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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, January 10, 1941.
Pinehurst
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FIVE CENT3
17 MOORE BOYS
LEAVE FOR ARMY
SERVICE JAN. 15
Eight Volunteers Among Those
Inducted for Year of Mil
itary Trainnig
TO BE SENT TO FT. BRAGG
Pat Goes to N. Y.
Just To Have His Picture
Taken in the Grantland
Rice Studio
Pat is back from New York. He
went up to have hia picture taken.
In the big studio of the Grantland
Rice Sportiight concern, too. It
was a quick trip. He went up on
New Year’s Day, was back In
Southern Pines on January 3rd.
Pat is Omer Williams’ male
pointer. Along' with Pal, a setter,
And Dixie, another pointer, both
belonging to Alec Fields of South
ern Pines, Pat broke into the mov
ies a few weeks ago. He’s to be
featured in one of the Grantland
Rice Sports pictures, and he and
Pal and Dixie were filmed in ac
tion here in the Sandhills. Ther
the studio sent for Pat for a se
quence which had to be made in
the studio in New York. So Pat
was crated and shipped up one
night, had his picture taken the
next day, was crated again and
arrived back home the following
day, sale and sound.
You’ll see these Southern Pines
huntin’ dogs in the movies in no
time now.
’41 STEEPLECHASE TELEPHONES OUT
HERE SANCTIONED AFTER EXCHANGE
FOR SAT., MAR. 15 BUILDING BLAZE
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Plans Under Way for Seventh Firemen Prevent Serious Dam-
Annual Race Meeting
in Sandhills
age and Service is Resumed
After Brief Suspension
HOPE TO INCREASE PURSES SUFFOCATING FUMES
Saturday, March 15th is the date! What might have been a disas-
awarded the Sandhills .Steeplechase ^ trous fire entailinx the complete de-
and Racing Association for its sev-i ^
I stiuction of the complicated machin-
enth annual race meeting here. The
meet was sanctioned and date set all
ery of the Central Carolina Tele-
the anuual meeting of the National Company's headquarters in
Steeplecha.se and Racing Association. Southern Pines, and the curtailment
held recently in New Yoik. | all telephone service in the Sand-
Kichard Wallach, Jr., racing secre- for en indefinite period was
The bugle blows for 17 Moore |
county young men on .January 15th.
The following have been selected
for induction by the Moore County
Draft Board:
Richard Marion Covington of
Jackson Springs, John William Rat-
kowski of Cameron, George Rosser
Cameron of Cameron. Lacy Alton
Cole of Highfalls, Eldridge Hall
Land, Wade Jasper Jernigan, Luther
Roy Yow and CJordon Nowell, all of
Aberdeen, John Wilbert Caddell of
Vass, Garland Lawrence Farrell of
Aberdeen. Kenneth Eugene Wooten of
Cameron, Ira Pate Auman of Steeds,
Flunk Seller Gillis of Aberdeen, Hen
ry Lee Harvell of Glendon, Lewis
Clarence Maness of Hemp, William
Maples of West End, and James Mon-
loe Hardy of Cameron.
The first eight on the above list
volunteered after registering for the
draft. Draft registrants are eligible
to volunteer at any time, and many
are doing so in order to get their j 1 Q/j 1
year of military training behind them.' v,'vfUl i 1 1 111 rX
These young men have order , I more horses in training at Camden j sTiall unit of the distribution system
«d to report at the Board headquar- ^ Commi.ssioners See Present Val-| end Aiken than ever. "But both those! interrupted sei^ice Monday and
ters In Carthage at 9;45 o clock on, ues as Fair. Boyette Named places are going to increase their
the morning of January 15th, from, County Attorney I purses, and we will have to,” he
NO REVALUATION
OF REAL ESTATE IN
tary of the local association, blew
into town this week from his home in
Warrenton, Va., to make prellnTTnary
1 Ians for the races. He told The Pi
lot that if the Sandhills ran increase
its purses some this Spring, we will
have the best meeting in our history
end one of the best, if not the best,
in the country. All owners and train-
ri's like the Barber Estate course,
and all like getting the season under
way with a meet around the middle
averted by the timely arrival and
fine work of the local firemen.
