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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen,North Carolina. Friday, August 16, 1940-
EPPS FRY MURDER Pinehurst Stars Drop Two Games MRS McCAlN NEW
CASE ON TRIAL IN Stm Lead in Softball League VICE-CHAIRMAN OF
SUPERIOR COURT gust 2d—-Southern Pines || Willkie in the Swim “I STATE DEMOCRACY
Tourists Second
Alleged Murdered of Father En
ters Plea of Not Guilty
at Carthage
HORNER CASE CONTINUED
Perc.
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LKAGLE STANDINGS
(As of August 10, 1910)
W L
Pinehurst Stars 9— 2
Sou. Pines Tourists 6— 4—600 '
Pinehurst Townies 3— 2—.600 |
Sou. Pines All-Stars 5 —4—556 !
Aberdee n Lions 5 —6—454 |
Pinebluff 0—10—.000
Between August 2nd and 10th nine:
(games were played in the Sandhills!
A true bill chai'ging Epps Fry, 47,
•with the first degree murder of his
87-year-old father, Merrill Fry, was
brought into court by the g-rand
jury on Monday, the opening day of ]
the August term of eiiminal court,,. ^ ^ ■
, _ , ^ ^ j. Softball League and the schedule is i
and on Tuesday morning the defend-1 .. j ..
ant In the case which eclipses in in
terest all others on the docket was
formally arraigned. Pry, who had
been kept in Central Prison in Ral
eigh since the fatal fight on July
13, entered a plea of not guilty.
A special venire of 50 men from
the county was drawn Tuesday morn
ing and summoned to appeal in court
at 9:30 Wednesday morning. Hela-
tives of the slain man employed VV. K.
Clegg to help prosecute the case.
Chosen as grand jurors for the
term were Hiram Westbrook, fore
man ; Floyd T. Barker, W. G. Ben
ner, Walter Black, J. P. Clark. D. A.
Dunlap, Charles Gsehwind, T. L. How
ard, C. P. Ingram, W. Raymond
Johnson, Frank Maples, J. L. Mar
ion, H, T. Morgan, Frank McCaskill,
R. C. McDonald, George S. Kevins,
Robert N. Page, i,, and H. G, Poole,
Lnidsay Marley was tried Tuesday
now up to date except for a postpon-1
‘ ed game between Southern Pines'
I Tourists and Pinebluff. This game is
expected to be played off during the
coming week.
The results of the game played dur
ing the past week weie as follows:
The Pinehurst Stars defeated Pine
bluff 16—2 with Tommy Currie the
winning pitcher and the lo.ss charged
to Dan Mangum. Pinehurst got only
eight hits but ten errors gave them
more than enough runs to win. '
The Aberdeen Lions won a dose
and exciting contest from the South-!
ein Pines All-Stars by a score of 9-7 1
in rt game that went eight innings.,
H. Veasey was the winning pitcher
and A, Pate the lo.ser. Red DavT^
helped the Aberdeen cau.se materially j
by hitting a home run. j
Southern Pines Tourists defeated,
the Pinehurst To A'n team 17-12 in a
free hitting and loosely played game
Willkie in the Swim
Mr. and Mrs. Hefner, South
ern Pines See G.O.P. Candi
date in Pool in Colorada
Two residents of Southern
Pines have seen the Republican
:andidate for President, Wendell
Willkie. And they saw him in
swimming.
Mr. and Mrs. S. VV. Hefnet have
returned from a trip west. While
in Colorada Springs they visited
the hotel where Mr. Willkie is
stopping and found hlni in the
pool. Mr. Hefner, who is section
foreman of the Seaboaid Aii- Line
Railway here, said he paw a lot
of Willkie buttons on the people
out west .and heard ,i lot of anti-
Willkie talk.
