MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS- WEEKLY rpTTT]* X X X JU/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 12, NO. 38. ^ ^^authaoe VASS LAKEVICW E.NO MAHUfiY JACKSOH SPRINOS 50UTHCRN Pm£9 ASHLEV ME.ICHTS piN&etuM PI LOT of the Sandhill Territory of FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING I'olina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday August 19, 1932, * FIVE CENTS WILL MAKE 1ST FARM TOUR OF COUNTY TUESDAY Trip Has Been Arranged to Cov er Varied Types of Farm Enterprises LEAVE CARTHAGE AT 8 A M Ten Years for Kidnaping Attempt Thi' first farm tour ever held in the county will be conducted next Tuesday, August 23rd. On this tour different types of farming: will be seen. The plan now is to leave from the Courthouse at Carthajje at about 8:00 o'clock. The first stop at 8:45 will be at the farm of Frank Maness near High Falls, where the tourists will look over the lespedeza fields and the ef fects on the crop from the turning under of lespedeza peas, etc., for soil improvement work. The second stop at 9:30 will bo at the farm of Geo. Purvis. Mr. Purvis is conducting a good-sized poultry plant which should bo of interest to a great many people. The third stop at 10:15 a. ni. will | be at the farm of W. C. Garner | where a crop rotation is being car ried on under supervision of E. C. Blair, Extension Agronomist. Hctre will again be seen lesped*;za, alfal fa End terracing work being carried on at this farm. The fourth stop at 11:10 will be at the farm of D. A. Dunlap on Bear Creek. He is also conducting a crop rotation, with clover, alfalfa and beans. After leaving Mr. Dunlap’s farm the company will come back to Car thage and get lunch around 12 o’colck. The first stop after dinner 1:15 will be at the PineKurst Farm on Lit tle River, being conducted by T. G. Ragsdall, where the cattle and hogs being raised at this f will be looked over. At 2 o’clock the tour will arrive at the farm of Walter McCaskill, Here will be seen the results of grow-i ing corn after vetch. This should be of much intere.st to all the group^as a soil building program should be something of interest to everyone at fhis time. Mr. McCaskill has made a gor'd succcs.i of this work. At 2:45 the group will arrive at the farm of Neil T. Blue where again it will see the results of growing corn after vetch. Both Mr. Blue and Mr. McCaskill have made good with this and, what they have done. Others can do it by devoting a little atten tion to this work. At 3:00 the party will arrive at the farm of Marvin Davis to see the livestock work he is carrying on and the building of permanent pastures at this place. This is something else that should be of interest to any group of farmers. Effort has been put forth to ar range this trip so that it will be of interest to as many people a.s possi ble. E. H. Garrison, Jr., County Agent, says: “If it is impossible for you to make all the trip, then please try to take in as much of it as you possibly can. If you can not do this then please try to meet us .it some of the places indicated on the pro gram.” fed it 10 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE GIVEN DEANS & LUCAS Roseland Youths Who Threiten- ed Verner Z. Reed Offer No Defense r.ARGE CROWD AT TRIAL Boosts Field Day The above picture of Joe Lucas and Howard Deans was taken soon after their capture by Deputy Sheriff Fuller Currie, center. They wove sen tenced to 10 years in State’s Prison by Judge Oglesby SENTIMENT HERE i IS NOT IN FAVOR I OF B. E. F. CAMP Proposed Establishment of Camp Near Niagara Is Advised Afiainst by Citizens TO LOCATE ELSEWHERE VASS-LAKEVIEW SCHOOL AVILL OI'EN SEPT. 6 The Vass-Lakeview Public Schools will open on September 6 at 9 a. m., and parents are requested to enter their children at the beginning of school. The teachers are as follows: Elementary: first grade. Miss Jes sie Mae Sugg, Ellerbe; second. Miss Bessie Cameron, Vass. first and sec ond, Miss Ruth McNeill, Vass; third. Miss Beulah McLean, Raeford; fourth. Miss Lois Buchanan, Broadway; fifth Miss Exie Beasley, Apex; fourth and fifth. Miss Elizabeth Wood, Newton; sixth, Miss Lena Mae Palmer, San ford; seventh, Miss Neolia McCrum- men, We.st End. High School—History, mathematics and coach, A. M. Calhoun, Laurin- burg; English, Miss Christine Price, 'Ellerbe; Agriculture; C. R. Am mons, Elizabethtown; French and science, John McCrummen, Principal; Music, Miss Martha McKaj% Buie’s Creek. Following an announcement in the state press Thursday morning that 200 acres of land in Moore county had been donated as a camp for the B. E. F. of North Carolina, the donor, J. H. Stevenson, World war veteran, had a conference with Mayor Dorsey Stutz and town commissioner L. V. O’Callaghan of Southern