M rf-i W-r •'■■^ ■ •'f- '^' X fc?-A. -tw--■-■>;^ '-" • ' /- -," ■• fr ■■•.,■ - '' ■’■ ■. ll't-' THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL XXVI-^Number 44 "'f., '^: i egeagyesass y--- RAEFORD, N. C., FRTOAY, JANUARY 30, 1931. $1.50 YEAR. IN ADVANCE ornttBs •-(BiULPni^ l^jlfapliifl Prlson«ra Steal Oar Then Oeeert It Tekina K^e—Give Theinaalvee Up, After Afterheoh Nap In the Wlldemeep. If liVo -whlmlBcal escaped conTicts between fear for their UVee ['*> and amnsement at the an^emess of -their situation, led Hoke County of- fleers and cltlswis a merry chase ovent the lower ipart of’the county Jdonday and Anally after npny amusinfl incidents stepped calmly o(rt of the bottles and gare them- r ®P to lafe Monday afternoon. The two men were Edward King and John r.’. ^ipth conTlcted of lar- ■iceflj*'Sull ««ht«o®ed to from flro’ta sei^ in tk« They ImM rebently been sent to the work *—■w*p near Lumber Bridge and bad been serrlng there for some . tiige,''. ' ' ' ■ $fij^ 1^^ these t«o coflrlc» ytadsi g^ their escape from the ^j^on datep nnd were lost in the IMDEGGM GooswerER -Rev Jehn R. Miller, Pastor of Baptist church, la Carrylnfl With Mint Around A Freak Ka» Laid fBy One, ef His Fleck. AT jmEL CAN WEED ra Ralph Tewneond, Formerly of Rae- ford, Qeta Foreign Service Ap- poIntmenL Now Resident of New York. Tobacco Bed Burning By Careless Farmera, Results Irt Grave In jury to Forests. Rot. John R. Miller, pastor of the Baptist church, came , to Raoford ihtgbiy recommended and has, up un- tU this week, llTed up to the higH character that was given him. jThQrsday, however, he was seen and heard up atad down the streets of Raeford with an egg that made jpuiny of Uie wary hereabouts shake their heads in a pitiful sort of way as thgiugh a good brother had gbnO wr^. This egg, if you believe the prea^rj li^ed hi his hen- houa*. [Wfedneeday night or early ^lirsday morning . by either a Rhode-Island Red or a Buff, with the/subplelon resting^most strongly on ihd reds, since they predominat ed. aWMiRNT iaht&esaes to the soqthera part of Moke County. Pursuit Wad ^Vittemptad *T the guards but the Ji^hase was in tain aad the ewvlcts made good ttmlr eacape, TOiett ealew hiR> tha story, the pressing aae^ for Arewood by soma unidoattfled ctWseas ot that sectloa For borne time Mr. Jdhn hafl been noticing tha* a«^p'cjt '^id ♦ Atmst young pines were falling vie to unlawful axes and bad dP dlded to take deAnlte steps to prp vent this depredation. Together 5wlth Sherltt„ Barrington,- Mr. Me Cougan Journeyed to hie farm, near JJundarrach, on Monday" momlug, larmed with posted signs and a de- jj sire to prevent farther loa%' in pis T went down In- woods, looking for signs of r ^'^egal wood gathering and found it in abundance. This must have been the flrBt-*lme that the two escaped AW!#, convicts lay low and watched the /Vcitizenh' of t’he'cbtanty in the process r ’ of e'stablishlng law and order. The deduction is pretty sure for before the pair' of TnVe'stlgators . had travel- l'’ ed far into the woods .they were r,’* arTfisted' by the^ sound of a starting motor, they ‘ had-.;only been .’ ’..^l^eQifin^'-'iiVdinaiy .’;wag{«i!i:. in ^ the ^ihiWery'' of'Hhe^-Wood, their ■firtm- '',pi£iopi';‘^ere‘-'3u8tlfled‘'ami more; Wr ' liere'^th^‘Wl6Vfe! -waa a'real racket" ' ^eVe * u’Sihg 'trucks^ ito .