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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY *7, 1940
fUNDS TO DEVEOP
GU0 SLASHED FROM
Navy appropriation
House Passes Measure Giving
Peace Time Record Total For
Fleet Purposes, Though Less
Than Roosevelt Asked.
ENLISTMENT boost
WASHINGTON, Feb, 16 <ff)
__The house passed a $965,772,000
navy appropriation bill today, but
{or the second time in less than
a year eliminated funds proposed
for developing the Pacific island
of Guam.
Although the bill which now
goes to the Senate, carried $113,
699,699 less than President Roose
velt recommended, it still would
give the navy about $51,000,000
more than it received for the cur
rent fiscal year—a peacetime re
cord.
It included funds to start work
on 19 new combat ships, five
auxiliary vessels and 352 addi
tional airplanes as well as money
to carry on construction of 79
warships and auxiliaries already
on the ways.
Also in the measure were funds
to bring the navy’s enlisted stren
gth to 150,000, an increase of
5,000 over the figure ordered by
the President in his limited emer
gency proclamation last fall.. Op
position to the $1,000,000, item
included for Guam to start a
13,000,000 harbor dredging and
seawall construction project pro
vided the only serious obstacle to
the house supply bill. The mon
ey was eliminated after foes con
tended the project constituted the
first step toward ultimate forti
fication of the tiny island—a step
they warned would lead possibly
to war with Japan.
I
Pioehurst Polo Club!
Earl Shaw\ and Merrill Fink
yesterday decided to rechristen
Ee polo club here and call it the
inehurst Polo Club, instead of
he Sandhills Polo Club.
This appears to be in reverse
^ the usual order, which is to
'roP name Pinehurst and sub
ititute Sandhills.
^ “Pinehurst ” said Mr. Sliaw,
aPpeals to me as being a much
n°re beautiful name than Sand
11^s' There are as many pines
n this vicinity as there is sand.
J,e ^ave Pinehurst, Southern
’nes> Pine Needles and Mid*|
mes, all appropriate and beauti
; \ names> and I see no need of
[ ^ sand when we can use
pines.”
inehurst will present a strong
. a^ainst Camden in the first
§aMe of the home season
riri°rr°w' Mr. Shaw and Mr.
■^ conTident. that the home
s wiH back a winning team.
GARNER in pRIMARY
JASHlNGToN>-Peb. 16 (^)_
|0da PreSi(^ent' Garner announced
])emo ^at wou^ enter the
leeki pr’mary *n California,
If Jng.t0 duplicate his 1932 feat
pons ^ California delega
ted PP°rt ^0r tdle democratic
f ^"Mal nomination.
WON LAST START
BERT NICOLLS
Pinehurst Country C/ub profess
ional, who with Lloyd Yost won
the third tournament in the Sand
hills amateur pro league and will
play in the final tournament at
the Pinehurst Country Club, Mon
day, February 19.
SWAMPING CARTHAGE,
PINEHURST GIRLS RING
UP 14th STRAIGHT WIN
Locals on Long End of 34 to 11
Score, While Boys Take Another
Pasting, Losing 25 to 40.
It will soon be time to start
an investigation to learn if there
is any sort of a Rose Bowl for
girls’ basketball teams to play in
if they go through a season un
defeated, as appears likely for
the Pinehurst High school five,
which ran a string of victories to
14 straight last night in the local
gym, defeating Carthage 34 to 11.
Pinehurst’s first team is Eve
lyn Martin, Sarah McKenzie and
Clarise Richardson, forwards,
Bertie and Melba Black and Allie
Lee Garrison, guards. Every
member of the squad was used in
last night’s game. *
The girls have three more
games, playing Star here Tues
day, Aberdeen away on Febru
ary 23rd and winding up the sea
son against Vass-Lakeview here
February 27'. The county champ
ionship starts at Carthage on Feb
ruary 29.
Pinehurst boys were defeated
’ by Carthage last night 40 to 25.
The Pinehurst boys sure can take
it. *
CLOUDBURST DELAYS
WESTERN OPEN START
HOUSTON, Tex., Keb. 16'
[JP)—A cloudburst, converting
the River Oaks Country Club
fairways into rivers this mor
ning, forced postponement of
the starting of the Western
Open golf tournament until
Saturday.
Only^.one threesome of the
bulky field was able to get
around 1 the layout. Their
scores were thrown out and
the field will make a fresh
start Saturday, with 18 holes
Sunday and 36 holes Monday.
DlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
* by ROBERT E. HARLOW
N State newspapers are being generous in publishing photographs
and write-ups concerning the revival of polo in Pinehurst. A num
ber of editors have devoted comment in their columns to the sport.
* * *
On the golfing front:
A few qualifying scores in the fifth Palm Beach mixed four
somes: Miss Grace Amory and Robert Sweeney 35-35—71; Patty
Berg and Milton Bright, 38-40—78; Miss Shirley Ann Johnson and
T. Suffem Tailer, 39-41—80; Mrs. J. J. Lawler and W. B. Langford,
40-41—81; Mrs. Mary Snellenberg and Dick Chapman, 40-44—84;
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Stevenson, 48-43—91; Betty Jameson and Ray
mond Guest, 39-39—78.
% * *
Last winter the United States Golf Association posted warnings
to all hotels and resorts, that making special rates to lady golfers
during the winter season would not be tolerated — it should be
noted that this winter the finest field of women golfers to play over
the citrus circuit is now in action in Florida. What’s the answer ?
* * *
In the golf cliib champions’ tournament at St. Augustine, in
which Charles Whitehead broke the competitive record when he won
the medal with 33-33—66, four players broke 70 and 31 broke 80.
Scores by players now in Pinehurst: Bobby Dunkelberger 69, Frank
Strafaci 73.
* * *
More than 2,100 season tickets have been sold for the 1940
United States open golf championship to be played at the Canter
bury Club, Cleveland. These tickets are good for seven days of
practice and the championship. The price is $6.75.
Clayton Heafner, North Carolina pro who is knocking at the
door in the big time, is called “Golf’s Tarzan” by George Trevor in
The New York Sun. Because Heafner breaks clubs over his knee,
Trevor says he is passing through “his adolescent years.”
* * .*
Bobby Jones is shooting some low scores in Atlanta in prepara
tion for the Augusta National. It was these low practice scores that'
made Bob favorite for the first three years at Augusta. After that
he held on as favorite from sentiment. Men with money bid him
in for more cash than any other. In the last two years the odds
on Bob have been going down with leaps and bounds, and in this
year’s book he will probably be about 15 to one.
* * *
The golf championship for professional baseball players started
in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday. Wes Farrell was the winner last
year after a wild final with Paul Waner.
Carol Seeking Talks
With Duce And King
BUCHAREST, Feb, 16 (A>)—
A high authority said tonight that
King Carol had expressed to the
Italian Government a desire to
make an early visit to Rome for
talks with King Vittorio Emanu
ele and Premier Musselini.
It was said that General Teo
filo Sydorovici, leader of the
Human tan Youth organization,
who was received at Rome today
by the King and II Duce, carried
Carol’s request that a visit be ar
ranged for about March 1.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Tin Whistles tournament to
day, against par, best ball of
pair.
Putting tournament for ladies
at Pinehurst Country Club this
afternoon.
Keno and dance at The Caro
lina this evening.
AT THE THEATRES
- Southern Pines - '
Today at 8?15, matinee at
3:00, “Little Old New York,”
with Alice Faye, Fred MacMur
ray and Richard Greene.
- Aberdeen Theatre -
Today at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00,
“Haunted Gold,” and chapter 5
of Dick Tracy’s G-Men.”
- Pinehurst -
| Tomorrow night and Monday
at 8:30, matinee Monday at 3:00,
- “Swiss Family Robinson.”
British Warship Fails
To Capture Altmark
BERLIN, Feb. 16. (£>)—1The
German steamer Altmark, auxil
iary warship which accompanied
the Graf Spee on its raiding
cruise in southern waters, barely
eluded capture by the British des
troyer Intrepid today, D N B,
German news agency reported.
The Altmark, which carried prisr
oners captured by the Graf Spee
in what the British charged were
conditions reminiscent of slave
tradership, radioed that the In
trepid attempted to capture her in
Norwegian waters and asserted
the incident, prevented by Nor
wegian torpedo boats, was an
“unheard of violation of Nor^
wegian neutrality.
SUES EXCHANGE
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (£>)—The
spectacular Wall Street collapse
of Richard Whitney, one time pre
sident of the New York Stock
Exchange, developed another se
quel today when the exchange was
sued In Federal court for recovery
of $127,785.50 worth of securities
which Whitney took from a cus
tomer’s brokerage account to
pledge as collateral for a personal
loan. The plaintiff is Mrs. Mary
Stevens Baird, New York and
New Jersey social registerite.
