MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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VOL. 19, NO. 17.
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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-
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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<d Stimson officiating. In
terment at Mount Hopw cementery.
Bearers were Dr. G. G. Herr, E. J.
Woodward, Charles Macauley, G. R.
Yates, S. B. Richardson, Ralph
Chandler, Robert N. Hayes and E.
C. Stevens.
Mr. Spaeth is survived by his wid
ow, Katherine Spaeth; a son, Walter,
now a student at Duke University; a
daughter, Muriel, and a brother,
George Spaeth, of Philadelphia.
“Grand Illusion” To Be
Presented On March 25
five CENT8
Recoi u Crowd Sees Annual
Steeplechase Races Here
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Chief Hostess
Spills and Thrills Feature Five
I Event Card On Midland
Road Course
MISS MIUIAM JOHNSON
MIRIAM JOHNSON
HEADS N. C. STAFF
AT WORLD’S FAIR
MEETING GREAT SUCCESS
Aberdeen Girl First To Be Chos
en To Represent State at
Fair Exhibit
“Best Film of Y’^ear” Will Be
Shown at Carolina Theatre
in Pinehurst
Dinner Dance Will
Follow Horse Show
\ll Arrangements Made For Gala
Night at the Club
Chalfonte
As a fitting interval between;
two days of horsey activities on:
Tuesday and Wednesday, the occa-1
Sion of the Sandhills Horse Show, j
successor to the Pinehurst Horse
Show, the Club Chalfonte will be
the scene, on 'Tuesday night of the
Horse Show Dinner Dance.
Secretary Charles W. Picquet of the
HorF*i Show committee announced i
yesterday that all arrangements have
been completed for the dinner dance
and that mine host Karl Andrews of
the Chalfonte is turning over his
establishment to the horse enthusiasts
and their friends and patrong for that
evening.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by Jerry Mack and his or
chestra, present incumbents at the
bandstand there, and the regular
floor show, comprising Dick Chap
man, Peggy T/eBaron, Connie Joyce,
Charmain and Tamara and the very
popular team of Herbert Dexter and
Jerry McGlnty, will provide the en
tertainment.
Admission will be $1.00 per person,
exclusive of dinner and all of these
proceeds will go to benefit the Moore
County Hospital. There will be an
additional charge of $2.50 per per
son for dinner.
“Grand Illusion," the international
ly celebrated film directed by Jean
Renois, starring Eric von Stroheim,
Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay and Dita
Parlo, w'as unanimously voted by
the National Board of Review of Mo
tion Pictures as “The Best Film of
the Year Produced in Any Country.”
This is the picture to be shown to
morrow evening. Saturday, at the
Carolina Theatre in Pinehurst.
It was reported yesterday that
there are only 25 reserved seats left.
The unreserved seats will be on sale
at the box-office Saturday evening.
Departing from the usual proce
dure of choosing the ten best films
of the year fi-om among those made
in Hollywood, the Committee on Ex
ceptional photoplays of the National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures
nominated MGM’s British-made
screen version of “The Citadel” as
the outstanding English language
film of 1938. But “Grand Illusion”
was singled out as not only the
best picture imported from abroad
throughout 1938, but also as the best
picture produced anyw'here through
out the world during the past 12
months.
“Grand Illusion,” a prison camp story
of the war, based on director Jean
Renoir’s own experiences. There is
not a single war scene in the film—
its theme is concerned with the sim
ple humanities that are stronger
than man-made wars, more endur
ing than frontiers. It is a film about
the break-down of all the old pre
war values and of the things that
count most in life—friendship and
love.
The award by the National Board
of Review to “Grand Illusion” as the
world’s best film of the year cli
maxes its prize-winning career dur
ing these past months. A decoration
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Out of a list of more than five
hundred applicants. Miss Miriam
Johnson, of Aberdeen, has been chos
en chief of the staff of four girls
' who will act as hostesses in the
North Carolina exhibit at the New
York World’s Fair this summer. Miss
Johnson is the first of a staff of
eight, four young men and four
young women, who will be on hand to
welcome visitors to the North Car
olina exhibit this summer, to answer
questions and to supply inquisitive
Fair-goers with pertinent facts and
information about the Tar Heel
state. The seven remaining mem
bers of the staff will be named by
Coleman Roberts, member of the
World’s Fair committee in charge of
the selections, in a few days. The
committee, chairmanied by W. E.
Fenner, Rocky Mount, has been con- j
sidering applications for months.
