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VOLUME XXXVIII NO. 34
RAEFORD, N. C, THURSDAY, JAN. 20th. 1S44
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NEWS OF OUR
MENaarf WOMEN
IN UNIFORM
Wagram Native
Missing In Action
Mr. Hamp Nicholson, the former
Miss Gladys Walters, has been noti
fied that her husband, Sgt. Hamp
Nicholson, of the Army Air Corps,
has been missing in action in the
European theatre since Jan. 5. Sgt.
Nicholson is a native of Wagram.
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Warrant Officer George Bethune,
who has been spending a leave here
with his wife and child, left this
week for Davisville, R. I., to re
port for duty with a Naval con
struction battalion.
Charles Ray Lee, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde W. Lee, stationed at
the Naval training station at Great
Lakes, 111., is recuperating from an
attack of pneumonia, according to
word received tins week by his par
ents. Pvt. Johnnie Pate
Married To Miss
Padgette Jan. 16
Mrs. Johnnie Pate has arrived here
for a visit with the parents ot Pvt.
Pate, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pate. Mrs.
Pate is the former Miss Ethel Mae
Padfaette, daughter oi Mi", and Mrs.
Freeman L. Padgette of Vidalia, Ga.
The marriage took place in Savannah
on Sunday January 16lh.
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One Case Coes To
Jury In Superior
Court Term
Summcy Daniels, Bond Jumper,
Ones To Roads For Three Mos.;
Divorce Granted
Only one case wont to the jury
in a term of Superior C urt held here
this week by Judge Clawson L. Wil
liams. A divorce tif in which Anna
Green. Negress, si.otl her husband,
Archie Green was heard and a di
vorce was granted.
Ir. ;he only criminrl case scheduled
lor hiring F-i' Wright, negro,
plerr'ed guillv to arson charges
bnv ht by Henry ycDiarmid whose
b; was destroy'.', by fire. Judge-ir-nt
was v. ithheld by the court until
'.he April lenn.
Summey Dt:.V, convicted in the
April, 1943. .. u: t of assault with a
deadly wt..;- :i with intent to kill
Neill McLean. 1 oth negroes, was
sent to the ror's to serve a term of
nine months given in 1943. Daniels
sentence had L-jen stayed until Sept.
of 1943, a-.d just before he was to
report to serve the sentence he skip
ped the country. He was found re
cently living in Ohio. Officers there
arrested him and he was brought back
here by Sheriff D. Hodgin early
this month.
Eye Specialists
Find 125 Pupils
Need Glasses
Some 125 students of the Hoke
County schools need and will have
gl-sses fitted as the result of a series
of eye clinics held in the schools last
week, according to County superin
tendent K. A. MacDonnld.
Over five hundred examinations
were made by representatives of the
State Elind Commission and the Hoke
Welfare Dpriartments.
In a preliminary examination given
by the teachers earlier in ir.e year, an
children had their eyes tested and
those showing less than perfect vis
ion were given examinations at the
clinic. These examined at the clinic
will now have a fitting and receive a
prescription for their glasses, it was
stated.
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Mrs. Frank Lee
Dies At Stanley
Mrs. Frank W. Lee, of AlVmnrle,
died at her home there rn last Wed
nesday after an illness of five months.
Funeral services were attended by
her son Clyde W. Lee and Mrs. Lee
of Raeford.
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Mrs. C. W. Seate has returned
with her brother, Mr. Carey Holland,
who is critically ill at Rex Hospital,
Raleigh.
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Lt and Mrs. Matthew Matthews,
will move into the upstairs apartment
at H. L. Gatlin Jr., tomorrow.
