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VOL. 18, NO. 9.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, Janary 28, 19.‘18.
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FIVE CENTS
$2,200 IN PURSES
FOR STEEPLECHASE
RACE MEET HERE
Sandhills Association Increases
Prize Awards by $500 Over
Last Year’s Event
$1,000 FOR FEATURE RACE
Mrs. Neville Weds L. L. Biddle
This Morning in Philadelphia^ Pa.
Will Reside at Sunny Ridge
Farm, Pinehurst Upon Return
Here Next Week
The Executive Committee of the
Sandhills Steeplechase & Racing As
sociation at a meeting yesterday vot
ed to increase the size of the purses
for the fourth annual race meeting
to be held on the Barber Estate
course on the Midland Road this
March offering $2200 in prize mon
ey $500 more than the awards of
last year’s meet.
- A purse of $1,000 will be given in
the feature race of the program, The
Yadkin, two and one-half miles over
the brush course, and in each of the
other four events the purse will be
$300. Trophies will be awarded in ad
dition to the purses in several of the
races, and Vemer Z. Reed, Jr., pres
ident of the local association, is do
nating a challenge bowl for the win
ner of the Sandhills Cup event, three
miles over timber.
Those present at yesterday’s meet
ing, held in the office of the secre
tary, L. L. Biddle, II in Pinehurst,
were Mr. Reed, Almet Jenks, Nelson
C. Hyde, Mr. Biddle, James Tufta,
Harry O’Hara, Dion Kerr and Rich
ard Wallach. Mr. Wallach, racing
secretary of the association, arrived
yesterday from Warrenton, Va., to
remain here until after the races.
March 19 Probable Date
Definite word as to the date of
the annual race meeting has not
been received from the National
Steeplechase & Hunts Association,
but Saturday, March 19th has been
applied for and there is believed to
be no reason why the national body
will not award It. Except for the
Washington birthday races at Cam
den, S. C., next month, the Sandh’.lls
meeting will be the first of the sea
son with meetings following on suc
cessive Saturdays through the spring.
Aiken is expected to return to the
schedule this year after a lapse, on
the Saturday following Sandhills.
The Carolina Cup event at Camden
follows on April 2d, with the Deep
Run meeting at Richmond the fol
lowing Saturday. Then follow races
at Baltimore, Middleburg and War
renton, Va., and other northern
points.
It was also decided at yesterday’s
meeting to change the local course
prior to the March meeting, putting
the timber jumps on the inside course
where the flat races have been held,
and running the flat and hurd'e
events on the Bermuda-graased out
side course.
The card for this year will call
for one timber race, the feature
brush race, a maiden brush race, a
hurdle race and a flat race.
DEDICATE NEW CHURCH
IN PINEBLUFF SUNDAY
The new home of the Church of the
Holy Child, in Pinebluff, will be ded
icated on Sunday with services at
11:00.. The Right Rev. Eugene Mc-
Gulnness, D. D., Roman Catholic
Bishop of this diocese, will officiate
at the dedication, and a choir of
children from Notre Dame Academy,
Southern Pines, directed by Miss
Dooley if Illchester, Md., will sing.
On Sunday afternoon there will
be a reception for Bishop McGuln-
ne.ss by St. Anthony’s Church, South
ern Pines, from 3:00 to 5:00 o’clock
at the Highland Pines Inn.
Llvington Ludlow Biddle, 2d, of
Pinehurst, son of Colonel Anthony J.
Drexel Biddle and Mrs. Biddle, prom
inent socialites of Philadelphia, will
be married this morning in Philadel
phia to Mrs. Suzanne Hutchinson
Neville of Pinehurst and Philadelphia,
daughter of Mrs. Andrew S. Burke
and the late Rev. Andrew S. Burke
of Philadelphia. The ceremony will
be performed by Judge E. V. Allesan-
dronl and in the afternoon the couple
will receive the Church Blessing at
the All Saints Episcopal Church of
Wynnewood Pa. The ceremony will
be private and witnessed by the
groom’s parents, his sister, Mrs. T.
