f 22'38 ^ V.ISf^ Q "^Ot/NA Room FIRST IN NEWii, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 16, NO. 13. THAOe SPHINCS ALAKEView MAHUBV JACK90H SPRinOS SOUTH e»N PltiCS ASHI-Sy MKICtlTS AeCROCCJi PINEBLUPr MOORE COI NTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKI.Y of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, February 21, 1936. FIVE CENTS PRESBYTERIANS TO: VOTE SUNDAY ON I NEW CHURCH HERE ConKreuational IVleetinfy Will Be Held at Civic Club to Determine Sentiment ■ - I MISSION BIG SUCCESS i The question of providing Southern j Pines with a Presbyterian church will ; be determined this coming Sunday! afternoon at a meeting of the con- j gregation of the Presbyterian Mission ^ to be held at the Civic Club at 4:30 j o’clock. A vote of members of the congregation will be taken at that: time, and all those interested in the proposal as well as the members are urged to be present. The overture asking for organiza tion, together with the charter roll will be presented for those to sign who desire to become charter mem bers of the Presbyterian Church of Southern Pines. A little over a year ago mission aervices were inaugurated in the Civ ic Club here on Sunday afternoons by a number of members of the Pres byterian faith resident in Southern Pines and vicinity. The Rev. Ernest L\ Barber of Aberdeen was invited to conduct these weekly services, and from the start they have been high ly successful. The congregations have increased steadily. « Big Sunday Scho<»l Some time ago a Sunday School was launched, and this today has 100 enrolled members and boasts an average attendance of 80 adults and children. Dr. Marcus A. Brownson has been conducting the adult class, with an enrollment of 48. •‘We are hopeful of seeing the cor nerstone of an edifice for a Presby terian church in Southern Pines laid in the near future," Mr. Barber said yesterday. ‘‘The response to our mis sion service project has been most gratifying, and there appears to be a demand for the organization of a church and the erection of a building. If this is so. there is no better time than the present to launch the move ment, that we may be in a position to receive members and go to work building up a strong organization.” Southern Pines at present has a Baptist, a Congregational, a Chris tian Science, an Episcopal and a Ro man Catholic church, in addition to the Presbyterian Mission. In Memoriam BION H. Bl TLEIt The late editor of The Pilot died one year ago today at his home, Val halla, on the outskirts of Southern Pines. The staff cf his newspaper, ever mindful of its great loss, takes this occasion to repeat its words of that SO!rowful day: “Requiescat in Pace." THE EDITOR. Dr. John Symington Involved in Charge Federal Agent Takes Custody of County Health Officer and Sanford Druggist Dr. John Symington, of Carthage, Moore county health officer, was ar rested Tuesday by Federal Narcotic Agent William T. Atkinson on a charge of unlawful sale of narcotic drugs -morphine and paregoric. At the conclusion of a preliminary hear ing in Carthage he furnished bond of $500 for his appearance In United States District Court in Rockingham at the term beginning March 2. Mr. Atkinson also arrested R. H. Thomas, Sanford druggist. Tuesday for the alleged unlawful sale of mor phine. The defendant posted bond of $500 for the same term of court in Rockingham. Ellse Julia Addor Passes at Her Home Came to America From NUtive Switzerland in 1883. and Was Sandhills Pioneer Mrs. Elise Addor died at her home in Addor la.st Friday morning at the age of 77 years. B;rn Julia Etienne in 1859 in Swit zerland, she came to American in Oc tober, 1883 and settled in Philadelphia where she met and married Eugene Addor, a watchinaker and jewt-ler, in 1884. They went to Chicago where they resided until they bought the tract of land known as Lot No. 2 in the old French colony between Pine- bluff and Addor near Route 1, be coming picneer settlers of this sec tion. To them were born ten children, of whom six survive. One son, Felix, was killed in line of duty in the World War on March 1b, 1918. The surviv ing children are George, who lives in Somerville, Mass.; Henry and Jeanne of Addor, Mrs. Roger A. Wil liams of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. James E. Davenport of Mackeys, this state, and Joe Addor of Talmage, Cal. Four teen grnpdchildren also survive. Her husband, Eugene Addor died Novem ber 4th, 1913. Wherever sickness or distress were, Mrs. Addor cculd be found lending a helping and sympathetic hand. She was one of the most highly respected women of her community, and her loss will be keenly felt by a wide cir cle of friends, both white and colored. All during her illness she was con siderate and patient, always thinking of the oomfort of others. She was prepared to go and kept saying ^hat everything was all right. She was conscious unto