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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper^Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18, NO. 34.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, August 5, 1938.
FIVE CENT8
TO USE AIRPORT
ATKNOLLWOODIN
ARMY AIR GAMES
Fifteen Army Planes and 150
Men To Be Qujirtered There
From October 3 to 17
TOWN NOW MAKING READY
With the arrival here on Monday,
October 3rd. of 15 planes and approx
imately 150 officers and men of the
Army Air Corps, Knollwood Airport i
will, for two weeks until October!
17th, be the scene of intensive ac- ;
tivity as a key area in the Army air
games to be held between those dates
in this area, and described as “the
largest and most important air de
fense exercises yot devised by the
army.”
On Tuesday, Airport Manager Har
old Bachman conferred with Colonel
Kepner, who came here from L;ing- :
ley Field, Va., to arrange for the;
use of tlie Knollwood Airport facili-,
ties, and at the same time Mayor*
D. G. Stutz and City Clerk Howard ^
Burns were called in to arrange for \
a water supply at the airpoit suffi
cient to meet the needs of the
troops to he quartered there during!
the maneuvers. :
The Air Corps officers, men and j
planes will arrive on October 3rd and I
arrangements have been made to 1
turn over to them one of the air-;
port's two hangars to be used as an |
officer’s headquarters, radio control
room and supply depot. The planes
will be staked down on the airport
field and the officers and men will
live in tents to be placed along the
Carthage Road, on the airport prop,
erty.
In addition to the planes, other
equipment to utilised wUl be a
complete two-way radio communica
tion system, a mobile lighting Unit,
consisting of a revolving beacon,
floodlights and boundary lights and,
possibly, a battery of antLaircraft
artillery.
Tlie maneuvers, which will take
the form of testing an elaborate air
craft warning network betw^n hese
and the Atlantic coast, will center
around Fort Bragg, with the Knoll*
•wood and Maxton airports as aux
iliary posts »and, according to ad.
vance reports, there will be about
four hours of daytime flying and
four hours of night-time flying daily
at Knollwood during the two weeks
the maneuvers last.
It is also expected that at some
time during the two weeks at least
one ol every kncw'n type of plane
in usft by the Army Air CorpB ^1
Ten Years of Hard Work Gets Results
A; "S'
Site is Selected Here For
Boys^ Preparatory School
*
HeW As Gun Girl
Carthage Girl Alleged To He
Companion of Youthful Tar
Heel Bandit
Officers in Sumter, S. C., on
Wednesday arrested Janies God
win, 20, wanted in North Carolina
Dn severr.l charges of holdup, bur
glary and deadly assault. Deputy
J. L. Dollard, w^ho apprehended
Godwin, said he arrested the
youth after a fight in which he
attempted to .shoot the officer-
Dollard said a woman with
Godwin was booked as his wife
ind charged with being an ac-
com])lice to a robbery. Godwin
.va.9 repoi'tt'd to have n^arried Hel-
'n Whitefii-ld Way of Carthage a
'’i w days ago.
Option Taken On 115 Acres of
Midland Farms Land on
Midland Road
I’iclured above is the architect’s drawing o' tjie permanent honn tVir tlie Institute of (iov-
eininent iit t.hapel Ilill. The contiact has just been lei. 1 lie buiUlinj^' will be of (Oloniul (It'sij-m
and will have four floors, and 20 rooms, includin”: offices, assembly unci exhibit rooms, trainin'?
.schools and clubroonis for public otfuial.s.
STATE BOARD TO
MORTON TO HEAD
PULASRI, TEiNN.
PUBLIC SCHOOL
Former 8upt. of Pinehurst
Schools Accepts Call To Post
Near Former Home
WAS HEI^"Ti YEARS
Institute of Gova im mt to Get
Permanent Home at Chape Hill
be on the Knollwood field.
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Hawaii Clipper Victim
Frequent Visitor Here
E. E. “Tea” Wyman, Airline
Official, Often Visited
E. C. Stevens
Included in the list of passengerg,
in the newspaper accounts of the
missing Hawaii Clipper, last week,
WRB the najne of E. E. Wyman of
New York City, and The Pilot has
learned that Mr. Wyman waa a fre
quent winter visitor to Southern
pineB, where be waa inyariably a
guest of Eugene C. Stevens.
Mr. Wyman and Mr. Stevens vrere
classmates at Yale University la
1918 and only as recently as this
past June attended the 20th reunion
of the aass of ’18 together. Mr.,
Stevens is now in New York with
Mr. Wyman’s famUy.
