Tlffi HOKE COUNTY NEWS
the HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL
'it.
Announcement Made Imme
diately After Funeral.
O'ORMER POUTICAL ENEMY
Withdrawal of Hoey From
Consideration SiropISfie*
Gardner's Pro'blem
fOH MAN KIliED.
IN
Leonard Calcutt, of Fayettevil^e^ Dies
Instantly Wh.en -Cai- Turns Over
About Three Miles ^rom Baeford
On Uaurinburg Highway. ,
I
(Charlotte Observer)
Salisbury, N. C., Dec. 13.—-
Through the peculiar twist oi
political irony and in a setting
fit for a story book, Cam Mor
rison, of Charlotte, today was
appointed United States Sen-
3rtor
, He’goes to the high , place through
the graciousness of Governor Max
}ardner; the man he once defeated
for governor iri a campaign o^g
so earnestly and zealously ,th^t .at
times it bordered ou extreni^e. bit er-
TieSs. , ,
Appointed After Funeral.
Governor Gardner made the ,ap-
.pointment here this afternoon short:
before 6 o’clock, less than 30
‘'ininutes after tbe^ beloved Lee Slater
Overman, the man Morrison suc
ceeds, was laid In his grave.
The official notification was made
at the home of State Senator Wal
ter Woodson, where the. governor,
Tiere for Senator Overman’s funeral,
Is spending the week-end.
Mrs. Max Gardner wa^ first to
inform the appointee. She did it
exhuherantly.' Mr. Morrison wp.8
quite overcome. But when Mr» Gard
Tier added: “Cam, that was a mag
nanimous thing for ,Mp to do,’’ he
•Tesjwnded ; “You .people are the heat
sports I ever knew.”
As newsmen ]|(athered around he
hecanie expansive lii^his praise of
Oovernof'^tWtWRiiMf' lf'M'^the ges^.
■“It twjis %, hlgv,mM to d? that,” he
said. ‘There never ■was III the hlsr
tory of political a better sport than
Max Gardner.," ■ " '
Leonard Calcutt, a young man of
Fayetteville, whs instantly killed
about 9:30 Sunday when the
car''he was driving turned over and
crushed him. Death was apparently
instantaneous.
' The aceident oceuired about 'three
milfes from. Raeford on the Laprin-
burg Highway, in front of the Beth
el school'" hoiiee. Observers -who
reached the scene of the accident
soon after it occurred, say that from
the signs of the' tracks of the car
the machine must have gdtten out
of the driver’s control .fully^ u huu-
djed yards above the spot where it
turned over. Evidently the victim
had fallen asleep for the car slip
ped off into the gutter beside the
highway, traveled in ii for fully 85
yards, cut completely across the
highway and finally turned over no.se
first. The automobile was a Ford
with a half-truck body and the light
top Crushed like paper as the car
turned over. Calcutt was caught
beneath and death came as a re
sult of his skull being terribly
crushed.
Sheriff Hodgin and Deputy Bar
rington were called to the wreck
and Coroner O. W. Brown, also hav
ing been called, did not deem an in
quest necessary. Letters -in the
young man’s pockets Identified him
and his brother was Immediately no
tified In Fayetteville. The body was
ConMnu'-u .. i 4)
courf BOAMI TAX
ASSESSORS MEET
Began Conildepatlon of Fixing Tax
values Monday—la Understood the
Board Contemplatea a Reduction
In Real Estate Values.
Beloved Suteanuui Buried Is
Salisbury Cesnetery.
NOTABLES ATTEND RITES
Friends of Years, Fan^y and
. Servants Mourn the Passing
of aged Senator.
The Hoke County Board of Tax
Assessors, under the chairmanship
of Mr. John A. McPhaul, Jf., met m
the court house Monday and began
the consideration of fixing the val
ue's of lands for taxation ruext year,
the law requiring that this be done
every five years.