‘C;ariy ! off ihe^’^od'-frigid'‘pbeteid-land. That ’ Was not 'thiie however Awas re^ ' " vealeii a few ihlmlrtes 'later,. „wlreil, (h returning to the place .where had left th'elr car they found at It had diiappeaared’ And so the phase began. ‘ Procuring a car and two helpers, IMr. McGougau and , Sheriff > Barring ton started in hof pur^it of the convict car. The -chase led them to the lower end of the- county whear the lower end of the county where Hoke on the highway to Laurlng- iburg. On the old detour which was u^ed when the present new bridge was constructed,. near a wooden bridge over the river, the searchers came upon the abandoned car of Mr. McGoU'gan. In the broom straw near by on the edge of a bay the con- victh again lay and watched the agents of the law. They were soon routed out by Sheriff Barrington however and took to hurried flight, through swamp and broomstraw in a general tfortheasterly direction. The reports from a pistpl in capable hands gave wingb to the feet of the -outlawed couple aad they at last lost-themselves In the densq bay to the eouth of the gyved highway^ • Hjiriiedly notice was given ‘ in Wajji»m;-thab'|^tfpf‘’^^“ le«fga'‘and* gditfdB -were’posted on iyay to prt.veqt their getting Hthe Md getting/away, ■ uently the two Raeford. men a ^ fawn and enlisted the erlff Hodgins, Murphy and beyflral others. These the -rtcinlty of the chase arriving at the Riverside tion, just;thl8 sld^ ofe ^c river ■ brl^e, found .tlmt the '- two men had given %aihgelves up and. were greedily stuffing themselves with the best food the filling station al'l'orded, they having been without food far twenty-four hours. The remainder of the story comes to u^ through the story of the con victs,'who were - agreeable and j-Vlll- iiig to talk. Both men escaped' 'iiT their .8tripeg, and had been unable to obtain" othey clotjhes. Tli®/ evad;. tw with a li^ht purple 'band around the center; and anolfter deep Cevefing the rest of the egg. It looks a great deal like a fancy top. Mm_ Miller thinks that the egg ie a sli^ that haiHl tUaes are over and many there be who hop* she ’ hat rtgd" the r^dle rightly. Some few aoaptlcale thinh the preadher paint ed it hlmaelf aad le trying to pMy f RhWtbh 'fHe| oh’ Mie- uUddspectihg pojpnlaea. Me Ws, however, that he washed the egg and that it is gen- alne an^ that he is going to keep it lifaere axvyone can see it so as to 'hack up his reputation for veracity. Washington, JnI- 30-“ HalPh Townsend, formerly of Raeford,- N. C,. and in recent years a resident of New Tork. has been appointed American vice-consul at Montreal, Mnada, according to a list of for eign aervlce assignments made pub lic' by the Departatent. of State here. TV>wnsen4, who Js SO years old, Is a nMive of North Carolina Before attendlag Columbia College and the Columhih ’ trnlvertdty School of JourAllsm in New ’^k, he went to s^ool, at Raafordl and at Hen derson. After gi^uatlon from the CoIuariWa Hnlyarslty School of Jour nalism in he began hsi career as a newspaperman in San Fran cisco, yetnvfliflg to New Tork after & terw-erto. «» . P«»if PELLAGRA' CLINIC ship In ElgllBh at Columbia, where he remained from 1927 to 1980 ‘ He Sims appointed to the foreign service position in ppeefifaer. The office at' Moatreal, where he hah en tered upon his , ne# .work,-'Is the conadate gener^ of Canada. The appointment carrien the title of sec- retai7 ia the dlploo^c aervlce in additton 'to ttmt of Ainerican vice- (xmanl. There will be a Pellagra clinic held in the court house here next Thursday, Feb 5th, with the coun ty doctors in 'charge. It te desired that all of those who had pellagra FOREST PROTECTION We have again come to that sSa- son -of the year when ditch bank cleaning and brush burning Is in order The Forest Fire Laws of North Carolina require that you notify your neighbor be tore burning and keep your fire under control. Failure to do so, leaves you liable to your neighbor for damage and you will have to answer to the 'Charge of violating the forest fire lajvs. A re-ward of fift}*'' dbllars to REP. NCEACRERN ON INPORTANr mill Chairman ^of Pension Committoo and Mombor of Five Other Imper- ant Committeee. r last year and all who have , slnoa developed It come to' this clinic. It' taxed