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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, WO
Ship Reported Sinking
With 146 Men Aboard
Short Wave Radio SOS Received From
Unidentified Vessel Off Massachu
setts ; Coast Guard On Way
Location Given as Between Mar
tha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Island; Capt. Byron C.. Brown
U. S. A. Retired Picked Up
Message
VOICES DROP OUT \
BOSTON. Jan. 23 — (A5) — A
shortwave radio SOS relayed'to
Coast Guard headquarters by
Capt. Byron C. Brown, U. S. A.
retired, tonight reported an un
identified vessel sinking with ,146
passenger and crew members
aboard between Martha’s Vine
yard and Nantucket Island, off
the southeastern tip of Massa
chusetts.
Unaware of any passenger
ships plying between the islands
off the ice bound coast, the Coast
Guard dispatched four cutters
and a navy destroyer to investi
gate the report.
In a telephone conversation
with Coast Guard headquarters
from his home, Captain Brown
said he heard a short wave
broadcast on the lowest band of
his special radio at 7:02 E.S.T.
“I distinctly heard an SOS,”
he said, “and then the radio man
and captain of the vessel both
spoke and both said ‘We’re sink
ing!’ ”
Neither man gave his name,
the captain said, nor named the
vessel, but both shrieked that
“there are 146 men aboard.”
Both men, Bro^n told the Coast
Guard, seemed terribly excited,
and dropped off the air suddenly.
Oldest Inhabitants
lust Plain Stumped
Take the word of the very old
est inhabitants—they never saw
nothin like it.
You all know what we be talk
in' about.
Took our Southern Pines cor
espondent one hour to drive over
hom the Outlook’s Southern
Pines headquarters in the Patch'
block to our home office in the
Hazard building.
Hut Jerry delivered his copy
lust as if it were a message for
Wcia. He never fails.
carted to-about 10:30
a' ni- turned into —•— -,
t e,‘ ’nto V:*'n, but gosh derned,
! at (*usk iT didn’t up and turn
^ck into _
Tell you. rhe oldest inhabitants
^evei ^eai'(' toll of it. Sam, door
?‘an at Carolina Hotel, said
^a‘s kad that not a single
°/ f)ai'ky drove in from the
ti0it ai:(^ 0!‘ly one came from
the south.
e Sandhills amateur-pro golf
^a-nanient at Mid Pines has
ti^11 postP'Jned until further no
f0],'T,tn'st it was,put down
feek Ul now nobody
ten' C(jnil)('tent enough to fore
* T1(1 when it can be held
pr°Per like.
Ti« whi1!1;^'replay for mino:
Bowl/ ? prizes in which Joel
* ?r *** Rev. T. A. Cheathan
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RUMANIA WARNED
BY BRITAIN, FRANCE
BUCHAREST, Jan. 23—(ff)
—Rumania was warned by
Great Britain and France to
day that “grave complications"
might follow any attempt to
compel British and French oil
companies in Rumania to fur
nish oil for Germany. Envoys
were understood to have told
the Rumanian government to-,
day they would not tolerate
forced production by British
and French owned companies
for the benefit of Germany.
WORLD CHAMPION
JUMPING PONY IS
IN LOCAL STABLE
Little Squire, Owned by Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Kennedy, Topped
Field in Madison Square Gar
den and Other Shows
Latest addition to Pinehurst’s
equine aristocracy is Little Squire,
a jumping horse owned by Mr.
and Mrs. W.-L. Kennedy. Not to be
outdone by the trotting and pac
ing contingent at the Pinehurst
Racetrack Stable, the Thomas &
Alexander stable has come
through with a champion of its
own, adding further glory to the
increasing fame of Pinehurst’s
quadruped winter residents. Lit
tle Squire is one of four* show
horses which Mr. and Mrs. Ken
nedy have quartered at the local
stable. t
Little Squire, and take it from
us that “little” is not in name
only, is the jumpingest pony in
this or any other country, being
a world champion. Solid white,
and standing only 13 and 3 hands
high, the current pride and joy
of the T. & A. stables is, accord
ing to Corbett Alexander, a “snow
ball arollin’ ” when it comes to
taking those jumps.
