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Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, January 7, 1938.
TRAIL OF SLAYERS
OFJ.E.CARRAWAY
LEADS TO MASS.
Deputy Sheriff Grimm, W'ilh
New Clues, Enlists Aid of
State Detectives and Police
MURDERED HERE AUG. 6
Hope of apprehension of the slay
ers of J. E. Carraway, proprietor of
Connecticut Camp, on U. S. High
way No. 1 south of Aberdeen, was
revived this week at Woburn, Mass.,
where State detectives and police of
three Massachusetts communities,
with Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm of
th|p county, were working on a “hot
trail,” According to an Associated
Press despatch of Tuesday. Grimm
Is said to have obtained clues which
led to the vicinity of Wobum, Wil
mington and Reading, Mass. None of
the investigators would reveal the
Carraway’s stabbed and badly tic-
Tiature of the new evidence,
composed body was found five days
after his disappearance on* August
6th, lying about 50 feet in the woods
off the Midland Road about a mile
out of Southern Pines, by a local
garage man who was searching for
the rear right tire and rim of Car
raway’s car, thrown from the >,ar
when it plunged across the parkway
between the two roads at the scene
of the crime.
Search was Instituted lor two men
who spent several days at Connecti
cut Camp just previous to the kill
ing and who hired Carraway to drive
them to Pinehurst the day he disap
peared.
The day the body was discovered
Joe Hensley, Pinehurst taxi driver,
gave county officers a description of
two men he drove to Raleigh the
day of the crime. The men were
Armed, Hensley said, and actef' sus
piciously.
Several weeks later two men were
apprehended in New York who hai
served time on North Carolina prison j
farms and who were known to have!
been in the state when the crirae j
was committed. Hensley and Deputy
Grimm Went to New York on the
case but Hensley did not identify the
men. The resemblance was close, he
said, but they were definitely not the
men he had driven to Raleigh.
Deputy Grimm ha.s been assigned
to the case ever since' the crime oc
curred and this is the first break
since its early stages.
FIVE CENTS
Banquet Speaker Here Next Tuesday
fflNSDALE ENDS
LIQUIDATION OF
PAGE TRUST CO.
Closes Office in Sanford, Sends
B(H)ks to State Banking Dept.
Office in Greensboro
MAY PAY 10 P. C. MORE
Governor Clyde R. Hoey
Fine Program Arranged For Gathering of the Clans in Carolina
Hotel.—Dance To Follow Dinner.—Infor
mal—All Invited
Hugh Martin McCaskill
Dies at Home in Eureka
Prominent Moore County Citi
zen Leaves Large Family; Reg
ister of Deeds a Daughter
Hugh Martin McCaskill, 67, of one
of Moore county’s prominent fami
lies, died at his home in Eureka at
3:00 o'clock last Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held Mond.iy
at 3:30 p. m. from the Union Pres
byterian Church.
Mr. McCMklll was bom near u'n-
ion church, the son of John W. aad
Mary McKenzie McCaskill. Most of
his life has been spent in the Eu
reka community. He married Miss
Alice Blue who died last year. He is
survived by five sons, Walter, Will,
Edison McCaskill of Eureka, John
McCaskill of Durham, Clifton Mc
Caskill of Carthage: three daughters,
Misses Elizabeth and Myrtle Mc
Caskill of Eureka and Bess McCas
kill, County Register of Deeds, of
Carthage; two brothers, K. W. Mc
Caskill of Jackson Springs, Angus
McCaskill of Eureka; four sisteis,
Miss Annie McCaskill, Mrs. A. L..
Blue of Eureka, Mrs. F. W. Voncan-
non of West End, and Mrs. Dolj-h
Blue of Carthage. Another sister,
Mrs. Betty Currie of Jackson
Springs, died less than two weeks
ago.
Mcelroys have son
An eight and one-half pound boy
was born Wednesday afternoon in
the Moore County Hospital to Mr.
and Mrs. H. G. McElroy of Southern
Pines. He has been named Clinton
Eugene. Both mother and son are
doing nicely, and father pretty
proud.
Chairman Charles W. Picquet of
the committee on arrangements for
the “Sandhilleers” banquet 8t the
Carolina hotel in Pinehurst next
Tuesday even, the 11th. at 7:30
o’clock, told directors of t^e South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce the
plans for the dinner at their meet
ing held Tuesday at the Highland
Pines Inn. The feature of the ba i-
quet, which is being sponsored by
the Chambers of Commerce and oth
er civic organizations in the county,
will be an address by Governor Clyde
R. Hoey. Mr. Hoey will be presented
by M. G. Boyette of Carthage, chair
man of the Moore County Democrat
ic Executive committee.
