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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, September 3, 1937.
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
G-MEN TARE TRAIL
OF PAYNE, WANTED
FOR PENN MURDER
Escaped Convict Suspected of
Kidnappings and Car Thefts
in State
WANTED FOR JOBS HERE
G-Men—the government’s ace man
hunters—have entered the search for
William (Bill) Payne, North Caro
lina’s public enemy No. 1, sought for
the murder of Highway Patrolman
George C. Penn, 23-year old former
Carthage youth, a week ago Sunday
in Asheville and since accused af a
series of kidnappings throughout the
state in which automobiles have been
stolen to further frustrate his pur
suit by authorities.
At Charlotte, officers of district
headquarters of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation made the laconic
statement: "We are after him.”
Although there has been no official
statement to that effect, it is under
stood that it was the kidnapping an
gle that opened the door for partici
pation of the G-Men in the case.
Payne, who led an escape from the
Caledonia Prison Farm last Febru
ary and who has been described by
his “pals” as the "brains” of the es
cape, has long been the object of a
search by Moore county authorities
for the robbery of the Leighton Mc-
Keithen store in Cameron and for the
robbery of the bank at Troy. Then,
following the' murder of Highway Pa
trolman Penn, Buncombe county and
State authorities entered the hunt for
Payne and his companion. Wash Tur
ner, another escaped convict, both of
whose fingerprints were definitely
tied up with the slaying. But it wasn’t
until the two men engaged in the
series of kidnappings last week-end
that U. S. Attorney Marcus Ervin, at
Asheville, swore out fugitive from
justice warrants against them, and
Federal men entered the case.
Patrolman Penn, whose bullet-rid
dled body was found at the end of
a country road some 20 miles beyond
Asheville, met his death a week ago
Sunday evening when he becaune sus-
picious of two men in a blue sedaa
who turned and fled from a highway
weighing station where vehicles are
tested to determine whether their op
eration conforms with the State
highway law. When the men refused
to stop at his command, Penn gave
chase. Fellow officers found him la*
ter and took him to the Biltmore Hos
pital in Asheville but be was pro
nounced dead upon arrival.
Fingerprints on Car
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown of Bun
combe county said fingerprints of
Payne and Turner were found on a
bullet-riddled blue sedan found park
ed a few hours later behind a mid
town Asheville hotel.
From that time until last Thursday
no trace was found of either Payne
or Turner, but on Thursday evening
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His Slayer Soug'ht
Struthers Burt Named
- To State Ck>mmittee
-
GEORGE CABEL PENN
PINEHURST OPENS
SCHOOL YEAR WITH
FiniNG EXERCISES
State’s Smallest Administrative
Unit Looks Forward To
Successful Career
Governor Hoey Appoints Author
to Roadside Control and
Improvement Group
The campaign (which iStruthers
Burt, Southern Pines author, has
been waging for years with ^n anl
voice on behalf of highway beautifi
cation was officially recognizied by
the State of North Carolina this
week in his appointment by Govern
or Hoey ad a member of the State
Committee on Roadside Control and
Improvement.
In naming Mr. Burt to the road
side beautification committee the
Governor said he was prompted by an
article be had just finished reading
in which Burt championed the same
program lof highway improvement
that the newly created committee was
appointed to consider. He expressed
the belief that Mr,. Burt would prove
a valuable addition to the board.
Mr. Burt, a director and formerly a
vice president of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce, is expected to
return here from his Wyoming ranch
•arty this winter.
Exercises in the Pinehurst School
Auditorium, at 10:00 o’clock on Wed
nesday morning, marked the oegin-
ning of a new year for the Pinehurst
schools. The meeting was attended by
a large group of enthusiastic parents
and friends. The prospects for ona
of the most successful years in the
school’s history are much in evidence.
The exercises were opened by the
singing of "America.” D. A. McDon
aid. Superintendent of Raeford
Schools, then led the prayer. W. P.
Morton, Superintendent of Pinehurst
Schools, introduced the speaker of
the morning, Mr. McDonald, whose
talk proved both entertaining and
instructive. He emphasized the fact
that the school is an institution in
which parents, students and teachers
must take a mutual interest. Follow
ing Mr. McDonald’s talk Miss Annie
Marie Choate rendered a piano selec
tion, after which came the intro
duction of the members of the
faculty. Miss Dorothy Ehrhardt, Miss
Lillian Moore, Miss Edna Gentry,
Miss Elma May, Miss Eunice Gibson,
Mrs. Travis Wicker, Miss Virgfinia
Simkins, John Passage, Miss Mildred
Petway, Mrs. Robert Shaw, Jr., Miss
Eloise Summerford, Miss Annie Ma
rie Choate, and W. L. Cunningham.
