MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, NO. 48.
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PILOT
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
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Aberdeen and Southern Pinjs, North Carolina, Friday. October 27, 1933.
f North Carolina
FIVE CENTS
COUNTY BOARD TO
CONSIDER FEDERAL
LOAN ON MONDAY
Estimates of Cost of New School
Building's Considered by
School Board
NO ACTION UNTIL N'JV. 6
The Board of County Commission
ers will meet Monday night to dis
cuss the project to ask a loan of
$200,000 from the federal govern
ment for construction of new school
buildings and repairs to old buildings
in tiie county. The board will not act
on the proposition, however, until it
regular meeting on November 6th, it
is said.
The County Board of Education
went over the plans with architects
at its meeting Wednesday night in
order to obtain estimates on the cost
of the new building program. The
projects proposed include;
Twelve rooms and an auditorium
at High Falls; eight rooms and an
auditorium in the upper end of the
county; six class rooms at Hemp; a
six,room building and auditorium at
Eagle Springs; six rooms at West
End; auditorium for colored school
at Pinehurst; replastering te entire
interior of the old building at Pine
hurst and enlarging the stage in the
audi*>rium; twelve rooms and an au
ditorium at the Aberdeen colored
school; auditorium at grammar school
in Aberdeen; partitioning of old audi
torium in Aberdeen grammar schov>l
into class rooms; ten rooms and audi
torium at Eureka; eight class rooms
at Carthage High School; eight rooms
and auditorium at Carthage colored
school.
Estimates of Cost
Herbert Vail and Dick Sugg Survive | HOPE TO RELEASE
in Singles in County Tennis Tourney | 2Q% Qp DEPOSITS
~ FROM PAGE TRIOT
Thirty Players Engaged All
Week in Events on Southern
Pines Courts
Atlanta Pastor Here
Herbert D. Vail of Pinehurst and
Richard Sugg of Southern Pines are 1
the survivors in the men’s singles of,
the Moore county tennis tournament. {
They will meet in the final round ^
for the county championship at 10
o’clock this morning, Friday, and a
large crowd is expected to witness the
match. Vail defeated Edward J. ^
Burns of Carthage in the semi-finals
late yesterday afternoon, 6-1, G-4.!
Sugg won his semi-final round match j
by default from Nelson C. Hyde, who,
was unable to play. |
Thirty players have been battling
on the Southern Pines courts all week, |
in singles, men's doubles and mixed I
doubles. Good sized crowds have
watched the contests, many of which!
have been close and exciting. Among j
the best to watch was the singles |
battle between Sugg and Maitland;
Grover in the quarter finals. Sugg, j
after taking the first set, dropped the j
second and was trailing at 4-3 in the |
third w'hen Sugg braced and ran out |
the victory. The o"3dest match in the j
tourney came in the men’s doubles'
when Grover and Richard Wilson j o’clock a series of evan-
faced Almet Jenks and Nelson Hyde.: Eelistic services will be conducted at
Immediate Payment to Deposi
tors of R. F. C. Grants Loan
of Nearly Half Million
REOPENING IN ABEYANCE
Rev. John R. W-iUiams
Beginning next Wednesday even-
Negotiation are under way to se
cure loans from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation which w'ill en-
! able immediate payment to deposit-
I ors of the closed Pago Trust Com-
i pany of more than 20 per cent, Gur-
; ney P. Hood, Commissioner of Banks
said this week.
The reorganization plan for the
Page company, announced some
weeks ago, stated that an R. F. C.
loan would be sought to enable a 20
per cent payment to depositors. Since
that time, however, federal plans
have been announced for loosening as-
I sets in closed banks and it is hoped
to secure a loan which will enable
payment of more than 20 per cent.
Until definite word is received from
the R. F. C., nothing will be done re
garding the proposed reorganization,
Mr. Hood said. A loan of approxima
tely $450,000 will be required for the
20 per cent payment.
