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VOLUME 24, NO. 45.
Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, September 29, 1944.
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Hobbs Organizes
Forces for United
War Fund Drive
Southern Pines Quot^
Is $3,000; Campaign
Begins October 9th
With the United War Fund
drive scheduled to begin Octo
ber 9, J. D. Hobbs, Southern Pines
chairman, already has his organ
ization perfected and plans made
for going into action to raise the
town’s quota of $3,000. The drive
will last two weeks.
“Above all, we want to make
that quota”, said the chairman,
with determinlition. “Now that
the situation in Europe is easing,
some people think that it is not
so necessary to give to this fund,
but I feel that it is more impor
tant now than ever,” he declared.
He hopes that every person w'ill
feel that he or she is making a
personal contribution to a mem
ber of the family or to a dear
friend overseas.
Mr. Hodgkins has given permis
sion for the workers to have a
desk in the bank, and someone
will be on duty from 9:00 a. m.
until 2:00 p. m. each banking day
to receive donations. Homes and
business places will be canvassed.
Mr. Hobbs has chosen a fine
4 corps of workers, each of whom
is an enthusiastic go-getter. He
has named Mrs. T. B. Wood as
chairman of the women’s division
and on her committee are Mrs.
J. S. Milliken, Mrs- J. J. Spring,
Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins, Mrs. Fraser
Knight, Mrs. Frank DeCosta, Mrs.
Rossister, Mrs. J. T. Overton, Mrs.
E. C. Stevens, Mrs. Louis Schei-
pers, Mrs. A. B. Patterson, Mrs.
Philip Weaver and Mrs. .M- G.
•Nichols.
On the men’s committee are
Paul Jernigan, E. C. Stevens
Harry Vale, L. T. Avery, W. L.
Wiggs, Pete Pender, Morris John
son, and Philip Weaver, who will
be assisted by his faculty mem
bers in managing the drive in the
school.
.W. P. Saunders of Robbins is
county chairman and the county
quota is $11,875.
PRISONER OF WAR
HOME COMING AT
BETHESDA SUNDAY
“Old Bethesda” Church, lo
cated one mile from Aberdeen,
will hold its annual Home-
Coming next Sunday, October 1,
in celebration of the 154th anni
versary of its founding. Each year
this celebration draws hundreds
of the church’s sons and daugh
ters . and their descendants back
to this hallowed spot, many com
ing from a distance to worship,
to visit the graves of loved ones
and to engage in “I remember”
conversation with old friends.
Dr. Charlton H. Storey, pastor
of Bethesda Church, .wiU deliver
the sermon at 11 o’clock, follow
ing which a picnic dinner wiU be
served in the grove. The public
is invited to attend and to carry
picnic baskets.
Because Bethesda Cemetery is
the resting place of Ambassador
Walter Hines Page and other
prominent citizens, large numbers
make a pilgrimage there each
year.
First Lt. James R. Wicker
of Pinehurst, previously re
ported missing over Holland
July 7, is a prisoner of war
in Germany, his wife, the for
mer Nancy Richardson of
Pinehurst, has been advised
by the War Department.
The American Red Cross
was authority for the state
ment that he is being held in
Germany. Lti. Wicker, who
was a member of the 501st
Bomber Group, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Rassie E. Wick
er of Pinehurst.
Ad(3itional information is
that Mrs. Wicker received a
short wave message from her
husband Sunday, verifying
the report and stating that he
is well and will have many
interesting experiences to re
late when he gets home.
Carl Hendrick Is
Lost at Sea When
Warrington Sinks
Son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. L. Hendrick Had
Been in Navy 4 Months
MARINE RETURNS
Carl Hendrick, seaman first
class, 23-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Hendrick of Carthage
Route 3, was lost when the U. S.
destroyer Warrington was sunk in
an Atlantic hurricane several
days ago, his parents were inform
ed Friday. They had received a
message on Tuesday stating that
he was missing.
Seaman Hendrick was inducted
into the Navy about four months
ago and received his boot training
at Camp Peary, Va. He had re
cently been assigned to the War
rington and is believed by rela
tives to have been on his first
voyage. A former student of Vass-
Lakeview high school, he had en
gaged in defense work at New
port News, Va., ' before his in
duction.
