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VOL. 17, NO. 7
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North (’arolina, Jjinuary 15. H>37
FIVE CENTl
Library Plans Reading Club
At Enthusiastic Annual Meeting]
To IJroaden Usefulness of Or
ganization; Officers and New
Trustees Elected
RECORD CROWD AT
SOUTHERN PINES
C.OF^ANQUET
Refore 274 Persons ! 7" ^ekl on Mon-
\ j liay afternoon at 5:00 o’clock, direct-
1917 DIRECTORS ELECTED Ithe regular monthly
1.1.}/ i^iivriv^ meeting of the trustees. It was very
The Southern Pines Chamber of i gratifying to officers of the associa-
Commerce had the largest crowd in! “on to find that attendance from
its history at its 15th annual ban-1 members at large was greater this
quet on Tuesday night in the Pine | than has been usual hereto-
Needles Inn. The count of gliests and that plans and policies for
showed 274 present, which is also j the further extension of the useful-
said to be a record for the Pine j of the library were more freely
Needles. The affair was a great sue-, ^ore generally discussd. Among
I the sugge.stions made from the floor'
i "'as that for the organization of a
Durins dinner, the Club Chalfonte j , ^ ^
, ... ,, ., J ! readmg chib to bespon.sored by the
orchestra, thoughtfully provided for i
V- Tj- 1 Clin library. Plans for this are still ten.
the occasion by Karl Andrews,
• T \jnino,v,a anH' tative, further announcements will
plied the music Jean Williams and
Helen Cameron, two of Rutli Thomp-
t. 1 ^-i« i following: officers were electd
son’s dancing school pupils enter* - ^ «
onnon ^^r the ensuing year: President, E, C.
tained the gathering with an eccen-' .
, J „ fniiourpH ' Stevens; first vice-president, Struth-
trip poimlp dance. They were loiioweu
J t t Ti/Tiaa Burt; Second Vice.President, Mrs.
toy a piano duet featuring Miss
, J T.1 J ■ 1 Qrviifi, i Musser; Third \ ice-President, F.
Steigal and Frederick Stanley Smith.; . , .
® 1 Craighill Brown; Secretary, Mns.
After dinner President Shields james Swett; Treasurer, Mrs. Maria
Cameron turned the affair over to g Walker. Dr. R. L-evis Prizer, A. B.
Master of Ceremonies Charlie P^c- Yeomans and ,Ruth Burr Sanborn ^
quet who introduced several out-of- ^ ^.pj.g i-e.elected as trustees, and three
New Submarine
You are Invited to Inspect
Uncle Sam’s Newest and
Rest at Wilminjfton.
The U. S. S. Perch, commanded
by Lieutenant G. C. Crawford, for
mer officer in charge of navy re
cruiting in North and South Car
olina, w’ill be m Wilmington, N. C.,
from the 16th to the 19th of Jan
uary. The public is urged to take
this opportunity to visit the newest
and best equipped submarine in
the U. S. Navy. Visiting hours are
from 1:00 p. m. to 4 ;00 p. m.
daily. The U. S. S. Perch was
launched on May 9, 1936, and at
present is on a shakedown cruise.
Following the completion of this
the boat will be given a final check
and then report for duty with the
U. S. fleet .
Lieutenant Crawford was de
tached from the officer in charge
of navy recruiting in the two Car-
olinas in May, 1936, and took com.
mand of the submarine immediate
ly. -5 A'-
RIWANISTOWORK
ON NEW LEISURE
& SANDHILLEERS
IMcquet Names Two New Stand-
injj Committees To ('arr.v Out
Special 1}).37 Projects
Honor For Page
WOULD UNIFY SANDHILLS
To carry out effectively two pro-
I jects it has selected for features of
its 1937 program, the Kiwanis Club
of Aberdeen has added two standing
' committees to its list, as revealed by
the committee appointments announc-
! ed this week by President Charles
. W. Picquet.
One of these committees, called
“The Sandhilleers,” has the prob
lem of bringing about a greater de
gree of cooperation and friendly re
lations between the towns of the
Sandhills in the interest of the whole
community. It came about through a ,
talk made before the club recently j
by Attorney Robert Denny of Pine- ' —
; hurst, who called for some agency Henry A. Pafje III, of Aberdeen,
' to tackle the proposition under the ' Rhodes Scholar at Oxford,
; banner of the Three Musketeers. ' Wins- I’rize.
