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VOL. 18. NO. 46.
of the Sandhill Territory of 1 ^h Carolina
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 14, 1938. ■J.'S FIVE CENTJ*
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NEWEI.L, JONES,TO
OPEN REPUBLICAN
CAMPAIGN HERE
State Chairman and Congres
sional Candidate To Speak
in Carthage Nfext Friday
JONAS AT SANFORD
Jake Newell of Charlotte, Repub-
lican State Chairman, and John R.
Jones of Lexington, Republican can
didate for Representative in Congress
Jrom the 8th district, will be prin
cipal speakers at a rally to be held
next Friday night, October 21st, in
the courthouse at Carthage. Both are
speakers of statewide reputation, Mr.
Newell being frequently referred to
as the ‘‘Will Rogers” of North CJar-
olina.
Mr. Jones, the only Republican so-
licitor in the state, is a former law
partner of Judge Hayes and is reput
edly a brilliant lawyer and speaker.
Charles R. Jones, Rejublican can-
'didate for the United States Senate
against Senator “Bob” Reynolds, is
speaking tonight, Friday, in Sanford,
the nearest he will get to Moore coun.
ty during the campaign. A number
from the Sandhills plan to drive
over to Sanford for the meeting.
Here Next Week
JAKE NEWELL
Install New Legion
Officers Here Oct. 20
Francis M. Dwight Commander
of Sandhill Post for 1939.—^To
Hear About Los Angeles
The October meeting of Sandhills
Post, American Legion will be held at
the Legion clumhouse in Southern
Pinea on Thursday night, October
20th for the purpose of installing the
post officers for 1939, Commander
Shields Cameron announces.
Prior to the installation ceremony
the retiring commander has asked
that all retiring officers submit a
report of activities during the past
year wih recommendations fot the In
coming officers.
Invitation has been extended to
■various Legion officials in this sec
tion of the state to attend the instal
lation ceremony. Also the members
of the newly organized Sons of the
Legion under command of their lead
er, Captain A. R. McDaniels are ex
pected to attend as an organization,
and watch their daddies inducted into
■office.
Invitation is extended to all visit
ing ex-servlcemen and members of
the Spanish War Veterans Camp to
attend the installation.
A report from District Command
er John H. Stephenson, who attend
ed the national convention at Los An
geles, Col., is looked forward to with
interest. t
The officers to be installed are
Francis M. Dwight, as commander;
E. L. McBryde, E. D. Andrews and
Charles V. Fields, as first, second
and third vice-commanders respec
tively: L. L. Wooley, chaplain; Harry
R. Zirkle, sergeant-at-arms; Rassie
Wicker, historian; J. Vance Rowe,
guai’dianship officer; J. F. Sinclair,
athletic officer; A. R. McDaniels,
child welfare: D. C. Phillips, pub
licity officer; L. V. O’Callaghan, em
ployment officer; John H. Stephen
son, captain of boy’s squadron. The
•adjutant and finance officer are to
be appointed at this meeting by the
new commander and will be formally
installed along with the above nam
ed.
Commander Cameron requests ali
members to be at the clubhouse by
8:00 p. m., October 20th and that all
having Legion caps or uniform to
Wear same in honor of the incoming
officers.
BELIEVED BURNED
TO DEATH IN FIRE
No Trace Found of Well Known
Manly Resident After House
Is Destroyed
Grinnells Have Narrow Escape
In Hurricane at Providence, R. I.
Parking Lot Under Water Few I
Minutes After They Left.— !
Floating Bed Saves Dog
Rcy A, Grinnell, manager of the .
Southern Pines Country Club, told
lellow members of the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club on Wednesday at their
HAD THREATENED SUICIDE weekly meeting some of the trage-
the
Heads Kiwanis
The body of Frank Schirmer, well
known resident of Manly, is believed
to be in the ashes of his home which i
dies of the hurricane along
Rhode Island coast, in which he and
his family narrowly escaped death.
The Grinnells have just retuned
burned to the ground at an early j house at Sakonet
hour yesterday morning. Though no|p^j„^ ^ j. ^he day the hurricane
trace of his remains had been found struck they were shopping in Prov-
at the time The Pilot went to press,! ^ park-
neither had Mr. Schirmer put in an j ^ buUding collapsed
appearance at the scene of the fire, j neaj. gtore in which they were
and he is reported as having threat-1 niaking a purchase they started for
ened. at various times, to kill him- ^^^eir car. The wind was of such ve
locity it took them 15 minutes to
eelf.