The Page company, which has not
Plans Set in Motion to Make
Dogwood Festival Biggest
Event in Local History
Grover and Wilson won the first set Presbyterian Church in Aber-1 operated on an unrestricted basis
without the loss of a game, where- i The Rev. John R. Williams of I since the March banking holiday, had
upon Jenks and Hyde reversed the Atlanta, Ga., will preach twice each j deposits of approximately $3,000,000
score and took the second at 6-0. The o’clock in the mornings | of which $2,000,000 was unsecured,
third set was nip and tuck, with evenings at seven-thirty. The bank which has 13 branches, was
Jenks and Hyde pulling it out at i Mr. Williams was for many years | placed in the hands of a liquidating
6-4 only to lose their next match to' ** successful pastor in the city of At-1 agent some time ago so that an ass-
Burns and Flowers, the latter from i lanta, giving up his pastorate two I essment could be levied against stock-
Rockingham. years ago to spend his whole time in; holders.
Survivors in the men’s doubles are j evangelism throughout the country, j The proposed new bank will have
Malcolm Grover and C. Montesanti,; He has had unusual success in his, $150,000 capital stock and $75,000
Vail and Cole of Pinehurst, Burns: single churches and injsuiplus.
and Flowers and Hall and B. Wilson. ‘ union meetings. He is a young mp-n,
Estimates of the cost of this build- In the mixed doubles these teams will ra*'® drifts and preaches the Gospel | Lcgioil Post PlaOS Big
ing pro.M-am were submitted at the' meet in the semi-flnals: T. Montesan- >n | ArmisticC Cclcbratioil
meeting Wednesday by Frank B. ti and Mrs. Milam vs. Vail and Mrs. ot the .andhiiis are coraiaiiy invue(
Simpson and L. F. Diettrick, archi-j Richard Tufts; ^chard Wilson and; take advantage of these services,
tects, both of Raleigh, and after see- T. Montesanti vs. riyde and Mrs. Al-
ing these estimates the Board was to met Jenks. T. Montesanti and Mrs. RichardSOIl NcW’’
dccide whether or not any recom-| Milam defeated Thomas and M.
mendations at all would bo present-! Montesanti 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, while Wil
ed to the commissioners for tehir con- son and T. Montesanti defeated Mil- — ^ ,
lar and Miss Weatherly. Three Troops Here Off To Good
In matches after the early rounds Start, with Enthusiastic
results were as follows: Men’s Singles. Support of Parents
—Vail defeated Frye, 6-1, 6-1; Hall
Head of Scout Council
sideration and approval.
It will be necessary to file with the
federal government a separate appli
cation for each project for loans from
the loan fund recently set aside for; defeated Womack by default; Stevens The third metting of the newly re
public works. I defeated Notargiacomo, 7-5, 6-1organized Southern Pines Boy Scout
The federal government will make a Burns defeated Atkinson, 6-0, 6-1;-Council was held in the Scout House
Sugg defeated C. Montesanti, 6-0, last Thursday evening.
G-3; M. Grover defeated Cole, 6-3,1 Frank Buchan, chairman of the
tiie remaining 70 per cent will have 6-8, 6-4; Beck defeated Lacks, 6-3,'special committee appointed to inves-
Monte- tigate the legal aspects relative to
direct grant of 30 per cent of the to
tal loan on all projects approved and
to be paid back in twenty years with
interest at four per cent.
On a $200,000 loan, $60,000 would
be a direct grant and it would be
necessary to pay back the $140,000,
$7,000 each year with interest an
nually upon the unpaid balance. The
county would be exempt entirely for
the first three years, and payments
■'would range from $12,600 the fourth
year, which is the $7,000 with interest
added, to $7,000 the twentieth year.
Tobacco Prices Up
on Aberdeen Market
Farmers Feeling Better as Av
erage Price Jumps to
Around 17 Cents
Tobacco prices jumped up on the
Aberdeen market during the week,
much to the gratification and en
couragement of farmers throughout
this section. Sor.\e fine sales were
made at both the warehouses, and
large quantities of leaf were taken
over by the big buyers at an average
of around 17 cents a pound. Prices
throughout the North Carolina mar
kets were better during the week,
with Aberdeen well up among the top
notchers on average price.