; "All for one, one for all.” As the only ' .
I county-wide civic organization here, ! Henry A. Page, III, of Aberdeen.
NOEL LAING CUP
FOR RACE MEET IN
MARCH ORDERED
Tr<;ph.v in .Memor.v of Late Sec-
retar.v of Sandhills Ass’n.
To Be Permanent One
CO.MPETED FOR ANNUALLY
IIKNKV III
The Noel Laing Memorial Cup, to
, be competed for at the meeting of
! the Sandhills Steeplechase and Rac
ing Association on the Barber Memor
ial Course on the Midland Road on
Saturday, March 13th next, has been
ordered in New York by Verner Z.
Reed, Jr., president of the associa
tion. it was announced this week.
This trophy in memory of the late
well known gentleman rider and sec
retary of the Sandhills a.ssociation,
will be competed for in one of the
feature brush races. The name of
the winning horse each year will b
engraved on the trophy, and a piece
of plate awarded the winning owner.
Former application for approval of
March 13th as the date for holding
the annual Sandhills meeting has
been sent to the National Steeple
chase and Hunt Association, to be
acted upon at the meeting of its
IMPERIL CARTHAGE
towTi visitors and then called on S., members were added lo the i>¥t»t * »it * •*r
Y. Ramage and George T. Dunlap,, william C. Mudgett, Mrs. UINiV x\. i
Sr., to take a bow for their part in ^ r,;orris L. Hodgkins and Miss Birdilia
making the premises available for | gair.
the banquet.
.e u.; SCHOOL CHILDREN . NOW .a,
brarian and the cha rmen of stand.' .
i . for its aim the providing of useful
ing committees were on the whole! , . .... ....
^ i J u mi. t. rr> »T ii and healthful pur.suits and recrea-
encouraging. During 1936 attendance i Mad Dash Throujfh Town Halt-
was 5,138, and circulation 7.9J4 vnl- ! ed Ity Collision With
Attorney Robert Denny then gave
voice to the now famous local slo
gan embodying the spirit of the
‘‘Three Musketeers,” Carthage, Aber
deen. Southern Pines and Pinehurst,
one for all and all for one — “The
Sandhilleers.”
The business meeting was cut
short out of deference to the guests
but Treasurer Hugh Betterly got one
the Kiwanis Club has taken upon it. son of Henrj' A. Page, Jr., and great-
•self the task. Ralph Chandler heads nephew of the late W'alter Hines stewards early in February. As no
the committee. | Page, w.or-time ambassador to Great ^ other race meeting is scheduled for
The other new committee is one Hi itain, is adding distinction to a ^ that time, the approval is expected,
recommended by Kiwanis Internation- name already well-know'n in England. The meet here will inaugurate the
a,l known as "The New Leisure” ^ It has just been announced by' hunt racing season, and will be fol-
committee. This is the outgrowth of Ch irch college, Oxford, where Page lowed by the Carolina Cup meeting
conditions which brought about the [ f.s a Rhodes scholar, that he had i at Camden, S. C„ two weeks later-
been awarded the Boutler Exhibition | The card here this spring will be
(n Philosophy, Politics and Econo. . similar to that of last year, with one
mics, carrying with it a prize of $200. timber race, two brush races, one
hurdle race and one flat race. With
umes; these figures compare favor-;
Automobile
ably with the record of former years,!
