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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XXXVIII. NO. 3.
CivOian Protection
Discussed by Rose
At County ^ily
County Committeemen Report
On County Set-Up; All Phases
Discussed.
Ralph Townsend,
^ent Of Japs,
Pleads Guilty
Washington, June 12. — Ralph
Townsend, 42, Lake Geneva, Wis.,
writer, who pleaded guilty to Eed-
eral charges of failing to register as
an agent of the Japanese government,
was sentenced today to serve eight
months to two years in prison.
Townsend was indicted with David
Warren Ryder and Frederick Vin
cent Williams, San Francisco pub
heists, who were convicted of vio
lating the foreign agents registration
act and sentenced to 16 months to
four years each.
The government charged that the
three were “front mien” for the San
Francisco Japanese committee on
trade and information which it al
leged was a propaganda agency fi
nanced by the Japanese government
through its consulate general in San
lYancisco.
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough com
mented in passing sentence than
Townsend was guilty “morally as
well as technically” and that “there
is no doubt that Townsend was us
ing the right of freedom of speech
to mislead his own people by allow
ing his name to be used by represen
tatives of the government of Japan.
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The progress of the Civilian Pro
tection work in Hoke county was
reviewed and the state-wide plans
for the different C-P committees were
discussed at a county-wide rally held
here Friday night when representa
tives of every community of Hoke
county gathered for a patriotic rally
at the Hoke high school auditorium.
The large attendance and the time
liness of the questions proposed for
discussion showed how ^deeply the
general citizenry of the county was
concerned in the problems of pro-
tectionf and county leaders in the
movement were highly pleased with
the results of the meeting.
June H. Rose, county schools sup
erintendent of Greene county, and
eptwhile assistant director of the
sfete board for civilian protection,
was the principal speaker. Introduc
ed by Walker Morrison, district di
rector, Mr. Rose spoke briefly and
to the point on the part that the av'
erage citizen must play in the work
of this war.
He pointed out specifically that
there were three kinds of Ameri
cans: the known enemies, who must
be handled by the FBI and the
courts; those who love America but
are unwilling to make the sacri
fices demanded by the stress of the
times; and those who love America
and are willing to do their part.
We have talked too much, the
speaker said, about those privileges
’ guaranteed to us by our constitution,
but we Jmve not talked nor done
enough about our individual respon
sibilities to our goyernment,
A band concert bpenefi' the pro-
Jgram. Due to illhess ifcs. Bruce
.^ January was unable to be present, and
'Ti. D.* Huff, Jr., band member and
.litgh school student, directed the
group.
H. L. Gatlin, Jr., told of the Civ-
^an Protection organization in Hoke
county and discussed the general
prqgram now in effect in the coun-
District Director Walker Mor-
explained the work of the state
and district councils.
A telegram was read in which the
details of the Rubber Salvage Cam
paign were presented. It was voted
tp open this drive for scrap rubber
dk Hoke county on Monday, with all
/nUing stations as receiving agents for
small quantities, and with the local
;junk yard as purchaser for larger
amounts. - ‘
' To-mmie Upchurch, county director,
th'efi' took charge of the meeting and
•presented Dr. George W. Brown, who
reviewed the work of the Raeford
civilian protection activities up to
the present and of the plans for ex-
,tending these activities.
N. H. G. Balfour, chairman of the
board of commissioners, reported that
the county governing body had ap-
iropriated funds for protection work
id was backing the program in
very way possible.
Reports of the auto, tire, sugar
and gasoline rationing program in the
Piiunty were given by Ryan McBryde,
airman of the rationing board.
Lawrence McNeill, chairman of the
War Bond and Stamp sale committee
for the county, reported the excellent
cooperation which his committee had
-received during Bond Pledge Weeklgret exceedingly that they found it
-and of the response of the citizens necessary to break up housekeeping
of the county in purchasing bonds and give up their home in Raeford,
• and stamp^ During May they
'bought 250^]^r cent of quota, he
-stated, in purchasing $19,816 (cost
price not maturity value) worth of
bonds -and stamp^. For June Mr. Mc-
' Neill stated that the county quota was
■ $12;650 -and to date the purchase of
$4,390:85 worth of bonds and stamps
' had been reported.
Wnmer McDonald, chairman of
the USO drive, reported that over
half of the $700 qjaota of the county
h^ been subscribed.
