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The Hoke CSoimty Newt
The Hoke County Journal
Honcouirrrs
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regularly scl^uled session
TO Superior court will be held in
^l^e County next week. There wflil
both civil and criminal sessionsJ
N(|idtt!n calendar is very croieded,
. ar^ the seseion is not expected to
lasrt very long.
Hunt Parker, Superior Court
ju^e from Roanoke Rapids,«wiU'
sit for this session. JTudge Parker was
last in Hoke County in 1936. whmi he
sat tor ^0 session of Superior Court
Ho is to be remembered tor the speed
with which he runs the court.
The Jurors for this term of court
are.,the following:
J. E. Capps, McLauchlin; Pan
M^etthan, Raeford; J. E. Townsend
Mc]^U[^tto; W. e. Pendei^ass, Bfc-
■ LagchBiti Louis Parker, MdLaU^lin;
Mi^rshall' Newton McLauchlin; p. A.
Fbulips McLaucbim. J, T. Pea^,,
StonewaU; J. E. yanhoy, Quewhtple;
W. F, Livingston, Stonewall; Geo^e
Deese, McLauchlin; Belton yiriflh^
Baefprd; Clarenee Brown, Raefc^.
Boland Andrews, Raeford; ly,
M^d^ul, Antioch; A. V. Sandei^
Raeford; M. S^ Gibson, McLauchlhi;
Ah^rt Guin, McLauchlin; H. H
Deese, Stonewall; M. Baxley, Rae-
fo^; Israel Manp, Raeford; J.. T.
Clkrk, Stonewall; Jack, Morris, Rae^.
fo^; Albert Maxwell; Raeford; M. D.
Yates, StonewalL .
t. Mr h^awell. Blue Springs; A. H*
Ray, Mct^uchlin; Fulford McMillan,
Blue Springs; L .M. Lester, Raeford.
Press
Assodaitidii Met
At its ninthly Inelsthig. wh
held to Raeford, the
Aasacitotlfto'''ete'etod;ij
the coming year. H ^hfton Bliie, of
Aberdeen, was elected President of
the organization to take the place of
Neil Cadieu of Rockingham. O. L.
Moore, of Laurinburg, was elected
Vice-President in the place of R. L.
•^ray, of Fayetteville. J. Minor Davis,
of Raeford, was elected Secretary to
take the place of H. Clifton Blue.
At meeting a round-table
discussion was led by the retiring
President, Neil Cadieu, with parti
cular emphasis be laid on the part
of county newspapers in regard to
defense and war work. D. S. Poole,
retired editor, spoke briefly on the
history oP journalism in this section,
and O. L. Moore spoke on newspaper
policies and ethics.
t^ranck
0iM Friday '
■ 1 .
Thomap Ravis Fran^ manager of
the tdeimone sxUhange at Rtizaheto-
town died, suddenly at tha^ ptoce
Friday morning. Fimm^ services
were c(mducte4 4:()Q o’Hock Sat
urday aRemoon from the residence
of hi@ mother. Mm. Annie Franck,
831 Arsenal Avenue, Fayetteville, and
interment was to the Maxton ceme
tery,
'Pie Raeford telephoiw exchimge
was ip the . system of exchange man
aged by Tommie Franck for a number
of years. He was very popular with
Raetord people and toe neiim of his
d^ath came as a shtMto to his many
friento here. His wife Who was
from Maxton died several years ago.
Th^ had no children.
To CdUborate
Bus Drivers
For Sdkook
VICHY, Unoccupied' Rrahpc. Aug.
12.—MaishUl Petain^ toe Fi^ch Chief
Sto^, committed hipci^: to full
odUabinatipn wifb,.;; Ctotop^; iii a
raidip addr^ to|, tw tonight,
A few. hbura ai^ ;^:.^^9^~^>toer,
Adpiral Jesh Dprlj^, had been given
suprenw powers to toe
Vichy regfine.’' ' ^
'pie . pgcdf Marshal ranged "hiihsHt
toe side of' Ctorhutoy
in the fight against Russia, which
h^ said was a “defense\to the East
of civilization” and ,was 0 ^battle
whiclif could “change the map of
the world.”
Marshal Petato personally appealed
to the United States for undemtand-
ing and to the French fp^ theif cbr*
operation. t
He admitted that his so-called
ijational revolution had failed of
its aims so far.
