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VOL. 20. NO. 7.
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Southern Pines. North Carolina. Friday. January 17, 1941.
Pinehurst
FIVE CENTS
KIWANIANS ENJOY
BIRTHDAY PARTY
AT MID-PINES CLUB
Here for 44 Years
Observe 18th Anniversary of
Founding of Organization in
the Sandhills
JOHNSON RECALLS PAST
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club had a
birthday party Wednesday, with a
cake and candles ’n’ everything. It
was 18 years old, and the party was
held in the very room where, in Jan
uary, 1923 the club received its char
ter as a member of the international
organization, the dining room of the
Mid-Ptnea Club. This month is also
the anniversary of Kiwanis Interna
tional, founded in Detroit, Mich.,
January 21at, 1915.
A reminiscent talk, all about the
past history of the local club, made
by J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, Its
third president, featured the luncheon
gathering. Another feature was the
presence at the speakers’ table of
twelve past presidents, all but four
of the former presidents who are
still Uviag. Two, Robert N. Page of
Aberdeen and Dr. Jamie W. Dickie of
Southern Fines, have passed on.
Those present were, in the order in
which they served the club: Talbot
Johnson, Edwin T. McKeithen, Paul
Dana, Richard S. Tufts, Nelson C.
Hyde, Dr. EJrble M. Medlin, Willard
L. Dunlop, Charles W. Picquet Ralph
L. Chandler, J. Vance Rowe and John
M. Howarth. Many of the charter
n;embers were al-TO present.
Value To Community'
Ml'. Johnson stressed the value of
Kiwanis to the Sandhills communiyt,
told of its influence in getting the
first paved road in this section, be*
tween Aberdeen and Southern Pines;
getting the first two-way road in the
state, between Pinehurst and South
ern Pines; its work toward the es
tablishment of a hospital, toward ac
quiring for the Sandhills a modern
telephone system, and its planting of
trees and shrubbery throughout the
entire section. He recalled many
amusing incidents in the club's his
tory.
Messages of regret at their Ina
bility to be present were read from
the club’s first president. Dr. William
C. Mudgett, and from Preston T. Kel
sey, 1941 president who is in Flor
ida.
Arthur S. Newcomb, dean of the
charter members of the club, was
called upon to cut the huge birth
day cake provided by John J. Fitz
gerald, manager of the Mid-Pines
Club.
It was announced at the meeting
that Governor J. M. Broughton had
accepted an invitation to introduce
E^il Schram, chairman of the Re
construction Finance Corporation,
who is to address the Chambers of
Commerce banquet at the Carolina
hotel in Pinehurst February 7th. Mr.
Schram, for whom the Seaboard Air
Line Railway is providing a private
car down from Washington, will re-
niain in the Sandhills over the week
end.
ALMET JENKS IS
RE-ELECTED HEAD
OF S. P. UBRARY
Wherein a Former Neighbor of Yours
Gets 16 Years in the Hoosegaw
Earl Williams, Who Occupied Home in Weymouth Heights
in 1938, Went a Little Too Far When He Stole Miss
Swan’s Frigidaire. Traced Through Fingerprints
Officers Chosen at Annual Meet
ing—Reporter Show Progress
Though Membership Off
TWO NEW TRUSTEES
C. T. (PATCH
Mr. Patch is celebrating the com
pletion of 44 years in the mercantile
business in Southern Pines this week,
during whic ^ time be has built up the
largest department store in the Sand
hills, the C. T. Patch Company.
Though ill at his home, Mr. Patch
has been receiving the congratula
tions of his friends on his long ser
vice to the community, and the well
wishes of all.
4 MURDER CASES
ON TRIAL DOCKET
HERE NEXT WEEK
Amos Broadway and Unchurch
Slayings Among Those To Be
Heard by Superior Court
MAPLES-CARTER CASE UP
Almet Jenka was reelected presi
dent of the Southern Pines Library
Association at the annual meeting
held in the library building this
week. Other officers were elected as
follows:
First vice-president, A. B. Yeo
mans; 2d. vice-president. Miss Ruth
Burr Sanborn; 3d., the Rev. F. Craig-
hiil Brown, and 4th, the Rev. W. F.
Sheldon; secretary, Mrs. James B.
Swett, and treasurer, Mrs. J. K.
Walker. Mrs. James Boyd, Miss Mary
Yeomans and Miss Birdilia Bair were
re-elected trustees, and the Rev.
Voigt O. Taylor and Mrs. William
McCord added to the board.
Annual reports were read by the
Librarian, the Book Committee and
the Membership Committee, all show
ing pit)gres8 with the exception of
membership, which had dropped some
since a year ago. No membei'.'hip
drive was staged during the year,
the officers explained. The board ap
proved the new three-cents-a-day ren
tal plan for current books, and is
expending $25.00 per month for such
I books.
