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INCORRECT DATE MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY THE ■Hi ilii iHi A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 12, NO. 17. P^RTHAOE &AGUK SPRINGS LAKEVlCiy mahlbv SOUTHCRN PtriCS Correct Date Ll jy\ PILOT FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING Qf Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pin.^, North ('arolina. March IHT 1932. FIVE CENl'S RECORD ENTRY FOR PINEHURST HORSE SHOW NEXT WEEK Fifteenth Annual Event Attracts Mounts from North and South MANY HUNTERS, JUMPERS With horses entered from the south as far as Camden, S. C,, and from the north as far as Millbrook, N. Y., the fifteenth annual Pinehurst Horse Show opens next Tuesday morning with every prospect of being the big gest and best in local history. Char les W. Picquet, show secretary, has been kept busy all week recording the entries in the various classes, tak ing orders for boxes and parking spaces, arranging all the last minute details attendant upon a successful event next Tuesday and Wednesday. Ent les were received Wednesday from Camden of two hunt teams, the hunt team class being one of the prettiest in any horse show. Word also came from Fort Bragg Wednes- aay that the pick of Uncle Sam’s i Demands Salary from Chamber of Commerce For Hazardous; Job of Directing Traffic When Ma, Pa, I)au>jhter and I)oj> Attack You For Telling Them They Om’t Reach Richmond by Going South It’s Time To Quit Thankless Tiisk, Says Potts .C. CANDIDATE FOR STATE ASSEMBLY -A -V C; Forest ''*r Control After Week ol<\ '.iting in All Sections of Sandhills (An Open Letter to the Southern .strained by the pretty daughter, also | Pines Chamber of Commerce from R. in furs to her earrings. West End Merchant, Former TweK 0 Houscs, Several Bams Leveled By Flames C ounty ( ommissioner. An- a Realizing it was no private fight, I she got into it by yelling from the | rear seat: “We have been on Route • 1 and Route 50 for two hours and | Wfc want Henderson. We want break fast in Henderson.” Father pipes up and says: “What F Potts, Editor of Baseball Maga zine and a winter resident here.—Edi tor.) I reside fifty feet from motor high way No. 1 within the limits of your city, and frequently I stand there watching the fortunate motorists pass by. Often I am called upon for traf- town are we in now?” fic directions, etc. “Southern Pines,” I replied. Up to now I have performed this “Well, how far do you say it is valuable service free from any ex- to Henderson?” I said “It is 75 miles pense to the city of Southern Pines, to Raleigh, and 40 miles more to but I now demand a fixed salary for Henderson.” these good reasons. “Raleigh? Raleigh? Why we left The job has become not only thank- Raleigh two hours ago, before 7 less, but hazardous. nounccH for Legishiture CLEGG MAY .lOIN FIGHT This week injects some new inter est in the political situation through the announcement of M. C. McDonald of West End as a candidate for the legislature. It has b(ien whisiiered that Mr. McDonald might come to the front, but in the positive announce ments of other candidates Mr. Mc Donald was not conspicuoujs until he makes the announcement this week. The new entrant is an old war horse, c clock, and we want breakfast in ‘ favorably known through his At 8:40 a. m. today, a big Packard j Henderson then Richmond, Washing-1 ore recent experience in the county bfaring N. J. license slowed up and ton and Philadelphia. We are going | ui'mmissioner’s office, but widely and the gent at the wheel asked: “How,home from Florida.” far to Henderson, N. C., young fel- “W'ell," I said, “you are on the low?” The “young fellow crack” right road and you have been on the .stunned mo for a split second and right road for two hours, but you doubtlessly my reply was exasperat- have been readed for Florida, and it irgly deliberate as I said “120 miles." ir 120 miles back to Henderson.” “Oh, No,” came from the wife in Again, from the Storm and Strife: horses over there would be on hand ; jm-g seated beside father. “Go “Henry, darn you, Henry, I told you to compete in all classes for which | ^ Henry,” she said, “This buz- that you turned the wrong way around particular field, they are eligible. Some eight hun- | doesn’t know where Henderson the Court House in Raleigh favorably known throughout the county through a business and social contact of many