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HOKE COUNTTS BEST A0VEBTISING MEDIUM The Hoke County News VOLUME XXXV. NO. 14. Britain flhy Keep Food From Belgium London, A^g. 6.—Great Britain, it was indicated tonight, probably will refuse an implicit plea by the United States ambassador to Belgium that the blockading British navy permit shipment of food from America to avert starvation in Belgium and else where in Europe. An informed British source said it was “imlikely that Britain will al low any food into German-occupied Europe.” The envoy, John Cudahy, had de clared that conditions “close to fam ine” would prevail in Belgium by .’■thid ’^Senternbec '-.,-unlegg . .AmerJcan ’'“vshipments get through. • * Indirectly he used the phrase, “a ■howling hell,” to picture the possi- Y T^le situation in Belgium and else where in Europe when winter comes. Within a few hours after Cudahy’s prediction, this Britisly comment dis- counting .it was formcppiing; “It is not at all certain that Europe will be in such a bad way over food as Mr. Cudahy \ thinks. Belgium and the other occupied countries will have to make up their shortages from Germany. If the Germans are prepared to share fajrly there prob ably won’t be any famine in Europe this winter.” This source added that the offi cial British attitude toward relaxa tion of the European blockade is not likely to be defined until a test case arises—that is, when a food ship- encounters the blockade, which ex tends from Africa to the Arctic. Cudahy cited the probability that German troops of occupation would live off the fOod of conquered lands , i# their comnriunications were cut, using supplies which in themselves would be insufficient to support the I native populations. Ask Increased Cotton Loans Washington, Aug. 6. — Southern senators appealed to President Roose velt today to safeguard cotton farm ers against a declining market by es tablishing a government loan rate of 10.25 cents a pound. In a letter signed by a score of cotton state senators, the President was told this loan rate, represent ing an increase of about $10 a bale over last year’s was “fully justified and essential in order to protect the income of our cotton farmers until such a time as more normal trade conditions can be restored.” The letter was prepared by Sena tor Bankhead, Democrat of Alabama, member of a committee which yes terday called on Secretary Wallace to urge the boosted loan rate. It said cotton farmers were facing a “critical situation” as a result of the dislocation of foreign trade. “Cotton farmers have already done their part by going the limit in adjusting their acreage of cotton to bring supplies into balance with de mand,” the senators wrote. “This action has been helpful.” BAEFOBD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8th, 1940 Culbreth Reunion Held Sunday ' t Last Sunday, August 4th, the de fendants of Arch Culbreth, pioneer of the upper Cape Fear in the days of the Revolution, met in annual/re- imion at the home of his great grandson, Walter Culbreth, at White Oak, in Bladen county. As joint hosts for the day were Mr. Cul- S ti’s brothers and sisters, Mr. and T. F. Culbreth of Raeford, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Culbreth of Gulfport, Miss., Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Culbreth of Jupiter, Fla., Mrs. W. J. Bramble of Atkinson, Mrs. R. L. Dew of Clin- tony- Mrs. W. A. Seawell of Fayette ville, Mrs. R. H. Edge of Fayette- viller'%rsr\Pearl McClure, of White Oak, and Busins, Mr. and Mrs. John Culbreth of Red Springs. Rev. Frank Culbreth of Fayette ville and Rev. A. .B. Crumpler of Clinton made informal falks on the purpose of the day and family his tory preceding the bounteous picnic dinner served in the grove of the Walter Culbreth home. About 350 members of thfe clan at tended the reunion. Raeford Girl Graduates At Wake Forest Miss Florence Anita Lester receiv ed her bachelor’s degree E|t Wake Forest college Saturday, August 3rd. Miss Lester was one of 48 graduates receiving diplomas at,Wake Forest- Meredith summer schijl copimence- ment. exercises. , Dr. T. T. Binkley, head of the college religion department, made the address. / Nme Defendants Face Recorder First of nine defendants to face Judge W. B. McQueen Tuesday were James Steel and Tom McBryde, negroes of near Raeford. They were charged with breaking, entering and larceny. Probable cause was found by the court and they were bound oyer to Superior court imder bond of $150 each. Hailed into court imder a charge of breaking, entering and attempted larceny were Marshall Williams and James Brown, negroes of Raeford. Probable cause was foimd by the court and they were boimd over to Suplerior court under bond of $200 each. Willie Smith, white man, was charged with" assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. He was bound over to Superior court under $200 bopd after probable cause had been found. Also charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill was Willie B. McFadyen, White man of Raeford. He attempted to carve Hoover Stubbs, also of Raeford. He plead guilty to simple assault and the state accepted. Judgement was thirty days on the roads, sentence suspended on payment of the costs and the doctor’s bill. * J. D. Morrison, colored boy from Blue Springs, was caught in another man’s watermelon patch with in tent to take said melons. He pled guilty to the charge of trespassing and attempted larceny and the court sentenced him to thirty days on, the roads, to be suspended on payment of the costs. Lohome Hasty, negro from Blue Springs, was brought to court charg ed with being drunk and disorderly for the fifth time. He was also charged with trespass and with using profane and vil6 language. After his plea of guilty Judge McQueen sen tenced him to six months on the roads. British Leaf Buyers May Be On Floor Danville, Va., Aug. 3. — It was learned in responsible tobacco trade circles today that the Imperial To bacco company will be represented on the southern bright markets this year. Added color to the report is given by virtue of the fact that Im perial buyers have been assigned to 'taie Georgia markets opening Thurs day. ' Under what plan the British com pany will operate has not been made known, but there is reason to be lieve that the United States govern ment is. again undertaking to fi nance purchases to relieve the com pany from using foreign exchange for a product which it has a year’s supply in storage overseas. For weeks the report has been cur rent that the Imperial company would be off the southern markets this year owing to the fact that it made normal purchases last season, practically all of this tobacco being now in storage in this country. Board Postpones Tax Advertising The Hoke county board of com missioners at their regular meeting at the courthouse last Monday de cided to postpone the advertising of land in the county for sale for un paid taxes until the first week in October. This advertising was orig inally scheduled to begin this week, so it has been put off two months. The board also in their meeting Monday decided to allow the Lum- bee River Electric Membership Cor poration to use the second floor of the county office building for their offices. This is over tlje county li brary and is now being used by Dr. Perry for the negro syphilis clin ic. Dr. Perry is expected to vacate in the next few days. Other business disposed of by the commissioners included the approval of a budget estimate for the county and routine business. Communities Are Told To Decide'Destination Henderson, Aug. 3. — “Any city must determine its own destination, and then the merchants of that city must lay down the money for a tick et to that destination,*’ L. P. Dickie, manager of the southeastern division of the United States chamber of com merce, told Henderson chamber of commerce members and their guests Friday night at a dinner meeting at Vance hotel. Communities, he pointed out, are competing among themselves for trade just as separate business estab lishments within each community are competitors, and each community must necessarily study its possibili. ties and its attractions and .advertise these features to its potential cus tomers. The Campaign Closes Sunday The independent, non-denomina- tional evangelistic campaign con ducted in Raeford for the last month by John Barbee closes Sunday night. The services have been well at tended, and the people have enjoyed the congregational singing of old hsrmns under the direction of J. R. Faulkner. The work of Miss Ann Murray with the children and young people has also been helpful. Mr. Barbee, the preacher, is a very young evangelist who is" a strong advocate of the old-time religion; he preaches the gospel with sincerity and zeal. Through the Barbee campaign new converts (have been brought to Christ and the luke-warm spirit of many church members has been revived. To the churches of the Raeford com munity now falls the privilege and the obligation of culfivating the spir itual life of these new converts as the Barbee workers leave Raeford for another town. The good that has been started should be carried on through the years; to all the Chris tians of Raeford comes the opportun ity of working together through the years for the salvation of, all the people. These new converts will need to seek the fellowship of the people of God in working out their salvation and the salvation of others. The evangelist sows the seed, but as the evangelist moves on to other fields, the work of cultivating the olant and keeping the grass and thorns from choking its