Immediately following the alarm
sent in at 8:15 o’clock Sunday night
by Mrs, Joe Thomas, on duty at the
switchboard, the responding firemen
were faced with suffocating fumes of
burning wax, pine, and cable cover-
ing.s filling the basement and service
rooms on the street floor which had
to be penetrated to get at the heart
of the fire. Originating from an over
of March, two weks before the his- ^ heated furnace flue pipe which ignit-
toric Carolina Cup races at Camden, ed the covering box of the main out-
S. C. The Pinehurst-Southern Pines -let cables, the flame came up through
event starts the long steeplechase] the flooring to the distribution sys-
I season this year as usual followed the teni.
next Saturday by Aiken, S. C., thenj jn remarkably quick time the
I Camden, and then on up into Virginia premises were ventilated and the
I and the north. .fiames extinguished but the result-
I Secretary Wallach says there are ing damage to the outlet cable and a
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Organize For MoiL' , '.f
Citizenry, Combattuig of
Subversion, Urges Burt
R. F. C. Head Speaker
Emil Schram To Be Guest of
Honor at Chambers of
Commerce Banquet
Emil Schram, administrator of
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration in Washington, successor
to Jesse H. Jones, now Secretary
of Commerce, will be the princi
pal speaker at the annual banquet
of the Chambers of Commerce of
Moore county at the Carolina Ho
tel in Pinehurst on Friday evening,
February 7th, it was announced
yesterday by J. Talbot Johnson,
president of the Aberdeen Chamber
of Commerce which is sponsoring
this year’s banquet. Governor J.
M. Broughton will be invited to in
troduce Mr. Schram.
Mr. Johnson, addressing the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce, outlined plans for the ban
quet, tickets for which will soon
be on sale throughout the county.
Author Makes Stirring Appeal
For Preparednes.s Against Fu
ture in Chamber Talk
ALL AID FOR BRITAIN
when they will proceed to the indue-1
I said. A campaign to supplement the
tlon station of the U. S. Army at | At iU first meeting in 1941 which , from the meeting itself is
Fort Bragg. Whether or not they re-j was held last Monday with all mem-'^„^ ^
main at Fort Bragg for their training bers present, the Board of Commis-i,d that approximately $1,000 cah be
- _^io„prs of Moore county .iccepted
$10,000 from the ABC BoarJ. appoint-
td S. n. Hoyle tax attorney and M.
G. Boyette county attorney, and de-
i.'i not known. They may be sent to
another camp.
Omitted through error from last
'week's Pilot list of those in Southern
Pines who have received question- cided against a revaluation of real
naires from the Draft Board was the ostate in Moore county for this year,
name of William Chase Mudgett, Jr.. | The members thought that since a
There will be a meeting of the Exe
cutive Committee of the Sandhills
Association this afternoon, Friday,
at 2 30 o’clock in the office of the
treasurer, Col. G. P. Hawes of Pine-
Fon of Dr. and Mrs. Mudgett. “Bill" j < areful study had been made j liurst, to discuss plans. The present
is now in Dartmouth College at Han-
cver. N, H.
Situation in Balkans
Outlined To' Kiwanis
Max von Schlegell of Foreign
Policy Association Takes Club
To Ea.stern Front
county values and such values were
committee comprises the following'
aeemed to be fair and just, a new val-1 «hai;^mAn; James
nation was unneces.sary. However D. Camden, Heman Gif-
they will review any particular prop-1 Hawes, George Watts Hill,
eity when they sit as a Board of kelson C. Hyde, Verner
Equalization in March. i ^ ^ufts and Mr.