While no official announcement was
made, it is generally understood that
the board contemplate a reduction ^
in real estate values for next year i.
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
HUATS FHIDAf
COUNIT OFFICERS
CAIItHT AT Snii
To Close at 12:00 O’clock
Open On the 29th—Short-fr •'•'t’c,
But Board Thinks It WIf Be Need
ed Next Year.
(Contributed)
The schools -will dope for the hol-
Dedith of Mr. Daniel
Archie Conoly Sunday
, Hoey Is'Beat Sport.
fiut hs the Morrisons and Gard
tiers engaged in their love feast with
out parallel, the best sport of them
all was not in their midst. The man
is Clyde Hoey, of Shelby, tall, pic
turesque practitioner at the bar, who
at the moment was in his motor on
his way home from the funeral.
In discussing the appointment,
Governor Gardner said wMout hesi
tation that Mr. Hoey had faded from
the picture through his own accord
and had rendered an extremely em
barrassing tangle iconslderably sim
pler.
■Mr. Hoey has been considered an
a.vowed candidate for the senate In
1932. He Is Governor Gardner’s
brother-in-law. "He is more than a
brother-in-law to me,” the governor
said. “He is more like -a' broker, and
1 know of ho fiber or more able
man.” The moment Senator Overman
died it. was said Governor Gardner’s
choice lay between Clyde Hoey and
Cam Morrison.
^how* Hoey’s Telegram.
“1 had a. long talk with Clyde yes
terday,” the governor said. “More
over, he sent me a telegram. Hero
it Is, and you can see what it
means.”
The telegram follows:
“I am not a candidate for ap
pointment to the senate and do not
-wish you to consider me in connec
tion ■with the vacancy caused by
the death of Senator Overman.”
Gardner Lauda Morriton.
Governor Gardner wanted It un
derstood that his atatemente conc-ern-
Ing Mr. Hoey should not consid
ered In any sense a detraction
the Morrison appointment.
“No man la more devoted to Uie
state than Cam Morrison. Through
toying times We have just wit
nessed his loyalty to his party:-was
never questioned and 'wah a Hn^
genuine thing. I am most’’happy ®lh
being aWe to appoint him United
States Uwatoh
■One wf the first per8o:is the new
senator thought ^of after being in-^
formefi of his appointment was hi"*
daughter, Angelia, who is a stttddfl
at Sweet Briar college In Virginia
He asked Gtovembr Gardner he
would mind sendlnjg. her h tel^ram.
In this toie gdvdnifi^ olillged. - --
The senp^^^j^lppijlntiDRyiip. was
mam In ttb:
wblSiS?
Daniel Archie Conoly, aged sixty-
six, a life long resident of this comi
munity, died at his home about thr^e
miles South of Raeford Sunday
at eleven o’clock, hto health beihg
due to heart troubles. For the past
four years he had been in declihlng
health and much of the time confin
ed to his bed. j
Mr. Conoly was a son of tb/j late
John A. and Flora Livingston Con
oly of this section and is survived
by his widow, who was, before mar
riage,' Miss Mattie Blue, / two chil
dren, Mrs. Oliver Raynor/ and Mrs.
Jack Holland: thre^ brothers,
MesBth. N. P., J. H., and W. J. Con
oly, all of Hoke Cou^y.
Mr. Conoly was a ^iet, unassum
ing man of strellng/'' qualities and
.stood in . Ijhq, highest/.regard of all
■who knew him. Durmg a long per
iod of ill health he remained cheer
ful and bright and exemplified the
faith which he professed.
Funeral services were conducted
' (Monday at eleven o’clock by his
pastor. Rev. George W. Hanna and
interment made in the Antioch cem-
I eteryi '
Deputies Barrington and McNeill
While Destroying A Still Are Vis
ited By Prohibinon Agents, Also
bn raid of Same Still.
