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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 30, NO. 19.
Aberdeen
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MANi-BY
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
Southern Pines. North Carolina, Friday, April 25th, 1941.
of the Sandhill Te ^ '’•y of North Carolina
CURRIE ARRESTED
AFTER BRUTAL
ASSAULT ON GIRL
Pinehurst Youth and Indian in
State Prison, Mrs. Blyth in
Hospital
DAN'CE HALL EPISODE
FARMERS UNITE
TO LEND HAND IN
DEFENSE SET-UP
Council Formed Here To Pro
mote Rounded Out Live-at-
Home Program
NEED COWS, CHICKENS
Following one of the most sensa'
tional assaults in Moore county’s
criminal history, Davis Currie of
Pinehurst is in State Prison in Ral
eigh awaiting arraignment here on a
most serious charge. With him be
hind the bar's is Jack Clench, a Mo
hawk Indian from Buffalo, N. Y.,
accused of ading and abetting in Cur
rie’s alleged crime.
Mrs. Ruby A. Blyth of Southern
Pines, victim of the attack, is in
Moore County Hospital recovering
from injuries resulting from her at
tempts to fight off her assailant, a
fight which also inflicted injuries on
Currie.
Currie is said to have asked Mrs.
Blyth for a dance at a dance hall on
the outskirts of Southern Pines last
Saturday night, and to have followed
this up with an invitation to take her
home. When they stepped into Cur
rie’s car the Indian joined them. In
stead of driving in the direction of
Mrs Blyth's home in the Pinedene
section, he headed west over the old
Southern Pines-Pinehurst road. In a
secluded spot along this road Cur-
rie is alleged to have fqfrced the
young woman from the car and to
have led here into the woods, the In
dian remaining in the car.
Passersby in another car grew sus
picious when they came upon the
scene at about this time and noti
fied the police. When officers arriv
ed they found the car -with the In
dian on gv.ard and placed him under
arrest. Blowing the horn, they at
tracted Currie’s attention and he
came out of the woods, according to
the story, thinking Clench wanted
him. VVIhile arresting Currie they
heard screams from tlie woods and
upon investigation found Mrs. Blyth.
She was rushed to the hospital, Cur
rie and Clench to the county jail in
Carthage. On Sunday night, fearful
of trouble there, officers took them
to Raleigh for safekeeping.
Currie is the son of Postmaster
Fuller Currie of Pinehurst.
Pinehu
FIVE CENTS
College Band, Glee Ciub To Give Concerts Here
The agricultural workers of >Ioore
county met recently to organize the
Moore County Agricultural Council,
and officers for the counicil were
elected as follows: Chairman, County
Agent E. H. Garrison; Vice-Chair
man, W» C. Eagles of Carthage; Sec
retary, Miss Eula Byrd of Cameron;
Publicity Chairman, Miss Annie R.
Wilson of Carthage, and Assistant,
W. B. Hill of Carthage.
The purpose of such an organiza-
ton is to forward and strengthen the
production of food and feed In ac
cordance with the national defense
program. In doing this every far
mer is urged to cooperate in the pro-
gram and become self-supporting by
following a live-at-home or home pro
duction program.
The necessity of the organization
and the need for such has arisen from
situations which exist in too many
farm families around us. Vital sta
tistics taken from the ’39 census of
North Carolina show that of 280,000
farm families 98,204 have no cows,
86,604 have no hogs, 33,154 have no
chickens, and 45,158 produced no
eggs in ’39. Only one farmer out of
every five planted wheat.
“With such situations existing how
can we expect to build a nation of
healthy bodies? Something must be
done to alter and improve these con
ditions, and it is up to the farm peo
ple and agricultural minded p>eople
to do this; but there must be co
ordination and cooperation between
all,” said Mr. Garrison.
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UTZ,MAnHEWS
TO FIGHT IT OUT
FOR MAYORALITY
Dante Montesanti Joins Race
For Member of Board of
Commissioners
ARE YOU REGISTERED?
