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>LUMEXXXV. NO. 17.
Eight Gmykted
Oi Dnmk^ess
Tuesday Mornmg
Eight men o£ Hoke county were
iound guilty of being drunk and dis
orderly at the weekly session of re
corder’s court last Tuesday.
Garfield Watkins; Raeford negro,
pled guilty to the charge and also
to the charge of using indecent and
profane language. His sentence was
thirty days, suspended on payment of
the costs.
William and Dave Woodell, young
white men from Blue Springs,
guilty to the drimk and disorderly
charge and were given -thirty days^
suspended on payment of the costs.
They did not plead, guilty to toe
charge of violating the prohibition
law but were found guilty by toe
court of possession of non-tax paid
liquor, sentence being thirty days on
the roads, to be suspended on pay
mmt of the costs.
Paul Holler and' M. H. McLeod pled
guilty to toe drunk and disordwly
charge and to the charge of violating
the prohibition law. The sentence
of toe court was thirty days on toe
roads,, sentence to be suspen^ on
payment of toe costs.
James McNeill, Blue Springs negro,
pled guilty to being drunk and dis-
ordeity and was ordered to pay toe
court costs.
wm McPhatter, negro of Raeford
townshiii, was found guilty of be
ing drunk and disorderly and with
violating toe prohibition law, and
also with using indecent and pro
fane language and assaut with a
deadly weapon. He was sentenced
to thirty days on toe roads in one
Instance and to sixty days in another,
sentences to be suspended on p^-
ment.of toe court costs and a fine
|f $25. .
L. C. Ciainingham, negro from
Stonewall township, was convicted
w being drunk and disorderly and
was sentenced to thirty days on toe
*oads, sentence to be suspended on
payment of toe costs.
Sim Liles, Raeford negro, was
found not guilty of violating toe pro
hibition law.
Willie McP^tt^, negro, was cpn
victed of simple assault and given
thirty days, suspended on payment
of toe costs.
Martin Scarboro pled guilty to vio
lation of the prohibition law and was
released after he paid the costs of toe
court. V
Recruiting Planned
For NationaF Guard
Raleigh, Aug. 27. — Intensive re
cruiting to ' bring North Carolina’s
national guard units to piace-time
strength will probably begin when
guardsmen are called into federal
service, Adj.-Gen. J. Van B. Metts
said today.
Mobilization of guardsmen at toeir
home staljons is now tentatively set
for September 16 with a year’s train
ing to follow. General Metts ex
plained that all plans remain in a
tentative state until President Roose
velt signs toe bill authorizing him to
call toe guard.
All national guardsmen in this state
will be called out for toe year of
training. Units of toe 30to division
which includes the 120th infantry,
the 113th field artillery, toe 105to eri-
BAEFOm N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29,1940.
|L50 FEB YEAS
Closing Date Set For
Executing Assignments
The closing date for giving an as
signment against toe 1940 Soil Con
servation payment is October 31st,
1940, annoimces A. S. Knowles, coun
ty agent. Assignments can only
be given to secure cash or supplies
that have been furnished to carry out
toe 1940 farm operation. Any as
signments received after toe closing
date cannot be accepted.
Alims h Country
Being Register^
At Pbstoffices
To|bacco Quotas
For 1941 Revealed
By Wallace
Washington, Aug. 27.—Flue-cured
mmrketing quotas fpr toe first of three
years begiiming July 1, 1941, were
proclaimed today by Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, fol
lowing official determination that
86.1 per cent of toe growers voting
in the referendum held July 20to
favbred quotas for toe three-year per
iod.
The amount of toe quota which
will be in effect for 1941-42, the
first of toe three marketing years, is
618 million pounds. This is 10 per
cent more thap toe quota of 556 mil
lion pounds whiph was proclaimed
prior to toe referendum. Approval
of toe three-year quota makes it
possible to increase toe quota deter
mined for the 1941-42 marketing year,
and to spread the adjustment n^ed
to eliminate excess supplies over the
three-year period.
The amoimt of toe quota for toe
1942-43 marketing year will be an
nounced some time between July 1
and December 1, 1941. Similarly, the
amount of toe quota for the third
year of the period will be announced
between July 1 and December 1,1942.