■ i>r; R. L. 'Murray, chairman of the
Emergency medical committee, stated
that two casualty stations were be-
, ing etsablished and equipped. One
V is at the high school and the other
'! is at toe armory. These will be
.. equipp^ lidth first aid supplies to
emergency requirements of serious-
s^/^ly injured persons. Doctors and
1;^ Autses qre to be assi^ed for duty
^At each of these stations according
^ requirements.
^e training and assignment of air
raid wardens was discussed by Ce-
,cil Dew, chairman of this group. He
• pointed out that-Raeford was in the
r center of a triangle formed by lines
nnecting the three principal mili
lary areas at Southern Pines, Max-
jn and Fort Bragg, and that mili'
ALdxy authorities had often stated that
case of an enemy attack of this
area, Raeford would see some action
Mr. Dew also explained the opera
tions of the •airraid warnings net
Ralph Townsend grew up in Rae
ford. He was the son of R. W. Town
send and a brother of Miss Ruth
Townsend recently of Flora Mac
donald college, Mrs. Firestone (Kath
leen), Dallas and Landon Townsend.
All of this family had brilliant minds
and they were given the best in ed
ucation.
Ralph and tlraham Dickson kept
in touch with each other for many
years.
Nineteen Men
Inducted Thursday
Nineteen men were'' inducted into
the army- at rort Bragg Thursday:
from Hoke county. Several of these
had had no physical examination
prior to induction and it was stated
that at least five were rejected.
The group leaving here from the
Soldiers’ Genter included the follow
ing:
John William Culbreth, Herbert
Turner Cameron, Colon Spaine Sides,
Daniel Patrick Gibson, Edward
Brooks, Lloyd Edmond Ferguson,
Evander James Smith, Malcolm Mc
Arthur, Louis Vernon Bedard, Baskie
Locklear, Joseph Garland Johnson,
Lester Bvans McMinis, Joseph May-
nor, Ivey Hill Shankle, Heston Lonnie
Rose, Reedie Locklear, George Lee
Caddell, Charles McFadyen, Willie
Thomas.
Hoke N. Y. A.
Girls Off To
Monmouth, N. J.
Six young girls from Hoke coun
ty, all graduates of Hoke county high
school, 1942, with one exception, have
left for Monmouth, N. J., where they
have accepted positions with substan
tial remuneration.
These young girls were sent by
Mrs. Rena Woodhouse, Hoke NYA di
rector, to the Greenville resident cen
ter for industrial training. They all
took a course in radio which nor
mally takes three months. They
were needed so badly in the signal
corps at Monmouth that they were
offered these positions with toe xm
derstanding that their training could
continue, and though not finishing
the course they had completed 280
hours work, necessary for the Civil
Service examination. Those going to
New Jersey are: Evelyn Smith, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. David Smith of
Raeford; Edna Pearl Rose, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Will Rose of Rae
ford route 2; Eupha Shaw, daughter
of L. L. Shaw of the county, near
Lumber Bridge; Annie Mae Shaw,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Shaw:
Bettie Walters, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Walters and a niece of
David Smith (radio runs in ^e fam
ily); and Margaret Lyttle, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Lyttle. Rose
Lee English, another one of the Hoke
county girls in Greenville decided to
finish the course.
Jail Cromartie,
Hit-Run Driver,
Alter Five Years
Driver of Car Which Killed Tom
Sessoms Near Bockfish In Aug
ust, 1937, Caught in Cumber
land.
USO Entertainers
Enjo3dng Stay
In Raeford
Raymond Cromartie, colored man
formerly of Rockfish township, will
be given a preliminary hearing be
fore Judge W. B. McQueen next
Tuesday in a case for which indict
ment was brought nearly five years
ago.
Cromartie is charged with the hit-
and-run death of Thomas Sessoms,
white man of Rockfish which result
■ed from the collision of the Ses
soms and Cromartie cars about two
miles from Rockfish in the Raeford-
Rockfish road. The accident happen
ed in August of 1937.
Immediately after the accident
and before investigating officers ar
rived at the scene, it is charged, Cro
martie left the place and failed to
report the accident at anytime since.
Papers were issued for his arrest,
but it was not until last Wednesday
that he had been seen in the state.
Officers of Fayetteville, and Cum
berland cqunty had been asked to
keep on the watch for the man ever
since his family moved from Hoke
county to Fayetteville. Reports were
given the police departments there
last week that he had been seen at
his family’s home on Wednesday.
Officers there arrested him Saturday
and Sheriff David H. Hodgin brought
him to the county jail Monday.
