ftlOORE COUNTY’S
leading news
weekly
VOL. 1I» NO. 28.
models display
WIDE VARIETY OF
COnON COSTUMES
Dresses for Every Hour of Day
on Exhibition at the Vass
Cotton Show
^ ^^CARTHAOE
PILOT
FIRST m 1
NEWS AND ’
ADVERTISING
LAKEView
MANL.CV
SOUTHERN
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
ABEROE£M
#PINEBLUFP
Friday, June 12, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
Aberdeen, North Carolina
glON H. BUTLER SPEAKER
By Mrs. S. R. Smith
A nu't't successful cotton style show
held in the town auditorium in
Vafs on Thursday evening of last
week, with fifty-two models display-
irit'’ i ostumes of attractive cotton ma
terials suitable for every hour of the
(lay. Interested people from Vass and
the community 'round about, from
’ ameron, Lakeview, Carthage, South-
rn Pines and Aberdeen filled almost
every seat in the auditorium. The af
fair was more than a style show; it
a delightful and wholesome get-
froi-ether meeting for friends and
neig'hbor.^, and as such was greatly
enjoyed.
The meeting opened with the sing-
‘rg- of ‘‘The Old North State,” led by
J. M. Tyson. The president of the
v'unian’s Club, the organization spon-
soiing the show, presided, and ex-
+pnded a welcome to those present.
<he made explanatory remarks and
expressed the club’s appreciation of
the hearty cooperation given by the
merchants and business men.
Bion H. Butler, veteran newspaper
man and one of the Sandhills’ best
friends, was the speaker of the even
ing. He was introduced by W. Duncan
Matthews. Mr. Butler, who is a well
informed man and a deep thinker, dis>
russed the cotton situation from sev
eral angles, giving his hearers some
*ood for thought and causing them to
rfalize that there are, in truth, “two
sides to the cotton question.” He is of
he opinion that if the farmers will
r oduce high grade cotton and if the
Protection from Unfair Competition
Asked by Receiver of Seaboard R.R.
Leigh Powell Pleads for Equal
ity of Opportunity for Pio
neers in Transportation
Maintaining that railroads are reg
ulated by law in every phase of oper
ation except protection from unfair
competition, Leigh Powell, of Nor
folk, Va., co-receiver of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad pleaded for proper
regulation of competing agencies in
a talk before the Kiwanis Club of
Hamlet and invited guests last Thurs
day night.
“I do not claim that the railroads
should have a monopoly of transpor
tation or that the shipping and trav
eling public has not a right to use any
means of transportation it pleases,—
but submit that the railroads, regu
lated in every phase of their opera
tion, rate makirig powers, finance and
otherwise, as well as burdened by
taxes which unregulated competitors
ply their trade without restraint, un
taxed on any comparable basis, unre
stricted as to their operations, rate
cutting or otherwise; that in fairness
to the former this condition must be
corrected,” said Mr. Powell.
Ask Only Fair Play
“The railroads are only insisting
that they be given equality of oppor
tunity in the field in which they were
pioneers. They see neither fairness
nor economic justification in compell
ing the taxpaying public to furnish
to the motor vehicles their roadbed
free of charge where as the railroads
must provide their own rights-of-way
at enormous cost and must maintain
and improve them at their o’‘ati ex-
He
To Aid Physicians
Rev. T. A. Cheatham of Pine-
hurst Joins N. Y. Hospital
Staff for Experiment
The Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Cheat-
lam of Pinehurst were the guests
)f Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Fitzgerald,
also of Pinehurst, at the Berkshire
Hunt and Country Club at Lenox,
Mass., last Tuesday. ' Mr. Cheat-
!iam will be in New York this sum-
ner and will return to Pinehurst to
assume his charge in the fall. He
has been requested by several
prominent medical men in New
York to cooperate with them in an
attempt to use religion as a work
ing combination with medicine in
restoring normalcy in certain types
Df illness. Mr. Cheatham will be
connected with one of the largest
hospitals in New York, the name
ot which is withheld, but will work
in others also.
