MOOFtE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO. 52.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCl LATION &
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, November 2(5, 19.?7.
REVS. L M. HALL
AND E. C. DURHAM
ARE TRANSFERRED
FIVE CENTS
Airplane Crash at Knollwood Airport Dedication Sunday
Aberdeen-Vass Minister to Go to
Dunn, Carthage Pastor to
Creedmore j
STARNES, WATTS SUCCEED
Much to the surprise and regret I
of hia parishioners in Aberdeen and j
Vass, the Rev. Leon M. Hall, who'
has been pastor of the Page Memor- i
ial Methodist C’hurch and the Vass
Methodist Church for the past two
years, was assigned to the Divine ;
Street Church in Dunn in the Con- |
ference announcements made Sunday ’
night in Raleigh. Mr. Hall has great
ly endeared himself to the people of |
this section, and has been a con- i
structive force in the communities he i
has served, j
Assigned to the Abcrdcen-Vaas
charge is the Rev. S. J. Starnes, who !
comes from the Raleigh district with |
the highest recommendations. Mr. ;
Starnes will preach at the Page Me- !
morial Church this coming Sunday
morning at 11:00 o’clock. |
The Rev. Mr. Htarnes comos here I
15,000 See Air Races,
Stunts in Dedication of
Knollwood Field Sunday
from the Central Church m Raleigh,, :\Ion()plano Owned and Piloted by Dr. F. M.
where he has served fw two y^a's. | yjoldridjrc. Charlotte, after it.s Samer.sault in Final Race of the Day. Inset: Dr. Bolderidge, Pre.s-
before which he was at Roanoke Rap- jdent of Carolina Aero Club, Whose Injurie.'^ Were Not Serious.
‘One For All
Combined Chamf)er.s of (’om-
merte of Sandhills To I nite
For Annual Hanouet
A move was launched Tuesday
at the meeting of directors of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce to have this year's annual
ban(iuet a community affair rath
er than strictly a Southern Pines
galliering. With the slogan of "All
for one, one for all," the Cham
bers of Commerce of Aberdeen and
Pinchurst are to be invited to
join in making the occasion a
memorable one in Die Sandhills.
With representatives present
from both Aberdeen and Pine-
liiu'st, the meeting elected Char
les \V. I’icquet as chairman of
the cominitl.ee to plan the ban-
Cjuet, with the balance f)f the
lonimittee to be made up from
the three towns.
ids. He is 44 years of age £uid has a
wife ;ind five children.
Carthage h^.s al.so suffered the loss
of its highly esteemed and belov J
Methotlist preacher, the Rev. K. C.
Durham, who has completed his four-
year tenure of office there. Mr. Dur
ham was assigned to the church at
Creedmore, one of the largest coun- ;
try churches in the North Carolina Hardware Store, Carter
FIRE DESTROYS
FOUR BUSINESS
HOUSES IN HEMP
20 Cases Successfully Cared For
By Tuberculosis Committee
FIRST NOEL LMNG
MEMORIAL RACE
RUN IN VIRGINIA
Conference. He will be succeeded in
Carthage by the Rev. L. A. Watts,
district secretary of missions and
for the past five years pastor of
the church at Seaboard. He has a
number of friends in Carthage who
were influential in bringing about
his transfer there. Mr. Watts is re
puted to be an exceptionally fine
preacher. He, with his wife and two
children are expected next week and
plans are already being made to cor
dially welcome him to his new par
ish.
The Rev. W. L. Dawson continues
at the Methodist Church in Hemp,
the Rev. W. F. Keeler at West End.
W. V. McRae has been named pre
siding elder of the Fayetteville dis
trict, in which this county is located.
Of additional interest are the as-
sig^nments of former pastors of the
Aberdeen-Vass churches. The Rev
G. B. Starling goes to Grifton, the
Rev. W. C. Ball to St. Pajils Church,
Goldsboro, and the Rev. C. B. Cul-
breth returns to Sanford.
A fire of undetermined origin that
started in a refuse pile in an alley
between the wooden building of the
Ritter Hardware Company in Hemp,
and an adjoining brick building
about 9:00 o’clock last Friday night,
swept rapidly through the hardware
store and completely leveled the en
tire Ritter block in the heart of
Hemp’s business section. The other
buildings to go before the fury pf
the flames were the Carter Furni
ture Co., a small shoe repair shop
and the Hemp Cafe. The fire burned
fiercely for about an hour and at
the end of that time all that w*s
left of the one-time business block
was a bed of glowing embers.
