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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N.‘C.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1940. -
Link Peace Move With
Kibbentrop-Duce Visit
Conference at Rome Expected to be De
voted to Swedish Efforts at Russ
Fiiin Mediation
gome Opinions Are That Mus
solini Might be Asked to
Appeal to Welles for United
States Aid in Settling Con
flict.
NO PLEA TO WASHINGTON
(By the Associated Press)
German Foreign Minister Von
Ribbentrop will leave today to
confer with Premier Mussolini
in Rome in a meeting which in
formed sources expected to be
devoted to Swedish efforts for
mediation in the Finnish-Rus
sian conflict, and to Undef-Sec
retary of State Sumner Welles’
fact finding visit to Berlin. '... ,
Some sources believe that Von
Ribbentrop will seek to enlist
Mussolini’s aid in forestalling
allied help to Finland while
Adolph Hitler tries to arrange
a Finnish - Soviet settlement.
Other opinions said II DucC
might. be asked to appeal to
Under - Secretary Welles for
United States aid in mediating
the Rnsso-Finnish war.
The foreign office disclosed
the foreign minister’s plans
shortly after the arrival yester
day in Berlin of. Per Evind
Svinhufvud, 79-year-old former
President of Finland* who en
listed German aid for Finland
during the World war.
Soon after his arrival by air
plane from Copenhagen with
two Swedes, the former Finnish
President was reported to have
gone to the foreign office and
the possibility was raised that
he might see Adolf Hitler,
German officials said he did
not see Von Ribbentrop but
they acknowledged that Aarne
Wuorimaa, Finnish minister to
Berlin, was at the foreign of
fice in the afternoon.
WASHINGTON, March, 8.—
^—President Roosevelt said to
day the United States govern
ment had received no request
fi>r mediation in the Russo
Binnish war.
WHATTO DO AND SEE
Today
Putting- tournament for ladies
at Pinehurst, Country Club this
afternoon. ' '■ :
Keno and dance at The Caro
lna tonight.
P°lo at No. 2 field tomorrow
a teinoon. Public invited.
AT THE THEATRES
• Pinehurst -
Tomorrow and Monday night
! 8'30> matinee Monday at 3:00,
uebird,- }n technicolor, with
8hll% Temple.
Southern Pines -
ai: matinee at
Q in the Night,” with
*!r° e Lombard and • Brian
‘^herne.
■ Aberdeen -
at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00,
with prshal o£ Mesa City,”
einf Heoree O’Brien and Vir
S‘ma Vale.
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BERG-HICKS PINAL
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.,
March 8.—<#)—Patty Berg of
Minneapolis and Elizabeth
Hicks of Long Beach, Calif.,
will Meet tomorrow in the
finals of the Florida East
Coast Women’s tournament.
Miss Berg continued her
comeback trail today by elim
inating Miss Clark Callender
of Long Beach, Calif., 2 up
in the semi-finals. Miss Hicks
defeated Mrs. Fred A. Nolan
of New Castle, Pa., 4 and 2.
HNEHURST GIRLS WIN
WAY TO FINAL ROUND
OF EASTERN SERIES
Fuquay Springs Leading 13 to
9 at End of First Half, But
Wilt in Second Half to Lose
11 id 21.
The Pinehurst High School
girls* basketball team moved
into the finals of the Eastern
Carolina championship by de-r
feating Fuquay Springs in a
fast and close contest at Wake
Forest, scene of the champion
ship, last night. The score was
21-17.
Fuquay Springs was leading
13 to 9 at the end of the first
half, but Pinehurst tightened up
in the second half to permit
their rivals only four points
while the home girls ran up 12,
for the win.
. Yesterday’s win ran the string
of consecutive victories for the
Pinehurst girls to 22. They are
undefeated and untied for the
season. After winning 16 games ■
played on the regular schedule,
they won three games in cap
turing the Moore County title
and have won three games in
the Eastern North Carolina
championship. Many Pinehurst
people plan to go to Wake For
est for the final contest this
evening.
Clarise Richardson was high
for Pinehurst, scoring 12 points,
with four field goals and two
foiil line shots. Sara MacKen
(, Continued on Page Six)
Boxwood Court Sale at
Auction This Afternoon
An opportunity to watch the
nationally knowfn r£$l, estate
firm of Joseph P. Day Inc. in
action will be presented this af
ternoon when Boxwood-- Court,
the estate of Eldridge Johnson
will be sold at auction.
