A.
Sent To RKii
For Not Having
Aiver’s licme
Willie ArntSd, (local colored man,
went to the roaoi^nf, thirty days this
week when he did not have the mon
ey to pay the court costs after having
entered a plea of guilty of violating
the rpad laws by operating a' motor
vehicle without a driver’s licensf.
' Arnold’s case,came up in the ratb-
er brief session of Hoke Coimty Re
corner’s court fast Tuesday and he
was given a sentence»of thirty days
to be suspended on payment of the
costs.
Alexander Coulter, white transient,
was called for spe^ng and failed
to appear. Judge McQueen ordered
hi^^h bond of $15 be forfeited and
for court costs.
r Johnnie McKinnon, local colored
4 - mwi, lilead guilty of>^ing drunk
I\id^k disorderly and wascentenced to
thirly days on the' roads. Sen
tence was suspended on payment of
the court costs. In another case Mc
Kinnon was foimd guilty of assault
with a deadly weapon and sentence
was three months. It was suspended
on payment of $25 and the costs.
Willie Ashley, local colored man,
plead guilty of carrying a concealed
weapon and was sentenced to serve
' 60 days on the roads. The same de
fendant was sentenced to 30 days
for being drunk and disorderly. Sen
tences were suspended on payment
of a fine of fifty dollars in the former
and the costs in both cases. .
Plummer Bandy, colored" man of
' McLauchlin township, asked for .a
jury trial in two cases in which he
was charged with assault with a
deadly weapon. Judge McQueen re
manded both cases to Superior Court
fpr trial.
ester McRae, local colored man,
found guilty of assault with a
weapon and sentenced to 30
days on the roads, sentence to be
pended on payment of the court
co4
^JcAdoo Boseman,' white man of
.UL^^wfish, entered a plea of guilty of
^ being'ilrtink'iaxia^Tlfebrdefly' and us
ing profane and indecent lan^age.
Sentence of 30 days was suspended
on condition that the defendant pay
the costs and behave himself for six
months.
BEARER OF THE KEY
Snow Falb Easter;'
Cold Wave Gmeral
Elmer L. Schnyler, editor of the Williamsport, Pa., Gazette and Bulletin,
(far right) receives city key from Mayor Leo C. Williamson for presetnation
to offlc«ak here where the Grays are holding their Spring Training Camp.
J. Roy Cluhk, secretary of the club and Fresco TO®®*!*®®**, manager, stand
Mr. Schuyler. Behind l^yer Williimsen are CouncUnien Ray R.
Ha”. Frank W. Henninger, Samuel S. Wendle, and Eugene A. S^fer. The
key was presented by Mr. Schuyler in a ceremony last night at the Young
Democratic Rally.
Kivpuiis.Club Will
St^ge Miifstrel
Show Next Week
A cas^ of 26 local stage stars have
been rehearsing for the past two
weeks under the tutelage of Director
Tommie Upchurch for the big min
strel show which the Kiwanis dub is
prese^^ at Hoke Coimty high
sch(^il^hie night of Friday, April
Joh’^ the many'Kiwanians
Ithe ‘all-star cast will con-
voices and antics of such
artists as Starr McMillan,
Greene, Martin McKeithan,
Devo Austin, Robert Gatlin, and Dave
Clark. A chorus of ten ladies will
also be featured.
What is doubtless to be a highlight
of the program is the appearance of
^/O. A. Chafer; magician who travels
•foTijarus Bros., distributors of Edge-
worth and Hi-Plane tobaccos. Mr.
Shaffer, who has entertained many
in this territory with his trickery,
and magic, will do a fifteen minute
dummy act in the minstrel.
Marcus Smith, Currie McLauchlin,
Lewis Upchurch, and E. C. Crawford
will present several humorous skits
on the pro^api.
This m||iitrel, the proceeds of which
will be iwSd for underprivileged chil
dren, will be the fhst appeal the Ki
wanis club has ever directly made to
the general public for help in its
many benevolent and civic-minded
,-«Cts. This time they will give a
pxipgram of good entertainment and
use all receipts for a good purpose.
