Gian don
OVER THE TOP
FOR VICTORY
with
UNITED STATES WAR
MAKE EVERT
FAl DAV
WAR
Cameron
BOND DAY
SAVl DOllAKS
STOi> SPmiNC
CENTS
FIVE
North Carolina, Friday, June
VOL. 22, NO. 28.
Southern Pines
Summer Maneuvers
May Keep Rolling
To Real ^ar Spots
Few Plans Made Public;
Counly Leads in Land
Made Available lo Army
Mooic County so far is in the lead
among the North and South Carohna
counties to bo part of the 1942 Army
maneuvers area in pcrcent of land
for which maneuvers rights have
been granted.
Lt. K. Gosciewski, Army repre
sentative stationed at Carthage, said
that Moore County landowners have
given permission to use 138,904
acres, or 58. percent of the 236,544
acres desired by the Army. Union
county is srcond in land sign-up
with 23,678 or 58 percent of the 41,-
152 acres desired.
During the maneuvers, the Army
will roll through this area at the
rate of 35 miles per hour, it has been
decided by highway commission, the
health board and the highway pa
trol. in consultation with the Army.
Maneuver Plans Not Public
Very few plans for the coining
maneuvers have bon made public,
according to Lt. Gosciewski; but
there will probably not be stationing
of troops in ccrtain sections for per
iods of several weeks or months,.as
was the case last fall.
It was understood that most of the
troops coming into the section would
be motori/cd and would make tem
porary encampments as they went
through the maneuver area, possibly
tf) continue to some point of einbark-
tation for unknown spots where leal
war is in progress.
Whether the various communities
will be called upon to offer recrea-
liona! and relaxation services, as
they did last fall, is not definitely
known; but it is considered likely
that these war ^ames will be far
more serious than those of last year,
with less time off.
Ask Landowners Cooperation
In an effort to complete the sign
up of land for the maneuvers, Lt.
Gosciewski asked that any landown
er south of Highway No. 27 in Moore
County who has not received a letter
requejrting land rights or who has
not sent the card into the Army
call at Lt. Gosciewski's office in the
basement of the courthouse in Car
thage. He added that Army officials
would adjust damage claims, for any
harm done to land, if this damage is
reported to Army representatives
■within 30 days after the damage
takes place. He also said that the
transfer of sale of land, which is
signed for Army use, is not barred;
but that notification of such sale or
transfer should be made to the
Army, so that it may obtain from the
new owner the right to use the land.
Of Moore County’s approximately
2.315 land owners from whom the
Army is attempting to secure land
rights, so far about 1,250 have sign
ed. Lt. Gosciewski said the army was
urging all those who have not sign
ed the Maneuvers Rights card to do
so before June 15—the deadline.
AUXILIARY SPONSORS
CLASS IN FIRST AID
First Session in Course Will
Be Held Wednesday Night
DEFENSE CLASSES
Basic training courses for civ
ilian defense workers who did
not enroll in the last series given
or who missed parts ot the
classes will get underway next
Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. in the
Southern Pines High School
auditorium.
Everyone assigned to duties
with the Civilian Defense organ
ization is required to have this
basic training, said John Ho-
warth, coordinator. The classes
will be conducted under direc
tion of Howarth and Philip Wea
ver, in charge of education. The
main courses to be started Wed
nesday are the general course,
fire defense and gas defense.
Following these, additional first
aid courses may be conducted.
Days and times for the classes to
meet regularly will be determin
ed Wednesday.
Gus Seagle Passes
After Lon«: Illness
Popirlar Local Meat Market
Man Succumbs; Funeral Here;
Burial at Wytheville, Va.
Gus Seagle, for the past eight
years the pcipular butcher at Dorn’s
in Southern Pines, di<'d late Tuesday
evening at Moore County Hospital
after an illness of about six inonths.
Although Mr. Seagle had improved
following a winter’s siege of illness,
he was confined again to the hospi
tal on May 29 and remained there
until his death. He was 5f) years
old on February 8.
