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/ MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY nnTTT? L JtjLJCr A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding spntNO* lakeview apRINOS yplNEBLUFP FIRST IN NEWS, Cir.Cl LATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina VOL. 17, NO. 49. ' X # - II>^ ^ Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, October 29, 1937. FIVE CENTS BUSINESS MEN OF SANDHILLS HEAR ADVERTISING PLAN Cecil Bell of Department of Con servation and Development Tells ^tate Aims AT CHAMBER LUNCIJEON Daily Papers Here Combine To Publish ^Sandhills News - Press' A large number of members and local and out-of-town guests gather ed at the Southern Pinea Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday noon at the Park View and heard Cecil Bell of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development outline the plans and aims of the de partment, particularly in connection with its $250,000 State advertising campaign to make the rest of the country North Carolina conscious. Mr. Bell told the gathering that while North Carolina was rich in tourist attractions and ranked fifth in the value of its agricultural com modities—its two principal sources! of revenue—-there was still much to! be done for their further develop ment. "While our scenery and climate are liigMy attractive and our roads are equt.l to any in the countrjj,” he said, “we can’t afford to overlook the little things that make so much of an impression on our visitors— good food, courteous attention from filling station attendants, courteous treatment by law enforcement offi cers and the regulation of the place ment of unsightly billboards.” Speaking of agriculture, Mr. Bell called attention to the fact that, ini spite of North Carolina’s high rank among the states in the value of its agricultural products, we had a very low proportionate per capita incomc among our farmers. The reason for that, he said, was the vast amount of agricultural acreage in the state —of which some 2,000,000 acres are lying idle. It will be one of the pur poses of the Department of Conserva tion and Development to attract far mers to those fertile acres. In the field of Industry, Mr. Bell said that tobacco, cotton and furni ture just about tell the whole story in North Carolina at the present time, but that industrial chemistry is daily finding and devising new uses for the agricultural products, and their by-products, grown here in abundance, and that the depart ment is conducting a vigorous cam paign to interest business capital that can take advantage of these new de velopments to invest in North Car olina. Nelson C. Hyde of Southern Pines, Editor; S. R. Jellison, Pinehurst, Business Manager The Sandhills will have but one daily newspaper this winter season. Arrangements were completed this week whereby the Sandhills Daily News, published for the past eleven years by The Pilot, Inc., and The Daily Press, published last winter by the Pinehurst Printing Company, will combine interests in the publication of the "Sandhills News-Press.’’ The main editorial office of the paper will be in Southern Pines, with a branch office in Pinehurst. The main business and advertising office will be in Pinehurst, with a branch in Southern Pines. Nelson C. Hyde, editor of The Pi lot, will be the editor of the News- Press, in entire charge of the editor ial and news departments of the pa per. S. Robert Jellison, head of the Pinehurst Printing Company and last year’s publisher of the Press, will be business manager,' in charge of advertising and circulation. The new publication will serve the complete Sandhills resort area. Pub lication is expected to start the week Festival Opens —*- Kins’s Ambajssador Quartet to Start Entertainment Se ries Here Saturday With a big sale of season tickets repofted, the first of the series of four weekly entertainments spon.sor- ed by the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce will be presented to morrow, Saturday, afternoon in the High School Auditorium, starting at 2:30 o'clock. The Collins Festival Service, of Rochester, N. Y., will ^ present King's Ambassador Quartet "on a mission of good cheer to eveiy music-loving audience.’’ These four male voices, said to fit each other like the fingers of your hand, perfected in harmony, skill fully weave a musical spell that's enchanting in its smoothness and sat isfying in its art. Unusually beauti ful effects on a peal of 100 English bells always appeal to their audience and make a splendid contrast to their harmony singing. The quartet comes here with the highest of recommen dations from cities in which it has sung and played. They will appear both matinee and night, the night performance starting at 8:15 o'clock M. G. NICHOLS DIES, LONG PROMINENT IN CIVIC AFFAIRS Former Head of European Gen eral Re-Insurance Co. of London Passes at 65 A LEADER IN SANDHILlS Mortimer George Nichols, long a leader in civic affairs In Southern Pines and Moore county, died at his home on Valley Road at 11:45 o’clock on Wednesday night. He had been in failing health for the past four years. After frequent visits to the Sand hills Mr. Nichols came to Southern Pines to live in 1926, at which time he purchased the Dr. Cady residence in the Weymouth Heights section. He became a citizen of the state in 1936. His love of the community quickly led him into an active intereat and participation in all things looking to ward its growth and betterment, and his brilliant mind as well as willing ness to serve carried him to high places of counsel and accompli.