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Ol^DME XXXV. NO. 6.
Germans RqHfft
Capitala^ (K
Frenck at Ik. Vakiy
\
May Speed Up
Off icier Class
Washington, Jime 11.—President
iRoi^velt disclosed today that con-
Isideration was being givep to speed
ing up the training of officers for the
I army and navy by shortening courses
German ^rmies storming toward at West Point and Annapolis.
Paris Wednesday crossed the Marne At his press conference the Chief
river and fought French Poilus-12% j Executive said the army and navy had
miles from the i^eh Capital, Ber. recommended that the 1941 class be
lin reported, while other Nazi Col- I graduated next Februaiy instead of
umns forced the surrender of more jiine so as to increase the number
than 20,000 French troops isolated Lf officers available for service. He
at St. Valery on the English channel. I submitted this recommendation to
The German high command said the War Department, he said, and
the French capitulatioii at St. Valery asked whether the same thing should
had yielded (Mie British and five done. So far he has received no
French generals and “incalculable” I reply.
booty. 1 Earlier Senator Walsh, Democrat of
In the onslaught to Paris, Hitler Massachusetts, said that the President
armies rode over bitterly-contested had authority to eurtail the training
■ World War battlefields and reached periods without additional legislation
the closest point to the French cap- I This was done in the first world war.
ital since Bismarck’s German armies
marched into Paris in 1870.
It out-distanced by 15 miles the
ihreat against Paris poised by Von
luck’s German “death’s head” Uh
lans iri 1914j
Battle-Stained French Poilus fought
desperately in a “last ditch” defense
of their, beloved capital, the once gay
city now half deserted. They were
reportd holding fast on the old world
war battlefields of Chateau Thierry
and Meaux along the Marne.
THIS WEEK
BCORES PAST WEEK
Thursday, June 6th, Westepi Auto
7, Oil Co. 8.
Fridayt June .7th, Furniture Co. 13,
Hoke Concrete 15.
Monday, Jvme 10th, Western Auto.
11, Fumitee Co. 9.
Tue$d^, June 11th, Raeford Oil
Co. 9,. Poke Concrete 4.
, Wectoesday, June 12th, Raeford
Washington, June 12.—The Navy qu Co. 6, Furniture Co. 5.
annoimced today that work was or
dered started, on two new 45,000-ton ] standings Through Wednesday
Pet.
.83&
.57^
.900
.143
Elefense Plans Are
Speeded Up In
All Departments*
battleships and 20 other warships and Ti.aiw W L
auxiliaries last night, within an hour I 'vyestem Auto 5 1
after Presid^t Roosevelt signed Qjj 4 3
Navy’s $1,400^0,000 appropriation Hoke Concrete .3 3
act ■ ^ I Furniture Co i.l 6
RAEFOBD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13th, 1940.
Rec(»r^ l^teices People of Ei^iA
^Torai Defeadaiite |Wo^dHe^AHies
In a contmued from a previous I Lexington, June 12.—Citizens of
session of Hoke coimty recorder’s the Eighth District want the Allies
court Judge W. B. McQueen "Tuesday to have every ounce of help the United
morning that Needham Me- [States can give short of actual in-
Bryde, colored rnan pf the county, [volvement of this coimtry in'the great
was guilty as charged of careless and war .in Europe, if the large number of
reckless driving. Sentence was three telegrams and letters that have pour-
mdnfhs on the roads to be suspended hed into Representative W. O. Bur-
on payment of the costs of the court gin’s office during the past few days
and the damages to the car which [is a true indication of sentiment,
was injured by the Mving of the I One telegram from Wadesboro con
defendant. McBryde' appealed the tained almost two solid telegraph
case to superior court and bond of [ sheets full of names, including scores
$150 was posted by him. [of men and women recognized es
fe'ill Smith, local colored man, was leaders' in every phase of life in
found gidlty of larceny and sentenced [Anson coimty. There have been oth-
to serve thirty days on the roads, | er telegrams, but most of the mes-
sentence to be suspendpd on payment sages are in letter form. A number
of the costs and' the price of the of prominent ministers are among
stolen goods. He went fo the ropds. those urging that the United States
Chauncey McLauchlin,colored will be seriously endangered if the
man of Blue Springs\ township, en- Allies are beaten now.