FIVE CENTS
Sandhillians, From
Sleep, Evacuate ’.^awley’s
Island As Hurricane Hits
Daughter of Late Dr. L. B. Mc-
Brayer of Southern Pines
Wins High Honor
DENNY NEW CHAIRMAN
ANNUAL LIVESTOCK
SHOW OPENS AT
HEMP SATURDAY
(ieorge T. Penny To Make Ad
dress.—F’ine Exhibits, Says
County Agent (larrison
The annual Livestock Show spon
sored by the Moore County Bi’eeders
for bieaking and entering the resi-■ Kxperience told in this case and the Hemp tomot
dence of R. S. Thornton in Carthage i Tourists took advantage of all breaks. : I';’"' I"''™ nil .nd.oat.ons
and stealing a maple bed, complete h. McCaskill lost his first league
best ever put on. There appears to
. I be more interest in the event than
'at any previous time, and more live-
with mattress and springs, two rugs j game and Newsome was the winning
and three chairs. According to the
evidence, Mr. Thornton, a former
teacher in the Caithage school, haJ
Itft his furnished home in Carthage
unoccupied when he left to reside in
Alamance county, but visited is fre
quently. When he returned on a vis
it in January, he found a window
broken, the front door open and a
number of pieces of furniture nliss-
ing.
Returning again in May after re
ceiving a tip as to the location of
some of his property, Mr. Thornton
obtained a search warrant and with
the sheriff went to Marley’s home,
where he found the bed, rugs, and
some other articles which he identi
fied as his property.
Other C'asen
Ralph Brower, found guilty of il
legal possession of liquor, was given
six months to work on the roads.
James Homer, manslaughter^ con-
tinued; Earl L. Edwards and Kdna
Elizabeth Edwards, forgery, nol pros
with leave; Levi Jessup, assault with
a deadly weapon and assault on a
female, nol pros with leave; Tracy
Beal and Ray Baber, criminal as
sault, not a true bill.
W. G. Maxwell, public drunken
ness, disorderly conduct, and assault
with deadly weapon, nol pros with
leave.
Pi-eston Blue and Wade Mitchell,
manslaughter, continued; Gladys
McKinnon Mlnter, careless and reck
less driving, not guilty; Howard
Williams, Howard Davis, Clyde
"Buck” McKenzie, Willie Game Ro
land Garner, Frank Williams, Harri
son Cagle and Carlton Burns, as-
sault with deadly weapon with intent
to kill, case marked off the docket.
Wednesday, August 7th .saw three ^
more games played. In the first of
stock of all kinds will be shown.
I “'I do not believe that I hnve ever
seen prettier colts than those in the
county at this time," says County
Agent E. H. Garrison. Jr. ‘‘The Hemp
section has been noted for its good
stock for years. Tractors and other
over the Aberdeen Lions by 8-7. This i
game was late in starting and ^^•as |
finished in almost darkness. Aberdeen
had the game in the bag until the
last half of the 6th inning when Pine-!
hiirst rallied for five runs and the'
victory. Ralph Horner relieved Tom- j
mie Currie for Pinehurst and got |
crsdit for the win, while the loss was
charged to P. Carter.
The first forfeited game in the lea
gue was awarded to the Southern
Pines Tourists when Pinebluff failed \ “Some of the colts ptoduced in this
to show up by 6:15 p. m. i section are large enough to work
The final game on August 7th re-! ’’O''*’- These have made just as fine
suited in a tie at 2-2 between Pine-1 can be produced anywhere,
hurst Town team the Southern Pines i ^ convinced that this will soon
All-Stars. This game, played at Pine— a good livestock producing sec.
One of the two highest honors the
Democratic party of North Carolina
can confer upon a woman was ac. ;
corded Mrs. Paul P. McCain of San- j
ptoiium this week, in her election as
vice chairman of the State Democrat-^
ic Executive Committee. In a session
at which harmony was the keynote,
the committee. chose Emery H
Donny of Gastonia as chairman and
Mrs McCain vice-chairman. Mrs. Mc
Cain is the daughter of the late Dr.
I. 13 McBrayer of .Southern Pines,
Klection of the new officeis has
hi‘cn regarded as a foregtjno con
clusion since J. Melville Broughton,
the piirty's nominee for fiovernor.
f.nnoun''P(| his endorsement of them
two weeks ago. The onl.v surprise
tf-.iture of last night’s meeting was
the public launching of a guberna-
toiial boom for the ri'tiring (h.Tirman
of the committee, R. Oregg Cherry,
iil.'^o of Gastonia.