Mickey Walsh, trainer and ri
der took championships at five
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WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Weekly bridge party at the
Carolina this morning.
AT THE THEATRES
' - Pinehurst -
Today at 3:00 and 8:30, “The
Earl of Chicago,” with Robert
Montgomery.
- Southern Pines -
Today and tomorrow at 8:15,
matinee tomorrow at 3:00, He
Married His Wife,” with Joel Mc
Crea and Nancy Kelly.
- Aberdeen Theatre -
Today at 3:30, 7:15 and 9:00,
“British Intelligence” with Boris
Karloff and Margaret Lindsay.
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LITTLE SQUIRE TAKES HIGH FENCE IN STRIDE
(Outlook Engraving) / . , ’ ,
Champion jumper owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kennedy of Dedham,
Mass. Little Squire has jumped six feet two inches with a rider,
and is one-half thoroughbred and one-half Greenland pony. This
pony is dt the Thomas & Alexander Stables.
DlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
Paul Derringer of the Cincinnati Reds, who was a speaker at
the banquet held by members of the P. G. A., who competed in the
Senior championship at Sarasota, Florida, suggested that George R.
Jacobus, pro at the Sarasota Club and formerly P. G. A. president,
should be made Czar of professional golf in America.
* * *
Each gray cloud has its silver lining,
Though dark, somewhere the sun is shining,
But to the Golfer racked with pain,
Such trutji is hardly ever plain.
When he has chipped dead to the pin,
And thinks the hole the bag’s within,
And then some mutt, all unforeseen,
Sinks handily, from off the green.
* * *
Clayton Heafner, Linville, N.. C. professional, who has been
showing to advantage on the winter golf tour, was at one time em
ployed in a candy factory in Charlotte. This has resulted in Pacific
coast writers designating him as a “taffy, puller,” a “fudge mixer,”
a “candy maker,” and last but not least, a “lulupop.”
* * *
Patty Berg is'back in Florida ready for the ladies swing around
the Citrus circuit. She will play in practically all of the -leading
events. Patty has missed the North and South championship in
Pinehurst for the past two years, the only winter and spring event
in which Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill, and former na
tional champion, participates.
* * *
How joy can turn to ashes dead,
And pride in shame bow humbled head,
Of him who confidently stands,
With feet firm planted on the sands.
Then swings his club with jaunty glee,
At shining ball perched on gay tee,
Then seeks it winging through the'air,
To find that it’s still sitting there.
« * * *
Bob Jones commented on Clayton Heafner, at the Atlanta Touch
down banquet as follows: Clayton Heafner is one of the best swing
ers I ever saw, and if he has it in the upper story, he will really go
places.”
BOMBS KILL 19
HELSINKI, Jan. 23—(ff)—Sov
iet planes swarmed over central
Finland again today, killing 19
persons and wounding many at
the rail center of NurmeS with
a single bomb, while the red army
was reported to have lost up
ward of 1,000 men in a serious
but futile land offensive against
unyielding Finnish lines. v
WEATHER
Cloudy and continued colder
Wednesday with snow flurries
Wednesday morning. Thursday
►fair and continued cold.
VOTES FOR COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23— (£>)
—The House today voted contin
uation of the Dies committee’s
investigation of unamerican ac
tivities for another year.
British Warship Sunk;
Believe 200 Lose Lives
Admiralty In Terse Statement Announces
Destroyer Exmouth Torpedoed
or Mined
McCLUER FINNISH
RELIEF CHAIRMAN
Frank W. McCluer Jr. of
Aberdeen is Moore County
chairman of the Finnish Re
lief Fund. Other members of
the local committee are to be
named shortly. Former Gov
ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is
North Carolina state chair
man. All donations from the
Sandhills should be sent to the
county chairman in order that
the communities of this county
district may raise their quota.