NEW PAVING IN
SOUTHERN PINES
NEAR COMPLETION
Town Spends $2,500 in Hard-
Surfacing Streets; Orders
“Jimtown” Water Main
RALEIGH TAKES NOTICE
Hugh McKenzie Dies
at Age of 47 Years
Native and Lifelong Resident of
Moore County Victim of
Heart Attack
The sudden passing of Hugh Me- j
Kenzie, which occurred Saturday |
night, June 6, was a shock to his |
friends of the Pinehurst community
and throughout the county. Mr. Me- i
pense. They submit that since the Kenzi« who was apparently in perfect
railroads and the motor vehicles are
health, suffered a severe heart attack
furnishing precisely the same com
modity, namely, transportation, the
conditions which called for the elab
orate system of regulations which to
day control the conduct of the rail-
Iroads should obtain to the same de
manufacturers will put on the market ^ ^
j gree m the field of motor transporta-
eroods of attractiveness and quality, ° i vt
Ition; and that if it is sound public
policy to subject the railroads to the
burden of these restrictions, it is like-
there will be no question as to wheth
er or not the buying public will pur
chase these goods.
Tribute to A. Cameron
Mr. Butler paid high tribute to the
acfomplishments of the late A. Cam-
e^’on in regard tc the cotton indus-
vy and commented upon his reputa-
’• f conducting his mill business
a a fair and square manner. He also
tpoke of the valuable work being
done by a local boy, Frank Byrd, in
the textile world as a chemist; he gave
Dunk McCrimmon a word of praise
in his efforts to introduce an im
proved variety of cotton plant, and
touched upon the accomplishments at
the i^3slie farm.
Mrs. Walter L. Ryals, home dem
onstration agent of Moore county,
<=played some of the newer fabrics
■'^’hich were a part of a display sent
H the Cotton Textile Institute of
^<e^v York City.
Several selections by a male qnar-
■et composed of J. M. Tyson of Vass.
Stanley Dunn of Southern Pines and
^Tlesprs. Norris and Williams of Aber
deen were greatly enjoyed, and music
y R. L. Oldham and Dr. R. G. Ros-
^^er, of Vass, J. T. Doss, of Cam.er-
■% Dan McCrimmon and Martin Scar-
(Please turn to Page 8)
Seawell of Sanford
New State Attorney
wise sound public policy to apply them
to the motor vehicle.
“The ever-increasing burdens under
which the railroads are forced to op
erate reminds me of Will Rogers’
story about the lion and the Chris
tian. Will says that in the old Roman
days it was the practice to turn one
Christian into the arena with a lion.
If the Christian was caught by the
lion, he was a martyr. If he was not
caught, the whole procedure was tried
again next Saturday with a faster
lion.
“Continuance of the increasing di
version of traffic from the railroads
to other means df transportation be
cause those other agencies use com
petitive methods that the railroads
cannot lawfully use and because they
are subsidized, can be prevented from
causing serious injury to the rail
roads only by proper regulation of
those competing agencies and by let
ting the railroads adjust their con
ditions to the necessities of the situa
tion.
Cheap Because Subsidized
“It is frequently contended that it
is in the public interest that the com
petitors of the railroads be allowed
to furnish what they call “Cheap
To Succeed Frank Nasli as As
sistant to Attorney Gen
eral Brummitt
(Please turn to p^ge 5)
RICHARDSONS CELEBRATE
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING
A. A. F. Seawell of Sanford will be
come assistant attorney general July
^ "Ucceed Frank Nash.
Attorney General Dennis G. Brum-
*^‘itt announced the appointment of
-'ir. Seawell Tuesday.
Mr. Seawell was a member of the
" '^nt General Assembly, in which he
author of the Seawell banking
l^i , now in effect, which divorced the
^tate banking department from the
^‘'iporation commission.
■Previously Mr. Seawell served as
a member of the house of representa
tives in the assemblies of 1901, 1913
and 1915 and in the state senate in
'907 and 1925.
