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T.'?- MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY VOL. 12, NO. 12. X. r&QTMAnc; CARTHAOE £ACUE spniNCs /tAKEView WRST END p MAHLtV m. OUTHCRN tL.\ Ptnes gjBkl ASHLEy HEICHTS JACK90M SPRIMOS AeEROCJE>) PINCBLUFF PILOT FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding Abenlten "and Southern Pines, North Carolina, February 19, 1932 > of the Sandhill Territor>\ - 4- . , orth Carolina FIVE CENTS COUNTY TEACHERS! THREATENED WITH SALARY HOLD-UPS Those in Extended School Terms , Asked by Thomas To Wait For Their I’ay “Homewood,” Cooperatively Built Colonial Home, Is Sold FUNDS ARE UNCERTAIN In view of the Lncertainly of hav- j iiifj funds available to pay extended I school term salaries, County Superin tendent II. Lee Thomas is this week sending out letters to the principals and teachers of the long term schools oi the county giving them the oppor tunity of accepting or i-ejeciing cer tain terms in regard to salaries foi’ the extended term. The body of the j letter is as follows; ^ i “In order that the Board ,of Educa- j tion may know how to formulate ' plans for carrying on the r.i;il-32 ex-i tended school terms in .Moore county, ! 1 am asking that you immediately j sign and promptly return lo me one ! of the statements appearing below. Failure to receive a reply within a reasonable time will serve as an in-1 dication that you ilo not cai'e to sign ; for ihe extended term and we shall proceed to make plans accordingly.; You are hei'eby reciuested not to make ' any debts beyond the actual cost of board an<l lodging with the expecta tion of paying same from the extend ed school term salary. The present unsettled economic situation makes necessary a calm and serious con sideration of the mattrt' before you.” The acceptance is \v^rded as fol lows: “Being conscious of the present ‘Homewood,’ Colonial Home on Heights of Knollwood, is Sold to Harry H. Beckwith Paneful But True County Invests in New Win dows for C'((urt House as Result of Carthage Fire And speaking of pane.^, the Moore Tounty Court House has about a juindred new ones. The damage caused some time ago by the terri fic heal from a bui'ning buildin'.’' has just been I'epaired. We didn’t stoj) to count them, but it is sail] that ai'ound l-')() window panes and r-t'ine plate gla-s doors were crack ed by the heat, and these rre be- in^ rei)laced. !?eplica of “Westover” and “Car rollton” Residences Was lUiilt CoolK'i'atively 5 ADDITION A1. LOTS VIr. iieckwith Purchases Entire Acre age from Crest Road to I’eedee Koad Surrounding House.—To Oc cupy Residence March First. COUNTY ALI OTTED 20 DEI.EGATES TO STATE CONVENTION Harry Blagden, Former Fin Resident, Kidnap^sd by Thugs Taken from Adirondack Camp by !Men \\'ho Thousht They Had Roland Harriman Harry II. Blagden, former instiuc- tor in the I’inehurst Boys’ School at | economic crisis and the difficulty of | JJttlecote, and for several years man- collecting school taxes resulting there-1 at Ovei-hills for Percy A. Rocke-1 from and being willing as a public servant to bear a fair share of the burden imposed thereby, 1 hereby promise to serve through th« entire extended school trm of 1931- 32, in the same capacity as now en gaged, and j'urther agrees to wait for feller and the Harrinians, was kid napped from his camp in the Adiron-1 dack Mountains, N, Y., Friday night by ;,hree men, and only succeeded in escaping by slugging his guard into I insensibility in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday of this week. He made his my salary for this service until and; y.ay t,o the home of a friend in Cleve- not later than such time as local taxljand where he told this story: collections in the . ...Dis trict become ample to make payment for same. It is further understood that I am to expect payment of an amount not less than aUual -cost of board and lodging for the extended school t'erm at the earliest possible date after due, and not later than July 1, 1932. It is further understood that I am to be paid my pro rata share of the salary fund at reasonable intervals as promptly as possible but not in excess of actual collections ac cruing to the credit of the district.” Town Fathers Wield Axe in Southern Pines Vote Salary Reduction and Bud get Cuts To Effect $2,622 Saving A tfltal of $2,622. was slashed from the budget of the Town of Southern Pines at a long session of the Board of Town Commissioners on Wednes day