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MOORE COUNTY’S leading news weekly J. n.lS A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 11, NO. 35. LAKEView PINEBLUFF PItOT ^ > ® FIRST IN ^ NEWS AND ’ ADVERTISING of the Sandhi. "tory of North Carolina Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, July 31, 1931. FIVE CENTS NEWSBOY BAND TO GIVE CONCERT AND DANCE ON MONDAY Fifty Musical Youngsters from Orlando, Florida Will Play in Southern Pines Friends Advance Colin Spencer For Post of United States Marshal YOU’RE ALL INVITED Xext Monday night, August 3d, bids fair to be the liveliest of the vummer season in the neighborhood of Southern Pines, and if you miss the *’un itV nobody’s fault but your own. You’re invited, and there’s no charge. There’s an old song about Alexan der’? Ragtime Band being “the best band in the land,” but that was a long: time ago, and as far as we can learn rig:ht now, the best band in the lanu under 16 years average age is ^he Reporter-Star Newsboys Band of Orlard-. Florida, Anyway, it’s good . nou^h to get itself invited to play ’’or President and Mrs. Hoover at the White House and to participate in the Great Canadian Exposition to be he^d next month in Toronto, Canada. WrM, to get to the story, this band of fifty newsboys, en route north, is stopping off to give a concert in -outhern Pines Monday night, and has also consented to play for a street* dance during the evening. The concert will begin at 8:30 0 clock in front of the City Adminis tration Building on East Broad street, and after its concert program,^which includes solos by Harold Bundy, “boy wonder” on various and sundry instru ments, the bands will start the dance music. The block in front of the j aforesaid city* hall will be roped off | and besprinkled with cornmeal, and *Mary and Tom can start shaking their feet to the strains of the biggest dance orchestra we’ve seen in these here parts since the circus came to town. Spend Night in Town The newsboys, who are all Boy Scouts, are spending the night Would Have Moore County Re publican Leader Succeed L. Ll Jenkins of Siler City A campaign is being waged to have Colin G. Spencer of Carthage, Repub lican leader in Moore county and cax:- didate for Congress in the last elec tion, named United States Marshal for the middle''North Carolian dis trict, to succeed L. L. Jenkins of Si ler City, who comes up for re-ap pointment in the near future. Mr, Spencer is said to have strong back • ing for the position, both because of his political prestige and his promi-1 nence as a manufacturer and business I man. | The feeling in Carthage is that he | has an excellent chance of receiving i the appointment. He has the en- j dorsement of scores of influential party workers throughout the dis- j trict, and the backing of well known business men. His active party work j has covered a period of twenty years, ■ and that he worked hard for the G. O. P. in the last Congressional cam- j paign is well known. Mr. Spencer is j not only one of the most active Re- [ publicans in this section, but is the titular head of the party in Moore county ,as chairman of the Republican executive committee. * COLIN G. SPENCER Hail Plays Havoc on Farms Near Vass ABERDEEN ONE OF HEADQUARTERS OF fflGHWAY PATROL Patrolman to Be Stationed Here Under Reorganization of Department 2 CARTHAGE MEN NAMED Heavy Tobacco Loss When Rains Flood Fields.—Eight Pigs Rescued Aberdeen has been designated one of the headquarters cities for the newly organized and enlarged State Highway Patrol. One member of the motorized patrol will be stationed here, covering this section from Aber- ROSS PROPOSES FIXED TRUST OF N. C. INDUSTRIES Broaches Plan to Encourage In vestment in Sound Securities of State O ATTRACT LITTLE FELLOW The Vass section was visited by a heavy rain on Sunday afternoon, which in places was accompanied by deen as his base. He will be under hail which did considerable damage j Lieutenant L. A. Hankinson, with di- to farm crops. The Hendricks farm j vision headquarters at Fayetteville, two miles out on the Carthage road j At a re-organization meeting held where Roy and Hartsell Hendricks! last week at Raleigh six divisions had a most promising crop of to- were created for the patrol. The cen- in bacco was in the main line of the | tral division will be at Raleigh, while town, and generous housewives are hail storm. Their tobacco was liter- , the other five will have headquarters asked to volunteer to take one or I ally torn to shreds and is a total loss. ; and supervise activities in each of the more of them for over night, with i Watermelons on this farm were se- ; five highway maintenance districts, breakfast. If they get her in good ^ vered from the vines by the hailstones, j Thirty m6n were added to the patrol -eason Monday, add supper to the re-1 At the Daniel McNeill old home last week, and six lieutenants were ap- quirements. But that’s all we have where Mr. Briggs now lives, the esti- pointed, one in each of the divisions, to do for the