with the single exception of 1929-30, | During the noon hour Tuesday
when the library, in common with I when numbers of school children were
other things, reached the peak of its on the streets, a team of frightened
tions to fill these leisure hours. The
international body is making a thor
ough study of how best to meet this
problem, and the local club will be
governed in carrying out its prog
ram largely by the recommendations
von! horses dashed driverless up the main ' Greats.” the Oxford term for the ^ries and running of the local meet-
I umes have been added to the shelves thoroughfare of Carthage, coming to
Slimson of Southern Pines is the In
ternational member of the new com-
course in philosophy, politics and
, — . , economics. The Boutler Exhibition Col. George P. Hawes, secretary of
■ and two additional gifts, totaling ap!' po-site sid;« of a parked automobile | ^ittee for this Kiwanis district, and : the Sandhill association, said yester-
of the biggest laughs of the evening t
. ^ prosperity. In the pa.st year 263
when he reported a balance of $16.93 ' , . ^
, T 1Q17 tr. i have been added to the she
^ ° , 1. oar” ViP i either by donation or by purchase; i a halt only after they had taken op
in a little money last year, he said,’ , •' ^ ’| . „..i
"and we spent it all.” i j , .i. ^
proximately 320 volumes, have just and rammed the wagon tongue
Mrs. Picquet and Mrs. A. J. Me- received, too recently for the through the rear window and between
Kelway offered a vocal duet and the , cataloguing to have been as yet com-! the lining and top to the front of
pleted. Membership was 226; of this! the Chevrolet coach, forcing it across
number 10 were patrons, and 58 sus-1 the sidew ilk and against the brick
taining members. All memberships, of front of the Seawell building, direct-
course, automatically expired on Jan-1 >y opposite the court house. Three n m
uary 1, 1937. Thus far renewals have | children passing at the instant had Tay or an^ . n s.
been coming in satisfactorily, and a narrow escape from injury,
there Is reason to hope that this; The pop of escaping steam at Spen-
.vear will see a substantial increase in | cer’s planing mill started the team,
the total membership. The library, which belong to John Kelly of Car-
sei-ves members from Carthage, Pine-; thage, on its wild race. Passing the
Ihe award is given for the highest
marks in the practice examinations Worses in training here,
which are taken annually by the 25 ^han ever reported at
or 30 undergraduates of Christ i Camden, the events are expected to
coi;ege who are studying for the ; satisfactorily. The National asao-
Bachelor of Arts degree in ‘‘Modern elation will have chai'ge of the en-
crowd wouldn’t let them go until
they had obliged with an encore.
C. J. Simons electrical "public ad
dress" system, which he donated for
the occasion, made it possible for
everyone to hear plainly all the mus
ical numbers and speeches.
Homer H. John.son, of Cleveland,
Ohio, the speaker of the evening,
surveyed the present world situation
and told his audience that whereas
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Miss Meade Seaweli
Civic Club Speaker
Will Talk on “Poetry” at Prog
ram Meetinji Today; Bridge i
•lanuarv 22nd I
also chairman of the local commit
tee.
Committee assignments for 1937,
announced Wednesday by Mr. Pic
quet, were as follows:
Agriculture -W. L Dunlop, chair
man; L. E. Pender, Dr. R. P. Shepard.
hurst. Aberdeen, Pinebluff and Ea
gle Springs, as well as from Knoll-
wood and Southern Pines.
All this is excellent so far as it
goes. But it does not, of course, go
nearly far enough. The activities of
the library are constantly curtailed
by insufficient funds. The balance in
the treasury is low. The cost of
Ford place, the wagon struck an au
tomobile and careened precariously,
but the horses dragged it on.
The automobile which finally halt
ed the runaways belongs to Cortis
Thomas of near Vass. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas and Miss Jessie Thomas had
driven to the county seat. but. fortu
nately, were not in the car at the
maintenance is high. The association | time of the accident. Damage to the
car consisted chiefly of the broken
glass and torn lining. The horses re
ceived minor cuts.
Had the accident occurred a few
feet to the right or left, it would
have been much more serious as the
plate glass front of the Jones’ De
needs new members. It needs new
- r. „ books. It needs new sources of reve-
The C vie Club of Southern Pines
•, * nue. It needs most of all the thought-
i.oitors and residents , , . , ^ ^ c
tful interest and »’ise support of
every member of the community:
those who read, and those who would
be glad to see the opportunity for
reading extended to others.