growth' falls to the church. The preachers and the church workers of Raeford welcome the^e new converts into the fellowship of their ranks as they seek to carry forward the program of Christ and His Church. Being anxious to con- .serve the best results of the revival, the preachers of Raeford are receiv ing from the Barbee campaigners a list of all persons who have been converted during the tent meeting. These names wiU be used by the preachers ^ and church workers in town as they seek to bring them selves and others into a more per fect way in Christ. (This article prepared by the pas tors of Raeford). How I Felt (By D. SCOTT POOLE) ■When a now prominent citizen of Raeford was a small boy, he de lighted in gathering eggs from the barnlot, and bring them in the house to his mother. This was his daily job. His father had a large flock of hens on one of his farms, and one day he brought about a half bushel of eggs home when he returned from the farm, and he went around and filled all his little son’s nests heap ing full of eggs, and at the first nest the boy visited, he got his hat full of eggs, and came running into the house with them. He hurried to the next nest and got another hat full. And he brought in a half bushel or more, and his father said the boy’s eyes got bigger and bigger each hat full. It was a long time before the boy found out the trick his father played on him. Mrs. Poole’s birthday came on Fri day and mine on Saturday, so our rel atives and friends presented us with many appreciated reminders of love and friendship, and I believe we felt like our little boy felt when he found so many eggs. Thanjcs to one and all. I am con sidered old, but one thing certain: I never was this old before. War Veterans May Take Over Home Defense ff Needed Hyde Park., N. Y., Aug. 6.—Pres ident Roosevelt disclosed today that World war veterans might take over home defense duties how assigned to the national guard, if and when the guard is brought into Federal service. In the broader field of hemispheric co-operation, the Chief Executive told a press conference that a meet ing of minds on defense against non- Agaerican nations was one of three extraordinary successful achieve ments of the Pan-American confer ence at Havana. He said in response to an inquiry that unity of the Americas >is with out question more of a fact how than ever before. The conference was successful also, he said, in taking steps to solve mu- toal economic problems of the Amer ican nations, which loom much larg er because of the war in Europe, and in setting up machinery- to com bat fifth column activities qriginat- ing outside the Americas. Army Planning Roa^ In N. C. Raleigh, Aug. 6.—^The War depart ment is considering the possibility of weaving a 1,255-mile network of military highways and bridges through North Carolina, Frank Dun lap, chairman of the State Highway and Public Works commission, said today. Consideration of such a national de fense step was revealed when the public road administration requested the department to make a survey and estimate the cost of improving 1,255 miles of highway and 250 bridges to meet military requirements. Engineer W. Vance Baise of the state department stated that three en gineers had been assigned t© the job and would submit their findings within a week or 10 days. He would hazard no estimate of the cost of the projected defense system. Highways under consideration as nfllitary arteries for troops, heavy artillery guns, supplies, and motor ized units form a pattern of five north-south lanes between Virginia and South Carolina and two east- west lanes between Tennessee and the Atlantic. ' The survey will embrace study of U. S. highways 1, 70, 15, 15-A, 501, and 301 in the east; U. S. 29 in cen tral North Carolina and U. S. High way 25, 70, and 176 in the west. In view of possible heavy move ments of motorized units, military highways will require a minimum 18-foot roadway; similar width for bridges and underpasses: 15-ton bridge strength; overhead clearances of 12.5 feet; and eight-foot, solid shoulders, or the alternatives of such shoulders along at least 2,000 feet of each two-mile sector. Baise said most of the bridges and underpasses involved in the survey would meet the army requirements. He estimated that about 10 per cent of the bridges and roadway would require widening and that practically the entire 1,255 miles would require wider shoulders. Some routes, he said, are spotted with stretches of 16-foot paving. Britain’s Loss In U-Boat War Held Terrific Berlin, Aug. 6. — The German counterblockade, designed to turn fatally upon Britain her greatest his toric weapon, was claimed today to be smashing British shipping at a far higher rate than in the unre stricted submarine campaign of the first "World war. The Nazi high command asserted a total of 4,986,860 tons of British merchant vessels, and those usable by Britain, had been knocked out in 11 months of warfare—3,725,547 by the German navy and 1,261,313 by the air force. Thus was claimed for Germany a monthly score of about 453,350 tons —against an average British loss of 205.000 tons during the 21 months when submarines were on fierce prowl a generation ago. The high comand communique as serted also that in the last three weeks of July the Germans had sent to the bottom 657,674 totas of/ “enemy merchant shipping space\iidJ space usable by the enemy.