Cromartie told the sheriff that he
had been living in Washington and
New York since the time of the ac
cident.
Two Hoke Men
On Program Of
Commissioners
The program for the 35th annual
convention of the State Association
of County Commissioners was an-
nunced this \veek by N. H. G. Bal
four, chairman of the state associa
tion.
Fred P. Johnson, executive secre
tary of the N. C. Ginners association
and Mr. Balfour are included in the
list of speakers who will appear di::'-
ing the three-day convention at Ash
eville July 6, 7 and 8.
Addresses on the opening day will
be made by State Senator John H.
Kerr, Jr., Maurice Hill and E. K
Butler. Mr. Butler is the county
manager of Robeson county.
Mr. Balfour will give the presi
dent’s address to the asociation on
toe morning of the second day and
will be master of ceremonies at toe
annual bapquet on the Langren roof
Tuesday evening when D. Hilden
Ramsey, manager of the AshevUle
Citizen-Times papers, wiU be the
principal speaker.
Mr. Johnson and Robert A. Martino
of the WPB will speak Wednesday
morning
Rev. and Mrs. W. C.
Brown Leave Raeford
Riev. H. K. Holland and Mrs. Hol
land drove Rev. W. C. Brown and
Miss Nettie Currie to Alexandria,
Va., last Friday. Mr. Brown is very
feeble and his family and friends
think that his stay with his son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. La-
mont Brown will be beneficial.
Mrs. Brown is in Statesville with
her daughter, Mrs. Robert Collier.
She is at present in Long’s hospital
where she underwent a major ope
ration last Thursday. The host of
friends of this diear couple are much
concerned over their health and re-
Some forty-two members of toe
“Hullabaloo Shows” who are play
ing at the USO entertainments at Ft.
Bragg are staying in Raeford this
week. The featured player of the
company is Dave Rubipofl, the violin
ist,', who is staying In Fayetteville.
Ru^^,.'ttiough, is living fte life,-!^
the player and hating to gb,
the rounds of the star, while, ac
cording to one member of the com
pany, the supporting cast is enjoy
ing toe quietness and peace of a
week in the small town.
While they are appearing each ev
ening at Fort Bragg, and have given
a matinee show or two in toe base
hospitals, their days have been spent
mostly on toe banks of Rockfish
creek, sunbathing for a while and
then cooling and swimming in the
“old swimmin’ hole.” Lunches are
prepared each morning and after the
morning sports they have a picnic
dinner, and only return to their
rooms in time to leave for the fort.
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Central Press Group
Hears Rubinoff In
Fayetteville Saturday
Bob Gray of the Fayetteville Ob
server, was host Saturday evening
to the members of the Central Press
association. A fine program was ar
ranged by Mr. Gray, with the meal
being served at toe USO club on
Person street. This is the largest USO
building in the United States. The
feature of the evening was several
selections played by Dave Rubin
off, the celebrated violinist.
Mr. and Mrs. Minor Davis attend
ed from Raeford.
Civilian Pilot Training
Begins At P. J. C.
Maxton, June 17.—Young men are
enrolling for civilian pilot training
at Presbyterian Junior college. Flight
training will begin about June 15to
Any young man between the ages of
17 and 26 who can pass a phsrsical
examination is eligible for this gov
ernment-sponsored flying course.
Educational requirements have been
waived and in their place a screen
ing test is provided. The civilian
pilot training program leads to work
as civilian flight instructors or to
cadetship in the air corps. Draft
deferment is allowed those taking the
course. Several places in the ele
mentary and secondary quotas are
stiU open to young men.
REA Complimented
Harry Slattery, REA administra-
or, has written the following to toe
local office:
“Our program has received a great
compliment. A number of strong
banking firms have started inquiries
indicating that they would like to
take over the Government’s invest
ment in several of our new distribu
tion cooperatives. This is a very
effective answer to toe opponents of
the program who in the beginning
used the cry of ‘economic unsound
ness’ and ‘subsidy’ to try to hamper
us.
“We feel that we should not now
recommend selling out these invest
ments. In the first place, fhet^ is
really a nice profit to the Recon
struction Finance corporation from
these loans, even at an interest rate
below 3 per cent. More important,
we do not admit that these systems
have reached the limit of toeir ex
pansion.”
