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VOLUME 22. NO. 50.
Rotary Club Unveils
Its "Roll of Honor"
in Armistice Rites
Mayor Accepts Listing
of Men in Service Given
to Town by Civic Club
Southern Pines observed the 24th
anniversary of World War 1 Armis
tice Day by unveiling and dedicating
a roll of honor to the men and wo
men in service during this second
World War.
In a brief ceremony, which began
shortly before 11 o'clock, the South
ern Pines Rotary Club turned over
to the Town of Southern Pines its
roll of honor board, located on the
Library lawn, with 215 names of
men and women from the Southern
Pines School District who arc serv
ing in this war.
Garland Pierce, Rotary president,
opened the ceremonies, before a
crowd of people which surrounded
the sign, and the Rev. F. Craighill
Brown pronounced the invocation,
following a flag salute and the call
to attention from buglers from Knoll
wood Field, there was the customary
two minutes of silence. Then came
taps.
Mr. Pierce also presented the roll
of honor to the Town of Southern
Pines and Mayor W. Duncan Mat
thews gave a brief acceptance
speech. Col. H. G. Foster of Knoll
wood Field, in a talk following the
unveiling of the Board, reminded the
listeners that the men, fallen in
Flanders Field during World War I,
were forerunners in the battle for
freedom which the men and women
of this nation are now fighting.
Taking part in the ceremonies were
Boy and Girl Scout troops, the Red
Cross Nurses Aide Corp, the Canteen
Corps, and Surgical dressing super
visors; the American I.egion and Le
gion Auxiliary.
HERR. WEAVER GOING
TO EDUCATION MEET
Dr. G. G. Herr, Southern Pines
School Board chairman who is pres
ident of the North Central District
of the N. C. State Board Association, j
and Superintendent Philip J. Wea
ver. secretary of the district, will'
attend the conference of the N. C. 1
Commission for Defense of Educa
tion at the Sir Walter Hotel in
Raleigh Friday night. Dr. Ralph Mc-
Donald, president, will be in charge
of the conference, and prominent
educators from all over the State
are expected.
RATION MEETINGS
Beginning Tuesday. November
17, regular meetings of the
Moore County War Price and
Rationing Board will be held on
Tuesday afternoons of each
week, instead of Thursday as
before, it was announced this
week by W. S. Golden of Car
thage, board member. All peo
ple wishing to appear before the
Board or to make application
should be prepared to do so on
Tuesday afternoons.
OPEN LETTER
to
PAPA PETAIN
Mrs. Paul Jernigan of Southern
Pines contributed this "Open Let
ter to Papa Petain." It's good and
it's timely:
You meant well, Papa Petain,
well by your people. Surely you
did.
But you are old, Papa Petain,
and you think like the old.
You foiget, Papa Petain, the
resiliency of youth. You forget
that a young body heals quickly
even though wounded in its sleep.
Your methods are the appeas
ment methods of age, Papa Pe
tain.
I am sorry for you, Papa Petain.
You meant well, but now the tor
rent of youth, a lusty, young na
tion must show you the way.
If you have a vestige of the wis
dom of age, Papa Petain, you \Vill
step aside and let this torrent
sweep your nation clean.
—M. MOLLAND JERNIGAN.
Moore (loiiuty Mei
PVT. WM. A. BONEY
Both Pvt. Boney and Sgt. Mori-
Forces of this nation somewhere abro
Boney of Manly, is 22 years old, an
Pines in 1941. He joined the army Jun
tit Fort Bragg for «) months trained
heard ivi'iii. Skl. Morrison, son of Mr
cal Policeman Irvin Morrison, was ii
September, 1941. and trained at Fort
er Battalion.
First (ivmkiiana of S
at ('ounlrv i .liib Hors
Series of Novelty and Jump
Events Scheduled; Winners
of Pinehurst Gymkhana Given
Southern Pines first gymkhana of
the season will be held at the Coun
try Club Horse Show ring Sunday
afternoon. November 15, beginning at
3 o'clock, with net proceeds going to
benefit the Southern Pines Council
of Social Agencies.
Louis Scheipers, chairman of the
Equestrian committee, said that
events would range from children's
novelty riding to jumping over the
outride course.
The horse event season got off to
its start last Sunday in Pinehurst
with six events. First, second and
third winners were as follows:
Musical stalls: Mary Ann Tate.