^ FULL collaboration
In committing himself ‘ to \ ftdl
CVUatK^ation with' Germany,
snal Retain' said* tout' centtoito .at
neighbor had to give w^y to a larger
perspective which “by our activity
can open up a reconciled continent.’:'
The Marshal declared frankly that
“toat is the aim toward which we
are heading.”
In a broadcast to the entire na
tion whiph was the most sensa
tional development in Vichy since the
ouster of the former Premier Pierre
Laval as his polTQcal heir last Dec
ember 13 the Marshal declared he
had given Darlan exceptional powers
despite the fact that public opinion
"never was always favorable nor
always fair” to the Admiral.
APPEAL TO AMERICA
Out of a clear sky Petain appealed
to the United States saying:
“I would like to recaU to the great
American public the reasons why
it has no reasons to fear a decline
of French ideals. Certainly our
Parliamentary poliegr is dead. But ^
never had more than a li*«* -
SASFQBD, M. C, ^!rMUSI^y, AWUST 14, lf41
Wifliaiiis
Williamsport, Pp., August 18,---The
Williamsport Grays are in tom niidst
of the most crucial road series of
toe hectic 1941 campaign of toe East
ern BasebaU League.
'Starting with Saturday night, when
toey defeated the E|mira l^toieers.
2 to 1, at Elmira, th^ wiU. Weather
permitting, play no less toan. seven
teen games in eleven days to four
cities of four states.
The stoedule calls for three" double
headers to as many days at.Haito
ford. Conn., and lor a repetition of
this inogram at .Sprtogeld, Mass.
From Springfield the toaJl leads to
Scranton. Pa., where sto^A games,
August 18, 18 and 20, round) out toe
four-dty swing. - ^
Returning to Bowman Field Au
gust 21 for a two-game series with
Elmira, the Grays will play before
what may be toe largest Crowd of
the season. It wfll be special nlRht.
with an added attraction, Howard
Kholer Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, has bought and donated out
right to the Grays a handltome Ply
mouth de luxe sedan, whidi Will be
offered as an atendance lAize.
The V. F. W. boost parleis that of
Garrett Cochran Post, American
Legion, vdiich staged a special night
several weeks ago, when more than
seven thousand paid customers filled
Bowman Field accomodations to
overflowing.
Connie Mack night, with an ex-
j^itioh game between toe Athletics
find the Grays, and a basebaU night,
have also helped to boost the Gray’s
exchequer. i
It/is hkely, tdA that theto wfil be
a .Spencer Abbodt, piSht to honor of
toe Gray’s.Rqpu^ managd:.
The league seksdn ends on Sep
tember 1. If toe Grays fistlSh to the
first division they will tiB^ jpan to
toe post-season playoff, wfiito arrays
toe first, and>third''tieams against each
ntoer and th^ Itofi f "
R^afinflac'^fiadlfi
these two series pkrticipafe to a
final seven-game series for the gov
ernors’ cup, donated by the chief
executives of the four states re
presented in the league)
Bad weather early in the season,
causing many postponements, threat
ened for a time to make it doubtful
if Williamsport would continue to
organizied ball, but improved weather,
special nights and an awakening on
the part of the people to the fapt that
this city now has the greatest team
in its history combined to save the
day, and only Saturday the officials
signed a ten-year lease with the
city of Williamsport for Bowman
Field, which municipally owned. A
15-year lease expired last month.
At the moment the Grays are to
second' place, right on the heels of
To
Mondis
^itensHHi
Washingtoh, Aug. 12.—Sweeping
over bitter ndn-toterventiniist op-
pbsitiTO the House late today agreed
to din eighteen month extension of
senrioa for drafts. National Guards-
metii$ and reservists after defeating
a rtttfva to cut the time down to six
The lower chamber, by vote,, ac
cept^ an Adiininstration-sppnsored
ptoto>sal to set a year-and-a half
tone limif on the additional service,
and: .neanefi foimal passage of the
heate^-fQught legislation.
Wito toll Democratic leadership to
full‘ cctotebl, the lower chamber,
thrqv^pi a tot^, day of tense debate,
bea^. padE stubborn attempts to ex
empt draftees from toe additional
service and to cut the time dowii to
less than toe year and a half ap
proved by toe Senate.
Mrs. G. F. Koonce
Stricken Tuesday
Bilrs. G. Frank Kdroce suffered a
paralytic stetoie Tuesday aftemoro;
and died at 1 o’riodr Wednedsay mor
ning without recovering irinn toe
first attadc. She was a wmnan at
middle age, and was held in high
esteem by all who knew her.