There weie several seconds, all (
them brief for the nominations of
both Denny and Mrs. McCain and in
each instance Rivers D. Johnson of
\\ nrsaw, floor leader of the Brough
ton fon OS for the occasion, brought
spi erh making to an end with a mo-
ti(in that the rules be suspended and
election be made Ijy acclamation.
Chairman Denny in his acceptance
spi'ech gave high praise for Govern
or Hoey, Candidate Bioughton and
Prei(W'''r.t Ruo.sevelt and pledged an
aggressive campaign in all the coun
ties of the st.ite for the national.
State and local tickets.
Broughton in his brief speech
claimed every one of the 100 coun
ties in the state for the Democratic
ticket. "We concede not a single
Life of an Orchid
Its Stages of Growth, Shown
by Local Concern, Features
State Convention
The Carolina Orchid Growers of
Southern Pines stole the show at
the recent two-day meeting of the
North Carolina Florists' Associa
tion convention at Wrightsvile
Beach. According to press des
patches, "interest centered around
the floral display in the lobby of
the hotel showing the growth de
velopment of an orchid from the
glass-covered pinhead stage to the
full grown plant. The exhibit was
that of the Carolina Orch'd Grow-
ers of Southern Pines, one of the
two firms in the .state producing
the.se plants.’
The full grown orchid was plant
ed in 1930. and the nine preceding
stages of its life history were
planted each following year.
Awakened at 1:00 A. M., Party
Spends Night in Cars, Final
ly Reaches Conway
ISLAND NEAR INUNDATION
It's pretty terrifying to be awak-
. cned out of a sound sleep at
1:00 o’clock In the morning and
told you must evacuate the island
you are inhabiting, Nelson C. Hyde,
publisher of The Pilot, told mem-
I bers of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
at their Wednesday meeting in t'.e
Pinehurst Community Church. It
gives you something of the idea of
how they must feel in England or
Germany when an air raid siren
sounds. And the succeeding few
hours, something of the feeling of
the Belgian and French refugee.!
when their countries were invaded
several weeks ago.
Mr. Hyde was with a party of
friends from the Sandhills at Paw
ley’s Island last week. "The sky dar
kened during the afternoon on Sat
urday. and the wind lose,’ he said.
"But the natives calmed our fears
by saying it was nothing to worry
about. Often like that. We all re
tired early.
"At 1:00 a. m.. we were awakened
by Mrs. Edwin T. McKeithcn of
Aberdeen, who was stopping at the
Tip Top Inn next door. Guests there
had been warned it was advisable
I to leave the island at once, and they
A. H. Kirk, 111 Nine ^ ears. Sue- ^ were pulling out. A patrolman had
cumhs Few Hours After been making the rounds with the
: KIRK BROTHERS,
ROSELAND, 88 AND
81, DIE SAME DAY
Death of W. A. Kirk
Albert Richardson .Kirk, SI, well-,
known resident of the Roseland sec
tion, died Monday morning, a few
hours after the death of his only
brother, William Alexander Kirk, 88,
of R\ hfield. Route 2, near Albe
marle.
The brothers were sons of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Christenbury Kirk of
main on the farms of the county as
work .stock and some will be sold
into other par'ts of the county and
state.
hurst before a large crowd, proved to
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Mary Evelyn Sloan and
Cordon Cameron Wed
fai m machinery are coming in but the ,
livestock is there just the same. Some v'ill carry the state
of the mules and horse colts will re-' t.-emendous majority as Stanly county. There are two sis-
i in recent years and will furnish a big ters, Mrs. Eli Eagle of Rowan coun-
i vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.’ | ty and Mrs. John Kirk of China
Mrs. McCain in accepting her elec- ; Grove,
tion said that the women did not x. R. Kirk had been ill nine years,
want to run the party, but wanted most of tvhich time he had been con-
"a chance to work for party success.”
Miss Beatrice Cobb of Morganton,
Democratic National Committee
member, in seconding the nomination
of Mis. McCain, said that her choice
was most acceptable to all the Dem
ocratic women of the state.
