\ :: v. W.i The Oldest Sandhills Publication Daily Except Monday During the Winter Season VOLUME 44, NUMBER 67 Price 3 Cents THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 )|ay Take Bermuda Off Ocean Clipper Route American Officials Are Considering Substi tution of Puerto Rico as Stopping Place British Censorship of Mails is Cause of Contemplated Change, Which Would Add Hundreds of Wiles of Flying CONTRABAND hunted WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—(£>) —American officials aie seiious ly considering the substitution of Puerto Rico for Bermuda as a stopping place for trans-atlantic clippers if British censorship of American air mails at Bermuda continues. The substitution would add hundreds of miles of flying dis tance. The British seek to prevent sending of contraband to Ger many by airmail, and the post office department already has is sued an order refusing to accept parcel post for trans-atlantic service. The British took air mail from a dipper two weeks ago. Amer pn authorities protested, and reserved rights to future dam ages. TOOK QUINTET NQUERS ATHLETIC FIVE, 25 TO 22 ■obertson Garners 17 Points to Star for Winners; Katchowski, Rangy Forward, Also Shines SOUTHERN PINES, Jan. 31 -The snappy Pinehurst Outlook Quintet outshot the Southern Unes A. C. five again tonight at the losers’ gym, 25-22." it was the second meeting of these scrappy teams this month, and as before the game featured the sharpshooting of agile Fred Robertson, who garnered 17 P°ints for the Outlook five, and tlle ball handling of “Red” Ka ttbowski, the rangy forward. (Continued on page three) ■' ^TtODOAND SEE Today uffet supper at Pinehi l0^ntry Club tonight to be J >’ Presentation of Pi st Forum event, “Washi - Inside and Out,” an addi ■ rs. Georgette Ross How; ^ Carolina tonij the I cby 8h% I”1 3:00 a Honorable,” '^rjd0r * uea on page ASSUMES SHIPBUILDING LONDON, Jan. 31— <£>) — Prime Minister.. Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons today that the ad miralty will become responsi ble for all Britain’s merchant shipbuilding and repairs effec tive tomorrow. In announcing an arrange ment similar to the one adopt ed in the later stages of the World war, Chamberlain said Sir James Lithgow would be controller of merchant ship building and Sir Amos Ayres director of merchant shipping. TIN WHISTLES LIST PAR-BOGEY TOURNEY FOR NEXT SATURDAY Event Scheduled for Last Week Canceled, A Rare Happening; Players Should Re-Enter for Coming Competition The Tin Whistles will resume their usual occupation of play ing golf on Saturday if the melt ing business proceeds with alac rity. The tournament scheduled for last Saturday has been written off the books, the first time in at least ten years that it has been thought wise to eliminate com pletely a Tin Whistle event. The regular February 3rd event, a par-bogey for bestball of pair, will be played if condi tions permit. This is that in teresting form of competition in which points are given for every thing from a bogey to an ele phant. Eric Nelson, tournament man ager of the club, announced yes terday that players should re enter for the February third event. FLORIDA BRACES FOR ANOTHER VISITATION OF FROSTY WEATHER By Associated Press Most sections of the south look ed forward last night to warmer weather, while Floridians braceu themselves for another coating of frost expected to penetrate deep into the southern commun ities of their, state. Even as Florida's fruit and vegetable growers were warned of temperatures below 30 reach ing far into the south, the weath er* bureau at Washington in the first authoritative estimate by the recent cold wave reported the loss to Florida’s truck crops alone would reach $25,000,000. . A seven day embargo on mar keting oranges, grapefruit and tangerines was ordered by the Florida Citrus Commission to go into effect Thursday. CHECKER TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD Plans are being made for the annual Pinehurst Checker tournament which will be held soon. All checker players are invited to partici pate. Entries are being received at Dupont’s News store in the center of the village. The scene above shows “action” during the 1939 matches, held at the Community House. PINEHURST SCOREBOARD 1 by ROBERT E. HARLOW THE MIAMI COPS “WALKED” BANKS En route, Rockingham to Aberdeen, January 31: Who should be standing on the roadside two miles east of Rockingham with a black bag in his hand and an overcoat tied up around his neck, hitch-hiking his way north, but Jack Banks, one of the few Hebrew boys who ever did much in organized baseball. Jack left Miami Sunday morning at 11 a. m. He was one of a dozen young men who were guilty of the crime of being caught “broke” by the Metropolitan golf playing Miami police force. Jack, who brought many a Southern league grandstand to its feet when he batted out home runs for Knoxville, said the coppers gave him just time enough to grab his tooth brush and his extra shirt before ord ering him out of the city. DUMPED BACK INTO AMERICA Two cruisers carried the load of young destitute American citi zens to the Dade county line, where they were dumped back into the United States, with instructions that if they returned to beautiful Miami, they would face 60 days in the local stir, and northern gentry who have been checked into the Miami stir say the accommodations are “lousy.” ' On the ride from Rockingham to Aberdeen, Jack spoke a piece about Miami and the treatment of winter guests there. He said the Miami Metropolitan police were as adept at evacuating Dade county as the German Gestapo. ( “I arrived in Miami,” said Jack, “in style, via bus, and had a grub stake with me. I tried to find a job, but had no luck, and finally got myself broke. I was sitting on a bench In the park, damn near freezing to death, when a copper comes along and asks me what I was doing. I know that when a northern guy gets the least bit fresh with a southern copper he gets the worst of-it, so I told this one as polite as possible that I was resting, in between looking for a job. He