“Ted” Wsraaan, as he was known
to his friends, was until recently a
vice-president of Pan-American Air
ways which position he resigned
some’ two months ago to accept a
-vice-presidency in Curtls-Wrlght. And
he boarded the Hawaii Olpper last
week enroute to China on company
[business armed with letters of intro
duction to high-ranking Chinese of
ficials from Mr. Steven’s brother,
John F. Stevens, Jr., who wa* for
years Oriental representative for
8ter».Ro«l9uck-
W. p. Morton, superintendent of
the Pinjahurst Public Schools for the
past 14 years, has accepted the
principalship of the Pulaski public
schools at Pulaski. Tenn. He will
leave Pinehurst within the next few'
days to assume the duties of this
position.
Pulaski is the county seat of Giles
coimty, in the heart of the blue grasj
section of middle Tennessee. It is
70 miles south of Nashville and 30
miles south of Columbia, the former
home of Mr. Morton.
Mr. Marton became superintendent
of the Pinehurst Schools in the
sumtmer of 1924. During his admin
istration the schools made marked
progress. Both the average attend-
anoe and the number of teachers
more thain diJUbled. The Pinehurst
elemetary school was made a stand
ard school; both the white and col
ored high Schools were made accred
ited high schools.
Before coming to Pinehurst, Mr-
MortoA h£ui been headmaster of the
Columbia Militany Academy at Co
lumbia, Tenn. He had also been prin
cipal of the Columbia High School
and superintendent of the Gallatin
city schools and the Springfield city
school* He received both hie B. S-
degree and his M. A. degree from
Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.
He has done special and graduate
work in the University of Tennessee,
the University of Chicago and Co
lumbia University.
During his 14 years In Pinehurst,
he always took an active Interest in
the community life of his town and
county. He was superintendent of the
Sunday Sqhool In the Pinehurst Com-
munlty Church for the past 14
years. He took an active interest in
the activities of the young people. He
was twice president of the Moore
County Educafiofl Association. This
past year he was, for the third time,
president of the Moore County Educo
Club. Last year he served as presi
dent of the North Carolina Peabody
College Alumni Association. He Is a
member of the Phi Delta Kappa hon
orary fraternity.
In being called to the principalship
of the Pulaski schools, Mr. Morton
receives a well-deserved promotion.
This position is one of the most at
tractive In middle Tennessee and his
many patrons and friends in North
Carolina wish for him and his family
continued success and happiness.
North Carolina now produces an
nually approximately 10 million bush
els of Irish potatoes, but prior to
1870 the State produced less thaii
one mlUon bushels, anntially, reports
the Stake Department of Agricul
ture.
First (iovcrnnu'nlal Demonstra
tion Laboratory In Country
To He l)c..ionsi rated Soon
Chapel Hill, N, C,. Aug. 3 The
tir,»it eity-county-stato governmental
'ierr.onstration laboratorv in the coun
try, to which the public officials,
citizens, and students and teachers
of civics and government in Mooro
county may oome to see demonstrat
ed in one center the governmental
practices scattered in 100 county
courtliouses and some 300 city halls,
will be built in Chapel Hiii, AlbeM
Coates announced today.
“Some governmental practices,”
said Mr, Coates, “are better than
others, and through the collection,
comparison and demonstration of
these methods ^d practices this
gftvemmental laboratory will help
public officials to raise the stand
ard of governmental perfoi-mance by
lifting the poorest practices to the
level of the best.”
The building will be the home of
the Institute of Government and is
tc be situated on Franklin street, fac
ing the University of North Carolina
campus. It will be of colonial brick
de!^ign with four floors and 20 rourns,
ini luding offices, assembly and es
hibit rooms, training schools ard
olubrooms for public officials. Con.
tracts were signed la.'’'' week and
c'instruction will begi.n at once.
“During the past five years,” said
Mr. Coates, “members of the staff
of the Institute of Government have
beefi going from city haJl to city hall
and from county courthouse to coun- j
ty courthouse gathering materials
and forma and making surveys o!
differing governmental practices.
Surveys already completed Includij
Pasquotank and New Hanover in the
East, Guilford and Mecklenburg in
the Piedmont, Buncombe and Chero
kee in the West, and in all the cities
and towns in these counties.
Thus 96 counties, 187 cities and
towns, £Uid practically all state de-
partmenta are joining in building the
Institute of Government and in car-
ryftig on this work, Mr. Coates said.
During the coming year it is expect
ed that exhibits will be received
from every North Carolna city, coun
ty and state department.