Funeral services were conducted
at Powell Funeral Home Chapel
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
and burial was made at the family
plot at Wytheville, Va.. Thursday af
ternoon at 3 p. m. He was born in
Wytheville, the son of Brown Sea
gle and Mr.s, Belle Hines'Seagle.
Since coming to Southern Pines
from North Bend, f>i'egon, about 15
years ago, Mr. Seagle has been in
charge of meat markets for several
stores and has been connected with
Dorn's, oven when that store was
known as the Vermont Market.
Local funeral services were con
ducted by the Rev. J. Fred Stimson,
pastor of the Baptist Church.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs.
Maude Lemons Seagle.
County Bond Drive
»
Producing Results
Employees at Pinehursi Mills
in Hemp Sign Up 98 Percent
for Voluntary Purchase Plan
(loiiiily (^irls 0111:111’.'^ IJ. N.(1. Officials
Visit at knolhv(Kul
Wi\\i Briti.^h Chiefs
MISS CATHERINE HILDERMAN MISS ROBERTA
Japs Kelafives aiul Frieiitls
of .|i‘riii«iaii8 ill Kxchaiijje of l^risoiiers
ZIMMERMAN MISS SARA EDITH MATTHEWS
Good Scholastic and Activity
Two Brothers, Brother-in-Law
of Mrs. Paul Jernigan Now
Held by Japanese in China
There was rejoicing at the Paul
Jernigan household here this week.
Word had been received that sev
eral relatives and friends of the
Jernigans were being included in an
exchange of prisoners between Ja
pan and the United Slates and Japan
and England.
The Jernigans have many friends
in war-stricken areas of the Far
East: foi- they have not long been
back from China where Mr. Jernigan
was connected with the Standard
Oil Company for many years. They
are now occupying the Hart House
Ion Massachusetts avenue.
I Almost cerliun, they learned is the
I freedom from Jap intei nment of Ne
ville Merritt and Neville Merritt, jr..
of Louisville, Ky., childhood friend
I of Mr. Jernigan and brother-in-law
I of English n.'tiyc Mrs. Jernigan.
Brothers Also Prisoners
; Also likely is the release of Mrs.
|jernigan’s brothers, Charles and
j Harold Molland, both Englishmen
who have been working wtih the
Chinese Nationalist Government.
The senior Merritt and Jernigan
were boyhood pals in Virginia and
went into the far East together,
where they married sisters, both
Englishwomen. Mrs, Merritt, in
Louisville, received word this week
that her husband and her son, who
were captured in Hongkong- when
that city fell on Christmas Day,
would be on the ship from Japan,
bringing u number of U. S. citizens,
who have been taken prisoner since
the War. Both Merritts were con
nected with the British American
Tobacco company.
From Charles Molland’s wife in
NO MORE PAPER
Scrap metal and rubber is
still desired in the salvage cam
paign but. please! no more pa
per of any kind, was the plea
this week of the Rev. F. Craig-
hill Brown, local chairman of
the Salvage Committee.
Not only has Mr. Brown slacks
upon stacks of paper already
stored; but he has no outlet for
it, as the dealers no longer will
buy it. and the mills, apparently,
no longer need it. His problem
now is: What to do with the
paper he has.
Pick-up of salvage in South
ern Pines also has been discon
tinued. he pointed out, and re
quested those who desire to con
tribute scrap iron, other metals,
or old rubber ,to leave these
items at Swinnerton Stables, cor
ner of Connecticut avenue and
Broad street.
But no more paperl
Records Made by Local Girls
During College Career
A Red Cross first aid class, spon
sored by the Sandhills American l.o-
gion Post Auxiliary, will begin a 20-
iioin standard course a*, the Lt'gion
Hut on Maine aver.uc, between
Hi'oad and Ashe streets, next VV’cd-
m sda\ evening at 8 o’clock.