The fire was a virtual repetition of
the conflagration of 1933 that re
duced the block on the opposite side
of the street to ashes.
The fire had apparently burned for
some time before it w’as discovered,
for when firemen from the Carthage
department arrived on the scene the
entire block was a mass of flames
and calls were quickly sent out to
fire departments in Southern Pines,
Pinehurst and Asheboro. The best
that they could do was to keep the
Apparently started by sparks from blaze from spreading. In fact, it
■burning trash igniting pine firewood was the opinion of many observers
piled against the chauffeur's quar- that, had it not been for the rain
ters of the detached two-car garage, j tbat was falling at the time, the en-
located in the rear of Charles W. [ tire business section of Hemp would
Picquet's residence, “Wayondah,” on I have been at the mercy of the
the Midland road, flames rapidly ate j flames.
into the frame structure shortly be- | Twenty minutes after one truck
fore noon Wednesday. j of the Southern Pines Fire Depart-
First noticed by Mrs. Rush, Mrs. I ment had left for Hemp, an alarm
Picquet’s mother, some delay in call-j was sounded from No. 11 North
ing the Pinehurst and Southein Pines Page street here and the second
fire companies gave the flames suf- ^ truck with its volunteer crew rush-
ficient headway to seriously threaten ed to the scene to find an oil stove
the main house. Owring lo tns rapid aflame. The damage was slight,
response of both companies, and the '
Fire Threatens Picquet
Home; Garage Burns
Former Saddleson Home *in
Southern Pines Also Badly
Damaged on Wednesday
Furniture Co., Shoe Shop and
Cafe Prey to F'lames
excellent service of the boojtrr tanks
of the trucks the principal damage
was sustained by the rooms attached
to the garage.
For two hours and a half South
ern Pines firemen waged a stiff bat-
SUND.VY SCHOOL .VSS’N.
TO MEET MEKE Sl’ND.XY
The Sandy Creek Baptist Sunday
School Association will moot at the
Southern Pines Baptist Church thi.s
tie in the bitter cold of the early coming Sunday. The program, on
morning of Wednesday to save the the general theme of "The Sunday | that we play a part.”
Lost Their All
Colored School Teacher, Wife
and Eig:ht Children (Desti
tute—Funds Needed
Texas U. Conner, manual train
ing teacher in the W’est Southern
Pines (colored) school, has a wife
and eight children. The family
lost their clothing and everything
they owned in the fire which
burned their home early Wednes
day morning.
Dr. George G. Herr, president cf
the Southern Pines School Board,
asks The Pilot to appeal for con
tributions in cash for the relief of
this destitute family, the same to
be sent to Postmaster Frank
Buchan. “They need immediate
help,” says Dr. Herr.
Importance of Kiwanis
Outlined by Cheatham
Cites Constructive Cooperation
of Members in Contrast To Ef
forts at Washington
Seal Sale Drive, From Thanks
giving lo Chrislma.s, Provides
Entire Funds for Year’s Work
The annual sale of Christmas Seals
for the support ot the work of tuber
culosis prevention and treatment in
Moore county begins with Thanks
giving and continues until Christmas.
The drive in Pinehurst will be
launched next Wednesday, in other
towns soon after.
During the past year the Moore
County Tuberculosis Committee, of
%vhich Mrs. T. A. Cheatham, of P.ne-
hur.st is chairman, cared for 20 cases
in the State Sanatorium, and of these
patients, eleven were released as cur
ed, the remaining nine classified as
Inaugural Event Dedicated To
Late Southern Pines Horse
man Won by ('adeau
There was much local interest in
the running la.st Saturday afternoon
at Montpelier, Virginia ,of the first
Noel Laing Steeplechase Handicap,
inaugurated as a memorial to the
noted amateur rider who trained his
horses here and was secretary of the
Sandhills Steeplechase & Racing As
sociation. The trophy for this event,
a permanent one, is the gift of friends
of the young man w’ho died last year.
Cadeau II, OvVned by F. Ambrose
Clark of Eastbury, L. I., an import-
"arrested cases.” The funds raised 1 French jumper, won the inaugur-
Thanksgiving is a day tor the real
ization of w’hat we are, not what
we have. And what W'e are is pretty
much determined by what we do,
W'hat effort we put into things; not
by what we get out of things.
This, in substance, was the tenor
of the inspirational mclssage left
with members of the Sandhills Ki
wanis Club Wednesday noon by the
Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatham of the Vil
lage Chapel in Pinehurst. The meet
ing was the annual Thanksgiving
gathering of the club at the home of
Mrs. J. R. Page in Aberdeen, and was
for the benefit of the Barium Springs
Orphanage.
