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VOL. 18, NO. 44.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, September 30, 1938.
SANDHILLERSSAFE
IN NEW ENGLAND
HURRICANE AREA
Verner Z. Reeds Suffer $100,-
000 Loss at Newport Home.—
Almet Jenks Escape
BOONES AT WESTHAMPTON
Winter residents of the Sandhills
escaped with their lives in the hurri
cane which swept the New England
and Long Island coasts a week ago,
but reports have come in of thrilling
moments and of considerable proper
ty loss.
The Newport, R. I. residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Verner Z. Reed of Pine-
hurst suffered damage estimated in
despatches at $100,000. Mr. and Mrs.
Reed are visiting friends in Newport
pending reconstruction of their home,
Terra Mare. "Water rolled through
the main floor after the windows
■were broken by the hurricane. Mrs.
Reed and servants escaped,” the re
port said.
Anxious friends here did not hear
from Mr. and Mrs- Almet Jenks, at
Leets Island, near Guilford, Conn.,
for a week after the storm. The Pi
lot received a telegram on Tuesday
saying: “Family ifrharmed. House
and barn untouched but trees prac
tically all down and place a general
wreck. Boat beached way inland but
apparently undamaged. Nearby build
Ings destroyed.”
Fifty of the 75 houses along the
ahore near the Salnnnet Country
Club, Little Compton, R. I., wh«re
the Roy Grinnells and Donald Ross
summer were totally destroyed.
Hundreds of trees on the Leonard
Tufts estate at Meredith, N. H., were
l)lov^'n down.
Mr. and Mra C. H. Durgin, en
route to Southern Pines, were held
up by the storm at Manchester, N.
H. The hotel In which they spsnt
the summer lost its roof.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Clyde Wilson of
Southern Pines were at Buowning’s
Beach, R. I., but escaped despite gen
eral destruction all about them.
Mr. Boone Telephones
Relatives and friends anxiously
awcuted word from a large number
in the stricken area. Mr. and Mrs.
Emmett E. Boone of the Pine Needles
Inn were tt Westhampton Beach, L.
I., where scores w’ere drowned. Mr.
Boone telephoned after the storm
that they were safe, but their hotel
suffered some dumage.
Others in the section reported safe
were: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Morell
at Peacedale, R- I-: Robert Pottle,
son of J. L. Pbttle of the Hollywood
Hotel, Providence; Maitland Grover,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gro
ver, Providence; Earl Crawford, vice-
president of the Industrial Trust
Company, Providence, son of Mrs. M.
R. Carpenter, Southern Pines; Miss
Elizabeth Macauley, daughter of
Charles Macauley, Southampton, L-
I.; Morris Eadie, son of Mrs. EJa-
die, Southern Pines, Rumford, R. I-;
Mrs. M. F. Tompkbis, Bellport, N.
Y., and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Barr
and their daughter, Mrs. S- M. Prior,
Hartford, Conn.
A hurricane is reported to have hit
Charleston, S. C., yesterday, causing
a number of casualties and heavy
property damage.
Books Open
Southern Pines Residents
Must Register Again To
Vote on Library Site
Registration books are now open
for th* special election to be held
in Southern Pines on October 24
to determine whether the Town
shall acquire the site on West
Broad street adjoining the pcstof.
flee for a Library building, for
which funds have been pledged by
the PWA, the Library association
and friends of the library. The
election is to approve a $12,000
bond issue for the purpose.
The Registrar, Hiram West
brook, will- be at the Municipal
Building tomorrow, Saturday, and
on Saturday, October 8th and Oc
tober 15th. No previous registra
tion qualifies a voter.
PINE NEEDLES INN
FISHING PRESERVE
Father Hannigan and
-.•V
FIVE CENTS
Jailed By Hitler’s Govet\'^ '•t
Guests To Have Use of 3,000
Acres Along Little River, Near
Fort Bragg Reservation
GOLF COURSE IMPROVED
NEITHER BURGIN
NOR DEANE MAY
BE NOMINATED
By A. S. Newcomb
"A man may work from sun to sun,
but woman’s work is never done.”
