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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 12, NO. 34. y ^^^ARTHAOE &Aci.e SPRINGS LAKE\/l£W EHO MAHU6Y southcrh JACK90H SPRinos ASHUEV MC.»GHTS PlMcetUFP PILOT FIRST L\ NEWS, CIRCrLATlON & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Teri^^/*. Aberdeen and Southern Pin*s, North Carolina, Friday July 22, 1932. SECOND VICTIM OF SUMMER SEASON Ralph Pryor. 19, of Near Aber deen Seized with Cramp in Callerv Lake PAL HAS NARROW ESCAPE Svvlmniinp claimed its second victim of the summer season in the Sandhills during the past week when Ralph Pryo^, 19-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pryor, who resicle about two miles out of Aberdeen on the road to Raeford, was drowned in the small Jake on the Gallery’ estate on the edge of Southern Pines. The accident occurred about noon on Saturday. Ralph and his cousin, Charlie Gil- lis, went to the pond en route home from a trip to Aberdeen to deliver vegetables. The little lake, made a few years ago when William Gallery tlamned the stream running through his property to further enhance its beauty, is one of the coldest in the section, fed by springs and well shad- td. The sudden transition from the hot air to the cold water is believed t(v have caused young Pryor to be seized with cramps after he jumped into the pond, for after once swim ming across and turning back toward the other shore he called to Gillis that he couldn’t make it. He was at one ot the few points in the little lake which is over one’s head. Gillis hurried to him, seized him by the hair as he started to go down, but was almost drow’ned himself in his attempts to save him. After div ing for Pryor several times he rushed tc Southern Pines for aid. James and Anderson Rountree, Le- land McKeithen and Frank Wilder met the distracted Gillis in Southern Pines, and while one of them went for Dr. J. S. Milliken, the others rushed to the pond. There they suceeded in locating Pryor and bringing him to the surface. They, with Dr. Milliken and Dr. H. E. Bowman, who arrived from Aberdeen, worked over him for two hours, but to no avail. P’uneral services were held Sunday afternoon at Bethesda. Wounded Prisoner Takes French Leave Vila's Store Thief, Recuperatin}? at County Hospital, Steals Some Clothe.s and Checks Out When No One is Looking; After spending several dayr, in the Moore Gounty Hospital re- cupei-ating from gun shot wounds sustained as he was leaving Mc Dermott’s store in Vass which he had forcibly entered in the early morning hours of June 8, John Henry Meeks, colored, sometime dur ing last Friday night left said hospital v/ithout bothering those in au thority to officially discharge him. Neither did he call a nurse to gath er up his clothing for him, but helped himself to some that was handy and checked out, leaving no forwarding address. Sheriff G .J. McDonald or his deputies had been visiting the hos pital daily since the Negro had been there with the intention of transfering him to the jail just as soon as those in attendance thought it was safe to do so. He had appeared to be quite badly injured, the gun shot taking effect in his body and also in his ankles, but he evi dently pretended that his suffering was greater than it was in order to make good his escape. Meeks, at the time he was captured, stated that he had been off the chain gang only tw'o weeks. Officers had hoped, through jewelry found in his possession, to connect him with robberies at other places. ABERDEEN WINS TO TAKE LEAGUE LEAD FROM VASS Exciting: 10-Innin>; Game in County League Broken I'p bv Maurer’s Rat S. P. DEFEATS CAMERON • of North Carolina FIVE CENTS The Peach Story (ieorj^la Has Shipped 881 Cars as Afjainst 4,(>98 a Year A^jo Here’s the peach story in a nut- ■shell; Up to July I'.tth Georgia had shipped 881 cars of peaches against 4,098 cars up to the same date last year. To the same date North Carolina shipped 114 against 110 last year. This should be the height of the Georgia season. The North Caro lina cro)) is just beginning to move. N. C. Hileys are quoted at $3.00 to $3.2.') in Baltimore, $3.50 in New Vork, .$3.75 in Cincinnati. Decide on Needed Reduction in Expenses and Deniand Action Ralph Pajre Sees,Task of Trying | to Cut Individual Items as Hopeless One STANDING OF CLUBS Aberdeen 10 Vass-Lakeview 11 Thomastown 6 Pinehurst 7 .6 Carthage 5 Cameron 4 West End 5 A single by Purvis Ferree and a double by Bill Maurer broke up a ball game between the leading teams in the Moore County League, .