WOORE COUOTrS LEADING JVEWS-WEEKLY A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding vol.. 19, NO. 18. >^\RTHAaE F-ACUe SPRINGS ILAKEVIEW MANUKY « JACK son SPRIM09 SOUTMCRN Pines ASHkSV HEKIMTS AeCROUli PlNEBLUFfc UN. C P^^OUNA ROO^ FIRST IN NEWS. CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Terr% ry of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday. March 31, 1939. SEAFARIN DAN FAVORITE FOR CAROLINA CUP Local Horse Looks Best of Field In Feature Race at Camden Tomorrow MANY GOING FROM HERE Seafarin Dan, winner of the $1,000 feature brush race over the Sandhills course at the recent steeplechase meeting here, will go to the post as one of the favorites in the big brush race on the card ot the Carolina Cup event at C.TnuJen, S O, tomorrow, Saturday, carrying the colors of Capt. Ewart Johnston of Washington, Dan’s ti'ainer, Geoffrey A Laing of South ern Pines, is sending tlie horse, along with four others, to Camden today ready for tlie six-card program there Saturday. Laing's other entries includi; his own Captain Bill in tlie foatuure timber race, the Carolina Cup; his own Lynx Eye, which ran here and will start there in the flat race, and Rufus C. F'inch's Jolie Knight, second here in the maiden brush race, but starting in Camden in one of the hurdle events. N. T. Mayo of Pinehurst is taking Mrs. Mayo’s Devil Dancer, trim bay gelding, to Camden for the flat race and Walter T. Northgrave is running one of the horses he has in train ing here in Pinehurst this winter in f. hurdle event. So with six starters from the Sandhills, the Camden meeting prom ises to draw a big crowd from this section. Harry D. Kirkover, boss man of the Carolina Cup event, informs The Pi'ot that every race on the card is filled, that the famous Spring dale course is in A-1 condition, and that he looks for a grand afternoon of sport. The first race is scheduled for 2:00 o'clock. There will be two hurdle races, two over bru.sh, one flat race and the feature timber event, three miles over timber for the historic Carolina Cup. Robert Leatham, 6^ Dies at Home Here Native Here Since 1935 Suc cumbs After Lingering Illness In failing health for several years Hobert Leatham 68, died in his home on Manly avenue, Southern Pines, Monday night. Born in Glasgow', Scotland on March 6, 1871, the son of Robert Leatham and Elizabeth Weir Lea tham, he was for many years Sup erintendent of the Pembroke Mills, Lawrence, Mass., going from there to their Markel Mill, Batesburg, S. C., where ill health forced his res ignation and removal to Charlotte, from which city he came to South ern F^nes in 1934. Funeral services were held in the Powell Funeral Home at 3:30 o’clock, Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. Voight O Taylor of the Church of Wide Fellowship officiating. Mr. Leatham is survived by his widow, the former Miss Lillian Gaines, and a sister. Miss Elizabeth Leatham of Lowell, Mass. Junior Horse Show Here This Afternoor Conte.«(anls and Officials All Muse Be Under 18 Years.— Susan Fuller In Charge The youth of the Sandhill*? are put ting on a horse show of their own this aftem'ion, Friday in the show Ting t’ Southern Pinas Coiiutry Club. It’s strictly a junior alfair, and takes the pla-'e "" the ^rTnWuina whi .-h haP * ^en scheduled for thi^ woe!;. III. s '^usan Fuller is mirn ar of the (omniittec charg? and .'