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CIRCILATION &
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of the Sandhill
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, March 29. 1935.
PARISHIONERS AND
FRIENDS TO HONOR
FR. DILLON SUNDAY
Silver Jubilee of His Ordination
to Priesthood To Be Cele
brated in Pinehurst
HAS BEEN HERE 24 YEARS
The Rev. Father William J. Dillon
will celebrate the Silver Jubilee of
his ordination to the priesthood on
Sunday next, March 31st, and his
friends and fellow-citizens of South
ern Pines and Pinehurst are cordially
invited to attend the religious jubi
lee service, to be held at the Sacred
Heart Church in Pinehurst at 10:30
a. m.
For twenty-four years of his priest
hood Father Dillon has labored in the
Sandhills and by his kindliness and
unheralded charities has brought
comfort and solace to those broken
in health and wounded in spirit. Par
ticularly is this true of his ministra
tions to those not of his faith. A
man and a sincere friend he is loved
toy all the pioneers of Southern Pines
and Pinehurst. His affable, sincere
and humane character has endeared
him to the hearts of all and it is with
a feeling of gratitude that his friends
welcome the approach of Sunday that
they may publicly proclaim his
worth and rejoice that Father Dil
lon has lived in their midst for so
long a time.
Sunduy’s Program
The program for Sunday includes
the celebration of a solemn mass by
the Jubilarian at 10:30 a. m. and the
children’s choir of the Catholic Or
phanage under the direction of the
Sisters of Mercy will render the Mass
of the Angels. A string ensemble
composed of Miss Susan Tompkins,
violinist, a featured soloist with
Sousa for five years; William Fahl-
bush, cellist, and Edmond J. Query,
pianist, will render solos before and
after mass and Gounod’s “Ave Maria”
at the offertory. Mrs. Herman Tyson
will sing Rosewig’s “O Salutaris” at
the communion. The Rev. Michael A.
Irwin, a lifelong friend of Fr. Dillon,
will preach the sermon. A reception
to which the public is cordially invit-!
ed will be held froTi 4.30 to 5:30
o'clock Sunday aftemo'':i at the Sac
red Heart Rectory in Pinehurst.
Homer Rodeheaver, Noted Gospel U. S, ACQUIRES
Sing^, To Be Here on Monday BRQADACRES AND
BUTNFR FARMS
To Sinff at Church of Wide Fel- i —
lowship On Profjram of the
Community Hour
Homer Rodeheaver, the famous
gospel singer, will be in Southern
Pines again this season, appearing
next Monday night, April 1st, at the
Church of Wide Fellow.ship under the
auspices of the Community Hour. He
is unable to be here on Sunday as
on that day he concludes a series of
meetings in Florida with a concert at
Palm Beach.
Following his successful career as
song leader with Evangelist Billy
Sunday and later with. Dr. E. W.
Biederwolf, he has become one of the
artists of the National Broadcasting
Company and hafl presented many
concerts over that network. He has
been called “the man who has sung
himself into the hearts of seventy
million people.”
He is nationally famous for his
magnetic personality and his wonder
ful voice. He is also making a great
contribution to musical history in
capturing the melodies of the negro
spirituals and in presenting them to
the public in most melodious fashion.
He is also an artist with the trom
bone and will be remembered by the
overseas boys whom he helped to
cheer in France where he went with
his trombone and his songs at the
outbreak of the World War.
No admission will be charged at
the door but an offering will be tak
en to defray expenses. As seats are
not reserved, the doors will be open
at seven o’clock to enable early com
ers to secure desired seats. Former
experience indicates that every seat
will be occupied when the concert be
gins at 7:30.
