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VuL. h, NO. 8.
~^uthern Pines, North Caroiinn, Friday, January 2'.i,
Carthaqe Officer Back In State
SLY DUO TO GIVE
PIANO AND VIOLIN
CONCERT MONDAY
FIVE CEN'1'8
Beethoven. Chopin and Schu
bert to be Featured In Sec
ond Library Concert
I50TH WIDELY RECOGNIZED
LIEIT-COI^ ALEX. P, KEIJ-V
Steeplechase Set For >.> DEFENSE COUNCIL
Benefit Hospital, Natj, elief gY TUFTS
UaciiiK Association Anticiiiates Successful Year liecause of Nuni- in A f>I ICUI?rk
l)er of Horses in Trainin)?; Profits to (Jo to Recognized , IJj £<0 I ADLlijIir/U
Institutions; to Lead Off Races
Thf- track to load to the Sandhills'1 benefit from the races because that (>*"OUp Will Coordinate Civilian
most gala steeplechase meeting was | organization is being heavily taxed j Defense Efforts Throuphout
opened up this week with the set.i during this early period of the War, Moore Countv
ting of Saturday, March It, as tht;(when the U. S. Navy is carryingl
CHANDLER VICE-CHAIRMAN
Lieut.-Col. Alex. P. Kelly Com-
mandiiiR Officer of Camp
Davis Hospital
RED CROSS DOES
BIG SEWING JOB
Just assigned as commanding of-'
firer of the Camp Davis station hoa.j
7,000 fiar^enls Produced
onel Alexander P. Kelly, who was
tom and educated near Carthage.
L.ieut.-Col. Kelly has been com
manding officer of the 16th Medical
Regiment at Fort Devcns, Mass., and
was in the Carolinas during last fall's
Rianeuvers. While his company was in
maneuvers, Lieut..Col. Kelly visited
his former home and a dance was
given at the Pinehurst Country Club
in his honor. His sister, Miss Mar
garet Kelly, is connected with Pine,
hurst, Inc.
Col. Kelly entered Army service i.i
1918 and was commissioned a lieuten.
ant in the MedicaJ Corps in 1920. He
was appointed lieutenant colonel Au.
gust 19, 1938. He attended Davidson
College, North Carolina Medical,
in Sewing Rooms Through
out County, Report Says
From recent publicity, one might
get the idea that all the Red Cross
does is raise money; but the Red
Cross in Moore County last year pro.
duced a total of 7,728 knit and sewn
garments in the sewing rooms of
the county and sent them for distri.
bution to needy.
This report was made by Mrs.
i Thomas C. Lyons of West End, pro
duction chairman of Red Cross for
Moore County, at a meeting Monday
of branch chairmen at the home of
Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt, county chair
man.
Final report of branch chairmen
A man-wife musical combination
will he prc.sented next Monday, Jan
uary 26. at 8;30 p. m. by the Southern
Pines Library A.s-sociation as the sec
ond in the current concert series.
Allan Sly. noted English pianist,
and Betty Ware Sly, American viol,
inist, will pre.sent a program featur.
ing works of Beethoven, Chopin and
Schubert.
Mr, Sly has concertized widely in
F.iirope and this country and is now
the head of the music division of
the department of fine arts at WiU
liani and Mary College in Virginia.
Mr. Rly’.s art is characterized by deep
sincerity, warmth of feeling and a
technical virtuosity wjual to the moat
exacting demands of piano literature.
A distinguished musical scholar, he
prefaces each work to be played with
illuminating comments which contrib
ute greatly to the understanding and
enjoyment of the program and estab-
li.sh an' intimate and informal re
lationship between artist and aud.
ience.
Mrs. .Sly is a highly accomplished
violinist with a tone of unu.sual beau,
ty and a virile style which makes her
part of the program a really stirring!
mu.sical experience. Mrs. Sly also is
a fine viola player and it is hoped
that she may be willing to add to the
program proper one or two .short
numbers on this rarely heard but ap.
peahng instrument.