-^h- ment. Mr. Nichols came here with a background of more than the ordi nary experience and success in the business world. Born in North Mont pelier, Vermont on October 5th, 1872, the son of Dr. George Bradford Nich- ! ols and Emma Davis Nichols, he en- j tered the employ of the Equitable I Life Insurance Company of N^w 1 York early in life. His abilities ied to an executive position with the Government, State Officials, Army, To Join Dedication Day at Knollwood Airport Civic Leader Passes MOBTIMEK G. NICHOLS lication is expected to start me weeK ' . , , , ,, , , , XT V. D.i. j ^ .• I Tickets are purchasable at the door of November 8th, and to continue U ^ . . , . . ffor those who have not :quired sea- through April, 1938, with an issue' ^ . ^ . i. n, ■ mu '■ son tickets for the four ffat.ure events each morning except Monday. The, ■„ I j u A the program, paper will be served by The Asso-; ciated Press, and will have as its ' i t t d national advertising representative I Attomey General, L). S. , DeLisser-Boyd, Inc., 30 Rockefeller , XreaSUrCr TUHIieV Here Pennsylvana Casualty Company, and Plaza, New York City. j ^ 1 from there to the European General : I Cummings and Parly Open Sea- Re-Insurance Company, Ltd. of Lon- Beautv Show and ! Pinehurst, with Ban- I don and Zurich. With this comp.any ~ - i quet at The Manor j he rose to the general managership, the equivalent in England to the presidency of the company, and re Contest Next Friday Miss Sand- Many Enter For hiils” and in Amateur Thea trical Competition j As is his custom, United States I Attorney General Homer S. Cum- mained in this position until he re- i mings opened the season at Pine-1 tired in 1929. During most of this i hurst last week-end when he and a | period he maintained hs offce and RADIO CAPTURES PAIR WHO ROBBED TOBACCO FARMER New Equipment in Sheriff’s Of fice Nets Results After Color ed Man Lortes $1 45.0v) With the date of the Southern ^ gathered j residence in London. He was still a Pines Civic Club’s Beauty Show and i Thursday and Fri- ] member of the board of directors at Amateur Contest only a week away, 1 Sat-i the time of his death, plans are rapidly being rushed to-' ^ week-end of golf. Developed Countr>- Club Most of the party left the early part Soon after coming here Mr, Nichols ward a conclusion by Mrs. N. L. ^ X . ^ . Hodgkins, Miss Birdelia Bair and, ^he week, but the Attorney Gen- ^ became deeply interested m the Miss Florence Campbell who com-; ^ 1 Southern Pines Country Club and prise the Civic Club’s committee in yesterday when i was largely responsible for the im- char e of the event departed. f provements to its golf courses and Thf program! which will consist of i was j the real estate development which a beauty contest, an amateur thea- Saturday night at The has made of that locality one of the trical contest and a "Little Miss j attended by U. S. | attractive sections of the village. He Sandhills” contest for youngsters be- Treasurer W. A. Julian, who made a I served as president of the corpora- tween the ages of two and 12, will be ' Washington for 1 tion which owns the club until las- held at the Southern Pines High I occasion. School auditortum next Friday night,' ex-heavyweight champion Convention Season Gets Under Way at Carolina Yarn Men Here Ntow, Cotton Manufacturers and Textile Chemists Ne.xt Week The convention season in Pinehurst got under way yesterday when the vanguard of the Carolina Yarn Asso ciation’s members arrived at The Ca olina for their three-day session sche- i duled for Thursday, Friday and Sat urday. About 400 are expected to at- ; tend this convention and yesterday was devoted to registration and ac- i climatization. The business sessions i and social events will be held today and tomorrow. , On Thursday and Friday 300 mem- fbers of the North Carolina Cotton 1 Manufacturer’s Association will meet at The Carolina fo» a two-day ses sion. They will be followed on Satur- pday by the American Association of ^Textile Chemists and Colorists, who A'ill be there for one day only, and l^aturday will also see the arrival of i^ome 125 members of the Southeast ern Underwriter’s Association who J ,fcrill convene at The Carolina on Sat- liiirday, Sunday and Monday. iS. JOHN J. RASKOB LEASES IXOYD ESTATE Mrs. John J. Raskob of New York bas leased the J. B. Lloyd estate on tdnden Road, Pinehurst, for the win ter season and will take possession early next month. This property, frith its residence, atablea and tennla ^j^irts, is opposite the Charles T ^jrocker estate. The lease was nego* ftted by the L. L. Biddle, n agency November 5th, at 8:00 o’clock. Ad mission will be 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. Already the committee has had 12 entries for the amateur theatrical contest and merchants and business men are sending in their sponsorships of beauty contest and “Little Miss Sandhills" entrants to the commit tee daily. As has already been announced, the winners of the beauty contest and the amateur contest automatically qualify for the State contest to be held at a later date and the winners of the various ..