with the cost goes to any will be held from nine o'clock u^- tll eleven a. m. The season of the year for this disease to ai>pear is ap proaching and it is desired that every precaution possible he taken. Since the treatment largely a matter of diet, it. Is strongly urged that garden peas and mustard be planted AT ONCE. , DR. R. L. MURRAY, County Health Officer. O-r one furnishing sufficient evidence tCfc c(-nvict virlntors of this law. We tf In. Recorder’s Court Tuesday, Buster . Shaw, colored, who was in dicted on a charge of -violating the prohibition laws, had his case con tinued for one week. Alex Ray and William Handon were given a preliminary hearing on a charge of housebreaking and larceny and were bound over to Superior Court,bond being fixed at a thousand dollars in each case. Dock Rogers, colored, was tried on a charge of larceny and found not guilty R. A. Cavaniss, of Raleigh, was tried hi a charge of issuing worth less checks and a mistrial was or dered and the case set for trial on Augiist 4th. In civil action, Pittman Hospi tal, of Fayetteville, bought to se cure Judgment against Mr. Neil Mc Gill for the sum of |128.(M1 on a note. EMdence showed that when Mr. McGilTs daughter was in saidi hospital and ready to come home that the hospital wthorlties refused to let her leave until he -would sign this note; that on account of this dnrees and the embarreWs^ng clr- cnm'stAnbee he signed 'it Vhen he was in no way liable for the debt 'nor hiql i-Re in ahy way become re sponsible’^for" it Jjidgmenf'ln favor of the defendant -was rendered ^ and an appeal to Suipertor Court, taken by the plaintiff. are bai'Jy in need of coopera tion In this county and if the land- owners would issue orders to their tenants that they . can’t burn the Wd.'s for gra .ii:; cows and that no f.tes be made on their lands with out their'‘consent and th-an mast be kept under control, Hoke County would cut her fires by seventy five percent. Every farmer in the county sees his tenant’s at least once a week. Why not Inform them? You give orders as to work and other things on your farm, why not as to fires? Your cooperation will be ap preciated. H. R McLEAN, County Warden. 0 ^ I LEGION MEETS AND ELECTS OFFICERS There is no class of farmers who are more dependent upon their for- esto or woodlots for their well be ing than the tobacco farmer and, yet, in the past irreparable injury has been done by the careless burning off of their tobacco beds in the Springs. This is not true of the majority of tobqcco farmers, who as a .rule, are very intelligent and have already iome to the conclusion that if they intend to continue to raise tobacco they mnsf also* take care of their timbered land and protect them from Are. It is pretty bale to say that the succesilal to bacco farmer ia not the one who al lows his woodlands 4o bum. The proper preparation of a to bacco bed calls for a lot of bard work, as it Is ^Uerally moved .from year to yea^ to overcomie the me nace of disease among the young plants, and beds made in new land have been fonnd the most satlsta^ tory. first, the timber and brush muM be remove from the bed proper and the ground cleared for a, considerable area beyond the ac tual limits of the beds This Is an added protection agatnst Injarlonfl insects, which mii*t And homes in the leaves Ind shrubbery until they were ready to do their work of dj- stroction.' All the brash which ^^s been cleared hp around the bed is then piled upon it and burned to Merilize the soil against the ger mination of weed seeds and othdr Injnrlous matter. The flames from the burning of this litter oftentimes leap as far as twenty or thirty feet In her atr .and if a strong wind is blowing inay be carried that far iu a horizontal direction. The sparks of course travel even greater