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VOL. 22—NO. 15.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, March 13, 1942.
FIVE CENTS
ARMY miNlST
TO GIVE CONCERT
AT LIBRARY HERE
Steeplechase Entries Indicate
Good-Sized Field Next Saturday
Highway Between Siouthern Fines and IMnehurst Ordered Closed
for Day of Hunt Meeting; Service Men to lie Admitted
at Half-Price; Course Put in Shape
Young Hungarian Musician-
Composer, Now at Fort
Bragg, to Appear Monday
SPECIAL SELECTIONS
A twenty.two year old, Hungarian,
bom violintst.compofler, who is now
nerving in the United States Army
at Fort Bragg, will be presented by
the Southern Pines Library Associa.
tion Monday evening, March 16, as
a part of its concert series.
The youthful artist, Frederic Ba-
tass, is now in training at the Field
Artillery Replacement Training Cen
ter at F.ort Bragg. His accompanist
will be Clemens Sandreski, who also
IS at the FARTC. Both men will ap
pear In uniform.
The Library Association yesterday
announced this program, which takes
the place of the originally-scheduled
appearance of the Yale University
Glee Club, forced to cancel Its en.
tire tour in the South.
While the Library has presented
many outstanding concert perform,
ers this season, in making the an.
nouncement yesterday, the commit
tee said it was especially happy to
present this artist who is serving
in the U. S. Army, and has, since
induction, been sharing his talents
with his fellow soldiers by g^iving
recitals for them.
To assist traffic problems during
the Sandhills Steeplechase meeting
at the Barber Estate Course Sat
urday, March 21, the State Highway
ajid Public Works Commission has
ordered State Highway No. 2—the
double road — between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst to be closed for
that day.
Thus one more step has been taken
to assure one of the best steeplechase
meetings in the Sandhills a week from
this coming Saturday.
Richard Wallach, racing secretary,
yesterday said that entries for the
races were beginning to come in and
that Richard Mellon of Pittsburgh,
and Paul Mellon of Upperville, Va.,
have already made entries in the
timber race. EMtrles for the Croa.
tan Serial Steeplechascj the first of
three races In the Carolina Serial
race, total 21, only two under last
year, and Wallach said ho expected
entrit»fl in other races to hold up
almost as well.
Preparations were being made for
a record crowd, due partly to the
fact that the proceeds from the race
this year are going to benefit the U.
S. Navy Relief Society and the
Moore County Hospital and also to
the fact that men of the armed ser.
vices, iji unifonn. will be admitted
for 50 cents to the general admis-
Fion grounds.
SERVICES HELD
FOR J. A. KELLY
KLLED BY NAZIS
A ir Corps Headquarters
For Technical Command
Will Be Located Here
Among those who have entered
horses for the races, Wallach said,
are A. A. Baldwin of White Post,
Va., whose Captain Bill won the
brush race for maidens last year;
Mrs. duPont Scott of Montpelier,
Va.; Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark;
G. H. (Pete) Bostwick of Aiken, S.
C., and A, C. Bostwick of New York
City, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stod.
dard. Jr., of Westbury, L. I., New
York.
Officials who have been selected
for the races are as follows; stew.
a|rds, A, S. Craven, Harry Kirkover
of Camden, S. C., F. S. von Stade
of Aiken, S. C., and General Rene
DeR. Hoyle, U. S. A.; judges, Jack
son H. Boyd of Southern Pines, who
is a recognized judge of the Ameri
can Horse Shows Association; D.
Dallas Odell, and Nat S. Hurd of
Pinehurst; handicapper, Fred H.
Park.s of New York City, secretary
of the National Hunt and Steeple
chase Association; starter, Ira Greg,
ory; Paddock Judges, Ralph Chase
of Camden and George W. Cutting;
Patrol judges, R. B. Young, Will J.
Stratton of Southern Pines, J. North
Fletcher and Charles Du Boise, Jr.
Clerk of Scales: Fred H. Parks and
Assistant Clerk of Scales, W. O.
M0S.S, Clerk of Course, W. V. Slo.
cock, A.ssistant Clerk of Course,
Lloyd M. Tate. Timer, Ernest I.