New Book IJst
The list of books for purchase
submitted this month by the book
committee to the trustees is itself a
in\ ites al} vi.o
Southern Pines to its program meet
ing and tea this, Friday, afternoon
at 3:00 o’clock in the clubhouse. Miss
Meade Seawell of Carthage and
Washington, D. C., will be the speak
er, “Poetry” being her subject and
favorite interest. Miss Valerie Deu-
scher of the girls school of coopers-
town, N, Y., and Southern Pines, will
sing a group of songs, accompanied, case in point. This list, as finally re.
by Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins. Miss Deu_ j vised downward to fit the budget,
scher has already won the musicians I comprises 16 volumes, equally divided
with her beautiful soprano voice and ■ between fiction and non-fiction: "A
the joy of sharing her talent Is a ^ prayer for My Son” by Hugh Wal-
privilege to Civic Club members and ^ poje, "Of Lena Geyer” by Marcia
guests. A decided note of interest. Davenport, "Laughing Gas” by P. G.
will be added by Ruth Chester, tal- j Wodehouse, "The Late George Ap-
ented young daughter of Dr. P. J- j ley” by J. P. Marquand, "Shining
Chester, who will play a piano j Scabbard” by R. C- Hutchinson. "Dan
group. Tea will be served at 4:30 iger in the Dark” by Mignon
Attendance R. L. Haj-t, chairman;
R. P. Shepard, H. W. Dorn, Chan
Pa,?e. Leo Fuller and A. Montesanti.
Inter-Club Relations—Dr. E. M.
Medlin. chairman; W. G. McAvoy. J.
T. Overton. George Rose, C. Fexford
Raymond. S. Don Sherrerd.
KiW'anis Education -- C. Rexford
Ra.vmond, chairman; W. G. McAvoy.
J. Fred Stimson, ,S. Don Sherrerd.
Membership & Classification — H.
G. McElroy. chairman; H. F. Burns.
E. W. Reinecke. O. L. Seymour, O. H.
Stutts.
Music—-Frederick Stanley Smith,
chairman; R. P. Shepard, W. L. Dun
lop.
New Leisure—J. Fred Stimson,
chairman; Paul Dana, Leo Fuller, G.
P. Hawes, W. D. Matthews.
Public Affairs—E. C. Stevend,
scholar, H. G. Skilling of Toronto.
Page was graduated from Prince
ton university in 1935. and is now
In the second year of his Rhodes
scholarship.
National Youth Help
Outlined to Kiwanis
Dr. Cutter of Raleigh. State Ad
ministrator, Tells Club How
It Can Help.
day that he would begin taking res.
ervations for parking speces as soon
as letters had been mailed out to all
former members and subscribers to
the meeting here. These letters are in
the hands of the printer and will be
ready next week, it was stated.
Plans are being made for a large
dinner-dance the night of the race
meeting.
Murder Cases To Be
Tried Here Next Week
Human erosion is at least as im
portant as natural erosion, and
should be given as much attention.
Or. Walter Cutter of Raleigh. Na-
ional Youth Administration chair
man for North Carolina, said in set
ting forth the reasons for the govern,
ment’s youth movement in a talk be
fore the Kiwanis club in the Metho-
i dist Sunday School huUding in Aber-
1oen yesterday noon. After outlin
ing the purposes_ of the movement,
, Dr. Cutter went on to tell what is
being accomplished in the state, and
i what an organization like the Ki-
.vanis club can do to help the cause
chairman; Paul Dana. R. L. Chandler,
partment Store was to the right and ^ P- T'- Kelsey, W. E. Overcash, J- j
that of the A. & P. Store to Vance^Rowe.^Jam^^^^^^ He told of flnaiicial aid_ for college ^^^t will be made to have the penal-
.ludge Warlick Presiding Over
('riminal Term of Superior
Court al Carthage
Judge Wil.son Warlick will preside
over the January or “Big Term” of
criminal court which will convene in
Carthage on Monday of next week,
and a full calendar of important cases
awaits him.
Toy Nall, who was sentenced to
death in the gas chamber for the mur
der of his sweetheart, Geneva Crab
tree, and who was granted a new
trial by the Supreme Court last
month, is scheduled for a hearing on
Wednesday. It is thought that an ef-
’.eft, in the same building. The car
was knocked directly against the
doorway leading to the second floor,
where are located the offices of sev
eral prominent professional men of
the town.
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o’clock.
On Friday, the 22nd of January
Mrs. J. H. Andrews will generously
open her home on the Raeford Road
for a bridge tea for the Civic Club
tredteury. Tables are four dollars but
must be reserved in advance as no
tickets will be sold at the door. All
are invited and may give their names
to Miss Florence Cainpoell or by tel
ephone to Mrs. W. M-orell, and ticRets
will be sent their.. Tea will be serv
ed at four o’clock and a limited num
ber who do not play cards may come
for tea by reservation.
