MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 20, NO. 8,
Aberdeen
SPAINCS
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory oi ^^orth Carolina
Southern Pines, North Carolina. Friday. January 24, 1941,
Pinehurst
FIVE CENTS
BIG PLANS AFOOT
FOR 2D ANNUAL
HORSE SHOW
rourteen Classes Scheduled for
Event at Southern Pines Coun
try Club Feb. 21st
MORNING AND AFTERNOON
Jesse James Had Nothing on You^^
Judge Tells Youthful Criminals
Trio Who Stole State Highway
Truck and Teacher’s Car
Get Stiff Sentences
Tentative plans for the second an
nual Southern Pines Horse Show,
scheduled for the show ring at the
Country Club on Friday, February
2l9t, call for 14 claases for horses
and riders, with hunters and jumpers
featuring the morning and afternoon
programs. There la every indication
that this year’s show will top the
very successful inaugural event a
y«ir ago.
The Show Committee s holding a
meeting this afternoon, Friday, at
2:30 o’clock in the office of the City
Clerk to make definite plans. Entry
lists will be sent out promptly follow
ing this session, and its is anticipated
that all the leading hunters, jumpers
and hacks In the Sandhills will be
listed for the various claisses. Prom
inent horsemen are being invited here
to act as judges.
There will be classes for green
hunters, hunter hacks, lightweight
hunters, working hunters, middle and
heavyweight hunters, handy hunters,
ladies’ hunters, thoroughbred hunt
ers, hunt teams and for the hunter
championship. For jumpers there will
be an open jumping class, a class for
handy jumpers and a jumper sweep
stakes event. Children’s classes will
includc one for youngsters under 17,
showing their mounts at a walk, trot,
canter and over a jump, and for
children under 12 at walk, trot and
canter.
A buffet Horse Show luncheon is
to be served at the Country Club be
tween the morning and afternoon
programs.
Reserved parking spaces for the
show will be on sale soon, and as
there are but a limited number they
are expected to be promptly snapped
up.
Many Fine Horses
The neighborhood is full of fine
horses this winter, and from the
standpoint of exhibits this year’s
event should surpass last year when
there were more than 100 entries.
Mrs. G. Kenneth Ellis and Mrs. Fay
Ingalls of Virginia Hot Springs have
16 horses in the former Laing Sta
bles, under the training of G. Cecil
Tuke. Mrs. George Watts Hill of
Durham is sending down a number of
her fine show horses, some of which
wer» winners in the National Horse
Show in Madison Square Garden last
year. Ernest I. White of Syracuse,
N. Y., has a string of hunters here.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kennedy of
Boston are expected to show some of
taheir quality mounts, as are Mrs.
George W. Johnson and Miss Nancy
Johnson of Englewood. N. J.
Among others expected to show
here are Hugh Sicard, Mr. and Mrs.
Tuke, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Moss’ Mile-
Away Stables, the Stonybrook Sta
bles, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stratton,
Louis and Tonald Schelpers, the
Pinehurst Livery Stables, Thomas and
Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Fred B.
Wilmhurst’s Sun Down Farm, James
and Jackson Boyd, Miss Susan Ful
ler, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Middleton,
Miss Peggy Ewing and others.
Rufus Gainey, Wallace Norton and
Byron "Bicycle” Stocks, youthful
short-term convicts who escaped from
a State highway road force near
Olendon last September by seizing a
rifle and a pistol from Bill Jackson,
the guard, and riding off in the State
Highway truck in which they had
been transported from the ptiaon
camp, pleaded guilty this week in
Superior Court at Carthage.
Officers were called to the stand
to recount the story of the escape.
They told of how the boys, all under
26 years of age and with long crimi
nal records, took possession of the
truck, ordering the other ten con
victs drove back to Carthage where
they abandoned the State’s vehicle in
a side ditch with the engine running,
forced, S. G. Calvert, colored school
teacher who was just starting to his
work at WIest Bind, to surrender his
Chevrolet automobile, then drove out
the Pinehurst highway where they
(•topped at Juniper Lake filling sta
tion and procured eight gallons of
gasoline, driving away without pay
ing.
