JUN 25
1938
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18, NO. 28.
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of the Sandhill Territoi%% North Carolina
K-mlhern Fines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, June 24, 1938.
FIVE CENTS
J. W. HARBISON OF
KANNAPOLIS HEAD
PINEHURST SCHOOL
Principal J. W. Cannon HIkIi
Selected To Succeed Morton
as Superintendent
HAS SPLENDID RECORD
J. W- Harbison, principal of the
J. W. Cannon High School at Kan
napolis for the past' four years, has
been selected as superintendent of
Plnehurst Schools to succeed W- P.
Morton. He will assume charge of
the schools this fall-
Mr. Ha’*'oison comes to Pinehurst
with the highest of recommendations
and with a splendid educational back
ground. He attended the Glen Al-1
pine High School in Burke county!
and was graduated from Duke Uni-1
versity with a B. A. degree in 1926. i
After teaching Science and Mathe-1
matics in Granger High School, Kin
ston, from the fall of 1926 through
the spring of 1929 he returned to
Glen Alpine aa a member of the fac
ulty for 1930 and 1931.
Elected principal of Hildebrand
High School in the spring of '31, ho
served there for two years, going
from there to serve as principal of
a large elementary school in Kannap
olis for one year. While there he was
elected principal of the J- W. Can
non High School which he has since
served.
During these four years the Can
non school has showTi a remarkable
growth. Courses in Home Economics
and Industrial Arts have been in
creased, a four-year course in Bus
iness Education added, and a regular
course in Arts is to be instituted this
fall. A High School Band has been
organized and uniformed, regular
courses in Physical Education intro
duced, a student government asso
ciation formed, and a well rounded
program of athletics and intra-mur
al sports added to the school pro
gram-
Mr. Harbi.son is married <and has
two children aged four and two and
one-half.
He is spending this summer start
ing on a Master’s degree at Duke.
Ml'RDOCH JOHNSON DIRECTOR
OF NEW KIVV.\NIS CLl'B
New Schools Head
ijCONGRESS RACE
WAXES WARM AS
PRIMARY NEARS
J. W. HARBISON
ONE BAD INNING
LOSES LILLINGTON
GAME FOR LOCALS
Peaches. With Three Losses to
No Wins To Credit, Play
at W’ilmington Today
Hurffin Camp Takes Fling at
Deane Advertising, Citing
“Bob” Paije Error
EDITORIAL PRAISES DEANE
The Peaches, the Sandhills Junior
American Legion baseball team, des
pite long and intensive training ses ^-entioned but merely leaves the per-
The fight for the Democratic Con
gressional nomination in this Eighth
district is waxing warmer as the
date for the second Primary nears.
In a letter to The Pilot this week,
E. E. Witherspoon, for 23 years edi
tor of The Dispatch in Lexington,
who is active in behalf of Candidate
W. O- Burgin, takes a fling at the
advertising copy which has been run
ning in various papers in support of
the candidacy of C. B. Deane of
Rockingham.
Mr. Witherspoon calls attention to
the fact that the late Robert N.
Page did not go to Congress from
Moore county, as Mr. Deane’s adver
tising points out, but from Montgom
ery county. It happens that Mr.
"Bob” lived at Biscoe when he first
ran for the House.
“But the greatest oversight,” says
Wither.spoon, “seems to be in leav
ing unmentioned at all the only liv
ing fullterm ex-Congressman of the
■listrict, the Hon. Lee D. Robinson of
Wadesboro, who is a Burgin support
er. The ad gives dates on others
Capt. Alan Inties-Taylor Takes
Kiwanians on Trip to South Pole
Member of Byrd’s Two Expedi
tions To “Little America”
Paints Vivid Picture of Region
To Address Woodmen
Murdoch M. Johnson, formerly of
. Aberdeen and a past president of the
Aberdeen Kiwanis Club, is a mem.
ber of the board of directors of the
newly oi’ganized Kiwanis Club at
Camden, S. C„ where Mr- Johnson is
now practicing law- At the inaugur-
ation banquet a week ago he acted
as toastmaster.
