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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 13, NO. 4.
Aberdeen and Southern Pines. North Carolina, Friday Dect mber 23, 1932.
FIVE CENTS
PICQUET IS AGAIN |Highway Squabble Recalls Early
HEAD OF CAROLINA
THEATRE OWNERS
Manager of Movie Houses of
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
Honored at Charlotte
Days of Road Building Hereabouts
Honored Again
NEW CONTRACT ADOPTED
Charles W. Picquet, manager of the
Carolina Theatres of Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, was re-elected pres
ident of the North Carolina and South
Carolina Theatre Owners’ Associa
tion at the annual meeting held this
week in Charlotte.
The association adopted resolutions
ratifying the new contract that has
been worked out among picture pro
ducers and distributions and the ex
hibitors, and is the first in the coun
try to adopt the contract which has
just been completed by outstanding
men of the industry after months of |
effort. ]
Sidney P. Kent, president of the I
Fox Film corporation, and M. A.
Lightman of Memphis, president of
the National Theater Owners’ asso
ciation, the two men who were large
ly responsible for the months of ef-
foro in drawing up the contract, wero
present and explained the terms that
are expected to bring an end to the
prolonged war of the various factions i
within the industry.
Previous contracts have been be-
tw'een individual exhibitor and pro-1
ducer. The exhibitors have maintain-:
ed that producers and distributors!
have taken an unfair advantage in ~ .
that they have been able to dictate; through the fmgerprmt service
terms as to the number of pictures fuinished by the county Deputy
Sam Cameron of Hoke County
Responsible for First Main
Thorofare Through Moore
By Bion H. Butler
The possibility of shifting the main
Federal highway from Route One by
v.ay of Rockingham and Cheraw to
the proposed new roa i from South
ern Pines by Laurinburg calls to
mind the devious routes by which the
main north and south road has tra-
vei'sed this section. Curiously enough
the man most directly responsible for
the first Federal highway through
Moore county did not live in the coun
ty at all, but in Cumberland
count. , in what later came to be Que-
whiffle township in Hoke county. His
NO TIME FOR TOO
GREAT ECONOMY
IN OUR SCHOOLS
V' ry
■ O' o.
Many Hands'
Spread of Chi'^
Attendance Up 83,000, Teachers
Decreased 1.220 in Three
Years, Kiwaniwins Told
.ILLE R. WARREN SPEAKER
Jule B. Warren, Secretary of the
North Carolina Educational Associa
tion, in an address before the Kiwanis
Club at its meeting in the Southern
Pines Civic Club on Wednesday stress
ed the importance of our not econo
mizing *' 'he extent of affecting the
e iuf 111 of our chiMren.
Mr. Warren pointed out that there
is an 'iic rtase in attendance of eighty-
name was Sam Camemn, a fina old i three thousand over three years ago
pilgi'iin who died not long a’jo. He, and that the number of teachers to-
lived on the Ch.cken mad betw'.'en | day coivarod to three years ago has
Aberdeen an! F ayetteviile, some ten . been decreased to the extent of twelve
mile cast of Southern Pines. He had , hundred twenty. The speaker pointed
been a commissioner of Cumberland' out that North Carolina has a grsos
CHAKI.ES W. PICQUET
FINGERPRINTS 0F~
VICTIM OF FIRE
REVEAL IDENTITY
county, and active in the county life,
as well as a prominent farmer a’lil
lumberman on this side of his covnty.
The old Chicken road was a piinci-
ple road of the county, going west
t>y way of Hlue's bridge on I)ro.\ni»ig
Creek, but with a branch tuvninf
northwestward toward Soul hem Pin.":
and one to Abei-deen. He was a ti o
in having’ the road from Favettevil'
debt of $534,()()(),00(1, and of this
amori't 1 1.0 was spent for schools
and the remaindei' for the buil nng of
hard surfaced roads and in the mak
ing of other public im])roveinents. He
stated that the school debt amounts to
.'?7',0('0.0()0 to date, and that the val
ue of s.lioiil propei'ty in the state is
well in excess of ?100,000,000.
