MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18. NO. 24. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina,' Friday, ^!ay 20, 1938
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill Terri♦^ory of North Carolina
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ANOTHER YEAR OF
SCHOOL NEED IN
NORTH^ROLINA
So Dr. Clyde Erwin, Slate Sup
erintendent of Public Instruc
tion, Tells Kiwanis
OUR YOUTH HANDICAPPED
Dr. Clyde Erwin, State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, told
members of the Sandhills Kiwania
Club and their guests, the principals
of schools in Moore county, that
what North Carolina needs is one
more year of schooling ‘‘to give to
eveiy child a highway in life over
•which he can walk to a successful
and happy career.” The extension of
schooling from 11 years of eight-
month terms to 12 years would be
'‘an investment in the development
of human resources,” he said.
Dr. Erwin was presented to the
club by Superintendent of School
Frank Webster of Southern Pines,
and made a most interesting talk-
He urged more intelligent and more
active participation in educational
work on the part of the public- “The
schools should be kept close to the
people.” He congratulated the Kiwan
is Club on its vocational guidance
work, stressing the great need for
this in North Carolina schools.
Regarding the extension of the
educational course in the public
schools, Dr. Erwin said it was im
practical to make the nine months
course universal over the state due
to the fact that so many of our
youth are needed for four months on
the farms, but that there was no
reason why another school year
could not be added to the curricu
lum, which would mean putting our
children on a par with northern
children in education. He advocated
more cultural and vocational courses.
"We are tumin^ them loose unqual
ified for life,” he said. And he ad
ded that with another year of school
ing the youngsters would acquire ma
turity, poise and understanding-
Among educators in the county at
tending the meeting, held in the
Methodist Sunday School building in
Aberdeen, were County Superinten-
ent of Schools H. Lee Thomas, Prin
cipal R. F. Lowry of Cameron, Prin
cipal J. F. Sinclair and Athletic In
structor Ralph Wallace of West EJnd,
Principal L- C. Dawkins of Aberdeen,
Principal O. B, Welch of Carthage,
Mr. Webster and School Commission
ers George G. Herr, E- Levis Prizer
and N. L- Hodgkins of Southern
Pines. Dr. P. P- McCain of the
State Sanatorium was also a guest-
Does Southern Pines
Want Cub Scouting?
Boy Scout Klxecutive Wil Dis
cuss Question With Mothers
at School on Tuesday
"Does Southern Pines want Cub
Scouting? If so do we want Cub
Scouting badly enough to assume the
trouble and expense involved? This
is a question that must be answered
and one which mothers of boys over
nine and under twelve years of age
will do well to ponder,” writes W.
Duncan Matthews to The Pilot-
“Heretofore Cub Scouting has
hardly been an imqualified success
in Southern Pines- Has this resulted
from indifference or is it because
parents do not know what Cub
Scouting is ? Local committeemen
want this question answered if only
for their own guidance in the fu
ture.
“If we want Cub Scouting we will
do well to proceed with care because
badly planned Cub Scouting can ser
iously hamper the whole Boy Scout
movement- Cub Scouting is different
from, though quite as serious as, the
work of older groups. Essentially it
is constructive, supervised neighbor
hood play, conducted in small groups
witL the active cooperation of the
mothers. Only with the aid of tht
boys’ mothers can success be assur
ed.
“Next week J. E. Steere, Execu
tive of the Charlotte Council of the
Boy Scouts of America, Inc., will be
in Southern Pines and will talk to
the parents interested. On Tuesday
afternoon, May 24th, at 4:00 p. m.
(Please turn to page eight)
For More Schooling
DR. CLYDE ERWIN
OFFiciALS ON TOUR
OF STATE PARKS
SANDHILLS GUESTS
Dine at Civic Club Following In
spection of Project at
Hoffman
Southern Pines played host last
night to members of the State Board
of Conservation and Development.
The Chamber of Commerce gave a
dinner at the Civic Club for the 15
representatives who are making a
“Know Your Owti State Parks” in
spection tour of the state. The group
came here from their inspection of
the Sandhills Project at Hoffman,
built by the federal government but
likely to become a State Park in
the near future.
The tour started May 15th at the
Mount Mitchell Game Refuge, and
will end at Cape Hatteras State Park
on May 22. It is looked upon as one
of the most important educational
projects ever undertaken by tfce
members of the Board of'Conserva
tion and Development. Extensive
plans were made for the tour by the
State Parks committee of the board.
“In the past about all many of
the board members have known
about the State parks was what they
heard about them at board meetings
or from pictures they have seen tak
en in the parks,” said Coleman W.
