MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 30.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Cr^rolina, Friday, June 21, 1935.
FIVE CENT*
COVINGTON TARES
LONG LEASE ON
WAREHOUSE HERE
Prominent Reidsville Tobacco
Man To Operate on Aberdeen
Market in Fall
SEASON OUTLOOK BRIGHT
Claude W. Coving-ton of Reidsville
has closed negotiations for a long
term lease on the Aberdeen Ware
house and will operate this house in
Aberdeen this season. Mr. Covington,
who has been prominent in the to- j
bacco markets of Reidsville and ’
Chadbourn for many years, was here \
this week arranging for the start of
the season. He is optimistic about the I
1935 market, stating that he consid- j
ered prospects bright both for a good '
crop and good prices. j
With B. B. Saunders back in charge '
of his w'arehouse, Aberdeen will have i
both houses running full blast dur-1
ing the coming selling season. With !
the newly organized Chamber of 1
Commerce in Aberdeen enthusiastical- j
ly behind a program to make the
town the tobacco center it was sev-1
era! years ago, and with a new man |
in the field here, there is every indi- j
cation of real activity on the local'
market when the auctioneers first
start their curious cries in Septem-1
ber. I
Mr. Covington w’ill have Tom Smo- !
thers, well known Reidsville auction
eer, on the floor of his warehouse this
fall, with G. E. Crutchfield, Jr., of
Reidsville as book man.
Curing;: Important
In talking with a Pilot representa-
this week Mr. Covington said he look
ed for good grade tobacco to sell as
high or higher than last season, but
that off grades would probably not
sell as high. “For this reason,” he
said, ‘.‘farmers should be particularly
careful in curing their tobacco. It is i
going to mean more to them this year j
than ever to bring good quality leaf i
to the market, .for there'll be a vast!
difference between prices paid for the
good and the poor.”
Mr. Covington plans to return to
Aberdeen about July 10th and make
his home there throughout the sea
son. He plans an intensive campaign
to build up his new organization and
clientele in this section, believing the
Aberdeen market has great posfibiU-
ties.
Mrs. Wrenn Bride of
Virgil Page Clark
Southern Pines Residents Mar
ried Yesterday in Duke
Chapel at Durham
Vaccinate!
Public Health Clinic To Be
Held in Southern Pines
Starting June 28
A public health clinic for vacci
nation against typhoid fever, diph
theria and smallpox will be held at
the High School, Southern Pines,
beginning Friday, June 28th, at
9:45 o’clock, and continuing on the
two succeeding Fridays. The cost
of diphtheria antitoxin will be
twenty cents, with no charge for
typhoid and smallpox treatments.
Injections for typhoid immuniza
tion must be made each week for
the three successive weeks, so
those desiring same must report at
the first of the clinics a week from
today. County Health Officer J.
Symington, M. D., states.
EMPLOYES OF CCC
FABRICATING CO.
GO OUT ON STRIKE
Hiffher Wages Demanded by
Carpenters and Helpers at
Aberdeen
Sons of Founder Speakers at
Dedication of Eureka Church
$77,000 IN BILL
To Honor Memory
DONKEYS WIN IN
KIWANIS-FIREMEN
BASEBALL BAHLE
Big Crowd Witnesses Exciting
Contest Featured by “Ex
pert Riding”
MOUNTS LACKED RUDDERS
Of interest to the Sandhills and oth
er sections of North Carolina is the
announcement of the marriage of Mrs.
Lyla V. Wrenn and Virgil Page
Clark, both of Southern Pines which
took place in the Chapel at Duke Un
iversity in Durham yesterday morn
ing'. The wedding was a private cer
emony with only the immediate fam
ilies attending.
The Rev. W. L. Hutchins of Con
cord heard the vows which were
spoken before the beautiful and soft
ly lighted altar. No decorations were
used except Cathedral candles. The
impressive ring ceremony of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was used.