Markoe Robertson of Old Westbury,
L. I., Thaddeus M. Daly and Miss
Esther Daly of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Neville received her decree of
divorce from James M. Neville of
Philadelphia last October 25 in Phil
adelphia, gaining custody of her
seven-year old son, Warick Fay Nev
ille, who is now at the Fay School in
Southboro, Mass. She has been a win
ter resident off and on here for the
past 14 years with her mother at
their residence In Knollwood. Sum
mers have been spent in Newport
where she is very active socially.
Mrs. Neville was introduced to Phil
adelphia society in 1925, having just
finished at Miss Master’s at Dobb’s
Ferry. Her father, the late Rev. An
drew S. Burke, was a prominent rec
tor and the All Saints Church at
Wynnewood was built for his pastor
ate.
Mr. Biddle’s marriage to Kate Page
Biddle, daughter of the late Congress
man Robert N. Page and Mrs. Page
of Aberdeen, was dissolved by di
vorce in Fleno on February 23, 1937.
The custody of their son, Living
ston L. Biddle, III, was settled am
icably and he isi now In the care of
his mother at Warrenton, Va., where
he is in school. Mr. Biddle served
in the Marine Corps during the World
War. Shortly after the war he came
to Pinehurst where he was engaged
for several years in the peach busi
ness. He later entered the real es
tate and insurance business, in which
he is now engaged. Mr. Biddle at
tended St. Paul’s School in Concord,
N. H., and Princeton University. His
brother, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle,
Jr., is Ambassador to Poland.
Mr. Biddle is a member of the
Racquet and Tennis Club of New
York City and holds many promi
nent offices in various civic organi
zations in the Sandhills. He Is pres
ident of the Pinehurst Chamber of
Commerce, president of the Moore
County Forestry Association, presi
dent of the Mid-Pines Club, a direc
tor of the Moore County Hospital,
secretary and treasurer of the Sand
hills Steeplechase Association and
assistant treasurer of the Pinehurst
Religious Association.
They will return to Pinehurst the
first of the week, making their home
at Mr. Biddle’s estate, Sunny Ridge
Farm.
New Talc Mine
Rich Deposit Found in Mt.
Carmel Section of County
Starts Offers for Land
Discovery of a new deposits of
virgin talc In the Mt. Carmel sec
tion of Moore county has recent
ly been made. The tract of land
on which the talc Is located Is
owned in part by a Baltimore man,
the rest by local people. One man
is said to have been offered a $5,-
000 profit on his home when it
was learned that the house was
located over a rich talc deposits.
SAFETY FILMS TO
BE SHOWN HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
1 Three Pictures in State’s Cam
paign for Safe Driving Free to
All at Carolina Theatre
APPALLING STATISTICS
BRIDGE EXPERTS
OF STATE GATHER
HEREFOR TOURNEY
Two Hundred Expected for
Matches at The Carolina,
Starting Friday Evening
BOWKER PICKS DANIELS
Ret V d Crowd Expected
For lArthday Ball Tonight
Pleads For Support
PAYNE TRIAL ON
The trial of Bill Payne and "Wash”
Turner Is under way at Asheville and
a number from Moore county are in
attendance, among them Mrs. Geeorge
C. Penn, mother of State Highway
Patrolman George Penn they are ac
cused of murdering. Others at the
trial during the week were Dr. and
Mrs. Charles T. Grier, Mrs. W. G.
Brown and Judge H. F. Seawell, all of
Carthage.
The Census report shows 1,883
bales of cotton ginned in Moore coun
ty to January 16, double the prev
ious year's total.
MRS. JOHN McHUGH DIES
AT HOME IN SOUTHERN PINES
Mts. Mary Keith McHugh, widow
of the late John J. McHugh died In
her home on East Broad street. Sou
thern Pines Monday night following
a brief Illness. Born In Canada, April
24, .1888, Mary Keith came to South
ern Pines with Miss Brvlnla Thomp
son of the Cedar Pines Villa, and
married John McHugh in 1926.
