MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 15. NO. 15. CARTHAOe LAKEVlEW MANL6V JACK SOM SPRIh06 90UTHBRM P(MGS XKSHUGV PINEBLUPP PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern Tines and Aherdetn, North Carolina, Friday, March 9. 1934. FIVE CENTS EUSE BOYS AND ! WEST END GIRLS WIN TOURNAMENT Southern Pines GirLs Win Sportsmanship Banner Flmperor of Golf Coming Here CARTHAGE HONORED After only two years of basketball in the local school, the Southern Pines boys team reached the finals in the Moore County High School basketball tournament last week. The locals gained the final round with a 19-15 upset victory over the powerful West End team. In the finals on Fri day night Elise Academy was the victory by 20-10, although Southern Pines fought hard all the way. Bob Beck and Bob Gifford paced the locals to their win over West End, each scoring six points. Law- hom also rang three baskets to lead for the losers. Klise entered the finals by a 35-22 win over Pinehurst. Alvarez, for flashy Cuban, .scored 11 points foi the winners. Neither team had great success in penetrating the others defen.se in the final battle. Alvarez kept Bob Beck much too far away from the basket, while Bob held the Cuban in check more than any other player has been able to do this season. Mr. Alvarez, however, got a few shot.s at the bas ket, and, as he has never been taught to miss, racked )ip 9 points and es tablished him.^elf as the individual Ktar of the tournament. Wilson, of Elise, played a splendid floor game and personally accounted for 7 points. The West End girls captured the final contest in their division by a 25-16 win over the Farm Life misses, only a last-quarter spurt .saved them from the probably defeat. After the boys' final the West End jrirls and F:ii.se boys were presented with handsome cups appropriately engraved. The Southern Pines girls were awarded the Sportsmanship banner, in some way a greater honor tJian the championship they mis.sed. The Carthage boys were similarly honored. Local Dramatists To I*resent 3 1-Act Plays COUNTY FACED BY GRAVE SITUATION SAYS CHEATHAM Women^s Golf MainEventwr^ it Week Calls on Kiwanis to Take Action To Care for Incurable Tu bercular Patients HOHHY JONES Four Samarcand Girls Present Sad Case In Court Tuesday ANNUAL MEETING MOORE RED CROSS TO BE HELD MAR. 12 Will Be Held In Dixie Theatre RuUdinp^, Aberdeen, Tonight and Saturday Nipht The curtain rises tonight in the Sandhills Little Theatre in Aberdeen on the second production of this ama teur dramatic group this season. Three one-act comedies, all of which have been under the direction of Walter Frankl, will be presented. Eight members of the cast have had prtivif'us experience with the lo- < al players, while the remaining four are newcomers to the ranks of the •■Sandhills Little Theatre, but not to '.iramatics. In ‘‘The Man in the Bowler Hat" are Mollie Walter, Freddie Cole, Worth Baldwin, Bannie Cornwell, Bob Corn- ivell, Raymond Kennedy and Bob Hen derson, Jr. The amusing story deals with the difficulties of the hero in outwitting the deep dark villian in his search for the Rajah's Ruby. The setting is London, P'ngland, and to tho.se of you familiar with this city, "The Man in the Bowler Hat” should have a particular appeal. A famous Irish baritone has plen ty of domestic troubles, especially if his wife is an equally famous con cert pianist. Professional jealousy leads to temperamental outbursts and all kinds of hilarious difficulties. "Love Among the Lions" would seem to be a very appropriate title for this comedy. Bob Shepard and Juan ita Picquet share the lead and are able supported by Esther Packard and Bob Henderson, Jr. George Ade has written into "The Mayor and the Manicure" some of the cleverest dialogue that ever came from his talented pen. A black mail plot, cleverly thwarted, is the basic outline of the story of this play. Doug Gregory and Betty Os borne have the principal roles, but .share the spotlight with Sara Falk- ener and Worth Baldwin. {Pleaxe turn to pngc 8) Officers and Seventeen Branch Chairmen To Be Elected The annual meeting of the Moore County Chapter of the American Red Cross will be held in the courtroom at Carthage next Monday afternoon, March 12, at 3:00 o'clock, according to the announcement of Acting Chair man, Robert E. Denny of Pinehurst. AH members of the American Red Cross whether members of the Moore County Chapter or other chapters are invited. The business in hand is very important, being the election of an entire roster of officers and the ' '■-hairmen of the seventeen branches i;i the county are urged to see that their member.ship is present. The most important matter of bus- I iness to be di.scu.ssed and determin ed at the meeting is the question of continuing the present classes now iMjing conducted in the study of ‘‘Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick" by Miss Eula Swearingen. These classes are being operated as a CWA pitiject and it appears ' that right in the midst of them the project will be discontinued and the work ceased. Miss Swearingen has 72 people a little more than half through with . the courses and a strenuous