MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLV
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 30, NO. 17.
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FIRST IN NEWS, ’
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines. North Carolina, f’riday, April 4th, 1941.
G. C. ABRAHAM,
FORMER BANK ,
OFFICIAL, DIES
Prominent in Civic Affairs Dur
ing 30 Years Residence in
Southern Pines
FUNERAL ON MONDAY
George Clytner Abraham, 81, for
the past thirty years an honored res
ident of Southern Pines, succumbed
to an attack of pneumonia at 7:00
o’clock Saturday night at the Moore
County Hospital.
Born at Abrahamsville, Pa., on
March, 36, 1860, the son of George
I. Abraham and Mary Wager Abra
ham Mr. Abraham was united in
marriage with Grace Kellam on April
22, 1884, and on April 22, 1934 they
celebrated their 50th anniversary in
Southern Pinee.
Following a successful career in the
mercantile and lumbering business in
New York and Pennsylvania they
came to Southern Pines in 1911, form
Damascus, Pa. Two years later he
bought the famous EMgeview peach
orchard from John Huttenhauer
which, following several highly pro
ductive seasons, he sold to Dr. G. G.
Herr and S. B.' Richardson in 19,17.
He also became interested in other
orchards located near Mt. Hope, his
latest venture being located at Ben
nett street and the Mo’ganton road,
now a part of Pinedene. This orchard
was bought by Mayor Stutz and Wil-
liam Flynn in 1922.
Following his retirement from
peach growing he became affiliated
with the Citizens Bank and Trust
Company of which he was a direc
tor from 1927, until his death, and
a vice president fr'om 1932 to 1937.
A member of Delaware Lodge of
Callicoon, N. Y- from March 18, 1887,
his Masonic brothers honored Mm
with an inscribed medal celebrating
his fiftieth year of membership, on
Marcft 18, 1937.
Funeral services were held in hl3
late home on May street. Southern
Pines, at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon,
with the Rev. Voight O. Taylor, pas
tor of the Church of Wide Fellowship
and the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, pas
tor of the Emanuel Episcopal Church,
officiating. Following the service his
body was taken to Damascus, Pa.,
to be interred in the family plot there
on Wednesday after a service in the
Methodist church, and Masonic cer
emony at the grave.
He is survived by his widow and
three daughters, Mrs. Lucille Peck
of Binghampton, N. Y., Mrs. Harry
H, Pethick of Durham and Southern
Pines, Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins of Sou
thern Pines; a brother Joseph Abra
ham,'of Tyler Hill, Pa., and a sister
Mrs. Benjamin Rutledge of Hones-
c’ale, Pa. and nthe grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
The honorary pallbearers were C.
H, Durgin, H. S. Knowlesj C. T. Patch
D. G. Stutz, Frank Welch, C. L. Aus-
tin, Pv T. Bamum, Dr. W. C. Mudgett,
Dr. W. E. Overcash P. F. Buchan, J.
F. Cole, W. J. Stuart and W. J.> San
born; the active bearers, Lewis Mer
rill, Richard Hassell, John Goldsmith
and Don Jensen.
We’re In It!
No, Not the Armj'^ Hut The
Pilot’s New Building
on Penn. Ave.
We're happy to announce tliat
we’re ini the • . . . nope, you’re
wrong . . . .we’re not "in the
army^’ but in the new building we
told you about last week, and if
The Pilot is a bit late in reaching
you, you will kindly lay it to the
fact that we have not had time to
hang the shop clock. It calmly re
poses, face to the ceiling, on a
stack of equipment that has not
yet been assigned to a permanent
location.
By next week we hope to have
everything in apple pie order and
in case you feel so inclined, we’ll
be glad to have you call on u.s in
our new home.
CHAIN PARTIES
NET LARGE SUM
FOR AUXILIARY
$5,146.23 With Other Gifts to
Help With Work of Moore
County Hospital
NEW EUL'I1'M’e>*T ISLEUED
With pride and gratificntion tne
members of the Moore County Hospi
tal Auxiliary, at their meeting on
Wednesday, April 2nd, heard the
treasurer, Mrs. G. Nichols, report
that the receipts from the Auxiliary
chain parties, to dale, totalled $5,-
14623, and that there ave atill some
entertainments scheduled.