White. Veterinarian, Dr. J. I. Neal.
Pinehurst Man Victim of Torpe-
doeing Off New Jersey Coast;
Postmaster’s Nephew
WAS navaiTreservist
School Approved
Presidential approval was giv.
en this week to an $18,310 WPA
allotment for the construction of
an Eagle Springs school in Moore
County, This project, which has
been proposed for some time and
has had the approval of the coun
ty commissioners, is for an addi
tion to the present plant, giving
additional classroom and assem
bly room space.
Po.s,sibilily of Special Office
Building Seen; Troops and
Officers Arriving
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at four o’cclock in'
Powell Funeral Home Chapel forj
Julian Alvin Kelly, Pinehurst na
tive, who was killed in the Nazl-
torpedoing of the S. S. "R. P. Re.
sor” February 27.
The Rev. A. J. McKelway, pastor
<jf Pinehurst Community Church of.
ficiated and interment was in
Culdee cemetery near Pinehurst.
Final arrangements for the funeral
of the 28-year-old Naval Reservist I,
v/ere made yesterday after the arrival
here of his widow, the former Miss Es.!
telle McMaught of Bridgeport, Conn., ; Pastor Resigning
and of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Church Post to Enlist in
R. Kelly of Washington, D. C., for.' Active Service
merly of Pinehurst. I
Was .\pprentlce Seaman I The Rev. A. J. McKelway, for eight
McKEWAY TO BE
NAVY CHAPLAIN
Erection of a special office build,
ing for the United States Air Force
Technical Training Command was
considered a definite possibility, fol.
lowing announcement yesterday that
the headquarters for this personnel
unit oi the Army’s air force would be
established in Southern Pines.
Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of
the Army Air Corps, in Southern
Pines Wednesday, was among the of.
ficers making final arrangements for
the shifting of the command head
quarters here from Tulsa, Okla.
Late this week troops were begin.
nmg to move into Knollwood Airport
and office staff from Tulsa were ar
riving. Temporary offices will be
established at The Pine Needles, but
ihe Army was said to be giving ser
ious considerations to erection of a
Red Cross Sponsors
St. Patrick’s Party
Tuberculosis Group
Is Meeting Tuesday
Coneert.Master at 16
Born December 12, 1919, In Bud
apest. Hungary, Frederic Balazs be
gan his violin studies at the age of
five in the Royal Hungarian Franz
Liszt Academy of Music,” where he
praduated in 1937 as a violinist and
in 1939 as a composer and conductor
His appareances in his native coun
try and other parts of Europe re-j Plans are going rapidly ahead for' A meeting of the Moore county
c.eived the acclaim of the press and g{ Patrick's Day bridge parties Tuberculosis .^.asociation has been
Afternoon and Evening Bridge. County wide Meeting of Associa
Parties at Country Club tion Scheduled for Court-
Tuesdav Planned i house at 10:30 A. M.
, .'ipecial building to house the offices
Julian Alvin Kelly was an appren-i yrars pastor of the Pinehurst Com-I^^
munity Church, this week enlisted as Southern
a chaplain in the U. S. Navy and j.inpg and Pinehur.st met in a long
•.«'ill be ordered to report April 1 to| afternoon session with the Army
the Fifth Naval district in Nor-'Air Corps officers to discuss the
j matter of housing the expected in.
1 flu.K of officers’ families to this sec.
Mr, McKelway will formally pre.'
sent his resignation at a congrega.j
tional meeting Sunday, March 22,; ^^^ technical com.
but informed the church board of his ^
intentions Monday night. | pration-s,
A graduate of Union Theological!
public. He became the concert.mas.
ter of the Budapest Concert orches.
tra at the age of 16,
Dropping his original plans to
to be given flt the Southern Pines called to meet at the courthouse in
■’’ountry Club next Tuesday by the Carthage Tuesday morning, March
Southern Pines Branch Chapter of the '’7, to hear reports of activities dur.