I. C. Sledge and Mrs. Herman
Campbell, members of the school
board, were present. Mr. Sledge gave
a few words of encouragement to the
patrons. He stated that the Pinehurst
unit was the smallest administrative
unit in the state, which in his judg
ment, spoke well for the educational
attitude of Pinehurst and commun
ity.
Mrs. Raymond Johnson, president
of the Pinehurst Parent- Teacher As
sociation, made a short impressive
talk in which she described her visit
in the State Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation meeting in Chapel Hill this
past summer. She made several in
teresting announcements concerning
some of the plans of the association
for the coming year. She gave all .1
most cordial invitation to attend the
regular monthly meetings.
The program was concluded with
the singing of the Pinehurst Alumni
song.
BANKS, POSTOFFICES IN
COUNTY CLOSKD MONDAY
The Citizens Bank and Trust Com
pany of Southiem Pines and the Bank
of Pinehurst, with its Aberdeen and
Carthage branches, will be closed all
day Monday, Labor Day, Postoffices
will be closed after the early morn
ing mail has been “worked.” Many
stores and offices will be closed aU
day, other* half the day.
KIDNAP SCARE IN
CARTHAGE WHEN
BOY DISAPPEARS
Two-Year Old Son of Glenn Frye
Found Asleep in Swamp Af
ter Night Search
AWAKES ALL SMILES
Spurred by fear of kidnapping, a
posse was organized on Tuesday night
to hunt for a two year old boy who
disappeared from his home near Car
thage late that afternoon. The search
began shortly after 7:00 o’clock and
was concluded early Wednesday
morning when a party came upon the
youngster sleeping soundly in a
swamp 100 yards from a highway.
The child, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Frye of near Carthage
wandered off from home while hi.?
parents were in town. His absence
was noted upon their return and af
ter a search about the premises
neighbors were called in and joined
the hunt. At midnight, when no trace
had been found of the youngster, the
fire alarm was sounded and nearly a
hundred men joined the hunt.
Wearied and anxious searchers, in
cluding the boy’s father, cauic upon
the child at about 2:00 o’clock in the
morning. When awakened he smiled a
baby smile, unmindful of the hectic
hours and weary hearts for which his
toddling feet were responsible. He
had attempted to follow his parents
when they drove to Carthage, and
had turned into some woods when
about a mile from his home.
Police Throughout U. S.
Seek Carraway Slayer
Sheriff McDonald Broadcasts
Description of Suspects.—
False Arrests Made
Commenting on the progress made
to date in the search for the two
men suspected of the murder of J.
E. Carraway, whose body had lain
five days in the woods just off the
Midland road about a mile north of
Southern Pines before it was discov
ered on Tuesday, August 10th, Moore
county Sheriff C. J. McDonald said
that although every effort was being
made to run down the suspects, the
five days that elapsed between the
murder and the discovery of the bodv
had given the slayers such an excel
lent opportunity to cover their tracks
that their apprehension was being
made doubly difficult. •
Sheriff McDonald stated, however,
that the county had had 500 posters
printed, giving an accurate descrip
tion of the suspects, and that they
had been distributed to police depart
ments all over the United States,
with a notice of the ?200 reward au
thorized by the Moore County Board
of Commissioners. So far these pos
ters have resulted in the arrest of
two suspects, one in Norfolk, Va., and
the other in a northern city, but both
men were later released.
Investigating the suspicion that one
of the men lived in Boston, Mass., a
complete description of the suspect
has been sent to the chief of police
there, with further information as to
FIVE CENTS
Dr. L. B. McBrayer Retires As V^^OUTHERN PINES
Head of N. C. Tuberculosis Ass’n HOST TO
s/a. L. OFFICIALS
Has Served as Managing Direc
tor Since He Organized State
to Fight Disease in 1915
Dam Robbery
Machinery Used To Lift Gates
at Lakeview Stolen—Also
Church Bell
Junk prices are so high they are
tempting thieves to get away with
things that have not yet reached
the Junk stage.
A week or so ago a bell was stol
en from the belfry of one of Moore
county’s outlying churches.
Now comes news that the ma
chinery used for raising the gates
of the dam at Lakeview disappear,
ed last Friday. An advertisement
appears in this issue of The Pilot
offering a reward for the return
of this necessary equipment.
Old scrap metal has been at a
premium since cannon began to
boom in Spain and China. Ship
loads of old auto parts, rails, junk
of all sorts, are heading east al
most daily.
