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CIUCI LATION &
ADVEHTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 20. NO, 31.
Aberdeen
Southern I’ines. North ('arolina, Friday. June 27, ItMl,
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SEAWELL ACCUSED
OF FALSE REPORTS
AS U. S. REFEREE
Carthage Plans All-Day
Celebration of the Fourth
Carthaj^e Attorney Posts Bond
for Appearance to Answer
Indictments
IN OFFICE 13 YEARS
Concert, Sports, Parade, Baby
Contest, Ball Game, Talk
By John Lang
Greensboro, June 26—Herbert F.
Seawell, Jr., of Carthage, posted bond
Wednesday with the clerk of Federal
District Court here for his appearance
at the next December term to answer
charges on two bills of indictment al
leging false reports’ and embezzle
ment when he was referee In bank
ruptcy.
The bills against Seawell, who is
a prominent Moore county citizen
and former candidate for the legis
lature, were returned by the federal
grand jury at the recent June term of
court. Handling Investigation for the
government is Irwin L. Langbein, a
special investigator and attorney with j
the Department of Justice. This de
partment assisted in the investiga
tion at the special request of District
Attorney Carlisle W. Higgins, who is
a pers6nal friend of the defendant.
The two bills against Seawell al- i
BV BKS.sk t'.\IVIl':KON SMITH
Friday, July 4th, will be a big day
in Carthage, for the interesting pro- ,
gram prepared by the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, the sponsoring or
ganization, cannot fail to attract
large numbers to the county seat of
Moore.
The day's event will open with a
bang at 9:30 o’clock when the town’s
friendly mayor, C. B. Shaw, welcomes
the people, and there will bt no
symptom of a let down during the
entire day. For the lucky person who
will win a brand new 1941 Ford 2-
door Coach when his name is drawn
at the baseball game at 5:15, it will
be a day never to be forgotten for
the lucky person.
The Jay-Cees were fortunate in se
curing the Penderlca High School
band, snappy 30-piece outfit that per
formed at the Strawberry Festival in
Wallace this Spring, to furnish music
for the day. These high-steppnig
youngster.s, who are directed by E.
P. Flint of Penderlea Farms, will
drill at 9:45, give a concert of the
I courthouse square at 12:20, and load
the parade at 2:00 o’clock.
Can you imagine how
lege nine cases of false reports and
two embezzlement in connection in^ imagine how a person
connection with the discharge of hiS; after ducking his head into a
duties as referee in bankruptcy. He !
water to recover a piece of
money from the bottom ? Well, go one
better and imagine how he would look
if said tub of water had a coating of
molasses covered with flour, and you
will have >in idea of what the “mo
lasses contest” will be like. This is
held this position for nearly 13 years,
resigning last fall for the purpose of
becoming candidate for public office.
He offered himself for the State Leg-
is.uture.
No appointment was made of a,
t »iii ' only one of the fun events listed as
referee to fill the vacancy left by i
c ,,, 4. “street contests.
Seawell s resignation. _
I The swift of foot should be practic
ing for the lOO-yard dash, the 220-
yard dash and the 440 relay, for there
will be prizes for all of these street
contests.
Lang to Speak
A highlight of the day will be an
address by John A. Lang, North Car
olina NYA administrator, who is com-
Stores Close Fourth
But Remain Open All Day
Wednesday. Banks Closed
Friday, Saturday
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company of Southern Pines, and
the Bank of Pinehurst, with its
branches in Aberdeen and Carth
age, will be closed all day on Fri
day, July 4th and also on Satur
day, July 5th, officei's of these in
stitutions announced yesterday.
Stores in Southern Pines, includ
ing the groceries, will be closed all
day on the Fourth, but will re
main open this coming Wednesday
afternoon, their usual half-holiday.
Carthage stores will remain open
luring the morning of Friday, July
Ith, but will be closed in the after
noon. Due to the Friday afternoon
closing, they will remain open all
lay Wednesday, not observing the
isual summer half holiday.
