MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15 A, NO. 17.
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LAK eview
PIM£S
ASHL6V
of the Sandhill Tern
Southern Pines and Ab‘?rdeen, North Carolina, Friday. Maich 22, 1935.
REVISION IN TAX
SYSTEM IN COUNTY
PROPOSED IN BILL
Clejijf Introduces Measure to
Non-Suit F'oreclosures and
Provide for Collections
“FORGIVE AND ADJUST’
Sandhills to See New Streamlined Zephyr Train Sunday
FIRST IN N»EWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
North Carolina
FIVE CENTS
Representative W. R. Clegg, of
Moore county has introduced a bill in
the House of Representatives "to di
rect nonsuit of tax foreclosure suits
in Moore county, to provide for the
collection of the delinquent taxes of
Moore county and to establish a way
for the collection of all future taxes
levied and assessed by Moore county.”
This bill, House Bill No. 720, was
referred to Judiciary No. 2 commit
tee. It contains nine typewritten
pages, and includes the following pro
visions :
That all suits instituted in the Su
perior Court of Moore County for the
foreclosure of t£ix sale certificates
and the collection of the taxes and
costs due Moore County for certifi
cates issued for the years 1928
through 1932 shall be, and the same I
are hereby nonsuited. I
That the tax collector of Moore ■
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county be authorized and directed to
make out a tax sale certificate judg
ment against the property of every
delinquent taxpayer in Moore county
for each of the years from 1928 to
1932 inclusive for which said land
was sold.
First and Prior Lien
That the tax sale certificate judg
ment shall be a first and prior lien
against the land described therein
against all other liens by law provid
ed against real estate except for taxes
due the United States Government
or for material man’s and laborer’s
liens arising out of material placed
and labor performed in the erection of
any buildings on said lands which
liens may have been filed, as by law |
provided, prior to the docketing of |
said judgment herein provided.
That in the settlement with the
Board of County Commissioners ot
Moore county for the amount of taxes
charged against him on the tax books
delivered to him for collection of
the taxes thereon levied and assessed,
the tax collector of Moore county
shall be entitled to credit as a cash
voucher the face value of each tax
sale certificate judgment so made out
by him and delivered by him to the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Moore
county as hereinbefore directed.
That if and when said Moore Coun
ty shall issue any execution on judg
ments for tax sale certificates or ex
ecution on judgments for delinqueiit
tax certificates any city or town of
said county holds a lien for taxes
duly levied and assessed by said city
or town against the same tract or
parcel of land, then the proceeds de
rived from the sale of said tract or
parcel of land as herein provided shall
be apportioned by the sheriff accord
ing to their respective claims and
the remainder, if any, disposed of as
directed iu the next preceding section
of this act.
That all cities or towns in Moore
county claiming any unpaid taxes
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Governor Heads Throng at
Inaugural Race Meeting of
New Steeplechase Ass’n,
The Zephyr Twins, Newest Speed Trains, One of Which Will Pass Through Southern Pines Sun
day Afternoon.
Hemp Incorporated
And Assembly Ratifies Hill
Providinjr Calendar for
Superior Court
The General Assembly last week
ratified two Moore county bills.
One was to require the solicitor
of the 13th judicial district tJ
make out the calendar for criminal
terms of Superior Court in Moore
county. The other was to incor
porate the town of Hemp, Moore
county.
Presents Trophy to Mrs. .lack-
s(in Hoyd, Whose Charioteer
Wins Feature Event of Day
NEW COURSE DEDICATED
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AVERAGE PRICE OF
TOBACCO $28.44
FOR SEASON 1934
Figures for State Record 78
Percent Increase in Return
to Farmers
320 PERCENT OVER 1931
The season’s average price for
North Carolina tobacco, estimated at
28.44 cents per pound by the Feder-
al-State Crop Reporting Service, is
78 per cent higher than the average
price paid for tobacco in 1933, about
225 per cent higher than the 1932
price, and 320 per cent higher than
the 1931 figure, it was reported this
week.
