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Journal
The Hoke County Joamal
YOLunl^lxxy . no. 4s.
ptAEKOBD, N., €., TOUHSDAY, MARCH 20th, 1941
District Meeting Of
U.D.C.ToBe
Held in Raefdrd
Kiwanis Club Ashing Co6|«ra-
tion of Other Civic Organiza-
tions in Pul^c Diseiissioi^.
Two public fohims, possibly others,
■will be held ih Raefprd this spring
\uider the joint sponsorship of the
Kiwanis club with other civic or
ganizations of the county, it was de
cided this week by the Kiwaiiians.
\ County Supt. Ki A. McDonald and
^incipal E. D. Johnson, of'the Hoke
county high school, were named to
the Forum Committee by President
TI. A. McDonald, Jr. They are to
majce the arrangeinents with Dr.
Halph A. MacDonald, of the exten-
jin division of the University of
irth Carolina, which provides the
I speakers under a joint arrangement
with the Federal Government under
an adult education appropriation.
Tentative programs under consid
eration include discussions of the
present American-Japanese situation,
possibly led by Professors E. J.
'Woodhouse and C. M. Buchanan of
the Univei^sity of North Carolina,
and background of the present ilur-
opean war and other subjects of vi
tal interest to every one today. An
other of the speakers who will prob
ably be requested will be Dr. Herbert
van Beckerath^ professor of Euro
pean history and economics,at Duke.
In requestii^ the cooperation of
all organizations of the county in
the promotion of the forums, Ki
wanis Secretary H. C. McLauchlin
states that their club will provide the
funds necessary for at least two for
ums and that others will be sched
uled if additional funds are subscrib
ed. *
Everyone will be free to attend
the discussions. The first period of
each forum will be devoted , to the
discussion of the subject by the for-
mn leader, then members of the aud
ience will be given the opportunity
to express their opinions on. the sub
ject or to ask the leader questions
on matters not mrrra#‘Tiri
ing talk. "
It is expected that the first of
these discussions will be hhld early
in April.
The Raeford chapter of Unit
Daughters of the Confederacy will
entert^ the Seventh District on
March 26th in the Presbyterian
church. Towns represented in this
district, who will have Chapter rep
resentation here will include: Lum-
berton. Red Springs, Fairmont, San
ford, Dunn, FayettwiHe, St. Pauls,
and Laurinburg.
Mrs. R. O. Everett, of Durham, who
is president of the N. C. Division,
will be guest speaker.' Mrs. Sam
Broughton, of Dunn, is District Di
rector and will preside over the meet
ing;
This meeting is open to the public.
Chapter members who are no longer
active are especially mged to attend.
Other state officers who are ex
pected are: Mrs. L. E. Fisher of
Asheville, and Mrs. J. J. Andoe, of
Greensboro. «.
Grays To Arrive
Here Sunday
For. Training
Big Apartment ^
Project Being
Promoted
Fayetteville, March 19.—Officers
at Fort Bragg are signing up briskly
for apartments in a hiige develop
ment being promoted by R. J. Wil
liams of Kinston.
Proposal calls for the erection of
buildings to contain a total of 500
apartments on one of two tracts
which Mr. Williams is said to have
under option between Fort Bragg
and Fayetteville. The buildings
would be of red brick, modernistic
construction, three floors and would
contain approximately 21 units per
building.
Units would range from two rooms
to five rooms and rentals from $30
to $65 per month.
Rapid growth of Fort Bragg has
created an a,cute housing problem
among the officers at Fort Bragg.
Quarters already are practically non-
obtainable in Fayetteville and scores
of officers are living in nearby towns.
The condition will become even more
acute in the immediate future when
the number of officers will be ap
proximately doubled.
On Bible
Work
A#
A few nights ago Miss Mariana
Kunbrough made her report on work
done in Bible in her course in the
Raeford graded and high school. The
committee was not only pleased with
the type of work that she had done,
but was also surprised that she had
covered so much work witii so many
children. There are over seven hun
dred children enrolled in her course
in Bible. Her reading course of the
Bible, memory work, and ttiap study
fiives the pupils a wonderful know
ledge of the Bible. Her report to
the committee covered six type
written pages.
