunk and dis
orderly and was sentenced to thirty
days on the roads, sentence to he
suspended on payment of the court
costs. He paid out and was released.
Oscar Bandy, Blue Springs negro,
pled not guilty to charges of as
sault^ with a deadly weapon and
canying a concealed weapon. Judge
McQueen decided against the defend
ant, however, and sentenced him to
ninety days on the roads on the
latter count, sentence to be sus
pended on payment of $50 and the
costs. He sentenced - him to sixty
days on the other charge, sentence
to be suspended on payment of the
costs and a fine of $10. Bandy chose
to go to the roads.
Went Haynes, Antioch negro, was
found guilty of assault with a deadly
weapon and was released after pay
ment of the costs and a fine of $10.
Walter Locklear and Wingate Mc
Millan, Indian citizens from Aflenr
dale township, were found guilty of
violating the prohibition law on two
charges and received sentences of six
months on the roads in each in
stance, the sentences to run con
currently. The first charge was
possession of homemade beer for
sale and the second charge was mak
ing wiskey. Both defendants chose
to go to the roads instead of paying
out. •
The state took a nol pros with
lien in the case of the state vs V.
L. Loviek, on arf embezzlement
charge, but found him guilty of op
erating an automobile without a
driver’s license and sentenced him to
thirty days on the roads, sentence
to be suspended on payment of the
costs.
RAEFOBD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15,1940.
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LocrI DruR Store
Undergoing, Repairs
One entering the Reaves Drug store
now might think that the tropical
storm which visited the coast a few
days ago might have struck Raeford.
Mr. L. E. Reaves, owner and man
ager of the store, told a News-Journal
reporter, however, tha^ he Was tear
ing away old fixtures, and making
necessary changes to receive a com
pletely new set of fixtures.
The remodeling is expected to be
completed fearly in September and
will convert the store into one of
the most modem in this part of the
state.
Grand Jmy
kdicte Two
h Arson Case
Lumbertpn, Aug. 13.—The Robe
son, county {prand jury returned a
true bill in Superior court today
Charging ]pen G.. Floyd, assistant
county superintendent of public in
struction, and Andrew Smith, coun
ty carpenter, with schoblhouse burn
ing, the indictment growing out of
the destruction by Jire of the Lib
erty school building last month.
The’bill was returned before Judge
J. Paul FrizzeUe, of Snow Hill, short
ly after the court convened for the
second day of a one-week term.
Judge Frizzelle raised the original
bond of which had been
posted shortly after the men were
arrested several weeks ago, to $3,000
each, which were posted.
Both Floyd and Smith obtained
temporary leaves of absence from
their positions shortly after their ar
rest.
$3,089,176.35
Spent h N. C.
For Deldise
The state took a nol pros in the
case of John Sam McLean, Allendale
negro charged with assault.
Wilthea Dees and Lena Mae Dees,
white women of Allendale township,
were sentenced to three months in
jail, after being found guilty of pros
titution and assignation by the court.
These women were banished from
Robeson county in the spring on a
similar charge. As an alternative to
ninety days in jail Judge McQueen
told the defendants that they would
be released on payment of the costs,
provided they left the county and
did not settle in any adjoining coun
ty. He bemoaned the fact that the
ptate provided no institution where
women could be sent for such a mis
demeanor.
Local Officers
Invited to Attend
Police Schools
Rowland Youth
Wins Supervised
Practice Contest
Herman Rogers, member of the
Rowland Chapter of Future Farmers
of America, was declared state win
ner of the 1939 supervised practice
contest conducted by the division of
vocational education, state depart
ment of public instruction, in co
operation with the Chilean Nitrate
Educational bureau, for students of
'^vocational agriculture throughout the
state, announced R. J. Peeler, state
S F. A. executive secretary.
His supervised practice program
consisted of three acres of tobacco,
five acres of corn, four acres improv
ed pasture, thirty-five feeder pigs,
one colt, one purebred heifer calf and
one dairy cow. Total receipts from
his supervised practice program was
$1,362.00 and his labor income was
$679.16.
Young Hermah, state winner, C. E.
Morrison, teacher of vocational ag
riculture and the winner of first
place in each of the five districts
will be awarded a free trip to the
N^onal Convention of Future Farm
ed of America, which will be held
in Kansas City, Missouri, November
9-16, 1940. •
District winners are as follows:
District I—Thelbert Boykin—Bail
ey.
