Friday, April 4, 1941.
THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
I'age Thr««
Girls Court Case Is
Settled by Compromise
Lois McNeill Granted $350 for
Foot Injury in Mowing Ma
chine Accident
In a compromise settlement, little
Xiois McNeill, who Offered the loss
of the front part of one of her feet
when she was struck by a highway
mowing machine at Lakeview several
months ago, was in Superior Court
last week awarded $350 in full set
tlement.
The Court adjudged that the State
Highway Commission, as a matter
of la*v, was not liable to the child
for damages, it being an agency of
the State of North Carolina and
therefore not subject to suit in this
a.ction, and that the other defendants
R. L. Mabe and Mr. Butler, were in
solvent, and found the compromise
Eettlement to be fair and just com
pensation.
The $300 remaining after payment
of $50 to the plaintiff’s attorney was
ordered turned over to the Clerk of
Court for distribution by him solely
for the benefit of the child, the samq
to be distributed periodically as the
reeds arise.
H. F. Seawell, Jr., was the plain
tiff's attorney and Charles Ross and
M. G. Boyette were the attorneys for
the defendants.
In the cast of Elizabeth L. San
ford versus Nick Rapatos and Andrew
Panos, the court found that Rapatos
was indebted to the plaintif? on July
11, 1938; that without retaining suf-
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his existing debts, he caused the Wnd
described In the complaint to be con
veyed to Panos, without considera
tion, for the use and benefit of him
self, with intent to defraud the ex
isting creditors.
The court declared the deed null
and void and appointed H. F. Sea-
well, Jr., and F, W. McCluer., com
missioners to sell the land and to ap
ply the proceeds first in satisfaction
of the personal property exemption
of $500, second, in satisfaction of the
indebtedness due the plaintiff, and
the costs, the remainder, if any to
be given ^o Rapatas.
Other Judgments*
Standard Fei"Izer Co-, et al vs
J M. Reed; plaintiff submits to a
voluntary non-suit.
Aberdeen Specialty Ccf'^pany vs
W. E. Hall; plaintiff to recover
judgment in the amount of $163.25
and interest, ~
F. L. Smith vs G. L. Bullock: con-
.'lent judgment that Smith is the
owner of the personal property de
scribed in the chattel mortgage re
ferred to in the complaint and defen
dant agrees to deliver said property
to the plaintif? wilh 30 days.
C. E. Thompson vs Hoyt Caddell:
plaintiff to recover of the defendant
$45.
Jerome Odom'vs W. M. H.'Davis:
By agreement "defendant to pay
plaintiff $75.
Theophiius Barrow vs Ethel Boaz
Barrow: plaintiff to pay defendant
for her alimony and for the substi-
tance of her and her infant child $75
per month beginning with and in
cluding December 1940, also he is
lequired to pay $300 to defendant as
counsel fees for her defense and the
prosecution of her counter-claim.
Plaintiff gave notice of appeal to the
Supreme Court.
J. M. Green vs Herman Goldman
and Edward Barber, executors of the
estate of James Barber, deceased:
Demurrer of the defendants sustain
ed and action dismissed. Plaintiff
given notice of appeal.
Judgment favorable to the plain
tiff was returned in the divorce case
of Mary Kivette vs Herbert S. Ki-
vette.
This week’s term of Superior Court
for the trial of civil cases was called
off and jurors were notified not to
appear. So many cases were continu
ed last week, due to illness of some
of the lawyers, that it was not nec
essary to hold the second term.
Heroic Member of R AF Gives
Vivid Word Picture of BattU
Ralph Pope Writes Letter to Fa
ther Shortly Before Being
Jailed in Action
A letter has been received by J.
