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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, November 8, 1935.
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USE OIR CREDIT
WISELY, SAFELY,
URGES GRAHAM
Lieutenant-Governor Calls Upon
Kiwanians to Study State and
National Finances
ANNUAL ALUMNI MEETING
Simon Newcomb Elected to Hall
of Fame with Cleveland and Penn
Father of Dr. Anita N. McGee
One of Three Chosen From
Distinguished List
“What Will You Have? Pay for It
and Take It.”
This was the subject of the talk
before the Kiwanis Club on Wednes.
day by Lieutenant Governor A. H.
(Sandy) Graham, principal speaker
at the annual, get-together of former
Kiwanians with the active member,
ship. The meeting was held at the
Pinehurst Community Church, with
nearly 100 present.
Mr. Graham u.sed an old saying
for his topic, but reversed it to fit
modern conditions. Today we “take
it first and pay for it afterwards,” he
said, in governmental affairs as in
our own personal dealings. With the
government dealing in credit in such
magnitude it becomes “absolutely nec_
essary that we walk a wise course, a
safe course, in the financing of gov
ernment,” he said. We must study the
various phases of city, state and na
tional government and familiarize
ourselves with the financial structure
of government.
"It is easy to take something we
are not required to pay for now. But
we must consider the true value at
the time we take it. We must pa.
tronize the right merchants, buy the
right goods, be sure of the need, and
keep ever in mind that we must pay
in the end. North Carolina has made
many progref»sive steps, fc’ith the
result that we still owe for roads,
for educational facilities, for our ele.
emosynary Institutions. We have the
largest per capita debt of any state
in the union. But our financial condi
tion and our rating with the banks
and public is good. It is necessary
to continue it so.”
Praise for Southern Pines
He urged that serious thought be
give nto present forms of taxation
and possible remedies; he praised
Southern Pines for carrying the
school election w’hich provides a nine
months term here. Calling it a splen
did example to other communities.
“Progressive communities must step
out and lead the way, and in time we
may work up to a State.wide nine
months term,” he touched upon the
great loss of life on the highways of
the state and urged his hearers to set
an example in this regard.
The Lieutenant Governor was in.
troduced by J. Talbot Johnson, an old
friend, who paid him a high tribute.
“I know of no one better qualified
to be our next Governor,” said Mr.
.Johnson.
Among guests at the luncheon were
Congressman William L. Fiesinger of
Sandusky, Ohio; C. C. Morgan, Pres,
ident of the Western Security Bank
of Sandusky; Dr. C. D. Grinnell ot
State College, Raleigh; State Sen
ator U. L. Spence of Carthage, a for.
mer Kiwanian, and numerous ex.
members of the Aberdeen club. Dr.
E. M. Medlln of Aberdeen welcomed
the guests. President W. L. Dunlop
presided.
Simon Newcomb, father of Dr.
Anita Newcomb McGee of Southern
Pines, was elected to the Hall of
Fame in the eighth quinquennial elec.
tion, it was announced during the past
week by Dr. Robert Underwoon
Johnson, director. Three were elect
ed at this time, the others honored
being Grover Cleveland, twice Presi,
dent of the United States, and Wil.
11am Pe.in, founder of Pennsylvania.
Now in its thirty.fifth year, the
Hall of Fame, situated on the cam
pus of New York University, will
have seventy.two historical figures
with the addition of Newcomb, Cleve.
land and Penn. Commemorative tab.
lets and busts to the three men will
be placed in the Colonnade probably
next spring. Dr. Johnson disclosed.
A college of elections, comprised
of 101 distinguished men and women
representing every state in the Un
ion participated in the elections. A
three.fifths majority of the votes,
sixty.one, was necessary for election,
which in turn had to be ratified by
the Senate of New' York University.
The importance of the elections is
stressed by the number of other dis
tinguished leaders in their fields who
failed to be elected—seventy-three.
Among them were poets, scientists,
leaders in government and soldiers.
Born in Nova Scotia
Simon Newcomb, born in Nova
Scotia, achieved a distinguished place
among the astronomers of his day
because of the wide extent, variety
and importance of his work and the
unity of purpose which guided him
throughout his career. He set himself
the gigantic task of building: up, on
an absolutely homogeneous basis,
the theory and tables of the plane,
tary system and labored at that pro
ject fcr more than twenty years.
As a boy Newcomb was bound out
as a chore boy to Parson Godfrey of
the Empire Loyalist Church, at
Clementsport, Nova Scotia, and it
was there that his interest in astron.