tered a plea of guUty of being drunk | Mr. Bukin’s clerical staff here has
and disorderly arid violating the pro- been woirang overtime as personal
hibition laws. Sentence of thirty replies are being dispatched, in which
days w^s suspended on payment of | tbe local member of the House For-
the costs, eign Affairs committee assures his
Joe McPhaul, another Blue Springs constituents he shares their senti-
colored man, on a plea of guilty, of [ments in the crisis,
violating the prohibition laws had his |. Mr. Burgin was particularly grati-
sentence of thirty days suspended on [fied a few days ago to receive a per-
payment of the court costs. • sonal letter from Franklin D. Roose-
Mary Hinsoh, white woman of Fay- velt,^»mgratulating him on full re-
ettevilie, was charged with violating | covery of his health and his, return
the road laws. She was called and to duty on this committee, “the im
failed to appear. [portance of which everyone must
Fletcher McEachem, colored ma^ tyecognize in this hour of the Na-
of Blue Springs township, pled guilty tion’s history,” as the President de^
of careless and reckless driving. Sen- [ scribed it.
tence was sixty days to be suspended
on payment of the coiurt costs and
1110 toward repairing a car he damr
aged.
Wilson MePhatter, Raeford colored
man, got thirty days to be suspended
L
ILStPniTBMI
Mr. Brown Talks 'i'o
Raeford Kiwanis Club
Rev, W. C. Brown, former pastor
of the Raeford Presbyterian churdi,
simke to the members of the Rae
ford Kiwanis club at their regular
meeting m the Kiwanis hall last
Thursday night
Mr. Brown’s talk was built on the
three philosophies of life as evidenced
in the parable of the Good Samari
tan. They are: one. What’s yours is
mine and. I’ll take it; two. What’s
mine is mine and I’ll keep it; three.
What’s mine is your’s and I’ll share
it. The speaker showed that people
in the world today are living by one
of these ^d gave examples of each.
The talk was interesting and bene
ficial to all who heard it.
The' two. bat^hi^, were assigned . . ■
to the and'^Philadelphia [ MM , «
Thfee Hoke Gnrk
navy yards, respectively, and the oth
er vessels were divided, between gov-
i.etnment and commercial yards
Officials said the Navy acted with
swiftness unmatched even in the
World War. The contracts for nine
warships assigned- to (x>mmerci^
^pl^ildihg plants ha(L bom. aegd^'
tiated while final action bn the ap
propriation was awaited.
Get Hep’ees
At WCUNC
Among the 428 seniors receiving
degrees from Woman’s College of the
The 22 ships will cost more than j Urtiversity of N. C., at the com-
$327,000,000 to complete, it was es- j mencement exercises Monday, June
timated. 10th, were:
The White House said the Army Kathleen Elizabeth McBryde, dau-
was turning its reserve manufactm- g^ter ^f Mr. and Mrs.. J. W. Mc-
ing equipment over to private in-jgfyjje.
dustry for “immediate production of McBryde received a B S. de
sizeable quantities of smokeless pow- [gf^^ m secretarial administration, was\
der, ^monia, and small arms am-L member of the Aletheian society,
mumtion.’’ [ghe was a member of the Sp^deers’
Stephen Earty, prMidential scctc-her sophomore year and of the
tary, also reports that the War De- j Education cluh' her junior and sen-
partment had inforpied President j years, she was active in basket-
Roosevelt today that it was making I jjau each year, joining the Athletic
excellent progress” in surveys of ma- j association her junior year,
terials and suppUes that may be Le^a Bjue McFadyen, daughter of
advantageously declared surplus. | g^d Mrs. Wi M. McFadyen: Miss
These will be turned over to a sub
sidiary sales company, set up by the
United States Steel company, for re
sale to the Allies. ‘
McFadyen, received a B. S. degree
in physical education, was a member
of the Aleth^an society. She has
been very active in sports, having
been a member of the Archery club,
of which she was .social chairman
her senior year, and the Seal dub^
She also served on the sophomore Y
council her sophomore year.
