MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NO. 31.
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FIRST L\ NEW'S,
CIRCILATION &
ADVERTISLXG
of the Sandhill Terr<^V/4,^ J* North Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday July 1, 1932.
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FIVE CENTS
COUNTY OFFICERS
WITH BLOODHOUND
TRAIL MURDERER
Baseball Games of County League
Draw Big Crowds of Sandhills Fans
Intensive Man Hunt Stajied in
Section Following Slaying
at Cumnock
HARVEY WALLACE SOUGHT
The most intensive man hunt ever
staged in Moore county was carried
on last week with county officers and
iicores of private citizens putting
forth every effort to capture Harvey
Wallace, colored, one of the alleged
slayers of Thomas Beal and N. H.
Perry at Cumnock more than two
veeks ago. More than once the offi
cers are thought to have been hot on
the trail, but each time the man has
eluded capture. Bloodhounds from
Lumberton, Smithfield and Fayette
ville have been called in to aid in
the search.
The Moore county men were on
Wallace’s trail on Wednesday after
noon, but w^hen night came they were
forced to allow the dogs to rest. Late
Thursday the trail was again pick
ed up and another dog caired in, but
with no success.
About sundown Thursday evening
Wallace was seen leaving a tobacco
barn in the Cameron section and the
story goes that he went to the home
of a colored man who at the time was
catnig his supper, without speaking
a word walked in and laid a .45 re
volver on the table and began helping
himself to the supper before greet
ing his host. The officers at this time
■were only about an hour behind him
and trailed him through Cameron
and into the edge of V'ass where the
trail was lost, darkness having come
by that time. The man is said to have
told a colored man that he spent that
night in the basement of a church in
Vnss.
Headed for Aberdeen
The next information gathered by
t'fficers was that Wallace had eat
en breakfast Friday morning at a
iiegro home on Cypress Creek, and
Aberdeen Continues • Winning
Streak Vass Wins and Loses
Carthage Beats So. Pines
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Peaches Over $2.00
in Northern Markets
Condition and Prices of Fruit
Satisfactory Except Demand
at the Sheds
Peaches have been bringing $2 to
$2.45 a bushel net in the northern
markets. The pack that seems to take
best is the half-bushel basket so far
as it permits a smaller division than
the bushel. Not many trucks are
showing an interest yet in the peach
crop, ?Hhough it is rather early in
season to judge what will be the case
when more fruit is ready to go out.
An unsatisfactory experience along
the roads that pass orchards is the
lack of patrons who stop at the pack
houses to buy. In previous years
some of the orchards expected to sell
enough stuff in small lots to carry on
the day’s expenses, but this year trav
elers do not seem to care much for
what they .see in the sheds.
Early Roses are shown up in good
shape where fertilizer and cultivation
has been right. Some complaints are
heard from orchards that used too
much soda that the fruit is green on
one side and fuzzy, but the orchards
that were more generous with cotton
seed meal make few'er complaints in
this respect. Some of the old stand
by orchards given indications of big
crops of high grade fruit. It is believ
ed that worms will be less in evidence
this year than in some years. Reports
from Georgia still confirm the reports
of a small crop there, smaller per
haps than has been estimated on last
reports. Illinois, Arkansas and the
W'est arer all reported as showing
poorer pros{}ects and Virginia is said
to be in hard luck in the same direc
tion.
Packers say they will ship more or
less crate stuff this year, for while
baskets have an advantage of less
cost of pac]^ing, the crates with the
small carriers do not put as much
weight on the fruit in handling as it
gets in the big baskets. In a couple of
weeks the Hileys will begin to move,
and the last of the month the Belle.
Everything so far looks good.
Carthage defeated Southern Pines,
Aberdeen took the measure of Pine-
hurst and Va.ss-Lakeview of West
End in the three games of the Moore
County Baseball League played on
Wednesday. Large crowds witnessed
each battle. Aberdeen with the loss of
but one game to date leads the lea
gue standing.
With the scoie at 2 to 2 in the
tUh Southern Pines rooters saw their
hopes dashed to the ground in the
7th when Carthage put across three
runs, following this up with three
more in the 9th for a 8 to 2 victory.