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Merchants’ Meeting
Called For Tuesday
Business Men to Talk Over How-
Best to Serve Visitors and
Own Interests
Honor Guest
DECEMBER 2 SET
FOR SALE OF LAND
FOR UNPAID TAXES
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County Board Also Orders Fore
closure Proceedings For
1933 Delinquents
SANITARY PROJECT VOTED
WALTER L.VMBETH
Friends Here Give Congressman
Informal Supper Party at
Civic Club
Congressman Walter Lambeth was
a guest of Southern Pines yesterday,
and honored by his friends of the
Sandhills at an informal supper party
last evening in the Civic Club. It was
not a political gathering, but an op
portunity fcr prominent men of the
county to meet their representative in
Congress and know him better. And
"a good time was had by all.”
At the Civic Club pariy Charlie
Picquet w’as in charge of the program.
Introduced by Frank Buchan, Charlie
proceeded to start the ball rolling
and kept it rolling. On the program
was a quartet comprising Shields
Cameron, Dr. Robert Shepard, Wil.
lard S. Dunlop and Mr. Picquet. Dr.
Shepard sang a few solos, and “Jim”
Boyd sang "Casey Jones” in his in.
imitable way. Miss Ruth Thompson
danced, Buster Doyle played his gui.
tar, Mrs. Carl Thompson the piano.
There were a few informal speeches,
and the Congressman said a few
words about governmental affairs and
in appreciation of the party given
him. A. Montesanti served the din.
ner and it was a good one.
Guests were present from Aber.
deen, Carthage, Lakeview, Hemp,
' Pinehurst, Pinebluff, Vass and South,
ern Pines.
Monday, December 2 is the day
upon which the real estate of delin
quent tax payers for 1934 taxes will
be sold, according to an order passed
I by the Board of County Commission
ers, and the tax collector was direct
ed to proceed with advertising said
real estate for four weeks prior to
the date of sale. A previous order of
-sale by the commissioners was held
up by a restraining order of the Su
perior Court to give the farmers time
to market their crops and thus pro-
wUie money with which to pay their
taxes, but no further delay need be
expected this time.
The county attorney was ordered to
institute tax foreclosure proceedings
for delinquent taxes for 932 immed.
lately. The county attorney was also
requested to investigate the taxes of
Dixie Theatre in Aberdeen due Moore
county for the yars 1929-1935, inclu
sive, and effect a settlement with
S. J. Hinsdale, Receiver, as his dis
cretion he deems equitable.
It was ordered that the board rec
ommend to the State Highway Com
mission that it take over and main
tain the roads leading from Young’s
road to the old Raeford.Southern
Pines road, leaving Young’s road near
Young’s dwelling southeast of South
ern Pines and connecting with the
Raeford-Southern Pines road near a
bridge on James Creek. This action
was taken in order that this might be
used as a school bus route, thus short
ening the distance the bus has to trav.
el each day by approximately thirteen
miles.
W. H. Currie, chairman of the
board, was authorized to sign a con.
tract with the W. P. A. for a 4.H
club house.
The Board decided to request that
the W. P. A. put on a sanitary pro
ject for the county which would in.
elude the construction of sanitary
privies, the county to pay for the
material for building privies for pub.
lie schcols required in the county.
Granv’“*" c flayer of
Chief of Police Kelly of
Southern Pines, Captured
Back in Jail
' Brought Back From Ohio Where
He “Made Good” Under
Assumed Name
ESCAPED PRISON IN* 1929
GKAXVILLE .\. DIETZ
TEST LEGALITY OF
N.C. LIQUOR LAW
BY INDICTMENTS
Not by Injunctions, State Su
preme Court Rules in Three
to One Decision
Aberdeen to Raise
Water Minimum
Board of Commissioners Votes
to Allow 2,000 More Gallons
After January 1st
The pBoard of Commissioners of
the Town of Aberdeen,has had under
consideration for some time raising
the minimum water from 3,000 to 5,.
000 gallons, and at the meeting of
the board on Monday night it was de
cided to have the increase in the wa.
ter minimum take effect January 1st,
1936.
The announcement will no doubt be
gladly received by water users In
Aberdeen, and the board is delighted
to be able to offer an inducement to
property owners to beautify their
premises by the use of an additional
2,000 gallons of water without fur.
ther cost.
A Merchants’ Day meeting has
been called by the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce for next Tues.
day noon at the Park View Hotel, at
which time representatives of all
business houses in town are expected
to discuss ways and means of pro.
meting business activity and cordial
relations between the business inter,
ests and winter guests during the
coming season. Every concern in
town, from the largest establishment
to the bootblack, is being urged to at
tend. Both men and women are ex.
pected.
