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HOKE COUNTY’S BEST ADVERTISING ]pa>IUM The News-Journal The Hoke County News The Hoke County JounuJ BAEFOBD, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1942 12^ PER YEAR ^Large Group Is Inducted From H(d(e County Jesse Niven Gulkdge, a voluntwr, aiild 30 drfatees were inducted into the Army Monday from Hoke Coun ty. The men were given a farewell breakfast at the Service Club and then departed for Fort Bragg. ■Riree volunteers enlisting In the U. S. Navy during the past few days were reported by the Hoke County Selective Service board. They are: Percy Cleveland Howell, John Persh ing Averitt and John Watson McNeill. Jr. Of the men sent for induction at Fort Bragg Monday were several who were turned down for physical dis abilities. The others in the group sent were. n Roland Barnard Sanders^ Whilam Roosevelt Strickland, Joe Murphy Lindsay, William Robert Koonce, An gus Hubert McKenzie, Jack Pittmdn, John Calton Gibson, Thomas Douglas .McPhaul, Jesse Niven Gulledge (vol- ^unteered), Robert Harrell, John Wil lie Locklear, Wilbert Paul Barefoot, Madison McDougald Shaw, Paul Hrown Davis, Elisha Priest, Leo Mar shall Chavis. Max Bethune Maultsby, Jack A. Lee, Floyd Johnson, Clar ence Bethune’ McBryde, Charles Lee Cothran, Martin Turner Cameron, Phliip Roberts Johnson, Clayton Gore, Hugh Alexander Currie, Evelop.Hen derson, William Carlyle Aired, John Alex Wilkes: The local board will send a group o'f Negroes to Bragg for induction on August 22nd, it was stated yesterday. > — War Employment Service Plan \ Jn Operation ^ g ^ ^ Directions for putting into opera tion the wartime plan of the United States Employment Service, as di- Tected by the War Manpower Com- tntssion and Director John J. Cor- ;son, of the Service, have hew re ceived in the Fayetteville Eniploy- . ment Office, from Mrs. Gertrude K. Clinton, dir^tor for North Carolina, the manager, Mrs. Mable C. Sikes, fannounces. The wartime plan of service for all offices in the nation provides that foyr essential activities are to be per formed by the local office staffs, ' including (1) serving essential war industries, (2) farm placement pro ram, (3) occupational inventory, and (4) claims taking activities. Essential activities, those which the local offices may now serve, Mrs. Sikes explains, are defined as (1) establishments holding war contracts, (2) establishments holding subcon tracts for war contractors, (3) estab lishments providing equipment and supplies for war contractors or their subcontractors. (4) all phases of agri culture, and (5) essential civilian ac tivities, such as public utilities, trans portation, hospitals, etc. Under this plan, a priority is now established in labor and local em ployment offices are directed to pro vide essential workers for employers on the basis of their priority. Three Defendants Convicted in County Court J. Gore, charged with public drunk enness, Harvey McDuffie, indicted for speeding 'and Julian MdKeithan, booked for operating a taxi without a chauffeur’s license, were each given suspended sentences in coxmty comt Tuesday. They paid the costs in each case and were released. Kiwanis Dinner For Officers Enjoyable Affair One of the most delightful social affairs of recent weeks was the din ner given Thursday evening by the Raeford Kiwanis Club at which the Army officers and their wives and children who reside in Raeford were guests. Approximately 175 attended the dinner which was given at the Armory. Am evening of impromptu ;and in formal entertainment was thoroughly enjoyed. Tommy Upchurch, Dr. Marcus Smith and H. L. Gatlin, Jr., acted as masters of ceremonies duT' ing various features of the evening’s program, the high light of which was the presentation of a miniature fry ing pan with asbestos lining (to keep the eggs from burning, to Capt. and Mrs. Banks, newlyweds who arrived here the day before the party. The Banks were also presented with a cookbook, an almanac and an elec tric toaster. Fried chicken with all the trim mings was served. This colunm will be devoted to the activities of the Sed Cross chapter of^Hoke connty. Rev. E. C. Crawford is director of the pab- liclty for the chapter and will pre pare the copy each week. To get news of your conimnnity Red Cross woi^ in this, column send your ma terial to Rev. Mr. Crawford. Six From Fort Bragg To Join Grid Teams Fort Bragg, Aug. 13—In spite of warm weather football became on of the chief topics of conversation at Fort Bragg today when it was an nounced that five officers and one enlisted man have been selected for the Army football teams to be coached by Major Robert R. Neyland, former University of Tennessee mentor, and Major Wallace Wade, former Duke University coach. Leaving today for training