!1ed Cross. There will be an after-
.<!tudy Arabian folk music in Egj'pt.jnoon party at 2:30 and an evening
he came to the United States two j party to begin at 8;30. All players
years ago to make his home and j are asked to bring their own cards
carry on his career. He has appeared j ,njid tallies. Refrosh^nents will bo
I'l concert and radio in New York, .served at both parties and prizes
Boston, Philadelphia and has visit. (wui be awarded.
ed the South on a concert tour, dur.| Mrs. Louis Scheipers is general
mg which he played at Raleigh andj, hairman in charge of arrangements
Charlotte. ! for the parties, ably assisted by Mrs.
Private Sandreski, his accompan-'Margaret Thome Smith, Miss Laura
ist, is a graduate of Han,-ard an<i|Kel.sey is in charge of table arrange.
Dartmouth and is a pianist and or-1
ganist of great skill.
ing the seal sale.
Mrs. T. A, Cheatham of Pinehurst,
county chairman, said the meeting
would discuss problems of the asso.
ciation which have arisen since the
iTst countywide meeting and would
lay plans for work during the com.
mg year.
County Defense Work
ment; Mrs. G<*orge Schoolcraft will Explained by Tufts
decorate the club rooms; Miss Har.
1 riet Barnum is handling the public-
Balazs’ program will be as fol. Eimej. Harrington and Mrs,
lows: I Frank Pottle au- co-chairmen of the
Concerto in E.minor, Felix Men.j refreshment committee and Mrs. J.
ilelssohn Bartholdy; SiciHano and T. Overton and Mrs. Joe DeBerry
Presto from Sonata for violin'are making arrangements for the
alone, in G.Minor, J. S. Bach; Men-
uett, W. A. Mozart; Caprice No. 24
(theme and variations) Niccolo Pa
ganini;
Ruralia Hungarica, Ernest von
Dohnanyi; and a group of “Song of
India,’ Rimsky-Korsakow; "Dragon
Flies,” Nandor Zsolt; “Habanera,”
Maurice ’Ravel; and “Zephir” by Jeno
Hubay.
pnzes.
Tickets for the affairs are on sale
at the Roil Cross Room.^? in the
Straka Building and may be obtained
f'om either Mrs. Scheiper.«i or Mrs,
Thorne-Smith, All proceeds from the
two parties will be used for Red
<_'rosa work.
Walter L. Milliken
Dies in Pinehurst
Veteran Tin Whistles "bomber
Pa.sses at Winter
Funeral in Indiana’^nMs
Old Pilot Building ^
Now Defense Center |
More and more the Vass-Lakeview|
School work shop, located in the old' Walter L, Milliken for mnnv years
Pilot building in Vass, is becoming ^ winter resident of Pinehur«t and a
n defense center. Members of the veteran member of the Tin "'histlea,
agriculture class, many of whom are about 7 o’clock W'ednesdav morn-
from farm homes, are now engaged at his home on the Vill'’"'' Green,
in repairing various kinds of farm about 77 years old
machinery and implements that havej There will be no funern' xorvices
t)een out of commission. Harrows, | conducted locally, it was last
cultivators, and plows have been re- j -nipht, and the funeral wii' held
stored to the useful list, saws have, Saturday afternoon at Ind''”'anoll3,
been sharpened and handleless lm-| _ jjjg former home. Ho been
making his summer home Hyan.
nisport. Mass.
He was a graduate in In”- Har
vard University and has com
ing to the Sandhills for vears.
His family is expected todnv fo make
final arrangements for the '’'ne-al.
■ Actual civilian protection is a small
portion of the work of Civilian De-
i’en.se Council, James Tufts, county
council chairman, told members of
the Kiwanis Club Wedne.sday.
Moore County is not considered t
"critical area,” he said, but never
theless, is called upon in many ways
to assist the all-out war effort.
He outlined some of the duties of
the council, which acts chiefly in an
advisory capacity and is supposed
“not to execute by help get the job
done.’
Guest at the meeting was Irwin
Fuller of Osterville, Mas.<i. The Ki.
wanis Club will not hold its regular
meeting next Wedne.sday but will
meet jointly with other civic clubs
tice seaman in the naval reserve and
'vas a member of the Armed Guard
of the crow attached to the Stand
ard Oil tanker “R. P. Resor" which
was torpedoed and sunk 18 miles off
the New Jersey Coast on February
27-28. Only two of the crew surviv
ed, and bodies of eight have beon
found.
