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ABERDEEN TOBACCO MARKET BIDS YOU WELCOME THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding lAKBVlSW MANIJK’ PILOT BRING YOUtt TOBACCO TO THE ABERDEEN MARKET VOL. 19, NO. 41. Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina Friday. September 8, 1^39^ of the Sandh*’\'^erritory of North Carolina y _ WAR MAROONS SOUTHERN PINES YOUNG PEOPLE Isabel Pelton in France, Morell Bentley in London, TcU of Experiences HE CROSSED ON EUROPA Miss Isabel Pelton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Pelton of South- ern Pines and Morell Bentley, son of Mrs Carlton Wicker of Southern Pines, are among Americans maroon ed in Europe. Miss Pelton, who was graduated from the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina last June^ accompanied Dr. Meta Miller of the university faculty to Europe this summer. They toured many of the countries now involved in the war, and arrived in Paris on August 27th. Isabel wrote her parents there upon arrival, sending the letter to this country by air clipper. She stated that she and Dr. Miller had arrived in Paris the day before from Genoa, Italy. They traveled by electric train. The windows were all darkened, she j wrote, with dim blue lights inside the cars. At the French frontier! Americans, French and English were required to remain in their cars, while all Italians on board were or dered out of the train and not allow ed to enter French territory. Miss Pelton had reservations for | return to this country on a German liner but of course sailing.*i of Ger Twelve Months Without Loss of i APPORTIONMENT Lile, Mernity Welfare Record] Qp QQUNTY TAX ~ MONEY IS VOTED Stranded j Three Years of Clinics in Coun- I ty Prove Value in Savings of Many Mothers MISS ISABEL PELTON BIDDLE RESIDENCE NEAR WARSAW IN POLAND BOMBED By Mr«. Wilbur H. Currie, Chairman, C'ounty Maternity Welfare Have you visited the prenatal clinics in your locality this year? Do you know how many of the 294 new patients who attended the 84 clinics held in the county between July, 1939 and June, 1939 were from your town and vicinity? Have you seen the grateful faces of those poor mothers who have been given material for a baby dress by the Moore County Maternal welfare Committee and have been taught to make this dress by the Adult Education teachers? Have you seen the joy of unselfish service on the faces of those ladies who have helped the nurses with the clinic that day? Perhaps you have given gladly of your time and money by u.^ing your car to bring some of these mother.s who live too far from the clinic to walk and who had no other means of Resolutions AIlottinf( Funds for Departments Passed hy Commission FIVE CENTS Five o - Pounds is Goal Set For Aberdeen Tobacco Market, Opening Monday In New Home BASED ON 88 CENT RATE Appropriations resolutions cover, ing allotments for the various county departments were duly adopted at the regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held Monday in Carthage. A summary of the un iform annual budget estimate for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1939 and ending June 30, 1940 appeared in the | coimty papers in July^ but the ap propriations resolutions show more in detail just where the money goes. The $75,850 for County General and Courts was allotted as follows; County Commi.ssioners, $1,300; List ing property, $8,000; Collection of taxes: current, $4,500 foreclosure, $12,500; Sheriff's office, $8,500; Gen eral elections, $500; County Account-j ant’s office, $3,250; Court House and i Grounds, $4,200; Register of Deeds! Warehouses Ready for Arrival on Floors of Record Crop of Bright Leaf MISS K.ATHERINE MARTIN FULL CORPS OF BUYERS Next Monday, September 11th, marks the opening of the Aberdeen tobacco