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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday. .luly 31, 193fi
VETERANS FUTURE
WARS ORGANIZE A
SANDHILLS POST
FIVE CENTS
Is Mayor Stutz Planning to
“Take a Walk,'^ Move to Canada?
Objectives Set Forth in An
nouncement; Cadwallader
Benedict Commander
FIRST MEETING AUG. 4
The organization known as the Vet-;
erans of Future Wars has appointed I
a Post Commander from one of its ]
charter members, Cadwallader Ben- ‘
edict of Pinebluff, to organize a post'
here of this great patriotic organ- j
ization that has been sweeping the =
country of late. \
It is the purpose of this announce- ^
xnent to explain the aims and object- i
ives to those interested. |
Primarily it is to be understood:
that this is not a pacifistic organi-1
zartion, discriminates against no po
litical party and is impartial in its
efforts to aid the citizens of Amer-'
ica within its limits. America for:
Americans is the sjogan of the Vet-
erans of Future Wars.
The present objective of this organ-'
ization is to help with its numbers
the great work that the American
Veterans Association ha.s been doing \
in its ettorts to help the widows and
orphans to get a more reasonable and
fair pension from the government.
In this the Veterans of Future Wars
will no doubt be of material aid for
it is a well known fact that the sta
tistics of the number of voters that
are behind any given measure are
clear to the hearts of Congress. So
the Veterans of P'uture Wars is going
to throw its weight behind a move
ment to give adequate care to those
women who lost their loved ones in
the last war, and in addition is going
to demand that the government show
now some proper solicitude for the
•widows and orphans of the next war.
.\ld Future Veterans
The two other objectives of this
organization in the order of their'
importance is the securing of future
veteran’s preference on Civil Service, i
C. C. C. and other lists; and as stated
in the manifesto the demand that the '
government make known its inten-1
lion-to pay an adjusted service com-!
pensation, sometimes called a bonus, i
of $1,000.00 to every male citizen be-!
tween the ages of 18 and 36, said |
bonus to be payable the first of June,
1965.
In all these objectives, save one,
the organization is but following the
pi'ecedent set by its two great pa
triotic predecessors, the American!
Legion and The Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and in its first objective the
precedent set by its equally patriotic
predecessor, the American Veterans
Association. These are the main ob
jectives of the whole organization.
Each post may have its own local
objectives such as, for instance, rend
ering assistance in matters of local
import whenever the occasion would
seem to warrant such. To quote
from the letter to Mr. Benedict:
“You are responsible for the organ
izing of your post. This matter will
be left almost entirely within your
hands.”
This movement was started in
Princeton, N. J., by Lewis J. Gorin
Jr., and a few of his patriotic friends,
since when it has grown into hun
dreds of p:sts throughout the coun
try with tens of thousands of mem
bers. It is a non-profit organization
with a .set-up as follows: a Nation
al Council, which includes three Na
tional officers, Commander, Secre
tary and Treasurer—and the nine
Regional Commanders plus the Ad
jutant in charge of the Home Fire
Division. This group is located in
Princeton, N. J., and acts as a clear
ing-house of ideas and plans for the
entire organization.
The Home Fire Division is the
equivalent of the Auxiliary of other
organizations and is to be organized
at an early date.
Officers Appointed
Mr. Benedict has appointed tem
porarily to the duties of Vice-Com
mander and Public Relations Coun
sel, Stuart Camefon, and as Treas
urer Jarnes Williamson, until such
time as elections can be held. These
.are expected to be held at the third
{Please turn to page 5)
The Montesantis Offer Evidence
To Effect Prominent Demo
crat May Desert Sandhills
Is Mayor Dorsey G. Stutz of
Southern Pines planning to “take a
walk ?”
If President Roosevelt is not re
elected does this prominent Demo
crat propose to move to Canada ?
These are questions which have
been stirring the good citizens of the
community since Monday. It all
started with a rumor, and as any
good newspaper should do, The Pilot
ran down the rumor. It seems it had
its foundation in the cleaning and
pressing plant of one A. Montesanti
Here is what happened:
Monday was the hottest day of the
year in the Sandhills. The folks in
Montesanti’s place, what with the
steam pre.ssing machine, the dry
cleaning apparatus and everything
running full blast, were just about
ready to vote a three-hour day and
wend their way to Watson’s Lake for
a refreshing swim, when in came a
hoy trundling a big box.
“Mayor Stutz wants this cleaned
and pre.ssed,’’ he said.
The major and minor Montesantis
opened up the parcel.
Whew! In fact, tw’o Whewsii
It was the Mayor’s heaviest winter
overcoat.
They put their heads together.
What does it mean ?
And then the thought came like a
flash.