Following a long illness that has
necessitated frequent absences from
his duties as managing director of
the North Carolina Tuberculosis As
sociation, an organization that he |
founded in 1915 and of which he haa j
been managing director since its in- i
ception, Dr. L. B. McBrayer of South-. |
ern Pines has tendered his resigna- j
tion to that body. The resignation i
took effect on August 20th. I
Dr. McBrayer's successor will be ^
Dr. R. L. Carlton of Winston Salem, ’
and the offices of the association will j
be moved there.
Dr. McBrayer received his medical ^
degree from the University of Louis- I
ville, in Kentucky, in 1889 and start I
ed to practice his profession in Asne-
ville the following year. He was cor
oner of Buncombe county from 1901
until 1907 and in 1909 he was appoint
ed health officer for the city of Ashe-
ville, which position he held until
1914 when he resigned to become sup
erintendent of the State Sanatorium.
Launched State Campaign
From the moment that Dr. Mc
Brayer became affiliated with the
State Sanatorium he began to or
ganize North Carolina for the fight
against tuberculosis that he so suc
cessfully carried on until his recent
illness. In 1915, as a result of his
campaigning, the North Carolina Tu
berculosis Association was formed and
Dr. McBrayer was named its manag
ing director.
For nine years he remained as sup
erintendent of the State Sanatorium
until, in 1924, he resigned that posi
tion to devote all of his time to the
association, and Dr. P. P. McCain
succeeded him at the sanatorium.
Dr. McBrayer is a Fellow of the
American College of Physicians and
in 1915 he was president of the Medi
cal Society of North Carolina. In 1921
he was elected secretary-treasurer of
that organization, a position that he
held until recently, and upon his re
tirement from which he was tender
ed a banquet and presented witli a
silver service by the association.
In 1929-30 he was president of ths
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce and in 1931 he was president of
the U. S. Highway No. 1 Association.
Dr. Carlton, Dr. McBrayer’s suc
cessor, was until recently city health
officer of Winston-Salem and has
been active in tuberculosis work for
a number of years. He is a director
of the association of which he is as
suming the managing directorship
and is also representative director of
the North Carolina Association to the
National Tuberculosis Association.
DR. L.
McBRAYEK
“PEACHES” LOSE
CLOSE GAME TO
DUNN AT NIGHT
Wildness of Pitcher in First In
ning Responsible for Too
Big a Lead
W. W, FULLER NET ESTATE
, APPRAISED AT $2,150,677
The net etstate of the late Wil
liamson W. Fuller, former general
counsel of the American Tobacco
Company, was appraised at $2,150,-
677, according to the tax appraisal
filed this week in New York. Real
estate was valued at $1,370,799 and
securities at $683,236.
Mrs. Annie M. Fuller of Briarcliff
Manor, N. Y., his widow, who was
a native of Greensboro, received $10,-
000 and a life Interest In a trust
fund of two-seventh of the residue.
Life interests in trust funds of one-
seventh of the residuary estate were
left to his five children, among Whom
are Mrs. Nat S, Hurd of Pinehurst
and Thomas Staples Full<sr, a fre
quent winter guest at Pinehurst. W.
W. Fuller, II, a son of Staples Full
er, married Miss Helen Thompson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl G.
Thompson of Southern Pines and
they are now living In Chapel Hill.
NEW PROORAIM COMMITTEE
Pr*$ldent Charles W. Plcquet of
the Sandhills Klwanls Club appointed
the following members of the Pro
gram Committee for the fourth quar
ter: Willard L. Dunlop, chairmaii;
Dr. R. P, Shspard, O. Leon Seymour,
EUwin T. McKeithen and E. W.
R«in«cke.
The Sandhills Peaches journeyed
to Dunn-Erwin Wednesday night to
engage the Dunn-Erwin Junior Leg
ionnaires under the flood lights in
a post season game that inaugurated
night baseball there, and dropped a
4-3 decision to the home club.
Despite the heavy going under fool
occasioned by the recent rains, and
the fact that night baseball was en
tirely new to both teams, they play
ed a smart brand of ball for the
benefit of the 500 fans who turned
out.
The Peaches drew first blood in
their half of the first when Leon
Melvin connected with Gardner’s first
pitch for a solid single, advanced on
Buchan’s sacrifice, went to third on
Gardner’s wild pitch to Thomas and
scored on Thomas’ infield out. Wil-
liaMs struck out to* retire the side.
In Dunn-Erwin”s half of the first.
Buss Thomas just couldn’t seem to
get started. After he had walked the
first two men and hit the third with
a pitched ball to fill the bases, Strick
land hit one to center field that Neill
Melvin lost in the lights and that
went for a double, allowing the three
occupants of the bases to score.
Thomas was then yanked in favor
of Howard Auman, who retired the
side in order.