Before her marriage she was a
Miss Ellen Gillis, a daughter of toe
late Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Gillis of Mc-
LaucBIin township. She is survived
by her husband, three sons and three
daughters, L. H. Koonce of Raeford,
Clarence Koonce of the home, Stanley
Koonce of U. S. Army, Fort Sr^even,
Ga., Mrs. Lena Koonce Kelley of
Winston-Salem, Mrs. Eula Koonce
Martin of Fayetteville, Miss Margaret
Koonce of Winston-Salem; five bro
thers, D. W. Gillis, Red Springs, A. C.
Gillis, Raeford, O. W. and D. P.
Gillis of Raeford, and Neill Gillis of
Roseboro.
The funeral will be conducted fiom
Galatia Presbyterian diurch of which
she was a member, and burial will
be in the church cemetery Thursday
p.m. at 5 o’clock.
Moi
Urged To Aid
h Defoise Woric
,tion.
.0,835
Break
: Gal-
annual
- I farmers
All Selective Service registr^fi®':’® to
who have been deferred frbm.miliKf they
service today were u^ed by Gent’^hty is
J Van B. Metts, State Dlrectoitocrease
Selective'SeiViee, to offer their ^ to see
assistance to Stete and local civ; stopped
defense agencies. are more
-rMany young men have to, years,
granted defermenf because of ouild ag-
bccupations, because th^ haA*^®Se left
POndrots or 'because th^ ai^ar.”
physically capable of und(
service in the armed forfc^tistics re-
Groeral said. NeVertoeless, htf® increased
toey are qualified to perfor^ two weeks
V^ork to connection with ^ percent
defense activities and shm/ti® Federal
their sertrices to existing tonal income
or tfiose vhSto: betog 6>tiad reached
•—19 percent
ment, Con0«ss, when it to said unless an
Selective Training and of consumer
of 1940, gave no indTPid oat to taxes,
it intended to excuse thef^®^’
the obligation which ’
every young man—^th.^te Hull, returning
his country in times six-weeks absence.
General Metts declaj*^®®^® ot
is exx)ected to do Hi:*® demonstration has
way or another, whe’ (that) there is a
tens the national sft ot conquest by force,
General Metts q/ methods of govern-
recent statement of^'^^^t peoples that are
B. Hershey, Dire savagery and bar-
Service, as follow?retary Hull said “with
Many of oiu-a't ever-increasing pro-
entered the arn- Preparation for defense
at home others resistance to the
or another hav^^d movement. . .will be
training defen-
mato owe it to
called and oto* Louis Manoz Marin of the
tobaccK,
Civiliao Ddbiie
Agencies Td Mee
Here Tiesds^
There wiU be a meettog of Natum-
al Defoise Agencies at the Graded
School BaRdii^ in Raeford on Tues
day, August 19tb, at ten O’clock AAf.
for the purpose of discussing problenis
relating to tire Army Maoeovezs to
be held in this area to the falL
Represrotatives of the Army and of
the State Board of Health wiH be
present to discuss problems arising
out of these maneuvers. The county
Board of Health, all County and
Town officials, and all interested
citizens are invited to attend this
meeting.
Th^ meettog was originally jdan-
ned for August I2th, but was pofrt-
poned to the 19th to avohi conffict
with the Convention of County Cboofc-
missioners now being held at Wrigto^
sville Beach. Similar meetings WQI
be held in each of the counties
involved in the maneuvers.
At this meeting Colonel J. W.
Hairelson, Chairman of the Sarto •
Carolina Council for National De*
fense, will speak and give the gen
eral purpose of the meeting. Fidkmr-
ing the addire^ of Colonel HarrtosoB
repjetrHflto’ O' RShited States
of toe
-with
JOHNSON COMPANY
PHONE 2191
RAEFORD, N, C.
The State School Commission and
State Hitfiiway Safety Division in
Conjunction with the County Board
of Education will hold a school for
school bus drivers to Raeford at the
Hdke County high school buUdtog on
Tuesday, August 19, beginning at
8:00 o’clock A.M. Daylight Saving
Time. ,
Letters have been sent out to aU
prospective drivers whose names are
on file to the office of the Board of
Education but it is suggested that all
boys and girls of both races who wish
to drive report for this school whether
they have received a letter or not.
