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NEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, August 13, 1937.
FIVE CENTS
B. B. Saunders Sells Tobacco
Warehouse, Ends 20 Years
Activity in Local Field
C. W. Covington Acquires Prop
erty; Aberdeen Warehouse
Leased to “Tom” Smith
SEASON PROSPECTS BRIGHl
With tobacco markets in the Bor
der Belt already under way, plans
are progressing rapidly for the
opening of the Aberdeen market on
September 16th, with changes in th2
management of both of the ware
houses there and entirely new set
ups in the personnels that will oper
ate the two establishments.
First and foremost from the stand
point of local interest comes the
news that B. B. Saunders, who pio
neered the tobacco business in this
locality some 20 years ago and who
has been actively and continuously
identified with the business here
ever since, has sold his warehouse in
terests outright to C. W. Covington
who, for the past two years, has op
erated the Aberdeen Warehouse anl
who will operate the former Saunders
liouse under the name of Covington’s
Warehouse. Associated with him in
his new venture in Aberdeen, Mr.
Covington will have the Crutchfield
interests of Reidsville, N. C., but
the complete personnel that will op
erate the warehouse has not yet
been announced. It is understood that
Mr. Covington will permanently move
his family to Aberdeen.
Enter “Tom” Smith
Simultaneously, it ha^ been an
nounced that the Aberdeen Ware
house has been re-leased to T. J.
“Tom” Smith, a warehouseman of the
first rank who also operates the
Smith Warehouse and the Carlyle
Warehouse, both in Lumberton, and
who is presently the president of the
Lumberton Tobacco Board of Trade.
Associated with Mr. Smith will be
Gene Maynard and Bill Maurer, both
of Aberdeen, two former employes
of B. B. Saunders. Maynard will auc
tioneer and Maurer will keep tht
books and Mr. Smith will send as
operating manager of the house Tom
Woods, a veteran in the tobacco bus
iness. Woods now resides at Clark-
ton, but was raised on the tobacco
market at Oxford. Mr. Smith will di
vide his time between his interests at
Aberdeen and Lumberton.
Mr. Saunders’ withdrawal from
Aberdeen recalls his long and inter
esting career in the tobacco deal in
this locality since first he came to
Hokp county and started to grow to
bacco there near Raeford in 1914.
After one yfai there he moved his
scene of operations to Ashley
Heights and in 1915 set out upon the
career that earned him the designa
tion of the pioneer of the tobacco in
dustry in the area. Besides growing
large crops himself, Mr, Saunders se
cured options on good tracts of to
bacco land and then took it upon him
self to interest outside farmers to
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Here on Tuesday
•ggi
WALL, WOOTEN,
EDMONDS HELD
IN HEAVY BAIL
Arraifjned in Recorder’s Court
on (’harge of Robbery After
Beer Truck Hold-Up
HEAVY DOCKET MONDAY
COURT HOLDS UP ! J. E. Carrav‘’V» Proprietor
LAND SALE FOR !
COUNTY TAXES
of Conneciit^^^o,J‘^oad Camp,
Found Bruta';.% ^'irdered
Judffe W’illiams Issues Restrain*
ing Order Until Hearing on
August 17
SALE NOW “A CALAMITY’
Soil Saver
Missing Since Last Friday, Rody
Found in Woods Bordering
IVIidland Road
JAMK.S A. I \U1.KV . I
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Postmaster Buchan, Southern |
Pines, To Entertain For
V'^isiting Cabinet Officer
Word was received in Southern
Pines early this week to the effect
that Postmaster General James A.
t’arley will be in Southern Pines this
“oming Tuesday morning to inspect
the new Southern Pines postoffice
site while enroute to Fayetteville for
the annual convention of North and
South Carolina postmasters. W'here
Mr. Farley is scheduled to speak on
Tuesday afternoon.
With Mr. Farley will be Fourth As-
=!istant Postmaster General Smith
Purdham and a party of ten North
Harolina postmasters.
Postmaster Frank Buchan of Sou
thern Pines will be host to the party
at breakfast here and will occompany
them to Fayetteville.