Thad Page Slated For
$5,600 Federal Post
Expected to Be Named Admin
istrative Officer of Depart
ment of National Archives
Here on Monday
To Develop Ship-Masi Locust
Nursery on Extensive Acre-
affe Near Hoffman
•MANY TO BE EMPLOYED
Boy Gets $700 for
Loss of Two Teeth
Nine-Year-Old Robert Schroeder
of Southern Pines Recovers
For Auto Accident
Seven hundred dollars is the price
which Robert Schroeder, 9-year-old
Southern Pines lad, is to receive for
the loss of two front teeth, accord
ing to a judgment signed by Judge
Felix E. Alley in Richmond county
Superior Court, where the case was
heard. H. Heaps, a visitor to South
ern Pines, was the defendant in the
case.
Robert was riding with his father,
W. Schroeder, along the old road be
tween Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
Grass and undergrowth on the lands
adjacent to the road were being burn
ed and almost suddenly the wind blew
the smoke across the road, obscuring
the vision of travelers. Schroeder
stopped his car on his right hand side
of the road. Heaps, according to the
complaint, was driving in the oppo
site direction and negligently collid
ed with the car in which the child
was sitting, causing him to be throvra
against the dash board of the car
and breaking off two of his upper
teeth, so damaging them that they
had to be removed.
Damages in the sum of $5,000 were
asked by the boy’s next friend, W.
Schroeder, but a settlement of $700
was agreed upon by both sides.
POPPV DAY TODAY TO AID
DISABLED WAR VETERANS
This is Poppy Day, and citizens are
urged to buy poppies and help the
disabled veterans of the World War.
All the money realized from the sale
of American Legion and Legion Aux
iliary poppies will go to this cause.
The next meeting of the unit will
be held at Chatham Cottage, Pine
hurst, next Monday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Thad S. Page of Aberdeen, secre
tary to Senator Josiah W. Bailey
since he took office in 1931, is slated
for the position of principal adminis
trative officer in the United States
Department of National Archives, ac-!
cording to generally accepted rumors |
in Washington. 1
Dr. R. D. W. Connor, national ar- j
chivist, would not confirm or deny
the rumor, but termed it premature. |
The position, which pays $5,600 a :
year, has not yet officially been creat- j
ed ,although it wa.s provided for in
the $475,000 which Congress last
week appropriated for the depart
ment.
The position is a Presidential ap
pointment subject to confirmation by
the Senate and while the appointment
of Mr. Page is anticipated widely it
probably will not be made, if at all,
until after the President returns
from a fishing trip on which he em
barked Monday. }
In the meantime. Senator aBiley is
not expected to give any consideration
to the naming of a new secretary.
Thad Page is the son of the late
Robert N. Page, former member of
Congress, and Mrs. Page of Aber
deen. He was his father’s secretary in
the House of Representatives foi
years and because of his thorough ac
quaintance with the ways of doing
things on Capitol Hill Senator Bailey
named him his secretary when he
began his Senatorial career. Since
then Thad has been as busy a man
as there is in the Senate Office
Building, handling the multitudious
business of Senator Bailey’s office
with diplomacy and despatch.
Mr. Page’s position will call for
buying the supplies and otherwise
equipping the seven-million-dollar
building on Pennsylvania avenae
which is to house the archives of the
nation.
HOMER RODEHEAVER
WIND, RAIN, HAIL
DAMAGE CHURCH
AND FMS HERE
Taylor Memorial Edifice in Rose-
land Lifted From Base and
Moved Four Feet
The rain and hail storm of almost
cyclonic proportions which swept the
Piedmont section of the state and paid
a visitation here on Monday left
considerable damage in its wake, es
pecially in the Roseland portion of
the county.
The Taylor Memorial Church there
was blown from its foundations and
moved some four feet from its origi
nal position. The building is repoi ted
to have been damaged to the extent
of several hundred dollars.
Three tobacco barns on the farm of
A. Y. Ball in the Roseland section
were totally destroyed, as were all
the outbuildings on the farm of Den
nis Green across the road from the
Ball place. These two farms are in
the neighborhood of the Manice or
chard.
Heavy hailstones fell in Southern
Pines and vicinity in the early after
noon of Monday, but no damage was
reported here. Reports from Lumber-
ton state that Ellis Clark, aged In
dian janitor at Union Chapel School
in Burnt Swamp township was in
stantly killed when a bolt of light
ning hit him as he walked along the
road. The property damage in that
vicinity is reported at several thous
and dollars. One person was killed, a
score hurt in Madison, and damage
estimated at $75,000 was done in Ca
barrus county, reports from Concord
state.
