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HOKECXIUNTr^ BEST ' ilDVEBTlSING ; HEDIUM The Hoke County News '--ilv The Hoke County Journal It I- VOUaBXXXV. NO. 32. 20,Mor^ Resole Officers To Get CaU IVashiniston, Dec. 10.—Amid inten- efforts' to speed up the de fense program,' die war department ordered 30 regular army units to new stations today and announced that approximately 20,000 additional re serve officers probably would be call ed to active duty by next June. Aldiough the army expects to have nbout 30,000 of its 110,000 eligible reserve officers on active duty by the end of this year, officials said thousands more would be needed to train recruits lyho will be pouring into the service in ever-increasing jUmbers when the draft program gets full swing next month. Thus far, ty about 20,000 of the 800,000 draftees to be called by next June bave been inducted; ^ The bulk of the reserve officers to ^Itie ordered to duty will be in so called company grades of lieutenant and captain, officials said, al&ough the ■number of majors and colonels^the field grades — is increasing as the army expand|s. Announcing the projected timis- fer of regular army units to perma nent new stations, the department disclosed that more than half of “those to be shifted would be con centrated at Fort Ijevens, Mass. The others will go to a half dozen dif ferent posts. Movement of the units affected will commence, the department said, as soon as the commanders of the destination corps areas report that adequate facilities for their accom odation are ready. Construction es timates, the department said, mdicate that this should be early in 1941. Meanwhile, the department an nounced it had selected a site just horVb of Madison, Ind., for a new 9^ving ground for tan^, guns and '* army equipment, to supplement the testing now being done at the rdeen, Md.,(^ proving grounds. fHOOl BRIEFS RAEFORD, N, C„ THURSDAY, DEC. 12th, 1940. fLStFBBTIftB Cash Renting Farms For 1941 Instructions just received /by County Agent A. S. Knowles'^has changed the method of handling cash raited farms fmr 1941. Any part of a fann rented for cash shall remain a part of tte original farm or be treated as a separate farm. In no case will the condnnation of die cash rented tract with the farm operated by the renter be permitted. This Wedc In Defoise By K. A. MacDONALD I [■ i'-' ift-'- S'-'V ^1. The P. T. A. of the Mildouson ^school held its regular monthly meet ing Tuesday night at the school build ing. A well ^ibranged program was ■put on. AU thpse who attended en joyed the meeting On Wednesday evening, December 18, OM Santa will visit the Mildou son school and bring many toys from Toyland. The toys, of course, will | be the little boys and girls who will singhnd play for you. Don’t miss see ing Old Santa in his workshop with all his little helpers. You will adore the iftetty dolls, love the little fair ies, and cheer they toy soldiers. You m«ty not Idee the “Crosspatch Fairies” ^I'hi^ey turn out aU right too. Come enjoy “The Crosspatch Fair- Toyland. Only a small ad- will be charged so that the may be paid for. Monday night the Board of Educa tion *held its regular monthly meet ing. The Board met at the Raeford graded school at 6:30 o’clock in the ed|pionstration kitchen and were llf^ a splendid supper by the fA murollees. After supper the Board moved to its office in the courthouse. M. L. Lester, E. D. -Johnson and J. W. Dowd attended this meeting. Mr. Dowd was made co-ordinator of the county for the :govemmental educational defense program. Mr. Dowd has already -star^ work organizing classes for this work. There will be courses in mechanics, shop work, and elemen tary electricity offered. There will be very practical courses and will be taught by local mechanics, carpen ters, and electricians. Any yoiuig man 17-24, whether employed or not will be eligible for one or all of the courses. If interested please con tact Mr. Dowd. These classes are free to all who wish to enroll. Quite a number of routine matters were disposed of by the board. A full eting was bad. r A ■! A splendid new Bus has Been as signed to NYA to transport the work ers to Port Bragg for work on the defense program. yone interested in children lid go'' to. the Raeford graded tiool about noon and see the WPA lunch room serve from ‘250 to 300 children. The plates served would be a credit to any lunch room any where. People should appreciate : what is being done for their children. Tuesday night the RTA at Antioch reorganized. Rev. Henry R. Poole was elected