“He’s going to Canada,” cried
Papa.
“Of course,” .said Millie. “He’s not
going to let Julian Bishcp put any
thing over No matter what happens,
Moore county is going to lose a
prominent citizen. If Roosevelt is
elected, Mr. Bishop is off for Cana
da. If Landon is elected, off goes
Mr. Stutz.”
WANTED; A candidate for Mayor.
H. M.VKTIN CAVINESS DIES
•\T HIS HOME IN CAKTH.VGE
To “Take a Walk?”
DOKSEV (J. STl’TZ
Funeral services for H. Marvin
Caviness, well-known Carthage citi
zen who died at his home Tuesday,
were conducted from the Carthage
Methodist Church Wednesday after
noon by his pastor, the Rev. E. C.
Durham, assisted by the Rev. T.
Sloan Guy. The body was carried to
Center churchyard for interment.
• Mr. Caviness was a native of Moore
county, and had spent most of his
life in Carthage. For a number of
years he was warden of the Mooi’e
County Home. He served as deputy
sheriff under the late Sheriff A. C.
Kelly. Ill health had caused his re
tirement from active employment.
He was confined to his bed for nine
weeks suffering from cerebral hem-
morrhage.
Mr. Caviness was the son of the
late Effie Muse and Henry Caviness.
Surviving are his widow; three
daughters, Mrs. Duke Massey of
Norton, Va.; Mrs. D. E. Coffer of
Sanford, and Miss Dell May Caviness;
one son, Wesley Caviness of Carth
age; three sisters, and two brothers.
STIIDENT-PREACHER TALKS
AT KIWANIS CLUB MEETING
Arthur Wells of Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn, N. Y., who is studying for
the ministry and conducting services
at the Church of Wide Fellowship
during the August vacation of the
pastor. Dr. C. Rexford Raymond, was
the speaker at the weekly meeting
of the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen held
Wednesday noon in the Methodist
Sunday School building, Aberdeen. He
made a splendid talk on “Privilege
and Responsibility in Business and
Society.”
GUS MONROE, 35,
FATALLY BURNED
AT PINE NEEDLES
Resident of Hillcrest Section
Dies in Hospital After Fire-
pot Explosion
WELL KNOWN TINSMITH
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
FOR HIGHFALLS IS
GIVEN APPROVAL
Thrivini!- Manufacturinj; Town
To Add Three Teachers To
Present Faculty of Five
NEW RUS ROUTES STUDIED
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The State School Commission has
approved the establishment of a
three-teacher high school at High-
falls, one of upper Moore county’s
thriving manufacturing towns, which
with the five elementary teachers will
bring the total for the school to eight.
Heretofore the high school pupils
have been attending the school at
Hemp, twelve and one-half miles dis
tant. The road between the two
places is quite crooked and in wet
weather is very slick, making the
ch ive a hazardous one for the school
busses.
The cotton mill at Highfalls is
now running full time, employing
ai’ound seventy-five people, and plans
are under way for increasing the ca
pacity, so a steady growth for the
newly established high school is ex
pected.
W. H. Gibson, a representative of
the State School Commission, has re
cently spent .several days in the coun
ty laying out school bus routes to be
traveled during the coming school
year, and within the next few days
a description of each bus route will
be sent to the various school princi
pals in order that they may acquaint
themselves with the routes for their
busses before the opening of schools
on September 7th.
State Approves $27,000
Bond Issue for Paving,
Water Plant and Sewers
Not Last, Anyway
Walter Blue, Jr., Competes in
Soap Hox Derby in Ral-
eiffh in ()5-Pound Racer
In the snappy 65-pound racing
cav which he built himself, Walter
F], Blue, Jr , represented Southern
Pines in the News & Observer-
Chevrolet Soap Box Derby held in
Raleigh on Wednesday, .and though
he didn’t win anything, to quote
Walter, “I didn’t come in last.” As
a matter of fact, he was second in
the heat in which he was entered.
Fifty-nine “Soap Box ‘ racers,
home-madt by their youthful pi
lots, competed in the event before
a large crowd. Carey Holloway,
Jr., 11, son of a Seaboard engi
neer won the right to represent
North Cai’olina in the national
derby to be run off in Akron, Ohio
on August 16.
“Next year I’ll know just what
to build,” Waller told The Pilot,
“Both the f.rst and second places
went to cars with pneumatic tires
and I guess I’ll have to get me
some.”
Several from here journeyed to
Raleigh to witness the event,
among them the Rev. Thomas A.
Williams, Edward Prizer and Mrs.
