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The Hoke Cooii^ New*
The Hoke Comity Joumal
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NO.».
Ri^rdn’Holds
Long Session
Tu^biy
There were quite a lew contested
cases tried in what was, almost an
all-day session of Hoke coxmty re
corder’s court before Judge W. B.
McQueen last Tuesday.
Robert Smith* Johnnie Melvin, and
Zeb Wilson, colored men of Stonewall
township, were sentenced to 30 d^s
each when they pled guilty of vio
lating the prohibition laws. Sen
tences were to be suspended on pay
ment of the costs.
Albert Bizzell, colored,man. of Red
Springs, was sentenced to 60 days
on the roads for the same offense.
Sentence was suspended on payment
oiV the costs and on condition that
h^‘stay out of Hoke county.”
I. V. Clodfelter, white num of
Thomasville, was found guilty of
careless and reckless driving in con-
^ tr!)i||^on with a wreck Miss Louise
clnieron had a few days ago on
. the detour between Raeford and Ab
erdeen. Sentence was thirty days
to be suspended on payment of the
court costs.
George ^McNeill, colored man of
Sanatorium, enter^ a plea of guilty
of violating the prohibition laws and
sentence was 60 days to be suspended
on payment of a fine of $lt) and the
court costs.
John Henry Johnson, colored man
of McLauchlin township, was found
guilty of careless and reckless driv
ing and sentence was 30 days to be
suspended on payment of the coiurt
costs.
Arch McQueen, local colored man,
was foimd guUty of carrying a . con
cealed weajlon and sentence was 60
days to be suspended on payment of
$50 and the costs. In another case
.pled guilty of driving a car while
the influence of liquor and got
same sentence to run consecu-
with the first. He went to the
roads.
fphnnie Gilchrist, Blue Springs
co»ed man, was found guilty of be-
injplrunk and disorderly and assault
a deadly weaiwn and sentence
was three mon^s.on the roads. On
another charge of damage to personal
property Gilchrist was sentenced to
three months bn the roads.
Rob and Elmer McColl, local col
ored boys, were found guilty of lar
ceny in connection with the theft
of a bicycle from Johnnie Walker.
Sentence was thirty days to be sus
pended on payment of the costs. Both
defendants appealed to Superior court
and bond was set at $11)0 each.
in connection with the same theft,
Jasper Bullock and Chester McRae,
local colored men, were sentenced to
serve three months each for larceny.
Bullock appealed and bond was set
at $100 McRae went to the roads.
Willie Smith, local colored man,
on a plea of guilty of simple assault
when charged with secret assault was
sentenced to thirty days to be sus
pended on payment of the costs and
on ccyidition that be stay away from
Some of Willie Siler for a period
months.
pla Torrance, colored woman of
luchlin township, was found
of letting stock run at large
^ult. Sentence was 3 months
iiT^il to be suspended on condition
that she pay the court costs and stay
off the premises of Mrs, Will Con-
olj^
Odessa McEachem, Ulie McEach-
^ern nAd Irene Fairley, colored of
*^>Latibch township, were found guilty
of violating the prohibition laws.
Odessa McEachern and Irene Fairley
were sentenced to 30 days in jail to
be suspended on payment of the
costs. Ulic McEachem was sentenc
ed to serve four months on the roads.
RAETOBD, N. C> THUBSDAY, MAY 2nd, 1940.
fLStPEBYBiH
Last Rites For
An^ Z. Currie
Burial rites for Angus Z. Currie,
68-year-old farmer of Shannon who
died Stmday morning, were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at Antioch .Pres
byterian chiurch by the pastor. Rev.
H. R. Poole. A large throng of
friends and relatives was in attend
ance.
Although the deceased had been
an invalid since suffering a stroke
in Feb^^uary, his death, due to heart
disease, was imexpect^.
Active pallbearers were Albert Cur
rie, Eldridge Campbell, Walter Mc-
Bryde, Jim McBryde, Duncan Mc-
Bryde, and John McPhaul.
Honorary pallbearers were Alex
Currie, John Culbreth, Dr. H. H.
Hodgin, Angus Canady, J. A. Hod-
gin, J. C. Campbell, J. W. McLauch
lin, J. B. McCracken, H. F. Currie,
J. D. McBryde, H. D. Conoly, A. M.
McBryde, and D. M. McBryde.
Surviving is one sister, Miss Trissie
Currie, of Shannon.
George Thompson
Buried Tuesday
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday morning for George Thomp
son, who died Monday of rifle bullet
wounds inflicted by his brother-in-
law. Great sympathy was expressed
by the people of Raeford for the fam
ily.
