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1 MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY TTXXU J. fl.X> A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 13, NO. 3L CARTHAOE SPRINC9 LAKEVieW MANUEY JAQ<SOH SPRINOS •OUTHCRN PlTi£9 ASHLSV M&tCHTS PIM£BUiPP PILOT FIRST IN CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, Augpst 11, 1933. FIVE CENTS VASS BANK, PAGE ROBBERY, MURDER! CASES, DOCKETED Important Trials Scheduled for Superior Court at Carthage Next Week Noel Laing, Noted Steeplechase | U. S. SPENDS $50,000 ^ Rider, to School Race Horses Here pQP RFl HERE * IN TEN MONTHS o Souii^ & o: ines District Votes ’'tonth School Southern Pines to be Headquart ers for Training Racing Mounts During Winter Months Employment Head by Overwit lining Majority JUDGE STACK PRESIDES Several cases of more than ordinary interest are scheduled for trial in Su perior Court in Moore county next •week, which will convene on Monday with Judge A. M. Stack of Monroe pre siding. Turner Cameron and Tom Douglas, white men of the Cameron section, charged with the murder of a neighbor, Leonai’d Cameron, will be tried for one of the most brutal deeds that has been committed in the county in recent years; J. P. Ewing, member of a prominent family of Fayetteville, and John Butler will he heard in con nection with the robbery of the Page Trust Comparty’s bank at Aberdeen, and J. A. Keith, D. A. McLauchlin, J. H. Gai'dner, A. D. McLauchlin and P. L. Gardner, officers and directors of the closed Bank of V'ass, are schedul ed to be tried on chargen of violating the banking laws Three murder cases in addition to the one named above are on the doc ket. The defendants in these are Jake Klutz, white, of Salisbury, charged with killing a colored man with his au tomobile; Edgar Garner and Er^Me Sheffield, white, charged with the murder of a Sheffield boy who was killed when the automobile in which the three were riding w'as wrecked, and Obia Godwin, colored, who is al leged to have fatally shot Pete Har rington at a colored road house be tween Southern Pines and Aberdeen. The Allen case, in which Mrs. Allen and several of her children of Lake- view will answer charges of assault ing P. L. Gardner and J. H. Gardner •with deadly weapons, and numerous other cases of less interest are includ ed in the list. Tax Sale Next Month, County Board Votes Commissioners Offer Reward for Capture of Cal Wortham, Ac cused of Shooting Woman The Board of County Commissioners in regular session on Monday of this week ordered the tax collector to sell on the first Monday in September the real estate of all taxpayers in the county who are delinquent for 1932 taxes, and to advertise said property for four weeks during the month of August immediately preceding the sale. A reward of $25 for the arrest of Cal Wortham, colored, was authorized by the board upon condition that the town of Southern Pines offer a like amount, which the local board has au thorized. Wortham, said to be a dan- grerous character, is wanted for the shooting some three w'eeks ago of Stella Murchison, a colored woman, in West Southern Pines. Wortham is re ported to have made a number of threats against the woman’s father and family. Two constables were appointed by the commissioners, R. L. Pratt, Jack- pon Springs Camp, for Mineral Springs township, and A. R. Laub- scher, Vass, for McNeill township, each officer being required to post jbond in the sum of $250, same to be a,pproved by the board.. It was ordered that the Board rec ommend to the State Highway Com mission that the following roads be placed in the State system: The coun ty road leading from Route 74 to Glendon and Harper’s Cross Roads; the county road leading from Route 75 through Cameron to Spout Springs connecting with the highway to Fay etteville from Sanford; the county road from Carthage through Vass to Manchester. It was also decided to recommend the completion of Route 64 from McConnell through Highfalls and the building of a bridge across Deep River, the hard surfacing of Route 75 from Route 50 through Car thage Route 70 at Pinehurst, and the hard surfacing of Route 1 from Aber deen to the Richmond county line. W. T. Jackson and J. B. Ritter were granted license to sejl beer in Hemp. On account of his being a disabled Spanish American War veteran, W. C. Marlin was granted a peddler’s license for Moore county without charge. 4.* NOTED STABLES COMING Noel Laing, who was riding his father’s horses before he grew out of short trousers and has become one of Americas leading steeplechase riders,: is to make his headquarters for the j schooling of thorobred hunters and I steeplechasers in Southern Pines this winter. He will share the stables on ' Weymouth Heights which his father, i William A. Laing, of Amissville, Vir- i ginia, has operated for many years. j Young Laing will bring down a string of horses to winter here. Among them will be famous mounts from the stables of Mrs. T. A. Somerville in Virginia. It was one of Mrs. Somer ville’s steeplechasers. Trouble Maker,' w’hich Laing rode in the Grand Na tional at Aintree, England, last spring, being one of the few Ameri cans to finish the toughest steeple chase course in the world. He will also school here a steeplechase horse re cently acquired by Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Jr., of Pinehurst and