*?’ All this, it was said, was aside from 21,650 tons of warships and merchant ships sunk by mines. The high command declared that its successes against the British had been “proved by repeated closing of enemy ports and otiier evidence.” Nazi air activity was declared to be going forward without pause, Ger man planes having attacked “several” English ports only today, after sharp air fighting over the English channel yesterday and last night in which eight Britishers were reported to have been shot down. REA ALLOTS $428,000.00 TO LUMBEE RIVER CORPORAHON Italians Apparently Set To Make Or Break Their African Empire Britain’s urgent need of relating her wartime economic problems with the American national defense prep arations was stressed in commons Wednesday as she faced the threat of a blitzkrieg invasion from across the channel and destruction of her vital Mediterranean life-line by It aly. I Arthur Greenwood, laborite mem ber of the war cabinet, told com mons a new, wartime, economic com mittee had been formed, and added that since France as an ally was gone it was necessary to “supple ment our own production by draw,;,, ing upon the vast and invulnerable capacity of North America.” Even as* he spoke Italy was giving every indication that Premier Ben ito Mussolini was ready at last to risk the fight whch may make or break his African empire. Reported troop concentrations on the Libyan-Egyptian border close to the eastern Mediterranean shore, jabbing blows at Kenya and British Somaliland, and air raids on Haifa, Palestine, and other British positions in the Near East strengthened the belief that the “hour of destiny” of which Mussolini spoke two months ago upon the declaration of war was at hand. The opinion vyas noted in some quarters that the threat of a Nazi blitzkrieg against England was per haps nothing more than a diversion in the strategy to conquer the African continent, seize the Mediterranean and the Suez canal and thus break the British empire’s life-line to the Yar East. The raid on Haifa, important oil center, was the third since the war began. Gasoline tanks and port fa cilities were reported by the Italian high command to have been badly damaged. Raeford Theatre Will Be Improved Soon J. B. McIntyre, manager oi me Raeford theatre for the past five years, who has recently leased the house for five more years, stated this week that he is planning to improve the building extensively both inside and out. Mr. McIntyre said the plans includ ed new flooring and paii.ting as well as an improved heating and ventila ting system on the jnside. He said that the marquee and the whole front of the building would be improved, adding greatly to the appearance. These improvements will be made in the next few weeks in order that the theatre may be in the best pos sible shape by fall, he said. Allotment Made for itial Project Of 4S0 Miles; More Expect^ For Later Projects* Officials here of the newlsr formed Lumbee River Eleetcie Membership Corporation recehied word late Tuesday that the National Rural Electrification Administn- tion had alloted the corporation $428,000 for the construction of 450 miles of power line in the corpora tion’s initial or “A” project. This 450 miles of line will serve approximately 1,500 members of tiie corporation in the counties of Hoke, Robeson, Scotland, and CumEjerland. The original $428,000 is to lie sup plemented later by additional funds tor the construction of a “B” pro ject by the corporation.. The board of directors hopes that 300 miles of line will be ready for application to be put in this project within the next thirty days. The directors met at the courthouse here yesterday afternoon to iron out final details and to proceed with the setting up of the offices here which are to be the headquarters of the organization. Directors are of the opinion that the staking of the lines will begin about September 1, and the constructon will foUow im mediately. Members of the board of directors are as follows: Hoke—^Marshall Newton, R. F. D., Raeford, N. C.; J. A. Roper, route 2, Maxton, N. C.; Mrs. Lucy Smith, route 1, Raeford, N. C. Robeson—J. E. Morrison, route 2, Maxton, N. C.; C. A. Alford, Row