New York, June 11.—Under'a deal | Mary Elumbeth McBryde, dau-
effected by the wdr department and ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ryan
the United States Steel Export com- j McBryde. Miss McBryde received a
pany, the allies will get $37,600,000 13. g. degree in secretarial administra-
orth of surplus munitions, equip- tion, was a member of the"^ Dikean
lent and ordnance, it was announced j society. During her freshman and
Allies To Get Surplus
U. S. War Supplies
light by the United States Steel
corporatfon.
Local steel sources said the trans
action signalized an important step
in line with President Roosevelt’s
pledge to the allies of the nation’s
full material aid.
In acting as the medium for trans
fer of the war material, the ^teel
corporation said its export subsidiary
wSTd derive no profit.
Astatement issued by thecorpor-
. ation said:
“The United States Steel corpora
tion tonight confirmed the prelimi
nary statement recenljly made from
Washington as to the conclusion of
negotiations with the United States
government foi^ the purchase by
the United Steel Export comipiE^ of
various surplus munitions, equipment
and ordnance supplies now held by
the United States war departmrat.
GRAIN CROP GOOD
The small grain crop ^or Hoke
county is unusually good considering
the severe cold winter, announces A.
S. Knowles, county agent. Farmers
who have harvested wheat, oats, and
barley have found unusually good
yields. Some fmmers have reported
as high as fifty bushels of wheat per
acre. In order to harvest Ihe in
creased acreage of small grsUn several
new combines have been brought into
the county this year.
sophomore years she was in the Y.
W. C. A., and during her junior anc!
senior years in the Education club
She was also a member of the Speak
ers’ Club and the 'Young Democrats’
club her senior year,
ISCHOOl BRI8S
By K. A. MacDONALD
DOWD ATTENDS CONFERENCE
J. W. Dowd has returned from a
weeks’ conference of vocational agri
culture teachers held at Carolina
Beach. This conference was state
wide. Commissioner of Agriculture
Kerr Scott, addressed the conference
as did Jule B. Weurren, secretary of
the NCEA. The central topic of the
conference was “Part-time Classes
for Out-of-School Youth.”
Confiri’e^smaii Bpr^in In
RaeFord Tuesday A. M.
■ - . -, .. no I The Honorable,.William O. Burgin,
on payment of the cqsts when he -ontfJooc tr-r » >
Plod Biaty of being dlta* and dis- waa in Ea.-
rSaaSrSf aoSiodt *"
Mr. Burgin, a member of the House
Foreign Affairs committee, talked to
■many of his friends and constituents
he happened to run into on the street
concerning the action the United
States has taken and pqgsibly will
take toward the countries^ warring
Europe as to relief to inv^Kd coun-
Fayetteville’s broadcasting station j tries and help for the Allies.
WFNC started operation Monday qjj leaving Raeford Tuesday Mr.
on a twelve-and-a-half-hour sched- I gurgin went back through the dis-
I HOME EC GIRLS AT WHITE LAKE
Miss Nell Howery, vocational home
economics teacher, has her home eco
nomics girls in camp at White Lake
this week. Due to crop conditions
a comparatively small number of
girls were able to attend. girls
are camping at the Fututre Farmers’
camp on the west side of the lake.
I Anyone going to the lake should stay
[and Visit the girls.
serve four months on the roads.
FAyetteville Station
WFNC Begins
Derating Monday
SODA FOR GARDEN
The Barrett company, tiirough H.
L. Meacham, has donated 400 lbs.
of nitrate of soda for the school gar
den. Mr. Dowd reports that they are
coming along fine.
ule. The station has 250 watts power
and broadcasts on 1340 kilocycles.
