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fi,:; if-'- 4. 4^ HOldE COUNTTS BEST ADVEBTISMG medium The Hoke County^Newt Journal The Hoke County Journal BomECootrm (HILT iLStFEB YIAB Carnival Here November 26di The date of the Thanksgiving Car nival, which is being sponsored by the P. T. A., has been set for Tues- d«or, November 26th. The commit tees are as follows: Advertisement—^Miss Virginia Liv ingston. Parade—Miss Mary Foust Plonk, Dr. G. W. Brown, H. L. Gatlin, Jr.., Decoration-^Miss Marjorie Heater, Miss Leone Currie. Coca-Cola—J. W. Dowd. Hot Dogs—Mr. and Mrs. John Mc- Googan, Mrs. Rena-Woodhouse, Mrs. C. E. Upchurch. Games—Mrs. John Walker, Miss Lillian Johnson, Walter Baker. Baby Contest—Mrs. J. H. Blue, Mrs. Alfred Cole, Mrs. Herbert McKeith- an. Beauty Contest — Miss Margaret McKenzie, Miss Louise Fletcher, Miss Lorenna Falls. * Program— Miss Lillian Marion, Tommy Upchurch. Side Shows—Miss Marion Cox, Miss Maxie McLaurin, Miss Marianna Kimbrough, Mrs. Dave Hodgin, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green, Earl Smith. Candy—Miss Nell Howery. Cake Walk—J. W. Turlington. Fishing—Mrs. Sally Johnson, Miss Anne Buie. Fortune — Mrs. Charlie Chance, Miss Aris Shankle. Confetti—Miss Mildred James. Cakes—Mrs. R. L. Murray, Mrs. A. K. Currie, Mrs. H. A. Cameron. Ice Cream—^Mrs I. H. Shankle, Mrs. A. L. O’Briant. Tickets—^W. J. Coates. General Host—E. D. Johnson. Grammar School Chairman-rMiss Marian Cox. High School Chairman—^Miss Fran- Jean Freeman. WO Automobile ecks In County There were two automobile acci dents in Hoke county Friday, Novem- , ber 1, one of which resulted in the injury of two women. Miss Pauline Rawlins of St. Pet ersburg. Fla., sustained a broken knee cap and Mrs. John Priestly of New York City received several scratches and bruises Friday afternoon about 3:30 when a car driven by Mr. Priestly turned over in a field several miles from town on the Laurinburg ' highway. The driver had turned from the I road to avoid a school bus which was * making a left turn. » Miss Rawlins was taken to High- smith ' hospital in Fayetteville and Mrs. Priestly was treated by a Rae- ford physician. The Priestly car was damaged to an extent of about $100. , AGAIN THE PEOPLE’S CHQICE Japanese Troops Withdraw From Parts of China VOTHiS RETURN ROOSEVai TO OFFICE FOR THIRD TERM FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT HOKE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT VISITED BY MANY PEOPLE SCHOOL BRIEFS! By K. A. IVlacDONALD Everyone will be glad to know that Miss Isabel McFadyen, who un derwent a very serious operation in Memorial hospital, Richmond, Va., is getting along splendidly. If her rate of recovery continues, she will prob ably be able to return to her home by the last of next week. Many citizens of Hoke county at tended the County Agricultural Ex hibit held at the army Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week and exhibit officials declared this weel* that they were well pleased with the public response to the annual af fair. There were 42 booths at the ex hibit, filled with interesting displays by merchants, farmers, school stud ents, 4-H and Home Demonstration clubs. Among those exhibits attracting most attention were the three at tractive live-at-home displays. There were many favorable com ments concerning the beautiful flow er exhibit, which was under the chairmanship of Mrs. H. A. Camer on. Vocational agriculture and vocation f Hongkong, November 4th.—Indica tions that the Japanese army is shortening its lines drastically by withdrawing from several occupied zones, especially in south and central China, increased tonight. The abandonment of its zone of occupation in Kwangsi province, south China, apparently was just about completed and Chinese columns fol lowing the retreating Japanese were said to be approaching Yamchow, Kwangtung province port through which the Japanese in Kwangsi were supplied. Just off the coast the Japanese abandoned Waichow, an island they had used as a naval base. Chinese dis^tches reported, with out indepgnd4hi„confirmation, that similar withdrawals were in prep arations in the Chungshan district across the Pearl River estuary from Hongkong, from the port of Swatow, northeast of Hongkong, and from Yo- chow, stragetic river port in north ern Hunan province, southwest of Hankow. Last week the Japanese were re ported quitting Ichang on the Yang tze river west of Hankow, high water mark of their Yangtze valley drive. Chinese reports had it that the majority of Japan’s garrison in Can ton, diief city of South China, might be leaving and that several Japanese firms there were preparing to close. Last week the Japanese south China command ^dpounced it was with drawing from Nanning, Kwangsi cap ital. The explanation was that the acquisition of air