North Carolina Newspapers

MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 18, NO. 45. Jr ^^ARTHAOe E.NO LAKEVIBW OACiKSOH SPRIHOS SOUTMBRN PINKS ASHLSY HKICHTS l>f T TIT MT M. FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVEK USING A»KROCE>1J - ^PINEBLUI=I> Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolm>- of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Friday, Oct^’ ~ 7. J938. FIVE CENT8 Hurricanes North and South Vividly Described by Almet Jenks, Mrs. Wilder Proposed Library iouthern Pines Mr. and Mrs. Jenks Have N’Vir- row Escape at Leetes Island, Connecticut Gets Federal Post Charleston Strewn with Wreck age Hy Tornado Lastin>i But Few Seconds Carl G- Thompson, Jr. Appointment of Carl G. Thompson, MUCH SUFFERING IN WAKE When word reached the Sand hills of the severity of the tor nado which struck Charleston, S. C., last week The Pilot wrote Mrs. Francis Allison Page VV'ildor, the former Miss Effie Leland, sister of Mrs. Edwin T. McKeith- i en of Aberdeen, for her impres- | sions of the atorm, and is indebt ed to Mrs. Wilder for the follow- ; ing account; “Besides being horrible and deves- Lating, there was an element oi dis respect in the tornado whch struck Charleston last week—at least in the opinion of one old negro, who I heard ■ say to another a few houis after the^ '■' S’ . "I ■ M ** . fSi J WiS • . s . . ^y>»X SANDHILLS TO BE BLACKED OUT FOR NIGHT AIR RAID Citizens Asked To Extinguish Liffhts on Fire Siren Sijjnal of “Hombardnient” The above building, designed by believed that reasonable allowance Aymar Embury, noted architect, will increase is provided for. If nec- ‘ include a reading room approximate- eFPary the stack room could easily SOME NIGHT N'EXT WEEK Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Carth age and Pinehurst are to be "attack- I etl” from the air some night between October 10th and 15th, between the hours of 6:00 and 10:00 o’clock- A squadron of bombing planes from Langley Field, Virginia, will swoop over the Sandhills in the air maneuvers now being staged in this section. During the “air raid” a “block-out” has been ordered in all four towns. Three blasts from the fire siren in Southern Pinas will be made to notify IN BOAT AS STORM HIT The severity of the recent hur ricane along the North Atlantic seaboard is vividly described in a letter received by Eugene C. Stevens of Southern Pines from Almet Jenks, well known writ er who, with his wife had a nar row escape at Leetes Island, Conn. Mr. Jenks, due to return to Southern Pines next week, wrote as follows: “We came through without much discomfort and con.sider ourselves lortunate compared with most of the people round about- “Our adventure was so bound up with a boat that I should explain at the outset that we invested about a month ago in a sailboat with the idea that We might .spend our summers I cruising instead of renting a house. | Southern Pines Resident Ap- We kept her in Sachem’s Head har- j pointed Assistant to Director bor at a borrowed mooring which' of Youth Administration was fully exposed to the southwest- The weather had been very queer for ■ five day.s—thi.*? wa.s on and in view of the equinoctial approaching Mrs. Jenks and I moved i nh ■ ■ -f ■ I members of one fanuly - •• - o — ‘Crufsoe’ to a mooring near the yacht jseivei s lepoi orial staff, breakf ist table- With dozens planned would be 15,000 to institutional in character, suggestng All places of business are earnest- club and behind the breakwater, a Lang, of Car- iiouses ccusaed hke inaUh boxes | volumes- Tiie library at pres- the living room in the home of a fam-j ly requested to turn out all lights. n-i.ooring belonging to ‘Astrea,’ a 50-^ Ih.ige, State director of the National in some cases not a full-length' havin^ about 11,000 volumes it is ily of good taste. foot schooner. ('Crusoe' i.q 32 feet, Youth Administration, wag announc-^ 't'ft in the piles—the miracle I ^ but very heavy—6,500 pounds of week. .tuues as niauy lives lead outhicle and 1,500 within.) That' ' «ol ballcied out. - i 4 1. Thompson joined the New.s and right the weather report on the ra- i j Ob.'iervor in 1937^ going to clearing in the morning. , Raleigh from Sanford where he -vas been in the front room looK^ Baronietor Drops i editor of the Sanford Herald, iiaving ing out, \\q might have had a lew Contiiando! ‘‘TI10 next mornirvf^ was overcast been with that paper since Septem-| ihrilliiig but terrifyuig b. conds, wat- v Leslie^ Johnson Inherits with a light southerly wind. The ber. 1935- '''hile with the News and ' ching the black whirhvinu beating' <‘’*?*tldfath'Sr s Lilcrnry Ab-My servants were going up to Provi- Observer, he covered Capitol Hill de- ! way toward the Southern tip of Oence and I had them call up the partments and Federal agencies head-i the tov.’n; but we pruljably \\uuld disaster, “You know St. Michael’s Church, ain’t it? well dey tell me it j . 