The station is operated by the Cum
berland Broadcasting company, of
which W. C. Ewing and H. E. Lay
man are the owners.
Homecoming At Old
Sandy Grove Church
The trustees of Sandy Grove Pres
byterian church extend an invitation
jto members, former members, and
friends of the church to attend the
homecoming services at the church.
Fort Bragg reservation, on Sunday,
June 23rd, at 11:00 A. M. Services
will be conducted by Rev. Eugrae
Alextmder of Manchester, and tne
customary basket lunch will be had
after the services.
The American Red Cross is rushing
clothing, medicines, ambulances, and
hospital supplies to Europe’s newest
war-tom area. It has appealed to
men and women of good will to con
tribute a relief fund of at least $10,-
000,000. This newspaper joins in
urging your fullest cooperation
through your local,chapter.
Mrs. C. W. Seate visited her daugh
ter, Mrs. G. A. Hatch in Greensboro,
last weekend.
Bank Robbery Suspect
Put Under . Arrest
Arrest of a man and, a woman in
Mt. Airy yesterday morning as sus
pects in the St. Pauls bank robbery
which occurred May 29th was an
nounced Wednesday b^ SBl and state
highway patrol officers.
Identifie4 here as Raymdhd Han.
cock of Richmond, Va., the man was
rushed to Lumbertoii from Mt. Airy
for questioning and i^lentification ac
cording to Lt. A. T. Moore, command
er Of troop B, state highw^ patrol.'
’The woman was not identifii^
The St. Pauls branch of &e Bank
of Rowland was knocked off western
style the afternoon of May 29th 'by a
man and a woman who surprised K
B. Ward, assistant cashier who was
alone in the bank at the time, .and
made off with about $2,300 in cur
rency.
Myrtice Barrington retumM Sun
day after spending some time with
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter 3Feed in Colum
Millions of peace-loving people in
Europe are depending on the friendly
nations .of the world to he^. The
American Red Cross has appealed for
$10,000,000 to con^nue a^tance to
war sufferers. Your local chapter
needs yours help to m^ its quota.
Do your bit to^. ; •
Mrs. Estelle ^ibson of Rockfish is
spending a few^ays with her daugh
ter, Annie, hei
trict to Lexington, his home, where
he spoke to an American Legion gath
ering before returning to his duties
in Washington.
SENIORS ENROLL FOR COLLEGE
Quite a number of the members of
the. 1940 graduating class of Hoke
high school are having transcripts of
their work made and forwarded to
the various colleges of the state, pre
paratory to entrance next fall.
Fairleys Leave
Raeford Tnesday
For Mmtreat
By D. SCOTT TOOLE
Rev. Watson M. Fairley, DJJ., had
resigned as pastor of Raeford Pres
byterian church, to be effective JFtma
30th, 1940, and had had the pastortaf
relation between himself and die
church dissolved at the AprR meet
ing of Fayetteville Presbytery, but
because of the state of his healRiy
he decided during the past few days
to retire at once witiiout furlher no
tice, so he and Mrs. Fairley Idk
Tuesday for their hoiM in Montreal^
much to the regret oihis congrega
tion here and aU the citizens of
Raeford, who, regardless of derunn.
ination, were friends to and admirers
of the strong' and forceful minister
who preached on every occasion wiOt
unction.
Dr. Fairley is a son of the late
Rev. David Fairley, DJ)., and his
wife, Mrs. Jane Mclver Fairly. He
was bom add reared at Manchester
in upper Cumberland county, where
Dr. David-Fairley lived and preached
to the i)eople of the sandhills of Cum
berland for nearly half a century. He
served Galatia, L^ngstreet, the Churdr
of the Covenant, Sandy Grove, and
other churches.
