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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLV
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 20, NO. 9
Aberdeen
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1941
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CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North % rolina
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday,Jjinuary .‘U, 1941
Pinehurst
FIVE CENTS
“ALL STAR CASr
FOR BANQUET OF
CHAMBERS FEB. 7
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j
WBK; Radio Orchestra Added '
' To I’rogram at (Carolina
Hotel Next Friday
BROADCAST TO FOLLOW
“All-Star Cast” may well be ap-
pli’'d to the progarm for the third
annual banquet of the Chamber of
Commerce of Moore county, to be
hold next Friday night, February 7th,
in the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst.
Another feature was added during the
paat week and announced by Charles
W. Picquet and Dr. George G. Herr,
who are responsible for it, viz:
The Ensemble of WBIG, Greens
boro broadcasting station, will furn
ish the mu.sic for the dinner. Not
only that, but WBIG will record the
proceedings of the banquet and
broadcast the entire event at 2;00
o’clock the following afternoon.
The "All-Star Ca.st,” in addition to
the WBIG orchestra, will include the
chairman of the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corporation in Washington;
Col. Charles F. H. Johnson, presi
dent of the Botany Wor.sted Mills, and
Governor J. M. Broughton, making
his first visit to the Sandhills since
becoming North Carolina’s chief ex
ecutive. The Governor will present the
speaker, Mr. Schram.
Incidentally, the WBIG Ensemble,
under the direction of Margaret
Banks, was recently honored by be
ing selected to play at the Governor’s
official luncheon nad inaugural re
ception at the Mansion in Raleigh.
With only 500 tickets on sale for
the banquet—the seating capacity of
the Carolina's banquet hall—the de
mand already indicates that those
those who do not acquire their tick
ets early are likely to be disappoint
ed, Chairman J. Talbot Johnson of
the Banquet committee said yester
day.
Tickets can be obtained in Aber
deen from O. Leon Seymour; in
Southern Pines from Dr. Robert Lee
Hart or Lloyd Clark; in Pinehurst
from I. C. Sledge; in Carthage trom
Bill Sabiston; in Vass from Bob
Ceasley. The tickets are only $1.25
each. Theoccasion bids fair to be one
of the outstanding events of the
year. It is not to be considered mere
ly as a social event but a general
meeting of the outstanding people in
the section interested in the welfare,
wealth and prosperity of the com
munity. All are invited, ladies as well
as men.
Col. Johnson is accompanying^ Mr.
Schtam here from Washington. As
is grenerally known in the commun
ity, Col. Johnson has for some time
D«en considering locating a factory
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Honor Guest at Chambers Banquet
BOYD ORGANIZES
WRITERS IN FIGHT
ON PROPAGANDA
• To I sc National liadio Ilook-l?])
i T(» Counter-.\ltack Alien '
! Inlluences in I'. S. ■
State Highway Commission to
Spend $300,000 Re-routing
U.S. No. 1 Through Aberdeen
To Aid in War Keliel
COL. CHAKLE.S F. H. .lOHNSON
President, liotany Worsted Mills
100 More Questionnaires
Mailed by Draft Board
W. E. Cox, Jr., E. N. Stirewalt,
Horace Burt Riley on List
From Southern Pines
Questionnaires have been sent out
to 100 more Moore county registrants
under the Military Selective Service
Act, preparatory to sending forth
another group for their year of mil
itary training. On the new list, re
leased this week hy the County Draft
Board, are the following from the
At>erdeen-Pinehurst - Southern Pines
sector:
Aberdeen—Hezekiah C. McRae,
Woodrow Wilson Batchelor, John
Russell McCrimmon, John Hudson,
Ardell Swain Nickens, John William
Kimbrough, Charlton Ellerbe Hunt
ley, Roy Dees Ward, Alvin Cummings.
Pinehurst: Eugene Kenneth Me
Kenzie, John Allen, Herbert Turner
Williams, Clifton Mason Quick, Roy
Columbus Swink, Craten Walter
Richardson.
Southern Pines — James Patrick
Mullally, Johnnie Little, William Ed
ward Cox, Jr., EMward Neale Stire
walt, James Edward Moore, Jam«s
Winfred Ha»ty, Currie Duiiel Davis,
Horace Burt Rfley, Almon Thomas
Cruee.
