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t MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 18. NO. 36. ^ >kj:ARTNAOB 4 spniNCS WB.ST 4LAKBVI6W riANUKV SOUTHBRN JAQKSOK SPQIN08 Pines ■ ‘ AUG 21 1938 PILOT FIRST IN NEW^ CIRCULATION & ADVEKTiSiNG of the Sandhill Terri tc**v of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, August 19, 1938. FIVE CENTS CARON AND SVENSDEN GUILTY OF SECOND DEGRt^ MRDER COUNTY LAND TAX SALE HELD UP BY COURTINJUNCTION Temporary Restrainin^f , Order Signed By Judge Clawson L. Williams of Sanford John A. Lang Named State Head EIGHTH DISTRICT ' CONGRESS SCRAP GOES TO COURTS of National Youth Administration HEARING AUGUST 30TH A temporary injunction restrain ing the Board of Commissioners and Tax Collector of Moore county from selling the lands of delinquent tax payers for 1937 until a further hear ing, to be held August 30, was sign ed by Judge Clawson L. Williams of Sanford on the 11th day of August. Suit was brought oy O. A. McDon ald, Jr., and K. W. McLeod, taxpay ers, in behalf of themselves and all other tax payers in the county who come in and make themselves par ties. They were represented by W. Clement Barrett and George W. Mc Neill, attorneys of Carthage- The plaintiffs allege that the sale of the lands of delinquent 1937 tax payers at any time prior to the har vesting of their tobacco, cotton and other farming products will amount to the confiscation of their lands and that If they are allowed time to mar ket their crops many can pay their delinquent taxes. They allege that the inability of many to meet their taxes has been due to crop failures due to drought, the general business recession, the scarcity of work, especially in the farming sections of the south, and the stringency of the money mar ket. The commissioners, as they are required to do, had ordered that the lands of delinquent tax payers be advertised in August and sold the first Monday in September. Not This Year Junior Legion Championship For N. C. Goes Glimmering When New Orleans Wins In a thrilling 3-2 baseT)all game at Belmont yesterday (Thursday) iftemoon, Gastonia, North Caro lina’s last hope for an American Legion Junior Baseball Champion ship, went down to defeat before New Orleans in the first game of the Southeastern regional play, offs. Gastonia, Junior Legion Nation al champions In 1935, had ad vanced to Thursday’s game with wins over Charlotte in the State finals and Baltimore, Md., and Norfolk, Va., in the immediate di vision play-offs and was thought to have an excellent chance to re peat their national conquest of four years ago. Mary Alice Weatherly and J. P. Mullally Wed Marriage Solemnized Sunday at St. Anthony’s Church In Southern Pines The marriage of Miss Mary Alice Weatherly, only daughter of Mrs. Charles Weatherly of Southern Pines, to James Patrick Mullally, son of Mrs. J. P. Mullally of New Orleans, La., was solemnized in St. Anthony's Catholic Church on last Sunday af ternoon at 5:00 o’clock. The altar of the church was banked with gladioli and Southern Smilax, with tall stand- ards of burning cathedral candles on either side- The wedding music was rendered by Mrs. Lillian B. Milea, or*, ganist, and Wilbur P. Whitlock, so loist. The bride was given in marriage by her brother. Jack Weatherly of Southern Pines. Her wedding gown was of white Chantilly lace, made princess style with short jacket and train, her fingertip veU was held in place with a white turban. Her only attendant was her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jack Weatherly, w'ho wore a gown of agua silk marquisette over taf feta, with matching turban, and who carried a sheaf of gladioli. The groom had as his best man, Edgar Gaddy of Southern Pines. The ushers were M. F. Grantham and Tommy Millar. Foliowing the ceremony, a receq?- tion for members of the wedding party and intimate fronds of the cpuple was held at the home of ths bride’s mother, after which the opu- ple left for a weddini: trip tUtough the mountains of North Carolina. Upon their return here they will be at home at the Merrima/s Cottage on Vermont avenue. BYNUM FAMH.Y HOLDS ANNUAL CLAN REUNION Descendants of Pioneer Vass Community Settlers Meet at Lakeview Sunday With five of the remaining six daughters of the late Joseph and Mary Stewart Bjmum, pioneer set tlers of the Vass community, in at tendance, descendants of this fam ily Hiut in Duncan’s Park at Lake view on Sunday for their annual re union. Greetings were exchanged during the morning as relatives, many of whom had not met since last August, gathered from here and there. Miss Gladys Cox of Vass and Miss Dale of Winston-Salem had charge of the registration. At 1:00 o’clock a pic nic dinner was enjoyed. The invoca tion was spoken by T. R. Moffitt (Please turn to page 6) MLSS V’ERA EDWARDS AND JAMES EAEL PARKER WED Announcement is made of the mar riage of Miss Vera Edwards and James Earl Parker, on Wednesday, August 17th, 