Burns was on the mound for Car
thage up to the last of the Gth when
1'6 exchanged positions with 1st Base
man Shields. They both kept the hits
well scattered. D. Bowers went the
full nine innings for Southern Pines
and though hits were bunched against
him in two innings, he starred in the
fieM, stopping no less tlian six hot
liners.
Carthage shoved across its first run
in the opening inning when Stamey
>cored, but Fisher lined out a two-
bagger for S. P. in the second half
and got home on errors, leaving the
score tied. Southern Pines went into
the lead in the 3d when Bowers scor-1
ed on a hit by Wilson, but Carthage
tied it up again in the 4th when Turn- j
ley got around the bases. Carthage j
staged a grand rally in the 7th, |
Stamey, Shields and Spence scoring, |
and repeated in the 8th when Stamey,
Duke and Coulmes crosses the plates
on bunched hits and fast base run-
n'.ng.
The batting order:
Carthage—Stamey, 3b; Duke, 2b;
Cagle, cf; Rose, c; Turnley, If; |
Shields, lb and p; Burns, p and lb; ■
Spence, ss; Myritk and Coulmes, rf.
Southern Pines—C. Montesanti, ss;
Bowers, p; Fisher, c; Vann, 3b; Wil
son, lb; Harris, 2b; Miller, cf; lIoU,
rf; T. Montesanti, If.
Score by Innings
Cavthsge ...1 0 0 1 0 0 3 3 0—8
So. Pines - . 1 0 I 0 0 C 0 0 0—2
Aberdeen 1."), I’inehurst 2
The largest crowd of the season in
A! erdeen turned out for the game
with Pinehurst Wednesday afternoon
and was rewarded by seeing its team
win to the tune of 15 to 3 in a con
test featured by Aberdeen’s hitting
and fast infield play and by Pine-
hurst’s errors. Ferree, Folley, Bill
Maurer, Russell, McLean, Tarlton and
Bill Huntley all had their batting eyes
with them for Aberdeen, while Aber
deen’s pitchers, Don Maurer and Bill
Carter, had Pinehurst always at their
mercy, only four hits being recorded
off their deliveries. Carter pitched the
last two innings, allowing one hit and
one run.
Huntley celebrated his return to
baseball after a recent injury by bat
ting 1,000, scoring a single and a
double in his two times up. The field
ing of the Aberdeen infield was of
the professional type. .Aberdeen hAs
lost but one game in the Moore Couiity
League series to date, and leads in
the standing of the eight clubs.
The batting order of Wednesday’s
game was;
Pinehurst—W'allace, c; Henderson,
H. McKaskill, ss; Grimm, 2b; Spivey,
lb; M. McKaskill, cf; ^Itley, rf;
Kelly, 3b; Currie, If; Frank McKas
kill, p.
Aberdeen—Ferree, 2b; Folley, If;
Bill Maurer, cf; Russell, c; McLean,
lb; Tarlton, 3b; Bobbitt, ss; Leach,
Huntley, rf; Don Maurer, Carter, p.
Score by Innings
Pinehurst 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1— 3
Aberdeen 0 0 8 0 0 1 1 5 x—10
Vass-Lakeview won two and lost
one game during the past week. The
Twin-City team defeated Southern
Pines for the second time t'his season
last Friday at Vass, 9 to 4, a homer
by C. L. Tyson of Vass featuring the
contest. On Monday Vass met
defeat at the hands of Thomas-
town, the game being played on the
letter’s diamond and ending 5 to 1 for
the home nine. On Wednesday Vass
w'on from West End 3 to 1 in a close
and exciting game at Vass. Last Sat
urday Aberdeen defeated West End
at West End 6 to 3.
Last Week of Movies
Picquet Announces Closing of
Southern Pines Theatre on
July 9th
The Southern Pines Theatre re
gretfully closes for an indefinite
period on Saturday night, July
Dth, Manager Charles W. Picquet
announced yesterday. If it is pos
sible to do so, he will arrange to
re-open occasionally for some spec
ial picture but it is impossible to
make any definite promises at this
time, he says.