George W. Wooten, Curtis Wall An order was signed by Judge
.ind Fred Edmonds were in Recorder’3 | Clawson L. W'illiams of Sanford on
Court on Monday bound to Superior ■ August 7th restraining the Moore
Court under bonds of $2,500 aa to | county commissioners from selling
Wooten and $1,000 as to Wall and Ed- : lands of delinquent taxpayers for
monds on a charge of lobbery wit!i taxes until a further hearing in the
firearms as a result of the hold-up ; cause in Carthage on August 17th,
of Hayden Horne, driver of the At- at which time they shall appear and
!antic beer truck out of Faj'ettevill.', show cause, if any, why this injunc-
and his colored helper three mileq out | tion shall not be continued. j
from Cameron near Beaver Creek on guit was started by D. A. McDon-
iMonday evening of last week. Bon l aid and K. W. McLeod in behalf of
had not been arranged up to noon- themselves and all other taxpayers
time Tuesday. ; of the county who make themselves
Thomas Peace, white travelei' parties, and the commissioners and
from I’otts, Pa., was sent to the tax collector were named as defend-
Mooie county roads for four months ants.
for the larceny of a bicycle, property They set forth that there are sev-
of a Bailey boy in Southern Pines. I eral thousands of taxpayers who are I
J. P. Penny, white of the Eagle j poor people who have been unable
Spring's section, was fined $50 anil. tlu'ough crop failures due to drouth,
the costs for drunken drivinp. and! general business depression and the
had his licen.^e revoker for a yea^’. i .scarcity of work, to pay their taxes,
Lynn Foster, white of Olcndon, ; but who can pay some if given timo
pleaded guilty to a charge of carry-, to market their crops, and that a sale
uig a concealed weapon. He paid his : the first Monday in September will
costs and was given a little time in amount to a public calamity,
which to laise the $50 fine. ! They further state the belief that
The fact that he had a round doz-1 the defendants have no right to sell
en children to support caused John iseveral reasons, among them be
Hampton to get by with prayer for | nig that the tax collector has not
judgment continued when he was be-; levied upon the personal property and
TWO SOUGHT FOR SLAYING
K. H. (JAUKISON, JK.
Farm Agent Tells of ^Vork in
County Under Soil Erosion
Program
FIRE THREATENS VASS
FX'RNITURE FACTOR!
A fire that started early Wednes
day evening when sparks from the
boiler room of the Morristown Man
ufacturing Company in Vass droppen
through the funnel atop the adjacent
shaving house and ignited the wood
shaving contents, threatened for a
time to spread to adjoining buildings,
and Vasa and Southern Pines fire
men battled the smoldering blaze for
more than half an hour before they
were able to pronounce the fire un
der control.
At the Morristown Manufacturing
Company the shaving house, inti
which the wood shavings and sawdust
from both the furniture company and
the nearby Vaughn Lumber Company
are blown under air pressure, is lo
cated in the same building with the
boiler room and thus the shavings and
sawdust can be used to ffre the boil
ers. The fire started when sparks
from the boiler room amoke stack
dropped into the open funnel at the
terminus of the two blower lines car
rying the shavings from the two
factories, and Igfnited the tlnder-Uke
shavings.
Sub-Committee Favors
Promotion of McCloskey
Votes For Reynolds-Clark Bill
To Retire Fort Bragg “C. O.”
as Major General
By a two to one vote, a sub-com
mittee of the Senate military affair?
(lommittee, of which Senator Robert
R. Reynolds is a member, Wednesday
reported favorably the Reynolds-
park bill to permit General Manus
McCloskey, commanding general at
Fort Bragg, to retire as a major
general when he retires for age next
4^pril.
General McCloskey appeared before
the committee and will remain in
Washington for a meeting of the full
committee today.
However, the War Department is
strongly opposed to the bill on the
grounds of McCloskey’s eligibility for
promotion and final favorable action
is regarded as most doubtful.
4-H Club Girls Gatlier
Next Week in Pinebluf f
fore the court on a charge of as
saulting his wife. The conditions are
that he be good to his wife and chi'-
dren and provide for them and not
violate any law during the next twj
years.
Clyde Martin and Hei'bert Williams,
white of the Pinehurst section, were
given 60-day road sentences for
drunken driving, to be suspended
upon payment of $50 fines and one-
half the costs, each. Their licenses
were revoked for twelve months.
Ross Beal, white, of Haw Branch,
pleaded guilty to an assault on his
wife and abandonment and non-sup
port. He was given six months on
the roads, to be suspended upon con
dition that he pay the costs and pay
to the clerk of the court $2.50 a
week for the support of his wife and
upon the further condition that he
take and care for his three children,
his wife to have the privilege of visit
ing the children.