I W'allach.
Raleigrh String Quartet
Pleases Concert Patrons Royal
! Welcome to Bostonians
Peace In the Balkans is wanted by
Hitler, but not by the British, ac
cording to Max von Schlegell of Bal
timore, former chairman of the For
eign Policy Association of this coun
try, who addressed the Sandhills Ki
wanis Club on Wednesday in the
Highland Pines Inn. Mr. von Schleg
ell, who is spending the winter in
Pinehurst, gave the Kiwanians a viv
id picture of the Balkan situation,
bringing the troubles brewing out of
the last Wbrld War up to the present
time.
The Balkans, he said, have always
meant trouble. They were split by
tl.ree factors: the growth of
the Roman Empire, the split
In the Christian Church, and the on-
lysh of the Turks, and they’ve
r.ever been able to organize among
themselves, Germany secured a
pretty firm hold on them when, af
ter the World War, England and
France seemed to lose Interest In
southeastern Europe. Germany need
ed Kuji^anian oil. principally. But
this is now petering out. Germany
isn't getting much of anything from
Russia now, Mr, von Schlegell says.
The Soviets are building up their
own supplies against the future. The
Baklans are beginning to appreciate
that they are getting the worst of the
barter system with Germany, too.
Paying too much for what they are
getting in return. “The barter sys
tem is fine for the more powerful
state,’’ he said, but not for the under
dog.
England doesn't want peace In the
Balkan* it wants t^ keep Hitler
busy in that sector. Germany, of
course, needs a settlen'ent of affairs
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Ffrst of Southern Pines Library
Series Brilliant Success.—
Lucille Turner Jan. 27th
Trainloads of Alumni of Boston
College Stop Off Enroute
From Sugar Bowl
One of the most delightful affairs
in Southern Pines in some time was
the first of the series of concerts
presented by the Library Association
last Monday night In the new Library
building. Artists for the occasion
were the members of the Raleigh
String Quartet, Edgar Alden, violin;
Christian D. Kutschinski, viola; Dor
othy Alden, violin, and Katherine
Elde, viollncello, and they provided
a program which won the hearts and
repeated applause of a large audience.
Mozart’s Quartet In E. flat,
Dvorak’s Quartet In F (American),
-Interludlum In Modo Antlco—Glazou-
r.ow-Pochon, Tchaikovsky’s Andante
Cantabile, Bloch’s Night and Kroll’s
Little March featured the presenta
tions.
The second in the series of four
concerts to be presented for the ben
efit of the Library will beon Janu
ary 27th, Miss Lucille Turner, radio
artist, in spirituals and monologues.
LEWIS BUODINO SOLD
T<) WARREN A. SMITH
The Kismet Corporation of Balti
more this week ^old the former Lewis
Building on E^st Broad street. Sou
thern Pines, now occupied by Ed's
Cafe, Roth’s Barber Shop and Shaw
Faint & Wallpaper Co., to Warrin'X.
Smith of Southern Pines. Mr. Smith
will take over the management of
the apartments above the cafe, and
Ed Starnes continue the operation of
his cafe and restaurant on the ground
floor.
Tue.sday despite the unceasing efforts
of company and other experts to re
pair and replace damaged wiring.
Service to Aberdeen and Pinehurst
was soon resumed, and Knollwood
and a part of Southern Pines were
.served on Tuesday.
Southern Pines firemen also turn-
od out at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing in answer to an alarm from the
cld Henderson house located on Say
lor street near Pennsylvania avenue,
but found upon arrival that the fire
had been doused out with buckets of
water. The house was occupied by
Eli McKnight and other colored ten
ants.
