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SotUhcTn Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, ()ctoi)er 21, 1938.
FIVE CENTS
FT.BRAGG SCENE OF
HUGE DISPLAY OF
MILITARY MIGHT
300 Soldiers, Searchlights and
Guns in Demonstration
Viewed by Crowds
REVIEWED llV GOVERN'OR
Scores from the Sandhills section
saw 5,300 armed soldiers, 600 mo
torized pieces of artillery, most of the
anti-aircraft guns east of the Miss
issippi, and all but two or three of
the Army's great aerial searchlights
in the greatest display of military
might ever staged in this section of
the country, on Wednesday nigh at
Fort Bragg. ^
Cellophaned searchlights crossed
their rays and formed a brilliant hue
of colors high in the air. The lights,
too, were trained on the caravan of
might, so long that it took almost
two hours to pass.
Highways were jammed and hun
dreds unable to see the parade be
cause their cars were parked miles
away. Patrolmen were unable to
clear the roads and the tooting of
horns sounded against the creaking
of tons of heavy cannon being “mov
ed up” figuratively to annihilate en
emy positions.
As the various sections passed the
reviewing stand where Governor
Hoey sat, Captain Paul Nelson of the
coast artillery and Lieutenant Paul
Clark advised the spectators w'hat
■was taking place.
There was no actual firing of ma
chine gims and antiaircraft weapons.
That was performed in the afternoon.
The guns were aimed at “sleeves”
being towed by airplanes at high al
titudes.
Among those honored at the review
were the chiefs of civilian observa-
lion posts who recently brought cm-
mendation from army officers for
their ability to detect “invading”
planes at high altitude both day and
night. Those same chiefs, too, were
praised for their work the night
when nearly 70 towns in eastern
North Carolina were “blacked out"
in an effort to test theability of pi
lots from Langley Field, Va., to
reach Fort Bragg without ground aid.
The chiefs and their assistants were
entertained at a regular army dinner
late Wednesday afternoon.
Saturday’s “Blackout*'
The “black-out” in this sectif'n of
the state last Thursday night was
generally considered to be a success.
In a statement to The Pilot by Brig
adier General Fulton Q. C. Gardner,
Defence Commander of the Joint
Aircraft-Air Corps exercises, he said;
“This exercise has demonstrated
conclusively that the citizens of this
state can, by volunteer cooperation,
man a warning net with such effi
ciency as to insure that it will be
an asset of incalculable value in the
defence of their homes against air
attack in war.
“The blackout conducted involved
some 60 cities and towns and covered
some 15,000 square miles, with a to
tal population of some 750,000 people.
It was by far the most extensive
blackout ever conducted in this coun
try. In so far a3 concerned the cities
or towns' involved it was most ef
fective. It brought out the fact that
perhaps the chief problem to be solv
ed in making a blackout completely
effective in war will be that of in
suring that motorists on the prmci-
pal roads between towns extinguish
their headlights during the blackout.
“The warning net and the blackout
in this exercise constituted the great
est cooperative and volunteer effort
since the world war on the part of
•our citizens in their own defense.”
KOTARY CLIB HEARS T.VLK
BY SANFORD EDITOR
Sketch of Proposed Civic Center To Be Voted Upon Monday
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PT?o?o5rD Civtc ctnTiu,
Building & Loan League To
Hear Congressman Clark
At Meeting in Aberdeen
To Address B. & L.
Fifth District (iroup, 150
Strong, Has Prominent Speak
ers on Monday Program
START PLAY ON '
GRASS GREEKS AT'
S. P. CLUB OCT. 80
Revamped No. 1 Course in Ex
cellent Condition.—Club Grill
Now Open
TOURNAMENTS PLANNED
The new grass greens on the No.
i 1 course of the Southern Pines Coun
try Club will be ready for play on
Sunday, October 30, club officials an
nounced this week. The greens, in
temporary use for the first time
when the Seaboard Golf Association
met here last month, are now in ex
cellent condition and are a mark
ed improvement to this popular lay
out.
Club officials announce also the
greens fee this winter will be $1.50
per day, with special rates for week
ly, monthly or seasonal play. Roy
Grinnell will again be in charge of.
I the course and ail golf activities at
the club. The clubhouse and office are
in charge of Jerry Hall, of W'est
Palm Beach, Florida, and Mrs. A. E.
