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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940.
10 BOMB KILLS U. S.
MILITARY ATTACHE,
MIL STUDIES ACTION
Capt. Robert M* Losey Hit by
Splinter While Taking Shelter
From Bombardment in Nor
way Mountain Tunnel.
BRITAIN FIGHTS RAID
WASHINGTON, April 21.—
(^Secretary of State Hull, ex
pressing sorrow over dispatches
reporting that Captain Robert
Losey, assistant American^
military attache, had been killed
by a German bomb in Norway,
considered tonight whether to
take strong diplomatic action
toward Germany.
Hull said he was seeking all
information about the circum
stances of Losey’s death, and
would not make a decision as
to diplomatic action, if any, un
til the information had been as
sembled. Captain Losey had
gone from Sweden to Norway
to assist Americans out of the
latter country. A newspaper at
Goteborg, Sweden, describing his
death said he was standing in
a mountain tunnel at Dombas
during an aerial bombardment
yesterday when a splinter from
a bomb struck him in the heart.
FIGHT MINE LAYERS
LONDON—(Tuesday) — Great
Britain, battering by land and
air at German forces in Scan
dinavia, fought off a swarm of
mine laying German planes from
her own shores late last night
while reporting 24 German
“warship casualties,” exclusive
of submarines since the war be
gan last September.
An air ministry communique
early today said the German
planes were attacked by anti
aircraft batteries and fighting
planes and naval units as they
tried to lay aerial mines in the
Thames and Humber River es
tuaries. No bombs were drop
ped. At about the same time,
anti-aircraft batteries in the
Paris region barked for 15
hours at enemy planes.
CADDIES TO COMPETE
IN ANNUAL GOLF TILT
AT PINEHURST SUNDAY
The second annual caddie
tournament for the colored boys
aud men who tote bags at the
Pinehurst Country Club will be
held on Sunday, April 28th, over
the number one course. It will
he an 18-hole medal play event.
Subscriptions are invited, and
all proceeds will go toward
prize money.
The first event, held “last sea
Son> proved an unqualified suc
cess.
That Pinehurst caddies are
capable golfers was demon
strated in Greensboro recently
^hen they finished in the first
*0Ur places in nn 18-hole event
0r colored golfers held at the
ingle High School course. Ar
thur Douglas scored 66-73—139;
a^t Richardson 69-71—140;
steed 68-74—142? R.
ichardson and Hardrock Rob
ms°n also had 142.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy and warmer
uesday. W ednesday, cloudy,
s owers in west central portion.
SEE THE BIRDIE!
COFFEYVILLE, Kas.—Pho
tographer Bill Steele always
laughed at the joke about
somebody’s breaking the cam
era when he had his picture
taken. But—
A Coffeyville youth smiled
pleasantly as Steele snapped
the shutter.
The back of the camera
fell out.
COMPLETE LIST OF
FORUM SUBSCRIPTION
roll is Announced
Advisory Board Returns Thanks
to Donald Parson and Stanley
Fobes for Aid in Securing
Presentations.
At this time the Advisory
-.Board of the Pinehurst Forum
wishes to express its gratitude
to Mr. Donald Parson and Mr.
Stanley Fobes, through whose
generosity several Forums were
made possible.
A complete list of the 1939-40
subscription list is as follows:
Mrs. James H. Andrews,
Southern Pines, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Bingham Ballou, Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Betts, Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Bicknell, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Vinton Blake, Mr. and • Mrs.
Edwin S. Blodgett, Rev. and
Mrs. Craighill Brown, Miss May
Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Chatfield, Dr. and Mrs. T. A.
Cheatham, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
T. Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Dana, Mrs. Edwin A. Dexter,
Father Dillon, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Farr, Mr. Stanley D.
Fobes, Mrs. Agnes G. Franck,
Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Fuller,
Father Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs.
Heman Gifford, Mrs. E. Worth
ington Hale, Mrs. George A.
(Continued on page two)
PINEHURST, POLO TEAM
WINS FINAL CONTEST
AGAINST DURHAM, 4-3
Locals End Season With Clean
Slate of Twelve Victories for
Home Games; Large Gallery
Views Skirmish.
The Pinehurst Polo Club
closed its 1939-40 season on
Stinday afternoon with a clean
slate—by defeating the Durham
polo team 4 goals to 3. This
gave the home team a victory
for each and every competitive
game played in Pinehurst, twelve
consecutive wins.
A substantial^ gallery viewed
Sunday’s engagement, with goals
scored for Durham by B. R.
Brown, 2 and Edgar Taylor.