Even Rats^ Won^t
Take a Bad Check
It sounds “fishy” but no less an
authority than one Charlie Seate
ivouches for the veracity of a story
that reveals an uncanny sense of
discrimination on the part of cer
tain rats that is aMost unbelleva-
hle.
Last Frltoy night at the Shell fill
ing Station, . Tommie Teal, who mns
this place, .put this money away for
the night left, the checlm t)(*en
in during toi^^iay In a drawer, Inthki
drawe): was 'aoQtbec bat«h-(tf dheckq
that ■*rere and , one other ,wa*
considered 'bpidhg toie ; night*
rats t got into the diawW and' ate
the good cheiski hlmbst itp hut stay;
ed carefully-ftWay-from* the ones-Oh
which paynient had been refused
Showing that thte was no action on
their part, they took a small part of
the doubtful check. Fortunately,
small fragments of the good checks
had enough writing left to show
what they had been and Mr. Seate
was able to get new checks fqr
them.
Aiiyone who doubts the accuracy
of ike above statements is cordially
’tttvWBd to bring dtp'new .
1^1 .h^ up their right hahda
M the c:
idu-ya on next , PpIdaV at 12 :00 o
clock and re^open^n the 29th. This
gives a shorter/time than mogt of
the schools hfc^e been accustomed to,
but the Board of Education felt that
the time Would be needed next
spring and if a week could be saved
for those who need their children on
the farm it would be time worth
satrlng. There were three plans of
setting the. holidays, one was to
have given two days for Thanksgiv
ing and made the days up on the
22nd and 23rd with the Christmas
holidays starting then and return on
the 5th of January. The Board
thought that would have meant too
much time out and then several did
not wish to go that near Christmas
before getting out. Another plan vras
to have given two days for Thanks
gl'vlng and make up the days on two
Saturdays, the 6th and 13th. The
Board of Education thought that this
plan woufll not be satisfactory on ac
count of too many Saturday’s toget
her. Consequently there was no oth
er plan left but to have one day for
Thanksgiving with it being made up
on Saturday after Thanksgiving and
one week for Christmas'. ' The new
registers are so arranged that pay
cannot be made for less than twen
ty days. In former years a month
could be countedjat 18 days and the
other days made up at the end of the
term, but that has been done away
with and twenty days must be made
before reports can be made or vouch
ers paid. When all of the details
are Ipiown it Is clear that the Board
adopted the beat arrangement that
could have been made with Christ
mas coming on Thursday of the week.
The spirit of the principals and
teachers has been fine and they real
ize that the time will mean more for
the people next spring than being
out two w««k8 this time of the year.
On accoupt of the snow apd jlo\^
temperature prevailing anH' the fairt
that ft -^uld* probably be several
days before even a fair attendance
could” b’e obtained, .the authorities
decided ednesday to close the Rae-
lord schools until-after Christmas,
the original plans being to close Fri
day.
The Associated Press, which herves
practically all of the daily papers
carried a stoiy last week of Inter-
ISt to. Hoke,.C,oupty people.Jiftcaiiae
It carried, the following head line:
Agents Find Agents At Liquor
Still,” the ones found being Deputy
Sheriffs Barrington and McNeill of
this county.
Messrs. Barrington and McNeill had
a still spotted in Little River
Township one day la&t week and
found all of the paraphernalia in
the way of barrels and the like and
had proceeded to set fire to the
rubbish when they heard some folks
talking and coming toward the still
site. They eased out to the edge of
the swamp ready to catch some
moonshiners and thought they had
their men when they saw two men
approaching who were not officers
but who, it later developed, were as
sisting prohibition officers in mak
ing a raid on the same plant. A^'
soon as these men saw Mr. Barring
ton, they pulled out their “Artil
lery” and ordered him to surrender.
