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The Hoke County News
1^ Hdte County J««..l
volume XXXIV. NO. 43.
RAE^OBD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEB. 29th, 1940.
$1.50 PER YEAR
Clark Found
Gudtyh Local
Recorder's Court
Fresco Thompson
Duunond Veteran
L. T. Clark, funeral director of
Southern Pines, entered a plea of-
not guilty on the state’s charge in
Hoke county recorder’s court Tues
day that he had driven a motor ve
hicle on the puhUc highways while
luider ^ influence of intoxicating
liquors. However, after hearing the
evidence Judge W. B. McQueen re
turned a verdict of guilty as charged^
and sentenced Clark to serve sixty
days on the roads,' sentence to be
suspended on payment of a fine of
$50 and the costs of the court. Revo
cation ^ automobiles driver’s license
auh^^tic in such cases,
s. K. T. Butler, white woman of
iewall township, was found not
of allowing stock to rim at
large.
Harry Daniels, local colored man,
was charged with asault with a dead
ly weapon with intent to kiU. Prob
able cause wM found by the court
and it was ordered that Daniels be
held for the next term of Superior
court under a bond of $100. An
other case charging Daniels with dis
turbing religious worship was sent
to the Superior Court along with the
first.
Alex McNeill, local colored man,
was charged with using profane and
indecent language and assault with a
deadly weapon. He entered a plea
of guilty of the first offense only
and the state accepted. Sentence was
thirty days to be suspended on pay
ment of the court costs.
Cora Marshall, colored woman of
ue Spring township, was found
ilty of > receiving stolen goods,
wing it to have been stolen. Sen-
:e was 60 ^ays in jail to be sus-
S^ded. on payment of a fine of $10
■“ the court costs. .
d and Ed Marshall, colored men
Blue Springs township, entered
eas of guilty of breaking and en
ding and larceny and were bound
over to the nexi teith'^of Hoke^Wtih-
ty superior court imder bonds of $250
each. .
James Leach, colored man of Que-
whiffle township, charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill, was found guilty of aS'
sault with a deadly weapon and sen
tenced to serve four months on the
roads. : i
E. B. Denny Named
Manager for Broughton
Raleigh, February 26, —J. M.
Broughtoh, Democratic candidate for
Governor, today announced the ap
pointment of Mr. Emery B. Denny
of Gastonia as state manager for his
campal^. Mr. Dei^ has accepted
this appointment ahld will enter ac-
tivelRjnto the campai^ within the
days. ^ ,
^nny has been for more than
county attorney for Gas
ify, aittt: served as Mayor as
for a pei^Cd of eight years,
been actively engaged to the
practice of law to Gaston county
since 1919 and was formerly ' presi
dent of the Gaston County Bar As
sociation.
^ For many years Mr. Denny has
beejj^ prominently identified with
' Civic, church and other public activ
ities in Gastonia and to that section
of the state. He has served , as pres
ident of the Gastonia Civitian Club,
the Gastonia Chamber of Conunerce,
{Vi and is Past Master of Jgi^’Stolland
^ fiiemorial Masonic Lodge' of Gas-.
toriF.V. Also, he Is president of the
Ga&ifito County Public Library and
served fot^ two years as president of
the Board of Trustees of Garrison
General R^ital. For seventeen
years he has taught the Men’s Bible
of toe First Baptist church of
Gastonia.
A native of Surry county, Mr. Den
ny received" his pupation at Gil-
1am Aiademy dpd toe University cft
North Carolina. In 1922 he was mar
ried to hjis^ ^esfie Brandt Brown of
Salisbury, a'^duate-nf' toe Univer
sity of Noefh Carditoa, Woman’s Di-
wRPbn, aft Cweapsbww. Mr. and Mrs.
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IscCoantr
By ELMER L. SCHUYLER
Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 28.—^Base
ball fans of Raeford, meet Fresco
Thompson, manager of the Williams
port Grays for the season of 1940.