picks me up as a vagrant, and I get the bum’s rush out of town. (Continued on page three) : Merrill Fink to Play In New York Polo Game Merrill Fink, star of the Sand hill Polo Club team is leaving for New York by plane today. He will play in the indoor match between the Pegasus - Four and The Rovers, to substitute for his brother, Jack Fink, who is ill. The game will be held at Squadron A Armory in New York Friday night. The Pine hurst player will return Satur day, in plenty of time for the game which is scheduled to be held in-Camden Sunday. HEMMER ENDS VISIT John Hemmer, Pinehurst ace photographer, left, for New, York last night after* spending sev 1 eral days here. He is planning i to return to Pinehurst in the i New York Daily News plane Sunday. i Mrs. Howard Speaks At Forum Tonight Forum patrons are looking for ward to an ^evening of intellectual enjoyment tonight when Mrs. Georgette Ross Howard, world traveled writer and lecturer, will talk on “Washington, Inside and Out.” Mrs. Howard will deal with topics the public wants to know all about in the present upset state of the world. She is a bril liant speaker, and is exceedingly competent to treat of happenings in the national capitals, for she has made a study of current ev ents and their bearing on the fu ture. f WEATHER Partly > cloudy and warmer i Thursday. Friday mostly clou ' dy, with rain or snow and colder in north and west portions. \ Jameson, .Berg, Miley, Johnson Semi-finalists Patty Meets Marion and Betty Faces Win netka Girl in Miami-Biltmore * -Golf Today + HARMONY MISSING NEW YORK, Jan. 31-^P) —Tha Andrews trio has been cut down to a solo—at least for the time being—because of lack of harmony in their home. A representative of the ra dio sieging sisters, Maxene, Patty and La Verne, said to day that their father objected to romances between Maxene and Lou Levy, the trio's man ager, and between Patty and Vic Schoen, their arranger. Maxene and Patty, being over 21, decided to leave home. La Verne decided to stay. AMATEUR-PRO GOLF LEAGUE SCHEDULES EVENT FOR MONDAY Second Tournament, Postponed on Account of Weather, Will Take Place at Mid Pines Course; Full Field Expected to Play The Sandhills amateur-profes sional golf league, vihich has been waiting for a favorable oppor: tunity to resume competition, is hoping to stage the second tour nament in the series at the Mid JPines club on Monday, February 5. George Dunlap Jr. and Ted Turner of Pine Needles are lead ing the league with a fine net score of 65, set up by this com bination in the first tournament, played at Pine Needles last fall. Ten professionals attached to Sandhills golf clubs, and 30 am ateurs are expected to take part when play is resumed at Mid Pines. SANDHILL POLO TEAM WILL PLAY SUNDAY ON CAMDEN FIELD The Camden polo squad has in vited the Sandhill Polo Club team to a match for this coming Sun day. In view of the prevailing weather here and weather-man promises at the South Carolina resort for good weather this Sun day, the Sandhill team will jour ney there for,the game. The three - game series of matches, scheduled to open here Sunday, will open the following Sunday, Feb. 11 against the Blind Brook contingent. The other two matches in the. series are scheduled for Monday, Feb. 12 and Thursday, J’eb. 15. The Sandhill squad also con siders their shift to the Camden field Sunday a wise move since it will make a return game be tween Camden and Sandhill more of a “sure thing” on the home field. , / Grace Amory, Medalist in Tour- I nament, Eliminated by Illinois Contender, 4, and 2 in Surprise Victory - if! —i- ■ * | KIRBY LOSES, ONE DOWN I -— . I CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. | 31—(A*)—Three of the Nation’s | top ranking women golfers and a comely outsider1, Shirley Ann | Johnson of Winnetka, 111., sur vived two rounds of play today | to reach the semi finals of. the an- k nual Miami - Biltmore women’s "championship. . | Patty Berg, seeking her fifth | straight victory in. the local clas sic, Betty Jameson of San An- I tonio, national champion, and § Marion Miley of Lexington, Ky., | Curtis cup star and former | southern champion, joined the \:-f Illinois Miss in the round of four. , | Tomorrow’s 18 hole matches J will pit Berg against Miley and | Jameson against Johnson, with ■ | the odds favoring a final between j Jameson and Berg. Shirley Ann supplied the sur prise of the tournament with sue- J cessive victories over Neoma Cu pie of Toledo, 4 and 2, and Grace Amory of Palm Beach, tourna- j! ment medalist, 2 and 1. Shirley Ann’s scoring was not on the spectacular side, but it sufficed. J Patty, "playing in competition | for the first time since her oper- ; ation, beat iittle Louise Suggs of Atlanta, 4 and 3, with a magni- * j ficent burst of golf in the morn ing round. Then she recovered , from a shaky start in the after noon to oust Clara Callender 2 jj And 1. ] Miss Jameson shot only fair j golf in beating Mrs. Leon Solo mon 4 and 3, and had the bat tle of her life before she finally put the convincer on Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta 1 up. - Miss Miley beat Jane Cothran of Greenville, S. C. 2 and 1, and Mrs. William Hockenjos 3 and 2 to gain her place in the semi-fin als. ’ Grand Central Blast . - Fails To Happen < NEW YORK, Jan. 31— m — The police bomb and alien, squads hurried to the Grand Central ter minal today when the woman sec retary of an art school situated in the big railroad building re ported receipt of an anonymous telephone call from an unidenti fied man who said dynamite was stored' in the station and would be exploded. Last Sept. 30 a similar warn ing was telephoned anonymously >: to police, who sent* out hundreds of guards, but nothing happened. PINEHURST GIRLS TRIM ABERDEEN; BOYS LOSE On Tuesday night in the Pine- ; hurst high school gym the girls' . basketball team continued its un broken string of victories by de- O feating the Aberdeen girls 31 to ." ; 5. This made eight straight for : g the girls. Meantime the Pine- * ; hurst boys were defeated 34 to : 13 by the Aberdeen boys. r