JOHN HINTON PAGE
DIES AT 19, SON
OF THAD S. PAGE
rniv<?rsity Sophomore Victim of
Dread F'orm of Pneumonia
at Chapel Hill
Funeral services attended by a
crowd which overflowed the Page
Memorial Church in Aberdeen were
held last Sunday afternoon for John
Hinton Page, 19-year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thad S. Page of Aberdeen
and Washington, D. C., who died of
a rare type of pneumonia in the Chap
el Hill Infirmary last Saturday
morning. Ill but a few days, every
effort of man and medicine was m:\?te
to save the life of the popular young
student.
Upon word of the critical condition
of their son. Mr. and Mrs. Page, with
Mrs. Rose McMullen, famed blood
donor of Washington, flew to Raleigh
last Filday and were whisked behind
a State Highway Patrol escort to
Chapel Hill where their son, a Uni
versity Sophomore, was stricken last
week. It had been hoped that Mrs.
McMullen’s blood, typed as especially
effective in combatting the dread
form of pneumonia, could be used,
but it failed to match that of young
Page. Blood donated by fellow stu
dents failed to serve the purpose. The
infection was diagnosed as the sta
phylococcus form of pneumonia.
A music major, Page, who was
known to his classmates as "Jack,”
had attained a wide reputation in
Chapel Hill as a song writer. Last
year, he and two other students won
the ASCAP award for music written
for the musical comedy, “One More
Spring,” produced at the University
by a student organization. Sounds and
Fury.
Young Page’s father for several
years secretary to U. S. Senator
Bailey, is administrative secretary of
the National Archives in Washington.
His grandfather was the late Robert
N. Page, former Congressman from
ths district, and his great uncles in
cluded former Ambassador Walter
Hines Page and former State High
way Commission Chairman Frank
Page. His mother was the former
Miss Patsy Hinton of Raleigh. The
boy was born in Southern Pines.
Surviving, in addition to his par
ents, are on« brother, Thad P«g«, Jr.,
(PUtut tvn to pa§t 9igM)
MINTON IS FREED
AFTER TRIAL FOR
UPCHURCH DEATH
Sharecropper Cleared of Murder
Charjje on Evidence Other
Fired First
"Not guilty" was the verdict reach
ed Friday afternoon after less than
three hours deliberation by the jury
in the case of State versus Nathan
Minton, in which the sharecropper
was charged with the first degree
murder of Carl E. Upchurch, farm
superintendent and brother-in-law Of
Miss Claudia Thomas, owner of the
355-acre farm near Vass upon which
all parties resided.
One of four murder cases heard in
this term of Moore county Superior
Court, the Minton case attracted
much interest, and satisfaction over
the jury’s verdict appeared to be
almost universal.
Minton was arraigned Tuesday af
ternoon and tendered a plea of not
guilty. A. special venire of 50 citi
zens was ordered to appear at 2:00
o'clock Wednesday, and the trial got
under way Thursday morning. At 9:30
Thursday night court adjourned, fol
lowing an after-supper session in
whcih M. G. Boyette and Solicitor
Pruette were heard in their speeches
lo the jury, Herbert F. Seawell, Jr.,
and J. H. Scott having addressed the
jury earlier in the evening. Friday
morning the Judge charged the jury,
speaking around two and one-half
hours, and by the middle of the aJ-
ternoon, Minton was a free man.
“Upchurch Shot First”
Minton, who was perhaps as com
posed a person as ever went on trial
for his life, acknowledged shooting
Upchurch on the night of October
14th when he, his wife, two sons, two
daughters and a daughter-in-law
drove to the Upchurch yard to inves
tigate after seeing a light at the
shed where Minton’s and MiSs 'Thom
as’ tobacco was packed. However, he
testified that Upchurch shot him
first, and that Upchurch ran after he
shot him.
This came after several weeks in
which there had been dissatisfaction
about the marketing of the crop and
after' Minton’s tobacco had been
k>cked up by the landlord, It was
brought out.
Three members of the Upchurch
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K.NLISTS NOTKI) .M THORS
Koi miition of the h'ree Company,
a group of the learling Amerii'an
writers and playwrights, for the pur-^
pose of counter- attai'king foreign
propaganda in this country, was an
nounced in New York thi.s w'eek by
Janies Boyd, writer and chairman,of
the group.
