MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the SandL %<^erritory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, March 18, 1938.
FIVE CENTS
TWO IN COUNTY
ANNOUNCE FOR
LAMBETH’S SEAT
Georpre R. Ross, Jackson Springs
and D. C. Phillips, Southern
Pines, Aspire to Congress
PITTMAN NOT TO RUN
Two Moore county residents hurl
ed their hats into the ring marked
“Congressional Nomination" during
the past week, bringing up to five the
aspirants for the scat in the House
of Representatives about to be va_
cated by Walter Lambeth of Thom-
asville.
George R. Ross of Jackson Springs,
whose announcement The Pilot pre
dicted two weeks ago, issued his
statement of intent to run, setting
forth his qualifications which include
long experience in State service, ex
tensive knowledge of farm problems
through his managership of State,
owned farms, wide acquaintanceship
throughout the 8th district, and legis
lative training in the General As
sembly. Mr. Ross told The Pilot this
week that his candidacy appeared to
be meeting a favorable reception
throughout the district.
Diffie C. Phillips of Southern Pines,
former newspaper man and now trav
eling representative of a laundry sup.
ply company, announced for the
Democratic nomination the first of
this w'eek. In a statement issued to
the press he said.
Mr. Phillips’ Statement
“I hereby announce my candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
Congressman from the Eighth Dis
trict of North Carolina, to succeed
Hon. Walter Lambeth, subject to
the action of the Primary to be
held June 4th, 1938.
“If I am nominated and elected to
this high office, I will devote my full
time and ability to serving the in
terests of all the people of my Dis
trict and State. I am not the can.
didate of any faction or clique; and
I believe that a Congressman should
serve all of his constituents and not
just a selected group or faction. It
will be my pleasure, at all times, to
seek to promote the welfare and the
best interests of all the people to
the best of my ability.
“At this crucial hour, we must
have courage, stamina, pluck and per
severance. We must fight our bat
tles like those brave patriots of
1776, turning our backs on the con
ditions of the past and our eyta
forward to the solving of our cur.
rent needs. With this in mind, I shall
serve my constituents with humble
ness and untiring efforts, bowing in
humble submission to the Master and
looking to Him for guidance.”
Meanwhile other candidates have
been bu.sy C. B. Deane of Roclcing-
ham, one of the first to annoimce,
paid a visit to the Sandhills on Wed
nesday and was a guest at the Ki.
wanis luncheon at the Pine Needles
Inn. Roland Beasley of Monroe is
fitting in some campaigning between
issues of his Monroe Journal, and
Mayor Gordon Rowland of Raeford
has been making acquaintance
trip arund some of the dozen counties
that comprise this district.
J. C. Pittman, Sa’-.iord attorney
who has been dallying with the idea
of entering the li-Dcs, announced dur
ing the week that he was not a
candidate.
Orchestra From Surf Club, Miami To Play for Hospital Ball
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GoveiX ’ to Attend Races
At Steeplechase Course on
Midland Road Tomorrow
Chnrley Eckel and His Orchestra
Superb music, strikin.^ decorations,
amusing specialties, and a gay crowd
—that is a preview of the Hospital
Ball, to be presented at the Pine-
hurst Coimtry Club on Tuesday even,
ing, March 29th, by the Moore Coun
ty Hospital Auxiliary.
Charley Eckel and his Orchestra,
direct from a long engagement at the
well-known Surf Club in Miami !
Beach, will furnish music that will j
please everj’body, from the critical ;
tots home from school and college, ali
the way up to sedate oldsters who
also know their dancing.
Eckel has played with great suc
cess in London at Sherry’s in New
York, for the President’s Ball at the
Waldorf, and in many of America’s
best resorts. For his first appear.
ance in the Sandhills this versatile
conductor and his ten men will offer
a program carefully selected from all
the numbers that have made him a
sensation of the current season in
Florida.
Invitations for the ball were mailed
throughout the Sandhills a few days
ago, and reservations are rapidy be
ing made. This year supper is includ
ed in the price of each ticket, and will
be served to all, at midnight. Tickets
are $3.50 for each person.
The ball opens at 9:30, and dancing
w'ill continue until 3:00. During the ,
supper intermission there will be an
nouncements regarding a much.dls-
cussed automobile, and other pleas,
ant things.
Mrs. Heman Gifford, of Millbrook,
N.'Y. and Pinehurst, is chairman of
the ball. Thirtysix members of the
Auxiliary sponsor it as patronesses,
and all the members of that effective
organization are assisting in its pre
sentation. As another innovation this
year, the Auxiliary invited a commit
tee of 18 men to help in staging the
affair.