1 ^ f . extended at .some future time. The! re.sdents here of the attack, with come 'long an’ tuk a piece otf o’1 ^ wice an( ol eet long with possibility of future wings at eiher the same warning signal in Aber- datl’’ i at either end and open end of the leading room will al.so be deen, Carthage and Pinehur.st. Mayor “But Thursday’s‘blow’ afforded lit-'walls- A wing 30 taken into consideration in locating i D. G- Stutz of Southern Pines, at tie to laugh auout. It came without j rear, and there- the building. | the request of General Gaidner of a minute's warning, was over in two I evidence in the sketch, Construction will be of brick ’oack-; the War Department, asks that ev- minuets, and left years of desolation P'’ovide a stack room, librarian’s cd with hollow tile, slate roof, and ' ery citizen cooperate by turning out and sadness in its wake. The death 3”*^ circulation desk op. oak floors. In figuring the cost a i all lights in homes, excepting one 1 a Tuesday— ' Ji-,, of Southern Pines, for a year and' has now reached thirty-one, with ! to the reading room, a lav- generous amount was included for room in which it is requested that iinoctial storm ^ Raleieh News seriously injured. Four' -torage closets, <;tc. The to- lurnishing, the idea being to provide .the shades be lowered, in order that ;s and I moved , , ‘ I members of one fanuly wtie killed! capacity of the shelving and a reading room domestic ratlier than the “enemy” cannot detect any light. dio was rain for the next day and — - ^ j, wl\en the twi.stur earner- 13-Year Old Do^en Johnson we ..a, i„ U.C tack part ol,,-' Stovy tu Htttper’s Bazaar The August number of Harper’s TJ. S- Weather Bureau at New Hav-; quartered in Raleigh, and acted as not have had a clear view, becau;^ Bazaar contained a »tory, “The Mos- en. The report was cloudy and rainy' asssitant city editor. ' the few people who saw it (most peo- cow Mail,’’ by one Doyen Johnson, all day: no mention of any .storm.' Herbert O'Keefe, formerly w'ith ' dressing or at and it’s just come to light hereabouts The sei-vants left and I went over, the News and Observer and Afsociat-■ that the authoress is none other to the boat and put some rleating \,d Press in North Carolina and for! tornado 13 year old 1 u ht gear on the mooring cable where it the last four years with the Baltimore 'rubber 'oall, a*. Commander Felix L^He John might chafe again.st tne steel bob- Bureau of the Associated Pre.'ts, will •^‘^les completely skipping a large 7 stay supporting the bowsprit. Mrs- ’ return this week to the News and pouncing on a small one, Jenks was cooking lunch. Ann (Miss Ob.server as as.sistant city editor fill- lifting it in the air, whirling it aiounU. Ann Fenner, Mrs. Jenks’ daughter.) | ing the vacancy left by Thompson’s, »nd sett.ng it down wiih it walls u “;ited"‘tL'7i^err>^"“rhnH^ Mrs. Jenks and I were now all back' legjgnation. ■ falling in. Boards from one porch ^ at Bayhurst when a rather fresh; with the NYA Thompson will work ^ rammed six inches into ‘ ^ breeze came ont of the southeast, more jirpetor ,appointed inl^^'^ east than south- This worried me,' | tunce away. Old wrought iron fences, going the wrong way round the com- ’ program throughout the 1 ^‘oncrete foundation^, were twist- , - . x, pass, and I went to look at the bar- j,tate- In addition to diitieq Mr broken like twigs. An auto- - gunneiy advi.ser to the Brazil- ometer. This had dropped rather Lano-’s assistant he win hf. in rhnro-J Church Street—one of the Navy for the past two years, his suddenly. I had a card which read '^^j (^jgcug’ioj, groups to be in-' that were overturned or crush. ^’I'ty m Brazil endihe: last that with the wind going S. to E- and augurated among the youth connect- i mashed by falling brick.s I ”i«”th- He and hia family had plan- barometer at 29-80 and falling rap-1 j^tya especially in the resi-! **" ^ Holland, with a tour k-dy (roughly our conditions) a se- relaj‘''Se vere storm was imminent. We callad tiona for the Federal agency. ! Uie Weathe^ Bureau at about noon. ^ resident of Southern Pines' had been a terrific ram, The report now was high winds from , Thompson graduated in iournalism | Thursday morning, | the east durmg the coming night, | tvt tv. Which slackened up ratheir suddenly ^ , T i States about, the 20th of this month, about eight o clock. I was getting 1 , ^ , - , X.. ' landing in Boston. His next Navy as. -n riiht to sachem-. Head harbor- publications « Pv.ng the weather, ^ commander of a new 0,11 right in isacnems weaa naroor, pamiina PiQ^rrvnb-^vc- ^i^y particular attention, when sud- , , _ • still no mention of any storm. with