The bride was lovely in a suit of
light beige crepe with brown acces
sories. Her bouquet was of pine sweet
peas ana gardenias. She entered the
church with her sister, Mrs. Walter
Monroe* Brown of Burlington. Mr.
Clark was attended by his brother,
Carlisle Clark of Sanford.
Immediately following the ceremony
a wedding breakfast was served at
the Washington-Duke Hotel, after
which the couple left for a trip north,
going by way of Washington and New
York.
The bride is the youngest daughter
of the late Rev. Miles Henry Vestal
and Mrs. Vestal, of the Western North
Carolina Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. For the
past nine years she has made her
home in Southern Pines
Mr. Clark is the owner and opera
tor of Clark’s Garag^e here and local
representative for Standard Oil pro
ducts. He is the eldest son of the late
f J. M. Clark and Mrs. Clark of San
ford.
The score was something like 5 to !
4 in that donkey baseball game last j
Thursday night, but if you ask any !
of the players who won, the chances
are 10 to 1 he’ll say, the donkeys. As
a matter of fact, the firemen won
over the Kiwanis Club, both on the
score and because they had fewer
bruises, cuts and headaches to re
port after the game was over.
The game was played under flood
lights in the new Southern Pines
gymkhana rink, and furnished as
much fun for the fans as anythuig
that’s taken place around here in
some time. The players themselves
found considerably difficulty in '
mounting the donkeys, in staying on '
them, even when they were standing j
still, and in making them go where
they were supposed to. When a bat.
ter hit the ball at the plate, he was i
supposed to leap on a donkey and
ride to first base. The trouble was,
the donkeys didn’t seem to have the
slightest idea where first base was,
nor the riders to be able to impress
upon them the proper direction. All
of which was fortunate for the field
ers, who had to jump off their
mounts, pick up the ball, climb back
on, if possible, and throw to first be
fore the batter arrived, if ever.
Harry Cashion, Southern Pines
fireman, for example, landed plunk
in the pitcher’s box while en route to
first, his donkey running over pitch
er and umpire during the excitement.
Bill Dunlop, president of the Kiwanis
Club, is still lame from being drag
ged all over the place. Postmaster
Frank Buchan, who was always a
good politician before he became
postmaster and knows how to play
both sides against the middle, did just
that in his efforts to make a docile
Democrat out of a direful donk. He
fell just as gracefully from one side
as the other, showing no partiality.
Herbie Vail, of the Kiwanis team,
won the prize for the most graceful
fall, though when, reaching for a
high throw, he toppled backwards
off the rear end of a husky jack. He
was on crutches when last seen.
A big crowd watched the contest,
and the gate was $97, of which, after
expenses, the local gymkhana com
mittee had enough left to pay the
bills It incurred during the past win
ter in staging equestrian events for
the entertainment of the masses.
STRIKERS TIE UP TRUCKS
Nearly 100 men employed in the
CCC fabricating plant at Aberdeen
went on strike yesterday morning,
tying up the construction of buildings
for the government’s Civilian Conser
vation Corps camps. The stiike came
after days of dissatisfaction over the
wages being paid by the Contractors
in charge of the Aberdeen plant.
Common labor has been getting
but 20 cents an hour, carpenters 40
cents, despite the fact that the gov-
einment is paying 45 cents an hour
for helpers, 75 cents for carpenters,
a.ssembling the 'ouildings at the
camps.
There was considerable excitement '
in Aberdeen when the men refused to
enter the Saunders Warhouse build
ing, being u.sed for the fabricating !
plant, yesterday morning. There was '
no violence, but trucks used for haul
ing materials from the plant to the
new CCC camp on the outskirts of
Southern Pines were not permitted by
the strikers to load up.
It Is said that the trouble started
with the release of the contractor in
charge of the work at Aberdeen fro n
the wage scale required unde*' the j
code, following the recent ruling of I
the Supreme Court.