The laboratory building v,'tll also
provide a home for the Institute of
Government’s clearing house of lix-
formatlon. Books, pamphlets, spocial
studies, maps and charts already in
the Institute library number in the
thousands, with hundi’eus of new
books and pamphlets coming In each
month. Nearly 200 governmental
magazines, state, national and for
eign, furnish up-to-the-minute in.
formation on current activities and
developments in the field of govern
ment. More than one hundred daily
and weekly newspapers are received
regularly.
The laboratory building will also
serve aa headquarters for the Insti
tute’s training schools, m%ny of
1 (FUaat hum to pa§t fiv*)
July Weather
Inches of Rainfall In
Kifjht-Day Period IJrings
Year Total To Normal
PROBESATURDAY
.May Declare Winner of Dcano-
liurfjin Race After Meelin.tf
In Rockingham Tomorrow
RriMOR HIIKGIN LEAD CUT
St. Switbin's Day, the 1.5th, was
cleiir, but the follovvers of the wea
ther legend were soon betrayed. In
stead of dear skies, the lowering
clouds hung over the Sandhills from
the 18th until the 26th, two and one-
half Inches of rain falling on just
one day, the 25th. In all the precipi
tation for the month totalled 9 06 in
ches, exceeding the normal by near
ly two inches and bring:ing the total
rainfall for the year to a nearly
normal average. ]
The continuous rainfall within the.
eight days halted the picking and
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J. S. MANNING
SUCCUMBS TO
HEART ATTACK
Former State Attorney General
and Supreme Court Justice
Passes at Home In Raleigh
FREQUENT VISITOR HERE
Funeral services for Judge James
Smith Manning, 79-year-old former
State Attorney General and Supreme
Court Justice who died ypexpectedly
early Fridby morning at his home
in Raleigh of heart failure, were
held at 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon
in Christ Church, Raleigh^ conduct
ed by the Rev. John A. Wright, pas
tor. Brief services were conducted
at the home.
Judge Manning, for years a resi
dent of Raleigh, dropped dead in his
bathroom about 12:15 a. m. Friday
morning as he was preparing for hia
bed. His wife, in a nearby bedroom,
heard the aound of his falling, rush
ed to his side, but he waa already
dead . ,
He had not been In poor heqdth,
according to reports, and he and
Mrs. Manning had spent Thursday
with their daughter, Mra. Jamea S-
Milliken, in Southern, Pines, leaving
to return to Raleigh at about 4:30 p.
m.
Surviving, besides the widow, the
former Miss Julia Tate Cain, w^hom
he married in 1888, are four child-
1‘en, Sterling C Manning of Raleigh,
Mrs. Junius B. Powell of Tarrytown,
N. Y.; Mrs. James MlUlken of Sou
thern Pines and Col. John Hall Man
ning, a son and law partner; a broth
er, Isaac H. Manning of Chapel Hill;
two sisters, Mrs. Weldon Huske of
Fayetteville and Mrs. Will Webb of
Bellbuckle, Tenn.
Judge Manning, a native of Pitts*
boro, was the son of John and
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A quick fini.s to the investigation
of widespread fraud charges in the
second primary Eighth District Con-
grersional race was forecast Tuesday
as Chairman W. A. Lucas announced
that the Sta,te Board of Elections
will meet in Rockingham Saturday
morning to complete its Richmond
county probe-
The Brtard wiil me^t at 10:00
o’clock in the courthouse to give fin
al consideration to chaxgeg by W-
O. Burgin, apparent leader over C.
B. Deane, that fraud occurred in
absentee balloting in Richmond coun-
Lucas deterred the scheduled an
nouncement of th£ Board’s findings |
at the recent meeting in Raleigh, but j
indicated that copies of the Board’s I
findings would be submitted to'
Board membei-g a.t the Rockingham ]
meeting Saturday.
Mr. Lucas said the entire primary j
picture \^ill be cleared shortly there-}
after, if not then- He promised a
quick certification of sccond primary
results as soon as members had
agreed upon conclusions reached as
a result of the election probes.
Whether the artate Board will or^
der a recoimt of Davidson county’s
absentees remained' a question. Ru-
mors were afloat Wednesday that
the Board had placed Deame ahead
as the result of the evidence uncov
ered in Deane’s affWavits in Davidson
county and that Burgin had asked
for a further investigation in Rich
mond c^inty in an effort to regain
his lead. This is merely a rumor. \11
of the facts will be brought out at
the meeting Saturday.
