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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18, NO. 43.
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of the Sandhill T''^ntory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, September 23, 1938.
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FIVE CENTS
SEASON OPENING
ONLY MONTH OFF-
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
Carolina Hotel To Open Oct. 27,
Holly Inn NV)v. 1 and Pine
Needles Nov. 10
BUSY SPORTS PROGRAM
Supreme Court Dec fcr Deane |T0 LAY PIPE LINE |Negotiations i ending For
For Congressional Nomination
Reverses Judge Harris Who Up
set Decision of State Board
of Elections
The official opening of the winter
season in the Sandhills is but a
month off. The Carolina hotel at Pine,
hurst opens on October 27, the
Holly Inn on Neyember 1st, earliest: Elections board ruling, gave it back
Now it’s Deane I
The first returns from the second
primary gave Burgin the decision of
Representative In Congress from this
Eighth district.
On appeal, the State Board of Elec
tions gave it to Deane. On appeal
from this decision Superior Court
Judge W. C- Harris reversed the
In years, and the Pine Needles Inn at
Knollwood on November 10th. At
Southern Pines the Highland Pines
to Burgin. Deane then carried It to
the Supreme Court which now re
verses Judge Harris and gives it
Inn has remained open during the! I^ack to Deane.
summer, and will begin taking win- The decision was handed down
ter guests from now on. Due to tan- Wednesday. Says a Raleigh despatch:
gled European conditions many look The State Board of Elections has
for a splendid season in the f-and- the power to go behind county pri
^ow It’s Deane
hills.
Yarn manufacturera of the coun
try, here for k hoUday, will be the
lirst CaT>oUna guests, to be followed
by a gathering of North Carolina
cotton maffufacturers on November
3 and 4. The North Carolina Inde.
pendent Telephone Association will
convene at the Pine Needles on No
vember 7th for a two-day conven
tion, for which Norman Shcrk, of
Southern Pines, vice president and
general manager of the Central Car
olina Telephone Company, is making
arrangements as chairman of the
committee in charge- Two hundred
telephone men. are expected.
PrW%«re*Nov. 15
Pinehurst's golf tournament sea
son opens with the 18th annual Mid-
South Professional event on Nov«ra-
"ber 15, 16, 17 and 18. at which time
the country’s leading pros will be
here as usual. From then on there
will be regular tournaments almost
weekly throughout the season. The
27th annual United North and South
Open is scheduled for March 21, 22
and 23, the Women’s Invitation
event the week of March 27th, and
the men’s amateur the week of Ap
ril 4.
The 21st annual North and South
tennis tournament is scheduled for
the week of April 10th, and there’s |
to be a professional tennis event this
spring, starting the I5th.
Saturday, March 18th is the ten
tative date set for he fourth annual
meet of the Sandhills Steeplechase &
Racing Association, and two horse
shows are on the Pinehurst card for
the season, a Sandhills Junior show
on December 30 and 31 and the 22d
annual Pinehurst Horse Show on
March 28 and 29.
Field Trials start November 29th,
to run through December 9th, to be
followed by the 22d annual Pinehurst
Trials the week of January 9.
Southern Pines is preparing its
schedule of sports events for the
winter, to include a number of tour,
naments at both the Southern Pines
Country Club and the Pine Needles
Inn. The Mid-Pines Club has also
grassed its greens since l£ist season
and is expected to stage an invita-
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Edward Comer Heads
County Service Club
Orj^anization Has First Meeting
of Fall at Juniper Lake and
Elects Officers
The Service Club of Moore Cmmty
■held the first meeting of the Fall at
Juniper Lake Thursday evening-. Af
ter a weiner roast a business session
Avas held.
The following officers were elected
for the year: President, Edward Co
mer; Vice-president, Annie Mae Rich
ardson; Secretary, A. F. Boyette, and
Treasurer, Francis Wilhoit. The pro
gram committee is composed of An
nie Mae Richardson, Grady Caddell
and Gertrude Lamm.
The club plans to hold two meet
ings a month, one a program and one
recreational. A number of interest
ing subjects were presented for pro
gram discussion for the year such as
self-improvement, photography, in
terior decoration, music, drama, gov
ernment, etc.
The club will meet every first and
third Thursday night in the Court
House. Any boy or girl between the
ages of 1(5 and 28 in the County is
eligible for merberahlp.
mary returns to correct fradiflent
and illegal ballots, the Supreme Court
ruled in an opinion apparently as
suring C. B. iieane of Rockingham
the Eighth district Democratic nom
ination for Congress over W. O. Bur
gin of Lexington.
Harris Reversed
Holding that Judge W. C. Harris
erred in granting Burgin a writ of
mandamus forcing the State board
to certify him as the nominee, the
high tribunal also declared the Deane
certification invalid because no ‘‘le
gal” returns from Richmond and
Davidson counties ex^st, but the way
was cleared for legal certificatloi: of
the Richmond county man.