B. B. Saunders says that better
quality tobacco is com’ng on the mar
ket now, and that those farmers in
this section who have made good to
bacco can expect satisfactory prices.
“And there is no need of carrying
it farther away than Aberdeen to get
the high,” he said, and went on to
cite several instances of local farmers
turning down their tickets here only
to pay haulage to other markets
where they received less for it. In an
advertisement in this week’s Pilot
Mr. Saunders records some of the
sales made on his floor during the
past week, sales which should encour
age any tobacco Taiser.
3-6, 7-5; Hyde defeated T.
santi 6-4 6-3. the title of certain real estate hold-
Th’ird round—Burns defeated Ste- and the jurisdiction and per-
vens, 6-1, 6-2; Sugg defeated Grover, - P®^*^ation of the original, “Southern
6-1, 5-7, 6-4; Hyde defeated Beck, P*"es Council, Boy Scouts of Ameri-
6-4, 6-2; Vail defeated L. T. Hall, ^a. Inc.” submitted a report of prog-
6-0, 6-0. Semi-finals—Sugg defeated ^ r^ss, together with a legal opinion on
Hyde by default. l matter.
Men’s Doubles—Grover and C.! Sam B. Richardson, one of the
Montesanti defeated Thomas and T. > original incorporators of the Boy
Montesanti, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4; Vail and i Scout Council in this community, was
Cole defeated Stevens and Spaeth, i elected permanent chairman of the
6-2, 6-4; Burns and Flowers defeated 1 replacing Garland
Jenks and Hyde, 6-2, 6-1; Hall andi been acting chairman.
B. Wilson defeated Lacks and Bar-1 Miss Doris Eddy was chosen as the
rett 6-4 5-7 6-3. ' secretary of the council.
The finals in men’s singles, with | The chairman of the council was
Sugg meeting the winner of the! authorized to proceed with the ap-
Vail-Burns match, will be played at' Pointment of four standing com-
10 o’clock this, Friday, morning: mittees, to manage including Finance,
Other matches in doubles and mixed | Transportation, Camping,
doubles will be played during the) ^ Personnel, and Court of
day, with the finals in men’s .doubles: Honor activities and to assist in the
and mixed doubles on Saturday. transaction of council business.
I The scouting officials are very much
Will Fittingly Observe Great
Event With Ceremonies at
West End Nov. 10th
The Sandhills Post of the Ameri
can Legion at its regular semi
monthly meeting held last week in the
Pinehurst Community Church, laid
plans for a real old time Armistice
celebration to be held at West End
on the night of November 10th. Most
tx-servicc men and civilians no doubt
recollect that perhaps the greatest
celebration in every place excepting
actually on the front lines was done
on the night before the Armistice
went into effect, and consequently it
is quite appropriate that the local
post should celebrate the occasion on
the night before the 11th.
Commander J. Vance Rowe named
the entire official staff of the local
post as special committee for te oc
casion, with Vice-Commander J. F.
Sinclair as Officer of the Day and
therefore directly in charge of the
program. The other officers and mem
bers of the Program Committee ae
Commander Rowe, Vice Command
ers John Stevenson and J. C. Clark,
Adjutant D. D. S. Cameron, Finance
Officer F. M. Dwight, Chaplain J. F.
Stimson, Sergeant at Arms Dan
Horner, Historian John Hemmer,
Publicity Officer R. D. Kennedy and
Service Officers L. L. Woolley, D. D.
Eifort, Harry Zirkle and R. E.
Denny.
Interviews with these various com
mittee members reveals the fact that
the program will be complete from
Are You Registered?
Tomorrow, Saturday, Only
Day to Get Your Name on
Hooks for Vote on Nov 7
Voters who wish to cast their
ballots in the referendum on re
peal of the 18th Amendment on
Tuesday, November 7th, are re
minded that they have only one
day in which to register for this
election, Tomorow. Saturday, Oc
tober 28. V'oters who registered
and voted at the last election (not
the School District election) will
not be required to register again
for this election, but all those who
did not vote at the last general
election will do well to see their re
gistrars at their voting precincts
tomorrow and make sure that their
names arc on the book.