evening. Most of the reduction in expenses was made by slashing sala ries of town employes. These were voted, but as the axe has not yet fal len no statement was given out as to who is hit, or how much, but it is un derstood that practically all those on the payroll will be affected. This slash in expenses of running the town brings the total budget cuti this year to close to $5,000, it is said. Other economies had previously Ijeen voted. The elimination of certain lights about tow'n was decided upon Wednesday night to cut down the electricity bill. On the other side of the legder, the commissioners adopted a license tax tp produce additional revenue. No statement was given out as to who is hit by the tax, but it is said to be widespread in its coverage. Those at the meeting were Mayor Stutz, Com missioners Stevens, O’Callaghan, Case, Patch and Yeomans. “BUTTER AND EGG MAN” AT COUNTRY CLUB TONIGHT “The Butter and Egg Man,” a com edy, will be presented by the Little Theatre group of Charlotte at the Southern Pines Country Club this, Friday, evening. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Unemployment fund. 1 He said he was seized at Timhei' I ake Friday night. He disappeared from the Lake Placid Club last Thurs day night. 2. Ho says he believes the ki(inap- ers mistook him for E. Roland Harri man, son of the late E. H. Harriman, irilroad magnate, who was to have been his host at Lake Placid. Roland Harrima<n is a( fVe(iuent Pinehurst visitor and is stabling his trotters at the Pinehurst track this winter. 3. He believ<*s there were 17 men in the kidnapping band. He says he rrw 14 besides the three who seized him known as “Jim,” Zeke” and “Curly.” It was Curly, he says whom he beat when he escaped in Cleve land. ■1. He told his brother, Augustus S. Blagden, in a telephone conversa tion between Saranac Lake and Cleve land, that he was treated well for all except the last 48 hours. In other statements he says he was drugged soon after his capture, kept in a j l.alf daze and thretened with death j repeatedly. < 51,160.49 RAISED IN TUBERCULOSIS SEAL SALE HERE (harlot te P^ob^■lbly Meeting Place for Democrats To Name 15)31 Ticket i(> G, o. i». i)ELE(;ates I Mrs, Cheatham, County Chair man Submits Report of 19.‘U Campaign 17 TOWNS “OVER TOP’ / ^ocHtted PrtsM Phot H-V{RY H. BLAGDEN 6,000 Trees Planted Here by Unemployed Wcrl-- To He (’ontinued as Funds For Purpose Are Made Available The tree planting in Aberdeeii is being carried along as an unempLoy- n'iont project as rapidly as funds arej iivailable to pay the small sum.s meted j out to the men. Thirty to 4") men have] been kept at work at least two days j a week each for some time now, and! much planting accomplished, but it j 'vas revealed at a nieetitig of the' 'I'he arni:al Tuberculosis Seal Sale in Moore county netted $1,1(30.49 in 1931, Mrs. T. A. Cheatham, county •haiiman, reported this week. Eigh- een communities contributed to the ause, and of the total sum, .$113.fi0 ame from colored residents of the oint.\'. In submitting her report to .he treasurer, Dan I. McKeithen, Mrs. Cheatham writes; “The final returns from the 1931 Tuberculosis Seal Sale drive have been slow in coming in, but I am glad to at last be able to make my report. “1 am en, losing said report, and a check tor 1?1,1()0.49. I am very proud of the fact that nine of the seventeen I laces reported went over last year. Pinehurst, Aberdeen and Carthage went well over, and many of the smal ler places had fine reports. Southern Pines (lid practically as well as last year. “I feel that our colored friends de serve real credit for raising .?! 13.00 when we all know how hard pressed they were. It is also encouraging to nic that two’.'.ty-two of our county (Please tuni to Page 8) Blagden was Pinehurst during i ^^at the years 1910, 191/ and 1918, after treasury was depleted. Contribu- ci'ins from citizens are being solicited, and checks will be welcome, M. II. which he went (Over to OverhilLs to look after the Rockefeller estate there. Later he established a camp fiear Lake Placid in the Adirondack mountains of New York state, and this camp has been a frequent retreat for residents of the Sandhills. Albert and Ji’.mes Tufts, Warren Bicknell, Jr., Lambert Splaine and Paul Dana have been visitors there on a number of occasions, and Mr. Dana spends ^ome time there every summer auditing the books of the camp for Mr. Blagden. A despatch to The Pilot from Cleve- lt.nd tell.s more