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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 16, NO. 26.
SPRING*
PILOT
CAROUNA ROOM
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
Mary Th
of the Sandhill 1 a x at. c *th Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, May 22, 1936,
FIVE CENTS
TO BUILD THREE
NEW RESIDENCES
AT PINE NEEDLES
GeorRe T. Dunlap, Jr. Heads
Company to Develop Section
Near Inn
SIX LOTS ACQUIRED
Amcng several corporations recent,
ly chartered to do business in the
Sandhills is the Yadkin Building Com
pany which plans to build dwelling
and possibly other types of buildings
at Pine Needles.
The new firm has already bought
five lots from the Patuxent Company
and an adjoining one from P. B.
O’Brien on Indian Trail Drive oppo
site the Van Keuren residence not far
from the Pine Needles Inn. Here they
will immediately begin the construc
tion of three modern winter homes.
One of these has already been sold
and the others will be offered for sale.
When these have been bought, which
the promoters have every reason to
believe will be before the close of
next season, others will immediately
be built in that vicinity.
The officers of the Yadkin Building
Company are George T. Dunlap, Jr.,
president; George T. Dunlap, S. Y.
Ramage, and C. H. Bowden, vice-pres
idents, and A. S. Newcomb, secretary-
treasurer. These men are all long
time residents of the Sandhills, Mr.
Ramage, whose permanent home is in
Oil City, Pa., owns “The Deodars” in
Pinehurst, which he has occupied win
ters for many years. Mr. Dunlap, of
the publishing firm of Grosset & Dun
lap, of New York, built "Column
Lodge” some 20 years ago, which he
^old when he built “The Green Dial”
where he liver for several winters,
and then mcved to “Broadview,”
where he has since resided. He is
also the owner of "The Woodbine,"
the winter home of his son, George
T. Dunlap, Jr., former national ama
teur golf champion. Mr. Bowden, a
resident of Philadelphia, has spent
several winteis in Southern Pines and
was a guest of the Pine Needles Inn
during the season just closed. He, too,
has had much experience in the own
ership and exploitation of real estate.
The fact that the.se men are invest
ing in buildings at Pine Needles is
conclusiv*’ evidence of their faith in
the future of the Sandhills in general
and of The Pine Needles area in par
ticular. Mr. Newcomb, who will be
manager of the company, will be in
charge of the building operations and
expects to have the new houses ready
f r occupany in the early fall.
Postoffice Here Wins
Promotion in Class
Believed to Have Had Highest
1935 Receipts for Size in
North Carolina
Word was received by Postmaster
Frank Buchan this week of a boost in
the classification of the Southern
Pines postoffice from the $2,600 class
to the $2,700. based upon receipts
during the year 193.'>. I‘ is believed
that the Southern Pines office last
year had the highe.st receipts of any
town ; f its size in the state which
does not hav; rural or star routes.
The change in status means an in
crease in the salary of the postmaster
of $100 a year, beginning on July 1st.
Southern Pines is now in the same
classification as Sanford, which has
consiil^rably greater population and
also rural routes.
SENATOR LINDSEY TO
AUDKflSS KIWAMS CLUB
State Senator T. H. Lindsey, an ad
vocate of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald tor
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor, will speak before the Kiwanis
Club of Aberdeen and invited guests
at the clubs* weekly meeting next
Wednesday in the Southern Pines
Country Club.
DR. HERR CHAIRMAN OF
DEWOC’RATIC COMMITTEE
Dr. George G. Herr was re-elected
chairman of the Southern Pines Dem-
ociatic Precinct committee at the re
cent meeting held here. Mrs. L. L.
Woolley was chosen secretary, and
the other members are Ernest Wilson,
Ben Morgan and M. Y. Poe.
On Stage Here
GUY STANDING, Jr.
FEDERAL THE.4TRE
TO PRESENT PL4Y
HERE WEDNESDAY
Comedy Success, “Post Road,”
With IJroadway Cast Cominjf-
to Southern Pines
(KV TEST TOlTR IN STATE
In a new W. P. A. Federal Thea
tre program to affect a geographic
readjustment of theatre activity in
the United States, North Carolina
was selected by Federal Theatre offi
cials as the first state in which to try
the experiment, which will bring Wil
bur Daniel Steele's comedy succ«ss,
“Post Road," to Southern Pines on
Wednesday, May 27th for a one night
engagement at the Carolina Theatre.