president, Mrs. Blake, : yicd-iaesident, and Mrs. H. R. Poole (Continued Further financial and material aid to powers friendly to the United States, inauguration of new methods to speed defense production, and the first estimate of total defense costs highlighted the past seven days of defense effort. President Roosevelt announced aid to China of $50,000,000 in immediate- credits in the form of an Export- Import Bank loan for general pur poses and another $50,000,000 loan to be allocated, in the near future by the Treasury Department in curren cy stabilization credits. The first part of the $100,000,000 loan is to be retired through deliveries of metals essential to 'the defense program mid previously ordered by the Metals Re serve Company of the RFC. Under a similar arrangement, the Treasury arranged to loan $50,000,000 to Ar gentina for currency stabilization. Acting. Secretary of State Welles stated an agreement in principle had been reached between the Greek Government and the United States re garding aid in. the form of airplanes and other war materials. Shortly afterward the State Department re vealed that during October it had authorized export of more than $11,- 000,000 in arms to the East Indies. While Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Federal Loan Ad ministrator Jones began discussions with British financial representatives concerning the financial status of that country the War Department revealed the Army Air Corps had r^eased to Great Britain a “flashli^t bomb,” whicli .makes-4>08sib}i|i'^^f«piM^^ aerial photographs at w^t even from high altitudes. Also formally releas ed were 20 bombers of the flying fortress type. Preparing for the possibility of mass production of merchant ships and air planes for Great Britain as well as the United States the NDAC began a study of a nation-wide program to “farm out” portions of defense contracts similar to Great Britain’s “bits^ and pieces’’ method of subcon tracting small parts of defense items. Under the program, described by Morris L. Cooke, NDAC engineering consultant as “the only way to speed up production,” industries of depress ed communities are being urged to organize committees to survey the amount of production facilities now idle, the availability of labor and other potentialities for handling farm- ed-out orders. The cost of the present defense pro gram for the next five years was estimated at $35,000,000,000 in a re port by Department of Agriculture economists, titled, “The Impact of War and the Defense Program on Agriculture.” The report placed the cost pt defense at an average of $7,000,000,000 a year: seven and a haTTLiIIion in -1941; nine billion in 1942; seven and one-half billion in 1943; six billion in 1944; and fivfe bil lion in 1945. The effect of defense exjjenditures on industry and prices will depend upon the financing of the program, toe report said, adding, “the financ ing program seems likely to permit a speedy development ih the next two years with toe result that in those two years toe program will make a large net contribution to the national purchasing power.” The report indicq,ted that defense spendmg will cut Unemployment rolls in half by 1942 and that the indi cated increase in purchasing power would be reflected in higher prices for most farm products, particularly meats, some fruits, dairy products poultry products and truck crops! The report said, however, farmers may find that most of the rise in farm income will be eaten up by probable advances in farm wages and material and equipment costs. “Despite the increase of prices and incomes received by farmers, the. situation as a whole does not prom ise any greater improvements of liv ing conditions on toe farm,” the report said. “Taken as a wholb it seems quite evident that the pros pective situation of agriculture dur ing the next five years . . . remains rather critical.” The NDAC revealed that of the $16,000,000,000 appropriated by Con- gres for defense, about $12,000,000,000 had been contracted for but because of the comparatively small produc tion facilities (mly about 1800,000,- 000 actually had been paid out - . Federal Loan A^iidstrator Jones / (Continued on page Sour) N. C. Cottmi Yield Breaks All Records The December 1st estimate of North Carolina’s 1940 cotton crop places the yield per acre at 425 pounds, which is by far the largest on re^rd for the state. The J19M yidd is 44 per cent higher than last year’s and 53 per cent above toe ten-year (1920-38) average yield per acre. Total production for 1940 is esti mated at 740,000 bales.' or an in crease of 62 per cent over the 1939 harvest and 12 per cent above the ten-yeak average production. Al though toe 1940 acreage harvested is the st^tnl/jlowest since. 