Another banquet feature will be
the singing of old Scotch songs by
Dr._ Charles G. Vardell, president-
emeritus of Flora Macdonald Col
lege, and the dancing of the High
land Fling and other dances by a
group of Flora Macdonald young
ladies.
There will be a musical program
during the dinner, and afterwards ttle
guests will as.'iemble in the Carolina
ballroom for an informal dance, with
music furnished by the Carolina Or
chestra. Mr. Picquet stressed the
point that the banquet was for every-
one in the county, that it would be
informal, that ladies are by all means
invited, and that tickets would be
one dollar per person. He asked that
those planning to attend notify hitn
by next Monday, in order that the
Carolina may know how many to ex
pect.
Dr. R. L. Havt, president of the
Southern PLres Chamber of Com
merce, said yesterday that if any
desiring to attend the banquet find
themselves without transportation to
the Carolina next Tuesday night, and
will notify him, he will see that it
is provided.
S. J. Hinsdale, liquidating agent cf
the defunct Page Trust Company,
last Friday closed the books of the
bank insofar as his labors of several
years were concerned, closed his of
fice in Sanford, despatched the tilea
and records to Greensboro. There
Thomas A. Herrell, liquidating agent
for the North Carolina Banking oe-
partment will continue the . work
started by Mr Hinsdale.
The bank, founded in Aberdeen,
maintained offices In Aberdeen, San
ford, Carthage, Hamlet, Libe-ty, Si
ler City, Raeford, Ramseur, Troy,
Thomasville, Zebulon, Raleigh and
Apex. It closed its doors at the time
of the national bank holiday declared
by President Roosevelt in March,
on a restricted basis thereafter, has
1933, and except for a brief existence
been in a state of liquidation since.
To date the common depositors
have received 30 percent. It is aaid
they will receive an additional ten
per cent before final liquidation is
completed.
Liquidation of the banking system
was handled by Mr. Hinsdale, whi
had his offices in Sanford. He also
served as liquidating agent for the
Bank of Baden, the Bank of GoldstJn,
the Bank of Moncure, the Bank of
Oakboro, and the Bank of Vass. AH
have been liquidated. Mr. Hinsdale
and his wife have returned to their
former home in Burlington.
Bill Payne, Turner, Caught;
To Face Trial on Charge of
Murder ot Patrolman Penn
Tied for Third
North Carolina Ranks Low in
Ratio of Unemployed
to Population
There are 94,711 unemployed in
North Carolina, the recent census
reveals. Of these 31,030 are engag
ed in WPA, NYA, CCC or other
emergency work.
North Carolina ties with Ari
zona for third place in low per
centage of unemployed per capita
of population, with 2.9 percent.
Iowa, with 2.5, led the list, Ve.--
mont was second with 2.8. The
highest percentage of unemploy
ed was found in the Di.strict of
Columbia, 7.7.
Cenarus figures by counties in
the state are not yet available.
Boyd Thanks Hospital
Auxiliary for Fine Work
Tells of Hopes and Plans for
Nurses’ Home at Annual
Meeting of Organization
Southern Pines Postoffice Breaks
All Time Revenue Record in 1937
Receipts Show Approximate
Gain of 35Vo in Five Years;—
New Building Ready in April
The Southern Pines Postoffice
broke all records for annual revenue
during the year 1937, Postmaster
Frank Buchan announced yesterday.
Totsil receipts were $24,779.72, which
is $1,695.82 ahead of the previous
year and $6,680.75 ahead of tlic
“low” year for receipts, 1933—a gam
of approximately 35 percent in five
years. There has been a steady gain
each year since 1933.
The former high year was 1930,
when revenue totaled $22,087.52.
December, 1937 was also top month
in history, with receipts of $4,364.19,
a gain of $804 12 over December,
1936.
Should the gain in revenue of the
past few years continue at its pres
ent pace, the Southern Pines office
will move up a classification ?n
another year. It didn't miss it b^
much this past year.