This old saw is not as true as it . „ , ^ ^
j j j i gress m Budapest, Hungary. Catho-
used to be when women made their ,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hogg of
Pinehurst in Group Taken
From Train in Austria
Father Hannigan of West Southern
Pines has ju.st returned from Italy,
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,
Hungary. Palestme, Greece and
'Egypt. Father Hannigan, with Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Hogg of Pinehurst and
a million other Catholic pilgrims,
went to attend the q^harlstic Con-
lic people from the four corners of
the earth went to Budapest to join
“We Build’
World Needs To Follow Ki-
wanis Club Motto, Says
Judge Vernon Cowper
ARMY AIR FORCES
ARRIVE SATURDAY
FOR MANEUVERS
36th Pursuit Squadron of 18
Planes To Be Stationed
at Knollvtrood
Waters Again Muddled by Ous
ter of Davidson Election Of
ficials by State Board
PICQUET LEASES CAROLINA
THEATRE IN PINEHURST
Charles W,. Picquet, manager of
the Carolina Theatres in Pinehurst
and Southern Pines, announced this
week that he has leased the Pine-
liurst theatre, individually for the
coming season. “Being strictly ‘on
our own’ we invite your patronage
and cooperation In making it out
standing for the high quality of Its
offerings,” writes Mr. Picquet In a
statement to the public.
The Pinehurst theatre Is opening
this Sunday night for a special pres
entation of “Marie Antoinette” with
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John
Barrymore and other stars. Popular
prices will prevail.
DR. FAIRLEY TO PREACH
Dr. W. M. Fairley of Raeford will
begin a series of meeting at the
Vass Presbyterian Church Monday ev
ening, October 10 at 7:30 o’clock.
So muddled is the situation Ki the
Eighth Congressional district that it
now appears probable neither C. B.
Deane of Rockingham nor W. O.
Burgin of Lexington will be the Dem.
ocratic nominee In the November
election. The latest developments are:
The State Board of Elections on
Wednesday ousted two Davidson
county election board members and
rejected a new certification of Dav
idson returns.
The board announced that it in
tended to suspend Its rules and “pro
ceed In a summary manner to deal
with the situation now cdnfronting
it."
Rumor of an immediate caucus of
the Eighth district Democratic Con
gressional committee In a county seat
other than the home towns of the
two candidates.
Opinion expressed by legal and po
litical leaders that the situation la
snarled as to make It unlikely eith
er Burgin or Deane can be finally
declared the nominee in time to get
his name on the ticket for the No
vember elections.
ft.;
Thrower’s Pharmacy
Acquired by Merrill
Sells Interest in Sandhill Drug
Company To His Partner,
3. T. Overton
own clothes, soap and candles and put
up fruit and vegetables for the men^ i,. ^ >
^ j 1 with their brethem m declaring their
tol**B to put down. But it is still'
true and always will be that work at
a Sandhills seasonal hotel is never
done, notwithstanding the fact that
it is closed several months each year.
No sooner are beds dismantled,
furniture covered and other equip
ment stowed for summer, than a big
crew of laborers and mechanics be
gin the work of repair, renovation and
improvement, to continue their la
bors until the very day when the
. i capital of Hungary,
doors are again thrown open for |
the reception of guests.
Managements are always busy
studying .conditions and formulat
ing plans to make their premises
more attractive, convenient and com
fortable, and to provide more and
better entertainment for their patrons.
Take The Pine Needles for exam-
pl<^. Achievements there this summer
have been many and various. Prob
ably the most Important was the
acquirement of a 3,000-acre hunting
and fishing preserve for the exclu-, _ ,
J I cut 4. j V, (. Father Hannigan along with Mon-
aive use of guests. Situated between
I faith in the Divinity of our Lord and
i Savior, Jesus Christ, and in pro-
I fesasing their staunch belief in the
Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy
Eucharist. Of all the nations only
Germany was not represented at the
Congress at Budapest. Hitler would
not permit even a representative of
the twenty-five million Catholics in
Germany to go to Budapest to wor
ship with the Catholic millions in the
The world knows that Hitler is
I trying to extinguish the light and force
j of religion in Germany,” says Fath-
i er Hannigan whose knowledge is
I first hand knowledge; that the whole
I ruthless machinery of Germany is
1 set to devitalize religion and make
j of it a pliant Instrument in the hands
iof the State.”
