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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, March 15, 1935.
FIVE CENTS
BILL FISHER WINS
ARMY PRAISE FOR
FORCED LANDING
Up 2,000 Feel and Two Miles
From Field When Cylinder
of ’Plane Cracks
One of Favorites in Inaugural Steeplechase Meeting: Here on Saturday
CITED FOR HE AD WORK
If there is any time when one needs
to keep his head it is when he is at
the controls of an airplane 2,000 feet
up in the sky and some two miles
from the landing field, with a ‘‘dead
stick."
William Fisher, better known as
“Bill" to his friends throughout the
Sandhills, found himself in this pre- ■
dicament ©n Monday night, February
4th last, according to word juat re
ceived here. A cylinder of his motor
cracked when Bill was on a flight
from Randolph Field, San Antonio,
Texas, where he has been stationed,
to Hensley Field at Dallas, Texas. He
was over 2,000 feet in the air at
the time, and at least two miles from
Hensley Field, but successfully land
ed his ship at the field.
The story is best told in the official
words of Paul L. Williams, Captain,
Air Corps, director of basic training
at Randolph Field. In a memorandum
to Fisher’s flight commander. Captain j
Williams says:
“1. The good judgment, headwork
and excellent technique displayed by
Cadet Fisher in his forced landing
at Hensley Field Monday night, Feb
ruary fourth, is commendable. It is
gratifying to me, and should be es
pecially so to his instructor and flight
commander, that this student dis
played in this emergency that he had
absorbed the Instruction given him
on the Basic Stage to a marked de
gree. The manner of his approach and
landing thoroughly demonstrated the
advantages of the type of training
on accuracy that has been given by
your flight.
“2. Cadet Fisher received a grade
of “A" from his instructor for his
avigation and night avlgation train
ing flight to Hensley Field, and this
grade was well deserved.”
Bafteball Player
Bill Fisher Is the son of Mrs. Park
Fisher, librarian of the Southern
Pines Library. He is an alumnus of
Southern Pines High School, and was
a student at State College In Ral
eigh after graduation, leaving there
last year to enter aviation training
for a pilot In the U. S. Army. He
was sent to Randolph Field In San
Ant^inio for what is called his “basic
state” training, and has just recent
ly been transferred to Kelly Field,
al.so In San Antonio, for more ad
vanced training.
Praise in the army is something
rare, and his friends here are happy
over the news of his citation for the
forced landing. Bill was always a
quick thinker when catcher of the
Southern Pines baseball team, so his
feat did not surprise them when they
learned of It this week.
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Sandhills to Inaugurate
Steeplechase Racing at
New Course Tomorrow
Noel Lalng of Southern Pines and Virginia on His Favorite Mount, Fairy Lore, Winner of Many Big Races
Race Meeting
Parking Instructions For Op
ening Meetinj;; First
Event at 3 P. M.
Holders of Reserved Parking
Space tickets for the Clubhouse
Enclosure at tomorrow’s race
meeting fihould enter the grounds
at the west, or Plnehurst end, of
the course. The entrance will be
marked “Clubhouse Enclosure.”
Those desiring ?1.00 Parking
Spaces along the Midland Road
side of the track should enter one
of the entrances which will be
plalnJv marked on the north side
of the ’’oad. As these spaces are
not reiserved it will be well to ar
rive early.
There is no Individual charge for
admission, just for parking the
car. ^
First Race—3 p. m., Pinehurst
Steeplechase of Two Miles over
Brush.
Second Race—Sandhills Cup,
Three Miles over Timber.
Third Race — Southern Pines
Steeplechase, Two Miles over
Brush.
Three Events on Card for In
augural Meetinff, With Gov.
Ehring^haus in Attendance
Famed Pictures of Ancient and Hunter Trials To Be
POLICE ON TRAIL
Modern Art on Exhibit Sunday^^^^'^ OF MAIL CARRIER
ROBBERY SUSPECTS
Dr. H. Augustine Smith of Bos
ton University Brings Gal
lery to Southern Pines
Dr. H. Augustine Smith of Boston
University at the Church of Wide:
Fellowship next Sunday night will
open at 6:00 o'clock his famous Tem- <
pie of Art, showing a gallery of col-,
or reproductions of the most famous |
pictures of ancient and modern;
times. His lecture will unlock the:
meanings of the symbolism of these;
paintings. This is the finest travel
ing gallery of art in the United!