Program for Concert
The program for next Monday night
is as follows;
Mr and Mrs. Sly; Sonata in G. ma
jor, opus 30, No. 3, by Beethoven, al
legro assai, tempo di menuetto. ma
I molto moderator e grazioso, and al.
legro vivace.
Mr. Sly; Chopin’s Scherzo In B
flat minor, Ballade in F minor, Ma.
zurka in B flat major. Mazurka in C
sharp minor, Valse in A flat.
Mr. and Mrs. Sly; Schubert's Son.
atina in G minor, opus 137, No. 3
allegro giusto, andante, menuetto-
allegro vivace, allegro moderate.
definite day for the meeting and tiieimuch of the brunt of hostilities,
selection of Navy Relief and thej In deciding that Moore County Hos-j
Moore County Hospital as the bene..pital should alsio .share in the pro-i . . .1 ,, .
ficiarics of steeplechase Jirofits. ceeds, members of the Association' A county-wide defense council to
These two important decisions were'pointed out that the Hospital would'civilian defense activities
made Tue.sday afternoon after Almet I probably face a lean year, unless ij? ?
Jenks, preh'dent, had presented writ, some additional means of .support jg ® called by James
ten reports from Richard W'allach, found. In face of other fund-raising‘ i Pinehurst, recently appoint-
campaigns for national emergency,'I''* Moore County Defense Chairman
it was felt that the Hospital might Broughton,
be neglected and that it wa.s due con.
siderablc support from the racing Z I Sab,s on, Jr. of Car.
'' “ thage who was first named to the
Jr., racing secretary, following his
confei’f'nce in New York City with
Fred Parks, secretary of the Nation,
al Hunt and Steeplechase Associa
tion.
The hunting race on the Barber Es
tate Course, between Southeni Pinos
and Piiwhurst. will open the sea.son
of steeplechasp racing in the coun
try, with the events .swinging to Ai.
ken, S. C., for March 21.
Because the profits from the Sand,
hills Steeplechase meeting will go to
benefit two worthy institutions, one
local and on^ national, every effort
will be made to make it the most out.
standing meeting since the beginning
of the event, eight years ago.
Navy Relief was selected by diroc.
tors of the Sandhills Association to
job and then resigned because of the
press of personal work.
meet.
Despite the call to armed service
of many riders and owners of racing in_ „ . *■
and hunting horses, a survey of the: Pre«fntative.s
possible field of entrants made by ^^ Tuesday s meeting, the f^lowmg
'Racing Secretary Wallach recently! elected as council members:
show-ed that the^ .^re a nuXr of > n
good hor.se.s in training for the stee.' -
plechase circuit. i ^ Cameron; the
Taking part in the meeting this, W aifford, Carthage; D.
week were Mr. and Mrs. Jenks Mrs. 1C. Beijedict,
Margaret Thorne Smith. Mrs. Reid T P'^^hurst:
Healy. Mr.s. John R. Drexel, Spriggj t
n. Camden, Col. George P. H^es,
Jr.. P. S. r: Randolph Jr. and Isham
Sledge.
BurVs New Book Well Received
By State and National Reviews
HIGHWAY WRECK
nm 3 LIVES
Head-On Collision Ea.st of Car
thage is Moore’s First Fa
tal Accident of Year
SIX
College and the Medical College of | on the roll call of last fall showed a
«v>_ 2_- ^ > n f CO OOT Q.4 ••atOA^ TtrifK *y nOit
Virginia, and later graduated from
the Medical Field Service School,
Army Medical School and the advanc
ed course at the Medical field ae.-
vice school.
tc*a! of $3,397.84 raised with 2,096
member.s enrolled. Largest sum and
largest member.ship came from South
ern Pines whose 755 members con.
tributed .$1,348.
