A' riAME EVEHY PAY DAY WAR EOIiD DAY rrr? rpcvciNC—SAvt doiiah Glenolon Bnes OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY with UNITED STATES WAR DlNDS-ST/^MiS VOL. 22, NO. 45 Southern Pinos, North Carolina, Friday, October 16, 1942. ScUTed (iOiuert Is Readv for Opening of Ki>^ anis Meeting 70-Voice Sandhill Chorus to Feature Convention KIWANIS PRESIDENT Fin;il plans foi' the Carolinas Dis trict Kiwanis convonllon, whicii be gins Sunday, October 25, at the Car olina Hotel in Pinohurst, with the Sandhills Kiwanis Club as host, were made Wednesday in Aberdeen at the regular meeting of the Sandhills Club. The convention, to be streamlined for greatest efficiency in discussing the placc of Kiwanis in the war ef fort, will feature an address by Ki- • A I 1 wanis International President Fred l asses m Aberdeen G. McAllister of London, Ontario, | Rotary Club < leles Listing of “Roll of Honor” Committee Asks Check on Names; to Erect : Bulletin Board .^Iov.s in (hir S(‘r> i<*(‘ FIVE CENTS FRED G, McAllister ' Thomas B. Wilder.82, i: who was elected to head the clubs at 1 the Clev'eland convention in June. ■ The feature of Sunday, the open-' ing day of the convention, will be a Sacred Conccrt, given of 70 voices, I directed by Charles W. Picquet of the Sandhills Club* ‘ Special Musical Program j Mr. Picquet has been working with his chorus for the past four or five weeks and announced this week the program which will be rendered. A special feature will be two violin solos 1^’ Frederic Balazs, young Fort Bragg soldier-violinist who has made several appearances in the Sandhills with much acclaim. The musical program, to be pre sented at 9 p. m. Sunday night, Oc tober 25, in the ballroom of The Car olina will be as follows: “No Shadows Yonder” from The Holy City, ‘‘God So Loved the The Southern Pines Rotary Club has completed its tentative list of j names of men and women from the Southern Pines School District who I are in the service of their country in the .^rmy. Navy, Marine Corps, Merchant Marine and Coast Guard. ! The Club will erect a bulletin board for this “Roll of Honor" and l.s asking friends and relatives of service men and women to check for i.nv additional names or for incor rect spellings or service assignment. Corrections should be reported to the Rotary Club committee eonsisting of Don .Insen, Arthur Newcomb and Paul Van (!'amp. The Club said the list was intend- Funeral services for Thomas Bwing ^ Bethea, U.. A, Neil Bethune, USA, Concerto,” Minuet by Mozart, Span- graduation from U.N.C. until 1915, Norman Bird, USA. Julian Bishop, ish Dance by DeFalla; “O, For the when he moved to Aberdeen. He was | USA, Robert Sidney Blue, Jr., USA. Wings of a Dove,” Mendelssohn, solo married to Miss Frances Page of Paul Blue, A.\F, Roy Morris Bob- and chorus. Aberdeen on December 18, 1902. Mrs. bitt, USA, William Adolphus Boney, A Allt Pr.nn sHp h-.« An In Memoriani will be given by W'ilder died last Christmas morning. USA, Richard Edward Bostic, U.SA. iK-vL /\!ne*l(iinent ^ ‘c-i... Pallbearers at the funeral services John Bowers, USA, Jackson Boyd,' Civic Officials Support were J. A. Bryant, Dr. E. M. Medlin, * USMC, James Boyd. Jr., USCG, John A. L. Burney, Andrew Turner, Al- Boyd, USN, Benjamin Mutzi Bradin, ton McLean and O. I_.eon Seymour, USA, Otis Lynn Broom, AAF, Mur-, all of Aberdeen. Interment was in garet Bogle. WAAC, George Brown, I Old Bethesda Cemetery. Surviving are three Mrs. Robert Johnston of Pa., Mrs. Karl Pohl of Larachmont. Watkins Burwell. USA, George Her- N. Y„ and Mi.ss Alice Wilder of bert Buttry. USMS. Aberdeen; three sons, A. F. P. Wild.T Daniel Cameron. USA. Habert Me- ^ainNo,4 Wreck^AenBoi ler Of Engine Explodes Cars Derailed, Track Torn in Accident Near Hoffman Two trainmen were killed, the en-> .Uine, five exprc.'