the last. Mrs. Addor was a member of the Christian Church for many years. The funeral services were held at the home on Saturday afternoon, with in terment in the cemetery at Pinebluff beside her husband and son. I.LOVD T. CL.ABK AND MISS McPHEKSON WED Llcyd T. Clark, well known South ern Pines undertaker, and Miss Mil dred McPherson of Laurens, S. C., daughter of the late George H. Mc Pherson, were married in the Metho dist parsonage in Rockingham on Tuesday by the Rev. Mr. Herbert of Rockingham. LIBRARY CLOSED SATUBDAV The Library will be closed all day on Washington’s Birthday, Saturday, February 22, This change in the reg ular schedule is made in order to pro vide an opportunity for installing the additional shelving, plans for which were submitted and approved at the last meeting of the trustees. Luther B. Clegg of Carthage Dies at 62 Prominent Moore County Attor ney Passes in Hospital Af ter Stroke Luther B. Clegg of Carthage, prom inent Moore county attorney, died at the Moore County Hospital yesterday morning follcwing a stroke suffered on Saturday. He was 62 years of age, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clegg who preceded him to the grave by several years. Through his years of the practice of law Luther Clegg had made a wide circle of friends in the county who will mourn his passing. He had a bril liant mind and a host cf admirers. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Barber Clegg; by one daughter, An nie Jane, 6 years old; by a sister. Miss Marie Clegg ,and two brothers, W. R Clegg, Moore county’s representa tive in the Legislature, and the Rev. I. N. Clegg, all of Carthage. Funeral arrangements had not been made at the time The Pilot went to press. LENIENT COURTS MAJOR BOWES OF TO BLAME FOR ' RADIO FAME CAN’T AUTO ACCIDENTS COME HERE, BUT--| High way Law Violators Must He’s Sending His Star I'nit of, Be Punished. Says Motor I Ten Acts To Make up For i Club Official i Disappointment I He Can’t Come SPEAKS TO KIWANIS A. M. Huggins of the Carolina Mo tor Club, Charlotte, in a talk at the Southern Pines Baptist Church yes terday before a group of Sandhills business men at the regular weekly luncheon cf the Kiwanis Club, stated that the courts of North Carolina were lesponsible for the alarming number of highway accidents. Sub stantiating this statement the speak er produced a newspaper clipping giving the criminal recoid of two dif ferent defendants in a certain county of this state where each of them be tween the years 1932 and 1936 had been brought before Recorder’s Court on eight different charges and on each offense had been let off under .suspended sentence or a fine and costs. The speaker stated it was time for the civic organizations and the peo ple of North Carolina to rise up in arms and demand that drunken driv ers and others violating the traffic laws of the highways be punished, and until this is done there can be little change in the number of acci dents which reached a peak last year with 36,400 deaths, 107,000 perman ently disabled and 1,170,000 receiving minor injuries, property damage, loss of wages, etc., reaching between one and a .lalf and two million d.llais. Mr. Huggins stated that the Caro lina Motor Club is stressing the im portance of the education of safety in the schools. There are new 2.50,000 school boy patrols in 1,800 cities of this country, he said, and in the Caio- linas alone there are 7,000 in the pat rols. He h p:s to introduce safety courses for pupils in local schools. Another factor in the overcoming of highway accidents is being studied by expert engineers in the eliminaticn of unnecessary curves, the widening of highways and the building of high- ways for local traffic, keeping the through tiaffic on the main trunk lines. In closing, the speaker said that the automobile industry is building the safest-built automcbile today in its history and that the leaders of the industry were devoting consider able thought to highway safety. He praised the newspapers of North Car olina for the splendidl supp'rt and space that is being given to encour age safety. •‘But it is only the individual driver who can cut down the heavy toll,’’ he said, in urging support of these present. Members of the Chambers of Commerce of Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Southern Pines w'ere guests of the Kiwanis Club at the luncheon. Theodore N. Barnsdall of Knollwood Passes Winter Resident Prominent in Oil and Gas Industry in Pennsylvania Theodore N. Barnsdall, prominent winter resident of the Sandhills for the past seven years, died at his Knollwood Heights home at 1:30 o’clock Monday morning following a heart attack several days before. He was about 58 years of age. Mr. Barnsdall is a resident of Brad ford, Pa., where he was heavily in- teiested in oil and natural gas prop erties, a director in several large companies operating in the north