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Eleraon Board
I Youog People
Held Saturday
C. L. Thomas Elected rhairman The young people of the Raeford
of Board: Saturday Final Date Presbyterian church were hostesses
For Filing Candidacies. . Saturday to the Spring RaUy of the
! ^ —— I Young People of Fayetteville Pres-
Following the organization at I bytery. About 250 delegates from all
which Crawford L. Thomas was^nam-1 sections of’ the Presbytery attended
ed chairman of the Hoke County I the meeting which was presided over
Board of Elechons, registrars and I by Miss Mary Blue of Parkton, pres-
ijudges for the primary on May 30th | ident of the Young People’s League of
and the general election this fall were I Fayetteville Presbytery,
appointed by the board. Using the theme, “We Build With
The board announced that the reg- Thee, O Christ,” an interesting pro
stration books would be opened on I gram was presented embracing many
Saturday, May 2nd, and on May 9th I of the phases of the young people’s
and 16th, and that May 23rd would work. One of the features of the
be challenge day. Persons who have I program was an address by the Rev.
come of voting age, or will be of vot-1J. O. Mann, D. D., Director of Re-
ing age at the time of the general ligious Education for the Synod of
election on November 3rd, and those I North Carolina. Dr. Mann spoke of
who have changed their legal resi- j the serious times in which the young
dencifs j^puld see the registrar in people are living and chaUen
iheir precinct and register between I to complete Christian living.
May 2nd and May 16th. Mrs. J. B. Black of Red Springs,
J. W. McPhaul and D. C. Cox are Miss Mary Boyce of Highland
the other members of the county j Church* Fayetteville, Miss Betty Tay-
board. “ I lor of the First Church, Fayetteville,
Saturday, April 18th, is the last and Miss Sara Grantham, of St
dajr- for office seekers to file tlieir 1 Pauls led discussion groups on var-
candidacies with the board, and. tojious phases of the young people’s
date, while a number have announc- I work.
ed their intention of running for var- { During the afternoo# session David
ious offices few have paid their fees, I Huffines, Jr., Ait Taylor, Ed Hay, and
according to Chairman Thomas., Charlie Parish of Davidson college.
Registrars and judges appointed I spoke in an interesting manner on
this week are being notified by the their impressions of the Youth Con-
board They are listed below, the ference on World Missions held in
first named under each precinct is Memphis during the Christmas holi-
the registrar, the second and third days. The Rally concluded with an
are the judges. impressive installation service con-
Raeford Township ducted by the Rev. John H. McKin-
Raeford No. 1 non, Jr., of Maxton. Among the new
L. J. Campbell, A. A. Harris, M, officers installed was Dixie Smith of
M. Culbreth. the Raeford Church.
Raeford No. 2 H was announced during the rally
Devoe Austin, W. W. McLean, G. that the Pioneer Conference for In-
W. ~Cox. termediates would be held at Flora
McLauchlin Township Macdonald college, June 15-20; the
Rockfish: Davidson Young People’s Conferen-
^M. G. Ray, Frank Aownsend, G. P. ce, June 10-17; and the Fayetteville
Barbour. Presbytery Young People’s Confer-
Puppy Creek I once at Flora Macdonald college on
F. A. Monroe, Hugh Hair, John J Jnne 22-27. It is expected that
Parke^r. ■
Quewhiffle Township
♦ W. L. Thornburg, L. R. Cothran,
Dewy Strother.
Allendale Township
L. A. McGougan, H. F, Currie, J.
. W. Hasty.
Antioch Township
. K. Watson, F. C. McPhaul, John 1 of which Catherine Ann Walker is
This column will be devoted to
the activities of the Red Cross
chapter of Hoke county. Rev. E.
C. Crawford is director of the pub
licity for the chapter and win pre
pare the copy each week. To get
news of your community Red Cross
work in this column said your ma
terial to Rev. Mr. Crawford.
With the entrance of the United
States into the war the normal,
peace-time methods of communica
tion between this country and enemy*,
or enemy-occupied countries were
suspended. As a result, individuals
having relatives or friends in those
courilries are no longer able to com
municate with them by the usual
means. The Red Cross, however,
through it international organiza
tion, is able to exchange messages of
a purely personal or family nature
between civilians of nations at war
with on another. This is done with
the approval of the governments
concerned. The National Headquar'
ters Inquiry Service handles these
messages as well as inquiries about
the safety or location of civilians or
military or naval personnel outside
the continental United States.