dis tances and cause many bad forest flres thru the Rprlng season. These Ares hit the trees at thn" tinie ' of lowest resistance and results in the killing of nearly all of the young growth and even of mature trees. The farmer cannot cure his to bacco without the use of large quantltie's of wood and it is to his decided advantage to see that they are not Injured or entirely destroy ed by fires, which after all do no good and are entirely preventable. If a few precautions are taken in the burning of the tobacco bed, and a little care exercised In pick ing the proper time or burning it will result in the saving of hun dreds of acres of valuable wood lands from being burned over. First, after the brush has been cut RAEFORR scnmiiies ATTENOANCe HONOR- ROLL, FOURTH MONTH Reference was made In these columns t'wo weeks ago to the com mittee assignmenfa given Represen tative L, McBJacheron. This list, it develops, was very incomplete. 'Mr. McBachnm is on the follow ing committees; Agrlcultore, Appro priations, Banks and Banking, Edu cation, Election Laws and is’Chair man of the Pension Committee. He introduced a bill last week to nbolibb the special law lor Ho^e Cpunty which makes^lt lUegsi 4«v •«t a Steel' trap within three feet of the ground. ' , T. B. YOUNO OF FLORKNCB, fl- C TO MEBT FOTATO SROWERA Swes* Potato Growers Assocla^ tion, Florence, 8. C , will meet with the farmers of RockAsh' and Pun- darrach in the RockAsh hchool honse at II o'clock Saturday morning, and the farmers of TimberWnd, Mont rose and' Ashley Heights at two o’clock Saturday afternobn at the Aahmoqt school, to dlacnsa sweet potato acreage for Hoke county for this year. ITi. D. BURTON. Suggestion Offered Speaker of House By CARL GOEniCH, Alter reading in the .papers about some of the bills that have been in troduced lately In the legislature, 1 believe I’ll sit down and write a letter to Willis Smith, Speaker ot the House, and a mighty fine fel low. Hon. Willis Smith, Raleigh, ^North Carolina, My dear Willis; I’ve been following proceedings of fcbe legislature with a whole lot of interest and I’ve been watching some of the bills that have been introduced. There was a bill presented a few days ago by Representative John son, of Halifax, to amend the law on .the squirrel and raccoon sea son. There was another bill, intro duced by Senator Lawrence, of Hertford, to make blue and white the regular and standard colors of State automobile license tags, Rep resentative McDevltt, of Madison, presented a bill to require at least ten verlbes'^ from the Bible to be read at th cpenlng each morning of from the bed. It should be piled up! schools And Senator Mc- The Ellis Williamson Post of the American Legion held its a.nnual meeting this week for the election of officers. The following were elected; Commander, W. L. Poole; Vice-Commander, Dr. Matheson, Sec ond Vice-commander, Allan Wood; Adjutant, L. Star McMillan, Service' Officer, J. Dew;itt Tapp, Chaplain, R. L Murray. The Legion went on record w favoring the payment by the Fed eral government of the much dis cussed bonus, at,an early date. They albo plan a Fourth of July celebra tion this year and expect to make a rigorous drive for new members. If "Rube” Poole goes after neW ' members be 'will come all around getting them, even if he has to use poison gas, chloroform 6r what not * MRS. D. P. SPELL SUSTAINS A BROKEN HIP NOTICE TO FARMERS There will be d m«etilng of farmers at the DuhdairSeh School House, Monday afeernoon, Feb. 2, at 2 o’clock. The purpose will be to 'consider the possible acreage of tomatoes to be produced In the county this^ yeaf. Fred f- Abbott, Agricultural agent of the Seaboard Airline Railway will be present to take charge of the meeting. He will explain a plan whereby Mr. Tucker of, Ocalla, Florida, will contract or handle tomatoes .on. commisqion . or as many as three hundred acres. W. D. BURTON, Couhty Aa«nt she was being shown through the .mill. She suffered a broken hip and t3 vi.!,hear - that the flea-circus '.got is now. In a Fayetterille hospltol ^ Allentown.” 