Mr. Johnson, cousin of J. Talbot
Johnson of Aberdeen, also a past
president of the local Kiwanis Club,
has the unique distinction of having
served in the legislature of both
North and South Carolina. He was
a member of the lower house there
before removing tp Aberdeen, served
this county as State Senator while
here and was again elected to the
legislature in South Carolina when
a few years ago he returned to Cam-
den.
sions since they suffered defeat at
the hands of the Hamlet Juniors in
their opening game a week ago Wed-
ne.oday at Hamlet, and further des
pite noticeable improvement afield
and at the bat, now’ have three losses
and no wins to their credit as they
prepare to leave this morning, Fri
day, to engage Wilmington in a
game this afternoon that may either
be the turning point in their cur
rent league campaign or else spell
doom for the success of the club this
season.
Following their initial defeat at
Hnmlet, the Peaches journeyed last
Friday to Lillington where they took
on tho strong aggregation that fin-
iphed last year as champions of this
district’s elimination series. On that
occasion the opposition climbed
aboard four Sandhills pitchers for
an aggregate of 11 hits and 17 runs
that left the local team as helpless
as Max SchmelLng against Joe Louis
on Wednesday night. The Peaches,
as though determined to make it un- j
animou,", contributed seven ei'i'ors to ■
the slaughter. ;
Clinton, the Peaches’ scheduled op- ^
ponent for Monday, withdrew from
the league at the last minute and
conch Ralph Wallace had his charges
out at the Southern Pines ball park |
iod from 1918 to 1920 blank
was a rather odd oversight in view of
the fact that Richmond and Anson
are such near neighbors.
“And Scotland folks may also note
that Hinton James, neighbor to
Richmond, who served the unexpir
ed Hammer term, is also ignored.”
Prals** for Deane
Meanwhile, the Charlotte Observ
er has a good word to say for Mr.
Deane editorially. Calling attention
to the fact that Richmond county,
one of the larger units of the Eighth
district, has not had a Congressman
in 60 years, it says:
“This partly accounts for the re
markable zeal with which his fellow
Members and guests of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club took a trip to the
South Pole Wednesday noon, under
the leadership of Captain Alan Innes-
Taylor. And mentally voted that they
could not have gone under better
auspices.
Captain Innes-Taylor, a new resi
dent of Southern Pines, accompanied
Admiral Richard E. Byrd on both his
r>'peditions to “Little America,” and
there is now a Mt- Innes-Taylor down
there, named for him. The captain
was in charge of land operations on
both Byrd journeys. He told the Ki
wanians a little something of prev
ious expeditions to the South Pole, of
Amundsen and Scott and Shackleton
and John Wilkes, the first American
to explore the region, and of how
Byrd became interested in the idea.
Byrd met Amundsen during his
North Pole trip to fly over the pole
in 1926, and asked the Norwegian if
he thought it possible to fly over
the South Pole. Amundsen encour
aged him. leading to Byrd’s first at
tempt in 1928.
Innes-Taylor told of the differ
ence between the two regions, the
North Pole sector just a mass of
floating ice, only 30 to 40 feet above
sea level, W’hile the South Polar re
gion is a continent in it^lf, some
This I 5,000,000 square miles in extent, ris
ing in places to 10,000 feet above
Sea level.
The average temperature over a
year is 12 below zero the maximum
low around 80 below.
I’reparedness
The success of a polar expedition
lies in its preparation, he said: in the
selection of personnel, ships and
equipment. He told how it was nec
essary to corral materials and foo<i
from many parts of the world, pem-
mican from Denmark, skis from
BOOKS OPEN FOR
SPECIAL ELECTION
REGISTRATION
Southern Pines Residents Must
Be Especially Registered To
Vo(e on Civic Center
K03ERT R. REYNOLDS
SEN. REYNOLDS TO^
ADDRESS W. 0. W.
AT VASS JULY 4
BOND ISSUE OF $9,000
Books for the special registration
in Southern Pines for the election on
Tuesday, July 19 open tomorrow,
Saturday at the Municipal Building
on East Broad street, and will be open
each successive Saturday through
July 9th. The £,pecial election is for
the purpose of determining whether
or not the Town shall purchase for
$9,000 the property between the new
postoffice and the Mudgett building
on East Broad street for a proposed
Civic Center. The election is neces
sary to approve a bond issue to cov
er the purchase price.