Aberdeen voters will find the
registration books at the office of
J. Vance Rowe. D. Al Blue is in
charge of the books in Southern
Pines and will be at the Municipal
building Saturday.
The hours for registration will
be from 9 a. m. to Sundown.
Town Officials, Chamber of
Commerce and Seaboard Rail
way Cooperate for (iala Week
FEATURE DAYS PLANNED
Plans for what is expected to be
the biggest event in the history of
Southern Pines, Dogwood Festival
Week, were actively launched at an
enthusiastic meeting of directors of
the Chamber of Commerce held Tues
day noon at Highland Lodge. Tenta
tive arangements call for a w’eek of
events which will appeal to people
from all parts of the cojnty, as well
as to persons of all ages in this sec
tion. There will be something to in
terest and entertain everybody.
Each day of the week will have its
special appeal. If plans do not go
awry, there will be a New England
Day for the numerous people from
that section of the country who have
come here to live, and for their rela
tives and friends from the north;
there will be a Pennsylvania Dutch
Day, a day for the Scotch settlers so
numerous hereabouts; possibly a
Canadian Day; a Military Day when
efforts will be made to bring here a
detachment of troops from Fort
Bragg with their regimental band
and their big guns; and “Old Slave
Day” will be one of the big features
of the week, a day when all the for
mer slaves now residing in the county
will be here for special exercises.
Many Future Exhibits
Plenty of other attractions are in
the air. An effort will be made to
show how turpentine is distilled, an
old intiustry indigenous to this ter
ritory; how tobacco is cured, with
possibly an exhibit from a North
In an open letter sent to The Pilot
this week by a group of representa-1 through to the f\nisheJ
tive citizens of the county interested textile and furniture manu-
in the continuance of national pro- f^^^turing exhibits from Moore county
hibition the officials of Moore county P«=^^«bly some gold panning to
are asked to state their convictions something about an
on the Wet and Pry issue in the industry, the
columns of this paper'next week. The ®f gold. All kinds of sugges-
letter, headlined “An Open Letter to Dogwood Festival
COUNTY OFFICIALS
ASKED TO STATE
REPEAL VIEWS
Citizens of Dry Conventions Ask
Office Holders for Statement
in Open Letter
Week a memorable- one have beei^
and are being made, and all will be
considered by the committee appoint
ed on Tuesday to plan the big affair.
This committee, headed by Mayor
D. G. Stutz, President George G.
Herr of the Chamber of Commerce
Moore County Officials,” reads as fol
lows :
“A great Moral and Political Is
sue confronts the citizenry of our
State. You hold a responsible official
position in our county. As a public
servant you are amendable, not only
to your Party, but also to the people Robert L. Hart, committee chair-
in the county. The people have a right meet on Monday night at
to know where their public servants ® to organize
stand on this matter of Repeal of the the making of the
Eighteenth Amendment. progiam, the selection of a suitable
“You are hereby invited and urged dogwood blossom season,
to state your convictions on the mat- incident to the un-
ter of Repeal of the Eighteenth fJP’ taking. Members of the committee
Amendment in the columns of this
paper next week.
Sincerely yours, (Signed)—A. G.
Wallace, PineblufT; A. C. McDonald,
Aberdeen; C. L. Austin, Southern woman’s
Pines; S. H. Miller, Carthage; C. F. committees and publicity committees
include S. B. Richardson, Frank
Fuchan, Howard F. Burns, Shields
Cameron, Nelson C. Hyde and Ashley
Jackman. Other committees will be
After Repeal. What? \
4 , T> n* T J ; paients m the somtion oi locai ^ formal initiation
Asks Kev. Mr. McLeod scouting problems and it is certain ' ^ will be present-
i that the three troops will accomplish! ^ occasion; a guard-
IMoral Force Can Bring Real
much more than has been possible be-1 quartette will sing “From
Temperance Where Law ‘ The next meeting of the council
Failed, He Believes i subject to the call of the
and special groups to have charge of
arrangements for each of the special
days during the gala week.