There is a possibility that some
damage was done to peach trees in
this section, but not of major pro
portions. Farmers report damage to
tobacco beds and truck crops in va
rious parts of the state.
McDonald, Cleared by
Coroner’s Jury, Fined
Found Guilty in Recorder’s
Court of Driving Automobile
While Intoxicated
One of the largest real estate trans
actions negotiated in the Sandhills
.section in some time has recently
■ been consummated, with the United
i State.4 Government as the purchas-
‘ ing party. With the acquisition of
■ the property comes a new industry
! for the section, the development here
of a ship-mast locust nursery.
I Announcement was made this week
j that the government had acquired by
' purcha.se the Broadacres farm, for
merly one of the largest peach or-
i chards of the community, and the M.
F. Butner farm which adjoins it at
I Hoffman, Both farms will be convert-
! ed into the locust nursery. These two
I farms comprise several thousand
i acres of land.
I Between 60 and SO acres of land
, are being put into propagation beds
. and in the fall 1,000 acres will be
planted in the open field. These
' plantings are made in soil erosion
I control. In addition to the ship-mast
I nursery, the government may add
, a pine nursery, according to reports.
The project is expected to mean
i the employment of many laborers
and should prove a valuable asset to
the community.
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y of North Carolina
FIVE CENTS
Walter Lippnian
Joins IMlot Staff
Through arraiigt-niontH with the
X« \v York Herald Tribune The I'l-
kit is pleuM'd to Hnnouiiep that it
has Herur<‘d the services of .Amer
ica’s leading commentator on world
affairs, \Nalter I.ippniann, former
editor of the Xew York World, as
a member of its editorial staff.
.Mr. Lippmann will contribute the
leading editorial In The IMIot each
ue«k, beginning with this issue.
To thos«» familiar with his regu
lar eontriliutions to the columns
of the Herald-Trihune during these
days of world chaos and domestic
unsettlement, Mr. Lippnuinn needs
no Introduction. To other readers
wo commend the thoughtful sum
mary of the European crisis on to
day’s editorial page. ^-Editor.
Spring Blossom
Festival Opens
Here in 10 Days
Complete Program Announced
by Committee.—Contest For
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BIG ENTRY LIST
FORPINEHURST’S
18TH HORSE SHOW
Many Out of Town Horses Com
ing to Vie W'itih Local Tal
ent Next Week
SEVEN ARE NOMINATED
Voting Begins at Festival Headquar-
terti.—Parade of Floats to Opea
(iala Week in Southern Pines on
.\pril 9.—Old Slaves .\gain a Fea
ture of Festivities.
F. D. Cliff of Aberdeen
Dies of Heart Attack
Proprietor of Cliff Grocery Store
W as Born in Indiana 68
Years Ago
F. D. Cliff, 68 years old, died sud
denly at his home in Aberdeen last
Saturday morning of angina pectoris,
from which he had been a sufferer
for .some time. He wa,«* the proprietor
of Cliff Grocery Store and able to
attend to business up until last Fri
day when he suffered a severe heart
attack and was taken home, from
which he seemed to rally, but the
next morning while sitting up in bed
reading the morning paper he sud
denly passed away.
Mr. Cliff was born in Indiana but
spent his boyhood and early manhood
in Asheville where he served in the
capacity of steward at the Battery
Park Hotel for 20 years, afterwards
serving in this capacity at the Old
Yarborough Hotel in Raleigh and for
some time at the State Sanatorium.
Coming from there to Aberdeen about
10 years ago, he and his family en
deared themselves to the whole
community.
He leaves surviving him his wid
ow and four children, three daught
ers, Mrs. Ogden Smith of Perry, Flor
ida; Miss Marjorie Cliff, who is a
member of the Freshman class at
Flora Macdonald College; Miss Bet
ty Cliff, and one son, Lawrence Cliff
of Aberdeen; also three brothers, H.
