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 .1 h ‘- ' '■ i fi'

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