Amended at the direction of the
State board, returns from the two
counties were signed by two men-
bers of the county boards and sup
posedly without the knowledge of the
third member.
The State board is expected im
mediately to call the county boards
into session and comp^ certification
of returns identical with those that
gave Deane a 23-vote majority over
Burgin, who led by 75 votes in orig
inal returns from the July 2 run-off.
The Supreme Court’s ruling was
interpreted as giving the board the
power to compel signing of returns
similar to those that gave Deane a
majority.
Power to “Compel”
Written by Chief Justice Walter
P. Stacy, the opinion clothed the
State board with “general super
vision over the primaries and elec
tions" and authorized it to make rules
and regulations for conduct of elec
tions- The ruling asserted it the
board’s duty “to compel observance’’
of the law and to act on complaints
of county boards’ failure or neglect
to comply with election laws.
The Chief Justice wrote that su
pervisory power must be exercises
“prior to final acceptance” of re
turns.
"Nor will the courts undertake to
control the State Board of Elections
in the exercise of its duty of general
supervision so long as such super
vision conforms to the rudiments of
fair play and the status on the sub
ject.”
The board’s fairness was not ques
tioned in the legal actions, only its
authority.
The court agreed with Judge Har
ris that “the purported amended re
turns from Richmond and Davidson
counties are void as a matter of
law.” Burgin was held entitled to .a
stay until final returns have been
received from the two counties.
Lower court findings that Republi
cans voted was d>sclared “beside the
point. So, also, are his initial find
ings that^ a number of unregistered
persons voted therein and that cer
tain absentee ballots were erroneous
ly counted.”
'Tlie nomination now hinges on the
“final returns” obtained from David
son and Richmond counties.
TO AIRPORT FOR
ARMY MANEUVERS!
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Southern Pines Will Provide Wa--
ter Supply for 150 Officers
and Men at Knollwood
Sale of Highland Pine Inn
Bar President
18 PLANES TO HE HERE
DEANE
JONAS, JONES AND
NEWELL TOSPEAR
AT G. 0. P. RALLY
Candidates for Senate and
House Will Feature Meeting
at Carthage Oct. 21
CAMPAIGN OPENS OCT. 4
Charles R. Jonas, Republican candi
date for United States Senator, and
John R. Jones, candidate for the
House of Representatives from the
Eighth Congressional district, will
speak at a big G. O. P. meeting to
be held in the courthouse at Carth
age on Friday night, October 21st-
Jake Newell, Republican leader in
the state, will also make a talk, and
a band from Carthage will play.
The schedule of precinct meetings
to be held by the Republicans
Plans were completed this week by
Mayor D. G. Stutz for the installa
tion of approximately one half mile
of small pipe lines from the Southern
Pinea water plant to Knollwood Air
port for furnishing water to barracks
being set up for air defense maneu
vers to be held October 17.
Major Schramm and Ashe of the
Unitel States Air force stated that
150 officers and men and 18 air
planes will be located at the local
field used as one of the three de
fense bases along with Fort Bragg
and Maxton in the defense maneu
vers. Major Schramm, who will be in
command of the force at Knollwood,
announced that some time during the
period of two weeks one or more of
the new flying fortresses would be at
the field.
The Air Corps officers and men
will arr.’ve October 3. In addition to
planes there wil be a complete two-
way radio communication system,
a mobile lighting system, and system
of revolving beacons, floodlights,
boundary lights and possibly a bat
tery of anti-aircraft artillery.
Big Defense Program
The War Department has previous
ly announced that hundreds of North
Carolina civilians will be enlisted in
what is expected to be one of the
largest and most important air de
fense programs ever staged n this
country. The entire eastern section
HERBEKT F. SE.WVELL, JR.
SEAWEL, PELTON
HONORED BY BAR
OF 13TH DISTRICT
Directors Accept Offer of David
F. Tuttle Subject To Stock
holders’ Approval
LIFELONG HOTEL MAN
Carthage Attorney Unanimous
ly Elected President of Six-
Couniy Association
MAY MEET HERE IN 1939
The Thirteenth Judicial District
Bar Association honored two Moore
county attorneys at its annual meet-
from near the Virginia coast to the ’ ing held last Saturday at the Rock
ingham Country Club. Herbert F.
Seawell, Jr., of Carthage was un
animously elected president, and P.
P. P«lton of Southern Pines made
South Carolina line will be divided
into eght square mile grids with ob
servers and telephones in each grid.
