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VOL. 19, NO. 38.
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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, August 18, 1939.
PUBUC INVITED
TO INSPECT Air
FORCE AT BRACCi
Activities at Pope Field Satur
day in Observance of Na
tional Aviation. Day
PROCLAMATION OF F.D.R.
In accord with the National Aviation
Day Proclamation of the President
of the United States, citizens living
in the locality of Fort Bragg have
been invited to inspect Air Corps
activities at Pope Field tomorrow,
Saturday.
President Roosevelt's Proclamation
reads as follows:
“WHEREAS the development of
aeronautics in recent years has been
so rapid that aviation in its many
phases has come to exert a pro
found influence on the course of
events throughout the world; and
WHEREAS American initiative and
industry have contributed greatly to
this development and should be en
couraged to continue such contri
bution in order that the United
States may retain its outstanding
position in the field of aeronautics;
and
WHEREAS Public Resolution No.
14, 76th Congress, approved May
11, 1939 (53 Stat. 739), provides:
‘That the President of the Unit
ed States is authorized to designate
August 19 of each year as National
Aviation Day, and to issue a proc
lamation calling upon officials of
the Government to display the flag
of the United States on all Govern
ment buildings on that day, and in
viting thfc people of the United
States to observe the day with ap
propriate exercises to further and
stimulate interest in aviation in the
United States':
NOW, THEREFORE, I FRANK
LIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of
the United States of America, do
hereby designate August 19, 1939,
and August 19 of each succeeding
year as National Aviation Day. and
call upon officials of the Govern
ment to display the flag of the Unit
ed States on all Government build
ings on that day, and invite the
people of the United States to ob
serve the day with appropriate ex
ercises to further and stimulate in
terest in aviation in this country.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my Land and
caused the seal of the United States
of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washing
ton this 25th day of July in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred
and thirty-nine, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and sixty-
fourth.
—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT”
Throughout Saturday all techni
cal departments of the Second Bal
loon Squadron and the 16th Obser
vation Squadron at Pope F^ield will
be open fpr inspection by the pub
lic. The Balloon will be available
for inspection and will be flown as
a motorized balloon and as a cap
tive })allo<#i during the morning.
One airplane of each type assigned
this station will be available for in
spection and at frequent intervals
airplanes will take-off, circle field
-several time and land. Air Corps
personnel will be available as
guides.
General William Bryden, Com-
hiatodiUp Fort Bragg ;and Pope
JHeid, has invited the public to a»t-
tend this inspection and demon
stration.
JOHNSON IN COMMAND OF
PRESroENTS CONVOY SHIP
Commander Felix Leslie Johnson,
U. S. N,, of Aberdeen is in command
of the U. S. S. Lang, which Is con
voying President Roosevelt’s ship on
his cruise in Canadian waters. La.)t
word from the Lang was from Syd
ney, Nova Scotia, where the Presi
dent had ordered his cruiser, the
Tuscaloosa, to anchor over night to
await better weather, the Lang
standing by. Fog Interrupted the
•cruise.
Honored
Bowley, Former C. O. Here,
First Lieutenant General
Since Civil War
The first recipient of the rank
of Lieutenant General of the Unit
ed States Army since the Civil
War was given the three stars
emblematic of the rank on Monday
of last week at the Presidio in
San Francisco, California. He is
Albert J, Bowley, former com
manding officer of Fort Bragg and
a friend of numerous residents of
Moore county.
Lieutenant General Bowley is
commanding general of the
Fourth Corps area, with headquar
ters at the Presidio. A West Point
graduate, he has risen through
the various grades during a long
and colorful career in the army to
be the first to hold the rank of
lieutenant general in 75 years.
This rank is secpnd only to that of
general, a rank which also has
been held by very few in the
army’s history, among those be
ing General Pershing.
Mrs. Bowley was given the hon
or of pinning the three stars on
her husband’s shoulde’’? last week-
PINEHURST WINS
FIGHT FOR LOWER
TELEPHONE RATES
State Utilities Commission Or
ders Reductions and Improved
Service Here
Carolina. Friday, August 18, 1939. FIVE CENTW
Edwin, Jr. and Leland McKeithen^^^^ ,iRILL TO
TwinSf Announce Wedding Plans
Former to Wed Miss Lee Smith, |
Albemarle Sept. 1—Latter En
gaged to Miss Janet Wiggins i
Engaged
At the same time last week that I
friends were receiving invitations to |
the marriage of Edwin T. McKeith- |
en, Jr., of Aberdeen and New York
City, the engagement of his twin
Efforts of the Pinehurst Chamber 'brother, W. A. Leland McKeithen of
of Commerce to bring about improv-' Aberdeen, Moore county's prosecut-
COST TO BE $20,000
WILLIAMS, SLAYER
OF COLORED MAN
GIVEN 25 YEARS
Man Who Shot Ransome France
in Aberdeen Pleads Guilty
to 2d Degree Murder
Ralph Williams, who walked up to
a colored man in Aberdeen one Sun
day morning in June and said: ‘You
don’t believe I'll kill you, do you?’