Pines. In the course of the conference it devel oped that there was a decided senti ment in the community against the establishment of the camp here, and it wks learned that many of the lead ing citizens of the section had advised against it. Before the conference was over Mr. Stevenson said that if the Sandhills did not want the camp here he would not press the matter, and would look for a location elsewhere. T. F. Carey of Atlanta, general com mander of the B. E. F., was expected to arrive later in the day to further discuss the situation. The Charlotte Observer in its Thursday morning issue carried the following story, which is quoted in part: ‘‘At a meeting yesterday in the of fice of Attorney C. B. Woltzz at the Law Building, trustees and other of ficers v’’ere appointed, and plans were formulated for a rally on the camp grounds Sunday, August 28, in which the commanders and staff of the various veterans’ organizations over the state will be invited to at tend. Mr. Woltz said he v.’as drawing up a charter i>f the new’ forcc for filing with the .secretary of state. It was explained that the certificate of in corporation would not conflict with the state laws. “The donation of the land follow, ed the segregation of the bonus army THIS MATTER OF TAX REDUCTION HAS MANY SIDES Pilot Correspondent Makes Search of Collector’s Records to Get Interesting Information 30.5 HAVE PAID SINCE JUNE The question of making things eas ier for the over-burdened tax payer is a many-sided one as perhaps all who have given the matter serious study hav3 already realized. Recently, in its report published in the papers of the county, the executive ronimittee of tlie newly organizzed Moore County Taxpayers’ League stated that a study of the county tax situation had brought out that postponement of the tax sale from June to October is cost ing the county !?450 extra in salary to the tax collector, whereas if done as provided in the machinery act the county would be saved this amount. In a discussion of the matter, the suggestion has been made to The Pi lot that advertising lands of the de linquent tax payers the first of June would impose an added burden on many of the citizens as there are numerous farmers who are unable to pay before the returns from their dewberries, peaches, tobacco and other farm crops come in, however much they want to pay promptly. If the ad- (Please turn to page 5) CHILD RECEIVES SLIGHT INJURY IN AUTO COLLISION Shortly after eleven o’cluck Tues day morning a car driven by Louise Chatfield and occupied by her and several girl friends collided with the car of M. W. Swearingen, as he was leaving the Southern Pines depot with the mail from train No. 4. Both cars were somewhat damaged and Dana Ujley, the seven-year-old daughter of Roger Utley of Pinehurst, was slight ly injui’ed and was taken to the of fice of Dr. Walter McLeod for treat ment. “Just let the word go out that if you start any kidnapping business down here in North Carolina, the pen itentiary is right here in Raleigh,” ■'^aid Judge John M. Oglesby as he discussed the matter briefly just prior to pronouncing the sentence of “not less than ten years nor more than fifteen years in the penitentiary, to wear .stripes” on Joe Lucas and Howard Deans, two young white men charged with entering into a con spiracy to extort from Verner Z. Keed, wealthy Pinehurst resident, the sum of 155,000 under threat that if Keed diil not deposit the said sum in a i)ackage at Deep River Church at 9 |). m. on June 3, they would use high explosives on the property of Air. Reed and kidnap and harm his children. The Judge expressed sym- rathy for the young men, but held to the <»pinion that the way to stop crime is to punish the criminals. The court room and gallery were filled with people who leaned for ward in an effovt to hear every word spoken in this case which has at tracted unusual interest, coming as it did so soon after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, but although per fect quiet reigned in the room, only those nearest the bar were able to hear the defendants as they replied to the Judge’s questions. Toward the end of the case Lucas sat with his hands over his face. The defendants submitted and the case did not go to the jury. Mr. Reed and Officer Currie were the only wit nesses placed on the stand. They told of the letter received by Mr. Reed, of the plan worked out for trapping the conspirators, of Mr. Reed’s driv ing by the appointed place and de positing a dummy box containing several marked bills, of the nabbing of Lucas when he appeared a few minutes later and of his implicating Deans, who was arrested shortly thereafter. Mr. Reed stated that in fifteen minutes after he had received the letter threatening his children, he