The Scotland county sheriff then
look up the narrative, telling of the
robbery of a filling station in his
county, th“ flight to a swamp near
the South Carolina line, and final
ly the surrender after around a hun
dred officers from North and South
Carolina had surrounded the swamp
and sent bloodhounds in to trail the
trio.
“Jesse James didn't have a thing
on you,” the Judge told the youth
ful offenders, saying that the things
the notorious outlaw had done werv
tame in comparison to their offenses.
"Somebody has got to teach you that
the law is supreme,” he continued.
Get l»ng Sentences
On the first charge of robbery with
firearms, the boys were given ten to
12 years in States Prison and in the
second, five to seven years to begin
at the expiration of the first sen
tence. A nol pros was taken on one
of the minor charges and prayer for
judgment was continued on the
fourth.
"They’ll parole you if you go up
there and show them that you want
1c do t ight,' the judge told them af
ter refusing a request to let the five-
year sentence run concurrently with
the other and in reply to Galney'c
query as to whether a person without
anyone to work for him would be
paroled.
State Advertising Pays,
Kiwanis Club Told
Flies with Willkie
Landon K. Thorne, Paddock
Owner and Winter Visitor
Here, Off for London
Accompanying Wendell L. Will
kie to EJngland this week is Lan
don K. Thorne of New York, one
of the owners of The Paddock in
Southern Pines and a frequent vis-
itor here. Mr. Willkie, Mr. Thorne
and John Cowles, publisher of the
Minneapolis Star-Journal, boarded
the Yankee Clipper in New York
Wednesday to fly to Usbon,
fvhere they will board a British
Overseas Airways plans for Lon-
Ion, due there today.
On the eve of his departure, Mr.
A^illkie received a cablegram from
?rlme Minister Churchill, extend-
ng to him a cordial welcome to
England and an inviattion to call
ipon his arrival. The defeated fie-
>ublican Presidential candidate
arries with him a personal note
:o the Prime Minister from Pres-
dent Roosevelt.
TEVAS RANGERS. IN COWBOY
REGALIA, PL.W HERE SUNDAY
Next Sunday’s polo game on the
No. 3 Pinehurst field will give North
Carolina sports fans a program dif
ferent and special. It will be a mat
ter of North Carolina vs. Texas.
Pinehurst will meet a team called
‘‘The Texas Rangers,” who will come
to Pinehurst garbed In full Western
polo-playing regalia. Including flap
ping leather chaps, cowboy boots arid
shirts, spurs, ten-gallon hats and
even bow-legs, products of stwr-
punching cow-hands. Don Grossinger
of San Antonio, who is listed in the
first ten of the Texas polo bracket,
will captain the team. Merrill Fink,
Pinehurst polo ace will be captain of
the North Carolina Four.
Baskervill of Governor's Hospi
tality Committee Sees 1941
Tourist Trade of $120,000,000
J. C. Baskerville, executive secre
tary of the Governor’s Hospitality
committee, addressing the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club Wednesday at the Pine
hurst Country Club, stated that the
annual tourist business since the ex
penditure of $250,000 for State ad
vertising had jumped from $35,000,-
000 in 1937 to $103,000,000 in 1939,
and predicted the 1940 business would
run more than $120,000,000.
Breaking down the State appro
priation into three parts, he said the
aims were, first, to attract perma
nent residents to the state, second,
to attract industry, and third, to at
tract tourists.
He told the Kiwanians that the
tourist business is one of the larg
est sources of income that North
Carolina has, pointing out that 3,-
000,000 persons visited the state dur
ing 1939 for an average stay of six
days. Continuing he said the appro
priation had much to do with attract
ing 300 new industries to the state
during the last three years with an
investment of $50,000,000.
In conclusion he recommended im
proved tourist accommodations and
stressed the Importance of welcoming
northern visitors in an effort to In
crease their stay.
STATE-SUPPORTED
9-MONTH SCHOOL
TERM ENDORSED
Carthage District Parent-Teach
er Ass’n, Also Asks 12th
Grade, Teacher Pensions
The Carthage District Parent-
Teacher Association, of which Mrs.!
