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PILOT
MOOKK C'OrXTY’S
LKAI)I\(;
NEWS-WEKKLY
of the Sandhill Territory Carolina
VOL. I!>, NO. 30.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday. June 21. lilKt.
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FIVE CENTS
SECOND PRIMARY
TOMORROW FOR
BURGIN, DEANE
Sandhillians At Christening of 40 JOIN UP FOR
New Battleship North Carolina AMBULANCE UNIT
~ ’ IN MOORE fOUNTY
!\Ir. and Mrs. II. A. I*a>re. Jr., See
.Miss Isal)ei Hoey Smash
Hot tie Over Prow
Democrats of Moore County
I'r^od To Vote in Kun-OI'f
ConRress Election
CLOSE RACE EXPECTED
Forty thou.sand per.son.s stood in-
I side the gatos of the Broklyn Navy
i Yard last Thursday and saw Amer
ica's nevve.'ft and mightiest battleship,
the 35,000-ton North Carolina.
Tomorrow, Saturday, is Primary ' fliristened by Miss I.sabel Hoey, dau-
Day—the second primary to settle' Rhter of Oovernor and Mrs. Clyde R.
the one election called for in Moore > ^’oey. The Sandhills section was rep-
cotmty following the Primary of May resented by Mr. and Mrs. Henry A.
25th. The issue: the Democratic nom- Jr. of Aberdeen, and also in
inee for Member of ConKre.ss; the the crowd was Mrs. Kdwin T. Mc-
candidates: Representative W. O.
Burgin of Lexington, and C. B. Doanc
of Rockingham.
It is generally agreeil that the
vote will be a close one. Two years
ago it was so close that the issue
was not decided until the fall, and
then by a non-parti.san board. Mr.
Burgin was the duly nominated can-
Keithen. Jr. of New York, daiightei-
in-law of Mr. and Mrs, K. T, Mc-
Keithen of -\berdeen. Mr. and Mi's.
I’age told The Pilot they had never
witne.saed a more impressive cere
mony.
“The cheers of the multitude were
mixed with the deafening sotmd of
sirens and whistles of scores of har-
didate, was elected in November and, f’or craft as the Sfi;!,000,000 dread-
has seived for the past two years in naught named for the Old Noilh
Congres.<!, during which time he has State .slid down the ways into the
been a member of the vitally impor- f'ast Rii'er." they said. As the snp-
tant Foreign Affairs Committee. i loosened to send the 7.5G-
All Democratic voters in Moore foot vesse'. into the river Miss Hoey
county are urged by their party sm.ished n bottle of rare champagne
thieftains to go to the polls tomor-' "'K'T'fist the prow with words, "I
row and cast their ballots. Dr. George' thee North Carolirs.
O. Herr, chairman of the Democrat- One newspaper conespondent de-
ic Precinct committee in Southern f-cribing the christening, wrote:
Pines, a.sks for a record vote here. “Miss Hoey. as sponsor of the new
Polls will be open all day in the' Carolin-., did as fine a job ,->f
Municipal Building. [ crivistoninc: dS has ever been done i.i
Steolo Out For Burgin I Bro:>klyi. y ivd. In fact, it vd:
During the past week “Bob“ j‘I'niost too well r. i e. With the bol-
Steele III of Rockingham, who ran: Rnrpcd in U/h hands and
(iood For Him
Congressman Iiuri>:in Sticks
To Jo!) Despite Fight
Aj>ainst Deane
Washington, Juno 10. Al
though Kepiesentative William O.
Buigin of the Kighth North Car
olina district is faced with a pri
mary fight next Saturil.iy for the
Democratic nomination to Con
gress, he said today that hi would
have to stay on his job in Washing
ton regaulless of the outcome of
the flection. A niemhei (»f the
foreign affairs committee of the
House, which is now meeting daily
because of the conditions in Eu
rope, Ml'. Burgin said that he con-
.sidei'.s the emergency .so great and
changes taking place so rapidly
that he felt that his duty was to
represent his distiict here every
(lav.