LATE REV. J. K. ROBERTS
NO INFANTH.E IN
COUNTY BUT 168
CASES IN STATE
Physician Recommending Pre
cautionary Steps to Pre
vent Spread
AVOID CROAVDED PLACES
Two in Hospital After
Car and Truck Collide'
Four Have Narrow Escape From
Death as Auto is Demonished
on Page Hill
Four persons had a narrow escape
from death In an automobile accident ;
on Page Hill in Aberdeen around !
9:00 o’clock W'ednesday night. A car
containing D. M. Hayes of Charlotte,
Sergeant Cunningham and his wife
and small son of Fort Bragg crashed
into a large gasoline truck on the j
curve in the highway approaching
Aberdeen from the baseball park,
practically demolishing the car and
sending all four to the Moore Coun
ty Hospital.
Mr. Hayes, who Is an employe of
the McNeill Paper Company of Char
lotte, was driving when the sedan
met the oil truck on the curve, hitting '
it amidships. Mr. Hayes suffered se
vere scalp wounds and other cuts and
a broken rib, Mrs. Cunningham a
broken collarbone, Sergent Cunning
ham and his son cuts and bruises. The
former two are still in the hospital,
the soldier and his son being released
late Wednesday night. The driver of
the truck was not injured. The demol
ished car was taken to the Ralph
Leach Service Station in Aberdeen.
Slab Cabin Raid Nets
Rich Haul of Liquor
Officers Get Bottled in Bond
Whiskey of Many Brands,
Make One Arrest
Though there are 168 cases of in
fantile paralysis now on record In
North Carolina, none has been report
ed In Moore county to date. Physi
cians, however, are recommending
precautions here, advising parents to
keep their children away from crowd
ed places, picnics, public swimming
pools and the like.
Dr. J. Symington, Moore county’s
health officer, told The Pilot on Tues
day that he had found no cases In
this section. In the state as a w'hole
the malady continues to gain daily.
Fifteen new cases were reported to
health authorities on Wednesday.
There are new cases In Mecklenburg
and Alamance counties, and Wake
county, numerical center of the di
sease, reported three new cases, rais
ing Its total to 34. .
Many summer camps for boys and
girls have been ordered abandoned.
The only precautionary measure re
ported locally Is the temporary clos
ing of the Plnehurst Community
Church Sunday School junior classes.
Dr. Carl Reynolds. State health of
ficer, has been in Washington all
week conferring with the United Stats
Public Health Service. The epidemic
In North Carolina Is greater than in
any state In the union and the federal
government is to take a hand in en
deavoring to curb Its spread.
New Edifice Ready For Impres-|
sive Services in .Memory of j
Late Rev. J. K. Roberts
Dedication services will be held at |
Eureka Pre.sbyterian Church on the
fifth Sunday in June at which time
the memory of Its oiganizer, the late
Rev. J. K. Roberts, will be honored by
having his sons as the speakers of
the day. There will be a preaching
service at 11 o'clock in the morning
at which time the Rev. J. K. Roberts,
Jr., of Point Pleasant, West Virginia,
will be the .speaker, and following a
picnic dinner, an afternoon service
will be conducted by the Rev. Phillip
A. Roberts of Staunton, Va.
The church to be dedicated Is one
that would be a credit to any rural
community, a brick structure with
Sunday School rooms and a spacious
auditorium which is fitted with com
fortable pews and a good piano, the
whole representing an outlay of sev
•r'ral thousand dollars.
The Rev. J. K. Roberts, a minister
who was greatly beloved by his peo,-
ple, organized a church in the- Eu
reka settlement, going out there from
his home at Carthage and holding
services in the school building, and
It was he who planted In the hearts of
the people of this outstanding com
munity the desire for a suitable place
in which to worship. So It is fitting
that he should be paid this beauti
ful tribute of having his sons given
a prominent part In the service.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the dedication and to bring a
picnic lunch. The present pastor is
the Rev. W. S. Golden of Carthage.
