FIRST IN' NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING nPTJTT? JL fXJC/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 16, NO. 7. PARTHAQE KAOCE SPRINCS tHO ) #*>KEVI6W JACKSOH ^ MANI.BV *outhbrk PtMtS PIKIEBLUFP ai U/v. PILOT MOORE COUNTY’S LEA DING NEWS-WEEKLY of the Sandhill Territory o^** orth Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdee.i, Nirlh Carolina, Friday, January 10, 1936. v-%. PINEBLUFF INN REPORTED SOLD FOR SANATORIUM Virginia Trust Co. Believed To Have Closed Deal With Balti more Physicians FOR NERVOUS DISEASES Report of the sale by the Virginia Trust Company of the Pinebluff Inn in Pinebluff was current in the Sand hills this week and though unconfirm ed at the time The Pilot went to press is believed to be true. Two Baltimore physicians, special ists in nervous diseases, are reported to be the purchasers. They arrived at the inn early in the week, left trunks and equipment, ordered lights turned on and some repairs made, and departed, presumably for Baltimore. Much secrecy shrouds the sale of the property, possibly due to apprehen sion on the part of the purchasers that Pinebluff residents may not ap prove of turning the inn into a sana torium for sufferers of nervous di seases, the reported purpose to which it is to be put. The Pinebluff Inn, one of the most attractive hotel buildings in the sec tion, has been in many hands since it WEia built. Efforts made in recent j'ears to operate as an inn have proven unsuccessful, and the Vir ginia Trust Company acquired the property through mortgage fore closure some time ago. On high ground and well isolated from both the village of Pinebluff and U. S. Highway No. 1, it should prove an ideal location for a sanatorium. Pinebluff Inn to Become a Sanatorium, Is Report Moore arid Hoke Democrats Dine Southern Pines Country Club is Scene of Annual Jackson Day Dinner Democrats of Moore and Hoke counties assembled at Southern Pines Country Club Wednesday night to hear H. Lee Thomas, superintendent of the county schools, speak on the early life of Andrew Jackson ana his ad ministration as President of the Un ited States, at a dinner in celebration of his birthday. Thomas was followed on the speaking program by Dr. L. B. McBrayer, who paid a tribute to the late President Woodrow Wilson, and characterized President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a man possessing many of the traits of Old Hickory. Solicitor M. G. Boyette, county •chairman of the Democratic party of Moore county, paid tribute to the women voters. Others on the piogram were Rep resentative W. R. Clegg of Carthage, Robert Denny, Pinehurst attorney, and Mrs. Gilliam Brown of Carthage. Frank Buchan, Southern Pines postmaster, opened the program with his version of a typical old negro sermon followed by singing cf spiri tuals. James Pleasants, chairman of the Young Men’s Democratic Club,« act ed as toastmaster and was assisted by Shields Cameron, newly appoint ed Register of Deeds cf Moore coun- ly. At ten o’clock a radio was tuned in on the President’s address from Washington. E.ARLY FAVOK.ABLE ACTION ON BONUS BILL EXPECTED Favorable actio non the bonus bill is expected almost any day in Con gress. Labeled as an "essential part of the recovery program,’ ’the bill was reported out to the House of Rep resentatives on Wednesday by the Ways and Means committee. Immediately, it was mounted at the top of the legislative work sheet and programmed for a vote late this week. Democratic leaders predicted passage by a decisive margin. In the Senate, to which the meaS' ure will go after House action, obsta cles were disappearing. The bill, backed by major veterans’ organizations, including the Sandhill Post of the American Legion, would redeem bonus certificates immediate ly, but would se£ a premium in the form of interest on those not convert- -ed into cash before January 1, 1945. ^ Old Sketch of the Pinebluff Inn from The Pilot Files BUREAU OF AIR COMMERCE 0. K.’S KNOLLWOOD JOB Wallace Irwin Tells Kiwanis of I SKIING ON PINE His Great Washington Oration\ Nf|gJ)Lp;iS gg NEW SPORT HERE Airport Project One of Four in Carolinas Approved for WPA Funds COUNTY PAYS ITS $6,000 The Bureau of Air Commerce in Washington on Monday gave its ap proval to four airport projects in the Carolinas proposed for development with Works Prgrass funds, among them being the $30,000 Knollwood project. With this action nothing now stands in the way of federal recogni tion of the local field for transport planes upon completion of the en largement and improvement of the airport now under'way. A check for $6,000, Moore county’s appropriation toward the necessary local funds to supplement WPA funds, was turned over to Howard Burns, treasurer of the Airpoit com mittee, during the past week, and a special account opened. Other local funds available are appropriations made recently by the Town of South ern Pines and Pinehurst, Incorporat ed, each for $1,500. The PWA has earmarked $20,000 for the work, and State Administrator George W. Coan, Jr., when here about a week ago, stated that more might be made available if funds in might prove insufficient to fully complete and equip the Knollwood field. Annual Meeting: of Library on Monday Officers for 1936 W'iJI Be Elect ed and Committee Reports for 1935 Heard The Southern Pines Library Asso ciation will hold its annual meeting in the library on Monday afternoon, January 13, at 5:00 o’clock. At this meeting reports of the various com mittees will be submitted, the work of the library for the past year will be discussed and officers and trus tees for the year 1936 elected. All members of the Msociation, those holding Patron, Sustaining and An nual membershlpcs, are urged to at tend, discuss and vote. All thOise not members o fthe Library Association but who are interested in it, are cor dially invited to be present and join in the discussion. Eugene C. Stevens is the present president of the association. BRIDGE PARTY TO BENEFIT LIBRARY AT ABERDEEN How President Taft Upset His Tran((uility but the Toast master Saved the Day Wallace Irwin, author of these Japanese Schoolboy stories you used to laugh over and of much fiction in m.re recent years, kept members of the Kiwanis Club in an uproar at' their meeting in Pinehurst’s Berk shire Hotel Wednesday with tales of his experiences in after-dinner speak- I ing. Mr. Irwin is spending some time i in Southern Pines. One of his anecdotes was of the i time he was highly honored by being asked to address the annual banquet cf the American Newspaper Publish ers’ Association at Washington, a dinner at which President Taft was the guest of honor. Mr, Irwin wrote and rewrote his speech, learned it by heart over a period of weeks, tran scribed it on small slipn of paper lest he forget something in the middle of it. He had the slips of paper on the table before him at the banquet. President Taft was late in arriving, coming for the speaking but not fcr dinner. A seat near Irwin was reserv ed for him, and when he entered, a gust of wind from the opening door blew the Irwinian notes off the table. A number cf the slips lighted in the Taftian .chair, and the expansive President plunked himself down on them. There was no retrieving them. Speech followed speech. Cabinet members. Senators and finally the Mexican ambassador, then dean of the diplomatic corps, who was expect ed to tender the respects of the corps in a few brief remarks. Irwin writhed in his chair during all this, the Taft avoirdupois asquat on his .“rpeech worrying him to the point of forgetting most of it. The Mexican ambassador talked on—and on. He consumed an hour and one-half, most ly in foreign languages unintelligible to those present. Irwin was next on the program. The ambas'