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SAEFORb, N. C, THURSDAY, tER 27th, 1S4L
tLstimnyi
l^e Co.
1)1^0 Employee Jimmies Fire
01^ of VaoU; Fails To Open
SiSfe.
J. Pei^ei:' Moore, nightwatchman
lor the, Hoke Oil and Fertilizer com
pany, has a badly injured hand and
York Kogers, negro employee, of th^
firm, is in jail due to Moore sui?^
prisii^ the negro in the act of sawing
thd hinges off the oil company’s safe
. SaWday night. '
,/ ■ Moore told officers investigating
the attempted robbery that he noticed
the office lights had gone out and
entered the building to investigate.
V stated he heard a noise in the
t. vault and then saw Rogers bendiiig
rv. Jt ■ before the safe. He said he then
.,/w\ ordered the man to come out, and
when Rogers failed to do so Moore
fired a shot into the vmll. Rogers
leaped trom behind a steel door and
struck Moore across the lower right
arm with a crow-bar and fled.
Night Policeman Ruffis; 'Saniders
was called fnd acquatotedVith the
facts of the incident,'^ndejs went
to the hoine of a brother of Rogers
where he was found in bed an^poh
questioning he admitted striking
'Moore.
CRficiais of the company stated yes-
• terday that the vauit door was not
locked and that only the fire door
had been secured. This lock was
jimmied by the robber with a crow
har Secured firom the mill shop, and
'Ae hinges and hingepins of the safe
were cut With a hacksaw also from
^e mill shop, but the safe had not
been opened when Moore arrived on
the scene.
Offlcers are toyihg to counect'Rog->
ers with the robbery of about J|70^
from the Hoke Auto company anfl At
tempted robbery of the. Upchurch
SUUing company offlce*' ^veral
months ago.
GarbasreWflrBe
Pi^y
The' town fathers are cooperat
ing with' Chief of Police Banhogton
in regard to what has t>een an an-
^ noying situatibni that is:' collecting
town garbage. *
_ Monday morning, March
3i pbftown truck will call every day
alt wer town and collect garbage
from the baek yard. Mr. Barrington
wants all garbage cans put ini the
brndc-^e wants it emphasized that
^i^age cans cannot stay in the frrat,
oh the stre^ a^ter Monday,
3.- Put waste food, tin cans, etc., in
the garbage can in . the bade yard
everyday, but do not put paper boxes,
shrub prunings, leaves, ashes j^d big
things with the regular garbage. Bat
-ioa Wednesdays — put all the big
trash at the front and it will be taken
oR
These orders ar^to be enforced
and there is not (me person Ih Rae-
ford who will not rejoice to see those
unsightly cans, oil drums, etc., with
dogs scratching in them, taken from
die streets.
Word was received here\ early this
week of the promertion of Major Wil
liam L. Poole to Lt.-Colonel of the
252nd Coast Artillery. i
Colonel Poole has beeii a member
of this unit since the orga^ation of
Battery “F’- which was fc^ed some
years ago trom the old Cd^ “G” of
the N. C. National Guarfly MHe has
risen from 1st fleutenant .ofl Battery
“F” to second in commeui^ of the
unit.
Roads Craunitiee
Large : Delesationa
Committee To Leave
Muiidibers As Now;
The Brooks Bill to diange imm-
erical designations, of *‘alteriwte*’
highw^ was giy^ an unan^olisly
imfavOrablo repoih; by the'
mads cbnunittee;after hearing
tions by delegations from Racdi
|Uaeigh7
and LiUhigton last Thursilay.
S(mat(ff :Bn>oks, of Durham (toi
hadproposed a bill which would
:inate all':alternate, highway , numl
and whi^ would'have changed
designatiem of route 15-A.
highway Jias been advertised exten
sively by the towns along its cOinise
from Creedmoor to Laurihburg and
by the Lafayette highway associal
representing towns from the s
of Pennsylvania to -South Carplin^t.
Thcrdelegations were able to cmi-
vince the senate committee that 'B|e
bill would deprive these towns Of
beneflts accruing to them from tMs
advertising, and that by changing
the numbem of the highway some M
these beneflts would be given to
residents and business houses of thoge
towns on Route 15, by the diversii
of tourist traffic, which were si
to have 15A-eliminateiL
Weddb^ Legislative
Siynmary Of
Public Bills
Prmoured by the Staff of the
InsUtate of Government
The biggigst news of the eighth leg
islative we^ was- the introduCtiem of
the long-expected liquor referendum
bill and the passage of the revenue
'act The liquor hill calling , for a
state-wide vote next Novembw 4 on
the question of prohibition, was in>*
troduced in the House by Repriesen-
tatives McGowairof Pender eounty oii
Friday, together with a bill to re
strict the importation of liquor and
wine into the State. The revenue
measure, embodying a group of a-
mendments to the continuing 1939
act, was given final passage Thurs-
dal when the House concurred in a
batch of minor Senate Amendments.