Work of this nature was formerly
handled by the Inquiry and Infor
mation Service of Insular and For
eign Operations. With the entry of
the United States into the war, the
service was, however, transferred
from Insular and Foreign operations
and made a part of Home Service at
National Headquarters, in order to
centralize in Home Service all pro
grams involving personal service to
individuals in this country.
Thr^ Hoke Men
Promoted; Lewis
Heads 252nd
young-' pepplC' of .tiie- Raeford Church
will attend these conferences.
The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Raeford Church served lunch to about
250 young people and their adult ad
visors. Arrangements for the Rally
were under the direction of the
young people of the Raeford Church
From Fort Screven, Georgia, has
come the announcement this week
that three Hoke county men were
among 19 officers of the 252nd Coast
Artillery given promotions by the
Army.
Promoted to Colonel and com
manding officer of the 252nd was
Lt Col. Robert B. Lewis; to,Captain
and commanding officer of Battery E,
252nd CA was 1st Lt. Younger F.
Snead, the son of Mrs. S. A. Snead
of Raeford; to 1st Lieutenant and the
staff of the 1st Battalion 252nd CA
was 2nd Lieutenant Neill James Blue,
the son of Mr and Mrs. N. B. Blue.
Col. Lewis succeeds Col. McLel-
land, of Wilmington, as commanding
officer of the CA regiment which was
formerly composed of officers and
men of the North Carolina National
Guard. The regiment has been in
training^ at Fort Screven since 1940
and is now composed of men from
many states, the original complement
of men already having been assigned
in most cases to other outfits and
stationed at numerous points on the
Atlantic coast.
Parents Of Mrs. Colon
Scarborough Fatally
Injured Sunday
Monroe, April 14.—Double funeral
services were held at 11 o’clock Tues
day morning in the Wingate Baptist
church for Mr. and Mrs. Wilton A.
Williams, prominent Union county
couple, who were killed last night
on the highway in front of their
home on Pageland road.
The couple had been on a visit to
a neighbor and returned home in a
friend’s car about 10 o’clock. Just
after they alighted from the car and
started across the road, a car, driven
by Charles A. Sturgeon of Darlington,
News of the death of Howard s. C., struck them. Mrs. Williams
Stinchcomb, husband of the former vvas killed instantly and Mr. Williams
Howard Stinchcomb
Dies Suddenly
Culbreth.
Blue Springs Township
E. A. Wright, J. F. McMillan, R. J.
."Hasty.
Little River Township
a ildir
president.
Among the ministers atteriding the
Rally were, P. H. Biddle of Broad
way, G. F. Kirkpatrick of Maxton,
C. M. 6ibbs of Erwin, H. R. Poole of
E. B. Blue, Cameron Johnson, Jack Antioch, F. L. Goodman of Laurel
Hfening. I Hill, J. H. McKinnon, Jr., of Maxton,
Stonewall Township L. A. MLaurin of Hemp, G. M. Pick-
N. A. Mclnnis, J. L. McFayden, D. j a^d of Sanatorium, and M. P. Cal-
L. McGougan.
! houn of St. Pauls.
Present Board
Commissioners
Ask Re-Election ''
Atmouncement of the candidacies
of the jnembers of the present Board
of (Coraanissioners of Hoke county
yesterday was the first intimation
that the county would have a set of
tommissioners for the next two
ijpiars.
Though candidates for the offices
of sher,jff and clerk of court have
been announcing since early Febru
ary, it was not until yesterday that
Five Defendants
Sentenced In
I County Court »
Edgar TeW, charged with operating
a car while drunk, was found guilty
in county court Tue^ay. Given 60
days on the roads with the sentence
to be suspended upoh payment of $50
and costs Tew filed notice of appeal
to superior court. Bond was set at
$100.
John F. McKenzie, young soldier
from Fort Bragg, was ordered held
for Army police in the same case on
similar charges.