The services were conducted by
Rev. J. E. Reamy, pastor of thfe Bap
tist church of Raeford. Interment
was in the Raeford cemetery.
Thompson is survived by his wife
and one sister, Mrs. W. B. Deane of
Rockingham.
14 Beer Licenses
Issued In Hoke
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Offer Million For
capture of Hitler
New Yo^ May, 1.—A Pittsburgh
group QffenXS today to pay a million
dollar the capture of
Adolf Hltilr, unhurt, but specified
that the German Fuehrer must bi
delivered into the custody of th(
League of Nations before the end
May.
Samuel Harden Church, presid^t
of.l|ljg $28,000,000 Carnegie institi
^miced the offer on behalf of an
(led group, which he said. was
“in good faith,” in a letter to
The New York Times. ,
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Pre-Scdiool
Clinic
n Friday morni^, MaylSrd, from
:o 12 o’cloclc th'e^e will .'be a pre-
school clinic at the Raeford grammar
school for all children yho are ex
pecting to enter the Rafeford school
next year. In order fc^ a child to
enter the first grade next fall, he
or she must be six yet^s old on or
before October 1. All barents who
have children to begin sdhool in Sep
tember are requested to bring or send
their children for ifliysical examina
tion next Friday. V f
Raleigh, April 30.—The State De
partment of Revenue issued 4,934 re
tail beer licenses for the 1939-40
tax year ended April 30, and it is
expected that 5,000 individuals will
purchase licenses during the next 12
months.
The state issued 14 retail beer li
censes for Hoke county last year as
compared with 12 for the 1938r39 tax
year, according to the Brewers and
North Carolina Beer Distributors
committee.
During the past year, the retail
beer licenses of 86 dealers in 31
counties have been revoked by the
courts and local governing bodies.
Of this number 78 were revoked on
petition of the Brewers and North
Carolina Beer Distributors Committee
as a part of its “clean up or close
up” campaign to purge the industry
of undesirable beer outlets.
Still CMTC Vacancy
For Hoke County ^
Fort Bragg, May 1.—^Reserve of
ficers of the 157th Field AritUery
Brigade, which is a part of the 82nd
Division, will be the instructors at
the 1940 Citizens Military Training
Camp, to be held here junevl2-July
11, it was announced today by the
Camp Area Commander.
The brigade is composed of the
319th Field Artillery, A 75millimeter
gun regiment of (^orgia; and the
321st Field Artilleijy, a 155 millimeter
howitzer regiment' from Florida.
More than 200 vacancies as of
April 27 in the/ next C. M. T. Camp
at Fort Brag^ are still to be filled.
Hoke county has a quota of two
which has. not yet been completed.
Prospective applicants should apply
at once/to the Hoke county repre
sentative, K. A. MacDonald, or write
direetty to the C. M. T. C. officer at
Fort^-Bragg.
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jC\Ir. and Mrs. Albert Beck and
Lawrence Campbell, Jr., s^ent Sat-
irday evening in Laurinburg.
WITH THE SICK
ODOM STILL IN
W. C. Odom, local barber who has
been in bed for the past several days
and was thought* to have improved
considerably this week, suffered an
other attack late yesterday and is
still in a very serious condition.
Tom Cooper Hits
Raeford Saturday
With Sound Truck
Castigating that “di(^-toingued,
high-powered btmch of lawyer-poli
ticians in Raleigh who are opposing
me,” Tom Cooper, energetic mayor of
Wilmington, Saturday afternoon call
ed on the voters of Hoke county to
“join with me and my little $1500
mechanical madiine (his sound
truck) and we’ll beat the • * * •
of that $1,000,000 political madiine
which has been set up in the Sir
Walter hotel in Raleigh.”
Cooper called for reduction of li
cense fees for automobiles and for
light pick-up trucks such as are used
by farmers to $5.
“There is no sense in the state
continuing to charge two prices for
an automobile tag when, today, we
have, not just enough, but more than
twice as much in the sinking fund
as is needed to retire every road
term bond which the state has out
standing.”
The fiery mayor branded the sales
tax “a tax on poverty and a tax
which ought to be eliminated and a
tax, which, if I am elected governor
is going to be eliminated.”
Other points in his platform for
governor on which he touched in
cluded: Cooperation between capital
and labor, with equal recognition of
human rights and property rights; a
broad farm program to provide new
markets for state’s croi^; a reduction
in the cost of state government by
“cleaning out all of those parasites
now on the state payrolls,” home rule
^r counties, cities and towns without
interference from Raleigh; and a gen
eral program of progress for the
state. '•
Norw^[iaii Troops
Reoccupy Storen
Peril to the security, of their flanks
in northern and southern Europe had
the Allied war leaders plainly worried
today.