The biennial budget appropriations
measure is expected to emerge from
committee this we^. The thirty-
odd other bills,passed dining the
week, most of them local in nature,
included acts creating a Motor Ve
hicles Department and a State Mar
keting Authority.
Of the .170 hills introduced during
the week, the preponderance of pub
lic measures, once more, related to
roads, commerce, education and ag
riculture, plus a goodly sprinkling of
municipM'and (xiunty legislation.
One bill affecting local units, would
place every county and mhniupali1y
whose goi^erhing- body does not noti
fy the'Retirement-SystemJs board of
toustees otherwise by January 1,1942,
under the statewide teachers’ and
state emifloyees retirement system.
This would mean that municipal and
county empoyees would receive peh-
siohs, contributing 4 per cient of tfaeic
salary while the town qr county ap
propriates a near conesponding a-
mount i^other bill would allow
municipalities and ottier political siibr
divisions of the Shite to make air
port zoning.. regulations. Others
would: pernm corttners a fee of $10,-
ipstead 'of $5, for holding inqiM|^
Dirc^ WflKaiD^ort’s Activities
(km-Snaldber
Gds Tlffee
Mmidis
Johnny Wa
Tnick-“
Fays Caste For
:ranh Satenrday.
ROT CLUNK
SPENCER ABliBtB ABBOTT
H. L. Gadin, ir.
Wins Tr^ To
New Oceans
Five very happy young men from
Fayetteville's trading area left Ral
eigh Friday afternoon in a specially
chartered pullman train for a week
at the Mardi Orat in New Orleans.
These your? men are: H. L. Gatlin,
Jr., Raefort’ ifumiture company, Rae-
lord; George Fisher, J. H. Clark &
company, Elizabethtown; B. O. Ward,
By Elnitt L. Schuyler
Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 27.—Good
morning, Raefordians; meet Mr.
Spencer Arthur Abbott, in whose
hands the destiny of Williamsport’s
1941 Grays ritets—and renew ac
quaintance 'With. hfr. J. Roy Clunk,
for fourteen years secretary of the
Williamsport' BasebaU Club and a
business manager par excellence.
Atost of you know Roy.
Mr. Abbott, by ttie way, is one of
baseball’s most colorful figures, a
63-year-old veteran, a product of
taseballs fascinating ‘‘old sfAiool.”
As the dean of minor league skip
pers Spencer Abbott bpasts two rec
ords that may be equalled but to date
have'never, been surpassed. He has
hMreqatee-lbe 'lWcord«t»a oPtUfflgy CItyrJoW
Bridglefr Corporation, Bladenboro; W
W. Woody, W. P. Cox Furniture com-, m^age^ xnpfe teams. ink4DQO»4ea«ue&
diurchill Tells Japs
\He Will Not Even
/Talk Of Peace Now
London, Feb. 25.ri-Prime Minister
CburchiU has infonhed Japan’s for
eign mipister. that "there can be no
estion of compromise or'parley” in
[tain’s war with the axis, n qheer-
house of commons was told to-
This pronouncement was relayed to
paHiament by Richard Austin Butler,
thO permanent imileFsecretary of for-
affairs, as jtee result of demands
fidm back-beiAers on both sides of
the house fpr a "precise” statement
of the recrnit Japanese spechd .mes-
to Britain.
figl ago Butler announced re-
^ this special message from the
>se ambassador.
otii^ to Delinquent
^ Subscribtars
Notice has bemi tent oat, and
Ottettt^' repeatedly calleA to the
test that yoor sobserlptions have
not been paid, there are taaay
•near sdbscrflbcrs who are aMe
to pay the amount doe^ The
of printing the paper has
l4iwist doubled In five yean, yet
^ heve eoattnaeid at the sanw
. pei^ trying te take care (ff the
‘ilffefenee in work and adver-
May, hot . we eanaet, emthine to
COVE yon the paper. We have
new sobseribers: and the
old ones oflio have not paid will
M dronpefl Item the majlltpg Usk
want yoW pater eon-
ffairiL pay np. In eaaen^iriiere
gen are aevenl .ye^
glad to Make emir.
