<')' MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY nrxjru Ml fX JC/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 20. NO. 7. Aberdeen SPAtNca LAKeVlCW ASHLSy ftoon, •Hy FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING V of the Sandhill Territory of North Uw ** .la Southern Pines. North Carolina. Friday. January 17, 1941. Pinehurst FIVE CENTS KIWANIANS ENJOY BIRTHDAY PARTY AT MID-PINES CLUB Here for 44 Years Observe 18th Anniversary of Founding of Organization in the Sandhills JOHNSON RECALLS PAST The Sandhills Kiwanis Club had a birthday party Wednesday, with a cake and candles ’n’ everything. It was 18 years old, and the party was held in the very room where, in Jan uary, 1923 the club received its char ter as a member of the international organization, the dining room of the Mid-Ptnea Club. This month is also the anniversary of Kiwanis Interna tional, founded in Detroit, Mich., January 21at, 1915. A reminiscent talk, all about the past history of the local club, made by J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, Its third president, featured the luncheon gathering. Another feature was the presence at the speakers’ table of twelve past presidents, all but four of the former presidents who are still Uviag. Two, Robert N. Page of Aberdeen and Dr. Jamie W. Dickie of Southern Fines, have passed on. Those present were, in the order in which they served the club: Talbot Johnson, Edwin T. McKeithen, Paul Dana, Richard S. Tufts, Nelson C. Hyde, Dr. EJrble M. Medlin, Willard L. Dunlop, Charles W. Picquet Ralph L. Chandler, J. Vance Rowe and John M. Howarth. Many of the charter n;embers were al-TO present. Value To Community' Ml'. Johnson stressed the value of Kiwanis to the Sandhills communiyt, told of its influence in getting the first paved road in this section, be* tween Aberdeen and Southern Pines; getting the first two-way road in the state, between Pinehurst and South ern Pines; its work toward the es tablishment of a hospital, toward ac quiring for the Sandhills a modern telephone system, and its planting of trees and shrubbery throughout the entire section. He recalled many amusing incidents in the club's his tory. Messages of regret at their Ina bility to be present were read from the club’s first president. Dr. William C. Mudgett, and from Preston T. Kel sey, 1941 president who is in Flor ida. Arthur S. Newcomb, dean of the charter members of the club, was called upon to cut the huge birth day cake provided by John J. Fitz gerald, manager of the Mid-Pines Club. It was announced at the meeting that Governor J. M. Broughton had accepted an invitation to introduce E^il Schram, chairman of the Re construction Finance Corporation, who is to address the Chambers of Commerce banquet at the Carolina hotel in Pinehurst February 7th. Mr. Schram, for whom the Seaboard Air Line Railway is providing a private car down from Washington, will re- niain in the Sandhills over the week end. ALMET JENKS IS RE-ELECTED HEAD OF S. P. UBRARY Wherein a Former Neighbor of Yours Gets 16 Years in the Hoosegaw Earl Williams, Who Occupied Home in Weymouth Heights in 1938, Went a Little Too Far When He Stole Miss Swan’s Frigidaire. Traced Through Fingerprints Officers Chosen at Annual Meet ing—Reporter Show Progress Though Membership Off TWO NEW TRUSTEES C. T. (PATCH Mr. Patch is celebrating the com pletion of 44 years in the mercantile business in Southern Pines this week, during whic ^ time be has built up the largest department store in the Sand hills, the C. T. Patch Company. Though ill at his home, Mr. Patch has been receiving the congratula tions of his friends on his long ser vice to the community, and the well wishes of all. 4 MURDER CASES ON TRIAL DOCKET HERE NEXT WEEK Amos Broadway and Unchurch Slayings Among Those To Be Heard by Superior Court MAPLES-CARTER CASE UP Almet Jenka was reelected presi dent of the Southern Pines Library Association at the annual meeting held in the library building this week. Other officers were elected as follows: First vice-president, A. B. Yeo mans; 2d. vice-president. Miss Ruth Burr Sanborn; 3d., the Rev. F. Craig- hiil Brown, and 4th, the Rev. W. F. Sheldon; secretary, Mrs. James B. Swett, and treasurer, Mrs. J. K. Walker. Mrs. James Boyd, Miss Mary Yeomans and Miss Birdilia Bair were re-elected trustees, and the Rev. Voigt O. Taylor and Mrs. William McCord added to the board. Annual reports were read by the Librarian, the Book Committee and the Membership Committee, all show ing pit)gres8 with the exception of membership, which had dropped some since a year ago. No membei'.'hip drive was staged during the year, the officers explained. The board ap proved the new