Less than one hundred people in
Raeford have paid the first five
months salary of Miss Kimbrough.
Since her graded school pupils come
from all over the Raeford school
[^district and her {ugh school pupils
come from all over Hoke county, it
hoped that other people in Rae-
rd and throughout the county will
lake some contribution to her sal
ary for March, April, and May. Con-
ibutions may; be mailed to E' C.
rCrawford, Raeford, H. q., Treasurer
of the Bible School Fund.
ScQutera. To Have
RoundtaMe At
Laurel Hidl
The fijTst Scouter’s Roimdtable for
the Western district will be held at
Laurel Hill at the Livingston hotel
Thursday itight, March 27, at 7:30.
“These roundtables are planned for
all scouters,” says Mr. Liles. “Here
is an opportifilfly for you to meet
with the other scouters of*'your dis^
Irt and discuss your problems,”
Mr. Liles, ^ince this is the
’meeting of its kind ever to be
in the Western district, all
scoutmasters are urged to see that
his community or town is well repre
sented. The price of the supper will
be 50c.
Mrs. W. C. Blount
In Hospital
Mrs. W, ,C. Blount, mother of
Mrs. T. B. Lester, who has been
the winter with Mr. and
^iiester, was taken back to
hospital for ' treatment
Blount, who recmtly
from the hospital went
observation, although her
conditibn is jno worse, nor is it ebn-
sidered serious.
— L-
MurdodE MeDnOie, of Raleigh,
.....
By Elmer L. Schuyler
Williamsport, Pa., March 20. —
Early this week members of the
1941 edition of the Williamsport
Grays'began drifting in from their
homes, and by tomorrow night the
group who will start from here on
the jaunt to Raeford will be com
plete. Louis Kre^, one-man “trans
portation department,” has arrived
from Florida, where he spent the
winter, and is getting the Grays’ big
bus “tuned up” for its invasion of the
southland. The group will “shove
off” from the Lycoming hotel at 8:80
o’clock Saturday morning. Soon
thereafter, Secretary-Treasurer J.
feoy Clunk and your correspondent
will follow in -Mr. Clunk’s car.-
A brief stop will be made at Harris
burg to pidk up a half dozen players
from eastern points who will assem-
ble..there Fridaytoawait.the coming
■■jlijif-the- l«isi' AnOTufer Stop
made at Gettysburg for lunch, aRer
which it will be “on to Richmond,’
via Washington, for ah overnight halt.
Leaving Richmond about 10:30 Sun
day the group will go direct to Rae
ford, stopping only for limeh.. Bar
ring accidents, all should be in Rae
ford and assigned to their hotel rooms
at the Raeford hotel before 6 p. m.
In the meantime, the players from
the South will arrive there before
the bus ruimbles in. Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Kyle, for instance, left their
home in Marion, La., last week to go
to the home of the latter in South
Carolina. Before her marriage last
summer, Mrs. Kyle was Miss Mary
Hicks, of Raeford. The ployer com
ing the greatest distance is Kenny
Richardson, who is enroute from, his
home in California. He is accom
panied by Mrs. Richardson.
No time will be lost in getting to
work. Monday morning Manager Ab
bot, Mr. Clunk and Mr. Kress will be
busy at the armory giving out uni
forms, assi^lng lockers, etc.; Abbott
will have a heart-to-heart talk with
his men, and then the 1941 ^ring
training season “will be on.” It is
anticipated that a light workout will
suffice for Monday—a sort of warm
ing up process—but after that it will
be a harder grind. The first exhi
bition game, according to the sched
ule, will be with Harrisburg of the
Inter-State League on Wednesday,
April 2, at Raeford.
Since last week, two more pitchers
have been added to the Grays’ staff,
making twelve in all, from whom
seven will be picked for duty in the
Eastern Lea'gue campaign, which will
get under way April 23, w^th a 140-
game schedule. Sam Page, who toiled
for the Grays in 1939, has been pur
chased outright and Joe Kohlman
comes on option from the Memphis
Chicks of the Southern Association.