The menace in. the north, where
fast-driving German columns, ap
parently have clamped a stranglehold
on central Norway, was acknowledg
ed by a British military spokesman.
He admitted that Nazi advances
there had put the Allies in a “dan
gerous and very obscure” position.
A British official communique an-
noimced that British troops had with
drawn to “prepared positions” after
resisting German attacks in the Dom-
has area, 100 miles south of Trond
heim. It called the situation at Nam-
sos, 100 mUes north of Trondheim,
“unchanged” and that at Narvik,
Norway’s Arctic iron ore port, “sat
isfactory.”
In Stockholm, unconfirmed reports
Said Norwegian forces had reoccu
pied Storen, railroad junction 100
miles south of Trondheim, and Roros,
advance post of the Nazis’ northward
drive from Olso through the Oster
Valley.,
Presumably, however, the Germans
had withdrawn voluntarily if these
reprots were true since the German
tactics are to strike swiftly to snap
Allied communication lines then fall
back to await reinforcements before
consolidating outposts.
Jdm A. McDiaimkl
Dies Last Sunday
Afternoon
John A. McDiarmid, prominent
farmer and business man of Hoke
coimty, died suddenly last Sunday af
ternoon at about three-thirty o’clock
at the home of his brother, N. McL.
McDiarmid, here. Mr. McDiarmid had
returned about two weeks previously
from Duke hospital where he had
been treated for four weeks and
thought the day of his death that
he was in fairly good health.
For many years the deceased had
been a deacon in the Raeford Pres
byterian church. He had served as
a commissioner of Hoke coimty for
ten or more years and was chairman
of the board for several terms. He
had served as president of the Laiu:-
inburg Production Credit association
for several years. At the time of
his death Mr. McDiarmid was chair
man of the Hoke county crop con
trol committee. He was an extensive
and successful farmer and had at
various times other business inter
ests.
Funeraj^v services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the home of his
brother, N. McL. McDiarmid, by Dr.
Watson M. Fairley, pastor of the Rae
ford Presbyterian church, assisted by
Rev. W. C. Brown, former pastor of
the church. Many grieving friends
and relatives were present. Burial
services followed in the Raeford cem
etery.
He is survived by three brotiiers,
N. McL. and Henry McDiarmid of
Raeford, and Rev. Hector McDiarmid
of Shelby; two sisters. Miss Margaret
McDiarmid and Mrs. Kate King of
Raeford. He was sixty-four years
of age and had never married.
F. M. Simmons
Passes Tuesday
Former Senator Fumifold McLen-
del Simmons, 86, passed away Tues
day afternoon at about 3 o’clock
at the home of his. daughter in New
Bern. Deafli came as a result of
complications that grew critical S|un-
day after his return Friday from a
month’s stay at a Durham hospital.
His health had been failing for some
time.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at Christ Episcopal
church in New Bern.
Senator Simmons, the “iJttle
Giant” of North Carolina politics
who dominated the Deniocratic pic-,
ture in the state for 40 eventful
years and who served 30 years in
the Senate, was defeated in 1930 by
Josiah W. Bailey, one of his erstwhile
lieutenants. The campaign issue on
which Bailey defeated Simmons was
the opposition by Simmons in 1928
of Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic
nominee for president.
Four children survive, three dau
ghters and one son.
HARVEY BAUCOH IS HED
WITHOUT BOND FOR DEATH OF
GEORGE THOMPSON NOWAY
I Thompson Killed With
,22 Rifle; Inquest Held
Yesterday,
ISCHOOL briefs!
By K. A. HacDONALD
PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC AT
BOCKFISH
The Rockfish pre-school clinic will
be held at the school building at 9:30
on Tuesday, May 7th. All parents
are urged to bring their children for
this examination.
RAEFORD PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC
The Raeford pre-school clinic will
be held at the graded school building
tomorrow at 9:00 o’clock. All par
ents with children who will start
school next year are urged to have
their children present for this exam
ination. I
CRAWFORD WILL PREACH
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
Sunday, May 5 at 11 o’clock the
baccalaiureate seimon will be preach
ed in the high school auditorium by
Rev. E. C. Crawford, pastor of the
Raeford Methodist ^urch. There
will be no other church service in
town at that hour. Everyone is
urged to attend and worship with the
seniors.
SERMON AT MILDOUSON
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
Rev. David Fairley Blue of Fayette
ville, will preach the commencement
sermon at Mildouson. Everyone is
invited to this service.
SERMON AT ASHEMONT
Sunday night at 8 o’clock Rev. E.