and army bases in French Indo-China, from which the Burma road, and other Chinese sup ply routes could be bombed, made it unnecessary to retain the Kwangsi zone. Chinese spokesmen have denied the Japanese claims that the Kwangsi withdrawal, for instance, was vol untary apd pointed out that Nanning was abandoned a few days after strong Chinese forces launched an Offensive. In Chungking, the Central Daily News, organ of the Chinese govern ment, suggested that the Japanese withdra\vals might be preparation for “a desperate Japanese attempt” to seize Singapore or the Dutch East Indies “before joint British-Ameri- can pressure in the Pacific causes Japan’s collapse.” Roosevelt Gets Big Majority In Hoke County Hoke county, as expected, went very Democratic, giving Roosevelt 1,905 votes and Willkie 117 in un official returns from 10 out of 10 precincts. For governor, Broughton received 1,890 votes against McNeill’s 95. Oth er state contests divided votes ^bout the sarne as the governor’s race. Following is the unofficial vote, by precincts, on the presidential race: Precinct FDR WLW Blue Springs 149 Raeford .. 307 Raeford 2 468 Puppy Creek 101 Mildouson 165 Antioch 177 Rockfish 98 Allendale 73 Little River 97 ! Quewhiffle 270 ! A car containing three soldiejrs lers and being driven by Charles J. Sraiih of 17th Field Artillery, Battery E, Fort Bragg, turned over at the city ;^5rr the Fayetteville highway Fnday night. All occupants of the car were shak en up but none were badly hurt. The car was damaged about $50 worth. oke High Loses; But Makes Score Hoke high school lost another foot ball game last Friday afternoon, be ing beaten 26-6 by Rockingham. However the local boys put up a good game in face of heavy oppo sition and scored in the first eight minutes of the game with the Rich mond county team, the first touch down of the seasouv ‘. Hoke high scored when Tom Clark Sinclair rushed over from within a few yards 4f the goal line, that position beingV^ached through a series of passes^NSinclair, Junior Webb, Bassil Wright and Robert Cur rie starred for the local team. Rain dampened the\ spirits of the spectators as well as the playing fiield and the larger part of the game was played in the mud. Hoke high meets the Elizabethtown team' on the, local field Friday af ternoon at 3':30 and the boys have high hopes of marking up a victory. Miss Margaret McKenzie of the Raeford graded school faculty has had to undergo an operation in a Fayetteville hospi^l during the last week. She is recovering rapidly and I al home economics exhibits were also expects to return to her post next among those attracting much at- week. Mrs. Ruth Scarboro has been tention substituting for her. v | The exhibit got underway Thurs day morning and, although there was Tuesday night at 7:30 the teachers I nota large crowd present tiien, the of the county gathered at the high attendance and interest grew steadily school for their regular monthly until the closing Saturday afternoon, mebting. The meeting was in charge Those in charge of the exhibit were of E. D. Johnson, president of the high in their praise of the NYA Hoke county unit of the N. C. Edu- boys and girls who helped in the cation association. Rev. J. E. Reamy arranging of the booths and con- was guest speaker of the evening. His | struction of some of the exhibits subject was “Religion in Reference to World Affairs.” Regular associa tion business was transacted. It was voted to close school on November 22 and attend the Southeastern dis trict meeting of the NCEA to be I York.—Associated Press elec- held in Fayetteville on that date. 1 yon bulletins were broadcast by tel- This will be made up at later date. | elision Tuesday night, the first time election returns have been televised. Last Friday night, J. W. Dowd, E. bulletins appeared on a news D. Johnson and K. A- MacDonald I p].jjjter they were picked up by a attended the district meeting of the Ujational Broadcasting company tele- Affiliated Educo clubs held ih Dunn, ^igion camera and flashed to homes. This was the largest district meeting hotels, taverns and party headquar- held since the organization of the tg^g in New York, New Jersey, and club in 1926. One hundred and forty I Connecticut, nine men, representing nine counties, NBC estimated 50,000 persons gath- were present. The "clubs voted un- ered around television. receivers, to animously to meet in Raeford next | watch the news come in spring. AAA Committeemen For 1941 Program Television Offers i AP Election News Trouble With Voting Machines. Des Moines, Iowa.