I
Fort Bragg Commandant Exidai*** Military
Organization for Defcmo—Sny» Army
longs to P^ln-P:raiM>s Na%nal G'W
—Adequate Defense Is Be»t Means of Pre
venting War—Makes Go^ Imjfressi^n.
U*l''
one of the most Interesting
talks ever made before the Eae-
lord Kiwanls Club, the Commandant
- J«f Fort Bragg, General Bi-eece, out-
^ lined the system of military defense
Tyhidh' this comtotny has in peace times
-C last Thursday evening. This was
" the first visit the General has made
to Raeford and the second visit to
town within the .state since he
IVi'Ttos recently assigned to the com
mand of Fort Bragg. He. is an eld
erly person, of attractive peysonalitj
|U^4*iiid very democratic in his views.
Ifir^ 'Vt-. ♦gX *110 AmiV RS belOIlg-
1
ke referred to the Army as belong
Ing to the people and not to the
•professional soldier. He stressed
the fact that any. soldier who had
T>een throi«|h one war was loath
to see another. He also stressed
the fact that Congress alone could
I declare war, hut reminded his hear
ers that the surest way to avoid
. -w^ar was to he prepared for it.
According to; General Breece, The
Jlitional Defense Act, under which
■all things military come, embraces
tho regular army of n little oveh
one hundred thousand men and
■'I 'about fourteen . thousand, olflcers
These are scattered at .the various
possearfons ot. the .IJnlted States
d in camps over the county such
Officers Mistake Mail Truck
For Rum Runner—P^tojl
Battle In Dark
Fire Warden' Awrts That
Heedlessness May Force
l^d Conditions On County
Citizens — Too Many Fires
Mistaking a tJnlted States mall
truck for a rum runner car, Wil
mington officers engaged in a shoot
ing affray with the operators of the
mnii truck which resulted in Wo
deaths, hear Wllmingtott Sunday
night. Five Wllmingtoh officers
were stationed at the Smith’s creek
bridge on the Wllmiiigton - Golds
boro highway, watching for develop
ments from a tip which they had
received that a rum runner would
enter 'Wilmington by that road
"When the mail truck approached
the officers waved their flashlights
and made' preparations to ‘stop the
truck. One officer W. P. Starling,
Apprckension of Store Break
ers Leads to Discovery of
Cache of Stolen Goods
In, Coimty Flanies Swe^
ran toward the truck but a« he did
Five Hundred Acres Sunday
Nightrr-
Too piany forest fires are
the siin of headlessness and
neglect ill Hoke county, ac-
cofciing to a statement made
this week * by the County
Game and Tire Warden, Mr.
Raymond McLean. During
the fire season, that is the
year when dead leaves and
dry undergrowth present an
unusually succeptible field
for ,forest fires, .Hoke county
suffers heavily in losses from
Idle ieyer tii^ent
and early
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.U Late Sunday 'night ^
„ Fort Bragg. The second^ au^ j yigmiay meming o forest fire' rag-
in cases of war the first to see any l ^ np^ of RaefPrd on Rockfiali
great amount of active service, is waste more than
the National Guard, which consls^ j ^ before it could,
Sf about three hundred thousand | checked. Men were at work aU
men. General Breece said that his pig^t and several hours Monday
so, Leopold Roberts, the driver of
the mail truck leaped out on the
running board and started firin.sr, as
a girl, who had taken the wheel a
few miles'hack, brought the car to'
a stop.
Starling was fatal!/ ijijured. hut
bred several times hlinself before
he fell and wounded Roberts fatal
ly also. The occupants of the car
stated that they did not recognize
the mep as officers when they
hailed them. The invesgalttion re
vealed however that Davis was in
uniform. In the mall truck, in ad
dition to the driver were ' three
girls. Four other officers were
present with Davis but none were
Injured. The body ot Starling was
pierced ''by .twu bulletp^ and that .of-
Roberts by four. . Later investiga
tion increased tbe tragedy of the
affair In revealing that Roberts and
..Davis were good friends and con
nected by marriage. This made
the impulsive shootings in the 41m
light ail the more tragic
In Recorder’s Court Tuesday,' Will
Tumage, John Turhage, John W’.
Grahaip and Jim Graham, all colorc
ed and from' Scotland County, were
given a preliminary hearing on
charges of breaking and entering
the- store of Alex McCoriuick, col
ored, of Duffie’a on last Saturday
night and carying away to the home
of Jim Graham, the oldest of the
four, beyond Laurinburg, goods' to
about the sum of one hundred dol
lars. The first three of the above
entered pleas of guilty. Jim Graham
entered a plea of not guilty and was
given a preliminary hearing
Deputy Sheriff W. R. Barrington
was called by McCormick Sunday
morning and notified of -the robbery.