^bci'- deen a^id Vass-Lakeview, in the 10th inning of a hard fought and excit ing battle. The scoi'e was 3 to 2. Good fielding and good pitching in the pinches along with Maurer’s hitting, featured the game. Maurer had a .single, double and triple in five times up. The game, which meant the league leadership, was a hard fought con test from start to finish. Abereden scored first, an error and successive Pall Term, Under F'rank W. Web- Watt Smith in Frenzy Shoots Wife and Baby Enrafjed After Fight with Men, Well Known Candor Resident Pulls Gun on F'amilv CHILD DIES AT HOSPITAL NEW FACULTY FOR SOUTHERN PINES .769 .733 .555 .46 hits by Russell and HunFley sending two men across the plate in the sec ond inning. Vass did not score until the sixth, though threatening on a number of occasions. In each of' these cases Yow, Aberdeen pitcher, The Southern Pines Schools will 427 ! tightened up and either struck out open for the fall term Thursday Sep- 7 10 .384 .364 .333 his men or caused them to send flies teniber 15th. The faculty i.j now ccra- into the outfielders’ hands. plete and shows many changes over In the sixth, Thomas, Wilson and previous years both in the high school SCHEDULE By Ralph W. I’age I have followed with a great deal of interest not only the discussions in Southern Pines your paper, but the county-wide per sonal discussions of the question of the expense of government, county, state and national, which the major ity of the people have come to believe i? a definite menace to their wel fare. I have on my desk an authoritative statement that the total amount of! L^'town. i Martin, who covered the initial sack have the English course, Miss Adda lar.s in'^^914 to^'ourteen billion dol-i July 27—So. Pines at Aber-! for Aberdeen Wednesday. Keith got Anderson, of Greensboro, Science and Jars in 1931. That we have been so' ridden with government expense that' Tiiuis, Julj today the people of the United States devote twenty per cent of their in- Tyson all hit safely and put two runs across for Vass-Lakeview, tying the game up. And there the score stood until the tenth inning. Vass threatevi- ed in the first half of the tenth when Tyson got on because Yow failed to Fri., July 2-—Aberdeen at Thom astown; Carthage at West End. • Sat., July 23—Thomastown at V'^ass. Mon., July 25—So. Pines at Thom-1 cover first on a grounded to George Pauline Miller, of Watt Smith of Candor, former sup- I erintendent of the Chapin peach or- ! chards here and w^ell known through- I out the Sandhills, shot his wife and j baby son while in an infuriated state I of intoxication at an early hour Wed nesday moi'ning. The mother and child were taken to the .Moore County Hospital where the baby died Wednes day night. Mrs. Smith is expected to SCHOOLS NAMED .After an altercation with some men he found erecting a billboard on the Smith property, a few miles from Candor on the Ellerbe road. Smith left with his son Bobby and a relative. Holt Williams, for Sanford Tuesday night to see a doctor. It was nearly 4 o’clock Wednesday' morning when they returned home, and Smith found that in his absence his wife and their other childi’en had moved over to the home of Smith’s mother, Mrs. Emory Smith, for the night, fearful that there might be trouble. Watt had left there in an enraged state after his fight with the billboard men. On finding the family had “walked out on him” Smith drove his car up and down the private road between his house and that of his mother sev- ster, New Superintendent, To Open Sept. 15th MANY NEW TEACHERS and elementary grades. Fi-ank W. Webster, principal of the Paw Creek High School in Mecklenburg county, .succeeds William F. Allen as superin tendent, with Ben F. Brown of Char lotte as assistant and coach. Miss Statesville will 28—Thomastown come to government. In other words, one (lay’s work out of every five is devoted to the supposed benefits re ceived from an enormously growing and entrenched bureaucracy. As I see it, the farmers and the old inhabitants of this county have D. C. Phillips, Jr,. aged 10, son of | awakened to the fact that the entire Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Phillips of South-j conception of government has chang- ern Pines, was drowned in the (akejed to their detriment. Their original at Pinebluff on May 17th when a | jJea was that the government w’as large number of children from the j supported by the people for the pur- Southern Pines school were having an i pose of carrying on the minimum pri- outing there. He dove from the dam ; mary objects of a government. It now and failed to come up. Just what hap-j turns out that the government is in pened is not known, but life was ex- i the business of supporting the people, tinct when he was found. It now turns out that the people have , ! to be taxed so that the government j townships and counties I.OCAL LEGION MEN ATTEND lean eithe^’ run, or assist in running,! Demand 25% Cut French, Miss Alice M. Stutz of South ern Pines, Mathematics and Latin, Mrs. Ruth W. Warner of Lakeview, Commercial. For the elementary school Mrs. El len W. Brown of Southern Pines will i a hit afterwards, advancing the run- at ner. but Matthews hit a liner plop Aberdeen. | into the hands of Brad McLean, play- Fri., July 29—Thomastown at Cam-1 ing second, eron. | Then came the exciting finish. Af- Sat., July 30—Vass at Pinehurst; Iter Yow was retired, Ferree lined out Abealeen at Cameron, West End at a single. Max Folley got on when the have the First Grade; Miss Emilie Southern Pines. i catcher dropped the third strike and M. Wilson, of Southern Pines, First i threw wide to first. Up came Bill and Second Grades; Miss Charlotte W. I Maurer, and Bill put his 200 pounds Miles, of Danville, Va., Second Grade; tional Congress endeavoring to cut into a mighty wollop that sent the pill Miss Jean McL. Lane of Sanford, expenses. Everyone seems to agree deep between center and left field, Third