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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15, NO. 30.
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PILOT
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
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Southern I’ines and Aberdeen, North (aroliivi, Friday, June, 22, 1931.
CAROLINAS, ,INC. Giant Ogre Stalks Streets of
IS ORGANIZED TO Southern Pines in Guise of
BOOST 2 STATES' Proposed Sunday Baseball
To Tell World of Recreationl,
Scenic, Etc. Advantages
of This Section
CONGRESS PASSES
POSTOFFICE BILL
IN FINAL SESSION
of the Sandhill Ter^ North Carolina
IS
FIVE CENTS
ITie City Fathers Say Boys Can
Play Team From Winston-
Salem If—
BUT “IF” IS A BIG WORD
DR. MUDGETT ON' BOARD
The two Carolinas united in a defi
nite movement to inform the world
of the historical, recreational, scenic,
industrial and agricultural advantages
of the two states in the organization
in Charlotte on Wednesday of The
Carolinas, Inc. Nearly 100 business,
professional and civic leaders of
North and South Carolina attended
the session, chose Dr. L. B. Morse
of Chimney Rock for president, elect
ed other officers and directors and
set the ball rolling toward future de
velopment of their states.
Dr. William C. Mudgett of South
ern Pines was electcd to the board
of directors. Other officers chosen
were J. E. L. Wade, Wilmington;
Edgar H. Tufts, Banners Elk, and
Earle H. Spence, Greensboro, vice
presidents, for North Carolina; N. L.
ilcCrea. Charleston; John K. deLoch,
Camden, and Samuel M. Wolfe, Gaff
ney, vice president for South Caro
lina; Coleman W. Roberts, Charlotte,
executive vice president; J. Frederick
Kistler, Morganton, treasurer, and
K. P. Lloyd, Charlotte, temporary
secretary. Officers for the present
will be maintained with the Carolina
Motor Club in Charlotte.
Mr. Roberts was authorized to
proceed immediately with the publi
cation of 1,000,009 stamps which will
be offered for sale through worthy
charitable, benevolent and fraternal
organizations in order to raise funds
necessary for carrying on the work.
All purchasers of stamps to the
amount of one dollar or more will be
issued a certificate denoting the pur
chaser as a “Carolina Crusader.”
Possibilities In States
The vast possibilities for devel
opment of the two Carolinas were de
scribed by Lindsay Russell of Wil
mington and Mr. Roberts. Detailed
suggestions for activities of the or
ganization were explained and var
ious members of the conference pra-
dicted that much benefit to the two
states will result from the organiza
tion. Miss Jenn Coltrane of Concord
spoke of the interest of women in
creation of better conditions in the
state and assured the group that the
women of North Carolina and South
. Carolina will give whole-hearted co
operation to The Carolinas, Inc., in
its program.
The stamps to be sold to raise
fund.s will be of great variety and
will describe historical and scenic
points, community, agricultural or
industrial opportunities, or the nat
ural resources of the two Carolinas.
Thej will be used on letters or arti
cles manufactured or grown in the
Carolinas, on insurance politices, and
in many other ways which will in
themselves advertise the two states.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer and Shields
Cameron represented Southern Pines
at the meeting on Wednesday.
b. kountkee, jr.
WEDS IN ROCKY MOl'NT, VA.
It was pretty quiet around town
on Monday.
Monday night the Board of Com
missioners of Southern Pines was
called in special session to discuss
a few matters.
One of them was an application
received for permission to have a
baseball game here next Sunday.
Southern Pines wanted to play the
P. H. Hanes Knitting Mills team
from Winston-Salem.
Thougn not officially granting
permission the board members did
not officially forbid the proposed
game. In effect they stated, more
as individuals than as a body, that
if objections were not raised by the
townsfolks, the boys might play.
Now "if" can be a big word.
It was pretty quiet in town on
Monday. But news spreads fast
Mayor Stiitz went to his oftice
at the usual time on Tuesday morn
ing. The Rev. J. Fred Stimson
dr.-pped in.
“What’s this about a ball game
Sunday?”