Organization .Meetini*' To He
Held Tonight in Commun
ity Church. IMnehurst
R. R. SIGNALS IN
third in the first primary, declared
for Mr. Burgin and urged his sup
porters to vote for th present in
cumbent, Mr. Burgin’s supporters
are active in his behalf throughout
the district, the Congressman him-
seli sticking to his post in Washing
ton owing to the serious foreign sit-
nation. ,
During the week also, Mr. Burgin
announced to the farmers of the dis
trict that he DID vote for parity
payments to farmers, denying a re
port circulated by Mr. Deane that he
DID NOT. Burgin submitted a let
ter from the Clerk of the House of
Representatives to prove his vote.
Mr. Deane retaliated with another
statement that Mr. Burgin did, dfter
all, vote for these payment.'! to aid
the farmer, but voted against the
appropriation of the necessary money
to pay the bill.
In a letter sent out to Democrats
In Moore county a group of promi
nent supporters of Mr. Burgin urge
(Please turn to page nix)
$90,000 Sought By
Woods In Auto Wreck
Pinehurst Broker and Wife File
Separate Suits in
Superior ourt
Asking for personal damages to-
taling $90,000, Mrs. Mark K. Wood
and her husband, Joseph W. Wood, of' measuring the rights and liberties of
wifn
n .swing that would have done justice
to Babe Kuth, she crashed the chaf
pa^ne ov>'r tt.* steel piow, droni-hing
herself and a dozen other distingU’sh.
ed guests standing just below her
<>n a platform."
Among those speaking at the
launching were Secretary of the Navy
Erlison, Read Admiral Clark H.
Woodward, commandant of the Navy
Yard, and Governor Hoey. The Gov
ernor said in part:
“Undilute<l .American"
"North Carolina is willing to trav
el thi! pathway of sacrifice and self-
denial in order to make secure our
democratic Institutions and preserve
our chori.'»hed American ideals. We
do not know what the future may
bring forth, but we shall face It un
afraid. If there is to be a new world
order we shall fight to preserve the
democratic processes of government
and the American way of life for our
selves. We shall maintain our faith
In a great God who loves justice and
bestows mercy—and we shall pray
tor peace.
"Despite the dark clouds of war
hanging over the world and the dev
astation already wrought, I can vis-
tiallze the re-birlh of civilization to-
morrow and In that new made world
I wish to see the spirit of America
dominant, and I should like for the
North Carolina brand of undiluted
Americanism and unspoiled democ
racy to be the standard preserved for
Frye .Asks Citizens To Take Im
mediate .\cti(m To
Save Lives
AMHl l.AXCE DOXATEI) |
With 10 young ladies of the Sand-
hill.s already onrolleil, tho Moore ■
C'(iinty .\nibulance I'liit will effect
it.s oiganization at a meeting to be
held at 8:00 o’clock tonight. Friday,
in the Community Churcli in Pinp-
l utst. All those who have signil'ird
tiu ir desire tn “join up" are urged to
be pri'seiit.
Miss I’Mtricia Willcox of West Knil,
prime mover in the organization an-
nounted ye.stetday the donation of an
rmbulance for training purposes by
the Clark Kuneial Home of South
ern Pines, Lloyd H. Clark is putting
the ambulance in condition to be
lurncd over to the unit when its pio-
>;iam r>f instruction gets under way.
n.Tiage proprietors and mechanic.^
have volunteered their .services in
training the unit members in opera
tion, care and maintenance,
Mr.>. Thomas Bradley of Southern
Pme.s has volunteered a.s instructor in
French. Mi.ss Willcox announced, and
Mrs, Lloyd Clark, R, N., has volun
teered to instruct in First Aid Work.
.All those attending tonight's meeting
are asked to bring two yards of un
bleached domestic.
Group le'ders have already been
May Train Pilots
Knollwood .Airport Offered
For 1st* in (Jovernment's
I’xpansion l*ro)4:ram
Knollwood Airport may lie util
ized for the tiaining of pilots in
till' new expansion of the country's
air swrviee.
Plans Were set in motion here
this week by a group of citizens
interested in the airport to have
the government assign ten stu
dents for in.'^'truction imder Civil
.-Veionaiitics .\uthority regulations,
by Harold Bachman, in charge of
the local field. Mr. Bachman has
two piaiie.s which can be used for
primary and .secondary training.
Congressman Burgin is being
asked to take up with the War
Department the matter of naming
the Knollwod Airpoit as an offi-
cial C.\.\ training field.