Claience Edson.
p]xtensive I’ro^ram of Improve
ments in Southern Pines
Under Three Projects
Gus Monroe, who resided three
miles this side cf Carthage in the
Hillcrest section, died early yester
day afternoon at the Moore County
Hospital from burns suffered when a
gas firepot which he was using on
his job as tinsmith at the new Pine
Needles Inn clubhouse exploded. He
was about 35 years of age, and had
been engaged as a tinsmith in this
section for some time, working last
year for Elmer E. Davis in Southern
Pines. He was well known through
out the Carthage section as well as
here.
Surviving are his widow and one
child. Services will be held tomorrow,
Saturday afternoon, at 3:00 o’clock
with burial at Culdee Presbyterian
Church,
Sandhills Visitors
in Seaplane Crash
William Reiter and Capt Winca-
paw Here Much Last Win
ter, Drop Into Ocean
Southern Pines Wins
Ball Game From CCC
.Trounces Army Tea.a 7 to 1 for
its Fir.st Victory in Sand
hill League
•MIUS. BUTLER RETURNS
Mrs. Bion H. Butler returned yes
terday from a trip to Pennsylvania
and New York state, and Miss Helen
K. Butler from Kingsport, Tenn.
Resettlement?
RALPH HENDRIX INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE ACC^IDENT
Ralph Hendrix, former resident of
Aberdeen, was seriously injured in
an automobile accident on the high
way between Rockingham and Eller-
be last week and is in the Hamlet
H'spital, It Is reported that he was
holding his arm out from the side
of a truck when a passing car struck
it, nearly tearing it from the shouM-
er. It may be necessary to amputate,
according to hospital authorities.
Pilot To Publish Series of
Questions and Answers Ex
plaining Federal Program
"What is the aim of the Reset
tlement Administration pro
gram?” "Is the program Commun
istic or Utopian?” "Ip the size of
the administrative staff justified
in the light of the number of peo
ple helped?"
Beginning with this issue The
I dot will ask and answer quest
ions of this type about the Reset
tlement Administration. The an
swers have been secured from au
thoritative sources and one or
more questions will be answered
each week. You will find this fea
ture on Page 5.
Other questions in the series
are:
“Is the rehabilitation program
which is carried on by the RA an
expensive form of relief?" "Is the
purchase of unproductive land of
any immediate value to the people
of the United States?” “Is the RA
paying too high a price for the
land it is purchasing?’’ “Is the RA
moving families in large groups
from one part of the country to
another?” "To what extent is the
RA benefiting labor?” “Is the unit
cost in Resettlement communities
excessive ?”
By Tom Milliir |
Southern Pines scored its first
Sandhill League victory on W’ednes- [
day afternoon as they played fast,
heads-up baseball to trounce the
Army Mo. 5 CCC team by a 7-lcount.
In contrast with their previous
games, the winners made only one
fielding error throughout the con
test and gave Parker great support.
The young Southern Pines right
hander let the army b^ys down with j
five hits and hau a shutout until the
I ninth rack, when a double, a stolen
; base and a long fly enabled the los
ers t: tally their single marker.
Southern Pines jumped off to a lead
! in the first frame by virtue of Mil
lar’s walk, an infield out, and Wil-
A ten-passenger seaplane owned by
William Reiter, vice president of La
Touraine Coffee Company of Boston,
piloted by William W. Wincapaw,
crashed into the Atlantic ocean near
Nantucket lightship off the Massa
chusetts coast last Sunday night with
a party aboard bidding a welcome to
the British liner Queen Mary, One
man, a Boston photographer, was fa
tally iniured; several severely. An
American Export liner picked up the
airship passengers.
Both Mr. Reiter and Capt. Winca
paw spent some time here last winter,
the captain flying Mr. Reiter to the
Knollwood airport from Boston and
from Florida resorts on a number of
occasions. They stopped in Pinehurst son’s single, which counted one tally,
while here. The cause of the accident \ Two more came across in the fifth
to the big plane is not know'n. An : on successive singles by Wilson, Beck
Associated Press copyright despatch i and Golden and a pair of errors by
from Boston says of Captain Winca- j the CCC infielders. Golden’s slash-
paw: ' ing triple added another in the sev-
1 enth, and the final three came in the
eighth when Newton, Wilson,, Gt Iden
and Mills came through with safe
knocks.
W'ilson and Golden led the hitting
attack on Hendrix, each getting three
blows, with Golden having a double
in addition to his triple. Russell Mills
contributed three nice catches in the
field.
This was the only game of the
week in the Sandhill League, the con
test between West End and Army
No. 5 scheduled for last Saturday be
ing postponed because cf rain.
Standings: Won Lost Pet.
West End 2 0
Hemp 2 1
Army No„ 5 1 2
So. Pines 1 3
WORK TO START PROMPTLY
The Local Government Commission
of North Carolina has approved a
$27,000 bond issue for Southern Pines
for street paving, water plant im
provements and extension of the
sewage system, and work on the
three projects is expected to get un
der way within the next three weeks.