C. F. Barringer is president and Mrs.
Tames A. Davis is secretary, at a
meeting hold Jan. 20th went on rec
ord as endorsing a program of school
i’nprovement legislation providing
for a sound State system of retire
ment for all teachers and school em
ployees, a State-supported ninth
month to our public school system for
all districts desiring it, and a twelfth
giade.
The program also includes legal
protection for teachers and adminis
trators who are performing satisfac
tory service. This calls for an in
crease in the term of office of the
superintendent of schools to four
years, the increase of the term of
office for principals to two years, and
a continuing contract basis for teach
ers.
The continuing contract basis, it is
set forth, would protect teachers
against annual dismissal without
cause and place a premium on merit,
■Reasonable security will improve the
service of any worker, the associa
tion asserts, and the continuing con
tract would call for a periodic check
up.
Grand Jury Indicts
Minton for Murder
LIBRARY CONCERT
PATRONS TO hear!
NEGRO SPIRITUAI^
I
Lucille Turner. Leading Ameri- ^
can Exponent of Songs of the 1
Race. To Give Recital
CRITICS SING HER PRAISES
I
"A great personality, a deep con-1
tralto voice^ of rare beauty Marshall ]
Bartholomew, director of music at
Yale University, collector of Negro
music.
“I never thought a white person
could sing my people’s music like
that.”—James Weldon Johnson, Ne
gro poet.
These two opinions of the singing
of Lucille Turner, who appears in
recital at the Southern Pines Library
next Monday night, could be capped
by many others, from Lawrence Tib-
bett, who has talked with her at
length about her interpretation of
Negro music, to C. B. Cochrane, who
heard her when she first sang in
New York and wanted her to join
his last review. As he was about to
sail for England to give a perform
ance before the King, the temptation
was a great one. But Mrs. Turner
resisted it. She preferred to stay
home with her family and devote
herself to her life in Lynchburg, Va.,
and to the collecting of Ne^.o songs
and stories.
Engagements at the Town Hall and
the Rainbow Room in New York, and
to sing over the air encouraged her
to do more original work. For the
past two years she has been work
ing hard learning, she says, all she
never knew about musical composi
tion. Those who have heard her ar
rangements of melodies with their
lovely haunting accompaniments find
it hard to believe that Mr.s. Tuiner
is not a graduate of one of the big
con.servatores. But It Is true; her
talent is above all a natural one
springing from the love of music,
deep and true, and from a spirit rich
in sympathy and poetic feeling.
On Monday night she will sing, be
sides the well known spirituals, a
group of songs colleceted and arrang
ed by herself. These include the rare
lament, “Will My Mother Be There?”
and “Streamlining the Mississippi,”
the latter written after listening to
the work gangs as they sang and
worked, straightening the levees at
the time of the flood. Also “Crap
Shootin Blues” and “At the Full of
the Moon,' in a lighter vein, and rich
:n the uncanny combination of hum
or and pathos so characteristic of the
Negro. What is perhaps her finest
song, “Hammerin’,” was written note
for note as she heard it sung by an
old Negro near Lynchburg; only the
grim hammering of the accompani
ment was added by Mrs. Turner.
HENRY D. RILEY TO WED
SON OF MRS. A. BURT HUNT
Monday’s Concert
Promptness on Part of Holders
of Sea.son Tickets Urged, to
Permit Transient Sale
The second in the series of con
certs sponsored by the Southern
Pines Lbrary will be on Monday
night at 8:30 o’clock, at the li
brary, with Lucille Turner, coni-
tralto, singer of negro music, the
guest star.
Holders of series tickets to these
concerts are requested to arrive on
time. Because of the limited ca
pacity of the library, single ad-
misssion tickets, at $1.00, cannot
be sold, beyond a small number,
until the holders of series tickets
tiave been seated. It will greatly
assist the ushers if all patrons
will come e.v^y.
THREE STAR BILL
FOR CHAMBERS OF
COMMERCE DINNER
5chram, R. F. C, Head; Gov.
