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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO.m
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill Territoi ^orth Carolina
H'Mithprn Pines and Aberdeen, ^rlh Carolina. May 21, 1937.
Va. V,
BOARD TO MAKE
OFFER FOR SITE
FOR CIVIC CENTER
Bid Is Less Than Asking Price
But Comparable With Nearby
Property
DR. HERR REAPI*OINTED
Wednesday night the newly elect
ed membership of the Southern Pines
Board of Commissioners met at the
Municipal Building with Mayor D.
G. Stutz in their first regular meet
ing since their election, and several
pressing matters were considered.
Present were Mayor Stutz, Com
missioners E. C. Stevens, C. S. Patch,
L. V. O’Callaghan, Hugh J. Better-
ley and Kobert L. Hart and Clerk
Howard Bums.
The only matter on which final ac
tion was taken was the re-appoint
ment of Dr. George G. Herr to the
Southern Pines School Board for a
term of three years to May 1st, 1940.
The matter of appointing a member
to serve out the unexpired term of i
Plalph L. Chandler, resigned, was re
ferred to the School Board for ac
tion.
After considerable discussion of
the purchase of the property adjoin
ing the new Postoffice site for a
Civic Center the board, feeling that
the price that the owner has set upon
the property is more than it should
pay, instructed the Clerk to write to
the owner of the property offering
him a price comparable to that plac
ed on a nearby site of approximately
the same size and equally as desir
able, which is also under considera
tion for the purpose. The purchase
would be subject to the approval of
the Board of Commissioners and the
voters of Southern Pines in a special
bond election, which election will un
doubtedly be necessary to decide the
question.
Dr. L. M. Daniels appeared before
the board asking a city appropriation
for the purpose of lighting the ten
nis courts on Pennsylvania avenue for
night play and suggested that, if the
board saw fit to inake the appropria
tion, the Tennis /.ssociation would
subscribe a sufficient amount to
guarantee the minimum current
charge for the operation of tha
lights. The matter was referred to
the Mayor and the City Treasurer
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Re-Elected
'DRIVER OF CAR
i INKODGKINSBOY
ACCIDENT FREED
No Negligence Shown in Evi
dence Presented in Superior
Court at Carthaf^e
2 BURGLARS SENTENCED
FIVE CENTS
Charred Mail From Hindenburg Received Here
Card Posted on Itoard Zeppelin by Friend, Saved from Wreck-
a>je. Comes to Mrs. Kale F. McKinley, Southern Pines.—
Survivor May Visit Here
DK. (iKOKGE G. HERR
FAYETTEVILLEMAN
NAMED HIGHWAY
ENGINEER HERE
Louis E. Whitfield Appointed
Head of Sixth Division In
cluding Moore County
CARTHAGE SEEKS OFFICE
Tennis Courts, Baseball
in West Southern Pines
Negro Welfiare Committee Work
ing on Program To Solve Tru
ancy Problem
In the short time it has been func
tioning the newly organized Commit
tee on Negro Welfare has made con
siderable progress in the work it is
attempting to complete to solve the
truancy problem among school chil
dren in West Southern Pines. Two
tennis courts have been built on the
school grounds, a swampy section of
the grounds has been drained to pro
vide a baseball field, and a supply of
sports equipment has been provided
to be loaned out as requested and re
turned at the end of each day.
In addition to the work already ac
complished the committee has peti
tioned the Southern Fines Board of
City Commissioners for assistance in
providing a clinic for W^est Southern
Pines wherein to carry on the work
of pb-ysical examination of domestic
servants as provided in the new State
law. Officers of the Committee orx
Negro Welfare are; the Rev. F.
Craighill Browm, chairman, Preston
T. Kelsey, treasurer and J. R. Fun
derburk, secretary.
Louis E. Whitfield, of Fayetteville,
will be division engineer for the sixth
division, according to announcement
made this week by D. B. McCrary,
member of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission from this
district. Counties in the sixth division
are divided into three districts and
are, according to such grouping, Dav
idson, Moore and Hoke; Randolph.
Lee and Scotland; Chatham. Harnett
and Robeson.
Mr. Whitfield, back in the days
when counties had supei-vision of
their highway systems, was engineer
in charge in Sampson county. When
the highway commission was created,
he went with the State organization,
and soon thereafter was promoted
from time to time until he became
assistant to the division engineer
with headquarters at Fayetteville. He
is considered one of the best high
way engineers in the state setup.
No announcement has been made
as to location of the sixth divlElon
office. Both Asheboro and Carthage
are bidding for it.