District II—Gilbert Slack—Bath
District III—^Foster Brown—Gib
son.
District IV—^David McCollum —
Reidsville.
District V—Elmer Hendrix—Way
nesvilie.
Sheriff D, H. Hodgin and Chief-of-
Police Eldridge Chisholm" have just
received inyitations from the Insti
tute of Government to divide up
their forces and send men to each of
the 7-day police schools it will hold at
Chapel Hill each month, beginning
in October, in co-operation with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The "PBI” is again sending the
best instructors from its 'National
Police Academy to assist state and
local officials in these trainirig schools
according to the announcen>ent re
ceived here. And the purpose, ac
cording to Director Albert Coates,
is to bring the best police training in
Che country within the reach Of all
the 3,000 or more officers in the
state during the coming year.
The first school has been tenta
tively set for October 18 to 25, and
others will follow in November and
December, 1940, and in January, Feb
ruary, March, April, and May, 1941.
The Institute has held twelve police
schools since 1930, but these have
been mainly for local chiefs, depart
ment heads, and instructors. This is
the firsts series' designed to reach
every interested officer in the state,
arid Governor Clyde Hoey has term
ed it the “biggest forward step ever
taken in police training in North
Carolina.”
In a release received yesterday
from the office of government re
ports it was learned that a total of
$3,089,176.35 on National Defense
Awards and Contracts has been a-
warded in North Carolina between
June 13, 1940 and July 31. 1940.
The release for July includes a
series of awards given for the Army
totaling $641,578.65, and for the
Navy, $67,988.00. It also includes
funds from the Works Progress Ad-
riiinistration for the construction of
utilities and roads for the Army at
Fort Bragg of $250,000.00, making a
total of awards in North Carolina
for the period July 12-31, 1940. of
$959,566.65.
Ill the July awards for the Army,
released through the Quartermaster
Corps, Holmes Electric Company of
Fayetteville received a contract of
$1,735 for light ihstallations at Fort
Bragg; Chatham Manufacturing Co.
of Elkin received a contract of $449,-
250 for wool blankets, o. d.; Cram-
erton Mills of Cramerton received a
contract of $190,593.65 for cotton
cloth.
For the Na\/y the Thomas Mills of
High Point received a contract of
$21,528 for socks; V. P. Loftis Com
pany of Charlotte received a con
tract of $44,835 for Hospital Build
ing, Naval HospitaJj Charleston, S.
C.; Lily Mills Company of Shelby re
ceived a Marine Corp contract for
$1,625 worth of cotton thread.
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Raeford
PAsags Away
f ■ -
S. L. Al^s, former citizen of Hcrfce
county, passed away at his home in
Asheboro last Sunday morning at two
o’clock. Funeral services were con
ducted at the home Monday after
noon at tyro o’clock. Interment fol
lowed in the cemetery here. Grave
side service was conducted by Rev.
W. F. Trawick, former pastor of the
Raeford Methodist church.
Surviving are foin* daughters. Miss
Lillian Akins, Mrs. Paul Binchfield,
Mrs. Garrett Cox, all of Asheboro,
and Mrs. J. C. Poole of ThomasviUe,
a son Albert Akins of Asheboro; two
brothers, N. R. Akins of Gibsonville,
and W. M. Akins of Franklinville.
Tobacco Price
Moves Upward
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Lumbee Corporation
'Mapping “B” Project
Engineers of the J. B. McCrary
Engineering corporation have arrived
to map the "B,” or second, project
of the Lumbee River Electric Mem
bership corporation. Local officials
are urjging all members who have
failed to'qualify for a «rural power
line on the “A” or initial project to
see that everyone in their territory
is signed up for the second pro
ject within the next two weeks.
Kiwanians Entertained
At Scout Camp
The members of the Raeford Ki-
wanis club, along with, their wives
and guests and the families of some
of the scouts, had supper at the scout
camp on Rockfish creek last Thurs
day night. About 75 guests were
present and a fine supper was served,
After supper the visitors were in
vited to accompany the 6oys to their
campfire circle where songs, stunts,
and other forms of entertainmeni;
were enjoyed.
The camp was run last week for
the boys of the Western District of
the Cape Fear Area Council and a-
bout forty-five boys representing ev
ery troop in the district attended,
The camp was under the genera]
management of Scoutmasters Alfred
Cole and F. B. Sexton assisted by
Tom McBryde, Tom McLauchlin,
Howard Baucom and Paul McCain,
Jr. The camp period closed Mon
day.