POSTOFFICE HERE
Southern Pines on Preferred List
in $(>4,(>00.000 Federal Build
ing Program
EARLY ACTION FORECAST
FREE GOLF LESSONS WITH
SUMMER MEMBERSHIPS
BLUE RIOOE QUARTET TO
SING ON SUNDAY MORNING
This Sunday morning at the 11:00
o’clock service the Blue Ridge Quar
tet will sing at the Southern Pines
Baptist Church. This quartet is fa
mous In the western part of the state
for its sacred music. Members of the
group are Richard Swanson, first ten.
or; Greene Thompson, second tenor;
C. W. Pennell, baritone, and Roy
Thompson, bass.
The sermon Sunday morning will
be preached by the Rev. R. H. Weav
er, one of the outstanding pastors of
the Sandy Creek Association.
Thlrty-slx pints of bottled In bond
whiskey of half a dozen brands to
suit any taste, ranging from “Four
Roses” priced at $2.50 per pint to
the less excellent grades that reach
ed as low as $1.50 a pint, W'as found
by officers at the old Slab Cabin on
Highway 1 just north of Aberdeen
when they raided the filling station
and beer parlor there on Saturday
afternoon.
M. E. Walters, who was in charge
of the place at the time, wa.s an-ested
and a warrant against Ralph McBryde
in whose nme the beer license was
issued and Paul Waring was sworn
out, but they have not been taken.
Walters was given a hearing in Re
corder’s court on Monday wh#re he
pleaded not guilty to a charge of po3
session for .sale. He was found guilty
and given three months on the roads,
suspended upon payment of a fine of
$50 and the costs and upon condition
that he be of good behavior for
twelve months. It was ordered that
the liquor be confiscated and destroy
ed hy the sheriff. Walters is from
Hoke county.
At a meeting of the executive
committee of the Southern Pines
Country Club on Wednesday the mem
bers voted an ir.novatlon for the sum
mer months to assist novices to learn
the game of golf here. With each
summer membership, dues for which
are $15, the club will give five free
golf lessons. Robert Hayes Is sum
mer "pro” at the club and will do
the instructing. Many beginners are
expected to take advantage of this
opportunity to leam the game, others
to Improve their play by gaining a
few new pointers.
STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
PICKS PINEHURST FOR ’36
The North Carolina Dental Society
at its annual meeting in Blowing
Rock this week voted to hold the 1936
convention of the state organization
In Plnehurst, with the Carolina Hotel
as headquarters. Dr. E. M. Medlin of
Aberdeen was made chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements. Pine-
hurst was in competition with Char
lotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh and
Asheville for the convention. The
dates will be May 11, 12 and 13.
ivnss HOWE HONOR GR,\DUATE
Miss Katherine Louise Howe of
Utica, N. Y., was graduated with
honors from the Walnut Hill School
at Natick, Mass., on June 6th.
Not Worried About
Huey or Fr. Coughlin
Ralph Page, Political Writer on
Philadelphia Paper, Talks
to Kiwanis
The coimtry need not worry about
Huey Long, and though Father
Coughlin has a tremendous appeal to
the masses, he is lacking In political
stratagem and a practical program,
so that neither of these men need be
feared during the next Presidential
campaign, in the opinion of Ralph
W. Page, former Sandhillian, now po
litical writer for the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin. Mr. Page addressed
the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at its
Wednesday meeting in the Methodist
Sunday School building in Aberdeen.
Mr. Page told about Huey Long's
recent appe'arance in Philadelphia.
“While he talked nonsense, the crowd
stayed with him,” he said, “but when
he began to outline his program for
the distribution of wealth, they walk
ed out. I do not believe we have any
thing to fear from Huey." Father
Coughlin put on five times as good
a show In New York, filling Madison
Square Garden and making a great
speech. He probably has the greatest
mass appeal of anyone since Bryan,
and a tremendous following. But he
has no party or political experience
or practical program.
As for the Republicans, Mr. Page
said they were “out with a miscro-
scope’’ trying to find one to meet the
necessary requirements to run for
President.
