MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18, NO. 18.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, April 1, 1938
of the Sandhill Terri to. •'y^o^^North Carolina
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DUKE ENDOWMENT
ANNOUNCES GIFTS
TO INSTITUTIONS
Trustees Appropriate $980,641
to Hospitals and Orphan
Homes in Two Carolinas
$7,772 TO MOORE COUNTY
Duke Endowment trustees, at a
meeting hold Tuesday in New York,
appropriated $980,641 for 105 hos
pitals and 43 orphan homes in the
two Carolinas. Hospitals received
$826,910 and orphan homes $153,701.
The Moore County Hospital was
allotted $7,722, representing 7,722
patient days for charity patients at
$1.00 per day.
The appropriations brought to ap.
proximately $12,800,000 the sum al.
lotted by the endowment to hospi
tals and orphan homes in the Caro
linas since the fund was established
December 11, 1934. Of the total
amount $11,250,449 went to hospi-
tala and $1,562,138 to orphan homes.
In 1924 the group of non-profit
hospitals in the Carolinas totaled 48
ajid they averaged approximately
500 free patients a day. Last year
the group of assisted non-profit hos.
pitals had increased to 124 and they
averaged 2,449 free patients a day,
for which the endowment will be
aaked to pay at the rate of $1 a free
day. Approximately 72,000 patients
received free treatment in 1937, The
endowment will be asked to contrib
ute about $12.50 toward the cost of
caring for each patient.
Dr. Benjamin White
of Southern Pines Dies
Internationally Known Medical
Scientist Was Seasonal
Resident Here
His Condition Critical
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FIVE DEMOCRATS
FILE IN RACE TO
SUCCEED LAMBETH
15urj>in, Lexington and Newton,
(iihson Enter Lists for Con-
fcress at 11th Hour
!‘H1LLIPS NOT TO RUN
DR. LOUIS B. McBRAYER
Dr. McBrayer, former Secretary of the Noith Carolina Medical Society
and the State Tuberculosis Association and a former President of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce is reported critically ill at his
home near Sanatorium. It was reported yesterday that physicians held
little hope for his recovery. Dr. McBrayer has been ill for some time.
Dr. Benjamin White, well known
seasonal resident of Southern Pines
for the pa.9t three winters, died at
his residence on New Hampshire
avenue early Sunday morning fol
lowing a heart attack. j
Born in Cooperstown, N. Y., on!
January 15, 1879, the son of Regi. I
nald Heber White and Fanny Grant j
White, Dr. White acquired an inter
national reputation for his scientific
attainments, and in his specialty as
an immunologist. He was for many
years a prominent biogogist in New
York and Massachusetts. He retired
several years ago because of il!
health. He was widely known in lab
oratory circles and was instrumental
in starting and carrying to comple
tion the Massachusetts program for
the immunization of school children
to diphtheria. He was cloeely asso
ciated with the late Dr. George Bige
low when the latter was Commission,
er of Public Health in Massachusetts.
Dr. White was graduated from
Yale University in 1900. He did post
graduate work in Berlin, Munich,
Vienna and London. He held admin
istrative posts at the Hoagland Lab
oratory, Brook!jm; the Otisville (N.
Y.) Sanitarium and the Saranac Lab
oratory. From 1920 to 1933 Dr.
White was in charge of the State
Antitoxin and vaccine laboratory at
Forest Hill, Boston. Previously he
had been assistant professor of bac
teriology and immunology at the
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Late Noel Laing, Southern Pines,
Trained Grand National Winner
The closing last Saturday night
of the 1938 filing book for candi.
dates in the June primaries found
the following eligible to compete in
the race for Representative in Con-
gres.s from the P^ighth Congression.
al Di.strict, in '• hich Moore county
i.s located;
George R. Ross, (D) Jackson
Springs.
Roland F. Beasley, (D) Monroe.
C. B. Deane, (D) Rockingham.
William O. Burgin, (D) Lexing
ton.
Giles Y. Newton, (D) Gibson.
John R. Jones, (R) North Wilkes,
boro.
Withdrawals after announcement
of their candidacies were made by
Mayor G. B. Rowland of Raeford and
D. C. Phillips of Southern Pines,
both Democrats.
Burgin and Newton entered the
field at the 11th hour. In his an
nouncement Mr. Newton takes a
stand /or a balanced budget, rep
resentative constitutional govern
ment, peace, and the traditional lim
it of two terms for a President of
the United States.