■n- nfi inted : 'steri’ .y thit no one will V elir'ble to enter the vpi'ous < vents rnle&‘’ Ve is ''*5 or under. Thf ihow rin? of'icials. the ju<^ge3. ever^'onp connected w.h shc v %viil be 18 or undci. '•he sayt., T1 grv,wi -ups aren’t going to be alio ved to do anything ‘'xcert look m. (Please tjm page four) George H. Maurice Is Re-Elected Moore County Hospital President FIVE CEN1>i Officers Elected for 1939 at Annual Meeting Held Last Night At Civic Club Today TWO NEW DIRECTORS George H. Maurice of Eagle Springs wa.s re-elected president of the Moore County Hospital at the annual meet ing of directors held at the hospital last evening. Other officers re-elect ed were as follows: Honorary President, Simeon B. Chapin; vice-Pre.^ident.s, Mrs. James H. Andrews of Southern Pines and G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen; secre- tary-treasurer, Paul Dana, Pinehurst; assistant treanirer, George P. Hawes, .Jr., Piiifhiirst. Frederick H. Lesli of Pinehurst and W. P. Saundei’s of Honip were new members elected to the board of directors; one to succeed the late James H. Walker, the other to fill a vacancy on the boaril which has exist ed for some time. Directors re-elect ed were as follows: The officers anil L. L. Biddle, II, Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. John L. Given, Verner Z, Reed, Ji\, S. Donald Sher- rerd and Richard Tuft®, all of Pinehurst; Jackson H. Boyd, James Boyd. Struthers Burt, Nelson C. Hyde, Dorsey G. Stutz and Kenneth B. Trousdell, all of Southern Pines; John Fiddner of Pinebluff; John Currie of Highfalls; Mrs. E. C. Keating of Knollwood; M. C. McDon ald of West End; Leighton B. Mc- Kethen of Cameron; Arthur S. New comb of Lakeview, Wilbur H. Currie, Clyde B. Shaw and U. L. Spence of Carthage; G. C. Seymour and Frank Shamburger of Aberdeen. The board heard annual reports of officers of the financial condition of the institution, and discussed plans for completing the financing of the nurses' home and other business. Kiwanians Hear Talk By U. S. Army Chaplain Harry C. Frazier, Stationed at Fort Bragg. Speaks On Vocational Guidance DUKE ENDOWMENT ALLOTS $7,164 TO COUNTY HOSPITAL Trustees Appropriate Close To Million Dollars For Charity in Caroiinas Hunting, Jumping Classes Feature Horse Show Here ORPHAN HOMES AIDED DU. I (•liCKil DR. I. G. GREER jjr. Harry C. Frazier, United States Army Chaplain stationed at Fort Bragg made a very interesting ad dress on the subject of vocational guidance Wednesday at the Kiwanis Club luncheon at the Southern Pines Country Club. Preceding the address John Ho- warth, chairman of the committee on vocational guidance for the club, awarded prizes to students making outstanding study in this work. The awards were Miss Laura Wood, Sou thern Pines, first prize for her study in accounting, Anne Jane Vick, Pinehurst, for study of Nursing and Miss Isabel McKeithen, Cameron, for study in music. Mrs. Robert Kenney played a num ber of piano solos for which she re ceived warm applause. Jay-Cees Jo Sponsor Golf Tournament Here Invitations Mailed Out For 36- Hole Medal Play Event on May 6 and 7 Trustees of the Duke Endowment i at their meeting in New York this week appropriated $959,724.81 for | 109 hospital^ and 43 orphan homes in the two Caroiinas. Hospitals re ceived $861,596 and orphan homes ?95,128.81. I The Mooie County Jio.spita! ’.va.‘^ allotted S7,1G1, one dollar pur day toward the expense of chaiity pa tients in the insti' '' n c’ lii.ij; 19jS. The tru.stee.s ri, a t;,! II.. t wlivn the endo\\'iiK'nt on' Deren'iber 11, 1921, the group of non-prolit hu?i,itals in the Caroiinas numbered 18 and they averaged ap proximately 500 free p'tients a day in 1921. l i 1938 liie >;roup of non profit hw.ipitaU' haJ inetea.sed to 129 . ^ ¥ ira and they averaged 2,,)90 free pa- A1 U Vit llUB asked to pay !j>l a free day for each patient. The 43 orphan homes reported 1,- : 789.931 days of care of orphans and Renowned Interpreter of Folk half orphans during 1938, which was