MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEVVS-WEEKI.Y '.Iv. *r vol.. 18, NO. 5. &AGUE SPf^iNCS > /Lakevigw MAHUEY aOUTMCRN PttlES ASHS-Sy MEKSHTS A»KROE.E>l PINEBLUFP FIRST IN NEWS, ( IHCl LATION & ADVEKTISINfi A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandi\ ^erritory of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Norih Carolina. Friday, Decemljor .‘II, 19.‘i7. FIVE CENTS CORNELIA SHAW DIES IN SLEEP AT PAGE HOME HERE Sister of Mrs. Robert N. Pan't' as Davidson CoileKC Librar ian For 30 Years 1‘RAISED IJY COLLEGE HEAD At Chapel Hill PLANS COMPLETE!) Miss Cornelia Shaw, sistei’ of Mrs. Robert N. Page, Sr., of Aberdeen and of the lute Judgi- Thomas J. Shaw, Greensboro and the late Kev. Dr. Angus R. Shaw of Charlotte, died at Mrs. Page's home in Aberdeen on Monday night, leaving Mrs. Page the sole surviving child of the laie Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cornelius Shaw, one of Moore county’s leading pio neer families. She had been ill but a few days and her sudden demise, in her sleep, came as a great shonk to an acquaintanceship that was statewide. Miss Shaw was born February 3, 1867 in Mount Gilead, and moved toi Manley in early childhood. She was the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. I’eter Cornelius Shaw, and with them was active in church work and civic enterprises throuphout this section. Last year she completed an unbrok en record of service as librarian at Davidson college, and was honorably 1 retired as librarian emeritus, and! had recently returned from Europe where she spent the summer and fall months. Her sister, Mrs. Page of Aberdeen, is the only surviving member of the once large family. Tho Rev Angus R. Shaw who died in Charlotte abovit two years ago was her brother, as well as the late Judge Thomas J. Shaw, who died in Greensboro a few months ago. Thad S. Page ICxecutive Secretary of the National Archives, in Washington, D. C., Robert N. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen, and Rich ard Page of Statesville, are neph ews, and Mrs. Kate Page Biddle of Warrenton, Va., a niece. Angus R. Shaw, Jr., Charlotte, another nephew, also survives. Funeral services for Miss Shaw were held in the Presbyterian church at Aberdeen on Wednesday aftf>r- noon, with the pastor, the Rev. E. L. Barber officiating. Interment in the Shaw burial plot in old Be- thesda cemetery followed. Dr. Llngle’8 Tribute Miss Cornelia Shaw was known and loved by thousands of David son alumni and students and citi zens of the Davidson community. She retired from active connection with the college in 1933, when she was made librarian emeritus. A del egation from Davidson attended the funeral services. “During 30 years of connection with Davidson college, Miss Shaw rendered distinguished service and was honored and loved by the whole college community,” Dr. Walter L. Liingle, president of Davidson col lege, said yesterday in lamenting ner death. “She was the author of “The History of Davidson College,’ a book of more than 300 pages representing many years of historical research, which will be one of the monuments to her life.” Miss IShaw went to Davidson in 3905 as secretary to President Henry Louis .Smitli. Before that time she haa been associat'ed with The Pres byterian Standard, In 1906 she was made librarian and registrar and sha served in this post until 1921, when she was made head librarian, a. po sition she filled until 1936, when slie was made librarian emeritus. JAMES BOVD TO .VDDliESS THE HOSPITAL AUXIHAUY , The annual meeting of the Moore County Hospital Auxiliary will oa held at the hospital next Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock, at which time James Boyd, president of th3 hospital, will make a talk and tne regular annual reports will oe heard. The auxiliary’s program for 1938 will be discussed. Editor of Ladies Home Journal ELI/ABETH WANO Daughter of China’s Army Chief of j Staff, who is enrolled in the Univ« r-1 sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.' Says Miss Wang; “China may be; overi)o\vered