VOL. 22, NO. 29.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, June 13, 1942.
FIVE CENTS
Diikr MaiTs Soil (fradiiates at (laroliiia
%
Not Only That—But Young
Matthews Is Named After
Late President of Duke
In North Carolina, it’s some news
when the son of a loyal Trinity—
now Duke—man graduates from the
University of North Carolina.
Bui it’s double news when the
young graduate's namesake was the
laie president of Duke University,
That situation made news last
week when one son of Mayor W.
Duncan Matthews, a Duke and Wake
P’orest man, received his degree at
the University of North Carolina,
And, on the list to receive his de
gree, yciung Matthew’s name was
read out as follows: "Preston Few
Matthews”—named after the late
Willi,TT11 Preston Few, for many
years president of Trinity and later
Duke University.
Young Matthews last Summer was
in training at a naval school near
Chicago, hut returned to the Univer
sity last fall to complete his college
work and to enter the pilot training
course of the Civil Aeronautics Au
thority. The picture which shows
Duke father and U. N. C. son was
taken Sfter son had completed his
first solo flight.
Incidentally, Matthews is a “Pi
lot" alumnus, having at one time
worked in The Pilot shop, helping
with THE PILOT and the SAND
HILLS DAILY NEWS.
Mrs. Lillie Barretl
Dies at Piiiehurst
Was Native of Moore County;
Funeral Conducted Wednesday
at Community Church
Mrs. Lillie Beatrice Barrett, life
time residnt of Pinehurst, died at
her home June 15 at the age of 66.
Mrs. Barrett was born May 11, 1886,
the daughter of John and Betty
Glass Black, on the site of what is
now Pinehurst.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the Pinehurst Community Church,
with the Rev. J. R. Roseboro offi
ciating. Burial was in Mount Hope
cemetery.
Surviving are her husband, Rob
in A Barrett; four sons, Robert, My
ron. Leonard and Ralph; and one
daughter, Mrs. William Ott of Wy
oming.
Pall-bearers were Gordon Camer
on. Guthrie Smith, Talmadge Shaw,
Ernest Hartsell, Cary McDonald and
Henry Frye.
(louiity Bond Quota
Is Set for
State Chairman Announces To
tal Purchases Expected in
Moore During Motith of June
Moore County has been given a
quota of $38,000 to fulfill during the
month of June in purchase of War
Bonds and Stamps, said an an
nouncement from Charles H. Robert
son, in Greensboro, state adminis
trator of the War Savings Staff.
The quota for the whole State is
$8,190,500 as compared to $5,888,000
for May, when the State exceeded its
quota by 40 percent.
F. Shelby Cullom of Pinehurst is
Moore County chairman for the War
Savings Campaign. He urged that
every individual take part in the
purchase of stamps and bonds during
this month so that the county would
easily reach the $38,000 quota, if not
exce^ it.
This is Mayor W. Duncan Mat
thews, Trinity (Duke) man and his
son, Preston F. Matthews, U. N. C.
'42. This photo was taken when
young Matthews made his first .solo
flight following C. A. A. pilot in
struction (Photo by Kinder.)
General J. W. Jones
Sent to Greensboro
To Command First District of
AFTTC, Was Formerly Execu
tive Officer at Knollwood
Major General Walter R. Weaver
has announced the appointment of
Brigadier General Junius W. Jones
as Commanding General of the First
District, Army Air Forces Technical
Trainir.g Command, with headquart
ers at Greensboro, North Carolina,
General Jones was formerly exe
cutive officer of the headquarters at
Knollwod Field.
General Weaver also announced
the promotion of Captain-Corradino
Nicolazzo to major and First Lieu
tenant Fred Sherwod to captain. Ma
jor Nicolazzo, a native of Kenosha,
Wisconsin, is assistant enginer of
the Technical Training Command,
while Captain Sherwod, a resident
of Maywood, Illinois, is assistant G-4
officer and assistant quartermaster,
Captain Brewster C. O'Shea and
Wiley W. Ellis have ben transferred
to the headquarters of the First Dis
trict, Army Air Forces Technical
Training Command, at Greensboro.