Bruce Cameron, who resides on
the old road leading from Southern
Pines to Manly, discovered the fire
traverse a distance to their car
which ordinarily would have taken
about two minutes, and during this
THAD EURE
THAD EURE, LANG
SPE.4K TUESDAY AT
DEMOCRAT RALLY
Secretary of State, National
Youth Administrator on Pro
gram at Courthouse
shortly after 4:00 o’clock yesterday, j time one of the children was blown
Thursday morning. The house was i out of his father’s hand and down
then beyond saving, but Mr. Cam- the street where he was rescued by a
eron drove to Southern Pines and | policeman.
turned in an alarm, the department! Once in the parking lot Mr. Grin-
here responding promptly.
Search Ruing for Body
Mr. Schirmer, known here as an
eccentric character, had resided alone
in the house for some 15 years. Ke
owned several houses nearby, and
nell at first thought it would be
wise, in the face of such wind, to
remain there in the car. But when
water began to rise over the side
walk he made a qui:k getaway to
higher parts of town, dodging trees,
. . „ , , , ^ live wires and falling debris. Within
an 80-foot well and pumping plant . . ^ ^4.
, , , . „ a few mmutes after they had left the
J. VANCE ROWE
OPEN COUNTY CAMPAIGN
Democrats will open their cam
paign in Moore county this coming
week with a rally in the courthouse
at Carthage on Tuesday night at
7:30 o’clock.
under his own house supplied water
to the adjacent buildings. He was
born in New Orleans, La., on Feb
ruary 13, 1852. He had served a num
ber of years as chef on one of the
western railroads before coming here
to live upon retirement in 1891. His
father was William Schirmer, mo
ther Louisa Marahn, both natives of
Germany. Two sieters and a nephew,
A. M. Scbinner, live in New York
Coroner Fry and Southern Pines
firemen spent much of yesterday at
the ruins waiting for them to cool
sufficiently for a thorough search for
Mr. Schirmer’s body.
Stunt Ni^ht To Offer
Variety Bill Oct. 21
A Little Bit of Everything on
Program at Southern Pines
School Auditorium
parking lot it was under 15 feet
of water, and persons who remained
there were drowned in their cars.
They also narrowly escaped death on
their drive attempting to get out of
town. A bridge which they planned
to cross was completely covered by
water just a few minutes before
they reached it, and 37 persons were
drowned.
The wind, Mr. Grinnell stated,
reached a velocity of 187 miles per
hour at one time. Water in Provi
dence rose 16 feet above normal high
tide before the 26-foot tidal wave
hit. Sakonet Point, was completely
inundated, many houses washed away.
J. VANCE ROWE
16TH PRESIDENT
OF KIWANIS CLUB
L\ TO SELL ONLY
f JO IN BONDS
FOR LIBRARY SITE
Three Thousand Cut Off Pro
ject on Which Citizens Vote on
October 24
LAST DAYS TO REGISTER
Judge of Recorder’s Court Elect
ed at Annual Meeting; Judge
Seawell Vice-President
J, Vance Rowe of Aberdeen, judge
of the Moore county Recorder’s
Court, was elected president of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at Its an
nual meeting held on Wednesday in
the Southern Pines Baptist Church.
Judge Rowe takes office next month,
for a one year term.
Another judge, Herbert F. Seawell,
Sr. of Carthage, former member of
the United States Board of Tax Ap
peals in Washington, was elected
~ ’I vice-president, Richard F. Tarlton re-
the coast line so altered as to re-1 / ^ ^ ^ r n
D-rtvpm clectcd trcasurcr, and the following
quire re-surveying by the govern- ^ » tt,
nine feet of water ‘Chosen to the board of directors: F.
A variety bill of entertainment will j
be offered the public by the Southern!
ment. There was
in his house, and his desk was found
one-quarter of a mile away on the
golf course. His dog rode out the
storm on a bed floating in the wa
ter. He has 10,000 square feet of
Shelby Cullum and Paul Dana of
Pinehurst, John Howarth, Glenn Me.
Elroy and Dr. W. E. Overcash of
Southern Pines, and Talbot Johnson
and G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen.
Judge Rowe becomes the 16th
land that doesn’t >>elong to him
' except by right of possession—land | president of the Kiwanis Club here-
Pines school in the High School aud-, *: . , nrooertv Diling Dr. WUliam C. Mudgett was the first
Secretao- of Slate Thad o,-th.™ .,rvl„g d.H.g
tober 21st. The range of program; ’ "
. ^ „ f - X have it who 11 take it away,
numbers is from first grade to sen-1
I said
ior songsters, from the gay nineties '
to the ultra present, from New York’s . . ^
World’s Fair grounds to the Munich j A Derdeen OV£T lOP
Conference table, from a day at the Boys’ School Quota
Raleigh, and John A. Lang of Car
thage, head of the National Youth
Administration, will be the princi
pal speakers on the program. Others
prominent in county affairs will make
brief talks. The public is invited.