Eberhart, "Call It Accident” by Ma
rie Belloc Lowndes, ‘‘The Dogs Do
Mrs. P. P. McCain May
Succeed Mrs. Spillman
Prominently Mentioned for Vice-
Chairman of Democratic
Executive Committee
Johnson.
Sandhilleers — R.
chairman; J. C. Muss:er, Willard Dun-
L Hart H. F. Seawell, J Talbot' students, permitting promising yjung reduced to liff imprisonment.
I men to continue their educations; of Several murder, manslaughter and
L. Chandler,' projects, providing employment ■ degree burglary cases are on
for sons of relief families—“job qua-1 calendar
lop O. L. Seymour. H. P. S.awell, '°.f‘ U>«™ ■‘•■'‘'O’; i -■ — - —
Ilnd.iprivileged Child - L„ul, 1 7"“' 11'ROORAM ANNOCNCED FOR
, . T -ftiT accordance of help and counsel to- FRin4V fTRRE
Scheipers, chairman; J. C. Musser, C. . ^ ^ a
„ ,, J,- TT.J • ward making better citiz.>ns of the i
J. McDonald, E. M. Medlm, Edwin ^
McKeithen I generation, the improving of j j pj-ed Stimson. chairman of the
Vocational Guidance—J. M. How-1 s^'^’roundings, halting of delin- southern Pines Gymkhana commit-
arth, chairman; W. T. Ives, P. T. |
quency, providing healthy physical j announced yesterday afternoon
Vance
Rowe, James ^'^tlets. In many of these lines the | ^jjg progress for the Gymkhana to
Kiwanis club, which recently voted ^eld at the Southern Pines Rld.
Reports in local Democratic circles
are to the effect that Mrs. P. P. Me-
Bark” by Jonothan Stagg; "Glass ^ Cain, wife of Dr. McCain, superin-
Flowers” by Donald Parson. "We and tendent of the State Sanatorium near | STUDY CLUB TO
Kelsey. J.
Schwartz. i
Program- R L Chandler, chair-' sponsor the work In this county, j ing Ring this afternoon, start-
man; J. M. Howarth, H. F. Seawell. i ^he greatest assistance, he, at 3:00 o’clock.
i said. The order of events will be as fol
lows :
Sr., O. H. Stutts.
They” by Hamilton Fish Armstrong.
"Behind the Spanish Barricades” by
John Langdon-Davies, the Autobiog
raphy of G. K. Chesterton. Tolstoy’s
"War and Peace,” "The Return to
Religion” by Henry C. Link, "A Foci
Hath Said” by Beverly Nichols, and
the new edition of the Bible, "to be
read as living literature," arranged
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here and a daughter of Dr. L. B. Me.
Brayer of Southern Pine? may suc
ceed Mrs. J. B. Spillman of Green,
ville as vice chairman of the State
Democratic committee. It is said
that Mrs. McCain has agreed to allow
her name to be presented to the com
mittee for consideration. Mis. Spill,
man recently resigned to accept a i>o-
sition with the new State Unemploy
ment commission.
MEET NEXT FKIDAY NIGHT
A Bible Study Club under the aus
pices of the Pilgrim Fellowship For
um will start next Friday night,
January 22, at 8:00 p. m. at No. 6. S.
Bennett street. The book studied will is written in German, but has
B. VON HERFF WILL FILED 1. Musical Stalls, open to all-
best described as "Going to Jerusal-
A copy of the will of Baldwin von em” on horseback.
Herff, w'lo died in Austria on Au
gust 8 of last year, has been filed
for probate in the office of the clerk
of the court of Moore county. The
will be the Fourth Gospel and the
teacher will be Dr. C. Rexford Ray
mond. Young people of all agee are
especially invited.
an English translation attached. The
estate, the value of which is not giv
en, is left to near relatives of the
deceased.
2. Amateur Jumping event, with
a new arrangement of Jumps to fol-
low the courses prescribed for the
Nationrl Horse Show.
3. Water Race.
4. Open Jumping Event.
5. Overall Race (or tilting, this
event still undecided.)
6. Potato Race.