Mr. Burgin is a State Senator.
Moore county’s Election Board for
the coming elections was named at
Raleigh this week as follows:
FIVE CENTS
For Congress
i*OSTOFFICE
TO BE OPENED ON
MONDAY, APRIL 18
Postmaster Buchan Plans Move
From Pre.sent (Quarters on
April 1() and 17
ARRANGE HOUSE WARMING
The United States Treasury De
partment w'ill turn the new Southern
Pines Postoffice building- over to the
Postoffice Department on Friday, Ap
ril 15th. The final inspection of the
building is being made this week
end, and subject to the approval of
the inspectors, Postmaster Fi'ank
Buchan plans to devote Saturday
afternoon and Sunday, April 16th
and 17th to moving from the pres
ent quarters in the Belvedere Hotel
building.
Mail will be distributed from the
new building on Monday morning,
April 18th.
A committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, headed by Dr. George G.
Herr, is arranging for a public in
spection of the building—a sort of
l/UUDi ~ evening the
ILf IVIjJLil i before theofficial opening. The
HnWITl /\WITT\P1 will be announced next week.
THE CROWDS BUSY |
I Aymar Embury, architect of the
building under the direction of the
W. O. BERGLV
GOLF AND HORSE
HORSE SHOW TWO DAYS
Battleship, Owned by Mrs. Scott
Sent To Camden When Noel
Took Trouble iMaker Abroad
SACRED CONCERT SUNDAY
BY HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB
The annual sacred concert of the
Southern Pines High School Glee
Club will be given this Sunday even
ing in the Church of Wide Fellow
ship, Southern Pines at 8:00 o’clock
under the direction of Frederick
Stanley Smith, music supervisor of
the public school. The program will
consist of mixed and female chor
uses by Palestrina, Bach, Fleming,
and Kopolyoff. There will also be
several Russian folksongs and Ne
gro Spirituals, and a newly published
chorus, “Song of the Winds,” by
Mi\ Smith.
In addition to the choral ihiiaic
Mr. Smith will play on the organ
the Mendelssohn Sonata in C minor,
and hla own Festival Prelude, In-
tro^ctlon, Reverie, and Orsinde
Choer. Miss Selma Stegall will ac.
company at the piano. The public is
urged to attend.
Battleship, a son of Man of War
and a horse trained several years
ago by the late Noel Laing of Sou
thern Pines became the first Amer
ican-bred steeplechaser to win the
great British classic, the Grand Na
tional, at Aintree, Elngland last Fri-1
day. Battleship is owned by Mrs. i
Marion duPont Scott of Montpelier, ‘
Va., many of whose horses were
trained in Southern Pines, includ
ing Trouble Maker which won the
Maryland Hunt Cup.
Horses trained by Noel Laing have
now won the world’s two stiffest
races, the Maryland and Grand Na
tional. Battleship was in training
here but a short time before being
sent to Camden when young Laing
went abroad to I’ide Trouble Maker
in the Grand National several years
ago.
Said the Associated Press des
patch on the big race last Friday: I
By the narrow margin of a head, |
the United States scored its first
American_owned and bred victory in j
the 100-year history of the Grand
National Steeplechase today when
Mrs. Marion Scott’s Battleship, a
son of the famous Man o’ War, led
35 rivals over the difficult four
miles and 856 yards.
Battleship, a 40 to 1 shot, made
only two mistakes. The first was
at the caneil turn and the second on
the final jump. His fast finish, gain
ed from several years on the flat,
made up for the last, however. He
took the lead for the first time on
the second trip over Becher’s Brook
but lost it again at the canal turn
and trailed from there until his
great stretch finish.
In winning the purse of approxi
mately $35,000, Batleship covered
the distance in nine minutes, 29 4-5
seconds.
Battleship was purchased as a
three-year-old from W. J. Stratton,
who had campaigned the son of
Man O’War successfully on the flat.
Mr. Salnnon also owned and cam-
paigned Man O’War.
Battleship won the American
Grand National steeplechase at Bel
mont Park In 1934, competed in
many major hunt meets and estab-
llabed himself as one of the leading
Jumpers in the country.