High Point College Band, To Play Here Tonight
Ten Fires in Ten Days
Department Record
Fighters Have Struggle Saving
Homes in Knoll wood, House
in Jimtown Burned
Flora Macdonald College Glee Club, in Southern Pines Sunday
Emil Schram, Chairman
of R F C, Visits Sandhills
Emil Schram, of Washington, D
C, chairman of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, is* a week-end
guest • at the’ Pine Needles. He was
accompanied here by Mrs. Schram
and a party, including Col. Charles
F. H. Johnson, president of the Bot
any Worsted Mills of Passaic, N. J.,
who is considering the establish
ment of a unit of his company on a
site between Southern Pines and
«Aberdeen. •
FIN/IL POLO SUNDAY WITH
FT. BRAGG VS. PINEHURST
The finals of tne annual Pinehurst
Spring polo tournament will be held
Sunday afternoon on the champion
ship field. Pinehurst, top team,
composed of Earl Shaw, Merril Fink
SUnley Taylor and B. R. Brown will
play Fort Bragg's No. 1 four, Major
Eugene Harrison, Capt. Ralph Coop
er, Ueut. Milton Untermeyer and
Lieut. Elmer Almquist.
Stepping up the interest in the
match, Pinehurst and Fort Bragg
played to an 8-8 tie two Sundays ago
in a wjirm-up game which drew a
near-record crowd. Sunday’s match
will be a play-off.
Major General Jacob L. Devers,
commandmg officer at Fort Bragg,
will be in the umpire’s box, with Col,
George P- Hawes, Jr., on the reteree
mount.
FIRE WARNING
The work of the Southern Pines
Fire Department is being hampered
by the lines of cars which frequent
ly gather around fires, and Chief L.
V. O’Callaghan warns that traffic in
terference with the firemen will nec
essitate strict enforcement of the or
dinance on the subject unless it la
stopped. This carries a $50.00 fine.
At 12:00 o’clock noon on Monday
the wail of the siren calling out the
members of the Southern Pines Fire
Company marked the tenth conse
cutive call within a period of ten
days, a condition unprecented in the
records of the company.
The ninth alarm sounded at 2:15
o’cloc^c Sunday for grass fires smart
ing on the north side of the Midland
road opposite the dwellings of Mrs.
j. B. Rountree and Ernest Moreil.
Swept onward by a brisk wind the
fire flashed through the pines to the
Southern Pines-Airport road in the
vicinity of the pumping station,
where several of the ^remen had
naiTow escapes as the flames jumped
this road.
Shortly before four o’clock a shift
of wind veered the fire towards the
homes of Frank Maples and Mrs. J.
R. Drexel on the Peedee road where
firemen, volunteers and fire wardens^
working amid smoke and flames
succeeded in saving these houses
though the fire finally burned up to
the Aii oort road. The fire that cross
ed the road near the pumping station
burned ap to the Pinehurst-Lake-
view road opposite the airport, and
a n'ile to the Eastward crossed that
road and worked up to the Niagara-
Thagard road where it was finally
stopped by wardens and volunteers.
Men of the Southern Pines Company
worked until 12:30 o’clock subduing
the fire, which in many respects re
sembled the one of March 1st and
2nd, 1932, as it swept over much of
the same territory.
At 9:00 o’clock last Saturday
morning an alarm brought the com'
pany just in time to Notre Dame
Academy where a brisk grass and
biaish fire sweeping up to the out
buildings was being fought by the
Rev. Father Williams, the Rev- Fa
ther King and the Sisters of the
school staff. ^
An alarm sounded at 8:15 o’clock
Saturday night for a fire which de
stroyed the home, furniture and ef
fects of Ida Fletcher and family. Ow-
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GOVERNOR COMING
FOR ADDRESS TO
STATE FORESTERS
31st A;inual Convention of As
sociation To Be Held in
Pinehurst May 2, 3
Band To Play in School Tonight,
Glee Club in Church
Sunday
Governor J. M. Broughton will be
the principal speaker at the 31st an
nual convention of the North Caro
lina Forestry Association to be held
at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst
on May 2d and 3d. This organization
was founded in 1911 for the protec
tion and fuller development of the
state’s forest, game, and other nat
ural resources.
