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VOLUME 44, NUMBER 135.
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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940.
Berlin Says Bombs Hit
Two British Transports
Cruiser Also Declared to Have Been Se
verely Damaged After Nazi
Air Attack
Detonations Heard in Goteberg
Indicate New Naval Action
Taking Place in Skagerrak
Buildings on Swedish Coast
Rocked. ' £
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NIP BELGRADE PLOT
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(By the Associated Press)
BERLIN — (Saturday) —The
German news agency DNB, am
plifying a previous report early
today reported that- German air
bombs had scored direct hits on
two British transports and one
cruiser off the Norwegian coast
Friday.
Panic broke out on the trans
ports, the news agency said, and
many British soldiers jumped
overboard and tried to swim
ashore.
“Great smoke clouds arising
from the cruiser, together with
large oil spots on the water
and the stopping of the vessel
indicated the cruiser was dam
aged severely.” Anti aircraft
fire from protecting ships pre
vented an exact determination
on where the stricken ships
were sunk, it was added.
GOTEBORG, Sweden—(Satur
day)—Indications of new naval
action in the Sfcagerrak came
from off shore yesterday when
six heavy detonations possibly
caused by torpedoes were heard!
here.
Buildings on the Swedish west
coast rocked as if in an earth
quake.
The first of the explosions was
heard at 5 a. m., and they con
tinued until 10 a. m* when can
nonading was still in progress.
The successive explosions moved
in a southerly direction.
BELGRADE, April 19.—W—
Discovery of a pl^t to over
(Continued on page three) .
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today \
Third annual North and South
professional tennis tournament
semi-finals today at Pinehurst
Country Club.
Keno and dance at The Caro
lina tonight. '
Putting tournament for ladies
at Pinehurst Country Club this
afternoon. •
Polo game tomorrow after
noon. Pinehurst vs Durham.
Tin Whistle tournament today,
against par, best ball of pair.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Starting tomorrow night atj
8:00 o’clock; also Monday, Tues-|
day and Wednesday at 2:00 and
8:00 o’clock, “Gone With the,
Wind.” , - , /
- Southern Pines «
Today at 3:00 and 8:15, “Too
Many Husbands,” with Jean Ar
thur, Melvyn Douglas and> Fred
Mac Murray.
Aberdeen ,
Today at 3:00, 7:15 and 9:00,
Somewhere in Sonora,” with
John Wayne and “Duke.”
PACT PREDICTED
LONDON, April 19.—<#)—
Soviet Russian spokesmen in
London today predicted Great
Britain and Russia would soon
conclude their long-discussed
trade agreement, which was
sidetracked by the Russian
Finnish war.
They said it was believed
Russia’s differences with Brit
ain over the blockade—which
have centered on the deten
tion of two Russian steamers
by Allied naval forces in the
Far East—could be composed
and general relations im
proved, barring some unfore
seen development.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
DAY PROCRAM IS HELD
BEFORE 350 STUDENTS
Annual Presentation of Kiwanis
Club Takes Place at Southern
Pines High School in Charge
of Eugene C. Stevens.
More than three hundred and
fifty students of high schools in
Moore County attended the
Fourth Annual Vocational Guid
ance Day program sponsored by
the. Sandhills Kiwanis Club at
the Southern Pines High School
yesterday morning.
The program was in charge
of Eugene C. Stevens represent
ing the Kiwanis Club, and Miss
Mary Belle Price, president of
the Southern Pines High School
Student Body.
Speakers and their subjects
were: ;
Accounting, Paul Dana, Pine
hurst; auto mechanics, Virgil P.
Clark, Southern Pines; beauty
culture, Helen H. J ohnson,
Southern Pines; chemical engi
neering, E.N. Stirewalt, South
(Continued on page three)
Rotary Gab Founder
Guest and Speaker
John Symes, president of the
Niagara County National Bank
and Trust Company of Lockr
port, N. Y., and founder and
organizer of the Southern Pines
Rotary Club, was both a guest
of honor and speaker at the
club’s weekly luncheon meeting
held in the Southern Pines
Country Club yesterday.