“W^ want one or more representa.
tives from each and every business
house in Southern Pines there," said
Prsident H. J. Betterley of the Cham,
ber of Commerce yesterday. “This
meeting is not to raise funds, but to
talk over how we can best serve our
visitors and in so doing, better serve
ourselves. The business people should
not wait to be invited personally,
but come to the luncheon next Tues
day.”
EIGHT.PRONG BUCK
Alex Fields shot an eight_prong
buck on Monday morning east of
Young’s Road, near Southern Piaea
Golf Pros Test New
Grass Greens Tuesday
Tournament Attracts Over 200;
Carolina Officially Opens
on Monday
I Upwards of 200 of the leading pro.
' fessional golfers of the country are
due in Pinehurst next week for the
annual fall tournament, this year’s
' event attracting more than the usual
number of entries because of the
! new grass greens on the famous No,
2 championship course. The tourna-
: ment opens on Tuesday and runs for
I three days.
The Carolina officially opens in
all its new grandeur on Monday. Un.
; officially open for the past week, the
hotel has been entertaining a large
number of guests, prominent among
them being Secretary of State Cor.
dell Hull. On Monday and Tuesday of
this week the Carolinas, Inc., and
' the Carolina Motor Club held a meet,
ing there, with a banquet on Monday
‘ night.
Legion and Auxiliary Plan Fitting
Observance of Armistice Day Here
An Armistice Day Memorial Ser.
vice sponsored by Sandhill Post No.
134 of the American Legion and the
local Legion Auxiliary will be held on
Sunday morning at the Pinehurst
Community Church.
The members of the post and aux
iliary will meet outside the church
at 10:45 o’clock Sunday morning
and march into the church in a body.
All ex.service men in the community
are Invited to join with them at this
time. The Rev. A. J. McKelway, pas.
tor of the Community Church and
chaplain of the Sandhills Post will
preach a special sermon.
On next Monday, November 11th,
Sandhills Post will hold its annual
Armistice Day celebration at the
West End High School, the exercises
starting at 8:00 p. m. J. F. Sinclair,
retiring commander of the post, in
vited the members to West End at
a recent meeting of the Legion, and
committees were Appointed to assist
him in the program. Much talent has
been rounded up from the Sandhills
and nearby.
Ex.service men and their families
as well as the Legionnaires and theirs
are invited to this celebration. “It
will be an opportunity for ex-ser-
vice men to renew their old friend,
ships and see and hear a fine pro
gram, this week. “Let us make this
a night of celebration.”
Judge Winston Speaker
at Civic Club Opening
Will Read His “Penelope’s Web”
To start Winter Series of
Entertainments
The members of the Civic Club are
opening their season’s winter pro.
grams with an outstanding literary
event. Through the courtesy of Judge
Robert W. Winston, of Durham, the
public is invited to the Civic Club
on Tuesday, November 2, at eight
o’clock in the evening, when the
Judge will read one of his most popu
lar plays, “Penelope’s Web,” which
has been greatly enjoyed by various
men’s and women’s clubs. This play
is a deligh'tfully whimsical satire,
sparkling with wit and humor, and
deals most amusingly with the con.
tradictory events in the life of Pen.
elope.
The speaker will be introduced by
James Boyd. Judge Winston has been
a friend of the Boyd family for many
years. He is well known both in the
legal and literary world, being at one
time judge of the Circuit Court in
this state. He has recently published a
popular biography of Robert E. Lee.
At the close of the literary pro.
-gram, Miss Margaret Bishop will play
a violin solo with Miss Yeomans at
the piano.
This is the first of the many fine
programs that have been arrangeid
for this winter by the Civic Club for
the residents and winter guests of
Southern Pines.
W. C. FOWNES, JR., FrIsIDENT
OF OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB
William C. Fownes, Jr., of Pitts,
burgh and Pinehurst haS been elected
presidebt of the Oakmont Country
Club in Pittsburgh to succeed his fa.
ther, the late H. C. Fownes, who was
president at the time of his recent
death and throughout most of the
club’s history.
Indictment of offenders and not
injunctions against officials is the
method for testing the constitution,
ality of the Pasquotank and New’
Hanover liquor laws enacted by the
1935 General Assembly, the N. C.
Supreme Court held in a three to one
decision handed down last Friday,
written by Justice Michael Schenck,
with Justice Heriot Clarkson vig.
orously dissenting. Tnj Pinehurst and
Southern Pines stores are operating
under the Pasquotank act.
Making no decision on the consti
tutionality of the act, the opinion has
the immediate effect of dissolving
the injunction signed by Judge Claw,
son Williams which prevented offi.
ceis of Franklin county from calling
an election on the question of county
sale of liquor and starting stores if
the election carried. Immediately
Franklin officials set about plans for
an election as early as possible. Six.
teen other counties vote to sell li
quor and are at it, one, Rockingham,
voting against the sale.