Murphy of The Avolon, Virginia
Beach, Virginia is in charge of The
Grill. The Grill has already opened
and a number of parties have been
held there during the past two weeks.
The Southern Pines Rotary Club has
arranged to hold its weekly luncheon
meeting at The Grill each Friday.
The main ballroom of the clubhouse
is to be repainted and renovated dur
ing the next week, but this will not
interfere with the operaion of The
Grill, it is said.
The golf tournament .schedule at
the Country Club wll be announced
within the next few weeks, with fre
quent events for both men and wo
men players.
Vote Earlyl
Polls open Monday, Sunrise
to Sunset, For Ralloting
On Civic Center
^aestion: Shall Southern Pines is
sue $9,000 in bonds for purchase
of Hairington property adjoin
ing Po?toffioe on West Broad
street, as site for new Library
Building for which U. S. gov
ernment has authorized a grant
of $11,250 and balance of cost of
building has been subscribed?
Polling Place: Municipal Build
ing, East Broad street, Southern
Pines.
Election Day: Monday, October
24, 1938.
V^oting Hours: Sunrise (6:35 a.
m.) to sunset (5:35 p. m.).
Eligible to Vote: Only residents
who have specifically registered
for this special election.
VOTE MONDAY ON
ACQUISITION OF
LIBRARY SITE
Only 359 Eligible to Ballot on
$9,000 Bond Issue in South
ern Pines
“Eyesig-ht Is Priceless,
But Light Is Cheap”
Kiwanians Hear Talk on Proper
Illumination by C. P. & L.
Official
Montgomery Raising
$1,500 For Boys School
The Southern Pines Rotary Club
members heard William E. Horner,
editor and publisher of the Sanford
Herald, at their meeting in Jack’s
Grill last Friday noon. Mr. Homer
recently returned from a trip abroad
and told the Rotarians of his ex
periences over thert', making a most
interesting talk-
The Rotary Club will honcrforth
meet in The Grill at the Southern
t^nes Countiy Club each Friday
Campaign for $20,000 in Moore j
and Adjoining Counties Now ,
Well Under Way I
While the Moore County Commit
tee is raising $10,000 toward the pur
chase of site and property for the
projected Preparatory School for
Boys on the Midland Road halfway
between Pinehurst and Southern ^
Pines, other counties adjoining j
Moore, with Montgomery county ^
now in the lead, are setting up com- ,
mittees to ad their contributions for
an equal amount.
Last week a representative group
of Montgomery citizens met in Troy
and agreed to raise $1,500 as their
quota and began at once solicitation.
In four other counties similar com
mittees are jjartially setj up aud quotas
being agreed upon. The total expected
of Moore and adjoining counties is
$20,000 and when this amount has
been subscribed for the property the
state-wide and general campaign for |
building.: and endowment will be put
in :uu!ion. I
The following persons are sei’ving |
on the Montgomery County Commit- 1
tee or giving their financial help in ;
making up the $1,500 quota for their .
)unty:
Judge Robt. T. Poole, Judge Arm
strong, Allen Nance, E. T. Rej’nolds,
(Plcui,. tarn to p'.g< five) [
Hugh Iseley, manager of the com
mercial and residential sales de
partments of the Carolina Power &
Light Company, told the Kiwanis
Club something of the importance of
proper lighting on eyesight at the
club's weekly meeting held Wednes
day noon in the Pinehurst Commun
ity Church.
One of every five school children
has deficient sight, he said. This
Increases to 40 percent when they
reach |their college years; at 40,
three of five persons has impaired
eyesight, and from 60 on the figure
approaches 100 percent- He told of
the energy it takes to see and read,
of the safety level of light. The av
erage American home is well be
low the safety level; so is the av
erage school and factory.
Three factors are involved in see
ing: the eye, the task and the light.
The only one of these which can be
altered easily is light, and he told
of the work his company has been
doing and is doing to aid the pub
lic in preserving their eyesight
through proper lightin^y methods.
“Eyesight is priceless; light is
cheap,” he concluded.