Believing Raeford folks would like
to know something about Marly Mc
Manus’ successor, toe News-Journal
correspondent contacted Fresco, who
confessed to thirty-seven yearfe, hav
ing been born in Centerville, Ala
bama, June 6, 1903, and explained
the Fresco cognomen as follows:
“C(mtrary to popular belief, Fresco
is not a nickname but my given
name. It is one of those old southern
family names that are sometimes at
tached to unsuspecting children from
below toe Mason Dixon line. My
nickname has always been ‘Tommy’
in baseball, although umpires occa
sionally caU me other names.”
With his parents. Fresco left Cen
terville at the age of four years and
lived at various times in St. Louis,
Chicago and New York City, where
he now makes his home with his
wife and six-year-old daughter, Ann.
He is five feet eight inches tall and
weighs 170 pounds. He attended
Columbia University for two years,
where his sole claim to fame lies in
th^ fact that he played freshman foot
ball with Lou Gehrig. He left school
when his folks moved from New
York to St. Louis. He began his
professional 'baseball career with
Grand Island of the Nebraska State
League.
His first major league job was
with Pittsburgh in 1925. Optioned
to Kansas City in the spring, he was
recalled in August and played in a-
bout fifteen games that fall, when
Pittsburgh won the National League
pennant. All of his major league
career was spent in -the National
League—one year with Pittsburgh,
four years with Philadelphia, two
years with Brooklyn amd two short
spells—1926 and 1934-^with the New
York Giants. _
Mr. Thompson is £>roud of the fact
that he had the good fortune to play
under two of the grandest characters
that baseball has ever had—John J.
(“Muggsy”) McGraw and “Uncle
Robby” Robinson.
He was'made captain of the Phil
lies during his second ylar in the
majors—in 1928, when Jimmy ,Wil-
won, who had been the captain, was
traded to the Cardinals. . He was
then just 24 years old. He made
ihore than 200 base hits to his second
season at Philadelphia and repeated
the feat twice in toe -minors. He
played with Montreal of toe Inter
national League during toe seasons of
1934, ’35 and part of ’36; fitiished
toe season t^th Minneapolis of .toe
American Association and was with
toe same teton. ,to ,19$7. In 1038
he managed Btodato^Eltoh of toe Sou
thern LeagUe,;«ehd toi' 1939- piloted
toe Hartforf (Cohn.) team of toe
Eastern League, 'whei^ his manager
ial ability and skill to handling play
ers enabled him to make a sensa
tional winner out of a club that had
trailed as a tail-ender imtil he was
placed in charge.
While a member of the Phinjes he
tied the record for second basemen
for number of putouts in one game,
at St. Louis, where he chalked up
eleven. In a game in Brooklyn, in
1928, he made nine putouts and ei^t
assists—a record for second base-
men. Unfortunately it was an exhi
bition contest.
He played in a Little World Series
in 1933 as a member of toe Buffalo
club of toe International league
against Columbus of ,th® American
Association. Among Columbus’
pitchers were Paul Dean and Bill
Lee. In all, he played thirteen years
of major league or .double-A ball,
from 1925 to 1938.
Mr. Thompf^On was one of tiie most
mpular managers in toe Eastern
League Iset season, and was wor-.
shiped by the members of toe Hart
ford club. Williamsport’s baseball
fans are expecting great things of
him. A “meet toe manager” dinner
for April 23, toe day before toe
Eastern League season begins, has
been planned. Hundreds'will attend.
Marty McManus, whom M r.
Thompson succeeds, been ap
pointed manager of toe San Antonio
Committee Visits
Highway
Commission
Hdce Young
DemocratsuTo
Rally March 20
More Action Taken
At Town Hall
A committee from this county
made up of J. A. McGoogan, N. H.
G. Balfour, A. K. Stevens, and 12
citizens of Rockfish made a trip to
Asheboro Monday where they aP"
peared before the highway commis
sion for this district
The men made the trip to urge
the commission to surface treat the
road from Raeford to Rockfish in
the near future.
They were well received and were
somewhat successful in that it was
promised that the commission would
investigate the proposal at once and
make a survey.