Watson M. Fairley grew to man-'
hood on a farm the family owned &
the vicinity of Manchester, attended
the local schools, Davidson cotlege,
and Union Theological Smninary,
Richmond, Va., and while a minis
terial student, he preached during va
cations at Shiloh, Sandy Grove, and
other churches, and was quite pop
ular as a young minister, the son of
his able and esteemed father. Ha
was pastor of First Presbyterian
church, FayetteviUe, for a number oi
years. 'Then he did quite a lot d
“Home Missionary Work” in the West,
locating for a numbo’ of years in
El Paso, Texas. From £1 Paso he
came to Raeford, and for more than^
fifteen years has be^ pastor of
Raeford Presbyterian church, grow
ing in popularity as the years ^led by.
Dr. Fairley is retiring from tiie
active ministry after nearly forty
years of able and faithful services.
Assisted in his work by his he^
meet, Mrs. Watson M. Fairley, who
by her scholarly attainments and zeal
lor her Master’s Kingdom, has nobly
assisted her distinguidied hudnad in
his work of preaching Salvatimi
through Christ to a lost world.
Installation Service
At Dundarrach
The commission appointed by Fay
etteville Presbytery to install Rev.
Henry R. Poole pastor of the Dun-. .
darrach Presbyterian church will I —^white and Indian, 1623; color,
meet in the church Sunday at 3:30 I 3326; total, 4949.
SCHOOL FIGURES PRESENTED
The following figures taken from
the “Preliminary Statistical Report”
to the State Department of Education,
will probably be of interest to all
those interested in the schools of
Hoke county:
School census (all children of school
P. M. for this service. Rev. David
Blue will preside and propound the
constitutional questions. Rev. Eu
gene Alexander will preach the ser
mon. Rev. F. M. Bain will charge j 3603
the congregation, and Ruling E^der I Average
Edgar Hall will charge the pastor.
All the people of the community
are invited to this service.
Total enrollment — white and In
dian, 1524; colored, 2737; total, 4261.
Average daily membeidup—rwhite
and Indian, 1345; colored, 2258; to-
Fairleys Receive Gift
daily attendance—^white
and Indian, 1257; colored, 2132; total,
3389.
Pupils doing. full year’s work —
white and Indian, 1010; colored 1754;
total 2764.
Pupils doing % year’s work—white
and Indiaq, 145; colored, 405; total,
550.
PupUs doing less than % year’s
work—^white and Indian, 157; color'
Deacons F. B. Sexton and Marcus
R. Smith, representing the congrega^-
tion of the Raeford Presbyterian
church, Monday afternoon presented | eL 194; total, 351.
Dr. and Mrs. Watson M. Fairley with The total enrollment for Hoke high
a substantial pheck as a parting gift school was 394 for Updiurch high
before the Fairleys left Tuesday for school 359. The average daily at-
Montreat where they* will live. j tendance for Hoke 356, for Upchurclb Defend America by Aiding the AI-
I r% W'Stf* n't.. I. ..
Gloria Brinkley, of Fayetteville, is
spending a few days with her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mc
Duffie.
356.
D. Lacy McBryde Tells Eogland Not
To Sink Vessel His Bro^w j^des
The following dispatch appeared in
Sunday newspapers. McBrydi is a
native of "Ijinden and a former resi
dent of FayetteviUe. He is now an
attoiiiey for the Wage and Hour Ad
ministration, with offices in Char
lotte:
Raleigh, June 8.—D. Lacy Mc
Bryde, of FayetteviUe, member of tiie
state house of representatives in 1937
and 1939 said today he had wired the
British embassy in Washington that
his brother was retumlBg to this
country from Scotland, and that if
the ship were sunk “its destruction
would be caused by the British navy.”
His brother, Duncan McBryde, has
b$en studying theology at the Univer
sity of Edenborough.
AcBryde said he sent this tele
gram to the embassy:
“iSy brother is now returning or
embark from studies in Scot
land. Should such boat be sunk at
ssi^' its destyuction would be caused
EXPECTED TEACHER
ALLOTMENTS
The foUowing information as to
the number of teachers expected to
be aUotted is taken from the “Organ-
iziation Report” submitted to the
State School Commission:
District No. 1, Raeford—white, 21;
colored, 34; Indian, 0.