and then pulled the trigger of his
gun, mortally wounding Ransome
France, tenant farmer, will .spend the
next 21 to 25 years at hard labor at
State Prison. Through his attorney,
J. H. Scott of Carthage, he pleaded
guilty on Wednesday to murder in
the second degree. Though on trial
on a first degree charge, the plea
was accepted by the State.
Williams, on the morning of June
4th, ran amock in the Aberdeen vi
cinity, threatened several people be
fore he came upon 26-year old France
out in the Cabbage Hill section. Af
ter the shooting he fled from the
scene, but was trailed by a posse
with bloodhounds and caught late
Sunday afternpon near the colored
cemetery in Berkeley. He was held
without baiu for trial at thi."! term of
Superior Court, and was sentenced
on Wednesday by Judge H. Hoyle
Sink to from 21 to 25 years at hard
labor.
Numerous other cases were dis
posed of the forepart of the week
in this criminal term.
Grand Jury Chosen
The following were selected for
grand jury duty: I. C. Sledge^ fore
man : E. A. Allred, J. L. Blount, T. H.
Brady. C. T. Creel, C K. Dunn, A.
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MRS. EDWARD F. GREEN
DIES AT HER HOME HERE
Following a long continued illness
Mrs. Florence McDowell Gre^n, wife
of Dr. Edward F. Green, died in her
home on Kensington Road, Southern
Pines early last Friday morning.
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. F. J. Starnes, pastor of the
Methodist Church of Aberdeen, were
held at the Clark Funeral Home at
9:00 o’clock Saturday morning, fol
lowed by interment in Mount Hope
Cemetery.
Mrs. Green, closely approaching
her 83d year, was born in Mercer
county^ Pa., the daughter of Robert
McDowell and Jane Brecklnbridge
McDowell. She had been a resident of
Southern Pines for the past five
years, coming here from Star where
Mr. Green was headmaster of the
County Life Academy for many
yeara.
Surviving are her husband an< two
daughters* Mrs. Harold L. Baker of
Bryson City and Misg Catherine C.
Green of New York City.
ed telephone service and reduced
rates were crowned with success
this week with the annoimcement of
i State T tilities Commissioner Stanley
Winborne that new rates will become
effective September 1st, and that
the Central Carolina Telephone Com
pany, which has its headquarters in
Southern Pines, will spend $20,000 on
improvements.
R. S. Durant, manager of the com
pany, told The Pilot that the entire
central office in Pinehurst would be
replaced, the work to commence at
once “provided there is no delay in
the receipt of equipment which has
been on order since August 11th. Mr.
Durant stated that he expected the
new .system to be ready for the win
ter season.
The new rates provide for a four-
party residential service rate of $2.65
a month as against $3.50 at present.
The four-party business rate will be
reduced from $5.00 to $4.75 per
month. There will be no change in
rates for individual line subscribers.
TTie Central Carolina company is
borrowing $20,000 for the improve
ments to the Pinehurst exchange.
3 To Canvass Moore
County on Crop Control
L. B. McKeithen, M. G. Ual-
rymple, H. R. Harrison on
State Committee for Moore
ing attorney, was being announced in
Middletown, New York. The young
men are the sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Thornwell McKeithen of
Aberdeen.
Edwin, Jr., who is affiliated with
the American Can Company with
headquarters in New York, and Miss
Ora Lee Smith, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Lee Smith of Albemarle,
will be married in the Centi'al Meth
odist Church in Albermarle on Fri
day^ September 1st at 4:30 o’clock.
Miss Smith is a practicing attorney
in Albemarle, in the office of her
father. She was graduated from Duke
Univei’.sity Law School and admitted
to the North Carolina bar about two
years ago.
Mr. McKeithen is a graduate of
the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, After graduation he
resigned from the Navy to accept
a responsible position with the Stand-1
OCM SPACE IN
STEVENS BUILDING
Work of Demolishing Rapatas
Block For New Structure
Well Under Way
WILLIAMSBURG TYPE
ard Oil Company of New Jersey, with ^ Wenty-One of Total Killed in
offices in Rockefeller Center, New Collisions.—Ten Children |
York. He recently left Standard Oil Among Victims j
for the position which he now holds _
with the American Can Company.