—“Machine” pol itics took its tool in Iowa’s election booths Tuesday. A Cedar Rapids woman entered a voting machine, pulled the master lever without indicating her choices, came-out, sobbing , that she had lost her vote. Sympathetic election of ficials allowed her to try again. In Cedar Falls, where voting ma chines were used for the first time. Democrats found a half an hour af ter the polls opened that their print ed ' instructions on how to use the machines carried the explanation sen tence “pull the Republican lever.” In one Waterloo precinct the elec tion judges inadvertently left a “do not touch” sign hanging for ten min utes on the county Republican ticket lever. It was hung there Monday night while the machine was being checked. Last Friday evening the people of the Ashemont community gave a play at the school house for the benefit of the school. The play was well at- I Pioneer ’Chutist Passes In New York Dansville, N. Y.-—^Martin A. Allen, At recent meetings in the various townships, farmers elected commun ity committee and delegates to the county convention, announces A. S. Knowles, county agent. The dele gates, representing the various town ships, re-elected J. M. McGougan, chairman, and J. B. Womble as vice- chairman of the county committee. They also elected W. C. Hodgin as the third regular member of the com mittee. Alternate county committee elected were F. A. Mpnroe and T. D. Potter. The community committee to serve under the 1941 program are listed below by townships in the order of chairman, " vice-chairman, regular member, first alternate and second al ternate: Allendale township: J. W. Hasty, L. A. McGougan, J. A. Roper, A. D. McGirt, and Mrs. Belle Currie. Antioch township: J. L. McPhaul, J. C. Thomas, M. B. McBryde, and J. C. Gibson. Blue Springs town ship: R. J. Hasty, Luther Clark, M. D. Gentry, W. W. Leach and J. F, Chisholm. Little River township: E. B. Blue, Martin Cameron, Letcher Cameron, Cameron Johnson and Dan iel McGill. McLauchlin township: F. A. Monroe, Oscar Townsend, M. S. Gibson. Louis Parker and Mar shall Newton. Quewhiffle township: L. R. Cothran, W. L. Thornburg, and J. A. Almond. Raeford township: T. D. Potter, W. J. McNeill, M. M. Cul- breth, D. S. Currie and A. A. Har ris. Stonewall township: W. J. McBryde, Archie Howard, Mrs. Jes sie Gibson, J. L. McFadyen and W. I. Culbreth. These committeemen will start their work immediately serving un der the 1941 program. , The first meeting is set for November 15 at 9:00 A. M. The committee will be familiar with the regulations under 1941 program and wilT assist in giv ing this information to farmers. Republicans Lost Mmy Pivotal Stides They Said Were **In The Bag;** WilUne Offers Congratulations, Voters of the United States treked to the polls Tuesday, November 5th, and gave their overwhelming support to the New Deal, sending Franklin Delano Roosevelt back to the White House for his third term. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican candidate for the President’s post, held out hope until Wednesday morn ing at 10:30. when he dispatched a letter of congratulation and personal good wishes to the president. Many newspapers which had sup ported Willkie in his campaign con ceded victory for the Democratic forces by 10:30 p. m. Tuesday as scat tering but indicative returns gave Roosevelt a heavy majority in the “solid south” and a good lead in many pivotal states which Republi cans said their man would carry. Democrats took a big lead in North Carolina as returns were tabulated Tuesday night from the voting. With 446 of the state’s 1,916 pre cincts tabulated the vote for Presi dent Roosevelt was 162,874 against 27,477 for Wendell Willkie. Reports from other contests were far scantier but J. M. Broughton, Democrat, was leading his Repub lican opponent, Robert H. McNeiU, Statesville lawyer, by a 10 to 1 ma jority in the race for Governor. Re turns from 172 precincts gave Brough ton 38,505 votes, McNeill 3,499. Such reports as were available in dicated other Democratic candidates on the state ticket were receiving about the same vote as Broughton in the various precincts. Library Association To Meet Wednesday There will be a meeting of the Hoke county library association in the reading room next Wednesday afternoon, November 13th, at 3 o’clock. Members are especially urg ed to attend m there are several , im portant itnas to discuss and plan re garding the ^t|ure of the library. tended and the school benefitted ac- j brothers, estab cordingly. Ilisked an exhibition troupe'of bal- , ,, loon parachute jumpers in 1877,. died The schools of the county showed j-^gg^gy bis home here, up splendidly with their exhibits at ‘ ^^g^ made his last jump when he the county agricultural exhibit. The 1 75 years old. exhibits of the schools of both races .j.jjg troupe, all members of his were unusually good. One of the family and known as the Flying Al- outstanding booths of the whole ex- jg^^g^ ^gde more than 2,500 jumps hibit was the state fair prize-winning Lf county fairs and exhibiitions booth showing the progressive im- throughout the country, provement of the farm work of one ^ grandniece, Gloria Allen, was of the pupils in the vocational agri- fatally injured three years ago in cultural department. This depart- Ljgg^gja ^hen her parachute cords ment is headed by J. W. Dowd. I tangled during a jump ^ On Friday evening of, last week, an I Hallowe’en enteCtainniCnt was given I at the Rockfish school for the bene- fit of the schbol.A good crowd was I CrOSS Meetings present despite the weather. Exp [ eryone enjoyed the event. 