Imprisoned in Austria
Father Hannigan with eleven oth
er pilgrims had the honor of being
imprisoned by Hitler’s government-
Judge Vernon Cowper, presiding
over trial term of Superior Court in
Carthage this week, used the Ki-
wanis motto, “We Build,” as his
text in a timely and interesting talk
before the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
Wednesday noon in the library of the
Courthouse at Carthage-
“Have true builders ever had such
a challenge as today,” he said after
reviewing the advance of civilization.
“There are those who would tear to
pieces the civilization we have
wrought. War has never settled an
DAY AND NIGHT FLIGHTS
Everything is in readindfis for the
big doings next week at the Knoll-
wood Airport, Lieut. A. C. Goodwin
and a detachment of Field Artillery
men from Fort Bragg wound up their
labors preparatory to the arrival of
the 36th Pursuit Squadron, Acpected
tomorrow, Saturday, with 18 planes
for the maneuvers scheduled for this
section over the next two weeks.
Pursuit and attack planes will be
I stationed at the local field. The Head
quarters Squadron, 8th Purtault
the condition which now threaten to!
lead to another, and so it will be ad
Earl E. Merrill this week sold his
intertst In the Sandhill Drug Com-
pany to his partner, J. T- Overton,
and purchased the long established
Thrower Pharmacy at the corner of
West Broad street and New Hamp-
ohirp avenue. Southern Pines. Mr.
Me’ rill takes Immediate possession
and will open on Monday morning
under the name of Merrill’s Phar
macy, Inc. Mr. Overton will be sole
proprietor of the Sandhill Drug store,
also on West Broad street.
Mr. Merrill Is a native of South
ern Pines, a graduate of the local
high school and of the University of
North Carolina, class of 1930. Fol
lowing his graduation he entered the
employ of the Walgreen Pharmacy
at Portsmouth, Va., where he re
mained for four years. He then be
came affiliated with the late H. E,
Little River and the easterly boun
dary of Fort Bragg, Bine miles, 15
minutes ride, from the hotel, 'this
tract has long been famous for its
abundant supply of game, and the
meanderings of Little River consti
tute a three-mile waterfront. The
adjoining Fort Bragg reservation of
143,000 acres, where no hunting is
allowed, serves as an enormous sanc
tuary upon which wild game, espec
ially deer, propagate in large num
bers, and in fall and winter these
creatures wander at large over adja
cent territory. Pea fields have beSen
grown on the Pine Needles tract to
provide food ft'r quail, and the ar»*a
will be patrolled by Charlie Garner,
Keeper of the Preserve.
Prepare for Opening
Beside the customary repainting
and readying up of the hotel itself,
marked improvements In outbuild
ings, grounds and golf course will
soon be finished, ready for the for-
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State Kings Daughters
Meet Here Wednesday
Will Make Highland Pines Inn
Headquarters for 48th
Annual Convention
The N. C. branch of the Interna
tional Order of the King’s Daught
ers will hold the 48th annual con
vention in S«uthern Pines October
5-6, inclusive, with headquarters at
the Highland Pines Inn- The sessions
of the convention will convene In the
Church of Wide FeJlowship-
The board of directors will meet
Wednesday morning at 10:30 o’clock
and the convention proper virill get
under way at 2:00 o’clock In the af
ternoon.
Mrs. Hortense F. Moye, N. C,
branch president, will preside over
the entire conveatlon.
Thrower at the drug store of which' On Wednesday evening at 6:30
he now becomes owmer. He is vice-j the Sliver Cross circle of Rocklng-
presldent of the Southern Pines ham will be hosts to the entire state
Chamber of Commerce. ! assembled In convention at a dinner.
The Sandhill Drug Company was Mrs. Peyton Hartley, president of
formed by Merrill and Overton four) the S. C. Branch, will be guest
years ago during which time It has j speaker at this time. Mrs. Hartley
operated successfully. Both partners comes as convention guest and will
signor Euleau of Elmhurst, Long Is
land, N. Y.; Monsignor Valentino of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Monsignor Cova-
I leskie, also of Wilkes-Barre; the Rev,
Father Larkin of Detroit, Mich.; Mr
and Mrs. Martin Moylan with tfieir
daughter of Elmhurst, and the Misses
Jardine of Kinston. N. Y., were tak
en from the Venlce-Vlenna train as
prisoners. Father Hannigan and his
party were joyously on their way to
Vienna. Their passports had be€>n
stamped for Austria. They had every
right to believe that tfie official
stamp of the Austrian Government
on their passports would be honored.