Not being so inclined, Mr. Barring
ton drew his gun and got behind a
pine tree and tlfnght he was go-
ii'.g to shoct it out with what he
thrvjht were moonshiners Mr. Bar
rington says that pine tree got to
seeming so little to him about that
time It waa a little larger than
a broom straw. As it happened,
the Federal agent camo up from
another direction about that time
and recognizing Mr. Barrington,
averted what otherwise might have
been a very feerious affair. The agent
reprimanded (his men for their- care
lessness «nd all ended happily.
Deputy McNeill, however, was
standing in the edge of the swamp
close enough by to have been a pow
erful ally to his fellow deputy had
anything started, but It Is extreme
ly fortoinate that he was not' forced
into action.
lU. 1 V., i-v
which will amount, roughly, to forty
per cent from the valura now fixed
This would mean that Itnd which is
now on the books at one hundred
dollars per acre would be valued
at sixty dollars per acre and so on
down.
Many argue that there is no use
reducing the value and Increasing
the rate if the ,'^me amount of tax
has to be raised. That it will amount
to the same thing as taking money
from one pocket and putting it in
to another. Others, however, argue
that lands and other realty are on
the tax books at more than their
value and that the actual value
of property is high enough to assess
it at.
Members of this board are: Al
lendale Township, "W. J. McLauch-
lin, Arthur C. Currie and M. M.
Campbell; Antioch, George Biggs,
H. McN. Watson and J. W. McPhaul;
Blue Springs, J. B. Covington, R. J-
Hasty and W. B. McNeill; Little
River, Daniel McGill, Arch McLauch-
lln, and D. M. Cameron; McLauch-
lln Township, J. F. McPhall, Floyd
Monroe and Neill Townbend; Que^
whiffle, Lewis McBrayer, N. F. Sin
clair; Raeford. Frank Cameron, E.
B. McNeill and Marshall Thomas;
Stonewall, W. J. McBryde, Jesse Gib
son and Sam McGoogan.
Mr. J. A. McPhaul, Jr., attended
the meeting in Raleigh last week
when the supervisors from all of the
counties attended a school at which
J time the purposes of their offices
were explained.
The question of taxation is due
to come in for more consideration,
perhaps, than has ever been the
caS-e in the history of this state, at
the next meeting of the legislature
and everyone is watching with keen
Interest to see what will be done to
relieve matters.
f Charlotte Observer)
Salisbury, Dec. 13. — The
home folks, augmented by no
tables of state and country
today returned to his native
soil that fine, courtly states
man, Lee Slater Overman.
After 28 years of beautiful service
as United States senator, in his 76th
year as a mortal on thte earth. Sen
ator Overman died early last Friday.
Today, with rites marked by im-
White Man Beat And
pressive simplicity and as void of
pomp as thp venerable citizen him
self, they put him away. Thousands
basked in the declining rays of a
warm December sun as they solemn
ly watched his body lowered be
neath 'the soil.
In Saliabupy Cemetery.
The burial was at Cfiie&nntt HUl >
cemetery. The body of the beloved
statesman lies on a lot to itself and^
in a grave banked with a great ar
ray of fforal wreaths, final tokeas of
tribute from scores of llfe-lony
friends and associates.
In Washington, the scene of most .
of the years of his great public ser
vice. Senator Overman had died.
From there his body came on a bix.-
car bpecial train early this morning.
Ten fellow members from the SMi-
ate and 11 from the house
the distinguished escort.
American Legion Escort.
A color escort from the American-
Legion flag unit immei^t^y at
tended the body aahnMjgs met
the train. From the stauOTrit
taken to the Overman home wh«re
it remained thronghont the laozn-
ing.
Throngs later visttad the home
and viewed the body which lay in a
casket covered by the flag of the
countoy he served so long and faith
fully. The room -.was filled "witn
floweib, chiefly white and yello-w
chrysanthemums, red and pink
rosea They had dressed him in char
acteristic attire, the dark cutaway
gray four-in-hand tie, bat -wing col
lar. He looked as natural, so they
said, as when he left Salisbury two
weeks ago on his final trip to the
national capital, from which he
never returned alive.