Kelly was a life.giiard at Miami
Beach, Fla., just before he joined the
Navy December 18, 1941. He lived
in Moore County until twelve years
ago when he moved to W’ashington
with his parents.
Pallbearers at the funeral were
Lewis Johnson, Travis Wicker,
Frank McCaskill, Hubert McCaskill,
Roy Kelly and Harold Kelly, all of
Pinehurst. The latter two are cous.,
ins.
Seminary in Richmond, Mr. McKel.'
way served for several churches m
North Carolina before coming ti
Pinehurst in April, 193-1, There h
has made an outstanding record of
contribution to the communuity, and
is known throughout the state. His
father, the late Rev. A. J. McKelway,
. . , , . .. i j' Sr., was an outstanding minister of
Survivuig, besides his parents and
,. , 1. II. I I fbe Southern Presbyterian Church
widow, are four brothers, Edward,
„ , , , 1 , and at one time was pastor of the
Rav and Jack, all of Washington, andi *
„ ■ _ i;,! ' First Presbyterian Church in Fav-
ffarry Kelly of Will Rogers Field,
ottpvillo
Okla,, where he is serving with the
Armv. Also, two uncles, Law-rence' ^^Kelway, forming
Wicker of Aberdeen, and Foster A-
Kelly, Pinehurst postmaster.
<'d in many churches and other or
ganizations in the State with their
fxcel^snt rendtion.s of Churcr mu.
f:ic.
Powe»* in War Effort
Discussed at Rotary
John M. Howarth, division sales
manager, Carolina Power and I>ight
Hundreds of local girls flocked to
The Pine Needles Wednesday to be
examined for office positions with the
, Army unit which will operate here.
Knollwood Airport, The Pine Nee
dles hotel, and other properties and
lands are being leased t« give office
space and living quarters to the
personnel of this Air Corps unit,
Maj, Gen, Walter R, Weamr,
I'ommander of the section, is export
ed to arrive here Sunday. March 15,
to make the official announcement.
The Technical Command super
vises all personnel of the United
•States air forces except combatant
pilots, rt has charge of approximate
ly 300.000 men. The local headquar.
tcrs will be the administrative unit
for the entire division, although di.
I vision units will be established at
' other parts of the country, accord,
ing to information received.
No official announcement of all
thi.<? has yet been made locally, al.
company, told Rotarians last Friday FARMERS CAN GET
;V",: 'r UV'S; tires for TRUCKS
olectric power industry as a whole.
His talk was illustrated with slide=;' “ _ ... , ^ .
Ri.d charts showing the growth of Hut^ Even Converjed Passenger Representatives of the technical
‘renerating and transmission facill-
time ago that the official statement
would be released locally.
ties since World War I. Mr. Howarth'
<iaid 136 members of his company’.s
ner.sonnol are now on active duty in
'■he armed forces. I
Visitintr Rotarians included S. H.
^ook. Huntington. N. Y.; Clarence
'X. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.; Parker
'Borden, T,,amhert.sville, N, J.; Fred
W. Beford Dunkirk, N, Y.; William
I. Gilmore. Grove City. Pa.; G. Al.l
hert Niles, Utica, N. Y.; Leonard B.
Kowe. Natick, Mass.; Earl D. Spra.I
gue, Bridgeport, Conn,; M. F, Gran.'
t!’am. Sanford; J. A. Zickler, Car-
Cars Are Ruled Out. Says
It-’.tioning^ Chairman
command have been in the Sandhills
.<!,nce the latter part of February,
making preparations for the trans-
J. L, McGraw. chairman of the fer of the headquarters from Tulsa.
Moore County rationing board, said Okla. Leases were prepared for slg-
^his week that tire certificates may nature and arrangements made for
be i.ssued lo farmers for trucks or office .space and hou.slng for the of.
trailers, but not for pa.ssenger car.<!. fice and Army personnel,
even though they have been partially Although the implications of the
rr wholly converted for hauling farmjiTiove are still not known. It Is cer.
products. I tain that, at the end of the season
Duly ordained ministers are c^lso if not before, m.Tny of the seasonal
eligible for tires and tubes, when hotels will be converted into offloea
the need is shown, McGraw said, for the activities of the technical
The rationing board at its last command and into living quarters
meeting authorized tire purchasing for the families of those men to ba
^ certificates to the following: stationed here.