Miss Johnson is the daughter of,
Mr. and Mrs. James Talbot Johnson j
of Aberdeen and is a native North i
Carolinian. She is well qualified for |
the position, having served for some !
time past as personnel director for j
Ivey’s department store in Charlotte. |
She attended Robert-Beech Prepara- j
tory school for Girls in Baltimore |
and later Randolph Macon College, j
In order to thoroughly acquaint |
the exhibit staff with North Caro-!
lina’s resorts, recreational facilities
and other facts about the state, the |
eight young people selected will be j
given a two-weeks training period |
prior to their departure for New
York. The firs^ two days of the
training period will be held in Char
lotte, where they will be schooled in
basic facts about the state. Follow
ing this they ivill be taken on a
week’s *tour of the state, aiid have
their "education’’ polished off with
a two-day stay in Raleigh. Various
towns and resorts are now inviting
the school to their communities. The
group will leave North Carolina April
26 to be on hand for the opening of
the Fair April 30.
The largest crowd ever to gath
er in the Sandhills for an event of
any kind witnessed the fifth annual
meet of the Sandhills Steeplechase
and Racing Association on the Bar
ber Estate course, along the Midland
Road, last Saturday afternoon. The
thousands completely surrounding the
course saw five splendid races, fea
tured by the fifth running of the
Sandhill Cup event over timber, a
race which started with five en
tries and ended with three, with Paul
Mellon’s Faction Fighter winning.
This was Mr. Mellon’s second conse
cutive victory in this event, his Corn
Dodger winning last year.
Possibly the most popular victory
of the afternoon was that of Sea-
farin,Dan in the $1,000 brush race,
the two-and-one-half mile feature, for
Seafaring Dan has been trained lo
cally all winter by Geoffrey A. Laing
of Southern Pines, brother of the
late Noel Laing. The horse is ow'n-
et^ by Capt. EJwart Johnson of Wash
ington, D. C. Young Laing had a
good day, his own Bunree Boy cap
turing second money in the timber
race.
The crowd here Saturday was a
distinguished one, from a racing
standpoint. It included many of the
leading owmers and trainers of hunt
race horses in America, among them
the owner of Battleship, winner of
last year’s Grand National at Ain-
tree, England, Mrs. Marion duPont
Scott of Montpelier, Virginia,. Mrs.
Scott ran several horses in the Sand
hills meeting, her Sailor's Knot win
ning the m.aiden brush race. The
famed “Pete’’ Bostwick was another
I'ere for the meeting, bringing up two
horses from Aiken which he rode him
self. He captured the hurdle race
with his Masked Knight, but did not
show in the flat race, which another
Mellon horse. Enterprise, took
against nine starters. Raymond
Gueat, noted poJo player, was a
spectator Saturday; E. Roland Kar-
riman, Mrs. Frank M. Gould, Harry
A. Buck, secretary of the Turf and
Field Club, and others were in the
clubhouse enclosure. In the press
stand were representatives of lead-
iner New York and Chicago papers.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, in his
box with Mrs. Hoey and a partv of
friends, did the honors when It came
time to present the trophies. With a
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Local Records Fijaru’-e
In Fantastic Swindle
Miss McCaskill Back From
Illinois After Testifying
In Case
HOSPIT.\li BOARD WILL
meet next THURSDAY
The Annual meeting of the full
board of directors of the Moore
County Hospital has been called for
Thursday evening, Mti-ch 30th, at
7:00 p. m. at the hospitai
As has been the custom lor several
years, there will be a dinner at 7:00
o’clock and the meeting will be held
immediately afterwards.
As this is the mo*t important
meeting of the year all directors are
urgently requested to be present if
possible.
Moore county's deatli record, which
was carried to Danville, III., a few
days ago by Miss Bessie McCaskill,
Register of Deeds, figured in the
trial of a mother and son on chai-ges
of using the United States mails
to extort $125,000 from buriness men
of Chicago and other IJUnois cities in
a fantastic swindle scheme in which
they pretended to be working to get
possession of a fortune of between
25 and 30 million dollars left the
mother by Max Orendorff. who, she
claimed, di ;d in Pinehurst. Postal
inspectors who investigated the cas:
said no such man existed.
The scheme brought priron term'!
of ten years each to Mrs. Maude
Ault, 49, and her 28-year-old son.
Robert Eugene Ault, and each was
fined $3,000.
The story told the Ault’s victims
was that the large estate which had
been left Mrs. Ault by Orendorff, a
prohibition era millionaire who
visited them and whom they hr.i be
friended, had been confiSvattJ by
the government. Over a lonj period
of time they collected money fro'n
business men to help them gain pos
session of the estate, p'omisinr!c a
return of $200 for $100, !♦ was alleg
ed. Mrs. Ault’s brothei, Lorenson K.
Bandy, testified that he had “invest
ed” virtually aU he owned In his
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