Grade; Miss Virginia Lump- that the government should cut ex- Ferree trotting across the plate, kin of Richmond, Va., Third and penses at least four hundred million | Aberdeen had won. Fourth Grades; Miss Lenora 0. Rig dollars, but as yet practically no econ-1 The line-up: omies have been made. Vass-I.akeview—Brewer, lb; Keith, gan of Southern Pines Fourth Grade; Miss Madie L. Wade, of Moorehead eral times, then around five o’clock stopped in front of his mother’s. His wife was sitting on the porch with their baby son, Clifford, about 2 years of age, on her lap. Watt is said to have called out asking his W’ife when she was coming home. “Not until you stop drinking,” she is said to have answered. Fire at Wife and Baby With this remark he is alleged to have jumped from his car with a Winchester automatic shotgun in hia hand. Pointing this at his wife he fired several times. Shots pierced her neck, face and shoulders, and some struck the baby. Mrs. Smith called It is perfectly manifest that if the | rf, cf; Tyson, rf; A. Matthews, ss; taxpayers and public citizens of this ] Thomas, 3 b; D. Wilson, 2b, 3b; J. republic are to succeed in drastically | reducing our expenses ahd taxes, that | (Please turn to page 8) this movement will have to start in ■ of Goldsboro, Sixth Grade; Miss Ann P. Huntington, of Southern Pines, Seventh Grade. CONVENTION The Sandhills section was well rep resented at the annual convention of the Nofi-th Carolina Department, American Legion, held the past week in Asheville. From the post at Car thage went H. Lee Thomas, Charlie Kivett, D. A. Blue, John Beasley, Luther Wallace and B. C. Wallace. From Sandhill post L. V. O’Callaghan, J. H. Stephenson and Max Backer of Southern Pines and Paul Dana and Corbet Alexander were there. They report a good time. \T ASHEVILLE I everything under the sun. F'rom their point of view’ a great lot of the money spent by the government is TO REPRESENT SANDHILLS AT ECONOMIC MEETING Ralph W. Page, Aberdeen, Harry N. Vale, Southern Pines, and General .Albert Cox of Raleis^h are represent ing this section at a meeting of the National Economy Leagxie to be held at the Bar Association in New York next Tuesday evening. The league will discuss ways and means out of the present national economic dilemma. JANET GAYNOR AND CHARLES FARRELL AT THE CAROLINA The announcement that Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, America’s most popular screen team, will be seen at the Carolina Theatre, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, July 28, 29, 30, in that well known stage hit “The First Year” assures the Sandhill folks of another fine special attrac tion. “The Pl/st Year” was undoubtedly one of the greatest stage successes New York has ever had and it is un usually well suited to these two popu lar stars. Such a movement has started spon. j taneously here in this county unin fluenced by any politicians, or by any; By Bion H. Butler Mrs. Francis Keating, through the gency of the Sandhills Brotherhood . , . . , , , , I duction in the cost of operating the j at Pinehurst, is carrying on a work no mg' u a giea pa erna an 1 ^ similar reduction in improvement and benevolence that co„.vol. wh.ch the.,- opm. I „ I f “ ion in no way prives back more than . .. j i unusual in its auai lesuics. inis tho money the people pay inr.'’"’. <=»'■ r1hil.nth.oplc woman ha. been givins taxes. .einment. Brotherhood certain sums from Moreover it creates an ever in- probably no man in the ^^gi^ to provide work for creasing army of clerks and employees United States that will not say that around the com- purely and simply taken from the tax-establish-' payer and given away to somebody. | | All this vast accumulation of supposed I - ^ i if • , . , . ' * for at least a twenty-five percent re- services and information amounts to City, Fifth Grade; Miss Helen Dortch ] for someone to grab the child. Mem bers of the family rushed from the house, others from nearby houses. Watt’s brother, Hermit, not knowing Watt was shooting at anyone or any thing, yelled from a window of the liouse to ‘‘stop frightening the chil- oren,” whereupon Watt turned the gun on him and inflicted a slight _____ I wound on the face. ' landscape effect that has hardly been, reported that Smith attempt- suspected. | ^o turn the gun on himself just as men rushed to overpower him, but that his hand was too unsteady to pull Grub Stake Plan Inaugurated by Mrs. Keating to Aid Unemployed the trigger. Deputy Sheriff U. B. Jordan of who become entrenched with a sov ereign right to draw salaries for life. Poverty for Paternity Their point now is that they not only do not wish, but are absolutely unable, to provide money for all this paternal government. It is a perfect absurdity for citizens of the United States to be driven from their homes by the thousands to be foreclosed and hounded to death in order to raise money ^ provide a great army of government assistants. What could be' more preposterous than to tax a man and sell his fam in order to provide him with a governmpnt teacher to show him how to farm ? As I understand it, the practically unanimous point of view' of the coun try people of this county is that they cannot and do not wish to pay for any of the