Page, who was the league’s leading
relief hurler in 1939, is tremendoiuly
popular in Williamsport. He saved
many a game during the ’39 season
and his acquisition is hailed here
with great satisfaction. Owned by
the Philadelphia Athletics in ’39, he
was traded to Memphis at the end
of that season. Kohlman, like Page, is
a right hander.
The GraySWe hoping for a good
break in the weather. Since March
1 the climate here has been dis
tinctly winterish, including a 15-inch
snowfall, much of which still lingers,
although rising temperatures the past
few days has helped in speedii^ win
ter toward its finish today, |i^e of
ficial closing ^te.
So it’s hail to Spring and to Rae
ford. We’ll soon be seeing yoii.
HER EASTER BONNET: Brflliuit violets and a pink rose are posed
atop this pericy violet*lined hat to create the Easter bonnet of Mina
Neagle, lovely English star playing the title nde in RKO Radio’s
“Snnny.” A swath of violet tnlle is attached to a bimch of the violets
in back to cross in front and create a soft frame for Miss Neai^e’s
blonde beauty.
John Monore
Watson Dies In
Veterans Hospital
John Monroe Watson, 70, of Wag-
ram, passed away Friday evening at
the Veteran’s hospital in Fayette
ville. Euneral services were held
Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock from
Spring Hill. Baptist church, with
Pastor J. E. Reamy officiating, as--
sisted by Rev. John A. McMillan, of
Thomasville. Interment was in the
family plot at Spring Hill cemetery.
Mr. Watson was a native of what
is now known as Hoke county, but at
his birth it was known as Robe
son. Mr. Watson had been in ill
health for the past several years and
death came as the result of a stroke
suffered last Tuesday.
Mr. Watson was a deacon in
Spring Hill Baptist church and a
former superintendent of the Sunday
School. He served faithfully his
country in the Spanish-American war
and the flag of his country \/as drap
ed on his casket.
Mr. Watson is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Doi^a Christine Watson, his
own soh, Thomas Mervelle, a step
son, William ft. Folks, of Fort Moul
trie, S. C., a step-daughter, Mrs.
Wilbur E. West, of West Palm Beach,
Fla., and two sisters, Mrs. James
A. Powers and Miss Martha Watson,
both of Kinston.
Active pallbearers were Dan Wat
son, a nephew. Jay Jenkins, a great-
nephew, E. C. Smith, W. H. Gibson,
Arch McLean and Fulford McMillan.
Training Course
For Scoutmasters
Announced
Beginning next Monday night,
March 24, at the Presbyterian hut
in Laurinburg a training coimse for
scoutmasters of the Western dis
trict will begin. This course is plan
ned primarily for prospective scout
masters. However, scouters and oth
ers who are interested are invited
mid urged to enroll for the coiu'se.
Mr. Liles, Scout Executive, says the
older scouts in the various troops of
the district may attend and take the
course, and may get credit when they
are 18 years of age, in case they are
not already 18. Each scoutmaster in
the district is lu-ged to bring or send
several men from his community.
It is planned to have five meetings all
to be held at the Presbyterian hut in
Laurinburg as follows: March 24, 31,
April 7, 14 and 21. All meetings will
be held on Monday night at 7:30.
Mr. Liles, Scout Executive, and the
new Assistant Executive, ftufus Pitt
man, will have charge of the meet
ings. All towns abd communities in
the district are urged to cooperate
in this leadership training course
whether you have a scout troop or
not. If there is trained leadership in
the district there will be better scout
ing on a larger scale, and therefore
more boys will be benefited.
Broughton Sorveyi
Laws Passed By
Legislature
Governor Praises Constructive
Program; Adjourned Satur
day Night.
No ^'Cannon Fodder”
This Week
Seven Defendants
Face Recorder
Alex McMillan, indicted on charges
growing out of a wreck in which
a mule of Will Rose was killed,
pleaded guilty to:careless and reck
less driving, in coimty court Tues
day. Judge W. B. McQueen ordered
toat McMillan pay the covmt costs
and pay $100 to Will Rose for the
death of his mule, or serve 4 months
on the roads.
Cleveland Blue was fined $10 and
costs and given a suspended sen
tence of 3 months on t^ie roads for
violation of the prohibition laws.