LUMBER MAN GETS
Materials Made in Moore
Mrs. Lyons’ report showed the fol.
I lowing number of garments made in
\Tr»lir mnixi! sewing rooms of the county and
Ml |V I [Vw I shipped to the Red Cross export de,
illv/kJl I'ljf I HlWAJj pot jji Jersey City this month:
8,'i bed shirts, 110 hospital pajamas,
Kationing Board Issues Permits, 200 layettes, each containing 27 gar.
to Doctors. Funeral Home, |
and Others '
Doctors, a funeral home, and
lumber dealer received most of the'
neoui? layette articles, 30 women's |
cotton dresses, 145 girls' cotton
' dresses, 83 women's woolen shirts, i
125 girls' woolen shirts, 60 women's;
30 girls’ woolen
tires and tubes issued last week by I ^2 boys’ shirts, 8 pairs boys’
the Moore County Tire Rationing. jqq girl.s' nightgowns (spec-
ial emergency /equestl.
Cohn h. Spencer of Carthage was. Knitted articles were 335 children's
alloted several tires and tubes by the g^^.paters, 14 men's sweaters, 73 wo-
board to be "used on trucks in haul, nien's sweaters, 5 shawls, 65 caps,
Ing lumber for national defense, ac. jgcj ^f men's socks, 30 pairs of
cording to the board. j niittens, 13 afghans, 100 mufflers.
Dr. E. W. Bush of Southern Pines Attending the session for the re.
was issued certificate for two pas.! ports were Mrs. C. L. Warner and
senger car tires and tubes; Clark's’ Mrs. J. W. McMillan of Pinebluff,
Funeral Home of Southern Pfnes for' Mrs. W. D. Caviness of Aberdeen,
two ambulance t'res and tubes; and Mrs. S. R. Smith of Vass, Mr.s. H.
Herbert N. Cameron of Southern
Pines two truck tires and one tube.
Certificates to Spencer allowed
purchase of five truck tires and
tubes.
Other tire certificates issued were
to Royal P. Muse of Carthage, one
truck tire and tube; Dr. Malcolm D.
Kemp of Pinebluff, two passenger
car tires and tubes; McCrimmon Feed
and Seed Co., Aberdeen, two truck
tires and tubes.
Also certificates were issued for
obselete tires, which do not affect
the county quota, to the following:
John Lineberry of Hemp. Lee Roy
Monroe of Eagle Springs, Coy Simp-
Bon Wallace of Hemp, Ernest 'W'.
Brewer of Eagle Springs, John Dew.
ty McNeill of Hemp and Ruby Gene
vieve Mark.s of Southern Pines.
F. Seawell of Cameron, Mrs. Hunt,'
Mrs. L. E. Thrower, Mr.s. Tod Bax.j
ter, Mrs. Lee Clarke, Mrs. George |
Christma.s and Carl G. Thompson ofj
Southern Pines. ■
Polio Campaign
Infantile Paralysis Fund Rais
ing Gets Underway in
Moore This Week
The annual campaign to raise
funds to fight the dread Infantile
Paralysis is beginning in Moore
County this week with F. D. Far
rell of Aberdeen again serving as
County Chairman.
Local chairmen are as follows;
Southern Pines, Mr.s. Carl G.
Thompson, Jr.; Hemp, Miss Lucy
Snyder; Carthage, L. L. Marion.
Sr.; Va.ss, Mrs. D. M. Corbett;
Pinebluff. Mrs. W K. Carpenter;
West End. Miss Eva Ritter; Pine-
hvirst. Frank McCaskill and Aber.
deen, Clifton Blue.
Coin collectors will be distribut.
ed to stores and other public
places. Contributions can be made
in this way or by mailing or bring,
ing cash or checks to Mrs. Carl G.
Thompson, Jr. at The Pilot. The
{tempaign is conducted by the
Committee for Celebration of the
Pre.sident's Birthday, but no local
dance or entertainment i.s plan
ned.