No citizen may vote in this spec
ial election unless especially regis-
tered. Registration for municipal or
other regular elections do not en
title one to vbte in the special elec
tion. Those entitled to vote in mun
icipal elections are entitled to reg
ister.
Harrington Proi>erty
The Board of Commissioners of
Southein Pines authorized the spec-
; ial election a month ago, setting the
^ 10,000 Members date as Tuesday, July 19th “for the
of Woodmen Expected For
All Day Celebration
purpose of authorizing the issuance
and sale of $9,00000 in Town of
^ ~ Southern Pines bonds for the pur-
h v.^1^ celebration to, pose of purchasing a lot of land in
e held at Vass bids fair to be one I the Town of Southern Pines, it be-
^ f e\ents of the kind jpg the balance of the Harrington
ever to be held m the Sandhills. The property on West Broad street, ad-
celebration, sponsored by the Wood-j joining the new United States Poat-
men of the World camps of Vass,, office Building and the voters will
Raeford, West End and Southern vote ‘For Bond
Pines is expected to attract from _ Bond Issue ’
5,000 to. 10,000 people-
9:00
Issue’ or ‘Against
and if a majority of
the qualified voters shall vote ‘For
The piogram will get under W'ay at Bond Issue,’ the said bonds totalling
a. m. and will afford contin- ■ $9,000.00 will be issued and sold and
, J, , 'Jous entertainment until the wee, the money used for the purchase of
Norway, dogs from Canada, grass' h on r<s nf nio-hf At m.m , . , . ;
J,. , f , . ^ ’ ,nouis or tne night. At 10:30 the the aforesaid lot of land. If a ma-
from Finlam^ bamboo from Panama, speaking will take place with U. S-ljority of the qualified voters shan
and so on. Equipment must be the | senator Robert R. (Bob) Reynolds I vote ‘Against Bond Issue.” the said
f i! V. ships to navigate j delivering the principal address. T.! bonds will not be issued and the
citizens and neighbors have been .so , through the ice are difficult to f‘nd- e. Newton, State W. Q. W. manager,, Town will not purchase the said lot
eagerly and zestfully pushing C. B. I Ihey were built 100 years ago but I others high in Woodcraft cir-j of land."
Deane, candidate for that honor fj'om not today; they must be wooden; ice ^les will speak, as well as Lieut
Rockingham. ! P'^rces the modern steel craft. Byrd
“Mr. Deane was high man in the | u.sed an old whaler built in Scotland,
first primary race in which there i small but strong, with a steel ship
were five participants. W. O. Burgin, | to follow in its wake carrying much
of Lexington, came so close to him 1 of the equipment and supplies.
that a second race hjs been called j Eighty-five thousand men voltin-
hy th« , ™ner-„p. Roland for the .ecoml Byrd e.pedl-, 3a„ciTh« Vl Jr';'b7h Vuare IZ
and George Ross, tlie next lilcHent | •'“X t'> ‘’'Iround.l
in the race, wei'e eliminated in the
as
Governor W. P. Horton.
Other events on the psogram ni
elude a watermelon battle, foot races,
tug of war, catching the greasy pig,
climbing the greasy pole, ba.seball
game, boxing match, stage show, and
initial voting and the survivng can
didates aie out to make a drive for
the followng of these strong men.