the Carolina Playmakers. ^ ^ ^ , destroyer now under eonsmiction rn ‘It was now freshening all the _i j ; wind—such as I hope never to hear' ^ ^ IHGIILAKD PINES SALE C0N.F1R1 son, brother of J. Talbot Johnson and Mrs. C. C. Bcthune of Aberdeen. The young lady appears to have in-i grandfather, the late J. McN. John son. The story i.s original, exciting and in splendid style. Lieut. Commander Johnson has u *1, from the University of North Caro, that the Connecticut shore was the . • .1 tv, 4 V, Chapel Hill in 1935. He was good one and that the boat would be j., through England and Scotland, mak- j ing the sa|ne trip his father made in • 1914, but the threat of war forced a change in plans. Instead the John sons are raturning to the United time with squalls of rain, and I was Color6d Boy ScOUt w'orried, so we put off lunch and Troop Orj^anized Here went over to Sachem’s Head—about agam—roaring past the bedi'oom win-' family are expected to pay a visit to , , . , X ' Aberdeen upon their return to the dews. I remember thinking only two . * T ^ * f * i United States- things: that I must try to get the Four blasts from the /'"e siren will indicate when the “rain” is over and lights ma.v be turned on again. The jH-riod of darkness will be about 30 to ‘10 minutes. Street Lights Out -Ml stieet li;;'ht.s will be Cut during the time of the "raid” and Southern Pinos, Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Car thage will be in as near total dark ness as it is possble to make them. The War Department is particular- „ , , , Iv anxioup that every citizen do his Sale of the Highland Pines Inn to . ■ * 1 part in blackng out the town durng Da\id F. Tuttle of Nantucket, Mass., bombardment.” prominent hotel man, was confirmed Thi.« practice "black-out” will be by stockholders of the Highland Park one of the features Df the air maneu- Hotel Company at a meeting here V{>rs which have attracted thousands yesterday afternoon. to the flying fields at Knollwood, T rr. m ^ ' P'ort Bragg and Maxton during the Ml. Tuttles offer for the property . v, tv, past week. There will be other maneu- was announced in The Pilot on Sep- gjj ^\-eek, with bombing tember 23d. He is expected to take .squadrons from Langley Field, Va., possession as soon as the title trans- -serving as the ‘‘enemy,” meeting re fer can be arranged ' sistance from the pursuit squadrons stationed at the three fields in this section. Here To Discuss State’s World’s I^air Exhibit Kinsr’s Daug-hters, Sons Here For Convention jVIartin Jeciter of New York, i)e‘''ij.>ner, and Coleman Rob erts C. of C. Luncheon (Jucsts Martin Jenter of New York, presi dent of Jenter Exhibits, Inc., design er of tho North Carolina exhibit for the World’s Fair in New York next year, with Mrs. Jenter and their son and Mr. and Mrs. Coleman T. Roberts of Charlotte were guests of the Sou- Delesales From All Parts of Slate Gather at Church of Wide Fellowship The 48th annual convention of the North Carolina Branch of the King’s Daughters and Sons opened in the Church of Wide Fellowship in Sou thern Pines on W'ednesday, with four miles away—to consult an old VVest Southern Pines No. 1 is storm shutters to the windows closed; man named Barker who put down pirgj County.—State’Ex- most of the moorings in the harbor. ecutive Here for Installation Ann went with us. Barker said the mooring we were on would ‘hold all Moore county’s first colored Boy the boats in the harbor’ so long as Scout Troop was organized this past the cable was all right; this had been week, West «?ouLhem Pines Troop No. renewed early in the summer. I tried 1. The troop was installed by Troop to hire him to go out to ‘Crusoe’, 1, Southern Pines, headed by Father with me and examine the cable but it was then raining hard and blow- Ing hard and he went off, saying he would come back, but he did not come back. I went down to the Williams, with Rather King, new Scoutmaster of the troop assisting- The colored troop was organized by T. U- Connors, teacher of man ual training in the West Southern yacht club float and decided to row pingg School. The Scoutmaster out to the boat; one of my ideas ^ ^ Sanders, with D. E. Wilson as •was to run the motor and so ease assistant and J. T. Saunders, chair- up on the mooring. man, T. R. (Joins and T. U. Connors Caught in Harbor j serving as the Executive Committee. The wind was now blowing from, J- E. Steere, State Scout Executive, the east very hard and straight out was here for the installation and of the harbor. It was rough but' welcomed the new troop. Dr. George did not look impossible for rowing, G. Herr, chairman of the Southern by any means. Mrs. Jenks insisted on going along. We started out in the dinghy and it was hard rowing. 