Mr. Nash, who has been assistant
ttomey general for some 15 years, is
expected to be officially named clerk
*f the state supreme court next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron H. Richardson,
winter resident of Southern Pines for
some years and well known through
out the Sandhills, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at their
rammer home at Littleton, New Hamp
shire, on Monday, June 1st, accord
ing to word just received here. Mr.
and Mrs. Richardson were married on
June 1st, 1881. They were the reci
pients of many handsome gifts and the
hearty congratulations and felicita
tions of their large circle of friends.
GRADUATES WITH HONOR
and was rushed to the Moore County [
Hospital where he received immediate i
treatment. He rallied for a time but i
succumbed a few hours later when ;
he suffered a second and more se- \
vere attack. |
Mr. McKenzie was 47 years of age j
and was born and reared in Moore
county and for many years resided
in Pinehurst, having moved to his
farm on the Carthage Road within
the past year.
Funeral services were held on Mon
day afternoon at two o’clock in Cul-
deed Presbyterian Church, of which
he was a life long member. The ser
vice was conducted by the Rev. R.
G. Matheson, pastor, assisted by the
Rev. Murdoch McLeod of Pinehurst.
Interment was made in the Culdee
cemetery. The throngs of friends in
attendance and the profusion of flor
al offerings were beautiful tributes to
the life that had passed.
In 1913 Mr. McKenzie was married
to Miss Georgia Crutchfield of Car
thage by whom he is survived, to
gether with three sons, Warren, aged
13 years; Wellons, 11, and Wilton,
two; four brothers^ Colin, Make,
Jim Huffstickle, all of the Pinehurst
Frank and Jesse, and one sister, Mrs.
community.
FATHER DILLON HONORED
BY FRIENDS OF PARISH
Public improvements continue the
order of the day in Southern Pines.
The past week has witnessed the com
pletion of additional paved streets
and work is about to begin on a six-
inch water main and the placing of
hydrants to provide fire protection for
the recently annexed village of West
Southern Pines.
Employees of the Bituminous Earth
Corporation of Raleigh are completing
their contract with the town for the
resurfacing of the streets originally
conditioned last summer. These sand-
clay roadbeds received a preliminary
a coat of asphalt, this coating being
covered with course crushed stone.
In the resurfacing this season another
coat of asphalt, this coating being
covered with fine stone well rolled
in, the work being expeditiously ac
complished with but little discomfort
or annoyance to the residents on the
conditioned streets.
Work has been done on Connecticut,
Massachusetts and New York ave
nues, Ashe and Bennett streets and
one block of Country Club Drive. The
cost, a little over $2,500, will be
borne by the town and not assessed
against abutting property owners. So
satisfactory has this treatment prov
ed, eliminating as it does the mud and
dust of the old sand clay surfacing,
that only last month an inspecting
committee, the Mayor and several
commissioners from Raleigh, journey
ed to Southern Pines for the purpose
of noting how well this treatment
stood up under heavy traffic condi
tions. Southern Pines is supposed to
have the greatest mileage of hard-
surfaced streets of any small town in
the Carolinas.
Protection for “Jimtown”
At the last meeting of the Mayor
and Board of Commissioners of South
ern Pines 4,000 feet of six-inch water
main and seven hydrants were order
ed, this equipment to be installed in
that part of West Southern Pines lo
cated between the school house and
the old pumping plant so as to afford
fire protection to this thickly settled
section. The Board also ordered the
placing of four standard lights On t' e
new extension of Pennsylvania a,^
nue from Saylor street westward.
Snowden in Charge
of Road Work Here
Dewberries ^ ,
They Play Important Part in
Economic Welfare of
i^ipRLY SfflPMENTS
®FJVCHES WELL
Sandhills Section
Dewberries are moving. Dewber
ries play an important part in the
Bconomic welfare of the commun
ity. They have meant millions of
lollars to this section in the' thirty-
Ddd years of their cultivation here,
[n that time the village of Camer
on has become the world’s lead
ing dewberry market, and the acre
age planted in the fruit throughout
Moore county is increasing from
year to year to keep apace with
the demand upon the market.
The Pilot in this, its first annual
Dewberry Number, delves a little
into the history of this agricultur
al product and attempts to give its
readers some idea of the important
part played by the berry growers
in our general prosperity. We com
mend to your attention the second
section of today’s Pilot.