Dr. Watson Fairley
Visits Raeford
People Behaving
Themselves - - - -
No Court Tuesday
Things are quiet on toe law en
forcement front. Tuesday morning
there was not a defendant in jail
awaiting trial nor was there but one
oiit on bond. He showed up in time
for trial, but toe complaining wit
nesses were reported to have fled
the county—so the judge nol pressed
the case from the court house steps.
Raeford Congregation
Hears R. R. Gandmon
Richard R. Gammon, student as
sistant pastor at Maxton, was guest
minister at the Pre^yterian chxirch
here Sunday morning. Mr. Gammon
is the son of a missionary in the
Brazil mission field and a student at
Union Theological Seminary.
work and filter centers.
Charlie Bayes showed moving pic
tures which pictured civilian activl
ties.
The meeting was closed by the as
sembly singing toe Star Spangled
Banner. Throughout the meeting the
applause and cheering was led by
Israel Mann.
Dr. Watson Fairley spent a day and
night in Raeford last week. He had
come down from the mountains to
look after his farm at Johns Station.
He was looking fine, was his usual
jovial self, and-was cordially greeted
by his many friends here. He is
now preaching at Valdese, which he
says is a model town’ where every
body works. The little town was
built by Waldensians who came frhm
Europe, and is a most interesting
place.
Bus Blaze Gets
Quick Attention
Of Fire Dept.
Gasoline from a leaking line
caught fire on a Queen City bus as it
rolled up to toe bus station here Mon
day morning. A quick-response from
the Raeford fire department saved
the bus from serious damage, though
wiring was badly burned. Another
bus came here from Fayetteville to
take up toe passengers and carry
them to Greensboro.
SUGAR NOTICE!
Local rationing board asks that
every person receiving a certificate
for over 50 pounds of sugar come to
the rationing board Tuesday, Wed
nesday and not later than Friday of
next week. Every merchant is asked
not to sell sugar to a person if the
certificate is as much as 50 pounds,
without an OK by a member of toe
board. Those failing to report will
be investigated by a Federal agent.
A Texas newspaper, which has
since ceased publication, started a
great hullabaloo last fall about what
is claimed was hoarding of copper
by REA. Later, some newspapers and
even a few army officers and Cong
ressmen, falsely accused REA of
wasting copper by coimtenancing toe
construction of “needless” lines “‘du
plicating existing facilities.” This has
been pretty well refuted by now.
More Hoke Girls To
Greenville This Week
Katherine McLean, Mary Lee Pet
erson, Ella Mae Wilkes and Louise
Gillis left for the Greenville
resident center this week for
industrial training. June Rose,
speaker at Hoke’s defense rally
Friday night, is sponsor of this center.
He is chairman of the state advis
ory committee on NYA. He says
that girls are fortunate to be certi
fied for this work as it is a fine op
portunity. It gives room, board,
medical attention and pays them
while they are being trained. It se
cures jobs for them and looks after
them after the jobs are accepted.
Raeford Stores To
Close Monday,
July 6th
All Raeford commercial houses and
merchants have subscribed to a pe
tition to close Monday, July 6th, as
their holiday instead of July 4th,
which is Saturday.
The stores will also close aa usual
at 12:30 on Wednesday afternoon of
that week.
Attending Summer
School At Wake Forest
V. R. WTiite, principal of Hoke
county high school, is attending siun-
mer aehool at Wake Forest. He is
working for his Master’s Degree.
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Boy Scout Camp
The Boy Scout Camp for toe
Scouts of toe western district of toe
Cape Fear Council will be (xmduct-
ed on toe “McKay Cabin Beach,”
on the Lumbee river 3 miles above
Wagram, Jime 29-July 3rd. Scouts
wishing to attend please report to
David Siles at once.
INSPECTION
Free and mandatory inspection of
tobacco on 49 flue^cured tobacco
markets in the South has been ap
proved in a special referendiun by
more than 70 per cent of the farmers
voting.
•(WANTED ! ! !
The civilian protection question
naires returned.
To properly compile information
contained in these questionnaires the
committee is very anxious that they
be filled out and turned in at once.
Please bring or send them to Miss
Mary Ann Currie at civilian defense
office or to Tonunie Uptourch by
Saturday of this week.
Route 15-A Has
Come To This!
A tourist bound from Florida to
New York stopped at a service station
here one day last week.