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. T, A. Williams were heJd in
St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic
Church at 10:00 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Interment followed at
Mount Hope Cemetery.
MRS. KIRKOVER DIES
By Frances Folley Butler
Biidge experts of the South are
preparing for the second annual
Pinehurst Mid-Southern bridge tour
nament to determine the regional
champions, in the competition to be
held at The Carolina Hotel this week
end. Mrs. Anna Baker Fenner of
Tarboro, chairman of the committee,
estimates that 200 of the Mid-South’s
best contract players will compete,
as well as northern guests in the
Sandhills.
All entries will play in the qualify
ing match this evening, Friday, at
which session about 40 per cent of
the field will be eliminated. On Sat
urday afternoon the second round will
be contested and the 16 highest
scorers will move into the finals, to
be dealt on Saturday evening.
The Carolina is putting up the sil
ver trophies, which will consist of a
hand.some pair of cups, suitably en
graved, to the champions, an addi
tional pair of similarly engraved cups
to the runners-up, as well as cups
for the top scorers in each section.
In all, there are approximately 50
trophies to be distributed and they
are now on display In the lobby of
the hotel.
J. R. Bowker and Philip S. P. Ran
dolph, Jr., both of Pinehurst and high
scorers last year, will not be able
to defend their title as Carolinas’
champions as Mr. Randolph is in
New Orleans where he is training a
stable of race horses. Mr. Bowker,
however, is entering the tournament
with Dr. L. M. Daniels of Southern
Pines as a partner.
Stars of State Coming
Mrs. Fenner reports that practi
cally all of the outstanding contract
players from The Carolinas and Vir-
glna will be represented. Ross Lind
sey and A. L. Breeden of Bennetts-
ville, winners of the visitors grand
trophy last year, will be contestants
again and will offer stiff competi
tion. Among the outstanding players
from Charlotte will be Ralph Van
Landingham, Jr., and George Hous
ton, both members of the Executive
Committee and among those who
originated the Idea of the bridge
tournament at Pinehurst. Capus Way-
nlck, former chairman of the State
Highway Commission, and Mrs. Way-
nick, of High Point, although not
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Word was received here yesterday
of the death of Mrs. Harry D. Klrk-
over of Camden S. C. a former win
ter resident of Southern Pines. Mrs
Kirkover has been ill for some time.
Mr. Kirkover is well known here
through his activities In hunt racing
and field trials.
No funeral arrangements had been
announced at the time The Pilot went
to press.
MBS. ARTHUR J. SPR.\GUE
DIES AT HER HOME HERE
Mrs. Lucy D. Sprague, aged 87
years, died in the home of her son.
EJarl D. Sprague, No. 6 Ridge street
Southern Pines, Tuesday afternoon.
Accompanied by her son the body
was taken to Pittsfield, Mass., Wed
nesday night. Mrs. Sprague, the wid
ow ot Arthur J. Sprague, was born
In Pittsfield, February 25, 1851, and
funeral services will be held in her
native town.
For a number of years Mr. Sprague
and his mother have been seasonal
residents of Southern Pines.
Thre will be shown in the South
ern Pines theatre, the Carolina, next
Wednesday, February 2 at 12:^0.
three short pictures on safety educa
tion. This is a part of the state
wide campaign for reducing and min
imizing accidents on the highways
The films to be shown are: “Forma
tion.'*,” "Safety Patrols” and “Pre
cisely So.” These picture.'* will em
phasize the safe driving of automo
biles. pedestrian safety and the work
that the schools are doing to promote
safety. The films are sponsored by
the State Highway Safety Division
and personally recommended by Ar
thur Faulk, Director of Safety on the
Highways for the State of North
Carolina.
The Southern Pines School wishes
to thank Charles W. Picquet for the
use of the Carolina Theatre for this
educational promotion of safety in
the schools and community. School
children from grades five through
the Senior class will attend this
showing and any interested patrons
or friends will be welcome.