western Pennsylvania fields. He pur chased a winter home in Knollwood in 1929 and has spent much time here since then. He had been in apparent good health this winter, and had just returned here fiom a tour of Flor. Ida when stricken by the heart at tack which resulted in his death. He is survived by his wife from whom he has been .separated for the past 25 years. Funeral services were held in Titusville, Pa., Mr. Barnsdall's birth place, upon arrival of the body there. ( HARLIE STARTED IT America’s pi'cmier ladio star. Ma jor Bowes, can’t come to the annual banquet of the Theatre Owners ot North and South Car lina, and Char lie Picquet’s head is hawed in grief, coupled with a little shame. BUT. and the capitals are used advisedly to make up for the ab- .«ence th: Major is sending here on March 2d his star tioupe of amateur radio performers, his No. 2 unit ol ten outstanding acts, the bunch that have been down to Florida taking F’alp.i Beach and Miami and the other reso!ts by storm. And they will not only appear at the theatre owners’ banquet here, but will give a per- fotmance at the Caiolina Theatre, Pinehurst. that evening prior to their banquet appearance. To put Charlie right, here's what happened; The Major, desiring to do some thing nice f r the theatre owners of the two Carolinas and for his friend Picquet, decided to make an excep tion to his rigid rule of "no personal appearances." He accepted the invi tation to the banquet in Pinehurst. Trouble for the Major ! The story leaked cut. It got into I radio and theatre publications. And I the trouble started. The Major’s of- I fipes were- .swpmpsd for days with , ilelegations waiting on him. “If you’re I going to make a personal appearance at Pinehurst. why can't you appear in Herkimer tn March 18th?" “'How about our woolen hose manufacturers’ j banquet in East Skatacoke on Ap- ! ril 3d ?’’ Etc., etc., etc. j There was nothing the Major could I do. He can’t run the biggest movie I house in New York, give auditions I all day to amateurs, direct a dozen ; road compani. s, broadcast on the ra dio and pei'form half a dozen other feats required of him in New York, and dash out of town every few days for per.sonal appearances. And < ne exception was going to upset the apple cart. Hence the cancellation of Major Bowes’ visit to the Sandhills. But you who listen in regularly on the Major’s hour cn the radio will acknowledge that he is sending his best talent here when you read this lists of the acts for the show in Pine hurst the night of Monday, March 2d, Just listen; 1. The Jersey Happy Rangers. 2. Rufus Wilson Smith, "The Smoked Ham from Virginia.” 3. Rhoda Case, bass contralto. 4. The University of Missouri Campus Quartet, plus Kewpie and his guitar. 5. Thelma Gaskian, coloratura so prano. 6. Jakie Billings, the amateur Fred Astaire. 7. Harvey Mearns, t^e ‘‘Candy Man." 8. Meyer Goldberg, novelty whis tler. 9. Howard Weiner, tenor. 10. Ben Jones, Jacksonville pian ist. And then there’s Eddie Vogt, mas ter of ceremonies, and Bob Hamill, (Please turn to page 8) FINE PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED FOR MAJOR BOWES Legal Holiday Postoffice Windows Open Two Hours in Morning. Banks Closed All Day Saturday, Washington’s Birth day, is a legal holiday. Postmaster Frank Buchan an nounced yesterday that the South ern Pines Pcstoffice will be closed all day, except that 'the {general delivery and stamp windows will be open from 8:00 to 10:00 in the morning. The Citizens Bank & Trust Com pany and the Bank of Pinehurst, with its offices in Aberdeen and Carthage will be clo<,ec all day. Celebrate Washington Birthday at Civic Club i .Mrs. McGraw to Read Today at Tea SponsorttI by Four (irganizations ' Tomorrow, Friday afternoon, at 3:00 o’clock at the Civic Club there will be a reading from one of Bar- I ie’s book by Mrs. Thomas McGraw | of Abiideen. Many in Southern' Pines have heard Mrs. McGraw read from other books, and all express j pleasant anticipation in another op portunity. As a complement to the! Scotch author, and stories of Scot land, Miss Florence will sing a group of Scotch songs, accompanied by Mrs. Charles Grey. | This regular Friday program had been plann.d for some time and an- noimced, and all visitors are most cordially invited to attend. At 4:00 o’clock in the Clubhouse because * Washington’s birthday always seems to be the most fitting time to en tertain with a Colonial tea, the four social organizations of the village have joined together in bidding all ] the citizens and all of the winter visi- ' tors in our midst, to come together and get acquainted and drink tea to gether, give a tcast to George Wash ington, forever alive, and give anoth er toast to our own Southern Pines, fast developing the Colonial atmos phere. The four organizations actmg as hosts are the Chamber cf Com merce, Mr. Betterley. president; the Civ'c Club, Miss