Roberts of Charlotte, chairman of
the board’s committee on State
parks, originator and chief spark
plug of the State park inspection
tour. “The park committee feels that
every member of the conservation
board should visit each of these parks
and become better acquainted with
what is being done and what is con
templated for their development.
That is why we planned this in
spection tour.”
The members of the parks com
mittee also felt that something
should be done to arouse greater in-
terest all over the state in these
parks, especially in the communities
and towns nearest to them. Accord
ingly,. the entire board and all those
on the tour are stopping in many
of these cities and towns near the
State parks and holdmg “pep” meet
ings designed to make the people
more State park conscious.
The board members gathered at
the Mount Mitchell Game Refuge
last Sunday, spent Monday in the
Mount Mitchell State Park on the
summit of the mountain, spent the
night back at the refuge, went to
Asheville, Chimney Rock, Lake Lure
and Charlotte Tuesday, with an
overnight stop and “pep” meeting In
Charlotte Tuesday night. Wednesday
the party visited Morrow Mountain
State Park, spent the night in W’in-
ston-Salem then visited F^uiging Rock
State Park in Stokes county and
the Sandhills Project yesterday,
spending the night in Southern
Pines. Today they go to Swanquar-
ter and Cape Hatteras, with Satur
day spent at Cape Hatteras State
Park.
TWO HELD FOR
MANSLAUGHTER
IN AUTO DEATH
Charlie Gillis Run Over and
Killed by Own Truck
Near Aberdeen
BOWMAN, SMITH HELD
Vester Bowman and Joe Smith,
white, of the Roseland section near
Aberdeen were in Recorder’s Court
on Monday bound to the Superior
Court on a charge of manslaughter
as a result of the death of Charlie
Gillis, who was fatally injured Sun
day morning when thrown from and
1 un over by his own truck, which was
being driven by Joe Smith- Bowman
was released on his own recogni
zance and Smith was placed under
S500 bond. The three are said to have
been under the influence of intoxi
cants.
Smith was found guilty of drunk
en driving and careless and reckless
operation of a motor vehicle, but
sentence was deferred until after his
trial in the higher court on the man
slaughter charge. Bowman was giv.
en 30 days for public drunkenness,
this to be suspended upon payment
of the costs.
The W'arrant charged that the de
fendant “did operate or aid and abet
in the operation of a truck in a
careless and reckless manner caus
ing Charlie Gillis, owner, to be
thrown off and run over by it, caus
ing his death.”
Funeral services for Gillis were
held at the graveside in old Bethes-
da Cemetery Monday afternoon. The
Rev. S. J- Starnes, pastor of the
Methodist church, officiated.
Pinehurst Artist Wins
Award in Exhibition
NEW CORNERSTONE M-\RKING
The cornerstone of the New South
ern Pines postoffice is to be chang
ed to include the name of Aymar
Embury, II, as architect, according
to word received by Postmaster
Frank Buchan from Washington.
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FIVE CENTa
Smith and Glee Club a “Hit” at Duke >;-^lilGISTRATION FOR
ELECTION
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In the photograph, from left to
right, are: Top row—G- Cheatham,
O. Austin, R. Kolb, P. McCain, L.
Johnson and B- Plummer. 2nd
row - - E. Cameron, A. Walker,
J. Mann, L- Blue, C- Hilderman,
E. Bailey, P. Harwell, L. Cameron,
K- Ferguson, E. Fowler, M. Dupree;
3d row—H. Andrews, M- Rumley, I.
McCain, B. Evans, J. McDonald, A-
Eddy, J. McDonald, C. Prizer; 4th
row C- Hall H. Hilderman, L- Muse,
M. Rosendale, M. Rowell, W. Rorie,
P. Coble and J. Hall; bottom row—
S. Chatfield, C Boney, A. Tobin, H.
Moger, A. Murphy, L. Morrison, E-
Blake, M. Gray, E- Cameron and
Prof. Frederick Stanley Smith-
Duke Press Bureau Lauds Recital
By Southern Pines Musical Talent
H. Bingham Ballou’s Portrait of
Kathryn V. Dunlap Given
“Honorable Mention”
H. Bingham Ballou, whose still life
and portrait studie.'i have attracted
wide interest and enthusiastic ad
miration since their showing at the
Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst during
the last two seasons, has won dis
tinguished recognition in the award
of “honorable mention” in the Bos
ton, Mass- Jordon Marsh exhibition
recently. The painting on whose mer
its the award was given, one of
nine out of about 160 entries, is his
recently completed portrait in oils of
Kathryn V. Dunlap of Pinehurst.