’^a™ptKr Asks Abolislunent,
Alltrlrl IUKUd p
GULF OIL OFFICE^ Kiwanis Urges Retention of
Health and Welfare Offices
Heavily Armed Trio. Captured in
Aberdeen, Held for Superior
Court at Carthage
OTHER RECORDER CASES
LeRoy Dennen, Clifton Cockfield
and Lee White, three white men from
South Carolina, were in court on Mon-
da.v charged with breaking and en
tering the Gulf Refining Company's
place at Aberdeen, with larceny and
carrying a concealed weapon. They
were bound to Superior Court under
bond of $1,000 each. The men are
said to have been out of prison in
South Carolina only a short while.
One of the defendants testified that
they had taken his brother-in-law’s
car, gun and pistols and had broken
into a store in South Carolina from
which they took articles of clothing
and canned goods. They tried to make
their get-away, planning to go to
Western North Carolina, and were
taken in Aberdeen after they had en
tered the Gulf Company’s place of
bu.«iness where they took an alarm
clock, a pen and a pencil. In their
I car they had two sledge hammers, a
L. L. .Wooley of Southern. Pines j pair of bolt clips, a gun, two pistols
and <J. \ance Rowe of Aberdeen are 1 and two bunches of keys. There is a
WOOLLEY OR ROWE
NAMED TO HEAD
SANDHILL POST
Local Legionnaires to Elect New
Officers at Annual Meeting
Next Week
FULL SLATE NOMINATED
the rival candidates for commander
of Sandhill Post No. 134, American
Legion in the annual election to be
held at the Civic Club in Southern
Pines on July Gth. The winner will
succeed L. V. O'Callaghan, whose
term expires after a successful year
in office. Woolley and Rowe are the
<andidates of the nominating com- glary.
niittee. Others may be nominated from
the floor at the meeting, but there is
little expectation of this.
Letters were sent out to all mem
bers of the post this week with the
slate of candidates to be voted on
next Wedne.^day night. The balance
statute in North Carolina which makes
it a felony to possess goods for the
purpose of burglary, so the three de
fendants were bound to Superior
Court on two charges, breaking and
entering the office of the Gulf "Re-
finin? Company, and under Section
4236 for preparing to commit bur-
Mass Meeting
Citizens to Gather at Carth
age Today to Consider
County Economies
A mass meeting of citizens of
Moore county will be held at the
court house in Carthage at 2:30
o’clock this afternoon, Friday, for
the purpose of considei'ing recom
mendations to the County Board of
Commissioners for drastic econo
mies in the general expenses of the
count.V. Abolition of certain offices
will be considered. All white citi
zens of the county are urged to be
on hand and to take an active part
in the proceedings.
Answer to Tax Reduction Prob
lem Not To He F'ound Here,
Kiwanis Reports
SCHOOLS TOO EXPENSIVE
Two reports, one by the organized
taxpayers of j^ensalem township
headed by .1. W\ Page, the other by
the Public Affairs committee of the
Kiwanis Club, were prepared this
week for submission to the County
Board of Commissioners at their next
meeting. The former, drastic in its
demands, calls for abolishing the of-
, lices of hunie demonstrator, county
I farm demonstrator, county physicion
and county accountant and the com-
' bining of the offices of county pros-
1 ecutor and county attorney.
The Kiwanis report reveals the
very small saving possible through the
abolishment of the health and wel-
i fare offices, citing figures to show
I the few cents of the present tax rate
necessary to continue the essential
work of the county physician, farm
ABOLISHMENT OF
OFFICES ASKED IN
DUVfO A¥ 17TI/I R17P0RT' and home demonstrator,
DljiIVIjI and holds that the expenditure for
I these officials is as important as for
Tax Payers Would Do Away with ' highways
Physician and Demonstra
tion Agents
COMBINE SOME OFFICES
Six Months For Rosser
That the answer to the problem of
reducing taxes in Moore county is not
to be found in the elimination of wel
fare and health officers but possi
bly in some curtailment of the ex-
The report of the Bensalem taxpav- ; of maintaining and operating
ers is in the nature of a petition to';^'’^ di^inct^ is the bas-
l^< of a repoi-t submitted to the Ki-
Frfd Ro.s«er, white, who was recent-1 the Board of County Commissioners, p.. . ^
1>. c.„Hl a. a ..ill, ™l„ con. i J, “f'- Co-
mittee on Wednesday of this week.
