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VOLUME
44, NUMBER 90
. Price 3 Cents THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 194ft
gDELS, MEINECKE
FACE mallaghan and
fARMAN IN FINAL
Rhode Island Links Star Cuts
Medal Score from 88 Monday
to 75 Yesterday; Team Trims
Sloan and Pierson in Pine
Needles Golf.
Bi e. Windels, Philadelphia,
Dr. E. A. Meinecke of
Ridgewood, N. J., moved into
the final round of the Pine
Needles handicap bestball tour
nament yesterday by defeating
p M. Clemes and Harold Har
yny, Toronto, one up.
In the other semi-final, John
Mallaghan, Providence municipal
links champion and Rhode Island
Interscholastic champion and
Jim Warman, defeated Clifford
Sloan and Harlow Pearson, 7
and 6.
The youthful Providence play
er reduced his strokes from an
88 he scored on Monday to a
75 yesterday. Among other
things he drove over the tops
of the trees at the eleventh and
finished on the fairway while
other members of the match
had to be contented to play
around the dogleg.
This sort of long driving was
too much for Mr. Sloan and Mr.
Pearson, who play most of their
competitive golf in the , Tin
Whistle Club in Pinehurst,
where surveying equipment is
seldom needed to measure tee
shots.
The match in which Mr. Win
dels, who is the German consul
in Philadelphia and Dr. Mein
ecke won was a close game
which went to the home green.
At the tenth hole, Dr. Meinecke
took something out of his. op
ponents when he chipped in for
a gross. three at a hole where
he had a stroke.
The final round will be play
ed today, starting at 1:30 P. M.
PING PONG TOURNEY
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
SET FOR MARCH 8-9
The third annual Pinehurst
Ting' Pong- championships will
be contested at Holly Inn on
the evenings of March 8 and 9,
^cording to an announcement
r,la('e by Ed Horne, manager.
The table tennis tournament
Trove(! to be one of the best
gaIlei'y events of the • season
ast year and a large crowd at
en^ed both the preliminary and
lllal rounds, played in the ball
rooni of the hotel.
^hs. William A. Merton won
e ^omen's title in a fine
^atch from Miss Helen Waring,
1° Was the first champion.
e Merton-Waring match went
20ree sets, 22-24, 24-22 and 21
• Miss Waring was within.a
0lnt of her second victory.
,Jn The men’s final Ralph
3*eler defeated Robert E
ai °w, in a match with consid
3ble comedy injected.
Th
e er>try books are now opt
uuuks are
.tlle 1940 event. Practi<
Hon!nS be in order on tl
ar \ *nn tables. Contestai)
%Cited t0 polish up the
Mr.
vid0 and ^rs- Horne will pi
ae Prizes.
ON THE PEACE FRONT
The draw in the bestball
fourball tournament at the
Pine Needles Club brought P.
M. Clemes and Harold Har
vey, of Toronto, Canada into
golfing competition yesterday
with E. E. Windels, German
consul in Philadelphia and
Dr. E. A. Meinecke. The Ger
man diplomat and his part
ner won in a match which
went to the home green.
200 YOUNG DEMOCRATS
GATHER AT THE DUNES
FOR DINNER MEETING
Representatives From Twelve
Counties Take Part in Session
which Hears Address by For
est Pollard.
Approximately 200 young
Democrats of the eighth district
of North Carolina gathered at
the Dunes Club last night for
their first quarterly rally of the
year. The 12 counties of this
district responded to the call
for identification, including An
son County, Union, Montgom
ery, Hoke, Richmond, Yadkin,
Scotland, Davidson, Lee, Davie,
and last'but not least, our own
Moore County.
Moore County was represented
by a large contingent of young
Democrats “too numerous to
mention,” as W. A. Leland Mc
Keithen, president of the Moore
County contingent, said.
Forrest Pollard, president of
the N. C. young Democrats gave
a short talk on the administra
tive progress of the organiza
tion. Jim Amburn, chairman of
the eighth district was substi
tuted at the meeting by Miss
Betty Harwood of Sanford,
vice-president.
After a delightful dinner,
which was supervised person
ally by Jim Warman of The
Dunes, the large, group enjoyed
the entertainment furnished by
the special floor show of the
club, and the merry tunes of
Jerry Mack and his orchestra.
BANKER TO SPEAK
Gurney P. Hood, Commission
er of Banks for the state of
North Carolina will be the
speaker today at the Kiwanis
Club meeting to be held at the
Southern Pines Country Club,
at 12:30 o’clock. Mr. Hoo(l is
president of the National Asso
ciation of Bank Supervisors.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Weekly bridge party at the
Carolina Hotel this morning be
ginning at 10:15.
Pine Needles Best Ball cham
pionship continues today.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Today at 3:00 and 8:30,
“My Little Chickadee/’ with
Mae West and W. C. Fields.
- Southern Pines -
Today and tomorrow at 8:15
P. M., matinee tomorrow at 3:00,
“His Girl Friday,” with Cary
Grant and Rosalind Russel.