-s c.'U’.s and a mail car badly damaged, and about 100 yards of the main track of tin- Sei'.bnard Airline Railroad were gouged up late Tuesday morning when the engine boiler on No 4, northbound, explod ed between Murston and Hoffman, about 14 miles South of Southern Pines. The train, running about two hours late, was compri.sed of five ex- pre.ss cars, a mail car an'H three coaches. Killed were Engineer J, A. Robertson, 56, of Hamlet, and Fire man J. L. Stafford of Smithfield and Hamlet. Nine others were treated in a Hamlet hospital for only minor in- I juries. Cars Jump Tracks I The wreck, the first of this mag nitude in this stretch of the Seaboard for a number of years, occurr'!d about 11:20 a. m. Tuesday morning I when tile engine boiler exploded, showering sleam and scalding water over an area of hundreds of yards. The explosion occurred several yards Local Leaders Urge The resignation of Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt as chairman of the Moore Coimty Chapter of the American Red south of El Belle’s peach pack house. Cross was officially accepted m reg-; The exploding engine jumped the ional Red Cross headquarters this and mail cars , . , , , „ , b('hind piled upon each other until wi" k, it was k-jrned. t;nd P:iul D;inu. i j j i. j SIX cars were w recked and smashed actin;, ciiairniuii, has culled ihe an- , y^d straddling the tracks. W'recking nual meeting of the Moore County crews from Hamlet and Raleigh were Red Cross Chapter for Monday, Oc- ! called to the scene and the track was tober 26, at 3 o'clock in the Civic i » P- Club for the purpose of electing new i / ... . .1 • I official of the Seabnard on the officers lor the coming year. • ^ 4t ^ i n j j ^I scene saio the mail was aM saved and Mrs. Hunt tendered her resigna- niost of the express. The mail was tion because of illness. She is at Mrs. Kobhiiig Dies Afler Loii" IHiicss Sister of Mrs. James Boyd Was Frequent Visitor Here; Funeral Held in New York and two sisters, Mrs. John S. Tomlin- USA, John Duncan Chisholm. USA, j son of Washington and Mrs. Robert Alfred Gregson Chiswell, USA, Ral- A. Bobbitt of Louisburg. News was received here this week of the death of Mrs. Francis Cleve land Lamont Robbins of New York City, sister of Mrs, James Boyd of Southern Pines. Mrs. Robbins was herself a frequent visitor in the Sandhills and had spent every Christmas for many years past with the Boyds here. Mrs. Robbins died after an illness of sometime in St. Luke’s hospital in New York on September 30, and funeral services were conducted at the Cathedral Chapel, October 2, with interment in the Woodlawn Cemetery. She was 51 years old. Mrs. Robbins was the daughter of the late Col, Daniel S. Lamont, sec retary of War under President Cleveland, and, until her retirement several years ago was literary edi tor of the national magazine, “The Outlook.” Mr. :ind Mrs. Boyd were both in New York with Mrs. Robbins at the time of the death. CAPT. VERNER REED COMPLETES TRAINING Miami Beach, Fla. — (Special)— Captain Verner Z. Reed of Pinehurst, having completed a six weeks course of military instruction and physical conditioning at the Air Forces Offi cer Training School here was grad uated with his class in the Air Forces of the Army of the United States, it was announced- here to day. Measure on Consolidation of Public School Boards been visiting her daughter. She has :iei vod as chai; inan of the Rod C;oss .‘■ince last fall w hen >he was elected jai annual meeting in Carthage, the Mr. Dana, who has been vice-chair- City officials, members of USA, Samuel Brown, USA, Joe Southern Pines School Board and! man of the Moore County chapter, daughters, Buck, US.A, Nathaniel Burt, USN, ’ civic club leaders this week “un- '■ became acting chairman, following Pittsburgh, George Clare Burns, USA, Samuel qualifiedly" endorsed the proposed ; Mrs. Hunt's resignation, and said this constitutional amendment for North week that he w\is calling the annual Carolina to consolidate the adminis- meetint; for election of officers tration of the State free public of Somerville, S. C., Dr. Raboteau Millan Cam(‘r<-;„ USA, Stuart Cam- system into one board. Wildei, Glen Alpine, N. C., and Lt. f'ron, RCAF, David Campbell, USA. ]n ^ telegram sent to (iuy Phillips