WEATHER
Rain Saturday and Saturday
night, probably mixed with sleet
in interior; not quite so cold. Sun
day, partly cloudy and slightly
colder.
ON BARBER COURSE
RICHARD WALLACH JR.
Racing ..secretary ..of ..Sandhills
Steeplechase meeting to be run
March 16th, was caught by the
photographer as he was pointing
out the jumps on the Barber
horses entered in the Croatan, two
miles over brush, and strong
fields in four other events.
REV. DR. CHEATHAM
ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF U.N.C. ALUMNI
Moore County Grads Have En
joyable Time at Annual Dinner
Meeting in Carolina; Dean
House Plays Harmonica
Dr. T. A- Cheatham of Pine
hurst was elected president of the
Moore County alumni of the Uni
versity of North Carolina at the
annual meeting held last night at
a banquet in the Carolina Hotel.
Dr. Robert A. Felton of Car
thage was elected vice president,
H. Lee Thomas of Carthage, sec
retary, and James Sinclair of
West End was re-elected treas
urer.
On the program following the
banquet were two Moore county
native sons who are now on the
University staff, Dave Weaver, of
Aberdeen who is assistant to the
Dean of Students, and Ed Camer
on of Manly who is a mathematics
instructor at the University.
, J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen,
the retiring president was master
of ceremonies for the evening,
ably assisted by Marion Saunders
of the University press bureau,
who ^conducted the program. Dean
R. B. House, whose accomplish
ments on the harmonica are now
llamous among alumni groups,
* rendered several selections to the
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AUNT DINAH TELLS
OF EXCHANGE BENEFIT
■ A handmade poster on Sam’s
faesk at The Carolina reads:
Youall be shuah to Come on
Ovuh ...
We’s Playin Keno at the
Carolina Hotel
Next Friday at 9:00 P. M.
Foh the benefit of the Sand
hills Woman’s Exchange.
An it’ll oney cost yuh $2.00.
Aunt Dinah
RUSSIANS CLAIM
CAPTURE OF MORE
FINNISH POSITIONS
Twenty-two “Defensive Fortifi
cations” Reported to be in Sov
iet Hands, Bringing total to
175.
SWEDISH STATEMENT
MOSCOW, (Saturday) (&) —
The capture of 22 more .Finnish
“defensive fortifications” by Sov
iet Russion troops in yesterday’s
heavy fighting on the Karelian
Isthmus was reported today in a
communique issued by the Lenin
grad military headquarters.
The latest report boosted the
total of such Finnish positions
claimed by the Russians to 175,
153 having been previously re
ported.
STOCKHOLM — The Swedish
foreign office said last night that
Sweden “naturally can never tol
erate a march through her by
troops of a foreign country” to
Finland. There have been no
such demands, a spokesman said,
by either Great Britain or France.
Earlier Sweden formally re
fused to send direct military help
to Finland, leaving Finland faced,
diplomatic observers Relieve, with
a choice of a despairing appeal to
the western powers for troops,
or a dangerous peace with Soviet
Russia.
FATHER DILLON IMPROVED
The Moore County Hospital re
ported the condition of Rev. W. J.
Dillon, pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church as improved, late last
night.
Florida Golf v
BOBBY IS BEATEN
ST. AUGUSTINE, Feb. 16 (ff)
—Bobby Dunkelberger, the defen
ding titlist, was eliminated from
the annual golf club * champion
tournament five and four, by Mel
Demaris of Haverhill, Mass., in
the 36 hole semi-finals today.
Demaris will meet Bobby Walker
of Jacksonville in the 36y hole fi
nals tomorrow. Walker defeated
Bill Stark, Florida amateur
champion, 3 and 2.
WIN AT PALM BEACH *
PALM BEACH,—Clara Callen
der and Hugh I. Willoughby 3rd
won the Everglades club mixed
foursome golf tournament today,
defeating Grace Amory of Palm
Beach and Robert Sweeny in an
extra bole match. Sweeny squar
ed the match by sinking a six foot
putt on the 18th. On the 19th,
however, Miss Amory overshot
the green, and was too strong on
a short putt. .
WANER OUSTED
TAMPA, FLA.—Paul Waner,
national baseball golf champion
in 1938 and finalist last year, was
unceremoniously dumped out of
the tournament at Palma Ceia to
day in a first round match. He
lost 6 and 5 to Marvin Shea with
out winning a single hole. Other
wise favorites paraded through
their first matches and prepared
for a double header tomorrow
when quarter finals and semi
final matche^ will be played. Fi
nals will be held Sunday.