- Aberdeen -
Tonight at 7:15 and 9:00,
“Granny Get Your Gun,” with
May Robeson.
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Finns Quit Arctic Posts
Before Soviet Thrusts
(By the Associated Press)
The Finnish high command today announced Russian attacks
from the Arctic to the Gulf of Finland and acknowledged that
Finnish forces had withdrawn to new defensive positions after an
all-day Russian assault in the Arctic region of Petsamo.
Finns said they withdrew to new positions at Nautzi, bn the
Norwegian border 65 miles south of Petsamo, and 8 miles south
of their former position at Jordenfoss.
The Russian high command reported that Red army forces
continued to crash through the Finnish fortified zone of the Kare
lian Isthmus, and had captured 13 additional fortifications, with
6 Finnish planes shot down during Tuesday.
In the south the Russians were reported to be driving across |
the bay of Viipuri, attacking islands in the southwestern part of
the bay, naval key to Viipuri, after having occupied the strategic
fortifications on the islands of Koivisto.
COMMITTEE REJECTS
GRANT FOR LOCKS
AT PANAMA CANAL
House Group Turns Down Presi
dent's Request for Immediate
Appropriation; Recommends
Fund for Plans.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—(ff)
—The house appropriations com
mittee, whacking away with its
economy axe, turned thumbs
down today on President Roose
velt’s request for immediate ap
propriation of $15,000,000 , to
start a third set of Panama
Canal locks.
Instead, the committee recom
mended an $850,000 fund for
preparing plans for the locks,
asserting that “in the absence
of such plans and specifications
the ultimate cost must largely
be conjectural.”
The committee also followed
up the house’s recent action in
refusing to appropriate $1,000,
000 for a harbor project at
Guam in the mid-Pacific by re
jecting a $700,000 request for
dredging the channel at Wake
Island, on the route from Ha
waii to Guam.
Both the Panama Canal and
Wake items "were part of a
$203,472,667 appropriation bill
for the war department’s civil
functions. The committee re
ported the measure to the
House for action tomorrow.
Although the President had
reduced the estimates for these
functions which include river
and harbor work and flood con
trol, to $220,082,250 from the
$305,125,384 appropriated for
the same purpose this year, the
committee went still farther.
It cut the total of the bill
$16,609,683, chiefly in the Pan
ama and Wake items, below the
Presidential requests.
URGES CANAL DEFENSES
ABOARD U. S. S. LANG AT
SEA, Feb. 27.—(^—President
Roosevelt said doubling present
number of guns, etc., in Panama
Canal was necessary for de
fense of vital links of the canal,
such a long range program ex
tending if necessary throughout
Central America, Ecuador, Co
lumbia and Venezuela, he told
reporters at a press conference
aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa
after he had completed inspec
tion of canal defenses and start
ed home to United States. ,
FORUM PRESENTATION
WILL BE PRECEDED
BY SPECIAL SUPPER
Mrs. Auslander, Who with Her
Husband Will Head Poets’
Symposium, Won Pulitzer
Prize for Book of Verse.
The date for the appearance
of Joseph Auslander and his
wife, the former Audrey Wurde
mann, at the Forum is next
Monday evening, March 4th, at
8:45 oclock. There will be also
a special buffet supper served
in the grill at the Country Club
that evening from 7:30 to 8:30
for those wishing a complete
gala evening.
Miss Dorothy Pierce wishes to
call attention to the fact that
because of week-end interrup
tions, all reservations for the
buffet should be in by Sunday
noon. The price for supper will
be $1.25, as usual.
To those new residents and
to the hotel visitors, the Forum
wishes them to know that they
are most welcome to this week
ly Pinehurst event. No admis
sion is charged, but a basket
for voluntary contributions is at
the door.
Just to give a hint, by way
of pre-view, of the beauty of
Audrey Wurdemann’s poetry,
the' following is a popular ex
cerpt:
“I held an instant in my hands
The thing that no one under
stands, '
The thing most perfect, most
complete,
Most finely fashioned and most
fleet.
And of myself I let it go,
Being afraid to hold it so,
Being afraid that overmuch
It would be tarnished at my
touch.”
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BOBBY, CIUCI WIN
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Feb.
27.—(JP) — Bobby Dunkelberger
and Richard Ciuci, defeated
Robert Lowry, Pinehurst Tin
Whistler and W. J. Harper, in
a quarter final round of the
fourball tournament at v Miami
Biltmore today. Frank Strafaci
and Jerry Causa, advanced by
beating Charlie Whitehead and
Frank Allan.
PATTY IS MEDALIST
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Feb.
27.—(A*)—Patty Berg won the
medal in the South Atlantic
golf tournament here today with
a round of 74.