The minstrel has already been invited
to appear in Wagram under auspices
of $he civic club there.
Gniservaticni Megts
To Hold 1940 SoO
Each Hoke county farmer should
attend a meeting in his township Jor
the purpose of 'studying the pro
visions of the 1940 Soil Conserva
tion program, urges A. S. Knowles,
cbunty agepL ^Tbe pro\dsi«» of 4he
1940 Soil Conservation program tuid
the cotton price adjustment program
will be discussed. “It is important
tiiat farmers familiarize themselves
with the 1940 program so that they
can get thO maximum benefits out
of fte program,” says Mr. Knowles.
JThe meetings are as follows:
McLauchlin township, at Rockfish
school, March 28th at 7:30 P. M.
Allendale township in community
house, March 29th, at 7:30 P. M.
Blue Springs township, in commun
ity house April 1st, at 7:30 P. M.
Little River township in commun
ity house, April 2nd, at 7:30 P. M.
Antioch township, in community
house April 3rd, at 7:30 P. M.
Raeford township in court house,
Apirl 4th, at 7:30 P. M.
stonewall township, id Dundar-
racb community house, April 5th, at
7:30 P. M.
Quewhiffle township, at Ashemont
school, April 8th, at 7:30 Pj M.
Unsigned 1'940 Farm Plans wiE be
carried to above meetings for farmers
to sign. All farm plans must be j may be signed,
signed before April 15, 1940.
Farmers Urged To
S^[n Farm Plans
All farmers who have not signed
their 1940 fam plans should do so
at once, according to A. S. Knowles,
county agent The farm plan con
tains aU aUotments and ni^ni^ yields
,estyblid>^d:£».fa'®Dis
soil building goals. 'Each farmer
requested to list the acres of die
various soil depleting crops and the
soil building practices to be carried
out on the farm before signing.
Unsigned farm plans will be» in the
hands of local committeemen from
9 to 5 o’qlock at the following places:
McLauchlin township, at Rockfish
community house, March 29th.
Allendale township, at community
house, March 30th.
Blue Springs township, at com
munity house, April 2nd.
Little River township, at commun
ity house, April 3rd.
Antioch township, at community
house, April 4th.
Raeford tpwnship, at court house,
April 5th.
Stonewall township, at Dundar-
rach community house, April 6th.
Quewhiffle township, at Ashemont
school, April 9th,
AU landlords are urged to sign
their farm plans before April 15th,
as that is the last date on which they^
The weather took a change for
the worse last Sunday and aU sec
tions of the country were hit by
blizzards or colder weather. In North
Carolina snow feU in most sections of
the state to a depth of seven of
eight inches in some locaUties. About
two inches fell during the day Sim-
day.
Regarding exceptional weather a-
round Easter Mr. D. Scott Poole has
written as foUows:
We have had unusual weather this
week. We have had as large and as
late snows, and once I recaU as cold
or colder weather. FoUowing a mUd
winter, in 1893-’94, March that year
year was very warm—hot, in fact,
and the leaves on the trees in the
forest were fully grown by the 29th
of March, when a freeze came. For
three days the ground was frozen
hard, and the leaves, trees and aU
were killed. It was July that sum
mer before the leaves got grown
again.
The first day of April, 1923, there
was a sleet on 4he trees. A peach
tree in our garden near the kitchen
was fuU of peaches as large as bird
eggs, with tags of ice hanging to
them, and I told my wife that morn
ing if any peaches escaped that cold,
it had not been cold that had been
kUling them.
The latter days of March, 1915,
there was a snow some four inches
deep and just a week later there
was another about the same size the
first days of April. That AprU snOw
came with a storm—a blizzard. The
wind from the north laid the whole
line of poles and wires between Rae
ford and the Raeford Power & Man
ufacturing company power plant. Ev-
pole was laid straight north and
th. Not a pole was left standing
thai^ I saw. E. C. Heins, who then
owned the Raeford Telephone Ex
change, told me it cost him one
thousand doUars to repair damage to
his ’phone lines.
