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VOLUME 44, NUMBER 140.
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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
T
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940^
JOHN THOMAS TO DON
DRIVER’S SILKS IN -
MATINEE COMPETITION
popular Riding Stable Operator
to Resume Role of * Days
Agone; Hee Haw Derby Mule
Race to be Funny Feature of
Program Saturday.
final of season
By Wayne Groves
A pleasing feature of the
iPinehurst matinee this coming
Saturday will be the appearance
of Pinehurst’s own “Johiiny
Thomas” in driver’s silks, pilot
ing one of the entries in this
stout race card. Holding the
reins over a fast harness race
horse will be no new experience
for the senior member of the
Thomas-Alexander Riding Acad
emy, as some years back team
ing a trotter was part of his
regular schedule, and he was
rated as a shifty man in the
pilot’s seat of a “racing .buggy.”
, It is in all ways fitting for
Mr. Thomas to appear in his
former role on the Pinehurst
track, as he is the lad that su
perintended the construction of
all the tracks in the Sandhill
district. Not only -$lid he lay
them out, but just to show that
- he had done a good job of it,
he drove the winner of the first
race staged over the trotting
track.
Further to demonstrate his
versatility in the racing world,
he had the leg up on the win
ners of the first races seen over
both the flat course and the
steeple chase route.
The many friends of this
popular Pinehurst horseman will
be happy to see him again don
the driver’s colorg, and will be
wishing him luck* as he takes
his first fast like ride in recent
years.
James Tufts, who is both
tireless and resourceful in his
enedavors to provide entertain
ment for Pinehurst visitors and
the home folks as well, has ar
ranged for a “mule race” as the
novelty angle of the Saturday
matinee. He has a goodly col
lection of the long eared, shave
tailed hybrids entered in his
“hee haw derby,” that will ring
down the curtain on the Pine
burst matinee season.
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Bridge luncheon at The Berk
shire today.
Final Tin Whistle tournament
°f the season tomorrow, par
bogey, individual.
AT THE THEATRES
- Pinehurst -
Today at 3:00 and 8 >30,
“Irene/’ with Anna Neagle and
Bay Milland.
- Southern Pines -
Tonight and tomorrow, night
8:15, matinee tomorrow at
3:00, “Over the Moon,” star
ts Merle Oberon,' also Laurel
and Hardy in “A Chump at Ox
ford.”
Tonight at 7:30 and ' 9:15,
“The Blue Bird,” with Shirley
Temple, Sybil Jason, Spring
Byington, Eddie Collins, * Laura
Hope Crews and Jessfe, Ralph.
Technicolor
Aberdeen
COLT WEDS SOCIALITE
NEW YORK, April 25.—
(A*)-—John Barrymore Colt,
son of Actress Ethel Barry
more, and socially prominent
Marjorie Dow Bancroft of
Boston were married in Elk
ton, Md., Tuesday by the, Rev.
R. J. Sturgill.
The bride is the former
wife of Hugh Bancroft Jr.,
wealthy * Boston sportsman.
They were divorced in 1936.
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
BOYS VIE TODAY IN
AYRSHIRE JUDGING
Competition to Take Place in
.West Ring of Carolina Hotel
Will be for Trophy and Cash
Awards; Cattle Sale to Follow.
Boys from vocational schools
of Moore and nearby counties
will participate in an Ayrshire
judging contest at 10 a. m. to
day in the west ring of the
Carolina Hotel. A cup h^s been
offered by the Carolina-Virginia
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association.
Cash prizes will- also be
awarded^
Professor R. H. Ruffner from
the North Carolina State Col
lege of Agriculture and Engi
neering will award the prizes.
' The boys who will compete
have taken part in a series of
judging contests held at the
Pinehurst Dairy during the past
six weeks, for which they have
received small prizes and rib
bons. The competition today
will be in the nature of a final
event for the year.
Box lunches will be on sale
at the dairy at 12 o’clock fol
lowing the judging. A sale of
some 30 Ayrshires will be held
in the afternoon under the spon
sorship of the Carolina-Virginia
Association. Jack Johnson of
Greensboro will auctioneer.