Stephen McDonald, sales man
ager for the Day firm has been
in Pinehurst for a number of
days as a guest at The Caro
lina Hotel. He stated last
night that he expected Mr. Day
would arrive in Pinehurst this
morning to take charge of the
The sale has created a great
, deal of interest in tfie village.
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THRILLING STEEPLECHASE MOMENT
Patrons at the Sandhills Steeplechase meeting here next
Saturday will be treated to plenty of exciting action such as this
picture of ft race finish shows.
55 NEUTRAL NATIONS
APPROACHED BY U. S.
ON AHTY'PROCRAM
WASHINGTON, March 8.—
(JP)—Secretary Hull said today
55 neutral nations had been ap
proached by the American gov
ernment with a view to work
ing toward a better world eco
nomic order in the days after
the European war.
Most of them have sent in
replies, he added, and most of
the replies favor the co-opera
tive effort.
Hull’s conversations with the
neutrals are designed to reach
a common ground, prior to the
end of the war, on which a bet
ter economic order and disar
mament can be built interna
tionally after the war.
The secretary of state said
he knew nothing of any sound
ings fr.om European nations to
the United States to obtain this
government’s mediation of the
Russo-Finnish war.
In reply to a question, Hull
said he had no information that
Sumner Welles, undersecretary
of state, would see Pope Pius
XII in Rome next week before
sailing for the United States.
PUNS PREPARED BY
ARCHITECTS FOR
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
H. Raymond Weeks of At
wood & Weeks, Durham and
Chapel Hill architects, have
prepared preliminary plans for
the North Carolina Preparatory
School to be built on Midland
road. „
Mr. Weeks visited the. prop
erty early this week with
Thomas Burton, the recently
appointed headmaster.
The Atwood & Weeks firm
has gained a national reputa
tion for architectural design
for schools and colleges, and
drew plans for the new build
ings at the University of North
Carolina. ^
Mr. Burton has taken over
the campaign to raise funds for
the school, and the project is
moving foreward.
HOLLY INN PING PONG
SERIES UNDERWAY
WITH MANY ENTERED
Sixteen men and a dozen lady
ping pong players responded to
the third annual Holly Inn
tournament call last evening in
the ballroom of the popular
Pinehurst hotel.
G. Edward Home, manager of
the Holly played three distinct
roles in the contest; he made
the opening speech, delineating
the rules of the game to the
players, then moved into the
referee’s chair for the rest of
the evening, except for a half
hour period, when he played a
match with Haines Stockton.
Moving into the semi-finals
in the men’s division were,
Ralph Wheeler, 1939 champion;
Haines Stockton, University of
North Carolina star, Peter Cour
son and Lou Koch. The Misses
Helen Waring, Anne Hotchkiss,
Olive Nace and Eleanor San
ford moved into the semi-finals
in the ladies bracket.
A comic feature of the eve
ning was the first round match
between C. H. Kimball, a guest
at the Holly Inn and Bob Har
low, editor of the Pinehurst Out
look. Mr. Harlow, arriving at
the Holly Inn a half-hour be
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POLO TOMORROW!
Pinehurst polo team will
have another go at it tomor
row afternoon on the revamp
ed home field, located near
the race track. It will, be
Pinehurst vs. Durham, and
plenty of action again is
promised.
AND — Earl Shaw, Pine
hurst No. 1 player, is NOT
staying out of the game,
even though he did get a
three-day stay in Moore
County Hospital after that
bad spill last Sunday. Shaw%
will be in there tomorrow
shiner, bandaged arm and all
—pjnch-hitting at the ampli
fier.
The public is invited. The
game starts at ? :O0 o’clock.
Maizie Burleson Kills
Former Husband’s Wife
Ex-Mate of U. S. Ai*my Colonel Came to
Pinehurst Last Saturday, Left
on Wednesday
GIRDLE NIPS MINES
LONDON, March S.—</P)—
After three months Of inten
sive work, British scientists
believe they have developed
the answer to Germany’s
magnetic mines—an electric
girdle for ships designed to
destroy the effectiveness of
the under-water terrors.