Sightseeing-
Ik'auty Spots To Visit in
Sandhills at This Season
of The Year
With the Sandhills section now
it its prettiest stage of the sea-
3on, The Pilot recommends to vis-
tors sightseeing trips to the fol
lowing places:
Bethesda Cemetery, Aberdeen,
ind the grave of Walter Hines
Page, World War Ambassador to
Great Britain.
Flora Macdonald College Cam
pus at Red Springs.
Pinehurst Peach Company apple
orchards at West End.
Pinehurst Village, private gar.
dens and “Central Park.”
Southern Pines private gardens
and a drive through Weymouth
Heights.
Watson’s Lake.
Patty Ber>? Wins .Mid-South,! office of the Supervising Architect
Mrs. Page Shoots a 69 in An- ! of the Treasury Department, was in
nual North and South j Southern Pines last week and ap
peared to be pleased at the complet
ed structure. Through Mr. Embury's
interest in Southern Pines, where he
The program of major golf ovents; built the Highland Pines Inn, the
in the Sandhills is still in full swing,! ^ank building and numerous resi-
John A. Fry of Carthage, A. S., with the country’s leading women fences, a type postoffice building
Ruggles, Southern Pines and Coy stars battling it out for the 1938; from standard government plans was
L. Lewis, Carthage. ^ North and South championship on^vaived here and special plans sub-
the No. 3 course at the Pinr.hurst i fitted by Mr. Embury approved.
Yale Glee Club To I Countiy Club this week. The tour-^ Landscaping of the grounds has al-
TIiiircrlQi/’ready been started, and everything
Mng- Here l nursaay Estelle Lawson page Of Chapel Hill, j j, expected to be in readiness for the
national champion, breaking all | opening on the 18th.
kinds of records with a 69 in the i Formal dedication of the building
qualifying round. The event winds upj ^.^y not be made until May 28th, ae
on Saturday. | cording to Postmaster Buchan. At
In the annual Southern Pines fea-l^hat time the Postoffice Clerks As-
ture tournament, the Women’s Mid-1 soclation of North Carolina meets
South, played over the Pine Needles, j,cre and the association and Mr.
under the direction of Marshall Bar. course last week. Miss Patty Berg, | Buchan have extended an invitation
tholomew. Mr. Bartholomew is vis-1 young Minneapolis miss, also estab- Postma^er General Farley to be
iting Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lohmann of lished what is believed to be a
Southern Pines while here. ‘ world’s record by playing three con-
Will (Jive Varied Program in
Carolina Theatre at
! Pinehurst
The Yale University Glee Club Is
giving a concert in the Carolina Thea
tre, Pinehurst next Thursday night,
The
present. Mr. Farley hopes to be able
to accept. If he can, the building will
program includes student ^ secutive rounds averaging under 75. officially dedicated on that date.
f rvion^r f 11 Vi q/-I a 7ft o onH q 7?? in VKir ... ....
songs of many countries, Kentucky ^ She had a 76, a 75 and a 73 In her
and Tennessee mountain songs, march to the championship,
among them “Sourwood Mountain,” I Victor Ghezzi, prominent profes-
Randall Thompson’s brilliaut and orlg- slonal, won the annual North and
inal setting of Hilaire Belloc’s poem, I South Open at Pinehurst last week,
"Tarantelle,” composed for and ded-! walking off with the first prize
icated to the Yale Glee Club, a num-1 money of $1,000. The North and
ber of traditional negro melodies, South Amateur for men will be play-
some byegone ballads. Including
Frankie and Johnny, and several
songs of Yale.
Tickets for the concert are on
sale at the Carolina Hotel and the
Carolina Pharmacy in Pinehurst.
ed all next week in Pinehurst.
In horse activities, the annual
Pinehurst Horse Show closed a sue.
cession of events on Wednesday. It
started with an exciting gymkhana
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CAMDEN EXPECTS
RECORD CROWD AT
SATURDAY RACES
C. A. McCallum, Carthage, Wins
Automobile at M. C. Hospital Ball
The Hospital Bal' has come and smart dancing pages from Taylor-
gone. Over seven hundred people en
joyed it, until the wee small hours.
vllle, had a fine reception. And the
Golden Tone Jubilee Quartet, from
, Fayetteville, colored boys who sing
The ballrooms were beautiful, the ^ spirituals, won much
Sandhills Horses Among Big
Field in Carolina Cup Card
of Six Events
A greater race throng at Camden
than ever before is anticipated Sat
urday to view the ninth running of
the famous Carolina Cup. The com
mittee in charge of the race meet
ing reports every parking space
sold and the subscribers to the Cup
exceeds any previous subscription.