Cotton Maid Opens Bond Drive
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' Lovely Llnwood Gisclard of Donaldsonville, La made her first
official appearance as the 1944 Maid of Cotton in Washington, where
.she was featured In the Inauguration of the Fourth War Bund Drive. ,
A senior at U S. U Miss Gisclard Is 19 years old, five feet eight inches
i tall, and weighs 124 pounds. She was selected Maid of Cotton frem a
I field ef 75 candidates, and within a few weeks will begin a tour of
1 principal American eitiea to assist in local War Bond campaigns and
! tell Americans the story of cotton's Importance to the war effort. The
contest, now In its sixth year. Is sponsored by the National Cotton
Council In behalf of the entire cotton industry.
China Missionary
Kiwanis Speaker
In Open Meet
The Rev. Hudson McMillan of
Wagram, Will Speak Here To
night In Kiwanis Hall
A meeting of the Kiwanis Club
open to all who wish to attend will
be held this eveninr? at 7:45 when
the Rev. Huds n McMillan, of Wag
ram, will be the speaker.
Dr. McMillan, who returned home
recently on the exchange ship, the
Gripsholm. was a missionary for the
Baptist Church in Cliona for a num
of years. He was interned at Shang
hai upon the Japanese occupation of
that city and held until the last ex
change of prisoners late in 1943.
President H. C. McLauchlin of the
club has extended most cordial in
vitation D all who wish to attend
this meeting. The usual supper will
be held at the Raeford hotel dining
room at 7'clock with Dr. McMillan
as guest. Following the supper the
club will adjourn to gather in the
Kiwanis hall.
On last week's program Seaman
Taylor, a native of Florence, S. C.
and steward on a merchant boat, made
a most interesting talk on the Eng
lish people, particular of the children
of the working peoples of that nation.
under wartime conditions. He ex
plained the severe food rationing
system and commented upon its mal
nutritive effects upon the children.
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Red Cross Workers
Attend Meet For
1944 Campaign
Mrs. H. A. Cameron, Mrs. J. C.
Thomas, Mrs. Jesse Gibson and Thorn,
as Cameron attended the district con
ference of Red Cross Chapter of-
ficials held in Fayetteville last Fri
day when plans for the 1944 War
Fund campaign were presentd by
regional officials.
About 100 persons representing
seven county chapters, three city units
and seven military installations at
tended the conference.
Most of the discussion were tech
nical, relating machinery for the sol
icitation of every citizen during the
drive which will be held in March.
RAfiMNOTES
In a recnt bulleten issued the loc
al ration board was advised that no
ac'ditknal fuel oil could be issued
except in the case of illness.
Stove purchase certificates on
Form R-901 have no expiration dale.
Those merrhants who gave job
bers advanced payments of points on
raisins (and possibly other merchan
dise removed from the ration lists)
that were not shipped before Dec
ember 13, 1943, may demand a check
for that amount of points advanced
to the jobber for the merchandise.
Beginning on February 1, the det
ermination of eligibility for tires will
be based upon occupational, rather
than mileage standards.
Dr. C. G. Vardell
To Preach Here
Dr. Charles G. Vardell, prcsident
e:neritus of Flora Macdonald College,
will preach at the Raeford Presby
terian Church on next Sunlay morn
ing, it was announced this week by
the Rev. Harry K. Holland, pastor
Dr. Vardell will preach on the
subject of "Women and the King-
com of God . This sermon is a very
forceful message and is being re
peated here by request. When orig
inally heard it created a great deal
cf comment and a great interest and
Dr. Vardell has had requests from
churches throughout Eastern Carolina
as a result.
Miss Mary Louise Woodson, dir
ector of Young Peoples work of the
State Synod, will speak to the Young
people's organizations at a special
service which will be held Sunday
afternoon at 5:30.
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First Citizens Bank
President Protests
Exchange Rule
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 A fed
eral reserve regulation forbidding
member banks to absorb exchange
charges 'it's just one more way
of saying private business should
cease," R. P. Holding, of Smithfield,
N. C, asserted today before a
house committee.
Holding, president of the First
Citizens Band and Trust company of
Smithfield, with 22 branches and
deposits aggregating some $60,000,
000 at the close of 1943, said the
new regulation "appears to be a
blow at the private banking system
and one calculated to lead to clea
ranee through the federal reserve
system."
