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RBCORDING HOKE COUNTTJ’i PRESENT WITH JUSTICE Tourna LOOKINO’TO . HOKE COUWTT3 FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE 1^' THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME .XXVII—Number 14 RAEFORD. N. C., FRIDAY, JULY lOth, 1931 $1.50 YEAR. IN ADVANCE PROPOSAL France Agrees to “Spirit” Of Hoover Plan; Detail, to be Vv^orked Out by Experts; Will Have Wide Effect. WnNERS HXIILITW UNITS GO SCHOOL TERM TO FORT MOULTRIE «. « « * * KING It * '* * * * King coiToi.. ;-RAEnHI0 OOV SORT SmOAT School Term Next Year Not To Exceed Eight Months; Office Of Demonstrator Is • Upheld. ' Cotton spoke with * * mournful air, while seated on * his fleecy thron-;: “My sub. " * jects drive ^me to despair. I * *‘wish they’d learn to stand a- * * lone. They lean on me for every. * * thing; and all thtir burdens I Two Weeks of Intensive Train ing' In Store For Raeford Soldiers; All Units of 252nd: * must tote. Although I am a * Regiment Train Together. TTie county Board of Commissi * kindly king, I vow their meth * ods get my goat. Each autumn, ' * from my whitening fields, 1 ^ Watson Bethune Recovering From Pistol Shot in L.he''.t; Think Shot Intended For Another Man. After a period of anxiety and negotiations which extend^ ovei two wucks, th6 consent of France to the one year’s suspension- of payments on war . debts and repa. rations suggested by President ^y. -(yiu ije allowed a term of mor^ Hoover, has been secui’ed and Presi. than eight months. Many schools dent Hoover has announced that are already running shorter terms the moratorium is in effect as of than this but eight months hao July first, 1931. For sixteen days PtMV. CYRUS HcAkSON ADCOX officially become the maximum ac the entire time of the president has private Cyrus Pearson Adcox. Cum. been occupied with the work of ■ ,berland County’s first soldier to presenting the plan to the nations! ^fjg supreme sacrifice in tlie Battery F of the third Battallion | 4, j (jpj„g them a goodly rent; '' loners meeting in their regu’ar ses.' Battallion Headquarters ahd 'i -+ but little joy to them it yields i Sion at ten o’clock Tuesday, de- Qgjjj.yjgt ^rain of the First Battal-j * because the coin’s already spent. * creed eight months school sessions Regiment of. Coast Ar- * They buy on credit at the stores ^ i for a'l county schools. During tn ,■ . . .1, * next session no school in the conn, til’ery (Tractor Drawn), of the North Carolina National Guard will involved. A week ago Secretary of f the Treasury MePon journeyed to ’*■ France to head, the negotiations in Paris where succe'ss of the entire venture seemed to hinge on the reaction of the .French govern. ■ ment. In Paris a series of confer ences took place with representa tives of the French government with the result that Monday a note was dispatched from the French govern, ment to Hoover, saying that they accepted his p’an in principle. De. * .Mir, World War.-'The 1931 Citizens Mili tary Training . Camp at Fort Bragg has been named Camp Adcox in uieanry of th’s hero. , NAME BRAGG CAMP~ FUR CTRUS tails of the plan will be worked out by experts. The holiday, morally, is now in effect. Last minute discussions be tween American aiid French offi cials hinged around the method of repaying the money -which will not be payed during the years boh. day. French officia’s contended for repayment, first immediately, then in five years. Hoover wanted to make repayment in twenty-five years. The final decision was that the money shall he payed back in a ten year funding plan effective Ju'5Sfe.#rst. 1333. '’l||Kwing the successful com. pletHthf the negotiations, Presi. dent Hoover made the following statement: .“The acceptance of this proposal has meant sacrifices by the American people and the form itizens Training Camp Is Named For First Cumber land County Man To Fall In World War. Fort Brn»rg. July .5.