ibf.:np-to^
William David Fairies^
McDuffie Dies In
Washington, D. C. \
1 -1
Sergt. William David Fairley Mc:
Duffie^ former Raeford boy, died
February 21st at his home in Wash
ington, D. C. /
He was the son of tiie late Mr. anil
Mrs. J. G. MiiDuffie. He receive^
his education at old Raeford InsliK
tute and King’s business college, Ral
eigh. He was a bookkeeper and
clerk with the Southern railway be^
fore joining the Metropolitan Policl
Department "in Washington hi 1917.
He soon became a sergeant—where
he made an outstanding record
on number of occasions was di
for meritorious work, in the solution
of crimes in the northeast section of
Washington.
Funeral services were held Mop-
day 'at 3:30 p, m. at Lee’s Funeral
Home, Fourth imd Massachusetts Ave.
NE. Burial was in Cedar Hill cemi-
tery. . . ,
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Wil
liam F. "Betty” McDuffie; two sons,
William H. and Edwin H. and a
daughter Jessie E. McDuffffi©, aH of
Washington.
Also the following brothers and
sister, Dougal- McDuffie, Bm:t Mc
Duffie, Paul McDuffie and one sister,
tAttie. Another sister, .^ce, died
about a year aga
DR. McMillan to hold
AT SPRING HILL
BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY
The Sprifig Hill
Wagram, extends a (f
to peopte. to this ci{
Sunday moititog i
At this time Dr. B.j
a son ol ttos
'' mteiteitoty ;*
[itist church,
invitation
nunUy to the
B, March 2nd.
iidson McMU-
who hag
Ir.Chhu^
bf-way or easements by telephonic
electric or power companies, and
make the presence of telephone .or
power lines equivalmit to records-
ti(to; permit. mal^age. anyxyhere in
the State under a licente issued witii-
in the State, regardless of county of
issuance, 'where the register of deeds
has ’affixra his official seal to tiie
license; authorize mimidimlities tb
transfer the city treasurer’s^ dutitt to
the dty clerk; permit the ojperation
of school busses one day prior to thb
opening of school; and. place lobal
Units issuing bonds, other than couh-
ties^cities and towns, under the Local
Government Act.
The Agriculture bills include one
to permit farmers. to secure special
half-price license-tags for trudes used
opty in hauUng their produce smd
supplies, but nbt fbr hire; and an
other to provide for the warehousing
of other agricultural commcidlties as
well as cotton. A comprehaosive
measure to regulate and supervise
public live stock markets and live
stock dealers, requiring a permit from
the Commissioner of Agriculture up
on meeting'certain health standards,
was introduced, and a greatly ex
tended seed Iftw emerged from Com
mittee in the form of a substitute
bill. By another .biU the Commis
sioner of Agriculture is authorized
to establish and supervise a County
and District Fair Division t^lansify
fairs’ and to contribute to/premuims.
according to a set scale. A Smiate
measure would remove the license or
t>rivilege tex on buyers of scrap- or
untied tobacco, while a House meas
ure woulcl relieve the Department of
Agriculture of supervision of dog
vaccinations.
The administration - spemsored
Highway and Public Worics Commis-
bn revision bill heads the list of
>ads measures sent to Committees
quring the week. The bill would ra-
d|ioe the members’ tmns from six
to four years, establish a statewide
letoer than district system of rej^K-
sentetion, and invest the cemunission
churman with all Commission auih-
briiy when the totter is not in session.
'b other important measures would
'l)‘set up a $4,000,000 fund for con
struction of steondary roads throu|fli~
QMt to*. State, and (2) require proof
of financial responsibility for esar and
tr|iric operators, on conviction of mot
or vehicle tow violation instead, of
uiton failure to 'satisfy Judgoaonint
TIa recent Supreme Court Deciston
dewaring invalid parking meters bef-^
caixe they were without legislative
aumoifiatlbn prompted a measure au-
thokilng dtiai to. pass ordinances -to
imp^ pariring fees.
A^tpeasure related to both healtii
andili^way ywould have die State
Boaql.^ Healih govern bus station
sapiteflion and issue certificates of ap*
provai; revocable by the UtUitten
Commission upon nboommendation of
‘ ” Itif Board,:
ition bilis girovide for: a $:
to eitobliah
and Miller company, Fayetteville. W.- hes wim more pennants—tei in allr-
L.. .Hunter of Hunter Brotheis,. Ine->
^onsbrs of this trip, is accompany
ing these, prize-winning dealers to
New Orleans.
