MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NO. 28.
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FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territoi '“^rth Carolina
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Aberdeen and Southern Fin-s, Norlh Carolina. Friday, June 10, 1932.
A. B. CAMERON IS
NOMINATED FOR
STATE ASSEMBLY
Wins Primary Fi|?ht
M. C. McDonald, Runner-up, Not
to Demand Second Primary, I
He Announces i
STATE AND COUNTY VOTE
CITIZENS ASK FOR
POSTPONEMENT OF
NEW P.O.BUILDING
Consider Appropriaf ion of
000 “An Unwarranted Expen
diture of Public Funds.”
HAILEY APPROVES ACTION
KOI5KKT K. REYNOLDS
MOORE CO. GAINS
8 TEACHERS FOR
NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
Allitnienfs for County and
Charier District Schools An
nounced by State Board
TOTAL IS OVER $136,000
Thfc following telegram was sent
I on Moniiay of this week to Senator
Mosiah W. Bailey and Congressman
'.I. Walter Lambeth at Washington:
I “We understood that an allotment
has been proposed for a new postoffice
I building in Southern I’ines, North
1 Carolina in a pending bill in Congress.
I While we should like such a building
in our community we feel that under
prevailing economic stress and the un
certainty of the futuie it would be
i an unwarranted expenditure of pub
lic funds. We sincerely hope that com
munities with similar proposed expen
ditures will join us in this tax sav
ing movement.”
The tel'*gram was signed by up
wards of 25 prominent residents of
Southern Pines. To one of the signers
Senator Bailey replied:
“Thank you very much for your con
siderate telegram. The attitude of
yourself and the other signers indi
cates a fine appreciation of the sit
uation. It heartens me to realize that
when necessity demands our people
can rise to a solidarity in the com
mon interests. I believe that our peo
ple will realize the critical situation
in our country and when they do they
will be prepared to make all sacri
fices. If so, all will be well after a
while.”
The telegram in question was
prompted by lh° discovery that the
Garner Bill, termed t>y some an
“economy measure,” by other.s a *
“pork bajrel” bill, contained provision New System of Marketing Meets
FIVE CENTS
Lucas and Deans Confess DariL^ Plot to
Extort $5,000 from Verner Z. Reed, Jr.
Captor and Captives
The Democratic primary last Sat
urday settled the question of the
party’s candidates for the fall elec-;
tions in all but a few instances. No j
second primary is looked for in the I
gubernatorial race. Though J. C. B. ]
Ehringhaus did not get a majority of |
the votes, his lead over R. T. Foun- |
tain and A. J. Maxwell was so com- '
manding that B'ountain is not ex- ■
pected to demand a second primary. [
Senator Cameron Morrison, who ran
nearly 15,000 votes behind Kobeit R. |
Reynolds for the nomination for
United States Senator, will try again!
July 2d. !
In county, Angus B. Cameron of
Carthage led the-field of five in the!
race for the State House of Repre
sentatives, with M. C. McDonald of ;
West End a close second. Mr. Me-1
Donald announced yesterday that he
would not, however, ask for a sec
ond primary, that he greatly appre
ciated the support given him, that he'
would have been glad to have served i
had the majority of the citizens of the j
county wanted him, but that he was j Of the increase of 333 in numbers
thoroughly satisfied with the result. | teachers for the public schools of
Charles J. McDonald lacked but ten | announced this week
votes of a majority m the four cor-j, , ^ .
, , u M . .... by the State Board of Equalization,
nered race for sheriff, paving the way, * ’
for former Sheriff Fry to call for | Moore county gains eight. The State
a second primary, but due to Sheriff j Board reported through the Raleigh
McDonald’s big vote it is not expected |News and Observer that Moore county
Fry will exercise his right. The only | headed the list of counties receiving
other county race in which a major- j fewer teachers than last year but the
ity was not given the leading candi-! rever.se is true. County Superintend-
date was for coroner, hut the incum- | ent H. Lee Thomas reports. The orig-
bent, D. Carl Fry led bis nearest oppo- inal allotment last yeai was 205 for an appropriation at this time of j
nent, John Sloan of .‘Aberdeen by; teachers as compared to 213 this year, $95,000 for a new postoffice building:
more than 700 votes and no second an increase of exactly eight. Last year in Southern Pines. Aberdeen was in-
piimary is expected here. [three teachers weie added to the eluded in the list with an appropria-:
Wi'l J. Harrington, Recorder of ; original allotment of the Hemp Grad- tion of $75,000, Pinehurst alloted a
Deeds, led in the vote getting with a' ed School and two were added a: new building to cost $70,000. A group
total of 2,CG7. Next highest was M. i Vass, making the final total of reg- in Southern Pines at once organized
G. Boyette for solicitor with 2,.562. I ular teachers allotted to Moore county in opposition to such an expenditure
The closest races were those be-1 last year 210. This leaves a net gain on the ground that an omnibus build-
tween Wilbur J. Currie, chairman of | of three regular teachers over last ing meant increased taxes at a time
the board of county commissioners, | year for Moore county. j when decreased ta.xes were the coun-
and his opponent, L. R. Flinc-hum, | Aberdeen and Southem Pines gain-' try-wide cry.