Seaboard Aid Pledged
The active cooperation of the Sea-
board Air Linp Railway was pledged
by Herman E. Pleasants, division
passenger agent at Raleigh, at Tues
day’s meeting. Mr. Pleasants was a
guest of honor at the Chamber gath*
! T. , , ^ ering and spoke of the desire of the
Kiwanians are looking forward to ^ . u j • .i. .
. ^ XT., railroad to lend a hand in the deve
lopment of plans for the festival. Mr.
Barnes, Carthage; H. F. Seawell, Jr.,
Carthage.”
The columns of The Pilot are open
for the replies of county officials to
the above request should they desire
to comply with same.
KIWANIS CLUB PLANS TWO
BIG NOVEMBER MEETINGS
two important meetings during No
chairman.
PORK RECEIVED HERE FOR
NEEDY AND UNEMPLOYED
In the adjustments which must fol
low the repeal of the 18th amendment
we must take every precaution to
avoid the mistakes made following
the enactment of national prohibition Large quantities of pork were re
legislation, the Rev. Murdoch McLeod, ceived here this week from Uncle Sam
told members of the Kiwanis Club of arrangrements for its distribu-
Aberdeen at their weekly meeting ‘ tion to the needy are being made by
held in the Community House ini^I*"S- James Swett, Dr. E. L. Prizer
Aberdeen on Wednesday.
National prohibition, he
Bar-le-Duc to Gay Paree”; the C.O.
warrants that no MP’s will be present
and a good time should be had by all.
The ladies of the Auxiliary are in
vited to attend, also veterans of other
wars and the public in general.
DR. W. C. MUDGETT’S FATHER
DIES AT AGE OF 81 YEARS
vember. The annual meeting and elec- . , , ^.u i. j ^ u i.
. _ ^ ^ Pleasants asked that a date be set as
tion of officers will be held at a night
early as possible to permit the Sea
board to advertise it in the north be
fore people started south for the
(Please turn to page 4)
Dr. William C. Mudgett was called
north on Sunday last by the sudden
of the Southern Pines Relief Com- j death of his father, W. E. Mudgett, at
said,|mittee stated yesterday. Moore county, Eggt Andover. N. H. Mr.
proved the greatest set-back temper- to receive in all 4,998 pounds of
ance ever suffered. It was a great | pork for c«^uniy-wide distribution.
mistake, as temperance education]
ceased in the erroneous belief that Over a hundred people are attend
drinking could be controlled by law.
(Please turn to page 4)
ing the Church School of Missions at
the Aberdeen Presbyterian
each evening this week.
Mudgett was 81 years of age. The
funeral was held on Tuesday, with
burial at the old family home, Conto-
cook, N. H. A daughter, Mrs. J. S.
Rattigan, and Dr. Mudgett are the
Church I cniy surviving children. I>r. Mudgett
returned to Southern Pines yesterday.
session on November 8th at the Aber
deen Community House. On Novem
ber 22nd the annual Alumni meeting
will be held at the Pinehurst Com
munity Church, when all former
members will be invited to attend and rW-0 MORE FORMER SLAVES
hear a talk by Congressman Walter ADDED TO THE PILOT LIST
Lambeth, representative of this dis-
trict in Washington. xhe Pilot is in receipt of more
Frank Shamburger is chairman of names of former slaves this week, and
the Nominating committee for the again asks that its readers send in
I election of officers and slates will be the names and addresses of those
submitted to him at next week’s meet- they know of who reside in the
ing. Hiram Westbrook is in charge county. Here is a note received this
of the Alumni gathering, with Charlie ^cek;
Picquet looking after the musical “There are two women who were
end of the entertainment. here in slavery time. One is Amy Wil-
Hams, Carthage Star Route 1, Box
Tuc.'day afternoon the Southern 47, the other Alice Kelley, Carthage.
Pines school girls tennis team tackl- Amy W'illiams is about the age of 90
cd the Pinehurst girls at Pinehurst years and Alice Kelley between 70
and the Uost the locals could do was and 80.” This information was sent
a tie thrte .iiatches all. in by Gadys Williams of Carthage.