1938 in Bennettsville, S. C. Mrs. Parker is the popula^ ntanasfor of a local beauty shop and Mr. Parker is the G. M- A. C. rep- »e*MitatlT« for tM» district Southern Pines Schools To Open September 7th Superintendent F. W. Webster Announces Opening Date aad 1938-39 Faculty The Southern Pines Schools, elem- tary, grammar grades and high school, will open for the fall term on Wednesday, September 7th, ac cording to an announcement made by Superintendent Frank W. Webster this week, and all classes will regis ter on that date. Text books for the elementary school and rentals for the high school will be i9sued on Thursday, Septem ber 8th. The faculties of the schools will be as follows: Primary School: Mrs. Jessie W. Dwight, Southern Pines, First Grade: Miss Emilie Mae Wilson, Southern Pines, First and Second; Miss So phie Howie, Pineville, Second Grade. Grammar School: Miss Abbie Suth- erland, Belton, S. C-, Third Grade; Miss Jessie Fitzgerald, Monroe, Third and Fourth; Miss Bess McIntyre, Wingate, Fourth Grade; Miss Mary Buckner, DiUon, S. C., Fifth Grade; Miss Selma Stegall, Marshvllle, Fifth Grad<> and Music; Miss Annie P, Hxmtington, Southern Plnea, Sixth Grsdo. Junior and SeSior High Hchool! Mrs. Sara L. Ellis, Darlington, S. C., English; Miss Pauline Miller, States- ville^ English end Reading; Mrs- Ruth W. Warner, Southern Pines, Com mercial Subjects; Miss Aline Todd, Derita, Math fend Physical Education; Miss Elisabeth Scarborough, Mt. Gil ead, Latin and Mathematics: Edward Neale Stirewalt, High Point,^ Science and Mathematics; D. W. Gamble, Southern Pines, French and Social Selence; Amos C. Dawson, Zebulon, History and Physical Edu- Carthage Man To Direct Job Finding For Unemployed of High School Age Another high honor was conferred upon a native son of Moore county with the appointment of John A. Lang of Carthage, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lang of that city, to the Directorship of the National Youth Administration of North Carolina. Mr. Lang graduated from the Un iversity of North Carolina in the class of 1930. In his junior year he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and on his graduation he was presented the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award for outstanding character and abil ity. In 1931 he received his Master of Arts Degree from the University. The following two years he spent at the Georgia Military Academy; the first as a teacher of French and the second as head of the English De partment. From this position Mr. Lang was drafted to the presidency of the National Students Federation, with offices in New York City. He filled this position for two years and was again drafted and called to Washington to be Assistant Direc tor of Education in Civilian Conser vation Camps. He has given all of the past two years to advancement of this program. In all this work Mr. Lang has had opportunity to study and understand the endless problems of youth, in fact he is personally not far removed therefrom, being now in his twenty-eighth year. Generous Appropriations Here Mr. Lang made known that North priations for both student aid and project work. The funds allocated for student aid are apportioned to the various counties and to the col leges which meet requirements. A ' boy or girl attending high school I may be assigned by the principal to I perform certain duties for the school, for which he may be paid approx. imately $6 00 a month. This is to enable students in low wage brack- ets to continue through high school. The individuals are chosen by the principal on merit, and no other cer tification is required. In the same way college students are chosen from lists of applicants. Their work car ries an average pay of about $15.00 per month, igtatistics show that the Burgin Appeals State Board De cision.—Deane Counsel Arrested in Davidson EXPECT DECISION SOON Judge Bivens Sentences Carr away Murderers To 30 Years at Hard Labor The Eighth District Congressional Democratic Primary has now gone into the courts along two fronts, with W. O. Burgin of Lexington, ap parent loner on the basis of the find, ings of the recent State Board of Elections investigation, the aggressor in both cases. Last Thursday Burgin’s attorneys filed an action in the Wake county Superior court asking a mandamus to require the State Board of Elec tions to certify Burgin as the Dem ocratic nommee. They also asked an order to restrain the Board from Certifying returns which gave Deane a 23-vote majority. On Wednesday of this week, Doug, las C. Crutchfield and Woodrow Tea. gue, Thomasville lawyers and mem. bers of Deane’s counsel In the re cent investigation of the July 2nd Democratic Primary, were found guil ty, respectively, in Davidson County court, of carrying a concealed wea pon and assault with a pistol. They Were ordered to pay fines of $5000 and costs. Deny Charges Cause of action arose when the de fendants and Walter Rattz, Salis bury