Currie winning by a scant three | ed one colored teacher each, while i Chamber Argues Move
votes, and Gordon Cameron and D. A, Highfalls was granted one additional, At a meeting of directors of the | past they are as high as can be hoped
Patterson for the county commission | teacher. A number of schools entitled; Chamber of Commerce in Southern j for under prevailing conditions, and
from the Sandhills-Mlneral Springs to an increase in the number of Pines Tuesday noon Struthers Burt i one common remark is that the cash
district, which Cameron won by 12'teachers for 1932-33 on the basis of tasked members to go on record w-ith | price on delivery of the crate is much
votes. Judge Humber only defeated average daily attendance were denied j their representatives at Washington ^ better than the expectation of a much
Vance Rowe for the Recorder’s Court 1 the increase on account of lack of - in opposition to the expenditure for higher figure from berries that are
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Demanded Money on
Threat of Kidnaping
Officers Currie and Gilliland
Capture Lucas at Church Des
ignated for Delivery of Cash
DEANS WRITER OF NOTE
Joe Lucas and Howar ' ''"'cans, both
of Koseland were boun*- /jver to Su
perior Court on Monday at Caithage
on chai'ges of lonspiracy to defraud
\ erner Z. Reed, Jr., of Pinehurst, to
whom they had sent a letter demand
ing .$5,000 on threat of the kidnap
ing of his children or himself. Bond
j was fixed at $10,000 each and the two
men ai'c lodged in the county jail,
j The letter, postmarked, was receiv-
! ed by ^Mr. Reed, prominent sports-
I man of Pinehurst and Newport, R.
i I., last Friday morning. It read as
, follows:
j Mr. Vernan Reed
Pinehurst, N. C.
June 2, 1932,
i\Ir. V'ernan Reed:
I am writeing you in regards
of five thousand dollars $5,-
000.00 to be delivered at old deep
Krick church fritiay night the
3id at 9 o’clock P. M. or I am
going to kid nap your child or you
Left to right, Joe Lucas, Deputy Sheriff Fuller Curiie and Harold Deans, j
Photo by Epps ;
Dewberry Auction Sales Release
Cash to Growers through County
With Favor Thoufjh Prices
Have Been Better
Hy Bion H. Butler
In the main the folks are pretty
well pleased with the dewberry auc
tion sales at both Vass and Cameron.
Pi ices are not what a few years ago
would have been regarded as neces
sary for happiness, but in a genera!
way the sentiment is that while the
figures are low as compared with the
‘Once in a Blue Moon’
by a 61 vote margin.
funds.
a building at this time, and in the dis-
Ehringhaus carried the county by The board increased the allotment | cussion which followed was backed up
20 votes over Fountain, with Max- of funds $30,106.68, or from the orig-! by Frank Buchan, Dr. W. C. Mudgett
well third. Reynolds more than dou | inal allotment of $15,182,279.18 for | and others. Dr. L. B. McBrayer was
bled Morrison’s vote in the county, I
Please turn to page 5)
Filling Station Robbed
by Two Hold-Up Men
Pull Gun on Tom Youngblood in
Heart of Southern Pines and
Order Safe Opened
PICQUET TO KEEP THEATRE
OPEN FOR ANOTHER WEEK
1870 to 905. Chester Bell, former
Moore county auditor, though defeat
ed in the state, carried Moore by a
large majority.