—The 1931 Citizen Military Training Camp at Fort Bragg v.ms this morning offi cially named Camp Adcox by Major Feneral Frank R. McCoy, command ing general of the Fourth Corps 'rea, in memory of Cyrus Pear son Adcox. of Fayetteville, the first, Cumberland County man to make the upreme sacrifice in the world war. The OMT Camp is located in Cumberland county. . Immediately following the regular v.eek’v church services of the camp, in which Rev H. W. Koelling, pas tor of the Highland Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville, delivered a cording to the action of the com missioners. At the same time the Board of Education presented a supplementary budget for salaries of -principals but the state budget for principals was held to by the commissioners. Considering the fact that there was some sentiment in the county for the abolition of he office of County Farm Agent on the score of economy the commissioners vot ed to retain the office, provided' *^hat the county pay a maximum of sixty dollars per month on the sal ary of the agent. This is a reduc tion of twenty dollars per month on the county’s part of the agent’s salary. The salary has heretofore been payed in equal parts by the county, state and Federal govern ments. The board went on record as favoring ten cents per bale as the fee to be payed the cotton weigher for weighing cotton. They ordered also that the State . Highway Com mission he allowed to use the county stockade for one year from July first of this year free of charge, this order being made in confirmation of a lease made. Mrs. H. A. Cameron made a report to the board on the work being done in the fight against pellagra, her report being received with approva.l Several men and women were put on the pauper role and one was taken off. er allied governments who are with | sermon, Captain John S. Mallory, all others fighting a world wide Adjutant of the CMTC, read Gener- /4> '1 economic depression and deficits m governmental budgets. The econo mic loads most seriously oppressing the people of Germany and central Europe will be immensely lighten, ed. The attention of the world has been riveted on .France since all the other important nations Involv. ed acceded readily to Hoover o pro posal. The plan has yet to be offi cially ratified by congress in the United States and similar represen tative bodies in the other nations taking part. A poll has been taken of the American congress by tele, graph and has indicated a large majority in favor of the mortaorium. No trouble in getting the ratification The AriiV’ican clongress EDUCATION BOARD called upon to ratify the plan when , WAITS ON RALEIGH they meet December 7th. ~ Local Board Awaits Deliverances REPORT MADE ON YEAR'S Of state Equalization Board FIGHT AGAINST PELLAGRA Which Controls Education. al Orders No. 7, issued by Major Harvey D. Higley, 17th Field Artil lery, CMTC Commmandant, declar ing the camp to be known as Camp A.dcox. Brigadier General Manus Mc- Closkey, Commanding General , of Fort Bragg, then introduced Major General Frank R. McCoy As guests' of honor at the dedi catory ceremonies were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Adcox, of Fayetteville, parents of Private Cyrus Pearson Adcox, and brothers and sisters and other near relatives Cyrus Pearson Adcox enlisted in the regular army early in the war and went to France with the First Division, being a private in Com- (Continued on back page) entrain at Raeford. Sunday morn ing at six o’clock for Fort MouUre, S. C., for the annual encampment. With them go Lt. Col. R B. Lewis, Capt. J. H. Blue and Capt. R. A. Matheson, staff officers of the 252ud regiment. The two units will reach Charleston at one p m. Sunday and men and baggage will proceed to Fort Moultrie by the Cooper Rive^ Bridge or by government boats. They will make camp Sun day afternoon and regular work will begin , Monday morning at five thirty. The morning part of the day is ' used by the units as work period and beginning with calisthenics and breakfast, a strenuous period oc cupies the time until lunch. The soldiers will take part in infantry 'iriP, artillery drill, gas instruction, both use of gas and combattin.g gas, and other military activities. Artillery drill includes telephone communication, gun drill and firiii and target course plotting. The afternoon is given over to recre ation. An organteed program of recreation will be carried out. The athletic program will contain rivalry between the various units in base ball, and track and the beaches of the island and Charleston will be available for the men. Prizes are awarded at the end of camp both to individuals and units making high ■sprvres under the noint system which enhances competition ■Watson B^thnne, is recovering from the effects of a uistol shot wound received Saturday mornin.g about two o’clock at the har d.s of _ ■Tennings Maultsby. Both are prom- most everything from pork to * young Raeford men. Stories of * pills; to my account they charge =- affray point to the belief that * the score, and I’m compelled to - shots were intended for anoth. * foot the bills. Eggs, bacon, -; g^^j ff,gj Bethune 3 wound- ■> beans, or onion sets, they buy * ^^,gg accidental. * them from the merchant’s * « shelves; and keep me loaded * | The shooting was the le.sult of * down with debts for things they ’ an alleged enmity between -Maults. * should produce themselves. They *; by and I. E. McAnulty, of Mon. * spread my credit out so thin * trose. developing out of a disa. it hurts my prestige and my ' j greement when the yOung men, a. * fame. They play a game that * , long with others were- at Me tnulty s * cannot win, and when they * i house near the Sanatorium. _ Maultsby left the house and went to a filling station at Montrose. Some time later John Pethel. driv-’ ing his car and accompanied by win, * lose, I get the blame. If they * * would raise a garden patch, and keep some pigs, say three or * * four, the wolf would not so * often scratch the varnish from * ■ Watson ^ Bethune and McAnulty, * their kitchen door. If they would * 1 went to Montrpse to take Bethune keep a cow or two, some hens * home. As they drove up to the filling station at Montrose Maults. by emerged and opened fire with a' 32 calibre revolver, firing five times. The first bullet struck young Be thune. entering the right side of his chest, skimming completely a, CTOSS it and being embedded in the muscle of the ' left breast. Th-' second hullet struck the running boar^tt^of' the car and the ot’—■ three went wild. Pethel. as he too'K * of goodly ancestry, ’twould * change their pessimistic view, * and greatly ease the strain on * me. I’m sure if they would do * their part to live at home and * * board there, too, that I could * help them get a start and own * * the comforts that are due. But * * when they ask me to supply * each want, from soup to shingle. * bob, I really must confess that * * I feel hardly equal to the job. * > the situation in. continued to drive If I were not compelled to dig WRECK AT SANATORIUM D. C. Fields, 25, of Greensboro and Lumberton, driving an old model Ford, crashed into the rear of another similar Ford driven by negroes on the highway just east of the Sanatorium Friday night, causing slight damage to the car he struck and greater damage to i his own car. No one was hurt in the collision. Fields w''as found to be under the influence of liquor ^nd was brought to Raeford where he was lodged in the county jail. He was released on bond Saturday and returned to Raeford Tuesday Tfternoon, submitting to the judge ment of the Recorder’s court, from which he received a sentence of $50 and cost and was forbidden to drive a car for three months. The Hoke County Board of Eclu. At the meeting of the County nation met Tuesday, June 7th in ' I the car and turned south on the "for things their gardens should * road which enters the h’.gh’.va.v ct * produce, for products of the * ^ that point. Proceeding south c. ^ took * cow or pig, the hen, the turkey * ^ by.road that led him t'n •. int.) * or the goose, then I could help * > the highway and brought the * them hoard some dough, and * wounded man into Raeterd for * slow but surely get ahead, and *, niedical attention. * all my bounty would not go to 1 * pay for horses that are dead.” Maultsbv was arrested Saturday * W. P. Morrison in Farm & Ranch * : afternoon on the charge 0!” assault If * ^ * If: It * It * * 41 with a deadly weapon with intent MRS. AUTRY DIES Mrs. Fanny Autry, beloved and respected woman of the Blue Springs section died Sunday after noon, July 5th, after a long and useful life. She was seventy-two All batteries of. the 252nd regi ment will be at Fort Moultrie si multaneously. The commanding offi cer of the regiment is Col. Royce S. McClelland of Wilmington. The units making up the regiment, all of which will be at camp at the •ame time as the Raeford units are: Service battery, 'WTiiteville; Head quarters battery. 'Wilmington; Band section, Wilmington; Medical de tachment, Greensboro; First baN tallion, Headquarters battery and Combat Train. Raeford; Battery A, Wilmington; Battery B, Luiflbertoh; j Second Battallion, Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, Battery C. and Battery D, Greensboro; Third battallion, Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, High Point; Battery E. High Point: and I^attery F, Raeford. STATE TOBACCO IS to kill and—was - rele-ised on three :i’.'’