W'ith this system and xone headquar
ters at Wilson, New Bern and Fay-,
throughout the fall campaign in I etteville, the defenders of Fort Bragg I secretary. Mr. Seawell s name was
Moore county was announced this ' will chart the course of the attack-1 ^^e meeting by Rowland
week. All candidates on the county
ticket, as well as others, will be pres
ent at these meetings. There wil Ibe
a meeting in Southern Pines Tuesday
night, October 17th att he Little
house, and in Pinehurst Monday
night, October 177th at the Little
Community House. Other meetings
are scheduled as follows:
Cameron—Tuesday night, Oct. 4th,
7:30 p. m., Schoolhouse.
Vass—Friday night, Oct. 7th, 7:30
p. m., Town Hall.
Pinebluff—Thursday night, Oct.
13th, 7:30 p- m.. Town Hall.
West End, Friday night, Oct. 14th,
\7;30 p. m. i
Bensalem Church — Wednesday
night, Oct. 19th, 7:30 p. m.
High Falls—Tuesday night, Oct.
25th, 7:30 p. m., Schoolhouse.
Needham Grove^Wednesday Oct.
26th, 7:30 p. m.
Melton Schoolhouse—Friday night,
Oct. 28th, 7:30 p- m.
Hemp—Wednesday night, Nov. 3rd,
7:30 p. m., Schoolhouse.
ers on an electrical man and direct i Pruitt of Wadesboro, Solicitor
interception by planes to Pope Field, i district, and J. S- Milliken of
Knollwood and Maxton. The army has I Union county bar moved it be
concentrated battery on battery of, unanimous,
searchlights, mechanical ears and i Some 40 members of the bar of
other technical paraphernalia to be | this district, which includes Moore,
used in the defense program at Fort | Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Union
Bragg. Brigadier-Geneal Fulton Q. I and Stanley counties, enjoyed a bar-
Dr. Marcus A. Brownson will ad
dress his Bibl^ class at the Civic
Club at 9:45 Sunday morning. His
subject will be “The Shepherd
Psalm.” All the members of the
Adult Bible class will want to be
present for the discussion of this
beautiful Psalm. “Our Sure Word of
Prophecy” will be the subject of the
Rev. E. L. Barber’s sermon Sunday
morning. These services are in the
Civic Club.
LOCAL ROTARY TO HEAR
DISTRICT GOVERNOR TODAY
BRISK TICKET DEMAND
FOR JAY-CEE CARD PARTY
J. Mack Hatch of Belmont, District
Governor of the 188th District of
Rotary International will address the
local Rotary Club at its regular lun
cheon meeting today, Friday, at 12:15
A brisk demand for tickets indi
cates that a capacity attendance may
he expected tonight, Friday, for the
Jay-Cee card party at the Civic Club-
Ticket sales and donations of re
freshments, prizes and money have
been very gratifying to the spon
sors, and it is believed that a con
siderable sum will be realized, to be
turned over to the Scout Committee
for use on the Scout project of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce-
It still is not too late to reserve
p. m. at Jack’s Grill. The Rotary
Chib of Southern Pines now boasts' your table for this event. Reserva-
a membership of 20, Elmer Davis
and Henry Chatfield having been ad
mitted to memb«rabip since the Char.
t«r waa presented on July 28.
tions may be made with Dick Hassell
at the bank or Morris Johnson at
Dom’s. The party starts at 8:00
p. m. at the Civic Club.
Gadner is directing the test.
Pending the maneuvers, prelimi
nary practices are already underway
becue supper at the club before set
tling down to an evening of business
and election of officers- It is report-
Negotiations are pending for the
sale of the Highland Pines Inn, Sou
thern Pines, to David F. Tuttle, of
Nantucket, Mass. Mr. Tuttle was here
last week and agreed to terms of
sale submitted by the board of di-
rectors of thf; Highland Park Hotel
Company, through Paul T. Barnum,
agent in the transaction. The action
of the board, however, is subject to
confirmation by stockholders of the
Highland Park company.
Mr. Tuttle has been a hotel man
all of his adult life. He received his
early training under his father, who
waa general manager of the Briar-
cliff interests, at the Briarcliff Lodge,
Briarcliffe Manor, N. Y-, working
there part time during vacations from
school and college and for a few
years after graduating.
Wide Hotel Experience
His first hotel was the Twilight
Inn at Twilight Park, Haines Falls,
N- Y., a summer hotel. For 13 win
ters he was at Kenilworth Lodge, Se-
bring, Florida and for the past eight
summers has been at the Peninsula
House at Seabi’ight, N. J. ^
This past summer he bought The
Breakers at Nantucket Island, Mass.
He was looking around for a win.
ter hotel to operate in conjunction
with The Breakers and finally decid-
on The Highland Pines. •(
Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle are no stran>
gers to the Sandhills, having spent
considerable time here in previous
winters. They have a daughter, Con.
stance, now a junior at Wellesley
College, and a son, David, Jr., a grad
uate of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and now employe-i as an
engineer with the Bell laboratories> In
New York City.