The official canvass showed that
174,779 votes, or 86.1 per cent of toe
total of "203,059, approved, toe quota
which had been proclaimed for toe
marketing year beginning on that
date. Approximately 3,655 votes, or
1.8 per cent, favored toe quota pro
claimed for toe 1941-42 marketing
year in preference to quotas for three
years. The remaining 24,625 votes, or
12.1 per cent of toe total, were cast
against both toe three-year quota
proposal and toe one-year quota.
Antioch Man
N. C. State Alumni
Chapter Organized
k ^ gtoeers, the 105th medical regiment,
^ aid toe Canton signal company, will
train at Camp Jackson, S. C. The
252nd coast artillery, toe state’s re
maining guard unit, will go to Fort
Moultrie, S. C., with toe exception
of one battalion which will be sent
to Fort Screvens, Ga.
Tentative plans now call for the
guard regiments to be filled to war
strength -about double peace strength,
by conscripts.
Local draft boards would be named
for each county, or for population
units of 30,000 or more. There will
be ap]L Jximately 150 of toe three-
man b^rds in this state.
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Sister of Mrs. Bethune
And Mrs. Shaw Passes
Mrs. Mary McD. Blue, of Parkton,
died at her home Sunday morning
of a heart attack. She was 78 years
of age.
She was a daughter of toe late
Capt. D. McDougald and Mrs. Sarah
Phillips McDougald of Cumberland
county, and a widow of Davfd Gillis
Blue, of Cumberland county.
Surviving are nine children, fif
teen grandchildren, one great grand
child and two sisters, Mrs. R. L.
Bethune and Mrs. Colon Shaw, of
Raeford.
Mrs. Blue was a member of tl^e
Galatia Presbyterian church and fun
eral services were conducted toere
Monday morning at 11 o’clock by Rev.
F. M. Bain, toe pastor and Rev. Phil
lip McNatt, of Morven.
^Pallbearers were her nephews,
Angus Blue, Joe Blue, James Blue,
Rev. David F. Blue, Jr., Ed praham
awwni,
A large group of N. C. State col
lege alumni of Hoke, Cumberland,
and Harnett counties met at the home
of J. E. Derby in Fayetteville Friday
night where they were treated to a
delicious dinner given by Mr. Der
by. Those attending froip Hoke
county were J. H. Blue, C. L. Thom
as, Robert Gatlin, and A. S. Knowles.
Colonel J. W. Harrelson, admini
strative dean of State College, made
a very Interesting talk to the group
about toe consolidation of State col
lege and the University of N. C. W.
H. “Bob” Warren, freshman football
coach spoke about toe athletic setup
at toe college.
'The group organized into the Up
per Cape Fear Alumni chapter of toe
N. C. State College. This organiza
tion will include alumni in the coun
ties of Hoke, Cumberland and Har
nett. J. H. Blue, of Raeford, was
elected first vice-president of the
chapter. It was decided to have the
next meeting in Raeford on Septem
ber nth at 7 p. m.
Mr. Blue has asked that all State
College men in Hoke county meet him
at the county agent’s Uffice in Rae
ford on Tuesday, September 3rd, at
7:30 p. m. to make definite plans
for toe meeting, which will be held
in Raeford September 11 to.
Non-Citizens Not Complying
Subject to Heavy Fine and
Imprisonment.
Tuesday the citizens of foreign
nations who are living in the United
States started registering at toe 45,-
000 postoffices in toe country in ac
cordance .with, the recently passed
Congressional mandate.
There is no accurate information
available as to how many unnatural
ized foreigners, or aliens, there are
now living in tote coimtjty but it is
estimated that approximately three
and a half million will be listed.
There are expected to be comparative
ly few at toe local post office, ac
cording to Postmaster Lacy Clark.
The law states that all aliens over
13 years of age will have to apply
at toe postoffices for the registra
tion bldnks and, after filling them
out, swear to toe truth of toe state
ments and be fingerprinted for com-
pletp identification. They will later
receive an identification card by mail,
which will serve as a parital check
on toe accuracy of address and as a
protection of toe alien should he be
picked up by police.
Children under 14 must be regis
tered by their parents, but those
14 or over must make their applica
tion in person and be fingerprinted.
The information given will be con
fidential. The alien is to give his
name, any nicknames or aliases, or
if he entered toe country imder an
other name, he gives all variants.
His residence and postoffice address,
date and place of birth, country of
present citizenship, sex, marital stat
us, race and general description are
required. He must also tell when,
how and under what circumstances
he last entered this country, together
with toe date of his original arrival,
how long he has lived here and how
long he expects to remain.