had them on their way to another State. The defendants were not called to the witness stand, but were question ed by the Judge as they sat directly in front of him. It was brought out that Lucas, who is said to be of low mentality and can neither read nor write, had asked Deans to write the letter for him, for which service Deans was to receive $500 of the money. Lucas claimed that in mak ing his plans he did not think of the anxiety the letter would cause the parents of the threatened children, and said that he did not intend to carry out the threats. The father of (HAS. \N. l*IC(iUET PEACH SEASON FALLS SHORT OF EARLY PROMISE Orchardists Are Thought to Have Come Through in Fair Shape, However SPORTS LOVERS ARE PROMISED NOVELPROGRAM Preparations Going Forward for Ba.seball Field Day at Pine hurst Race track KEEN COMF»ETITION (Please turn to Page 8) (Please turn to page 4) Baseball Will Occupy Center of Sports Stage Here Next Week Vass-Lakeview Half a Game Ahead of Aberdeen with Four Games to Play With the last of the peach crop roll- iog toward the northern markets the teams of the Moore County League will have a fUll schedule next week in an effort to work in as many of the postponed games as possible. Southern Pines has but one game yet to play in order to complete its sche dule, a postponed game with Aber deen. This game will probably be play ed some time next week and may have a decided bearing on the pennant chances of Aberdeen. Aberdeen and Vass-Lakeview, the league leaders, have four games each to play with Vass-Lakeview a half a game in the lead at present, due to the defeat of Aberdeen by the tailenders Wednes day. Interest next week will center in those games which affect the stand ings of the leaders. Considering Wed nesday’s game as fluke, thei>e is lit tle choice between the teams, yet some of the teams in the lower brack ets may upset either of vhe leaders. STANDINGS W L Pc Vass ....15 5 .750 Aberdeen .15 6 .700 So. Pines . .11 J2 .477 Pinehurst H 10 •44* West End .... 7 10 .411 Camei’on . .... 7 10 .411 Thomastpwn.. fi 10 .357 Carthage 7 12 .368 Vass Noses Out Aberdeen In a close and exciting ball game at Vass Saturday, Vass-Lakeview nosed out Aberdeen 11-10. Vass-Lake view was leading all the way until the eighth, when Aberdeen scored five runs to put them in the lead 10-8. However, Martin, who had been pitching fine ball for Aberdeen after relieving D. Maurer in the third, weakened, and Vass scored two runs in the last of the eighth. Aberdeen failed to break the tie in the first THE SEASON REVIEWED The Sandhills peach .reason is practically closed, the larger pack- huo.‘-es having finishetl shipping about the middle of the week, and the last daily peach report having been issued Tuesday morning. While the season did not hold up to its early season promise, the observers are inclined to believe that the orchardists have come through the season in fair shape. Some of the growers, particu larly those specializing in early va rieties, have made a better than av erage profit. While prices broke con siderably on the main crop of Belles and Elbertas, yet there are few, if any, growers, who have suffered loss According to a preliminary review of the season from the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture prices of North Carolina peaches on the New York market have ranged from a high of $3.7c for Hileys on July 25 to a low of 7.^c for Elbertas on August 11-13. Prices at North Carolina ship ping points varied from a high of $2.50 for Hileys to a low of 90 for Elbertas on August 12 and 13. Culls have sold well, however, throughout the season, and one observer says that he has never seen the product so en tirely cleaned up day by day as thi< year. Waiting trucks rather than waiting peaches have been the rule throughout the entire season. The following general comment on the North Carolina season is taken from the Federal-State Marketing Service report for August 17: Before the opening of the 1932 North Carolina peach season, pros pects were excellent but, as the sea son advanced, there were certain fac tors effecting the marketing of the crop that resulted in returns far be low pre-season expectations. The op timistic viewpoint for the 1932 sea son was due primarily to the very light crop in Georgia and also in Tennessee, Illinois and .Arkansas. Dry weather during the latter part of the season cut Georgia’s production from early estimates of around 3,- 000 to 4,000 cars to an actual roll of slightly more than 2,000 cars. There was an appreciable amount of the North Carolina crop sold on pre-season contracts ranging mostly from $1.50 to $2.00 per bushel. Throughout the Hiley movement, the f. 0. b. prices substantiated the con tract prices but shipinonts from Geor gia, 5