Music To Present Program I 87 per cent of the total days of and Lecture at 8:00 P. M. I care. The institutions cared for 5,- I 747 orphans and half orphans. One of the outstanding events of, approj’riation announced this the Southern Pines Civic Club’s seas- | week brought to $14,392,864 the sum ons program will take place there! given to hospitals and orphan homes tonight, Friday, at 8:00 p. m. when [ by the endow ment since it was e«- Dr. and Mrs. 1. G. Greer bring a) tablished. noted collection of North Carolina — Folk music to a Southern Pines aud' ience. Dr. Greer, a native North Car olinian, is an authority on folk mus ic and has one of the most complete collections ever assembled in the Southern Pines Girl Elected To state. Born and readed in the rugged Honorary Society at W. C mountain country, he acquired a natural acquaintance of folklore that enveloped his hilly country, and for over 20 years he has collected bal- HERE TO.NIGHT Miss Carolina Lewis Named Phi Beta Kappa U. N. Cm Greensboro Count Peacock Wins Ribbon In Saddle Horse Division.—Orat ion Is Hunter Champion tony wins open AGAIN Featured by as line a showing of hunters as any in the country fehoit of the National at Madison Square Garden, and with quality if not quantity in all other classes, the 22nd annual horse show here came to a close Wednesday afternoon in I ti.e Pinehurst show ring with the I Clowning of the champions. Count I 1 tacock, consistent performer throughout the two-day event, car- ' lie't off the cnamplonship ribbon in the throp-giiiiod ca ldle horse classi- f:oifion f(,r hi:-; owner, Nathan Ayers o‘- Civf'npb' ro; Goode Watkins’ Bour- ' )'-n rv.Tothcr.rt v.as adjudged five- gaited champion and Oiation, hand- i .some (jh,'.«tnut owned by Ernest I. White of Syi-acuse, N .V., won the ' hunter cluunpionship. IL wa.s a fine show throughout, i b:it (ho hunting and jumping featur ed, and you couldn't ask for better f'las.ses anywlit-re in these events. Judge Enrman B. AJitcliell, M. P’. H. of Hai risburg, Pa., was hard put to it to adjudge the winners of many of the hunting classes and when the proclaiming of the show’s hunter chanipion became necessary, it was so near a toss-up between Mr. White's Oration and the Dodsborg Farms’ Demopolis, bay gelding shown by T. M. Dodson, Jr., of Charlottesville, I Va., that Mr. Mitchell mounted each, , T , them about the ring, and had to The annual report of tehx A. , , make the ward on personal prefer- Grissette, executive director of the' gn^e Hospital Saving Vssociatlon of North * .Saddle Classes Carolina, released this week, reveals i In the saddle hor^e classes the that the net number of members in | Soing was not quite as close, Nathan force at the end of 1938 was 83,436, Peacock scoring pretty ^ A I consistently in the three-waited a gam of 46,518 during the year. As: , 1 ^ I classes and Goode Watkins’ Bourbon Sigrhtseeing* Beauty Spots To Visit In Sandhills at this Season of the Year With the Sandhills section now in its prettiest stage of the .sea son, The Pilot recommends to vis itors sightseeing trips to the fol lowing places: Bethc.sda Cemetery, Aberdeen, and liie gioive of Walter Hines I’age. \* orid Ambassador to Great Britain. Flora Mnidonali! Coiloge Cam- i us at Red .‘^ni-ir'T.s. Pin'-'-'Ui-wt lV''(>h C-mp.-'ny apple orchards nt West E*id. Pinehurst Vill;ige, privnte g;>r- lU-ns and “Central Park.'’ Southern Pines private gardens and a drive through Weymouth Heights. Watson’s Lake. Cf\’St:d Lrike at Lakeview. N. C. HOSPITAL SAVING ASS’N. REPORIS GAIN ;>loore 1750.