market for its 2lst season, a season which is expected to eclipse all former years and produce sales of five million pounds of bright leaf on the floors of Aberdeen’s two large warehouses. Every preparation has been made by the Chamber of Com merce and the Tobacco Board of Trade for the reception of buyers, sellers and warehousemen when the auctioneer starts down the first aisle of tobacco Monday morning. Aberdeen has two large, well-light ed hou.ses ready for the opening. Quantities of tobacco have already started to arrive on the floors. Buy ers from the leading cigarette man ufacturing companies in the country U. s. Ambassador, Brother of L. L. Biddle of Pinehurst, and Family Have Narrow Escape walk and wno naa no oiner means ui ■ . —. ---o : . . . i Monday^ representa- transportation. Or maybe you were j office, $1,000; Coroner, $400; Fire New Southern Pines Library is tives of the American Tobacco one of those who freely gave your; control, $1,250; Jail, $6500; Agricul-1 Complete and Open To Pa- ! Comi one ui Lnuac wiiu xicvij I y . , . _ vacant ropms to the Maternity Com-1 ture Agent $2,000; Superior Court, j ^ tron and Visitor mittee for use as clinic rooms. What-j $5,000; Clerk Superior Court’s of-j ever your contribution to the ma ternity work in the county, you have had a part in the splendid work which the doctors all over the county and United | Health Department nurses are The suburban villa of States Am assa or n ’ of mothers and infants and to im- turing stills, $800. el Biddle near arsaw^ ' nmvp thp nhvsical and mental health uoaUh Fur Company, Liggett and Myers, R. J. Reynolds, Imperial Tobacco Co., the Superior Court’s of-‘ Leaf Tobacco Company. P. fice $4 000- Recorders' Court. $5,- There is no prouder your worn- Lorillard and Company, A. C. Monk ,500' Juvenile Court, $2501 County'an in Moore county at the moment; Tobacco Company, Dibrell Brothers, Attorney $300; Auditing. $1,000;, than Miss Katherine Martin, Hbrar-! Garrett Tobacco Company, Piedmont ian of the Southern Pines Library. Leaf Tobacco Company, and Bohan- And those who pay a visit to the new | nan and Company. ff( building thrown open to the public! Quantity and QuaUty for the first time this week, will ap-Never in the 20 years history of Care of Insane, $300; Juror expense, $3,500; Home Demonstrator, $1,000; Compen.<«ation Insurance, $300; Cap- ing atino, •ptjvv. I lor Lne mat umc r r . - - ^ ^ but of course sailings of Ger-1 el Biddle near warsaw, physical and mental health Health Fund of $24,017 is ap- predate her sentiments. No one has a'the local market has there been the Tnan’boats were cancelled. She at-j bombed by a German warplane last [portioned as follows: Health Depart-1 finer workshop anywhere. quantity of bright leaf throughout tempted to a.n,n-the Europ. which I Sterte,. Tb™. Ve.r, Ago landed in New York last Thursday, but missed connections. She is now visiting friends in Normandy where she will remain until she can pro cure accommodations. It is expected that the TT. S. Navy will convoy ships of American refugees from Europe to this country in the near future, and that she will be able to rettirn in safety The story of how the German lin daughter escaped injury. Ambassador Started Three Years Ago j nient, $14,017 is apportioned as fol- Biddle is a brother of Livingston L. Three years ago this September, Health Department, $14,200; Biddle, II of Pinehurst, who visited the first of six regular monthly clin-j Hospital, $6,667; Vital Statistics, him at the embassy a year ago. ic.