The report^ written by Paul Dana, e.x-
tendere and was given six months for _
f . J i 1 i The organized tax payers of Ben-
manutacturing and twelve months' “ ,
suspended for possessing a still. township, after holding four ^ pert accountant, of Pinehurst. goes
Ben Taylor, one of the principal ac-!‘»«etings with considerable investiga-| thoroughly into the county’s buaget,
of the list submitted by the nominat-1 tors in a drunken brawl, was given discussion submit for your and is sufficiently enlightening to be
mg committee is as follows: i two months on the roads on a charge i‘‘‘discommendations as fol-j P>'>nted here in full. Thp report reads;
For 1st vice commander, F. M.; of carrying a concealed weapon and 'j present time there is much
Uwight or T. R. Cole; 2d vice com-^ was bound to Superior Court for an' Whereas Hie income of tax payers .(i'scussion throughout the county as to
niander, W. C. Dinneen or John H.
assault with a deadly weapon with, ‘^is and other parts of the county ways and means of reducing the
permanent injury. He appealed to the' been reduced from 50 to 75 |
Superior Court on the concealed wea
pon and bond was fixed at $300.
Ought Waddill, colored, and G. M.
Upchurch, were charged with violat
ing the prohibition law and driving a
car while intoxicated. Wacidill was
found guilty of driving while intoxi-' therefore feel that our public office ot our county tax rate.
Stephenson; adjutant, J. F. Sinclair
or C. P. Everest; finnace officer, B.
U. Richardson or R. L. Hart; ser
geant at arms, J. C. Clarke or Joe
Hensley; chaplain, J. Fred Stimson or
K. L. Barber; publicity’ officer, Ray
mond Kennedy or Nelson C. Hyde;
historian Dr. E. M. Poate or John
G. Henimer; service officers, three to j cated and both were found guilty of I'olders should accpt the reconinvnda-
be elected by districts: A. L. Burnej'| u^ilawful possession and ,'transport-jherewith made during this [>res
or J. Frank Shamburger from Aber-j ing intoxicating liquors. Waddill was |emergency
deen; L. V. O’Callaghan or Dr. J. W. ] fined $.50 and deprived of his right
Dickie from Southern Pines; R. E.
Denny or Dr. Clement Monroe from
Pinehurst.
One of the highlights of the ac
complishments of the Sandhill post
during the year was the organization
of the Moore County Baseball League,
which is now" in full swing and furn
ishing entertainment and excitement
to the people of the county during the
ent in the past two or three years eral is worthy of most earnest con-
and there appears no sign of relief in , sideration by every tax payer, includ-
the near future, and such condition j *ng that of how our taxes are being
presents an emergency recjuiring in , f-pent and where reductions can beat
all fairness that all of our citizens \ made. But we should also give
jointly bear the burdens thereof, we |careful attention to an analysis
Home Demonstrator—We recom-
Beginning with the year 1921 the
county tax rate has fluctuated from a
low of ()7c per .SlOO.OO property val
uation to a high of .$1.18, which was
to drive a car for ninety days and : and that this office be : the rate for ]<t27 In 1931 the'rate
upon payment of the costs prayer for abolished, tailing in this, that the j oi le owest in some ten
judgment was continued as to Up-j the 1931-32 j N 'alue of
I amount from all sources. about 430.00 would brinjr in ap-
church
i County Demonstrator—We recom-1 pi'oximately $193,000.00.
SECOND PRIMARY TOMORROW j mend and insist that this office be looks over carefully the tax
FOR GOVERNOR .\ND SENATOR abolished. Failing this, that the sal- | for the past ten years he will
j arj' from all sources be 50 per cent j that some 80 to 85 percent of our
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the date of! of the 1931-32 salary. | fount.v taxes have gone consistently
.... the second primary, called by Sena-j Health Officer—We recommend ,fo''schools and roads. This means that
«iuiet summer season. Other work of 1 tor Camer.'>n Morrison and Lieuten-! that the present county health office ' ^ o t e ot ei countiy activities, in-
the post includes relief measures, un-1 ant Governor R. T. Fountain as a re
employment aid and assistance for suit of the failure of their opponents,
disabled veterans of the World War
both here and at the government hos
pital at Oteen.