The Jordan Marsh exhibit is defi
nitely the most important showing
of paintings in the art center of
America, New England- The accept
ance of a painting for exhibition by
an exacting jury is itself a high
compliment to the unusual worth of
the work. The awards in this exhibi
tion were made on the basis of the
appreciation of the 40,000 who view
ed the paintings-
Mr. Ballou, whose studio for the
last two years has been located op
posite the Village Chapel in Pine
hurst, has this year completed two
other notable portraits, a portrait
from photograph of James Tufts,
the founder of Pinehurst, and a por
trait from life of S. Y. Ramage. Al
most completed, and perhaps the
last portrait before Mr. Ballou’s va
cation in the North, is a portrait
of Leonard Tufts, second president
of Pinehurst.
AIR RL\JL LE.WES HERE
VI-A. KNOLLWOOD AIRPORT
“One of the most pleasing musical
features presented at Duke univer
sity this spring was the organ recital
rendered Sunday afternoon in the
chapel by Frederick Stanley Smith,
supervisor of public school music at
Southern Pines, and organist and
choir master of the Raleigh First
Baptist Church, w’ho was assisted by
the excellent Southern Pines High
School Glee Club.
So writes the Duke University
News Bureau in a despatch to The
Pilot.
“Mr. Smith’s program consisted of
original compositions and revealed
him not only as a master of the in
strument on which he specializes but
a creative artist of high attainments.
His audience was deeply impressed
with the breadth of treatment and
depth of feeling manifest in his com
positions, which were entitled ‘Festi
val Prelude,’ ‘Grande Choeur,’ ‘Con.
templation,’ and ‘Caprice,’ in the
first division, and ‘Spring Morn,’
‘Introspection,’ and ‘Finale, from
First Sonata,’ in the concluding
group.
“Giving delightful rendition to five
numbers between theorgan groups,
the Southern Pines High School Glee
club, composed of a selected group
of young singers in vestments, indi
cated that it can take its place with
great credit among large and ma-
turer groups. Mr. Smith directed the
group of young voices that evinced
versatile range and perfect control.
“The glee club numbers were
‘Glory to God,’ ‘Inter Vitae,’ ‘Break
Forth O Beauteaus Heavenly Light,’
‘Gloria,’ and ‘Alleluia.’ ”
CALLED FOR JUNE
Southern Pines Board Issues
Authorization For Balloting
During July
VOTES $12,000 BOND ISSUES
The Board of Commissioners of
Southern Pines, in session Wednes
day night, authorized City Clerk
Howard Burns to issue a call for a
special registration of qualified vot
ers of the city to ballot on the ques
tion of the purchase of the Harring-
tf'n property, adjoining the new post-
office on West Broad street, for a
civic center. It is proposed to open
the registration books early in June
and to hold the election during the
month of July.
The board on Wednesday night al
so authorized the issuance of two
bonds issued at this time, one for
$10,000 for completion of the exten
sion of the city’s sewer system, and
one for $2,000 for water supply sys
tem extensions. Work on both these
projects has been under way for
some time, w'th the aid of the Works
Progress Administration.
During the fiscal year which
ends June 30 this year Southern
Pines will have retired $24,000 in
bonded indebtedness and paid $12,-
000 in interest on its funded debt.
This program of retirem.^nt will be
continued during the next fiscal year.
Pilot James Smith of Durham
dropped down from the clouds onto
the smooth Bermuda-grassed run
ways of Knollwood Airport at 12:30
o’clock yesterday afternoon and pick
ed up bags of air mail from Sand
hills points- Each letter or card bore
a special cachet showing it to have
been mailed from one of the local
postoffices in obsei-vance of National
Air Mail Week.
Last Call!
Tomorrow Last Day For Reg
istration. If You Aren’t Reg
istered You Can’t Vote
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the
final day for registration for those
qualified to vote in the June 4th
primary whose names are not al-
ready enrolled. Books close at
sundown- One week from tomor
row, May 28th, will be Challenge
Day. Names of the registrars in
the various cities and townships
are listed in an advertisement on
another page of this issue.
MRS. WARDWELJL, DIES
Mrs. Flora S. Wardwell, aged 81
years died in her home at Brewer,
Me., May 3rd. For many years prior
to 1933 Mrs. Wardwell had been a
winter resident of Southern Pines
and numbered many friends here.
Phillios Survives Tests
For ^2,000 Scholarship
Among 20 Selected From 172
Nominees By University
School of Commerce
Among 20 North Carolina boys
surviving the tests taken by 172
nominees for the Hei’bert W''orth
Jackson scholarship at the Univer
sity of North Carolina is Charles A.