Mr. Lucas told newspapermen that
"The Board hast made a thorough
canvass of all election charges ex
cept the matter in Richmond county,
and it is «ay hope that the investiga
tion may be concluded very shortly ”
Burgin’s lieutena«»ts have been
busy this week build‘lng up their
case to present to the Board at the
meeting Saturday- Deane stated
Wednesday that Major 1* P. McLen
don, of Greensboro, former chairman
of the state Bo&n^of Elections, who
appeared before the state Board in
his behalf, will be in Eockingham
Saturday along with several Ucal
lawyers. ^
The state Board of Eelectlons ad
journed last Thursday in Raleigh af.
ter being in session since July 19 in-
vestigatlng charges and counter
charges brought about by Deane and
Burgin.
North Carolina farmers now plant
only about one-half of the acreage in
oats that they did during the 70’a
and 80’s, report State Department
of Agriculttire statisticians. The
trend, however, has been upward
sine* 1928.
PRICE SET AT $2(),0(M)
Culminating five months of inves
tigations .and conferences on the
matter of the pioposea .establishment
of a North Carolina preparatory
.school for boys in the Southein Pines
Knollwood-Pinehurst area, and the
.selection of a suitable .site for the
school, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson,
\ chairman of the sub-committee that
i is arting in coopeiation with Fran-
i cis M. O.sborne and a larger com-
' mittee of local citizens interested in
the matter, announced Wednesday
■thnt thiee month’.s option has been
•secund cm approximately 115 acros
of Miflland Farms land located half
way between Southern Pine.-’ and
Pinehuist, on tli« south side of the
Alidlanii Ruad- The cost of the prop
erty, in cvi-nt of purchnsi', i.s not to
’ : '..-ed $20,000
I
Cc)0{.i ift.ing with Air ().<!..- r.e, the
■ ■ u-i.iminitt. • is now e ir ■' ; in ar-
I::‘>ging a finanei:d canii!;,/;;. ti^
ci'rv thi- ni - i s.sary $20 »m;0. ; . Shelby
■iiilom, vir: president of tr.. Bank
of Pint-hut • has agreed ,■• act as
1 r_
SoiPi- months ago, oftir Mi. Oti-
borne fil^^ liroaohed the subject of
,a boy'.s preparatojy school here with
a .selected group of residents, an ef
fort was made to purchase the
property now occupied by the Mid-
Pines Club, but no purcha.se price
couki be agreed upon an('. the com
mittee immediately turned to the
consideration of other properties.
The option taken on the Midland
Farms land ig the result of the com
mittee's work since that time-
The sponsors of the movement, lo
cal citizens and winter residents, are
George T. Dunlap, Sr.. H. H. Beck
with, Heman Gifford, F. A. Powdrell,
Struthers Burt, H. C- Buckmfnster,
C. H. Bowden, J. Fred Stimson,
Thad A. Cheafham, D. D., G. G.
Herr, D. D. S., E. W. Bush, M. D.,
A. J. McKehvay, R. L. Hart, Tal
bot Johnson, P. P. McCain, M. D„
M W- JUarr, M. D., Warren Bick-
nell, Paul Dana, Ralph C3iandler,
and D. G. Stutz.
Scout Hall Renovation
Junior Chamber Project
Southern Pines Organization to
Repaint, Redecorate and Re
wire Conn. Ave. Property
The Boy Scout hall on Connecticut
avenue will be completely renoyated
and redecorated at once as one of the
projects of ttie Southern Pines Jun
ior Chamber df Commerce, that or
ganization annoimced following its
regular weekly meeting, held on
Monday night. Tlie work will be be
gun in a few ddys under the super-
visien of Leo Arey.
The building, the property of the
Boy Scouts of Amenioa, and, now
housing Southefn Pines ’Troop No. 4,
the newiy organized troop under the
sponsorship of the Junior Chamber,
is'badly In need of repair. Plans call
for a complete paint job, inside and
out, repairs to the front steps, and,
if possible, new wiring and fixtures
for the interiar.
The Jur>ior Chamber plans to buy
the materials and tfte laboh is being
contributed by members of the or
ganization. As much of the work as
possible will be don^ with the funds
on hand. However, the entire project
cannot be finished at this time un
less donatiotts of money' or materials
are received by the sponsors. Anyone
who is interested in this move may
contact M. F. Grantham, at the Car
olina Power & Light Co. office or J.
D. Arey, Jr. at the Paul T. Bamum
office.
Members of Troop No. 4 will as
sist in this work by cleaning the
grounds, and a planting program is
imder corjsideration.
ROTARY OLIIB MEETS
The Rotary Club of Southern Pines
will hold their regular weekly lun.
cheon meeting today, Friday, at
12:15, at Jack’s OrlU.