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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939 I
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pinehurst Is Planning
Gay Holiday Season
Christmas Festivities to be Featured by
Active Social and Sports Programs
At Clubs, Hotels and Homes
Midwinter Golf Tournament List
^ for Dec. 27-30; Whistles and
Foils Eevents Carded
gymkhana on bill
The Christmas holiday period
J be gay in Pinehurst with a
stepped-up tempo of social and
sports activity.
The outdoor program includes
golf, equestrian events of a
varied nature, shooting, ~ tennis
and other recreational features.
The social card will consist of
several dances, teas, hunting
party gatherings, card parties,
dinners at all the hotels and the
various other social affairs rela
tive to Sandhills resort life.
The formal golf schedule will
consist of the thirty-seventh an
nual mid-Winter tournament
from December 27 to December
30, the fifth annual Christmas
tournament for women, Decem
ber 29 and weekly Tin Whistles
and Silver Foils ' Club' contests.'
Horse activity will include the
Christmas gymkhana in the
Carolina Riding Ring Sunday,
December 24, a fox hunt, an$
the twenty-third annual horse
show, December 29. Aside from
this, there will be the usual in
formal bridle trail parties daily
and informal play on all three
golf courses.
The Pinehurst Gun Club will
hold a turkey shoot Saturday,
competition to be in rifle and
shot gun classes. All six tennis
courts will be open for play dur
ing the holidays.
Another badminton tourna
ment will be held at the Caro
lina Dec. 27. A number of hunt
ing parties are being formed
for the holidays to make the
Pinehurst sports picture more
complete.
RAN COMMUNITY SING
B SOUTHERN PINES
ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Charlie Picquet Will Act as Lead
er When Choirs and Groups
Perform in Front of Post Office
ft the stars shine, or if the
leather permits, a really fine
Immunity sing will he held at
ft P- m. on Saturday night, De
ceniber 23, in front of the South
epl Pines Post Office, where all
j* urcb choirs and singers not at
^c“ed to regular organizations
^Ve been invited to join*
Charles Picquet will act as
e^der, and suggests that singers
rin£ hymn books, as the sacred
sengs on the program will be in
Vvf *n practicallY any hymnal.
White Choirs will sing-; “It
i(fme ftpcn the Midnight Clear*”
°y to the World, The Lord Is
°me, Hark, the Herald Angels
and “Come All Ye Faith
^ cft°irs will sing; Silent
Song;> . and- “Luther’s Cradle
h will join in singing Amer
Naval Parley
LONDON, Dec. 20 — (ff) — In
an atmosphere of strict secrecy
Admiral Jean Darlan, 'supreme
commander of French naval for-'
ces, conferred for several hours
with Winston Churchill. No offi
cial announcement on the confer
ence, was issued.
KIWANIS HEARS G-MAN
TELL ABOUT ROBBERS
TRACKED BY BUREAU
Edward Scheidt, Special Agent
in Charge of FBI in Carolinas,
Guest Speaker at Luncheon in
Holly Inn 1
.North Carolina has no number
one public enemy, but it has had
.one- gang, of -bank , robbera ,worthy
of more than local consideration.
J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
has the respect of his department
and is not a “publicity hound,”
but seeks to obtain newspaper
headlines because he believes the
people should be advised * about
the work of the F. B. I.
These, and other facts as -en
tertaining as a bound volume of
True Detective magazine, were
presented when Edward Scheidt,
special agent in charge of the
Federal Bureau of, Investigation
for the Carolinas, with headquar
ters in Charlotte, spoke yester
day at the weekly luncheon of
The Kiwanis Club held in the
Holly7 Inn. An excellent meal
was served by Ed Horne, mana
ger.
Mr. Scheidt was introduced by
Judge J. Vance Rowe, Aberdeen,
president of the Kiwanis Club.
“During 1937,” said Mr.
Scheidt," the Payne-Turner mob,
a gang of Carolina men, robbed
four banks, stole 22 automobiles
and committed many lawless acts.
Three of the four finished their
career by adding murder to the
other charges. All of these men
were capftired, two have been ex
ecuted, and the others are serv
ing time.'
“These men were William An
drew Payne, High Point; John
Washington Turner, Marion;
John Bowling Byrd, Durham, and
Robert Fields, alias Robert Smith,
South’ Carolina.