Surviving are his parents; one
sister, Mrs. Hazel Hendrick Strib-
ling, of Sanford, and two broth
ers, Arthur, of Hamlet, and Ralph,
of the home.
Brady of Robbins
Is Named Member
Of Welfare Board.
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C- E. Brady of Robbins, farmer
and principal of the Robbins
grammar school, has been named
a member of the County Welfare
Board by the Sitate Bloard of
Charities and Public Welfare to
fill the unexpired term of Edwin
West, Dr. Ellen Winston, commis
sioner of welfare, has announced.
The State Board, under the
statute, is charged with the ap
pointment of one of the three
members of the Board for a two-
year term.
The other members are Mrs. J.
R. Page of Aberdeen, who was
appointed by the Moore County
commtissioners, and Gordon M.
Cameron of Pinehurst, who was
selected jointly by the first two
members.
AERIAL GUNNER
V. P. CLARK
Technical Sergeant V. P. Clark
of the United States Marine Corps
Reserve stationed at Camp Le-
jeune has recently been honorably
discharged by special order of the
Commandant and has returned
to his home here.
Mr. Clark volunteered his ser
vices to his country over two
years ago and enlisted in the Ma
rine Corps in September 1942.
Since then he has rendered out
standing service' in his special
field as a technical expert in
motor mechanics, being chief
technician at this large Marine
base. He has received letters of
commendation from his superior
officers expressing their appre
ciation of the splendid service he
rendered by persohnally direct
ing and supervising all major
overhaul and repair work of all
Marine Corps vehicles at this im
portant base.
Mr. Clark left the service un
der the ruling which permits men
over age to be discharged at their
own request. He has already re
sumed his connection with the
firm of Brown and Clark’s Gar
age and Esso Service Station in
Southern Pines and is being
heartily welcomed back into civ
ilian life.
Young Democrats
of State to Meet
in Asheville 14th
INTERRUPTION
The morning rush of shop
pers ceased Iheir quest for
bananas, steaks, cokes, candy
or what have you at 9:35
o'clock Saturday morning
when from under the hood
of a car parked in front of
the Hayes' emporiums
came smoke and flames.
Tots' Toggery feminine staff
rushed forward with a fire
extinguisher which was
promptly put into use by
Grover Pope. Down came
the fire truck, with the May
or hitch(-hiking. Sizzz—and
almost before the gaping
throng found out what it
was all about the blaze was
extinguished and Broadway
Campbell's Ford—a little
moist—was on its way once
more.
A statewide meeting of the
Young Democrats of North Caro
lina will be held at the Langren
Hotel, Asheville, Saturday, Oct.
14, it is announced by Miss Hen
rietta Price, president.
The meeting will be in the form
of a banquet or “Victory Dinner”
in the Governor Vance room and
Clyde R. Hoey, former governor,
and R. Gregg Cherry, Democratic
nominee for governor, are sched
uled to speak.
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CPU LEO O'CALLAGHAN
Corporal Leo O’Callaghan, Jr.,
arrived Friday from Harlingen,
Texas, to spend a 10-day fqrlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. V. O’Callaghan. Corporal
O’Callaghan completed last week
the prescribed course at the Army
Air Force Gunnery School at Har
lingen Air Base and was awarded
the wings of an aerial gunner. He
is to report to the Army Air Base
at Lincoln, Nebraska, for further
processing before entering com
bat duty.
Corporal O’Callaghan, a gradu
ate of the local high school, was
associated with his father in busi
ness here before enlisting in the
Armly Air Forces in February
1943. He received his train
ing at Maxwell Field, Ala
bama; Unjiversity of Tennessee
at Knoxville, Lodwick Aviation
Military Academy at Avon Park,
Fla.; Buckley Field, Denver, Colo.,
and Air Force Gunnery School,
Harlingen, Texas.
Frank Patton Will
Speak in Carthage
Tuesday, Oct. 3
Republican Candidate
for Governor Will Be
Chief Speaker at Rally
A Republican rally will be held
in the Courthouse in Carthage at
8:00 o’clock Tuesday night, Oct
ober 3, with Frank PattoVi, Re
publican candidate for governor,
as principal speaker. Mr. Patton,
whose home is at Morganton,
county seat of Burke, is a former
U. S. district attorney and has
served in the State Senate and
as a representative in the State
Legislature. He is a mountain
eer, about the age of Dewey, and
is said to be descended from the
same Pattons as the famous gen
eral.