Referring to th' over-ci'owded con-
Not Too Late
Your Gifts for Poor and
Needy Will Be Welcome at
Relief Headquarters
It is \0T too late to send
Christmas gifts foi- the needy to
be distributed by the various or
ganized charities before Christmas
Day Sunday. Cash, foodstuffs,
clothing, canned goods, toys, dolls,
candy—all will be welcome and all
aie needed to take care of the
many families in the section who
have felt the pisch of hard times
Juiing the past year. Ransack the
attic and the larder AT ONCE and
take your gifts to one of the fol
lowing headtiuartei’s for distribu
tion among those who sorely need
them;
AHKRDKKN—Alx'rdeen Hotel
building Christmas Store.
PINEHURST—F:iectric Shop ad
joining I’inehurst Department
Store.
SOUTHERN PINES—Burgess-
PiM'kinson nuiUlin^ Stove next to
Telephone 0‘'fice, Indiana avenue.
Preparing
Cheer
♦ %
Aberdeen, 'inehurst and South
ern Pines Orj^anizations Work-
injf To Alleviate Want
NOT TOO LATE FOR GIFTS
.. 1 II j 4 r-» *u house mace as good a< possi-' djfjon of the scho »ls over th(- state,
continued to , ji,. Wawen said that to economize in
Bumberdale, up the Southern Pines future reduction of salaries or the
■,\a\, where Brittons ha:l set u;i a b .'? | cui tailment of teachers woul ■ serious-
sawmill plant. jy affect the welfare of the coming
Britton did much business rp o-i j [.oneration. The North Carolina Edu-
• he Seaboatd at Southern Pines uni I ational Association ha'< compiled
was interested in impror’ing that road ( statistics covering operation cost of
to some extent, but later he sold h.s, g^.j^gols and every effort possible is
CROP REVENUES
Near Addor Relieved to
lie Ex-Marine
RELATIVES ARE SOl’GHT
shown, the type of picture, and other Sheriff L. A. Kelly, the identity of a place and P'.xum & Crossland estab-1 beinj; made in curtailing unnecessary
questions. The new contract is expect- found burned to death near Ad- there a bijr cotton plantation.; expenses,
ed to bring the two into common i They wanted contact with the rail-1
agreement whereby they will work ,. , , • i. and were interested in furthe '
together to the interest of both. | '>shed. Officer Kelly succeeded m get- imj„.oving the road to Southern P nes.,
“This is a history-making meeting,"*^" dead mans fingerprints, al- About that time Hoke county wa"-■
for the industry,” Mr. Kent declared, though the hands were badly^burned,: cheated, and I was asked to help th(-,
“The eyes of the entire moving pic- forwarded a copy to the United local paper in Raeford make known {'■
ture world are upon this meeting to- States Department of Justice Bureau the world the fin? prospects ah(a >
day, for it is the first time the new Investigation. A letter has been of the new town and county. The out-
contract which will bring peace to the I'eceived by the Sheriffs office, stat- look was exLollent, and we soon had
warring factions of the industry has '^2: that a search of the fingerprint Hoke and Raeford in the mouths of
Dr. E. M. Medlin introduced a new
member to the Club, Bob Shepard of
Southern Pinos. Willard Dunlop, vice-
president, presided at the meeting.
Little The at' e G'Td
Plav Proves S' cc^.'is
(Jro.«« Income of .SI75 per Capit.i
of Farm Popiilatirn. is I'.
S. Estimate
BrV^NG POWER HIT HARD
“T’ was the night before Christmas
When all through the house
Not a creature was stirring—
Not even a mouse.”
But during the week before Christ
mas all charitably inclined people of
the Sandhills—and they are legion—■
have been stirring. In every village
and town relief organizations, Christ
mas funds, individuals have been pre
paring Christmas baskets that no fam
ily in Moore county may find itself
forgotten and forsaken on that happy
birthdf^y celebrated by all mankind.
In Aberdeen the Good Fellows Club
has been doing a noble work. It has
collected close to -S.^OO in cash, has
accumulated groceries and clothing
and toys which would run the total up
to .?r>00 in gifts to be distributed by
the many needy families of this im
mediate neigh’’’orhood. The head-
duarters in the Aberdeen Hotel build
ing has been a scene of activity all
week, with willing' han!s sorting the
gifts and purchases and making up
'a-kets and boxes for distribution to
morrow.
Headquarters has been maintaine.i
in Southern Pines in the Burgess-
Perkinson building on Indiana avenue
where resirlents of the coutv’s largest
municipality have heen carrying their
gifts fo)' distribution. No stone is
bein;' left unturned to see that the
noov nnd needy of the Southern Pines
neiiihbo'hood are remenbered on
Christma-; Day. Large fiuantities of
Red Cross flow were a;i. ortioned
among hunury families during the
past w\-ek. a line waiting in front
: of the Connect'cut avenue garage
whero the flovr was given out. Both
th? Red Cross officials and the Com
mittee on Unemf.loyme"t and Relief
havf put in a busy week in Southern
Pines.
been acted upon.”