Green Locklear paid costs for care
less and reckless driving. Marvin
Blue drew a similar judgement after
trial on charges of. being drunk and
disorderly. Dutiier Allen, Eddie Mel
vin and James Franklin Parker,
charged with violations of the road
laws, paid pourt costs.
The following, letter will explain
the absence of “Cannon Fodder”
this week:
“Wagram, N. C.
“Tuesday morning.
“The Hoke County Journal
“Raeford, N. C.
“Gentlemen:
“This letter is to explain the ab
sence of the usual column that I
have been writing—^‘Cannon Fod
der.’ Since I have been in Wagram
since last Tuesday night due to the
death of my step-father, you will
easily imderstand the situation. I
am planning on going back tonight
or tomorrow and will write next
week.”
WILLIAM R. .FOLKES.
On Buying Trip
P. A. Wilson of Collins departin^t
store is in New York bus^ new;
goods to meet the growing demhfid
for more and better goods in Rae-
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Seventh Annual
Steeplechase Held
In Pinehurdit
The seventh annual meeting of the
Sandhills Steeplechase and RaHTig
Association was held Saturday at tiie
Barber Course, midway between
Pinehurst and Southern Pines.
The Sandh^ meeting was the fint
of three Mid-Soutii events held un
der the sponsorships of thh National
steeplechase and'Blunts assodation.
The other events will be at Aiken
and Canulen in^ South C»blina on
suco^ive Salurdfqr^!'.,
David B. McNeill
Dies In Shannon
David Brown McNeill died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Grady S.
Harrell, Shannpn, route 1, Monday
morning. He was bom and lived all
his life in that community.
Mr. McNeill was the son of the
late William McNeill and Charity
Williams McNeill. In additions to
Mrs. Harrell,' he is survived by one
son, Thomas A. McNeill, of Red
Springs, and one sister, Mrs. Caroline
McRainey, of St Pauls.
Funerd services were conducted
Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Harrdl
and interment was in the MhN^
family cemetery. The Rev. M. P.
Calhoun, of St. Patds, officiated.
Mary Hazel 'Whitley, a studei^t at
E. C. .T. C.. is spenMng her sparing
holidays with her parento^tids wedc-
bnd,'
The members of the General As
sembly of North Carolina heard them
selves praised by Governor Brough
ton on the night before their sine
die adjournament when in his broad
cast speech the Governor lauded the
“loyalty, ability and patriotism” of
the legislature.
Especially did the governor laud
the general assembly for its educa
tional achievements which he listed
as: retirement for teachers and other
state employes, continuing contracts
for teachersv nintii salary increment
for teachers, removal of inequalities
between pay of white and negro
teachers, increasing funds for voco'
tional education, provision for a 12th
grade and drafting of a constitutional
amendment to set up a new educa
tion board.
Sales Tax Cut
These educational advances were
accompanied by a reduction of $1,-
500,000 in the yearly tax bill of the
people, he said by removal of the
sales tax from the citizenry’s “daily
bread.”
“I think it can be said without
boasting or extravagance tiiat the
legislature of 1941 has done more
for the public schools than any legis
lature in the history of the state,”
the governor said of his education
program.
He said that if business continues
good and general fund revenues con
tinue to increase, he would recom
mend to the next assembly that a
ninth month be added to the sdiool
term.
At the same time he predicted that
voters of the state would approve a
constitutional amendment to set up
a new board of education which
would replace' all present state agen
cies handling public sdiool affairs
“This amendment will set up a
well-established board for the ad
ministrations of the public schools,”
Broughton added, “it will eliminate
existing confusion, friction, duplica
tion and frequent loss of energy and
efficiency.”
Sixty MiRion for Schools
A total appropriation of $69,000,-
000 for public schools during the next
biennium he said was “far greater
than ever before.**
Broughton listed enactments of the
assembly to aid the farmer as: a
marketing authority, pure seed law,
fertilizer law, increased appropria
tions for State college, a state trade
mark, bulk milk sales act, provision
for storing on loan products other
than cotton and acts permitting ex
tension of the federal housing pro
gram into rural areas.