Moore County's first fatal highway
jiccident of 1942 took three lives last
Friday night in a head-on collision
between two automomflea on the San
ford-Carthage highway, about
miles east of Carthage.
Killed instantly were the drivers of
the cars. Charles T. Russell, 23, of
Troy, and Neal Pierce, 28, of Lemon
Springs. Chalmers Thoma.s of Lemon
Springs, who was riding with Pierce,
died about 7 o'clock Saturday at
Moore County Hospital from Injuries
received in the crash.
Both Cars Snwwhed
Both cars were badly smashed in
the accident and investigating officers
had not been able to determine the
cause of the accident. Sergeant W. B.
Kelly of the Highway Patrol, Deputy
Sheriff C. R. Dunlap and Coroner R.
G. Frye, Jr., of Carthage, who investi
gated the accident, said that Piercc
was headed toward Sanford and Rus.
sell toward Carthage when the acci.
dent occurred.
'Russell, 23, was driving a 1942
Chevrolet belonging to Mrs. R. R.
Parsons of Troy. Pierce and Thomas
were in a 1941 Plymouth and were re
turning to their homes in Lemon
Springs from Charlotte. Pierce was
going to spend the week.end with his
mother, and Thomas was nding with
him.
Funeral services for Pierce were
held Sunday afternoon at St. Andrews
Pre.sbyterian Church, conducted by
the Rev. W. <A. Pate. Last rites for
Thomas were held at the Shallow Well
Christian Church in Lee County Mon
day. Services for Russell were con
ducted at Lovejoy Church in Troy
Sunday afternoon.
church. Ritter.s township; and C. C.
1 Underwood, Bensalem township,
i Third Tr>- for County Defense
i This actually is the third effort
I made in Moore County to establish a
; coordinated civilian defense effort,
j Many moons ago, under initiative
I from Struthers Burt, civilian defense
New York Times Favorable; Lo- committees were established through,
cal Author Well Pleased i Sandhills These incidentally,
were forerunners of national organ-
With Recognition
izations.
, , Then cam? a period of all-out emer.
Will; unusual unanimity book re. gency and the establishment of the
viewers in the State and national; office of Civilian Defense,
press this week went down the line ■ state Civilian defense directors,
in favor of Stnithers Burt s new (bounty chairmen were appointed
from Raleigh and new committeemen
were .selected, .superceding the origi
nal voluriteer organization. Sabiston
was appointed Moore County civilian
defense chairman; but found he was
unable to devote sufficient time to
Breakdown of Koll Call
Final roll call report was as fol.
lows, with number of members griv.;
en first and amount raised second:! Uncle Sam’s declaration of War
Southern Pines 755—$1,348; Pine-| came near interfering with the con-
hurst 426—$912, Eureka 8—^$8, High, summation of a soldier's romance.
Falls 21—$21. Hemp 100—$100, Lake-' but the willing hospitality and friend,
view 8—$8,''Cameron 40—$40, Vass'ship of a Southern Pines woman came
69--$69, Carthage 138 $138, West to the rescue of Cupid.
End 66—$71. Pinebluff 131 $166, story actually began many
Jackson Springs 23—$35, Samarcand< yparg ago but ended this week with
22—$23.50, Eagle Springs 34—S85.happy announcement: Miss Mar-
Aberdeen 160—$213; total 2096—53,- ga^gt McDonald, daughter of Mr. and
War Threatens Cupid*s Plans;
But Story Has Happy Ending
novel, "Along These Streets, ’ which
on Monday became the possession of
the public—and the critics.
The critics were more than kind.
They were undisg;uisedly pleased.