4 I important Red Cross meeting at j Hoke county high school Friday, INovember 8th, at 3:15 P. M. Public Murdock McDuffie, , of Ralei|di> [cordially invited and all Red Cross spent Mond^ and Tuesday with his tworicers urged to be present Prom' mother. Mrs. M. McDuffie. jinent speakers for the occasion Changes Made In Police Department W. R. Sanders went to work November 1st as Raeford’s night policeman, filling the vacancy made by the resignation of Back Chis holm. Mr. Sanders has done relief work with the local force pre viously. W. R. Barrington, who was ap pointed night policeman several weeks ago to take the vacancy caused by the death of A: M. I Howell has been put on the day shift and is now chief of the force. N^o Gets 30 Days For Assault Found guilty of assault with dead ly weapon on the person of Willie Shaw, a Raeford negro by the name of John McFadyen was sentenced to serve four months on the county roads when he was tried Tuesday in county court. Sentence was sus pended on the condition that he pay $25 fine and costs of court. Other cases heard Tuesday by Judge W. B. McQueen included: Archie Green, negro, indecent and profane language and assault, 30 days on the roads, sentence suspended on payment of costs. James Carns, negro, assault, not guilty. Clara Carns, negro, assault, 30 days in jail, sentence suspended on pay ment of costs. Shilo Patterson, negro, assault, 30 days on the roads, sentence suspend ed on payment of costs. Raymond Potter, negro, assault, careless and reckless driving, violat ing road law, 30 days on roads, sen tence suspended on payment of the costs. Ed Floyd, negro, assault, 30 days on the roads, sentence suspended on payment of costs. Adell Watson, negro, carrying con cealed weapon and drunk and disor derly, pleaded guilty to carrying a o r. u iconcealed weapon and sentenced to London, Nov. 2.-British military I g,, days on' the roads, sen- men said today a decisive check or cu«?nended on navment of $10 even a stalemate of Italy’s HeUenic f payment ot $10 Greek Defeat Vital To Axis campaign by the British and Greeks would smash the Axis scheme for conquest of the Mediterranean. These and neutral military sources, remarking that Italy’s war effort was swiftly approaching the maxi mum, estimated Italian troops in the field at “well over a million” or at least 70 divisions. Dr, Wilson At Presbyterian Church Sunday Dr. Willis S. Wilson, retired minis ter whose home is in Davidson, will preach at the Raeford PresbyWian church Sunday morning. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson will spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. McLauchlin. Ashemont P. T. A. November Ist The Ashemont P. T. A. will have the teachers of Hoke high school as its guest at its meeting November 12 at 7:30. All parents are urged to attend this meeting. Dr. W. H. Peck Joins Sanatoriunn Staff Sanatorium, Nov; 6.—^Dr. William H. Peck, of Northville, Michigan, _ _ has arrived at the North Carolina ThisHgure'ikciudes units in Libya, [Sanatorium and will become a mem- Ethiopia, Italian and British Soma- j extension department’s liland and those guarding the tern- [clinic staff. . .. * . porarily peaceful frontiers in Eur- j chmcian for the past wo ope and Africa. years has served on the medical staff “Italy may talk of ‘6,000,000 bay- William H. Sana- onets’ but these are not enough,” one j torium, NorthviUe, Sbdii^m, declared. “It is quite probable she pr- does not have modem equipment for I Willis is a ifetinguish^ tubett^o^ more than those in the field now.” specialist and is remem^red in British military men said they ex- [Carolina as a former citizen of pected Italy to launch a big-scale I. . .. - . ' offensive against the Greek line on Dr. Pe^ « a i»tiye ofJtewRigW the southwest, wing of the Albanian- |a graduate of the Umversity of towu. Greek frontier. The Italians were I reported to be moving up artillery INGATHEWNG AT along this coastal flank. j GALATIA NOV 14TH An ingathering wQl be^hdd at latia on Thursday, Novento«P 140u Dinner will be senred at li and an invitation is extended to all to attend. , — Superior Court Opens Nov. 12th November term of Hoke county I s^rior, court will open November I Judge Luther HamUton of Wore-[who was supposed to head City will pi^de, having ex-l^ere* .-J