H. I’. Wildei of the U. S. A., also, Edward Colby Carey. USA, Hyman of the Departiiieiil of Education, Un- two bi(>theis, Sam T. A\ildei of L, Carter L^SA. James D. Carter USA i\'('i’sity of North Carolina, the Louisburg and Col. William T. Wild- Hugh Cassidv. USA, Lee Cavineas, j Southern Pines people said' er, U.S. A. (retired). St. Paul. Minn.;,USA Harry Wallington Chatfield, endorse unqualifiedly the proposed con.stitutional amendment to consolidate the pre.sent fivi' eigh Eugene Clark, USN, Viigil 1 age j boards into one central board, _ , i thus fixing authority, control and re- Katioii Hoard Lsponsibiuty under one board; elim- U 17 , • Floyd Davis, USA, Robert Finch j inating duplication of administra te OC * EjV0I1111£[S Dorn, USA, John Dowdy, USA, ^ tion and relieving the school person- Gas Ration Renewals May " i USA, Archie Ea-1 nel of useless red tape and expense.” Be Made Nights of October The telegram was signed by W. 19, 20 and 21 to 9 P. M. ^Russell Evans. USA, Charles P. Ev-1 Matthews, mayor. Southern lerest, Jr.. AAF, Lacey Fairley, USA, president, Ro- In order to accommodate govern-Fisher, USA, William P. Fish- « 1 «r TT C A T.7 r\ ^ * Junior Chamber of Commerce; Chan Page, president, Chamber of Com merce; Southern Pines School Com mittee, Dr. G. G. Herr, chairman; N. L. Hodgkins. John M. Howarth, Louise Milliken, Frank Maples. The amendment is to come before the voters of North Carolina for ap proval or rejection at the general election, November 3. immediate.,\ f’ispatched and re-rout ed. the unharmed passenger cars car ried back to Hamlet and deloured to Raleigh. The crashing train tore up nearly 10(1 yards of track and the plunging ears dug up the earth in the 15-foot embankment and the cleared field around thi' tracks. Fireman Buried in Coal The engineer was pinned in his cab and apparently died instantly. Stafford, the fireman, was buried un der a load of eoal wh'ch fell on him when the coal tendin' i>lunged into the engine and left the tracks. The momentum of the train pushed ment workers whose supplementary AAF, Clay Flower, USA, Harold gasoline rations expire on October 22 Burgess Fowler, USA, Robert Holie and who are unable to go to the Funderburk, USA. Moore County War Price and Ration Ralph Gacomo, USA, Blois Gargis, Board office during the regular of-|USA, John Paul Gargis, USA, Hu- fice hours to sign for their renewals, | bert Julian Garner, USA, Silas Gib- the Board office, in the Sinclair, f on, USA, Robert Gifford, USA, Em- building in Carthage will remain i rson William Giles, USMC, George open until 9 p. m. on the evenings of W. Gillett, Jr., USN, John M. Gold- Octobtr 19, 20, and 21, according .smith, USN, Charles Aaron Green, to George H. Maurice chairman. | USA, Alfred Herrmann Grover, USA, Mr. Maurice again reminded appli- ^E. Maitland Grover, USA. cants that their renewals must be; Charles McLean Hackney, USA, signed by them in person and not by l. d. Hancock, USA, Read Benedict an agent. Consequently, each must Harding, USA. James Harriss, USA, appear in person at the Ration Board Robert Henderson, USA, Earl Good- office and present his old ration man Henry, USA, James Hill, Jr., card for the car for which the ra- USA. William Hundley Hill, USA^ tion is applied. ! Walter C. Hilderman, USA, John 1 Hochstrasser, USA, Isaac Henry "SINGSPIHATION" IHunt, USA, Raymond Joseph Hunt- ,, , » .u D * /-lu u USA, Benjamin Alexander Hur- Members of the Baptist Church,, „ . ,tc.a , . J* tv, «ci ley, USN, Albert Donald Hurst, USA, and visitors are invited to the Sing- ’ ’ . spiration” at the Church Sunday af-1 j ’ ‘ ternoon at 3 o’clock. Songs and chor- i ^ ^Uen Innes-Taylor, USA, William uses will be led by Sgt. Sam Scales iTQMr* J 11 .u ij- USA, Almet Jenks, USMC, Craig and 11 other soldiers. ; . , ’ , i. t Johnson, James Hughes Joyner, sligl tly earlier than u^ual in order that a now sot of officers could take office as soon as possible. All mem bers of the Red Cros.