Bruce Cameron of Southern Pines
telling of the death in action over
London of Ralph Hope, son of the
chairman of Henry Hope and Sons,
Ud. Of Blm,ln*ham. EagI.nd, p.- —
of ’spector of the Bt'ocken’ effec.
on my shadow as I approached then"
"When I emerged the countrysid<
looked pleasantly open, after driftin'
quite a way I thought I saw where
should land. Two farm hands had thf
same idea. We were all wrong as ir
spite of attempts on my part to avoi<
it I came down in a spinney of youn
oak trees, pulling up short about 2'
feet from the ground, haneine in m’
rent company of Hope’s Windows, trunk, pull myself over to it, gel
Inc. of Jamestown, N. Y, represented ^ ottt of mv parachute harness and
in Moore county by Mr. Cameron. The climb .to the ground where I remain
young man had spent about a year quite until I was found,
in this country and Mr. Cameron had' "The army soon took charge of me
met him here. He was a cousin of'drove*^e\a?k*to^Soy^l^”"'^
the late Neville Chamberlain. t „ * : ^
I The only damage I sustained wa?
With the news of his death came ^ a hefty bruise on my right shoulder
a letter Ralph Hope Had written from hitting the tail as I jumped, anr
weeks before he lost his life during | a bruise on my leg, and a torn trous-
flylng operations over London. His ***" somewhat unceremonious de
, I. ji u t V, t ti scent thru the upper branches of thr
plane was badly shot up but partly sin
controllable. Rather than bail out and | ..^ow I go about with my arm in
allow the airplane to crash and kill a sling, feeling particularly good aF
residents in the densely occupied East I have been given a week sick Jeave.’
London area, Ralph attempted to ma-
ties. J. Talbot Joimson of Aberdeen, N.
Luncheon parties were given by c., E. iL Wiise and D. W. Grieve of
.Ir. and Mrs. H. M. Keickhe fer of Perry, N. Y., Mrs. N. R. Luther of
Riverton, N. J., Mrs. C. Leigh Ste- Buffalo, N. Y , and Mrs. Helen Stagg
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His letter gives a vivid and color-i ®®'’trude Haywood of . New Bern, N
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the Royal Air Force in its defense | some time at the Gregory’s,
of England. | Mr. and Mrs. R. C Pierce of Fay-
“We had a grand day on Friday! the home of Mr. and
with three patrols,” he wrote in a, Mrs. Charlie Creel.
letter to his father "On the first | Mrs. M. F. Butner spent several
we had a glorious dog-fight with' ,
about nine Messerschmidt llO’s week in Asheville with her
which caught a proper pasting: 1 daughter Mrs. rlalph Leach,
must admit that they were heavily | Janie Hearn student at the Presby-
outnumbered. On the second trip we terian Hospital Criarlotte spent the
had an uneventful brush with somei . , j ,
Messerschmidt 109’s; it was the last ®<^k-end with her parents.
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trip which was the most fun. About
12 Junker type 88 bombers came in
and after losing two from anti-air-
craft fire were set on by some Hurri
canes. As we climbed up to them we
had the pleasure of seeing one dart
past us, hotly pursued, large chunks
falling off it and the starboard en
gine on fire. When we were at last
in a position to attack there were
only seven left.lfour in front and three
behind. They looked just like beau
tiful expensive ‘crochets’ flying
Tlong. We had a real field day mak
ing attack after attack—a few Me.
109’s turned up but did not hinder
us. The Ju. 88’s went down all over
the place. The scrap started at 13,-
000 feet and the bombers just pushed
their throttles wide open and scream
ed downhill in a vain attempt to get
away. We bagged the lot. the last
coming down in the sea. My ammu
nition ran out at about 2,000 feet
so I was unable to administer a ‘coup
de grace’, but it had been a great
day.
He I^sos His Plane
“Saturday was not quite such a
success from my point of view, as
on our third patrol I lost my aircraft.
We were at about 21,000 feet when
we got involved with a squadron of
Me. 109’s. They got me before I even
saw them, which is very annoying. I
first felt a kind of funny bump, and
as I turned to see what was up my
conrtols suddenly felt funny, a lot of
red sparks and black smoke appera-
ed round my feet and a cloud of
white smoke, probably glycol, began
streaming back from the engine. The
aircraft began going dowhTini fast.