effort will be made to continue these courses to a completion even though the CWA withdraws its support. This work of ‘‘Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick" is the second ma jor work performed by the chapter during the past year, the first being I the instruction given throughout the I county in life .saving under the di rection of Lacy Adcox, who was giv- ■ en special instruction in this matter j at the expense of the chapter at the i Red Cross Life Saving Institute at Brevard. ' The administration of the Moore I County Chapter, American Red I Cross for this year terminating in I the meeting called, w’as begun un- ! der the leadership of Toni Kelley of I Southern Pines as chairman, who be. I au.se of his health was required to I resign and since that time the ac tivities of the chapter have been un- I der the direction of the present act- |ing chairman. I In addition to the membership of j the Red Cross the public is invited to I attend. ' ' V,\(JE A I*HI BKT.\ K.VPPA H^'nry A. Page, III, of Aberdeen is or e of six members of the Jun ior r lasses at Princeton to be elected o Phi Beta Kappa, national honor ary society, last week. (iirl.'> In Tears Plead With Judge To Give Them One More Chance A tragedy much sadder than any pre.seuted in the theati'es was enacted in the court room in Carthage Tues day morning in the presence of a handful of spectators, and the'ques tion arose, "What’s wrong when such a thing can happen in North Caro lina ?" "Have you anything that you would like to say?" asked the kindly Juilge in bringing to a close a case tiied at this special session. “I'd like to ask you to give me .■mother chance and let me go home and I'll try to do right," came the reply, not from a grizzly-bearded law breaker, but from a mere slip of a girl, a victim of tinwholesome sur roundings in her childhood. She was ")ne of four girls ranging in ages from 13 to 17 years who, according to the warrant, “did unlawfully and willfully and maliciously injure, dam age and destroy real and personal property of the State of North Car- lina at Samarcand Manor by break ing a number of glass windows, doors, window sash, door locks, and window .-^cieens, all to the great damage of approximately 5150.’’ Lillian Stockton, Ruth Mason, P.uth Deal and Hattie Bell Tanner each in turn entered a plea of guilty. The only witness to go on the stand was Grace M. Robeson, acting sup erintendent at the Manor while Miss McNaughton is away on leave of ab sence. She gave a brief history of each girl and told of their rampage on March 3 when they broke out of a room in which they had been placed. One of the girls was crying and a second was on the verge of tears as they filed from the court room to re turn to jail following the Judge's words, “I’ll have to send you to Kin ston," a decision which he felt oblig ed to render considering the past his tory of the girls. Ruth Deal, said to be the ringlead er in the recent wrongdoing, is six teen years of age. Her mother is dead and her father's address is im- known. She was sent to Samarcand in June 1929 from Harnett county, wa« paroled in September 1931 and re turned in August 1933. She escaped in February of this year and was re turned nearly three weeks later from Dunn where she was found in jail. The key to her present status is found in the following notation: N'jg- lected; no home life; father dr inks, uses home for immoi’al practices. Lillian Stockton's history is as fol lows: Age 14: committed to Samar cand from Guilford county in August 1933; father died in 1928; refused to attend school: left home twice; stay ed on street both night and day; •'••rested drunk and disorderly; es caped from Samarcand Manor Feb ruary 3, 1934 and was returned the (Ph'a.-ie tarn to pugc 8) ' LT.-GOVERNre county for 1933 taxes at a salary of !5123 per month and $25 per month for expenses, this appointment to he- come effective upon the filing of a .solvent surety bond in the sum of .$10,000, same to be approved by the chairman of the board and the county attorney. It was ordered that Miss Maida Jenkins be appointed county tax sup ervisor and that the county pay her expense to the State Tax Supervis ors' Division of the Institute of Gox- ernment in Raleigh. The following tax listers were named for the various towTiships: A. B. Cameron, Carthage; B. Deaton, Bensalem; W. J. Baldwin, Sheffields; Mi.ss Alice Ritter, Ritters, Ritters; Gecrge Willcox, Deep River; J. A. Shaw. Greenwood; Martin Blue, Mc Neills; J. T. Harrington, Sandhills; E. B. Keith, Mineral Springs. It was ordered that a vote of thanks be given the Deaton brothers for their generous gift of shrubbery for beautifying the county home grounds. Other orders were passed as fol lows: That W. M. Manors be admitted to the county home; that Woman’s Club library for Moore county be al lowed $20: that the Killis children be allowed $15 per month for support, ■same to be mailed to J, A. Sheffield, Pinehurst: that Miss Pearl Carter, Hemp, be discontinue ho was formerly Miss Minnie Bynum if Vass, and a number of children [among whom is Bynum Patter-on oZ I Southern Pines. Mrs. Flora Jones of Jackson Springs is,a sister.