Junebug Tate, and Donald Schiepers:
; Opening Hunting: "It's Up," Miss.
Tate; "Virginia Girl," Miss Tate; and
"Fine Fellow," D. Scheipers: three
' legged race: John Taylor, Jr., and.
partner; Ted Strickland of Detroit
j and Bill Tate: and Miss Tate and
1 Kathleen Walsh.
j Potato Race: A Corbitt Alexander's
team beat W. O. Moss' team by 15 to j
12 potatoes. Alexander also won the
tilting contest, getting seven out of
eight, to Moss* five out of eight, j
"Fine Fellow," D. Scheipers up, won
opening jumping, with "Little;
Hugh," Miss Walsh up, and "It's
Up," Junebug Tate riding, running
second and third.
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Aberdeen Chamber
HonorsTobaccoMen
Banquet Held to Celebrate
High Average Paid on
Market During October
j The Aberdeen Chamber of Com
| merce Tuesday night staged a ban
: quet and entertainment at the South
i ern Pines Country club, honoring the
toba«co warehousemen and buyers
; on the Aberdeen market, which dur
ing October topped all markets in the
! belt with the highest average.
Figures showed leaf selling in
j Aberdeen at an average of $41.70 per
hundred, while the second high mar
ket, Fuquay Springs, was bringing
|an average of $40.84 per hundred.
\ Aberdeen's average price for tobacco
' went to $42.64 so far in November,
as the market prepares to close one
I of its most successful seasons.
Feature of tTie banquet entertain
ment was a ballet dance by Mrs. Gus
Crouse of Buffalo, N. Y., and Aber
! deen, whose costume was comprised
entirely of tobacco leaves. Her hus
band, an Army officer, accompanied
the dance with a guitar. Frank Buch
an. Southern Pines postmaster, de
livered his "Negro sermon" and col
, lected instead of a regular offering.
S2OO in War Bond pledges.
Besides the buyers, Falk Carter
and Robert Wright, Aberdeen ware
housemen, were honor guests. J. Tal
bot Johnson, cliarber president, was
-in charge.
Southern Pines, North Carolina. Friday, November 13, 1942
i lii  hir Service
SGT. HAROLD D. MORRISON
ison i re serving with the Armed
)ad. Pvt. Honey, son of Mrs. Esther
(I finished high .-chool in Southern
le 19. 1041 and. after being stationed
at Camp Blanding, G;,. When last
s. D. R. Morrison and brother of lo
n northern Ireland. He enlisted in
Knox with thi 701 st Tank Destroy
[>asoti lo be I i I*l I
ie Show King Siiiiilav
Pilot s Cartoonist
Getting Recognition
c c
Thomas Preston's Drawing
Requested by Marine Corps
to ba Hu»-g in Headquarters
The cartoonist whose drawing.- ap
pear frequently in THE PILOT,
Thomas Preston, is going ahead in
the cartoon field which he entered
partly as a hobby sometime ago and
which he developed partly through
contributing cartoons to THE PI
LOT.
Young Preston, formerly of Tru
deau. N .Y., now living in Brooklyn,
was in Southern Pines several years
' ago and became interested in the
■ Sandhills and THE PILOT. Recent
ly he has been contributing cartoons
to THE PILOT, one of which ap
| pears on page 2 of this issue, and has
received wider recognition with his
| work.
i He recently sold a pair of his
ideas to some nationally famous car
toonists and received commenda
| tion from Brigadier General R. K.
Denig of the U. S. Marine Corps.
| Gen. Denig's attention has been call
! Ed to a cartoon of Preston's on the
j Marine landings in the Solomons and
jhe requested the original of the
I drawing to be "framed and hung in
I headquarters." Upon receipt of the
drawing, he wrote Preston: "I hope
the Marine Corps will provide you
with some more topic material
I soon."
I Preston, writing from Brooklyn,
; told THE PILOT: "I've seen several
: ex-Southern Piners recently. They
j join me in sending you, THE PILOT,
j and Southern Pines tiheir best
j wishes.''