I
Steals Purse, Starts
Crap Game; 12 Months
Roy Waddell of “Jimtown” Pur
loins Miss McDonough’s $30
From Parked Car
In 1938 a man named Karl R. Williams came to Southern Pines
from Winston-Salem to look for a house to rent. He liked Mrs. Emily
Mae Wilson's little bungalow in the Weymouth Heights section and
leased jt. He lived here for some time, fraternized with the rest of us,
made many friends.
In 1938 there was a series of house-breakings and burglaries in
town. Dr. Robert L. Hart’s house was entered. So were the homes of
Walter T. Ives, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, Miss Florence Swan and
others. All kinds of odds and ends disappeared from homes, and the
police were kept busy running hither and yon.
When a Frigidaire disappeared from the home of Miss Swan the
police began to get pretty mad. They got right busy, took fingerprints,
sent them broadcast to police headquarters throughout the state. If
a Frigidaire can mysteriously disappear, they feared for our pianos,
the beds we sleep on, even our furnaces.
Mr. Williams’ lease expired. He returned to Winston-Salem. There,
a little while ago, suspicion pointed in his direction for some petty
theft. He was taken to headquarters, fingerprinted. The whorls matched
some others that had accumulated in the "Wanted” file. In fact it
matched a lot of them.
When Earl R. Williams was arraig^ned in court no less than 105
charges appeared against him. He was tried on only three. Principal
evidence against him were the fingerprints taken at Miss Swan's home
here by Chief Police EM Newton. They were conclusive. Williams drew
a sentence of 16 years in State’s Prison.
So his neighbors’ Frigidaires are safe for a while.
MRS. BOONE, WIFE
OF PINE NEEDLES
MANAG^ PASSES
Death Follows Major Operatoion
Performed on Tuesday in
Baltimore Hospital
HAD BEEN ILL SOME TIME
Steeplechase Association Jumps
Purses For ’41 Races.To $3^600
Four murder case.s are' on the dock
et for next week's term of Superior'
Court whichi'i.s scheduled to convene
in Carthage on Monday with Judge
Frank M. Armstrong presiding.
One of the defendants to face a
murder charge is a woman, Jessie
Roy Waddell, colored boy of West
.Southern Pines, saw a nice fat pock-
etbook in a car parked on West
Broad street, Southern Pines, the
other day, and the temptation was
, too great. It proved to contain around
‘ $30 belonging to Miss Margaret Mc-
Tyson Davis of Carthage, charged
with the shotgun slaying of her hus- | ..jj^town” and, according to the
I story, distributed some of it among
Nathan Minton of Vass, one of the, fjjg ^oy friends. Naturally, this led
participants in a gun battle which to a crap game, and, also naturally,
took place on the farm of Miss Clau- '
dia Thomas at Vass last fall, a bat-
Aiumni of S. P. High
School To Organize
Meeting To Complete Plans Will
Be Held at Country C!ufa
February 1st
For many years the wish has been
expressed for an Alumni Association
of Southern Pines High School. At
last this desire has been fulfilled. The
first annual homecoming will be
held at the Southern Pines Country
Club on Saturday, February 1st. Here
Ihe final plans for the organization
will be formulated.
The program, sponsored by the
Senior Class, will Include dlnnqr at
the club, a basketball game with
both the girls’ and boys’ teams of the
high school competing with visiting
teams, and an informal dance at the
Civic Club. All graduates of South
ern Pines High School are cordially
invited to participate in the organiz
ing of this Alumni Association.
tic- in which C. E. Upchurch was fa
tally wounded, his son. Norris Up
church, Nathan Minton and the Int-
ter’s daughter, Trula Minton, were
shot, will go on trial for the murder
of the elder Upchurch, and Norris
UjJchurch will be charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill.
James Hainsworth, colored, of
Southern Pines, will be tried for the
niurder of Amos Broadway, a color
ed man of West Southern Pines, and
Irvin Lambert of the Hemp section
will be tried for the death of Roland
Gamer.
Tom Horner, driver of the auto
mobile in which Louise Maples and
Sybil Carter of Southern Pines were
riding when they met their death in
October will be arraigned on a man
slaughter charge.
A number of breaking and entering
p.nd assault cases are on the docket,
but it will doubtless be out of the
question to hear so many important
cases in one regular term of court.
RALEIGH STRING QUARTET
INVITFJ> TO COME BACK
this led to thearrest of Roy.
In Recorder’s Court in Carthage
Monday Roy was given twelve
months on the roads for his failure to
resist temptation.
Le'Roy Hough, white, of Southern
Pines, had prayer for judgment con
tinued upon payment of a fine of $50
and the costs, imposed for carrying
R concealed weapon, namely, brass
knucks.