As a result. North Carolina pro
ducers sold 395,000,000 pounds of the
golden weed, only 76.5' per cent of
the amounts sold in 1933, for a price
far in excess of the $86,000,000 the
1933 crop was sold for. The 1934 crop
was 40 per cent greater than the 1932
crop, which sold for a low figure ot
$35,000,000.
With the 1934 crop out of the w'ay.
Residents of Southern Pines and
vicinity will have an opportunity to
see the newest light-weight, stream
lined. stainless steel, diesel-powered
train when the first of the Zephyr
Twins of the Burlington Railroad
passes through here Sunday, March
24, en route from Washington, D. C.,
to Miami, Fla. The train is sched
uled to go through here at 3 p. m.,
but will not stop.
Although streamlined trains,
weighing little more than a standard CONTEST FOR (HIEEN
sleeping car, have made exhibition
tours through the country and al- , Plans for the second annual Spring
though they are in service on several Blossom Festival in Southern Pines
railroads, this will be the first to be are w'ending merrily along their way
exhibited in the South. under the direction of S. B. Richard-
Piloted by Jack F'ord who drove son, general chairman, and Mr. Rich-
the original Zephyr in a record-break- ardson announced this week the va-
PARADE OF FLOATS INQUEST FOLLOWS
TO OPEN BLOSSOM I DEATH OF WOMAN
FESTIVAI^APRIL 9 IN FALL FROM CAR
F’eatures During Second Annual Mrs. William Quitter of New-
Fete Here Announced
bv Committee
burgh, N’. Y. Victim of Acci
dent Near Southern Pines
WINTER RESIDENT HERE
ing non-stop run from Denver to
Chicago last year—1,015 miles in 785
minutes—tlie train will leave Wash
ington Saturday morning, March 23,
at 10 o’clock over the tracks of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Po
tomac Railroad to Richmond, Va.
From Richmond it will go over the
Seaboard Air Line Railway to Miami
where it will be on exhibition.
The Zephyr has proved so popular
with the public that, while passenger
traffic on the Burlington lines as a
A drinking party which wound up
at Charlie’s Place on the main road
between Aberdeen and Southern
Pines at an early hour yesterday
morning resulted in the death of Mrs.
Charlotte M. Quilter of Newburgh,
rious feature days for the fete which | N. Y., who has been spending
opens on Tuesday. April 9th.
This year a parade of floats, en
tered by various communities in the
Sandhills and by leading merchants
the winter on Bennett street. South
ern Pines. Following her death L.
Michael MtDonald of Washington, D.
C., her companion on the party, was
With a crowd variously estimated
at from 5,000 to 8,000 in attendance,
and with Governor J. C. B. Ehring-
haus pre.sent to dedicate the new
I course, steeplechase racing was suc-
I cessfully launched in the Sandhills
. last Saturday afternoon. It was a day
I long to be remembered by those from
; all parts of the state who' crowded
about the mile-and-one-half course
and w’itnessed three exciting events
over timber or brush fences.
Mrs. Jackson H. Boyd’s Charioteer,
winnei of last year’s Carolina Cup at
Camden, S. C., came up from behind
under the clever riding of Dickie Wal-
lach to capture the feature three mile
race over the timber course for the
Sandhills Cup, donated by Mrs. Ver-
ner Z. Reed, Jr., of Pinehurst. Char
ioteer passed Mrs. T. H. Somerville’s
Oliver C., the favorite, in the last
half mile after Noel Laing had kept
the Somerville entry out in front,
though closely pressed by Jim Ryan’a
Blue Admiral and Mrs. Simon Patter
son’s Hal Dale, the first two and one
half miles. Oliver C. was second, Hal
Dale, third. The time, 5:48.4, was con
sidered fast for a new course.
Aughrim Boy, ridden by Jim Ryan
of Camden, won the opening race, the
Pinehurst Steeplechase, two miles
over brush, with T. M. Waller’s Grown
Up second and Mrs. Carroll Bassett’s
Abolir third. Time, 4:50.