- County Membership is Paid In Coun ty for 287 Hospital Bills , The Woman’s College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa announced the elec- ; lads as a hobby. Dr. Greer will sing tion of 22 new members to the fra-: a number of these old songs, ac- ternity Tuesday noon at the weekly | companied by Mrs. Greer on the dul- convocation. One convocation prog- j cimer, one of the most ancient of is set aside annually foi the an- j musical instruments. nouncement of elections, and it wdll ^ Dr. Greer’s collection of ballads followed this year on April 14 y | have not only attracted attention in the Phi Beta Kappa initiation. Dr. j the State but have brought nation- Francis P. Gaines, president of Was - , w’ide notice. Dr. and Mrs. Greer were ington and Lee University will deliv-, joint artists in Constitution Hall last pi the address that evening, follow | May when the Fifth National Folk ing the initiation banquet. Festival was celebrated in Washing- The 22 new members, 19 of them j ton. The Greer performance promises seniors, two juniors, and one ^ to be one of the interesting affairs alumna, were announced by of the entire season. The admission L. Barkley, secretary of the o price is 35 cents, and the presump- man’s College Chapter. Miss or- Uon is that a full house will turn out ence Schaeffer, president of the to hear the Greers in joint recital, i chapter had charge of the exercises. Impressively arrayed in caps and of the present date the net total is; in excess of 90,000. The membership is scattered throughout 91 different North Caro lina counties, approximately 1,750 Sweetheart in the five-gaited events. Mrs. Reed A. Albee of Larchmont, N. Y., judged the saddle classes with apparent satisfaction. Young Shirley Laasing of South- Mrs. Dorothy Adams Is Married In Honolulu Invitations to play in the First An nual North Carolina Jay-Cee Golf Ch'tmpionship, to be hcid over the famed No. 1 course »>f the Southern Pines Country Club on May 6 and 7, have beer mailed out by the spon soring Southeru Pir^g Club and -’re receiving an enthusiastic reception by Jay-Cees all over the country. From all indications a field of more than 100 golfers will be on hand when the 36-hole medal p’ ly e'-ent get.=i under way. ■ Any memoei, .acli ’e or honorary, of rny n-emb'" org'inizaticn of the, TTritei .'Uites Jun’or Oair’'"‘r o'" j Commerce it oUglbl'- to nmpcte iu! this tcuraament and the spi>nsors f -- prct a good manv represent'ti>e3 4 cluu:» In other states wii' bo on h; iid fi ' t.htH eve-it lEh’ery'^^hing tha; e done Lj - nte '.air the isitir ao'f^'TS WjII be done ly ♦,h- Sou ■l'•r^ ine.'j chib. ^ small ' ^et-i‘quai d dance is being planr.jd lor Sat. lay Jdght, (Please thr.i to j- j/t ‘our} gowns, the 19 new senior members took their places on the platform beside the one student member, Miss Jane Dupuy, of Greensboro, who was Weds Major Joseph H. Walton., taken in as a junior last year. The Will Remain There seniors were followed by the two Indetinitely ' new junior members, whose class I lank did not allow the wearing of News of the announcement of the cap and gown, marriage of Mrs. Dorothy Adams to New members of the present sen- Major Joseph H. Walton, which took ior class include: Misses Carolina place February 23rd, in Calvary Bap- Lewis, Southern Pines; Selma Dunn, tist Church. Honolulu, Hawaii, has Winston-Salem; Esther Ann Quinn, been i.!ceived here. Shelby; Phyllis Keister, Greensboro; \r;-s. 