The Oldest Sandhills Publication ■ ‘ - -* r’, V *■ * i. ' \.e ' Daily Except Monday During the Winter Season VOLUME 44, NUMBER 131. Price Cents THE PINEHUKST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C. , T TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1940. . * . Big Field of Pro Stars Don Budge, Outstanding Net Artist, Heads Group of North-South Tourney Competitors Bruce Barnes of White Plains, Winner of Singles Champion ship Last Year, is Here to Defend Title; Draw Made at 10 O’clock Today. PLAY BEGINS AT 2:30 Play in the third annual North and South professional tennis tournament will start at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon on the Pinehurst Country Club courts, with a large and repre sentative field entered in the doubles and singles events. The draw will be made at ten! o’clock this morning.* The entries include Don Budge,! magic name of tennis, of Oak-j land, Calif., Ed Stillman of New York, Ed. Kenney of Newport, Pinehurst and Palm Beach, Frank Voight of Newport, James Kenney of Long Island,» Frank Rericha of Stamford, Conn., Otto Bemardin of Durham, Bruce Barnes of White Plains, Dick Skeen and Leon Thomas of Los Angeles, California, Charles Eckel of Montauk Point, N. Y., Johnny Faunce of Los Angeles, John Nogrady and Jim McDoug all of Long Island, Bernard Coughlan and Bill Weissbruck of Los Angeles, Lloyd Budge of Chicago, John Hendrix of Lake land, Fla., Kenneth Napier of Phoenix, Teddy Rericha of New York and Pinehurst, and Herbert Stead of Providence. Bruce Barnes is the singles’ defending champion. Joe Whalen and Karel Kozeluh won the 1939 doubles. EXPERT BOWLER ROLLS Lou Stouce of Bridgeport, Conn., was a visitor at the Amusement Center last night. Mr. Stouce is an expert bowler, and rolled five strings, his to tal scores being 115, 120, 118, 134 and 142. The Center man agement has made arrangements with Mr. Stouce to stage a bowl ing exhibition on his visit next season. * - 1 WHAT TO DO AND SEE Today Third annual North and South Professional tennis tournament °pens today at Pinehurst Coun try Club. Bridge luncheon at Pinehurst] Country Club today. Keno and dance at The Caro lina tonight. ' ~ AT THE THEATRES * - Pinehurst - Tomorrow at 3:00 and 8:30, All Came True;” with Ann Sheridan and Jeffry Lynn. Add e(l attraction, “Court Favorites,” Bathe Sportscope tennis feature. - Southern Pines - Today at 3:00 and 8:15, '‘Re becca.” - - Aberdeen (< Tonight at 7:30 and 9:15, “Shooting High,” with Gene Au ^y> Jane Withers, Marjorie Weaver and Jack Carson. (Continued on Page four) COTTAGE COLONY TO SUPPLY ACTORS FOR FILM OF PINEHURST Pathe Sportscope staff Here to Make Golf Sh: —Norwegian military headquar-| ters tonight announced the re capture of Narvik, Arctic ore port, with the aid of British naval units, . and said British marines and soldiers had landed at ! several Norwegian coastal por$s with new artillery! and complete equipment. These units had been joined by the Norwegians, the an nouncement said, and a great number i of Norwegian pilots, grounded because of lack of war planes, havev b^en attached to the British naval forces. (A British broadcast, heard in New York yesterday, quoted Swedish sources as saying that the Germans at Nhrvik had fallen into the hands of the Norwegian army, and some Ger-' mans fled as far as the Swedish border, where they were dis armed and interned. The Ger man radio last night broadcast a warning to navigators that all lighthouses and signal fires along the southern coast of Sweden had been extinguished, j No immediate explanation was available as to why a neutral state should darken its coast). QUISLING RESIGNS OSLO, April 15.—(ff)—The German controlled Oslo broad casting station tonight reported that Major Vidkun Quisling had resigned as prime minister of the puppet government and had been replaced by Province Gov ernor Ingolf JSlster Christensen. Quisling was made chief of mo bilization. BANS WHEAT EXPORTS BUCHAREST, April 15.