At Civic Club
Dr. R. Taylor Coe of Duke To
Talk Today on “The Axis
Powers”
Dr. R. Taylor Cole, associate
professor of Political Science at
Duke University, will be the
speaker this afternoon, Friday, at
3:00 o’clock at the Civic Club
house, facing the park In Southern
Pines. There is no admission
charge, and there will be a large
audience of both men and women
to greet Dr. Cole as he is one of
the truly big speakers in the state.
His subject will be “The Axis
Powers Since Italy Entered the
War." Dr. Cole was in Germany
it the start of hostilities and
mows his subject.
Next week on Friday afternoon,
Mrs. J. N. Ingram wlil give a
travel talk on Alaska.
Mrs. Adele Shaw Boone, wife of
Emmett E, Boone, manager of Pine
Needles, Southern Pines, died in the
Union Memorial Hospital early yes
terday morning following a major op
eration performed on Tuesday. Mrs.
Boone was 51 years of age.
In ill health for some time, Mrs.
Boone’s condition became acute im
mediately after Christmas, and two
weeks ago she was taken to Balti
more. An operation was decided
upon, and was performed by a lead
ing Baltimore surgeon on Tuesday.
Her resistance following her long per
iod of illness was insufficient to per
mit her to rally from the effects, and
she pMsed away early yesterday. Her
husband and her only son, Emmett.
Jr., assistant manager of the Kirk
wood Hotel in Camden, S. C., were
with her at the end.
The news of Mrs. Boone’s passing
cast a spell of gloom over the entire
Sandhills community yesterday. A
winter resident here since 1935, she
had endeared herself to all with
whom she had come in contact. She
had been a faithful helpmeet to her
husband in his management of the
!rine Needles, as well as during the
Purses have been jumped to $3,- | summertime at the Howell House in
Prize Money $700 More Than
Last Year.—Bright Prospectal
For Sandhills Event
600 for the seventh annual race Westhampton
meeting of the Sandhills Steeplechase ^,also operated
and Racing Association, to be held
on the Barber Estate course on the
Midland Road on Saturday afternoon,
March 15th. it was announced fol
lowing a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the association held in
Beach, Long Island,
by Mr. Boone, Mrs.
Boone’s home previously was in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Funeral services will be held in the
Mitchell Fimeral Home in Ba!timor-»
this morning. Friday, it was stated
at the Pine Needles yesterday, though
the office of Col. George P. Hawes "o definite time was known here.
Red Cross Quota For
Britain Here Big One
Sewing Room Opens Today in
Hollywood Hotel for Vol
unteer Workers
WM. McK. MILAM
PASSES; VETERAN
OF SPANISH WAR
Mrs. A. Burt Hunt, Moore county
Red Cross chairman, announced this
week the opening of a sewin<; room in
the Hollywood Hotel on Friday morn
ings, between 9:00 o’clock and 12:00
noon. 'There materials will be provid
ed, out and ready for sewing, for all
wfltmen volunteer*. Mrs. Clarabelle
Pushee will be in charge. This work
will be in addition to the knitting
group which meets at the Civic
Club Friday morning, wtih Mrs. Jane, War,
Kin of Ben Milam of Alamo
Fame Saw Active Naval
Ser>ice in Cuba
William McKinney Milam, who saw
active battle service with the Amer
ican fleet in Cuba during the Spanlsh-
American War, died in Veterans’
Hospital in Fayetteville, Monday
morning. He was 64 years old and
had been a resident of Southern Pines
for 17 years, coming here from Rich
mond, Va.
Born in Cedar Bayou, Texas in
1887, the son of Collin McKinney Mi
lam and Mary Bridges Milam, he en
listed in the U. S. Navy when he was
18 and served throughout the Spanish
At the age of 21 he married
I In Pinehurst last Friday. Purses for
the 1940 event totaled $2,900.
The prize money is increased in
three of the five events on the card.
In the first race. The Catawba, one
miles and one-half over hurdles, the
pur.se is jumped from $300 to $000.
In the Croatan Steeplecha.se. two
miles over brush, .second event on the
progiam, it remains at $1,000. In the
Sandhills Cup race, three miles over
timber, it is jumped from $300 to
$500, and in the fourth race, two
miles over brush, the owners of the
first four horses will divide $1,300
instead of the $1,000 of last year.
There is no increase in the flat race
purse, which remains at $300.
At the meeting RicharxJ Wallach,
Jr., racing secretary, just back from
a visit in Camden and Aiken, S. C.,
stated that there were more horses in
training there than ever in history,
and that he looked for a most suc
cessful meeting here. The Sandhills
event opens the long steeplechase
season, and most of the owners will
take advantage of the March 15th
c’ate to try out their horses here, he
said. Especially in view of the in
creased purses. Mr. Wallach is now
at his home in Warrenton, Va., but
will return here February l.st to re
main until after the races. Parking
space application blanks for the 1941
meet will be sent out to the public
in the near future.