Mrs. Edwin S. Blodgett, chairman
of the organization, explained that
this money, together with due-, rnem-
hers’ contributions, and receipts from
certain other activities, must finance
the Auxiliary program for a year.
The program is vital to the ho.spltal.
It includes the purchase of various
supplies and equipment, the mainte-
HERE ON MAY 29TH:“‘“«
! r^nce
PInehu ^^4,
—
FIVE CENTS
30 ENTRIES FOR Civilians For
100-MILE RIDE ‘
HERE NEXT WEEK
Peace, Protec c**! n, Morale
Virginia and South Carolina
Horses To Compete With Lo
cals in Novel Event
An Editorial
By Struthers Burt
Sandhills To Train for Condi
tions Which May Arise From
\\ ar Crisis
MAN, WOMAN. CHILD
FIRST OF ITS KIND IN SOUTH
ANNUAL MEETING
OF.TECHNOLOGISTS
j t.ion for patients unable to arrange it
Charlotte for themselves, and flower.s tl;e year
Scheduled to Make Main
Dr. Kimmelstiel of
leduled to Malt
Scientific Address
The fourth annual meeting of the
1 North Carolina Society of Medical
Technologists will be held at the
Southern Pines Country Club, Tues-
; day. May 20th. Plans are well under
way for an outstanding convention.
Prior to this meeting, the former
ones were held in April, the one last
jear at Greensboro, at the O’Henry.
I It was then voted to hold the an
nual meetings co-incidentally with
the meetings of the State Medical
I Society, to be held this year at the
I Hotel Carolina, May 19-21 inclusive.
Nearly thirty entries have been re
ceived for the North Carolina 100-
Mile Ride to be held here April 8th,
9th and 10th, representing many well-
! known stables.
I William J. Stratton of Prirrceton,
N. J., chairman of the committee,
has announced that two picturesque
r.ourses of forty miles each and one
of twenty miles have been laid out
f'ver a rolling, sandhill country of
long leaf pines. Seven classes will
participate in the ride. The first
class is for thoroughbreds; second,
lialf-breds; third, Arabians; fourth,
apelus'ans; fifth, Belgians; sixth, |
j gaited saddle hordes and seventh,'
the providing of transporta- j hunters. |
A silver plate and $75.00 in cash*
will bo awarded the winning horse in'
the ride. Cash prizes and ribbons will ■
be awarded for second, thit'd, fourth
and fifth places. Each hor."e will
cany a minimum weight of 170 lbs., '
At a meeting held recently, A. B.
Patterson was elected general chair
man and H. J. Betterley, Southern
Pines chairman of the Sandhills Ci
vilian Defense Committee, the pur
pose of which is to organize the civil-
One of the most difficult of teats
is to envision danger before it is at
hand.
Spring is here in The Sandhills; a
cold and delayed spring, but already
the jonquils are out, and soon thejj^ris of the community; to wit, of the
peach orchards will be in bloom, and|fmjp towns of Southern Pines Aber-
hefore long will be the white of the'
dogwood. It is getting warmer, there
is a hint of laziness in the air. The
hotels and golf courses are crowded.
round for the wards.
In addition to underwriting these
responsibilities, the meeting voted to
make a special git* to the hospital.
The x-ray apparatu.s, pfter eleven
years of valuable service, has become seven hours will be allowed for
(ibsolescent and unsatisfactory. New
diagnostic x-ray equipment, for ra
diography, fluoroscopy and snperfic-
*nl therapy, will cost, with freight
and certain structural changes in
cluded, the sum of §8,500.00. Towar'd
thrs total the Au.xiliary voted to give
?4,000.00, and members exprc-r-sed the
the twenty-mile ride. The day before
the forty-mile ride and three and one-
half hours for the twenty-mile ride.
The day before the ride the horses
will be judged as to cuts, abrasions
and fitness.
This Is the first ride of its kind to
be held in the South and will be simi-'
However, due to the great number
listed to attend the State Medical
Meeting, it was not possible for the
Carolina to provide a meeting room
for business and scientific sessions
of the Technologists, nor to arrange |
for the increased number at luncheon
hope that this action might lead toi’ar to the ride put on by the Green
other contributions to cover the bal-! Mountain Horse Association at
•jnce necessarj.-.