Government building inspectors
estimate that the new Southern Pines
jiostoffice will be ready for occupan
cy by April 1st. At the Tuesday
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce plans were set in motion for
the dedication ceremonies at the
time the building is taken over by
the federal government. A special
committee of the Chamber is to be
appointed by President Robert L.
Hart to arrange the program.
To Give Reading
Katherine Newlin Burt on
Civic Club Program For
January 14
The Civic Club is very proud to
announce that on Friday afternoon,
January 14th Katherine Newlin Burt,
author, will be the club’s guest
speaker, reading from one of her own
books. This is a treat long over
due and will be welcomed with much
enthusiasm and anticipation. Mrs.
Burt leaves Southern Pines on Feb
ruary 1st for Philadelphia to take up
her new duties as fiction editor of
the Ladies Home Journal. After
Mrs. Burt has finished her reading
at the Civic Club she will be glad to
answer questions on her new inter
est with the Journal and on writing.
The public, including hotel guests
and winter visitors are cordially in
vited to this meeting, which will be
followed with tea and a social hour.
On Monday, January 10th at 4:00
o’clock the Civic Club will present
Clyde ST Wilson in the first of six
book reviews to be given on Mon
days for six weeks. The course is at
a very popular price to cover ex
penses only, and promises to be one
of the social and cultural highlights
of the season. Enough guarantors
have been secured to make this pos
sible and tickets may be had from
(Please turn to page four)
The members of the Woman's Aux
iliary of the Moore County Hospital
were heartily commended for their
work last year by James Boyd, pres
ident of the hospital in a talk at
Tuesday’s annual meeting of the aux
iliary. A large number of members
were present to hear Mr. Boyd and
to make plans for the coming year.
Mr. Boyd began his talk by saying
that, although he might be expected
to do so, he could not congratulate
the women of the auxiliary on their
work for the hospital last year. He
could congratulate the county on hav
ing such an excellent auxiliary, but
not the women themselves for doing
what was natural to them, any more
than a fox hound could be co;igrat-
ulated for running a fox. He thea
told the members about the plans
for the nurses’ home, which is so
badly needed and which everyone
will be glad to see built and in use
in the near future.
After his address, Mr. Boyd re
mained to attend the annual meet
ing. The reports from the various
committees, which were read, told of
much good work accomplished. Not
ably the very successful Chanty
Ball last Spring, which, with many
donations, made possible the rebuild
ing and re-equiping of the dining
room and kitchen of the hospital.
The regular monthly meeting fol
lowed the annual session and it was
voted to purchase an invalid cart,
such as Dr. Clement Monroe desires,
to carry patients to the operating
room. Mrs. Dana Loid about the
Christmas party given at the hospi
tal through the help of Dr. and Mrs.
Myron W. Marr and Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Sherrerd. Mr. Sherrerd,
dressed as Santa Claus, gave pres
ents to all the patients. Orchids were
donated by Judge Way for all the
private patients and Karl Andrews
donated the Chalfonte orchestra for
the afternoon.
UR(JE ROUTE CHANGK
TELS KIWANIS
HOW TO AID IN
VENEREAL FIGHT
Dr. Knox of State Health Dept.
Outlines Program For Coun-
tywide Campaign
CLUB PROJECT FOR 1938
Dr. J. C. Knox of the State De
partment of Health told members of
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club Wednes
day how to go about widening the
scope of Moore county’s campaign
against venereal diseases. ’The coun
ty at present has one clinic, in West
Southern Pinea, for the examination
and treatment of cases, and the Ki
wanis Club has made expansion of
this work on>’ 6f its major projects
for 1938.
Dr. Knox recommended the estab
lishment of additional clinics in se
lected centers of population in the
county; the carrying on of the work
without cost to the patients insofar
as possible; the cooperation of prac
ticing physicians, without remuner.i-
tion if possible, but paying some
thing if necessary; the keeping of
the clinics under supervision of the
County health authorities, and the
putting forth of every possible effort
to keep those found infected paying
regular visits to the clinics for treat
ment.
He thought it Ikely that the State
would be able to lend some financial
aid in the work, from the proceeds 'jf
the foundation recently established
by the Zachary Smith Reynolds es
tate. Dr. Knox stressed the impor
tance of the work throughout state
and nation, stating that it was esti
mated that one in even^ etnosrejn
mated that one in every ten persons
suffers fcom some form of venereal
infection. He said North Carolina
has 66 of its 100 counties now op
erating clinics, with a total of 86
clinics in the state.