I'ORT BK.MiO OKFU’EKS TO
PLAY PINEHl'R-ST .\T POLO
The Raleigh String Quartet, which
gave the first in the series of con
certs sponsored by the Southern Pines
Library, scored such a hit here that
it has been invited back on April
14th. Many of the concert patrons
failed to take advantage of their
first visit and hearing of their pleas
ing presentation asked for their re
turn.
The second in the series will be on
January 27th when Miss Lucille Tur
ner, radio artist and a popular fav
orite here will sing spirituals and old
plantation songs and give monolog-
re«.
A superior Fort Bragg polo team,
brought up to top-notch shape
through continual playing on the
Surviving, in addition to her hus
band and son, is a grandson, Emmett
E. Boone, 3d. and one brother, Ralph
J. Shaw of Lake Worth, Florida. Mr.
Shaw’.s son, Charles J. Shaw, who is
affiliated with the Pine Needles man
agement, motoied to Camden yes
terday to bring Mrs. Boone, Jr., and
her son here.
Chain Parties Started
For Hospital Benefit
Auxiliary Sponsors Affairs with
.Mrs. Blodgett, Mrs. Andrews
and Mrs^ Hunt Leading Off
The Woman’s Auxiliaiy of the
Moore County Hospital will again
sponsor chain parties as a pleasant
but effective way of raising funds
for the hospital. Some will give
card parties, luncheons, musicals or
ether forms of entertainments, but
in each case, those attending will do-
rate $1.00 to the hospital.
Mrs. Edwin S. Blodgett, president
of the Hospital Auxiliary, gave the
first party Friday, having 16 ladies
tor luncheon. Each of these will give
a party for twelve, each of the twelve
will carry on with a party for eight,
while the final link will be a party
for four. Those enjoying Mrs. Blod
gett’s hospitality were Mrs. M. W.
Marr, Mrs. Leroy Gates, Mrs. Clar
ence M. Rudel, Mrs. Aras Williams,
Mrs. N. S. Hurd, Mrs. Dewitt B. Net-
tleton, Mrs. Clifford Sloan. Mrs. Eu
gene Dexter, Mrs. A. J. McKelway,
Mrs. Charles Waterhouse, Mrs. Paul
Dana, Mrs. Donald Parson. Mrs. Wil
liam T. McCullough, Mrs. John An
gel and Mrs. James Walker.
Similar chain parties have also
been given by Mrs. J. H. Andrews
"W)e have a big quota assigned to
Moore county, and a storeroom full
of materials to be put into shape for
shipment during this month, and 1
hope that we will have enough vol
unteer workers to fulfill the task giv
en us by th»> National Red Cross,
We invite all ladies in the commun
ity to join wit hus in this work foi
Brtain.”
In addtion to the workrooms here
groups are busy Tuesday in the Holly
Inn in Pinehurst, and each Monday
at the Pinehurst Community Church.
jA. Burt
; eight.
Hunt, Southern Pines, for
M. Towne in charge. | Catherine Annable of New York City
"All articles made by Red Cross, and they had two sons, W. M. Jr. and pjnehuist fields this season, will be
workers here are going to England,”] Charles Collin Milam, who died here ^ pj^p^j against the Pinehurst four-,
Mrs. Hunt told The Pilot yesterday, four years ago. Mr. Milam, "Pop" to 3 s„nday afternoon:”^
his friend.s nere, was the grandson of January 19. The Bragg team will ' ‘
Jefferson Milam, who moved to Tex-,|;,p composed of Capt. Elmer Alm
as from Kentucky in 1827 with his qujst Capt. 'Ralph Cooper, Capt. j
uncle, the famous Ben Milam of Al-'f-^arles Murray and Major Eugene
amo fame. He was also the great I Harrison, with the line-up in that
grandson of Collin McKinney, co- nrde*-.
author and signer of the Declaration
of Independence of Texas. '
Through the years of his residence ,
15 MfM)RE C’OITNTV YOUNG
MEN START AKMY SERVfCE
in Southern Pines "Pop" Milam loy
ally befriended all. His passing will
be keenly felt by a wide circle of
friends throughout the community.
(Plecue turn to page Mgkt)
Fifteen Moore county '’oung men,
Pi'iohurst will go into the game volunteers and draftees, left Carthage
Sunday afternoon wtih Earl Shaw, cn Wednesday to start their year of
Stanley Taylor, A. H. Eller, Jr., and military training under the Selective
Ralph Taylor. Service Act. They reported to the
Major General Jacob L. Devers,
commanding officers at Fort Bragg
and Col. George P. Hawes, Jr., of
Pinehurst, will co-referee the game.
Draft Board and were despatched to
Fort Bragg to b« sworn in to Uncle
Sam’s army. Their training station
has not been assigned.
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