Between the date when the Austrian
Consul in New York had stamped
these passports and the date of the
arrival of Father Hannigan’s group
in Austria, Hitler had stolen Aus-
j trla—just as ^e is now trying to do
j with the very beautiful country of
, Czechoslovakia,—so there was no
Austria: and as this group had no
passports for Germany, they were
thrown off the train. They were re
moved f^am the Venice-Vienna train
under guard and detained under guard
in a little "stone tavern” just beyond
the Italian border. It was high up
in the Austrian Alps. The name of
the town was Amoldsteln.
Sleep Out of Question
Father Hannigan tells how Incon
venienced were the ladies of the
party- The accon.modations were de
cidedly rural- The nights were cold,
and sleep wsis out of the question be
cause of the crowded conditions and
lack of bed clothes. Add to this dis
comfort the utter ignorance of the
language. But for Father Hannigan’s
knowledge of German the situation
would have been desperate. He acted
as interpreter, and wrangled food and
drink for his companions.
The German government made ab
solutely no effort to remedy this In
human treatment. The group of dis
tinguished American citizens was
taken from the train and left strand
ed by the i-ailroad track very much,
as Father Hannigan says, as sacks of
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TOB.\CCO MONEY BOOMS
MARRIAGE M.\BKET HERE
enjoy a wide acquaintance through
out the section.
ROWE, HART AND STEVENS
TO REPRESENT KIWANIS
Judge J. Vance Rowe, Robert L-
Hart and Eugene C. Stevens have
been elected delegates from the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club to the Caroiinas
district convention to be held next
month at Spartanburg, S. C. Alter
nates are A. L. Burney, Shelby Cullom
and Frank Webster.
be present at all meetings to lend aid
and take part In the discussions
when necessary.
Miss Easdale Shaw, Rockingham, Is
general convestion chairman, and
Mrs- Claude Gore, Rockingham, is
chairman of the credential commit
tee.
This convention seems to point to
one of the very best of the entire
48 conventions of the North Carolina
b -anch, and all King’s Daughters
aid friends are cordially invited to
at > end.
Tobacco money has stimulated bus
iness not only in the stores, but in
the marriage license office, as well,
as is shown by the past week’s
“sales”: R. B. Priest, Carthag'^ and
Verna Cowing, Williamston; rfyrdl#
Maness and iWilma Lambert, both of
Hemp; D. E. Cole, B*5>coe Route ^
and Beulah McKfnzie, West lind
Route 1; Edgar Kiser aua Ruth
Whitaker, both of Carthage Route 3;
Melvin Eugene Moore and Sarah
Jeanett Gamer, both of Hemp Route
2, ft
tice It, all would be well.
infinitum.” If the world could but • Pursuit Squadron and
adopt the Kiwanis slogan and prac-j^*'® 27th Pursuit Squadron will be
stationed at Pope Field, Fort Bragg,
and the 33d Pursuit Squadron at
Maxton Field, near Raeford. All are
from Langley Field, Va-, under com
mand of Lieut. Col. William E. Kep-
ner, who will make his headquarters
at Fort Bragg.
Civilians have been named at var
ious points throughout the Warning
Net Area, bounded by Woodleigh,
Wilson, Raleigh, Siler City, Rixking-
ham, Lumberton and Wilm.ington, all
inclusive, to report by telephone to
various observation posts when planes
$10,000 CAMPAIGN
FOR BOY’S SCHOOL
SITE IS LAUNCHED
C<pnmittees Named, Quotas As
signed ip All Towns in Coun
ty.—StiQtson Chairman
A committee for representatives of “enemy” planes wUl
the Chamber of Commerce of South-1
em Pines, Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions and ^^rons from the field nearest the
observation post reporting. There will
be both day and night flying. The
week of October 10th will see the
other organizations of Moore coun
ty that have endorsed and are spon
soring the donation of a site on ^ ^ ^
Midland Road for the North caro-’ ^
airoraft lights will cast beams into
lian Preparatory School for Boys, met
Tuesday morning at Jack’s Grill to
agree on quotas and assign names tor
a financial canvass in this county.
The committee to canvass the
comriunity is as follows: General
chairman, J. Fred Stlmson; Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce, R. L.