The club Wednesday adopted its
budget for 1938.
ABERDEEN MAKING SURVEY
OF .AVAILABLE LABOR HERE
A delegation from the Sandhil s
appeared before the State Highway
Commission yesterday to again urge
the direct Hillsboro street routing of
the highway <-hrough Raleigh.
Gloma Charle? of Aberdeen, on
behalf of the Aberdeen Chamber of
Commerce, is conducting a survey of
available labor in the Aberdeen ter
ritory, in the interest of the organi
zation’s drive for new industries. The
survey w'ill cover a radius of some
12 miles of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen business men are nego
tiating now with a textile manufac
turing concern which appears inter
ested in locating here, a business
which would require a large factory
and provide employment for several
hundred persons.
Notorious Bandits, Surrounded
by G-Men in Sanford, Taken
Without a Fight
IN JAIL IN ASHEVILLE
The notorious Bill Payne and his
buddy in crime, "Wash” Turner, arc
behind steel bars in Asheville. North
Carolina’s No. 1 bad men were sur
rounded by “G-Men” of the United
States Department of Justice at San
ford last Monday night at 6:45
o’clock and captured without resist-
‘\nce. They were rushed by motor to
Charlotte before Sanford knew what
had happened.
Acting under direct orders from
John Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation who
remained at his Washington head
quarters, special agents of the bu
reau swooped dow'n on the unsus
pecting pair on Steele street In the
heart of Sanford. Payne and Turner
were both armed, but the cordon of
agents had them surrounded so
quickly that they gave up without a
fight.
Payne and Turner have been
sought throughout the state since
their escape from the Caledonia Pris
on Farm in February. They were
wanted on charges of bank robbery,
murder, kidnapping and highway
robbery, and officers believe they
were probably involved in a score of
other crimes.
Shot George Peun
The crime for which Moore county
citlzenit have particularly desired
their apprehension was the murder
of George Penn of Carthage. State
Highway Patrolm£m George C. Penn
on August 22 pursued an automobile
j containing two men who fired upon
him. In the ensuing gun battle. Pern
vva.s killed. Th« killers later were
identified positively as William
Payne and John Washington Tume-,
alias Jack Borden. As a resulb> a
complaint was filed before the Unit
ed States commissioner for the west
ern district of North Carolina charg
ing the two convicts with unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution. At that
time. Federal agents announced:
“Payne and Borden are two of the
most notorious bandits in the South,
and their reputations for lawlessnes.-j
are known to police officers of sev
eral state.s.”
The banditry of the pair at times
hit close to this section. On Ma-rh
10th the Bank of Montgomery at
Troy was robbed by three men who
obtained $3,383, and Payne and Tu r
ner were identified as two of tiu
trio. Payne has also been identif ed
as one of the robbers of the Bank
of Candor at Candor on Septemoer
28th.
"Spud” McLeod Beleased
When arrested at Sanford Carlos
“Spud” McLeod was with Payne and
Turner and was taken with them to
Charlotte for questioning. He was re
leased the next day. “Spud” lives in
Sanford, the son of Carlos McLeoi,
former postmaster at Carthage and
for a time manager of the late Gil
liam Brown’s garage there. Since re
turning to Sanford from Charlott-j
“Spud” has denied that he was a
“stool pigeon” for the G-Men in
their apprehension of the bandits.
He acknowledged he knew Payn..*,
said he first met him in a fillln^r
station near Sanford in 1934 but hai
not seen him in the last three mont>;j
until Payne appeared at his taxi
stand in Sanford Monday.
Av Charlotte Payne and Turn'r
are said to have conffs.sed to
number of the bank robberies, but ‘ i
have denied connection with Penn
killing, for which they have bee i
indicted by a Buncombe county gra : !
jury. They will stand trial In Aa>.e-
ville this month on the mur.:cr
charge.
DK- RAYMOND IJK.4VES
Dr. C. Rexford Raymond lelit v -
ly this week for Franklinton, wh re
he will lecture on “The Messages of
the Hebrew Prophets” and act as
chaplain on Sundays at the Institute
of Ministers.
first ISSITE S.\TURDAV
The Pinehurst Outlook, weekly wi
ter and spring resort magazine of
the Sandhils, and the oldest reo)-).-!;
magazine printed in Ameri;a wi.
Bume publication for its forty-sec:)-..I
s»ason tomorrow, Saturday.