<? was held after two months of “The fact that the bombs were patient, thorough groundwork by Miss released at a low point in a power Margaret McQueen, the newly em- dive leads to the belief that the ployed maternity nurse, in searching bombing jf the villas was deliberate,” out patients and, with the help of 1 this section of the state. Seldom has The library is complete and ready i » ^ 1 there been seen as fme a crop as for the reception of patrons and vis-1 ^ , Q .nn fn the farmers have produced this itors. Its hour.s are from 9.00 to, J , nrt f ^ 'year. Due to the record-breaking crop 12:00 a. m. and from 1.00 to 5.00 p. u .u . J .. a Oft throughout the entire south prices on ’wuu... — - -- , m-Monday through Friday; from 9.00 s , . . v, v, . J. J : • other markets have been below T>.e Poor Fund of $12,000 ,s d.v.d- Saturday ,jo»e a year ago. but good price, e.l equally between the county home,„p,„ Wednesday evenings from 7.30 $450; Moore County Tuberculosis As sociation, $1,800; Clinics, $900. mbing of the viiias wan ucnwv.,»v^, a statement issued by the embassy the local Maternity Clinic committees in finding suitable places in which : and the outside poor. to 9.00 o’clock. uitable places in which} The Constitutional School Mainte- this work. The last few; nance Fund is divided as follows., A OI7 A DA A 0111700 ^ thia tiiimbiir in-! Supplementary current expense, $42,-' »jljA15UAllliliHlS "Neither the ambassador nor his to carry on 'me story ui nv/w C14V, — er Europa picked her way across the | family, all of whom were at the villa, I nionths have seen this number in- • . ^ xw- : >■ j crease to eight due to the large at- tendandce at the clinics at Pinehurst and Carthage. For the first time Moore County has reached the coveted goal of No North Atlantic, far north of the us ual route, with her lights dimmed, superstructure camouflaged and pas sengers and crew isolated from the world was told upon arrival in Lon don by Morell Bentley. 21-year-old American passenger, says an Asso ciated Press despatch. Flagship of the North German line, the 49,746-ton liner left New York at midnight Tuesday, August 22. Her pas.senger list was small, mainly Ger mans and German-Americans, with a sprinkling of American salesmen and tourists and thirty British citizens. Thursday night, Augu.st 24, while passengers in the lounge were dis- German-Ru.>5sian pact, were injured.” The bombing attack occurred .shortly before 9 a. m., at Constancin 20 miles from Warsaw, where the Biddle summer home is located. The bomb detonations shattered windows of the Biddle home, blew Supplementary current expense, $42,-' 624; Capital outlay, $79,309; Debt f'S'3. °'l ENJOY HOLIDAY OF Bond .Appropriation.s i has reached me coveieu guai , Out of the county bond interest,' Maternal Deaths over a twelve month redemption and sinking fund, includ- period. Do you realize what this | ing road debt -sei-vice, county court- Railroad Men Take Over South-'Warehouse, and Clarence in the “tin- warehons ic ev- IV vr M. AA Vf A m. m. GOLF IN SANDHILLS are being paid for the higher grades, and there is a ready demand for mid dle grades. The Aberdeen market has always had a reputation for excellent prices and that, plus the calibre, exper ience and popularity of those who are operating the warehouses here this year Falk Carter in the big brick warehouse formerly known as cussing the _ the captain summoned them to the; damage ballroom. ! amba.ssador. windows of tne xszuuic J! _ off part of its roof and a bomb frag- l house bonds and county funding bonds ment smashed through a wall only a during the preceeding ■ the following was appropriated; Road few feet from Mrs. Biddle and m^^ths^ five more mothers ^ bonds and interest, $38,208; court her dau^her saved to care for their babiM; prob- house bonds and interest, $12,735; , X 11. ably twenty fewer children half-or- : rpieasp turn to nasre six I An .djoinlng v.lla was dc.rtroyed by ^ „o,l.ers-' ‘ the bombing. love; five fewer homes wrecked by, Shortly before 9 a. m„” the em- bereaved husbands' bassy