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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 19, NO. 48.
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MOORE COUNTY^S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory o. t th Carolina
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Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, October 25, 1940
Pinehurst
FIVE CENTS
HIGHWAY OFFICIAL
FINDS BEST ROAD
TO FORT BRAGG
Survey Reveals 35-Mile Route
By Way of Cameron Quickest
From Southern Pines
PROMISES IMPROVEMENT
since moving into the S'tndhills to ,
make thoir homes while serving theli-1
country at Fort Bragg, the 60.3ome !
odd officers of the U. S. Army have!
teen playing a game which might be |
called "How Far, How Smooth?" In;
their daily commutingp they’ve been 1
•vieinp with one another to find the j
shortest and best route between
GHQ and the family fireside.
On Wednesday an official of the
State Highway and Public Works De.
parennent came to Southern Pines to
shed some official light on the sub
ject, and to survey the possibilities of
improving whatever route might be
the most economicnlly improved. Eco.
nomically, becausie at the present
time there are no funds available for
a major operation.
It is quite likely that the route he
'discovered as the best—if not the
shortest—at the moment is one few
■officers have tried. They have nego.
tiated the trip via Connecticut ave
nue and through the reservation over
8 winding dirt road open only to of
ficers and to them only when there is
no firing. They have tried the Youngs
Road route out past the Acadejny of
Notre Dame and on to Manchester.
*Th«y’ve tried U. S. 1 to Vass and
the right turn to Manchester. Most
of them have found this best because
It affords the most improved road.
The Highway official did some
neasuring. The Southern Pines to
Va88 to Manchester and Bragg route
la, he discovered, 33 and 3-10 miles,
19 of which is dirt road not in good
condition. He tried again. This time
from Southern Pines to Cameron on
V. S. 1, then to Spout Springs and
the Fort. This was 35 miles. A mile
and 7-lOths further, but all hard-suf.
faced except 12 miles, and those 12
miles a sand-clay road in exce’lent
condition. Driving time within speed
]aws—45 minutes.
Result of his inspection; The State
Hlgrhway Commission promises to
put thosp 12 miles in good shape as
soon as there is rain. "We can’t
anything until then," he said.
Regristered?
Tomorrow, Saturday, Last
Day To Enroll If You Want
To Vote Nov. 5
"Vote as you Wish—But VOTE
—It’s the American Way” Is the
slogan of the nation.wide "Get Out
The Vote" campaign of the Unit
ed States Junior Chamber Com
merce, In which the local mem.
bers of that body are cooperating.
The local club urges that every
citizen of Southern Pines who is
entitled to vote in the forthcoming
election on November 5th do so.
Voting is a privilege that citizens
of all too few countries now enjoy,
and it is a privilege that no Amer
ican should willingly give up.
In this connection, the Jay-Cees
wish to remind all voters that the
registration books positively close
at sundown Saturday, October 26th
(tomorrow). Your voting privilege
is worthless unless you have reg
istered and are recorded on the
books. So, we urge that all eligi
ble voters REGISTER NOW, and,
on November 5th, VOTEi
3,460 NAMES IN
DRAFT REGISTRY i
FROM MOORE CO.
I Secretary of War Stimson To
I Draw First Number in j
• W’ashinjfton Tuesday i
Pine Needles Inn To Open November 2d
1ST CALL IN 3 WEEKS
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John E. Morrison, 37,
Drops Dead at Work
Lifelong Resident of Southern
Pines Second of Family To
Die Suddenly
Succumbing to a fatal heart at.
tack, John Edward Morrison dropped
dead at 2:00 o’clock Tuesday after,
noon while at work on New York
avenue, near May street, Southern
Pines. Funer^ services were held in
the Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church at 2:00 o’clock yesterday af.
temoon, the Rev. E. L. Barber, pas
tor of the church officiating. Inter
ment followed at Bethesda Cemetery.
Bom on February 26, 1903 at the
rild Morrison homestead on the Be.
thesda Road, east of the Southern
Pines Country Club, the son of
George Morrison and Mary McCrlm.
men Morrison, he had been a life
long resident of South' Mnes, and
for the past 18 years in wi»e employ
cf A. M. Swinnerton. The news of
ills untimely death came as a shock
♦o his many friends and associates,
many of whom remembered the sud
den death of his older brother, Dan
iel Morrison, superintendent of
street for Southern Pines, nine
years ago.
^ He Is survived by his widow, the
daughter of Angus Maples of East
wood; two brothers, Charles of Sou.
them Pines and Ang-is of Massachu,
setts, and two children, a boy, Don.
aid William, and a girl, Louise.