Captains O’Shea and Ellis were
aides-de-camp to General Jones.
Major D. J. Duval, public relations
officer, has returned to Knollwood
Field after a two-weeks tour of dis
trict headquarters and many of the
large posts in the Technical Training
Command.
Captain Sidney M. Adams, having
reported for duty at Knollwod Field,
has been assigned as assistant ad
jutant general. Captain Adams' home
is Knoxville, Tennessee. He came to
the Technical Training Command
from Fort McClellan, Alabama.
(Continued on Page 8)
(lottnlv Taking Part '
in Trial Blackout
for Whole District
Test Scheduled for Fri- ^
day Evening. Between
Hours of Nine—Eleven
^ .Ml of Muoro County, with cxcep- ,
Ition of thi' Soiithi’astcrn tip. is scho- j
: (luled to undi’TRo a trial lilai kout Fri- '
■day ni^lit. June 19, sometime be-,
j twi'cn the hours of !) and 11 o'clock, '
as a part of a district-wide black
' out test in the Charlotte area.
In this blackout, Moore will be '
participating with about 17 other i
counties in the district to determine |
th(> effectiveness of a blackout over '
an entire largi' area. This is the :
I first time the county has participated
' in a di.strict blackout.
.^ccordmg to the original set-up of ;
j the district, all of Moore County is
, included in the Charlotte area with j
the exception of Pinchluff and .\d-
I dor and immediate area. Alx'ideen, '
Southern I’ines, Vass. Cameron, Car
thage, Hemp. Pinehurst, WV'st End
and every other place in the county
is preparing for the blackout Friday.
To Enforce Rules
In Southern Pines, John Howarth,
civilian defnse coordinator, warned
that special police and air raid war
dens were bing instructed to bo es
pecially vigilant for any violation
of blackout instructions. When the
warning signal from the various si
rens around town sounds (the signal
is a wailing, rising and falling, siren
sound), every person who is not as
signed to duty is expectd to clear
the streets. .Ml lights must be ex
tinguished or shaded so that no light
' shines from a window. (This does
I not mean mere pulling of shades.)
I All automobiles not being used offi-
1 daily must be halted and blacked
j out.
I Howarth especially warned of the
I latter. He said that during the last
I blackout trial, one automobile was
reporlt'd to be driving the streets
without lights, a violation of the reg-
I ulations.
I All of tl'ie air raid officials are
expected to be on duty at thek re
spective posts or ready for calK he
added.
(fPadiiales IVom in Slate Scrap Htlbber DrivC
linderwav With Help
V of Tillinji Stations
CHARLES A. PHILLIPS
JOHN D. MacLEOD, JR.
Son of ^h■. and Mrs. D. C. Phillips of Southern Pines, CharU's Phillips
last week received his degree' from the University of North Carolina. He
will return to Chapel Hill this summer to edit the Freshman Handbook.
V M. C. A. publication. Young MacLeod, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D.
■MacLeod of Aberdeen, received his degree from Davidson ColU'ge. While
there, he was manager of the Alumni office. MacLeod began his college
studies at Pfeiffer College at Misenheimer.
Most Service Stations
jying Needed Scrap at
e ♦Cent Per Pound
Mosi autuinoliik service stations
, in Mooi(' County this week lent their
service's to the nation-wide drive for
scrap rubber collection; and those
I places which weri' ni>l paying a
i cent-per-pound for the scrap said
I they had received no instructions oi-
■ official information concerning thi'
; drive.
I Instead of trying to sell rubber
i tires and tubes, as they originally
I were in liusiness to do. these service
stations were paying out a penny a
; pound for any scrap rubber brought,
into them.
In Southern Pines, many filling
stations have already accumulated
from a half to a full ton of rubber.