Leading Jockeys Up
Though but three horses started
the third race, the Southern Pines
Steeplechase of two miles over brush,
it was a thrilling contest between
three old rivals of hunt racing, Noel
Laing’s Fairy Lore, Mrs. Somerville’s
Muskogee and Arthur Hagen’s Dock
establishing a brilliant record for the '^^ole increased 26 percent, traffic on
principles of crop control as exem- Zephyr has shown an increase
plified by the AAA, prospects for 1^3 percent compared with its
the 1935 crop are now seen as good, steam predecessors. Thirty-two per-
and manufacturers, will inaugurage held as a material witness,
the Festival. The parade starts at 3 Mrs. Quilter, McDonald and Mrs.
o’clock Tuesday afternoon. That i Quilter’s maid, Adeline Greiner, had
night at 8:00 o'clock the Festival! gone into Charlie’s place around mid-
Queen, to be chosen by popular votes 1 night and ordered sandwiches. Prior _ _
at a penny a vote, the same as l^ast, to this, according to McDonald, he Li^hrVitrthrV^of America’s leTd-
consumed about jockey’s up, Laing, Carroll Bas-
half a gallon of whiskey. When they, Lyman Wright, it was nip
left the place, they entered an au- ' from start to finish, and
, , tomobile and started toward Southern 4.33 g g^ows the pace main-
visitors from other sections, and wth ^ pjnes. Mrs. Quilter fell out of the car | the two miles compared to
a gymkhana m the afternoon. Old | without the knowledge of McDonald,; ^^rush race. Fairy Lore.
year, will be crowned fn due splendor,
with a street dance to follow.
Wednesday is to be All-State Day,
given over to the entertainment of
especially since plant beds have ex- passengers have indicat- S'ave Day, year s despite the fact that he was alleged- Laing up, won, with Muskogee,
perienced favorable conditions and they would have traveled by au- '’*8^ mursday witn 1 [y sitting next to her on the front r.io-i,!
ly sitting
Bas
sett up, second and Dock Light, rid-
L/Ciiciiucu lavuitlUiC; vUllUlLlUIln illlU '' : • 1. 1.. *.u 1 Jactc um. a,n\A j
the early preparation of land has tomobile, bus, or airplane had it notion '"t^^est'ng program throughout, ggat, and he continued on his way to Wright, third
Georg’e T. Dunlap, Sr.,
Married Wednesday
George T. Dunlap, president of
Grosset & Dunlap, publishers of New
York, and Miss Sarah W’ilmer Gain
es, also of New York, were married
Wednesday at the Village Chapel in
Pinehurst at noon.
The bride was given in marriage
by her brother, H. V. Gaines, New
York, the others present being the
bridegroom’s daughters, Mrs. Theo
dore M. Riehle and Mrs. Ralph W.
Fulton, both of Garden City; George
T. Dunlap, jr., and Mrs. Dunlap of
Great Neck, L. I., Miss Helen Fulton
of Garden City, Mrs. T. A. Cheatham
and Miss Irene Harding of Pinehurst.
Miss Harding officiated at the organ.
The ceremony w'as performed by Dr.
T. A. Cheatham.
A wedding breakfast at the Dun
lap home followed the ceremony, af
ter which Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap left
for a brief trip south. They will be
at home to their friends at Broad
view, in Pinehurst, after March 28.
been permitted. The 1935 acreage will heen for the Zephyr,
be controlled largely through defi-
the day. Thursday night the Spring house on Bennett street. There he
Blossom Festival Chorus will give a
After the timber race Governor
' concert, singing “The Holy City.”
nite allotments, but due to the high Launch Fight on Will of i Military Day comes on Friday in
r^riPAQ rprpivpH rliirincr fVio aoaQr\n ..