The two-day session is chock full
of activity and interest for those
attending, with a well rounded pro
gram and the annual banquet the
night of the 2d. Richard s. fufts of
Pinehurst will welcome the visitors
at 2:00 o’clock that afternoon, with
Colin G. Spencer of Cartha|;e re
sponding. Clyde A. Edwin, State Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction,
will take at 2:30 on “Forestry and
Education in the North Carolina Pub
lic Schools.” At 3:15 A. G. T- Moore
of New Orleans, manager of the
Conservation Departmnt of the Sou
them Pines Associatioi., will discuss
“Forestry in the Lumber Industry”,
followed by a talk on "Forestry and
Industry” ^and a sound motion pic
ture, “A New World Through Chem
istry,” presented by I. F. Living
ston of the DuPont de Nemours
Company, Wilmington, Del.
Banquet Friday Night
At a business meeting at 5:00
o’clock officers will be elected, re
ports read and new committees nam
ed. The banquet is scheduled for
7:30 that evening, at which Wilbur
H. Currie, chairman of the Moore
'? -unty Board of Commissioners, will
v.xtend greetings, responded to by
Tames G. K. McClure, president of
the Farmers Federation and a former
president of the American Forestry
Association. Governor Broughton’s
Southern Pines will have the pleas
ure of hearing two outstanding col
lege musical o-oanizations of the
state this weo!:-end. The High Point
Band plays here tonight, Friday, and i Prof^ Furr of Winthrop Tells
on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock! Kiwanians They Have
at the Brownson Memorial Presbyter-’ Real Responsibility
ian Church the Flora Macdonald Col-'
lege Glee Club of Red Springs will! There is an important function in
give an exceptionally fine program. | the national defense program for
Attorney W. Duncan Matthews is
definitely in the race for Mayor of
Southern Pines, The Pilot ascertain
ed this week, and there is little doubt
but that this means a two-man race,
for the friends of Mayor Dorsey G.
Stutz, who has held the post since
1929, insist that he permit his name
to go before the caucus. No third
candidate has put in an appearance.
One more name was added during
the week to the receptive candidates
for the Board of Commissioners, that
of Dante Montesanti, manager of
the Montesanti dry cleaning estab
lishment. “Monty” has long been ac
tive in civic affairs In town, is prom
inent in the Junior Chamber of Com
merce, the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
and the newly organized Southern
Pines Athletic Club, and will have
spirited support for the board. The
only other newcomer to politics on
the list for commission nominations
is Richard F. Tarlton, of Reinecke &
Co., contractors, another of the ac
tive young men here; in fact, he goes
■3long with Montesanti in the organ
izations listed above.
It is understood that efforts to
draft R. S. DuRant as a board can
didate have been unavailing. Mr. Du
Rant states he has enough to do in
managing his extensive telephone
properties in the two Carollnas.
There has also been talk of Norris
L. Hodgkins, president of the Citi
zens Bank & Trust Company, for the
board, but Mr. Hodgkins tells the
same story as Mr. DuRant. He’s busy
enough.
The names ot lour of the five
members of the present board will un
doubtedly be placed in nomination:
L. V. O’Callaghan, Charles S. Patch,
E. C. Stevens and Hugh J. Betterley.
Robert L. Hart, now on the board, is
not a candidate, he has announced.
Tmi IIWir'Fi IliT m A f 1/ i registration books for the
III riJNrJl m I ^lose tomorrow. Satur-
111 irililK Municipal Building and
those eligible to vote should check
up with the registrar, Mrs. Tilghman,
1.0 see that they are duly listed. You
cannot vote in the caucus next Fri
day night, May 2d unless you are
registered, nor at the election on
May 6th. Registration for last fall’s
CITIZENSHIP DUTY
OF SERVICE CLUBS
rhe public is cordially invited. No,service clubs. Prof. Ray A. Furr of national election does not qualify you
\dmission will be charged but there Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C.,
will be an o'ffering toward expenses.
