MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 19, NO. 17. ^ ^wiARTHAOE fi KAOCe SPRIN69 LAKEView MAHUEV OACKSOH SPmNOS SOUTHBf^N PIH6S 1 IliST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING Xpinebluf^ Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, March 24. 1939 of the Sandhill Ti rory of North Carolina SANDHILLS HORSE SHOW ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY This Year’s Event Expected to Eclipse Predecessor in En tries and Crowd FIFTY-TWO CLASSES Next week is Horse Show Week in Pinchurst, and there Is ample evi dence that this year’s event will eclipse all its predecessors in num ber of entries and in popular appeal. The evidence comes in the nature of reports from Secretary Charles W. Picquet that all 52 classes are well filled and include horses from all over the state; and that demand for boxes, parking spaces and tick ets for the show has been greater than in former years. The show is for the benefit of the Moore County Hospital. There will be classes for trotters, pacers, saddle horses, ponies, five- gaited horses, hunters, jumpers and polo ponies, and also for children’s horsemaiiship. Boxes and a limited number of parking spaces for the show, as well as other admission tickets, are on sale at the office of the secretary, Mr. Picquet, in Pinehurst. The show opens Tuesday morning, and classes will be judged that af ternoon and both morning and after noon on Wednesday. HUNDREDS AHEND HUNTER TRIALS ON PADDOCK COURSE Patty Berg Cards 223 To Retain Women's Mid-South Golf Crown New Course Laid Out For Second Annual Event Proves Exacting Test Camerons All All That They Needed Was A Preacher Named Camer on To Make It Complete Sometimes some unusual things are seen and heard around a news paper office. Yesterday was one 3f those days. Along in the afternoon a strange gentleman walked into the office; confided that he had heai-d that one could find out almost any thing in such a place, and aslced if there was a preacher, judge, notary or anyone, by the name of Cameron, within a hundred miles of here, who could perform a marriage ceremony. We couldn’t tell him. We knew that there were plenty of Cam erons hereabouts, but not if there was one to fill his requirements. The gentleman then confided that his name was Cameron; that he was to marry a girl whose maiden name was Cameron; that they had come to the village of Cameron, from afar, to have the ceremony performed; that the wit nesses were all to be Camerons, and that all he needed to make it complete was to have the cere mony performed by a Cameron. We sent the gentleman to Car thage in search of further infor mation and, at the time of going to press, hadn’t heard what luck he had had. National Champion Shows Utter Disregard For Par In Compil- piling Rounds of 75-73-75 MRS. PAGE SECOND YOUNG MONTROSE WATCHMAN SLAIN BY UNKOWN MEN Several hundred spectators saw the pick of hunters in the Sandhills make sterling performances over a stiff course on the Paddock prop erty near Southern Pines last Fri day afternoon, with honors in the four classes on the program going to Mrs. George Watts Hill’s Lucky Buck in the heavyweight working hunters, to W. O. Moss’ Honeybrook in the lightweight working hunters, to the Pinehurst Stables’ Crepe Su- zette in the open hunters, and to the Moss-Tate combination team in the class for hunt teams of three horses. The second annual Southern Pines hunter trials were highly successful. A new course, laid out by James Boyd over country regularly hunted by the Moore County Hounds was used, and proved mteresting both to competitors and spectators. The fences were varied; there were dit ches, panels, post and rail fences, a chicken coop, and a roadway to ne gotiate, and the more than 50 horses that went over the course during the afternoon did so in splendid form. Highlights were the performance of little Miss Ann Dudley Hill, aged nine, who took her pony over the tough layout like a veteran; the excellent riding of her brother, George Watts Hill, Jr., who took the blue in the heavyweight working hunter class; the fine performance of the little Tates in all events, and IfiaL but not least, the parade of the Moore County Hounds by the hunt staff in their hunt colors. Judging the various classes were F. Wallis Armstrong of Philadelphia, I Howard C. Fair of Aiken, and H. ( Granger Gaither of Camden. Withi them in the judges’ stands werej other notables in hunting and rac ing circles, including Harry D. Kirk-j over of Camden and S. A. Warner Baltazzi of Aiken. County Officers Investigating Robberies and Murder in County Last Night memorial service There will be a Memorial Service this coming Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock in Niagara, in honor of the late Rev. Samuel Holden, through whose encouragement the present House of Worship was erected at Niagara. 