1 slid back the hood and began to
get out, my goggles were shipped
off and my helmet began to lift up in
the slipstream; I realized I hadn’t
undone my straps so I pulled out the
retaining pin and stood up, standing
on anything which came handy ( the
sea, the instrument panel of the
stick, I dont know really.)
“The air seized hold of me, there
was a wrench as my oxygen tube
snapped off ( I had fogotten to undo
it) and I shot out into the sky. The
aeroplane disappeared.
“It was nice and cool falling. I
was head down, of course, but found
the position quite comfortable: there
was no sense of speed or feeling of
falling. I had a look at the clouds
below (they were about 4,000-5,000
feet) tnd then collected the odd bits
of my helmet and had a look around.
My parachute was still on my seat,
both my boots were on, and I did
not seem to have lost anything ax-
cept my goggles, and a handkerchief
and map which must have fallen out
of the pockets in my knees when I
first went upside down.
FaJls 18,000 Feet
Af^r a while I thought about
pulling the rip-cord. ‘Wihat about
giving the old ‘brolly a tryout?’ I
thou^t. I seemed to have fallen a
goodish way so I pulled. The canopy
,=>treamed out, there was a hard
jerk, and there I was right side
up, quite comfortable and float
ing slowly. Oh! so slowly earth
wards. I was about nine to 10,-
000 feet so I had fallen free for about
8 or 9,000 feet (from 18,000 feet) and
might have fallen further with ad-
advantage.
When I looked up I could see a
shiny white canopy above me, and
little silver specks having no end of
a dog-fight in the clear blue above
me. A Spitfire dived down past me
with a high pitched whine, but that
was the only disturbance.
“The parachute began to swing
me about and it wasn’t long before
1 felt sick, very sick in fact by the
time I landed. It was fun going into
the clouds, as the sun played a sort
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were week-end guests at the home
of Capt. and Mrs. Walter Zion.
Dana McNeal of Cambridge, Mass.
was a visitor in town for several days
last week.
children of Durham, were week-end
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Forshee and
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Rampley.
Mrs. Purvis Ferree of Pinehurst
and Mrs. Eutice Mills spent Thurs
day in Charlotte shopping.
Mrs. Wesley McMaster of Norfolk,
Va., is a guests this week at the home
of Mrs. Garland McCaskill.
Mrs. Roy Griffin and sons spent
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The fine weather brought out two
iarge fields to play in the golf_ and
putting! tournaments held at the
Pine Needles over the week-end. N.
R. Luther of Buffalo, N. Y. won the
Blind Bogey golf tournament with
H. W. Pierce of Salem, Mass, win
ning second place honors. In' the put
ting contest, played over the 18-hole
miriiature putting course, Mrs. J. S.
Shipman of Merchantville, N. J., and
Ralph Child of Wiestfielfl, N. J., were
co-winners in this event.
Emmett E. Boone was host at a
small cocktail party Sunday evening
honoring Glenn S. Reznor, popular
and congenial member of the Pine
Needles staff. Mr. Boone made it an
occasion to celebrate Mr. Reznor’s
birthday, with the other members of
the office staff ^oininjg^in to wish
him many happy returns of the day.
Mrs. Catherine Backes, house guest
of Mrs. John L. McKenney of Sou
thern Pines, was hostess to a number
of friends at a putting contest play
ed over the Pine Needles puttting
course. -Tea was served following the
contest.
Baroness von Kettler of New York
was among the arrivals during the
week. She was accompanied by Mrs
James Markoe of New York.
Mrs. Charles H. Maddox and Miss
Evelyn Maddox of Washington, D.
C., daughter and granddaughter of
the late S. Y. Ramage of Pinehurst
and Oil City, Pa., were among the
many other arrivals during the week.
Entertaining during the week was
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C. M. Van Stoiy, of reensboro, N. C.,
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of Syracuse, N. Y. were among the
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