years. That he will make a good run is conceded, and it is also believed by those who keep s’n eye on county politics that his announcement may have some influ ence in shaping up the battle in this Which Sweep Through Thousands of Acres of Woods and Grasslands It wa.s believed yesterday that the forest fires which have swept through the Sandhills section during the past week, lesaving burned homes and (kstruction in their wake, had subsided to a point where they were safely under control. Not since 1898 has the section been visited by such a widespread conflagration as that which threatened its villages all this week. Hundreds of men have been doing nothing else but fight fires since last Saturday. Few sections of the Sandhills es- Pines and residents in this section be- caped. AT. were in danger at various came alarmed. The Lovejoy Cabin was times. Just as one threatening blaze seriously threaetened. Early that was gotten under control, another night another negro house in Manly would lift its hungry head in another w as burned. part of the county, and men would Large forces of men from Abej'deen, rush there to backfire against the on- Pinehurst and Southern Pines fought rush of flames. The fire departments desperately to keep the flames from \ouve^ To complicate matters farther it is is; he doesn’t know he is alive.” been hitting 60 miles for the past two ir.ther widely talked that Rus.sell Millbrook, N. Y., will appear in the | “Well I have made the New York hours bound for Florida, ana we’ve ^ (’lejrjr may be a contestant, and he is ters from the Thorndale stables at STATE AGREES TO SOUTHERN PINES U. S. 1 AS OFFICIAL TO PARTICIPATE IN ROAD DESIGNATION BRIDGE OLYMPICS hunting and jumping classes, among j times” I countered. “I guess I had no breakfast.” them one horse which has won more j know where Henderson is.” A Packard car; furs; Pekinese dogs; than sixty blues and championships in j “We’ve made the trip .'50 times,” i winter in Florida do not always count important shows throughout the coun- j Madame of the Furs, as she for complete happiness. As Henry try. The Thorndale stables is the prop- | ^vaved both hands disgustedly towards was backing the car Yours Truly vol- erty of Mrs. Lawrence B. Smith and i jj. then two against me. In unteered: “In your mood it will pay Mrs. Landon K. Thome. The Paddock ; spite of her rude gestures, as yet lo drive carefully.” The pretty one stables, W. A. Laing, the Sedgefield j y^^d not hissed nor actually made in the rear stuck her tongue out four Hiding Academy at Greensboro, B. A.. • ^ pass at me. The dog, however, was inches. This is why I demand a sal- Tompkins of New \ork, Mrs. Thi>o-j ,^,^dy to go into action when re- ary henceforth. dore P. Grosvenor of New York and ; . .. — ' — ■ - ' ■■ —— - others have numerous entries in the hunter classes. Ernest I .White of Syracuse, N. Y., Warner Baltazzi of New York and Aiken, S. C., and Gen. Manus ,^Clos- key of Fort Bragg will be among the judges, all of whom assisted in the judging at last year’s successful show here. For Hospital Benefit The social side of the annual Pine hurst show is always one of the pleas ant features of the event. Luncheons will be served at the showring each day, for the benefit of the Moore County Hospital. Those in charge of vhis part of the program include Mrs. A. F. Popham, Pinehurst, cliairman; Mrs, George Vail, Mrs. Herbert Vail, Mrs. Richard Tufts and Mrs. H. P. Hotchkiss, all of Pinehurst, Mrs. W. C. Mudgett and Mrs. M. G. Nichols of Southern Pines, Mrs. Henry A. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen and Mrs. E. Reming ton of Pinebluff. Saddle horses, polo ponies, five- gaited horses, military mounts, ponies, hunters and jumiK-rs will be seen in the ring the two days of the show. There will be classes both morning and afternoon on Tuesday and Wed- ulso conceded to be a man of strength. Mr. Clegg has not made official an nouncement so far as is heard, as this is written, but some of his friends say he is a potential factor. U. L. Spence spreading but the extremely combusti ble condition of the grass and the high wind made it practically impos sible for them to do anything in front of the fire. The Southern Pines Fire Depart- Wili No Longer He Known as Contract IMayers in 3.i Countries;i»ctory conditions in state ami coun “N. C. 50,” I'pon Request To Play Same Hands Simil- ! • . of Association taneously on