2D REGISTRATION
FOR DRAFT SET
NEXT TUESDAY
Youths Reaching 21st Birthday
Since October 1ft Must
Report at Carthage
FIVE CENTS
Southei> o;"^ ‘'s Interests
To Resum^*^ !)perations in
Coal Nines Near Sanford
Coal Pioneers
! H B. Chatfield, Howard N. But
ler and Others Organize Coal
Products Company
OFFICE OPEVTILL 9:00 P. M.
NEW MOVE FOR
SOUTHERN PINES
Under proclamation of Governor >
Broughton, next Tuesday, July 1st!
I has been set as Registration Day for-
: young men of the state who, on or |
before July 1st, 1941 and subsequent 1
[ to October 16th, 1940, shall have at-1
1 tained the 21st anniversary of their
birth.
! This second registration under the
Selective Training and Service Act
will be at the Moore County Board of
fice in the courthouse" at Carthage,
from 7:00 a. m. to 9:00 p. m. for
residents of Moore county.
In his pioclamation setting the date
anil hours, Governor Broughton says:
"That every male citizen of the
, United States who resides in the
' State of North Carolina and every
; male alien residing in North Carolina
I (other than persons excepted by Sec-
I tion 5 (a) of the Selective Training
j and Sei^fice Act of 1940 or by Sec-
! tion 208 of the Coast Guard Auxil-
j iary and Reserve Act of 1941 who are
; already in some branch of military
' service) who, on or before July 1,
1941. and subsequent to October 16,
i 1940, shall have attained the twenty-
' first anniversary of his birth, is re-
I ouired to present himself for and
I
EXPECT TONS DAILY
1
JOHN R. McQUEEN
Project Given Impetus At Joint
Meeting of Rotary and
Jay-Cees
43 From Moore To Be
Inducted Next Month
at
designated registration place between
the hours of 7:00 a. m. and 9:00 p.
m. on July 1, 1941.
"Persons subject to this registra
nt tion shall register at the office of
! the local board having jurisdiction
A new move was launched
joint meeting of the Southern Pines 1 ^yer the area of their permanent resi-
Rotary Club and the Junior Cham-1 dence, or at such place as may be des-
ber of Commerce last Friday night 1 ignated by said local board. If a per-
to provide a Community building!
for ■Southern Pines. A large group
of members of both organizations,
I with representatives from the Sand-
tration day so far removed from the
place of his residence that he cannot,
except at great expense and incon
venience, return to his home to regis-
State Has July Quota of 4,429.
—Five From County Off
For Bragg June *30
James Mitchell Taylor of Carthage, j back to his home town to cele-
Johnnle Little and James Shanklin of
Southern Pines, Sandy Clark Gor
don of Pinehurst and Furman Blue
of Route 1, Cameron have been or
dered to report to the Moore County
Selective Service Board on June 30th
for Lransfer to the Army induction
station at Foit Bragg whets they
will begin their year of military ser- ,
vice. !
The State has received its largest;
single draft call yet issued for the !
month of July. During the month, 3,- '
429 white youths and 1,000 negroes ,
will be called to the colors, and for,
the first time, some of the whites
hills Klwanis Club and other civic ter, he may present himself for and
bodies present, heard Charles sta-|-:;j‘>'«‘‘
^ the nearest local board. Special pro
pleton, director of the Civic Center; jjg made for the registra-
at Goldsboro, tell how that city pro- j tion of those who, on account of sick-
cured a building for community I ness or other causes beyond their
brate with his people. He will speak
from a stand on the square at 12:00
o’clock noon. j
As a pi'elude to the celebration the
Jaycees are staging a Baby contest. |
At 1:30 the winner will be presented
a loving cup. |
^ The Grand Parade, in which anyone
who wishes to do so is invited to en- j
ter a float, is scheduled to start roll- I
ing at 2:00 o'clock, and a prize of $15
awaits the winner. This year s pa
rade i.s expected to be the best yet.