DEMOCRATS HE.VR ISSUES
IN MEETING AT C.VRTIIAGE
A large crowd gathered in the
courthouse at Carthage on Tuesday
night for the opening of the Demo
cratic campaign in Moore county,
and heard speeches by Secretary of
State Thad Eure and National Youth
Administrator John A. Lang of Car
thage. , Prominent local Democrats
also spoke, including M. G. Boyette,
candidate for State Senator.
jonb:r and neweix to
SPEAK AT C AUTIIAGE TONIGHT
John R. Jones of North Wilkerboro,
Rci'ublican candidate for Reprt-.sen-
lative in C<nigress from the F.ighth
Di.‘?tri<'t, and Jake Newell of Char
lotte, Rc-publican Ptate chairman, will
.''ildress a r;>’ly tmiight, Friday, in
'^arthage.
POLLS OPEN ALL DAY
Southern Pines votes on Monday
on the question of issuing $9,000 in
bonds for the purchase of the site ad
joining the postoffice property on
West Broad street for a new library
building and proposed Civic Center,
A special registration was necessary
aird only those so registered are en
titled to vote. Hiram Westbrook, reg
istrar, reports that only 359 residents
of the city fall into this classifica
tion, so that 180 affirmative votes
will carry the bond issue.
Only the approval of the bond is
sue stands in the way of immediate
starting of the new Southern Pines
Library building. The federal govern
ment has authorized a grant of $11,-
250 toward the structure; the library
association and friends of the li
brary have pledged the balance nec
essary for its completion, and Ay-
mar Embury, noted architect, has
drawn plans in keeping with the
postoffice building next door, for
which he was also the designing ar
chitect.
Advertisements calling the special
election for the bond issue placed the
amount to be raised at $12,000. This
amount hag since been reduced to
$9,000, the actual price of the prop
erty desired. Voters approved a $9,000
bond issue in July for the same pur
pose, but due to a legal technicality
in the ^advertising, it was necessary
to call this second election to be held
on Monday.
Mr. Westbrook requests all tnose
registered to vote early. The polls will
be open from sunrise, or 6:35 a. m.,
until sundown, or 5:35 p. m. at the
Municipal Building.
Governor May Settle
Burgin-Deane Dispute
Expected To Ask Contestants
to step Aside in Favor of
Compromise Candidate
HON. J. BAYARD CL.\RK
FARMERS TO PICK
COMMIHEE FOR
CROP PROGRAMS
Meetings To Be Held Through
out County Next Week,
County Agent Announces
TO SERVE THRU 1939
After the State Supreme Court on
Wednesday sent the Burgin-Deane
Congressional election dispute back
again to Superior Court Judge W. C.
Harris with instructions to “decide
the case as a matter of law on the
facts found, words frome from Ral
eigh that Governor Hoey would in
all probability intercede in an effort
to get a Democratic nominee on the
ticket before it is too late. It was
reported he would personally ask both
Deane and Burgin to retire in favor
of a compromise canndidate, prob
ably the present Representative of
the Eighth district, J- Walter Lam
beth of Thomasville.
The Deane-Burgin case has been
see-sawing back and forth In courts
and the offices of the State Electioi'i
Board since the second primary in
July. Ballots were supposed to have
been printed more than a week ago
and the Republican candidate, John
R. Jones, h;iH made demanCTi o:-
State authorities to proceed with thi
printing of the ballots.
“Some time the first of the week
We shall start holding a series of
meetings for the purpose of electing
committeemen to handle the 1938
Agricultural program,’’ E. H. Garri
son. Jr., County Agent, announces.
“Notices will be mailed to all par
ties, including tenants, on the fai-ms,
this year. These meetings will prob
ably be held at Vasss for Greenwood
and McNeill townships; at West End
for Sandhills, Mineral Springs and
Bensalem' at Putnam for Ritters,
Sheffield and Deep River, and at
Carthage for Carthage township.
When you receive the notice of the
meeting, please come to the place
that the notice calls for. Lists of pro
ducers in the different townships will
have to be checked and we do
want each one’s vote to count.
“It will be necessary to elect some
good men at each of these meetings.
With this in mind I hope that each
one will begin to think about the
matter and try to get a group of
men who will be just as fair with
everyone as they possibly can. The
men elected will be used all during
the coming year if the program for
1939 carries. I understand now - that
the vote on the program will be
held some time during the first part
of December. Remember that this
is your program and it is your com
mittee that you are electing. Please
try to take in the meeting when
you get y ' notice. If you have
complied with the program this yfar
you are entitled to a vote.”