tfmpoiarily but she will never be re:illy conquered by the Japanese.” She .said her people would never submit to Japanese dom ination, They would then carry on a gvurilla warfare and use eveiy niean,s to harrass the puppet gov ernment. The young lady ranks iiigh The brown dry stubble seemed about HEAVY LOSS FROM FIRE IN ABERDEEN MONDAY MORNING BANQUET JAN. 11 Address l)V fJovernor Iloey I'o ^ Feature I’rojiram at (Jather- i iiitf of the Clans i , ! IN CAROLINA DINING HALL| Plans for the big banquet at wnic'i j citizens of Moore county will for- j gather on Tuesday, January 11th are j practically complete. Charles \V, j Picquet, master of ceremonies, an- j nounced yesterday. Only the finish ing touchcs ave yet to be placed I on the program, headed by Governor I Clyde R. Hoey. , The banquet, expected to be first ! of an annual “Sandhilleers” gather- i ing, is an “open-to-all” affair. It’s ' being sponsored by the Chambers uf Conmierce and leading civic organi zations of all the towns in the cou i- ty, and is expected to be the largest and be.st meeting of residents in the county’s history. Mr. Picquet stresses that it’s for the ladies oy well as the men. • The main dining room of the Cav- oiina hotel in Pinehurst will be the scene. The tickets are only one dol lar per person, and are now on sale in drug stores and other places auoughout the county. Homestead Survey Gets Under Way in County Results To Show Properties El igible for $1,000 Exempticit from Taxes t KATHARINE NEWLIN HURT Noted Writer and Wife of Struthers Burt Accepts Position of Fiction Editor of One of Countrys’ Leading Magazines.— Leaves Here in February Four Stores in Farrell Block | Gutted and Entire Business Section Threatened 2 DEPARTMENTS CALLED A fire of undetermined origin that started in the rear of the Progrec- si/e Grocery Store in Aberdeen at. approximately 1 ;00 o’clock Monday | morning:, gutted four stores in the i Farrell Block, did considerable dam- j age to a fifth, and for a time threat- j ened to destroy the entire business i section at the corner of Main and Sycamore streets. ^ When the fire was discovered at about 1:30 in the morning it had gained considerable headway in the Progressive Store and the Aberdeen Fire Department, despairing of cop ing with the blaze alone, put in a call for the Southern Pines depart ment. They arrived about 1:45 and the two companies were hard put to bring the flames under control. From the Progressive Store the flames spread up Sycamore street through Morgan's Barber Shop and the Daniels Jewelry Store, both of which were damaged, and attacked the building of the B. C. Moore store. Firemen were able to save that building, but not before it had suf fered considerable damage from smoke and water. From the rear of the Progressive Store the fire attacked, the Lady Clara Beauty Shop and that, too, was badly damaged. The Aberdeen Hotel, j adjoining- the burned area, suffered | no damage. Fire department officials thinic that defective wiring may have caus ed the conflagi'ation. COUUTHOUSE VACATION Court house officials and employees began their Christmaai, celebration by closing their desks at noon Friday, and did not return to their offices until Tuesday morning. No Record er’s Court was held Monday. .MKS. ALEX C'UKKIE OlES AT HOME IN J.-Vt'KSON SI'lUMiS Mrs. Betty Me/ skill Currie of Jackson Springs, widow of the late Alex Currie, died of angina on Christmas day. Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian Church by her pastor, the Rev. R. G, Mathes^, assisted by the Rev. A. J. McKelway of Pinehurst. She is survived by two .sons, Vernon and Lloyd and two daughters, Mrs. Mer edith Herndon of Pinehurst and Mrs. Robert Henderson of West End, a brother and several sisters, Mrs. Cur rie was a woman greatly beloved ar.d will be solely missed in the church and woman’s auxiliary in which she was an active member. Of a gra cious aiMl genial nature she has many friends of lifelong standing who mourn her death. Mrs. Margaret Penn and S. E. Han non are now engaged in making a homestead