There has not been an early spring
here since 1929. We have slept un-
I der cover un^ ijhpgjettie ^ tor ten
ears. Tnkvw'kneW^liat pi^di'e ex-
^pt the spring'of 1904.
There will be fruit this year, un-
le^ it is kiUed after this. I did
not used to believe in airdrainage,
but I do'now, and since the timber
has been cut, we have had fruit,
more or less, every year.
Cold wiU blast part of the fruit,
but some will escape. It is frost
that kills—^hoar frost—this frozen dew
on plants and trees. I ^w a killing
frost as late as April 26th. That
was in 1872. We have frost ,^e'
quently in May and June, but not
enough to kUl things.
In June, 1912 or ’13 there were
three cold days when fires were
necessary, and in 1908 it yvas pub
lished in the papers that there was
frost every month in the year in
Wautauga county. Nearly every
year there are cool days during the
summer, but there was not a cool
day last summer.
WlUUMSPOftT BASEBAU CUB
ARRIVES FOR SPRING TRAINING
FUNDS STILL WANTED
FOR FDgNISH REUEF
Mrs. H. A. Cameron, director of
the Finnish Relief Fond in Hoke
coonty, stated this we^ Biat the
drive for funds to help Die op
pressed people had not ended and
that she wished to urge all chair
men and others with money for
the fund to deliver it to R. B.
Lewis, treasurer of the fund in
Hoke county, this week at the
Bank of Raeford.
tolOOL BRIEFS
By K. A. MacDONALD
WELL-TRAINED TEACHERS IN
, COUNTY.
The standing of teacher training
has changed considerably in the years
since Hoke county was organized.
WhUe we will aU agree that there
have been a few very outstanding
teachers who had very little formal
education we will as readily agree
that the ordinary run-of-the-mUl-
teacher is a better teacher in pro
portion to the training that she has.
The foUowing figures will show how
this training has improved through
the years. In 1911-12, the. first year
of the county, there were 6 teachers
who had college diplomas, 5 white
and 1 colored. There were 30 first
grade certificates, 26 white and 4
colored. There were 22 second grade
certificates, 6 white and 16 colored.
Today we have 78 A certificates, 36
white and 42 colored; 27 B certifi
cates, 4 white and 20 colored; and 3
Indian. 2 T (temporary) certificates
both colored. jAn A certificate rep-
re^hts 4 year» of coU^e'work,'a B
3 years of college work and tiie T
represents the equivalent of high
school graduation.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that in 1911-12 there were
194 iUiterants from 12 to 21 years of
age listed, while last year there were
nearly 600 (of aU ages) found in
the county. This leads us to be
lieve that somewhere our system of
education is breaking down.
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Afternoon.
WiH Play Nine
Gaines In Raeford
The Williamsport Grays of ttie
Eastern Baseball League blew into
Raeford last Sunday on the white
wings of a belated snow storm, but'
by Monday afternoon the weather
had relented sufficiently to permit
the Grays to indulge in a brief work
out. Regular two-session workouts
began Wednesday, and the Grays
are now weU established in their
Raeford training camp, and Manager
Fresco Thomi)son is bending every
effort toward getting them in con
dition for the first Raeford game,
next. Tuesday, April 2, when the
Wilmington (Del.) club of the Inter-
State League will be the visiting at
traction.
This clash wiU serve to introduce
to Raeford fans one of the greatest
figures in basebaU, Charles Albert
Bender (“Chief’ Bender to the base
ball world), who is manager of the
Wilmington dub, a farm of Connie
Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics.
The “Chief,” a member of die
Chippewaw triiie of Indians, came to
the Athletics from the Carlisle (P&)
Indian school, in 1903 and remained
with them until 1914, pitdiing in
five world’s series games and cutting
a big figure in the Athletics’ World’s
series stride. At the age 57 years
Bender is still very active. In addi
tion to his 25 years of player-ac
tivity he has since 1914, scouted,
coached, and managed basdball clubs.
While scouting in the Eastern Leag
ue last season he spent some time
at Williamsport and picked from the
Grays’ squad Lester McCrabb, pitch
ed, and AI Brancato, third baseman,
who were here m 1938. They axe
now witti the A’s In CaUfomia.