'off ’ Mrs D. P. Spell, .of Pour Oakes, who with her son D. P. Jr., has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lewi& Upchurch, happened to a very pain ful i^ocident. last - Saturday. morning when she fell- on the floor of th© press room at' the oil mill,' where for burning. Then, an area should be burned off Surrounding the bed to a depth of forty or fifty feet This should preferably be done, at night, 'when there is little or no wind stirring arid when the danger \ from flying sparks is negligible. The tobacco bed itself containing the piled brush should then be burned. If these simple precautions are fol lowed and a competent watchman is kept on the job one of the very serious cau^s of string forest fires will be eliminated. If the forest wardens of a com munity ican be of any help and their services are wanted, the general public will find them ready at all times to help In preventing the spread of fires from any source whatsoever. It is hoped that thei farmers ■will look up the warden in their particular section and se- core his hdlp and berrice In burn ing their beds. The problem of our disappearing woodlands is fast becoming a se rious prtfltoSltlon to the tobacco for mer and only 'those who, hy con stant rigllahqe, pre'Vent their woqd- .iRmds from being deatfayed by for- fljres can^hoiie for any success in tdbacfm .fffawlng in the. future. Uhrlng « tline such as this, when we are all hard hit by financial cases, every precaution should . be made to protect and save our na tural resources. W. A PETERpON, Uistclct Forester,’ Dept. Conserva tion and Development, Division of Forestry, Fayetteville, N. C. o MRS.' GATLIN ILL. ;:he:rBh: is She-.,will probably have ,to iise leading lady ran Friends of Mrs B. R. Gatlin ^rill learn with keen anxiety that she i underwent a serious operation in a V Fayetle^e " hospital Wednesday , evening Hen daughter, Mrs. ,Q C. Taylor, of Kinston, came home Thia Swain, of Cleveland, came forward with a bill to change the date of the primary from the first Satur day in June to the first Monday in June. Now Willis; I’m not saying a word of criticism against any of those bills. So far as I’m concern ed, all of them may be splendid measures and they may react to the advantage of our people whole. I’m not claiming that sqifl^els and raccoons don’t deserve special con sideration, and as for the Bible, it’s the greatest of all books. Neither have I any objection ’to _a perma nent blue-and-white color scheme for license tags, and it they want to hav& the primary on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, It’s O. K. with me. But Willis; we olkfe back home are interested In something else be sides those bills. The thing that is uppermost In the minds of most of us, is this husinebs of reducing the tax on real estate pTOi>erty. And that brings me up to the sugges tion that I had in mind. ; When Mr. JohneoUi of Halifax, comes up with a'hill to give con- ifideration to squlrrejs and raccoons I 'want, you to give him polite and courteoua attention. And I want you to ask him, a few quebtions. “Mr. Johnson,” you might say,' -'l- think this hill of yours is a mighty fine thing. But will it help to cut down the taX on real . estate in North Carolina?” "Why, of course not,” Mr. John son. we’ll table this bill until later on during the session.” When Senator Lawrence appears before you with his license-tag col or-scheme bill, you might (juiz him along the same lines. ‘‘Will It help cut down taxes?” , "Of course