It is true that:
1. Nearly as many people were
killed in the United States by auto
mobiles on the day “The Morro Cas
tle” burned as lost their lives on
ship.
2. In 18 months of the World
War 50,510 Americans were killed. In
eighteen months of 1935-36 51,500
persons were killed In automobile ac
cldents In the United States.
3. An average of about three per
sons per day are killed by automo
biles In North Carolina. 1,095 were
killed in 1935.
4. In 1934 North Carolina adver
tised higher death rate per 100,000
cars than 43 other states and a
higher death rate per 1,000,000 gal
Ions of gasoline th£in 45 other
states.
5. According to statistics, one
child out of every three faces the
probability of being killed or Injured
in a motor accident before he lives
out his normal span of life.
Each and every accident has a
cause.
Three Arts Group To
Open Exhibit Saturday
Private Showing For Members
and Exhibitors To Be Follow
ed by Public Viewing
Starting this Sunday and contin
uing through next Friday, the re
cently organized Three Arts Group
of the Sanhllls will hold Its first an
nual Art Exhibit, in the Civic Club,
Southern Pines. There Is to be a prl
vate showing tomorrow, Saturday,
from 2:00 to 5:00 p. m. to which all
exhibitors and members of the Group
are Invited, and the exhibit is open
to the public starting on Sunday. The
hours will be from 1:00 to 5:00
dally.
The rules for the Independent, no
jury exhibition as set forth by the
Group for this exhibition are:
All works must be original. They
may be paintings, drawings, etchings,
sculpture, wood carving or bateek.
Exhibitors outside the Group may
send one, two or three things. In
case of too many pictures it may be
impossible to hang as many as three
pictures by the same artist, but at
least one will be hung. They must be
delivered to the Civic Club un’vrap-
ped, Saturday morning, January 29,
and called for Friday, February 4,
after 5:00 o’clock p. m.
Although they will take all possi
ble care of these works the Three
Arts Group and Civic Club cannot be
responsible for loss or damage. An
effort will be made to sell all works
on exhibition that are for sale, 10
percent of purchase price to go to
ward expenses of exhibition.
All pictures must be framed and
a wire on the back. On back of each
work exhibited there must be a card
on which is written by the artists his
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ROBERT R. REYNOLDS
United States Senator
COMMUNITY HOUSE
ASS’N. IN ABERDEEN
TO BUILD HOME
Loss of Meeting Place for Group
Gatherings Has Been
Keenly Felt
, Senator Reynolds Tells Why
Support is Needed. Local Hos
pital Also Beneficiary
Tonight, Friday, Moore county will
celebrate the birthday of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the
15,000 Birthday Balls to be held
throughout the country for the bene
fit of the National Foundation for the
Prevention of Infantile Paralysis and
local charities. Here, the sponsoring
charity benefiting from the proceeds
Is the Hospital Bed Fund of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club.
There is every indication from the
advance sale of tickets that this ball
will tax the capacity of the Southern
Pines Countiy Club. This Is the only
President’s Birthday Ball being held
in Moore county this year, and resi
dents of every nook and cranny are
expectcd. Excellent dance music has
been arranged for, the Carolina Club
Orchestra of Raleigh, and Chairman
C. W, Picquet says "everything is
set” for a good time.
In a radio address at Asheville on
Monday United States Senator Rob
ert R. Reynolds gave some pertinent
facts about the Infantile Paralysis
Fund which derives 30 percent of
the net proceeds from these Birth
day Balls.
Why Support Is Needed
"Let me tell you why your whole
hearted support is urgently needed
in this campaign,” he said.
“There are now over 300,000 vic-
tini? of Infantile paralysis In the
United States. Their maimed and
crippled bodies bear mute evidence
of the horror of this malady. And the
most pifciful and heart-rending phase
of the problem which we face is that
little children are the easy prey for
Plans were set in motion this week
in Aberdeen to provide the town with
a new Community House.