under Major Neyland at Yale University were 1st Lt. James L. Bruhl, former Colorado State line star; 1st Lt. Wil liam Carey Cox, Alabama backfield ace; 2nd Lt. William B. Robinson, former University of Florida player, and Pvt. Frank J. Clair, end at Ohio State who poined the Washington Redskins after his college days. Repiorting to Major Wade at Camp Cook, Cal., from Fort Bragg will be 2nd Lt. Robert J. Peters, Jr., halfback on last year’s Princeton grid team, and "2nd Lt. Norman J. Williamson, who starred at Minnesota. Raeford CitizeiK Urged to List Rents With Area Director HECTOR McNEOX’S PICTURE ARRIVES General J, T, Kenedy Returns to Fort Bragg Fort Bragg, August 13—Brigadier General John T. Kenendy, command ing general of Fort Bragg, returned, to his desk at this largest of Army posts today after being in Washington about a month as a member of the Military Commission appointed by President Roosevelt to try eight al leged Nazi saboteims. General Kennel^ declined comment on the trial and'm the Commission’s decision, which was handed -to the President. TO SEEL BONDS AAA Conservation Materials Available Conservation materials—lime, su perphosphate and winter legume crop seed—now are available to North Carolina farmers from the AAA. ac cording to G. T. Scott, chairman of th& State AAA Committee, with bea^ quarters at State College. All these materials may be pur chased from the AAA without an out lay of cash. Scott said. They are distributed as grant-of-aid materials and costs are deducted from any soil conservation payments due the farmer at the clbse of the program year. Crimson clover seed, he said, may be ordered now for fall delivery, at a cost of 12 1-2 cents per pound, de livered to the county AAA. office or to seed dealers handling sales for the AAA. Hairy vetch and Austrian wniter peas will be available at a later date, he said. • Due to difficulties in obtaining ma terials by suppliers, it is unlikely that 20 per cent superphosphate will be offered this year, Scott said. Nine teen per cent superphosphate will be sold to farmers in 17 counties^in West ern North Carolina at $16.72 per ton, and will be available to other coun ties at $14.25 per ton. This differ ential, he said, is due to freight costs. Prices of ground limestone range from $1.)4 to $2.90 per ton, depending on freight costs, but this rate does not include delivery to individual farms. Costs of these materials in each coun ty may be obtained at the coimty AAA office. Frank Tyler Is Jailed in Auto Death Case Frank Tyler, Fayetteville Negro Raleigh, August 10—Franklin S. Clark, Area Rent DirectAr, this week’ urged citizens in the Raeford area, renting property to list their property with the area rent office without delay. Registration of rental property in the Fayetteville area has slacked off, the Area Rent Official said. All rental property must be regis tered in Cumberland and Hoke Coun ties by August 20. Commercial prop erty is exempted. Hotels, rooming houses and boarding houses register after August 20. Commencing on July 20, there was a lively registration as large property owners and active agents filed hun dreds of statements in bulk. But smaller owners, renting perhaps one or two pieces of property, or even one room or two, have not yet registered. Clark said thalt persons who failed to register will be liable to the pen alties under the rent control regu lation. He said he believed the citizens of Hoke county would cooperate to the fullest and list their property at once. Unless they do so, there might be a big last minute rush, he said. Forms may be obtained in Hoke County from Mrs. Poole, Building and Loan, and the Rationing Office, Rae ford and the News-Journal. The forms should be returned to the distribution center from which they are obtained, or to the area rent office, 155 Bow St., Fayetteville. Carolina Power Employes 100% Bond Purchasers Raliegh, Aug. 13—Every employee having volunteered regularly to pur chase U. S. War Bonds on the pay Word has just been received from the 10th Naval District at San Juan. Puerto Rico that Pvt. Hector McNeill of Raeford, N. C., is a member of an American Army Air Force Fight- er Command Base in the Caribbean Area. This item was accompanied by a splendid photograph of Pvt. Mc Neill and two other members of the gun crew alertly guarding a hidden air base. It will not be possible to publish the photograph but Pvt. Mc Neill’s many friends in Hoke County c^n see this picture in the News- Journal office. Wheat Substituted For War Crops Farmers may now plant war crops such as soybeans and peanuts in place of wheat for 1943 without af fecting their 1944 wheat allotment, say A. S. Knowles, county agent. Many farmers have indicated they would plant less wheat this fall and increase their peanut