said, ‘A German bomber pow- er-dove and relea.sed six heavy bombs, estimated in dollars and cents? Yet, did it just happen that no moth ers died in bringing new life into the world? Twenty eight of them were ho.spitalized between July and ern Pines For Labor Day Week I)nd er-aove anu lun-cx-v. „ one of which seriously damaged a villa adjacent to that of the ambas- f rt to Smith in the “tin" warehous. is ex- i pected to spell a record season, one I satisfactory to the farmer and to Apparently ‘13” is not a jinx to; vvarehouseman and buyer, members of the Seaboard Golf Asso-; Mr. Carter operated the big house ciation. for they and their many j in Aberdeen last year and is a vet- gucsts gathered in Southern Pines ^ eran in the business. Ho has been for the 13th annual tournament en-1 operating on the Border market at Mrs. Harold Thompson I for the 13th annual tournament en-1 operating on tne Border market ai Dips in Husbandl’s Car joyed four day.s of perfect Sandhi’.l, Fair Bluff this season but will be in *' i climate, not even marred by the pass-! Aberdeen for the opening and H ' Follows Removal ing clouds of Saturday afternoon, j throughout the Middle Belt season, f Pinehurst Uesidenl i .A,mong the many comments of! He has a corps of well-trained men * „ _ II “amazing,” "wonderful,” was the oft to assist him in the operation of his ^ voiced query, “Do you always enjoy , Almost immediately after her re-’?uch glorious weather on holidays ?"| clarence Smith is a veteran to- Association members and guests j hacco buyer and tobacconist and has vma, 01 weit: ^ ‘‘'TBlnly'" who^’^meTf^ron^ th"^ ^arwhlTe’^sre''gathered in greater numbers than „n experienced and capable force to gag.” said a Lt failed to explode." ill health has been saved these moth- tal fof Pine- Lr before some 350 in all being assist him, including W. T. Roberts Owo»o M,ch.. »,d^»h„ »,n^he^., hut ^f^^e ""“'Idder of « ■.»« at- ".".nt, tlU^ number Including nearly -fall "I went and got the. were Mrs- Biddle and their da g pi-opyr attention at the 011 husband’s car at 3:15 all the ranking officials of the Sea- h. Clifton Blue, secretary of the • nfp The cantain told (Plensc funi to }ntije itrc.i*’) lifp-crisis? j afternoon. board Air Line Railway and msiny! Aberdet-n Tobacco Board -'f Trade . surprise of my IfeT^^ You fan Help 'o’clock ^^^nday afterno^ .^.^Mer notables of other important trans-Stated yesterday he felt confident us that the me < Cher- 40X Ftiroll OpCnin?^ If y*’" i oaiue Jane P«*tation systems. Among others of'thgt the Aberdeen market would sell wouldn’t allow us to bnrOU s'wing of life and feel that you would W. R. Carter and Sallie Jane j ^ere L. R. Pow-! - bourg or Southampton, that , Day in SOUthei l\ PintS service ‘'to these Thomas Carter, in Rockingham m might be shelled at cither port ana ^ ‘ . ^ ;^Irs. Thompson re.sided in that we would be landed ot I Term l?eKan \Vodne:-!day members of the Clinic p.fo,. five years prior to her ; haven and taken care of there. ; - Weaver As ^ committee in your town which is ser-! ^.^rriage, and the young couple had “Immediately precautions wei ; Superintendent vin°- through your P. T. A . Woman's home there since. taken. Lights were dimmed stee ^ Attended by a throng of relatives shutters were put over portho ea 1 southern Pines Schools open- Moore , services ' cattis a.s.=istant pas-senger ti'affic i ,;edonHVednesday withanenro llT-t^mnv’'be vI’ Pinehurst Community, Etheridge, assistant; dau^htor ,'of 425 pupils, 26o in th^ g j mainder of 1939, that it may be ^,1 Wedne.sday afternoon, the; traffic manager; R. W. Rog-1 • ’1 coriled as a “no death" year in the _ . ^ nffieintins.: „ . . . ^ (Please turn to page , Tr . !'’’-000.000 pounds this saa.son with ell, Jr, receiver of the road; H. A.' k,. 