Albert Jones indicted for operating
car with improper brakes paid court
any one had (dven any official at-ippsts; Clarence C. Phillips, truck op
tention to the commissioner’s office. erator, paid costs and damage for
In an annwncement published in careless and reckless driving and
this issue of the News-Journal N. H. damage to property. Arnold’ Roose-
G. Balfour, chairman, A. K. Stevens, drew a 60 day sentence for vio-
W. L. Gibson, E. R. Pickier, and Hec-1 jatjon of the liquor lawg, the sen
ior McNeill, who compose the present Ugnce was suspended on good be-
board, announce for re-election sub- Savior for 12 months,
ject teethe Democratic primary. I
Jo E.'McMillan
Dies Afl^pme
In Alabama
u A 1 ic Afh Mrs. Edgar Hall was notified Mon-
^^leigh, April j day of the death of her brotixer, Jo
was today d^ignated as Ww^nd j j^cMillan, formerly of near Park-
Week by Governor J. MeMUe _ ^
Broughton whd issued a proclamation McMiUan was the son of the
. calling upon all citizens of the Stote I ^ 'j> ^nd Anne Murphy McMil-
. to sign voluntary pledges during that
, period" to set aside a portion of their
income
1 war savings bonds Md stamps. 1 where he has ope-
rfjt The campaign will be conducted! ^ ^ turpentine and naval stores
Hhroughout the State under the di- L,
rection of the Defense Savings Staff*
of the United States Treasury, of
• which Charles H. Robertson of
Miss- Lloyd Tapp, reached. .Raeford
Tuesday. Full details of his death
could not be learned as members of
the Tapp family had left for the
Stinchcomb home in Black Mountain.
Mr. Stinchcomb was seriously injured
in a fall in Black Mountain and was
taken to Mission Hospital in Ashe
ville where he died. Mrs. Crawford
Wright, Mrs. Helton and Mr. Arch
Tapp, sisters and brother of Mrs.
Stinchcomb left at once for Black
Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tapp
left Wednesday to attend the funeral.
This news was a shock to Mrs.
Stinchedmb’s many friends. She had
very reechtly visited her family in
Raeford and the community.
A more detailed account of this
will appear in the News-Journal next
week.
Tire Thieves
Almost!
Miss Lizzie Niven was distuiiied by
a noise about ten o’clock last Friday
night, and when she went to invetsi-
gfite, she found that someone was
trying to steal the tires from her car
which was in the garage. She shot
twice at the two thieves and they
got away—without the tires. Later
in the night, one of them was caught.
He was a sergeant from Fort Bragg.
Lt. Gibson, of the Military Ptdice in
Fort Bragg is investigating the case.
died in the hospital at 2.-o’clock
Monday morning without regaining
consciousness.
Funeral services were held in the
Baptist church at Wingate Tuesday
afternoon. The pastor of the cl^urch
was assisted by several former pas
tors of the couple. Interment was in
the Wingate cemetery. The bodies
were laid side by side in the same
grave.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams were the
parents of one of Raeford’s most pop
ular young women, Mrs. Colon Scar
borough. Mrs. Williams had been
quite sick during the past winter and
Mrs. Scarborough had spent several
weeks with her. But she had entirely
recovered and was in good health.
The news of this tragic accident
which was phoned to the Scarbor
ough’s Sunday ni^t shocked the «i-
tire commimity.
Bfcs. Tommy Updiurdi, Mrs. Louis
Upchurch, Mrs. I. Mann, Bfrs. Paul
Dezeme, Mrs. Julian Blue, and Mrs.
Alfred Cole spent Monday in Monroe
witii Mrs. Scarborough.
Those going to Wingate for the
funeral Tuesday were: Rev. and Mrs.
E. C. Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Upchurch and Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth MacDonaW.
MUs Flora Boyce
Kiwanis Speaker;
Plan A. & R. Trip
Members of the Raeford Kiwanis
club and their wives expect to par
ticipate in a district rally to be held
at Breece’s Landing at Fayetteville
Friday evening. Members expect to
travel to Fayetteville by motor coach
over the Aberdeen and Rockfish rail
way.
Kiwanian Paul Dezeme, agent for
the railroad, is making arrangements
for a special trip of the coach to
carry the local delegation. Members
from Sanatorium will be picked up
there and others will join the party
he^e. Exact hours for departiure and
return are to be announced.
Miss Flora Boyce, for twenty years
a teacher of children of missionairies
in Japan and China, was the speaker
at the club meeting last week. Miss
Boyce spoke of the vast difference be
tween these peopls who to the cas
ual sightseer seem so much alike.