LIGHTS OFF IN WEYMOUTH
SECTION S.ATURD.VY, 2 to .5
To make necessary improvements
in their lines Carolina Power &
Light Coftipany officials have an
nounced a hour suspension of service
in one section of Southern Pines to
morrow, Saturday afternoon. The
section east of Ashe street and nor
th of Pennsylvania avenue will be
affected, between the hours of 2:00
a.'.r' 5:00 o’clock, weather permitting
the necessary construction work.
BANQUET IN EVENING
More than 125 buildings and loan
directors and officials in ten coun
ties will assemble at a dinner meet
ing, starting at 6:30 p. m. at the
Aberdeen Graded School Building
next Monday, October 24th. This dis
trict, with 21 associations, will have
an excellent attendance, much great
er than last year, it was predicted
today by R. L. Chandler of Southern
Pines, who is president of the group
and will preside at the meetings.
J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville, U.
S. Representative in Congre.ss, will
give the principal address of the
evening. The following will be intro
duced and make a few remarks:
Mayor J. B. Craven of Lexington, pres,
ident of the North Carolina Build
ing and Loan League; Martin F.
Gaudian, of Raleigh, executive secre
tary of the league; George W. Oone,
of Raleigh, deputy insurance com
missioner and Joseph H. Holt, of
the Federal Home Loan Bank of
Winston-Salem. J. E. Brinn of San
ford, a member of the Keesler Me
morial Committee, will explain the
details of the Keesler Memorial Slo
gan contest, which is to be conducted
by the North Carolina Building and
Loan League this fall,
i G. C. Seymour and Mrs. E. H.
Pleasants comprise the Aberdeen
r.ommittee in charge of arrangements.
The afternoon meeting, starting
at 4:00 o’clock, wil be devoted to a
round-table discussion of building and
loan policies such as full paid and
prepaid shares, dividend rates, con
struction loan procedure, advertising
and business development methods,
etc.
The Pinehurst Quartet will enter
tain for the dinner meeting. A com
plete program of the meetings will be
found on Page six.
New Aberdeen Hosiery
Mill Near Completion
President of Crystal Company of
New York, With New Superin
tendent, Inspects Plant
W'. H. Miller of New York, presi
dent of the Crystal Hosiery Com
pany, soon to locate in Aberdeen,
spent last Saturday here looking over
the new building on the Aberdeen-
Pinehurst road, and expressed satis
faction at the progress made. He was
accompanied here by Ernest Khett-
berg, who will be superintendent of
the Aberdeen plant where full-fash
ioned hosiery will be manufactured.
As soon as the wiring and heating
contracts at the mill are comp.eted
the huge machinery will start mov
ing, Mr. Miller said. Ten machines,
each Weighing 15 tons, will be ship
ped here. Th<> company plans to use
local lai'or as much as possi'oie, and
preference will be given to thoy; hav
ing a high school education, Mr.
Rhettberg will personally intsrview
all applicants for positions' when the
time comes.
FRANK SOHIRMER’S BODY
FOUND IN RUINS OF HOME
STATE 1.E.VDERS TO ATTF^ND
JOHNSON SILVER WEDDING
Former Governor J. C. B. Ehring-
haii?, other leaders in State affairs,
judges, and prominent citizens of
the state in all walks of life have
iccepted the invitatiion of Mi', and
Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson for the cele
bration of their 25th wedding anni-
/ersiary at their home in Aberdeen to-
light, Frid' The reception will be
t the Joh.iSun home between the
•ours of .=.:00 and 11:00 o’clock.
Following a vigorous search
through the heated masonary and
iron work in the basement of the
Schirmer home at Manly, a search
lasting two days, the remains of
Frank Schirmer were found about
11:00 o’clock Friday morning. From
the position it is assumed that he
was sitting in a rocking chair in
the kitchen, and undoubtedly dead,
as a .38 caliber revolver with one
cartridge exploded by action of the
hammer, was found at the same
spot. •
Coroner D. Carl Fry deemed an in
quest unnecessary, the remains,
brought to Southern Pines v.t-re tak
en by his sister, M-s. Dwy<r , anJ
a nephew, A. M. Dwyer, of New York,
to Fresh PondS; N, Y., for .interment
in his mother’s plot.