April 1 DR. McBRAYER HONORED UNEMPLOYED TO BENEFIT North Carolina Route .'iO is no more. Southern Pines is to take part in the At a joint meeting of officials of World Bridge Olympic*. M. G. Nichols, the U. S. Highway No. 1 Associa- captain for Southern Pines, announc- tion of the south and the similar or- ed this week that tables were being ganization existing in Maryland and made up for play at the Southern I’ennsylania, held Monday of this Pines Country Club on .A.pril 1st at week at the Southern Pines Country S P. M. for the benefit of the unem- (’lub, a resolution was adopted call- ployed, and stated that those desir ing on the North Carolina Highway irig to play may arrange their own Commission to discontinue the prac- foursomes and procure reservations of Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Southern Pines were scurrying hither and yon to save this building or that. It is estimated that at least a doz er homes were destroyed in the county amonj' them a tenant house cn the Rountree estate on Midland Road, ment was kept on the go throughout the Katie Arnold house on U. S. No. the day Tuesday. At Pinehurst a force 1 midway between Aberdeen and of nearly 500 men were engaged in Southern Pines, Archie Bass’ house at the task of keeping the fire out of Manly and some four or five houses [ the village. They succeeded in doing occupied by colored families of the this, and when the wind greatly les- Manly section, the old Thitgard house, I senetl in force the danger was over. I uilt about a century ago near the : Large Area Burned olci Thagard mill ponii, the home of An area of fifty to one hundred A. K. Stevenson at Niagara, one |-(r-:s»' e miles was burned over, and l ouse in Lakeview and some scattered ' ii' sections where the grass had been dwellings occupied by colored faini-, allowed to accumulate for several has not yet reached a conclusion as ! lies. I). B. Herring’s stables between years the young pines are probably tc his course, but many backers say I Aberdeen and Southern Pines burned I '-njured, while in ihe areas where the he IS to be drafted for the campaign,' with the loss of a horse, the Harry ground has been kept fairly clean his experience and his prospect of |A;axwell stables on the Pinehurst- the damage is probably not so heavy, being made speaker of the house serv. I. outnern Pines road were completely The larger trees have not been hurt, ing as az'guments in his behalf along j aestroyed, and the Burrell White sta- ii is believed, and the actual damage with other conceded qualifications. T. I bles burned. The Thomas and Alex-, to forests is negligible. 1>. McLean is setting his house in or-' ander stables on Miuland Road were. On Wednesday, llames broke out riously thr(‘atened for two days but s*i'ew in the vicinity of Manly. Alex tscaped. Dozens of hor.ses from these Fields, County Fire Warden, direct- .'tables were tethered to trees along ed a force of two hundred men in thi- double rord during the thick of backfiring a five-mile line near the che fight. A barn back of Janey's W. S. Halliwell estate. The fire start- .Iuu},eiy on Midland Road burned up. ed early in the morning and threaten- I First Fire Saturday ‘o enter the Weymouth Heights I The first fire was observed Satur- section of Southern Pines and caused ' (lav in the Raeford .lirection, said to It der for the contest, and his follow ers .says the lavmer strength behind him is increasing. It i' believed he will make an aggressive campaign, delinitely outlining his views and pol icies as applied to the present unsatis- The (lovernorship ,, , ' have started somewhere tor governor the county seems to', ,,1,. mi- ^ . . lev Heights. This woi be in a position of uncertainty .and . * , , . the government reservation without much enthusiasm over any 01 , , , ,, , i. .*1,,.. threatened to attack Southern I’lnes the candidates, as they are all com- , 1 , 1, , irom paratively unknown personally to the tice of designating U. S. Highway No. 1 as “North Carolina 50.” The follow ing day H. I. Wilson of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Raleigh Merchants Association, who attended the meeting here, waited on the high- from him. Thirty-five countries have now en tered the World Bridge 01ymi)ic to be played on that date. These include , , uid in the reservation is not known, voters m this section. Ihe issues they , , , ,, 1 !