It was found that toe highway
workers of this district were at pres
ent busy repairing the damage done
to toe roads in the upper part of the
district by the severe weather this
winter and that the commission’s at
tention will be Isurgely confined to
this work until it is completed.
By K. A, MacDONALD
COUNTY BOARD TO MEET
The Board of Education will hold
its regular monthly mating in its
office at the courthouse on Monday,
March 4, at 10 o’clock.
J. L. McNeill, president of the Hoke
County Young Democratic club, an
nounced this week that the club
would hold a spring rally and feed
at Clyde's Pond on the night of Wed
nesday, March 20. This meeting is
to take toe place of the one originally
scheduled for last fall iVfiich was
postponed. AU tickets to the feed
last fall win be honored at the rally,
he said.
In announcing the meeting Mc-
NeiU said that aH candidates for gov
ernor and other state offices would
be invited to attend along with the
candidates for congress in the eighth
congressional dis^ct.
The Hoke County Young Demo
cratic club is a member of the Young
Democratic clubs of North Caro
lina which in turn is affiliated with
the National club. It was organized
in the fall of 1937 and has been fairly
active since that time having staged
several big rallies and birthday balls
and having been represented at three
state conventions of the Young Dem
ocrats.
The annual rally winding up the
membership drive of the organiza
tion last faU was postponed and the
officers hope that, as this is an
elation year, all of the more than
150 members and some extra will be
present at the March meeting.
OF
COLORED TEACHERS
COUNTY MEET
On Monday at 4 o’clock P. M., a
county-wide negro teachers meeting
was held at Upchurch school. At
this meeting Dr. Skeen from the
Sanatorium administered the tuber
culin skin test to Sb. the teachers.
Mr. Keeler of West End, representing
toe Ni C. Blind Commission gave in
structions preparatory to holding a
county-wide eye clinic. Dr. Perry
then showed a two^reel picture show
ing the method of syphilis control at
Brunswick, Ga.
TEACHERS TAKE TUBERCULIN
TEST. ,
Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock the
white teachers met at the gymnasium
and took the tuberculin test. After
this Mr. Keeler gave the instructions
for the eye clinic. The election of
state officers of the N. C. E. A. took
place. The president, Prin. Mor
gan of the Mildouson school, was
empowered by vote to appoint 4
delegates to the N. C. E. A. as
sembly in Raleigh on Meurch 14to-
15to-16th.
Hamlet Man Enters
Race For Governor
Last Wednesday night toe SMALL
group of business men who are in
terested hi the future of Raeford met
with the Mayor and toe board of
commissioners at the town hall where
the subject of improving this town
was still the topic of conversation.
The meeting heard a report from
a committee appointed previously by
the mayor to investigate the possibil
ities of issuing a pamphlet giving in
teresting and attractive facts about
Raeford and Hoke county with a view
to bringing more persons and enter
prises here. This report was pre
sented by R. B. Lewis and it showed
that the committee had toorou^ly
investigated the subject and had
studied similar pamphlets published
by other towns. - Mr. Lewis also read
a tentative list of subject matter to
be contained in the pamphlet and
submited several picures for con
sideration.
It was decided that the pamphlet
would be published and the same
committee was designated to prepare
the subject matter and attend to the
details of editing and printing it. The
financing of the project will be dis
cussed when the committee definite
ly ascertains what the cost of the
publication will be.
The committee was instructed to
attempt to have another report ready
by next Tuesday night when the
board holds its next regular meeting.
If this proves to be impossible a
meeting will be called to receive the
report..
Hamlet, Feb. 26.—^Bryant Thomp
son, Hamlet businessman, today be
came the seventh candidate to enter
the race for Governor of North Car
olina in the Democratic primary.
In announcing for Governor, Mr.
Thompson issq,ed a 11-poirit state
ment in which he declared that he
favored repeal of the sales tax; a
detire, to see North Usuttiina aboHsh
whiskey, beer, and*‘Wie and a di
version of the highway fund to the
general fund to meet the needs of
the State.