The form requires that he give
his usual and present occupation, and
toe name, address and line of buS'
iness of his employer.' A record is
made of any applications for citizen
ship papers, addresses of. any rela
tives in toi^ country, of any arrests,
indictmente or convictions herei He
must also state whether or not he
takes part in toe activities of any
organization in toe United States
which furthers toe interest of: a for
eign government.
There is no charge for registtotion
or finger printing. ' j
Daniel T. Skipper, 55 year old
farmer, merchant, and trucker of An
tioch, passed away at a Fayetteville
hospital last Friday night. He had
been in bad health for some time and
his last illness began several months
before his death.
Fimeral services were conducted
Simday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at
Antioch Presbyterian church by Rev.
Henry R. Poole, toe pastoi*- Mr. Poole
was assisted by Rev. G. W. Hanna,
of Harrisburg, N. C., a. former pas
tor of the Antioch church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ly
dia Gibson Skipper, his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Skipper, of Fayetteville,
four sisters and one brother.
SCHOOL BRIEFS
By K. A. MacDDNALD'
h. r. baucom
FOUND GURTY
MANSlAUGHTHt
Attendance Stressed
Attendance is one of toe most im
portant factors in school work. Un
less a pupil attends regularly, it is a
very rare thing that he will be. able
to do satisfactory work. It goes
without saying that enrollment is a
part of attendance.
We are calling your attention to
school situation in Hoke county
and toe State of North Carolina
that is causing a great deal of study
on toe part of educators, generally.
In the state as a whole for toe school
year 1937-38 toere were 83,731 pupils
enrolled in toe first grade while toe
second grade had only 68,021 enrolled.
In Hoke county in toe same year
toere were 977 enrolled in toe first
grade and 491. in toe second. The
question is what became of the
difference? A large number were
retained in toe first grade, of course,
but why? In most cases it was on
account of poor attendance. At
tendance in toe first grade is, as a
general rule, poorer than in any other
grade. Parents think that it isn’t
as necessary for a child in the first
grade to go to school regularly as it
is for him to go in toe upper grades.
This is where they are wrong. A
child that gets a poor start is handi
capped all toe rest of toe way. This
is written in tre hope toat all par
ents will endeavor to start toeir chil
dren at toe first of school anc
keep them in every day possible.
Chairman N. H. G. Balfour, Of toe
Hoke County Board of Commission
ers who was jinanimonsly elected vice
president of toe North Carolina As
sociation of County Commissioners
at their convention in Asheville re
cently. This is tantamount to heing
elected president of toe Association,
for by custom toe vice-president al-r
ways succeeds toe president toe fol
lowing year. R. L. Beinhart, of Sal
isbury, is president of toe association
for the coming year.
Mr. Balfour has been a member of
toe Hoke County Board of Commis
sioners for toe past eight years and
chairman of toe board for toe past
six.
Sentenced To Five To
Seven Years 7n Stcde
Prison.
Cotton Improvement
Meeting Scheduled
Hoke county cotton producers will
have an opportunity dn Friday, Aug
ust 30to, in toe court house at noon
to hear Ralph Roper and J. C. Fer
guson, extension cotton specialists,
who discuss toe one-variety cot
ton work and the care and handling
o^ cotton before ginning, reports A.
S. Knowles, county agent.
Mr. Ferguson will gin several
samples of cotton to showJu^ it does
when wet or green when c^pared
to dry cotton. Coto>n should^m al
lowed to dry three or four dayi af
ter picking in order to get
grade.
Board To Meet
The Board of Education will meet
in regular monthly session on Tues
day, September 3rd, at 9:30 a. m.
Balfour Addresses
Khvauis Club
the
Bailey Takes Formal
Stand For Draft
Washington, Aug. 27. — Senator
Bail», of North Carolina, chairman
of tne commerce committee, today in
a formal but brief statement gave to
-the press some of toe reasons thai;
Impelled him to align himself with
those members of toe senate who are
advocating prompt passage of |toe
compulsory military service, or con
scription bill.
The senator is persuaded that con
sideration of conditions toat prevail
in toe world forbid complacency on
the part of American citizens, and
that training of toe nation’s man
power is to be regarded as “neces
sary.”
Go To Prison
For Assault
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Tried last Thiusday in Superior
court for assault with a deadly wea
pon with intent to kill were John
and Melton Roper, colored men of
Quewhiffle township. Both were
found guilty and sentence was from
one to two years for John and from
three to five years for Melton.