and soybean ac reage if they were assured their wheat acreage allotment would not be af fected the following year. A policy of permitting substitutions of plant ing war crops, such as peanuts and soybeans, for wheat in 9431 has been adopted by the AAA. formerly of:,ne» Rarford, is ia4ML ;^_de4uction.. plan, the Carolina » Raeford Building and Loan As- > sociation have been qualified to sell Defense Bonds. This was passed on at a directors’ meeting Tuesday aft- ' ernoon, August 11. Army Salvaging Grease and Fats Fort Bragg, Aug. 13—^When a Fort Bragg mess sergeant is through pre paring a meal there may be a sub stantial amount of left-overs, but it definitely isn’t waste these days.. The need of glycerine for high Ex plosives and glue for war construc tion work has emphasized the im portance of fully utilizing all sources of these materials. Quartermaster salvage officials at this largest of Army posts have or dered all grease, bones and meat scraps from which glycerine and glue can be extracted saved in special containers. Even sinks are fitted with grease “interceptors.” Cancellations to Be Effective Ne^t Week f Notice is hereby given that stib- , ^Fibers who have not paid their sub scriptions up to June 1, 1942, will NOT receive the NEWS-JOURNAL titext week. Our subscription rules require th%t they be paid in advance, but we have been carrying a num ber of folks along expecting them to come In and pay or mail their renewal checks. So, should you not receive a paper next week, it will be be cause our records show that your subscription expired prior to June 1, here awaiting trial in Superior Court on murder charges growing out of an accident which resulted in the dea& of Daisy Smith, Fayetteville Ne^o woman. _ The accident occurred near Rock- fish Sunday, August 2nd, when the car, driven by Tyler, overturned and the Smith woman was badly hurt. She died in a Fayetteville hospital the following Tuesday. Members of her family turned the body over to a Fayetteville undertaker while some of her Hoke County relatives sought to have the body brought here for internment. In seeking information concerning their difficuldies the Hoke members of the family came to Raeford to see Sheriff Hodgin. When details of the accident were explained, none of which had been reported to any of ficers of Hoke County, Sheriff Hod- gin had a warrant drawn for Tyler. Tyler was found in Raeford and jailed. Patrolman J. Barnes, Sheriff Hodgin and Deputy J. C. Wright in vestigated the accident further. At the hearing before Judge W. B. Mc Queen Tuesday they presented evi dence to show that Tyler had been drinking before he left Fayetteville, for Rockfish. Judge McQueen found probable cause and bound him over to court under bond of $1,000. Requirements Naval Women’s Reserve Are Issued . REVIVAL SERVICES There will be a series of Revival Services held each evening, August 16 to 22, at 8:30 o’clock in the Rae ford Methodist Church. These serv ices will be under the direction of the pastor. Rev. E. C. Crawford, who will be assisted by Milford V. Thiimm of the Duke Divinity School. The people of Raeford are all cor dially invited to attend and to par ticipate in these services. Red Cross to Train Men at Fort Bragg Fort Bragg, Aug. 12—American Red Cross Field Director candidates for the Eastern area will receive their field training at Fort Bragg, it was announced today by John A. Butler, field director for Fort Bragg. Homer Kidd, of the American Red Cross, Washington, will be instruc tor for the two-week course, the first of which opened this week. Candidates first will receive an ori entation course in Washington. Then they will be sent to this largest of Army posts for a “breaking in” per iod before being assigned to Army posts and camps throughout the East ern area. At least five men will be assigned each two weeks, according A) the present schedule. VISITING IN MOUNTAINS Miss Mary Grey Helton is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Howard E. Stinchcomb in Black Moimtain. Po\frer & Light Company today be came one of the first large organiza tions in this area to reach the goal of 100 per cent employee participa tion in bond buying on a systematic bsais. While the utility’s personnel numbering 1283 is scattered over a large territory embracing 288 com munities, the company’s “Fight for Freedom” volunteer campaign swept to completion in only 16 days to establish a record for prompt response from an employee group of such size. According to Hugh G. Isley, gen eral sales manager of the company, who served as chairman of the gen eral steering committee of the cam paign, each of the organization’s six geographical divisions reported a per fect score of 100 per cent as follows: Western Division with 200 employees, general office