“TarheeL”
He revealed that quality Nortii
Carolina’ agricultural products would
bear a trade mark with the word
“Tarheel” over a map of the state.
The marketing authority act, he
predicted, will result in establish
ment of an “adequate maricetisg sys
tem” which will “greatly enhance
the value” of North Carolina fawn
products and “give fanners an out
let for their products.”
He praised new seed and fertiM-
zer acts as “incompmraUy better
anything ever attempted in tiie
state.”
Beorganization of the hi^way
commission, he said, will “assure a
statewide character^’ to ttte highway
ssrstttn and “increase efftclmMy.”
He praised action of tite
tion in banning fortified wines ex
cept in counties with ABC rtoras
CapL Welch TeBs
Of Trip Ob “City
Of Flint
Army Officer Was Strandcsl In
Europe; Describes Bescoe at
Over 200 Victiins from Tor
pedoed Ship.
The crowding of more than 200
passengers, rescued from the tor
pedoed Muretania, into the hull of a
freighter was vividly described by
Capt. W. E. Welch at the Kiwanis
club Thursday evening.
Captain Welch was among a group
of 29 Americans stranded in Europe
who secured passage home aboard
the “City of Flint,” the American
freighter which, on its next voyage,
was captured by the Germans and
held for several months before it was
turned back to its crew after dock
ing in a Norwegian port while its
captors were taking it to Gtermany.
Normally making the trans-At
lantic crossmg in seven days the
voyage, replete with all the thrills
of an adventure movie, was made
in twice the time due to assisting
in the heroic rescue of the passei-
gers of the Mauretania, and them to
one of the severest storms in the his
tory of American shipping. ■
Captain Welch stated thaf vdien
word was received that the English
liner had been torpedoed, they were
within a short distance of the sink
ing boat. They rushed to the scene
and took aboard over two hundred
of the passengers, many severely
hurt and fll from exposure. The
freighter had no passenger accomo
dations, and his party of 29 were
moved from their temporary quarters
to make room for the sidee^'of ttiose
rescued, while the others were pro
vided with canvas bunks built into
the hull of the ship.
The freighter had no medical of
ficer nor more than the ordinary first
aid supplies. Some mediemes were
secured from a nearby British de
stroyer and the captain of the boat
directed the treatment of tiie in
jured. Captain Welch stated that the
.facl..4^t..«nly .jane life, vax-toft .pf
all those rescued p^ h4^ trmote
to the spirit and skin pi the emn-
manding officer of the “City of
Flint.”
Shortly after the rescue, the speak
er stated, the ocean was literally
rocked from its shores by one of the
roughest storms ever to hit the At
lantic, which added further . hard
ships to the voyage.
Death Of Dallas
McGhee At Sanatorium
Dallas McGhee, died at the Sana
torium Sunday at 12 o’clock. He
had been a sufferer from heart trouble
for some time. He was assistant
prison warden at the State ivisax
for tubercular patients at Ssmatar-
ium. He was buried at FranUinton,
his former home, on Monday. Sur
viving are his wife and one son.
The Ladies Shop Sells
LeVine Dresses
An error whidi this paper regrets
appeared on tiie ad, advertising Le
Vine dresses last wei^. The Ladies
Shop, of which Miss Lizzie Niven is
proprietor, has had the agoicy for
this beautiful line of dresses for many
years and this spring the numbera
they are showing are prettier than
ever.
E. C. Smith, Jr.,
Returns From Trip
K C. Smith, manager of tite local
Western AutcAssociate ptoate, return
ed this we^ from Cindnat^ wh^ge
he had been on business conncctoA
with his store.
Dance In Hamlet
Jack Wardlaw and bis 14-piece or
chestra and oitertainers win {day
for a braefit dance at tite community
building in Hamlet, Friday night,
March 21, frcmi 10 *111 2.
David &nidi Moves
David Sknifh, Raefoid’s Radio Re
pair Wizard* has moved from Haixis
Avenue to GradF Leadi’s new cot
tage on South Main street
Hand Hurt
C. L. StQphfios received palntiil
aits on his ri^t hand bat TBaKhgr
afternoon at bis niilL ih qdte oi Sw
injury, be is able to be out
IN HOSPITAL
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