Newport,! R. I., a new comer to the racing game. I Other horses which Mr. Laing will. train include a string from the stables of Thomas Gay, of Richmond, Virgin-; ia. j The Southern Pines country has been found ideal for the schooling of race horses and hunters, as exempli fied by the success of Trouble Maker, trained here before its great success in capturing the Maryland Hunt Cup at Baltimore two years ago in what was, up to then, record time. Other horses schooled here have won impor tant races elsewhere, the Carolina Cup at Camden, S. C., among them. The establishment of headquarters here by Laing will in all probability lead to the coming of other training stables and the further development of this im mediate section as a horse center. William A. Laing will again have a string of hunters here this winter for the use of those who ride to hounds with the various packs of the section. A large number of private owners have reserved stalls for their mounts at The Paddock for the winter, and the prospects appear bright for one of the best seasons, from the equestrian standpoint, in many years. State Authorizes Discontinuance' of All Work Relief Projects ! from Now On ' Thanks Voters NEW PAY RATE TOO HIGH M. C. MCDONALD OFFICE TO ENROLL UNEMPLOYED TO OPENINCARTHAGE Advisory Committee for Moore County Named to Supervise Federal Aid Projects Here M. C. MCDONALD CHAIRMAN Struthers Burt Fights For New National Park Witness Before Senate Commit tee on Rockefeller Plan to Convert Jackson Hole Struthers Burt, author and dude rancher, testified before a Senate land committee today that he approved the Rockefeller plan to convert the famed Jackson Hole of Wyoming into a na tional park, says an Associated Press despatch from Jackson, Wyoming un der date of August 7th. Mr. Burt said he had lived in Jack son Hole for twenty-five years and he sold his own Bar B. C. ranch to Mr. Rockefeller to be added to the park. “I felt I had a moral obligation to do my part,” he said. The first witness called in the in vestigation of the controversy over the Jackson Hole park extension, Mr. Burt said he had never heard of the unfair methods which some settlers in the Hole asserted were used by Rocke feller interests to gain control of deed ed land. For an hour he discussed with members of the Senate Land Commit tee’s subcommittee on Western lands the Rockefeller plan and the history of Jackson Hole for the last twenty-five years. He was questioned by Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, chairman of the committee. The author testified he had never heard of any discussion concerning a monopoly of the dude ranch business as a motive for the park extension. He said it was the object of a group of ranchers in the northern Jackson Hole country, as far back as 1916, to keep the region a “primitive wilderness” as Rockefeller proposed. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., revealed his plans six years ago and announced he would purchase more than 30,000 acres of deeded land and turn it over to the government to be used as an extension of Yellowstone National Park. He has spent more than $1,000,- 000 in buying lands since that time An office will be opened in Carthage today, Friday, for the enrollment of unemployed desiring work on federal aid jobs in Moore county under con- but inquiry may be made at the was announced this week. James Dav is of Carthage will be in charge of the office, which will be located either in the Courthouse or the fire house, it is understood. The definite location had not been decided upon yesterday, but inquiry niaye be made at the Courthouse by those desiring to list their names for work. At the request of State authorities an advisory committee %vas named this week to supervise employment of fed eral aid projects in Moore county, M. C. McDonald of West End, former county commissioner, is chairman, the other members being Chairman of the County Commission Wilbur H. Currie, Mayor J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen, Howard Burns, city clerk of Southern Pines, Edgar-Brown of Hemp and and L, B. McKeithen of Cameron. This committee met at the Courthouse for organization purposes, electing Mr. McDonald chairman at that time. Among the first projects for which local labor will be employed is the paving of U. S. Highway No. 1 from Aberdeen to Hoffman, the contract for which is expected to be let next week. All men out of work and desiring jobs must enroll at this new office to be eligible for employment under fedei’al aid. MR CHEATHAM CALLS FOR NEW DEAL IN TEMPERANCE “The Lord preached temperance but not prohibition,” the Rev. T. A. Cheat ham of Pinehurst tolJ members of the Kiwanis Club at their meeting in Aberdeen Wednesday. No law can be enforced without public sentiment be hind it. It is not right for a small minority to obstruct the will of the majority,” he said. Prohit>ition has not solved the li quor problem. Mr. Cheatham stated. The results hoped for in the passage of the 18th amendment did not mater ialize, and the issue must be tackled again and more constructively. The so lution lies in education for temperance rather than in prohibition, and will be solved by “the overwhelming body of reasonable national opinion in Amer ica,” not by extremists who cannot look at the proposition sanely. Mr. Cheatham bemoaned the con tempt for law which has