Negro members of the senator's
housebcdd staff, who linked him -with,
that old south to which they look^
back fondly, were labt to file by his
coffin before it was. taken to tiie
n LL I D hi church. Other negroes lined the
Koooea tfy n egroes streets, and some came Into the gal
lery of the chajTcih. *1110 state's tovo
Sister of Dr. L. B.
McBrayer Dies
Dr. L. B. McBrayer, add Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. McBrayer, Jr., were call
ed to Asheville last Thursday on
account of the death of Mrs. Nora
M. 'Revrtl, a hlster
Bvell has
It'-si#years
at his home near
VESPER SERVICES AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The wlse.^men In the georgeous
robes, the shepherds breathless In
wonder at the Star illuminates
the heavens, the miracle of the
manger, these are now only a
beautiful story living In 'sacred
history, but the songs of the an
gels have come down to us and
live today in the Christmas Car
ols: . These Carols will live agHn
In the Christmas Vesper eervloe
at, the- Preebyterlan Church, Sun
day night, December 21. The-sar-
viee Is ef the eatos^ufiltv ajM for
Sunday afternoon a white man by
the name of Baxley, who was on
his way from Wagram to hte home
in St. Pauls, was offered a ride by
three negro men who drew their
car up beside him on the highway
near Mr. Marshall Thomas’ home
about a mile and a half from Rae
ford. Seeing that the men were
-drinking, Baxley refused a ride,
whereupon two of the negroes Jump
ed from the car and severely cursed
and abused him and robbed him of
two dollars and eighty cents, all the
money that he had. They then beat
him up and shoved him off the high
way into a ditch. Coming on to
Raeford, Baxley found night officer
Howell, who got Mr. Barrington and
got on the track after their men.
Baxley described the car aa a blue
Ford coach, which was responbible
for the officers not' locating their
men. Baxley was so contused that
he mistook the car. It being a Boick
coach and the bfffbers encoontmred
the car several times that afternoon
but did not know that it contaalned
^ the men that they were hunting.
Sheriff Hodgin and Deputy McNeill
I later joined the chase and carried
it well into the night but by the time
they learned that it wps a Buick in
stead of a Ford th^ men had'jfbt-
ten. away.
It has since been learned that one
of these me{i is wanted in Hamlet
and, Uia^bey are not Hoke County
for Lee Overman knew no bounds
of race or color.
At 3 o'clock they bore hS body
to the First Methodist church,, three
short blocks away. The Legion color
guard, -with flags of county and
allies waving In the soft breese.
formed a guard while the casket was
being taken intp the edlflcei. Pre
ceding were the bereaved, the Ov«r-
majiB, the Gregorys, the Merrimans.
distinguished folk and the fine,
sound stock from which the beloved
senator >c«me.
Thea came the notaUes from
Washington, North Caitdlna state of
ficials and other men high in pabUc
office. Oitoosite members of the
family they sat. in front pews of
the church which -was taxed to ca
pacity. Many were unable to get
seats. ' ;
At the cemetery the throiigb -were
augmented by hundreds comitaff'
from the coontry sroond, peofto
deeply proud of the man from tihelr
midst who represented them in l^e
government with unwavering loffstl-
ty, folk with whom he never heist-,
tated to mingle even after attaln-^
ing his great proportions.
Illness prevented Senator Shto
moos, Ufe-long friend and coUea^to
of Senator Overman from attendlBg.
MR. D. J. McNEILL HAS
HURT IN TMI
peo
A^Nir' days al^.
days •io. ■RrhUe entering the
ir of his home irlth some
, Mr. J. W. atcLanchlln Dill
rpeeftod for the eeremi door
Last Thorsdaar. while,.^oilfeagiA fi
not thresher. Mn D. J. I
the„.etlefiprl^ of getUBt Ug dMii
Aeaglg In gome of ' ^
talc ot IlMi
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