“Payne and Turner were pick
ed up in Sanford, after having
murdered George Penn, a. state
highway patrol officer near Ashe
ville, and have been executed by
the state. Smith killed an offi
cer in a gun battle outside of
i Columbia, S. C., and is doing
life in the state penitentiary.
Byrd, captured following a gun
battle with officers in Wilming
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WEATHER
Fair, slightly colder in east
portion Thursday. Friday part
ly cloudy.
The recently constructed residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.
White, located on Linden Road. The Whites are from Scarsdale, N. Y.
PINEHURST SCOREBOARD
1 by DAVE CAMERER of N Y. World Telegram
, Nearly twenty three years ago a young, reedy built fellow with
a slow smile Suzie Q’d out of the north west hills of North Carolina
on a free wheeling pair of roller skates. His name was Lloyd Tate.
He hailed from Waynesville, N. C., a little hutch of a place deep in
the foothills of the Blue Ridge range, where the hoot owls and
chickens .roost together in idyllic and smug complacency ... because
they don’t give a damn for convention.
This Tate fellow careened into Orlando, Florida where he hired
himself out to teach folks to spin with abandon in a shack of a
roller skating rink. He did all right . . . but he didn’t last long . . .
just one short season. Because he wound up in a dead heat with a
hospital cot with a sprung chassis
So Tate and his constant, quiet smile was shipped “up North” to
Camden, South Carolina and interned in the ward for wounded and
crippled. There, a friend who owned the local livery stable exhumed
the badly bent baron of the “spread eagle.” Finding the patient long
on figures, he asked Tate to keep and balance the oat and feed
books if he could . . . Tate did . . . and ever since the name has been
synonymous with horseflesh.
After liking both Camden and horses well enough to spend some
seven' seasons there, Tate transferred to Aiken for one year after
giving himself over to Uncle Sam to take a flyer on “The War to
End War,” then he cut north to Pinehurst where he’s content to
keep smilin’ through as long as man has an inclination to swing
a game leg over the side of an animal.
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thane McDonald in
ORGAN RECITAL HERE
AT CHURCH TONIGHT
Lovers of good music are ex
pected to be present in large
numbers at the sacred concert of
Christmas music by Thane Mc
Donald, organist, and an a cap
pella quartet at the Pinehurst
Community Church tonight. The
concert is scheduled to begin at
8 o’clock.
Mr. McDonald is head of the
organ department and assistant
music director at Davidson Col
lege, Davidson, N. C., and is heard
frequently on the radio from
Charlotte. He is well known as
a recitalist of unusual brilliance,
and the program he has selected
for his appearance here tcfnight
will give him opportunity to
demonstrate his remarkable tal
ents.
The organ at Community
Church, the Alfred Hull Ramagej
Memorial gift to the church, is
an exceptionally fine instrument, |
and organists are unanimous in
their praise of its tonal qualities
and adaptability of volume.
The quartet for the a cappella
numbers is composed of. the Rev.
and Mrs. A. V. Gibson and the
Rev. and Mrs. A. J. McKelway.
HORSE SHOW RING TO
BE DEDICATED FRIDAY
AT SOUTHERN PINES
Celebrating completion of the
newly enlarged horse show and
gymkhana ring at the Southern
Pines Country Club, a more or
less informal dedication will take
place Friday afternoon at 2:30
p. m.
As a preliminary to the adver
tised horse shows and hunter
trials to take place later in the
season, Ringmaster Nick Crotty
has announced that Friday’s pro
gram will be confined to events
along such lines, and should time
permit gymkhana features will
be made a part of the program.
Plans are being made for a
large turnout, and besides horses
stabled in Southern Pines, Ring
master Crotty states that others
from the Pinehurst Livery Sta
bles and the stable of Thomas
& Alexander of Pinehurst will
be on hand.
The program will include six
events: I. Children’s horseman
ship event; 2. Children’s jump
ing event; 3. Handy jumpers
event in ring; 4. Open hunters
events on outside course; -5.
Working hunters event on out
side course; 6. Knock down and
out event.
Suicide Of
Justified, Says Berlin
German Government Declares Captain of
Graf Spee Acted in Accordance
With Tradition
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 20
—(IP)—A joint declaration accus
ing European belligerents of re
peatedly violating the Western
Hemisphere neutral zone, and
warning them against future vio
ations was being drafted tonight
by the 21 American republics in
common diplomatic consultation.