“Mr. Deane’s popularity in his
on Monda.v and Tuesilay afternoons home county and throughout the dis-
of this week i« an effort to prepare ' trict, is a tribute to his personal in-
for a I'eversal of the outcome of last ^ tcgrity and hand-made achievement-
Friday's game when Lillington in.! “He has come a long way from
vadcd the local bailiwick on Wednes.! handicapped beginnings as many
day afternoon. It looked for a while ! other man who was poor in his youth
as though they would do it, too, but , has done, and it is this sort of pluck
a .sour fifth inning in the field, I and determination, coupled with a
wherein Auman issued two bases on , high sen.se of honor and a decent
ball.i. Buchan and Cole got their sig- j consideration of others, which in
j n.als mixed and contributed errors large measure accounts for the plau-
.«ciented who could do a variety of
things, and do them well. The expedi
tion comprised pilots, mechanics, ski
,'"perts, dog sled diivers, the cook
and 16 scientists. They sailed out of
Btiston harUor October 11th, 1933,
put in at New Zealand as their last
port of call before sailing 2,300 miles
south to the Bay of Whales which
riu,')t be entered through a sea of
(Plcctse tio'n to page eight)
Hoey Denies Clemencj"
To Payne and Turner
C. M. Rudel, Prominent
Winter Resident, Dies
Former Pre.sident of Canat 'ai
Vickers. Ltd., Montreal, V.c-
tim of Appendectomy
Clarence M. Rudel, prominent v,-in
ter resident of Pinehurst, died in his
hcime .city of Montreal, Canada o;i
Tuesday following an appcndeCuomy.
i News of his sudden demir e came as
I Slayer.s of Hijjhwa.V I’afrolman • great shock to his host of frien.is
I (ieorye Penn of (’arlhajje i i’’ the Sandhill?, whrie he has spert
1 To Die on Friday. July 1 , his winters for many years. He was
I ■ ^ " j an active member cf the Ti.i Whis-
I Bill Payne’s and Wash Turner's! ties Chib here.
I hopes for life neared a vanishing Mr. Rudel Was president of Cane-
I point Wednesday when Governor
, dian Vickers, Ltd- until his retin-
Ap[Tee To Iveep Small declared he could find “not tho ment about a month ago- Born in
Murlfpt slightest reason to di.^sluib the judg- Cincinnati, Ohio in 1874, he moved to
^ ments of death in the cases of these Montreal in 1902 as general mana-
i i ^ 1-- J- t - * u -lU'ii t' c- condemned to die Friday, ger of Canadian Fairbanks-Mor.'ie.
j and Lillington’s clean-up hitter, Bass, j dits which the voters of this district Sanflnills l.r<>wers iMgn l eluion july i, for the murder near Ashe Seven years later he founded the Ru-
Big Black Bass
Mrs. J. N. Stead Catches
lieautv Weighing 9 Pounds,
10 Ounces at Lakeview
A black bass which weighed
;ine pounds and ten ounces on reg-
jlur scales—not fish scales—was
anded by Mrs. J. N. Steed of
Southern Pines while fishing in
the lake at Lakeview Tuesday af
ternoon.
The fish, which was among the
largest ever caught in this sec-
liton, measured 27 Inches in
length and 18 around the body. A
man's fist could easily have been
thrust into its mouth.
Mrs. Steed hooked this beauty
while fishing from the bank near
the railroad where the water is
comparatively shallow.
Several two-pound fish were
landed by the party, which was
composed of Mrs- Steed, whose
usband is Division Engirteer for
the Carolina Power and Light
Company, Mrs. W- H, Evans and
Mrs. G. H. Buttry. all of South,
em Pines.
smashed a prodigiou.s home run to
the road in center field, gave the
Harnett county boys four runs and
a six to four victory. Thelf two other
runs came, one each, in the fifth
I and sixth.
Auman was most effective for the
Peaches for eight of the nine innings
and his team-mates backed him up
with a barrage of seven hits, an at
tack that should have won the ball
game. Right-fielder Ed Shields had
his best day at bat so far with three
hits out of four trips to the plate-
Tony Huntley had two for four and
N- Melvin and Auman got one apiece-
The Peaches’ runs were accumulat
ed, three in the fourth, on hits by
Shieldis, Huntley and Auman and
two errors by Holmes, the opposing
I pitcher, and one in the ninth, when
Younger walked and scored a mo
ment later when the Lillington third-
baseman hesitated on Auman’s field
ers choice and both runners were safe.
After today’s game at Wilmington,
the remainder of the schedule will
be as follows.