Members of the Community House
Association have been holding a se
ries of meetings for some time, and
on Monday evening at a gathering at jthis swiftly striking malady. It is only
the home of Mrs. W. A. Blue It was natural that all of us are so eager to
definitely decided to proceed with a l^ow what part we can play in af-
campaign for financing the much ^ fording protection and aid to the af-
needed building. | f^^cted.
For the past two months the var- ! “In extending the crusade against
ious civic, literary and charity organ
izations have had no place for en
tertainments, meetings and such, and
the loss has been keenly felt. Sever
al public spirited citizens have of
fered to donate lots upon which a
suitable clubhouse can be erected,
and some building materials have
been donated. On Monday night com
mittees were appointed to decide
upon one of these lots and to com
plete plans for the erection of the
building. Meantime, the Finance com-
nuttee will proceed with plans to
raise the necessary funds.
During the interim, in order that
the association may have a place
where clubs and organizations may
meet and stage money-making pro
jects such as Kiwanis luncheons,
benefit bridge parties, plays and oth
er entertainments, the members voted
to accept, the generous offer of Mrs.
J. R. Page to put the basement of
The Spinning Wheel in good condi
tion. This can be completed and ready
for use in two weeks.
Colored Choral Society
Sings Here Sunday
Prof. Mason, Nationally Known
Artist To Appear as Soloist
With Greensboro Club
infantile paralysis on a national basis,
President Roosevelt, who successfully
battled this malady, has assumed
leadership in the creation of the
National Foundation for the Preven
tion of Infantile Paralysis. This foun
dation has been functioning since
September, 1937, and is administered
to support the following objectives:
"One—Scientific research.
"Two—Epidemic control by rush
ing first aid to stricken areas.
“Three—Making known to doctors
and parents the latest and Important
methods discovered In the treatment
and care of those afflicted.
“Four-—Contribution of needed
funds to orthopedic centers, hospitals
and clinics for the immediate rehabil
itation of the victims.
“The Foundation administers all
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Mid-South Golf Event
Set For March 22,23,24
Tenth Annual W^omen’s Tourna
ment To Be Played a( Pine
Needles Course This Year
In response to a widespread de
mand the Choral Society of the Agri
cultural and Technical College of
Greensboro, a leading negro Insti-
tion, will make Its second appear
ance In Southern Pines at the Church
of Wide Fellowship next Sunday eve-
ing, January 30, at 8:00 o’clock.
Among negro choral societies of
the south that of the Greensboro Col
lege is outstanding. It has estab
lished an enviable reputation for the
quality of its voices and the excel
lence of Its renderings. The Choral
Club visits a number of cities and
towns north and south during each
school year and includes on its pro-
gfams clas,sics, spirituals and semi-
classical music.
Prof. Bernard Lee Mason of the
College Department of Music, a nat
urally known artist of recognized
talent, will appear with the Choral
Society as soloist. This will be the
first time that he has been heard in
Southern Plhes and music lovers will
not want to miss the event.
At a meeting held Wednesday at
The Pine Needles and attended by
George T. Dunlap, Sr., Eugene C.
Stevens, Emmett E. Boone, Sr., How
ard F. Bums and Ted Turner, it was
definitely decided to hold the Tenth
Annual Women’s Mid-South golf toui'-
nament over the Pine Needles course
this year on March 22nd, 23rd and
24th. The transfer of the tournament
from the Southern Pines Country
Club, where it has been held for the
past nine years, is being made in or
der to take advantage of the newly
installed grass greens at the Pine
Needles course in an ef^’ort to at
tract a much larger entry list for
the event.
There will be an 18-hole qualify
ing round on March 22nd and those
qualifying will play In the final two
18-hole rounds on the 23rd and 2Hh,
the complete 54-hole total to de
cide the winner of the medal play
event.
The dates chosen for the Mid-Routh
coincide with those of the North and
South Open tournament at the Pine
hurst Country Club.
Mrs. EJstelle Lawson Page, present
Mid-South champion, has signified
■her Intention of deiending her title.