MRS.. m DIES
SUDDENLY IN HER
PINEHURST HOME
Pa.'isini'- of First Lady of Sand
hills A Shock To Entire
Communitv
FI XERAL SERVICE Sl’XDAY
NEW TANKS, NEW
ANTI-AlRfR.AFTON
BRAGG SCHEDULE
Increased Personnel To Study
Modern Warfare With
■Modernized I'nits
^^’^l^)^'ing inip!'essivt? services in
the Pinehur.st Community Chuich
last Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Gertrude
' H. Tufts, v\ ife of Leonard Tufts, was
laid to rest in Mount Hope Cemetery
, in Soiitheni Pines, Death came .sud
denly to one of Moore coimty's most
belovetl re.sidents shortly before noor.
last Friday following a heart attack
suffeied in her Pinehurst home.
SIr.s. Tufts has meant st) much
to Pinehurst and to Moore countv
that her passing was a distinct .shock.
To hundreds, in all walks of life, it
brought a sense of deep personal los.^,
' for hundreds called her fiiend. She
i had lived among them for nearly ID
, years; she had ministered unto
, those of the less fortunate with whom
she had come in contact: she had be-
ftiended the poor and needy; she had
: been ,i mother to Boy and Girl
Scouts, had followed her children
and they were all her children
j through their schooling and beyond
I into the paths of life, giving of her-
A plea for red light signaKs at all "''"’led for Carthage and Pinehurst,
lailroad crossings in Southern Pines ^If^de Seawell will have charge
is made this week in a communica-j texceeded only by four other mlli-, married to Leonard Tufts ^thcn of
^ A. T.Planfi \lPKfiitn«»n r\f fho Ptna. . ....... . . < t * '
self devotedly, tmselfishly. Her life
fort Biagg holds a key spot in appeared consectated to the better-
new national defen.se plans, Secretary of her neighbor, .spiritually,
of War Woodring revealed this week physically .—and always practically.’
in announcing the way in which in- 1‘assen on Anniversary
ciea.sed personnel imder the emer-■ Gertrude Sise was born in Bo.ton
gency program will be utilized. j 1870. the datighter of Edith Ware
The North Carolina garrison will ;i„d Albert Fleetwood Si.se. She was
tion received by The Pilot from R. Leland McKeithen of the Pine-
G. Frye, Jr.. Coroner of Moore coun-, group,
ty. I IJst of Memlters
"I am asking every citizen in Sou-1 Others enrolled to date include the program, Woodring stated.
ti.ry posts throughout the country in Boston, on June 14th, 189,5, the day
the increase of strength and per.son-! of her death marking the 40th anni-
I nel to be carried out under the new' versary of their wedding, Mr. and
! -\rr.s. Tuft.s first came to the North
Knollwood, have started two sepa
rate suits in Moore county Superior
Court against Petroleum Carrier Cor
poration, with main office in Jack
sonville Fla, and branch offices in
Fayetteville, as a result of a truck-
automobile collision which occurred
on the Aberdeen-Pinehurst highway
on March 3rd
According to the allegations, the
Woods were meeting ,■'.1’, automobile
which was weaving from side to side
of the road and when it bore to the
left, they were forced to drive to-
v/anl the center of the road to avoid
a head-on collision. The oil truck,
they allege, was traveling at a fa.st
rate of speed dangerously near and
immediately behind the oncoming au
tomobile, that is swerved to the left
and ran into the car driven by Mr.
Wood.
Mrs. Wood suffered a concussion,
was paralyzed and rendered helpless
as a result of the collision, she al-
leges, and she is asking for $60,000.
Mr. Wood manager of the brok
erage office in the Carolina hotel,
Pinehurst, In addition to his $30,-
000 claim for damages, is asking for
$150 for damages to his car.
Seawell and Seawell are attorneys
for the Woods.
the citizens of this new world.
"I salute the gallant battleship,
'North Carolina I”
Honor Dr. Brownson’s
Memory on Birthday
them Pines to <io all he can in get-1 following: Mrs. James Tufts Miss A total of 638 men are to be ad-i Carolina Sandhill.'! when, that .same
tmg the red light signal put on every I Ruth McHenry, Mi.ss Hilda Muller, | ded to Fort Biagg’s present personnel year, they looked over the ground
railroad crossing in the ctiy limits! Mi.ss Dorothy Ehrhardt. Dr. Alice, f.nd new streamlined methods of that James Tufts, Mr Tufts’ father
of Southern Pines to protect your | Presbrey and Mi.ss Callie Battley;; warfare will be studied with the mod-1 had acquired from the Pages for the
own people and others that come
from various' parts of the world to
vi.sit your beautiful village,” says
Coronet Frye.