notary engaged in obtaining af- the program outlined by the fidavits for Deane, met a group of trustees of the North Carolina Pre- No Sale Jury’s Verdict Spoils Busi ness Deal Caron Had Been Working On Jean Baptiste Caron, convicted with Robert Svensden of second degree murder in Superior Court at Carthage Thursday, evidently didn’t think much of his pre-trial chances of escaping the gas cham ber, and the second degree ver dict must have come as a pleas ant surprise to the slight French- Canadian. The Pilot learned recently, on re. liable authority, that Caron had been corresponding with a State agency during the past few weeks relative to the purchase of his body, upon his anticipated execu. tion, for medical research pur. poses. Blue Ribbon Jury Returns Ver dict.—Deliberates Only 90 Minutes I MAXIMUM SENTENCE PLAN OPENING OF NEW PREP SCHOOL HERE NEXT FALL State-Wide Interest and Backing Assures Success, Osborne Tells Kiwanians Burgin checkers at a home in Heal ing Springs Township, 14 miles from Lexington, on July 16. State’s witnesses testified that Crutchfield took a pistol from a compartment of an automobile and concealed it in his trousers pocket, and that Teague later pointed the Weapon at Frank Helper, a State’s witness. The State produced five eye. witnesses who corroborated each oth. er’s testimony. Crutchfield and Teague denied that, the gun was concealed at any time or that Teague actually pointed it at anyone in threatening attitude Rattz corroborated this in part. No action has been taken yet in majority of the students so assisted have been outstanding in their school '^““^her such Incident which occurred work, and their services have had Davidson county in connection much value to the schools and col. leges. The project work is designea to reach the great array of youth from 18 to 25 years of age, which has left school and is imemployed. In this group there is lack of work cxpcr. ience and training, and therefore in ability to secure any permanent em- ployment- Many have left school be cause of necessity or because the educational program which the school | had to offer did not interest them. | with the investigation. In this case, Charles Caudle of Wadesboro and G. D. Davidson of Lexington, Deane legal (assistants, were seized and (Please turn to page two) Opening Date Named For County Schools paratory School for Boys, Inc. goes forward as planned, the school should be actually functioning on a limited scale bv a year from this fall, Fran cis M. Osborne, executive secretary of the corporation, told members of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club at their meeting Wednesday at the Church of Wide Felowship in Southern Pines- Mr. Osborne recounted the steps that have already been taken, in cluding the state-w’ide missionary work and promotion over the past five year period, that were culminat ed early this month in the choice of a site on the Midland Road, mid-way between Southern Pines and Pine- hurst for the location of the school. This site was chosen, he pointed out, in preference to numerous others that have been under consideration at one time or another in various parts of the State, and with the full approval of the Board of Truo.tcs, who represent state-wide interes-'^s. The project has now reached the point where committees are being appointed in Moore cuunty and ad joining counties to raise the $20,000 necessary to take up the option se cured on the Midland Farms prop erty, and when that is done and the property is turned over to the Board of Trustees, the full manpower of those interested throughout the en tire State will be utilized in a cam- Southern Pines Branch Taking paign to secure $600,000 (50 per cent Over Enlarged Quarters in for capital outlay and 50 per cent I BurgesS Building for endowment) with which to start 1 actual construction of the first unit Following one year’s occupancy of of the school. their quarters in the Arcade Build- “A wide and enthusiastic interest jng on West Broad street. s>nce their is support^g this well conceivod plan return to Southern Pines in August for an institution th.it will be a 3937, the McLean Furniture Com- permanent a.iset to the commvuiity pany is moving today and tomor. the eupervisisn of T. U. Connor, man, study of atatisticfl of attendance of j which it la located,” Mr. Osborne row to new quarters in the Burgess ual arts teacher, they are making 1 children In Moore county echoola 1 gaiti, “and the result will be of far,- Building on Blast Broad a'reet, adia- and laying concrete blocks- At pree-, ovt-r a period of ten years, and hie j reaching pervlce and Ir.flnence iji, cent to The Modern Market and the ent they are laying the aub-floof, findings wen> that invariably the at-, helping to train the next generation Hardware and Electric Ccmipany. and they will continue with the ma-; tendance had been better in Septem-j 0/ America’s leaders,” | Prior to temporarily di’continuinr; flonry and carpentry work imtil the ■ ber-October, the first months of | their Southern Pines store in 1930, building is completed, probably about school, than in AprU-May, the last! GREENSBORO FIRM .'VWARUED j the McLean Furniture Company fnr the time school cpens. These boys, months, so it was deemed advisable 'NEW NUKSES’ HOME CONTR.