The official vote, State and county
tickets, follows:
COUNTY TICKET
For House of Representatives
Angus B. Cameron 1050
M. C. McDonald 978 Turning to comply with a request | Pending a decision on his applica-
T. D. McLean 032: for a gallon of gasoline, Tom Young-! tion for decreased film rentals, Man-
N. L. Gibbon 188 | blood, in charge of the Standard Fill-|ager Charles W. Picquet of the Car-
W. R. Clegg 780 ing Station in the heart of Southern | olina Theatre, Southern Pines, an-
For Sheriff
John McCaskill 600
Charles J. McDonald 1843
R. G. Fi-y 1164
R. B. Taylor
For Register of Deeds
E. J. Woodward
of the opinion that such a building j three dollars with an average of not
program at this time would stimulate | far from two dollars and a half. This
business and put a lot of unemployed; money was actual money in hand as
to woi’k, in which M. G. Nichols was i the berries were unloaded in the car
inclined to agree with him. The board: in the tiutk going to the northern
i market.
(Please turn to page 8) [ The fruit at both markets came in
in right good shape and quality. One
Pines heard the order, “Stick ’em up,” nounced yesterday that he would keep
and turned to face a .45 revolver on the theatre open one more week and
Monday night about 10:30 o’clock. He not close tomorrow, Saturday, night,
was commanded to open the drawer of
- 89 i the cash register, but this revealing
j little money the two ho’d-up men or-
414 I dered the safe opened. From that they
as announced in last week’s papers.
“Since the publications of the clos
ing announcements,” Mr. Picquet said,
When you read this vou will
say you canot get my kid but
listen I know where your famly
is and have got a man watchingf
them and one watching you to
see you don’t make any crooked
moves. So ui ive by the Church
real slow and thow it out and be
carefull for I will have men
watching the place with guns.
Now take warning for you
know what happened to the Lin-
berg baby.
For I am not asking you for a
large a mount that you cant pay
and never miss it. and If you dont
do this you know what high ex
plosives Will do. be shure and
have it in small bills.
Yours Truly, '
Mee
: The letter was written on a sheet
I of large tablet paper and was post-
i marked •pinehurst, June 3, 9 \ M.”
I soon as he opened the lette*- Mr.
I Reed senr for Sheriff Charles McDon
ald an(i a plan of campaign was ma;i-
j ped out Mr. Reed placr 1 ten o.i''-dol-
, lar bi’.’s in a cood-siz.d box ai'd car-
i-’ied out instri'Ltions c'-'ntaineu in the
I note. The l ilis ’.vere mni’kefl so that
I in the eveif the extortioners got aw'ay
i there woul 1 1».> hometfn r tD work on.
Deputy Sheriff Fuller Currie and
I Night Patrolman Gilliland of Pine-
I hurst went to the Deep Creek chur ;h
designated in the letter and conceal-
pi! themselves. The church is about
three miles from the Reed home.
.\round 9 o’clock Friday night Mr.
Reed, accompanied by Tod Nederfield,
drove by the spot and tnrew out the
if „ile up tMr cnM 'found l.«'S.lu,d.y J?*-®””” ™
^ , .. . 1 the scene and located the parceL
bv the side of the road outside the',,,, i, * . 4. • 1 -4.
■V ^ , i''hen he stooped to pick it up Cur-
citv limits half wav betv.'een the sul- ■ • j u- i • j
, , • . , ,1 rie jumped on him. Lucas was carried
phur plant and the Laurinburg road. 1. .1 • 1 ^ n-i.
*r I,. 1 1 r j _ i- the jail at Carthage. When it was
found that ho could not write offi-
consigned to an uncertain market in
the north. The figures at the opening
day of the market on .Monday rang
ed from a dollar and a half to around
Hundred Local Residents To
Pre.sent Play for Benefit
of Communit.v House
Nearly 100 prominent local peo
ple are to take pari in a comedy-
drania, “Once in a Blue Moon,” to
be presented at the Dixie Theatre,
.\berdeen, next Thursday and Fri
day nights, June 16th and 17th, for
the benefit of the Aberdeen Com
munity House Association. A story
of the play appears on Page 6 of
»his issue, a list of the cast of char
acters in the advertisement which
appears on Page 8. The entire
SandhiHs is invited to the perform
ances.
Negro Boy Found Dead
on Eve of Wedding
Georjie Bradshaw, Local Boot-
black, Victim of Heart Attack
On Outskirts of Aberdeen
George Bradshaw, Negro shoe-shine
of the visiting buyers sugge.sted that
on top of each other rather than
spread them all out over the bottom
of the truck when bringing them in
they would not be jarred as badly
on the road from the farm to the
He had pitched forward on his face'
and as his hand clutched at his heart.!