It is requested that orders for tick,
cts and reservations for tables be
sent in at once, to Mrs. S. Qpnald
.'iheirerd. Treasurer, at Pinehurst.
Careful notice should be taken of
the fact that table space cannot be
provided unless it is definitely reserv.
ed well in advance.
Proceeds of this annual ball are
thoughtfully used by the Auxiliary
for the general improvement of the
Moore County Hospital, as to plant,
equipment, and services.
The Race Meet
Holders of Reserved Parking
Spaces in the Membership Enclos
ure for tomorrow’s races should
?nter the grounds at the Chibhouse
Enclosure gate at the west, or
Pinehurst, end of the course.
Holders of Grand.stand IVa’king
Spaces enter same gate.
Tho.se desiring $2,00 Parking
Spaces along th" Midland Road
side of the course should enter one
of the Entrances on the north side
of the road, purchase their tickets
and find available locations along
the track rail. First come first
sen’ed.
There is no individual charge for
admission; just for parking.
Grandstand seats are available,
however, at 50 cents.
1st Race—3:00 p. m.—The Cat.
awba, one and one-half miles over
hurdles. Fourteen entries. Purse,
$300.00.
2d Race—The Croatan Steeple,
chase, two miles over brush. Four
teen entries. Purse, $300.00.
3d Race—The Sandhills Chal
lenge Cup, three miles over tlm.
ber. Five entries. Piu-se, $300.00,
challenge cup and rider’s trophy.
4th Race—The Yadkin, two and
one-half miles over bmsh. Thir.
teen entries. Purse, $1,000.00 and
trophy.
5th Race—The Midland, one and
one-quarter miles on the flat. Eight
entries. Purse $300.00.
Record Crowd Expected F’or
Fourth Annual Event. Five
Races on Card
TOP WEIGHT JO TOOL BOX
Governor’s Hospitality Committee
For County Named by R, S.Tufts
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Sedalia Singers Here
Thursday Afternoon
The Sedalia Singers, a group of
colored singers from Palmer Memor
ial Institute, will give a concert of
Negro Spirituals in Emmanuel Epis.
copal Church next Thursday after
noon, March 2tth, at 3:00 o’clock.
The Sedalia Singers are nationally
known nnd tour the north and east
each year; they come from Palmer
Jifemorlal Institute, which is a negro
.■school near Greensboro. On their
trip here the singers will be accom.
panied by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins
^rown, president of the Institute. Dr.
Brown is a remarkable colored wo
man, a graduate of Wellesley College,
who built up Palmer Memorial In.
atitute largely through her owm ef
forts. She has received help from
many white frienda in >*ath the north
and the south.
Chairman Outlines Aims and
Purposes of Campaign Involv
ing State Advertising Fund*
Richard S. Tufts, newly appointed
chairman of the Governor’s Hospital
ity Committee” for North Carolina,
this week named his County Com
mittee, as follows:
Aberdeen—Frank D. Shamburger,
G. C. Seymour and J. Talbot John
son.
"arthage—I. N. Clegg, Jr., W. D.
Sablston, Jr., and Earl McDonald.
Hemp—P. Saunders.
Plnebluff—Dr Kemp.
Pinehurst—L L. Biddle, II and E.
S. Blodgett.
Southern Pines—R. L. Hart, E. C.
Stevens and H. J. Betterley.
Vass—R. P. Beasley
W’est End—J.Hawley Poole
In a statement to The Pilot this
week Mr. Tufts said;
‘‘As everybody knows the last
State legislature appropriated $2“0,-
000 to be spent during two years in
advertising the state of North Car
olina Most of us have also seen cop
ies of the advertising now appearing
In national publications and appre
ciate that the advantages of the
state are being presented to the pub
lic In an attractive and digxiified
manner. Perhaps few of us stopped
to consider when we started on this
campaign to attract visitors, that ac
the same time ,every citizen of tnt
state a.'oumed a certain responsibll-
ly. Most visely, those state officials
responblule for the spending of this
money, have recognized this respon
sibility and have formed a state-wide
committee known as the “Governor’s
Hospitality Committee” w'hose func
tion it is to organize the state, to
make every citizen conscfous of this
responsibility and to properly pre
pare us to carry on the good work
that has been started
ClVICrcxTUB MEETING IS
POSTPONED FOR ONE UEEK
The Civic Club meeting .scheduled
for today, Friday, will be postponed
one week in order to avoid conflict
with the Hunter Trials. Next Friday
Donald Parson will read from his
poems. Including “Glass Flowers,” and
Mrs. Norris Hodgkins and Mrs. Bow-
doin Plummer will also appear on
the program.