survey in Moore county for the purpose of getting figures to present to the General Assembly be fore it acts on the property exemp tion for homes proposition which was presented to voters of the State on last November 3 for an expression of their approval or disapproval. The work is being done as a PWA pfo- ject, and was organized under the direction of Henry Brandis, Jr., ex ecutive secretary of the Classifica tion Amendment Commission. As Will be recalled, voters in North Carolina were at the last election called upon to vote on five amendments to tiie 68-year-old State Constitution, one of which would giva the General Assembly the power to act on a proposition by whcih it could, at its discretion, exempt eann nome owner from taxation up to !>1,- 000. Homes occupied by others than the owner could not be included under the amendment. The legislatuie would not be required to grant the full $1,000 exemption, but could grant all of it, a.part of it, or more of it, as the members chose. If the amendment were adopted and the legislature saw tit to grant the full exemption, it would mean that a North Carolinian who ow.ied and lived in his own home would pay taxes on valuation exceeding $i,- 000 only, rather than on the full tax able value of the property. The as sembly miglit, however, grant Oi'.Iy. $500 exemption following adopUon of the amendment, or it might choose not to grant any exemption at all. At the last meeting of the legis lature, it was decided to ask foe a state-wide sui’vey before another session of the General Assembly. The survey in Moore county is e.<- pected to be completed by around middle of February.-Mr. Hannon an.l Mrs. Penn are now working in tho office of the tax collector in thj courthouse, but it will be necessary for them to visit Southern Piues, Pinehurst, *Vass, and some of t'ae other towns to contact the town clerk or some one informed as to the property actually occupied by he owners in the various places to com plete the sui’vey. OUR ADVERTISING OFFSET BY HIGH ACCIDENT RATE C'ol. Hawc's >JaKes Plea For Safety on Highways in Talk To Kiwanians STI.MSON' TELLS CLUB AIMS The ext'-n.sivc adverti.sing whi :ii North (.'arolina rcsort.s, .such as Pine- j hur,st and Southern Pines, are doing I CHch year in not going to get the rc'tui'iis it should if the free adver- i tising which the state i.s getting as 1 one of thi' loaders in I'" e country in j highway accident.^i continues, in the I opinion of Col. George P. Hawes. It I is vital that something be done about it, he says, and in a p!<;a to the Ki- wani.s Club on Wednesday he asked the organization to make a “Safety on the Highways” campaign one of its major objectives. “Let u.s go before the next Gener al Assembly with facts and figures I and demand legislation which will I reduce the high mortality rate in I this state from automobile accident.3,” . the Colonel said. He told the mem- ! bers North Carolina was at the t( p j in casualties from highway acci- I dents- a nation-wide advertisement ' which no amount of money expend- ; ed on luring to‘the state can offset. Col. Hawes' proposal was referred by the club to its Public Affairs committee, and will be brought ba’k for definite action after considera tion by that body. Kiwanis Ideals At the weekly meeting, held on Wednesday at the Highland Firvos Inn, the scheduled speaker of the day was the Rev. J. Fred Stlmson of the Southern Pines Baptist Church, who told the Kiwanians what Kiwanis is all about. Reviewing the h:3tory of the organization, formed in Detroit in 1914, he outlined the princip.Tl aims and objectives, stressing the "promotion in practical form of t.e Katharine Newlin Burt of Southern ] the- editorial offices of the magazine Pines, one of the country’s leadin;?: in Philadelphia, she will spend two fictio.’i writers and wife of Struth- j days each week in New York, where ers Burt, prominent author, yestci- the publication also maintains .i day accepted appointment as fiction office. Mr. and Mrs. Burt will make editor of the Ladies Home Jouinal, their home in Philadelphia, “but