Work of demolition of the old
Nick Repatas building between the
Baraum and Hart buildings on West
Broad street. Southern Pines, was
begun this week to make way for a
new structure which E. C. Stevens
is erecting, to be occupied by his
real estate office and by Jack's Grill.
Mr. Stevens closed negotiations with
O. R. Conrad, proprietor of Jack’s
Grill, last Saturday for the lease of
1 a major part of the building.
Plans for the new building were
drawn by Alfred B. Yeomans. It vwll
have an antique brick front design
ed after one of the attractive recon
structed buildings in Williamsburg,
Va.^ with a slate gable roof. The
Broad street frontage is 35 feet, the
j depth 65 feet. Mr. Stevens' office
j will occupy a space 14 by 26 feet,
i Jack’s Grill 16 feet on Broad street,
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! and the balance of the building.
There will be a five foot central en
trance and hallway. The building
will be one story. J. D. Arey, who
has the contract, has the work of
tearing down the present structure
well under way, and expects to have
The month of July accounted for | the building completed by October
MISS JANET WIGGINS
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IN STATE IN JULY
MOTOR ACCIDENTS
L. B. McKeithen of Cameron. M.
G. Dalrymple of Carthage and How
ard R. Harrison of Eagle Springs
have been named Moore county rep
resentatives on a committee of flue-
cured tobacco growers appointed by
J. E. Winslow of Greenville, presi
dent of the North Carolina Farm Bu
reau Federation, to investigate the
possibility of calling a referendum on
tobacco crop control in the state for
1940.
The committee, authorized at a
mass meeting of farmers held in
Raleigh recently, will meet in Ral-
Following the ceremony and a
brief wedding journey the young cou
ple will make their home in New
York City.
.Annoutu-ed at Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wiggins of
Middletown, New York announced the
i engagement of their daughter, Miss
Janet Davidge Wiggins, to Leland
McKeithen at a dinner party at their
home last Saturday evening.
Miss Wiggins, who has spent many
w'inter seasons in Pinehurst and was
a guest for several months last win
ter at the Mid-Pines Club attended
y
Wykeham Rise School in Washing.
ton_ Conn., and the Bennett School
at Millbrook. N. Y. She is a member
of the Junior League of Newburgh,
N. Y. Her father is a foivner judge
of the Orange county, N. Y. court.
Her sister. Miss Florence Wiggins,
W’as married in the Village Chapel in
Pinehurst last April to Richard H.
Voorhis of Atlanta, Ga., and New
York, with a reception following at
571 motor vehicle traffic accidents ^ime Mr. Stevens, who
acquired the property recently and
eigh on September 1st, according to
E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of i the Mid-Pines Club. Miss Janet was
the bureau. I s'ster’s maid of honor^ and Mr.
The committee will sound out i ^^•'^^®*then an usher at the wedding,
sentiment in the counties of the va-1 Leland McKeithen is a graduate of
rious representatives and determine Davidson College, where he won a
' Phi Beta Kappa key, and of Duke
University Law School. Since his ad-
whether farmers want a referendum
in the event tobacco prices sag,”
said Arnold.
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Approve $16,626 Federal Fund
For Aberdeen Community House
But N.Y.A Project Here is De
pendent Upon Citizens’ Au
thorizing Bond Issue
An allotment of $16 626 for a Com
munity House for Aberdeen was ap
proved during the past week by the
National Youth Administration, one
of seven projects in North Carolina
totaling $130,463 in cost and provid
ing employment for 305 young Tar
Heels. Announcement of the approv
als was made by John A. Lang of
Carthage; *NYA administrator for the
state.
The Aberdeen project, which would
employ 60 young men. Is dependent,
however, upon a referendum of the
citizens of Aberdeen originally set
for September 6th but now postponed
because of legal complications. The
Issuance of bonds for the town’s share
of the project must be approved by
New York bond attorneys, and this
is expected to cause a week’s delay
in the voting to authorise the bonds.
Aberdeen will vote on the Commun
ity House, and for additional civic
Improvements, such as repairs Md
extensions to its water system, the
purchase of a new fire truck, and
street widening and repalrv
Hospital Lauded
Visiting Administrators Call
It Finest Smaller Institu
tion They’ve Seen
The Moorb County Hospital won
high praise from visiting delega
tions of hospital administrators of
many states who inspected the lo
cal institution during their two
weeks stay at the Duke Univer
sity Hospital Institute. Many
termed it the finest small hospi
tal they had ever visited, and were
high in their praise of its opera
tion.