boys in remuneration for ■ mated damage to tobacco is 75 per j The patrol, under the new plan, is theii entertainment, and it’s to be | cent, and at the Taylor farm which is comprised of six lieutenants, 12 ser- hoped we will have no difficulty in * being tended by H. R. Riggins, a 25 | geants, 12 corporals and 36 patrol- finding fifty beds about town. If you | per cent loss is reported. A field of men. Captain C. D. Farmer, with young corn owned by the Leslies but headquarters in Raleigh, is in charge separate from their main plantation , of the 66 men. is said to have been torn into strings. ! Lieutenant Rufus H. Beck, of Aber- A severe electric storm and a reg- ^ deen, is named to head the division ular downpour of rain, one of the, having Marion as its headquarters. Here’s the latest news from F. C. | hardest that has fallen here in years, j Among the new patrolmen are two Workman, one of the band officials: | occurred on Saturday afternoon. The , from Carthage, W. B. Eklly and R. E. “We shall come to your city from; water ran over the highway in tv/o , Fisher. Florence and should arrive late in j or three places in the town, and Paul | the afternoon of the 3d in time to get i Gschwind’s pasture was a regular rested and be ready for the evening | lake, with the water in places to the can take in a boy or two, please com municate with Shields Cameron, sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce, or Nelson C, Hyde, chairman of the committee in charge of the festivities. concert and dance. Our boys are put ting on the finishing touches now and top of the fence. Mrs. A. R. Laubscher, who lives at the foot of the “Tyson SOUTHERN PINES GOLFERS DEFEAT FAYETTEVILLE are in the pink of condition, so we | hill” on the highway waded in water will give you a real concert.” Everyone in the Sandhills and nearby Sandhills is invited to the almost waist deep to rescue her eight little pigs from drowning. In the basement of Keith’s Garage, Vass, the party Monday. If you don’t want to i flood was so great that a new car dance, come sit in the village park had to be pulled out with the wrecker. and hear the music. But don’t blame if, when you hear the music, you an’t resist treading a few measures, 'ee you Monday night. MISS DOROTHY FRY OF PINEHURST MARRIES HERE In a quiet but beautiful service the marriage of Miss Dorothy Fry and John McGranahan, Jr., of Durham ■^vas solemnized at 6 o’clock Saturday, •July 25 at the home of tlie bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fry in Pinehurst. Only members of the immediate families were present for the cere- iv.ony which was performed by the J. Martin Smith, pastor of the f irst Baptist Church of Rockingham, ^ines, ferns and baskets of pink roses were beautifully arranged throughout ihe home. The bride, who is a talented musi- ian was a student at the Durham Conservatory during the past winter and is a graduate of the Pinehurst High School. The groom is associated witb his father in the lumber business. Mr. and Mrs. McGranahan left immediate ly for a trip to Wrightsville Beach, after which tliey 'will be at home in Durham. The water was up to the lights. Quite a bit of damage was reported from farms along the Little River Peaches 50 Cents on Cars; Little Demand Big Supply in Sandhills Orchards put Shipments Away Un der Year Ago The law of supply and demand is working as usual, but to the derti- ment of the peach * grower in the present market. Although the Sand hills has a tremendous supply of ex cellent fruit, there is little demand from northern sources, and the best peaches are bringing but 50 cents a bushel, f. 0. b. cars here and nearby points. The lack of demand is believ ed due to the nationwide depression, housewives purchasing only necessi ties for their tables. Much fruit is be ing carried to nearby cities by trucks, but to date only 521 carlot shipments have been made from North Caro lina as against 1,513 to date a year ago. Georgia, on the other hnd, has shipped more peaches than a year ago. Large size Hileys are selling for $1.25 in New YotI^, Elbertas the same. Southern Pines golfers took the measure of Fayetteville on the South ern Pines Country Club course Wed nesday afternoon, 10 to 8. Herman Grover, aged 13, played with the S. P. team. Th« teams played in pairs, with the following results: Southern Pines — Bill Woodard, Frank Page Jr., 3; Lee Clark, Tom Kelley, 3; Bob Shepard, Montgom ery, 1-2; E. C. Stevens, John Jordan, 3; V. B. Johnson, Chas. Morrison, 0; I Herman Grover, A. C. Grover, 1-2. To tal 10. Fayetteville—Hertaff, Cobb, 0; Dr. Pittman, Newberry, 0; Johnson, Slate, 2 1-2; McNeill, Pemberton, 0; Regan, Humphrey, 3; Clyburn, Canady, 2 1-2. Total 8. The two teams will play next Wed nesday at Fayetteville. The Southern Pines team is the only one ever to defeat Fayetteville on its home course. “What North Carolina needs most at this time is the establishment of a fixed trust, made up of a cross sec tion of North Carolina’s diversified industries, and the shares sold in ten