1878, total prodUeiUd^|s the highest since 1931, with toe C»Kption of 1937 when over a r^loq Ircres were harvested with a hQjih jddd of 338 pounds. BepOrts from farmers and A. A. A. m^sbrements indicate that 844,- is &fes were planted ^Is year, or per cent more than in 1989. Depicting for compliance pijpwrrup, flbod damage, ahd^toer abandon- menly this left SSs'OOO acres for harvest,-or 13 per cent more than lad year. This is an increase of about 2 per cent from: the pre-har vest acreage estimate of 814,000. Ginnings continued at a rapid rate during November and the Census Bureau reports 693,000 bales/ ginned prior to December 1st, or about 93 per cent of the total crop. United States Crop Cotton production for the United States is estimated at 12,686,000 bales compared with 11,817,000 bales in 1939 and 13,547,000 for toe ten-year (1929-38) average. The yield per acre for the nation is 252 pounds compared with 238 pounds harvested last year and 198 pounds for the ten-year average crop. The 1940 yield is toe largest on record, with the exception of the 1937 crop. The acreage harvested this xter, 24,- 078,000 acres, is 1 per cq^i^less than in 1939 and the small^.^^ce 1896. Meat Cutting And Curing Demonstration A meat cutting and curing demon stration will be held at toe home pt J. M. Norton at Bowmore on Friday, December 20to, at 9:30 a. m., ports A. S. Knowles, county, a^eitf? The purpose of his demonstration,fa- to teach proper cutting and cuKlt^ Sy V. Vestal, Extension swihe ^8- ialist, will assist in this dehipnstra- tion. The sugar cure will be’ used as this is. recommended by tbe ’N. C. Extension Service. All interested farmers should attend. •?’* ” ' Boiefit Pa^ At ‘Sanatornmi M/Usker Bishop Marvin Usher, 55, an em ployee of Raeford Cotton mills, died suddenly at his home here Tuesday morning at 1 o’clodc. Funeral services were conducted ■WTednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Newtonville, S. C. Surviving Mr. Usher are his wife, Mrs. Ella Usher; one brother, J. C. Usher of Raeford; and two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Bledsoe of Fayetteville and Mrs. W. B. Henley of McCoII, S. C. Christmas Lights To Be Turned On Saturday Night ^ Workmen have been busy all this week stringing the colored Christmas lights across the main street of Rae ford and plans are to turn toe li^ts on Saturday afternoon at 5:30. The switch throwing will be done, with- out ceremony, by Woody Singleton, Carolina Bower and Light company’s chief switch-thrower in Raeford. Sanatorium, Dec. 11. — Proc^ds from toe benefit party given afr the North Carolina Sanatorium las^^Fri- day evening will be 'more than $200, according to an' anpquncement by .Bte. P. P, McCain,-president of the Sunshine club. ’The-I^b, which spoored toe erttertahifeent, is appre ciative of toe cpmiftjtoity’s interest >peration in rnjSking toe party ss. The j^nby will be used ide a hap^Christmas for toe patients at^e children’s build- id other patients at the Sana- The^tvm grand prizes, a card table and a hato, were won by Mrs. A. L. O’Brmnf^nd Mrs. Ella Walker, re- spec^^ty, of Raeford. Other lucky playsS||^ere Dr. W. H. Roper, of Hum, winner of a card table- . T. Neal, of Southern Pines’, ir of an electric iron, and Dr. Stutz, of Southern Pines, win- ' a fruit cakp. A high score prize was given at each of the fifty tables engaged in play. J. A. McGougan, of Raeford, winning the highest prize for bridge and Dr. A. W. Nance of Bladenboro, the highest prize for rook. Other players with high ranking scores were Mrs. Mack Wallace, of Aberdeen, Clyde Upchurch, of Raeford, and Mrs. Qfy^Sanatorium* in bridge, and Miss Evetyn Spiggle, of Sanatorium, Mrs. J. T. Sipfle, of Sanatorium, and Dr. R. L. Murray, of Raeford, in rook. Players with high scores in checkers were Miss Arlie Stevens, of Raeford, and Miss Sadye ■Whitley, of Sanatorium. Refreshments consisting of sand wiches and coffee were served. 'The decoratmns carried out toe Christmas theme. HFTEEN CASES HEARD TUESDAY IN HOKE RECORDER'S’COURT Heavy Fme, Jail Sentence Given Calcutt Raleigh, Dec. 10.