Allocations of counties in the di
vision was made at the meeting of
the entire State Commission held
early last week. Ten such di
visions were set up. These divisions
are based on area, population, road
mileage and registration of cars. In
turn, the several divisions were di
vided into districts. Each commis-
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Aberdeen Merchants
Org-anize Association
still in Embryonic State but Of
ficers Are Elected, With
C. L. Guion President
HAWLEV POOLE SWORN IN
ON BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
On Wednesday afternoon J. Hawley
Poole of West End, member of the
State Legislature from Moore coun
ty, along with six others, was Induct
ed into office as a new member of
the recently organized Board of Agrl
culture wblch will operate under the
State Department of Agriculture.
Poole was named to serve for two
years.
Expressing the opinion that there
was not sufficient evidence to send
the case to the jury, Judge Wilson
Warlick, presiding over a term of
Superior Court in Carthage, Tues
day morning directed that a judg
ment of non-suit be entered in the
case against Herbert S. Ward, young
white man of Selma, who struck and
seriously injured Lewis Hodgkins
with a truck in Southern Pines sev
eral months ago.
Ward, the driver ot the truck, and
his companion, Ernest Godwin, also
of Selma, were proceeding down the
highway at a moderate rate of speed,
according to the testimony, when the
child attempted to cross the street.
They did not see him until an instant
before the truck struck him. Lewis
was seriously injured, having both
legs broken. The young men immed
iately stopped and rendered assist
ance. Lewis is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins of Southern
Pines. His father is cashier of the
Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
Ward was represented by Attor
neys H. F. Seawell, Jr., of the Moore
County Bar, William Godwin of Sel
ma and Charlie Guy of Dunn.
Lucian Chambers, colored of South
ern Pines, was found guilty of break
ing and entering the homes of John
Ferguson and John W. Stevens and
removing two pistols, $.3 in money
and other goods. He was given an 18
months sentence to work on the
roads.
For entering the store of C. L.
Hayes in Southern Pines during the
night time, Howard Greiner, said to
have a long criminal record in other
states, was given three years in jail
to work on the roads.
The jury returned a verdict of
guilty, with recommendation of mer
cy, in the case of Bernie West, white
of Hemp, who was charged with the
reckless operation of an automobile.
He was fined $25 and the costs, and
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BAmEVWAT
SEA, RELATIVES
HERE INFORMED
A burned, mutilated and water-
stained post card, but legible withall,
found its way to Mrs. Kate F. Mc
Kinley in Southern Pines Saturday, a
grim memento of the greatest trag
edy in the history of aviation.
Carefully wrapped in cellophane to
insure against further mutilation and
enclosed in a registered envelope, the
card was transmitted to Southern
Pines from the S. Postoffice For
eign Division in New York City ac
companied by a letter to Postmaster
Frank Buchan reading that the card
was “recovered from the wreckage
of the German airship Hindreburg.
Please arrange for personal delivery."
Mrs. McKinley gave Postmaster
Buchan permis.^ion to pass this in
formation along to The Pilot.
The carci, an interior view of the
Hindenburg lounge, was written and
mailed aboard the great airship only
a few hours before the disaster, by
Miss Margaret Mather, an American
resident of Rome and a long time
friend of Mrs. McKinley, stating that
Miss Mather’s plans while in Amer
ica included a short visit to her friend
in Southern Pines. When the card
was received a good one-quarter had
been burned away from one side and
the V- ;.tom, and the remainder was
streaked and stained with the water
and chemical used in fighting the
Hindenburg fire. Fortunately, the
mes.sage and the address were com
plete and the Postoffice department
was able to forward it as soon as it
was recovered.
Mrs. McKinley has been a winter
lesident of Southern Pines for a
number of years and is at present oc
cupying the Packard residence on
South Ridge street.
Miss Mather, who jumped from the
flaimng Hindenburg and escaped un
injured except for nervous shock, is
at present convalescing at the home
of her uncle. Prof. Louis Turner, at
Princeton University, and Mrs. Mc
Kinley is unable to say whether she
will come to Southern Pines as she
originally intended. Miss Mather has
long been an aviation enthusiast and
has flown all over Europe as a pre
ferred method of travel. Her brother,
Frank Mather,, the well known art
and dramatic critic, now travelling
in Europe, is also a flying enthusiast.
Mrs. McKinley intends to turn the
grim souvenir over to Miss Mather’s
family as a reminder of her friend’s
miraculous escape.