Harry orke, Former Sandhills Newsman,
Recalls Career from (lot in N. Y. Hospital
Harry Yorke, Syracuse, N. Y.,
I newspaperman who served in two
j wars, is following this war in the
\ newspapers, while a patient at Onan
j daga County hospital, near Syracuse,
where he is invalided by progressing
illness. A part of his colorful career,
| r
I which began in England 64 years ago
' was spent in the Sandhills where he
I became well-known as publicity di
| rector for Pinehurst, Inc., and as
| sports editor for the SANDHILLS
! DAILY NEWS, published by THE
PILOT. \
I A recent article in the Syracuse
| Herald-Journal, told the highlights
of the career of this newspaper re
porter who, in reverse of the usual
; prccedure, had a story written about
him—instead of writing a story about
| somebody else.
After- working several years as
I night editor of the defunct Syracuse
j Journal. Harry Yorke spent 1940 and
1941 in the Sandhills, as managing
; editor of The Pinehurst Outlook.
Mrs. Edith Mndgett
Elected Chairman
of Red Cross Branch
Mrs. Hughes Appointed
Surgical Drsssing Head;
Field Expert Coming
Mrs. Edith Mudgett was elected
chairman of the Southern Pines
Lr.nch, Moore County Red Cross,
at its annual meeting in the Civic
Club Thursday afternoon, and Mrs.
T. Awry, vice chairman
Mrs. Lee Clarke, retiring chair
'll :i pr. ! V.T the meeting and
r ■■ : ht r report of the p. st year's ac
ti'.iti Mrs. Clarke resigned as
i . neh chairman lo bvcome execu
tive secretary of the Moore County
Chapter. Mrs. Carruthers Love, re
ti: ir,g sccvretary, also resigned.
Other new officers elect'd were ,r '
Mi G. 11. Whittall. senvtary-treas- ;
uri 1 Mi M. G. Nichols, chairman of '
knitting: Mrs. Frank Kaylor, vice- '
eh irtr, n, kn tting; Mi Margaret '
r.
Eli:- ibeth Lewis, vice-chairman, *
sc\ :ng.
Mrs. E. V. Hughe; of Southern :
ty ehairm: n of the Red Cross Surgi- '
■1 Di ngs work to succeed Mrs. '
Li Clarke, who resigned to be
co c ecutivi . ecret ry of the 1
Chapter.
County officials and other mem
ber of the Red Cross were also be
in-, invited to meet Monday with
Mrs Mary S. Pegram, of Alexandria.
V.' i Cross Field Representative,
who will be in the County offices
in the Barnum building. Southern
Pin . between 2 and -1 o'clock Mon
day afternoon. November Hi.
Mrs. Pegram will meet with Ern
, est L Ives, chairman, and W. A. Le
' land«McKeithen, Miss Laura Kelsey
1 and Mrs. il. F. Seawell, Jr.. vice
-1 chairman, to discuss activities of
] ilt Red Cross in Moore County.
1 j Meanwhile, the Pinehurst branch
' of the Red Cross met this week and
. elected Miss Louise Fordyce as chair-
I man. with Mrs. Hennessee vice
chairman and Miss Mary Ward, sec-,
, Iretary.
s : ~
New Mail Dispatch
iTisrc at Post Office
s j
Evening Mail Closing
Now Set for 10 o'Clock;
Direct Train Service
S I
A new schedule of mail dispatch
s ing from Southern Pines will greatly
- j aid the patrons of the post office in
-1 getting mail off to northern or
. | southern Points, said P. Frank Buch
an. postmaster, this week.
The evening mail will now close
e at 10 p. m„ instead of 9 p. m. as be
fore, and will be dispatched on both
e No. 9, southbound at 10:20 p. m., and
I on No. 6, northbound, at 11:06 p. m.
e Neither of these trains previously
e picked up mail in Southern Pines.
J i Previous to this change in sche- j
II dule, night mail was dispatched on a
; southbound train after midnight,
i, 'and northbound mail went south, and
il then doubled back for the north,
y Now, there will be direct connec
?, tions, and registered letters, mailed
;t late, will also be handled on these
dispatchings.
Now, by his cot on the third floor
ward of the Onandaga County hos
pital. he sits and remembers his ac
tive days.
English Born
Born in England, he went as a
child to New Zealand and, at 22.
went to South Africa and enlisted in
a mounted regiment to serve in the
Boer War. Following the Boer war,
he went back to New Zealand and
worked on newspapers until Great
Britain entered the first world war.