He expressed belief that federal
reserve member banks had not
been injured to any extent by the
exchange absorption practice prior
to the issuance last fall of the reg
ulation against it.
Holding was questioned closely by
Rep. Crawford (R-Mich.) as to
wether passage by congress of a bill
to permit exchange absorption would
be fair to other North Carolina banks
which are members of the reserve
system or which clear checks on out-of-town
banks at par.
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J. Benton Thomas
Attending Cotton
Council Meet
J. Benton Thomas, Raeford gin
ncr and president cf the North Caro
lina Cotton Ginners Association, is
attending the annual sessions of the
National Cotton Council being held
at Memphis.
There will be a meeting of the
National Ginners Association during
the week to which Mr. Thomas la
also a delegate.
Before returning home Mr. Thomas
will visit his daughter and her hus
band, Lt and Mrs. Robert Foreman
in St Louis.
Alex Harris, Hoke
Farmer, Dies Of
Gas Tomorrow
Governor Refuses Reprieve For
Slaver Of Mrs. E. A. Bill And
Two Children
Alex Harris, 48, convicted in the
January, 1943 term of Superior
Court, of the murder of Mrs. E. A.
Bill is scheduled to die in the gas
chamber of State's prison tomorrow.
An appeal to Governor J. M. Brough
ton for a reprieve or commutation of
the sentence to life imprisonment
was denied Tuesday.
Since December when the Supreme
Court confirmed the verdict rendered
here a number of petitions have been
circulated in the county asking for a
commutation to life imprisonment.
but apparently, these failed to gain
any popularity for the man who also
slew Eugene Bill and Mrs. Estelle Wil
son, children of the woman for whose
death he was tried ,and convicted.
A 10-day reprieve was granted
Wayman Grainger, negro of Colum
bus county, so that his attorney may
present lacis wnicn ne lens ne can
obtain in the slaying of Harry Phip
ps. Andrew Wilson Farrell, Durham
county taxi-driver, was granted a
reprieve earlier in the week so that
a psychiatrist may examine him.
Farrell was convicted of the rape ofj
his eight-year-old step-daughter.
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Schools To Offer
Course To Bus
Drivers For Army
Plans For Classes In Hoke And
Scotland Approved In Meeting
Here Yesterday Morning.
Operation of classes for the in
struction of high school students who
are near army induction age In army
bus and truck driving was approved
here yesterday at a meeting of prin
cipals of schools of Hoke and Scotland
counties.
Ronald Hocutt, of the highway safe
ty division, Ralph J. Andrews, of the
state board of education and B. E.
Beasley, bus drivers instructor for
this area, spoke at the meeting.
It is expected that classes will be
held for white boys at the Hoke High
School, and that several classes will
be conducted in the larger negro
schools of the county.
Could It Be The
Gremlins Have
Taken It Away . . . ?
One day last week masons and
carpenters were building a concrete
block house, just a little house, in
fajt almost the size of a doll's house
or a child's playhouse, On the sidwalk
down near the Soldiers Center.
The house was to be used by the
night police. Centrally located, it was
a place where they could get in out
of the weather. It was designed to
have windows on each of its four
sides, and a small but efficient heat
er to drive away the wintry cold.
Its progress was considered good.
In fact, it was supposed to have been
finished the next day. But late com-ers-to-town
the next day, interest
ed in the little building were unable
to find even the slightest trace of it.
It had vanished. No part of the
rather stalwart minature stockade re
mained. Some say the wind blew it away.
But, when you think of the weight
of those concrete blocks, that's just
out of the question for no tropical
hurricane had blown over night.
Others suspected sabotage. But most
say that Crawford Thomas knows
where that building went. He says it
was "Blued" away, or maybe it was
gremlins.
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County Tops 1942
Cotton Crop By
Slight Margin
Hoke county cotton production
figures to January 25th showed that
the rounly produced 139 more bales
in 1943 than were grown in 1942,
according to J. R. Shaw, census bur
eau agent.