three-cents-a-day ren tal plan for current books, and is expending $25.00 per month for such I books. I Steals Purse, Starts Crap Game; 12 Months Roy Waddell of “Jimtown” Pur loins Miss McDonough’s $30 From Parked Car In 1938 a man named Karl R. Williams came to Southern Pines from Winston-Salem to look for a house to rent. He liked Mrs. Emily Mae Wilson's little bungalow in the Weymouth Heights section and leased jt. He lived here for some time, fraternized with the rest of us, made many friends. In 1938 there was a series of house-breakings and burglaries in town. Dr. Robert L. Hart’s house was entered. So were the homes of Walter T. Ives, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, Miss Florence Swan and others. All kinds of odds and ends disappeared from homes, and the police were kept busy running hither and yon. When a Frigidaire disappeared from the home of Miss Swan the police began to get pretty mad. They got right busy, took fingerprints, sent them broadcast to police headquarters throughout the state. If a Frigidaire can mysteriously disappear, they feared for our pianos, the beds we sleep on, even our furnaces. Mr. Williams’ lease expired. He returned to Winston-Salem. There, a little while ago, suspicion pointed in his direction for some petty theft. He was taken to headquarters, fingerprinted. The whorls matched some others that had accumulated in the "Wanted” file. In fact it matched a lot of them. When Earl R. Williams was arraig^ned in court no less than 105 charges appeared against him. He was tried on only three. Principal evidence against him were the fingerprints taken at Miss Swan's home here by Chief Police EM Newton. They were conclusive. Williams drew a sentence of 16 years in State’s Prison. So his neighbors’ Frigidaires are safe for a while. MRS. BOONE, WIFE OF PINE NEEDLES MANAG^ PASSES Death Follows Major Operatoion Performed on Tuesday in Baltimore Hospital HAD BEEN ILL SOME TIME Steeplechase Association Jumps Purses For ’41 Races.To $3^600 Four murder case.s are' on the dock et for next week's term of Superior' Court whichi'i.s scheduled to convene in Carthage on Monday with Judge Frank M. Armstrong presiding. One of the defendants to face a murder charge is a woman, Jessie Roy Waddell, colored boy of West .Southern Pines, saw a nice fat pock- etbook in a car parked on West Broad street, Southern Pines, the other day, and the temptation was , too great. It proved to contain around ‘ $30 belonging to Miss Margaret Mc- Tyson Davis of Carthage, charged with the shotgun slaying of her hus- | ..jj^town” and, according to the I story, distributed some of it among Nathan Minton of Vass, one of the, fjjg ^oy friends. Naturally, this led participants in a gun battle which to a crap game, and, also naturally, took place on the farm of Miss Clau- ' dia Thomas at Vass last fall, a bat- Aiumni of S. P. High School To Organize Meeting To Complete Plans Will Be Held at Country C!ufa February 1st For many years the wish has been expressed for an Alumni Association of Southern Pines High School. At last this desire has been fulfilled. The first annual homecoming will be held at the Southern Pines Country Club on Saturday, February 1st. Here Ihe final plans for the organization will be formulated. The program, sponsored by the Senior Class, will Include dlnnqr at the club, a basketball game with both the girls’ and boys’ teams of the high school competing with visiting teams, and an informal dance at the Civic Club. All graduates of South ern Pines High School are cordially invited to participate in the organiz ing of this Alumni Association. tic- in which C. E. Upchurch was fa tally wounded, his son. Norris Up church, Nathan Minton and the Int- ter’s daughter, Trula Minton, were shot, will go on trial for the murder of the elder Upchurch, and Norris UjJchurch will be charged with as sault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill. James Hainsworth, colored, of Southern Pines, will be tried for the niurder of Amos Broadway, a color ed man of West Southern Pines, and Irvin Lambert of the Hemp section will be tried for the death of Roland Gamer. Tom Horner, driver of the auto mobile in which Louise Maples and Sybil Carter of Southern Pines were riding when they met their death in October will be arraigned on a man slaughter charge. A number of breaking and entering p.nd assault cases are on the docket, but it will doubtless be out of the question to hear so many important cases in one regular term of court. RALEIGH STRING QUARTET INVITFJ> TO COME BACK this led to thearrest of Roy. In Recorder’s Court in Carthage Monday Roy was given twelve months on the roads for his failure to