Elva Statler Davidson ^ district convention
I of the American Legion and a mili-
1 tary parade with Fort Bragg play-
Statler Family Lawyers File
prices received during the season
just ended, it is expected that many
“outsiders” will be growing tobacco,
even with the expectation of paying
the tax.
The average price received for to
bacco being about 7 cents above the
parity level of 21 cents the crop re
porting service expressed the opinion
that the high price w'ould attract
over-allotment production this season.
Final 1934 season figures for Moore
county markets show the following:
Aberdeen, 2 warehouses: total
sales, 1,910,192 lbs.; average price,
$26.58 per hundre as against $14.62
the previous year.
Carthage, 2 warehouses; total
sales, 1,375,340 lbs.; average price,
$28.02 as against $15.34 the previous
year.
Blue Sole Nominee
For Aberdeen Mayor
Caveat in Moore County
Superior Court
made the discovery that she was not Ejjringhaus presented the silver tro-
in the car and when he returned to; pj^y ^^e Sandhills Cup. to Mrs. Boyd
Charlie’s Place was informed she had ^nd congratulated the rider, Dick
The Statler family this w'eek laun
ched its fight on the purported will
of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson, which
leaves virtually all her half-million
dollar perscynal estate to her husband,
H. Bradley Davidson, Jr., of Wa.sh-
ington and Pinehurst.
Acting in behalf of Ellsworth Stat
ler of England, and Joan Marie Stat
ler, 3-year-old millionaire, Tuscon,
Ariz., child, J. M. Broughton, Raleigh
attorney on Monday filed a caveat to
the will in Moore County Superior
been taken to the hospital in an am
bulance. He returned to Southern
Pines and w'as placed under arrest
when found asleep in the back of the
car.
Dies in Hospital
Mrs. Quilter died around 2 o'clock
. I yesterday morning in the Moore
1
ing a prominent part in the festivi
ties. There will be a Festival Queen’s
Military Ball that night.
Duke vs. Davidson
Saturday is Collegiate Day, with,
golf and tennis matches in the morn
ing betw’een teams from various col-! County Hospital from head wounds 1 entered by Ernest I. White of
leges in North Carolina. At 2:30 1"®“^^**^*®^^ cause death, ’ accord- gyj.^(,ygp n, y., second. Riding with
o’clock in the afternoon Duke meets j '’’S to the testimony of hospital phy- White were Miss Julia Scott
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Wallack, on his fine ride.
Hunter Trials
The hunter trials held at the new
course in the morning proved inter
esting and exciting, with numerous
entries in the four classes. The Try-
on Hunt won the hunt team class,
with the Moore County Hounds No. 2
Davidson on the baseball diamond, ^ Coroner's inquest was call-
and that night preceding the Colle- yesterday by Acting Coroner H.
giate Ball at the Country Club there j I'- ^elly, and witnesses were sum-
wili be a huge fireworks display at ’^crned to the hearing held out of
the baseball park. ^oors in the Municipal Park beside
Voting for the Festival Queen will the office of the City Clerk. No evi-
start next week, and the committee was brought out to warrant' g ^ Close For Event Aoril
invites nominations any time now. ^^^y si-.spicion of foul play. The jury 2H anrf
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53 Classes Listed in
Pinehurst Horse Show
had not returned a verdict, however,
when The Pilot went to press.
On the jury were N. W. Crain. Hi
ram Westbrook and J. E. Wilson of
Southern Pines and E. C. Muse, J.
M. McGravv and C. A. Yow of Carth
age.
Mrs. Quilter is survived by her hus-
Few Davs
Court. j The list of nominees will appear in
The usual general allegations are next w’eek’s Pilot. Merchants are also
made that the instrument filed for invited to enter floats in the opening
probate last Saturday is not the valid ^ day parade, and it is hoped that all
last will and testament of Mrs. Dav- concerned throughout the Sandhills
Present Incumbent Renamed for ‘ i^son. j win be represented in this parade.