Officers of the Brownson Memorial
Church served as pallbearers: W, E.
Blue, Warren Smith, D. E. Bailey,
r>on Jensen, Hajmes Britt and R.. S.
DuRanL
TWO VICTIMS OF
VASS GUN FIGHT
LEAVE HOSPITAL
Son of Slain Upchurch Transferr
ed To Jail; Minton Girl
Recovering^
GUN FOUND IN HAYSTACK
Two of the victims of a wholesale
shooting which claimed the life of
Carl E. Upchurch and wounded three
other persons on Monday night of
last week on the farm of Miss CHaud.
la Thomas one mile from Vass were
oismissed the latter part of the week
from the hospitals to which they
were rushed following the crop di.
version tragedy.
Miss Trula Minton, 18, shot in the
back of the head and the right arm,
came home from the Lee County Hos.
pital on Thursday and is making a
fatisfactory recovery.
Norris Upchurch, son of the slain
Upchurch, was transferred from the
Moore County Hospital, where he bad
received treatment for gunshot
wounds in the abdomen, to the Moore
county jail. j
N. M. Minton, father of Trula, is|
critically ill in the Lee County Hos-|
p;tal with an estimated 1,50 grunshot'
In his body from his waist to hisj
heels. Little or no hope was enter.'
lained for his recovery Saturday, it
was said, but later reports were that
his condition seemed slightly improv
ed.
Gun in HayHtack
A new development In the case was
the finding of the Minton gxin In a
Uaystack on the farm, which was
disclo.ied Saturday. Arthur Minton,
who v^'ith his older brother, Guy, of
Coalwood, West Virginia, is being
held in jail, told where the gun was
hidden. Sheriff McDonald said, thus
clearing up one puzzling angle of the
case.
According to Information given the
officer, the gun was In the Minton
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At noon next Tuesday Secretar.v
of War Stimson will draw the first
number in the nationwide lottery in
which nearly 17,000,000 young men
hold tickets, 800,000 of them good
for a year's service in the army. Of
the grand total, Moore county has
3,460 between the ages of 21 and 3C,
inclusive, interested in thi.s drawing.
The drawing will b? made in
Washington, where the names have
been sent by the variou.s draft boards
throughout the countvy. Plans for
the lottery wtre completed Monday
at a conference of Dr. Clarcnce Dyks-
tra, director of selective service, and
President Roo.sevelt. At first Dykstra
.‘•aid that the President would draw
the first number, but later it was an
nounced that Mr. Roosevelt desired
•■his honor to go to Mr. Stimson.
The President will attend this his
toric ceremony, to be held in the
interdepartmental auditorium, and
will make an addre.ss, to last about
ten minutes. Within three weeks af
ter Mr. Stimson lifts the first blue
number capsule from a big goldfish
bowl, the initial contingent of 30,000
draftees will be on their way to
training camps. Men will be called
to training—800,000 by r.»ixt June 15
—In the order in which their num.
bers are drawn from the bowl, un
less they volunteer without waiting
to be called or unless they are deferr
ed from service.
The total registration in Moore
county Wednesday of last week was
3,149. Since then about a dozen cards
have come In from Moore county res
idents who registered elsewhere. Two
hundred and seventy-one non.resl.
dents registered In this county in
addition to the Moore county total,
nnd thoir cards have been stnt to
their resf>ectlve draft boards. The
rumber of registrants from South
ern Pines was 369.
Pinehurst Season On;
175 on Golf Course
GRANVLLE DIETZ
GRANTED PAROLE
BY GOV. HOEY
Murderer of Chief of Police
Ke'I.v pf .Southern Pines
Lraves Slate Pri.son
Army Busy Building Complete
City For 50,000 in 60 Days
More Than 100 in Sunday’s Tour
nament—Forty Guests Week-
End at Holly Inn
KILLED KELLY HERE IN ’29
Granville Di tz, who on March 20th,
1929 .shot and killed Chief of Police
Joseph C. Kelly of Southern Pines at
t>-.e cornT of May street -'.nd Massa
chusetts avenue, is out on parole af.
H tor a long prison term. Duiing that
term Dietz escaped from the Caledon,
ia Pri.son Farm, became the trusted
employe of an Ohio oil firm under an
n.:sumed name, and was finally re^
raptured on a "tip off,"
Southern Pines authoritie.s have
been informed that Dietz i.« paroled
to the State of Ohio, that any attempt
to return to this stale will be a viola,
tion of that parole.