District No. 2, Ashemont—white,
4; rolored, 6; Indian, 0.
U District No. 3, Rockfish—white, 4;
cblor^, 5; Indian, 0.
District No. 4, MUdouson—white,
3; colored, 5; Indian, 0.
5, Antioch—^white, 3;
“Stop HiUer”
Movement indorsed
By President
Washington, June 11.—^Warmly in.
dorsiag an organized “stop ffifier
now” movement. President Roosevdt
worked today to rush all possQde
mal^rikl help to the allies, udiilB Con
gress continued its rapid-fire actum
on the national defense program, now
grown to $5,021,619,622.
The chief executive announced to
a press conference that the nation’s
lists of military supplies were bmiqi
combed to see what might be ^;»ared
for the beleaguered Frenrti and Brit
ish. At the same time, |^e senab^
by a 67 to 18 vote, apisoved legisla^
tion to permit the governmwit to
dispose of surplus world war guns m
a way which will make them avail
able to the allied armies. —
Reporters attending Mr. Roosevelt
press conference noticed lying aa
his desk the full-page advertiswnent
which was inserted in many newspa
pers today by the “Committee to
by the Bri^ ^rvd-dhject se;
sponsibiiity of your government, the
desti;uptjon‘l)eing an effort to get us
into 'war against Germany and to
again sacrifice'’ muRilQAlto hf young I District No^
Americans to hortible debth in Eur- I colored, 13; Indian, 3.
ope’s hell for no reason but gratifi- | District No. 6, LitOe River—white,
catidn of empire. • |0; colored, 3; Indian, 0.
“American' people have sense I Totals for county:' White, 35; cd-
enough to tytow'tliatiGtorniany wouM [ored, 69; Indian, K
not profit by sinking niiHi a boi^t but I , addition to toe abovejioke high
that Brltoin, knpwing oi'our pre|u-|has‘ '3 full-time and qm part-time
dice against Hitier>'wouM' gain byjnoh-state allotted ieadmre and Up-
sinking toe ship laid' it on ichurdi has one. This make a
Germmiy. There are endui^ mothers [total of 111 full-time teachers and
whose sons did not return from Bu-1 one part-time. This is three more
rope’s last war and enoui^ intelll-1 than last year. The reason for the
gent Chriatiah pe^le in itiinetica to. I increase of *' 3 state aHotted is toe
guarantee that we will not again bd I increased enrolhnwit dnd eSbociaUy
led to the steudhter for, any Rmtegn [ton better ayweie. deBT gttopdanen.
power beoause a boat is iunk. The | Average daity attwidance is toe basis
sentiment of our people is to prepare J on whlto teachm are aUotted.
for home defmse and let Eiuppe
fight its own waik aa it has done]
since the' i^wn of tline.’
Miss Isabel $lcFaity«a is out of
toe ottire on account et m»pa
lies.” It bore a big blade streanter:
“Stop Hitler Now.”
“We can help--if we will act now,**
was one of its statemoits, “we can
help by sending planes, guns, muni
tions, food. We can help to eui toe
fear that American boys will fi^t
and die in another Flanders,
to home.”
A reporter asked the Prestdend for
conhnoit on toe advertisemnoA He
replied tiiat he had not paid at-,
tention to it until he Ietontyli,|t Mad
been writtm by Htbert E.
dramatist, nutoor of “Shr Tiiwrtiiii hi
Illinois,” W toe
Finland, “Thore StyiB
Wittu>ut meaninih Iv.
said, to indorse entot photiiaa'
in the advortisenent, he
was a mighty food tidnto
peace of work, educationei to
pie of this country. It n
said, toat William ABw
chairman of toe rrtmmitteaL'
mg sudi things before toU
the coimtry.
1989' SOIL
PAT
Forty’dour tototolty^
444.77 during tito
1939 Soil
This brings tor
mu for IMil
nobnees A ^
cut
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