The Mayor explained the situa
tion. The board members couldn't
see why the boys shouldn’t play a
game Sunday if the people didn’t
object. The ball field was pretty
isolatect. A game out there
shouldn’t interfere with the peace
of the Sabbath nor disturb those
residents of the town who keep
Sunday inviolate. .(There are ball
games every Sunday in Hemp and
nobody ,objects. Hundreds from
here go to Hemp for these games.
Why shouldn’t they stay at home
and play?
The pastor of the Southern Pines
Baptist Church thought otherwise.
And he was only the forerunner.
From his visit on, the Mayor held
an almost continuous reception of
conscientious objectors throughout
the day. The telephone buzzed.
You’d have thought after a few
hours that the old town was the
most religious hamlet in the Caro-
iinas.
Nor was the Mayor the only one
besieged. Members of the Board of
Commissioners, Messrs. Patch, Yeo
mans, Case, O’Callaghan and Welch,
came in for their share of the bar
rage, Even City Clerk Howard
Burns was told a few things. The
streets resounded with the horrible
ogre which was spreading its
talons, if an ogre has talons, over
the peaceful village. Think of it.
Sunday baseball in Southern Pines I
After the 20th objector had
registered his complaint with ^the
Mayor he aent a hurry call for
Manager V. B. Johnson of the
Southern Pines Baseball Club.
Johnson was told the story. The
Mayor put it up to the boys
whether, in the face of the Giant
Spectre of Opposition, they wanted
to go ahead with the game.
Cooking- School Today
Mrs. Bushon^;, Expert Home
Economist, at Civic Club
This Afternoon
Housewives of the Sandhills are
cordially invited to The Pilot Cook
ing School this afternoon, Friday,
at the Civic Club in Southern
Pines. This will be the last op
portunity this season to see and
hear Mrs. Vivian Bushong in her
demonstrations of the model elec
tric kitchen. The school opens at
3 o’clock.
LIEUT. JOHNSON
TELLS KIWANIS OF
NAVY MANOUVERS
Aberdeen Officer on Board U. S.
S. Tennessee on Historic Cruise
P'rom the Pacific
REVIEWED BY ROOSEVELT
Lieut. F’elix Leslie Johnson, U. S.
Navy, told members of the Kiwanis
Club about the recent maneuvers of
the combined fleet in their cruise from
the Pacific to the Atlantic, winding
u'p with the review by President
Roosevelt in New York Harbor, at
the club’s weekly meeting held on
Wednesday in the Church of Wide Fel
lowship in Southern Pines. Lieut.
Johnson, home on leave for a few
days, is a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. J. McN. Johnson of Aberdeen
and was introduced at the meeclng
by his brother, J. Talbot Johnson.
Lieut. Johnson was an officer on
board the battleship Tennessee during
the historic cruise recently completed.
The cruise is historic because it is the
first time the entire fleet has been
brought together in such a gigantic
program as this one, and the first
time either the Atlantic or Pacific
fleet has passed through the Panama
Canal in one continuous movement.
Johnson, after describing the war
games participated in by 96 vessels
as they cruised down the west coast
of California under command of Ad
miral Sellers, to whom he paid a high
compliment, pictured the remarkable
job of sending the ships through the
canal in 40 hours.
The Games
His description of the war games
and manouvers, the mock battles, the
"bombardment’ by coast defences at
Panama, the attacks by "enemy”
fleets in the Carribean, the airplane
and submarine raids, the gathering
of all officers or an airplane carrier
at Hayti to discuss the games after
the “war" was over, proved one of
the most interesting talks the Kiwan
is members had Jieard in some time.
He also told of the death and burial
at sea of his own captain, a sombre
Southern I’ines on Preferred List i
F'or New Building From
$65,000,000 Appropriation
NOT ASSURED, HOWEVER
Congress passed the bill before its '
adjournment last week which puts
Southern Pines in line for prompt ac
tion on a new postoffice. The emer
gency appropriation bill sent to the
President for his signature provides
for expenditures of $2,375,000 on 22
postoffice buildings in North Caro
lina. Included is $77,000 for Southern
Pines.