Written bj’ a native of North Car
olina, the play recently completed a
seven mi nth run in New York at the
Masque Theatre and its appearance
here promises to be an exciting event
foi- local theatre goers, what with the
New York Federal company exerting
every effort to make its first offer
ing in this state an absorbing and en
tertaining attraction.
The ai-rival of “Post Road” consti.
tutes a first step in a new theatre
program recently inaugurated by Hal-
lie Flanagan, national director. Emi
nently successful in New Yorki with
five hits playing to capacity houses,
it was decided that the most practical
measure in affecting a revival of in
terest on a national scale in American
drama was to launch a country-wide
regional theatre movement, and the
establishment of resident-touring
companies in communities remote
from New York was proposed as the
way to begin the new venture.
The importance of getting away to
a good start lead to the selection of
actors with many years experience in
the commercial theatre, the movies
and the radio, and under the title of
Federal Touring Unit No. 1, the com
pany is now quartered in Raleigh
where shows are being prepared for
an itenirary which will include about
25 North Carolina cities.
“Post Road” is the first production
to go on tour under the plan and its
opening here will be anticipated with
high inter^t by persons interested in
the future of American drama, as
well as by those who seldom have an
opportunity to witness stage produc
tions enacted by professional perform
ers.
The company, which includes sever
al well known on the legitimate stage,
among them Julia Fa.ssett and Guy
Standing, Jr., the latter the son of
Sir Guy Standing of theatrical fame,
is traveling about the state by bus,
and a huge van carries the scenery
and props, sound equipment, ampli
fiers, etc.
Manager Picquet of the Carolina
Theatre announced prices for the pro
duction here as follows: Box seats, 75
cents; reserved seats, 60 cents, and
general admission, 50 cents. Reserved
seats are on advance sale at the
Broad Street Pharmacy.
MCDONALD TO SPEAK
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Govsrnc r, will speak in the courthouse
at Cartnage at 2:00 tomorrow, Satur
day aftenoon.
BAILEY IN FAVOR
OFRESEHLEMENT
AT BLUE’S BRIDGE
Refers Petition from Sandhills
Organizations to “Powers
That Be” in Washington
COURT CLAIMS ILLEGAL
Following receipt of a petition
signed by officers cf the Chambers of
Commerce of, Aberdeen, Pinehurst
and Southern Pines and the Kiwanis
Club, as well as a large number of
citizens of the Sandhills, U. S. Sena
tor J. H. Bailey wrote signatorie.s this
week;
“I have the petition given me by
J. Talbot Johnson of Abei'deen in con-
n ction with the completion of the
Blues Bridge Resettlement Pioject lo
cated near the point where Moore
and Hoke counties join. I have re
ferred this matter to the Resettlement
Office with the request that, if possi
ble, yout request be granted. I will ad
vise you as soon as we have secured
information from the administration
in regard to their id:a about this
matter .1 hope that the project may
be definitely established, completed
and put into opeiation.”
The petition set forth the desira
bility of the location, th,= productivity
■)f the soil for resettlement purposes,
the high grade of tobacco grown
thereabouts ,the fact that the acre
age is capable cf producing from one
to two bales of cotton per acre, and
for diversified agriculture. It men
tioned the convenience for tenants to
be removed from the 60,000-acre sub
marginal land project near Hoffman,
the behefits to be derived by Aber
deen, Pinehurst, Raefoid, Southern
Pines and other Sandhills points with
in a 15-mile radius, furnishings a
market for the new settlers. It pro
claimed the need of these villages for
new adjacent sales territory.
A decision handed down in a United
States District court in the District
of Columbia last week declared the
federal resettlement program uncon
stitutional, It is probable, therefore,
that no further resettlement work will
be appr. ved until the United States
Supreme Court has passed upon the
Disti’ict court’s decision.