Some of the stations had to go out
and buy weighing scales to do the
job that Uncle Sam had called upon
them for.
liOcal Men Volunteer for Armed Service;
New Group Entering: Army as Selectees
ARMY STILL SEEKING
COUNTY LAND RIGHTS
Lieut. Gosciewski Says Moore
Has Dropped to Eighth Place
Lieut. A. K. Gosciewski, Carolina
maneuver area representative, stated
this week that Moore county drop
ped to eighth place in land lea.ses
and 15th place for signed-up land
owners among the 17 counties of
North and South Carolina, where
land rights are being sought for the
forthcoming nianeuvers.
Lt. Gosciewski asked landowners
to “open up your land to your army
so that they will be prepared to
carry on the War."
He asked that landowners immed
iately sign cards which have been
mailed to them and return them to
him at the court house or to Land
Rights office at Fort Jackson, S. C.
Report Sliows Soil (^conservation Plan
Has Improved Farm Praeticc^s in Moore
Increases in conservation practices
on North Carolina farms since be
ginning of the AAA Agricultural
Conservation Program in 1936 are
shown in a report received by E. H.
Garrison, Jr., Secretary of the Moore
County Agricultural Adjustment As
sociation.
The report, issued by E. Y. Floyd,
State Executive Assistant at Ral
eigh, shows that farmers of Moore
County placed 96.3 per cent of their
cropland under the 'program last
year, as compared with 89 per cent
for 1949 and 66.7"‘per cent for the
1936-1939 period.
Among soil-building practices list
ed, the report shows that Moore
County farmers grew 7,441 acres of
legumes and grasses last year as
compared with 5,19 acres in 1940 and
an average of 3,787 acres each year in
the previous years. In addition, there
were 15,352 acres of green manure
crops in the county last year as
compared with 5,159 acres in 1940
and 6,321 in the 1936-1939 period.
The total for the entire state last
year was 1,266,608 acres of legumes
and grasses, and 1,785,828 acres of
green manure crops.
Use of soil-building materials in
the county as shown by the report
included 1'620 tons of ground lime
stone and 187.0 tons of 16 percent
superphosphate last year. In the pre
vious year 393 tons of limestone and
3.9 tons of superphosphate were list
ed for the 1936-1939 average. Fig
ures for the state show farmers used
372,919 tons of limestone and 30.598
1 tons of superphosphate la.st year.
Both limestone and phosphate are
available to farmers of the county
through the AAA as a grant-of-aid
without immediate outlay of cash.
' Costs of the materials may be de-
■ ducted from any conservation pay
ments due the farmer at the close of
the program year. The value of these
practices will be demonstrated more
than ever now that the farmers are
engaged in a race to produce the
crops needed for the nation's war
Otis L. Broom Volunteers As
Officer Candidate and Goes to
Fort Bragg for Induction
Moor(> county this week sent 34
more young mi>n into the Army, un
der the Selective Service systein. in
cluding six from Southi+n Pines,
among them being Otis L. Broom,
foimer division sales supervisor for
the Carolina Power and Light Com
pany here.
Broom volunteered for s('ivice in
the Army as an otticers candidate,
under a regulation which allows men
with dependents, classified as 3-A,
to waive their deferment status and
to enter the Army as a private, but
also as a candidate to enter an offi-
i.cers' training school. For the past
few !Tionth.‘», Bnxjm has been ro»iden-
• tial sales manager for the power
company in Raleigh, but while in
Southern Pines was active in civic
I affairs, being president of the lo
cal Rotary Club a't the time of his
transfer. His a.ssignment to the Army
was handled through the Moore
' County Draft Board with which he
was registered.
Other Southern Pines men includ-
^ ed in the latest group to be .sent into
; training were Stanley Carlton To-
I bin, Walter Tiffany Maples, Andrew
; Panos, Robert Kilby McDonald, and
Joe Wayman Tinsley, w'ho has been
I connected some years with the lo-
I cal laundry.