Hemp and Carthage will clash on
the baseball diamond at 3:15 and
there is still time to purchase tickets
uses, and how it is operated.
Several movements have
launched here In the past for a
building of sufficient size to apcom-
modatei large g^atherings, conven
tions, meetings of civic organizations,
etc., and these efforts reached the
point about a year ago of plans be
ing drawn by the National Youth Ad
ministration. The Rotary Club, aided
and abetted by the Junior Chamber,
control, are unable to present them-
i selves for registration at the duly
been I designated place on registration day.
"This registration shall be in ac
cordance with Selective Service Regu
lations. Every person subject to reg
istration, under the President's proc
THE LATE BION
BUTLER
URGE CONGRESS TO
APPROVE FUNDS
FOR BRAGG ROADS
Civic Organizations Ask Bailey
and Burgin To Speed
Appropriation
will be inducted at Fort McPherson, i S:ame, which will entitle the
Ga. The remainder of the whites will'
£0 to Fort Bragg, and all the negroes ^ " festivities will close with
to Foit Jackson. S. C.
o’clock at the Carthage Hotel. Basil
Moore county's white quota for ^v-hitemer of Gastonia, prominent at-
July is 28, to be inducted on July U i legislator who is State
11th. Fifteen negroes wll be inducted'
on July 14th,
MRS. C. N. CONYES DIES,
FORMER WINTER RESIDENT
News reached here last week of the
death on Sunday, June 15th in
Miami, Florida of Mrs. C. N. Conyes
•who, in company with Mrs. McCook
M >rgan, was a Winter resident of |
Southern Pines for some 15 years.;
Mrs. Conyes and Mrs. Morgan made'
the Highland Pines Inn their home
w hen they first came here, later tak
ing a cottage at May street and Penn
sylvania avenue. Funeral services
were held last week at Beacon, N.
Y., Mrs. Conyes’ former Tiome.
president of the Jay-Cee organization,
will be the principal speaker. A re
ception will follow the banquet.
Noted Missionary To
Speak Here on Sunday
p. W^ Buchannan Will Tell of
Work in Japan at Pinehurst
Community Church
Civic organizations of Moore county
are urging United States Senator
lamation. is required by the law itself; Congressman Burgin to
to familiarize himself with the rules , ^
find regulations governing registra-1 enactment of a bill before Con
tion and to comply thtrewith. Severe! f'’*’ additional funds for "De
penalties are provided for those who fense Area Access Roads" which
neglect or refuse to register. | would pave the way for construction
worked alone the lines which brought jbor in the State to cwange *^for thetr improved highways between Port
community houses to Aberdeen and, employees who are required to degis- and the Sandhills section.
Carthage, put up by XYA labor with ^ from work on reg- A group from the county attended
, . , , , I V J 1 . i i.stration oay for a sufficient length a hearing before Highway Commis-
federal and local funds. It is under-, j^em to discharge McCrarv and Hi^hwav Enei-
stood that federal funds might be | their duty of registering. And I call , a v. v,
available if a proportionate amount of; upon all State, County and Municipal. 'tf'eld in Asheboro on Tues-
local money was in sight, but here 1 cooperate in this regard. |Oay. among them J. Talbot Johnson,
.V t V.1- V.1 1 * “The people of North Caiolina have 1 Neill McKeithen and H. Clifton Blue
IS the stumbling block. A tempts to,,,p
gain the cooperation and interest of vice heretofore made upon them. Wejo^,r>5»,«o onri n t
the Board of Town Commissioners j take pride in the fact that this State ‘ r .1. ,
have been unavailing to date the pro- ''as been singularly free of recalci-1 Donald of Carthage, and learned
ponents state, with the result that . impeding progress
tu- r- 14. u V, „ 1-1, j activities. More than 450,000 of our, on the program for improved roadage
nothing definite has been accomplish- young marched up the places the failure of Congress to pro-
ed. !set apart for registration and regis- .r T ^ .