'ilie Bible Doctrine of the Incar nation will be presented and adl friends of the late Rev. Holden are specially invited to the service. Unknown desperadoes early this morning, (Friday), invaded the Aber- dten-Ashley Heights-Montrose sec tion near here and left behind them a trail of robbery and murder com parable to nothing experienced in this section since the Carraway mur der on the Pinehurst-Southern Pines road in the fall of 1937. First intimation of the depreda tions came at approximately 7:00 this morning when John Maulstby, pro prietor of a store at Montrose, open ed up his place of business and found Tony Moore, a 30-year old farmer who slept in his store at night as watchman, dead with a bullet through his head. A slot machine and several other articles were missing. Later in the morning A. L. Bur ney, Aberdeen hardware merchant, opened up his place of business and found the place a shambles. Investi gation revealed that $20.00 in cash had been taken from the register and that several articles of under- termined value were missing from stock. Officers investigating that case found that entrance had been gained through the skylight and a lope had been used to let them down to the ground floor. Just a little later a report came from Ashley Heights that an attempt had been made to enter the John son & Sinclair store there, but that the watchman had frightened off the intruders. Sheriff C. J. McDonald and his deputies are working on the case, but, as yet have found no clue as to the identity of the culprits. It is temporarily believed that they are escaped convicts. ARK SCHOOL. PTJPILS TO REPF XT PROGR.VM The pupils of the Ark School will repeat the Tab'eaux and Songs from “Cries of London" next Thursday af ternoon, March 30, at 3:00 p. m. for the benefit of tiie Woman’s Auxiliary of Emmanuel Church. Admission 26c. A sale of needlework, cakes, candy, etc. will follow the performance. PIe£use come and bring friends. By Howard F. BumN Patty Berg, the friendly little na tional champion, who hails from Min neapolis, Minn., cracked out a pretty 75 Wednesday for a score of 223 to annex the 11th annual Women’s Mid-South Golf championship for the second consecutive time by seven strokes over Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, former national champion. Her rounds of 75-73-75 set a new course jecord for women on the gra.ss green layout at the Southern Pines Country Club. In Wednesday’s round Miss Berg was out in 40 for four strokes greater than yesterday but recov ered most of her loss in firing a sparkling 35 in, for one stroke under par for men and five under for wo men. It was the most brilliant golf in the tournament. She was in traps on the second where she recorded a six, the seventh and blasted out for a par 3 and the 18th where she recorded a par four. Miss Berg’s card: 464-544-355—40 444-343-444—35—75 Mrs. Leo Walper of Washington continued her march of yesterday an 86 to tally 254 for third place in the 54^hole medal event. Mrs. Thomas Rudel, New York, in carding an 86 today for a 257 total, trailed by three strokes for fourth place in the tournament. Mrs. Page played a consistent game from start to finish in carding a 76 today for one stroke less than Monday’s and Tuesday’s rounds for 230. Strong winds made low scoring dif ficult and on some holes cross cur rents prevailed which affected the scores of the sixty odd women golf ers. Mrs. Roy Grinnell, Little Comp ton, R. I., was the recipient of the prize for 54-hole low net, and Mrs. Wm. B, Miller, Greenwich, Conn., took the runner-up trophy. Other prize winners were: Miss Alliene Hoover, Thomasville; Mrs. Thomas Rudel, New York; Mrs. H. W. Rivas, Pinehurst; Mrs. J. P. Mea- j dor, Aberdeen; Mrs. Leo Walper, | Washington; Miss Jean Kyer, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Mrs. Karl Scheldt. . Philadelphia; Laura Kelsey, Southern Pines; Eleanor Barron, Southern Pines; Mrs. William Hamilton, Phil adelphia; Mrs. H. L. Frackelton, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Mrs. A. G. Hup- fel. New York, and Miss Jeanne Cline, Bloomington, 111. Other scores: Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, Chap- (Please turn to page four) WALTER S. SPAETH DIES HERE AFTER LENGTHY ILLNESS Philadelphia Native, Aged 58, Had Been Winter Resident Here for 16 Years BURIAL ON WEDNESDAY Following an iliness of several . weeks duration and his removal to I the Moore County Hospital on Sat- I urday, Walter S. Spaeth died in that ! institution early Sunday morning. The .son of Jacob Spaeth and Kath erine Hamburg Spaeth, Walter Spaeth was bom in Philadelphia, Pa., j October 9, 1881. Following his re- ^ tirement from a successful business career in Chicago, he had made Southtrn Pines his winter home for the past 16 years; building a home and Ashe street in 1926, and a sum mer home at Ocean City, N. J„ a few years ago. He was a member of the Masonic Order, affiliated with Mendinah Temple, Chicago; the Country Club and the Men’s Club, of Soutliern Pines, and the Ocean City Fishing Club. Noted for his honorable char acter, of a quiet and retiring dispo sition, devoted to his family and home life, Mr. Spaeth numbered a wide circle of friends, to whom the news of his sudden passing came as a distinct shock, all manifesting heartfelt sympathy for his bereaved family in their great loss. Funeral services, attended by num erous friends and acquaintances of the family, were held in the Baptist Church of Southern Pines, at 3:00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. J. Fr