alleged benefits of government. They wish to go back to the original form of the American Government where the government did nothing but govern and did this at the minimum possible expense and annoyance to the people. To go into all the details of the savings they desire accomplished, in a mass meeting, is ridiculous nnd in- Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walker visited vidious. They have observed the na-1 friends in Greensboro last Sunday. this is a very beneficial movement But the moment that these reductions are proposed in detail, the people find that the office holders and the bene ficiaries of each expenditure rush to the defense of their particular graft. This movement at this particulat moment seems to be in danger of be ing absolutely side-tracked and ruin ed by the premature and useless argu ment about each particular expendi ture. I wish to contribute then one idea for the consideration of the orgainzed group started in Bensalem and w'hat- ever other volunteer jji-oups arise, which is this: Let this meeting of cit izens unanimously decide that they wish the cost of government reduced at least twenty-five percent and to command their authorized commis. sioners and legislators and the offi cers of their own organizatiflfn to cause this reduction to be made. This having been done, the eternal discus sion of what items shall be cut can be left for the further consideration of those persons commanded to do the cutting:. munity who are feeling the depres sion, and in the appropriation she stipulates the work to be done. At the present time it is the removal of the undergrowth and the burned trees that suffered from the fires last spring in the vicinity of No. 1 golf course at Pinehurst. The Brotherhood is operating through Frank Maples, who has been engaging hands and supervising the operations, which consist in digging out all the trees damaged by the fires, and cutting into convenient length everything suitable for firewood, and burning all the rubbish left after the grubbing is finished. Already a large area around the entire golf course has been cleaned up. The under brush is taken out, all mutilated and turned trees and shrnbbery have been removed, with the result that the trees remaining give the appear ance of an open park study was made of the policy Mr. Maples lays out tracts of land and awards each tract to a workman on a specific basis of cost, the man being in effect a contractor to clean ,, . . . , , i _ • , . ■ u- Montgomery county hurried to the up the lot 'assigned him. When his, * ^ , ' scene on notification by telephone and placed Smith under arrest. Dr. Cop- pege hurried to the residence from Candor and administered first aid to the mother and child, after which they a store foy groceries to ensure that hi.s household profits entirely from his work. The way Mr. Maples is handling the operation is bringing re sults that will surprise they come back in the fall, for the transformation from the burned for ests to the open pai’k among the trees that remains is certain to impress every player. Fortunately most of the tr^es that were damaged by fire were blackjacks, while the pines were more fortunate. Work at Knollwood Not content with making this im provement on No. 1 course at Pine hurst Mrs. Keating has arranged with Mr. Maples to clear up her several lots at Knollwood in the same way, taking out the undergrowth that has come up in the last few years, and clearing out around the trees that have been retained. She hopes that others on Knollwood ridges W’ill un dertake a similar line of work, and Careful 1 present that section in the attractive of j light that is possible, w'hile at the approach and of the effect of the same time helping to employ the sur- work. In consequence the change is j plus labor that is hunting work, one of decided improvement especial-! » Mrs. Keating’s theory is that never ly in the picture afforded through-1 w as a better time to do improvement out the course, for the topography of i w^'ik in the forest land of the Sand- No. 1 is such that opening some of the | close forests surrounding gives a, (Please turn to page 8) folks when rushed to the cyunty hospital at Pinehurst. Dr. Clement Munroe in formed The Pilot yesterday that Mrs. Smith in all probability would re cover. Watt Smith is said to have been brooding and drinking heavily since he retired about a year ago as superin tendent of the property of S. B. Chap in, located between Aberdeen and Pinehurst. It is said that he was un der the influence of liquor on Tues day when he came upon representa tives of a land bank who were erect ing a sign advertising some prop erty adjacent to the Smith property for sale. The sign was b eing placed on Smith’s land and Smith objected. As the land bank men had secured permission, according to their story, fiom other members of the Smith family, they paid *no attention 'to Watt’s command to stop their work. Words followed, including the- calling of fighting names, and Smith is said' to have been pounced utwn and beat en up by the men. He complained af terwards of bruised bones, which prompted the trip to Sanford, young Please turn to page 5)
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