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 13. — Bright
leaf tobacco prices moved upward
today as buyers bid briskly for med
ium grade stock.
Unofficial reports indicated
steady strengthening market, with
averages “atSjSSrChtly better fhatf fee
18.43 cents a pound set for the first
sales. The Journal-Herald reported
e “definite upturn” with medium
quality grades and lugs bringing ad
vanced prices, and the average “well
above the 20-cent mark.” The range
was from four to 28 cents a pound,
with the_ bulk going for from 20 to
26 cents.
Sales Manager Joe Spence at Pel
ham reported early sales today av
eraging about 19 cents. Yesterday
the market moved 342,510 pounds at
an average of 18.64. The range was
from six to 29 cents a pound.
Total sales of 520,000 were re
ported today by Vidalia, with the
average 17 cents. The high was 30
cents and the loy eight cents. The
grade was mostly good common.
H. L. Meacham’s
Sister. K^ed
Tragically
Mi’s. Effie Meacham McCartha,
wife of Carl W. McCarfea, principal
of Gastonia Junior high school, and
sister of H. L. Meacham, State Agri
culturist for the Barrett Company
and former Hoke County Farm Ag
ent, was instantly killed about 4:45
o clock last Friday afternoon when
the brakes of a coal truck which
had just delivered a load of fuel tq
her home gave way and the truck
crushed her against the side of the
house.
The driver had finished putting the
load of coal into the basement and
had driven the truck up the rather
steep drive and stopped it with the
brakes on to go back and get Mrs.
McCartha to sign for the loaff of
coal. Mrs. McCartha had come out
of the basement door to sign the
ticket and she and the Negro were
standing next to the house when the
brakes of the truck apparently gave
way and the heavy vehicle crushed
Mrs. McCartha against the brick
walls of' the house.
Mrs. McCartha is survived by her
mother, Mrs. F.. T. Meachain, of'
Statesville, and the following broth
ers and sisters: Frank B. Meacham,
Earl H. Meacham, and Hazel L
Meacham of Raleigh, James E.
Meacham and Mrs. Ross Bunch of
Statesville, and Mrs. Claude W. Kipka
of Mooresville.
Funeral services were conducted
at Holy Trinity Lutheran church in
Gastonia at 3:00 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon with the pastor, Rev. George
Bowden, officiating, and interment,
with a graveside service, conducted
by Rev. E. C. Gibbs, pastor of the
Broad Street Methodist church, was
held in Statesville.
NORTH CAROLINA'S POPUIATI
INCREASED BY 391,714 BOOST
Severe Losses On
Atlantic Coast By
Tropical Hurricane
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 13—As
sisted by government relief agencies,
residents of the coastal plains oi
South Carolina and Georgia went to
work today to dig out of the wreck
age of a torpical hurricane that took
at least 36 lives, wrought damage of
millions of dollars and left himdreds
homeless.
Without delay, the Red Cross dis
patched nurses to the stricken area
to begin precautionary immunization
against disease and otherwise min
ister to sidferers. The Works Prog
ress administration sent Assistant
Commissioner Fred R. Rauch from
Washington to assist in emergency
work.
Beaufort, south of Charleston, ap
parently was hardest hit by the 80-
mile an hour gale that swept out of
the. Bahamas Sunday, wrecking wa
terfront buildings and sending high
tides into city streets and homes.
The Red Cross reported from
Washington that 25 Negroes were kill-
jed on Saint Helena island near Reau-
fort. Eight other negroes died on
nearby Ladies’ island. Reports
from these outlying islands were de
scribed as incomplete, and fear was
expressed that the death toll would
be higher.
A CCC boy was drowned on Hunt
ington island, near herq, and two
persons perished in Savannah, Ga
Britain’s Zero Hour
Seems Near at Hand
May Add Extra i__.
Member; Charlotte
Top With 101,30$i
Raeford Gains,
Annual Big Livestock
Show at Hemp
Saturday
Girl’s Leg Is Broken
When Struck On Road
Clinton, Aug. 13.—Miss Lois Mintz,
of Wilmington, sustained a broken
leg in one of ^ series of automobile
mishaps which occurred in and a-
round Clinton Sunday afternoon and
night. The 16 year old girl, who
was visiting Mrs. John Crumpler,
near Clinton, was struck by an auto
mobile driven by Abner S. Knowles,
loke county farm agent, of Rae
ford, as she walked onto the high
way in the path of his .car. She
was sent to a Wilmington hospital.