Ceremony Performed Last Sat
urday at Old Thyratira Pres
byterian Church
YOUNG DEIMOCRATS CLUB
HERE PL.4,NS CAMPAIGN
At a meeting of the Southern Pines
Young Democratic Club held Mon
day evening, August 12th, plans for
attending the County and State
Young Democratic conventions were
discussed. The local club will be af
filiated with tBe County organiza
tion and will be entitled to two votes
in the State convention.
Miss Iris Tate was elected vice-
president of the Southern Pines Club
to fill the office left vacant by the
resignation of Mrs. W. P. Whitlock.
The next meeting of the Toung
Democrats Club will be held Septem
ber 5th. Announcement of the place
and speaker will be made later.
Old Thyratira Presbyterian
Church at Mill Bridge was the
scene of a ceremony marked by dig
nity and simplicity last Saturday af
ternoon when the Rev. J. E. Guth-
lie united Miss Mary Evelyn Sloan
of Mount Ulla and Gordon McGreg
or Cameron of Plnehursv i:i marriage.
Traditional wedding music was play
ed by Miss Isabel Sloop. Mrs. Theo
dore Sloan and Miss Kathryn Wilson
were soloists. I
Herbert Cameron of Southern |
Pines was his brothers best man and I
D. D. Shields Cameron of Southern
Pines, Roger Harrison of Salisbury,
James Sloan of Mount Ulla, and A.
P. Thompson of Pinehurst \vere ushe-
ers.
Miss Louise Sloan, the bride's sis
ter, was maid of honor. Junior
bridesmaids were Miss Flora Ellen
Cameron, the bridegroom’s daughter,
and Miss Betty Dougherty of Black
Mountain, the bride’s niece.
tion. These people are livestock-
minded and the feed and pastures are
there. A good brood mare, if properly
handled, will produce a colt each
year and work a crop too. Looking
ove“r the section this week I find the
upper end of the county full of ma
terial and all of It in god condition.
If we can get out even half of what
could be brought out we shall have
a show that will be second to none
in North Carolina.
“The show will get under way
around 10:00 o’clock. We regret that
we do not have prize money in keep
ing with the livestock. Ribbons will
be given for first, second, third and
fourth places and some small prizes
will be awarded to those in first and
second place.
Republicans Here Begin
Busy Willkie Campaign
County Organization Met at Civ-
ic Club I>ast Night, VV’^oman’s
Club on Monday
Local Republicans and other Will
kie supporters are unusually active
for so early in the campaign. The
Moore County Young Republican
■Club held a'"spirited meeting last
night in the Southern Pines Civic
I Club and discussed plans for the
campaign. Colin G. Spencer, Jr.. of
The bride was given In marriage
by her brother. She wore white lace Carthage presided, and talks were
over satin, with a finger-tip veil of' made by several active Wlllkieitles
tulle which flowed from a pearl | of the county.
tiara. A pearl necklace was a gift
of the bridegroom.
Mr. and Mrs. Cameron have gone
on a trip through the Great
Smokies, and after August 24th they
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The Willkie.for-Preflldent Women’s
Club of Southern Pines met on Mon
day night at the Trade Store, and
heard a very interesting message
from Miss Meade Seawell of Carth
age. '
James Lloyd Little of
Aberdeen Ends Life
Body Found at Plantation A
With Shotgun Wound, Self
Inflicted, in Chest
James Lloyd Little of Aberdeen,
agent for the Gate City Lafe Insurance
Company, was found dead about 9:30
o’clock last Friday morning at Plan
tation A. the Eldridge Johnson farm
west of Pinebluff. He had succumb
ed from a shotgun yound in the chest
fined to bed. He had lived in the
Roseland section about 23 years. Sur
vivors. besides the sisters, are hisjavv'ay
wife, the former Miss Jennie Pickier
of Albemarle: two daughters, Mrs.
J. N. Smith of Hemp a;.d Mrs. H. A.
Clayton of Roseland: two sons, H.
M. Kirk of Roseland and Clay E.
Kirk of Aberdeen; 22 grandchildren,
and 14 great-grand children.
Funeral services were held at the
Page Memorial Methodist Church In
Aberdeen on Tuesday morning, con-
diifted by the Rev. S. A. Maxwell,
the pastor. Burial was the Kirk plot
in Old Bethesda” Cemetery.