States, and will be on exhibit in the
Parish House of the church during the '
late afternoon as well as at 6.00 |
o’clock.
This Festival of Art will be follow
ed by the pre.sentation of the them6,
“On Wings of Song" at 7:30 in the
main church auditorium.
Prof. Smith has a wide experience
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Teams of Three Hunters to Fea
ture Events on Course Inside
New Race Track
H. AUGUSTINE SMITH
Aberdeen Caucus Called
To Nominate Mayor
i Hunt teams, of which six are en-
i tered, will feature the First Annual
■ Hunter Trials of the Sandhills Stee-
' plechase & Racing Association to be
* held at the new race course tomor
row, Saturday morning, starting at
10:00 o’clock. In addition to the
classes for hunt teams of three hun
ters, there will be those for thoro-
bred lightweight hunters, thorobred
middle and heavyweight hunters, non-
thorobred lightweights and non-thoro-
bred middle and heavyweights.
Numerous entries have been received
in all classes, among those showing
[including the following: Noel Laing,
I Almet Jenks, Stanley W. Burke, L.
M. Tate. Corbett Alexander, Mrs. C.
V\'. Middleton, C. B. Farnsworth,
' Mrs. Reid Healy, Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter C. Hill of Tryon, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Men Who Held Up John Monroe,
Eagle Springs, Robbed Bis-
coe Bank, is Belief
150 Attend Church
Nig-ht in Pinehurst
Dr. Raymond is Speaker at
Gathering of Community
Church Members, Friends
The Fifth Annual Community
Church night was held at the Pine
hurst Community Church on Tues
day evening, with about 150 mem
bers and friends of the church at
tending. A delicious supper was
served with Mrs. Ed. Swaringen act
ing chairman. After supper a quar
tette comprising the Rev. and Mrs.
Gibson of Sanford and the Rev.
and Mrs. McKelw^y delighted listen
ers with two groups of religious
songs.
J. F. Taylor presented Boy Scout
badges to the following: Fred Fields,
Preston Shaw, Jimmie Wicker, Lewis
Gold, Robert Black, John Taylor and
Donald Currie.
D. A. Currie, W. R. Johnson, J. F.
Taylor, Alex Stewart, T. E. Currie, I.
C. Sledjfe and W. R. Johnson were
elected to serve for a period of three
years on the board of directors.
After the business session, which
was presided over by W. R. Johnson,
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out of which to talk. He has been In Successors to Henry McC. Blue! o. Moss, R. C. klrchofer of Raleigh,
thousands of cities of four continents, and Board of Commissioners | George Childs of Sanford, Geoffrey
North America, South America, Eu- To Be Named Tuesday ' Laing, Mrs. Sloan Colt of New York
rope and Asia. He has visited these ' City, Miss Marie McMillan of Roslyn,
countries at strategic times, for ex-. A Town Caucus will be held in l j.. Miss Julia Scott Butterfield
ample he landed In Rio de Janeiro the , f next Tuesday night, March Margaret Kiely. David Carnahan
day the revolution broke out and he ' l^^h, at 8:00 o’clock in the City Hall Ernest I White and others
was there through It all, with the ior the purpose of naming candidates Because of the numerous entries
streets patrolled day and night, w^h for the office of Mayor and Com-1 starting the trials has
rioters shot down before his very missioners of the Town of Aberdeen. [ ^een advanced from the 10-30 orlg-
eyes. He has one or tw'o close-ups Official notice of the caucus was re-
of the mob violence. ' : ceivcd this week from Evelyn H.
_— I Pleasants, town clerk.
It Is understood that the present
inally announced to 10 o’clock, and
all horses and riders are to be in the
paddock at that time.