Post and Seven Nominated ■ There are three grounds for caveat I Already a dozen floats have been en-
Vor Commissioners North Carolina in general: the*tered, some from some of the lead-
I question of regularity of execution of : ing manufacturing concerns in the | band, William Quilter, of Newburgh,
Hjnry McCoy Blue, present Mayor purported will; the question of ; state, some from nearby tow’ns in the j N. Y., and two daughters, aged 16.
of Aberdeen, is the sole nominee to ' ability of the testator, and,! Sandhills. Private citizens are also ai.d 3, both of w'hom were residing
succeed himself as a result of the question of exertion of undue in- planning to decorate th3ir cars for
fluence on the testator. | the parade, as ther.^ will be prizes
Broughton said no specific grounds for passenger cars as w’ell as for the
were noted in the protest filed, as ^ big floats.
its filing would raise the issue of val-1 —
I Fifty-three classes are listed in the
* Premium Book of the 18th annual
Pinehurst Horse Show to be held on
1 Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2d
i and 3d. Entries close within the next
i few days with Charles W. Picquet,
town caucus held in the City Hall
in Aberdeen on Tuesday of this
week. Mr. Blue has served several
terms as Mayor and was prevailed
upon to accept renomination despite
his desire to retire.
Seven prominent residents were
nominated for the five commission-
ership on the Board of Town Commis
sioners, to be voted on at the munici
pal election on Tuesday, May 7th.
They are: J. D. McLean, Prank D.
Shamburger, H. A. Gunter, C. L.
Guion, J. K. Melvin and W. H. Mc
Neill. Alessrs. Gunter, McLean and
There will be three classes for trot-
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,,, , . „ t *1. *• f tv. „ I ters and pacers, 19 for saddle horses,
witli her here at the time of the ac-' ■ •
-j.i. tv'f> for saddle ponies, 11 for hunters,
cident. She is said to have suffered I . . . . 1
idity of the entire document and hold W.-VLLACK \V.\DE TO SPE AK
off any further action until the valid- | AT SOl'THEBN PINES SCHOOL
Ity of the will is determined by su-1
perior court.
It will probably be from four to
six months before the issues are de
cided, Broughton said. The full list
of attorneys for the caveators in
cludes J. M. Broughton, Raleigh; U.
L. Spence, Carthage; Moot, Sprague,
Marcy, Carr and Gulick, Buffalo, N.
Shamburger are present commission- J Y. and Ladd, Garono and Jaeckle,
era. [Buffalo, N. Y.
Wallace Wade, football coach of
Duke University, will speak to the
students of the Southern Pines High
School at its next regular assem
bly period next Tuesday morning,
March 26 at 11:15. All of the Senior
classes of the Moore County schools
have been invited to attend this pro
gram. The local gle? club viill sin^.
The public is cordially invitod.
- , u J I seven for jumpers, a class for best
from nerves and severe head pains , ...
- J I girl rider, one for best boy rider and
for soms lime and witnesses at the 1...
1 i 4 J n. i. 1. I. J * lone for best pair of riders, boy and
inaucFt testified that she had attempt-1 ^ ......
, ^ , ,1 girl. Five classes are listed for t>olo
ed on other occasions to leap from ® .
. , , • J ■ ponies, and three for artillery mounts,
automobiles and from a window m , . , ,,
, , . . ! Fort Bragg will again be well rep-
her house here. McDonald, her com-1 ^ ,
resented this year, bringing over som«
panion of night before last, is a tailor
employed by the Montesanti shop in
Southern Pines.
Mr. Quilter, said to be a prominent
official of the Erie Railroad with
headquarters at Newburgh, is report
ed on his way here by airplane. Late
yesterday afte~noon the inquest W’as
I’-'til today pending his ar-
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of its trim 75mm. guns as well as
numerous jumpers and a few mules
for the mule battery contest which
always furnishes so much merriment
here. A military gymkhana Is also
scheduled.
Harry D. Kirkover of Camden, S.
C., and Thomas W. Durant of New
York have been asked to Judge this
year’s show.