Mr. Thompson was born October
23, 1902, in Cumberland county. For
several years he has been connected
with J. W. Thompson and Son of
Hamlet, four-wheel baggage truck
builders. He is married and has a
six-year-old son.
Other candidates for Governor in
the Democratic primary are J. M.
Broughton of Raleigh, Wilkins P.
Horton of Pittsboro, Paul Grady of
Kenly, A. J. Maxwell of Raleigh,
Lee Gravely of Rocky Mount, and
Mayor Tom Cooper of Wilmington.
Locals Finish
Basketball Schedule
With Three Defeats
National Goard
Goes To Fort
Moultrie Next July
Adjutant-General J. Van B. Metis
said this week that tentative plans
caU for North Carolina national guard
troops to train this summer at Fort
Bragg, Camp Jackson, near Colum
bia, S. C., and Fort Moultrie at
Charleston, S. C.
Dates tentatively fixed for var
ious units are: 252d coast artillery,
under Col. R. S. McCleUand of Wil
mington, at Fort Moultrie, July 7to
to 21st.
It is to this regiment that the ^e-
ford units of the North Carolina Na
tional Guard belong. Lieut.-Col. R.
B. Lewis is executive ottveer. Major
R. A. Matheson is senior medical of
ficer, and Captain J. H. Blue is
first battalion adjutant. The 252d
went to Fort Story, Va., last year
due to the epidemic of infantile par
alysis in South Carolina. *
113 th Field artiUery, under Col. J.
B. Cheshire of Raleigh, at Fort Bragg
July 14 to 28.
30th Signed company; staff offic
ers and detachment of the 30th di
vision; 105th engineers, under CoL
G. K. Hobbs of Raleigh; 105th med
ical regiment, under CoL J. A. New-
eU of Henderson; state staff and state
detachment, imder General Metts, all
at Camp Jackson, July 7 to 21.
Headquarters 60th brigade, under
General Don E. Scott of Graham;
headquarters company of the 60th
brigade; 120th infantry under Col. J.
H. Manning of Raleigh; headquarters
first battalion 105th quartermaster
regiment; and Company A of the
quartermaster regiment, all at Camp
Jackson, July 21 to August 4.
The Hoke High School basket ball
teams cdosed Jtheir schedule with
three defeats. The girls played their
last game Friday night at the high
school gymnasium and were defeat
ed by the Candor girls’ team 28 to
3. The Candor boys defeated the
local lads 32 to 8 in the second game
of the doubleheader.
The Hoke high boys were defeated
in their final game by the Fayette
ville team 44 to 14 Tuesday night
in Fayetteville.
Coach Smith’s teams have not
broken any records but they have
introduced basketball to the athletic
curriculum of Hoke High School. The
boys’ team won 2 and lost 8 games.
The girls won 1 and lost 6.
On Wednesday at the same places
and hours Dr. Skeen read the tuber
culin tests. Results of these tests
will be made available by the Sana
torium at an early date. The Board
of Education and teachers of the
county appreciate what Dr. McCam
and Dr. Skeen are doing for them.
AH patrons of the schools should ap
preciate this service.
NEW COURSE AT HIGH SCHOOL
A course in “Stories of the Bible,”
has been added to the curriculum of
the hi^ school. This course carries
dne half unit credit
' Miss geddUi here
Miss Leatma GedHe, formerly of
Raeford, now with the John C. Wins
ton Publishing Co., was a visitor in
the schools this week.
N. Y. A CTOP MAKES TABLES
The N. Y. A; shop is completing
enough tabjles to fumtehf.one of the
primary rooms in the Raeford grad
ed 'schopl. This wiU release the desks
in that room for use elsewhere.
SCHOOLS IN GOOD SHAPE
The W. P. A. is completing a school
repair project ^This pay period tiiat
has put. the sdiool buildings in tiie
bounty ^ the best fix they have been
in in 5 yeaw. 4
f! Forestry thinhing. demonstrations
^ were held on the fanhs of Israel and
Saterwhiie ne^ .ithe Sanatorhim; L
M. McGougan, ljit(^^Hta«ewall town
ship. and Dr Seavejr Rii^ismith, ne^
Wayside filling reports A.'^8.