FIERCE AIR BATTLE IN
FRIGID SKIES MARKS
ATTACK BY RUSSIANS
Finns Report Hundreds of Tanks
Used in Savage Soviet Drives
Across the Karelian Isthmus
HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 20,
—(JF) — Fierce fighting surged
across the Karelian Isthmus in
sub-zero temperatures today as
Russia loosed hundreds of tanks
in savage drives, and directed
200 planes (in a wide, spread
bombing atack on the rest of
Finland. *
The roar of artillery could be
heard from one side of the wide
Isthmus to the other.
Finnish aviators rose to meet
the aviators in fierce dog fight
battles in the winter sky.
Their drive was stalled in the
far north by blizzards and tem
peratures of 25 below zero. The
Finns said they had withdrawn
to Komettijarvi, but mentioned
no fighting.
A little farther south, just
above the Arctic Circle, forces
were reported to have stopped a
Soviet thrust to cut the country
in two.
While battles raged along the
east and south frontier the na
tion moved to strengthen its de
fenses by calling to the colors
all able bodied men of 40 years
of age. All reservists under 40
already had been summoned.
ANNUAL BANQUET OF
CHAMBERS IN COUNTY
TAKES PLACE JAN. 10
The annual joint banquet of
the Chambers of Commerce of
Moore County will be held in The
Carolina Hotel, on the night of
January 10, according to an an
nouncement made yesterday by
Charles Picquet, chairman.
This is the biggest gathering
of the year of people of the coun
ty, and Mr. Picquet plans the
usual entertaining program,
which will be featured by an ad
dress by a speaker of outstand
ing reputation.
HOAGLAND DOG WINS
SUMTER, S. C., Dec. 20—<JP)
—Loch Farm, owned by Ray
mond Hoagland of Cartersville,
Ga., won first place today in the
open field stakes of the South
Carolina Field Trial Association.
Handler was George Crangle of
Waynesboro, Ga.
British Take Attitude that Com- )
mander of Nazi Warship Took
Own Life Because of Order to
Do Distasteful Acts
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NAVAL FUNERAL f
By the Associated Press
Most dramatic incident of the
day’s war news was the suicide
in Buenos Aires of Captain Hans
Langsdorff, Captain of the Graf
Spee, who shot himself in the;
Naval arsenal, “to share 'the fate.:
of his 'magnificent ship.”
In Berlin, jthe Admiralty an
nounced that Captain Langsdorff
had acted true to tradition in tak
ing his own life after being forced
to scuttle his ship. “The Com
mander,” said an official com
munication, “did not wish to live
past the sinking of his ship.”
Captain Langsdorff was 45
years old, the son of K. G. Wil
helm Langsdorff, a clergyman.
A naval funeral will be accorded
him and his body will lie in state
at the German embassy in Buenos
Aires. * •
Captain Langsdprff, a slight
man proud of the fact that there
had been no loss of life aboard
nine British merchant vessels he
had sunk in the raiding expedition
which preceded his ship’s final
battle, was detained in the naval
arsenal here after bringing his
officers and more than 1,000 of
his crew here in tugs.
One of his enemies in the war
at sea had this to say of him:
“There is no mercy from
Langsdorff when he has fighting
to do, but when he is not fighting^
he is a fine gentleman.”
It was Captain Patrick Dove;,
captain of the tiny British tank
er Africa Shell, who said it. Dove
knew, for he spent, three months
as an enforced “guest” aboard the
Graf Spee after the Africa Shell
was sunk.
Commenting on the suicide of'
Captain Hans Langsdorff of the
Admiral Graf Spee, one British
source with high connections,
said:
“It is obvious that a gallant:
man was ordered to do some*
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WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Silver Foils Flag Tournament
today.
Buffet supper at Pinehurst
Country Club tonight.
Community Church
Tonight at 8:00, sacred concert
and organ recital, Thane MeDon- -
aid at the organ.
AT THE THEATRES.
- Southern Pines -
Tonight at 8:15, matinee at
3:00, “Rulers of thfe Sea,” with
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
. - Aberdeen Theatre -
Tonight at 7:15 and 9:00,
“That’s Right, You’re Wrong,”
with Kay Kyser.
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