"Visitors who come to yotlr town
expect to be protected from reckless
drivers and thieves and they are pro
tected, but they expect to be protect
ed from railroad crossings also. I
feel It is my duty as well as yours
to do all I can to get this protection.
As you all know there Is but one
crossing with the red light signal and
that crossing Is used less than any
other In town. I don't know to whom,
the responsibility would go for put-
ting up these lights but regardless of
who It is It should be done even if
each of you have to pay a little.
“It will l)e cheaper than a funeral
or hospital bill and the sorrow it will
cause. You might say, "I am single
(Please turn to page two)
County Lacks $450 of
$4,000 Red Cross Quota
Pinehurst; Miss Frances Pleasants, j ernized units to be established
Mrs. Stewart Weaver, Mrs, Francis j expanded,
Pleasants, Miss Edna Maurer, Miss i The program provides for an un-
Madeleine Follev, Miss Helen Batche. | di.sclo.sed number of new Christy
lor, Miss Roberta Zinunerman, Miss; tanks for two battalions. These are
Rebecca and Miss Dorothy Doub,
Miss Wendy Worsley, Miss Carol Bow-
swift medium-sized tanks that are
among the finest and most effective
man. Miss Lois McLeod, Mrs. H. A, i pieces of atmanent the Army has yet
“Mutiny on the Bounty” To Be
Shown in Jay-Cee Benefit
Performance
Page, Jr., Mrs. J. R. Page Jr., Mrs,
W. F. Page, Mrs, Fred C. Page, Mrs.
Lee Page, Miss Margaret Miller and
Mrs. Norfleet Pleasants, Aberdeen;
Mrs. George London, Mrs. Lloyd Clark,
Miss Barbara Betterley, Mrs. Thomas
B. Smith Mrs. Nelson C. Hyde and
Miss Margaret Bogle, Southern Pines;
Miss Patricia and Miss Bobby Will-
cox. Miss Cora B. Donaldson, Miss
Virginia Greer, Miss Allene Warren
and Miss Phyllis Loverlng, W'est End,
and Mrs. Malcolm Kemp, Pinebluff.
MiSs Seawell is enrolling the Car
thage members. Many more volun
teers are expected from all sections
of the county, and Miss Willcox be
lieves It will soon be necessary to
divide the organization into several
units.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey has writ-
ten the organization wi.shing it all
success and offerin,g such State aid
as may be possible.
Moore county lack.s only •$4,')0 of
doubling the quota originally a.ssign-1
ed here for the War -Relief Fund of f^Q^^rd BumS DcClineS
the American Red Cross. Mrs. Burt
evolved.
A new coast artillery battalion de
voted to anti-aircraft work will be
established and the field artillery
units at Fort Bragg will be greatly
strengthened.
These plans, which will be effected
at once, are the result of the addi
tion of 38,000 enlisted men to the
Army as the result of new appro
priations, bringing the authorized
peace time strength of the Army to
28,000 men.
Two entirely new divisions are to
be created, the seventh and the
eighth.
The Eighth Division will be located
at Camp Jack.son, near Columbia, S.
C. which will receive an a.ssignment
of 8,200 troops. The Seventh Division
will be quartered at Camp Ord, CaHt.,
where 7,9.')4 men will be stationed.
G. M. Cameron, County
Commissioner, To Wed
Concrreuation of Church Named Himt, county chairma;i, urgently ap-
For Him To Observe Anni
versary Wednesday
Next Wednesday afternoon at 5:00
o'clock, the n embers and friends of
the Brow’n.son Memorial Presbyterian
Ch’irch of Southern Pines will gather
at the church to observe the birth
day of Dr. Brownson in whose mem
ory the church was named.
As a part of the program, ‘The
Ideal for our Church,” a paper pre
pared by Dr. Brown.son and written
in his own hand In the Sessional Rec-
crd of the church, will be read as a
reminder to the people of the purpose
for which the church was establish
ed. A1.S0 a paper on the life of Dr.
Brownson prepared by Dr. Minot C.
Morgan, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church of Greenwich, Conn.,
will be resd. Dr. Morgan was at pne
time tl.e assistant pastor to Dr.