Knowles, ooimtjr 'tagehi Assisting
with these demohsteation, w«l W* J.
Barker, assiirtant eldensloit
from a State' CoUege extuutipn
“service. Mt. Barker was ,pl#^
with the interest being shown "in
tbimting forest trete ;in th^'^Coup^.
U^er the ppH
of 8(4 IdOliU praet^ or eq%-
club of the r^exas League,, a famf
of the St Louis Browns.
For next week’s, article; Secretary
J, R^. Clunlc has promised the Gray’s
roster, whirA wiU inform Raeford
fans:, coi(%iii|daag Jfae; material they
wiU ’ aeecdui^ the Grays’ stay in
the SSotith." ‘
BASEBALL PRACTICE STARTS
Spring baseball practice has start
ed and Coach ClaA expects to have
good team this year.
Hiden Ramsey Will
Deliver The I^eynote
• Raleigh, Feb. 2*.—^D. Hiden Ram
sey, Asheville publisher, wiU deliver
the keynote speech at the State Dem
ocratic convention here May 17, Gov
ernor Hoey announced today.
The Governor said he had been
informed of Ramsey’s designation by
R. Gregg Cherry of Gastonia, state
Democratic chairman. Ramsay also
wiU serve » temporary chairman of
the convention until ‘’a permanent
chairman is elected.
Hoey 'pointed out that J. M.
Broughton of Ralei^, who keynoted
the 1^6 convention, represented the
central part of the state; Congress
man Lindsay Warren of Washington,
N. C., 1938 keynoter, represented the
east; and Ramsey wiU represent the
west.
The 1934 keynoter was former Gov
ernor and U. S. Senator Cameron
Morrison of Charlotte. Governor Hoey
was the keynoter in 1920.
U. N. C. Alumni To
Meet March 8th
Committee To Hear
Complaintg Of
Tobacco Farmers
Farmers, who were dissatisfied
with their tobacco aUotments are
having their cases heard this week
before a review committee composed
of three Cumberland county farmers,
says A. S. Knowles, county agent.
Those making up the committee are
J. R. Thagard of FayetteviUe route 5,
S. B. Jones, FayettevHle, and N. B.
Pate, FayetteviUe.
Forty-nine farmers filed applica
tions for review of their tobkpeo
quota.
' Chapel Hill, Feb. 27.—A. report on
the progress of the TiUett plan to
carry examples of distinctive woric
at the University of North Caro
lina to its alumni, to be foUowed by
a demonstration program using the
“question-and-answer” or “witness
stand” method, wiU be among the
features of the Alumni assembly here
March 8th.
A dinner meeting and reception wiU
also mark the first formal appearance
in Chapel HiH of the new controller-
elect, William D. Carmichael, Jr.,
who wUl assume office in June, ac
cording to Secretary Maryon Saund
ers’ announcement of the
program today.
The geenral assembly of the Alwn-
ni asspeiation wiU be held at 6:45
okitock. Preceding this wiU be three
meetings during the day ot poiqps
within the association. AU gejctinn*
wUl be at the Carolina Inn, whose
new additions vriU he open tor pub
lic inspection at open house Thurs
day evening, March 7th.
jc.
Thn rcgiilar monthly or^ttftedic
clinic . for crippled dUldreif'wUl .be
h^ (^t the Agriculture BuOding in
Lumbiteton on Friday, Search 1, be-
gipning at 9;80 and la tm.