His homeland refused to pass him
for the Army, so he boarded a troop
ship for Halifax, Canada, where he
joined the crew of the American
Steamship, Rochester, of whose ex
ploits he was to write an article for
The Saturday Evening Post published
March 2, 1918, under the title "The
Sinking of the Rochester."
Friday, September 28, 1917, the
Rochester left Halifax, carrying a
cargo of shells, cotton and corn. The
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IN NURSE CORRv'"' .1, I
'o
LIEUT. SIBYL RUMLEY
Daughter of Mrs. Laura Rumley of,
)7 N. May street, Southern Pines,
second Lieutenant Sybil Brabble
Rumley. a 1937 gradual * of Southern
Pines High Sehol, is now serving in
the 45th General Ho pital Unit,
Army Nurse Corps, at Camp - Lee,
Va. Following graduation here, she
: ttended Mars Hill College, then en
tered Stuart Circle Hospital school
of nursing at Richmond, completing
hi. training in 1941 On May 22.
1942. she left the hospital staff and
entered the Army.
Bulgarian Believes
Bombing is Better
In Fact, He Knows It Is
and Gives Good Reason for
Knowing How Bad il Was
Assen Jordanoff. who believes he
is the first aerial bomber in history
and who is the author of nine books
on flying, was a guest this week of
l.t. Col. and Mrs. J. P. McConnell,
' and his story of his first bombings
back in 1912 makes a decided con
trast with the aerial bombings of to
day.
It was like this:
Back in 1912 when he was 15, Mr.
Jordanoff's native country. Bulgaria,
declared war on Turkey. He was in
Paris at the time and has seen some
of the pioneer flyers in action there—
Bleriot, Paulhan, Farnham and Dan
-1 tos Dumont.
So he hurried home and joined the
First Squadron of the Bulgarian Air
Force. The First Squadron consisted
of a second hand Bleriot biplane and
ten mechanics. He became the pilot
and also the bombadier. In addition
he made the bombs—which he car
ried in his lap.
"How much did they weigh,?" we
asked. "Fifteen pounds?"
Mr. Jordanoff was scandalized.
"Fifteen pounds? With a fifteen
pound bomb how should it be pos
sible to get off the ground? Five
pounds."
"What was the target?"
! "A square mile," Mr. Jordanoff
said, "two square miles, three square
miles, that was the target."
"Did you ever hit anything?"
"Always we hit the target," Mr.
Jordanoff explained. "Whatever we
hit, that was the target."
I "What did you hit?" we said.
"Nothing," Mr. Jordanoff said. "Af
i ter the war I ask the Turks. They do
not know they are being bombed."
He thought about it. "The great
thing was to get the ship off the
ground and keep it up long enough
to drop the bomb. That was the great
thing."
"Well," we said, "what w T as it
all for?"
Mr. Jordanoff thought about that,
too. "For morale," he said.
"Whose?" we said.
"That." Mr. Jordanoff said. "I do
not know—"
MRS. DONALD PARSON
WINS SILVER FOILS
Mrs. Donald Parson of Pinehurst
won the Silver Foils match play
against bogey tournament at the
Pinehurst Country Club Thursdaj
afternoon, turning in a card of five
, up against Bogey. This was the sec
ond Silver Foils tournament of th
season.
Mrs. Eric Nelson was second, wit I
3 up against bogey and Mrs. J. A
■ Ruggles, third, even bogey. A fielc
of 18 entered the tourney.
FIVE CENTS
! *raft Board Sending
•\ , &
\ % vn from (lountv
°r J
For , r y Induction
Largest Draft Yet
Hits Number of Men
from Southern Pines
The Moore County Selective Ser
vice Board this week caled 121 lo
cal men to report to Fort Bragg for
final examination, preliminary to in
duct ion into the United States Army,
in the largest draft Moore County
has seen so far. All of them were
white men.
In the group ordt i t"1 to report this
week were eight Southern Pines men
as follows:
Robert Hansen Beck. Wilson Coins,
Oscar Dermont Michael, Elwood
' Bryan Hatch, John Ferguson Mc-
Donald. James Gray Duggins, Ken
n th Maurice Epps, and Harold
Turnley Dutton.