Pinehurst goals were carded by
Merrill Fink, Charles Swoope,
Coleman Miesner and Capt. Paul
R. Miller.
Col. George P. Hawes Jr.,
and Earl Shaw were the ref
I erees; William E. Baker acted
I as time-keeper and Eliott Barta
was the announcer.
SUIT ON DISPLAY
The chances on the Georgette
suit at Corina’s Shop for bene
fit of Sacred Heart Church are
going along, well. The chances
are 25 cents, and the drawing
will t£ke place Thursday, Apnl
25th. The suit is on display m
Corina’s windbw. ,
Outlook Engraving*
MR. W. C. FOWNES JR., takes his pets for a stroll.
DlNEHURST SCOREBOARD
* by ROBERT E. HARLOW
An interesting young couple are Pinehurst visitors. They are
Mr. and Mrs. Wasson Wilson of Hammond, Indiana. Mr. Wilson
is a son of Jesse E. Wilson, member of Theodore Roosevelt’s
cabinet. Mr. Wilson is an attorney who expects to go into poli
tics in Indiana.
He created quite a lot of comment in legal conclaves recently
when he expressed the thought that in selecting juries he prefer
red golfers. His reason for this was that golf was a game which
taught honesty and sportsmanship, and he felt if he could obtain
a jury of golf players it would be composed of honest citizens who
would render a verdict based on the merits of the case.
Mr. Wilson is himself a fine amateur golfer. He is a mem
ber of the Midlothian Country Club, Chicago and the Woodmar
C. C. of Hammond. Entertaining golf stories are told by Mrs.
Betty Wilson, who comes from one of the most enthusiastic golf
ing families of Indiana. Her home town is Richmond, and her
uncle, Wilbur Hibberd, has played golf since 1899.
Mr. Hibberd really is a golfer. In 1901 he was medalist in
the first amateur championship held in Indiana. In 1905 he won
the championship of the Forest Hills Club, Richmond. He con
tinued to win his club, title at regular intervals until 1937, when
he defeated his son. Thirty-two years is a long period to put be
tween winning a club championship.
When Mr. Hibberd’s first child was born he was putting on
the first green; when his first daughter was born he was putting
on the tenth green, and when his third offspring was welcomed,
Mr. Hibberd was still playing golf. This time he was putting on
the 17th green. In each instance he holed in two putts. Concen
tration was one of Mr. Hibberd’s greatest' golfing qualities.
Mrs. Wilson, who is a kin of President William McKinley, is
one of the low handicap lady golfers of the Chicago district. She
played Pinehurst number three yesterday in 57-44—101, but hopes
to do better today.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. P. S'. P. Randolph.Jr. are back in Pinehurst
after a winter in Cuba. Mr. Randolph reports that he has retired
from horse racing. His final experience in that business was
most unpleasant. Having cut his stable to one horse he turned
everything over to his number one groom. The horse was regis
tered in this man’s name and ran under his ownership.
, Mr. Randolph gave up going to the track. He was getting
his golf game in shape for his return to Pinehurst. One day his
last horse won a claiming race and someone put the cash on the
line and went away with the steed. Mr. Randolph’s man went
away with the claiming price. So Mr. Randolph gave up racing.
Yesterday he did very well at golf.
* * *
The 1940 P. G. A. championship has been awarded to the
Hershey Country Club, (Pennsylvania) and will be played August
26th to September 1.
* * *
Fire in the trailer in which The Charlotte Observers are
brought into Pinehurst delayed delivery yesterday morning.
COMPANY MANNERS
LINCOLN, Neb.—F. S. Blom
enkamp wonders whether some
fellow was made desperate by
12 unexpected guests at a din
ner party, or whether he was
just considerate.
A thief broke into his car,
took just 12 salad forks-^-and
left two.
i
INCOME HIGHER
NEW YORK, April 22.—(JP)—
Commonwealth & So ut hern
Corp. and subsidiaries reported
today net income for the March
quarter of $4,373,536, or six
cents a common share, com
pared with revised net income
of $4,087,439, or five cents a
share, in the like 1939 period.
BROMO LESS EXPENSIVE
NEW YORK.—Ted Stone,
night club owner, had the
jitters T and figured the only
cure Was “a buggy ride in
the Bermuda moonlight.”
So he took a Clipper plane
down | Saturday, and back
Sunday. Round trip, $120
plus $6 excess baggage;
moonlight ride, $5, hotel $15
and miscellaneous tips, etc.,
$10. Total $156.