S^lcmILLS JUNIOR
LEAGUERS DEFEAT
ASHEBORO, 8 TO 7
Youngsters Open Season Auspi
ciously; Buchan, Auman, New
ton, Richardson Star
FINE PITCHING, HITTING
Rowe and Johnson Debate Court
Plan At Kitvanis Club Meeting
One For Ripley
Canna Pushes Its Way Up
Through Asphalt Walk
in Aberdeen
Before a new asphalt walk was
laid some time ago near Batch’s
restaurant in Aberdeen the canna
bulbs which had been set out there
were all taken up, supposedly. But
one powerful one must have escap
ed, for this week It pushed its way
up through the asphalt, as much
as to say, “You can’t keep a good
canna down.”
Young Sandhills Resident, Grad
uate of Pinehurst High School,
Drowns in Pacific
At an informal meeting of the
merchants of Aberdeen held Wf-Jnes-
day evening a committee was appoint
ed to investigate and accumulate data
concerning the advisability of organ
izing a Merchants’ Association there.
C. L. Gulon and T. S. Melvin were
named president and vice-president,
respectively, of the committee, and
T. D. McLean, J. A. Lawrence, W. L.
Batchelor, A. C. McDonald and C. M.
■Wilson complete the membership.
This committee will report its find
ings and the sentiment of Aberdeen
business men on the question at a
future meeting, for which no date has
as yet been set.
NEWCOMB AND HOW.4RTH
NEW C. OF C. DIRECTORS
The Chamber pf Commerce added
two directors to Its board at a meet
ing held Tuesday noon at Jack’s
Grill. The new members are Arthur
S. Newcomb, who recently moved his
real estate (rfflce from Pinehurst to
Southern Pines, and John M. Ho-
warth of the Carolina Power & Light
Company.
John Battley, a graduate of Pine
hurst High School who joined the
United States Navy after finishing
his school course, was lost overboard
in the Pacific ocean on Wednesday of
this week, according to word receiv
ed by his relatives here yesterday
morning. No particulars were given,
the telegram, from San Diego, Cal.,
simply stating the fact of his drown
ing.
Young Battley served two terms in
the navy, after which he joined up
with the Merchant Marine as an en
gineer. He was still In his twenties
when his untimely death cut short
what promised to be a fine craeer at
sea.
Battley was bom in New York and
moved to Carthage in early child
hood. He was well known and weil
liked throughout the Sandhills. Sur
viving are his father, W. H. Battley
of Hyattsvllle, Md., Charles and Je
ter Battley, brothers, of Washington,
D. C., and the following sisters; Mrs.
A. L. Wicker of Carthage, Mrs. J.
F. Eagan of New York, Mrs. George
Phillips of WUmington, Mrs. Dan S.
Ray of Southern Pines and Miss Cal-
lie Battley of Pinehurst.
CORONATION FBLMS HERE
PEACH CROP OFF
IN QUANTITY, BUT
QUALITY BETTER
Best Prospects in Sandhills
Area, Agricultural Survey
of State Reveals
Motion pictures of the Coronation
last week In London are being shown
the last half of this week at the
Carolina Theatre, Southern Rnes,
With indications the peach crop
will be six per cent better in quality
than a year ago, the 1937 prospect
for North Carolina remains 48 per
cent below a full crop, Randal B.
Etheridge, chief of the Department
of Agriculture’s markets division re^
ported this week.
Production forecasts are 1,364,000
bushels, which is about 15 per cent
less than last year and considerably
less than the 10-year average, crop
reporters estimated. Last year on
May 1 the crop was valued as $2,-
700,000. Surveys for May 1 of this
year show the peach crop to be 30
per cent below the 10-year average.
“The best prospects are in the
Sandhill comniorcial area,” Etheridge
said. “The Georgia crop shows even
poorer prospects than the North
Carolina crop.”
With the approach of shipping sea
son, the Agriculture Department has
requested peach growers to give spec
ial attention to the spraying sche
dules and to take precaution to in
sure peaches at the shipping stage
contain the minimum amount of ar
senical and lead residue.
The sale of peaches containing ar
senic or lead over the stipulated tol
erances is Illegal and such lota offer
ed for sale within the State are sub
ject to seizure by agents of the De
partment of Agriculture and by fed
eral agents, if shipped to points out
side the state.
Advance Argumentis Pro and
Con President’s Proposal to
Enlarge Supreme Tribunal
J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen, judge
of Moore county’s Recorder’s Court,
favors the passage of President
Roosevelt’s bill to increase the mem
bership of the United States Supreme
Court. J. Talbot Johnson, prominent
Aberdeen attorney, opposes the meas
ure. The pair advanced their argu
ments pro and con in a spirited de
bate at the weekly meeting of the
Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen on Wed
nesday in Highland Lodge, Southern
Pines. Herbert F. Seawell of Carth
age, former member of the United
States Board of Tax appeals, presid
ed.