Your P. O. Box
You’re probably going to get a
different box number when the
Southern Pines Posioi.'ice moves
into its handsome new quarters.
But you mustn’t be disappointed,
‘cause it just can’t be helped. The
numbers of the new boxes just
don't correspond with the ones
at the present office, and that
little No. 71 you now have may-
easily be a great big box that
costs lots more money in the new
shop.
“We’re going to try to give the
people the bo.xes we think will suit
them,” Postmaster Buchan said
yesterday, “but only in rare in.
stances will the hoxholder get the
same number he has had. W'e have
700 boxholders, and we’ll do the
best we can by them, but num.
bers will have to be changed.’ ’
Col. B. M. Roszel Dies
World War Veteran
Long Time Winter Resident of
Southern Pines Passc,^ Sud
denly at Park View "
Col. Brantz Mayer Roszel, for
many»ye4rs headmaster of the Win.
Chester Military Academy at Winches
ter, Va., and long a winter resident
of Southern Pines, died suddenly
shortly after midnight Tuesday in
his suite In the Park View Hotel. Coi.
Roszel had been a seasonal guest at
the Park View for many years and
had a wide acquaintance throughout
the Sandhill.9 section.
The colonel, a member of the South,
ern Pines Country Club, had been
golfing regularly this winter and had
played 27 holes on Tuesday. He also
made plans on Tuesday for the cele;
bratlon W'ednesday of his 09th birth,
day.
Col. Roszel served overseas during
the World War, retiring after the
Armistice and assuming the head
mastership of the school at Winches
ter from which he retired last June.
He was bom in Baltimore, Md., the
son of Mr. and Mrs. George RoszeL
His widow accompanied the body
last night to Charleston, W. Va..
WOMEN STARS TO
COMPETE HERE IN
MID^OUTH GOLF
Mrs. Page, National Champion,
To Defend Title Won Last
Year
The Sandhills section Is filling up
with golfers for the major tourna
ments of the season, first of which
is the Tenth Annual Women’s Mid.
South, to be played next Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, and for
which a field of close to a score of
first flight golfers have registered.
Thi.s will be a 54-hole medal event.
Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page of
Chapel Hill, national champion, will
lead the field to defend her title of
last year. Virginia Guilfoil, the Sy-
lacuse University star who trailed
Mrs. Page by six strokes last year,
will also be a contender. Others In.
elude Jane Cothran Jameson of W’est
Palm Beach, Katlierlne Hemphill of
Columbia, S. C., Betty Abernathy,
Pennsylvania State champion, Alleen
Hoover, Thomasville, Deborah Verry,
Worcester, Mass., 1936 champion,
Mi-s. E. Boyd Morrow, Baltimore,
Louise Fordyce, Youngstown, Ohio,
Mrs. Joseph J. Lawlor, New Rochelle,
Helen Waring, Pinehurst, and Elean
or Barron of Southern Pines.
The tournament Is bting played this
year on the 6,000 yard grass green
layout at Pine Needles. The field is
expected to exceed the 70 who played
here last year.
The tournament committee headed
by Eugene C. Stevens, chairman;
George T. Dunlap, former national
champion and Howard F. Bunis, has
announced in a<klltion to the cham.
pionshlp trophy for the 54 holes low
gross, a trophy for the second low
gross, for the fifty-four holes low net
1 and second low net. Prizes will also
[ be given for low net and low i<ro.‘»s
i each day.
Following the tournament a tea will
: be given at the Pine Needles Club in
J which the Pine Dodgers, tlie women’s
j golfing organization of Southern
1 Pines, will act aa hostess.
HUNTER TRIALS IN
SOUTHERN PINES
THIS AFTERNOON
Fif(y-Six Horses To Be Shown
Over Course of Nine Fences
at The Paddock
By Nelson C. Hyde
It looks as if every North Car
olinian from Governor Clyde R. Hoey
down was heading for the Sandhills
steeplechase course for tomorrow’s
big race meeting. Word came from
the Governor yesterday that he would
be here, which makes it practically
unanimous. Word came from the
Steeplechase association office that
every reserved parking space In the
Membership enclosure had been sold;
that only a few $5.00 Grandstand
parking spaces were still available
along the home stretch, but that 500
cars could be accomodated around
the rest of the course, at $2.00 a
car. There’s no individual admission
charge—except for the Membership
enclosure.
Now about the horses. They started
coming in yesterday afternoon, and
so many have arrived that the sta
bles at the steeplechase course are
full and there are 15 stabled at the
Pinehurst race track.
The finishing touches were put on
j the course yesterday, and it looks
like a millions dollars. Nothing but
the Weather Man can mar a perfect
day of sport out there on the Midland
Road. And even if It rains, there’ll
be races—five of them—and po.ssibly
more thrills than if It doesn’t, for
jumping those fences at top speed
In the wet calls for a bit of horse
manship if you want to remain out
of the mud.