dollar denominations on the install ment plan, through every bank in North Carolina.” George R. Ross, manager of State- owned farms, dropped in The Pilot office on his way from Raleigh to his home in Jackson Springs the other day and made the above statement. It impressed The Pilot as something with a lot of sense behind it and great potentiality in front of it, and we pressed him further on the subject. “This would discourage North Car olina savings being invested in un sound speculation, and foreign bonds and stocks,” he said. “It would en courage investment in North Caro lina banks. State and local bonds, and first mortgage bonds on homes and farms, in cotton mills, tobacco com panies, power companies, hosiery mills, furniture factories, insurance companies, transporting companies, telephone companies, chemical and dyeing works and many other activi ties on a sound basis, with the oppor tunity for much profit. “Such a composite trust would have to be carefully established,” Mr. Ross said, “by successful bankers and bus iness men of North Carolina on a mutual service plan and would be truly representative of a cross section of North Carolina’s proven industries. The larger portion of these underly ing stocks and bonds would have fix ed and regular income values, and with the establishment of surplus, or j reserve funds, the shareholders could be assured of quarterly or semi-an nual dividends ,and there would be a daily market value for these shares.” Widen Investment Field Mr. Ross thinks that a larger per centage of our population would be not only encouraged but permitted to share in the profits of our industries and would have a better understand ing of our business life and of the ramifications of North Carolina’s in dustrial activity. Trusts of the kind mentioned by Mr. Ross are playing an important part in the investment world today, and have been established in many communities. There seems to be no reason why a State-wide trust made up of investments in varied North Carolina industries, a sort of a “Live- at-Home” or “Invest-at-Home” trust is not practical. The working out of such a plan should prove of inestima ble value, and the suggestion to make the investment denominations as low as ten dollars is a big feature of the proposal. It opens the field of sound investment of funds to the little fel low who feels that he is not welcome into the present investment field un less he has upwards of a hundred dol lars. It should work out for the good of all concerned, the investor and in dustry. And offhand, there seems to be nothing impractical about the idea from a banking standpoint. Much Credit Due Moore Co. for State Highway System, Says Chairman Jeffress Roads Head Lauds “Bob” Phil lips as Promoter, Frank Page as Builder of Great System OUTLINES PRESENT PLANS E. B. JEFFRESS DEAL CLOSED FOR OPERATING SECOND Edwards, Lewis & Williams Sign Up To Handle Sales at Aberdeen Warehouse TOBACCO LOOKS GOOD Aberdeen’s two tobacco warehouses will be operated as usual this season. Announcement was made this week of the signing up of Edwards, Lewis & Williams of Mullins, S. C., for operat ing the Aberdeen Warehouses, which they ran last year. The Saunders Warehouse, now known as the Sand hills Warehouse, will be operated by W. W. Maurer and Dr. A. H. McLeod, of Aberdeen. “Tobacco looks better in this belt than in any of the others I have seen,” a prominent buyer told The Pilot this week on return from a trip around the tobacco growing section. He seemed pleased with the outlook for high grade leaf from this section, and for the warehouse business in Aberdeen this season. “I believe as much or more tobacco will come to Aberc:een this season as in any previous year,” he said, “and I believe from whai; I have seen, Aberdeen will get better tobacco than most markets.” The Aberdeen Chamber of Com merce will meet in the near future to formulate plans for boosting the lo cal market. Report that one of Aberdeen’s lead ing buyers, “Judge” Avery, would not be on this market this season, which had gained circulation hereabouts, was denied this week. “Tom my rot. I’ll be right here on the job,” the judge said when questioned by The Pilot. Mr. Avery buys for one of the largest export houses in the country. He resides in Pinebluff. CHESTER BELL CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR Chester O. Bell, former auditor of Moore county was given much of the credit for North Carolina’s ex tensive and splendid highway system 'by E. B. Jeffress, of Greensboro, new chairman of the State His:hway Com mission, who addressed the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at its we?kly meet ing, held in the Courthouse at Car thage Wednesday. Speaking of the three stages of de velopment of the system. Promotion, Construction and Maintenance, Mr. Jeffress named “Bob” Phillips of the Carthage section as one of the early crusaders for good roads in the state, stating that through his newspaper and writing he did much toward creating public opinion in favor of road