The above named young men are
the outstanding dealers for Hunter
Brothers, who are Philco distributors
in this section of North Carolina.
'These men have gone over the top in
quota and by so doing havb been
awarded this wonderful trip to one
of the greatest pageants held in one
of the world’s mpst interesting. (fitie&
This group joined a special pull-
man train on the Seaboard railroad
in Raleigh Friday afternoon where
th^ 'were met by 170 other lucky
young men from Danville, Riifiunond
and Norfolk, Va.; Bluefldd, W. Va.;
Wtoston-Salem and Wilmington, N.
C.
S^piare Dance
The Blue Springs Home Demon
stration club will sponsor a square
dance at their ccmimunity house Fri
day night of this 'week, February
28th. A previous (tote for a dance
by this club had been printed but
this 'was an erimr. Music for the
dance wlU be furnished by the Rock-
fish club. Refreshments will also be
sold.
"'Annie May Shaw, who is Ending
the 'Winter with hef granfimotiier,
Mrs. CoUn Shaw and atimiding school,
spent, the weekend at her home in
Fayetieville.
fi^n any ottier map in baseball, and
Robert Graham, Raeforfi negro,
was sentenced to three months ton tiie
roads for snatidiing the gun Of Hi^-
way Batrolman Joe Murrin while be
ing taken to jail by Policeman W. R,
Sanders.
According to witnesses in county
court Tuesday, Graham was being
taken peacefully to jail Saturday,
when he and Mr. Sanders were pass
ing the car of Patrolman Murrill;
Graham saw a gun in the car and
breaking away from Mr. Snders, he
dashed to the car, grabbed the gun
and run, eluding the Police.
Several days later ^police picked
him up. Judge W. B. McQueen im
posed a three months sentence on the
negro, whiOh was suspended- upon
payment of $50 and costs emd upon
the return of the revolver to the
court.
. John McPherson was found not
guilty of charges of chiedeen stealing.
Johnny Warren, colored, pleaded
guilty to careless and reckless driv
ing charges growing out of a wreck
in which he admitted hitting a trucks
loaded with workers at Fort Bragg
from near MorveP. Henry if. Mor
ton was the driver of tiie truck, which
was slightly (tomaged. Warrmi re-
ceiveq severe cuts about the head
and left side.
John McGirt paid costs after plead- .
ing guilty to carrying a concealed
weapon, to wit: a set of brp^ knucks.
A 30 day road sentence was suspend
ed.
Carl May, white man of Laurni-
burg, was taxed 'with the court oostn
for violating the road tows. Jhlnt
A. Baldwin and Woodrow Mmvoe,
colored mei of Raeford, were gtenq
30 days soitences, susjtended up(»i
payment of costs, for disturbing re
ligious worship services.
.F^ McCprmiik,. coloted.^ of An-
ti(^', poto roste tm dnuAen and dis
orderly ccmduct.
funds from the Texfibook Rental
Fund; the allocation of an' amount
equal to 9 iter cemt of the Stote gross
taxte bn intoxicante' tb til®, s^ool
fimd to be used in teaching the ef
fects of alcoholism and narcotism; a
commi89i(m to study the proUems in
transiti(m of studmite fnxn high
school to college; and the auj|i|$^-
aati(m of (dty or county units to' pro
vide kindergartmis.'
Other bills intrbdu(»d in(duded: a
".Fbwhsend plan” calling for a $15
per month pension to everyone over
65; a provision for daylight saving
time in the State from the tost Sun
day in Apiiil until the tost Sunday
in September; a regulation of unfair
sales practices; a uniform partner
ship act and a bill rewriting the tow
on limited partnersfahte; a measure
setttog foiih uniform rules of prac-
ticb for administrative agencies; a
provtoion for aUmony. after absolute
divooroe ppon grounds two years
separation; a provision lor election
oh b conimtutional amendmmt to
pbtmit " the Geoinnl Assembly to
change tile honitier of solicitorial dis-
tiricte witooqt regard to Ihe ptimber
of judidil dUfidtfis; a plan to. pro
vide a per montti pension lor
wldptei ht jfafther AttonMCf Generals;
,>n ^-eteBtiySte ’ rf ItewRiayB under 18
^ the
for ap all-:.time mark. first flag
tiriiPn^ caiifie in 1906 at Toplrica and
his tost in 1934, when he piloted At
lanta to top honors in the Southern
Association;
■ Mr. Ab'fe«#''hasx|®aS‘-feE3dl^
ball clubs for thirty-four years —
dear a(nx>ss the United States, from
Jersey City, N. J., to San Diego, Calif,
—since he first wielded authority at
Fargo, N. D., i»^1903.