MOORE F.ARM WOMEN WIN
,\TTEND.\NCE G.WEL
The Moore county farm women won
the attendance gavel at the seventh
annual meeting of the ninth distnct
of the North Carolina Federation of
Home Demonstration Clubs at Eller-
be Springs on May 14. Seventy-two
women from Moore county attended
the meeting.
Mrs. Bess N. Rosa of the Woman’s
College of the University of North
Carolina was the speaker. She spoke
convincingly of the necessity of the
home training of children. She
brought out the greatest problem to
day in child training is that parents
j are imposing their own ideas on their
I children and are not allowing the child
to think for himself. She contrasted
problems of 30 years ago and today
in child training. Mrs. Sosa’s addi’ess
was interesting because of her tech
nical knowledge, her common sense
and her humor throughout.
A picnic lunch wap held cn the
beautiful recreational grounds now
owned by Richmond county. After the
lunch the group made a tour of the
Sandhills Resettlement project, larg
est in five states.
100 ATTEND MEETING OF
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
I About 100 people attended the Aux-
I iliary meeting of the Southern Pines
, Pr esbyterian Church at the home of
Mr. and Mis. C. A. Maze Monday eve-
i nlng. Mrs. R, S, Durant, president of
I the auxiliary, presided. A pageant,
“At the End of the Rainbow” was
j given by the following: Mrs. Lillian
I Simpson, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. W. E.
! Blue, Mrs. Alice McNeill, Edna Mae
McNeill, Dot Kaylor and Betty Mc
Neill .assisted by the choir. The birth
day offering received was for the ben
efit of the Montreat Training School.
Following the pageant refreshments
were served.
Editorial ^Dog Days^ Account
For Attack on Old Slave Day
Are You Regristered?
Tomorrow, Saturday, Last
Day To (Jualify For Primary
Election in June
TomLriow, Saturday, will be the
la.4(t day for registration for voting
in the June Primary. The books are
open until 6:30 tomorrow night at
the Municipal Building on East
Bioad street, with Hiram West
brook the registrar. Any desiring
to register today may find Mr.
Westbrook at the office <f H. A.
Lewis, West Pennsylvania avenue.
Aberdeen legistration books are
'-pen until tomorrow night at the
'jffice of J. Vance Rowe.
2 FACING TRIAL
THIS WEEK FOR
BRUTAL MURDERS
Toy Nall and Ollie Bean Accused
of Deaths of Ccmer and
Miss Crabtree
DARNELL GETS 3 YEARS
A major part of this week’s term
of Superior Court for the trial of
criminal cases will be consumed by ac
tions resulting from two of the most
horrible murders in the history of the
county, that of Miss Geneva Crabtree,
who was shot to death as she fled
from the home of her employer, a
Mr, Mace, with his small child in her j
arms, a deed with which Toy Nall an
sAleged jilted suitor, stands charged,
and the other that of Andrew Comer,
who died after lying cn the snow-cov
ered gi-ound for several hours after he
was fired upon by Ollie Bean, accord,
ing to the allegations.
Miss Crabtrec!, who was keeping
house for the Mace family while the!
father and mother were working in
Hemp,^ met her death at their home
some five miles out from Carthage!
during the winter. Comer was killed
in the yard of Bean who resides in j
the extreme north-western part of the
county, I
A special venire of 75 men was or- j
dered to report at 2:00 o’clock Wed- j
nesday in order that a jury might be
selected for the Nall case.
R. F. Darnell pleaded guilty to the
charge of bigamy and was sentenc
ed to seive not less than three nor
more than five years in State’s Pris
on,
Will Kelly was found guilty of as
sault with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill, but had not been sentenc
ed at this writing, Tuesday evening.
Judge F, Donald Phillips Is presid
ing and the State is being represent
ed by Rowland S, Pruette as solicitor.