The bill in its final form appro
priates $60,000,000 for new postof- j
fice projects to be selected and car-
1 ied on by the secretary of the treas
ury and the postmaster general, act-1
ing jointly, from lists of buildings i
which are found in statements Nos.
2 and 3.
List No. 2 includes projects which
were submitted to the PWA and for
which funds have not been allotted,
while those on No. 3 have the same
status and are supplemental.*The to
la' number of projects on both lists is
800 of which 604 are on the first list
or No. 2. Only $65,000,000 is appro
priated for a contemplated program
of $150,000,000 'vith instructions em
bodied in the bill for the postmaster
general and the secretary of the
trtasury to make selections" that are
necessary to meet the special emer
gency needs of the service.” It is ex
pected that the next Congress will ap
propriate additional funds. Since all of
the Tar Heel projects have been pre
viously authorized by Congress and
extensive reports have been made
by examiners favorable thereto, they
may be regarded as having a favored
status when selections are made af
ter the President approves the bill.
List of Projects
The North Carolina list follows:
Albemarle, $68,000; Dunn, $78,000;
Fayetteville. $95,000; Gastonia, build
ing on site already selected, $115,-
000; Morganton, $82,000; Raleigh, ex
pand and remodel federal courthouse
and postoffice, $450,000; Reidsville,
$200,000; Rockingham, $165,000;
Sanford, 84,000; Shelby, enlarge and
remodel present building; $60,000;
Southern Pines, $77,000; Wilmington,
$110,000; Winston-Salem, $350,000;
Canton, $70,000; Forest City, $62,000-
Franklin, $71,000; Lincolnton, $70,000;
Smithfield, $65,000; Roanoke Rapids,
$68,000; Wilmington, garage at post-
office, $20,000; Elizabeth City, $45,-
000; Washington $80,000,
Courthouse Burns!
It Was 48 Years Ayo But It’s
Holding Up the New Pine-
hurst Postoffice
Believe it or not, the New Pine-
hurst postoffice is being held up
because the county courthouse at
Carthage burned down 48 years
ago.
In case the relationship is a
little hard to fathom, we’ll tell
you the answer. Uncle Sam re
quires a clear title dating back 50
years to property to be taken over
by him. When the courthouse
burned the old records went up
in smoke. Most title;? to property
around here date back only as
far as the courthouse fire.
Here’s what they are going to
do about it. They are going to re
fer the matter to some commis
sion, committee, board, court or
what have you and get those two
little years standing in the way of
Pinehurst having a nice new $50,.
000 federal building waived. But
meanwhile there’s the red tape to
be unwound and you’ll just have to
get your letters and monthly bills
over on Market Square for that
much longer.
Mm MEN VOTE
ADVERTISING OF
THIS YEAR CROP
Hope to Put Carolina P>uit in
Northern Miirkets for Can-
ninjr Purposes
SUBSCRIBE Ic A BUSHEL
VARIED PROGRAM
OF AMUSEMENTS
FOR 4TH OF JULY
Picnic Lunch, Patriotic Address,
Two Ball Games, Fireworks.
Movies, Dance
Tickets at 25 cents for adults and
ten cents for children are to be sold
for the big Fourth of July double-
header baseoall program in Southern
Pines on the Fourth of July. Half of
this money is to be used toward ex
penses of the teams in providing for
baseballs, bats, etc., the other half to
go toward the construction of the
new grandstand at the field.
Charlie Picquet, “big boss” of the
Sandhills League, spoke yesterday of
the necessity for charging for the
games on the Fourth. “We are not
getting sufficient money by passing
the hat at the games to carry on the
oi'dinary expenses of running the
league, providing the necessary balls,
bats, etc. We must count on a good
date on the Fourth to finance us and
to help toward paying for the giand-
stand. Tickets will be on sale all over
the Sandhills next week," he said.
Vass meets West End and Southern
(Ph’a-te turn fo pnge 8)
Standing Room Only as The Pilot
Cooking School is Opened Here
Mr. and Mrs. John Caball Philpott
of Rocky Mount, Virginia, this week
announced the marriage on Saturday,'
June 16th of thejir daughter, Alice ^
Wesley Philpott, to James Braswell ^
Rcuntree, Jr., of Southern Pines. The !
announcements state that Mr. and |
Mrs. Rountree will be at home in'
SouUicrn Pines after June 26th. The |
groom is a son of Mrs. J. B. Roun-1
tree, of Midland Road. i
They called it off.