Monday, June 27th, Whiteville at
Whiteville; Wednesday, June 2fith,
Hamlet at Southern Fine®: ;Monday,
July 4th, Whiteville at Southern
Pines and Wednesday, July 6th, Wil
mington at Southern Pines.
poured upon him in the first race.
U. s. No. 1 at Vass To Be
Ready For Use Aug. 1
Hard-Surfacing of 3,000-Foci
Stretch Begun.—Work on
Airport Road
Hard-surfacng of the approximate
ly 3,000-ft. stretch of new highway
between Vass and Lakeview was be
gun last week, and if weather con
ditions arc favorable, v.’ill be com
pleted within a few da.vs. This new
section of Highway 1 will be ready
for use by the first of August, ac
cording to Mr. Crawley, State Engi
neer, who is in.specting fhe work.
The change in the highway will
eliminate the deadly “S" curve a^
the Seaboard Railroad underpass,
which has begun the scene of num.
erous fata! and serious accidents.
Work of oil-treating and improving
the Knollwood Airport road between
the Pine Needles Inn and Carthage
is also under way.
President Roosevelt will address
the nation over the radio tonight,
F’.lday, at 9:30 o’clock Bast#m Stan-
i dard time.
Withholding AU Hut U. S.
No. 1 From Shipment
From the office of the Sandhill
Peach Growers in Candor, Judge W.
L- Currie announced last week that
more than the required 75 per cent
O'.’ the growers had signed the volun
tary agreement to withhold smaller
ffize peaches from the intei^^tate
miarkets for the approaching sea.son.
The petitions were circulated during nient
ville last August of Highway Patrol- Machine Company, and became
man George Penn of Carthage head of the V’’ickers compan.v in 1934.
From their cells on Death Row, Canadian Vickers is a shipouildir■;
Payne and Turner received the Gov- i firm and also manufacturcn ind !s
cronor's decision as calmly as they
heard a week ago that their appeal
for a new trial was denied by the
Supreme Court.
“I’d like to talk to my lawyer,
that’s all,’’ was Turner’s sole com-
the week. 1
Not one man called upon failed to
sign, Judge Currie reported.
Word comes from South Carolina
“I don't see anything that can be
done,’’ Payne declared calmly.
In a lengthy statement, unusual
for cases in which clemency is de
trial and mining machinery, s'ru";-
tural steel and aircraft.
Surviving him are his widow, the
former Miss Anna May i.yier
Cincinnati; three sons, Th i. ias an '
William of New York an< hn
Montieal, and a daughter, Mrf. Ru
del McGill of Montreal.
that growers in the peach section' nied, Governor Hoey declared that
are that the agreement is signed as Payne and Turner, in the ten months
fast as the individuals can be com-1 from their escape from Caledonia
municated with. Inasmuch a« the Prison Farm February 15, 1937, un-
peache* mature, simultaneously in til their capture in Sanford, Janu-
the Carolinas, the cooperative spirit ary 3, 1938, hard “really declared
manifested will do much toward war on Society”
holding us the price on the large “Public justice, pub’.*'*, safety and
size nuHiber one grades. Judge Cur- public decency demand that clem-
rie said. ' ency be denied these prisoners,” the
The agreement in substance pro
vides that growers withhold from in
terstate cmomerce all peaches
which fall to grade U. S. No. 1 and
which fail to size, in the case of
Hiley Belles, one and three-quarters,
and two inches for the Georgia Belle
and Alberta varieties
Hole in One
Tom Black of PineJ’ursl Ga
rage Sinks Tee Shot on No.
6 of Numbetr 2 Course
statement said.
•\T DRUGGISTS’ CONVENTION
Rbbert L- Hart of the Broad street i
Pharmacy attended the Carolina
Druggists' convention in Columbia, |
S. C„ on Wednesday and yesterday-
Tom Black, who takes time of;
from running, the Pinehurst Ga
rage and selling Chevrolets and
Packards long enough to play ar
occasional game of golf, attained
the ambition of all golfers on
Monday-
In a match with B tj. Rich'”’'’
son of the Bank of Pinehurst Tom
sank his t«e sbbt on the sixth hole
of the championship No. 2 course
of the Pinehurst Country Club