13.7.9 bales were grown in 1943 as
compared with 13,590 bales in 1942.
Only a few more bales are expected
to be ginned this season, it was said.
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REXT CONTROL
All landlords o the Cumberland
and Hoke counties must register
dwelling rents with the Rent Control
Office, 11S Bow St In Fayetteville.
When tenants change, notice must be
given by the landlord to OPA office.
Forms available by mail. Phone 71
45, Fayetteville.
Collected At
1-For Greek War
f 2 2 ef' Fund
"a
' " ,mers, employers, employees
ar.fr friends of Mr. and Mrs. Collis of
the Elk Restaurant contributed $40
toward the Greek War Relief Fund
during the past several months, it
was stated yesterday by Mr. Collis.
Last fall Mrs. Collis placed a glass
contribution receptacle on the count
er at the cafe. This week the pigy
bank would hold no more coins. It
was opened. Almost forty dollars were
found to be in the bank. The Collises
made up the amount to $40 and mail
ed a check to the organization's head
quarters in New York.
County Crosses
Half -Way Mark
In Bond Drive
Chairman Reports Over $90,000
In Bonds Purchased In First
Week Of Fourth War Loan
Campaign
Hoke county crossed the half-way
mark towards its quota of $175,000
in the first week of the Fourth War
Loan Drive, according to John A. Mc
Gougan, county chairman. Tuesday's
statement from the issuing agencies
of the county showed that' $90,000
worth of bonds had been purchased.
Mr. McCiougan stated that he felt
sure that the county would top the
quota set for this drive but added that
the excellent work of the township
committees would have to secure for
Hoke much of the assigned quota of
$138,000 in "E" bonds asked during
the drive.
"In the purchases of "E" bonds on
Vhich particular stress is being laid
in this drive," he stated, "every in
dividual will have to buy "extra"
bonds this month to enable the
county to reach its goal. Our town
ship committees and the women
zone workers of Raeford are doing
fine work, yet it's going to take a
lot of this fine work to put us a-
cross.
Mr. McGougan was high in his
praise or the campaigning of the
school children and the teachers in
their effort to have all stamp albums
filled out during this drive. "They're
very active," he said, ' and they are
really getting results in their part
of the drive. This effort of theirs will
greatly aid us in raising our "E" bond
quota," he concluded.
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4c Per Pound Now
Paid For Fats;
Also 2 Ration Pts.
Governor and Mayor Ask In
creased Collection Waste Fats
For War Purposes
That the war industries need more
waste fats is stressed heavily by
Governor J. M. Broughton in a let
ter to the Mayor, Neill McFadyen,
this week in which the Governor asks
for cooperation of every house wife
in the county.
His letter states that "The Con
sumption of waste fat in producing
munitions of war, military medicine,
civilian medicine and a wide var
iety of other war materials, has so
increased that it is absolutely nec-j
essary for us to lend every effort
possible to increasing shipments of
this material from our state.
The City Market and the Home
Food Market have been designated
as the official fats collecting agencies
here. They are authorized to pay 4
cents per pound for the fats and to
give 2 meat ration points for each
pound turned in. Mayor McFadyen
states that the people of Raeford and
Hoke county have not cooperated in
this phase of the war effort, and he
calls on them to turn in as much
fat as possible.
He pointed out that just one pound
of fat provided the necessary grease
fat thrown away would deprive a
sailor fighting submarines of a 100
pound depth charge. "Fats are vital
gun bullets an dthat five pounds of
materials of war" it was added and
"I would like to see the Raeford
f lk do their part in this matter as
they have in so many other causes
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Mrs. Hoyle Davis, mother of J.
Minor Davis formerly of the News-
Journal staff, is making her home
near Raeford with Mr. and Mrs. M
A. Maxwell. She was visited this
week by her son. Aviation Machin
ists Mate. l!c George Davis whose
station is now New York. Minor,
machinist for the Rocky Mount Tele
gram, visited his mother last week
end.