From now until election Democrat
ic meetings will be held in various ing and romancing, playlets and pan- j Amount Assigned; Campaign
I Going Nicely
races to a trip to the movies. Therf
he ' the past 15 years have been J. Tal
bot Johnson, Edwin T, McKelthen,
Frank Shamburger and Dr. E. M.
Medlin of Aberdeen, Richard Tufts,
Paul Dana, Herbert Vail, C- W. Pic-
quet and Willard Dunlop of Pine-
' hurst, the late Dr. J. W. Dickie, Nel
will be dialogue and dancing, rollick-j First Town in County To I^ise Hyde, the Rev. J. Fred Stim-
DEANE-BUBOIN CONTEST
HOPELESSLY DEADLOCKED
As The Pilot went to press the
Deane-Burgin contest for the Demo
cratic nomination for Representative
in Congress from this 8th district
was still deadlocked, so tangled up in
legal proceedings that it appeared
evident, unless n compromise candi
date is rushed in at the last moment,
there will be no Democratic nomi
nee on the ticket- In which case the
Republican candidate, John R. Jones
of North Wilkesboro, will be the dis-
trict’s next Cong -essman.
parts of the county in the interest of. tomine, banter and burlesque,
the candidacy of Robert R. Reynolds j Qjjg feature Iht't will afford amuse-
for re-election to the Unied States nig^t especially for alumni and par-
Senate, for the 8th District Repre-, faculty take-off.
sentative in Congress rf the Deane-1 Proceeds will be used to buy ath-
Burgin case is determined in time! jgtic equipment to supplement the
for one or the other to get on the present supply for the tennis, baskct-
ticket, and for county offices.
TWO NEW “MEMBERS” ARE
WELCOMED BY KIWANLANS
John Leon Seymour, son of O- Leon
Seymour of Aberdeen, and William
Earl Overcash, Jr., son of Dr. Over
cash of Southern Pines, were pre
sented as “new members” of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at the club’s
meeting Wednesday in the Southern
Pines Baptist Church. Not yet cut of
the Moore County Hospital where the
ball and baseball groups, and to fur
nish material for new sports which
Towai-d the $10,000 expected of
Moore county to purchase 100 acres
son and Ralph Chandler of Southern
Pines.
The club plans to stress its sup.
Tomorrow, Saturday, Is the final
day for registration for the special
Southern Pines election to authorize
a bond issue for purchase by the
city of the property on West Broad
street adjoining the postoffice as a
site for a nev. library building. The
election will be held on Monday, Oc
tober 24. Only those especially reg
istered for this election will be eligi
ble to vote. The books arg open at
the Municipal Building, with Hiram
Westbrook as registrar.
Meanwhile, the amount to be
raised by this bond issue, If approv.
ed by the voters, has been reduced
from the advertised total of $12,000
to the original price of the property,
$9,000. Mayor D. G. Sutz explained
this action in a statement given The
Pilot yesterday, which reads as fol
lows:
Statement, by Mayor
“The public’s attention is call
ed to the fact that, although the
advertsement appearing In this
paper called for a bond Issue
of $12,000, of which $9,000 is for
^ the purchase of the site on which
is to be built a public library and
$3,000 to go toward the con
struction of building and Im
provement of grounds, the bond
attorneys have ruled that a mun-
Ictpallty cannot Utsue bonds for
construction of the proposed
building.
“The Town Board of Commis
sioners has, therefore, authorized
the sale of $9,000 only, of the
proposed bond Issue, Instead of
$12,000 as originally stated, and
all these funds will be used
solely for the purchase of lot
on which it is proposed to erect
a library building for which we
have received a grant of $11,250
from the Public Works Admin
istration. The advertisements
will remain the same, but only
$9,000 of the bonds will be sold”
The approval of the bond issue and
the subsequent issue of $9,000 in
bonds will give to Southern Pines a
new park, or civic center, a new 11-
brary building, plans for which have
been sketched by Aymar Embury,
architect of the postoffice, and land
on which at some later date a mun
icipal office building could be erect
ed. Funds for the library building,
in addition to the government grant
of $11,250, have been subscribed by
the Library Association and its
port of the Moore County Hospital, , friends- In short, approval of a $9,-
of Midland Farms property on Mid- ' its vocational guidance work, its un- qOO loan will mean a $25,000 invest-
land Road, halfway between Pine- der privileged child work and good I ment for Southern Pines.
hurst and Southern Pines, for the citizenship during the coming year. |
site of the proposed North Carolina it will present its annual Builder’s
Preparatory School for Boys, the peo- Cup to a citizen of the county ad-
ple of Aberdeen have pledged their I judged to have done outstanding
the directors. Miss Aline Todd and of ^i_O00, thus taking the lead work in the community at a meet-1
ing early in December. This cup |
A. C. Dawson, plan to introduce this, county. Of the several organ-
year. Children of all departments will jzations participating in Aberdeen G.