In his active days Mr. Abltett play
ed first base and pitched. He was
horn in Chicago, IlL, in 1877 and
now resides in Washington, D. C. He
launched his playing career with
Rock Isand, Ill., in 1898 and subse
quently saw service with Ja(fim(Hi-
ville, St. Paul, Terre Eteute, Clmiago,
and Decatur before beconiing a man
ager. He made his debut in the
Eastern League in June, 1937. 'He
managed the Springfield (Mass.) dub
tost season. He is thoroughly familiar
with Eastern League .ropes, and dub
officials (xmsiiier him the man best
fitted to pilot the Grays pennantward
in 1941.
Mr. Clunk, now in his fourteenth
year as business head of the Grays,
has the distinction of longer service,
either as phq^er, executive or man
ager, than apy other person in the
Eastern League. His thoroughgomg
knowledge of baseball law and pro
cedure and his .excellent, well bal
anced judgment give real value to
his service, -ft was in 1928 that he
took charge of the business office at
Bowman field, and when George
Burns, managa of the dub to tiiat
year, quit to mid-season, Roy also
stepped into the dugout and flBed
out Bums’ une^lred term as Add
manager. '
Fire Destroys House
Of Dan Sliaw
Fire destroyed the home and
s)me of its contdits of Dan Shaw
Monctoy on the Up±urch place near
McLauchlto chapd. '
The Raeford fire department was
able to keep the fire from spreading
to bfurns and otiier outbuildings on
tiie place. Water for extinguiriitog
the fire 'was drawn from the^UfK
church pond about one hundred
from the house.
Demimstrafion House
Open This Week
Hoke Concrete Weirks are hrddtog
o^ house Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at a new concrete heme com
pleted this week on the conqMny’b
property on tiie RaCt(»rd just
soutii of Fayetteville. /'
The house is templetely nEmstruei-
^ of ccmcrete products midn by tiie
local c(»cem.
Haad
r. edin^ a atadnt af
PaAd* Of Mbs
babella Wi|s(Mi
Dies Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. McEjaudilto at-
tmded the funeral of Dr. WOlis S.'
Wilson to Davidson Monday. Dr. Wil
son was the fatiier of Miss Tsahrtia
Wilson, a former capable tea(iier to
Hoke County Hi^, but now of Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Ga.
Dr. Willis S. Wils^ retired ftes-
bytman minister, died at his heme
in Davidstm at 7 o’cUxk Sunday
morhtog from a heart attadc. He
was born to Romney, W. Ta., Jan
uary 29, 1867.
Dr. Wilson was graduated from
Hampden-Sydney college and Utaten
Theological seminary. He held pas
torates to Marion, Mooresville, Lin-
cointon. Montreat, and West Bid
Pre^3rterian dhurdi to Atlanta. FPur
years ago he retired from the active
ministry and moved to Davids(» firam
Ltocolnton.
Surviving are his widow, BIrs. Is
abella Allan Wilson; one (toiudder.
Miss Isabella Wilson of Attonta; two
sons. Captain David G. Wilson of tiie
R. O. T. C. departmmit of Davidsoni
college, and J. Alton Wilson, of At
lanta;. two gramtoons, David and
bert Witoon of Davidson;
Mias Anne and Miss EKwi
Bto(k Mountain.
Rockingham ihti
Owsor Of Ifit-
And-Run Car
Rufus Oliver, of Rodetogham, was
fouj^ to be the owner of tiie car
which was involved to a minor ac
cident here Momtoy, and tiien was
driven rapidly away without ttm 0(^
cupants .tovestigattog tiie eattent ef
tiMf damage.
Patrohnan Joe Murrill stated Bait
the car . lteaiae number was
by Mrs. Comer Covington, of ]
vdMse car was damaged to i
The aoeidemt bawiened nnur.
on tiie FSayetteviUe highway nonr.n'
groiqi of workers on the mhaiii-'
wideotog project
Mr. Murrin states that the ttglr
way Patrol is c(»ttouittg the f
ition of the aGcidmt
the Cterington dy
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