we a position tendered her several weeks hope to be down here a good many ago. She will leave here the middle week-ends,” she said yesterday, of February for Philadelphia, homo ' Mr.s. Burt is the authoi’ of a larg'i of the magazine, to assume her d:.it- number of novels and has for years i Golden Rule,” the idealistic and hu- ies. been a frequent contributor to ’ead- j "’.?nitarian side of life as agamst Mrs. Burt succeeds Stuart Rose, ing magazines. This will not be a n' i the purely commercial, who goes from the Journal to ano- first editorial experience, as foej "Kiwanis aims to keep the interest ther Curtis publication, the Satuf- served for some time several years j of service uppermost,” he said, ile day Evening Post. Although Mrs. ago on the editorial staff of t'le | told of the 1938 objectives of Ki- Burt will make her headquarters at j Woman's Home Companion. [ wanis International and of the local — — i organization. Locally, the club is sup- I porting a bed in the Moore Coii.ity Hospital, the venereal and tuberci: Mrs. Cliff Johnson of Aberdeen Dies in Sleep Sudden Death of Prominent Wo- James Davis, Well Known Car- HIT BV TKl t’K Will Hampden, colored, of Carth age was badly cut about the face and suffei’ed an injury to his should er when he was struck by a leaded truck driven by a hit and run driver in Carthagre Monday night. man Great Shock.—Funeral on Wednesday Mrs. Cliff J. Johnson died at ner home in Aberdeen Monday night. While she had not been well of late, her condition was not regarded as serious'. She had been busy during the day at the Standard Store which she and Mr. Johnson have long oper ated, and her sudden death in her sleep was a great shock to her wide circle of friends. She was the former Miss May Al len of Albemarle, and besides ner Colored Man Killed in Accident Near Hemp ^ losis disease clinics, underprivileged children, vocational guidance, ind friendly, cooperative spirit between tha.'re Man, Under Rond Pending Investigation Ervin B.rower, colored man of Hemp is dead, a young colored man named Maness of the same commun ity is in the Moore County Hospi tal suffering from injuries sustained when the two were struck by an au tomobile above Hemp Sunday night, and James Davis, well-known Car thage man is under $500 bond pend-1 of whose 83 years of life were spsnt ing a grand jury investigation of the : in Southern Pines, passed away Mon- accident, but there is a question as | day night in his quarters at The to who really killed Brower. j Piedmont. Through a quarter of a century of activity here Mr. Baki r had made a host of friend-- and his the various towns of Moore county. F. L. Baker Dies Here at Age of 83 Years Former Caretaker of I^cal Ho tels Had Lived in Southern Pines for 25 Years Fred L. Baker, more than 25 yeara husband she leaves her mother, M>;s. | According to the evixlence given J. R. Allen; three sisters, Mrs. W. A. i before the coroner's jury which met Jenkins of Albemarle, Mrs. J. H.' at the hospital Monday, Davis and I death, though not inicxpcclecj, Cowles of Deep Gap and Mrs.-G. C. Henry Seawell, in the former’.s car. | brought widespread sorrow. Gaddy of Laurinburg. j were proceeding toward Hemp on; jj,. Baker was for some time caie- The funeral services #re held at ^heii' way to Carthage early Sunday | taker at the Highland Pin<'>j Inn, .lad the home on Wednesday afternoon at ^^‘oht. As they wire passing a sec-j s^j-yejj ^ like capacity at the 1 o'clock, with her former pastor, \ I>i ocepding ir the opposite i Hollywood Hotel, and was for ma iv the Rev. W. C. Ball of Durham, con- Davis heard noise whicn, years gardener at the C-hurch o*’ ducting the services. Burial followed, sounded as if hitj c ^ had str.4Ck, \v'i(jc Fellowship. Born in Worcester. Ma^::., 83 years in old Bethesda cemetery. AIRS. ANNIE K. WHITE, 75. some object. Stoppir bile, he and his c« "the automo-1 •anion wont | back to investigate i „■ found the; ago, he came to Southern Pi'.os ; two men lying on the road. The oth- j around 1910, and during the past ir OlES AtTEll LON