The ela.ss will be undi:r the riirer-
tion of Miss Hebecea Causey and
Mi> Bes.'-ie Clark, and i)resent p’faa--
ai “ lo h.ive three classes (':ieh Wf k.
o! two hours each. It was announced
that those who recentlv had 10 hours
of Kcd Cross durinc* di'fi'n^e (■'muso.'-
at the High School will ho able to
take part m lh('.s(> classe; t( earn
tl," additional 10 tiour.'-- and the
standard Hed Cross certificate All
(liosc wi.-lung to enroll should re
port at the first meeting Wednesday
nighi
CULLOM TO TAKE COURSE
IN BANKING AT RUTGERS
F. Sl;elby Culloin, exi-cuii\o vice-
piesident of the i?ank of I’inehursl,
i.' leaving this week for Rutgers Un
iversitv Ni‘V\ Bn^isvsiik. Is. J., lo
attend tlK graduate school of bank
ing special course from June 15 to
June 21, This course is given to 200
'oankeis throughout the country whc
meet the entrance requirements, and
is given as a three-year course, with
one intensive short session a year. It
will deal with major becking prob
lems and investments. About five
bankers from North Carolina will at
tend
Moore County has responded well
to the War Bond campaign of the U.
S. Treasury department, according to
F. Shelby Cullom, Moore County
chairman of the War Bond drive.
An outstanding record of coop
eration has been made by the em
ployes of the Pinehurst Cloth Mills,
Inc., at Hemp, he added. This firm
has won the privilege of flying the
Minute Man Flag, a symboi award- j
ed by the U, S. Treasury Department
to those concerns whose employes.
sign up HO prcent or better to a'
voluntary payroll deduction plan for !
investment of savings in War Bonds. |
The operatives at the Hemp mill i
have signed up 98 percent, Cullom FINISH AT COLLEGES
pointed out, and the Mid-State Cloth
Mills at Red Spiings, under the
same managi niwnl, has also cooper
ated over !>tl percent ,enttiling that
firm to a Minutw Man Flag. The pay
roll deduction plan was inaugurated
in these plants ahoul the first of
Febraar>
Cullom pointed out that the plan
luMiig urgi'd by tne Tieasury De
partment calls for systematic invpst-
inent in Bonds and Stamps., and not
iust tlie occasional ixirchasc' of them.
Funeral .services were conducted
i Saturday afternoon at the Aberdeen
■ Baptisi Church, with the pastor, the
England this week also came infor-1 g ^ Harris, officiatinfi. assist-
mation that her husband, who was | p l Barber.
Three Mooi-e County girls graduat
ed from Woman’s College of the Un
iversity of North Carolina at exer
cises Monday morning for the largest
class e\'er graduated at the school.
Each of the girls had a gooo rec
ord of scholarship and campus ac
tivity at the school.
They were Miss Roberta Zimmer
man of Aberdeen, daughter of Mrs.
R. C Zimmerman; Miss Catherine
Elizabeth Hilderman of Southern
Fines, daughti'r of Mr and Mrs. W.
C. Hilderman; and Miss Sara Edith
Matthews of Southern Pines, daught
er of Mayor and Mrs. W. Duncan
Matthews.
There wer(> 431 students graduated
at the 50th anniversary etmimence-
menl evercises at (heensboro Mon
day.
Records at College
Miss Matthews received an A. B.
degree in history after taking the ;
first two years of her undergraduate |
work at Pfeiffer junior college at '
Misenheimer. At Woman's College i
she has been a member of the Adel-
phian society, the International Re
lations Club and the Young Demo
crats.
Miss Zimmerman received her
Bachelor of Arts degree in chemis
try. She was a member of the Adel-
phian society and belonged al.so to
the Medical Technologists club. Le
Cercle Francais, the Physics club,
and the Chemistry Club.