resist temptation. Le'Roy Hough, white, of Southern Pines, had prayer for judgment con tinued upon payment of a fine of $50 and the costs, imposed for carrying R concealed weapon, namely, brass knucks. At Civic Club Dr. R. Taylor Coe of Duke To Talk Today on “The Axis Powers” Dr. R. Taylor Cole, associate professor of Political Science at Duke University, will be the speaker this afternoon, Friday, at 3:00 o’clock at the Civic Club house, facing the park In Southern Pines. There is no admission charge, and there will be a large audience of both men and women to greet Dr. Cole as he is one of the truly big speakers in the state. His subject will be “The Axis Powers Since Italy Entered the War." Dr. Cole was in Germany it the start of hostilities and mows his subject. Next week on Friday afternoon, Mrs. J. N. Ingram wlil give a travel talk on Alaska. Mrs. Adele Shaw Boone, wife of Emmett E, Boone, manager of Pine Needles, Southern Pines, died in the Union Memorial Hospital early yes terday morning following a major op eration performed on Tuesday. Mrs. Boone was 51 years of age. In ill health for some time, Mrs. Boone’s condition became acute im mediately after Christmas, and two weeks ago she was taken to Balti more. An operation was decided upon, and was performed by a lead ing Baltimore surgeon on Tuesday. Her resistance following her long per iod of illness was insufficient to per mit her to rally from the effects, and she pMsed away early yesterday. Her husband and her only son, Emmett. Jr., assistant manager of the Kirk wood Hotel in Camden, S. C., were with her at the end. The news of Mrs. Boone’s passing cast a spell of gloom over the entire Sandhills community yesterday. A winter resident here since 1935, she had endeared herself to all with whom she had come in contact. She had been a faithful helpmeet to her husband in his management of the !rine Needles, as well as during the Purses have been jumped to $3,- | summertime at the Howell House in Prize Money $700 More Than Last Year.—Bright Prospectal For Sandhills Event 600 for the seventh annual race Westhampton meeting of the Sandhills Steeplechase ^,also operated and Racing Association, to be held on the Barber Estate course on the Midland Road on Saturday afternoon, March 15th. it was announced fol lowing a meeting of the Executive Committee of the association held in Beach, Long Island, by Mr. Boone, Mrs. Boone’s home previously was in Philadelphia, Pa. Funeral services will be held in the Mitchell Fimeral Home in Ba!timor-» this morning. Friday, it was stated at the Pine Needles yesterday, though the office of Col. George P. Hawes "o definite time was known here. Red Cross Quota For Britain Here Big One Sewing Room Opens Today in Hollywood Hotel for Vol unteer Workers WM. McK. MILAM PASSES; VETERAN OF SPANISH WAR Mrs. A. Burt Hunt, Moore county Red Cross chairman, announced this week the opening of a sewin<; room in the Hollywood Hotel on Friday morn ings, between 9:00 o’clock and 12:00 noon. 'There materials will be provid ed, out and ready for sewing, for all wfltmen volunteer*. Mrs. Clarabelle Pushee will be in charge. This work will be in addition to the knitting group which meets at the Civic Club Friday morning, wtih Mrs. Jane, War, Kin of Ben Milam of Alamo Fame Saw Active Naval Ser>ice in Cuba William McKinney Milam, who saw active battle service with the Amer ican fleet in Cuba during the Spanlsh- American War, died in Veterans’ Hospital in Fayetteville, Monday morning. He was 64 years old and had been a resident of Southern Pines for 17 years, coming here from Rich mond, Va. Born in Cedar Bayou, Texas in 1887, the son of Collin McKinney Mi lam and Mary Bridges Milam, he en listed in the U. S. Navy when he was 18 and served throughout the Spanish At the age of 21 he married I In Pinehurst last Friday. Purses for the 1940 event totaled $2,900. The prize money is increased in three of the five events on the card. In the first race. The Catawba, one miles and one-half over hurdles, the pur.se is jumped from $300 to $000. In the Croatan Steeplecha.se. two miles over brush, .second event on the progiam, it remains at $1,000. In the Sandhills Cup race, three miles over timber, it is jumped from $300 to $500, and in the fourth race, two miles over brush, the owners of the first four horses will divide $1,300 instead of the $1,000 of last year. There is no increase in the flat race purse, which remains at $300. At the meeting RicharxJ Wallach, Jr., racing secretary, just back from a visit in Camden and Aiken, S. C., stated that there were more horses in training there than ever in history, and that he looked for a most suc cessful meeting here. The Sandhills event opens the long steeplechase season, and most of the owners will take advantage of the March 15th c’ate to try out their horses here, he said. Especially in view of the in creased purses. Mr. Wallach is now at his home in Warrenton, Va., but will return here February l.st to re main until after the races. Parking space application blanks for the 1941 meet will be sent out to the public in the near future. I'ORT BK.MiO OKFU’EKS TO PLAY PINEHl'R-ST .