The Peaches went scoreless in their
half of the second but Dunn-Erwin
added their fourth and final run in
that frame when Blaylock was safe
on Williams’ error at third, stt'le sec
ond, went to third on an infield out
and scored on Auman's only wUd
pitch of the game.
Short-Lived Rally
The Peaches started their drive to
tie it up in the first of the fifth. Af
ter Leon Melvin and Buchan had
grounded out, Thomas was safe when
his fly to center field was lost In the
lights and went for a single. Wil
liams walked and both runners ad
vanced on Gardner’s wild pitch to
Catcher Boney. Then, with the count
2 and 2, Boney drove one on the
ground past short-stop and Thomas
and Williams scored.
At that point in the proceedings
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MOTHER OF MRS,H. A. PAGE, JK.
DIES AT 87 IN COLORADO
Seaboard Golf Association Mem
bers and Guests Here Over
Labor Day
ANNUAL GOLF TOURNEY
Southern Pines and the Country Club
are ready for the advent of members
and guests of the Seaboard Golf As
sociation coming for their annual
three-day outing. Every preparation
for their reception and comfort while
here has been in competent hands,
and the usual warm welcome is now
a pleasant habit.
Special Pullman cars will leave
Jacksonville, Atlanta and Ports
mouth though many members from
the Seaboard territory south of the
Chesapeake will motor in at their
convenience. Expected in addition to
principal officers of the Seaboard Air
Line railroad are officials of the R
F. and P. R. R. In fact the guest list
includes ranking officers of many
transportation systems.
For the eleventh successive year,
gathering in ever greater numbers,
the members and their friends are
coming for the tournament to be play
ed over the links of the Country
Club on September 4th, 5th, and 6th.
Match play will begin at 8:00 o’clock
Saturday morning, qualifying rounds
having been played on home courses
and the scores returned to the secre
tary of the association. Both courses,
numbers 1 and 2, will be used, and
as they are in remarkably fine con
dition low scores may be anticipated.
The club house, including the locker
rooms and showers, have received a
thorough renovation. Alfred Grover,
who has officiated for so many years,
is in charge of arrangements at the
Country Club.
The Highland Pines Inn under the
management of M. H. Turner will
open for the reception of the majority
of the members of the association.
Charlie Sadler of the Park View, and
Frank Welch of the Belvedere have
booked reservations for many mem
bers.
The untoward death of E. C. Bag-
well, Chief Operating official of the
Seaboard Air Line, on the eveninjf
before Labor Day, interrupted last
year’s tournament. The finals sche
duled for Monday were abandoned,
and all prizes withdrawn. No elec
tion of officers for this season was
held. Presiding officers for last year,
who held over, are C. E. Miller, pres
ident: W. D. Simpson, 1st vice presi
dent; C. H. Gattia, 2nd vice-president,
and J. C. Brady, secretary and treas
urer.
Robert L. Peck Weds
in Binghamton, N. Y.
Grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Abraham is Mem
ber of Duke Faculty
Mrs. W. C. WetheriU, mother of
Mrs. Henry A. Page, Jr., of Aber
deen, died at her summer home in
Gunnison, Colorado last Saturday
night, according to word received
here early this week. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Page were at the bedside. Mrs.
Wetherlll, who has spent the pa&t
several winters with her daughter in
Aberdeen, was 87 years of age, but
keen of mind and active of body un
til she suffered a heart attack about
one month ago. A large number oi
friends In tlie Sandhills will mourn
her passing.
Robert L. Peck, of Binghampton,
N. Y., grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Abraham of Southern
Pines, and Miss Helen Elizabeth Mc
Lean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Mossman McLean, also of Bingham
ton, were married in the Tabernacle
Baptist Church In Binghamton on
Thursday night of last week. Mr.
Peck, who is the son of Mr. and Mr%.
Clarence M. Peck, has been a frequent
visitor In the home of his grandpar
ents here. Mrs. Peck, daughter of M'*.
and Mrs. Abraham, is a sister of Mrs.
N. L. Hodgkins and Mrs. H. H. Pe-
thlck of Southern Pines.
The wedding was one of the most
brllliimt social events of the year in
Binghamton. The bride was given
In marriage by her father. She wore
a princess style gown of Ivory satin
with a high pointed open neckline,
long tight sleeves and a long train.
Her wedding v..lle of Ivory tulle was
attached to a Juliet headband of wax
ed orange blossoms with a face veil
to the waistline. She carried spray
butterfly orchids. She was attended
by a maid of honor and two brides
maids. The bridegromn's attendant
was his brother, David Peck, as best
man, and the ushers weris Richard
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