not.” . . ‘Then I’m, afraid .yen ..won^ got First Grade—Stewart Giles, Wal lace Herndon, Julian McKeitban, Roscoe Baxley, Rebecca AAlna, Mil dred Campbell, Jennie Warren, Helen Patricia Stewart, Margaret Lyttle, Marie Clark, Basel BnrnB, Homer Tbamea, Melrin Guinn. Law rence Brock, Lester Baker. Second Grade—'Tan James Ad kins, William Currie, Wmiam Camp- Bell, June Johnson, North Lilly, Starr McMUlan, TTonna Baocom, Magallne Guinn, Marcaret McNeill, Mary EL Pope, Martha Lyttle Ehnma Brooks Topb. Jen Graham. EUsa- 'beth Gore, Jack CnlhreaL'i. David Boaha, Ho'ward fiauoom. Bill Dario, pan M**welL , . - 'Ililrd Grade—^Imogoae Baucom. Frances Campbell, IXmlee Guinn, Mary Louise HavAeld. Mary Nancy Johnson, Rena Beaton Lents, Vir ginia Lindley, Mary Florence Lind- ley. Ladle McNelL Helen McDof- Ae, Edna Pearl Bose, Dixie Smith, Mary Efllen Thomas, Grady Itarns Howard Gain, Clark Goodman. WI itam Harris, Daniel Howell, Lac> Huckabee, Milton Jordan. Tom Me- Louchlin, Edwin McNeO. Donglas McNeil, Harold Maxwell. Edgar Warren. Fourth Grade—Nancy Peele, Doris Prevatte. P. C. Howell. Phil J*n- bon. Jack Po(pe, Malcolm Pope, Brace Conoly, Bill Upchurch, Gene va Baker; Helen Baker, Annie Neal Campbell, Efllen Currie, Luclle Hall, »I>auline Lilly, Ruth Looper, Ruth Lyttle, Frances McBride, ^^hrine McBryde, Mary ^aw Mc^munid, Ehinice McKenrieT Carolyn McLean. Gladys Scull, Mary Frances Taipp, Mary EHIzabeth Trawick, Ebb Bar-^ rlngton, Lawrence Campbell, Milton, Campbell, James Currie. Lucius Dixon, C, H. Giles, Roberson Haire, William Hawfield, C. B Johnson, Thomas Lindsay, James McDiarmid, Charles Seate, Robert Thames. Robert Veasey. Fifth Grade—^Watson Gillis, J. D. McKeithan, Hubert McLean, John, K. McNeill, Juliubi Rogers, Clarence Rose. Hester Rose, Claudie Brown, Lois McKenzie, Thelma Parks, Flora Alice Peterson, Clara Potter, Virginia Veasey, Eliza Newel Wal ters, Elizabeth Warren, Mgry Hazel Whitley, Esther Kate Sanders. Sixth Grade—Gladys Atkinson, Daisy Belle Taylor, Margaret Steph ens, Florence Anita Lester, Eldna Lentz, Virginia Darib, Alberta Campbell, Helen Barrington, Jean Andrews, Edwin Veasey, Marvin Scull, Howard Pope, Harold Mc Diarmid, Julius Jordon, Willie Jones, Thomas Jones, Thomas Conoly, EM- ward Brown, James Baker, Ruth Warner. Seventh Grade—Allie Mae Davis. Nannie R. Harris, Irma Jordon, Deane Matheson, Kathryn Thomas, Tom McBryde, Sam Morris, Robert Weaver. High School—Dannie Johnson, Julian Love. William McFayden. Wilson McBryde, Vance Rubsell, John Lee Stephens, Bill Wade, Rob ert Whitley, Brown Hendrix. Wood- row Huckabee, Ervin Dixon. Henry McArthur, Jack McDuffie, Mabel Akins, Eva Mae Bethune, Bertha Currie, Ruth DeUlnger. Margaret Koonce, Louise Lang. Katherine Mc Bryde, Lillie Packs, Bmrnice Wal ters, Nash Andrkwik Jake Austin, Thaddus Komnse, Ofay Currie, Wil liam Lenta, CtfAp Melania. J W. RuuelL awn .fMmpball. Thetna Campbell, Clennie Cook, Lillian ^ Dixon, Marsfiret Qalney, Margaret Morris. loin McBcyBit 'Carolfae Par ker, Elary iwhella Ray. Doris Rbb- ertoon. Mary ?' Seolt; Rath ’ Scnll, Gertrude linootU Lola Wood, Ruth Walters. (Mary Catherine Cameron, LILr Florence Christiana Mc- Faydop, Grace Parnell. Dora Snead, Bernice Yarbrnt^igh, Albert Akins, Marion Gatlin, Craighead Hampton, FuUord Idc'Mlllan, Edward Pickler.Ed- (Continue don Page Four.) HOKE COUNTY COTTON There were 13,735 bales of co:tou ginned in Hoke County of the 1930 crop prior to January 16th. as com pared to 9,935 on the same date last year. It now appears that the final ■•ures 'will show a crop of about very YaYorable , conbiderationo|f. ta^^ipiBion*' whitA. confeWering tllA your measure when ymr,j|)W; t^mes acreage last year A'Ver" to our 'side' ot’, t|tib so naMcK’ off -from norpi^^ (Continued on Page Four.) , price', OH BOY. • "A