W. A. Kirk died following an 111-
ness of about ten month". He spent
most of his life in Morgan township,
Rowan county, and was a member of
Zion Methodist Church. Survivors,
besides the sisters, are a daughter,
Mrs. Coy Miller of Rowan county;
grandchildren, and three great
warning, but had skipped our cot
tage.
' "*Tr didn’t take long to awaken
everyone in our party, nor long for
Us to get into some clothes. The wind
was howling, and you could hear the
surf piling against the dunes in
front of the cottage. We didn’t know
how soon the hurrican might strike,
so no attempt was made to pack. We
just climbed into automobiles to get
to the mainland before Pawley’s one
and only road was covered with wa
ter and the bridges washed out. We
thought of what had happened to the
island some 40 years ago, when it
v'as completely inundated, hundreds
of lives lost, and most of the build
ings either blown down or washed
which Coroner Fry stated was ob
viously self-Inflfcted. His body was | six
found near his cat', the gun beside I grandchildren.
it. I Funeral services were held at the
According to relative, Mr. Little, I Richfield Lutheran Church on Tues-
who was 45 years of age, had been day, conducted by the Rev. 0. L.
despondent for some time due to ill j Kirkpatrick of Greensboro, assisted
health. He came to Aberdeen about | by the Rev. A. J. Cox of Richfield,
five years ago from Fayetteville, and
had made this his headquarters in
his work as representative of t!ie in-
surance company,
Mr. Little is survived by his widow,
one son, James Jr., who reside In
Pinebluff, and three daughters, Mrs.
Ruth Stevens and the Misses Doris
Catherine and Jauderia Little. Fun
eral services were held at his late
home in Aberdeen Sunday afternoon,
the Rev. E. M. Harris 'officiating.
Burial was in Old Bethesda Ceme
tery.
UBRAI^' HOURS
The Southern Pines Library’s
hours for August will be as follows;
Open daily from 9:00 to 1:00; open
Wedneday eveningis from 7:30 to
9:30.
M.\RCfARET L. PLE.XS.4NTS TO
WED CH.ARLES E. LITTLE. JR.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Pleas
ants, Jr., of Aberden yesterday an
nounced the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Margaret Louise to
Charles H. Little, Jr. of Charlotte.
The wedding will take place on Sat
urday afternoon, August 24th, at
5:00 oclock in the Page Memorial
Methodist Church In Aberdeen.
Miss Pleasants has been a mem
ber of the faculty of the Oakhurst
Schol in Charlotte for some time.
Mr. Little, formerly on the faculty
of Presbyterian Junior College at
Maxton, is now engaged in the jew
elry business in Charlotte, where the
young couple will make their home.
Score* of RetugeeN
“Once on the mainland we met
scores of other refugees huddled
around the filling station on the
Myrtle Beach-Georgetown highway,
at the entrance to the Island. There
people were frantically calling wea
ther stations in Georgetown, Charles
ton, Wilmington. Little information
could be gleaned at that hour of the
morning. No one seemed to know
where the heart of the storm was,
where it was heading, or when it
might strike In all its fury. No one
knew whether to stay where they
were, whether to head north for Myr
tle Beach, south tor Georgetown, or
go Inland. We sat in our cars for
some two hours waiting to see what
was going to happen, and when there
appieared to be no let-up in the wind, it
was decided to drive Inland to Con
way, by way of Myrtle Beach.
"The drive to Myrtle was the worst
I have ever experienced. Not only
was the wind making it difficult to
keep your caj on the road, but the
rain came down in such torrents you
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TELJ'.PHONE PIANT AT
BEAUFORT, S. C. DEMOLISHED
The plant of the Central Carolina
Telephone Company at Beaufort, S.
C., was completely demolished dur
ing the hurricane which spent Its
fury there last Sunday, and R. S.
DuRant. general manager here, left
on Monday to supervise the recon
struction Mr. DuRant has to tele
phone here from Yemassee or Char
leston. He reports that no cars can
reach Beaufort, that it is necessary
to wade through water from the out
skirts to reach town. He expects to
have a toll line In operation within
the next few days.