'^Lang a Yisitmr Here
John A. Lang, state administrator
of N. y. A., was a visitor in town
yesterday. He was- inspecting all N.
Y. A. projects.
Monroe Visitor
E. D. Johnson, principal of Hoke
high school, was a business visitor
in ^Monroe ypsterday.
Canning Project
The W. P. A. canning project is
coming along nicely. Mrs. Smith re
ports over 8,000 cans put up and is
expecting to go over 10,000. She
requests toat all schools get in all
their vegetables this and next week
as toe project will probably close at
the end of next week.
Mrs. Giles, superintendent of wel
fare, says that any school that does
not have canned goods of toeir own
will jiot be certified for surplus com
modities. It is very necessary then,
toat all schools have a good supply,
so please get your vegetables in to
Mrs. Smith right away.
Blue Sky Boys To
Appear at Ashemont
The Blue Sky Boys, sponsored by
the B. T. U. of Ashley Heights Bap
tist’ church, will appear in person at
Ashemont school Wednesday night,
State Fair To Offer
Pretftiums of $2)000
Raleigh, Aug. 27.—Premiums to
taling $2,000 will be offered for
county progress exhibits at toe 1940
state fair to be held here October
8-12, F. H. Jeter, superintendent of
toat department, announced today.
The first priu is $650. Every
county has been invited to enter an
exhibit depicting its industrial, agri
cultural and educational progress.
Reunion Postponed
Because of serious illness and a
death in the family the Parker re
union was not held this year. The
McBryde, the Mclnnis, and toe Cur-
rie-Monroe reunions have been held
^e McPhaul reunion has not yet
been held, leastwise no report has
been made. ^
Misses Sarah Ella Conoly, Eleanor
Septemb;er 4th, at 8 o’clock. Every^ Brown, Mrs. G. W. Brown and guests
one is cordially invited. There will Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crump, of Tulsa,
be lots of fun for everybody. Don’t Okla., spent Thursday and Friday of
miss it. k last at Myrila Baach.
W. J. McDiarmid
Injured In Fall
Mr. W. J. McDiarmid, prominent
and successful farmer who lives two
miles out toe “Turn Pike” road, fell
from a step-ladder the latter part
of toe week, and wfis carried to a
Fayetteville hospital for treatment,
where he now lies in a cast awaiting
recovery.
Commissioners Will
Take Labor Day Off
It was announced yesterday that
toe Hoke County Board of Commis
sioners would not meet next Monday
as usual due to the fact toat toat is
Labor Day. Their meeting wi^l take
place on Tuesday in September in
stead of the first Monday as usual.
At their regular meeting last
Thursday night in the Kiwanis hall
toe members of the Raeford Eliwanis
club had as toeir speaker N. H. G
Balfour, chairman of the Hoke coun
ty board of commissioners and re
cently elected vice-president of toe
North Carolina Association of Coim
ty Commissioners.
Mr. Balfour’s talk was enthusias
tically received by the club as he, a
native of England, took for his sub
ject, “England’s Chances in the War
With Germany.” It is his opinion
toat Great Britain is far from being
whipped by Germany, and his dis
cussion of this and his reasons for
believing it sounded mighty good.
Rev. L. C. LaMotte
To Preach Here
Sunday Morning
Rev. Louis C. LaMotte, D. D., pres
ident of Presbyterian Junior college,
Maxton, N. C., will preach a’ toe 11
o’clock service of the Raefb«* Pres
byterian church on Sunday nKming,
September 1st.
Dr. LaMotte has been at the head
of the Maxton institution for one
year, but during that short tone toe
college has made good progress and
now finds itself in the enviable posi
tion of being clear of debt. Before
going to Maxton, Dr. LaMotte was
executive secretary of toe Thomwell
wi^nage in Clinton, S. C., and
prior to that time he held a pastorate
in Waycross, S. C. He is a writer of
note, the book “Clored Lights,” prob
ably being the best known of his
works.
Staking of Lumbee
REA Lines Starts
Engineers and crews of the J. B.
McRary Engineering corporation of
Atlanta, Ga., started staking toe
lines for toe Lumbee River Electric
Membership corporation’s A project
of over 480 miles today. The Rural
Electrification Administration has cl
otted toe Lumbee Corporation $428,-
000 for toe construction of this pro
ject.