Cook, president; the Thistle Club, Mrs. Everest, president; and the All-States Association, Mrs. Turner, president. Presiding at the tea table, and dressed in gowns of the Colonial days, will be Mrs. Darwin Turner. Mrs. H. A. Gould, Mrs. Hugh Betterley, and Mrs. Hoyt Shaw. It is hoped that both men and women will accept this very, cordial invitation, and go in to the Civic Club any time after three. There is to be no collection for any cause, no matter how good, and any who wish free transportation may notify D. H. Turner, and an auto mcbile will be sent. There will be a food sale starting at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, at (Please turn to page 4) Miss Glenn to Lecture on Christian Science Member of Board of Lectureship of Mother Church to I?e Here Monday Miss Margaret Murney Glenn of Boston, Mass., member cf the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, {in Boston, will deliver a lecture on Christian Science at the church in Southern Pines on Monday night n;xt, February 24th. Her subject will be: “Man’s Spiritual Nature as Re- I vealed by Christian Science.” Miss Glenn is reported to be a brilliant and forceful speaker, and a large aud ience is anticipated for the meeting, which cpens at 8:00 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend this lecture. The Christian Science Church is on New Hampshire avenue in Southern Pines. Dr. Julian Miller Speaker Tues day Night at Gathering at Pine Needles Inn ALL CORDIALITY INVITED The annual banquet of the South ern Pines Chamber of Commerce will be held next Tuesday night, Febru- ary 25th. in the main dining room of the Pine Needles Inn. The affair promises to be one of the most en joyable in the long line of yearly gatherings sponsored by the organi- zati n. It will be strictly informal. Dr, Julian Miller, editor of The Charlotte Observer, heads the prog ram. One of the be.st speakers in the state, he will talk on a subject of particular timeline.ss, and interest to the people of this section. The musical program, arranged by Charles W. Picquet, chairman of the banquet committee, will include songs by a quartette comprising the Rev. and Mrs. A. J. McKelway cf Pine hurst and the Rev. and Mrs. A. V. Gibson of Sanford, who will smg a number of spir-ituals; songs by Mrs. Raymond Kennedy and Mrs. Charles W. Picquet; piano duets by Frederick Stanley Smith and Miss Selma Ste gall, and orchestra music by Jimmie Livingstone and his 10-piece band. And there'll probably be some stunt during the evening; it's usual at these banquets. Everyone is invited to the ban quet, and the tickets, including din ner ’n’ everytliing, ore only one dol lar. They are on saie at the drug stores in Southern Pines and by di rectors of the Chamber of Commerce. President Hugh Betterley of the or ganization requests that directors re port on their ticket sales on Monday that the Pine Needles may have some idea of how many to expect Tuesday night. The party is scheduled for 7:30 o’clock. Those without transportation will be cared for if they are at the Broad Street Pharmacy at 7:00 p. m. Add Three C’s to the Three R’s, Erwin Urges Heiid of State Schools Talks to Parent-Teacher Ass’n. at Pinehurst The Pinehurst Parent-Teacher As sociation met in the school auditor ium Wednesday evening when an en joyable prcgram was presented under the direction of E. C. Cunningham. The program opened w'ith the singing of several songs led by the Rev. A. J. McKelway, followed by a candle lighting service by a group of school girls commemorating the founding of the National Parent-Teacher Associa tion thirty-nine years ago on Febru ary 17th. This was followed by two solos by Dr. Robert P. Shepard. W. P. Morton introduced State Superintendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin, who gave an instruc tive talk on our State system of*edu- cation. He urged patrons to support the acaie-v'ide educational program, which of necessity would be a mini- mum, and, also, earnestly urged that where possible vote a superimposed local tax enabling children to have not only the three R’,s but also the three C’s—Citizenship, Character, Culture, and other school advantages that will help fit them for life in a new social and economic era. TO PORTRAY ROM.\NTIC STORY OF LINCOLN’S LIFE I The romantic story of the life of ! Abraham Lincoln will be the theme l,of the Community Hour at 7:45 this ■ Sunday night at the Church of Wide Fellowship. Fifty-three beautiful pic tures will be shown telling the story of his life from the log cabin in the Kentucky hills to the White House in I Washington, Dr. C. Rexford Raymond, who has visited the historic birth- I place of Lincoln and is acquainted with the mountain background, will comment on the pictures. There will be no admission fee but an offering will be taken to defray the expenses.

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