in detail the story of the kidnapping. Drawn and white, his body covered with bruises, Harry H. Blagden lay in bed at the home of a friend, Claude J. Peck, here today and told police a weird tale of his escape from kid nappers he said seized him at Timber Lake, near Lake Placid, last Friday. Blagden, half-drugged and almost unconscious, stumbled into Peck’s home at midnight, after eluding his captors, he said, in Cleveland. They had brought him in a closed delivery truck. Blagden said he believed the kid- (Pleaae turn to page 5) Folley, president of* the club, said yes terday. Pirns «ere set in motion Monday for the giving of some siort of a ben efit ^tertaininent tc raise funds for the continuance of t’ne work. To date more than 0,000 trees have been 'lanted, mostly pines, along Bethes- da road leading out to the cemetery, along the Pinehurst road to the city line, out the Pincbluff highway to the city line and out the Raeford road to the town boundary. Next on the pro gram as soon rs funds are available comes the Laurinburg road, after which it is proposed to plant the va cant lots on the highw'ay toward Siouthern Pines and to work around the pines planted some time ago by the Kiwanis Club. Gloma Charles and H. W. Doub were appointed a committee to ar range the entertainment. It is likely that a negro minstrel show will be the result. G. C. Seymour heads the committee which has had supervis ion of the planting thus far, and has been “on the job" with his gang of unemployed much of the time. Tobacco Sales Here Under 3,000,000 Lbs.’ Average Paid On Aberdeen Mar ket During January Under Six Cents Aberdeen’s two tobacco wai-chouses sold 2, 901,()9() pounds of tobacco dur ing the season just closed, according the the figures of the Crop Report ing Service of the State-F'ederal De partments of Agriculture. January was a bad month for the grower. The average paid in Aber deen was $r).31 a hundred pounds as compared with $10.49 a year ago January. Prices at this seas.on are us ually the lowest of the year, however, due to the inclusion of much scrap tobacco. The average in Carthage for January was $6.20 per cwt., as against $14.12 a year ago. Carthage’s total ^^les for the season were 3,202,898 pounds. The Old Bright Belt as a v-hole sold, up to February 1st, close lo 39,000,000 pounds less tobacco than a year ago. The season’s price to Mate for the state is $8.93 as compared with $13.14 a year ago and $18.40 two years ago. Considerable tobacco was returned to the farms without an offer. This was used as bedding and for fertilizer pur poses. Such tobacco sflld the year be fore at from one to five cents. The Sanford market sold 3,901,996 pounds during the season just closed. Moore county will have 20 dele- f’.ates and the same number of alter- rate', based in one of both for every 1.‘0 votes or major fraction there of in the last gubernatorial election, ti the State Democratic convention, which will probably be held in May. ither in Raleigh or Charlotte, as de- ei'tnined at the meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee of 120 members, called to meet in Ral eigh March 1st by State Chairman Odus M. Mull, Shelby. The executive committee will set a 'on'mon day for precinct meeting, to t- followed by a common day for ornty conventions, at which dele gates will be elected to the State con vention, pieceding which, on the same (iay, will be held the Congressional district meifintr- of the delegates to name members of Tne executive com mittee, platform and other convention committees. Belief now is that the State conven tion will be held in Charlotte, sinci* i'., is expected that there will be un certainty when the executive com- n\ittee meets as to whether or not the Raleigh Auditorium, now being built, will be completed and furnished in time for the convention. The con vention date is expected to be in ad vance of the June primary date, in accordance with usual custom, which, V.owever, was changed two years ago. The convention will adopt a plat form and elect tlelegates to the Na tional Democratic convention to be lield in Chicago. It remains to be seen whether or not there will be efforts tc instruct delegates to the State con vention, or to the National conven tion. Indications are now that efforts will be matle to have the delegates in structed for Franklin 1). Roosevelt. Buncombe, the banner Democratic c/junty, will have 103 delegates to the State convention. Mecklenburg will iiave 