Speas Phillips of Southern Pines
High School, a meritorious honor for
himself and the school. The scholar
ship, valued at $2,000, will go to
one of these surviving twenty. “Char
les Phillips is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. C. Phillips of Southern Pines.
The boys were selected by the Un
iversity School of Commerce from
the 172 nominees, and spent last Sat
urday in Chapel Hill for interviews
with a final selection committee.
The scholarship was established by
Mrs- Annie H. Jackson of Richmond,
Va-, in memory of her late husband,
a University graduate of 1886. Young
Phillips is the only qualifier from
this county- But Emest W. Larkin,
Jr-, of Washington, N. C-, son of
Dr. Emest W. Larkin, formerly of
Carthage, was among the 20 selected-
BANHS CLOSED TODAY
Banks in Moore county will be
closed today, Mecklenburg Day.
CARRAWAY CASE
ON CALENDAR FOR
TRIAL NEXT WEEK
Svendsen and Caron, Each Ac
cusing other. Face Fight For
Lives at Carthage
Eclipsing in interest all other cases
on the docket for next week’s term
of criminal court is the case of Rob.
ert Svendsen, youthful Swede, and
Jean Baptiste Caron, French Cana
dian, who will go on trial for theit
lives in connection with the knife
slaying last August of J. E- Carra*
way, operator of the Connecticut
Camp on U. S- Highway No. 1.
Carraway’s badly decomposed body
was found several days later in a
wooded spot near the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst double road and immed
iately a search was begun for tho
two young men who had been staying
at the Connecticut Camp for a few
days and in whose company Carra-
way was last seen.
A slip of paper bearing tlie ad
dress of a Reading, Mass., motorcycle
dealer, which was found in the tour,
ist camp cabin occupied by the two,
was the clue which finally “broke”
the case and led to the arrest of
Svendsen in Hamilton, Ontario, Can.
ada early in January-
Svendsen gave officers what in
formation he had concerning Caron,
known to him as “Griffith,” and tlie
search for the second man ended
late in February w’hen he was pick
ed off a freight train in his home
town of Waterloo, Quebec, Canada.
W'arm praise was accorded Deputy
H. H. Grimm for the fine work he
did in running down the wanted men.
Poth men have freely admitted to
officers that they participated in
the robbery-slaying, but each credits
the other with the actual stabbing.
Preston Blue and Wade Mitchell
will face manslaughter charges In
connection with the death in an au-
tomobile-truck collision of Mrs.
James and her infant son of Troy.
586 Totally Unemployed
in Moore, Census Shows
Farm Laborers Lead in Ranks
of Jobless Among Men, Ser-
vants Among Women
A total of 586 persons in Moore
county registered during the unem
ployment census conducted through
out the nation last winter as being
totally unemployed. Of these 360
were male and 226 female. The
breakdown shows that of the male
total, four were professional persons,
five farmers, five in the majiagerial
class, 18 clerks, 49 skilled workers
and foremen, 61 semi-skilled work
ers, 74 farm laborers, 68 other lab
orers, 27 servants, the balance not
giving their occupation.
Of the women, eight were profes
sional persons, ?0 clerks, 29 semi
skilled workers, 17 farm laborers,
98 servants, the others giving no oc
cupations-
The census also reveals 616 as hav
ing registered as partially unemploy
ed in this county, and 256 as emer
gency workers. Most of the unem
ployed were between 25 and 34 years
of age, there being 140 in that brack
et-
rniDUM AND YOUNTS TO
FEATURE DEDIC.XTION D.\Y
Smith W’. Purdum, Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General, and Paul
R. Younts, Charlotte postmaster
who is executive chairman of Nation
al Air Mail W'eek, will be the prin
cipal speakers at the formal dedica
tion of Southern Pines’ new post-
office next Saturday morning, May
28th, from 11:00 to 12:00 o'clock.
The program for the ceremonies will
be published in full in next week’s
Pilot.
Mayor D. G. Stutz requests Sou-
them Pines merchants and shopkeep
ers to close their places of business
from 11:00 o’clock until noon on Sat
urday, May 28th, during the hour of
the dedication exercises at the new
postoffice.
PILOT TO PROGNOSTICATE
RACE FOR CONGRESSMAN
In its issue next Friday, The Pilot
will publish the results of a straw
vote which this paper, in coopera
tion with one paper in each of the
other counties of the 8th Congression.
al district, is taking to ^ound Qut the
sentiment in the race for Represen
tative in Congress- It will al/Kj
show the trend between U- S. Sena
tor “Bob” Reynolds and Frank Han
cock, and In this county, the trend in
the races for Judge and solicitor of
the Recorder’s Court-