Members of the company are pre
paring to use a nation-wide hook-up
for a series of dramatic broadcasts
presenting the principles of Ameri
can freedom. Each play will be a
free contribution by a different mem-
lier.
"This is a proposal to present the
bases of our freedom, not as paid
propaganda, but as voluntary state
ments of faith by a group of Amer-1
i( ans qualified to give them eloquent
expre.ssion," Mr. Boyd said.
"What we are doing,’ he said, "is
to express in action what millions of
American feel; that we have in this
country a way of life that is unique
pnd precious and .something to be
infinitely proud of."
Members of the Free Company lo
date are:
Robert H. Shei’wood
Marc Connelly
William Saroyan
Maxwell Anderson
Orson Welles
Stephen Vincent Bonet
j Paul Green
^ Ar.hibrld Marl«eish
I Sherwood Anderson
! George M. Cohan
, Elmer Rice
j James Boyd.
The opening statement for the
Free Company reads, "The effective
ness of hostile propaganda, so trag-
I ically demonstrated in various Eu
I ropean countries, is greater here than
j generally realized. It may be expected
j to increase rather than otheiwise, es-
■ pecially if favored by self-doubt and
I confusion in the nation’s mind.
"So far most effort in this country
I has been directed to attacks on that
I propaganda. But the best defense
would be the positive restatement In
moving terms of our own beliefs.
“They will be presented not as ab
stractions but as a living spectacle
made actual to the mind by color,
drama, and passion."
The Free Company project will be
guided by a voluntary committee of
Robert E. Sherwood, representing
writers; Burgess Meredith, repre
senting actors: W. B. Lewis, CBS
vice-president, representing radio,
and James Boyd as chairman.
Mr. Boyd said that writers will
have the greatest posaibie freedom of
expression. The only requirements
will be that the scripts shall repre
sent a definitely dramatic treatment
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Entry Blanks Out For
Horse Show Here Feb. 21
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CHINA AIDED BY
INVASION OF JAPS,
SAYS LINEBARGER
I’ioneerinK Spirit Awakened
with Resulting Development of
Rich West C«»untr\
Fifteen Classes For Hunters,
Jumpers. Horsemanship. —
Committee Chairmen
Entry blanks were mailed out this
week for the second annual Southern
Pines Horse Show, to be held at the
'Country Club showing on Friday,
February 21st, both morning and af
ternoon. There are 15 classes for
hunters, jumpers and horsemanship.
No entry fees are cnarged. and the
entries close on February 10th. Post
entries will be accepted up to 10:00
o’clock on the morning of the show,
at a fee of $3.00.
Committee chairmen were named
at a meeting of the General commit
tee for the show, held last Friday af
ternoon. Nelson C. Hyde is general
chairman, Eugene Stevens vice-
chairman. Heading the Trophy com
mittee is Mrs. George W. Johnson;
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Road 'I'o IJeconie I’art of New
I’ers-h-nfj .National Defense
Highway 1(, (’oa.sl and South
HOI TKS .\RT SI RVEYED
Three huiKlied thousand dollars is a
large sum, but this is the amount
which will be spent by the Highway
Commission in Aberdeen and immed
iate vicinty in converting U. S. No.
1 into a strategic connection for the
new Pershing National Defense High
way, it was announced this week.
L. E. Whitfield, district engineer,
wth his chief assistant and with Mr.
Croome. Rignt of Way expert for the
commission, met with the Board of
Town Commi.ssloners of Aberdeen
Wedne.sday afternoon and explained
in detail the proposed development.
He explained that in connection with
the new National Defense Program,
the Pershing Highway, which will be
an arteiial route betAreen forts, can
tonments, and army posts, would
follow U. S. No. 1 to Aberdeen and
from this point would head in the di
rection of Laurinburg so as to con
nect with the ports of Wilmington,
Charleston, Savannah ahd Army posts
in the coastal area.
The new road will I)?* eonstiucted
of concrete, of three lanes eleven
feet each in width, exclusive of
shoulders, and of the most modern
construction.