• ii -i . , but probably relativLdv small, lepresent are in a way rather pro-, .u f i - u . . i n „ ' , , , “ It was the fire which staried Mon- nounced, but not clearly grasped by , , ,, . , , „ ’ J B 1 . ,iuy somewhere near the sand I’lt on most ot the peoiile, and not enough',, ‘ .11 i>- 1 i 1 u; i , . . f ‘ , ;the Aberdeen-Pinehurst road which swept through the more populated section of the Sandhills and caused near Ash- reported that no houses were b'Urn- ked its way* into «■- although considerable area was burned over. It is now believed that the situation is well in hand on all the east. How much damage it Donations for the i-elief of those who lost their lelongings in the fires ibis w eek may be sent to I* rank Buch an, Curb .Market Building, Southern Pines. nesday*. The show is under the auspi-Spain, Switzerland, Czechoslovak! that is i)ositive as to candidate or! issue seems to be stirring up the peo- j pie. Talk with the folks here and there leaves about the same impression re garding the caiidiiiates for Senator. Difference of opinion is heard as to the strength of every man in the field England, Germany, Hungary, Den-i foj. this office. Senator Morrison has . , , mark, France, China, Poland. India, j the advantage of possession, but be much apprehension for the safety of the towns. During the afternoon .Mond:iy the W ALTER (JILKYSON TO READ TODAY FOR LIBRARY BiiNEFlT Walter (iilkysoii, Southern Pines I also has some antagonism for various ces of the Pinehurst Jockey Club, of which Leonard Tufts is president. The executive committee comprises N. S. Hurd, chairman; Col. G. P. Hawes, Nelson C. Hyde, Richard Tufts and Charles W'. Picquet. Augustine Healy will act as ringmaster and Col. Hawes as ring supervisor. th.t the c.n,„u.s»ion vvould all 1 the re.iucit, fho „.a,i ».ll now l« »' ‘I" ; fire crossed the .Midland rad and, iditor, is taking the place of r.is wife, ! swept i'.round the north end of Knoll- Pi mice Kenyon Gilkyson, <m the i wood, on out by the Southern Pines ' I rogram si'heilu'n.-n lor this, Friday, n the weekly authors’ the Civic Club for the the Southevn Pines Li- CJilkyson will read at a i,U<Tno(«n iiaiMiigs i along the Niagara-Thagarils road. Sometime Tuesday morning one tou-: benefit of fire reached Lakeview,; I rarj'. Ml■^ olficially known only as U. S. No. ces in Canada, every state in the 1. though it will continue to be re- ferred to through parts of the south , Scotland, Ireland. British as the Jefferson Davis Highway. West Indies, and Cuba. People speak- SEVEN PREACHERS AT UNION SERVICE TODAY A Union Good Friday service will be held in Emmanuel Episcopal Church at Southern Pines at 12 o’clock noon today, Friday, to last until three o’clock. The service will be divided into seven parts, separated by hymns. : In most states main highways are more than 20 languages will meet \ gien the same State numeral as the more than 1,000 groups, banding the j lederal route number, to avoid con- jp]obe, and play the same hands of fusion. In North Carolina the State Conract Bridge against all other en- Highway Department has disregard- trants. The sixteen hands to be play- I ed U. S. route numbers in designat- e<; involve fine points of bidding and I ing its highways, with the result that pJay and were selected by the Com- two numbers appear on^ the roads, mittee on Hands of the National On U. S. No. 1 the "N. C. oO mark- ifri^jjre Association, which is composed ers will now be removed, it is said, of Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson, Theo- Ruskin W'arren, of Bel Air, Mary- tioro A. Lightner and W'aldeinar von land, president of the Maryland-Penn- Zedtwitz, sylvania U. S. No. 1 Association and Eight months were spent and the . .about 11 milt s from its starting point. I later cate. .Mr. Gil-kyscn will read one subjects, while some past political en- house was burned and the , <*f his short stories. The hour is counters in the county are not whol-. lat- ’4:30 o’clock. ly overlooked. But none of the < saved, however. As an added feature of this af- candidates for the office appeav to j Tuesday afternoon the fire.: ternoon’s program a stringed quar- kave any positive strength, and nega-, slowly eating its way'tet comprising Miss Bishop,' Charles tive energy 's «ot always to be the head of the Aberdeen lake, | Pier, Mr. Sabatelli and Alfred Yeo- hed on in political ^^ttles I- rom re- j ^ through into the tall grass on ; mans will play. The public is cor- liable information The I ilot is able ■ fanned by a heavy | dially invited to these weekly read- to expect Senator Morrison to carry | swert swiftly across the Mon-1 ir.gs and to meet the local authors, the county and to be c-hased close pj,,.]