TAGS DESIGNED BY
YOUNG JOHN HEMMER
AID PUPILS’ LIBRARY
During a drawing lesson last
December, the pupils of the
Cottage School sketched designs
for luggage tags. Five- of the
best were selected and two sales
boys took them to the Pinehurst
Country Club. After due con
sideration, Donald Ross selected
the design of young John Hem
mer, and placed an order for
this design to be placed on tegs
suitable for golf bags. (
Mr. Ross asked for printing
prices. The fund from the sale
was to be used for library
books. With the work actually
started, Miss Sweet, who was
giving an exhibition of art in
Southern Pipes, came to the
aid of the cause and copied the
sketch exactly four times the
original size which was sent to
Richmond, where the engravings
were made. The 5000 tegs were
then printed in red and green
and shipped to Boston for eye
lets and cords. And this week
the library committee, John
Hemmer, Sally Gifford and Mack
McMullen have ordered the new
books.
Mrs. Jackson Boyd, Mrs.
Thomas Hogsett and Evelyn
Maddox have donated about forty
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ENJOY PINEHURST BRIDLE TRAILS
V_*
Riding party leaving Carolina Hotel.
DINEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
Whether Margaret Mitchell has created in Scarlett O’Hara one
of the great characters of American fiction will have to be deter
mined by the only competent* test of literature — what time does
to it. One hundred years from now critics will be able to tell if
Scarlett was really a Madame Bovary of the American npvel.
Not having read the book, Gone With the Wind, this writer
can only mention a few impressions after viewing the film. Every
body has been going to the picture version.
' As a presentation of the old South, of Sherman’s march to
the sea, of the siege of Atlanta and the burning of that city, it
produces only fragments. -
If the old South was anything like the few scenes presented
in the opening sequences it was the old South of a very minor
percentage of the population, and, hardly representative. It must
be a fact that most of the people who lived in the old South did
npt occupy plantation? of such grandeur as those in the Wilkes'
and O’Hara families.
The Court of Louis XVI, and his plantation at Versailles was
hardly representative of France in the days before the revolution.
There are always poor folks around somewhere, and they very
definitely must form some part in an accurate portrayal of the old
South or any other section.
The Civil War is glossed over adroitly. The principal thoughts;
brought out,in the film are that, “war is hell” as General Sherman
declared, and that the Southern aristocracy used bad judgment in |
thinking the South could whip, the superior numbers, equipment
and cash of t£e Yankees^ but had the courage to tackle the job
and thereby created an everlasting and monumental tradition, the
dearest one to the hearts of every Southerner, which is kept alive
from generation to generation. ,
The film burning ot Atlanta was spectacular, prooaoiy more
so than the original. % v
When we call attention to the adroit manner in which the war
was handled, we mean just that. Take the incident of the union
soldier who indicated, that he was prepared to carry out two of the
most popular of the follow-up crimes of such percentage of scoun
drels as are members of an army of invasion — theft and rape.
He got what was coming to him in Georgia, or Massachusetts.
Even the Yankees in the audience will be happy that Miss O’Hara's
aim was faultless and he died quickly.
The other war sequences, which for the most part exhibited
the wounded and the dead, resemble the war pictures of the day
which are being cabled from Europe. God’s* noblest creations mur
dered on the snowdrifts of Finland, in the air, on the sea, and by
land. In the eighteen-sixties man had not invented as many var
ious' means for the conduct of mass murder. But the general effect
of the battle of Atlanta, and the battle of Steinkjer, now blotting
i out men in Norway, is similar.
Sherman’s march to the sea is one of those unhappy incidents
about which military men will argue from now on. Some say it
was an effective military maneuver. As a matter of fact it was
not as important in bringing about the end of the war as Sher
man’s later march through the Carolinas, but the 300 mile march
to the sea has been bettejr publicized. There is no getting away
from the fact that both these marches were a pretty messy- sort
of business and that a lot of unnecessary crimes were committed j
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FLEES WITH GOLD
NEW YORK, April 25.—
VP) —A hard-bitten skipper,
back in the safety of Amer
ican waters, disclosed today
that he fled the port of
Trondheim, Norway, with, a
fortune of $4,500,000 in Swed
ish-owned gold hidden in the
hold of his ship, the 4,955
ton American Scantic line
freighter Mormacsea, after
the Germans had captured the
port.
The skipper was Captain
William McHale, who served
with the British mine-sweep
ing forces in the World war
and was four times decorated
for bravery.
GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
OF SAMUEL Y. RAMAGE
TOLD BY HOME PAPER
Oil City Derrick Article Recites
at Length Rise to Great Prom
inence of Distinguished Citi
zen, Long a Pinehurst Visitor.
The Outlook is indebted to
George T. Dunlap Sr. for the
following excellent summary of
the life of Samuel Young Ram
age, which appeared in The Oil
City Derrick. Mr. Ramage, for
more than 25 years was a Pine
hurst visitor, and during recent
years had been associated with
Mr. Dunlap in the development
of Pine Needles.