I Full List oi New Men
Also included in this new Army
■ inuuctees who left this wek were:
Roy Garner, route 1 Hemp, Fred
Leon Yow, route 1 Steeds, Cleo
Lea Williams, Hemp; Fred Hildreth
Haithcock. route 1 Aberdeen; Wor
thy Woodrow Campbell, Lakeview;
Frank Thomas Gerard, jr,, Cameron;
James Herbert Caddell, Vass; Nurma
Ervin Dunlap, route 1 Stees; Malvin
Glenn McCaskill, Pinehurst; Arthur
Marlowe, Aberdeen; John Monroe
i Freeman, route 1 Biscoe; Charlie
: Wilmont Wilson, Vass; James Curtiss
: Patterson, Vass.
1 Also, William Angus Fry ,route 1
Eagle Springs; Norman Herman Wal
lace, route 1 Cameron; George Win-
ton Moore, route 2 Hemp, Charlie
Richard Blake, Eagle Springs; Wil
liam Chapman Capel, Hemp; Rich
ard Dewey Taylor, Vass; .lames Bax
ter Hare, route 2 Hemp; Cleo Alex
Luck. Eagle Springs; Albert Lewis
Williamson, route 1 Steeds; Robert
Lee Pigford, Carthage; Paul Hay
wood Morgan, Spies: Henry B. Vest,
route 2 Hemp; Curtis Montague Fry,
Pinehurst; William Ernest Smith!
Hemp and Alex Angus Norton. Vass.
Earl Geddie Butler of Carthage was
transferred.
London, Burt Commissioned
With U. S. Navy; Others in
Forces Heard From
effort.
The report also shows that 32
acres of land weue planted in forest
I trees last year, and' the stands of
trees on .‘>4 acres >^'re improved. In
the previous year no acres were
planted to forest trees and the stands
of no trees were improved. The
state’s total of forest trees planted
last year was 2,147 acres and 4,288
acres were improved, as compared
with an average of 893 acres planted
and 1.894 acres improved in the 1936-
1939 period.
Also during the past year 113.4
feet of terraces were constructed in
the county as compared with 171.9
feet in 1940 and 174.8 feet during the
previous four year period. The total
I amount of terraces constructed in
the st»te la-st year was 14.871,600 feet.
I or more than 2,816 miles.
The nation's armed forces contin- :
ue to draw local men into sei^ ice, ^
besides those who are entering the ,
Arjiiiy through the Selective Service ‘
System, '
I This week Cieorge E. L(mdon. for
j seven years connected with the dis- ,
trict office here of the Carolina Pow
er and Light Company, was notified ,
of his being commissioned a Lieu- |
tenant (junior grade) in the U .S. |
Naval Reserve, subject to being as
signed to aviation duties. London's '
enlistment was through the Sixth
. Naval District at Charleston. He has '
; not yet received word as to being ,
called for active duty.
Also commissioned in the Navy
' this week was Nathaniel Burt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Struthers Burt, who
has been teaching at the Landon
: School, near Washington, D, C. Burt
was commissioned as ensign and is
reported for training at Harvard.
■ His, also, is a reserve commission.
I Meanwhile, from New Hampshire
this week came word that George
Pottle, son of Mr. and Mrs, F. B.
Pottle, owners of the Hollywood Ho- i
' tel. has been assigned to the Techni- ,
cal Training Squadron at Scott Field, |
, 111., after undergoing basic training
at Miami, Fla. Pottle is connected
, with the 368th Technical Training i
Squadron (Special), Scott Field, III. ;
, Ralph Lockwood, who is husband of '
' the former Miss Dorothy Pottle, is i
‘ serving as a lieutenant in the Com
missary Ground Squadron, stationed i
at the replacement center at Hous- [
ton. Texas.
Also ,it was learned that Corporal
Harold Morrison, Southern Pines '
man, was among the U. S. armed
forces recently acrived in Ireland, j
Corp. Morrison was with the 701st
Tank Destroyer Battalion at Fort'
Knox, Ky,, and was stationed at
Camp Dix, N. J., for a time just be- I
fore embarkation. A cable received |
from him this week said he had'
landed in northern Ireland, after a i
“very nice trip." apparently unevent-!
ful. ‘ I
Lt. Col. Stuart Woods, who.se wife I
has been active locally, being a mem
ber of the Nurse's Aide Corps, was
reported this week to be still fighting |
in the Philippines Islands, and now
located in one of the southern islands
of the Philippines.