Richard K. Mellon’s gray gelding.
Tool Box, has been assigned top
weight in the $1,000 feature race,
the two and one.half mile handicap
event over the brush course. Tool
Box will carry 162 pounds.
The first race will start promptly
at 3:00 o’clock.
The next meeting of the Willing
Workers will be hf Id Tuesday, Marc’i
22, at 3:00 p. m. at tno home of
Mrs. Mumford on Vermont Av»»nue.
AH women are cordially Invited.
Tiie North and the South will vie
for honors, ribbons and trophies over
a course of timber fences in the
heart of the Southmen Pines hunting
country this afteraoon, Friday, on
the occasion of the first annual Sand-
hlls Invitation Hunter Trials. The
field of 56 horses entered Is about
equally dlvldod between hunters from
above and below that mythical old
line up there north of Baltimore.
Included among the prominent
owners from the North riding their
mounts over the nine fence.s near The
Paddock are Mrs. S. Sloan Colt of
Tuxedo Park, N. Y., who has three
horses entered; Mrs. Lawrence B.
Smith of Millbrook, N. Y., with sev.
eral entries; W. J. Stratton of Prince
ton, N. J.; B. A. Tompkins of New
York; Stanley W Burke of Mlll-
kh enryoklrherro
brook, N. Y.; C. W. Middleton of
Greenwich, Conn.; Louis Sciieipers
of Lawrence, Mass., and the Sun
Dovvn FaiTns of Short Hills, N. J.
Southern horses have been entered
by the following: A. C. Alexander
of Asheville; Lloyd Tate of Pine-
hurst, William A. Laing and Geoffrey
Laing of Amissvllle, Va.; W'. O. Moss
of Durham; Wr. A. Wood of
W'ashington, D. C.; James and Jack,
son Boyd, Alec Boyd, and Miss Nan
cy Wrenn. ^11 of Southern Pines, and
Miss Susan Fuller of Durham
To Start at 2:00 P. M.
Twenty-three hor.=cs will run in
Ihe first event, for working hunters;
18 in the Lightweight Himter class;
14 In the middle weight and heavy
weight class, and seven are entered
In the Hunt Teams event. The trials
will start promptly at 2:00 o’c’lock.
Judging the events will be F. WaL
lis Armstrong of Aiken and Philadel
phia, Pa.; Algernon S. Craven of
Charlottsville, Va., and Harry D.
Kirkover of Camden, S. C.
There is no charge for watching
the Hunter Trial events, except for
thosf vrho desire to watch from their
ca’s. A reserved parking space sec
tion has been set aside for these, at
$2.00 per car, the proceeds to go to
health clinics in Pinehurst aund Sou
thern Pines.
Mrs. J. W. McCaskill
of Eureka Section Dies
Beloved Resident of Comnmnity
Passes Suddenly of Heart
Ailment
Mrs. Nannie McCaskill 86, widow
of John Worthy McCaskill of the
Eureka community, passed away sud
denly of angina pectoris at her home
Sunday.
The funeral service was conduct,
ed at Union Presbyterian Church at
3:00 o’clock Monday afternoon by
her pastor, the Rev. W. S. Golden
of Carthage, in the presence cf a
large gathering of relatives and
friends.
Mrs. McCaskill was one of the
most beloved women of her commun.
Ity, and despite the handicap of al
most total blindness in her latter
days, she lived an active life, never
losing interest in the happenings of
the day.
She was formerly a member of
historic “Old Union,” but after the
organization of a church at Eureka,
moved her membership there ana en
tered heartily into the program of
the church. On Sunday a week befoie
her death she attended the preach.
Ing service.
Mrs. McCaskill had no children
of her own, but she was devoted to
her step-chlldren and grandchildren
and the relationship between ihem
was as beautiful as though based
upon the ties of blood.
OllG.VN KECITAI., S1N(;1NG
ON si:nd.\y raoGUAM
At 4:00 o’clock Sunday there
will be an organ recital by Mrs. L.
D. McDonald, The union evelning ser.
vice with the Baptist Chtirch, held at
the Church of Wide Fellowship af
8;C0 o’clock, will be a concert of sac
red mu-sic. The program Includes the
McKelway.Gibson Quartet; the String
Trio, by Mr. Yeomans, Miss Yeo
mans and Miss Bishop; solos by Mrs.
Charles W. Plcquet and J. P. WR.g.
goner, soloist cf the Euke Chltpel
choir, and organ numbera bjr Mrs.
Charles M. Grey.