G. Cliff of Asheville, Dr. B. F. Cliff
of Hendersonville and C. L. Cliff of
Hollywood, Fla., and two sisters,
Mrs. George Storer and Mrs. C. M.
Bending, both of Hollywood, Fla.
POSTOFFICE TO CLOSE AT NOON
Saturday after m.\y first
On and after the first Saturday
in May, the postoffice in Southern
Pines will close each Saturday at
noon. Postmaster Frank Buchan an
nounced yesterday. Boxholders will be
served and mall despatched as usual,
but the stamp, money order and par
cel post windows will be closed.
L. M. McDonald, 39, driver of the
automobile from which Mrs. William
Quilter fell to her death soon after
leaving Charlie’s Place, a roadhouse
between Southern Pines and Aber
deen, on Thursday morning of last
week entered a plea of guilty of driv
ing while intoxicated and was fined
$75 and the costs by Judge J. Vance
Rowe in Recorder’s Court on Monday.
His license to drive was suspended
for six months. Previously McDonald
had been cleared of any criminal re
sponsibility for the fatality by a Cor- ^
oner’s jury after on inquest held in
Southern Pines. !
Chief of Police J. A. Gargis of |
Southern Pines was the only witness ,
heard. He repeated the high spots of
McDonald’s story of how he and Mrs.
Quilter, wife of the Erie Railroad’s
general superintendent, got drunk to
gether the fatal night and visited the
roadhouse near which she met her
death.
Mrs. Quilter, a resident of New
burgh, N. Y., her two children and
a maid were spending the winter in
Southern Pines.
Warning Issued
Fire Trucks Must Be Given
Right of Way, Says City
Clerk Burns
The co-operation of the public
has been requested by L. V. O’Cal-
lahan, Chief of Southern Pines
7ire Department, in giving the fire
trucks the right of way in getting
to a fire. At a fire last week the
equipment was delayed on account
of traffic and there is considera
ble danger, if this continues, of its
resulting in serious accidents as
well as the fire making undue
headway due to the delay of the
trucks.
“The Town has ordinances with
severe penalties. It Is not the de
sire of the Fire Department to have
to resort to punishment for the
violation of these ordinances, but
unless the public ia more consider
ate it will become necessary,” s&ya
Howard F. Burns, city clerk.
Entries closed yesterday and all
is in readiness for the 18th annual
Horse Show of the Pinehurst Jockey
Club, to be staged at the show ring
I or th< ract tracli grounds ir Pine-
j hurst on Tuesday and Wednesday of
I next week. Secretary Charles W. Pic-
i quet reports a splendid entry list,
I with horses coming from Durham,
: Camden, S. C., Raleigh, Goldsboro,
5 Greensboro, Charlotte and Fort Bragg
] in addition to the numerous entries
I from the Sandhills section. Fort
I Bragg alone is sending 80 horses and
i 75 men here for the show.
i
! The hunter and jumper classes, al-
I ways the most exciting from the
i spectator standpoint at a horse show,
i are well filled, and civilian will be
I pitted against many a skilled army
i rider in these events, for Fort Bragg
has been schooling its officers’ mounts
I for several weeks in preparation for
' the event here. Tne outside course
' will be used for all the hunter classes
' this year, with four stiff jumps to be
j negotiated by the exhibitors. Jumping
! classes will be held inside the ring,
as will all other classes. Many saddle
' horses are entered, some five-gaited,
and not a few of the fine bred trot-
' ters stabling this winter at the Pine-
^ hurst track.
Artillery Exhibition
I As usual, the big 75 mm. guns will
I be over from Bragg, putting on an
exhibition drill, and the artillerymen
will, in addition, stage a military
gymkhana and an amusing mule bat
tery contest. Gen. McCloskey will
attend the show and act as a judge
in the' artillery classes. Thomas W.