. territory and back down i The admission charge, all of which the dugout. But who the victor '« iti.ward the town of Aberdeen. ! goes to the library, is fifty cents, be If he IS luKed depends on the opin-; ] ion of the man who is talking about the fight. Wise heads say “Cam” has not been carried home on his shield very many times and they do not expect to see him buried this time. SEE CAROLINA CUI* RACE Those who are unable to attend throughout are requested to enter and j Secretary Baer of the association were entire world was searched for hands leave the church during the singing of j guests Monday noon of the Southern t,uitable for this gigantic contest. Each vnn\i <ANmni I To the hymns. ) Pines Chamber of Commerce at a player will receive, after the contest, ‘ ^ « The follow’ing clergymen will give I lunncheon meeting at the Country the par on the hands he played so addresses; The Revs. Murdoch Me- 1 Club. Representatives were also pres- that he may derive the benefits of Leod, F. Craighill Brown, W. L. Jack- 1 ent from Raleigh, Cheraw Sanford the lessons involved concerning prop- Eon, F, C. Hawkins, T. A. Cheatham, j and other points along Route 1. Co- er bidding and play. More than 350 Ernest L. Barber and J. Fred Stim- ! operation betv\een the two organiza- gold and silver prizes will be award- GIRLS ARE SHY A check-up of the marriage register shows that to cfa^e a total of only eleven marriage licenses have been issued since the beginning of 1932. Of this namber, three were for white couples and eight for colored. tions, the northern U. S. 1 association ed the winners. There will be prizes and the southern association, of which for each member of the winning Dr. L, B. McBrayer of Southern Pines North and South pairs and East and is president, was agreed upon, and la- West pairs. Two solid gold trophies ter in the day a resolution was passed will go to the pairs winning the In to merge the two bodies, with Dr. Me- ternational Championship, to be re- Itrayer as president and Mr. Warren tained by them for one j^ear. Silver as vice president. A program of stim- trophies will be awarded each mem- (Please Turn to Page 5-' (Please turn to page 5) A large number of residents of Southern Pines and Pinehurst plan to attend the annual running of the Carolina Cup race at Camden, S. C., tomorrow, Saturday, when Noel Laing of Southern Pines will ride in three of the four events on the card, in cluding the feature race for the Car olina trophy given each year in hon or of Thomas Hitchcock, Aiken, one of the leading horsemen of the coun try. The races are scheduled to start at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. the highwy near Johnson’s cabin i I’ALKS TO KIW ANIS ON anil burned the stable belonging to 1). i PEN1)IN(> TAX LE(iISLATION B. Herring. A horse was lost in the j James L. Hamilton prominent attor- i.ey of Washington, D. C., talked to the Kiwanis Club at its weekly meet ing Wednesday in the Community House, Aberdeen, on pending tax leg islation in Congress and its effect upon the country, the importance of balancing the budget, and other side lights on national affairs. He wag in troduced by Richr,rd Tufts and made a most interesting address. tire. A little further up the highway, nearly opposite Charley’s place, the Arnold cottage occupied by a colored family was burned with the loss of all the contents. Eats Into Knoll wood In the meantime, the fire, whi^h the (lay before had gone thi'ough the north side of Knollwood, was again fanned up by the heavy wind and came back through Knollwood proper, the Pine Needles and Mid-Pines sections and swept up through Manly. At Manly, the Archie Bass home, west of the highway, was burned, and a few hundred yards away five homes belonging to negroes were burned. The fire at one time worked back up into the northern edge of Southern STORES CLOSED MONDAY A large number of Aberdeen mer chants have signed a petition for the dosing of places of business in Aber deen next Monday in observance of Easter. Easter Monday has hereto fore been observed as a holiday here.
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