AK RAID WARNINGS FOB
RAEFORD
CONFECTION
• A candy made from sweet pota
toes and another from 3-day-old
bread were among the wartime ex
hibits at the annual convention of
the National Confectioners’ Associa
tion in New York,
WARNING SIGNAL—A scries
of repeated riiert blasto so Sieftre
siren. This will be the wsmtaig
for an sctaal raid or far a praetke
alert If at night tt meaiis an In
stant and oemplste blaAont
ALL-CLEAR SIGNAL — One
long bliurt ef the strat
Girls In Signal
Corps At Ft. Bragg
Get Uniforms
Fort Bragg, June 18.—Fort Bragg
is one Army post that won t have to
wait for the ladies of the Women 9
.Auxiliary Army Corps to see girls
uniform. They already have a
whole company of them—the signal
corps lassies who are largely respon
sible for the operation of the vast
netv,-ork of telephonic communica
tion lines serving this largest of
army posts.
These girls, of course, are not in
the army. But they are, definitely,
a part of it.
It all started about a 3rear ago
when Major Marlin Moody, post sig
nal officer, decided that girls would
be very useful as switchboard ope
rators. The signal soldiers then do
ing the job scoffed at the idea. Put
themselves on record as opposed to
having any “mere girl” take over
the jobs which for a number of years
had been handled by veteran signals
men of toe regular army.
Major Moody, however, wenV^
with his plan. At first there
no funds with which to hire girls.-
Major Moody obtained his first girls'
through the N. Y. A. office by offeging;,^
to teach them the telephone busmeiif* ■'
while they were working. After a
few months of to^. during which
many of the girls-’^iB9Hne quite ex--
pert, it became tpe^ijt^^;.to bring-
these young ladies iiAb^^^ilular Gov
ernment service "tfifdugh ‘Civil Ser
vice channels.
Thus Fort Bragg became toe first
army post to use girl operators in an
army owner telephone office. Other
posts had both exchanges and ope
rators furnished by commercial tele
phone compaoniies, but Fort Bragg led
the way in its own .government tele
phone system. Many other camps
and posts have followed this lead.
With regular Jobs, the girls ac
quired a new interest in their work.
Besides their regular switdiboard
and clerical work, they began to
learn simple maintenance of the in
tricate equipment that is a part of
every telephone system, until they
were able to make minor repairs on
their own, quickly.
One of the most arduous tasks
falling to their hands has been the
job of keeping the information files
accurate and up-to-date. During
her of telephones numbering 2,500.
1941 Fort Bragg increased its pop
ulation twenty times, with toe num-
In an Army post as diversified as this
one, changes are frequent. Ekitire
organizatiHis move in and out; offices
move from one building to another;
change is enstant. Yet in spite of
toe enormity of this job, the girls
who keep this record strai^t can
tell you toe newest nximber within
a matter of minutes after it has been
changed. “This,” said Major Moody,
“is really a tribute to their speed and
efficiencyi”
After a year on the job, toe girls
began to consider themselves a part
of the Army. They even began to
think about acquiring uniforms, in
order that they might present' an ap
pearance as military as their work.
The girls talked about it; they toou^t
about it; finally two of them did
something about it. Betty Larkins,
of Clinton, and Julia Baggett of
Whiteville took upon their slim
shoulders the job of getting them
selves, together with the more than
half a hundred others, into uniform.
They decided upon a uniform.
They didn't want an olive drab
suit: that would look just like the
WAAC’s. They didn’t want a grey
one, although most of the girls are
Southern; that would loc^ too much
like airline hostesses or the ‘Grey
Ladies" of the Red Cross. "nMy
didn't want navy blue, for fear that
they might infringe on the Army
Nurse Corps. So they diose light
blue.
This must have appealed to a ma
jority, for it was adopted almokt im
mediately; every girl agreed to buy
the necessary ancles of unif(xnn out
of her own pocket. As a result, trim
blue uniforms, cimsisting of blue
skirt, blue coat done in the military
style, and clean white shirt are seen
so frequently as to be almost com
monplace on this largest of Army
posst.
And the hard bitten army men
stiU on duty at the signal offire. who
once scoffed at the idea of girls clut
tering up any branch of toe army,
especially toe signal corps, have d^
elded that toe idea is not only iwae-
tical, but vwy ideasant
Raeford girls working in toe signal
office are; Ellen Currie, Marguerite
Stephens, Dorothy Currie, Janie Mc-
Br:^, and Lucille MtiNeiR.
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In his lifetime, a hiunan being
consumes a tremendous amount
food, it being estimated that in 19
years he eats 1400 tiroes hla
weight, or 200,000 pounds o(
tariaL
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