Others included in the call were:
Klias Ilargeon Hussey and John Cleo
Garner (transferred), Lakeview: Wil
li ,n Marion Cole, Hubert Cecil Den
n .-. liny Colon Cooke, Warren James
Ki nnedy, Joseph Bascom Brown, Lu
ther Garner, Paul Edgar Williams, of
Hemp: Wiley Robert Reynolds,
James Garland Garner, Carl Brough
ton Brady, Junior Ray Ga"ner, of
, route 1 Hemp: Robert Holding Far
ner. Warren Coolidge Maness, Jesse
Hardin Hare. Quinton Astor Lam
bert. William Herbert Maness, Cur
tis Isaac Brewer, Clyde Edward
Vest, Colvin Comer Lembert, Fred
Junior Cagle, of routi 2 Hemp.
Also, James Nicoll, Oscar William
Talbert. Edgar Marvin Lewis, Rich
ard Robertson Young. Jr.. of Pine
' hurst; Obie O. Seymour, James
' Henry Johnson, Austin Jarr.es John
-5 son, Havis Franklin Hunsucker, Jo
! seph Edward New, Chevalier Jack
■ son Dowless, of Aberdeen; Harold
5 Ervin Laton. Adrian Crawford Low
- der, of route 1 Aberdeen; Robert
- Wesley Caviness, Banks Marlin Wil
liams, James Curtis Presley, Irvin
.Leonard Priest, of Carthage; Ersel
. Fry. Willie Collen Barber. Henry Ho
, mer Maness, Robert Peter Dowd,
i James Carlton Crabtree, Dan Fullen
. Williams, Richard Earl Dowd, of
- route 1 Carthage; Ralph Amos Bry
- ant, Elijah Leonard Wood, William
Samuel Gatewood, Jr., Hugh Willdon
„ Tillman, Clenton Benson Whitaker,
„ of route 2 Carthage; John Blue Ray,
] Duncan Carlton Blue, Connard
I Claude Martin, William Marshall
( Thompson, William Clifford Garner,
j Reece Blair Hearn, Jr., Edward Lee
Johnson. Angus Dodradge McNeill,
David Blanchard, Fairel Muse Short,
Warren G. Harding Barber, of route
3 Carthage; Robert Glenn Wads
worth, Louis Mack Foster, of star
■ route, Carthage.
1 , Also, Walter Ray Galyean, Cam
eron. John Wesley Stoltz, Tom Ben
Cameron. Haywood Bunnell, route 1
Cameron; J. F. Frank, route 2 Carn
eron; Robert Odriscoll McKenzie,
1 Buel Allen Moore, George Bryan
e Boroughs, Alton Osborne Smith, of
Jackson Springs; Joe Cameron, War
ren Elbert Poindexter, Henry Mar
tin Klingenschmidt, William Wesley
s Causey, Leo Robert Patterson, of
Vass; Lee Knight, route 1 Vass, Er
vin Knight, route 2 Vass; Ralph Jor
. dan of Steeds; Grady Franklin Cra-
D ven, Roy Martin Cole, Dock Cum
" mins Williamson. Edward Franklin
t McNeill of route 1 Steeds;
eAlso, Miller Marshburn, Joe Pur
li vis, of Glendon, Angus Allan McDon
t aid. John McCrummen, Chester Vest,
Oran Bi oughton Mims, Robert John
,t son Daniel. Thomas Maddison Smith,
(of West End: finest Faircloth, Vic
t lor Arnold Ritter, Talmadge Lee
j Williams, Leonard Harrington Year
by, Charlie Franklin Jackson, route
o 1 West End; James Albert Monroe,
■ Clinton Harold Myrick. Jesse Wil
i bert Williams, Roland Lafayette
Britt, Roby Ellis Williams, route 1
Eagle Springs; Wilson Dewitt Webb,
i Eagle Springs; Clyde Edison Up
church, Henry Lee Cheek, High
Falls: Garmon Brooks Smith, Ollie
x .Franklin Combs, Harold Mark Hut
ie chinson, Pinebluff; John D. Wilson,
■ Niagara; Russell Monroe, Manly;
"' James Everette Comer, Candor;
Clyde Edmond Hurley, Star; Jesse
lc Martin Davis, route 1 Star.
, h NO DANCE
!
Id There will be no soldier dance at
the High School this Saturday night.