PATHE SPORTSCOPE
STAFF TAKES SHOTS
FOR PINEHURST FILM
Horton Smith in Leading Role
as Local Golfers Also Perform
While Camera Men Make
Motion Picture.
No golf shot is impossible.
This was proven by members of
the loathe Sportscope who are
in Pinehurst making a motion
picture newsreel - on ^?olf, with
Horton Smith in the leading
role. Yesterday morning, Clar
ence Ellis, soundman of Pathe,
and Horton, were playing the
18th hole of No. 2. Ellis miss
ed a shot and his ball landed
in the upstairs men’s locker
room which faces the 18th green.
All this while the camera was
grinding. Then Horton andi El
lis, followed by their caddies',
walk right through the lower
locker room and upstairs, to
find the ball, \jhich went
through a window, lying in the
middle of the floor. Horton de
cided to prove to dub Ellis that
the first sentence of this story
is true. He opens the window,
whips out a club and puts the
ball up within two feet of the
pin on the 18th. Seven “takes”
were required for this, and
stage settings, close-ups, light
ing‘inside the locker room, the
proper acting on!the part of the
characters in this bit of the
production took1 five hours of
hard work.
Later in the afternoon, the
“set” was changed—to the first
tee of No. 1 course. Here Joe
Walsh, sports editor of Pathe
Sportscopes and Lou Koch of
the Outlobk, staff, are teeing
off for a round of golf. Walsh
hits one and Lou steps up for
(Continued on page three)
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Bridge luncheon at Pinehurst
Country Club today.
Keno and dance at The Caro
lina tonight.
: ,i
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Last two days, today and to
morrow, performances at 2:00
and 8:00 P. M., “Gone With the
Wind.”
- Southern Pines - /
Today at 3:00 and. 8:15, “My
Son, My Son,” with Madeleine
Carroll and Brian Aheme.
Aberdeen
Tonight at 7:30 and 9:15,
“The Flying Deuces,” with Stan
1 Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Park
er and Reginald Gardiner.
r ’ \ '
GALE BRINGS SNOW,
WREAKS DAMAGE TO
NEW' ENGLAND STATES
Coast Strewn With Wreckage of*
Wharves and Buildings; Shore*
Cottages ,Suffer Severely. <;
. ACCIDENTS NUMEROUS -
BOSTON, April 22,-UjP)—A
howling northeast gale, accomp
anied fry giant tides,. raging:
seas and a mixture of rain,
snow and sleet, left many sec
tions of the New England coast
strewn with wreckage tonight*
while several northeastern Maine
communities repaired communi
cations after being isolated. '■
Damage estimates throughout.
New England* ran to hundreds;
of thousands of dollars. Indi-.
cations were that the weekend?
storm had blown itself out. The*
coastguard at Quoddy, Maine sta
tion, reported that the windt
which once hit a 53 miles veloc
ity, had dropped to 30 miles
an hour and was continuing ,ta
abate. There, the old navy
wharf and several boats, wharves
and buildings used in the sar
dine fishery were_ demolished. -
The patrol boat Travis was
sent to Eastport, near the Ca
nadian border, to assist in
eradicating damage.
Shore cottages along the
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
and Maine seaboard suffered se
verely as poundjng seas under
mined foundations.
Highway accidents were nu
merous, owing to glazed or snow
covered pavements.
In some inland sections the
spring storm deposited a foot
of snow. At Boston, the noon
tide was more than two feet
higher than the level set by the
almanac, invading cellars near
the waterfront and covering sev
eral piers.
FUNERAL SERVICES
ARE CONDUCTED FOR}
ALEXANDER INNES
Burial Takes Place in Mount?;
Hope Cemetery After Rites in;
Pinehurst Village Chapel; Ma
sons Hold Graveside Service*
Funeral services for Alexan
der Innes, who died in Moores
County Hospital Saturday mggf,,
were held at the Village Chapel
yesterday, with Dr. T. AL Cheat
ham officiating. Burial was at
Mount Hope Cemetery iir South
ern Pines, with Dr. Cheatham)
also conducting the committal
rites, following which the Ma
sons held their impressive ser
vice.
James MacNab, Willie Wilson^
A. B. Sally, John Fitzgerald,
Eric Nelson and Willard Dun
lop . were the pallbearers.
A very large number of floral
tributes were received, and very
many friends of Mr. Innes were;
present at the burial services.^
SILVER FOILS EVENT
The final tournament for tfii
Silver Foils members will be
played on Thursday, April 25th.
There will also be a tournament
for nine-hole players. Mrs. J,
Pryor Williamson, club captain,
requests that players register ~
by 5 p. m, Wednesday.