1 the bumper crop on hand. Benton, general manager; G. B. Rice, I ... . . , , " ^ ^ Aberdeen warehousemen are chief freight traffic manager; B. B'. ^ Allen, treasurer: C. E.. Muller. <' f'» n fo po{,e twrlre) freight traffic manager; J. C. Wroten. „ superintendent of transportation; C. Warning! It has been reported to Chief of Police Gargis, that boys in Southern Pines are killing with air guns and sling shots the f^ong aiids of this community Chief “ *-- * , school and 160 in high school. This i.s one less than last year's opening day enrollment, but when winter res idents have returned the total enroll- ! ment is expected to exceed last , , ’ '"I :>f Mrs. ivobert N. Pag' of Ab;rdrrn ^ I Rev A. J. McKelway officiating. Leard and C. H, Sauls, as-' ' ^ ^ rioT^nvtment It may* , . wr.no u , ’ „ '.and the late Congressman Page, and State Health Departm . T,,tej-j-nent followed in Mount . sistant general managers, and C E.; j iir n u t .■ n- * J J « Qccictjinre during thi.'! Richard Wallach, Jr., n; Warrentun. depend on your assistance ouihik un. i,.,.,, ermtViBm Pmes. 1 t3„h man'ip-pi- ' ’ ’ fall. ; Bell, pa?senger traffic managei-. I Richard Wallach, Jr., n;' Warrentun. Virginia, racing secretary of tne ■ year’s. _ 11 For the fir.^t time in seven years 3arga.«! has dealt with these boys '' ^’t'ank W. Webster was not in charge ' • 11 of the school on opening day, havnig I resigned as supierintendcnt during the .summer to acccpt the position of Q v'ery kindly, but if no heed is tak' ;n of this warning steps will be taken to see that the Federal Mi. gratory Bird law governing the State and county game laws which protect insectivorous and song birds outside the town limits as well as within will be Inforced. managing director of the North Car olina Tuberculosis Association. His successor, Philip J. Weaver, a for mer member of the faculty here, op ened the school term, with the entire faculty present. Cemetery; Southern Pines. Of pleasing personality, modest : ^ a 1 •' Xhe condition of the grass greens; and unassuming, her untimely deatn^ Sandhills Steeplechase & Kaomg A^- in New York City on mUVKR ASI.EVP. C.M'SK OF and unassvimmg, ae. me course in genera, married in P.4T.AL .XI’TOMOBILE WUVX'K, was a great shock to the community., orable comment from the players,' ~ , '. {surviving in addition to her husband'whom bettered the:*’ gross ' * Investigation of the aiitomotoile are two brothens, Henry L. Carter of ■ of last year, contributing j wreck near Hemp last week by Coro- Kannapolis .ind John D. Carter of the distribution of numeious prizes » the c rem ny were Mr. "er R G Fry Jr . revealed thL Paul Charlotte, and two sisters, Mrs. John | besides the special trophies. For the I Wallach s mother of VV arrenton, ner K. u. rry, JI., It. «nd Mrs.U„„„f„, t«,w \a^\\ and Dick 1 ^oby” Biddle, Mrs. Biddle’s son. Mr. Williams, the driver, fell asleep at the wheel. Williams told the coroner jj. H.. McCaskiu or r iiientua^. * .*.. | nugg uju«. .... he awakened just before the crash | bearers at th'' funeral were Leon j their usual effective manner. Fofj^o^l^ William Streett of War- ■wor’na.. fho Tmirnament com-I •’cnton. Charlotte ana two sisLcitt, i.na. oesiaes tne v..^ , R. Rus.=ell of Boston, Mass.. and Mrs. country Club Jerry Hail and Dick | “Toby” Biddle, Mrs. Biddles son. Mr. J H McCaskill of Pinehurst. Pall- Sugg took care of the visitors in! *'nd Mrs. Gaines Gwathmey of New J. n.. AiLv.a- _ se. ..... Vnr-U nnrt Wniinm Streett of War- but too late to avoid hitting the bridge. Four died as a result of the wreck. Blue, Thom It. Keith, Frank McCas kill, Myron Barrett, Thomas McKen zie and Norman Calcutt. the association ^he Tournament com mittee, C. A. Ernest, R S. Etheridge, (Please turn to peige six) renton. Mr. and Mrs. Wallach will make their home in Warrenton.