1t»ut we got about three-quarters of the way to ‘Crusoe’ when the hurri cane really struck. When the oars genuine interest in village life and problems and his friendliness w'ith young and old, white and colored, en deared him to all. His w'ork with the Boy Scouts, the Board of Trustees of the ^Church of Wide Fellowship, the Trustees of the Library Association, and particularly with the School Board, as well as with many other organizations will cause all to mourn his loss as one whose guidance and came out of the water I couldn’t been installed there has been a re-1 “There were Kome miraculous es- advice they respected and whose per- liold them in the oarlocks. Mrs. Jenks markable decrease in juvenile de- strange happenings. One ^ sonality they admired- His earnest- (Pleaae turn to page four) llnquency. (Pltu* turn to page four) (Please turn to pag^ four) Pin«s School Board, was the prin- cipal speaker at the exercises. The new troop is expected to have a splendid influence on the youths of West Southern Fines- In all com- School Board Mourns Passing of Dr. Prizer and that if the wind kept up like this many minutes, the house would go down- Almost before the thoughts had time to form, the wmd stopped. Adopts Resolutions Setting Deep Feelinjar of Loss of Fellow Member It seemed to have roared only a few seconds, and, like thousands of oth ers, I was utterly amazed a half-! hour later to see the horrible destruc. j The following resolutions were tion those few seconds had wrought,' adopted this week by the Southern It seems that this part of East Bay Pines School Board: caught only the tip of the twister. ^ E- Levis Prizer, who died on Right around the corner of South September 14th, 1938, will long be Battery, porches and slate roofs were^ remembered by this community as an snatched off with a vast abandon, outstanding Christian character, the leaving some of the fine old homes ‘ ample fruits of w'hose labors will with a naked, staring and bald-head- ^ remain long for its enchantment. His ed look. Many of their top floors understanding of human nature, hia were completely crushed. Almost every window in every house in the tornado’s path was broken. Hard rains which followed made the dam age doubly great. Tin roofs are still garnishing the entire city. You see them every (few yards—wrapped around telephone poles, caught in trees, lying across electric wires; or piled two and three deep on top of prominent women from all parts of them Pines Chamber of Commerce j state here and a fine program, at luncheon yesterday at the Coun- ^ue keynote of the convention was try Club. The party was here in the interest of ascertaining the form the Sandhills part of the exhibit will take- They spent some time in Pine hurst before lunching here- "Co-operation.” Fifty members gathered for the luncheon Wednesday noon at the church, and during the afternoon the ! following program was gi.’?n: Intro- At the luncheon were R- L. Hart, ^^cWon of guest of honor. Mrs. t'ey- munities where such troops have °th®r houses. A. S. Newcomb, Lloyd Clark, Harry Lewis, E. C. Stevens, Nelson C. Hyde, Glenn McElroy, H. J. Betterley, R. L. Chandler, Howard Bums, Norman Shenk and Dr. William C. Mudgett, who presided- GODWIN, AIDED BY GIRL IN J.4IL ESCAPE, CAUGHT James Godwin, convict w'ho escap ed from Davidson county jail when the jailers daughter gave him the | g,^ng by boys of the Stonewall Jack son Training School at Concord- The ton B. Hartley, president of the South Carolina branch). Address of welcome, Mrs. C- L. Haywood, Durham; Re sponse, Mrs. Leon Smith, Kannapo lis; Devotional, the Rev. Voight Tay lor; Presentation and Adopt.on of Program; Reports of officers. After a drive to points of interest in the Sandhills dinner was ^rved In the church parlors Wednesday night by the Reliance Club of the church, with nearly 100 present. Songs were keys, was caught yesterday after noon. Godwin married Miss Helen W’ay of Carthage before starting on his tour of crime about two months ago- Lulu Belle Kimel, who let him out of jail because he promised her he’d go straight, has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. Her father resigned as jailer when he found what hig daughter had done. Godwin is alleged to have shot and killed a mill work- er in Lexington since his escape. He delegates were guests of the Silver Cross Circle of Rockingham, the~e being ho longer any circle in South ern Pines. Reconvening yesterday morning, the Lonvention was called to order by Ikirs. W. B. Evans of Wilmington, vice- president, followed by the devotion al by Mrs. Hartley. 'Various reports were given of the work of the or ganization. The Highland Pines Inn was head- himself was wounded when captifred quarters for the visitors, with many yesterday. also stopping at the Park View.