Much of this interest being shown is
due to the Camden owned and train,
ed Battleship, the only all-American
horse ever ^o win the English Grand
National. This son of Man O’War,
owned by Mrs. Marlon du Pont
Scott of Camden and Montpelier,
Va., received his training in South-
first jumping race in Camden during
the Washington’s Birthday races in
’33.
Saturday’s races may bring forth
another horse like Battleship, for
his owner Mrs. Scott will be well
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music was excellent, and the crowd
was appreciative. A splendid sum
was realized by the Auxiliary for
the benefit of the Hospital.
James Boyd, president of the in
stitution, made a brief announce-
men*^. but one of great import. Cur_
applause also.
Supper was served efficiently at
midnight, and was followed by the
prlze.drawlng.
To all who helped, to all who en_
joyed, the Ball, the Auxiliary says,
thank you.
Winners of the prizes were: Au.
tis Wlgg, of Pinehurst, a veteran
benefactor of the Hospital, has made i tomoH^e, C. A. McCallum, Carthage;
a gift of four acres of land, and Pine-! radio—B. F. Tow-nsend, Pinehurst;
hurst, Incorporated has given a like I camera, Edith S. Eckert,
amount. This new acreage gives the i winners of $5,00 bills were:
Hospital an adequate area on which ; Moore County Hospital, ticket pur-
to develop. | chased by Mrs. John L. Given, Pine-
On top of this news Mr. Boyd an-i hurst; Emile dePlanque, Pinehurst;
nounced that a friend of the institu-: E. H. Garrison, Carthaf.fc; G. Fred
tlon, as yet unnamed, stands ready
to contribute a very substantial par
of the cost of the much-needed
Nurses Home, and that the Direc
tors are now prepared to proceed at
once to serious planning for that
improvement. Mr. Boyd’s words were
warmly applauded.
Messrs. Picquet, Dunlop, Cameron
and Shepard, costumed in the rai
ment of the Gay Nineties, were what
is known on the Broadway of to
day as a wow. “James and Cecil,”
Farrell, Pine Needles Inn, Knollwood;
Kenneth C. Kimbrough, Memphis,
Tenn., Mrs. Harry Norris, Pinehurst;
George Splane, Pinehurst; Mrs. Fred
M. Hanes, Durham; D. G. Ridenhour,
Mt. Gilead; P. H. Klein, Southern
Pines; J. Carson Maness, Hemp; W.
C. Moreland, Carolina Hotel, Pine
hurst; Bruce McRo^e, Maxton; Ann
Ritchie, Moore County Hospital; Mrs.
James Barber, Pinehurst; Bill Gif
ford, Pinehurst; Miss Frances D.
Ketchum, Pinehurst
with suitable ceremonies.
R. P. Davidson House in
Weymouth Section Sold
E. C. Stevens Also Announces
Sale of Ridge Street Home to
Milton Engstrom
The winter residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard P. Davidson of Coop,
erstow-n, N. Y., on Arbutus Road,
Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines,
was sold this week through E. C.
Stevens. The name of the buyer
was withheld, but Mr. Stevens stat
ed the new owner planned to great
ly Improve both . the house and
grounds. The house was formerly
owned by the late Louis Lachine and
was sold to the Davidsons after U
was damaged by fire several years
ago. Mr. Stevens also announced this
week the sale of the property of
Miss Florence Meakins of Hamilton,
Ont., on Ridge street. Southern Pines
to Milton Engstrom of Southport,
Pa. The house is to be renovated, the
grounds landscaped, adding much to
the attractiveness of this popular
section of tow’n.
Another announcement of local
interest in the real estate market
this week was that of the awarding
to Relnecke & Dlllehay, Southern
Pines contractors, of the contract
for a fine new residence in Rocking,
ham for W. H. Entwhistle, cotton
mill operator there. The building,
which Is to be insulated and air-con
ditioned will be started in the near
future.'
MISS VIRGINIA STEVICK
TO WED MARVIN A. RAY
Mr .and Mrs. D. Wade Stevick of
Southern Pines announce the en.
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Virginia Etaily Stevick, to Marvin
Andrews Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Ray of Linden. The wedding
will take place in June.