Hart; Sandhills Kiwanis Club, G. C-
Seymour, Aberdeen, P. T. Kelsey,
Southern Pines, Judge Hi. F. Seaw-
ell, Carthage, Charles W. Picquet,
the sky in search of "enemy” planes,
and will aid pursuit planes in locat
ing them.
Hying Schedule
Here’s the schedule, fPom Fort
Bt-agg:
Preliminary Phase—October 3,
4, 6 aind 7 from 7:00 a. m. l|t> 11.00
a. m. and from 6:00 p. m. to 10:90 p.
m.; October 5, 7:00 a. m. to 11:00 a.
m.
Prfticipal Phase—October 10, 12
Pinehursc and M. C. McDonald, West „nd 13 frwm 4:00 a m. to 8:00 a. m.
End; Rotary Club, L. T. Clark, Sou
thern Pines; Lions Club, E. L. Barbef,
Aberdeen; Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce, J. D. Arey.
Dr. Pfancis M. Osborne, executive
secretary of the Board of Trustees,
was present and reported that in
five adjoining counties of the Sand
hills committees had been appointed
and were ready to follow the leader
ship df Moore county In subscrip
tions to the donation of the select
ed site- The committee assembled ac-
and from 6:00 p. nf. to 10:00 p. m.;
October 11, 14 and 15, from 7:00 a.
m. to 11:00 a. m. and from 6:00 p.
m. to 10:00 p. m.
The warning net, during which
civilians will ra|>ort, will not operate
during the Preliminary phase; only
during the second week, or Princi
pal phase.
Civilian ships will be banned from
in this area from October 2 to 23d.
The public may view the maneu-
* , .. ^ . . I vers from any of the fields, but
cepted the resp>onsibility of raismg u u ^ „
^ I should not expect to see all or even
$10,000 and assigned the quotas as
follows:
Southern Pines, $3,000; Plns^urst,
$3,000; Aberdeen, $1,000; Carthage,
8 large part of the attacking or de
fending formations as the air missions
will be flown at varying heights un-
, „„„ , der varying wather conditions and
$1,000; H^p, $1,000; West End and
Vase, $1,000. '
It was reported that a number of
subscriptions had been made before
the meeting and others were made
by those present. The caavase is
now off to a good start.
Ark School Opens
Tenth Year Tuesday
hour perods, officers state.
[RICHARD ALLRED DIES OF
PNEUMONIA. AGED SEVEN
Richard Allred, the seven-year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan I. Allred,
died in Moore County Hospital last
Friday morning of pneumonia after
only a few days illness. He was in
Ad(fe Alexis Kerenoff, Noted ^cond ^ade m school, and a
Instructor in Dancing, To
Faculty.—Boasts 162 Alumni
The Ark School, Southern Pines, is
opening for Its 10th year next Tues
day, with a splendid enrollment of
pupils and Its faculty complete. This
private school, a distinct asset to the
Sandhills since Its opening under Mrs.
MUllcent A. Hayes in 1929, has the
proud record of sending forth 162
pupils to higher schools of learning
during that period.
Among prominent schools to which
The Ark has sent its alumni are
Milton Acfidemv. the Millbrook
School, Oldfield’s in Marjiand, Snlp-
1e>, Ethel Walker, The Hill, Madeira,
Asheville and Chatham Hall, to men-
tion only a few. The Ark has kinder
garten, sub-primary and grades from
the first through the eighth, and
makes much of extra-curriculum ac-
(Plea»e h*m U» pa^e five)
favorite with everyone who knew
him. The entire community sympa
thizes deeply with his parents In
their great loss. Besides his parents
he leaves a brother, Dan Allred, Jr.
Funeral services were held from his
home In Aberdeen Saturday after
noon, conducted by the Rev. E. M.
Harris, pastor of the Baptist Church,
with interment in Bethesda ceme
tery.
Out of town relatives attending
the services were his great-grand
mother, Mrs. J. M. Deaton of Troy;
an aunt, Mrs. J. H. Burnett of Bur-
gaw; William Huntley, Jr-, and wife,
of Cb,?nel Hill; Charlton Huntl«y of
Presbyterian College, Clinton, S. C.;
Mr. and Mrs. Wllmer McDonald of
Raeford; .S. T. Ewing, D. C. Ewing,
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Ewing and Wil
liam Ewing of Candor; Mrs. McDuf
fie Clark of Candor, and Will Ewing
of Biscoe.