(Mher Officers Chosen
In addition to the election of Mr.
Picquet to again head the association,
Mrs. Walter (iriffith of Charlotte was
re-elected secretary-treasurer. Albert
Sattile of Charleston, S. C„ was elect
ed first vice president, II. E. Buchan
an of Sylva and Hendersonville, sec
ond vice president.
The following membeis were elect
ed to the boai'd of directoi's: \X. H.
Hendrix of Greensboro, E. 1.. Hearne
of Albemarle. H. F. Kinrey of Char
lotte, W. T. Culpepper of Elizabeth
City, A. F. Sams, Jr., of .Statesville,
J. E. Simpson of Gastonia, L. C. Sipe
01 Charlotte, (Jeorge Parr of Lancas
ter, S. C., and II. R. Berry of Hart-
ville, S. C.
files in th'‘ United States Bureau of
Investigation and in the Identity Sec
tion of the War Department had fail
ed to reveal a record, but that a
search of the Marine Corps files
showed this person is identical with
Joe Frank White, who enlisted in the
Marine Corps at Newark, N. J., on
the people al over the state.
But to get to Raofoni from my
house involved a roundabout way by
•A'erdeen until the ;'ounty comm’j^-
sioners, \>.-ho included Sam ('’amero”
and Worthy .lohnson, an old iMooic
county man. agreed to meet iMoo;-
countv at the
September IT), 1021. The address giv- ^ould improve the road from South-
en was Binghamton, N." Y., and the
name of the individual to be notified,
i^Iary White, mother, in care of State
Hospital, Binghamton, New York.
On August 20, 102.3, the report
states. White was discharged per sum
mary Court Martial at the Unite!
States iMarine Barracks, Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The sheriff’s office has attempted
to get in touch with the mother but
ern Pines. John McQueen. I. F. Chatnl-
U'r and A. Cameron were the commis
sioners in Moore, and they a
McQueen, D. C. Lemons and 1
vvee'!.
wen
as vet has received no reply. Deputy
Before the principal address of Mr.
woman is an inmate of the State
Hos'"itaI, it may take more time to
locate members of the family who
can communicate with the lo.al auth
orities.
Kent, Montgomery Hill of Greensboro,
of the Kincey chain of theatres, urg
ed the exhibitoi’s to endeavor to form
closer contacts with the leading cit
izens of their city, try to show pic
tures that wITl win their support, and
attempt to make friends where there
arc now critics.
In coincidence, David Ovens, head
ing a committee urging the exhibitors
to cease showing drinking and sala
cious pictures, came in just as M. Hill
was urging exhibitiors to work for
cleaner pictures.
First of Sories rf Phv" lie
Offered Durinjr Winter Sels
Hiu:h Sfa’^clarti
“Come Out of the Ki' h"n." th'.‘
coni'-d'' drama wi.ich staited Ruth
<’’hattei'ton on h^T road to histrionic
fame, was ideverly presinte.i in the
courity line if Mooro .Southern Pines Hiuh .School .Auditori
um last Saturday by the Sandhills Lit-
■l(‘ Theatre Guild. It was the first of
;i ,-e‘ ics of plays to be offered during
the w'nter by this new oru-anizatiori,
anil if future productions aie as well
done a.'- the initial presentation, the
Mir'cess of the Guild is assured and
another enjoyable a-set added to the
• nter proirvam here.
Miss Helen Dortch of the high
'.bool fnc’.:l;y in Southern Pines,
rdayed the leadin'; feminine part in
(rue Chattertonian style. The male
i li ad was well taken by I^ouglas Greg
ory, and the supporting caste was
without a weakness. Others taking
jiart were Miss Charlotte Miles.
Mrs. Katharine Chapman, iVIiss Helen
Thomrson, Richard Wilson, the Rev.
RY FR ANK I. V\ El.I.EIi
(Associr<ed Press Far.in Editor)
Gross farm revenues in l'.l‘i2 prob
ably totiile 1 no more than !>'>.2n,(iOO.-
OOC, accordinir to tentative estimates
of the bureau of agriculttiral eccmom-
ics. In l!)2!t gross revenue was $12,-
000,0(10,000; in lOHl, .^7,000,000,00.