Durant of New York, president of
the United Hunts, has been asked to
judge hunters and jumpers, and Wil
liam E. Baker of Providence, R. I.,
will judge the saddle classes.
Mrs. Richard P. Davidson is in
charge of arrangements for the lun
cheons to be served at the ringside
each day, and has arranged for a buf
fet lunch, the proceeds of which will
be donated to the Moore County Hos
pital and other local charities. Prom
inent Pinehurst and Southern Pines
society women will assist Mrs. Dav
idson.
The first class will be called at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Picquet
reports that a few parking spaces and
boxes are still available but are going
fast.
'IRS. HEWITT ASKS $50,000
FOR DEATH OF HER SON
Mrs. Elizabeth Hewitt of South
ern Pines has filed papers against R.
G. Morrison, Jr., and Thomas Morri
son, III, asking damages in the sum
of $50,000 for the death of her son,
John Hewitt, who was instantly kill
ed last winter when the bicycle which
he was riding on a street in South
ern Pines was struck by a station wa
gon driven by Thomas Morrison, III.
The complaint alleges that the boy
was operating his properly lighted
bicycle in a careful manner when the
defendr.nt {?rove into him, throwing
the boy 60 feet or more.
With the opening this week of the
contest for Queen of the Second An*
nual Spring Blossom Festival to be
held the week of April 8th in South
ern Pines, and with the' announc-e-
ment of the complete program, the
imminent approach of that gala five-
day event is brought home to resi
dents and guests of the Sandhills. All
this week the office of the Festival
committee in the Curb Market Build
ing on East Broad street has been a
beehive of activity, and General Chair
man S. B. Richardson reports much
of the detail involved in staging the
festival already accomplished.
Seven well known young women of
the Sandhills were nominated for
Queen of the Festival during the
week, as follows:
Miss Dorothy Pottle, Southern
Pines.
Miss Mary Hall, Southern Pines.
Miss Mary Welch, Southern Pines.
Miss Ruth Cameron, Southora
Pines.
Miss Helen Hartgrove, Southern
Pines.
Miss Lida Duke Blue, Aberdeen.
Miss Virginia Hensley, Pinehurst.
This list is expected to prove only
a starter, as nominations are open
and a nomination blank appearing in
this issue of The Pilot. The contest
will be conducted on the .same basis
as last year, a penny a vote, the
young lady receiving the most votes
to be crowned Queen the opening
night of Festival Week. She will be
attended by the 1934 Queen, Miss
Marjorie Skinner, and by a Court of
Honor. The eight young ladies re
ceiving the next highest votes in the
contest will serve the newly chosen
Queen as Ladies in Waiting. Votes
for Queen should be cast at the Fes
tival headquarters, where ballots are
available. The standing will appear
in the Sandhills Daily News all next
week.
Old Slave Day
Old Slave Day will again be a Fes
tival Week feature. In speaking of
this event yesterday Chairman Rich
ardson said;
“Last year on Old Slave Day we
had more than 100 ex-slaves to whom
we furnished a luncheon and gave
each one a small amount of money
to carry home. This was made possi
ble by generous contributions from
citizens and tourists of this commun
ity. These old negroes enjoyed that
day better perhaps than any day in
their lives. Quite a number of these
old negroes have died within the last
year; however we expect a goodly
number on hand on April 11th and
we would again like to treat them as
well if not better than last year, so
we take this opportunity to ask you
to help us make this possible.
“If you will mail your contribu
tions to the Chairman of the Festi
val Committee and designate your
contribution ‘for Old Slave Day,’
every cent of it will go to that end.
It was next to impossible last year
to acknowledge receipt of each in
dividual contribution, but every con
tribution sent in for Old Slave Day
was used for that purpose. I want to
thank the public in advance for the
contributions I know will be forth
coming.”
Big Crowds Expected
There are so many features for
this year’s Festival that a tremen
dous crowd is expected here each
day. Two conventions will meet here
on Military Day, the American Le
gion of this district and the Daught
ers of the American Revolution. Fort
Bragg artillery and the military band
will be here all week, and b{md con-
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