Miss Hilderman. receiving a Bach
elor of Arts degree in English, con
cludes a college career which found
Mrs. Claude T. Johnson, well her active in student government
known in Aberdeen and Southern and dramatics. She served as secre-
Pines, died last Friday at a Durham tary of the student ^ovevnmcni asso-
hospital, where she had been confin- jciation and, during the past year, as
ed for the past three weeks, after ill i president of the Playlikers and pres-
health of some time. i ident of the honorary dramatics so
ciety, Masqueraders. Recently she
directed and produced a May Day
drama. In her junior year. Miss Hil
derman vvas listed in Who’s Who in
Mrs. Claud Johnson
of Aberdeen Passes
Funeral Conducted Saturday
at Baptist Church for Woman
Who Served as Organist
s
General George Marshall
and English Militarists
Here on Southern Tour
Gi neral Geort^e C. Marshall, chief
(if staff of the U. S. Army, visited
’ headquarters of the ArmV Air
Forces Technical Training Command
at KnolKvood Field Monday night
accompanied by Field Marshal Sir
John Dill, head of the British Joint
! Staff Mission, and Vico Admiral
Loid Louis Mountbatt<>n, British
I Chii'f of Combined Operations.
' The party arrived at Knoilwood
I Field by plane from Fort Jackson,
I S. C., at dusk, and were greeted by
Major General Walter R. Weaver,
j commanding the Army Air Forces
Technical Training Command, and
members of his staff.
Touring Army Posts
General Marshall and his guests
' left Washington. D .C., Sunday, June
I 7. on a tour of several Ai my camps
and posts in the South, Early Mon-
I da>' they observed a tactical demon-
, stration by the Second Armored Di-
i vision at Fort Benning. CJeorgia.
1 Proceed mg to Camp Gordon, Geor
gia. the party i('viewed the Fourth
Motorized Division, and then went to
' Fort Jackson, where three infantry
divisions passed in review.
Monday night Major General Wea-
' ver entertained the Chief of Staff
; and guests at a small informal dinner
’ at Knoilwood Field.
Included in General Marshall’s
^ party were — in addition to Field
I Marshall Sir John Dill and Vice Ad-
I miral Lord Mountbatten — Major
I (Jeneral Mark W. Clark, chief of
; staff of the Army Ground Forces;
i Lieut. Col. D. W. Price, member of
the British General Staff; Major
Hohert Boyle, staff member for Brit
ish Combined Operations, and Ma
jor Frank McCarthy, assistant sec-
(Cojitiniied on Page 8)
stationed in Canton at the time of
his capture, was now in Shanghai,
and that probably his brother. Har
old. who was at Nanking, and his
wife and children, were there too,
awaiting a similar exchange between
the Japs and the British,
As Mr. Jernigan put it. this news,
following months of worry, result
ed in an “hiia'-ious household this
week.”
TWO COUNTY YOUTHS
Among students graduating at in
stitutions of higher learning in North
Carolina during the past week from
this section wen Charles A Phillips
of Soulhern Pines, son ot Mr, and
Mrs. D. C. Phillips, who graduated
at Iht' Univl'i'^ity of North Carolina.
Chapel Hill, and Jofin D. MacLeod,
jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mac-
L.eod of .Vberdeen, who reci'ived his
B. m English and Philosophy ;;t
I Davidson College
I Fo” many years, she and Mr. John-
i son, vho survives, made their home
I between Southi'rn Pines
i deen, west of route I. She
1 for a number of years in Aberdeen.
1 The foimer Miss Eva Randall, she
! was the daughter of Jan.es and
|I,ouise Smith Randall, was born July
I 27. 1887, in .\nson County
She had a wide circle of friends in
the Sandhills and was long; a mem
ber of the Aberdeen Baptisi Church,
where she served as organist
Be.'ides her husband, survivors in
clude; two sons, James <'f Aherdi'eii,
and Craig, in service with the 15. S.
Army abroad; and two daughter;--,
Katherine and F,lizab<'th
P;illbearers were H, (' Blue. A. 1.
Biirne\. Koy H.irrington. J. A. Bry
ant, W. W. .Norri.s and 1) B, Her
ring of ,\berileen. Inti-rmi'nl wa^ in
Bethcsda I'eint'ti'r.v
.■American Universities and Colleges
and this year she was featured in
the year book as one of the eight
"and Aber- outstanding members of her class,
he worked ‘ several leading roles in col-
1 lege plays and in her sophomore year
j w'as elected to membership in Inner
> Masque, select dramatics group. For
' three years she sang in the college
i choir, and took part in V. W. C. A.