From The Derrick of April 16.
Remarkable Career
Mr. Ramage’s interests were
large and widespread. He was
a leader in the business, civic,
financial, political and welfare
spheres and a public benefactor
to a degree far beyond the con
cept of the average citizen. He
played an important role in such
widely separated activities as
the Wanango Country Club, Oil
City Boat Club, the Cook For
est association and City Hos
pital Grandview institution and
the Venango County Republican
league. He rose from the hum
ble position of clerk to a com
manding position in the oil and
gas industry.
Mr. Ramage was bom July 3,
1853, the son of Benjamin and
Almira Seavey Ramage, at New
Brighton, in Beaver county.
He came from a line of Hu
guenots, who left France about
1715 settling in Cornwall, Eng
land. Mathias Ramage and his
three- sons, John, William and
Matthew later moved to the
north of England and William,
the second son, migrated to Ire
land, settling at ' Bally Kelly
near Londonderry, in a home
stead which has been in the
possession of the family for
more than 200 years. , Sons Ben
jamin and John and a daughter
Jane, emigrated to America.
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THE WEATHER
Cloudy and somewhat unset
tled, with scattered showers in
extreme east portion, warmer in j
west portion Friday. Saturday,
considerable cloudiness and show
ers, slightly warmer in east por
tion.
GERMANS RETREAT
FROM ROROS, DIG IN
IS HUES TO SOUTH
Nazis Find Terrain of City*
Seized Yesterday Unsuited to
Fortify; British Advance Also
Threatens to Outflank Foete
Position.
TOLGA OCCUPIED
STOCKHOLM—(Friday)—The*
Germans have abandoned Roros,
which they seized for a few
hours in a dazzling exhibition
of lightning war yesterday, and!
are digging in at Tolga, 15
miles to the south in the Oster
dalen valley, Swedish newspaper
correspondents reported early to
day. •: '
The retreat was caused by the
need of fortifications which the
terrain at Roros does not favor*.
Another cause was a British*. .
advance in the Gudbrandsdalem
valley to the west, threatening:
to outflank the German’s ex
tended position, Swedish papers
reported that the British have
broken through at Storen, and
are'now in position to. block an®'
German advance up the valleyy
or from Roros, to reinforce
Trondheim on the west coast.
These British troops after
landing south of Trondheim took
a northern route to Storen*.
where they repulsed a German
force from Trondheim, and per
haps prevented their striking, at
more telling blow on a Brititf*
force from Namsos, to. the
north of Trondheim.
The British then turned and
united with some of the Nor
wegians retreating through Ro
ros in the Osterdalen valley.
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THREE WIN PRIZES
IN GOLF TOURNEY *
OF SILVER FOILS A
Mrs. Louise Fownes Blue worn
first prize in the Silver Foils
tournament, a match play against
bogey affair, held on No. 3
course yesterday. / Miss Frances
Johnston was second and Mrs*
Heman Gifford won the nine
hole competition.
Summary:
Class A
Mrs. L. F. Blue, 7 up.
Mrs. G. K. Livermore, 3 upa.
Miss Katherine Coe, 3 up.
Miss Carol Hotchkiss, 2 upv
Mrs. H. C. Buckminster, 1 upa.
Miss Anne Hotchkiss, 1 up.
/ Miss Helen Waring, 1 dowm
Mrs. John Weeks, 1 down.
Mrs. j. 0. Hobson, 1 dowm.
Mrs. Charles Franck, 1 down*
Miss t Lucy Perkins, 4 dowm
, Class B"' f
Miss Frances Johnston, 5 up*
Mrs. H. K. Williams, 2 up. * •
Mrs. M. W., Marr, 2 up.
Mrs, T. H. Hogsett, 1 up.
Mrs. J. D. Hathaway, 1 dowm
Mrs. George Dunlap, 1 dowm
Mrs. E. S. Blodgett, 1 down*.
Mrs. Clifford Sloan, 1 down. ,
Mrs. H. J. Forsythe, 2 do^vm
Mrsi. J. S. Zelie Jr., 5 down_.
Mrs. Francis Owens, 5 dowm ;
9 Hole Event
Mrs. Heman Gifford, even-..
Mrs. W. V. «Slocock, 1„ down.
Mrs. H. H. Johnson, 2‘ dowm
Mrs. Aras Willianjs, 3 dowm
Mrs. Eric Nelson, 3 down:
Mrs. Harry Norris, n& cardL