Dr. Cheatham talked on "Kiwanis
Itself.” He emphasized the important
part played by such an organization
in the scheme of present diiy living;
the importance of esprit de corps in
such a group of men,” each interest
ed in the succes.'s of all.”
“It is unthinkable to consider this
.section without the presence of this
club and its membc'rship, a crowd
ai^sociated for the public gcnd,” rie
said. “But it i.'< not just in ’oca! af
fairs, but in the whole world picture
by this annual dppeal are used for
the maintenance of cases in Lhe San
atorium, for follow-up work in con
nection with arrested cases, and for
preventative measures.
Of the approximately 4,000 school
children in this county by the State
in its extension work, for which 20
percent of the total revenue frcm the
Seal Sale here goes, only four cases
were found, and all these are now
back in school, cured. In the work
in the county all families of patient.?
are being examined every six month.s,
to prevent spread of the distase.
Mrs. Cheatham, in an interview
this week, stressed the point that all
cases found in time are curable; that |
every case so found during the past
year is now an arrested case. Those
few who have died here had reached
the incurable stage before her com
mittee had been appraised of the
illness. Reports of the county com
mittee show' that througn its work
tuberculosis has been wiped out en
tirely in several sections of the
county, has been reduced to a mini
mum in the county as a whole.
“Even though funds were quite low
at one time during the past year,”
Mrs. Cheatham said, “no Sanatorium
case was turned down.”
The period from Thanksgiving un
til Christmas is the only time an ap
peal is made for funds for the work
of the County Tuberculasis Com
mittee. The .sale of the little Christ-
al event, leading Raymond Guest’s
Swimalong by six lengths, and with
Little Hurd, owned by Mrs. Vemer Z.
Reed, Jr., of Pinehurst third.
The victory of Cadeau II was w'it-
nessed by a gathering of 4,000,
w'hich included many friends of
Laing and subscribers to the trophy
for the race and members of society
from all parts of the East and South.
They w'ere spread out along the
;-ourse on the picturesque estate of
iv.'is. Marion Dupont Scott. A num
ber ♦''•om the Sandhills were there.
It was one of the most distinguish
ed gatherings seen at any of the
hunt meets this year, and the Noel
Laing Steeplechase provided a fitting
i close to the hunts racing season.
I Although large fields had been
I named for each of the six events,
! rain caused considerable scratching
' as the course was heavy. But the re-
I duced fields provided some good rac-
I ing, and a clear day made it plfas-
; ant for the crowd.
! The trophy put up for the racc
j was on view’ during the day, and a
j replica of it was carried away by
Mr. Clark. The trophy will be in
perpetual competition and the race
run each year at Mrs. Scott’s Mont
pelier estate.
^MLLI^<^ WOliKEUS’ FAIK
■ALL DAV ON Tl ESDAY
home of Profes.sor T. U. Connor of Morning” will inchule the devotional
the West Southern Pines school. Lo- by the Rev. J. Fred Stinison, at 2:39
cated on the corner of Pennsylvan- o’clock, followed by a roll call of
ia avenue and Leak street, once tne! schools, plans for completing lhe as-
home of Dr. G. H. Saddleson, an ^ociational organization, music, a
early pioneer, and long owned by talk on “Preparing the Program” by
Mrs. A. M. Donnell, but recently sold M. G. Boyette, on “Rendering the
to Professor Connor the house is Program” by Dr. G. B. Funderburk,
nearly a complete nun. | on “The Results of a Good Sunday
Awakened by suffocating smoke j Morning Program,” by Dr. R. E.
(Please turn to page four) Wall.
To si;e “how not to do things” Dr.
Cheatham suggested that the mem
bers look at \Vashington, “With a
crisis facing us, instead of construc
tively working together w" are cill-
ing names. There is no cdn:;tructive
cooperation. We will never get any
place that way. That is not the w'ay
we of Kiwanis work. You can’t
build with one side pulling dow’n
while the other is building up.”
The fair of the Willing W'oikers
of the Bapti.'t Church will be held
mas Seals provides the money for' Tuesday, November 30. from 10:00 a.
m. to 10:00 p. m. at the chiu’ch.
There will be food, apron and candy
t'^bles. A supper will be served a la
carte from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. After
the supper, there will be an enter
tainment for which there will be no
charge. It is hoped that many will
avail themselves of this opportunity
for a social hour after the supper
and before the entertainment.