Mr. Staoleton was asked here to' ^^red on October 16, 1940, with hardly inecessary funds. The State
. a mummur of dissatisfaction or com-1 H*?r'"''ay and Public Works Depart-
advise the Rotarians and Jaycees on pi^int. I feel that those who are re-1 ment is ready to proceed on the word
the necessary steps to be taken to quired to register on this second reg-1 "go ” and Maj. Gen, Jacob L Dev-
accomplish their ambition, and the ] istration day will do so in the same ’ ^ p .. ^
erouD Dlans to oroceed alone lines spirit and good will. North Carolina! ‘'011 uragg is aesirous or
! ? . L !! has never filled to do her full duty in I construction, McCrary and
WILLIAM J. LEIBERT DIES,
RESIDED HERE 20 YE.4JKS
William J. Leibert, for 20 years a
resident of Southern Pines, died la
St. Petersburg, Fla., on Tuesday, ac
cording to word received here this
week. Funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
in Winston-Salem where Mr. Leibert
has resided since leaving here some
six years ago. He came here original
ly from Bethlehem, Pa., and owned
a home on Vermont avenue.
P. W. Buchanan, one of the most
gifted and distinguished missionaries
of the Presbyterian Church to Japan,
who for the past two weeks has prov
ed himself the most jiopular speaker
ever to have been on the faculty of
the annual Young People’s Confer
ences at Flora Macdonald College,
Red Springs, will speak morning and
evening this Sunday at the Pinehurst
Community Church, at 11:00 a. m.
and 8:00 p. m.
Mr. Buchanan will speak at the
morning worship on “Kagawa.” He
and Toyohike Kagawa have )Jeen
friends since their boyhood in Japan
where Mr, Buchanan, son of a mis
sionary, was bom. He came to this
country for his education, attending
MerriviHe Collelre, Union Theologi
cal Seminary, and Princeton Unlver-
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4-H Club Members Off
For Camp Next Week
recommended by him. The meeting
was held at the Church of Wide Fel
lowship, with E. H. Lorenson, presi
dent of the Rotary Club, presiding.
President-elect Otis Broom presented
the speaker.
Miss Edith Poate Weds
R. N. Hassell Saturday
I The joint camp of the 4-H Clubs
Bride’s Uncle To Perform Cere- of Moore, Lee, Montgomery, Hoke
■lUd Scotland counties will be held
next week. June 30th at the Millstone
duty
any crisis and will not fall now.” j Whitfield reported. General Devers
Five Counties To Gather
Millstone Camp With
Busy Schedule
At
mony in Church of Wide
Fellowship
The marriage of Miss Edith Poate,
daughter of Mrs. Ernest
wants three roads, one connecting the
! Fort with Route 15-A leading toward
! Raeford, one toward the fort’s nor
thern boundary, and the Lobelia road
I connecting with U. S. No. 1 highway
at Vass. This latter route is now be
ing surveyed by the State Highway
department.
Talbot Johnson reported on the
I matter to the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
I On Wednesday and a resolution was
I passed calling upon Mr. Johnson to
, write Senator Bailey and Represen
Camp near Hoffman. E. M. Waller,,
an assistant coach of State College, ^he Southern Pines -Rotary Club will
a pit/' manager. Mr. Waller ^ ^he matter up at its meeting to
Southern Pines and the late Dr. Poate, j responsible for the routine
to Richard Noble Hassell, son of Mrs.
Benjamin Hassetl of Southern Pines
will be solemnized tomorrow, Satur
day afternoon at 4:00 o’clock in the
Church of Wide Fellowship. The Hev.
Clare Conrad, of Wayne, Ntw York,
uncle of the bride, will perform the
ceremony.
Miss Margaret Owen of Raleigh
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day, and Chambers of Commerce and
schedule and th« water front. Chambers in all towns of the
Mrs. E. M. Waller will t>e the Camp j county will take action at their next
Crafts instructor. The craft this year 1 meetings.