.ul; ed doba-s ban i. The • case vms set for ihis we d;'"; sessi n uf neeorder’s court, 'out was contin le 1 iiiJiil 'luesday. July awaicing * tiie ii?io\ery of Bethaii; who wil; 'oe a main witness. — Tobacco Expert Says Worms Are Doing Much Evil And Will Do More If Not Intel- RECORDERS COURT In Recorder’s Court Tuesday George Cromartfe. colored, was tried ligently Fought by Farmerc. gg a charge of assault with a dead. ' ly weapon with intent to kill and Horn and bud worms ravaging to- found not guilty. He had hit MEETING AT GALATIA Commissioners the County Board of regular session with all members years 'old. Her husband preceded Welfare made a report of the work present. The activities of the board her to the grave several years ago. done in the cure and prevention of, ^gre necessarily handicapped due Pellagra in Hoke County in the fg^.^ (.|.)gj. tpey -were awaiting year from July 1930 to July 1931. j necessary information from the 'The report showed that six clinics Equalization Board, in session had been held under the direction Rnipigh on Wednesday and of the county physician and other ^ Thursday of this week, the delib- doctors and that they had treated 1 orations of this session being of Funeral services were conducted at Wagram and she was buried in Spring Hill cemetery. She is sur vived by two sons, one daughter and several grandchildren. Dr. W. M Fairley inaugurated a series of meetings at the Galatia Presbyterian church on Monday night of this week. Services are being held morning and evening. Mr. John Aldei’man, who is’ remembered in Raeford as the 'musical diiector of the series of services held in the Raeford Presbyterian church in -May, is directing the music at the Gala tia meeting. Dr. Fairley will close the meeting on Sunday morning and his pulpit in Raeford will be filled by Rev. G. R Bain, pastor of the Galatia church. bacco fields in North Carolina this season' are causing more damage than at any period in the last ten years yet , they may be controlled by simple poisoning methods. “There is probably mo:-e damage to tobacco by worms this year than (Continued on back page) one Henry Hunt with a car' s-pring but the court found that he acted in self defense. Two cases growing out of the same altercation were tried against Henry Hunt. One for carrying a concealed weapon and one for assault with a deadly wea pon. He was fined fifty dollars and’ the costs for carrving a pistol and' MORE HONORS FOR j roads for shooting ' it at Cromar- tie, judgment to be suspended up_ RAEFORD SCOUTS on payment of the cost and his good behavior for two years. Hunt Local Boys Make Scouting Progress pj.gyg^j gg excellent character in court At Waccamaw Camp; Thomas Cameron Wins Honors. . I 113 cases, sixty.three of whom appeared at the first clinic. At the last, clinic, only active cases were I summoned. One hundred and five \ 1; cards were sent out but only fif- Y teen cases reported. Of these ten better and five were no worse. The welfare board ths year gave out 5B0 pounds of yeast, 417 cans of salmon, 440 pounds of rice and 500 cans of soup mixture.' ’The county . appropriated two hundred and twen. ' ty^ive dollars for the Work. There was a balance of seventeen dollars PI and eighty, cents as the year’s work closed. - CHARLES ENGLISH DIES 'OlKirles F. Engli'-.H, prominent farmer of the Stonewall section, died at his hbme on July fifth.' He •wa6 twenty-four years of age. For three years he had been In falling health and grew steadily weaker until the time of his death. He was t ^buried at Lumber Bridge on Mon. dayl July sixth. utmost importance to the work of the County boards at this time.n The board petitioned the County commissioners to allow them to take care of the required ten per cent cut of salaries in the case of principals in the county schools, This petition was refused by the commissioners. Publicity was also given to an action taken by the Board of Edu cation in its meeting of March 2nd, 1931. The board at that meeting passed a ruling that in the case of any teacher of the county schools who married during the school' year, her contract should he considered null and void. ’This ruling became effective on July 2nd, 1981. Under this rule, any teacher contracting marriage during the school year from July 2nd, 1931, shall render her