'Valton is the daughter of wilma Levine, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Flor- Mid. Lelia M. Bass and the late G. cnee Albright, Ro.selle, N. J.; Sophia \V. Bass, formerly of Manly, who, Taplin, liigh Point; Mamie Patrick, j for ti e past two years has made ' Durham; Edna Cartwright, Baltimore,, her home iu Southern Pines with her Md.; Margaret Woodson, Salisbury; daughter, Mrs. James T. Wilson, un-; Claudeline Lewis, Enfield; Gertrude ’ til her recent departure for Hawaii.: Hainey, Martinsville, N. J.; Dciothy' Major and Mrs. Walton expect to Truit, iGreenisboro; Adelaide Love,' remain in Honolulu indetinitely. of whom reside in Moore County. The , crn Pines won the right to compete activities of the Association in Sou- | in the Championship A. S. P. C. A. them Pines and vicinity are under; Horsemanship class in next Novem- the direction of Rev. W. L. Dawson, I ber's National Horse Show in Madi- of Hemp. j fon Square Garden, New York with During the three years of its op-1 victory in the Horsemanship erations the Association has paid children not over 17. Seven the hospital bills of 9,425 of its mem-1 children appeared for this event, and bers for a total saving to those | judged for guidance and con- niembers of $394,759.00. Moore Coun-! of horse over eight jumps not ty members have been saved $9,668,00 i <^ver three feet high. Miss Peggy in payment of 287 hospital bills. ! ^udd of Greenwich, Conn., was sec- The Chapel Hill Association is the t ^usan Fuller of Durham state-wide, non-profit group payment placed third, plan for hospital bills operated joint- ^s usual, the crowd thoroughly ly by the North Carolina Medical So- ^he showing of the 75 mm. ciety and the North Carolina Hospi- &uns by three batteries of the 83rd atl Association. It is one of 55 such | Artillery, thrilling at the speed recognized associations operating in - accuracy shown by man and the United States with a total mem-'; as the big cannons were nau.. ed through narrow posts set up in the show ring. Battery D was award ed the blue over E and F batteries by Col. John P. Lucas, who judged the military classes. Brig. Gen. Wil liam Bryden, commanding officer at Fort Bragg, awaided the ribbons fol lowing this event. One of the biggest mobile guns at Fort Bragg w^as also on exhibition on Wednesday and at tracted considerable interest. The Summaries: Tuesday i , Two-Year-Old Trotters—1, Peerless (Please turn to page fnnr) S. P. HI< SCHOOL BALL Greensboro; Bet.^ Wharton, Greens-1 boro; Maxine Garner, Liberty; Mar tha Eleanor Floyd, Fairmont; Dor- j C'T.l'B WINS 2Nn STRAIGHT I „thy Kolman. Pittsfield, Mass.; rnd !'or'thy Kjsseland, Short Hills, N. Z Givinfr up only three hits over tha phe two m*'mbers from tac ilpss tf nine-iniunp' routf*, .-vrth. r Pate nit- 1940 are: Misses M ugaret Wya’cto. t..ied t'ie Southern P.me,’ Figh School: of Mebani, ..nd M trtha Murt'n, Mn- ba.seball cl jb 1o a 7-C shut o; over j joj. Cam ron ye.iterday afternoon. | Alumnn from the clas: of l^^'S, Dr This was Lhe localitss v?oi. 1 winjLorna Thigpen, \ss<'Ci;i^e Profess->r in as many starts, and Pate’s big-j of Ge loticf-, Connecticut State- C time hurling Icnka like tiie t am’.s | icge, Storrs, Ci un. answer to theii* hopes of - a - ut double tht f. 'iount of hudpitalization required by men. Want Local Team in Tobacc(» State ^easrue Meetinpr To Or)>anize Fandhilh Club To Be Held in Southern Pines Next Monday A meeting will be held Monday eveni iS', Apiil 3rd, at 8 00 j m. at lhe Scout lodge in Sout'^rn ’^i.nt ^ to a'teinpt to organi i a Saii ihilla baseball team to cnfer he TobacT '^tate Lea. ui, this buriimer. The "St;‘taster and 0''0 t'-ne inlue.itial i.i Moon '^vmty pci-, j., eas.,nal =1 will ^o on ..r * i"y i ^^ant ad-.iissio.i to 30 i.s. r \KIX)!> McLl A l» DITO low'ing funeral .service^! held fiom li.- home in Sanford, where he di^d I games. un- This meeting will be held jo u day morning fallow mg a heart at- ^vith the Junior ChamV'r of (. • tack. H<‘ ^v1l3 68 years of t ge. .me’ i.e of Soufnorn Pines.