(PUatt turn to pag» fiv)
Stre.ss of Other Duties Prevent.s,,
City Clerk Writes Highland
Park Corporation
peals for further contiibutions to "go
over the top." The total raised to
date is $3,.'>50.
The Southern Pines Junior Cham
ber of Commerce is sponsoring the
showing of the famous motion pic-
turv, "Mutiny on the Boimtv” at the i
Carolina Theatre in Southtrn Pines!^eek was elected president of
Hotel Co. Presidency: His Enpapement to Miss Mary
I Evelyn Sloan of Pinehurst
School Faculty -Announced
Howard F. Burns.
Treasurer of Southern
City
Mrs. Annie Sloan of Mount tTlla
bas announced the engagement of
Clerk-! her daughter Mary Evelyn, to Gor-
or j foundation of the Pinehurst of to-
I day. Some eight years later they
came here to live, and have called it
home since then.
It is needless to recount the part
played by Mr. and Mrs. Tufts In the
development of the Sandhills. Their
mark is upon every milestone of its
progress. From the first Mrs. Tjifts
devoted herself to the 'Jharitablc, re
ligious and educational side of life
here. Her interests have been wide
spread—the school l>oard, of which
she was long a member; the Red
Cross, to which she devoted hour."!
in times of need; the Girl Scouts, of
w’hom she was troop mother, and the
Boy Scouts, In whom she has taken
an active interest; the Parent-Teach-
er Association, of which she was the
first president; more recently, of the
Health Clinic In which, as chairman
of the Clinic Committee of the Pine
hurst Chamber of Commerce, she
has been tireless; tn the Community
Church, where she worshipped and
served.
There was no empty pew in the
church last Simday afternoon when
the Rev. A. J. McKelway, assisted b.v
Dr. T. A. Cheatham, offered their
prayers for the deceased and for the
loved ones left behind. Only the im-
meiliato family attended the service
at the grave in Mount Hope.
Mrs. Tufts is survived by her hus
band: her daughter, Esther, wife of
Townsend Latting, of Andover, N. H.,
and three sons, Albert of Chapel Hill
and Richard S. and James W. of
Pinehurst.
Pines, who
next Wednesday nighrt. Manager
Charles W. Picquet has donated the
theatre and all proceeds over the ren
tal coat of the film will go to the
Red Cross fund. Ticket.>( are on sale
by Mrs. Jean Ed.son of franjeans and
by members of the Junior Chamber.
At the Red Cross second-hand shop
in the old Jack's Grill, Southern
Pines, everything will be sold out to
morrow, Mrs. Hunt announces. This
shop has netted $250 to date from
the sale of donated garments, and
everything that has not been sold will
be sacrificed at the closing out sale
tomorrow.
the Highland Park Hotel Company at
the annual meeting of stockholders,
has declined the office. In a letter
sent to Donsey G. Stutz, secretary
and treasurer of the corporation on
Wednesday, Mr. Burns said:
“I appreciate very much the hon
or conferred upon me by the stock
holders of the Highland Park Hotel
Co. in electing me as president of
the corporation.
"I regret very much being unable
to accept this honor but my work
with the Town is such that It Is Im
possible for me to take on any ad
ditional duties.”
don McGregor Cameron of Pinehur-st.
The wedding will take place in the
late summer.
Miss Sloan is a member of the
Pinehurst school faculty. Mr. Camer-
cn, a native of Moore county and for
many years connected with Pine
hurst, Inc., is a member of the Board
of County Commissioners.
,n \IOR CIVIC (XX B NKTS
$39.10 FOR BKD CROSS
The Junior Civic Club of Southern
Pines had a houseful for Its box sup
per party last Monday night in the
Civic Club’s house and realized $39.10
for the Red Cross War Relief Fund.
I'lNKHl'RST GIRI- SCOl'TS
AID KKD CROSS Tl KSI>\^
Pinehurst Girl Scouts are holding
a baked bean and ham supper for
the benefit of the American Red
Cross War Relief Fund, at their cab
in on Tuesday night, starting at 6:00
o’clock, and invite one and all to
join them. There will be a charge of
.')0 cents up, as they put it. You can
pay as much as you like.
Lloyd Griffin of Raleigh Executive
Secretary of the Sta^e School Com
mission, will address the Kiwanls Club
next Wednesday noon.