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Writes Open Letter
To U. S. Labor
Soldier Walsh Takes You On
A Battlefront Tour In South
Pacific
Kenneth Walsh, Muncie, Ind. A
sailor aboard a warship somewhere
in the Pacific, is the author of the
following article, which recently ap
peared in The Muncie Press, and
was greeted with great public re
sponse. The veteran editor of The
Muncie Press said, after publication
of the article: "Telephone bells in
my office, in the press' newsroom
and at my home rang almost constant
ly on the evening the st ry was pub
lished, and rails kept coming in the
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boy's parents here had to disconnect
their own phone. Our office has been
besieged by persons wanting extra
copies of the story. It has been the
talk of our town."
Here is what Sailor Walsh wrote:
BY KENNETH WALSH
I want to show you a bit of hal
lowed ground it is the Arlington
Cemetery of the South Pacific; it is
the Valhalla of American service
men. I'm going to show you this
bit of ground, but it will be d ne the
hard way. Come with me up Sea
lark Channel at dawn of a day in
August.
Yes. Mr. Striker, I want you to
stand at the rail with these men,
nerves drawn as taut as a violin
string months dry, eyes strained to
the breaking point, breath coming
in short gasps of fear that awful
feeling of nothinpness in the pits
of their stomachs. The objective comes
into view, the time has come for these
men to step out on the stage, and -they
know full well that death plays
the leading role in this theater.
DEATH IS THEIR DESTINY.
There they go over the side of the
big transport Tom Jones, Dick
Brown, Harry Smith. Hand-overhand
they crawl down the cargo nets
into their small craft that is to take
them to a rendezvous with that death.
You know, its death it is in the
destiny of these men.
The first objective is reached
the coeoanut grove at the water's
edge. Men are down never to rise
again, other men move up to take
the places of the fallen. The main
objective is an airfield beyond that
fringe of cocmanut trees, and as
though God Himself has polled the
curtain on this brutal stage, their
movements become vague and fi
nally obliterated and these move
ments become lost to you. The
uncertainty, the utter feeling of
helplessness, leaves the element of
time suspended in the hellish hot
sun of the tropics.
Close your eyes, Mr. Railroad
Worker, close them tight; it is an
other day, in another month; your
hands are gripping another rail; the
inevitable coeoanut tree rail that
separates the living from the dead in
these areas of war. You can
open your eyes now, Mr. Coal
Miner, open them wide. Yes, the
seeds that have been planted have
grown into bloom; the bloom is the
row upon row of white cresses that
meet the eye. These men have paid
the price in full for just seven small
acres of ground, but seven of the most
important acres of ground ever own
ed by Uncle Sam.
Restful, isn't it, peaceful and quite.
yes quite with eternal pence. Read
the epitaphs, Mr. Labor Leader, they
tell a story in themselves ATerica,
the Land of Free. There's a Star
of David beside a pair of rosary beads
owned by some Irishman. A captain
of Marines and a colored boy from
Georgia sleep side by side a lieuten
ant from Indiana, a sailor from North
Dakota, an aviator from Ohio, from
here, from there, from every star in
the flarr, a cross in the trround. Tom
Tones, Dick Brown, Har-y Smith.
It's their home now, some 7.000 miles
from home. These men were making
$50 a month, Mr. Striker, $50 a
month, room and board.
NO STPIKES THERE.
Wnen you were a ki,:', Mr. Striker,
you studied about tie American
heritare of life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness." Well, rend it
again and thin again: yt"dy it: delve
hack into the pages of American
history and show me anything In
the American creed of living that
wiil justify your wartime strikes.
Come out here with us in these
South Pacific waters and stay a
while. Eat our chow, sleep in our
sacks, watch us work, help us fight
these jungle flics, help Us kill malaria
bearing mosquitoes. Walk with us
through the mud and the slime of
the swamps of these jungle Islands;
walk with us in the sweltering, it
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An American "G.L