The Pine Needles, in Knoliwood, complete with its new winjr' Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill
contaiHijiR large dining room, model kitchen, “Green Room” and ''•'"“unced last Saturday that gov.
other feature.s, is having its formal opening next Saturday, decided to parole the
vember 2d. for its si.xth consecutive year. j "Jean Vaijean” because of
— i |<be “excellent record" Dietz made as
a prisoner.
Dietz was convicted of second-de_
gree murder in May, 1929, In Carth
age in the killing of Chief of Police
Kelly.
Escaped in 1939
He went "over the fence” at Cale_
donla Prison Farm In December, 1929,
and was neither seen nor heard from
until his arrest in Ohio on Novem'
'ber 5, 1935.
In the interim, Dietz fled to his
j native home in West Virginia and
I turned to farming, he said. There he
married bis childhood sweetheart who
knew he was an escaped prisoner.
They have one child, a girl.
Dietz said he moved from West
Virginia to a small farm In Ohio and
began farming, carpentering and do.
Ing odd Jobs to make a living for
himself, wife and daughter. Later he
fot a job with an oil firm at Jackson.
"The plant manager got sick and
I ran the place, trying to run it
like I would have it it was my own
business," Dietz said after his re
capture. "I ttfed hard to make good.
I knew it inight happen any time—
tiiat I might have to come back, but
I have tried hard,”
Oil! .said prison officials agree Dietz
has lived up to a statement he made
when he was brought back to North
Carolina—that he thought "prisons
If You Don’t Know What’s Go
ing On at Bra{(K< Try To Get
a Carpenter, Etc.
By RALPH W. PAGE
The real estater in Southern Pines,
North Carolina, sat at his ease. smok.
ing a fat seegar.
"Sorry, Mr. Spofford,” says he,
"but there’s no house to rent In this
town—unless you’d like a chauteau. i
"That’s right. There’s usually j
plenty beggmg till Christmas. But j
there’s a war on. And it’s a daisy.
Camp Bragg bulges with captains.'
Fayetteville is swamped with majors. ‘
And colonels and generals have sop. j »
ped up the shelters In this vicinity' I Uu 1^ Ul
like blotting paper." *
Tail Wags Dog
Fort Bragg’s Population Now
Exceeds That of Fayette
ville by L345
The population of Fort Bragg
now exceeds that of Fayetteville.
The official number of officers
and enlisted men at the post on
Wednesday was 18,758.
Fayetteville's 1940 census popu
lation was 17,413.
"Jim." said Mrs. Long.street,
"there’s a providential and inexpli, |
cable demand for firewood. We’re
cleaned out. Go get Rufu.s and Ike and
that one-eyed Tobey and cut me up
about thirty cord.s of hickory down
on the branch behind the windfall.”
"Rufus, he's mostly not here. Miss.
COUNTY CONSIDER
JR. LEAGUE TEAM
Sandhill Asks Cooperation of
others in Sponsoring Club in
National Competition
McNeill and Easley at
Hemp Monday Night
Noted Blind Pianist To Accom
pany G. O P. Gubernatorial
Candidate Here
Robert H. McNeill, Republican can
didate for Governor, will be the
speaker at a rally In the Graded
School building In Hemp next Mon
day night at 8:00 o'clock, to which
tJie public Is Invited.
Prior to Mr. McNeill’s talk, Henry
EJasley of Burlington, noted blind
pianist formerly with the John Philip
Sousa band and one time accompan.
1st of Maud Powell, famed violinist,
will entertain at the piano. He will
play at 7:45 and is worth going miles
to hear. Mr. Easley Is an
entertainer m well as plai.<st
There's no question abo\it the |
Reason being "on” in Pinehurst. A;
total of 175 golfers from all parts
of the state, many from out of the j
state, took advantage of Sunday's,
perfect weather to play golf at the.
Country Club, and 104 entered the|
blind bogey tournament. Three prizes
were given for the men, one of the
ladies, and the winners were Garland
S. Garris of Troy, W. A. Leland Mc-
Keithen and Robert Reed of Pine
hurst. Mrs. Robert Gouger and Mrs.
John O. Hobson of Pinehurst tied for
the ladies’ prize.
I If a resolution passed at the last
"Not hare- Nonsense! He's been 4„,erican
^ound this kitchen for ten years. Legion is accepted by the throe other, may rehabilitate men and I’m going
lexe is e. In jai . 'posts of the county, this section will'to try to clear mv record”
"No, ma'am. There's a war gwine represented next year in the Jun.'
TO CONTINUE CLINICS
FOR DRAFT BEOISTRANTS
Cliniqs for the taking of blood
specimens of draft registrants w'ere
moot successful, Dr. J. bymlngton,
county physician, reports. Unfortu
nately, the supply of tubes ran out
before the work was completed, but
tubes have since come and regis
trants who have not been tested are
requested to report to the Public
Health office in Carthage on Tuesday
or Thursilay afternoons or Saturday
mornings.