—(iP) —Rumania tonight banned tern-1 porarily all exports of whe&t to j Germany and other foreign buy ers, saying that the year’s wheat crop was insufficient to meet even Rumania’s needs. WEATHER Partly cloudy, warmer on the coast Tuesday. Wednesday most ly cloudy,' probably showers in west portion. Death of Pennsylvanian Occurs in Duke University Hospital; Heart Attack Cause MILLARD H. TURNER/ HOTEL OPERATOR, DIES IN SOUTHERN PINES Formerly Connected With the Holly Inn, in 1912 Joined A. I. Creamer in Management of Highland Pines; Born at Broad Cove, Me. Millard Henry Turner, 58 years old, a prominent hotel op erator in this section for many years, died in his home on Wey mouth Heights Sunday evening at 7:30 after an illness of six months^. ' He had been in de clining health for the last sev eral years. Mr. Turner was bom at Broad Cove, Me., in 1882, the son of the late Frank and Laura Turner, and moved to this sec tion in 1903 when he. became connected with the Holly Inn iafp Pinehurst. In 1912 he join lei with the iate Andrew I. %reamer in the management of the Highland Pines W, a con nection he still held at the time of his death.. In the earlier days of his ho tel .career he was affiliated with the St. James Hotel in Wash continued on page two) STATE INHERITANCE TAX NOT TO BE LEVIED ON RESORT RESIDENTS Official of Department Writes Reassuring Reply to Letter From Richard S. Tufts, Fol lowing Spreading of Rumors. Officials of the inheritance tax division of the state reve nue department, Raleigh, have notified Richard S.’ Tufts, presi dent of Pinehurst Inc., that the state of North Carolina, has “n0 greed for inheritance t^xes,” and would make no claim if there was substantial evidence that at the time of death the residence, was in some other state. Mr. Tufts communicated with the Commissioner of Revenue when it was brought to his at tention that there were rumors abroad that North Carolina might endeavor to collect in heritance taxes from residents of mid-south resorts. The de partment answer indicates that this state wishes to encourage winter residents, and has. no in tention whatever to attempt to impose inheritance taxes on per . sons who claim other states as | permanent residence. , The letter to Mr. Tufts says: “You are probably aware of the fact that no set rule that; can be applied in every case af fecting residence, has been es tablished by the courts of the United States. I will say, how ever, that the average person claims only one place of .resi dence, and in the past it has (Continued on page twoT ! Oil City Magnate Developed His Own Companies, Which Later Were Sold to Rockefeller In terests; Winter Resident Here: 28 Years. TIN WHISTLE MEMBER Samuel Young Ramage, who would have been 87 years old j on July 3, died at 7:40 5P. Mi last night in the Duke Univer^ * sity Hospital from a heart at tack. 1 i s Mr. Ramage had been the first 1 citizen of Oil City and of north-* | western Pennsylvania for. half a: 1 century, and for more < than * ■ | years had been a winter res!*- | dent in Pinehurst, where he | lived in his cottage* The Deodars*. I Six weeks ago Mr. Ramage i [entered the Duke Hospital, and his daughter, Mrs. Charles Ham ilton Maddox, who has been resident in the family home here, had expected that,; her. father would be able to returp to Pine hurst within a short time; ? He* had rallied from the ailment' which caused him to enter tha hospital. • - . * Mr. Ramage was born in 185$ in New Brighton, Pennsylvania,, and from a* humble beginning in the business world rose to be- / come one of the great leaders in the oil industry in the United States, developing his own com panies' in the Pennsylvania fields, which he later' sold to the Standard Oil Company. Ha was one of the men who aided in the development of Standard. Oil to world power, ^ His intense activity in many* business interests did not pre vent Mr. Ramage from taking an active part in the worth while civic affairs of his city and state and his friends in Pinehurst declared that he had “devoted his life to public serr vice.” ‘ ' Mr. Ramage was an enthu siastic sportsman, and fen joyed' golf and hunting. He was also an art collector, and as recently as Washington’s birthday was responsible for having a por trait of George Washington, from his collection^ exhibited at the Carolina Hotel. It was golf that first brought Mr. Ramage to Pinehurst. He (Continued on'page two) • Blind Bogey Contest Today at Country Club :J A blind bogey competition for ladies and men will be held at ^he Pinehurst Country Club to day. Players may enter at the^ shop. A fee of fifty cents will be charged, and any one of the courses may be played. Blind bogey at the Country-; Club yesterday resulted in at four way tie between P. W~ Thomson, George T. Dunlap Jr.**, C. R. Scott and W. H. B. 'Ward, with 66 net. Second low net was B. L. Tyrrel, 89-20—69. High net was won by Geo. D. Murphy*, with;