16; an indigant^alti^^
jraant' «f
pr.'Lmox D. Baker of Duke hoi'
wU^be tiie “
FLAY TO BE AT ASHEIfONT
The Ashemont P.-T. A. is practic
ing for a play that etiU be presented
at an early date. •
AAA Adimnittrator
Visitti County Agent
ii-'i ' • ■ i ■■
Mr. i. B. Hudson, asiiisiant ad
ministrator of ea^ central jegiqii of
die AgriculturiH;Adjustnient Admin-
ist^titet el Wttfbingten^ was in Rae-
fbrd liM Saturday aftemoqh, pairing
the county agmtii (tfflce a visit, aaya
A. S;
‘ N[i^.>Hudsan had been in a re-
psniH Was
vi8itingj»vtojil eoun^ ogticestiiroiitfi
-thii .sidlfcn, j-jii
Cotton Improvement
Meeting At Court
House Tomorrow
Hoke farmers interested in joining
in a program lor improving the qual
ity of cotton for this section shduld
make an effort to attend a meeting
at the court house Friday, at 2:30
P. M., March 1, says A. S. Knowles,
county agent
Mr. Ralph Raper, extension cotton
specialist wiU discuss ways of im
proving tiie quality of cotton and
how the government free classifica
tion of cotton fits into the one-variety
cotton community. AU cotton farm
ers are urged to attend this mreting.
Congressman Burikin’s
Secretary Back On Job
Washingtem, Feb. 26.—Miss Jane
Pratt of ThomasviUe, N. C., secre
tary to Reprerentative Wilibuh O.
Burgin of tiie Eightii Distitet n-
tuined to Washing^ tiUs morning
from Roandlw, Va., where die was
called hy the serloui UInMa of her
motiier, Un. Lena XitUe Xhatt Etar
sister, URb Mary Pndt aln is erlb-
icalty iU.at tim home of h«r hrotbir»
L.
Boy Scout House
Being Repaired
The meeting house of the Raeford
Boy Scout troop in Upchurch’s pas
ture back of the Hoke County High
School is being repaired this week
and the boys wiU probably have
their first meeting there some time
tomorrow night. -
The repairs, consisting mostly of
new windows, are being paid for by
the Raeford Kiwanis club, which
sponsors the troop.
ODDITY
The News-Journal appeared five
times this month, tiie ^ortast month
in the year. We would like for
some w^ informed reader to teU us
when it wiU hanpen again, or in other
words when there wiU be five Thurs
days in February. We guess itiU be
in 1968. Right or wrong?
Brunsvdek Stew
There wUl be a Brunswig Stew,
qitonsored by the Wmnan^ Auxiliary,
at the Montrose emmnunity house
I^iday nighi Mardi 1st, beginning
at 6 o’dodk. Hie pubUc is cordtelly
invited.
Revival Sehneet
Bsv. W. U IVilW. LRUaietak Witt
• levival meating at Shiloh
Plreabyterian diurdi, Maatebaib be-
“ ty. Mbrdi Md “
hddat 1$
. -'“fry, ”
Welles Leaves Ta ^ ^
See Hitler After Ta^} ^
In Rome With Duce
Rome, Feb. 28.—Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles left early today
for Zurich, Switzerland, on the way
to Germany to meet with Adolf mt-
ler and German Foreign Minister von
Ribbentrop on his fact-finding tour
of Europe as President RoosevdlYs
personal emissary.
The American envoy also wUl con
fer with Field MarshaU Hermann;
Wilhelm Goering during his twcMlaF
stay in Berlin before going to
Pa^xand l^ndon. v;
Vis3>ly tired from his round od
confermces here, WeUes entrained at
12:15 a. m. (6:15 p. m. E. 8. T.) ad^:
ter he and Myron C. Taylor, MV,
Roosevelt’s envoy to the Vatiean,
laundied throu^ the opening stages
the President’s double-barxalled peaeax
initiative.
Three Beer Licenses
Revoked By Boards
Raleigh, Feb. 27.^—The NiosSa Cbv*'
olina Brewers and Bear Distribtttosa
committee leigartod today tiwd .Sisi
town aldomen of Canton,
wood county, revoked tim!
two retail beer da
and that Brunswitec eoiaaty
sioneis had also mohag «
er’s ticowe. CoL Mggr B.
rector of ttw f.ommHtiaiai
or dose up campatsa,]
Hlad Vtm xevocaflon piiniinf
Canton.
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