YEAR AGO
Georgia Had Shipped 93 Cars up
To Tuesday as Against 186
Last Year
LENOX BANKER TO
TURN BILYEU FARM
INTO FINE ESTATE
George E. Turnure Purchases
Extensive Tract on Old
Seals Road
TO ENLARGE BUILDINGS
LOCAL FRUIT MOVING
George E. Tumure, banker of Len-
The ,1931 peach season is on. Ship
ments have started from the Sandhills
section, and ninety-three cars had
been shipped out of Georgia up to
Tuesday morning. Early shipmeiits by
truck from the Candor belt brought
around $3.00 in Washington. These
were Mayflowers.
The early Georgia shipments have
fallen well below a year ago. Up to
June 8th last year 186 cars had been
shipped north from Georgia, as
against the 93 shipped as far this
season. The Federal-State Market
Service, Macon, Georgia office, re
ports Mayflowers and Mt. Rose
peaches selling in New York at $3. to
$3.75, large Redbirds at from $5.00
to $5.50, medium at $4.50. North Car
olina 6s, Mayflower mediums sold in
New York for from $4.00 to $4.50, the
small from $3.25 to $4.00. One car
load of North Carolina peaches arriv
ed in New York Monday. Most ship
ments to date have been by truck, as
was the case with the early lots last
season.
A few less-carload-lots have clear
ed through Aberdeen during the past
week.
N. C. Crop Good
The government report on crops as
nox Mass., has bought through L. L. | the month of May gives
Biddle, II, the old B.lyeu farm, justij^e condition of peaches in North
off the old Seals road between Pine-1 88 per cent of a perfect
hurst and the airport. The purchase,^ six-year average of
includes a piece of the Pender tract, I gg average condition
and possibly some other smaller hold-ji„ ^he ten states m-odficing eatly
mgs to round out the desired area. p^^ ^he percentage
This was one of the pioneer farms . condition of the North Carolina
I of this section, for Mr. Bilyeu was ; ^^.^p with 81 per cent in
one of the pioneer peach men of the^t^^ Georgia orchards and all the
I country. Years ago he and his brother g(,utj,eni producing states down
i originated the Bilyeu peach at their around 75 or lower, with Texas 40 and
i orchards up in New Jersey, so when Oklahoma 12
i Mr. Bilyeu came down this way to prediction of the crop in the
I to take up orchard work he was thor- ; Georgia about an average
oughly equipped. He also became inter- ^^op, but North Carolina bigger than
I ested in dewberries, an industry which averkge. Arkansas will have more
j he estaWisehd, and which for years jj^an an average crop this year from
I was practically in his hands as a ' j-ndications.
! grower and a producer of vines.
Father Dillon was honored at a
surprise dinner party on Wednesday
night in celebration of the 25th anni
versary of his arrival in this coun
try. Forty members of his parish
gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Montesanti in Southern Pines and
paid him fitting honors, a number of
the guests making appropriate
speeches dwelling on the fine work
which Father Dillon has accomplish
ed in his parish here.
JOHN McCRUMMEN BUYS
ABERDEEN STORE BUILDING
Miss Dorace Wheeler of Southern
Pines graduates this week from Rad-
cliffe College at Cambridge, Mass.,
where she completes her course in
fine arts with honors. She has ac
cepted a position on the faculty of a
private school in Boston.
John McCrummen of Vass has pur
chased the Melvin Store building on
South street, Aberdeen and there is
a rumor that his brother Ben Mc
Crummen, may start a drug store
there. For the present, however, the
Melvin store will continue to occupy
the premises.
LEASE HUTT RESIDENCE
Shields Cameron announces the
rental of the Hutt residence, “Club
View,” on Rich street in Southern
Pines to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Earl of
Palm Beach, Florida, who plan to
spend the summer here.
Moore in Division B Under New
Highway Organization with
Fayetteville Headquarters
Moore county is in Division B of
the five major divisions set up by the
newly created State Highway Com
mission at its meeting yesterday in
Raleigh. Fayetteville is the head
quarters for this division, and R. E.