This gross revenue meant to the are to be made happy
Tiation’s SO.OOO.i'OO fat- mpopulation a
In addition to the regular distribu
tion amon; families in need. B'ive hun-
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J)o:J To Benefit
TT'ienipIoyed
HoM ,n< Civic Club in
’itl’.frn !*ines Next Week
Friday
gross income of al out SIT.') per capita,
.ini' a ‘ntal in/o.re of $S7l> for each
of the fountiy’s 0,000,000 farms com
pared w ith S2,000 of income receiver
four years ago.
Ir'tce'^t and attendant cost-- on the
the f-.im nio't age debt ’•etiresenls
a fixel annunl charge of nbout •S'iOS,-
(- 0,000. Fiiiuring that taxes on farm
I roperty absorb about 11 per cent of
the gross income, agriculture’s tax
I 'll for th(‘ year was STiTO. iOO.OOO.
Thus. .‘^1,114,000.000 of the sM.i'lO.-
000,000 was absorbed by fixed charues.
Carried on down to averarres for
the nation’s (>,000,000 farms, each
paid about .SlOO in fixed charges ou
of of income.
('omnaied with lOol live-;to,k reve
nues show a deficit of .S'fK',000,000;
dairv nroduct>;, S I'iT.OOO.OdO; cotton
I.AMBKTH VOTES AGAINST
LEGAI.IZING .12% BEER
Have you a good looking doll ?
Brush its hair, smooth out its
'lothes, give it a dime for entrance
fe(? and send it to the Civic Club in
Southern Pines next Friday after- f'l’aighill Brown, Mrs. Helen Brown,
noon, December 30th. It mav win a ^Villiam Cour=ey, Frank Wilder and
with bags of can !y and fruit to be
distributed b; the Boy Svouts of
Southern Pines, Garland Pierce, their
'■■ci utmaster. arranged for the candy
an | fruit tb.is we k an<l ha^ his troop
ers lined up and leady for the dis
tribution among their less fortunate
playmates.
In Pinehut'.t there was great re
joicing anif)n; the members of the
('omin'!”ity Church Christmas Cheer
A ',' atien on Wedne'^da.v when con-
iiibutions repo'ted in 'i 'ated *'.at real
relief could ! ' roueht to the hun
dreds of do'-litute )H'oi'le in that
n'>i!rhborb 1(11 One incident, more
than an'' ither, changed the whole
ricture ' mi one of the e'-t dark-
'ine of hapitiest assurance.
Mr. II. C. Fownes was one of the
very first to send in his che.di, which
■'as for i^lOO, some days ago. When
he read in the D:uK- New■^ We<!nesdav
prize.
Yes, there’s going to be a Doll
Congressman Walter Lambeth of show. Mrs. E. Levis Pfizer and Mrs.'
this district voted against the Collier Walter Spaeth are sponsoring it for!
bill to legalize the sale of 3.2 )K'r benefit of the unemployed. The i
and cottonseed, S132,000,000; grains
.974,000,000; fruits and nuts. .ST'.t.OOO,- that only i?423 had been donated with
000; vegetables. !?101,000,000; su a>' w-hich to purchase that long list of
crops, $2,000,000; tobacco, $20,000,-. suffering • is to be
COO; and other cr ips, $05,000,^00. avoided, his over tender heart almost
Farm F5uying Power Off failed him. He realized the impossibil-
In a general way tho farm value of. " li'ch face 1 the relief commitee.
all products has suffered a decline of Iff immediately gave an additional
the weather the Guild nlayed to al- nearly <10 per cent in the last two.^iG hundred dollars thus doubling
most a tull house. crop years compared with a derlino of contribution.
Mrs. Katherine Newlin Btirt, who but 24 per cent in whole‘;al<‘ valtie;- of | fownes has always avoided the
Raymond Kennedy. Tom Humble of
Charlotte dirwcted the caste. Desp'te
EDOUARD ALIUON TO SING
SUNDAY IN SOUTHERN PINES
cent beer, which passed the House of doors will open to the public at .‘1:30 was to have played in the caste, was non-agricultural commodities. 'limelight and only consented to this
Representatives by a vote of 230 to o’clock Friday afternoon, but your en-1 called north by the serious illness ol The purchasing power of farm prod- publicity because it is his hope that
lO.j
Wednesday. Noith Carolina ^ —q,. entries, for you may enter as her daughter, and Miss Miles of the ucts was little more than one-half
members of the House split on the ■ g,, —must be there : Southern Pines High School faculty what it was before the war.
rneasure, Representati\es Warren, t^efoix' three o’clock. The entrance fee j substituted for her and ably enacted decline of about 57 per cent in
The music at the Church of Wide is ten cents a doll. , a difficult part. , the purchasing power of the major
Fellowship in Southern Pines on
Christmas Sunday will be especially
helpful in its inspirational character.