development. Following this Pro motion stage came Moore county’s son, Frank Page, to handle the Con struction stage, and how well he did it is too well known to need repeti tion here. Now'comes the maintenance stage, into which Governor Gardner has thrust Mr. Jeffress, newspaper man, member of the State Legislature. Mr. Jeffress is publisher of the Greens boro Daily News. That he will ably follow in the footsteps of Frank Page all who heard him at Carthage Wed nesday feel confident. He outlined the policy of the department in a manner to demonstrate his complete grasp of the problems confronting him and his fellow commissioners. Stages of Development It was an interesting talk. Mr. Jef fress carried his listeners through the stages of development of transporta tion, from the early trails, through stage coach lines, the plank roads, toll roads, then the coming of rail roads necessitating more wagon roads to reach the depots and shipping points; finally the coming of the auto mobile and the need for better roads and main arteries and the opening up of all parts of the country. What the present highway commis sion plans for the moment is a close tie-up between the school system of Ihe state and the road system. There isn’t going to be much available right away for new roads, but there is plenty for improving present roads and maintaining all roads, and most important in the view of Chairman Jeffress is the improving and main taining of roads leading to the schools of the state. Then too, he said—and this was a subject his hearers want ed to heal—he emphasized the need for the beautification of State high ways leading into the resort section. “We are going to do the best we can to beautify the roads,” he said, “realizing that the more people we at tract to the state the more money we bring into the state. We want North Carolina to lead the nation in highway beautification.” Mr. Jeffress. also spoke of the economic value pf plant ing along the shoulders. Grass helps Moore county, has announced his can-I keep them from breaking off when didacy for the position of State audi- | ^e have heavy rains and washes. SOUTHERN PINES LOSES BALL GAME TO ELLERBE Despite the scorching sun of the afternoon a crowd of spectators gath ered on the Southern Pines ball field Wednesday to enjoy a spirited srame between Ellerbe and Southern Pines. The local boys lost out against a real combination of players, 10 to 0. Bat teries: Weatherspoon and C. Montes- antf for Southern Pines; Cox and Floyd for Ellerbe. For the home nine T. Montesanti played at 1st, Harris at 2d, Vann at 3rd, Millar,, ss, Johnson rf. Walker c, F. Sugg If. At Last! Lloyd Yost Finally Lands on the Fairway, but its in an Airplane tor, pitting- himself against the present incumbent, Baxter Durham. Bell, who is a brother of Dr. Felix O. Bell, formerly of Aberdeen, was a lieutenant in the army during the World War, commanding a machine gun ouftit in the 30th division. He has been vice commander and district com- Financial Problems The new highway chairman told some of the financial problems in volved in the program of road devel opment, of the bond interest require ments which, he said, will reach their peak in 19936 and decline from then on so that more of the six-cent gaso- Lloyd Yost, genial Pinehurst aviator, is not much of a golfer, but he did land on the fairway this time. An Associated Press des patch from Burlington says: Failing to spot the Burlington landing field, Lloyd Yost, a Pine hurst aviator, set his plane down on the fifth fairway at the Bur lington Country Club. Scfjres were playing the course at the time, but Yost picked a clear spot and taxied to a stop without damage. “Pardon me, gents,” said Yost, “but this fairway looked better than a ploughed field to me.” mander of the American Legion, and money will be available after that is expected to have solid support from that organization in his quest for the State office. He is also a Mason and Shriner. Mr. Bell is now residing in Raleigh, where he is auditor at the State prison. The Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad handled 49 cars of perishables, most ly watermelons and peaches, on Tues day of this week, and 35 cars on Wed nesday, showing the heavy crops the farmers have been raising along its line between Aberdeen and Fayette ville. “No telling how many cars we’d have hauled if market conditions were better,” said cue of the road officials yesterday. year for new construction. At present, he said, there is $1,500,000 available for federal aid projects, which with the U. S. money means over $3,000,- 000. Asked about road signs spoiling the landscape of the State’s highways, Mr. Jeffress stated that every effort would he made to enforce the law for bidding signs within six feet of either side of a highway, and that efforts were to be made to cooperate with sign advertisers in an endeavor to get them to erect their signs where they will hide something less attractive than the signs, rather than erecting (Please turn to Page 8)