He went ‘to McCormick’s store and
picked up the tracks of a car which
he followed in to . Robeson County
on tbe Highway' from Red Springs to
Maxton. Getting its course, he fol
lowed it a distance -to the intersec
tion of a road where he again picked
it up as it had left the highway. At
ter following it fan some distance, he
came upon the car with two of the
Five Thousand Expected at Meeting in Fayette
ville Tuesday — Will Embrace Taxpayjnrs
of All Eastern Carolina — Tax Situation
to Be Discussed and Union on Problem
Sought.
FayetteviUe, N. C., March
17.—At a meetiHg of taxpay-
I ers from a number of coun*
UFDF TlIFSniYl^®® it was de-
tlLIIL 1 ULlflljil/^ided to call a mass meeting
LIDELLliERDIES
Popular Hotel Manager Is
Victim of Pleurisy — Had
Been Dangerously Ill • for
Several Weeks—^Was Faith
f ul Churchman Loyal
Citizen—Buried at Mt Holly
hat was always off to this unit a®^|n.o,„ing fighting to sUy the proi-^^
he considered It our bulwark | gyeaa of the fire. Other fires,
strength in time of trouble. He
I while, many were not so large, have
jstressed service these men are ren^ causeW flgmage all over tho county,
dering in devoting a part of their destroys
time in training and in being pennanenUy trees
In case of need. which the casual observer conaiders
Among tho other units in the De-1 weathered the burning- In-
‘tense Act are the Reserve ^®*®*‘^* jnrieg visited on large trees from
who stand ready to take commands where destroy-
^ nsAvt OVA m&dA I . • • _«w .1
at any time. These men are growths may’^ke hrtd fpd rot-
Officers Banqtiet
Plans Ga Forward
UP largely of ex-officers ^nd those i ^ dmtroy pieTnanenl
who have taken training in the R. Ly timber.
O. T. C., mostly at the colleges of Daring this week. National and
the country. He stated that ® state Forestry Associations are ob_
% well-trained group pf Reserve Offi- Forest Week and are lak_
cers is one of the most Important opportunity of impressing
factors in our military plans and citizens the need of a
that in case of war valuable realization of the danger in forest
. wouid be saved by having gres, which in sb many cases are
trained men ready for acth o ser-1 yg^j^gg preventable, therebi^
vice, rather than try to train an j^^jraaslng the tragedy of the waste,
officer personnel from green ma- aponsorshlp of the
terial in a short time. Fire Warden Mlldouson and An-
General Breece also spoke of tb® tioch schools have ordered trees
C. M. T. C. camps for the yovth jjjg state Department of For_
of the country, which are held ggjj.y planted them on
each summer. He stated that in- jjggp their school grounds. This
creasing Interest is being shown ^g good example which other
in this branch of the service schools and homes should follow.
‘ "Ji ^ said that it is being appreciated j^^y ni,taip trees free from
' more and more by those eligible ^j^jg department on application,
for the camps. An interesting fact
stated by the General is that five i pgj,jgjjy gtress to the people of the
pounds in weight and one half c gjjmjjy necessity of conslsteni
V in height was the average ^nd prompt reporting of forest
* this group im one month’s training. 1^^^ ^ pTOple rests
^ The youths who enter *®8« the responsibility because it is ab-
for aiftnonth, are given ^ solutely impossible for the warden
cuon in citizenship and to cover all the county every day.
valuable lessons in t ngs prompt reporting of the firee
More than sixty invitations have
been issued to the brilliant banquet
and hall which will he given on
March 28, by the local Offeers As
soeiatlon of the Natlonid Guard
units, and fdl .things ^olnt to a fes
tive occasion when the parties are
given. Acceptances have already
been received from many of the^
guests bidden, and among those
i.who have accepted is Lieutenant-
Colonel Gordon Smith, U. S. P. and
D. O., with headquarters at Ra
leigh. ;
The banquet which will be given
at the Hotel Bluemont, will be one
of the most colorful events of the
season. A splendid program is de
veloping from the work of the com
mittee, McNair Smith, Herbert Mc-
Keithan and Dr. R. A. Matheson,
and will Include an address and
features of entertaining nature.
Captain Poole ■will be toastmaster.