land, N. C.; J. R. Cadell, R. F. D., Maxton, N. C. Scotland—Dan McGirt, Wagram, N. C.; Mrs. T. P. McGjrt, "Wagram, l¥- c-.' Cumberland—J. McN. Gillis, route 3, Fayetteville, N. C. Mr. Alford is president of the or ganization, Mr. McGirt secretary, and Mr. Cadell is treasurer. G. G. Dick son, of Raeford, is attorney for the corporation and D, J. Dalton has been coordinator ^ the “A” pro ject. Mr. Dalton is expected to con tinue as coordinator on the succeed ing project. The J. B. McCrary .En gineering corporation have been en gineers in the preliminary work of the corporation. Mrs. P. P. McCain Will Be State Vice-Chairman ^'^rs. P. P. McCain, of Sanator ium, vice chairman of the Hoke coun ty Democratic Executive Committee and widely known in political circles over the state, is expected to be the next vice chairrnan of the Democratic Executive Committee of North Car olina. This fact was made known last week by J. M. Broughton, Demo cratic nominee for the governorship of North Carolina. Mr. Broughton also expressed his desire that Mr. Denny, his campaign manager in the recent primary, be named for the po sition of state chairman, succeeding R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia. House Committee Decides To Hear More Witnesses Town Fathers Set Tax Rate Washington, Aug. 7.—Suddenly re versing themselves, members of the House Military committee decided today to call five more witnesses, headed by Secretary Knox, to tes tify on the Burke-Wadsworth com pulsory military training bill. Although Chairman May (D-Ky) announced that hearings had been closed last Friday and the Com mittee voted 11 to 10 in a stormy session yesterday not to hear furth er testimony, the mmebers decided at what was described as a “love feast” this morning to reverse them selves and proceed with brief public hearings. In addition to Knox, General John J. Pershing, Harry Woodring, form er secretary of war, Louis Johnson, former assistant secretary of war, and Hugh Johnson, newspaper cil- umnist, will be heard next week, probably Tuesday. At the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Raeford at the Town Hall Tues day night a tentative budget for tire town for the coming year was ap proved and the tax rate established. The tax rate under the tentative budget is to be the same as it is this year, $1.33. Accordhig to one of the board members the budget will l)e brought Tiefore the boaurd at their next regular meeting for final and official approval. Attends Convention Floyd A. Keith, local agent of the Imeprial Life Insurance company, left Wednesday to attend his com pany’s mid-summer convention be ing held at the Sefinole Hotel in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mi\ Keith’s record was one of the hundred best records of his company qualified him for this annual three-day aU-expoose paid vacation. > Chapel Hill Wm Train 800 Pilots During Next Year Raleigh, Aug. 7.—The Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina approved plans for trsun- ing about 800 airplane pilots a year, here today, and directed that com pulsory physical education be insti tuted at 'the Chapel Hill unit im mediately. Unanimously the board then ap proved Robert M. Salter of Ohio State University as director of the state experiment station, with Dr. Leonard David Baker of Ohio State to become associate director, both effective October 1. President Frank P. Graham sub mitted recommendations providing for purchase and expansion of the present airport at Chapel Hill and expansion of training facilities, in cluding purchase of its own flying field, for N. C. State here. Judge John J. Parker of Charlotte offered the resolution providing for immed iate physical training of all under graduate students at Chapel Hill. Doctor Graham told the board that one of its members, Richard J. Rey nolds of Winston-Salem, had agreed to give $5,000 a year for ten years for the agricultiiral research pro gram Salter will head, and that ttie . general education board would make $52,000 available in six years. Fierce Air Attacks On London Forseen London, Aug. 6.—Sprawling Loo- Ion, “witii Ui great doc^” was pictured in a German radio broad cast from Bremen tonight ds the pos sible “big target” for the next bombings in the luftkrieg — Gw. many’s air war prelude to blita- krieg. The announcer, who said tiiat “I cannot tell you when the attack will come or how, but can say titat it will not come in the form in whidk it is an^pated in England,” declaaNd that the Naz air force is ovwhaolad. rested and ready. “Attacks will be directed aghMSt docks and industrial centers,’*.!* said, pointedly rt^orring to denadl^ populated London as the “big tiirid*^ - - . ' •_ •• vtti' .. Margaret CouncUmao, ot- ton, is visiting lii|aapi8| Bqyle of RaefMd.^'i^F"S"
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