. «IIU lun flaliu VlUtCIICll ttl. III? llt'Ul l, 1 _ aU x i 1
selling sheds, and he also cautioned kne,,- there must .lave been an
about some of the baskets that show
ed carelessness in too many green
berries. The prices showed where care
had been exercised and where care
was subject to such spells.
There was no evidence of foul play
or robbery as he had $4.00 and a
accomplice in the crime, and after
confessing his part in the attempted
extortion, Lucas implicated Deans.
The latter was arrested at the Marl-
naa neen exLii..>ea a. u person when found. He'. ' , , , . , "
lessness had prevailed. The auction Williams |
“I have made a trip to our distribut-1 market also gave the farmer a good ^.^5, « well-known col
Jas. n.. Davis 6631 netted $178, turned on their heels and ing center in a final effort to get insight into why some beriies bring character. There was great con-
W. J. Harrington 2667
For Judge of Recorder’s Court
J. Vance Rowe 1761
George H. Humber 1822
For Solicitor of Recorder’s Court
disappeared down Connecticut avenue j such reductions in film rentals as; good prices and why some are bitter gtg^nat
towards Bennett street. They have not
been seen since.
Y'oungblood was on duty at the new
will allow us to continue through the
summer. The exchange managers are
obliged to submit all such matters to
disappointments.
Cash (Jathering
At both Vass and Cameron the op-
ion among the colored folks
service station of the Standard Oil :their home offices in New Y'ork, which ening day of the market looked like
over his death, as George was plan
ning to be married and a big wedding
celebration was being arranged.
Edward J. Bums 977 | Company of New Jersey at Bioad, takes time. Pending a decision I have old times. Farmers were in town sell- [) ROUTE U. S NO. 1
M. G. Boyette 2562 | street and Connecticut avenue Monday | decided to remain open c+ie mon’e | ing their fruit, and pickers were there
For Coroner 1 night when the two young men ap-j week and believe I have secured two | getting money for picking as th« ber-
Kenneth A. Caddell 3321 peared. They said they’d run out of i more attractions which are decidedly
TRAFFIC THROUGH TOWN
D. Carl Fry 1681
A, H. Bray 613
John Sloan 944
For County Commissioners
District No. 1—
Wilbur H. Currie 1753
L. R. Flinchum 1750
District No. 2—
D. D. McCrimmon 1684
E. C. Matheson 1741
(Please turn to p«g« 6)
gas down on the next street and ask
ed him for a gallon. When he turned
to get it one of the pair whipped out
the gun.
Night Patrolman Newton replied
promptly to the alarm sent out by
Youngblood as soon as the men were
out of sight, but no trace of them was
found. It is surmised that they had
a car awaiting them around the cor
ner on Bennett street and made a
speedy getaway.
worth while for this extra week.”
CHILDREN HAVE OUTING
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I COURTHOUSE JANITOR HELD
i ON CHARGE OF LARCENY
Twenty-five children of the Cath
olic Church at Southern Pines enjoyed
A movement to connect East Broad
street. Southern Pines with U. S.
Highway No. 1 near the point where
the highway enters the city limits is
under consideration, the matter hav
ing been presented to the Chamber of
Commerce at its meeting last Tues-
and Pinebluff, at an early hour Sat
urday morning by Deputies Currie
and Lambert. At Carthage he was
asked to write his name, address, age,
etc. and the handwriting was found to
correspond with that in the note.
Deans then confessed. Both Lucas and
Deans claim they had no idea of
carrying out the threats in the note.
Each is around 25 years of age.
Mr. Reed has a wife and two chil
dren, both boys, one eight and one
five years of age. His residence on
the outskirts of Pinehurst is one of
the finest in the state, built several
years ago as a winter home. Mr. Reed
has his own polo field there, and two
Tom Caddell, for several years jan
a picnic Wednesday at Montesanti’s | itor at the Moore county court house, day. Merchants believe that business I years ago pui chased a pack of hounds
cabin. Miss Ruby Taft was in charge
of the youngsters at their outing, and
they had a giand time at games and
stunts, and plenty to eat. Father Dil
lon joined in the fe.stivities.
was on Monday bound to Superior would be stimulated by diverting, to hunt over his extensive property
Court on the charge of larceny of traffic through the heart of the vil- j and the adjacent territory. He is a
$33..50 from the office of County Sup- lage in this rtianner. The chamber’s | member of the Sandhill Polo Club
erintendent H. Lee Thomas. Tom gave highway committee has the matter un-i which plays throughout the winter
bond of $200. tier consideration. months at Pinehurst.