Even the New York Times Book Re,
view section, which doesn’t bother to 1 and"resigned,
pull punches, was without reservation, immediate successor could be
in its praise for the book. j found. State officials .said the job
Burt Is Pleaited I might take from two to six hours a
"I certainly am well pleased 3 man’s time, as work develop,
the reception.” Mr. Burt ^id at hiS; p^j Acceptance of this job by Mr.
home here in Southern Pines. 1, "Tufts a couple of weeks ago was not
think it's wonderful. The r^'viewera until this week. It was
all seem to favor the book. , understood that he planned to devote
Caro Green Rus^ll, conductor of, considerable part of his time to this
Literary Lantern for many North |
Carolina papers, began her review, Conimltttees Proposed
with "We need more novelists with _ T-^e County Defense Council dis.
the faith of Stnithers Burt, with the 1 mussed the desirability of establishing
gift for expressing this faith a.s he: pp^^j^tte^g for civil protection, al.
so impressively writes^ it. ready fairly well organized in various
Russell is .sister of Paul Gree^ I communities; for health and welfare,
wright, and w'f® Phillips Ru.ssell,; agriculture, publicity, conservation,
another North Carolina writer, : finance
Times Is Favorable , The purpose of the Council will be
In the New York Times, Miss Kath.: prepare for any wartime
erine Irvin Woods, Philadelphia-born tp a.ssist in paring
writer, editor and book reviewer savs; I '^'I'ole population to wartime ef-
•"Along The.se Streets' is a large!^ extent it will op.
novel, and a good one. It is entertain- ^rate through existing agencies, 1; 11,
ing and earnest; ironic, outspoken,;**® been done in the past, certain
and at one point; magnificent; and, '”^*1 comrnittees for special functions.
>es, it is an interesting story, about' ''Uch as air raid protections will be
the young anthropologist Feiix Mac. ‘ <‘st&hlished. County-wide blackouts,
ali.ster and his Philadelphia inheri.' instance, will call for complete co-
tance and the three women who among the local air raid
adorned, eased and tormented his
ncw life ... during blackouts.
"The story i.s, as has been said, is
always interesting. But it has long
ago become plain that Mr, Burt's new
book has distinction, value and gen.
uinely stirring appeal not as a story
about individual men and women but
as a novel of ideas , . .
"With its motive in the noblest and Pas(or of Sacred HearJ Thiirrh
most far-visioned patriotism, the nov. ‘ nacrea Heart cnurcn
FATHER McDEVlTT,
PINEHURST, DIES
Frances McKeithen
Now Senior Hostess
Fort Bragg—Miss Frances J. Mc
Keithen, daughter of Mrs. Neil A. Mc
Keithen, of Carthage, has been ap.
pointed senior hostess of Fort Bragg’s
Motorized and Animal Units Service
Club.
Miss McKeithen was formerly jun.
lor hostess at the Motorized and An.
imal Units Service Club in charge of
recreational activities and has been
associated with this club since its
opening. She was formerly a teacher
in the Carthage school system.
Mrs. Donald McDonald of Cresskill,
N, J., became the bride of First Class
Private Nicholas Short of Cresskill,
now of Fort Bragg, in Bennettsvillle,
S. C., Saturday, January 10.
It's a story which began when Mrs.
397.84.
Each branch chairman emphasized
the present need for more sewers and
workers in the Red Cross sewing
rooms throughout the county. A
special request w’as made by Mrs.
Lee Clarke that Southern Pines peo., ^
pie volunteer their efforts at the Redi Wenger was a girl ^d at
Cross room in the Straka Building. I \ V
The room is open mornings and af.l f
temoons each week-day. ! '^ter, Mrs. Wenger moved to Southern
i Pines. Lost year she heard from her
.SKWING t LA.S8ES IN HEUIP taken into the army
Mrs. Alice Burt, Hunt, Countv and was stationed at Fort Bragg. Mrs.
Chairman of the 'Red Cross, met with Wenger invited the boy to visit her
a group of women in Hemp Tuesday and he came over to Southern Pines
at the Community House, to help or.
ganize a Red Cross sewing class. Mrs.