Ben Morgan Family
Burned Out Third Time
Hou.se in N'iagara Last of Three
Homes Within 100 Y’ards
Is Destroyed
With boys crying “Boston Herald”
or “Boston Globe” and every other
pei’son you passed talking the lan
guage of the bean and the cod, it
looked like the old Bay State capital
around the Southern Pines railway
.•Jtation last Friday. Four trainloads
of alumni and students, wives and
sweethearts of Boston College halted
here enroute home from the victor
ious march of their football team
against Tennessee in the New Or
leans Sugar Bowl the previous Satur
day.
Southern Pines turned out almost
en masse, and Pinehurst sent over a
big delegation, to bid the crowd of
some 600 a cordial welcome to the
•Sandhills. Those who desired were
ushered to waiting automobiles, cor-
raled by the Southern Pines Cham
ber of Commerce and shown the
sights of the community. Many of the
visitors remained in the special trains
due to the Inclement weather. All
were jubilant over the upset victory
of their team, and even the Pullmans
carried the message of victory in big
chalk letters on their sides.
Boston newspapers arrived here
just in time to be passed out to the
crowd, hungry for news of home.
Dr. George G. Herr headed the
committee In charge of the recep
tion, and In a statement to The Pilot
yesterday said:
"The spirit of cooperation shown
by the people of Southern Pines and
Pinehurst In extending a welcome
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The third fire alarm for the South
ern Pines Fire Department in the
first two weeks of the new year call
ed the apparatus to Niagara at 11:00
c’clock Thursday moining, where the
men found the home of Ben Morgan
In flames and beyond all hope of
.•■avlng owning to headway of the
fire and lack of water.
The house, a frame building of ten
rooms, was owned by a resident
of New Hampshire and hag been oc
cupied by the far.*lly of Mr. Mor
gan since the destruction of the
struction of the adjoining house, pre
adjoining house, previously occupied
by the Morgans on March 21st,
1940. This is the third time the
Morgans have been burned out, all
I hree houses having been located
within the space of a few hundred
yards.
The fire originating in the dry
shingles of the roof from a spark
falling from the chimney gave the
family and neighbors time to remove
much of the furniture from the lower
floor.
The house, valued at $3,000, was
owned by Mrs. Alice C. H. Wilson of
Tilton, N. H., and was insured
through D. H. Turner of Southern
Pines for $1,600. with $200 on furn
ishings.
F.4RMERS GET C^HEC'KS
Moore county farmers are now re
ceiving their 1940 cotton payment
checks and E. H. Garrison, county
farm agent, said this week that some
of the 1940 soil conservation checks
are beginning to come in too.
A stirring plea for citizenship or
ganization for the stabilization of
niorale, for preparedness and against
subversive activities Was made to
the directors of the Southern' Pines
Chamber of Commerce yesterday
noon by Struthers Burt. He called
upon civic organizations, service
clubs and the American Legion to
prepare for what may come if Eng
land goes under, and expressed the
opinion that the next three months
will decide her fate.
"The Axis Powers must attack this
Spring. If England can defend her
self, all is well; if she falls, we will
be faced with a panic for which our
citizenship must be prepared.”
I He told of the millions of forelg^-
; crs In this country as organized and
; ready to function against the U. S.
on M-Day as the rest of us are for
’ the U. S. We must organize the com
munity, make it self-contained, he
said. He would have young people
BOOKMOBILE TRIPS
' r.ut most important, we must be pre-
THRulinH rnilNTV rared to prevent any form of panic.
llIlll/UUll V'V/U-l ! 1 any gign defeatism; we must all
TO^T'AI^T 1AM know what to do, and how to do it.
tjlrVlVl J.U Mr, Burt recommended the ap
pointment of a committee of the
Chamber of Commerce to work with
committees of other organizations
such as Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions and
the American Legion to formulate
Th<* Works Prcijec.ta Adniinlstra- r'®ris for this stabilization of citizen-
tion bookmobile which proved very | morale, and President Chan
popular with Moore county patrons ^sge named to represent the Cham-
two years ago, will return to this S. DnRant, chainnan;
county for a three months sei’vice. ^ Struthers Burt, Ralph Chandler, the
beginning Thursday, January 16th, f’^'ed Stimson and Nelson C.