^..ate contests will compete for the national title in both contests, with screen tests and ra dio auditions as part of the regular procedure. In addition to the prize offered for the winner of the contest, the Civic Club, in ord»r to promote additional entries, has announced that they will award a series of prizes to the best acts in various groups and that has had its effect on the response in this contest. N. C. Entomologrist Tells of Fight Against Pests C. H. Brown Makes Interesting Talk at Meeting of Sandhills . Kiwanis Club Gene Tunney was on hand for the festivities but he, too, was pressed for time and had to leave on Sunday morning tion which owns the club until last year When he insisted upon retiring, though continuing on the board of directors and its executive commit tee. He was actively interested in the Citizens Bank & Trust Company for I Golf was the principal recreation j several years, serving both as direc ] of the party and Mr. Cummings had tor and vice-president until his re- his best round on Pinehurst’s No. 3 tirement a few years ago. He was for course Wednesday afternoon when he several terms a vice-president of the was out in 42 and back in 39 for an Moore County Hospital and active in 81 total Included in the party were Stephen Early, secretary to President Roose velt: Congressman Thomas S. McMil lan, from Charleston, S. C.; James W. Morris of the Department of Justice, and others. the counsels of its board of directors, of which he was still a member. He took a keen interest in the affairs of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce and served on its board for several years, and until the con- (Please turn to page seven) Miss Jane Ewin, Beloved Resident [. ofJPinehurst, Dies of Pneumonia The fight which North Carolina is waging to keep such pests as the Japanese beetle, the European corn borer and the newly discovered white fringed beetle from ravaging the crops of the state’s farmers and fruit growers was outlined to the Sandhills Kiwanis Club on Wednesday by C. H. Brown, State EntomologiBt Thu meeting was held in the Community House in Aberdeen and the speak er presented by Willard Dunlop. Death claimed one of the most be-1 loved residents of Pinehurst this > week when Miss Hannah Jane Ewin i succumbed to pneumonia at the i Moore County Hospital at midnight I Wednesday after a two-day illness. She was 75 years old. Born and raised in New England, Miss Ewin made her home in New-1 buryport, Mass., during her youth; and maintained her connections there ' in later years while she was in train ing as a nurse, and still later while i she was Suprintendent of Nurses at the Woman’s Hospital in Bi-ookline, Mass. She held that position for | many years and much of the growth of the Woman’s Hospital to its pres ent position of prominence is direct ly attributable to her untiring efforts. Miss Ewin retired from hospital servce some five or six years ago and since that time ha? been spend ing her winters at The Berkshire in Pinehurst and her summers in Har- wlchport on Cape Cod. Previous to that time she had visited friends in Pinehurst for short periods during the past 20 winters. Miss Ewin was president of the Woman’s Exchange in Pinehurst !n 1935 and 1936 and was greatly be loved by everyone with whom she cams in contact, and it is said that it was impossible for her to travel anywhere, within the country or with out, that she did not meet some med ical man somewhere whom she had known while he was a medical stu dent or an interne during her active days in medicine. Funeral arrangementiS are in the hands of J. N. Powell, Inc., and at a late hour yesterday John S. Yong, vice-president of the National City Bank of New York and a cousin of the deceased, arranged to have the remains sent to Washington tonight for cremation. Interment will be in the family vault in Newburyport. This afternoon there will be fun eral services at the Village Chapel in Pinehurst at 3:30. The Rev. T. A. Cheatham will officiate. By means of a radio intvvJled last week in the Sheriff's office in Car-1 thage, two flimflam artists who fleec ed Adolphus Henderson, colored man Jfjsiding between Vass and Union Church, of $145 after- he had sold his tobaeco in Carthage a few days I ago, were located in Raleigh, and; Henderson is again in possession of | his hard-earned money which he says is badly needed for the payment of taxes and outstanding accounts. Raleigh police, in an effort to round up pickpockets and purse -snatchers who had been operating there, arrest- j ed a number of suspects and broad-1 cast a description of the men. The | descriptions of two who gave their j names as John Black of Concord and Ed Bennett of Goldsboro seemed to a listener in the Sheriff's office in Carthage to fit the description given by Henderson of the pair who work ed the ancient pocketbonk trick