Mr- Tuttle, in town from Thuisday
to Sunday morning, c<tumed to Nan
tucket and will return here early in
November. ^
Should the sale be confirmed Mr.
Turner will remain with Mr. Tuttle
as co-manager.
at Fort Bragg and both lights and' that the next annual meeting of
planes have been seen here nightly
during thet past week.
the association will be held in Moore
county.
Hundreds Gather For Junior Chamber Offers
Bethesda Home Coming Support to Boys’ School
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R. C. Lawrence Lauds Ambas-1'^otes Full Endorsement of Pro-
sador Page in Impressions
of 148th Anniversary
Old Bethesda Church celebrated its
148th anniversary last Sunday, the
annual Home Coming attracting hun
dreds, among them R. C. Lawrence,
who viewed it in these inspired
words:
A Carolina lad view’ed the desola
tion £|([d havoc wrought hy the Civil
War. He heard his elders dwell upon
the horrors of the reconstruction era.
Too young to fully comprehend the
meaning of what he sav^ and heard,
he yet sensed its import, and there
was bred in him a hatred of oppres
sion—financial, political, social. As
he grew up among his native hills,
the cry of the underman rang ever
ject After Hearing Talk by
Dr. Osborne
Sandy Creek Baptists
Plans 181st Session
Prominent Speakers on Program
For Two-Day Gathering at
Jonesboro Sept. 29-30
The 181st annual session of the
Sandy Creek Baptist Association is
being held on September 29th and
30th at the Jonesboro Baptist Church,
sessions each day. Among those on
the program will be:
Dr. G. B. Funderburk, the Rev. B.
L. Gupton, the Rev. O. A. Keller, the
Rev. E M Harris oi jVbprdeen, the
Rev W. W. Finlator, Mrs- C. W. ]^c-
Manus, Dr R. E. Wall, the Rev- J.
L Price, Herbert F. Seawell, Jr, Car
thage, Mrs. R. H- Weaver, M- A.
Huggins, Smith Hagaman, the Rev.
W- L. Warfford. the Rev. T. Y- Sey
mour, D. B. Teague, S. J. Husketh,
the Rev. R. R. Gordon, the Rev.
R. H. Weaver, R. N. Sims, the Rev-
J. C. Kidd, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson
and Miss Bertha Fowler of South-
The movement to establish a boys’
preparatory school in the Sandhills
was pledged the full support and co
operation of the Southern Pines
Junior Chamber of Commerce at the
meeting of that body held on Monday
night. Nearly 30 msmbers of the or
ganization, including most of the
eleven new members secured by the
recent membership drive, were pres
ent.
Dr. Francis M. O.sborn, speaking |
on behalf of the school project, was | gm Pines, Harold McManus, Dr. O- T.
the guest of the evening- He was in
troduced to the gathering by the
Rev. J. Fred Stimson.
Dr- Osborne, in a short but very
Binkley and I. G. Greer.
ginning his career as a publicist in interesting talk on the subject, stres-
glefi-m led him—onward and ; ed the need for this type of school
upward—through a great university, in North Carolina, and was very en-
and then began a life-long battle for
the nether classes of the South. r!e-
ginning his career as a ruWicits in
the Capital of his native State, he
correctly sensed that a scientific
agriculture must be the basis of the
political economy of his State, and
with the aid of a few far-seeing as
sociates he founded a elub which wag
the genesis of the great agricultural
college at Raleigh. State-wide repu
tation now, but still onw^ard and up
ward. A great national monthly calls
him to its editorial chair, but from
his Northern scene of activity he can
not forget the plight of his Southern
thusiastic on the subject of the site
selected, midway between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst. The Sandhills,
according to the speaker, presents
“the mo^**^ beautiful and desirable lo
cation for a school of this kind in
North Carolina, in the South, and
probably the entire United States.”
At the conclusion of this talk the
Chamber voted unanimously to give
the project its full endorsement and
100 percent cooperation, particularly
in the drive to rai.«e funds for the
purchase of the land needed. A mem
ber of the Jay-Cees will be appointd
by th dirctors to serve on the Sand
MANY FROM SANDHILI^ IN
NORTH HURRICANE AREA
wards. Their condition still hftunts hills committee in aiding Dr. Os-
(Pleate tMm to page four) 1 borne in this drive.
Concern is fell here for the safety
of winter residents of the Sandhills
who are in the storm aiea in the
New England and North Atlantic
states. With more than 300 known
dead and property dama.t^e running
into the hundreds of millions the
hurricane which struck the Atlant c
and Long Island Sound coasts on
Wednesday assumes the proportions
of one of the worst disasters in some
time.
All wire communication with nr’ny
of the affected areas is temporarily
susp«nded, so that anxious relatives
and friends here have been unable
to contact those in whim they a“e
interested. One of the resorts w^‘;^''
many Were drowned by a tidal T.ave
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