The speaker told of the treatment
received by the Koreans at the hands
of the Japs after their country had
been taken over. She stated that the
Koreans had been driven off of their
more productive lands and that when
she was last in that country, fully
seventy-five per cent of the good
lands had been taken over by the
Japs. This, she said, would be true
of any land which they subdued.
The Japanese have been taught.
Miss Boyce said, that there is no sin
except against the state. Their em
peror, said to be descended from the
Sun God, was considered holy and
through him the national government
was all powerful and could do no
wrong.
Miss Boyce stated that in most of
the islands of the Pacific the mer
chants were Chinese. These merch-
ants.'she added, w'ere the ones who
had contributed so much to the war
fund which had kept the armies of
Chiang Kai Shek in the field against
the Japs. Now, she concluded, the
Japs have conquered most all of
these islands and this great flow of
money to Chiang has been, stopped.
To replace this money, she said,
America and Britain will have to
supply more funds to the Chinese
war fund.
Grays Win From
Scranton, 4-3,
Wednesday
Subscriptions paid now wiB be
placed 13rear from THIS MONTH re
gardless at how fur hehind you are.
Gdi^rnor Designates
jMay 4th-9th As
' Win* Bond Week
j Ian of the Parkton section and has
to set asiae a portion oi meir J relatives in that community. He
for the regular purchase of 1 ^ resident of Alabahria for
Wilson McBryde
(Greensboro is slate administrator. I a . Honolulu
Jdlian Price of Greoisboro is state >
chairman of the campaign.
Plans for pledge-signing, which
will
Madison Wilson McBryde, son of
last Tuesday.
newspapers and the war
Th. American newspaper b having its problems incident to
.he war ^ it is a problem'^hat threatens to become mereasmgly
Donas
City JonnX have annouraed “iikuS'S" seS£
wffi rb^p^Snately even greater than
“'“^.^'n^mptaSes the wartime problenw tbat^ facing
.11 oIwsMMi^e fiite of The JonmaV declares The Kans^
fntv SUr to commenting on the announcement of its (mmpebtors
dSinttoiScHf pnblfcaUoB, “unhai^ is a ayapt””;
difficulties that increasingly confront all newspapers m the
gencf rSg S and lowe,^ revenues that necessarily attend
The factors of lower revenues and lising costs were in ^e lap
of the. publishers of American newspapers pnor to the outbreak
°^^^uls^now only being intensified as important sources of ad
vertising revenues are being closed up because of war conditions
and vet others are in prospect. . , a_ t
And while this is happening at one end of the industry of
newspaper publishing, rising costs at the other end are only
accentuating the difficulties which many of these papers are fac
ing in keeping their heads above water.
Important annual meetings of publishers and editors of the
nation are soon to come along and these new aggravations of sorely
besetting old problems will engage the thought of the leading
brains of the industry to conceive of some plan of economy oy
which to combat the double-barrelled attack that con^tioru are
making upon the business of newspaper publishing.—The Char
lotte Observer.
The Williamsport Grays came from
behind Wednesday to win again from
Scranton, 4 to 3. They won 6 to 2 at
Bennettsville Monday. Tommy Neill
did the trick with a smashing two-
bagger to left center in the ninth in
ning, scoring HaQ, who had reached
first base on Wortman’s error, and
Curry, who singled. Two nm were
out.
The Miners scored all of their runs
in the opening roond. OordeR was
ineffective in that inning, yielding
four hits which, with NeilTs muff of
a long" fly to left center, chased Cul
berson, Nieman and 21ipay across the
rubber. Cordell then settled down
to business. He yielded two hits ih
the second and two more in the fliird,
but the punch necessary to score was
not forthcoming. Twyhle gave a base
on balls and hit one batter (Car-
nevalel in his five inning tenure on
the mound but he gave up no hits.
He fanned Kluk twice.
The Grays got their first run on a
base on balls, «n error by Wortman
and Hall’s single to center. They
went scoreless until the ei^tk whcB
Dorish passed Neill and Kolberg and
McCarthy scored Neill with a single
to right.
The climax came with dramatic
suddenness. It looked like a lost
cause in the ninth, when Wturtman
threw Mustaikis out at first base and
Twyhle fanned. Then Wortman bob-
bled, Curry singled and NeiU doubled
into deep center. Catcher IBeGah
suffered a split finger in the fourth
inning from a foul tip and will be out
of the game for several days. Mus
taikis covered acres in left field and
made two hair-raising catches. Twy-
ble fielded his position nicely collab
orating with Kolberg to make three
nice plays at first base. The Miners
made three double plays.