FI vde
The travelir.^ library comes hen>
under the sponsorship of the Moore ! suggeslion of H. J, Better-
County Board of Commissioners and i '''V' telegrams were seiiL yeiterday to
Moore County Board of Education President, Senators Bailey and
and i.s free to everyone. It will be op-' Reynold.s and Representative Burgin
eiated under the supervision of the; government to do ‘'what-
State-wide Library Project. necessary” to aid Britain.
The rr -ting, held at the Southern
Traveling Library Will Visit
Every Section On Three-
Month Itinerarv
Pines Country Club, was a most pa-
tiiotic and splrltcu one, with some
25 members in attendance.
The bookmobile is one of twelve
belonging to the WPA Library Pro
ject. It is operated as a demonstra- j
t.on to the citizens of what adequate j
library service can mean to persons!
of all ages to whom books have been Dan Farrell Chairman
inaccessible or accessible only with Infantile Campaign
difficulty. ! ^ “
The truck is equipped with a set; Apointed by
of revolving shelves which hold
around 800 books. New book collec
tions from a reserve of 2,000 books
will be made each trip, thus assur
ing readers of a balanced collection
at all times. It will visit every com
munity of the county and all county
schools on scheduled trips, every two
weeks. On the retuin Trip these books
may be renewed or exchanged.
Below is a schedule of the book
mobile itinerary. In the event the
traveling library does not stop or go
by a community wishing this service,
communicate with Mrs. Alice Bass.
Manley, and if possible such steps
will be included in the schedule. In
in Moore Countv
Dan Farrell of Aberdeen has been
appointed Moore county chairman for
the President’s Birthday parties on
January 30th, for the benefit of the
Infantile paralysis fund, by State
Chairman Dr. Julian Miller, editor
of the Charlotte Observer. Dr. Mil
ler states that North Carolina is ex
pected to raise about $35,000 this
year and that one-half of all raised
will be retained in the state for In
fantile paralysis cases.
Funds will be raised not only by
birthday balls, which are optional,
working out the itinerary certain res-’jjy^ j^y ^^gans of birthday cards sent
idences and places of business have President, the March-of-Dlmes,
been designated. By this Is meant | collections in coin containers, sports
that the bookmobile will stop near j bridge parties, etc., and Mr.
these places and books loaned from i parrell Is busy with plans for Moore
the truck. jcounty.
Carthage-Union Trip—The bookmo-1 —
bile will make this trip every othei
Thursday beginning January 16,
Dates for this tiip are: January 16,
30, February 13, 27, March 13, 27, The annual meeting of the South-
April 10. 9:05 a. m. Carthage High|prn Pines Fire Company was held in
O’CALLAOHAN REEXECTED
FIRE DEPARTMENT CHIEF
School; 10:10 a. m., Charlie McDon
ald's residence; 10:35 a. m., Mrs. E,
the fire house Thursday night. Jan
uary 2nd. Officers elected for the
B, Horne’s residence; 11:00 a. m., coming year were as follow^; L. V.
Farm Life School; 11:55 a. m.. Hill-j G’Callaghan, chief; L. S. Rowell, as-
crest (Mr. Glendon Wicker's resi-j Ristant chief; P. E. Kennedy company
dence); 1:00 p. m., Carthage Elemen- captain; F. H. Kaylor, truck captain
tary School; 2:00 p. m.. Union Church and secretary and treasurer of the
(Mrs. Ben Gulledge residence; 2:30
p. m., Carthage Public Library; 3:45
p. m., J. H. Speer's residence; 4:15
p. m., Carthage.
Hlghfalls-Glendon Trip—The book-
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company.
Captain Kaylor is now In charge
of fire headquarters and through The
Pilot issues a cordial Invitation to
the public to inspect the house or
apparatus at any time.
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