I and Presbyterian Church work,
i Both Miss Hilderman and Miss
I Matthews are graduates ftf Southern
' Pines High School. Miss Zimmerman
' is a gradunate of Aherdei'ii High
School.
SWETT AND MILLIKEN
REPORTING FOR DUTY
Young Lieutenants at Fort
Bragg, lo Enter Air Corps
Stroke Proves Fatal
to Colin C. Betluine
Funeral Services for Promi
nent Aberdeen Man Conduct
ed Tuesday; 111 Only Few Days
Bai TotiV liliK'fs
in r irsl Si'l MaU*!!*
t5«‘rr\*s K<mIs
s Oil I.<K*ai Links
CANNING SPECIALIST
TO BE IN CARTHAGE
Will Give Demonstration in
Canning Methods on Tuesday
Lii'uti'nanl • J B. Swell. ,ii'
l.u'ut Jame.s S. Milliken. jr..
of whom rei rivi d their army
•;iis-;i(ins upon gi'aduation at
and
both
ewm-
Slale
John li;irron'; Bhu lean, took a]
ilecisivi !:s tc- 11 win over Joe de'
BiriyV Heds at tin local No. 1 cour.se!
-^und.i.v init the Hed pai'tne:* arc
rheduled t" get another crack at!
ttiei- ope.inrnt.-- this Sun(!a>-. begin-'
nmg at 1:4.') in tne «econd lUHtch pla\
of th( Juni tournami-nt
The Blu( - uitaled 13 poinlt- against
till Keds' t-ighi pomt.-- last Sund;iy,
on the N.i.'Sau scoriiig count. Seven
foursomes competed in this first
summer toui;nament which will
He
day'.I
firsl.
He
Alba
t' an iiu results
matehiT^. wilt', llu'
of lasi Sun
l'.lll''^ given
We:itli' rspoiir
■ I'osta, 3. vs
for four Sundays, at the end of which
time the losei's arc slated to stake
the winners to a dinner,
Although some changes and addi
tions to the play are anticipnled. the
team captaios deckled to start the
foursomes at 1;45 again this Sunda.v, j Hobbs. 3. vs. T
with the same line-ups as btrfore. j McKeithen, O.
ain; Frank
iai'i'iUT Ell-
.'■on and R, F, Tarlt<in. 0.
iiordon Kfilii and J (' P,:ir'-"n I
v.-- J(':, iH Bfiry and Dick Suug. 2
Dan Karrcil and N 1. Hodgkins.
'J. v A H. PalU'ison .alii llaloh
\Mi.v 1
P. V. Hatch ;ind Ctiarlu M'M'rison.
__ . 1 1-2. \’S. Dr I.. M. Daniel', and Bill
last I M 'ore, ] 1.2.
.Hmmy dc Berry aiul Morris Jobn-
2. \ s Howard Biirn,=; and James
Sea’’ art,' ,
L. T Hall and J:tck Thomas, 1-2,
vs, E ,C. Kvansimd Will Wiggs. 2 1-2.
Carl Thompson, jr. and J. D.
vs. T. J. Tarlton and Neill
Mi.-is Myrian Clinard, canning
spcciahsl for ihr Ball Jar Company.
givin.a a truit and vegetable ean-
riing dcinonsi.'aiion ai tli> Home
lli'aumsl!iition A,i;enl’‘ ofni'i in Iht'
.'.lurt hous( Cartilage. Tui'sda>-
iv.orning, June Iti at 10 ;> m.
Mws .VlcDon.iUl ia;d -vi ryoia wa,-'
nn'ited lo attend tin dcnum,-;tratiiin.
-,iui es|)ccially exli'iuU'd invitations
to If-.OM '.Ulo t'-iV' been attending
Red Cro.-^.- nutrition clas.'-e." in the
count \.