Charlie Hunter, Herbert Worthy,
Curtis Shaw and Rooker Hunter, col
ored of Pinehurst, were found guilty
of engaging in an affray wherein a
deadly weapon was used, and Worthy Southern Pines Contingent En-
exhausted the same before advertis
ing and proceeding to sell their real
estate as is expressly required by
Jaw; that the defendants are attempt
ing to charge and collect unjust and
unreasonable penalties, which are il
legal as well as exhorbitant, and ille
gal costs and charges; that Section
1 of Chapter 114 of the Public Laws
of the General Assembly of North
Carolina of 1937 is not clear as to the j
meaning of said section in that it!
says: '
“All actions and proceedings re
quired by such provisions to be tak
en in the months of May, June anvl
July of the years 1935 and 1936 shall
be taken in the months of August,
'jeptember and October, respectively,
in the years 1937 and 1938.”
They allege that it is not clear in
that it does not say what the com
missioners or other officers are re
quired to do in the months of Au
gust, September and October.
Firemen in Races at
Greensboro Convention
Classes in Foods, Home Improve
ments and Basketry To Be
Taught at Camp
Next week, August 16th to 20th,
will be Camp Week in Moore county
and 4-H club girls from the various
organizations will gather at Pine-
bluff, where the firemen have kindly
consented to allow their hall to be
used as a camp. The cost will be $2.50
in cash of 50 cents in cash and a
specified amount of food. Any 4-H
club girl, home economics student,
glvl scout or any mother may attend
the encampment.
Classes in foods, home improve-
ment and basketry will be taught.
Elwood Snipes, Red Cross Life Saver,
will teach swimming and Harold P.
(Pleaae turn to pafft eight)
was found guilty of an assault with
a deadly weapon. All were fined.
Charlie Freeman, white of Carth
age, found guilty of violating the
conditions of a judgment in a case
in which he was charged with aban
doning and failing to support his wife
and children, was ordered to serve
his six months on the roads, commit
ment to issue immediately but de
fendant not to be assigned to work
until after being examined by a phy
sician as to his physical condition,
the doctor’s advice to be followed. He
was found not guilty of an assault
charge.
Willie Cole, colored of Eagle
Springs, was sent to the roads for
four months for assaulting his wife.
LIGHTNING CAULS OUT
SOUTHERN PINES FIREMEN
joying Golden Jubilee of State
Association
The Southern Pines Fire Depart
ment answered a fire alarm early yes
terday afternoon, lightning having
struck the home of Andy Turner, a
small house west of U. S. Highway
No. 1 about midway between South
ern Pines and Aberdeen. The loss was
slight.
This was the second fire alarm
turned in during the absence this
week of most of the members of the
local department at the State con
vention in Grtfensboro.
A number of residents of the Sand
hills plan to drive to Roanoke Island
next Wednesday when President
Roosevelt attends the celebration
there.
Although a chosen few of th-j
Southern Pines Fire Department are
having the benefit this week of .i
trip to Greensboro to attend the Gold
en Jubilee convention of the North
Carolina State Firemen’s Association,
those that stayed at home at least
had the excitement of a ride to Vass
Wednesday when they were called out
to assist in the fighting of the fire
at the Morristown Manufacturing
Company there. It wasn’t much of a
fire but at least the boys had a ride.
Meanwhile, the Southern Pines con
tingent at Grp^nsboro, consisting of
Chief L. V. O’Callaghan, Tom Vann,
E. J. Davis, O. D. Michael, J. H.
Cashion, John Cameron, J. D. Greg
ory, Harold Fowler and Harold Ma
ples, saw Jerome B. Flora of Eliza
beth City elected president of the as
sociation and heard him advocate the
abolition of the State tax on gasoline
used by fire departments. They also
beard Mayor Thomas E. Cooper of
Wilmington attack the so-called cen
tralization of power in Raleigh with
particular reference to the State
highway and State school systems.
Yesterday afternoon the convention
wound up with the reel, grab, hose
and chemical races, in which the
Southern Pines department had teams
entered.
No confirmation could be obtained
at Hemp yesterday of the reported
death by fire of two young men in
an automobile accident there.
By BKX BOWDEN
Culminating a three-day search
that started when friends became a-
larmed for his safety after he had
been absent for two days from hl3
home at Connecticut Camp, located
on U. S. Route 1 about 13 miles
south of Southern Pines, the beaten,
stabbed and badly decomposed body
of J. E. Carraway, aged about 50,
was found at 7:00 o’clock Wednes
day morning lying in tlje woods off
the Midland load about one mile
north of Southern Pines, by J. G.
Riley of Aberdeen, when he went to
bring in Carraway’s car which had
been discovered abandoned Tuesday
evening on the shore of Swan Lake,
about one-half mile from where the
body was found.
The car, when found, was minus
the right front tire and rim. The
tire was lying in the road close to
where Carraway’s body had been
dragged into the woods, but the rin;
was missing and it was during the
search for the rim that Riley ventur
ed further into the woods and came
upon the body.