The desired equipment includes the
latest developments in the field. An es-
pcial valuable feature is a mobile
x-ray unit, which makes it possible in
W'oodstock, Vt., last summer. Its pur
pose is to encourage good horseman
ship, to demonstrate the value of
type and soundness and the proper
selection of horses for trail riding.
It requires a feat of the imagination,
indeed, to realize that this is the
most dangerous spring that The
Sandhills, that America, has known
for eighty years. Great issues are in
the making and the future is as
troubled as a thunder storm. How,
therefore, shall all sensible men and
women, young or old, all farsighted
men and women, prepare to meet
the huge uncertainty of events? It
seems to us that one answer is con
tained in the formation of The Civi
lian Defense Committee, new.i of
which appears in another column.
Every war is fought differently
from the war that proceeded it. This
has been invariable history. The war
we have been witnessing for the past
year and a half is utterly different
from the so-called World War of
1914-1918. This war, slowly spread
ing, bids fair to be a real World War,
and already we know that the fight
ing armies and navies, actual com
bat, are only a part of it; not more
perhaps than one third of the total
The other two thirds are diplomacy,
as we are witnessing it now in the
Balkans, as we have witnessed it
again and agarn in the last nineteen
months, and the state of mind,’ theh
I
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many cases to take pictures and give I ^^itries have been received from sev-
' which this session v/ill attract.
I The morning sessiori will include
1 the message from the President, Miss
Mary R. Hunter, Raleigh, followed
i by the business session and then the
I main scientific address of the day,
I on Blood Plasma Transfusions. As
I this address will not be made be-
jfore the Medical Society at the Car-
! olina, at any of its sessions, it is
I evident that this speaker will attract
! many physicians to ' the Southern
I Pines sessions who" will come over
I for this .scientific paper.
Following the luncheon at 1:30, the
afternoon will be devoted to a scien
tific session by members of the State
Technologists Society. Several inter
esting papers and demonstrations are
listed for this portion of the program.
There will be also, a number of inter
esting exhibits on scientific aspects
of laboratory work. A short executive
officers meet^g will close the day.
Time will be available for those so
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Firemen To Have 10th
Annual Ball Thursday
Scottie’s New Tavern To Be
Scene of Gala Affair, With
Ted Ross Music
The Southern Pines Volunteer Fire
Department is having its tenth an-
•nual ball next Thursday night at
Scottie’s New Tavern on U. S. 1 juat
south of town, and it is expected to
be one ef the biggest affairs of the
late winter season. The volunteers
have had a busy year to date and de
serve the generous support of the
•community toward their reselre fund,
besides which this pajrty always a
most enjoyable one.
This year the firemen have secured
Ted Ross and his Serenaders to fur
nish the music, which ^arantees
'plenty of rhythm and fun for the
crowd. The party is slated to start
at lO.'OO and last until 2;0(t a. W.
s ’5edsida
A brief summary of the different
Icinds of entertainment given thl.s
.•reason revealed a wide and amnsing
variety- The list includes bridge par
ties and cake sales, dance.s and lec
tures, cocktail hours and scenic mov
ies, musicales, discussions, a stag
poker game, golf contests, and num-
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Homer H. Johnson Is •
Kiwanis Speaker
Failure of League of Nations
Chief Cause of War, Saj's
Cleveland Attorney
Plan Athletic Club
And Park For Sports
Organization Meeting Held in
Southern Pines.—Field Near
Manley Optioned
A' meeting was held in the Boy
Scout Hut In Southern Pines last
week for the purpose of organizing a
Southern Pines Athletic Club. For
many years the need has been felt
here for a recreational and sports
center, and the aim is to provide
funds for an athletic field through
the issuance of memberships in the
club. The organizing group has an op
tion on property near Manley for the
^idd, ample in size for b^seb^l and
other sportsi^ Negotiations are under
way to bring a team of one of the
bigger leagues here for training next
Spiing', with several prospects.
Comprising the Organization Com
mittee are Dante S. Montesanti,
chairman, the Rev. T. A. WUliams,
Walter Hap>er, A.^P. Patterson and
Thdnias Millar.