Broughton and Col. Johnson
Coming for Banquet Feb. 7th
There is every indication that the
annual banquet of the Chambers of
Commerce of Moore county, to be
held at the Carolina hotel in Pine
hurst Friday evening. February 7th,
will be the big event of the winter
season. With the head of the coun
try's Reconstruction Finance Corpor
ation, Emil Schram, as principal
I speaker; with North Carolina’s new
Governor. J. M. Broughton here for
his first visit, Introducing Mr.
I ?chrani. and with Col, Charles F. H.
Trhr't^'^n n-oei inrit of Bot.iny Worsted
! Mills nn<i prominent in an advisory
capacity to U. S. Air Service, in
! which he served during the World
I War, a sruest of honor, thp nro?ram
bids fair to top all previous ones.
Tickets are now on sale for the
banquet throughout the county, and
will be sold only to the capacity of
the Carolina’s main dining room.
The banquet this year is .sponsored by
the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce,
with its president, J. Talbot Johnson,
heading the committee.
PAPERS FILED IN
RECEIVERSHIP OF
COUNTRY CLUB
Friendly Action To Wind Up Af
fairs of Old Corporation En
ters Legal Stage
H. F. BURNS RECEIVER
The friendly receivership of the
Southern Pines Country Club, Incor
porated, decided upon by interested
parties last year, reached the legal
stage this week with the filink of pa
pers in Superior Court in Carthage.
The action ia brought by the Citi
zens Bank and Trust Company of
Southern Pines, and Mrs. Harriett E.
Nichols, executrix of the estate of
M. G. Nichols, late of Southern Pines,
the principal creditors.
The purpose of the action is to
wind up the affairs of the old corpor
ation under which the Country Club
here had its origin and was operated.
It is understood that with the con
summation of the present proceed
ings, a new company will be formed
to take over the assets for the ben
efit of all parties concerned.
The golf courses and property im
mediately the clubhouse are at pres-
e.nt being operated by the Town of
Southern Pines under lease. The re
mainder of the real estate remains
vested In the old corporation.
The notice of summons and com
plaint, apf)earing in the Legal No
tices columns of this issue of The Pi
lot. calls upon stockholders, creditors,
dealers and other persons interested
in the affairs of the corporation to
become parties to the action on or
before the 1st day of March 1941.
Howard F. Burns of Southern Pines
I has been named permanent receiver
j by Superior Court Judge John J. Bur
ney. Attorney U. L. Spence of Car-
; thage Is attorney for the receiver.
20 Moore County Boys
Off tor C.t’.C. Camp
After Two Weeks at Madison
They Go to West Coast
for Six Months
Upchurch Tobacco Farm Slay
ing Goes on Trial in Super
ior Court in Carthage
The Grand Jury Tuesday afternoon
brought In a bill of indictment charg
ing Nathan Minton with the murder
of Carl E. Upchurch. Minton, w'ho
was shot and permanently injured in
the gun battle which occurred on the
A. Cameron farm now owned by Miss
Claudia Thomas of Vass on the night
of October 14. 1940. a battle in which
Upchurch’s son and Minton’s dau
ghter received minor injuries, made
his way on crutches to the bar where
he plead "not guilty,”
A special venire of 50 men was or
dered summoned to appear at 2:00
o'clock Wednesday afternoon to sujf-
plement the regular panel in order to
get a jury for this case.
Selection of a jury for the case of
Jessie Tyson Davis, colored woman
of Carthage charged with the shot
gun murder of her husband, “Butter
milk” Davis, consumed the latter part
of Tuesday afternoon.
The engagement was announced In
New York on Wednesday of Misis
Mary Popham Stevenson, daughter
of Mrs. Mary Popham Stevenson, of
335 East 72d street. New York, to
Henry Drinker Riley, son of Mrs. A.
Burt Hunt of South.’rn Pines and the
late Henry D. Riley of Philadelphia.
The young man Is a nephew of Mr.
and Mrs. Struthers F,urt of South
ern Pines and of M;-. and Mrs. John
B. Townsend of Philadelphia. He is
a student at Princeton University,
Miss Stevenson’s father is Edward
Ford Stevenson, of South Norwalk,
Conn. Major William Sherbrooke
Popham, one of the founders of the
Society of the Cincinnati, was an an
cestor.