101, Guilford 90, Wake .79 and P'orsyth T.'i. Buncombe also leads in iiumber of delcviates to the Republi can State convention to be held in Charlotte April 14, based on one for each 200 Republican votes. Moore county will have 10 dele gates to the Republican meeting. ANM’AI. MASQUERADE BALL AT HIGHL.4ND PINES INN Next Monday night, Febi'uary 22nd, has been set by Messrs. Creamer and Turner of the Highland Pines Inn for the twentieth annual Washington’s Birthday masquerade ball, and the ball room and parlors of this splen did hostelry will be open to the mas queraders and their friends of the Sandhills. The grand march will be gin promptly at 9:00, opening one of the largest and most colorful affairs of the season. Music will be furnish ed by the hotel orchestra. The augmented Highland Pines Inn Orchestra, under the direction of Charles Pier, will furnish the music. Ilai-ry B. Emery of Pinehurst this V. eek announces the sale pf the “Homewood” house at Knollwood to lUirry H. liet-kwith, of Brookline, Mass., owner of the Beckwith Manu- I'atturing C,ompany, producers of tex tile felts on a large scale. Possession i.- taken immediately. In fact the new (/wners arc {-.Ircady shipping furniture and equipment to Knollwood, and they v.'iil occujiy the fine sti’ucture the hal- Jince of the season, expecting to get into the house by Mai'ch 1. “IL'Hnewood” was built as a model bouse of high character and at an ex pense rather above the general run <.i' outstanding homes in this part of 'he country, but with the idea in mind fif jiroviding such a home as would ap- I<eal lo some appreciativt Individual interested in establishing a perma nent .ir a winter residence in this cli mate and locality. With that in view a number of builders and supply con cerns joined in the movement, with the result that “Homewood” is perhaps the most accurate example of the old .Southern ('olonial country i lace in the state.I It is fitted to its surroundings, in every way built to carry out the story of the older home types, much of the material in its construction made especially to give the early day .character to the building, and the lo cation chosen t,T carry out the har mony of the plan. Adds To Acreage The purchase inckuies not only the riy:i al holdin r of lots 20SA, 208B and 210, on which the big house has been built, but also 207A, 207B, and ?(!9 in the rear ,if the house proj>erty •:nd also 211 and 212, farther out Ci-est road, giving the buyer the en- Mi-e acreage from Crest I'oad to the Peedee road fnd more than half the 'rontage on Cvest road between Daf- odil road and Serpentine drive. Built in response t,o the idea that his secti'n cortains no outstanding (Id-type home giving the aristocratic orteption of the ante-bellum South- rn inrnsion that many visitors expect .0 iind here, the plans for “Home wood.” made by W. C. Holleyman, Jr., Greensboro architect, wert drawn laigely from “Westover,” the Virginia liome of Governor Byrd, and from “C’arrollton,” the Maryland hnme of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of ihe Declrration of Indepentence. The stately house is situated on a l:nol of the Knollwc,od section com- i)ianding an expansive view of the Sandhills. It is close by the homes of William C. Fownes, Jr., of Pittsburgh and Halbert .1. Blue, it was finished about a yec"r ago. Built by Many Hands It was built cooperatively l,y a num ber ,>f public-spirited citizens of the section who believed we should have here an example of Southern architec ture of the old school. Architect, ar tisan, material men, landscape engi neer, manufacturer, joined hands and means and the following individuals and concerns together created the structure that is a close representa tion of the most significant of the early Colonial American days: House designed by the offices of W. C. Holleyman, Jr., architect, Greensb\oro, N. C. Jewell-Riddle Com- •SJO^OB.HUOD ‘pjOJUBg JO ‘XuBd prinaipal sub-contractors, artisans and material men were as follows: y Brick and hollow tile by Borden Brick & Tile Companj^, Sanford, N. C.; Electrical work, Pinehurst, Inc., Pinehurst, N. C.; Electric lighting fixtures by Handell & Company, Mer idian, Conn.; Electric refrigeration, Canolina Power & Light Company; Flagstone, J. W. Pickier, Aberdeen, N. C.; Flooring, R. L. Dresser, Ral eigh, N. C.; Heating, Pinehurst, Inc.; Hardware, I’inehurst Warehouses, (Please Turn to Page 5-' d
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