Receive Authorization
The campaign, which began last
Monday mornmg, was a little slow
in gt'ttmg underway in thi“ County,
becau.se many filling station c,pera-
tors were without official instruc
tion. However, most of them receiv
ed from the oil companies they rep
resent. letters authorizing them to
pay a ci>nt per pound for the .scrap.
The nation-wide plan is that the
filling stations will act as the ini
tial collection center for the badly
n(H'ded rubber scrap. After the drive
for reclaimed rubber ends on June
20. the oil companies are suppo.sed to
collect the rubber and take it to cen
tral concentration points.
Most filling stations questioned by
The Pilot said they were buying all
scrap rubber brought into them: and
those few which were n;)t buyi;ig
were referring the .scrap rubber col
lectors to others stations.
The .scrap drive, apparently, is not
being handled through the regular
salvage committees set up in the
county and towns The clearing cen
ters for the drive are the filling sta
tions throughout the county. In Car
thage. Aberdeen, Vass. Pinehurst,
Southern Pines, and Hemp, there
were reported filling stations partic
ipating in the campaign.
To Report Results
Even before the scrap is collect
ed, a report from each collecting sta
tion w'ill be sent to the oil compan
ies, which will pass this informa
tion on to the Government so that
a full report of the amount of rub
ber collected will be available to
authorities within a brief period af
ter the close of the campaign.
All persons with any kind of old
rubber (each is cautioned not to
throw away useable rubber mater
ials) are urged to turn these into the
filling stations. If they desire, the
money they receive for it can be
turned ov’er to a charitable organiza
tion.
EARLY MORNING FIRE
DESTROYS ONE HOUSE
Two Others Partly Burned but
Are Saved from Destruction
T. B. CLINICS BEGIN
IN CARTHAGE MONDAY
Southern Pines Clinic to Be
at American Legion Hut
FOLKS STILL ASKING
FOR VACATION HINTS
People still want to know about
North Carolina, war and rationing
notwithstanding. Inquiries about
travel in North Carolina were re
ceived last month by the State Ad
vertising Division of the Department
of Conservation and Development
from 2.282 persons in 47 states, the
District of Columbia and nine for
eign countries. “Last year was the
best tourist season we ever had,”
said Charles Parker, head of the Ad
vertising News Bureau. “We are see
ing to it that North Carolina's vaca
tion attractions are being kept be
fore the people who will travel as
soon as restrictions are lifted."
The fire department responded to
an alarm at 5 o’clock Monday morn
ing to combat a blaze which started
in an unoccupied house belonging to
Tom McDonald on Haines Street in
West Southern Pines, near the old
Pee Dee road.
A smaller house, occupied by Mc
Donald. on the south side of the
larger building .and another, on the
north side, were partly burned, but
were saved by the fire fighters. The
department laid out 1,000 feet of hose
to save the two houses.
Dr. B. M. Drake. Moore County
Health Officer, has announced the
following schedule for the tubercu
losis clinic to be held in Moore
County next week from 9:00 a. m. to
5:00 p. m.:
Carthage, in basement of court
house on Monday and Tuesday. June
22 and 23; Hemp, grammar school
building. Wednesday, June 24;
Southern Pines, An-.erican Legion
Hut, Thursday and Friday, June 25
and 26; West End, probably over
Johnson’s Store, Saturday, June 27.
The clinic is being sponsored by
the county tuberculosis association.
It's HIS Day
For 364 days of the year, he it
a poor, downtrodden uncontid-
ered nonentity who foots the
bill, but Sunday, June 21, he'll
get a little consideration and
courtesy. For Sunday i« Father's
Day.
The parentage of Father's
Day is swathed in mists of
doubt. Previous to 1914, when
the Day was made nationwide
and fixed for the first Sunday in
June, it was but little noticed.
Later, it was shifted from the
first Sunday to the third Sunday
in June.
Aside from other gifts, which
may be selected from personal—
or his—preferences — he's sup
posed to receive a red rose—^his
official flewer.