The liner Queen Elizabeth
arrived in New York yester
day wearing one of the belts,
but the details of how the
invention works were closely
guarded.
TWO TEAMS TIED IN
BESTBALL TOURNEY
OF TIN WHISTLES
Keating * Lesh - Powdrell - Smith
Combination Locked With
Bowker - Cheatham - Fobes
Hale in Four Partner Hit
With 60.
There was a tie yesterday in
the Tin Whistle bestball ef all
four partners, with two four
somes returning net scores of
60—which is a new low for the
season.
It should be stated in the
lead of this story that although
George T. Dunlap Jr. was not
a member of a winning combi
nation he returned an individual
gross card on « number one
course of 33-31-64. This tied
the record for the new course.
Purvis Ferree made a 31-33-64,
on October 20.
The Tin Whistle fours which
tied yesterday were E. C. Keat
ing, H. F. Lesh, F. A. Pow
drell, R. W. Smith and J. R.
Bowker, Rev. T. A. Cheatham,
S. D. Fobes, F. F. Hale.
(Continued on page 2)
VISITING ROTARIANS
OUTNUMBER LOCALS AT
LUNCHEON MEETING
To a casual observer it was
a question as to whether the
Southern Pines Rotary Club or
Rotary International was hold
ing court at the Rotary lunch
eon meeting in the Southern
Pines Country .Club yesterday
noon.i |
Despite the fact that they
were hopelessly outnumbered,
the local Rotarians, with Past
President June Phillips acting
in place of absentee President
Jim Simons, staged a cordial
welcome and reception for their
visiting brethren.
The visitors, numbering
twenty-four, entertained mem
bers of the local club with an
all-Rotary visitors putting con
test on the Country Club 18
hole putting course after the
luncheon with professional Roy
Grinnell in charge.
Walks Into Cafeteria at Colum
bia, S. C., and Shoots Victim
Through the Back, Death En
suing Shortly After.
MEANT TO RETURN HERB
Mrs. Maizie Walked Burleson,
who departed from Pinehurst on
Wednesday, walked into a cafe
teria in Columbia, S. C., at 2:25
p. m., yesterday afternoon and
with a pistol shot fatally wound
ed Mrs. Richard C. Burleson,
wife of a colonel in the tJ. S.
army, stationed at Camp Jack
soti. Mrs. Maizie Waike^ Burle
son Was the first Wife *of the
army officer.
The first Mrs. Burleson found
the secohd Mrs. Burleson sitting
at a table in the cafeteria. She
approached from behind and
shot her victim through the
back. The Wounded woman died
while being taken to hospital.
Col. BurleSon was in his hotel
room when his second wife was
murdered. He had nothing to
say,
Maizie Burleson came to Pine
hurst from her home in Galves
ton, Texas, arriving, last Sat
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SKEET SHOOT LISTED
FOR TOMORROW AT
PINEHURST GUN CLUB ,
Glen Davis, manager of the
Pinehurst Gun Club has ar
ranged for an unusual get
together of skeet-shooters in
Pinehurst tomorrow. Altogether
there will be a group of about
30 at the Gun Club to try their
hand at shattering the clay
pigeons in mid-air. These will
come from Bennettsville, S. C.,
McCall, S. C., Southern Pines,
Pinehurst and Aberdeen for the
fray.
This meet is the first of its
kind this season. Its purpose
is to work up interest in a
skeet tournament which Mr. Da
vis is organizing for the latter
part of this month, when he
plans to get over 100 skeet
shooters together in a regional
amateur skeet tournament for
trophies.
As a feature of tomorrow's
program, Ken Beagle, a repre
sentative of the Remington
Arms Co., will be at the Pine
hurst Gun Club all day. Bea
gle, a pro, will advise and coach
the group on" hand.
BISHOP DUMOULIN AT
CHAPEL ON SUNDAY
The Rt. Rev. Frank DuAJoulin,
D. D., of New York will be the
preacher at the Village Chapel
on Sunday.
The bishop is a regular, visi
tor to the Pinelands, and he is
always welcomed to the Chapel.
WEATHER
Mostly cloudy, occasional light
rain along the coast in morn
ing,- slowly rising temperatures
in extreme west portion Satur
day. Sunday fair and warmer.