\C'T four years occupied space in th“ Majority Start Fall Term On September 5.—Carthage, West End and Aberdeen Later others have finished high school, are | The Moore County Board of Edu- unable to get further education or cation, at a recent meeting, set Sep. traming, and are unfitted to ioilow a".y trade. NYA Work In County tember 5 as the opening date for the county schools, but gave authority to local boards to make changes It is the purpose of the NYA to; where necessary. Due to the fact that place 'these youthss ui>on projects new rooms are being added to the where they may s:ct experlonce and Carthage' grammar school building, training. In Southern Pines the'the Carthage schools will not open Board of Education is sponsoring a, until September 19, and the opening project whereon some 30 negro boys date for West End and Aberdeen Is are building a vocational shop at September 12th. West Southern Pines school. Under Supt. H. Lee Thomag had made a . : 1. Robert Svensden and Jean Baptiste Caron, on trial m Superior Court at Carthage for the killing of J. E. Car. raway, Connecticut Camp proprie tor last August, were pronounced guilty of murder in the second de. gree Thursday afternoon and Judge C. Bivens sentenced the pair to 30 years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. The jury, a “blue ribbon” panel chosen from a special venire of 1(X> talesmen who were rounded up by county officers early in the week and summoned to appear in Carthage Wednesday morning for examination, returned with their verdict at ap proximately 3:45 p. m., after being out only an hour and a half. Judge Bivens immediately pronounced the maximum sentence and Svensden and Caron were whisked from the court room. The State opened its case against the defendants Wednesday morning at the conclusion of the selection of thr jury and continued throughout the day and into a special evening session, ordered by Judge Bivens, in order that the conduct of the trial might be expedited. Thursday morning the defense op. ened its case and concluded the pres, entation of testimony just before the noon recess. Judge Bivens opened his charge to the jury immediately upon the conclusion of the case for the defence and finished the charge, af ter the recess, at approximately 2:15- The prosecution varied but slightly from that in the previous trial, in which the jury failed to agree. The only major departure w'as their call, ing ,to the stand Joe Hensley, Plne- hurst taxi driver, who drove the de fendants on several occasions during their few days residence here prior to the murder and who drove them to Raleigh shortly after they killed Car- raway. The defense was the same as in the previous trial, when Svensden testi fied in his own behalf and Caron’s counsel failed to put him on the stand. Both prisoners appeared stoical when the verdict was pronounced. Mrs. Gustaf Svensden, mother of the 1 younger defendant, who became hys. torical Wednesday evening during the trial and attempted to jump out of one of the pourthoUse windows, sprained her ankle when she left the courthouse at the noon recess and was not in court when the sentence was passed. McLean Furniture Co. Moving To New Store since the close of the golf season,, to set the opening date as early in catk>n; IfLucille Palmer, Emporia, Va<, Ubntrtan. had been unemployed, and idleness too often loads to delinquency. South ern Pines has made a good invest ment. The school board has pur. chased only materials for construct ing the shop, in return they will have a completed building, 60 ft. by 26 ft-, adequate for t«achinff manual arts to those itodents now ia high (Plsatt tiMii to pagt the month as possible so as to com-1 plete the year’s ^ ,/r* before the busy spring season. The contract for the canstruction of the new Nurses’ Home for the Moore County Hospital was awarded Wednesday to the Coble Construction The North Carolina t0bi.GC0 crop co. ©f Greensboro. Construction on has a value equal to two thirds of 1 new J55,®00 building is to start at the tacome of all crops; and 58 per, once and the omtract calls tor com- cent of the cash income of crops and 1 pletion within 150 day*. Uvestock, reports the St«te Depart-{ TwtBnty-oae eontractors meat at Agriculture. [ oMi. Burgess Building and would have re turned thei-e last year upon reopen ing in Southern Pines, had ther been a vacancy. The new quarters comprise a.JSO') feet of floor space, 500 feet than in the Arcade Building sto’^. and the business will continue in th<> charge oif A. D, McLean and J. W. entered' Atkinson, both of whom have spent itbe Sandhills.