C. Seymour, appointed by the Sand-
share the use of this material.
The following is a complete pro
gram for the occasion;
Songs, First Grade; Songs, Sec
ond Grade; The World’s Fair, 'Third
Grade; The Dude’s Backset, Fourth
Grade; /V Grave jPituatlon, Fifth
Grade: A Family at the Movies, Sixth
Grade; The Munich Conference, Sev-
two young men were born during enth Grade; Bicycle For’Two, Eighth
the past week, tkey were represented Grade: Faculty Take-Off, flinth
at the meeting by dolls, and were wel- Grade; Track Meet, Tenth Grade;
comed by Dr. T. A. Cheatham of j Voiceless Vadervllle, Eleventh Grade.
Pinehurst. Their papas are Kiwan-1 Grade
ians.
‘BL-^CK-OUT' IN SANDHILLS
DUE AT PILOT PRESS TIME
The Pilot went to press last night
in anticipation of the Imminent
shriek of the Southern Pines fire si
ren, the warning to citizens to dark
en the city against an “air raid” by
enemy bombers from Langley Field,
Va. The “black-out” ordered as one
feature of the Army Air Corps man
euvers here was scheduled for some
time between sunset and 10:00 p. m.
PROPERTY IN PINEHURST
SOLD TO NEW YORKERS
Mr. and Mrs. R- W. White of New
York City have purchased property
at the corner of Linden Road and
McKenzie Road in Pinehurst on which
they propose to build a winter resi
dence. Their lot Is located diagon
ally across the street from the Hen
ry Hornblower and Daniel Wing
homes. The sale was consummated
hills Kiwanis Club from Aberdeen,
took charge and with characteristic
promptness soon had the town’s quo
ta assured.
Work in other parts of the county
is progressing satisfactorily In charge
of a joint committee from all the civ
ic and service organizations, headed
by the Rev. J- Fred Stimson of Sou
thern Pines as general chairman. The
following quotas were agreed upon
by the committee: Southern Pines,
$3,000; Pinehurst, $3,000; Aberdeen,
$1 000: Carthage, $1,000; Hemp, $1,-
000; West End, Va.ss, etc., H.OOO-
When Moore county has completed
Us auota, an additional $10,000 will
be raised In counties adjoining this,
toward purchase of other property
needed for the school. Dr. Osborne
states.
was awarded last year to Mrs. T. A.
Cheatham of Pinehurst, the year be
fore to Dr. H. E- Bowman of Aber
deen, and othei* recipients in the past
have been Leonard Tufts, Bion H.
Butler, John R. McQueen, Simeon
B. Chapman and Frank Buchan.
VILL.\<iE CHAPEL RESUMES
The Village Chapel in Pinehurst,
closed during the summer months,
resumes services this Sunday mom-
fhrough the L. L. Biddle, II agency Ing, Dr. T. A. Cheatham, the rector
in Pinehurst. announces.
No Such Thing As Old
Age Pension in County
And 0«ly 290 Can Be Helped
From State Aid Allotment,
Says Mrs. Brown
“How can I get it across to the
people that North Carolina does not
have old age pensions?” Mrs Les
lie Brown inquired of us, almost
frantically. “I can’t make them un
derstand.”
She went on to explain that some
states do have pensions for the aged
citizens, but that North Carolina has
only old age assistance and that
Moore county can assist from these
funds, according to the State al
lotment. only 290 persons. Up to
(Plea$e turn to page eight)
Silver Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot John
son To Celebrate 25th An
niversary Next Friday
Mr. and Mrs- J. Talbot John
son of Aberdeen have issued In-
vitations for & reception cele
brating their 25th wedding anni
versary on Friday evening, Oc
tober 21st from 8:00 untU 11:00
o'clock. Mi -s Kate Halcombe arid
Mr. Johnson were married In
Southern Pines on that date In
1913, with 20 relatives and
friends of bride and groom In
-heir wedding party. Every one
Df the twenty is living today and
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are hope
ful and expectant that all wUl
be present at their silver wed
ding.
Among those who will be here
for the celebration, whi-h vill be
it the Johnson home, are Mr-
lohnson’s brother, Lieut. Com
mander Leslie Felix Johnson, U. S.
who is en route from Brazil; his
lister, Mrs. Nell Mizelle of New
Orleans, La., and his brother Jack
Df Kansas.