G.\RKISON SIMPLIFIES
NE\\ U. S. SOIL PROtJR.VM
I
County Agent E. H. Garris n, Jr., i
of Carthage explained the workings
of the government’s new soil conser-'
vation program to members of the;
Kiwanis Club of Aberdfen ^at their !
weekly meeting held Wednesday in
the Pinehurst Community Church, i
The complicated machinery involved i
in figuring out what a farmer can I
or must plant to qualify for federal i
aid under the program was simplified ;
f:r his listeners by the man who has |
charge of its operation in Moore coun- '
ty. Mr, Garrison expressed the opin- i
Ion that the new' law is a great im- |
provement over the AAA plan, *
Struthers Burt Answers Norfolk
Newfepaper\s Blast Against
Southern Pines
By Struthers Burt
It is a well known fact that edi
tors in hot weather, in what is known
as “the dog days,” write queer edi.
torials. This is a journalistic axiom.
But it is still May and despite one or
t'vo hot spells we have had no weath
er to account for the editorial quoted
helow. It is clipped, I believe, from
the Notfolk Blade, and it found its
inspiration in the Notfolk Journal and
'juide, which in turn drew inspiration
from a Greensboro paper. Just why
these editors should feel so badly and
be so certain about something of
which they are totally ignorant is a
question, but it is a sad comment on
the not too accomplished newspaper
mind. Or perhaps the lazy one. Most
newspapeimen try to substantiate
their facts up to the time that they —
*.he newspapermen—get soft.
Here is the editorial from the Nor
folk Bla<le:
Southern Hokum for Northerners
In the Norfolk Journal and Guide
we read that at Southern Pines, N, C,,
there is an annual observance of
“Slave Day” consisting of a round-up I
of “illiterate members of the Negro
race of an advanced age’ who are en-
ouraged to put cn a performance
for the delectation of the townsfolk
and the northern tourists from whom
Southern Pines and neaiby Pinehurst
draw their main sustenance. They en.
gage in a crapshooting tournament
and "other degrading performances”
■•'esigned to r: kindle the embers of a
noble traditi n that of the departed
institution of human slavery.
Since this institution was abolished
seventy-one years ago, the “ex-slaves ’
who are mobilized to entertain nor
thern sojourners at Southern Pines
are probably 99 per cent phony. But
to make that point is merely to note
that S:uthern tourists resorts have
learned the trick of serving their
lientele with the native hokum with
out which, it s ems, no tourists are
wholly happy. The grosser and more
colorful th# hokum the happier it
makes them, for the outlander aud
ience approaches it with a voracious
appetite for humbug and an impreg
nable indifference to history.
Granted that Southern Pines’
“Slave Day’’ has its commercial uses,
it nevertheless remains a sad and hu
miliating spectacle. It takes a robust
appetite for profits to capitalize a
spectacle evoking that period in our
history when a considerable and oth-
ei'wise enlljrhtened opinion in the
South defended human slavery as an
institution sanctioned by God. In
stead of parading these memories for
the entrrtainment of cur monied vis
itors, we might with better grace al
low them to sleep in' the history books
where those tourists who are hardy
enough to crack them open may
'amiiiarize themselves with the de
parted institution in its proper per
spective,
DLstortlon of Facts
Now. anyone at all acquainted with
“Old Slave Day,” as it has come to
be known in Southern Pines, will, of
course, laugh at such a distortion of
facts and such obvious misstatements,
but there are a great many people
who are not acquainted with “Old
Slave Day” in Southern Pines, and
so in justice to a pleasant, a touch
ing. an interesting, and a dignified oc
casion, and in justice to a decent
small town, some answer should be
made to the editorial in the Norfolk
Blade. From beginning to end it is un
truthful and unfair.
“Old Slave Day” arose spontaneous
ly a couple of years ago. It was en
tirely the suggestion of a few resi
dents of Moore county, all of them
S utherners of long descent. They
knov every negro invited, and all the
negroes invited are eager to come.
There is no reason why they shouldn’t
(PIfaKe tutn to pnge 4'k
JONES MACON, 45,
DIES IN ABERDEEN
BY HIS OWN HAND
Prominent Citizen Leaves Note
Attributing His Act to Fi
nancial Worries
, FUNERAL IN LOUISBURG
Aberdeen suffered the loss of one
of its substantial and most popular
citizens on Monday of this week
through the death by his own hand
of Jones Macon, Mr. Macon, in a note
f und in the room in which he took
I his life, attributed his act to financial
I worries. He was 45 years old and had
j resided in Aberdeen for many years.