Two staking crews are on the job,
working out from the sub-statom near
Red Springs. The lines will radiate
from this central sub-stati(« to the
various parts of Hoke, Robeson,
Scotland, and Cumberland counties to
be served by the project.
The trial of Harvey Baucom wound
up just a few minutes past five
o’clock last Friday afternoon when
Bauccrtn was sentenced to serve a
term of not less than five nor more
than seven years in the state prison
for manslaughter. Baucom was
charged with murder in the second
degree for the killing of George
Thompson, his brother-in-law, with
a .22 caliber rifle at their home here
on toe morning of last April 29to.
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, of Snow
Hill, presided at toe trial, which
started Thursday morning and took
just two days.
The state was represented by Soli
citor F. Ertel Carlyle and the defend
ant was represented by former Soli
citor T. A. McNeill, of Lmberton,
and Attorneys N. McN. Smith and
H. W. B. Whitley, of Raeford.
Highlight of toe trial from a dra
matic standpoint was Solicitor Car- -
lyle’s able cross examination of the
defendant on Friday.
The evidence and argument was
concluded at about three o’clock
Friday. In his charge to the jury
Judge Frizzelle directed the finding
of one of three verdicts: guilty of
murder in toe second degree; guilty
of manslaughter; not guilty. He
outlined conditions under which they
could return any one of these ver
dicts and ordered them to retire and
reach a verdijct.
After remaining out for approxi
mately one and one half hours toe
jury returned with a verdict of guil
ty of manslaughter.
Defense counsellor McNeill tom.
made a very eloquent plea to toe
court for leniency on the ground toat
the case was a “border line” case. He
explained'this by saying that while
toe homicide may not have been jus
tifiable, it well might have been.
(Ground for defense was jutifiable
homicide). Mr. McNeill also stated
that he thought toe verdict was fair
and reasonable.
Judge Frizzelle, prior to sentenc
ing the defendant, told him that toe
sentence he was going to give him
should do much to “rehabilitate”
him. He then sentenced Baucom tp
be confined in toe state prison for'
a term of not less than five nor more
than seven years.” His Honor then
went on to tell Baucom that toe good
plain food and regular life of toe
penitenitary should do much to im
prove his physical condition. He
told him he hoped he got along fine.
Baucom was confiined in toe Hoke
county jail prior to his trial under a
bond of $25,000.
Road Closed
The
road coiktaini
ervation'wUl be
from 8 A.
day, Septei
msr
on of the Raeford-Vass
'ort Bragg rca-
to toe public
midnlAt on FH-
., 1940, me tq ar-
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Tour To Coker’s
A tour of Coker’s cotton breeding
experiments at Hartiville, S. C., has
been planned for Hoke county cotton
producers on Thursday, September 5,
announces A. S. Knowles, county ag
ent
All farmers desiring to make this
trip should notify the county agent
The work being carried on by Coker
Seed Co., has meant millions of dol
lars to cotton producers in North
Carolina.
Robert Jnies
Gets Marithne
Anwintiiiait
Robert Louis Jones, 19, of Sana
torium, North Carolina, has been ap
pointed by the U. S. Maritime Com
mission as engine cadet to the MS
Jeff Davis, operated by the United
States Lines.
Jones, one of two cadets from the
State of North Carolina presently
in training under toe regulations of
toe U. S. Maritime Commission, re
ceived a course of preliminary train
ing and indoctrination at one of toe
Commission’s shore receiving stations
before assignment to a vessel. Jones
was graduated in June 1939 from
ioke county high school with a high
;holastic standing and attended toe
University of North Carolina for one
year. On January 29 of this year,
he took the national competitive ex
amination prescribed by the U. &
Marithne Conunission for. appoint-,
ments to cadetships and was one oC
the 375 successful candidates.
The MS Jeff Davis, to which Cadet
Jones has been assigned, is betag
operated by toe United Statee TJlteS
in the American Pioneer Service h>
Australia.
Cadet Jones is the second son ot
R. A. Jones, superintendent of to*
Prison Dlvi^on at Norto Cerolinai
Sanatorium. The eldest son, Attatai
has a reqp»)sible positten with tti
Consolidated Aircraft Coipwatton
San Diego, Calif.
Louise Blue spent from Thursday | cebi^ thi*
until SuadaF at Ocean Drive, S. C.
Cotton price adjustment
for toe 1940 cKqp are aiHie
at toe county agenfh
nounces A. S. KnoieAw,
ent. baa ^