Judges of the hunter trials will be
Won^n Fined For ^eft mayor, Henry McCoy Blue, who af- j Wallacr Armstrong of Philadelphia,
in Barber Shop Here ter serving several complete terms i Pa., S. A. Warner Baltazzi of West-
was pressed back Intc service early j bury, L. I. and Rufu r. Finch of j
Took Sum of Money From Pock- I this year when Mayor J. Vance Rowe Rumson, N. J. !
etbook of Samarcand School ' resigned to become judge of the Re-1
Teacher; Arrested corder’s Court at Carthage, is not TO TELL OF INIJI.VNS OF
— I anxious to continue at the head of j INLAND SOUTH .AMERICA '
Elsie King was fined $10 and the the administration in Aberdeen, feel- i ^ |
costa In Recorder’s Court Monday on that he has served his time. On Mi's. Ethel Tylee, who, for years,
a larceny charge resulting from an the other hand, much talk is hoard has been a missionary among the
occurrence which took place In Alex of drafting Mr. Blue and continuing Indians of Inland South America, and
Fields’ barber shop In Southern him in office. No talk Is heard of '^ho went through the tradegy ot
Pines. The King woman and her hus- i other candidates, though there Is a seeing her husband and baby killed
band, who claimed to be from Wash- possibility that one of the present these Indians, will give an ac-
Ington, D. C., en route to a tubercular 1 Board of Commissioners will be pro- count of some of her experience this
hospital which the husband, a war moted if Mr, Blue is adamant in his afternoon Friday, at 3 o’clock at the
veteran, intended to enter, went into refusal to run. Jefferson Inn. All persons interest-
The present commissioners are he welcome.
Frank D. Shamburger, J. D. McLean,
O. Leon Seymour and Hardin A. Gun
ter. Nominations will be made Tues
day night to succeed them, but it is | Under the leadership of the Meth-
Although no arrests have been
made In connection with the robbery
of John Monroe, mall carrier of Ea
gle Springs who a few weeks ago
was held up at the point of a gun by
two men and relieved of his pocket
change arid his automobile, officers
are making progress on the case,
They are now certain that the same
men who robbed Mr. Monroe perpe
trated the Bank of Biscoe robbery
shortly thereafter, and they feel that
positive identification of the men has
\ been made by a number of persons
i who have vlew'ed photographs pro
cured from the State Prison.
I Sheriff McDonald declined to give
out for publication the names of the
suspects, but he says that they are
convicts who escaped from the prison
ward of the State Sanatorium and
I that both have active cases of tuber-
1 culosis. One was serving time for
I robbery with firearms and the other
I for participation in the robbery of the
[ Bank of Biscoe some two years ago.
One of the two had been sent up
for from twenty to thirty years, and
! after serving a part of this sentence,
I escaped and shot some officers in
Newton, seriously injuring them. He
was recaptured and given from five
to ten years on this charge, only to
escape again to continue hi.s career
of crime.
Miss Cook Elected
Civic Club President
! Officers of Southern Pines Or-
i ganization Chosen at Annual
I McetinK Last Friday
the barber shop for King to have
some work done. Miss Evana IJcGin-
nis, a school teacher from Samar
cand, was in one of the chairs at the
time, and had left hef pocketbook un
der her coat on a chair near which
the King woman took her seat. Miss
McGinnis happened to see the woman
with her pocketbook. An. inveatiga-
tlon revealed that around twenty-five
dollars was missing from It, and the
King woman was forthwith called
OLD FASHIONED KEVIV.VL IN
PINEBLUFF MAR. 24 to APR. .4
probable that most If not all of the odists at Pinebluff the Christian peo-
board will be renamed, with possibly p]e of all denominations are uniting
a few additions. The election will be in revival services from March 24th
hold the first Taesday in May. ito April 4th. Neighboring pastors will
— J bring messages from the gospel. In
The spectacular riding of Jack addition to the local pastors, the Rev.
Johnson on Fine Fellow owned by C. O. Newell and E. M. Harris, Dr.
upon to return the money, which she | Miss Marie McMillan of New York CheatL^m of the Episcopal Church In
did, with the request that nothing be ; took the honors in the open jump- Pinehurst and Dr. Raymond of the
done about the offense. She was la- j Ing contest of the gymkhana here Congregational Church In Southern
ter arrested. j Wednesday afternoon, I Pines and Dr. Green will ’ 'each.
Miss Adeline Cook was elected pres
ident of the Civic Club for the ensu
ing year at the annual meeting held
at the clubhouse In Southern Pines
last Friday. Other officers were chos
en as follows;
First Vice-Pi esident, Mrs. E. A.
liacey; Second Vice-President, Mrs.
A. McN. Blair; Third Vlccj-Presldent,
Mrs. W. E. Cox; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Hugh Betterley; Corresponding
Secretary', Mrs. E. Morell; Treasurer,
Mrs. Harry Gage.
On Wednesday, March 20th, a
bridge party will be given by the Civ
ic Club through the courtesy of Mrs.