—Joseph Calcutt, a quiet, stout little man whose slot machine business reputedly grossed $1,800,000 a year and who paid the state $100,000 annually in license taxes, was sentenced today to 12 months on the roads and fined $10,000 for possessing illegal slot machines. In addition, Calcutt, president of toe Vending Machine company, of Fayetteville, was given a term of 18 months, suspended upon condition that he pay the fine, scrap his slot machine business and refrain from politics during a three-year period of probation following his release. He had pleaded guilty to toe charge. Sentence weis passed in Wake Su perior court by Judge R. Hunt Park er, who said; * “I know and everyone else knows that this business has been built up by a corrupt alliance between crime and law—and the law must be vin dicated.” A co-defendant, C. C. Bishop, of Raleigh, has until 2:30 p. m. tomor row to arrange a $1,000 fine. He also pleaded guilty. Evidence produced in the form of slot machines siezed in Fayetteville Monday night by S. B. I. agents also initiated prosecutions against other distributors. According to evidence Calcutt rep resented 5,258 of toe 9,395 slot ma chines licensed in North Carolina and $101,555 of the $175,620 license rev enue collected last year. The minor ity are owned by 35 small distri butors. Deputies sheriff smashed five of the*^|9A ed inH Rev. B. K. Davenport Preacher Sunday Rev. B. K. Davenport of Greens boro, will preach at the morning services.at toe Raeford Presbyterian church Sunday. Rev. Mr. Davenport is an evangel ist for toe Synod of North Caro lina and recently held a very, suc cessful meeting at Antioch. Move To Get New Army Camp Named Fort MeSwain There is a move on foot to have Congress name toe new army caiqp at Spartoburg, S. C., Fort MeSwaih. This will be to honor the memoity of the late Congressman MeSwain of toe Fourth South Carolina Congress ional District. Congressman Me Swain was an ex-war veteran and was for years on toe ItK^ry Af fairs Committee. Congressman MeSwain was the father of Mrs. Topps, -vitoo vfith her husband, Lt. Topps, has an apart ment at Mrs. Ina Lentz’s. Another List Of Newcomers Printed The News-Joum2il tod^ is_pri^ ing another list oF tBe army per sonnel and other recent newcomers to Ra^ord. The' newcomers are urged to do their Ghristm^ shopping -with local merchants who will appreciate their business. Guardsman Jailed After "Borrovring” Colonel’s Station Wagon For Trip Robert Woodcox, Hoke county member of toe National Guard unit now serving with ttie army at Char leston, decided Thursday liight that he would come home for a littie trip. So he “borrowed” Col. R. B. Lewis’ station wagon for the jaunt—without going to toe trouble of asking the Colonel about it IVhen he arrived in Raeford Fri day-morning, he was welcomed-to the city by Sheriff D. H. Hpdgin and Hiitoway Patrolman Joe Mur- rill, who took him to the county jail and left him for federal officers. Claude Glisson, another Hoke county guardsman, who accompanied Wood cox on the trip, also was jailed. The. two were returned to camp in South Carolina Sunday aftemwm. Woodcox, it is understood, at one time s^ed as Colonel Lewia’ dtauf- lOur. hut had been reotovod' lAiitt that duty before toe station -wtigigh in- Jersey Bull Sale At Lumbertbn On Friday, December 13, beginning at 12 o’clock, a pure-bred Jersey bull sale will be held at toe Linkhaw stables in Lumberton, announces A. S. Knowles, county agent This is an opportunity to get much needed pure-bred stodc on toe farms of Hoke county. There will be only six bulls for sale. These bulls are good individuals and are out of pro duction-bred cows. Farmers inter ested in obtaining one of these ani mals should attend toe sale or con tact toe county agent 10 “one-armed bandits” seized last, lught;^ Fayetteville. *rhe' machines had, .a role in the concluding evidence, the bells ring ing and cash spilling from payoff slots. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen toe law more flagrantly violated,” Judge Parker commented, “or a more con temptuous attitude toward toe law ... “I have before my eyes ‘one-arm ed bandits’ that this defendant was operating while he swore on that stand he didn’t have any. The maj esty of toe law is supreme in North Carolina. As its humble servant, it is my sworn duty to uphold it.” The judge’s comment climaxed a day of swiftly-moving events. S. B. I. men carried 10 slot ma chines into the courtroom early in* toe session and deputies proceeded to play nickels into the devices un til nine had paid out cash prizes. Then the deputies slamijied crow bars against the devices to snap locks and dislodge coins. Majority of DefndaBfs Wese (barged With l^latiiv BmmI Laws; Number Tried ing With Uquwr. Fifteen cases were tri^ in record er’s court Tuesday morping beCiire Judge W. B. McQueen. They in cluded: I I’ete Pate, white, assault, found not guilty. Taylor D. Davenport, white, car rying concealed weapon, 60 days on toe roads, sentence suspended on payment of $50 fine and costs. Taylor..p. Davenport, white ,care- less and reckless driving and vio lating prohibition law, 60 days on the roads, sentence suspoided on payment of $25 fine and costs. John Thomas MePhatter, coteml, carrying concealed weapem, 60 day* on the roads, sentence suspended payment of $50 and costs. Tom Davis, colored, violating pro hibition law, four months on **»*» roads, sentence suspended cm pay ment of $25 fine and costs and ^ dition that defendant be of good havior for 12 months. David Gilchrist, colored, violatiogi road law, 30 days on the roads, saif. tence suspended on payment of James McBryde, colored, 'vmiatiu^ road law, 30 days on the roads^aS' tence suspended on paymort of tfii costs. ' Gus Miller, colored, drunk and dis- ‘ orderly, 30 ^ys on. the roads, aok- tence suspended on paymmit of toe costs. James Alton Thomas, violating road law, 30 days on toe roads, suspended on paymoit of costs. Walter Faircloth, white, drunk amt disorderly, 30 days on the loed^ sentence suspended on paymoii of costs. D. W. Currie, white, iriolating rood law, 30 days on the roads, smitesce suspended on payment of exists, imes Grover Lett, white, vio- ig road law, 30 days mt toe “ roads, sentence suspended on pay ment of costs. ' . William McLean, cxilored, violating road law, 30 days on the roads, tence suspended on payment cif toe costs. John H. Terry, colored, carrying concealed weapon, 60 days on toe roads, sentence suspended cm pay ment of $50 fine and costs. Anna Davis, colored, violating pn^ hibition law, 60 d^s in jail, sen tence suspended on payment of exists and condition that defendant be bt good behavior for 12 months. 'I MAXWELL EXPLAINS HOW OPERATORS GOT LICENSES Raleigh, Dec. 10.—^Before toe state revenue department licensed any slot machine, the owner had to certify that it was legal and would be operated legjdly. Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell explained today. Maxwell was questioned by news men regarding the department’s pol icy after Joseph Calcutt, Fsqrette- ville slot machine man, had been sen'- tenced to 12 months on toe roads and fined $10,000 and costs for possessing illegal slot machines. W. A. Baker, chief of toe depart ment’s license division, had repdrted Jn Wake Superior court that Calcxitt pUrcdidsed $101,555 worth of slot machine licenses for 5,285 macdiines during toe 1939-40 fiscal year. Baker said that 35 companies, in cluding Calcutt’s, paid toe state $175,- 620 for licenses last fiscal year, toe 34 besides Calcutt’s paying $74,065. (Contfnued on page fonr) Fair Basketball Teams fai % With practice going into toe tnafia stretch on the Hoke high sduMl ba»- ketball teams, it appeared tois week that toe boys and girls teams wiB Ra fair although toey won’t be Hie best in the worUl First gazie will be played here Thursday night, December 19, wbrni both teams play toe Mass^ ffiU from Fayetteville. There are only 12 or 13 out IW the boys team, with four of being lettermen—Herman Cole, Wh Davis, North Lilly, Dan Cox. Tba rest are gre^ material There are about 19 or 20 o«tt iir the girls team. Earl Smith and Mnirie 19e- Laurin are toe coaches. ■'.i Hurt In Fall Mr. Joe Tyson Idl on a stump a few days ago and was hath Mr. Ttyson is * pattenf a^ Htribinidfh hoi^teL'’ ^ Methodist Class Is S^osring Passkm l^y The Fideiis class of the Methodist church is sponsoring toe famAi-if Sion Play, Golgotha, for the first time in a talking motion picture in the Hoke high school auditorium, Sun day, December 15, at 2:30 in the af ternoon and at 7:30 in toe evening. For years you have beard of toe famous Passion Play as given in Ob^ erammergau and Freiburg—im>w ^ toe first time you can see it—show ing a cast of thousands. Passkm Play covws toe eptiie story of Passion wedfc« begbaming with' Otylig; triumphal enlqz Jwrnilm IM., Fiddlers To Fiddle The high sdiool at Waefcsd erii hold a Fiddler’s Convention in llw high srtMol auditwium next Mday night, December IStti, at 9 o’dDCic. ^Eleven mtcelleni prizes of cadi and mentoandise will be offered for 4||p winners in toe five diffCrmt con- ' tests. Besides the best and fiddlers, banjo pikers, and guitag pickers, string bands, etc.,*win re ceive prizes. Musicians are asked to come pre pared to enter. F. W. of Raeford is managing Rio it will not be necessary to conlMt him before coming, however. ■*
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