>vlU be basketry. Basketry is one of;
the oldest of our crafts and has un- James Boyd, publisher of The Pi-
limited possibilities for farm boys and
girls who have at their disposal na
tive materials so suitable for making
the baskets, honeysuckle, willow,
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lot, addressed the fourth Carolina In
ternational Relations Institute in the
auditorium of Bingham Hall at Chap
el Hill Wednesday morning on ‘Un
ion Now,”
I BV HELEN K. BITLER
I North Carolina will have by the
j time this is printed another industry,
i Within a few days a new coal com-
I pany known as the Coal Products
I Company will start work in the
I month at Coal Glen, near Sanford,
i Company at Coal Glen, near Sanford.
I H. B. Chatfield and H. N. Butler
' of .Southern Pines are the instrumen
tal factors in the development of the
concern and have engaged Robinson
and Robinson, mining engineers of
Charleston, W. Va., to take charge
of the enterprise. Mr. Robinson is as
sociated with the firm of Stuart,
James and Cook of New York, most
widely known engineers in the Unit
ed States.
In the company of Robinson and
Robinson the fifth generalTdn of en
gineers is represented and for a long
ptriod of years they have pretty near
led the list of consultants In the en
gineering world, as Mr. Robinson is
known as a foremost authority in
safety work. A Robinson has super
vised the ma^or coal project in the
United States for nearly a century,
from Alabama to Pennsylvania. Carol
Robinson has not only had a broad
experience in this country but has
done considerable work under the Rus
sian and British governments as con
sultant engineer. In Russia, under Sta
lin's empire, Mr. Robinson was in au
thority over American and Russian
engineers in mining operations, and
in some instances, their activities
took them over 3,000 feet below sea
level, into temperatures so warm on
some occasions, that shoes were their
only apparel. Before the war they
were engaged near Dover, iilngland,
working out under the sea, beneath a
country that has seen heavy bombing.
The engineering firm will have
complete oversight and management
of the new development and will in
stall only the most modern methods
in all equipment. The electric power
used throughout the mine will be sup
plied by the Carolina Power and
Light Company. The old steam hoist
will be supplanted by .in electric one
and cliain belt and conveyors will
take the place of the string of cars
hauled up and down by steam. Me
chanical loading machines have been
included in part of the purchase al
ready made. The coal will be cleaned
by machines both in the mine and at
the tipple before loading, leaving it
fleer from slate than when previous
ly prepared by hand as in the earlier
days. The new type pumps come un
der the same revolutionary set-up
also, as they will be stationed on the
cf the ground instead of at the bot
tom of the .slope. As dust has long
been a problem to conjure in coal
mining and was responsible for the
trouble in the Carolina mine, the
most elaborate safety devices known
to modern mining will be employed.
The new operators have taken the
greatest possible steps towards over
coming former dangers and have
greatly reduced the hazards of dust,
gas and fire-damp.
Expect 500 Tons Daily
Local labor will be employed at the
mine, and it is the hope of the organ
ization to reach a daily output of 500
tons a day within a year, which will
cxceed anything ever loaded in Deep
River mining, as 300 tons was the
highest figure ever produced in a
day by the Carolina mine.
TTie Coal Products Company is cen
trally located in the state and will be
the only large mine in operation with
in 300 miles of this point. The coal
field lies on both sides of Deep River
and likewise on both sides of the At
lantic and Yadkin Railroad and the
Norfolk Southern. The field will be
about 15 miles distant from the power
plant at Moncure, now undergoing a
large expansion imd more than doub
ling its size. Tvvo State highways run
through the property and it is not
over 55 miles from Greensboro, Ral
eigh or Durham on the north. The
huge artillery range and city of Fort
Bragg lie a short distance to the east,
while Cump Davis and the Marine
base at Jocksonville are within easy
transportation dif»t?»';e. With car
shortage a s '"ious and important fac
tor today, the State may awaken to
one of its greatest discoveries, the
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