The accident was termed unavoid
able.
The Annual Livestock Show, spon
sored by the Moore County Breeders
association will be put on at Hemp
Saturday, August J7th. From all
indications now this will be one of
the largest and best that has ever
been put on. There seems to be
more real interest in the event this
year than at any previous time.
It is understood this is the sec
ond place in thp state where any
thing of this kind has been put on.
If you like livestock and like to
see good stuff it will pay you to be
in Hemp on next Saturday. The
show will not get under way until
around 10 o’clock.
Some Coming And
Some Going
The John Walkers and the Walter
Duncan Browns are planning to swap
neighborhoods in the very near fu
ture. The Walkers have bought the
manse, formerly occupied by the
Fairleys and now occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. A. K. Currie and family
and will move shortly. The Browns
have bought the Walker home on
North Main street 'and will leave
the neighborhood of the manse ’ere
long. The Arch Curries will move
into their new home being construct
ed on Magnolia street on its
pletion.
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Cap Clark Leading
League In Batting
Cap Clark, former Hoke county
high school athletic coach and at
present catching manager of the Dov
er, Del., Orioles of the Eastern Shore
Baseball league, has regained the
batting leadership of the Eastern
Shore league replacing Vice Weiss,
the Pocomoke sluggter during the past
week. Clark picked up 18 points
to boost his average to .370 while
Weiss dropped 14 points to a mark
of .354.
Clark’s club, the Orioles, are hold
ing down first place A the league at
pesent by a margin of a game and a
naif.
Reunions Held
The McBryde reunion was held at
Antioch last Thursday, the 8th. The
Monroe-Currie reunion was held at
J. D. Monroe’s home below Lumber
Bridge on Friday. The John Mc
Lean reunion was held on Friday
near Red Springs. Today the
Meinnis clan meet ' at Dundar-
rach, and the McKenzie clan hold
their annual meeting near Maxton
today, also.
England’s “zero hour” for the first
invasion that has threatened her in
centuries seems near at hand; but
her chances of repelling it as she
flung back Spain’s “great armada” in
1858 are obscured to the outside World
because of unknown factors.
Now, as against Spain long ago,
sea power is Britain’s main reliance
for defense, but in addition she must
now retain mastery of the air in her
home waters to survive. Without it
her sea fleet might be helpless to
prevent an invader from setting foot
in England.
For days Britain’s ability to defend
herself in the air has been put to a
terrific test by German liombers
crossing the channel in endless and
increasing waves. Yet the results,
upon which England’s fate rests, are
masked by utter uncertainty. Both
sides claim decisive victory in each
engagement.
The Germans say they have down
ed as many as five British aircraft
for every Nazi plane lost. Britain
counters with contentions that the
loss ratio is four-to-one in British
favor. The aggregate of admitted
losses by both sides is relatively neg
ligible in comparison to the thou
sands of ships engaged.
Raleigh, Aug. 10.—The first stafe#'|
wide census figures, released hem
today by Census Area Manager E.
A. Hughes, showed that the popu
lation of North Carolina inrrgaj;^:
391,714 in the last decade to a total
of 3,561,990.
The increase will virtually assure
North Carolina of an additional mem
ber of the United States Housfe at
Representatives, giving the state a
total of 12 representatives.
The report, subject to minor cor
rections, showed Charlotte again as
the state’s largest city, and the first
to exceed the 100,000 mark, its total
being 101,305. (This figure was a
gain of nearly 1,000 over an eaHier
esimate which put Charlotte’s
ulation at 100,327.) The Mecklen
burg county seat has grown rapidly
since 1900, when it was credited with
only 18,091 inhabitants.
The figures also revealed the CMi-
tinued growth of the Piedmont in
dustrial region.
The second largest city in the state
is Winston-Salem, with 79,828 resi
dent. Durham is third. Greensboro-
fourth, Asheville fifth, Raleigh sixth*
High Point seventh, and Wilmington
eighth.
RAEFORD LARGER
The town of Raeford has increased
from a population of 1,303 in 1930 to
a population of 1,632 by the count
of the recent^ census. The popula
tion of Raeford township is now 4.-
217.
The following count is given for
the other townships in Hoke county;
Quewhiffle 1930; McLauchlin 1791;
Little River 815; Blue Springs 1929;
Antioch 1630; Allendale 1089; Stone
wall 1678. This makes a total
15,073 for the whole county.