- throughout the county a>'e urged to attend the meet ing. Other business which may come *^he engine about 100 yards down the befo:e the meeting will be transact ed. PRESTON MATTHEWS ENROLLED AS CADET Mayor's Son in Pilots Pre-Flight School in Ala. track before' the wreckage rtopped ' it. sending the engine and some of the cars down the embankment, j The wreck occurred about 200 I yards from U. S. Highway No. 1 and ; throughout the day a long string of \ cars were stopped by the side of the ' road while the riders inspected the wreckage which could be clearly FELLOWSHIP FORUM ELECTS ITS OFFICERS New officers of the Fellowship Forum, of the Church of Wide Fel lowship, were elected at a regular well Field, Alabama, on September Maxwell Field, Ala. — (Special)— seen from the roadside. Preston Few Matthews, son of Mayor and Mrs. W. Duncan Matthews, of Southern Pines, North Carolina, is now enrolled as an Aviation Cadet at the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School for Pilots at Maxwell Field, located near Montgomery. In this school. Cadet Matthews will receive nine weeks of intensive military, physical and academic training, preparatory to his 27 weeks of flight training, which leads to the highly-coveted Army wings. Cadet Matthews is a graduate of Pfeiffer Junior College and receiv ed his A. B. in Political Science at the University of North Carolina in 1942. He had civilian pilot training at the University. Cadet Matthews began his pre-flight course at Max- MISS WRENN HONORED USA, Calvin Coolidge Kelly, USA, •C. A. Kinder, AAF, Karl Ludwig Miss Nanc.v Wrenn, daughter of Klabbotz, USA, Jean Baptiste La- Mrs. V. P. Clark of Southern Pines, voie, USA, Edward Lewis, George has just been elected president of Elliott London, USN. Delta Phi Rho Alpha, honorary ath- Tyron C. MacFarland, USA, Wal- letic organization at Woman’s Col- ter Tiffany Maples, Jr., USA, Wil lege of Duke University. (Confined on Page Eicfkt) business meeting at the home of Mr. j ^9^*2. and Mrs. Dwight Hoskins Monday | evening. PRAYERS FOR PEACE. Elected were Rebecca Causey, EPISCOPAL CHURCH president; W'ill Wiggs, vice-presi-1 dent; Mary Alice Tate, secretary; i Prayers for peace, for men and Herbert Cutter, treasurer; Martha ■ women in the armed forces, for all Jones, program chairman; Mrs. who suffer from war, will be said in Dwight Hoskins, social chairman;, the Emmanuel Episcopal Church Lena Cameron, cheer chairman; and each Wednesday at 12:15 p. m. The Ruth Baliff, missionary; Blanche ^ rector, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, Sherman music chairman and Sybil: said all were invited to join in the Epps, publicity. (brief and informal services. Anyone The Forum will have its regular , who wishes to have a friend or mem- Sunday evening service at 7:30 this ber of the family remembered in Sunday and its mid-week services these war-time intercessions is in- next Wednesday at 8 o’clock with'vited by the rector to send the Miss Veta Epps in charge. names, in w'riting. to him. INe«;r<) Home Kiiiiied In Tuesday’s Fire Two Alarms Bring Out Volunteers During Week; Second House Damaged The Southern Pines Volunteer Fire Department responded this week to two alarms, one a harmless grass fire, the other a blaze in West Southern Pines which destroyed one house and damaged an adjoining home. In the latter fire, the alarm was sounded at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon but the one house was alread.y burn ed practically to the ground. Prompt response of the fire department, how ever, saved the adjoining place, which had caught from the first one. The burned house was owned and occupied by Joe Waddell, porter at the Parkview Hotel. Furniture in the house, including barber shop equip ment, was destroyed. There were no injuries. Responding to the call from West Southern* Pines were Frank Kaylor, Elmer Renegar, Ed Davis, Charles Cullingford, Clyde Dunn and P. V. Hatch. The grass fire Saturday evening at 6:15 was the lot adjoining the for mer Calderwood residence on Massa chusetts avenue, above Ridge street. No damage was done. (l Mksiayr -61