Miss Stevenson is a graduate of
the Westover School and of the Child
Educatlor Foundation. She is teach
ing at the Children’s Home School.
ASKS COUNTY TO SEE THAT
ALL PROPERTY IS LISTED
Mrs. Garj^is, Widow of
Chief of Police, Dies
Vative of Wake County, She Had
Made Her Home in Manley
For Several Years
Funeral services conducted by her
pastor, the Rev. Troy Mullis, were
held In the Presbyterian church at
Manley, at 1:00 o’clock Wednesday
for Mrs. J. A. Gargis, 56, who died in
the Moore County Hospital on Mon
day following a brief illness. Inter
ment was at Asbury Cemetery, Cary.
The widow of Chief of Police Gargis
of Southern Pines, who succumbed to
a heart attack on Christmas Day,
1939, Mrs. Gargis was born in Wake
county in 1885, and had been a resi
dent of Manley for several years.
Surviving are her children, Clar
ence, A. J., Jasper, Patty Lee, Jose
phine and Blois Gargis. and Mrs.
Louise Bowden. Mrs. Ruby Wood and
Mrs. Lottie Zeblo. Also surviving
from her first marriage are three
sons and a daughter: Willard Sledge
of Asheboro, Benjamin and Wlllliam
Sledge of Eagle Rock, and Mrs.
Claude McPherson of Raleigh.
ABERDEEN HOTEL TO BE
SOLD TOD.4V AT AUCTION
Judge J. J. Burney in his charge to
the Grand Jury Monday touched upon
the listing of property for taxation
and said that the County Commis
sioners should have an investigation
made to see if all property o«vners
are giving in their property.
The Aberdeen Hotel, recentl.v pur
chased by R. Falk Carter, well
l^nown tobacco warehouseman, will be
sold at public auction this morning,
Friday, in Aberdeen at 11:00 o'clock.
The old edifice contains 48 rooms and
four stores, and there are several
inilldlnB: lots adjoinnig which will be
included in the sale.
Mrs. A. Burt Hunt, County Red
Cioss chairman, announces the ap
pointment of Mi-s. Clara Pushee as
production room chairman. Mrs.
Hunt requests that aU garments be
returned to her personally, for pack
ing the first week In February.
Twenty Moore county boys were
enrolled in the CCC camp at San
ford last Friday, January 17. Mrs.
Gilliam Brown, County Superintend
ent of Public Welfare announces.
They will be sent to a conditioning
camp at Madison where they will
stay for a period of two weeks and
will then be sent to the West coast
to serve their initial enrollment per
iod of six months. All boys who are
enrolled have the privilege of re-en-
listing at the expiration of the six
months period while they are still in
camp. In addition to helping their
families by sending $15.00 a month
home they are taught thrift by de
positing $8.00 a month which is giv
en them when the <■ i;'X)llment is com
pleted. This change in allotment was
made January 1st by national head
quarters. Besides being well provid
ed for physically the boys are taught
trades in which they are or may be
come interested. They are also giv
en religious training and the priv
ilege to attend the church of their
choice.
The following: comprise the new en
rollment from the county:
Hobart B. Gamer, E)agle Springs;
Haivey Nall, Carthage, Star Route;
James Loid Furr, Hemp; Madison
Hunsucker, Hemp; William Archie
Nall, Carthage; Earline Beal, San
ford, Route 3; Robert H. Williams,
Hemp; N. C. Webb, Jr., Hemp; Vic
tor Way Freeman, Hemp;; Sam D.
Yates, Hemp; Murray C. Freeman,
Star; John E. N^ll, Sanford, Route
3; Manuel L. Holder, Carthage, Route
3; Roy Lee Sheffiejd, Eagle Springs,
Route 1; Richard Lee Smith, Carth
age; J. P. Morgan, Eagle Springs;
Elmer Boyd Darnell, Carthage, Route
2; Oscar W. Talbert, Pinehurst, Eld
on Ray Cassady, Hemp, Route 1, and
James B. Talbot, Pinehurst.
CIVIC CLIiB ACTIVITIES
Mrs. J. N. Ingram of Sanford will
give a talk on her own trip to Alas
ka, Illustrating with articles and
tepllcM die brought back.