grown since the amendment, the accumulation of money by unscrupulous devotees of the underworld. He read from “The Christian Century,” an active dry pa per, its acknowledgment of the de feat of prohibition, its call for tem perance to supplant it. “Give the people their freedom, but educate them to use their liberty tem perately.” The Federal Government has ex pended $50,000,000 in Moore county since last October for relief purposes, reports William V. Carter, Jr., of the County Relief office. The largest sum 1 received during any one month was | $7,000.00, the smallest amount being; $2,400.00 in July. j Allocations from the Governor’s Of-1 fice of Relief in Raleigh to Moore' County Relief covering a period of ten ; jnonths are as follows: I October, $3,200.00; November, $3,- 775.00; December, $4,050.00; January, $6,500.00; February, $7,000.00; March $7,000.00; April, $9,000.00; May, $6,- 000.00; June, $3,060.00; July, $2,- 400,00; Total, $49,985.00. “We have a total of 3,958 cards on file in the county,” says Mr. Carter. This does not represent the present ac tive case load, but the total number of cases on file totalled at the end of ten months. Of this number 3,411 case cards are on file showing the amount of food, clothing, medicine, hospitali zation, etc., rendered each case through work relief or direct relief or both. The balance of the cards, 547 have been recorded, but these have not received aid. This does not rep resent the total number of persons turned down but probable cases.” Cases on file by districts for July follow; Aberdeen, 462; Cameron, 230; Car thage, 488; Eagle Springs, 331; Eu reka, 200; Glendon, 164; Hemp, 150; High Falls, 255; Jackson Springs, 81; Needham’s Grove, 21; Niagara, 76; Pinebluff No. 1, Pinebluff No. 2, 142; Pinehurst, 248; Southern Pines, 375; Spies, 405; Vass, 188; West End, 142. Total, 3,958. Emergency Federal Relief funds spent in each local district of the county were as follows: Spies, $2,356.69; Carthage, $5,- 324.90; Needham’s Grove, $670.06; Eagle Springs, $2,808.24; Glendon,' $1,497.52; Cameron, $2,194.54; High FalLs, $1,928.08; Eureka, $2,203.59;' Niagara, $1,501.80; Vass, $1,973.94;: Southern Pines, 4,694.83; Jackson Springs, $1,396.10; Pinehurst, $4,-^ 885,35; West End, $1,305.56; Aber-i deen, 5,977.71; Pinebluff No. 1, Pine-1 bluff No. 2, $566.8u; Hemp, $1,' 367.58; Hemp and Spies, $95.00; to- j tal, $44,237.09. i Mr. Carter reports a balance on | hand of $80.30. No More Work Relief Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emer gency Relief Administrator, has is sued the following regulations apply ing to relief work in the country at large. On and after August 1, 1933, no one and local relief administrations may not employ any persons under sixteen years of age on work relief projects. Ranges of pay—On and after Au gust 1, grants made under the Feder al Emergency Relief Act of 1933 can be used in paying work relief wages only at or above thirty cents an hour. The local prevailing rate of pay for the type of work performed should be paid if it is in excess of 30 cents per hour. On andafterAugust 1, 1933, no one employed on a work relief project shaU be allowed to work more than eight hours in any one day, nor more than thirty-five hours in any one week (or one hundred and fifty hours in any one month) if the work involved is physical labor. In acting upon the above regrula- tions, Ronald B. Wilson, Acting Direc tor of Relief for the State of North Carolina, issued the following in- Southern IMnes School Board Pleased with Expression of Confidence at Polls Five Hundred Twenty-Three of <)74 Registered Favor Local Supplemental Tax ONLY 78 “NO” BALLOTS In a statement issued yesterday to the press, addressed to “Our Friends in the Southern Pines School District,” the School Board say.s: ^ “The overwhelming vote in favor bf the nine months school is an ex pression by the people of this com munity in favor of the longer term. It means first and foremost that you are determined the children shall have a fair deal and a new deal and that no one will be permitted to tear down a structure that has taken years of conscientious effort to build up. It I shows that children are loved in this j community, and wanted here. i “The school Board feels that this great outpouring of voters to support them is a fine testimonial of the peo- i pie’s confidence in its board. The j Board wishes to thank each and every ; one who gave of his time, means and > efforts so unsparingly in bringing about the splendid victory. Never have i we seen our people so united in a com-! mon cause and we are happy beyond words. “The Board pledges itself to oper ate the schools economically, always with the welfare of the children as j the uppermost thought and consider-1 ation. Attain we thank everyone who j so kindly helped us and we are deeply; grateful, grateful beyond expres- j sion.” j —SOUTHERN PINES SCHOOL BOARD— ; George G. Herr, D. D. S., Chairman I Ralph L. Chandler, I Mrs. J. S. Milliken, j Frank Maples, | E. Levis Prizer, M. D. i U. S. N.1 PAVING FROM ABERDEEN SOUTH APPROVED Stretch as Far as Hoffman to Be. Paved With Sand Asphalt j at Once (Please turn to Page 5) INFIELD THROWING STUNT FOB BASEBALL FIELD DAY Charlie Picquet yesterday announc ed « new stunt for Baseball Field Day on September 4th, infield throwing against time. Regular infields of the