Homer H. Johnson, Cleveland at
torney, addressing the Sandhills Kl-
wanls Club Wednesday at the South
ern Pines Country Club, blamed the
failure of the League of Nations as
the principal cause of the present Eu
ropean conflict. He cited the crea
tion of the League as one of the most
important afairs in World’s liistory
and its failure when the United
States withdrew from the League as
the most tragic. He told the Club the
United States managed to get Into
all the warg but had little or noth
ing to do with any of the peace con
ferences.
He referred to the present EJuro-
pean conflict as a war between the
"haves” and "have nots" in which a
nation attempts to dictate its demand
through force. He referred to the
Eitdown strike at the For^ Motor
Company, strikes at the Allis-Chal-
mers Company, and the walkout of
400,000 coal miners as an attempt on
the part of Libor to dictate their de
mand for higher wages.
In conclusion he referred to ‘ the
‘ twenties” as the “golden age’' and
pointed out at the end of the war the
world would go through an evolution
of reform in which no one coirld pre
dict the future. He stressed the im-
portancfe ’of'small groups like the Ri-
wans giving much thought to, the
period of reconstruction.
Mr. Johnson was introduces by
Paul Dana, chairman of the program
comoDoittee.
nral well- known Virginia and South
Carolina stables. The committee is |
headed by Mr. Stratton, chairman; ;
Miss Ellen Vail, vice-chairman; Ho
ward F. Burns, secretary; Mrs. i
George W. Johnson, chairman of en-'
(ertainment; Ralph K. Trix of Lake i
Placid, N. Y., r ecorded and time-keep- j
or; Louis Scheipers, in charge of I
rourse and W. O. Moss, in charge of,
stabling. j
WILLIAM FRANKLIN WILSON '
BITES HELD UTDNESD.W j
Funeral services conducted by the *
Rev. Troy ^lullis and the Rev. C. I.
Calcote wehe held in the Presbyterian j
Church of Manley at 3:00 o'clock on |
Wednesday afternoon for William!
Franklin Wilson, 83, who died In his
home there Tuesday morning.
Mr. Wilson was born in Cumberland
county June 6, 1858, the son of John
Wilson, arid had been almost a lifc^
long resident of Manly.
He is survived by his widow and
three daughters, Mrs. C. W. Boney
and Miss Mabel Wilson of Manly and
Mrs. Eloise Jones of Charlotte; two
sons, W. C. Wilson of Wildwood Fla.,
and Clyde Wilson of Sanford.
deen Pinehurst and West End, and
neighborhoods so that all those who
wish may train themselves and or
ganize for any emergency and be
ready, should occasion arise, to re
port immediately to their respective
headquarters, there to render effec
tive service and maintain the peace,
property and mor'ale of their locali
ties.
The following statement was made
by the chairmen:
It is our opinion that in this war
the state of mind and the tr’aining
t.nd discipline of the Civilan Popula
tion is at least one third of the total
conflict, the other two-thirds being
diplomacy and the actual battle of
armed forces. This fact has been
clearly recognized by the leaders of
the enemies of democracy from the
first and by every means and every
where, they have, and are, persistently
trying to break down the morale of
civilians; by rumors, by defeatism, by
propaganda and by sabotage. It is our
purpose to meet this challenge.
America was founded and preserv
ed on the principle of the Trained
Band, that is to say, the self-contain
ed community in which, when the
tocsin sounded, every one, man, wo
man, and child, knew where to go
and what to do. Some to fight, some
to make bullets, some to draw wa
ter, some to attend to the wounded,
and so on. By mean of the Trained
Band we defeated (he Indians and
won the War of the Revolution. Once
more we have need of the Trained
Band in all its various functions.
We have entire confidence in our
Gk)vei’nment, in our armed forces, in
the Home Guard now being formed In
all the states to take the place of the
National Guard inducted into the
Regular Establishment. We also have
been assured that the Legion will take
care of the forming of a third de
fence group, the armed section of tffe
Four young men' were ordered to Trained Band in each commun’ty. The
report to the Local Board in Carth-1 Legion has a reservoir of four mil
age at 8:30 o’clock yesterday mom-' veterans to draw upon. These are
^ ^ ^ ^ <.u I not our provinces: we wish to deal
ing for the trip to Fort Bragg to be-i ^
entirely with the Civilian Population,
gin their year’s training in Uncle orgaiiization
Sam’s army. They are W’ilbert Ashe propose will not only train the
and Clay Flowers, of Southern Pines, | Civilian Population for any emer.