! F’oi' some time he had been connected
I with the Martin Motor Company,
Funeral services were held at his
, former home in Louisburg at 3:00
' o'clock on Tuesday afternoon ,the
Rev, L. M, Hall of the Page Memor-
i iai Church in Aberdsen and the Rev.
I Mr. Fitzgerald cf Louisburg officiat
ing, He was laid to rest in the Ma-
[ con family plot in the Louisburg cem-
I etery. Former classmates of school
days acted as bearers. From 30 to
I 40 residents of Aberdeen attended the
I services.
I
Mr, Macon is survived by his wife,
'ormally Miss Lillian Adams of Lin
den ;three sons, Jones Macon, Jr„
now stationed at Kelly Field, Houston,
Texas, where he is in aviation train,
ing, Bill Macon and Nat Macon; two
sisters. Mrs, Frank Fagan and Miss
Genevieve Macon of Goldsboro, and
one brother, Sebastian Macon of
Louisburg.
The lifeless body of ner husband
was found by Mrs. Mac. n upon her
r-eturn from a meeting in Aberdeen
Monday afternoon. He lay on his bed
with a revolver clasp-d in his hand
and there was an empty bottle which
had contained a poisonous disinfec
tant beside the bed. According to phy
sicians, deatn was instantaneous,
from a bullet wound in his right tem
ple following the swallowing cf the
poison.
General Motors Pays
Visit to Sandhills
Brings “Parade of Progress,”
33-V"ehicle Caravan of Exhibits,
to Southern Pines
TAYLOR CHEMIC.\L CO. TO
REBUILD IN .ABERDEEN
The Taylor Chemical* Ccmpany, -
whose plant was burned to the ground
in Aberdeen two weeks ago, is to be,
rebuilt, construction to start in July, |
recording to J, B. Taylor, head of |
the company. Mr, Taylor is operating ’
in the meanwhile from the Saunders j
Warehouse, The location of the new I
plant, which will be of fireproof steel |
construction, has not been decided i
upon.
Honored at Duke
Charles Stevick Adds Medical
School Award to Phi
Beta Kappa
Charles Stevick of Southern
Pin 8, a Senior at Duke University
Medical Schorl, has been ielected to
Alpha Omega Alpha, the national
honorary medical scholastic fra
ternity which corresponds to Phi
Beta Kappa, Mr, Stevick was also
elected to Phi Beta Kappa while
it college.
General Motors Corporation’s “Pa
rade of Progress,” a 33-vehicle cara
van, arrived in Southern Pines yes.
terday morning at 11:30 o’clock and
paked its huge exhibition trucks and
its fleet of motor cars on West Broad
str-eet between Pennsylvania and New
York avenues. The fleet was here one
hour while the large corps of drivers
and exhibitors had luncheon. The car
avan was enroute from Charlotte to
Raleigh,
Great streamlined, steel-lK)died vans
are transporting this world’s fair
from citv to city. They h use exhibits
of all Kinds, showing the progr-ess
made in transportation over the past
few decades, from the “bicycle-bu!k_
for- two” days through the horse-
drawn street-car era, the early
“horseless wagons period to the
streamlined automobiles of t-day. Va
rious steps in the manufacture of the
modern automobile are shown in the
exhibit. Unfortunately, these big
“highway leviathans” could not be op
ened up for the public view here—
this was a luncheon stop and not an
exhibition point. Other trucks carried
household equipment of the present
electrical age, even to a magic fur
nace that boils an egg resting on a
cake of ice, and a device that heats
a bar of steel to a fiery red which
remains cold to the touch of the hand.
The parade was headed by a
specially built and equipped 185-lnch
chassis Chevrolet sedan fitted with
public address system for safe driv
ing announcements and for the broad,
casting of music. This is fully equip
ped as an office on wheels and Is alr-
crndltloned one of the first vehicles
in the country to be so fitted. A com
plete line of General Motors cars,
Cadillac, LaSalle, Bulck, Oldsmoblle,
Pontiac and Chevrolet, was part of
the procession. A large crowd gath
ered here to see the parade.