The details of the Military Ball to
be held In the Armory are being
worked out by Younger Snead.
defendants in it and a quanity of the
stolen property. John W. Graham
offered to show him where the rest
was and taking one of the Tumages
to Red Springs, he had the officers
there arrest the other Turnage. He
then proceeded to the home of Jim
jGraham, an. elderly and “preacher-
il^kliig*’ iiiafl,f k^6itfaji>attihd by ’ Offl*
cers from Scotland County, Graham’s
home being about two miles beyond
Laurinburg. Thpre they found gooda
of almoq^t every description bidden
in different parts of the house, with
a good quantity hidden in the loft
of one room. • Most of the property
missing from McCormick’s store was
found and identified and in addition,
a lot of other merchandise which
Scotland County officers had been
trying to identify from a robbery
in their county.
All four of the defendants were
bound over to the April term of
Hoke Superior Court, under bond
of 1600.00 each, which they were
unable to raise. In addition, they
will have .to face warrants for an
other robbery when they are thru
with the charges pending against
them here.
'-‘y.Y'Struc
I 'l l other valuable lessons in 1 ^ith prompt reporting of the fires
.ubesldes the strictly military p asewarden, the number of firqs
I/] P* camp- life. He stated ®-jcan be greatly reduced,
had seen numhers" of stoop-
Ed Long, a young colored man,
was tried on a charge of 'violating
the prohibition laws and received a
sentence of four months on the
county roads, from which he appeal
ed to Superior Court. Evidence
against him tended to show that last
Saturday afternoon he sold a pint
of whiskey to a colored boy named!
Sylvester Smith. Smith was ar
rested that afternoon •''r drunkeu-
ness and while hein-i carried to
jail, told where he had bought the
Friends of Alan McGee will* be
interested to know that, he has
been transferred from Norfolk to
Portsmouth.
whiskey. He stuck to his same story
from the first that he had told tho
officers until he was cross-examined
and, left the witness chair. Fuller
.iiade a blanket denial of having
„ven seen Smith last Saturday but
his only material witness failed to
The town of Raeford and many
people throughout the state were
shocked to hear early Tuesday
moving of the death of L. J. DeL
linger, popular manager of the
Bluemont hotel at Raeford. Mr.
Dellinger was in his sixty-sixth
year and had been manager of the
Bluemont hotel for. about a year.
He was highly respected by all the
citizens of the community and by
traveling people from all over -^he
country whiD had felt the warmth
of his hospitality when stopping in
Raeford. His friendliness and
courtesy endeared him to both old
and casual acquaintances alike and
him' was; a ^ic
thht cheered and strengthened. T'ne
entire community mourned Ws pass
ing with sincerity and 'will long
romember his fine qualities.
!Mr. Dellinger was bom in Lin
coln county on February 28, 1865.
Much of his business life was spent
in Wilmington and in Red Springs,
in the mercantile and hotel busi
ness. From Red Springs he came
to Raeford to take charge of the
Bluemont hotel and was the effi
cient and popular manager of this
hotel up until tbe time of his
death. He had been in failing
health for several weeks previous
to his death and dangeronaly sick
for the last several days proceed
ing Tuesday. On Monday however
he was thought to have rallied and
hopes were entertained that he was
on the way to recovery. About
midnight Monday, however, he was
taken by a serious turn for the
worse and never improved before
his death early Tuesday morning.
Heart trouble, complicated in his
last hour by pleurisy, was the cause
of his death.
Mr. Dellinger -was a man of the
finest qualities. He was a member
of the Presbyterian church and for
many years performed without re
proach the duties of ruling elder.
Friendliness and tolerance vtare
I foremost lii his character; his hon-
at which opportunity will be
given to the people of East
ern Carolina to express their
views regarding the efforts
being made to nullify or re
peal the McLean school bill.
It was decided that the
meeting should be held next
Tuesday afternoon beginning
at 2 o’clock at the court
house here. It was predicted
that five thousand people
wDuld be present, so intense
is the interest in tax relief in
Eastern North Carolina.
Henry A. Page of Aberdeen, Sol
icitor Tom McNeill of Lumberton
and others 'will be on the speakmn
program. Means will be sought to
bring pressure on the legislature
to cause that body to 'find the mon
ey for thp state sUrported six
months school by go^ to the
source - where' it. has been demon
strated it can be fonnd and tbns
making an end of the suspense in
which the tax burdened fhrmers
and other lando'wners have been,
li'vlng since the McLean bill de
claring the educational policy of
the legislature was adopted six
weeks ago.
,At the preliminary meeting held
here tonight there were re^eren-
tativea from the foUoirlng coun
ties: Harnett. Bladen, Hoke, 1^.