George Tyson Muse of Carthage | gency, but meanwhile will add great
Route
home address is Mornstown, N. J.
FOUR CALLED TO
COLORS, 100 GET
QlESTiONAlKES
Many From Southern Pines Arc
in New List of N'ames Re
leased bv Local Board
2 and Prentice Burch, whose V to its morale and wil! give every
man and woman that sense of actual-
Caucus May 2d
N'jmination for Mayor and
Five Commissioners To Be
Made for Election May 6
The town caucus of the Town of
Southern Pines wrill be held on
Friday night. May 2d, in the High
School auditorium, according to
legal notice on Page 2 of this
week’s Pilot. At that time, nomina-
'tions will be made for the offices
of Mayor and the Board of Com
missioners of five members.
The town election will be held
on Tuesday, May 6th, and the reg
istration books are now open at
the office of Uie Registrar in the
Municipal Building. All persons
who are qualified to vote should
see that their names are proper
ly registered.
ly being a part of his, or her, coun-^
try and of taking a place in its pres
ent gigantic endeavor so necessary to
contentment, courage and discipline.
We think It will aid In stopping f^lse
,.,■11 • TT. 1 ' rumor; that it will prevent panic in
Dorn Melvin Leo Arey, Wilhe Frank , , , .
uorn, meivin ; bad times; and increase productve-
nrVinmnsnn ’Rnnprt Mc-
Fourteen from Southern Pines are |
included in the list of 100 to whom
questionnaires were mailed Tuesday. i
They are Arthur Bynum Patterson,!
Lewis Albert Merrill, Robert Finch!
Frik, Bennie Thompson, 'Robert Me
Millan Cameron, David Eklward Wil
son, Carlos Greene Bailey, Henry
Earl Down LeRoy Alexander Dowdy,
Edward York, Hanle ITJitfianlel Speas
and Harold Alexander McNeill.
Those from other communities are;
Aberden: Thomas Cosom Norman,
Woodrow Briggs, Isaac Clifton Stan
di, James Randolph Bjrrd, Walter
McCain, William V»lger Carter, Jr.,
John Nicholas McKinnon.
Pinehurst: Curtis Case, Cary Ralph
Richardson, Warren Allston L«land
McKelthen, Lonnie Marrlson, John
Frederick Qulmby.
Carthage: Roland Kelly, John Wil
lis Davis, Claud Jennings Benner, Ju
lius Cole, Ell Euland Phillips, Guyre
rUlmon Caddell, Johnson Allen Den
ny, Joseph Howard Wlson, John Rob
ert Tillman, Wlalter Augusta Kelly,
Garlan Thornton Person Charles
Thomas Sinclair, Jr., Gamer Maness,
Neill Archie McLeod, Ellis Holt Wil-
iamson, Archie Dean Wooten.
Vass: Leon Abner Crutchfield,
Henry Dallas Jackson, Charlie Frank
lin Foster, ,Lyle Benjamin Craig
(PU<t»4 turn *• P«V*
ness in good. Finally, we think It v>rill
add to the enduring morale and coop
eration of the commuriltleg In ques
tion long after the present emer
gency, happily, is passed.
We feel certain that properly or
ganized and undertaken none of the
programme will require more than
a nominal amount of time from busy
people.
GIRL SCOUTS WILL SELL
CX>OKIES FOB HUT FUND
Remember those delicious Girl
Scout Cookies you bought last fall?
Tomorrow, Saturday, you will
again have the opportunity of buying
these chocolate and vanilla wafers
and at the same time helping the
local branch of Scouting. The girls
will come to your door and ask you
to purchase these cookies at twenty-
five cents for a package of forty. The
proceeds from this sale will go into
a,fund for the Hut.
Put up in boxes covered and lined
with wa^ed pap^r, these cookies will
keep indefinitely, so don’t be afraid
to iray a number of boxes.
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