Schumaker will be the local chairman
of the sewing classes.
often.
About Christmas time, Private
Nicholas told Mrs. Wenger some good
news. He was going home on a fur.
lough and he was going to get mar
ried. He was happy. But in two days,
he was called back, his leave cancell
ed. Because of New Jersey laws, pro.
viding a lO-day wait between issuing
of licen.se and the marriage, he had
been unable to marry his girl.
To Mrs. Wenger, this problem had
an easy solution. Private Short wrote
his girl, described Mrs. Wenger. He
told Mrs. Wenger what his girl look.
*d like. One evening, a young lady
stepped off the train at Southern
Pines, looked around and found the
woman fitting Mrs. Wenger’s de
scription. She went home with Mrs
Wenger,
That week.end. First Cla.ss Private
Short came to Southern Pines from
Fort Bragg. Accompanied by Mrs.
Wenger and another friend, Charles
Block, the couple went to Bennetts-
ville, S. C., where no hindering waits
are requir^, and were married, Jan.
uary 10. Mrs. Wenger acted as ma
tron of honor; Mr. Bock as best man.
Young Mrs. Short is still near her
husband. At the invitation of Mrs.
Wenger, the young bride is making
her home with the friend who made
her marriage possible.
el may be .seen, too, to have pro-
gre.ss as’its theme—in an understand
ing so much larger than our custo.
mary use as almost to spell paradox.
Pa.sses in Charlotte Hospi
tal; Burial at Belmont
The Rev. B. J. McDevitt, pastor of
For the progres.s which is an animat. 1 Sacred Heart Church in Pinehurst,
ing force in this story . . . demands; died Sunday at Mercy Hospital !ri
above all the present’s open.eyed sue. Charlotte. He was 4I years .)ld.
cession to which has been greatest in Father McDevitt succeeded the late
the past; the keeping of history's no-) Father W. J. Dillon as pastor of the
ble promise.s, the realistic courage tol Pinehurst Catholic Church last year,
meet change, engage in conflict,' He has served as pastor at Waynes-
make sacrifices, so that the best sub- [ ville. West Asheville and Rocky
.stance of the past may live on—no' Mount, previous to coming to the
beautiful dead leaf but a root from j Sandhills.
which justice and freedom and the' A native of Ireland, he came to this
good life may continue to grow ... I coimtry as a young man and received
" ‘Along These Streets' ... is ... i his college and seminary training at
highly entertaining. Its writing is Belmont Abbey, where he was ordain-
brilliantly epigrammatic, with the ed by the late Bishop Haid.
stimulating quality which is so acute- Services w'ere held Monday at the
ly remembered from the second.per. Pinehurst church and a Pontifical
iod Wells. In a recent interview in Requiem Mass' was said by Bishop
these columns, Struthers Burt ex. Eugene J McGuinness of Raleigh in
pressed a whimsical wonder as to Charlotte Thursday. Burial was in
why people \Vanted to read no\'cls' Belmont Abbey cemetery. One broth,
now. His own novel offers one an.! ‘■r. Patrick McDevitt of Bayonne, N.
swer: for diversion that pricks the!C. survives,
mind to pertinent thought.” So Miss
Woods’ in the New York Times. ~
The Tribune Likes It
"Mr. Burt builds his characters
well, makes them thoroughly inter
esting and attractive, and manages
to sustain his rather diffused love in
terest effectively,” says Florence
Haxton Bullock in the New York Her
ald Tribune, “ 'Along These Streets'
is a pleasant book to read. Leisured
without being tedious, this fat, slow.i
(Please turn to page 5) '
Vass Blackout
The town o{ VasH has scheduled
a local blackout prac41e« next
Tuesday night, Janoary 27, be.
tween the hours of 8 and 10 p. m.
Five long UantK of the lire alarm
over a two minute Interval will be
the warning signal for tbe Mack,
out and a straight SO-«eco»d blast
will give the all.clear.