Sports Program But
No Fireworks on 4th
An appropriation of $77,000 for a
new postoffice building for Southern
Pines is included in the bill sent to
the House of Representatives by its
Appropriations committee this week.
The measure carries total appropria
tions of $64,000,000 for federal build
ings, and includes a number of pro
jects for North Carolina.
The pas.sage of this bill should
mean an early store on a federal
building here, and bears out The Pi
lot's story of a week ago that ac
tion by the Postoffice Department in
asking for renewal of a lease for
postoffice quarters here for one year
Instead of the usual ten years Indi
cated activity In the near future. Con
gress authorized a building for
Southern Pines several years ago, but
until this week the Appropriations
committee had failed to include the
item necessary to make it a reality.
It is now probable that with the pas
sage of the present measure bids for
sites will be promptly called for,
plans drawn for a building by the of
fice of the Supervising Architect of
the Treasury Department, and work
get under way soon thereafter.
Other North Carolina municipali
ties Included in the present bill are
Canton, $70,000; Dunn, $78,000: For,
est City, $62,000; Lincolnton, $70,000;
Sanford, $80,000; Washington, $100,-
000, and Willlamston, $42,000. On In
crease of $60,000 for the building at
Elizabeth City is also on the preferr
ed list.
The House committee also submit
ted to the House a supplemental list
of buildings w'hich the Postmaster
General and Secretary of the Treas
ury are studying to determine their
necessity and comparative urgency.
There are 635 projects on this list,
20 of which are in North Carolina.
They are:
Ahoskle, Brevard, Bryson City,
Burlington, Concord, Elkin, Green
ville, Hamlet, Henderson, Hender
sonville, Kings Mountain, Kinston,
Laurinburg, Leaksvllle, [Lexington,
Mooresville, Roxboro, State.svllle,
Whltevllle, Williamston.
If the public works program con
tinues, a large number of these build
ings are certain to be constructed
within a few years. These cities now
have a preferred status in future fed
eral building appropriations.
Miss Martha Page is
Bride in New York
Picnic and Program For Young
sters Plan of All-States
Association
Plans for a fireworks display the
night of the Fourth of July in South
ern Pines this year were abandoned
this week by the Chamber of Com
merce, but a picnic and program of
sports for the young people were an
nounced by the All-States Associa
tion for entertainment on that day.
The picnic is to be held in Munici
pal Park, and lunch will be preced
ed by the sports program to start at
10:30 o’clock. Beyond announcing
that there will be all kinds of sports
for adl ages of youngsters, with prizes
for the various events, the associa
tion’s committee does not go into de
tail, as the plans are not complete.
Full details will be published in next
week’s Pilot after the committee has
had more time to develop its prog
ram.
; Daughter of Henry A. Page, Jr.,
I Weds George S. Blackmore
of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Announcement was made this week
of the marriage of Miss Martha
Page, daughter of Henry A. Page, Jr.,
j of Aberdeen and Mrs. Mitchell Wad-
! dill Page of Asheville, to George
Stewart Blackmore of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
on Saturday June 8. The ceremony
was a quiat solemnization taking
place in New York City immediately
iSfter Miss Page’s graduation from
Briarcllff School at Briarcliff Manor
on the Hudson.
The bride Is well known throughout
the Sandhills, spending much time
here with her father and grandpar
ents. Mr. Blackmore is the son of
George A. Blackmore, of Pittsburgh,
Pa. and Mrs. Ethel Stewart Black-
more, of New York City. He was edu
cated at Dartmouth College, and is
now connected with the Westinghouse
Bendix Company of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Blacknibre’s father is president
of the Union Switch and Signal Com
pany, and vice president of Westing-
hcuse Air Brake Company, of Pitts
burgh.
The bride’s father and her mother
were both pi-esent for her graduation
and marriage. Her mot*'»’‘ Is remain
ing in the North the graduation
on June 18 of her son Henry Page,
III, at Princeton. Yoimg Page is a
Rhodes scholar from North Carolina
and will sail in September to begin
his studies at Oxford University.