All who attend should bring their
driving licenses. If the prospective
driver Has jpst become 16 and has
not secured driving license, come any
way and take the tests, even thou^
a bus driver’s permit cannot be issued
until the driver’s license has been
secured. Lunch wfll be furnished.
mon with the democ*'
lAEFORD
Purchases Made On
Instalment Plan
To Be Curtailed
Washington, Aug. 11.—^In a far-
reaching step that brought the effects
of the defense program close home
to the ordinary man President Roose
velt today set up a system of control
for the huge installment credit busi
ness carried on through the nation’s
banks, stores and personal finance
companies.
He issued an executive order di
recting the federal reserve board to
use a world war statute and its
criminal penalties to curb instal
ment credit used for the purchase
of *‘conaumers’ durable goods.”
Although not affecting the man
can afford to pay cash, toe
order covfsr^' merchandise and
shuj^ loan business involving $10,-
$0(lL(K)0,fiOO of credit. Some types at
them credits may be exempted
United Sta^w^^fU; ^yekTISE IN THE
^8-JOURNAL.
proud an ,
He we
“The
misjudgi
effort tij
our soul
whose
jLadji*'®* Y*®' 7-1-41 to
ta^vLihalatively at meeting
i, 1941.
Spea f
^“teEVENOE
Govern^ _$1T>640.00
^®“r. 200.00
^ 200.00
Withof - - 7,500.00
ster of i. 140.00
Achard 50.00
the natiif 750.00
^ 200.00
and stnf
the pers.^
of nationi'
have assvi-
agents of,
to ^ $2I«!00.€0
producer anwiJCES
The MOrsHi
to the nation t„„ 1,975.00
said: 7*5.00
“I have grave 2,800.00
For the last sevc lUMlIMI
felt an ill wind risV
at France.” >■ 1,Z00.UU
1- * i- to heln in Tificsn Senate is pushing for
gasoline stations but asked m^il^ “eiP 2 ^y western nations of
to redouble efforts to cut motorX„Th^“n >n Hemisphere flag to be
consumption voluntarily. He national flags of North
recommendations for nnor-ainrc- scivit- ...
commercial vehicles which he sail
America.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Aberdeen, N. C.
would cut gas c.naump;ion about
2004)0
45.00
75.00
The Marshal addt r ..
“The authority c 1,800.00
ment is made subje.\ 2^300.00
orders often are belnL 2,200.00
900.00
Francois Harlan today
as great as my figure x
tory since Napoleon wi
decree gave him autoo
5,oop.oq
ilA.'VV'fil'
and announced the oil in
dustry will give its patrons wind
shield stickers pledging the use of
one-third less , gasoline than usual.
He said 82 insurance companies have
contributed to the “share-your-car-
campaign” by revising underwriting
rules to enable motorists to carry
paying passengers to and from work.
Federal Security Administrator
McNutt urged immediate registration
at State employment offices of aU
automobile service station workers
who lose their jobs as a rCsult of
drive to cut gasoline consumption,
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
The undersized substitute-trus- [
tee, empowered by statutory'provi
sion for appointments of substitute
trustees, and pursuant to the autho
rity contained in deed of trust re-'
gistered in book of mortgages No.
78, at page 1 as appears to office of I
Register of Deeds for Hoke County,
N. C., having been demanded by the
cestui que trust named to said re
gistered instrument to advertise the
land therein described and conveyed
after default to the payments secured
thereby and to be made on November
1, 4931. will ocer for public sale to toe
highest bidder fm casfi at the court
house door to Raeforil, N. C., toa
following lands, at 12 o’clock noon |
on the 29th day of August, 1941:
About 20 acres to Stonewall Town- I
ship, Hoke County, N. C.. being a
part 'of toe H. A. McKenzie estate,
which was conveyed to him by Mur
dock McKenzie et ux., Catoerine by
deed dated Dee. 11, 1885, registered
to Book of Deeds - NNN, at' page
987, to which reference is made tor
courses and distances; said 20 acree,
more or less, hereby conveyed aleo
b^og togl p^ devised by said H. ^
McKanzie by will to S. N. Me
lot_ _
NOTICE!
ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
UNLESS THEY HAVE THEIR
AS REQUIRED BY UW THAT THEY ARE LIABLE
TO IHDICTMENT BY THE GRARD JURY AT TNI
[august TERM OF CGQRT.