C. Crawford will preach the com
mencement sermon at Ashemont. £v-
m^one is cordially invited. P. S.—
Mr. Crawford will not preach the
same sermon.
NEGRO EDUCATIONAL DAY
Friday, May 3rd, will be coimty
educational day for the negro schools.
The exercises will begin with ath
letic events at 9:00 A. M. Dr. N. C.
Newbold of the State Department of
Education, will make the address at
11 o’clock. The exhibit will be a
feature of the program. This will
be open for inspection by white
friends from 4 to 6 P. M. on Thurs
day. The exercises will be at Up
church school.
MRS. GATLIN BETTER
Mrs. H. L. Gatlin, Jr., who has
been critically ill at a Moore county
hospital for several weeks, was re
ported yesterday to have been steadily
improving this week.
Democrats Will Meet
Saturday, May 4th
J. B. Thomas, chairman of the Hoke
County Democratic executive com
mittee, has urged Democrats of the
county not to forget their precinct
meetings which will take place at
the voting places iq the various pre
cincts on Saturday, May 4tii.
These meetings will take place at
three o’clock and a committee of
five will be elected in each precinct
with a chairman and a vice-chairman.
Either the chairman of the vice-
chairman must be a woman.
Attention was called to the fact
that in Raeford, where there are now
two precincts, all Democrats living
on the east side of Main Street will
meet at the courthouse and those
living on the west' side will meet in
the town hall.
HOKE BOY HONORED
Twelve Davidson college campus
leaders were . publicly tapped into
Omicron Delta Kappa, national hon
orary leadership fraternity, at a spec
ial chai>el induction ceremony at
Davidson Monday. Among them
were Jamei^ Gordon Currie, Raeford
boy who is a senior at Davidson
this year. Currie is the son of Mrs.
Ruth Gordon Currie and the late J.
W. Currfe of Raeford.
No Diversion Of
Highway Funds Now
Raleigh, May!.—The state will not
have to transfer money from the
highway fund in order to balance
the general fund this fiscal year.
Governor Hoey reiterated today.
The April revenue report showed
receipts from all sources except one
running ahead of returns of the com
parable period last year.
The governor made a similar state
ment April 1 but said that income
GRAMMAR GRADE OPERETTA
The Raeford grammar grade ope
retta “The White G3q)sy,” will be giv
en Friday evening. May 3rd at 8:00
in the high school auditorium. This
will be given by the 4th-7th grades.
An admission charge will be made.
The public is cordially invited.
ANTIOCH OPERETTA TONIGHT
The Antioch operetta is being given
tonight at 8 o’clock at the school
building. Everyone is cordially in
vited to be present.
SEVENTH GRADE PROMO'nON
DAY ,
Today week, Thursday, May 9th,
will be seventh grade promotion day.
The program will start at 10:30
o’clock in the high school auditorium.
Rev. Frank L. Goodman of Laurel
w. J. mcdiarmid BEnm
W. J. McDiamid is recover^
steadily from a case of pneumonia at
his home near here and was allowed
to sit up some this week, it was
leambd yesterday. .
Mrs. Harry Lindeman, of High
Pqint and Spartanburg, S. C., arrived
yesterday to spend several dtqrs witli
telatives in Hoke cd^rnty. *, r
teat month made his words 2:enti?iadS^
their promotion certificates to High
school and be welcomed into high
school by a number of tee senior
class. Members of all local school
boards and of tee county board of
education are expected to be present
and take part in tee exercises. Each
school will furnish a part of the pro
gram.
Voters Urged To
Register Now
The Hoke County Board of Elec
tions in an advertisement on page
three of this issue urges all voters in
Hoke county to register as a com
plete new registration is now going
on in tee county. Attention is called
to the fact that tee registration books
will only- be open until Saturday,
May 11th.
Orthopedic Clinic
The regular monthly orthopedic
clihic for crippled children wiU be
held at ithe agriculture building in
Lumberton on Friday, May 3rd, be
ginning at 9:30 o’clock, and is free to
all indigent children under twenty-
one years of age.
Dr. Lriox D. Baker of Duke hos
pital, will be tee surgeon in charge.
P.-T. A. COUNCH. TO MEET
The Hoke County P.-T. A. Council
will meet Friday afternoon at 4:00 at
tee grammar school building. The
Rockfish P.-T. A. will have charge
of the program. Ihe public is cor
dially invited.
MRa H. A. CAME^N^
MILDOUSON 7TH GRADE
EXERCISES
Next Wednesday evening at 8:00
the Mildouson seventh grade exer
cises will be held.