TALK ON WASHINGTON
BY MRS. HOWARD IS
NEXT FORUM FEATURE
Brilliant Lecturer to Tell of Na
tional Capital at Session Sched
uled for Thursday, Feb. 1
“Washington, Inside and Out,”
will be the title of the speech
which Mrs. Georgette Ross How
ard will make before the Pine
hprst Forum at its next meeting.
The forthcoming program for the
series is scheduled for Thursday,
February 1.
Mrs. Howard, a lecturer, on cur
rent events, brings to her listen
ers a brilliant, well-drawn picture
of the rapidly changing scene in
the nation's capital. She is a
native of Washington and1 has a
family background of genera
tions of statesmen. Coming as]
she does direct from the seat of
government, she brings, with her
a wealth of significant Informa
tion, presented with forcefulness
and, wit.
Well-known in lecture circles,
she also conducts a summer
course in current events at re
sorts in the Berkshires.
Miss Mildred Mason, director
of the Forum, wishes to announce
to all those planning to hear Mrs.
Howard, that from now on the
Forum lectures^ will begin at 8:45
instead of 9 o’clock, in order that
a question period may be held
after the program.
SANDHILLS POLO CLUB
WILL PLAY MATCHES
WITH CAMDEN TEAM
Locals to Meet South Carolina
Resort Outfit in Two Games,
Including One Sunday; Return
Tilts Planned
The Sandhills Polo Club will
go to Camden this week to play
matches against ~ the Camden
team on Friday, January 26 and
Sunday,! January 28. Return
matches will be played in Pine
hurst in February.
Earl Shaw and Merrill Fink
are building up a strong team in
Pinehurst for lively competition
during the spring, when games
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Disaster Believed to Have Oc
curred in North Sea; 22nd
Naval Ship Lost Since War
Began
FEAR,NONE SAVED
LONDON, Jan. 23-^P)—Great
Britain early today announced
that her swift destroyer Exmouth
had been sunk by a torpedo or
mine, and that every one of near
ly 200 officers and men aboard
was believed to have perished.
It was Britain’s 22nd naval
ship lost since the war began,
less than five months ago; her
second destroyer sunk within four
days, and her heaviest loss of life
at sea since November. An ad
miralty announcement, if any
thing, more terse than is usual,
said: '
“It is feared there are no sur
vivors.”
The Exmouth had a normal
complement of 175 men, but such
complements usually are increas- .
ed about ten per cent in war
time. The scene of the sinking
was believed to have been the
North Sea, where another Brit
ish destroyer, Grenville, also a
flotilla leader, went down Sat
urday with the loss of 81 men.
The sinking of the Exmouth
with all hands was the greatest
loss of life* in a single naval blow
since the German pocket battle
ship Deutschland sank the British
armed merchant cruiser Rawal
pindi with 280 last November off
the east coast of Iceland. '
“DARK HORSE" WILL
PARTNER BOWKER IN
BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
P. S. P. Randolph Not Available
for Defense of Mid-Southern
Title at Carolina Classic, Start
ing Friday; 300 Expected to
Play
Jock Bowker, Pinehurst^s
champion competitive bridge'
player who, with P. S. P. Ran
dolph Jr. as his partner, twice
won the Finehurst-Mid-Southern
bridge championship, will be back
in, the 1940 renewal of this classic #
when it starts ap J'he Carolina
Hotel Friday night.
Mr. Randolph, a brilliMit play
er, will not be here to- partner
Mr. Bowker, and • his place*' will
be taken by a dark horse,-whose
name will not' be made public un
til Friday morning.
Mr. Bowker has been carrying j
'on an investigation in the hope J
of finding a player not only will- *
ing to play his system, but cap- j
able of it. He intends to take his ■
new partner to the bridge clinic I
at the home of Julius Mathews j
for signal practice. J
Mr. Bowker and Mr. Randolph
won the 1939 championship- by a \
comfortable margin, although
Mr. Bowker became greatly up- j
set during the second-' session j
when Mr. ^ Randolph decided to j
take long chances, all of which J
did not produce good results.
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