contract void immediately upon such marriage. Definite action on school matters is expected from the hpard imme. diately upon messages telling of the deliberations of the State Board! of Eauallsatton this week. HOKE COUNTY’S WATERMELONS MUST BE WELL PACKED TO SELL WITH BEST The packing. of watermelons for Hoke county realize that their cars are sold in competition with those of growers who employ experienc ed and expert packers, they will realize that only with the best packing will we be able to compete with other growers over the coun try. The wholesale handlers of mel. ons insist upon a well packed car first of all. The appearance of the car has everything to do with the way it sells. Even the finest qual ity melons will bring a very poor price on the market if they are poorly packed and have gotten loose in transit.’’ Melon buyers -vyho frequented the sidings in Hoke county last year made this same complaint TTie quality of melons grown In the county is good but the growers must uphold a high standard of grading aand packing If they expect to make the most of their crop, In competition with growers In other sections. shipment will be more Important this year than ever before according to a statement made by a Raeford business man upon his return from a trip to New York and conferenc es with Important figures in ■ the. wholesale truck business in that city. The quality of the packing in the cars which have -been shipped from Hoke county in the last sev. eral seasons has not been of the best. Growers have yet to realize that a car which is loosely or care lessly packed will be loosened even more on the trip to Northern mar kets and will arrive in a condition, which if it does not’ prevent its ibelng sold, will at least make it bring a much lower price than the quality of the melons may warrant. “The necessity of having a good tight pack in a watermelon car was emphasized by every whole- akldr to ^^hom I talked,” he saidi '"When the watermelon growers in Frank Lo.klear. Indian, charged , with ba?tardy some time ago. had I judgment ccitiiuied upon payment Four members of the Raeford nf costs. t!’,p prosecutin.g witness Scout troop have returned from iiaving asked that the case be drop. Camp Chickagami. the camp of the ped. Cape Fear Area Council at Lake ;MePhar’.and and Neill Moore. Maecamaw and report a fine i colored, were found guilty of the of work and recreaticii. These four' of a pig from one Floyd boys did some splendid work dur. 1 Qpg|,gg, gg^j were found guilty. They ing their stay and reflect honoi , ^^^gj ^o Graham’s place "on the night on their troop and town. Thomas! jgjj. 2ud and killed his pig in Cameron received the highest hon. pgg gg,j carried it home. Deputy or in camp, being selected by the Barrington was summoned Friday camp directors as ‘‘Honor Scout’’ for the week in which he attended camp. This honor was based on work done and general character. Thomas won six merit badges in_. eluding Junior Life Saving and now lacks onlf a little work before b“. coming a Eagle Scout. William Lentz won five merit badges including Senior Life Saving. Clyde Upchurch and Hubert Cameron became First Class scouts. The four Raeford boys were in a tent together and along with their tent mates won tent honors last week. Thomas Camer on’s honor is paricularly disting uished ih that it marks him the best scout of seventy-eight boys at the encampment last week. Raeford’s troop has made progress its watch, word. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my friends for their kindness and many express- ibns of sympathy at the death ot my grand-daughter.—P. C. Howell. morning and worked up the tase which resulted in Mccre’« confess ion and telling on .vIcPharland. Moine Was sentenced to six months on the roads and iMcPharland to one year. D. C. Fields, white, plead guilty to operating a car while under the influence of whiskey and was fined fift^ dollars and the cost ard or dered not to drive a car for three months. A case charging Martin McKelth- an with the Illegal removal of timber was dismissed. Two cases against Jennings Maultsby were continued for two weeks on account of* the illness ot the leading witness. Watson Be thune. He was charged with a secret assault and of an assault with a deadly weapon with intent to km. Dan 'Bradshaw, charged with the Illegal poeaeMion of whiskey, had prayer for Judgment continued op. on payment of the costs.