Mr. Symes spoke mainly on
Rotary ideals and the value of
such an organization to a com
munity. Rotary, he stated, un
dertakes to inspire men to deal
justly with others and to bring
about happiness in as large a
number of hearts ais possible
throughout the world.”
THE WEATHER
Cloudy, occasional rains in the
orning Saturday, . cooler in
,st and central portions. Sun
iy- fair with rising? tenSl®**
NEW PINEHURST PROFESSIONAL
Outlook Engraving*
TEDDY RERICHA of New Yprk, who was engaged by the
Pinehurst Country Club for the 1940 Spring tennis season, which
he plans to continue to the first of May . « . is one of the coun
try’s finest instructors . * . director of the indoor Park Avenue
Tennis School of New York . . . national ranking No. 9 . .
toured with Bill Tilden on an exhibition tour of the country sev
eral years ago . . . was assistant to Vincent Richards for three
years ... put up a valiant but losing fight against Donald Budge
in a North-South tournament match; Thursday.
Pinehurst-Durham Polo Sunday
Durham is sending down a strong polo team for Sunday-s
polo battle on the Pinehurst field. After suffering a 6-4 setback
in their last engagement with the Pinehurst invincibles last Jan
uary, the Durham boys have tuned up their line-up, and have se
cured the services of Henry Gibson Barnard, Chapel Hill star, to
play No. 3 against Merrill Fink in Sunday’s fray.
With Pinehurst out for its twelfth straight victory of the
season, and somewhat puffed up about last Sunday’s sensational
win over the New York Athletic Club, and with Durham, on the
other hand, seeking revenge for their defeat of several months
ago, it should be a highly exciting contest.
Joe Taylor, one of Durham’s top players, will play position 1
for his home foursome; R. B. Green will be at 2, with B. Rt Brown
playing defense position.
Pinehurst will go into the game with Chike Swoope at 1;
Coleman Miesner at 2; Fink 3 and Captain Paul R. Miller at back.
^The game starts at 3:00v o’clock tomorrow afternoon, and as
usual, the public is invited.
Reserved parking sections for the game may be obtained by
calling the Pinehurst Polo Club, Tel. 3694 or 3862. ynreserved
tickets may be obtained at both the North and South field gates.
D. A. R. Advocates
Strong Army and Navy
WASHINGTON, April 19.—
(jp)_The Daughters of the
American Revolution reiterated
their- stand for a strong army
and navy today, declaring in a
resolution that “events in the
world today” made national de
fense imperative.
Other resolutions, adopted in
the closing business session of
the, ttnnual convention:
Opposed establishment of / a
federal - department of educa
tion..
Approved legislation to re
quire registration of internation
al propaganda agents.
Affirmed support of restricted
immigration policies. .
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“Gone With the Wind”
At Pinehnrst Tomorrow
“Gone With the Wind,” the
classic motion picture of the dec
ade, will be shown at the Pine
hurst Theatre, beginning tomor
row night at 8:00 o'clock, and
running until Wednesday night.
Starting Monday, there will be
two performances each day, at
2:00 and 8:00 o'clock.
ENTERS PRIMARY
< ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 19.
—VP)—Thomas E. Dewey for-,
mally entered the Maryland
Presidential preference primary
today to seek the State’s! 10
votes in the Republican national
convention! 1 1 ’ "p
Numerous Members of British and French ' ^
Colonies Move Out of Capital
After Rumors ' v
TODAY'S NORTH-SOUTH
TENNIS MATCHES
Semi-Finals, Singles
1:30-—Skeen vs. Barnes.
3:00—Budge'vs. Nogrady.
Doubles semi-finals start at
finish of singles matches:
Skeen and. Faunce vs. Lloyd
Budge and Hendrix. y
Budge and Barnes vs. No
grady and Frank Rericha.
NORTH-SOUTH TENNIS
SEMI-FINAL ROUNDS
SCHEDULED TODAY
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Showers Yesterday Bring About
Postponement of Both Singles
and Doubles * Contests; Finals
Listed for Sunday.
Yesterday's: showers • caused
postponement of the mutches of
the. third annual North and
South professional tennis tour
nament.