Mr. Whitfield pointed out that in
the desire of the Commission to co
operate vvith the officials of the Town
of Aberdeen, who had heretofore des
ignated Poplar street as their pref
erence. a complete and thorough sur
vey had beerf made of the entire
town: that In the beginning they
niade four proposed routes through
the town—the first being Poplar
street, the second one block east of
Poplai' street, the third running by
the .Aberdeen Lake, and the fourth
The Japanese invasion of China
has advanced the civilization and
progress of the Chinese by half a
century. Th« coast of China has gone
forward with the rest of the world,
Kiit has existej side by side with an
inland, a western China rich in un-
(Icveloped resources—minerals, coal,
iron, tungsten, manganese, gold and
silver, some pertoleum.
"When Japan struck, it moved
modernity inland with the people, in- east of the Seaboard Air Line itail-
land to this rich country, inland with ; way. running direct from May street
a feeling of pioneering which the
Chinese had lacked. They are now
filled with hope, with courage, anger
and ambition. They are getting down
to business. Trucks are now moving
through country which had never be
fore seen a four-wheeled vehicle. Kai
in Southern Pines to intersect with
the Laurinburg Road on South street.
Town Has Two’ C'hoiees
Mr. Whitfield announced that
their detailed study of the proposed
routes disclosed that only two ot
Shek is leading the modernization and i were feasible or pract.-
constructlon of a new China despite | namely, that east of the Sea-
the Japanese, despite disease, despite I Air Line, which would ap-
famine- a country thre times the; P^ach Aberdeen near the Aberdeen
size of the domain now ruled by Hit-1 ^ 'Rbckfish Railroad shops and fel
ler. two and one-half the size of the ^ Bethesda Road between the Sey-
Unlted States, twice that of the So-;'"°“«’ the John Blue residence,
vlet Union.” j intersecting South street at the
Dr. Paul Linebarger, associate; Laurinburg Road from which point
professor of Political Science at Duke ^ would go over the Seaboard
University, told members of the A'*" Line Railway Just below the
Sandhills Kiwanls Club, and the Ro- '" wehouses; or the route running
tary Clubs of Carthage and Southern j block West of Poplar street.
Pines, about "Modern China and Its! which latter route would cross Wolf-
Relatlon to the World Scene" at a i Plt street of the Grammar School
joint luncheon of civic clubs held | and intersect South street between
Wednesday at the Southern Pines! The Pilot Service Station and the
Country Club under sponsorship ol Ford Garage, with an overpass over
the Klwanlans. It was one of the! railroad near the Gulf Oil Bulk
most instructive and interesting ad- Plant, while No. 1 would cross the
dresses ever delivered here. Aberdeen Creek ahd intersect the
Dr. Linebarger reviewed the his- present road South of the corporate
tory of apan and China leading up Unilts of the towm. Mr. Whitfield ex-
to the present casus belli. He gave plained that if this route Is adopted
Japan’s side of the picture, a coun- they would Include an underpass on
try living” at' the end of the worTd. Wolfplt street for the safety of the
no windows on three sides, China in school children.
view’ out the other.” He told of ear- Mr. Whitfield stated that either
lier Japanese efforts to gain a foot- of these proposed routes would be
bold there, of the development of ha- agreeable to the Highway Commls-
tred for the Chinese in their frustra- sirn and explained considerable
tions, the development of an inferior- ‘ pressure was being brought to beat
ity complex until they turned toward, by several towns to the north ana
copying the Europeans. The World the south of Aberdeen to keep the
War helped. They fought with the, proposed highway on the east side
British, they helped win the war,, of the Seaboard Railway track so as
they felt themselves coming Into! to avoid the overpass at Southern
their own as a world pow'er, when; Pines and likewise avoid an over-
they received another jolt to their pass at Aberdeen. He likewise ex-
prlde. Race equality was left out of plained that this route could be con-
the Versailles treaty. The U. S. Con-1 structed more cheaply than the route
gress passed the Exclusion Act. one block west of Poplar street.
The Town Commissioners of Aber
deen' have taken the position that
while they had personally preferred
holding the route on Poplar street,
they naturally wanted to comply with
the wishes of the majority of the
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Bitter Against Ub
Then Japan became as bitter
against the whites as they had been
against China. Today they are unit
ed. There is no prospect of an over
throw of their government by their
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