TEAMS ENTER CONTEST
The stock-judginf and oratorical
teams of the vocational agriculture
department of Hoke high sdiobl'will
enter tee district stodc judging and
oratorical contests to be held at Fort
pagg on Saturday. We liope our
boys make a good showing as
we feel sure they will.
STUDENT AID HEADS nKmw
N. C. Larabee of the student aid
tevision of N. Y. A. was in town Tues
day. Mr. Larabee'was very mudi
pleased with tee work done by “stud
ent aid” in the various schools.
ROesnSH FACULTY RE-ELECTED
The district committee of Rockfish
district has re-clected their faculty
(ConttnuBcl an iRga four) -
At a coroner’s inquest conducted
by Coroner R. A Mateeson here yes
terday morning tee jury found teat
George Thompson, white man of thi«
town had died Monday morning of
rifle bullet wounds suffered at tee
hands of Harvey R. Baucom, also a
white man of this place, and teat
Baucom should be held for indict
ment by the grand jury at tee next
term of Hoke county Superior court
without being allowed tee privilege
of bond. Baucom is being held in
tee Hoke county jail.
According to statements mado by
officers and other witnesses tee IdR-
ii^ occurred as follows: Sheriff Hod-
gin stated teat tee first he heard of
it was when Dr. R. L. Murray came
by his office at about 10:45 o’clock
Monday morning and said that Mrs.
George Thompson had just called fax
him to come to her husband; that
Harvey Baucom had shot him.
*1710 sheriff stated that he and Dr.
Murray proceeded at once to tee Bau-
com-Thompson residence accompan
ied by Officer Murphy Howell, of
tee Raeford police force. On arriv
ing there they found George Thomp
son lying dead on tee kitchen floor
with a bullet wound in his left chest
They proceeded into tee house and
found Baucom in a room iwing the
telephone. Baucom’s ba^ was to
teem and the door was locked and
fearing to discuss tee matter ewite
Baucom considering tee fact tAaf a
rifle was visible from where teey
were, the officers crashed tee door
in and apprehended Baucom. The
sheriff said that when Baucom turned
and saw him he said, “Hello, I was
just calling you.”
Mrs. Thompson, wife of tee de
cease stated jresterday teat she was
not in tee house when tee shooting
occurred but teat her husband had in
tended passing through tee room (in
which Baucom was with tee door
locked) on his way to tee bathroom,
tee bteer entrance to it (tee bath
room) being locked. The room Bau
com was in was tee bedroom in
which all three slept, it appears, and
Thompson, on being unable to get
Baucom to c^ien tee door, took an
instrument and crashed a panel to
unlock tee door from the inside. He
seems to have been shot from fairly
close range at about this time. Mrs
'Thompson stated teat he appeared at
tee back (kitchen) door and pallad
to her, “(Set a doctor, Harvey just
shot me and Fm afraid he’s killed
me.” She said she teen wnt
straight to a neighbors house aiiA
called tee doctor. When she returned
she found'her husband face-down oh
tee kitchen floor, dead.
According to the sheriff, Baucom
said whmi being taken through the
kitchen where the body lay, “That’s
a mess, isn’t it?”
According to Officer Howell, Ban-
corn said when in tee car wite him,
“Why don’t you just let me go? FIl
pay tee costs and we’ll settle this
thing among ourselves.”
Howell replied, “We can’t do that,
Harvey, you’ve killed a man. How
come you to do it?”
Retorted Harvey Baucom, “Who
says I did?”
The next term of criminal court in
Hoke county wiU be in August, a
term having been held here in Afuril.
Baucom will remain in the county
jail to await trial in teat court.
Girl’s Dream Saves
Family From Blaze
Kinston, April 28.—^Etecause Misa
Peggy Beaune “had a .dream” she
and other persons in tee bcone of Mr.
and Mrs. Plato CoUms here were
spared fleeing from flames, or worse,
firemen said today. The yoaug wom
an dreamed smoke was rimking hm
It was. I^e awoke to find her room
filled wite it. Soot in a chimney
had caught fire. Smoke was pouring
into tee room from the dihnney
through a flue over which waRpe-
per had been pasted. The CoUkune
and lodgers in their home would huew
found a serious blase tereataadRg'
teem in a few minutes, tee ftrunen
said.
Miss Bethune is a native of Raefoed
and is a daughter of Mrs. Ina P*
Bethune of this town.
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SOIL CONSERVATION
PAYMENTS
An additional $14388186 has ar
rived in tee County Agenfa ellioa
lor fanners who eoQfwralad ladar
tee 1939 Soil Conaervationr
This brings tee tatal
date to
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