The Kiwanis Club is sponsoring a
“Go to Church” Mover ent in the
county for the month of December.
the year's important work which
Mrs. Cheatham and her .associated
do throughout the county.
Cl .wn MKS. BUOWN
.ATTEND WELFARE >1EETIN(J
W'ilbii’’ H. Curiie, chairman of the
Muore County Board of Commis
sioners, and Mrs. Lessie B. Brown,
superintendent of county welfare, at
tended the central district welfare
conference in Warrenton list Fri
day,
Dr. F. M. Holdridge, Aero Club
President, Hurt in Final
Event «)f Day
SO.MFRSAIT.TS IN PLANE
By Ben liowden
A crowd estimated as upwards of
15.000 persons witnessed the ded
ication air meet at the recently com
pleted Knollwood Aiiport last Sun
day afternoon and in addition lo the
thrills of stunt flying and a j)ar-
achute jump saw Dr. F. M. B.)ld-
ridge ef Charlotte, president of tne
Carolina Aero Club, crash his p'.ane
in the final race of the day, a free-
for-all event.
The cra.sh occurred when Dr. Bold-
ridge, medical director of the Duke
l^ower Co., running second in the
race, atte.nipted to dive underneath
the leading plane and then bank for
tlie next pylon. In attempting the
bank one wlieel of the landing gear
of his big $0,000. Ryan all-metel mon
oplane hit the ground and caused
the plane to turn over in the air. It
landed on its back, twisted and
turned several times and finally
came to a halt with Dr. Boldridge
pinned beneath the wreckage. The
motor was thrown 30 feet from the
wreckage and the plane was a total
"washout." An ambulance rushed Ur.
Boldridge to the Moore County Hos
pital from where first reports w'ere
to the effect that he was critically in
jured. It was soon learned, however,
that he had escaped with a minor
concussion, cuts and brui.ses, with
no bones broken. He has since left
for his home in Charlotte.
3,000 Cars Parked
All morning Sunday the roads lead
ing to Knollwood Airport W’ere jam
med with traffic and when the first
event started at 1:30 p. m. there
W'ere in the neighborhood of 15,000
spectators on hand. Some 3,000 au
tomobiles chocked the roads and
parking spaces around the airport
for as far as the eye could see.
Tne first event, a light plane
race was won by Reavis Nelson of
Charlotte, piloting a Taylorcraft. Hal
Foster of Columbia, S. C., and Bob
Bryant of Rock Hill, S. C., were
second and third respectively. Both
flew Aeroncas.
In the novelty race, second on
the program, Eddie Brockenbrou^h
of Charlotte got once around tne
field, landed and got out of his
pants, flew around once again, re-
donned his brcev-hes, and again cir
cles the course to take the e
Bryant was .second and Foster t
Foster, again in his Aeronca,
the ribbon cutting contest. Broc
brough was second and Dr. Boldri
brough was second and Dr. Boldrid^
D. S. Cross of Huntersville, N. C.
led the field in the cabin plane race.
He was follow'ed across the line by
Johnny Crowell in his Stinson and
Doug Creech of Charlotte in a Fair
child.
The bomb-dropping contest went
to Reavis i>e1«on. Foster was second
ana L S. McGinnis of W'inston-Sa-
lem was third in his Taylor Cub.
Dr. Boldridge took the open plan,'
race from Major L. R. Ashe of Fa;,-
etteville, in his Moth, and Harold
Bachman in his Waco and theu, fol
lowing Johnny Crowell’s thrihing e ■ -
hibition of aerial acrobatics, the
field took the air for the fi-oo-foi-
all race that ended with Dr. E''-'-
ridge’s crack-up.
Jack Huber, famous I'clayed . -
chute jumper who had done or.e ai; .p
(Please tui~n to patii- four/
MU.S. ,1. I.. OWENS, r >?l.MEif '
OF <'AKTHA(.E, I>Ii: 4 OF Bl i: >
Mrs. J. L. Owens of Ch irlott? '.'<0
former Miss Betty Cox of Cart'i''.'
died of burns followir." an acri .r -t
in her home late W’eJnesday r,
noon. No details of f’uo a?:' t
were available here at time cf
ing to press. Mrs. Owens leavr .
husband and four children, ?! •
Henry Dempster and Mrs. T.
Stain of Raleigh, F. A. Ov.’fiii 1
Miss Louise Owens of Charlotte Jlv .
J. G. Dow'ning of Carthage, a sl?ter,
also survives.