Canning i.- es).'i'ciallv important
thi.s year, slu- said, in ordi-r to help
sa\T the nation's fruiil. vi ^i'tabie
•md sugar supplie.s. Sugai for can
ning may be fibl.imi'd fr 'Ml (he lo
cal rationing bo.ads. which will han
dle t.he applications bv mail. Miss
McDf'nald .^aid information on can
ning was available at her office.
i'ollegi' this spring, left Thursday to
I'eport for final nhyslcal i”, •mm.i-
(ums at For! lhagg betojc n'UDi^mii
U'r duty lu til
Both young men liavi been ''iijov
mg a brief furlough at hoau- whi,^
.(Waiting aclivc duty ;is-mnmeni
' Following examinatii^n.- L.eai
Swot', will report ti' Kn’l t'ii irgc
, Wrigbl al Spokane VVa^ll . ,ind Lieut
I -Milliken to Camp .Vlurph\ Ilobe
•iouiid. FI. . inuiii'linr mto
'dir ,-\rm\ .\i; CortJ^
( _, _ -.
McKEITHEN WILL REPRESENT
LOCAL Ci.UB AT CONVENTION
W A Leland McKeithiTi of Pine-
unst IS leavuig lor Cleveland. Ohio,
’his week to attend the 27th annual
,oi'Vt’nlion of Kiwanis Iniernutional.
Vlr. McKeithen will be the official
ilelegate of The Sandhills Kiwanis
Olub. He and J Talbot Johnson of
.•Vberdeen were clected dcle.Cates,
)ut as Mr. Johnson will b(' unablt'
to attend, Mr, McKeithen wiM be the
Sandhilli!’ sole delegate and ropre-
I sentative.
Funeral services for Colin Cleve
land Bethunc, prominent Aberdeer\
citizen who died at his home in
Aberdeen Monday morning at 10:30
o’clock, were conducted at the home
Tuesday afternoon at 3 p. m. Ho
would have been 59 his next birth
day, July 31.
Mr. Bethunc suffered a stroke last
Friday and never regained con
sciousness.
Services were conducted by his
pastor, the Rev. E. L. Barber. Pres
byterian pastor, assisted by the Rev.
E. M. Harris, pastor of the Aberdeen
Baptist Church. Interment services
were in Old Bethesda Cemetery,
Mr. Bethunc was born in Rich
mond county, near Ellerbc, July 31,
1883. the son of the late Dr. Colin
and Mrs. Kate BhU' Bethune. Ho
caiiu' to *. jcrdeen m 1906 to make
his home and married the former
Miss Mabel Johnson on October 18,
1909.
.Among survivors are his wife, two
sons. Colm C.. jr.. chiet radio man
at the Fleet Sound .School. Navy
Yard. Key West. Florida, and Wil
liam E, Bethum', U, S. N., of Iho
Naval -•Vir Base al Norfolk, Va.; two
I daughters. Miss Mabel Bethune of
Bui hngton. and Mis,s Mary Ella Bc-
I thune ot Aberdeen; two sisters. Mrs.
; Klla .hull and Miss Px'.ssie Hethuno
j ol Aberdeen, and one ^M’other. E. J.
I Heihune ot Hamit.
i I’ lUbeariif tor the funcrai wero
I .M,,ii'o!ir. Pieasanift. Murd Musi',
: Dw ight Troutman, .1 6. Edwards, C.
; Wil.M.; . K 1. .Byrd,
MRS, MAPY JANNARIS
PASSES AT BOSTON
For Many Years Was Active
He;iick>n; of Pinebluff
- '.- I - Dana Jarmaris. lor
main ve.n,' u resident of Pinebluff.
I-i June al the Massa-
' . ' iithI HospiUtl in Bop-
ICiO.
Du.' ing ;.i : j ej-idenM in I’lnebluff.
Mr.- Jannaris was active in affairs
for comnumilv benelit, supporting
. t!ii- hbrary ami similar local efforts,
Shi V the widow of the lati' Prof.
R. N. Jannaris ot London, England.,
and grandmother of David Dana Mc-
Neille, a student al Harvaid, who
lived with his grandn'Other in Pine-
biulf and attended The Ark .school.
Also surviving is a Mrs. John
Burnet Nash of New York City.