County Coroner D, Carl Fry, who
examined the body at the scene, stat
ed that death had been the result of
a beating about the head and body
which had undoubtedly stunned Car
raway and that he had been dragged
into the woods where he h£ui been
stabbed in the heart. There was a
deep knif wound in the left chest
that would have proved fatal, and a
heavy sandbag and a bone-handled
knife with a five-inch blade were
found beside the body. Coroner Fry
said that the condition of the body
indicated that it had been lying in
the spot where it was found for at
least five days and set the time of
death at approximately 9:30 a. m.
on Friday.
Left Camp on Friday
County officers were infonned that
two men, who had stopped at Connec
ticut Camp for several days last weeK
had become friendly with Carraway
and that they had prevailed upon him
to drive them to an as yet undiscov
ered destination last Friday morning.
Mrs. Carraway stated that Carraway
and the two men left Connecticut
Camp at around 6:30 o’clock Friday
morning. Attendants at Mack’s Fill
ing Station in Aberdeen, saw Car
raway at approximately 9:00 o’clock
when he stopped there to buy gaso
line and oil, but they were not able
to state whether there was anyone
with him at the time. That was the
last that was seen of Carraway un
til his body was discovered Wednesday
morning. Friends infonned the au
thorities that Carraway always car-
Removed From Roads j ried large amounts of money on his
person and that on this occasion ho
was thought to have had between
$200.00 and $300.00 in his posession.
Mrs. Carraway was quoted as hav
ing stated that she thought the a-
mount nearer $1,000.00. At the time
the body was found the pockets of
Carraway’s clothing yielded less than
$2.00, all in change.
On the road opposite the point
where marks indicated to officers
Soul savers and a soil saver fea
tured the all-star bill at this week’s
meeting of the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club, held Wednesday in the Pinc-
hurst Community Church. The soul
savers sang and one of them talked,
and the "Soil saver told of the sod
eronsion program in the county.
The preachers turned out four-
strong in compliment to the Rev. Dr.
Murdoch McLeod, now on vacation
in the Sandhills from his church at
Nashville, Tenn. Incident illy, the
"Dr.” in front of his name is new'
since he left the pastorate of the
Community Church in Pinehurst a
few years ago, having been bestowed
upon him thi sspring. Sitting with
him at the meeting were the Rev.
E. L. Barber of Aberdeen, the Rev.
A. J. McKelway of Pinehvu’st and the
Rev. J. Fred Stimson of Southern
Pines, and the quartet was called
upon for a song at the start of
the meeting. Dr. McLeod also spoke
of his pleasure at being back in the
Sandhills which he still considers the
finest year-’round place to live, and
with his former Kiwanis mates.
County Agent E, H. Garrison, Jr.
was the soil saver speaker and made
an interesting talk on what he and
his associates are trying to do in tho
upper end of the county in prevent
ing fields from washing away and in
creasing per acre production. One
point he emphasized in favor of the
erosion program was that $14,770,-
000 now goes annually out of the
state for fertilizer, a goodly part oi
which could be saved by proper ter
racing and care of topsoil.
Want Danger Spots
Kiwanis Club Launches Move
For More Highway Safety in
Moore County
A move to remove hazards from
Moore county highways was launch
ed at the meeting of the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club on Wednesday by Col.
George P. Hawes of the club’s Roads
Committee. With funds from the
State Highway Commission available
for work throughout the state the
club went on record as approving the
spending of some of this money in
the interest of safer driving, and
President C. W. Picquet asked the
Sandhilleers Committee, made up of
representatives of all towns repre
sented in the club, to investigate dan
gerous crossings and turns and other
highway hazards. The club will thei
appeal to the Highway Commission
for allocation of funds to make the
needed changes.
The Sandhilleers Committee com
prises Ralph Chandler, chairman;
Herbert F. Seawell, O. Leon Sey
mour and Willard Dunlop.
Mrs. H. A. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen
left early In the week for Colorada
where her mother is reported ill.
that the body had been dragged in
to the woods, automobile tracks left
the road and cut across the parkway
to the left, cutting down shrubbery
in its course. The marks continued
down the w'rong side of the road foi
about ten feet and then cut back a-
cross the parkway to the right side.
At one point on its trip back across
to the right, a large tree was badly
scraped Bind it was at this point, of
ficers assume, that the tire and rim
were ripped from the rigiit front
wheel.
Sandbagged and Stabbed
Reconstruction of the crime points
to Ihe assumption that Carraway
was driving the car at this point
(friends state that be had repeated
ly said that no one but himself woul J
ever drive his car) and that he was
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