And ^gain all is ^quiet on Ithe
western front.
But it was fun while it lasted.
LAWN SirPFKK AND Ml’SIC
AT CITY PARK TONIGHT
AHKESTS FOLLOW HOTEL I
SOrTHLAND BUKGLAKY HEKE
i
The arrest of a number of young
colored men of the community fol
lowed the attempted burglary of the
Southland Hotel here yesterday, and
is also expected to solve a number
of other theft jobs in the vicinity.
Nothing is believed to have been tak
en at the Southland but a cbeck-up
ic being made as The Pilot goes to
press.
tale of an impressive rite. Then the |
They did, but they wouldn t. ^ review of the fleet by the President !
off Ambrose Channel, at the mouth |
of r^ew York harbor, was most in- |
terestingly portrayed. i
The civilian interest in the navy as ^
evidenced in New York by the fact '
that two million people boarded the
ships in the 14 days they were anchor-;
There will bT'a'Tawn supper at'Hudson River was a sur-^
the Municipal Park this Friday night,: ^nd he spoke
June 22 at 6 o’clock for the benefit of the |
of the Senior B. Y. P. U. organiza-' '
tion of the Southern Pines Baptist | ^ have seen it m my
Church. A string quartet will furn-J^® service.” he said. |
ish music. The supper is being given
for the purpose of raising funds need-: BL.-VC K <)!• I’lNKHl ilST i
ed to enable ten delegates from the| HEAOS AITOMOTIVE tODE^
tw’o r.ocieties to attend the Ridge
crest convention near Asheville. At
this convention several prominent
men, including George W. Truett and
Dr. Poate, will speak. It will be an
inspiring week of vacation to these
young people. Come and bring your
nickels. Help yourself and others
too.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Merrill of Southern Pines yes
terday. Mother and child are reported
as doing nicely.
Thomas L. Black of Pinehurst, was
elected president and chairman of the
board of the Cape Fear automotive
code to succeed E. M. Lewis of Fay
etteville, resigned, at a meeting of
the code members held in Fayetteville
Monday. Mr. Lewis is a member of
the State executive committee of the
automotive code and the pressure of
these and other duties forced him to
offer his resignation as district pres
ident. Mr. Black is manager of the
Pinehurst garage tn Pinitfhurst.
"Standing Room Only” greeted the
start of The Pilot Cooking School at
the Civic Club in Southern Pines at
3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. There
was not a seat to be had when Mrs.
Vivian Buslu)ng, home economics ex
pert of the Carolina Power & Light
Companj', opened the program after
being introduced by Nelson C. Hyde,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Civic Club building was trans
formed into a veritable housewife's
paradise. The model electric kitchen
installed for the occasion by Ben P.
lerrell of the C. P. & L. offical staff,
was the envy of all women who spend
any time in their kitchens, for one
may prepare an entire meal with
fewei; steps than it lakes to play a
game of billiards. Everything is at
one’s fingers' ends, range, refrigera-
toi', dish washing machine, cupboords,
electric clock and goodness knows
v.hat all.
Mrs. Bushong demonstrated tiic
ease with which one may prepare
all manner of dishes in her model
kitchen, and gave many new recipes
for various and sundry delicacies.
The school continues this afternoon,
Friday, opening at 3 o’clock, and all
Sandhills housewives are cordially in
vited. Prizes are given away each
afternoon. Coca Cola is served by the
Coca Coia Bottling Company of
Aberdeen, ai.d delicious Biltmore ice
creaDi served by Thrower's Phar
macy, with cake donated by Mrs.