WOODMEN OF WORI J> TO
UNVEIL MOMURIENT HERE
A Woodman of the World monu
ment will be unveiled at West End
on Sunday, August 27 at 3:00 p, m.
In honor of the late Maxle G. Vest,
who was a member of the Wood
men of the World, Pine Camp No.
574, located at West End. The pub
lic Is Cordially invited to attend th's
ceremony.
involving 925 motor vehicles in North
Carolina as a result of which 60
lives were lost and 588 persons were
injured. Compared with the July
1938 records this shows a reduction
of 2.7 percent in all motor vchicle ac
cidents; 14.3 percent, or ten fewer
fatalities; and 9.5 percent decreose in
injuries.
The figures indicate that 16 6 per
cent. or ten of all persons killed by
motor vehicles were children under
15 years of age; 31.6 percent, or 19
were between 15 and 24 years of
age; 43.3 percent, or 26 of all per
sons killed were between the ages of
25 and 64. Those above 65 years of
age accounted for three killed and
2 reports did not state the age.
Pedestrian acts which acroiii^ed
for 17 fatalities were as folldws:
Classification
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Walking in roadway , . 5
Children y'aying in street 4
Running into street 1
Coming from jbehind
cars 1
Crossing highway 2
Pedestrian intoxicated 4
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10
17
TOTAL 17
Another pedestrian act resulting in
a Uirge number of accidents during
July, although not fatal, was “cross
ing between intersection,” which re
sulted in 12 injured.
The auto-bicycle collision type of
accident continues the upward swing.
During July 1939, four people were
killed and 26 injured as a result of
this type of accident. Of this num
ber two killed were under 15 years of
age and two older. Fourteen under 15
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MISSIONARY FROM CHINA
TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
Miss Venetia Cox, a returned mis
sionary from China, will speak at the
11:(M) o’clock service at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church Sunday. Miss Cox
Is spending some time here with her
cousin, the Rev. W. E. Cox. She is
a teacher In St. Hilda’s School, for
merly located at Wuchang, China,
which, because of bombings and other
war conditions, has been moved out
near the border of India about 200
miles from Burma. Miss Cox came
out from CHiina last March and is
planning: to return lu October.
Tae Rev. F. Cralghill Brown re
turned from hla vacation Wednesday
and will conduct tjie Sunday services.
Mr. Conrad will move in.
Announcement of the purchaser of
the building to be vacated by Jack s
Grill is expected next week. It is
understood that a well known South,
ern Pines resident has acquired the
property, but the deed has not pass
ed.
P. T. Barnum. Inc. agency an
nounced this week the rental for one
year of the Florence S. Holmes house
on Ashe street to Miss R. Callan of
Philadelphia, Pa.
Ask $10,250 Damages
in Auto Accident Here
Mrs. W'. M. Milam and Ralph
Mills Sue Pepsi-Cola Bottling
Company
Two suits have been started in
Moore County Superior Court against
R. B. Minges and L. D. Minges, trad
ing as the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Com-
panj’, with main office in Fayette
ville, one by Ralph Mills and the
other by Mrs. W. M. Milam.
Mr. Mills alleges in the complaint
that his automobile was damaged
when the defendant drove their truck
from a blind street onto the one on
which his automobile was being op
erated in Southern Pines and struck
his car. charging that their reckless
and careless driving caused his car
to be damaged to the amount of
$250.
Mrs. Milam alleges that she v'as
riding with Mrs. Mills at the time
of the accident, and that she was
painfully injured; that she continues
to suffer from the injuries sustained
several weeks ago so that it Is well-
nigh Impossible for her to continue
her duties as nurse to her invalid
husband. She is asking damages In
the amount of $10,000.
Seawell and Seawell are attornejrs
for the plaintiffs.
K. T. McKEITHEN LOSES BARN
OF TOBACCO IN ABERDEEN
The tobacco bam of Edwin T. Mc
Keithen of Aberdeen, business man
ager of the Moore County Hospital,
was burned to the ^^round on Wednes
day with a loss of approximatclv
$500 Worth of tobacco which was be
ing cured. Some five other tobacco
bams in the vicinity have been lost
by fire within the past two weeks.
PHILIP BRETSCH DIES
Philip Bretsch, brother of Albert
Bretsch of Southern Pines, died at
his home in Raleigh on Wednesday
night. His brother left Immediately
for Raleigh.