Scotland, Johnston, Sampson. Col
nmbus, Robeson, Moore, and Cum
berland.
Vigorous effqrta for widespread
heraid^ing of the approaching meet
ing will be maden
The above notice is of deep In
terest to the citisens of Hoke
county. Much Interest has been,
manifest all over the county in this,
probably the greatest question
which has come up for the legis
lature’s consideration. It is highly
probable that a goodly number of
interested citizens will make the
trip to Fayetteville to voice i their
opinion and to hear that of .their
neighbors in sympathy with thMr
problems.
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Obstinate Prisoners Cause
Commissioners To Act
shouldered, unkempt youths taKES A THON8AND
these camps ^d before the train- BIRDS FOR A RIDE
* ; w Ing period was over, a bun o poultry car was shipped
' erect, neat and forward-looking men Raeford ■ ’Wfednesday.
X; was the result Elllglblllty or I ^ pounds shipped,
training in these camps is m ® hens were far the most pop-
/ ' to a certain number from ladles , in the car, there being
county and the quota is xisua y gQg2 pounds of this variety. , Leg-
filled long before the camp starts. insufficient to make a
» The General made a fine impros- ^gognt color Uhheme, there being
siou on all who heard him and only forty pounds of these in tho
preshedT a desire to como again. noosters, however, jthought
better of the trip and ehere were
Mr A A. Conoly, of Red Springs, 431 pounds of them,
was 'a visitor in the metropolis of This shipment netted the sellers
Raeford Tuesday.
the enviable som of $1,075.23.
Something new since the Hoke
County road camp and prison force
was formed, came to a climax
Thursday when a called meeting of
the county commissioners was held
to consider ways and means of han
dling prisoners who were unruly or
refused to work. On Monday Supt.
Smith brought one prisoner back
to jail because he refused to work
and upon hearing of the trouble,
Mr. F. F. McPhaul, chairman of the
hoard, immediately called a special
meeting of the commissioners which
was held Thursday morning,
j it vseems that a minor spirit of
mutiny has sprung up in the camP
and reports are tiiat considerable
trouble has been experienced. It
is reported that on one occasion a
truck load of prlsoherB, after being
carried to their w;ork, refused to
get out of the truck for some time
and held out until they decided of
their own accord to work/ Anoth-|noon.
er instance happened at the dining
LOSES BROODER HOUSES IN
FIRE THURSDAY MORNING
esty and integrity were absolute
Mr. -Dellinger is survived by a
large family, afflicted by his death.
Those who survive hlnf In his im
mediate family are, his widow, Mrs
Lola R. Dellinger, three sons, R C.
Dellinger of /Wilmington, E. T. Del
linger of Harrels Store, and Keith
Dellinger of Raeford; six daugh
ters, Mrs. C. V. Tllson and Mrs
V. N. Fair of Llncolnton, Mrs. J.
D. Lawrence of New Orleans,
Mrs.. R. D. Orrell of Wilmington,
Mrs. P. G. Beach of Florence, S. C.,
Miss Ruth Dellinger of Raeford. He
la also survived by the following
brothers and sisters: J. W. Dellin-
S^' of Newton, S. M. Dellinger of
Charlotte, W. C. Dellinger of Hick
ory, Miss Bernice Dellinger of Den
ver, and Mrs. John J. Joy of Char
lotte.
The funeral was held In Mount
Holly cemetery Wednesday after-
Flre, the origin of which is un
known, destroyed a brooder house
belonging to Alfred Cole, early
Thursday morning. The siren sound
ed about one o’clock in the morniax
and the fire company answered the
call but were nnable to save the
house. The honse, efuipment and
about two hundred baby chicks were
lost in the blaze.
Combat Train
Is Dressed Up
room at headquarters when one^ Silage and pasture cut the grain
prisoner refused to eat his supper feed bill of Oldham Brothers, dairy
until he was furnished a particular
kind of food that he desired.
Drastic steps were taken* by the
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men of Catham county, by 60 per
cent during the past winter. The
cows are in better' condition than
usual, say the owiters.
The local Combat Train, is dbi-
tinctly dressed up since the arri'val
of the new collar and cap la
ments which arrived recently.
These ornaments not only serve to
identify the organization to which
the men belong hut also add a dis
tinct touch to the uniforms whl'.h
the men wear. On the one collar
ornament are seen the letters "U.
S.” in gold with the superimposed
letters “N. C.„ identifying the state
and national connections of the
train. On the other collar Ure the
symbols of the coast artillery -with
the number of the regiment, ‘M**.
On the caps is the Eagle, symbol
i of the United States army.