Snowden the engineer in charge, with
R. Markham as assistant.-
The five major divisions, with ten
engineers in charge (all of whom have
been with the Highway department
for many years) will be subdivided
into five districts, the district in
turn being subdivided into smaller
units, so devised that local road mat
ters will be handed for the most part
in the community in which they arise.
The highway commissioners them
selves are to represent the State at
large, not any particular divisions,
and all matters pertaining to high
ways must hereafter be taken up with
the engineers rather than through
the commissioners.
Other counties in Division B are
Onslow, Pender, New Hanover, Bruns
wick, Columbus, Bladen, Sampson,
Duplin, Wayne, Robeson, Cumber
land, Scotland, Hoke, Lee, Harnett
and Johnston.
at THE MOVIES
The place will be remodeled under
the advice of Warren H. Manning,
who has already been making plans.
Holleyman, of Greensboro, is now pro
viding designs for the reconstruc
tion and enlargement of the house
and other buildings. It is expected
that active work will be inaugurated
at once, and the property be in con
dition for occupation by the early
fall. The principa'i features' will be
the enlargement of the buildings as
they stand, the remodelling of the
shrubbery and planting designs, with
such artistic touches as the natural
contour of the ground will encour
age, -the rebuilding of the old dam to
restore the pond and such other things
as will make it a modern country
home, with plantation and hunting
Death Again Calls at
E- J. Austin Home
Eleanor Mildred, 10, Sister of
Little Girl Fatally Burned,
Dies at Pinebluff
Death again visited the home of
Mr. and Mrs. E, J. Austin at Pinebluff
Tuesday, taking away little Eleanor
Mildred Austin, ten-year old sister of
Evelyn Austin, who died from burns
a short time ago. Eleanor Mildred had
been ill much of her life, but had
seemed to be improving of late. Her
death was a distinct shock to the
family and their many friends.
The funeral was held at the Bap-
J , ,tist Church in Pinebluff yesterday af-^
character, and give it a fit develop- 3
Carolina, Southern Pines:
June 11, 12, 13—Marion Davies in
“Five and Ten.”
June 15, 16, 17—Jeannette McDon
ald in ^'Annabelle’s Affairs.”
ment to make of it a striking repre
sentative of the new expansion that |
is taking place in the outlying ground
around the villages.
Seals Road Developing
Thompson and Dr. C. L. Jackson offi
ciating.
Evelyn Austin died from burns suf
fered when her clothes became ignit-
, - „ , , ed early this spring when she was
Santa Claus under a small
tree out in the yard. The flimsy cos
tume which she wore in her part in
road will be the main approach, with
a private road running in from the
hill top above the Midland Farms
territory to the buildings and the
the performance caught fire when she
was lighting a candle on the tree,
home center, planted in such a man- ,,,„pathv of the entire .section
ner as to bring out that fine field oi
vision that lies below the summit,
and which is capable of th« finest
development. This new home will
carry the development out to the
north from the Seals road, holding it
in touch with the Barber projects,
the Midland Farms and that other
big general plan that Mr. Manning
is working out south of the double
road from White’s to Watson’s and
to Southern Pines.
The prophets
goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Austin in
the double tragedy visited upon them
this year.
PLAN CONCERT BY BOYS
BAND FROM FLORIDA
Plans are under way for a band
concert of fifty pieces in Southern
Pines on or about August 3d. The Re
porter Star Newsboys Baiid of Or-
say that everjrthing | lando, Florida, passes through here
from the airport to Pinehurst on both | at that time and has offered to stop
sides of the Midland Road and the
Peedee road are in line for early de-
off for an entertainment. The band
will be on its way to play at the Ca-
velopment, and point to recent activ- nadian National Fair at Toronto, Can
ities along the entire line.
John Warren Watson has increased
ada, and has been booked to play for
President Hoover at Washington on its
his holdings near the Watson Lake byg return trip. The Chamber of Com-
the purchase of another small tract of merce is arranging for the concert in
land. Southern Pines.