The semi-final round of both
the singles '-and doubles will be
held , this afternoon, weather per
mitting. Judging by the clear
ing heavens about midnight last
night, weather conditions ap
peared favorable.
If today’s matches go off on
schedule, the finals will begin
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock.
World Champion Don Budge
at 3:00 o’clock today will meet
John Nogrady, who defeated
Bernard Coghlan on Thursday,
6-2, 6-4, 8-6. This will be a
"good fight. '
Dick Skeen, whose forte pis
the deep-rdriving game, will play
Bruce Barnes, the defending {
champion of the singles at 1:30,
this match also expected to be
a torrid one.
The doubles will follow the
completion of the singles. Skeen
| and Johnny Faunce play Uoyd
I Budge and John Hendrix and
| Don Budge and Barnes will play
j Nogrady and Frank Rericha.
Gerard Cote Winner
Of Boston Marathon
BOSTON, April 19.-04") —
Gerard Cote, 26-year-old news
paper dealer from Verdun, Que.,
today won the 44th annual
B. A. A. marathon by wearing
down a field of 164 other road
racers in the 16-mile 385-yard
gtind.
Cote’s time was 2:28:28 3-5,
which smashed the previous
mark of 2:28:51 4-5 set only
last year by. Ellison “Tarzan”
Brown of Westerly, R. I.
Sprinting across the finish
line in second place came little
Johnny Kelley of Arlington,
Mass., winner of the race > in
1935. His time was 2:32.06.
; “It’s my last B. , A; A. race
anyway,” Cote said before the
start, ‘‘because next summer I’ll
' be in the * Royal Air Service.”
j Third place went to # Don
; Memieke c of Baltimore.' i >
Hungarians Discount Reports as
Alarmist, But Government Ap- : yy
pears to be Taking Special
Precautions.
LEGATIONS PREPARED :
B UD APES T—(Saturday j-«
Numerous members of the Brit- t
ish and French colonies moved '
out of Budapest* last night and
early today because of rumors •
in allied quarters that Hungary
waain danger of German inva
sion. . ! ' " V ' jfj
Although Hungarians discount
ed such rumors as alarmist* the
government appeared to be tak
ing special precautions. Search- -
lights swept the sky over Bud>
apest through the night, and
| air raid protection squads pa
trolled the streets. Among* the
departing Britons were news
correspondents, who moved their '
headquarters to Belgrade. ■> %
There also was a report that
some doCifments of the French '
legation" had been taken to Bel*.v
grade. • . ■■■ y.t
. A; speedy truck stood in the
courtyard of the British -lega
tion, ready for rapid transfer
of documents, should this seen*
necessary. ,
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THREE TRAFFIC CLUBS
WILL CONDUCT JOINT
WEEK-END SESSIONS ,
v. • : ■ vf.' - ,
Members of three North Car*
olina "traffic clubs wBl med' ia
a joint session in the Highland ^
Pines Inn this .Weekend* it was1
i announced yesterday W. R. «
Flynn, manager of the Inn.
Arranged by J.-Charles Phelps,
president of the Eastern North
Carolina Traffic Club, W. SL
Merrick, president o^ the Win
ston-Salem Traffic Club and CL
R. Warren, secretary-treasurer
of the Charlotte Traffic , and
Transportation Club, the meet
ing will be more or less a fes
tive occasion, with a banquet
this evening at 8:00 o’clock and
golf at the Country Club the ;
main events scheduled.
The two hundred members ex-*
pected to' attend will hear a talk »
by guest speaker, W. L. Stan*
ley, chief public relations officer
of the Seaboard Airline Rail
way, following the banquet.
DANCE IS PLANNED
FOR RECREATION FUND
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A dance sponsored by the
Pinehurst Parent-Teachers As-- -
sociatiori and the Pinehurst
Chamber of Commerce "will be
held in’the High School gym- ,
nasium on a date to be an-^
nounced, the proceeds from
which ; will go to the recreation-,
al work • fund. The price of ?
admission will fee 50 cents. ¥
The - committee, which
$100 . in'• hfmd, is anxious to;
raise' $400 for the recreational
activities of the school, during^
the summer, and the program
will be greatly needed this year.