division with 161 em- 140 employes, Raleigh Division with 282 employes. Southern Division with 172 employees and the Central Di vision with 328 employees. In commenting ujpon the speedy success of the bond selling drive, Mr. Isley stated, “It is gratifying to know that each and every employee of our company saw fit to voluntarily sub scribe,^ to the purchase of War Bonds on th’e pay roll deduction plan which our company was happy to make available. \^ile the campaign was staged in the midst of our vacation season, each divisional committee was able to report ioo per cent partici pation. Figures are not now avail able to show the total purchases dur ing our ‘Fight for Freedom’ campaign, but it is evident that the collective purchases of our 1283 employes will reach a substantial sum.” “Many of our employees and mem bers of their families have previously purchased War Bonds and Stamps, and a large number will likely con tinue to supplement ther ipay roll deduction commitments by additional buyii^ of th^ securities. Besides individual employee purchases,” Isley stated, “our Capolite Credit Union, a strictly employee owned organization, recently voted to invest several thou sand dollars of surplus funds in War Bonds ■ CIRCLES TO MEET The Circles of the Society of Chris tian Service will meet Monday, Aug ustl7, at 4:00 o'clock at the Church. TThe Omega Clegg Circle of the 1942 and your name has been re- Methodist Church will meet Monday movW from our mailing list. night, August 17, at 9d)0 at tb4 church. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 13—^Miss Mildred Laurence McFall of Atlanta, who has been selected for a commis sion as a lieutenant in the women’s reserve of the United States Naval Reserve, has arrived in Charleston to assist in the procurement of women officers and enlisted personnel in the Sixth Naval District. The district is composed of South Carolina, Georgia, a portion of North- ■qrn Florida and most of North Carolina. A total of 15 officers and 60 mid shipmen will be signed up soon in the Sixth Naval District, she said. The officers will be indoctrinated at Cornell University. The midship, en rolled as V-9 class, will receive train ing at Sn^ith College, leading to commissioning a^ officers. Approx imately 600 enlisted women will be recruited in the district after the officer training program gets under way. Miss McFall said that many re quests for information about the women’s reserve, and many applica tions, already had been received. She stressed the fact that women wishing to apply for commissions or for en listment should ont visit or telephone a naval procurement or recruiting office. The correct procedure, she said, is for women who wish to apply for commissions to write to the naval officer procurement headquarters for the Sixth District at Charleston, stat ing their age, marital status, age of children and educational background. If the qualifications seem to meet requirements, applicants then will be sent application blanks. Requirements follow: For probationary commissions—^Be a female citizen of the United States Am RAID WARNINGS FOB RAEFORD WARNING SIGNAL—A mtIm of repeated ihort blasti OB the ire siren. This will be Rio wamtaif for an aot^ raid or for a praetlw alert. U at night It means an in stant and complete blackont ALL-CLEAB SIGNAL — One long blast of Ute sirai. Special Price on Subscriptions To Solders $1 Subscriptions sent to boys at camp at bases effective today are $1 per year. The former price of SOc was a tentative one and the high costs of changes of address makes such an offer prohibitive any longer. Subwription price, $2 a year. PRESSURE COOKERS RECEIVED Josephine Hall, home agent, wishes to announce that she has just received two new pressure cookers which are available to people in the county wishing to use them for canning. not less than 21 and under 50 years of age. If unmarried, agree not to marry prior to completion of indoc trination and training. If married, have no children under 18. Be of good repute in community. Be physi cally fit. Possess a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university or, in lieu of degree, have completed two years of college and two years in certain specified profes sional or business fields. Meets re quired standards in aptitude test. For V-9 midshipmen—Be a female citizen of the United States not less than 20 and under 30. Be physically fit. Posses a college degree or have completed two years of college. Have no ^il^en. Be of good repute in community. If unmarried agree not to marry prior to completion of mid shipmen training. Meet required standards in aptitude test. For enlisted personnel (V-10 class) —Be a female citizen of the United States not less than 20 and under 36. Have no children under 