Only those claiming irreparable
damage from enforcement of a stat.
ute are permitted to ask the judic.
iary to set at naught a solemn act
of the co.ordinate legislative depart
ment, Justic Schenck holds, saying
that allegations of personal injury,
property damage and discrimination
are not established, and if the act is
not constitutional, then the plain,
tiffs “have an adequate remedy at
law by having indicted £ind prose,
cuted those persons doing such
things.”
Pine Needles Inn To
Open On Thursday
Everything in Readiness for Re
ception of Guests on Knoll-
wood Heights
Pine Needles Inn on Knollwood
Heights will open for the season next
Tuesday, with everything in readiness
for the reception of a number of ear
ly guests. Emmett E. Boone, the new
manager, arrived this week from
Weethampton Beach, Long Island,
where he operates the Howell House
in the summer season, and reports a
sizeable booking of people who sum
mer with him in the north, as well as
others acquainted with the Pine
Needles In past seasons. The hotel is
completely staffed. Work on the new
paved road leading from U. S. High
way No. 1 at Manly to the inn is
progressing rapidly.
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BANKS CLOSED MONDAY
The Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany in Southe’T. Pines and the Bank
of Pinehurst, with its branches in
Aberdeen and Carthage, w’ill be clos.
ed all day Monday, Armistice Day.
Granville A. Dietz, slayer of Chief
of Police Joseph C. Kelly of South,
ern Pines, convicted in May, 1929 and
sentenced to serve 25 to 30 years in
State’s prison, sought since October
of that year for escaping from the
Caledonia prison farm, is back be
hind the bars in Raleigh. A picture in
a detective story magazine ended six
years of freedom, during which time
he had “made good” in Jackson, Ohio
as William Nutter, employe of an.
oil company.
Dietz declined the assistance of
more than a thousand of his fellow
citizens in Jackson, who signed a pe_
tition asking Governor Davey to re
fuse to extradite him to North Car_
olina.
He also declined the offer of prac
tically every lawyer and judge in
Jackson to fight his battle against
extradiction and capped his perform,
ance by rejecting an opportunity to
escape from the Jackson jail.
The story of the slaying here ap
peared recently in a detective story
magazine, illustrated with a picture
of Dietz. A neighbor of “William
Nutter” in Jackson saw it, notified
Columbus, O., authorities, and his ar_
rest follow'ed last Wednesday. He was
brought back to Raleigh on Tues_
day of this week.
Five months after he was commit,
ted to prison, Dietz escaped from
Caledonia prison farm and fled to his
native state of West Virginia, where
he had been a highly-regarded busi
ness man befcre he embarked on a
brief career of crime.
He changed his name, married his
childhood sweetheart, daughter of a
prominent West Virginia family, and
went to Ohio to work for an oil
company. In six years, he had climb
ed Jo a position J)f responsibility
such that the officers of his com
pany had to ask the State of North
Carolina to allow Dietz time to turn
over his affairs to an assistant.
As William Nutter, Dietz led a
straight and hrnest life as far as
the record shows. But always over
him, he said after returning to Ral
eigh, was the fear that someone
would recognize him. / r
Trapped By Picture
Had it not been for an observant
detective magazine reader, however,
that might never have happened and
William Nutter would have continued
to be one of Jackson’s good citizens,
living with his wife, who had forgiv.
en him for his crime, and his three.
year.old daughter.
Granville Dietz, admitting his
identity, was ;jailed to await the
coming of North Carolina officers.
That night, had he so desired, he
said, he could have walked out of the
jail to freedom, but instead, he told
the jailer that the back door of the
jail was unlocked.
The next day, the citizenry of
Jackson came down to protest his
arrest, to demand that he fight ex.
tradition. Grateful, he nevertheless
refused their assistance and said he
would come back without a fight.
And, when he came back, it was with
Special Officer Ben Henley, who re
fused to follow the custom of hand,
cuffing his prisoner after witnessing
the faith of the citizens of Jackson.
Would Clear Record
“Don’t get me wrong,” he said.
“I didn’t want to come back and
serve the long term I’ve got left,
because it wa^ taking me away from
my wife' and baby and away from
the life in which I was makmg good.
But I did wMt to get it all cleared
up as soon as possible, and I thought
the best way to do it was to come
back.”
His wife and daughter are going to
be well taken care of while Dietz is
in prison. His father.in.law, now liv
ing in Tennessee, talked to Dietz on
his trip east and assured him that he
need have no worry on that score.
Although he admits he “turned
weak” for a short time and committed
crimes for which he should have been
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