\T POLO The Raleigh String Quartet, which gave the first in the series of con certs sponsored by the Southern Pines Library, scored such a hit here that it has been invited back on April 14th. Many of the concert patrons failed to take advantage of their first visit and hearing of their pleas ing presentation asked for their re turn. The second in the series will be on January 27th when Miss Lucille Tur ner, radio artist and a popular fav orite here will sing spirituals and old plantation songs and give monolog- re«. A superior Fort Bragg polo team, brought up to top-notch shape through continual playing on the Surviving, in addition to her hus band and son, is a grandson, Emmett E. Boone, 3d. and one brother, Ralph J. Shaw of Lake Worth, Florida. Mr. Shaw’.s son, Charles J. Shaw, who is affiliated with the Pine Needles man agement, motoied to Camden yes terday to bring Mrs. Boone, Jr., and her son here. Chain Parties Started For Hospital Benefit Auxiliary Sponsors Affairs with .Mrs. Blodgett, Mrs. Andrews and Mrs^ Hunt Leading Off The Woman’s Auxiliaiy of the Moore County Hospital will again sponsor chain parties as a pleasant but effective way of raising funds for the hospital. Some will give card parties, luncheons, musicals or ether forms of entertainments, but in each case, those attending will do- rate $1.00 to the hospital. Mrs. Edwin S. Blodgett, president of the Hospital Auxiliary, gave the first party Friday, having 16 ladies tor luncheon. Each of these will give a party for twelve, each of the twelve will carry on with a party for eight, while the final link will be a party for four. Those enjoying Mrs. Blod gett’s hospitality were Mrs. M. W. Marr, Mrs. Leroy Gates, Mrs. Clar ence M. Rudel, Mrs. Aras Williams, Mrs. N. S. Hurd, Mrs. Dewitt B. Net- tleton, Mrs. Clifford Sloan. Mrs. Eu gene Dexter, Mrs. A. J. McKelway, Mrs. Charles Waterhouse, Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. Donald Parson. Mrs. Wil liam T. McCullough, Mrs. John An gel and Mrs. James Walker. Similar chain parties have also been given by Mrs. J. H. Andrews "W)e have a big quota assigned to Moore county, and a storeroom full of materials to be put into shape for shipment during this month, and 1 hope that we will have enough vol unteer workers to fulfill the task giv en us by th»> National Red Cross, We invite all ladies in the commun ity to join wit hus in this work foi Brtain.” In addtion to the workrooms here groups are busy Tuesday in the Holly Inn in Pinehurst, and each Monday at the Pinehurst Community Church. jA. Burt ; eight. Hunt, Southern Pines, for M. Towne in charge. | Catherine Annable of New York City "All articles made by Red Cross, and they had two sons, W. M. Jr. and pjnehuist fields this season, will be workers here are going to England,”] Charles Collin Milam, who died here ^ pj^p^j against the Pinehurst four-, Mrs. Hunt told The Pilot yesterday, four years ago. Mr. Milam, "Pop" to 3 s„nday afternoon:”^ his friend.s nere, was the grandson of January 19. The Bragg team will ' ‘ Jefferson Milam, who moved to Tex-,|;,p composed of Capt. Elmer Alm as from Kentucky in 1827 with his qujst Capt. 'Ralph Cooper, Capt. j uncle, the famous Ben Milam of Al-'f-^arles Murray and Major Eugene amo fame. He was also the great I Harrison, with the line-up in that grandson of Collin McKinney, co- nrde*-. author and signer of the Declaration of Independence of Texas. ' Through the years of his residence , 15 MfM)RE C’OITNTV YOUNG MEN START AKMY SERVfCE in Southern Pines "Pop" Milam loy ally befriended all. His passing will be keenly felt by a wide circle of friends throughout the community. (Plecue turn to page Mgkt) Fifteen Moore county '’oung men, Pi'iohurst will go into the game volunteers and draftees, left Carthage Sunday afternoon wtih Earl Shaw, cn Wednesday to start their year of Stanley Taylor, A. H. Eller, Jr., and military training under the Selective Ralph Taylor. Service Act. They reported to the Major General Jacob L. Devers, commanding officers at Fort Bragg and Col. George P. Hawes, Jr., of Pinehurst, will co-referee the game. Draft Board and were despatched to Fort Bragg to b« sworn in to Uncle Sam’s army. Their training station has not been assigned. A