league will compete. The ball will be throw'n from catcher to shortstop, shortstop to first base, first to sec ond, second t j third and third to pit cher. The League team making the best timi wins a special prize. The stretch of U. S. Highway No. | 1 from Aberdeen south w’hich ci\ic organizations of the Sandhills have | been pleading for years to have paved j is on the first list of approved projects , released during the past week by the State Highway Commission. It will be | a federal aid job and will be started as soon as the contract can be let. The paving will be sand asphalt and for the present will extend from Aberdeen only as far as Hoffman. This will leave a stretch from Hoffman to Rockingham which needs paving but which has been improved more recent ly than tha Aberdeen-Hoffman mile age. Moore county was grranted another project in the first approved list. The road from Hemp to the junction of federal aid r-jute 26 located on fed eral aid route 124 is to be surface treated. It is understood that the road from Carthage to its intersection with U. S. Highway No. 1 between Sanford and Cameron will be among the pro jects soon to be approved, giving Moore county a fair share of the f<^d- eral aid highway money allotted to North Carolina and providing employ ment for many idle hands. No report has been heard from Southern Pines’ application to extend Broad street to U. SC. No. 1 north of town to divert traffic through the business section but the Highway Commission is understood to look with favor on the plan. NEW BOOK BY BION BUTLER TO BE PUBLISiHED SOON A forthcoming publication from the pen of Bion H. Butler, editor of The Pilot, is announced in the advertising columns this week. Mr. Butler has re cently completd a veritable “History of the Sandhills” in his volume, “Old Bethesda,” to be published by Grosset & Dunlop, with a limited de luxe edi tion of fifty copies to be followed by a popular edition. Residents of the Southern Pines School District registered their ap- provnl of the continuance of a nine months school in Southern Pines by an overwhelming majority in the spec ial election held on Wednesday of this week. Of the registration of 674, 523 ex pressed themselves in favor of a lo cal supplemental tax to provide the additional month of schooling. Only 78 voted ag-ainst the supplement, 73 of the registrants failing to cast their ballots. The polls were open from sun up to sun-down. The size of the majority came as a great surprise to a large number of people. So bitter was the cam paign waged prior to the referendum that a much closer vote was expected, and there were not a few who predict ed the defeat of the extended term. The Southern Pir.es schools will con- tmue to operate for the full nine months, thereby continuing their sta tus as fully accredited institutions. The vote authorizes a supplemental tax of not to exceed 30 cents on the hundred dollar valuation for the addi tional month over the State-sitpported eight months, for the supplementmg of teachers' salaries over and above the State limits, the engaging of addi tional teachers where necessary, the supplementing of salaries for bus crivers, the continuatice of a school superintendent, and adequate funds for providing cleanliness, .sanitation and heat in the schools throughout the school year. It continues the operation of the schools in the hands of the lo cal School Board. In a statement to The Pilot the board promises to use every effort to operate the schools economically but without sacrificing the welfare of thei children. It is hoped that the full 30- cent tax will not be necessary to pro vide the funds needed. Though no announcement has been made to the effect, it i«; belie>ed prob able that Frank T. Webster will re turn as superintendent here, and that members of the present faculty will be re-elected as a body for the forthcom ing year. At the polls on Wednesday former Sheriff D. A1 Blue acted as registrar and S. B. Richardson and A. S. Rug- gles as pc'' holders. The vote was canvassed in the office of City Clerk Howard Bums and the result known early Wednesday night. Many More Sign NRA Code Through Sandhills Long List in Aberdeen After Merchants Meet.—Southern Pines Meeting Tuesday Signing up of the NRA code contin ues throughout the Sandhill section, many more business houses showing the eagle in their windows this week than last. At a meeting in Southern Pines Tuesday afternoon plans for a lOO percent sign-up here were made. A co operative spirit was manifested by those pres||it, though it was apparent that many did not understand the pro visions of the code. Another meeting’ will be held next Tuesday afternoon at the City Clerk’s office. At a meeting of the committee ap pointed by the merchants of Aberdeen the N. R. A. code was unanimously adopted an(^ practically all merchants and business houses pledged their sup port in seeing that its rules are car ried out. Furniture and hardware stores op ened at 8 o’clock and closed at 5. On Saturdays they will remain open until 9 o’clock. Grocery stores will open at B close M 6, except Saturdays when they will remain open until 9 o’clock; dry goods stores will open at 8:30 and close at 5:30 except Satur days when they remain open until ^;30; drug stores and filling stations (Please tnm to page 8)
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