Bender is not one of the talkative
kind, but he knows his baseball, is a
keen observer and has the knack of
accurately appraising player-worth.
He sddom makes a mistake.
The Grays wUl play Wilmington
in Sanford on Sunday and again cm
Wednesday.
The Raeford game next Tuesday
wiU begin at 3 o’clock, as wiU all
Raeford games.
%A2n Received For
Soil Conservation
?|^e Hcil^ County Agricultural
Conservation Association received
$4,277.36 this week to be paid to
{^Hty-one applicants who compUed
with the 1939 Soil Conservation pro
gram, it was learned at the county
agent’s office yesterday. '
Noticed are being mailed from the
couhty agent’s qffice as soqn as the
checks arrive and'Mr. Knowles urges
aU farmers to wait until they receive
notices before caUing for their checks.
Mrs. F. Aj^ K^th
Easter at he
and son spent
Cemeron.
New Publicity Man
For Boy Scouts
At a meeting»of the Boy Scout
Executive Committee of this district
last Thursday night, March 21st, at
Maxton, J. H. Mason, a new member
of the Laurel Hill school faculty, was
appointed pubUcity man of the West
ern District, Cape Fear Area Coun
cil. The meeting was held in the
hotel at Maxton and was a supper
meeting. Mr. W. H. Hasty of Max-
ton presided and Scout Executiife
David Liles conducted the business
session. Several items of business
were brought up and discussed. The
question of an assistant scout execu
tive was brought up and a favorable
report was made.
Mr. Mason,’ who is a hew member
of the Laurel Hill school faculty,
will give publicity to the scout move
ment in this area. He wiU write up
troop meetings, board of review meet;,
ing^, and Court of Honor meetings.
AU Scoutmasters have been asked
to see that all important news items
from their troops are sent to Mr.
Mason at Laurel Hill. He will see
to it that that news gets to all news
papers of this area. It is believed
that this wiU give spouting a boost
in the district.
Census Training*' School
For Hoke County
Hoke county applicants for jobs as
census enumerators, who have been
recommended by their Democratic
executive committees to Congress
man W. O. Burgin of the 8th Dis
trict, for appointment attended a
training school jointly with Scot
land applicants in Laurinburg Tues
day and Wednesday of this week,.
The school was conducted by Mrs.
Paul Dickson. A list of enumerators
successful in passing the tests wUl
be published in next week’s News-
Journal.
The population, agricultural and
housing census begins April 1st. Ev
erybody in Hoke county is asked to
codperate and be courteous to the
enbmerator when he caUs. He is
sworii to secrecy. Accurate answers
and a big enroUment is what Hoke
wants when the statistics are tabu-^
lated/
Welles Due To
Arrive Today
Washington, Mar. 27.—^The White
House said today it was advised that
Sumner WeUes, under-secretary of
state, would arrive in New York be
tween 12 noon and 1 p. m. Thursday
from his “fact-finding” European
trip.
President Roosevelt, it was added,
will receive WeUes here at Welles’
convenience.
While the undersecretary is ex
pected to report proinptiy to the
President, the Wiite House said there
was no reason to expect him to rush
to the capital from New York.
Stephen Early, presidential secre
tary, said Mr. Roosevelt’s departure
for Warm Springs, Ga., would not oc
cur until after the WeUes’ conference.
The President'liopes to leave for
Warm. Springs late this week.
Mr. Roosevelt was almost com
pletely recovered today from the af
fects of a cold which has troubled
him more than two weeks. He was
up and dressed today but remained
in his study.
WIN IN STOCK JUDGING
CONTEST
Last Thursday J. W. Dowd took
16 of his vocational agriculture class
to Pinehurst Dairies, Pinehurst, for
a stock judging contest. Dairy cat
tle were the stock judged. Clarence
Willis won first place and a $3.00
prize. June Wright took second and
a $2.00 prize. William Adcox was
third and received $1.00. Mr. Dowd
was well pleased with the showing
the boys made.