Rowe thinks the American people
are losing the benefits of the Presi
dent’s program for recovery by hav
ing a court which is out of sympathy
with the New Deal. He thinks thi'
overwhelming victory of the Presi
dent at the polls last November show
ed the feelings of the people on the
subject. “We are not being governed
by the will of the people but by the
Supreme Court.” he maintains.
Talbot Johnson spiked numerous ar
guments of the opposition, showing
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BV BKX BOWDEN
Playing together as a unit for the
first time since the American Le
gion Junior Baseball team idea be
came a certainty a week or so ago
the Sandhills Junior Legionnaires de
feated Asheboro’s veteran campaign
ers Wednesday afternoon at thj
Southern Pines baseball park by a
score of 8 to 7 and backed up recent
prophecies of Coaches Joe DeBerry
and Vance McMillan to the effect
that the Sandhills candidates showed
as much promise as any similar
group of youngsters they had ever
.seen, that once they learned to work
together and absorbed the idea of
team play they would be a tough
team to beat.
For the past two weeks a series of
tryout elimination games have been
played between teams composed of
the various candidates from Southern
Pines. Pinehurst, Vass, Cameron,
West End and Aberdeen and, on the
basis of the performances turned in
by the boys, the Legion committee
pared the list down to the 15 out
standing youngsters and turned them
over to Coaches DeBerry and McMil
lan last week. '
Since that time two intensive work
outs were held in preparation for
Wednesday’s game adn on the streng
th of the team’s showing then the
coaches will work out with the boys
several times more before next Tues
day to correct the weaknesses that
came to their attention in prepara
tion for the return game with the
Asheboro on that date.
Wednesday’s game, beside bring
ing to light several individual stars,
proved that the Sandhills team was
a scrapping outfit. Twice it came
from behind and then, in the ninth
Innnig, with the score tied, pushed
across the winning run to wrap up
the ball game.
Pitcher Buss Thomas started aus
piciously for Sandhills when the tii-st
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May Org'anize Ayrshire
Club Here on Monday
C. T. Conklin of Breeders Asso
ciation To Talk at Meeting
To Be Held in Pinehurst
C. T. Conklin, secretary of the Ayr
shire Breeders Association will be
the speaker at a meeting to be held
next Monday in Pinehurst at which
time the organization of a Virginia-
Carolina Ayrshire Club is expected
to be launched. Mr. Conklin is an au-
‘thority on Ayrshire cattle and a fine
speaker. Accompanying him hors
will be Dr. C. D. Grinnells, who is in
charge of the office of Dairy Inves
tigations at N. C. State College. Oth
ers from State College are also ex
pected.
The group will meet at the dairy
bams in Pinehurst at 10:00 o’clock
Monday morning, look over the cat
tle, discuss problems and plans, and
then leave for the barns of the State
Sanatorium around noon. Dr. McCain
has arranged to provide luncheon at
the lake at 1:00 o’clock, after which
they will adjourn to the auditorium
for talks and to act on the question
of the Virginia-Carollna Ayrshire
Club. Dairymen and interested far
mers of the county have been sent
invitations to be present, in a letter
sent out last week by Leonard Tufts.
“Ed” Fitzgerald Ends
Long’ Pinehurst Service
Signs Contract To Manage For
est Hills Hotel in Augusta
Next Winter
Climaxing nearly 30 years at Pine
hurst, the last 14 of which he has
been manager of the Carolina Hotel,
with the most successful season since
1928, E. G. Fitzgerald announced
early in the week that he has sign
ed a contract as executive manager
and assistant to President William
E. Bush, of the Forest Hills Hotel at
Augusta, Ga., which position he will
assume next fall.
The Forest Hills Hotel, a 300-room
house, is the newest hotel in Augus
ta and Mr. Fitzgerald feels that his
long experience at the Carolina has
familiarized him writh the very prob
lem with which he will be faced at
Augusta.
The Carolina Hotel closed for the
season on Wednesday and Mr. Fitz
gerald will remain in Pinehur.^t until
the first of June when he will leave
to manage the Stevens Hou?e at Lake
Placid, N. Y., for the summer sea
son. Tomorrow night some tv^enty o"
Mr. Fitzgerald’s friends w’ll gathef
at a farewell stag beefsteak dinne:’
in his honor at Frank Maples La':.^
on the old Southern Pines,Pinehunst
road.
When the Carolina Hotel re-ope'i<*
next fall It will be under the mpn-
agershlp of H. W. Norris, who has
been manager of the Ko^y Irm fov
many years.
TO ORGANIZE TEN' 'S
There will be a meeting Tuesd-v
evening at 8:00 o’clock at Dr. Dan'o! s
office for the purpose of or°rani7'
tennis club. AQ. Interested, whether
player or not, are Invited to be pres
ent