Plans call for the completion of the
work before the opening of the win
ter season here. Attorneys are al
ready preparing the bonds for sale.
The projects to be carried on with
the proceeds of the bond issue are as
foIL-ws:
1. Retreatment with oil of pres
ent paved streets; the paving of
Pennsylvania avenue from Bennett
street to the corporate limits of town
in West Southern Pines, which is the
point at which the street turns to
ward the Judge Way property; the
paving of two blocks on Bennett
street from Connecticut avenue to
Maine avenue, and the paving of two
blocks on Connecticut avenue from
Eust Broad street to the new South-
ein Pines primary school, the pres
ent Baptist Church building.
The major part of this program is
the one mile of paving of Pennsyl
vania avenue through West Southern
Pines in the direction of Pinehurst.
Traffic on this street, at present un
improved has reached a point where
the maintenance is costing too much,
according to city officials, making it
economy to pave. “It should pay for
itself in five years,” said one official.
New Water IMant Unit
2. Installing a second complete
unit at the Southern Pines Water
plant in Knollwood, a motor with
centifugal pump to care for increased
water consumption and future needs.
The Board of Commi.ssioners has un
der consideration the installation of
a Diesel engine in connection with
this project, believing that the sav
ing would socn pay for the unit.
3. The furnishing of terra cotta
pipe and necessary materials for the
installation of a now sewage system
in the Deleware avenue. Ridge street
and Ohio avenue section, to include
a main trunk line to the disposal
plant in the Knollwood section. This
is a W^PA project, a $25,000 job of
wh'ch the town has only to provide
the materials at a cost of around
$7,000, Labor is provided by the
Works Progress Administration.
TWO Hl’KT IN FALLS ON
STAIRS .AT HAYES’ BOOKSHOP
The old maxim that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place was
belied this week at the Hayes Book
shop in Southern Pines.
On Wednesday night Mrs. Mary
Dell Hayes Matchett, or. her way to
the basement of the store to feed a
cat tripped and fell on the stairs
and suffered a sprained ankle.
Early Thursday morning John
Strickland, cciored employe of the
shop, fell down the same stairs and
fractured his arm.
MISS DOROTHY POTTLE’S
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
1.000
.667
.333
.250
In a communication to The Pilot
from Jefferson Highlands, N.' H., Mr.
and Mrs. Frank B. Pottle of South
ern Pines and Jefferson announce the
engagement of their daughter, Dor-
thy, to Ralph H. Lockwood, son of
Mrs. George B. Lockwood of Brook
line, Mass.
E1JJERT.\S BRINGING $2.00
,\T S.VNDHILLS P.XCKHOUSES
STEPHENSON. MRS. DWIGHT
HONORED BY ST.XTE LEGION
U. S. Marshal John Stephenson of
Southern Pines was elected District
Commander for the 12th district of
the American Legion, North Carolina
department, at the State convention
held in Asheville. Mrs. F. M. Dwight
of Lakeview was made president of
the Legion Auxiliary for the district.
Elbertas comprised the major part
of the peach shipments from the
Sandhills,this week, and were find
ing a ready market. Prices ranged
from $2.00 upwards at the pack-
h uses. Though many sales were
made direct to truckmen, many car
loads were shipped from points along
the Seaboard and Norfolk Southern.
Watermelons have also been mov
ing in large quantities from this sec
tion, with the Aberdeen & Rockfish
handling numerous carloads as well
as the truck movements.
BOY SCOUTS TO PL.XY B.VLL
GAMF: HERE SATI RDAY
The Red Birds are to tackle the
Blue Birds at the Southern Pines
Baseball park tomorrow, Saturday
afternoon, at 4:00 o’clock. These two
teams were recently formed from
members of Boy Scout Troop No. 2,
and will play regularly the balance
of the season if they have a good
turn-out for the games. "We are
going to pass the hat,” the boys say,
"so bring your nickels, dimes and
quarters. In fact, a half-dollar would'
not be rejected.”
Tarzan Tumbles
Little Max Edwards of Vass
Not as Adept as Real One;
Breaks His Arm
Tarzan may be able to swing
from tree to tree without a mis
hap, but Max Edwards, one of the
8-year-old twin sons of Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Edwards of Vass, Is
not quite so adept when It comes
to air travel. On Sunday afternoon
he climbed upon a fence at his
home, leaped through the air to
catch a branch of a tree, fell short
of his mark and landed with a
broken upper left arm and a mis
placed wrist. He was a brave little
sport following the crack-up and it
is hoped that he will soon be as
good as new again.