Harrington at the Southland Hotel
at 2:30 in the afternoon.
Through the kindness of Judge
Way and Mrs. Way members of the
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NO ADMISSION CHARGE
The official entries in the inaug
ural race to be held at the new Sand
hills' steeplechase cour.se Saturday
afternoon, March 16, were announc
ed yesterday by the Sandhills Stee
plechase and Racing Association of
Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Gov
ernor J, C. B. Ehringhaus of North
Carolina will make the inaugural ad
dress and present the silver cup for
the winner of the main timber event.
As no charge w'ill be made for ad
mission to the races, a large crowd
is expected from all parts of the
state. There will be a parking charge
of $1.00 per car for those desiring
space along the rail.
Three races are on the program,
the first. The Pinehurst Steeplechasse,
two miles over brush, to start at
3:00 o’clock. The second event is three
miles over timber fences, for the
Sandhills Cup presented by Mrs. Ver-
ner Z. Reed, Jr., of Pinehurst and
Newport, R. I. The third race. The
Southern Pines Steeplechase, is two
miles over the brush course. Both
brush races are sweepstakes events.
The card for the opening race at
3 o’clock is as follows; Grown Tip,
owned by T. M. Waller of Camden,
ridden by E. Mitchell; Huntsman
Dornin, owned by Carlton H. Palm
er of New York, ridden by P. Miller;
Abollr, owned by Mrs. Carroll K.
Bassett of Camden; Aughrim Boy,
owned by Mrs. J. E. Ryan of New
York, ridden by J. E. Ryan; The Stag,
owned by R. K. Mellon of Pitts
burgh: Navarino, owned by Mrs. T.
H. Somerville of Uppervllle, Va., rid
den by Carroll K. Bassett; War Crier,
owned by Carlton H. Palmer of New
York; Lough Rose, owned by Harry
D. Klrkover of Camden.
Timber Ra^e Entries
The card In the second race Is as
follows: Blue Admiral, ow’ned by J.
E. Ryan of New^ York, ridden by J.
E. Ryan; Charioteer, owned by Mrs.
Jackson H. Boyd of Southern Pines,
ridden by R. Wallach; Hale Dale,
owned by Mrs. Simon T. Patterson of
Pittsburgh, ridden by Lyman Wright;
Oliver C, owned by Mrs, T. H. Som
erville of Uppervllle, Va., ridden by
Noel Laing; Chico, owned by Verner
Z. Reed, jr., of New York and New
port; The Mole, owned by Mrs.
George Eustls of Washing,on
Card for the third race is as fol
lows; Our Friend, owned by Mrs.
Verner Z. Reed, jr., of New York;
Dock Light, owned by Arthur Ha
gen of W'ayne, Pa., ridden by Ly
man Wright; Muskeegee, owned by
Mrs. T. H. Somerville of Uppervllle,
Va., ridden by Carroll K, Bassett;
War Crier, owned by Carlton H.
Palmer of New York; Fairy Lore,
owned by Noel Laing of Amissville,
Va., and ridden by Noel Laing; Na
varino, owned by Mrs. T. H. Somer
ville of Uppervllle, Va
The association announced the fol
lowing officials wlio will be in charge
of the races:
Stewards of the meeting will be
S. A. Warner Baltazs'i of Aiken, S. C.,
and Westbury, L. i., Thomas W. Du
rant of New York and Granger Gai
ther of Camdin, S. C.
Judges: Wallace Armstrong of Ai
ken and Philadelphia, General M^ua
McCloskey of Fort Bragg, Jackson
H. Boyd of Southern Pirea, and C.
W. Middleton of Greenwich, Conn.
The paddock judges are Nat S.
Hurd, Pittsburgh, William A. Laing
of Amissville, P. S. P. Randolph, sr.,
New York, and W. V. Slocock of
Pinehurst.
Patrol judges are A. Corbett Alex
ander chairman, of Pinehurst; Cal
vin B. Farnsworth of Worcester,
Colo., George P. Hawes and Bever
ly Walters of Pinehurst.
Clerk of scales: William E. Baker
of Providence.
Clerk of the course: P. S. P. Ran
dolph, jr., of New York.
Timekeeper; Ernest I. White of
Syracuse.
Race committee: Almet F. Jenks
and Nelson C. Hyde, Southern Pines
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