The High Point College Band under
he diiection of Olin R. Blickensder-
fer will appear tonight. Friday in a
concert at the Southern Pines School
auditorium, sponsored by the South
ern Pines School Band for whose ben
efit the program has been arranged.
Included in the program will be:
Overture to Egmont, Beethoven;
Prelude and Fugue in B flat Minor,
Bach; Moorish Dance from Aida,
Verdi; Artists’ Life Waltzes, Strauss,
and on the lighter ide “Annie Laur
ie a la Modern” arranged by Leon
ard. Also a number of marches by
Sousa, Taylor and others.
The conductor, Olin R. Blickens-
derfer, is a musician of skill and
wide experience in band work. He
studied under H. S. Warren of Kryl’s
Band and Josef Oszuscik of the
::niicago Symphony. At the Cincin
nati Conservatory he came under the
personal instiniction of Joseph El
liott, principal clarinfetist of the
Chicago Symphony, and Dr. Frank
Simon, America’s outstanding band
master.
The band played for the school
last year and the program was very
much enjoyed by all who heard it.
The local school band, which has been
placed on a public ,-?r,hool music basi-s
for the first time this year and is
making good progress in Its work,
is glad to sponsor a program by the
Higl:^ Pomt College organization
again
Admisssion will be; Adults 35c,
students 20c, with reser\’ed seats at
50c. Benefits from the gate receplts
will go to the local scrtool band.
told more than 100 members of seven
Kiwanis clubs gathered here for a
dinner meeting on Tuesday night at
the Southern Pines Country Club.
Prof. Furr is governor of the Caro-
linas District of Kiwanis Interna
tional and an able speaker.
He dwelt on “Citizenship Respon
sibility as the Price of Liberty,”
Translated into cases, Mr. Furr said,
“this responsibility means tnat if we
want to destroy the menace that
threatens us, we must leave noth
ing undone to bring this about. It
means that if we want to outlaw
strikes, whether the fauil that of
labor or management, in defense in
dustries, we are to see that this is
done; if we want to make inopera
tive any legislation which while de
sirable during peacetime, but some-
to vote in the city election. Your
name must be on the city’s book.
John W. Pickier Killed
When Auto Overturns
Prominent Citizen of Pinebluff
Victim of Accident Near
Statie Sanatorium
John W. Pickier of Pinebluff, one
of Moore co>mty’s best known citi
zens, was instantly killed in an au
tomobile accident last Friday night
between the State Sanatorium and
Aberdeen. While passing another car
the brakes on Mr. Pickler’s car lock
ed and he is said to have stuck his
head out the window to see that
he cleared the other machine. His
car left the road and turned over.
Roy Griffin of Pinebluff, on the
what handicapping in the urgent need | front seat with him, and two color-
of the moment, we must have this
done too. It means that our govern
ed men in the back seat escaped in
jury. They had been engaged on a
ment, built to express our national j contract in Whiteville and were re
wishes, effectively and immediately, turning to Pinebluff.
must at this time yield itself as nev- mj.. Pickier was 69 years of age,
er before to the will of those who and had long been engaged in the
own it, and that we as a representa- ^ masonry work in this section. He was
tive group of citizens in our com- j highly esteemed and p^opular with
munity, as makers of public opinion, | all with whom he came in contact,
and as citizens who are willing to j Funeral services were held In the
array this public opinion as an ir- pinebluff Baptist Church, burial with
resistible force, must, if never be- j Masonic rites following in Bethesda
fore and never again, go to bat with j cemetery.
courage and virility for our way of j jg survived by his widow, Mrs.
address will follow, after which V Tickets may be purchased from stu-
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life. We must let those who imple
ment our wishes know what those
wishes are ”
Youth Morale
Prt>f. Furr called for greater ef
fort in child education. “Let’s make
the minds and hearts of the boys and
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Lillian Brinkley Pickier; three dau
ghters, Mrs. O. C. Adcox, Mrs. Doug
las David and Miss Gwendolyn
Pickier, all of Pinebluff, and three
sons, Ermon and Craig of Pinebluff
and Reece Pickier of Edenton. Sev
eral brothers and sisters also sur.
vive.