ERIC THOMSON, PINEHITKST,
MTJ>S IN NEW BBl'NSmCK
on down at Camp Bragg, and Rufus,
he done jined the war. He borrowed
iis's hammer an^ hit the road. There
was a white man about who said a
carpenter’s helper gets 75 cents an
hour.”
"Well, get the other boys.”
"Ain’t no other boys. They all got
out of bed and gone.”
"Gone where?”
"Same place. Gone In a big ole |
green truck with frog eyes that come
here. Look like it held a congregation.
Miss Annie. They don’t only pay
time. They pay overtime, double time.
Sunday time and ev’y time they gits
a chance.
Prison officials. Gill spid, "think
ior Baseball League of the fUte, The;}.ighly of Dietz" because of his ex.
resolution calls for a meeting of the ccllent record and becau.so "he has
officers of the foi’.r posts at the Ar.
mistice celebration to be held In West
End November 11th. The Rev. Fath-
tr Williams addressed the members
and urged them to again sponsor the
performed for the prison department
many duties in excesg of those nor
mally required of a prisoner.”
Gets Old Job Ruck
■‘The prisoner is being paroled to
baseball team next year. A North ^ the State of Ohio w*here he lived for
Carolina team, Albemarle, is the pres- -
ent National champion.
The membership drive of Sand,
hill Post is now on its last lap and
v.'lll end Armistice night, November
11th. So far the results have been
very encouraging to the committee
members who confidently predict that
the post will again "go over the top.’’
"John Peters says they’re building committee has tried to contact
about forty miles of road a day, , each eligible service man in this sec.
spang through the bushes. If'n a gta-'tion, but If anyone has been missed
eral wants to take a walk, does he ^„„^act one of the fol.
just go through the woods? No suhi j p
Ten crawlin’machines and five hun.!j5„^. ^
dred hands pop up and lay a bran Baynes Britt in Pinehurst; T. L.
new road out In front of him." Campbell. Lloyd Woolley and Max
Backer in Southern Pines, and Ern
est Wilson In Manley. These men
will be glad to accept dues and will
forward them to the finance officer,
L. V. O’Callaghan.
Thf American Legion is very anx-
Friends of Eric Donald Thomson of
Pinehurst have received announce,
ments of his marriage on October 15,
in St. John, N. B., to Miss Doris
Tjoulse Nickerson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Leland Nickerson of Cana
da. Mr. Thompson is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Percy W. Thompson, long
winter residenta of IHnehurst.
Hello, Jes.se. What’s up?”
"Hello, Risky. I’m the favored ob.
ject of a miracle. I'm In the heating
and conditioning game over 'n Char,
lotte. Nothing doing this time of year.
Then out of the blue in bobs Smath.
ers—you know Jack — always con
tracting something—smart as paint.
Well, he’s dressed up as a sub-CoL
;nany years,” Gill said in his parole
statement, "and he is being paroled
to a community whose citizenship Is
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Rev. Quinlan Succeeds
Father Hannigan Here
Former Missionary in West In
dies Cornea To Our Lady of
Victory Mission
The Rev. Charles Hannigan, for
many years In charge of Our Lrftdy
of Victory Mission in West Southern
Pines, has been succeeded here by the
Kev. Joseph F. Quinlan, C. SS. R„ of
the Redemptorlst Fathers. This mis
sion was formerly under the auspices
of the Society of St. Joseph, with
which Father Hannigan was affiliated,
but this society has been discontin
ued, Father Hannigan is making Ms
ious this year to "enlist” all eligi
ble service men, so as to be ready hocie In Floral Park, N. Y.
if a national emergency Is declared Father Quinlan has been a mis-
^ „ to do its part on the home front or slonarv for the past 20 years, spend-
onel and jer^s "u o ers^ ays w},ere It may be n<’eded. The com. ing 14 of them in the West Indies,
mander of the post Is depirous of se.lthe past five In Laymen’s Retreat
curine the names and addresses of work with headquarters at Long
r'-n in this section that they: Branch, N. J. The Redemptorlst Fa.
Don't forget the”HaMowe’en Street can be contacted In ease of emer.lthers, he states, have four missions
Party, spons( red by the Rotary Club, genrv. Tbe post hM on file the names I In North Carolina, the one here, one
on West Broad street next Thursday of IW) men in this secUon who serv- in Newton Grove, one in Charlotte
night, HJveryone is invited. , ed in the last war
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HALLOWTCTCN PARTY
and one in Wilson.