The Rev. F. D. Solomon, Cameron.' Troops in connection with tha
jt.vo tires, (minister); T, F, Chandler, neadquarters will be stationed near
1 Southern Pines, two tires for trans- Knollwood Airport, probably, and the
, wWj.9 p'>rtatIon of ice and fuel; Ritter and town of Southern Pines Is arran«r?ng
MMtt S tJOtXa ^I'oors, Hemp, one tire and tube, for to furnish water and other facilit'os
— , transportation of lumber, etc,; where it will be needed.
next Friday to hear a talk by Mrs, I riel, N. Y,, and his guest, J, D, Fidd.
George Fitch, it was announced. 1 nerr of Aberdeen.
Cattle RustUn^ AWt Common
plements have beo" made as good'
as new.
Mr. Gladstone, head of the agri
culture department, invites fanners
of the community to bring their out.
of-commisslon Implements to the
work shop and use the shop tools in
repairing them. Many farmers do' Survivors Include Arthur ^'<’'iken,
not have all of the tools needed forj Westminster School, Simsbnn' Conn.;
repairing farm equipment, and for| Mrs. Fisk Landels of Indf'^mpolls,
their convenience the shop will be. and Mrs. George A. Murphy of New
kept open on Saturdays.
York City.
Cattle rustling would hardly bo
expected to prove a profitable bus.
iness in this particular section of
the country, but if reports arc true,
Will Taylor, Eagle Springs Negro,
was getting along pretty well vmtll
—but let’s not get ahead of the
story.
Two or three cows disappeared
from the premises of Jesse Page at
Eagle Springs; one was missed from
the barnyard of Kirk Brower, a Ne
gro resident of the same community;
a fine Guernsey disappeared from
the Britt place nearby, but later re,
turned.
West End and Candor are not fa'
from Eagle Springs and reports of
cow sales there reached the com
munity from which cows had been C. Pickier, Pinebluff, one tire and
lisappcaring so mysteriously. It tube, for transportation of waste
was learned that the animaln vere and scrap, etc.; David E. Cole, Bi.s.
being led away from their stalls in coe. R. F. D., one tire and tube, for
the night time to a good hiding place, ’ transpo.tatlon of raw materials,
then sold the following day. The Moore County Board of Educa-
Being good at figures, some of the tion was issued 12 tires and 13 tubes
*'olks put two and two together, and^ for transportation facilities for stu-
it V.-TS at that stage that Taylor dis.l dents and teachers. Certificates for
appeared. ' tractor tires and tubes were issued
Mr. Pao-e swore out a warrant for | to J. T. Maness. Glendon, one tire and
raylor and the Moore County "Law" j tube; and George H. Purvis, Hemp,
vent into action, having neither two tires and two tubes. One appli.
ohotosrranh nor finger prints to aid cant, Baxter Smith, route 1 West
'hem In their task. Sunday, Sheriff Fnd, was granted certificate to buy
'TrDonaid received a message that an obsolete tire and tube. The trac-
'i|s man w'as being held for him In ^ tor and obsolete tires and tul>es are
"’^a.shin'^ton. D. <?., and he left Mon-j not shown against the county quota
lay nl<rht to bring Taylor back to ^ but must be issued by proper class!,
face the rustling charges. flcatlon. '
At their meeting W'ednesday after,
noon, real estate agents were r'ni>,
tioned by the Army to keep rents
from soaring- and to hold up rent.-'..^
except with the approval of the
Army.
Also, while newspapers were "jMII
being cautioned to say nothinsr. the
call went out widespread enough ‘o
brings in girls from all parts of tSe
county and from outside the county
that tests were to be given ye^t >r.
day for hiring of clerical and ofri.-e
help in connection with the air corns
unit.
General Arnold left late Wedneminy
afternoon, after a putting round on
The Pine Needles course; but Is ex
pected to return when the actual op
eration of activities here begins.
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