DEMOCRATS AT CHICAGO
GO “WRINGING WET"
The Democratic party in national
convention adopted a “wringing wet”
plank in the platform, as the Raleigh
News & Observer expresses it, aft^r
a warm battle on Wednesday night.
North Carolina delegates voted for
the minority plank, wet but not as wet
as the majority measure. The adopted
plank calls for outright repeal of the
18th amendment, and beer and light
Robert R. Reynolds and J. C. B. Eh-
ringhaus, respectively, to poll a ma
jority of votes for the offices of U.
S. Senator and Governor in the pri
mary on June 2d. Moore county vot
ers will register their choice at the
same polling places as a month ago,
and are urged to do their duties as
citizens and cast their ballots some
time between sun-up and sun-down.
BION H. BUTLER TELLS
KIWANIS HE’S OPTIMISTIC
Bion H. Butler announced himself
still the optimist despite everything
at Wednesday’s meeting of the Ki-
wines as soon as Congress can so leg-1 wanis Club of -Aberdeen, held in the
is late.
FATHER OF C. J. JOHNSON
DIES AT BUIES CREEK
Arch Johnson, father of Cliff J.
Johnson, proprietor of the Standard
Store in Aberdeen, died Wednesday at
his home at Buies Creek. He was
about 70 years o’f age. Mr. Johnson
suffered a stroke several days ago
from which he failed to recover. The
funeral was held at the family church
near the home yesterday afternoon at
3:30 o’clock, many from Aberdeen at
tending.
Aberdeen Community House. Mr. But
ler addressed the club on short no
tice but gave one of the most inspir
ing talks the members had heard in
a long time. As the gist of the argu
ments he set forth is contained in his
leading editorial in this issue of The
Pilot, this reporter will not endeavor
to ‘‘cover” the speech here.
Plans for celebrating the Fourth in
Southern Pines went askew this week
when it was found impossible to pro
cure the band and prominent speaker
which the committee had on its pro
gram for the occasion.
be abolished and that the public health
work be e-xecuted by contract execut
ed between the county commission
and the Moore County Medical So
ciety at cost not to exceed $75. per
month; that the charity practice of
eluding the payment of the courthouse
bonds, ha%'e been taken care of out
of on the average, not over 20 percent,
of the total tax.
In 1931 of the 73c tax levy the
schools took 28c^ highway debt service
the county and the dispensing of char-! the county and courthouse
ity medicine be allocated by the Medi
cal Society and that the physician do
ing such chaiity practice receive ac
tual cost of medicine and travel ex
pense.
County Nurse—That the direction
of the county nurse be included in the
above contract.
County Accountant and County Tax
bonds 8c, a total of 50c.
This left 2.3c for all of the other
count.V activities summarized as fol
lows :
County General—15c.
County Health— 3.
Outside Poor— 5i;
At the present time indications
point to our being able to reduce the
Collector—That the office of county ^^ove levy of 50c very slightly so long
accountant and assistant be abolished
and that the duties now performed by
same be performed by the tax collec
tor and that he be charged with the
responsibility of reporting to the tax
assessors all undei'valuations of prop
erty and property not listed; that the
salary of the tax collector remain at
$1,800 per year.
County Auditor—That the county
commissioners agree to pay not over
$600 per year for all auditing.
Warden of County Home—That the | duction.
recent recommendations of the
as we wish to maintain our schools
at their present standards, and the
credit of the county for the payment
of its various bonds. Thus the only
place for a reduction would seem to
be in the 23c. During these difficult
days a total levy of 8c to maintain
and assist the health and charitable
work of the county does not ^em an
unreasonable tax levy. This leaves us
therefore with 15c County General ex
penses in which to attempt a tax re-
Salaries Reduced
County commissioners be carried out.
County Presecutor and County At*
torney—That these offices be combin-
Please turn to page 5)
The County Commissioners have
been making quite drastic reduction
in salaries of our county health offi-
(Please turn to page 8)