18. Be of good repute in the community. Be physically fit. Be a high school grad uate or have taken courses at a busi ness school and have additional busi ness experience to be the equivalent of a high school educa,tion.. Submit evidence of occupation since gradua tion from high sdiool. Be able to demonstrate sufficient aptitude and ability in the use of a typewriter to qualify for clerical and communica tions work. POOLE’S MEDLEY By D. SCOTT POOLI^^ Before the United States went into World War I. the British govern ment borrowed several bfllion dollars from our government So did the French. And after our government refused to extend further credit the British went on Wall Street and bor rowed nearly as much more from New York banks. None of this been paid, principal nor interest, if I am correctly informed. British newspapers are saying no American is capable of being “G«i- eralissimo” of the Allied forces, that Americans are not experienced in wars. It seems Americans are exper ienced in every department of war except retreating. For two years or more, the En tente Allies attacked the lUndenburg Line with their combined forces, to meet as many repulses as they made assaults. On the 18th day of March, 1918, the Germans came over the top, and smashed the Allies across Eurpoe to within sight of the Eng lish Channel, where the American Rainbow Division stepped in and stopped them, and in an offensive bat tle drove the Germans back, turning the tide of battle. This occurred in June, 1918. In the course of a few months, on the 29th day of September, 1918, the Allies, including the A."* E F., assaulted and broke the invincible Hindenburg Line. Judging from the time of day they arrived, the 30th Division, composed of N. C., S. C. and Tenn. troops, broke the Hinden burg, impregnable Line, capturing al most as many Germans as they had soldiers in that battle. The Armistice followed. The Ger mans were prudent and did not want their country to suffer as had France and Belgium, and President Wilson had a large part in the peace treaty which followed. Under our “Lend-Lease” Acts passed by Congress, the United States has furnished billirms in modem equipment of war supfdies, tanks, guns, aircraff' Besides, nunibers of American soldiers volimteered and have been m the actual fighting all the time since war started (they did teat in 1916) and now it seems the “step children.” The Axis powers had determined from the start to conquer England and the United States along with the balance of the world, making them “subject nations.” The Japs came over into China and took charge of affairs as if the Chinese had not been there at all. The Chinese re sisted, and are resisting still. But if you think for a minute the Axis powers have at this time nearly all the world wor^, except the Americas. We are going to have a hard time whipping those robbers, and we may be hungry and wear shabby cloth ing before this thing is over. The right to live as we choose, to wor ship God as our consciences dictate; to go and come when and where we please. Were the war to end today, it would be years and years to re pair the damages already done. It is no time for foolishness, and if the British are as sensible as they have heretofore been credited with being, they will not speak disparagingly of their only friends. I was acquainted with a good man in Montgomery who bought a mare before he was married, and he lived to be 86 years old, farmed all his life, and had two good horses when he died. He never bought but one; he sold some, and gave each of his three sons a horse apiece when they became 21. He raised a number, and swapped his horses when they got old for young ones in poor condition and fattened them up. A boy used to go to sdiool a few months in his coniingup days, get a start in the three R’s, then go two or three years to some academic school, go to college three years, get a diploma, and go out in the world an educated man. Now, neither they nor we know when a man is educated. To punish is one thing; to torture is another. Sticking ridi pine splin ters imder one’s fingmiails utd set ting the splinters on fire is torture; to tie a man’s legs and arms and then strap him to a post and have a big strong man take a rawhide whip from a trough of water, where it had soaked a week, and whip him across the eyes and face, beating him into insensibility and then ke^ oot beating, barely leaving life, is torture in the last degree. I believe it would be s^isible for a man to try to make it one less, instead of surrending and tyking Ger man or Jap punishment. The anese tortured doctors and nurwn when the Am^icans surrendered Qn- taan Peninsular in the most unfeel ing barbarous way. Yes, X would make toe enemies of toe United Stntsn one, two and three Inn.