AN’nOCH SEVENTH GRADE
VISITS RALEIGH
G. H. RoweU, principal of the An
tioch school took the seventh grade
of that school to Raleigh last wedc
on a sight-seing tour. They took in
all the points of interest in the
capital city. The museum seemed
to interest the pupils most of aU.
TESTING EYES HI SCHOOLS
The teachers of the county coop
erating with the North Carolina Blind
Commission are testing aU of the
pupils’ eyes this week. R is hoped
that we will be able to give you the
results of this test next week.
ATTENDANCE POOR
The attendance in all the schools
was poor op Monday on account of
the unprec^ented cold weather and
snowfall. * Miss Howery and Mr.
Smith of the high school faculty were
late in returning from the Easter hol
iday, being snow-bound at Malison
and Greensboro respectively. At-
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WINS AWARD
Mrs. Kinlaw, of Raeford, was
awareded the $5.00 in free merchan
dise at the Raeford Variety store
Saturday afternoon, the 23rd.
Quite a crowd had 'gathered at
the store at the time of the award
and-Dr. Brown, mayor of the town,
made the award.
Mr. and Mis. J. B. 'Thomas spent
Sunday in Durham. ^
Julian Johnson Rallies,
Then Gets Worse
Julian Johnson got better after be
ing. mighty low about a wc^ Igb,
and his condition looked almost fav
orable for several days. However,
at last reports yesterday he had again
taken a bad turn and the worst jvas
feared.
Conductinsr Schools
,, "" ■ -
Mrs. Paul Dickson, assistant dis
trict supervisor of ..the census of the
8th District, is'conducting training
schools for enumerators of popula
tion, agriculture and housing, in
Scotland, Mobre, Le^ Richmond
counties this week, k
Willumispori’s Baseball Schedide fw
'April In Raeford
Tuesday, April 2nd—Wilmington, Dekiwaie
Saturday, April Sth—Goldsboro
Monday, April Sth—Wilmington, Delaware
^ Wednesday, AprU lOtb—Scranton, Pa.
ThursdSiy, .AprU llth—Toronto, Can*
Saturday, AprU ISth—Harrisburg, Pa.
Monday, AprU IStb—Winston-Salem
^ Tuesday, i^ril l€tb—Scranton, Pa.
Thursday, AprU 18tb—Snnbury, Pa.
British Navy Is
Busy Tightening
German Blockade
London, March 27.—^While British
warships busied themselves with
tigthening the blockade against (3er-
man ore imports in hope of hirixtg
the German fleet into open battle.
Great Britain counted on the Royal
air force today for Yeoman service
against any spread of German sub
marine raids.
Concentration of British destroyers
and submarines in the Skagorrak,
off the Danish and Norwegian coasts,
was aimed primarily at cutting Ger
many’s ore supplies frmn Ewedei,
but neutral observers saw a deeiter
motive.
They said .that if Germany could
be goaded to send out a cruiser squad
ron against these comparatively lifdit
forces, the British probably would
have some heavy units nearby to
fall upon the Germans with sl^)erio^^
power.
Meanwhile Britain continued to
count her mounting mercmitile losses.
The reported sinking on Sunday from
an undisclosed cause of tiie Britidk
tanker Daghestan, 5,742 tims, qpoSed
a British admiralty announcement
made only yesterday tiiat ttie wedc
ending last Sunday mMnight was the
first since the war began in
no British or allieti merchantman
had been sunk.
I The 6,574,ton British steamer Cas-
tlemoor today was reported overdue
and was feared lost witik her qrew
of 40.
Thirty-six survivors tirom tiie 6,-
922-ton British steamer Rossington
Court, rammed and sunk by an un
identified tanker in Mid-Atlan&te
March 13, were landed in Britain to
day by a motorship whhdt had rce^
cued them for a single lifeboat
Neutral merchant shipping casual
ties reported today included the Ital
ian steamer Italo Balbo, M14 tons,
damaged in a coUision wite an un-
idekttifed Danidi ship oft tiie soufii-
east coast of England; and tite Ne^-
erlands coasting vessel Saba, 469
tons, reported a uredi: over-due at
Amsterdam and feared lost with bai^
CTOfw- of seven.
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