At 10:30 Edouard Albion, well known
baritone will be the soloist. Mr. Al
bion was for some time president and
director of the Washington National
Opera. He will sing Gounod’s “Naz
areth” next Sunday morning. The
ton voting for it; Lambeth, Weaver | There’ll be three prizes for the j It is rumored that the next offer- occupational groups 'has influenced
and Clark against it. Abernethy and dolls adjudged best by the spectators. | ing of the Little Theatre series will the situation, but some economists
Poll were ab.sent, but Pou was paired the,-e’]] be tea and dancing and j be a dramatization of a story by a j contend the deeper roots of depression
everybody is invited. Take some j member of the guild, Mrs. Burt. | lie in aariculture’s continuing to pro-
change along, for there’ll be a silver j | duce on a world-war scale in the face
in favor of the bill.
MASS MEETING ON ROAD
! offering. That’s where the unemploy- BANK OF V.ASS PAYS
MATTER IS POSTPONED ed come in. They will get the offer-
i ing and the entrance fees.
The mass meeting scheduled for
vested choir of the church will sing I Monday night in Aberdeen to further
two anthems and the organ numbers
will be played by Mrs. Charles Grey.
In the evening at 7:30 a’clock the
vested choir of 30 voices, witV^ Charles
Picquet as guest-conductor, will give
a cantata, “The Christ Child” by J.
B. Hawley .The soloists will be Mrs.
Rajnnond Kennedy, Mrs. Charles Pic-
quct and Dr. Robert Shepard.
discuss the ■proposed hig;hw’ay be
tween Aberdeen and Southern Pines
was postponed on account of the
Assisting Mrs. Prizer and iMrs.
Spaeth in this novel entertainment
will be Mrs. W'illiam
Mrs. M. G. Nichols,
Moore, Mrs. James
of import restrictions abroad and the
DIVIDEND TO DEPOSITORS, $1.20, 40 cents, 16 cents and 8 cents
— ' supply themselves.
The Bank of Vass, which closed, The fact that exports have fallen
weather. It was feared that the con-, Charles Everest, Mrs. W. Craighill
dition of the roads would keep the i Brown, Mrs. Charles W. Picquet and
delegations from Rockingham and Miss Erson, while serving at the tea
Hoffman from being pr^esent. The, tables will be Mrs. P. P. Pelton, Mrs.
meeting will be held some time early i James Milliken, Mrs. E. N. Poate and
in January, it was stated yesterday. i Mrs. Harry Vetterlein,
perhaps others will thus realize what
he knows so well, that conditions
ho knows so well, namely, that condi
tions are so grave that only a large
response immediately will save the
situation.
It is earnestly requested that those
who intend to give but who have
put it^off and those who desire to do
as Mr. Fownes did and add to their
donation send the gift at once
direct to I. C. Sledge, Treasurer,
or notify him that it is being mailed.
The purchasing committee will want
to buy as many things as possible
bargain' before it is too late, as deliveries
will be started Friday morning. The
its doors in September of 1931, last twice as much in value as in volume
C. Mudgett, j week paid a five per cent dividend to indicates .American farmers are ex-
Mrs. George I its depositors, this beinc the first that i porting their surpluses at
Dickie, Mrs. they had received. W. F.* Allen was prices.
first appointed liquidating agent of. It has been reflected in a farm i more that is received the more people
the institution, but later Charles S. ^ price of 2.5 cents a bushel for wheat, j that will be saved.
Gay of Sanford was placed in charge, j 10 cents fo:* corn, 4 cents a pound for | The Christmas Cheer Association
The dividend checks were drawn on, cotton and 3 cents for hogs recently can also use many tnr're toys and
the Page Trust Company of Sanford j j
and weie mailed out fi’oni li.at p’ac;. (?’.cr,=c to page 5) PVtc ■ ,;i o page 5)