on him, so Henderson was sont to Ral eigh to see if he could identify the men. He readily identified them, ;\nd they admitted having tricked and robbed the Moore county man. Black and Bennett were brought to Carthage to face trial and in Re corder’s Court Monday entered a plea of guilty of obtaining money un der false pretense. They were giv en a nine months road sentence, i which was suspended upon payment j of a fine of $o0 and the costs and on i the return to Henderson of $145. j After selling his tobacco, Hender son was engaged in conversation by one of the men. Later the other ap peared on the scene and pretended to "find” a pocketbook. He insisted upon sharing the contents with nis accomplice and Henderson to keep them from telling on him. Henderson did not care to have any part in the deal, but was finally persuaded to agree to accept $200, which was to be his share of the find. But before the division could be made, he was told, it would be nec- ossary for him to turn over his $145 of tobacco money in order that a big real estate man up town who was to divide the money might see that he was a man of means, and entitled to .share in the find. Henderson realized before the “ar- ■.}3ts’’ got out of sight that he had done the wrong thing to risk his money with them, and tried to catch up with them, but failei. He notified officers, but no further word wa.« heard of them until the broadcast Big Celebration Planned for Nov. 12, With (lovernor, Senators, Lambeth and Others Here FT. URAGG PLANES & BAND At a meeting held last Saturday afternoon at the office of the City Clerk in Southern Pines and attended by members of the American Le gion, the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club and the Knollwood Airport committee, plans were discussed and a tentative pro gram arranged for a formal dedica tion of the recently completed $75,- 000 Knollwood Airport on Friday, November 12. D. D. Shields Cameron of South ern Pines and Robert E. Denny of Pinehurst, representing Sandhills Post No. 143 of the American Le gion, had previously been in touch with General Manus McCloskey, Com manding General of Fort Bragg, and reported to the meeting that General McCloskey had agreed to send a re cruiting detail of five army planes, a battery of Field Artillery and the Fort Bragg band to Knollwood for the occasion and that invitations had been extended to Governor Clyde R. Hoey, Senators Robert R. Reynolds and Josiah W. Bailey, Congressman Walter Lambeth and various other state dignitaries to be present at the dedication. Mr. Denny displayed a telegram of acceptance from Sena tor Reynolds. Me«t Given Sanction At the suggestion of Airport Man ager Harold Bachman contact was made by telephone with Inspector James Nall of the Bureau of Aeronau. tics. Department of Commerce, for sanction for an air meet in connec tion with the dedication and, after he had agreed to lend his assistance; with Dr. F. M. Boldridge of Char lotte, president of the Carolina Aero Club, requesting the participation of the club in the ceremonies. Dr. Bold ridge could not accept the invitation without first presenting the matter to the club directors but he was of the opinion, that inasmuch as they had scheduled no conflicting meet, the invitation would be accepted. One of the members of the Car olina Aero Club is Johnny Crowell, internationally famous stunt pilot; the only one who has ever done an outside loop with his motor off and who features a stunt of taking off and landing with his hands locked outside of the cockpit in such a man ner that it is impossible for him to reach the "stick." Inasmuch as he is a commercial stunt pilot, Johnny's participation in the program has to be arranged in dependently of that of the remainder of the Aero Club and he was in Southern Pines W'ednesday centering with the committee on the matter. No definite arrangements have been completed in the matter. Tentatively the program is sche duled to start at 11 ;00 o'clock in the (Please turn to page twelve) GRANTED DIVORCE . Mrs. Suzanne Burke Neville of Knollwdod was granted a divorce in j Philadelphia, Pa., on Monday of this week from James Neville, writer ao)$ a former resident here. Von Canon Resigns at Bank of Pinehurst With Institution Since Organiza tion He Has Built It Up To Present Successful Position With great regret the directors of the Bank of Pinehurst this week an nounced the resignation from the ac- tivl management of that in':‘:'tr‘’''n of Forest W. Von Canon, In a state ment given The Pilot the Board said; "Mr. Von Canon has served tho bank long and faithfully, having bee i with the institution since its organi zation in 1914. Under his ab’.a leu ership and management the bank h i • been built up to become the leading ffnancial institution of ths count serving not only the village of Pinc- hui i but also the towna of A^- j - de('Q and Carthage and tha territo-/ suit >unding them. Mr. Von Can i wii: leave the bank about the fir:t of the vear to take up other work. F. s suet ,'S8or a« active head has not yet Iwen selected but the directors h.;po able to make an announceme. t the next few days.”
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