Wflliamsport Team
Shaping Up Fine,
Says Abb^
The Williamsport Grays will break
training and leave Raeford Friday
morning of next week for Fort Lee,
Va., to play a game with a soldiers'
team made up chiefly of former ma
jor league baseball stars. After an
all-night stop in Richmond, they will
go on to Wilmington, Del., for the
final game of the training season
Sunday." BYom Wilmington they will
go direct to Williamsport, where they
will open the 1942 Eastern League
season Wednesday, the 29th, with the
Elmira Pioneers as their opponents.
“Aided by fine weather the team
has been shaping us very nicely,”
Manager Spencer Abbott said yester
day, “and, with the additional play
ers expected, we’ll surely have a first
division team. We have a complete
pitching staff—the best in the league,
I think. Bill Peterman, a catcher
acquired from the Phillies in the deal
for Ran Northey, will join us at Wil
mington, and share the season's
backstop duties with Gus Hixson, -who
was bought from the Cleveland organ
ization. It is expected the Grays will
go into the league season cwnplete
and formidable. The men are in good
condition, with very little muscle
soreness, and aU are rarin’ to go.”
The squad as made up at present
consists of Alex Mutaikis, John Cor
dell, Sam Zoldak, Nate Pelter, Carl
Twyble, Art Jones and Harry Petty.
The latter joined the squad Saturday
night. All are pitchers. Orie Amt-
zen, another pitcher, has been de
tained at his home in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, owing to the illness of his wife,
who underwent a major operation
and is still quite ill. The catchers,
as previously stated, are Hiocson and
Peterman; infielders — Irv Kolberg.
first base; Don Curry, second base
and captain: Emil Skoloda, shortstop;
Irv Hall, third base; Tommy Neill,
center field, and Bill McCarthy, right
field. Russell Goodrich, a rookie
from near Williamsport, succumbed
to an acute afack of homesickness
and left for home last Friday^trt^t;
Cordell is filling the left field posi
tion ve^ accentably.
The cS-ays will go to Charleston.
S. C., for a night game Friday of
next week and a Sunday contest, and
to umter, S. C., for a Monday^game.
Local fans will have their final op
portunity to see them play at Rae
ford park on Wednesday, the 22nd.
After the game at Bennettsville with
Scranton on the 23rd the Grays wifl
head for Willipmsport.
April 17tli Victory
Book Day
In his fnress conferenee qp Tues
day President Roosevelt named Fri
day. AprO 17th, as VictoiT Book
Day. The . Presidnt, at tli^ time,
win ask AmericKis evexyurttere to
contribute as many good books as
they can spare to the men in tte arm
ed forces, the soldiers, sailars, and
marines at home and overseas who,
while fighting and training to fight,
still have time to read, and an>re-
ciate a good book.
The local depots in all cases are
the local libraries, and in case you
wish any further information, the li
brarian nearest you can h^p you.
Your invaluable support will be ap
preciated many times over by our
fighting men in all parts of the world
who, in lonely hours greet a good
book as a precious friend.
Lts. Lament And
Dickton Called Back
Into Active Service
Lts. William Lamont, Jr., and G.
Graham Dickson, of the 251hid Coast
Artillery, have been called back into
service.
Lt. Lamont is to report to Fort
Moultrie, S. C., and Lt. Dickson to
San Diego, Calif. Mrs. Dickson and
children plan for the present to live
with Mrs. Dickson’s parents, Mr. ant
Mrs. Will Lamont. They will sub
rent their present home completely
furnished.
Scranton Plays
Camp Suttem At
Red Siurings.
The Scranton “Miners” ol flw ]
em League will play Camp SoMoa at
the new Robbins Park at Red 5tpH»>g|«
Sunday afternoon, April 19th, at SdM
p. m., according to Tom Copa parte
manager.
The Sutton team will be eompoaed
of former major and minor league
stars now in the traning camp at
Monroe,
Approximately 2,000 fans witpesa-
ed the Scranttm-Greenrtifliqi^ 'ml at
Robbins park when Grrenmniro edged
out the Miners 12 to 11 ^ a dug«
ging affair during whirti 8 hits went
over the fence.
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