The count for the State Sanator
ium is given as 456.
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Six Counted De^d At
Swollen Streams Rise
To Flood West N. C.
til
Blue Residence
Struck by Lightning
During a severe thunder storm a
nights ago, lightning struck the
chimney of the residence of W. E.
Blue on the Carthage road. Mr!
Blue and fgmily were all in the
room, but escaped injury, and but
ttle damage was done to the build
ing. A brick or two, and all fee.
soot was swept from fee ehlnmey,
and cleaning up was a Job. .
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Rain Comes To
Ashley Heights
Rain has Come to Ashley Heights
at last. Only sprinkles have fallen
there, it is said, since last March.
We are told there are dry sections
between Raeford and Fayetteville,
In fact, there are dry streaks of
country here and there throughout
the country. In some parts of the
state there have been floods—in the
east, and in the west, in particular.
Collision Sunday Night
There was an automobile collision
at the Aberdeen comer on M«to
street last Sunday night between
automobiles driven by Paul Dickson
of Raeford, and C. V. Richardson, of
Carthage.
Neither car had passengers and
neither driver was injured, alfeough
both vehicles were smashed up lome-
what.
Bankhead Will Notify
Wallace of Nomination
New York, Aug. 13.—Representa
tive William B. Bankhead, of Ala
bama, speaker of the house, has been
chosen to notify Secretary of Agri
culture Henry A. Wallace of his
nomination for the vice presidency.
James A. Farley, national Democratic
chairman, announced today.
Formal acceptance by Secretary
Wallace of his nomination as Presi
dent Roosevelt’s running mate at a
ceremony in the city coliseum in
Des Moines, la., August 29 will mark
the formal opening of the Democratic
campaign, Farley said.
Asheville, Aug. 14. — Mountain
streams, swollen by torrential rains
of fee last three days, surged out of
their banks today wreaking damafla
to roads, crops and lowland indus
trial plants expected to run into mil
lions of dollars and claiining at least
six lives.
Highways throughout fee stridc-
en area were blocked by' washottty^
landslides or inundation.
North Wilkesboro, N. C., a town
of 4,000 persons was cut off from
the outside world by the ftfioded
Yadkin river, and damage there wtt
estimated by Police Chief John Walk
ed at $2,000,000.
Water mains here were destroyed,
and residents were cautioned to use
water from an emergency reservoir
sparingly. Water, light and com
munication facilities at North Wil
kesboro were paralyzed.
A woman excitedly grabbed an
electric wire near North WUkefeoro
and was killed when flood waters
surged about her automobile. A
man drowned when his boat was
swept over a dam near here.
National Guard Unit
To Increase Strength
Columbia, S., C., Aug. 13. The
30fe division of fee national guard,
schooled to be mobilized at Camp
Jackson for active service, will be
increased to a strength of 14,341
officers and men, an advice received
t^ay by Adjutant General James C
Dozier disclosed.
Aufeorization for recruiting which
would bring fee total personnel up
to peace-time” strength has been
^an^ meaning an increase of
slightly more than 2,000 officers and
men. The division has imits in fee
Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee.
WPA Canneries
Set Record
The WPA canneries of fee couhty
lave set « new record for speed and
quantity this year in canning for fee
schools of fee county, superintendent
Johnson announced yesterday,
ten day period three
wenty ans of aeofe beaiM,
etc, wore tfeS OA
Democratic Group
Meets In Raleigh
Raleigh, Aug. 14.—The state Dem
ocratic executive committee will meet
here tonight wife its business being
the election of E. B. Denny of Gas
tonia as state chairman and Mrs.
P. P. McCain of Sanatorium as vice
chairman.
J. M. Broughton, fee Democratie
gubernatorial nominee, annnniyif'd
some time ago feat he wanted Den
ny elated state chairman wife Mrs,
McCain as vice chairman. The state
committee in recent years has fol>
lowed such recommendations wife-
out a contest
Denny may be placed in nomina
tion by R. Gregg Cherry of Gastonia,
fee present chairman, and Mrs. Mc
Cain may be nominated by Mr. W,
B. Murphy, who resigned seveiM
months ago to leave fee vice ^air
manship vacant.
Attend Funeral
Mf. and Mrs. Wm. Lamont.
W. C. Brown, Mr. and Ml
McLauchlin and lllha Ma Me
attended fee Ipdaml
Lauifelin at