CAMDEN HERE SUNDAY
CAMDEN, Feb. 27.—The
Camden Polo Club will jour
ney to Pinehurst Sunday,
March 3rd, to play Pinehurst
the return match which was
postponed from Sunday, Feb
ruary 21. Camden won the
contest, played there, 7 to
6. Since that game Pinehurst
has defeated Fort Bragg
twice. Earl Shaw and Mer
rill Fink of ‘ Pinehurst con
ferred with Camden polo
men today and departed for
Aiken. '
SEVEN GABIES TO BE
HEADQUARTERS FOR
VISITING PRESSMEN
Spacious Hou,se on Magnolia
Road Leased by Pinehurst
Inc., for Purpose from Mrs.
Eberhard Faber; Many Writers
Expected.
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The Pinehurst Press Club
headquarters for the spring sea
son will be established in Seven
Gables, the spacious ‘house on
Magnolia road, which has been
leased by Pinehurst Inc., from
Mrs. Eberhard Faber, for the
remainder of the season, and
| placed under the jurisdiction of
The Pinehurst Press Bureau.
It will be in this house, known
as Seven Gables, that the mas
terpieces of the visiting news
paper correspondents will be
typed out and rushed to the
telegraph wires during the
North and South golf champion
ships, the Sandhills Steeple
chase meeting and such other
incidents as the “foreign” cor
respondents deem of sufficient
interest to send to their news
papers.
For the past two seasons the
Blackjack cottage was desig
nated as the Press Club, and
I many nationally known sports
writers have enjoyed Pinehurst
visits while residing in the spa
cious domicile now occupied for
the season by Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert C. Aborn. ,
A Press Club is a lively spot
during the North and South
championships. As many as a
dozen visiting newspaper men
have been here covering events,
and this spring will be> no ex
ception. Many writers have al
ready written in for reserva
tions.
Police Chief Dees Warns
Against Shoplifters
Sandhills merchants are warn
ed by Chief of Police A. F.
Dees, Pinehurst, to be (0n the
watch for shop lifters.
Chief Dees has had reports
that shop lifters have been op
erating in the neighborhood, and
have made their appearance in
at least two Pinehurst shops
within the past few days.
Pinehurst and the Sandhills
communities have had so little
in the way of shoplifting and
currency arguments that the
merchants take it for granted
that everybody is honest.
Considerable merchandise was
taken • from stores in Fayette
ville and Raleigh recently, and
Chief Dees thinks it a good idea
for business people to be alert,
and not only watch their stores,
but to call the amount of bills
handed them for purchases.
BRITAIN DISCLOSES
2 HUGE BATTLESHIPS
DAMAGED IN WARFARE
Dreadnought Barham Hit (6y
Torpedo Last September;
Flagship Nelson Damaged by
Mine in December.
LONDON, Feb. '27.—<#)—1Two
of Britain’s largest battleships,
the 31,000-ton Barham and the
flagship Nelson, 33,950 tons, are
under repair in naval yards
after being damaged by enemy
action, Winston Churchill dis
closed in the House of Commons
today. '
The first lord of the admir
alty announced also that five
new battleships would join the
fleet sooft and predicted an in
tensification of German efforts
to break the British sea stran
glehold.
Churchill said the Barham, hit:
by a torpedo in September, and:
the Nelson, damaged by a mag
netic mine in December, soon
would be ready to rejoin the
fleet.
The secret of their crippling
had been well kept, he said, and
was learned by the Germans
only after it had no import
ance.
In a detailed statement to
Commons the first lord an
nounced that the British navy
had not had the use of Scapa
Flow, the great naval base north
of Scotland, since the battle- ..
ship Royal Oak was sunk there
by a German submarine Oct.
13 with a loss of 810 lives.
JOHNSON SIGNS MAIN
BOUT HEAVIES WHO
PROMISE TO FIGHT
Ray Johnson, match maker
for the Amusement Center box
ing club has obtained a guaran
tee from the two colored
heavyweights he has signed up
for the wind-up in Saturday
night’s show,. that they will lay
a glove, one upon the other.
Mr. Johnson was sadly disap
pointed when one of the wind
up boys last Saturday, engaged!
in a marathon aroiind the ring,,
got himself out of wind and;
quit. -
The “Ham,” otherwise knownr
as Ham Braboy, winner of last
Saturday’s wind-up by ( default,,
will be matched this week
against Marvin Jones from the
State Sanitarium. Braboy was
willing to go last Saturday but
had no company. His opponent
preferred to waltz.
A battle royal with five col
ored boxers engaged will be a
new feature of the show. This
is one of those events in which ,
a boy thinks he is going great'
guns, when the fifth stooge
sneaks up from behind and
smacks him when he is trying
to look in three other directions.
It is extremely comical, and all
in good fun. The man who sur
vives gets paid off. The others
get car fare. v
There will be three prelimi
nary bouts, the battle royal and *
the ten round wind-up.
WEATHER
Cloudy, slightly colder in cen
tral portions Wednesday. Oc
casional light rain 'Wednesday
morning, Thursday generally
fair, slightly warmer in west
portion.