Chiswell of The Coffee Shop, all with,
out charge. The following concerns
have exhibits at the show: Chandler
Greenhouses, flowers and plants; Mc
Lean Furniture Co., kitchen equip
ment; McNeill & Co., flour used in
ccoking and for prizes; L. 'V^ o'CaU |
laghan. refrig 'ator: Olive Brothers
Dairj. milk and cream; Pinehurst De- '
partment Store, fresh vegetables; :
Per.ders Store, groceries; Sunitary
Cash Market. Aberdeen, meats; Si-
mops Electrical Shop, radio; Vermont,
Maiket, meats. i
Mr. Terrell announced yesterday j
that women interested in the model j
electric kitchen on exhibit and be-1
ing used in the demonstrations this j
week could, upon application to Ralph
Chandler, local manager of the Car
olina Power & Light Company, ar
range for demonstrations io^thei’’ own
homes without cost to them.
3C I.S COl NTV’S QIOT.V
FOR NEXT ( . t’. C.\Ml*S
Plans for marketing Carolina
peaches in northern markets, promot
ed by an extensive advertising cam
paign, have been discussed pro and
con this week in a series of meetings
in various towns of the peach belt
and from all appearances at the time
The Pilot went to press such a cam
paign will be launched immediately.
A final gathering of the peach men
will be held tonight, Friday, in Ham
let for the final decision.
The proposition was launched at
Hamlet at a meeting presided over
by Fred P. Abbott, agricultural devel
opment agent of the Seaboard Rail
way. Peach growers frona both Car
olinas were present and discussed at
length the plan of J. C. Bonnings ad
vertising man from Buffalo, N. Y., to
put on a newspaper advertising and
radio campaign stressing that Caro
lina peaches may be easily canned.
The fact that northern peaches, due
to the severity of the winter, are out
of the market this year, is responsi
ble for the idea. It has always been
the northern and California peaches
which have been used for canning.
Growers of this immediate belt met
at Candor both Tuesday and Wednes
day nights this week and discussed
the proposition to tax growers so
much a bushel toward the advertis
ing and merchandising pampaign.
Three cents a bushel was the first
mentioned, but on Wednesday night
the Candor meeting voted to sub
scribe to the campaign on the basis
of one cent a bushej on all No. 1
fruit.
tor Big Demand
A committee comprising tw'o from
Ellerbe. two from Candor and two
from West End was named at the
Candor gathering to meet with oth
er growers tonight at Hamlet for the
organization session. From Candor
will go Pat Hannon and Charles Ben-
ning, from West End Hawley Poole
and M. C. McDonald and from Eller
be Dr. Howell and Hailey McRae.
Should the campaign prove as suc
cessful as its organizers predict it
•should mean a big boom to the peach
industry of this section this season,
and in the future. Carolina peaches
have not been marketed for canning
purposes in the past, but there is said
to be no reason why they should not
be, and with northern peaches out of
the way this summer the demand
should be tremendous.
Early peaches have been selling
well during the past week, bringing
irom $2.50 to $3.00. Trucks have been
hauling most of the fruit from Sand
hills packhouses, for not until the
bulk 01 the crop ripens will the rail
roads enter the picture with carload
shipments.
Thief Elnters Second
Home; Gets Nothing
(’ellar Door of Residence of Mrs.
Percy Chambers in South
ern Pines Forced Open
Mcore county's quota for the next
Civilian Conservation Corps enroll
ment ia 28 whites aua eight negroes.
Raleigh is the recruiting center for
this cofanty, and enlistments close on
July 14th. Those among the Unem
ployed desiring to get these dollar-
a-day jobs, with keep, in the coun
try’s forests should get in touch with
their local relief agents or the coun
ty headquarters at Carthage prompt
ly-
While inspecting the winter home
of Mrs. Percy A. Chambers on New
Hampshire avenue in Southern Pines
last Sunday afternoon E. V. Perkin-
son foimd that the cellar door had
been forced. Calling officer New'ton
they entered the house where they
found evidences of a search, but ap
parently nothing was missing. Chief
Gargis tried to obtain finger prints
but could secure none. It is assumed
that the burglar had taken alarm
shortly after affecting entrance as
he made his departure through a cel
lar windo\ .
This following so soon after the
jewel robbery at the resident of Mrs.
Verdie Wiley has put the police on
the alert throughout the residentisd
sections of town. No clues have been
found to aid in locating the missing
Wiley jewelry.