Others will be on the program,
also, and a large attendance is ex
pected.
Carolina Theatres
Ad Does Good Turn
REAL NEWS
School Enrollments
Moore County schools opened
Monday, most of them with
slightly lower than usual first day
enrollments. Reports from all
parts of the county are not avail
able, but the following enrollment
figures for Monday have been re
ceived:
Southern Pines, 375; 'West Sou
thern Pines, 350; Pinehurst, 256;
Aberdeen, 352; Cameron, 399;
[Vass-Lakeview, 397; Wesitmoire,
319; Farm Life, 178; Elise, 139.
THE ARK SCHOOL
OPENS OCTOBER 3
The Ark 'school), k>f which
Mrs. MiUicent A. Hayes is prin
cipal, will open Tuesday, October
3, for morning classes only. The
full day program, which includes
handicrafts, tennis and organ
ized games, will begin Monday,
October 9.
If "man bites dog" is news,
then "fireman calls on com
rades for help" is sure enough
news. At 11:45 o'clock Mon
day night'the Southern Pines
Fire Company was called to
the home of Dante Monte-
santi on Country Club Drive,
where overheated wood
work adjoining the fireplace
in the recently added living
room had started a threaten
ing blaze. The fire was
promptly extinguished with
only trifling damage to the
room.
TOBACCO MARKETS GO
ON FULL SCHEDULE
Middle Belt tobacco markets,
which operated on a limited sche
dule of three and one-half hours
a day Thursday and Friday of last
week, went on a regular schedule
Monday with full sets of buyers.
Large sales and pleasing prices
are reported from the Aberdeen
and Carthage markets.
BEGINS MINISTRY
The Reverend Samuel J. Erwin,
who recently accepted a call to
supply the pulpit of the Baptist
Church for six months or longer,
is expected to arrive tomorrow
from Lakeside, Dallas, Texas, and
will begin his work here Sunday.
For the first lime in cd>out
fifteen years the Carolina
Theatres advertisement is
missing from its regular place
on page eight of THE PILOT.
That doesn't mean that there
is to be no show. Readers
will find the ad this week on
Page 5, and we wish to pub
licly exi^ress oujr apprecia-i
tion to Mr. Picquet for giving
over his regular space in
order to allow us to run the
half-page ad of Brown's Auto
Supply Company.
Area Rent Control
Office Changes
James L. Taylor, Jr., Area Rent
Attorney-Director of Fayetteville,
announced today that representa
tives of the Rent Control Office
will hereafter, in the Southern
Pines Area, be available for in
terviews at the Boy’s Club build
ing on Pennsylvania Avenue op
posite the tennis courts. This
change will take place beginning
Oct. 2nd with the usual hours and
day of each week: Mondays only
from 9 a. m. to 12 noon.
The office in’the City Hall for
merly used has now been taken
over by the City Tax Department.
30 White Men Go
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To Fort Bragg for
Examination Tues.
Thirty young white men left
Carthage Tuesday for pre-induc
tion examination at Fort Bragg.
One of the number, Virgil Ru
dolph Hardy of Route 3, Car
thage, was a volunteer. Others in
the group were:
Matthew Yates Poe,'^Jr., Sou
thern Pines.
Albert Hamilton Garrison, Jr.,
Pinehurst.
Lamar Killingsworth Smith,
Aberdeen!
From Carthage and routes:
George Chriscoe, Raymond Guy,
Troy Thomas Martin, Jesse Ray
mond Baber, Thomas Edwin Cam
eron, John Oliver Darnell, 'Wil
liam Fred Davis, Willie Jones
Thomas.
From Robbins and routes: Her
man Alton Williams, Pervie How- - , tow
ard Dunlap, Curtis Welch, John grams at Fort Bragg and Camp
Howard Purvis, Haywood G. Me-
Caskill, Clarence Lambert, Her
man Russell Martindale. . ^
From Pinebluff: Thornton land Tourist Camp north of town
Seawell Little, Richard Lee Roy from 1935 until he sold it about
Morgan. three months ago. He likes Sou-
From Lakeview^ Worthy Wood- them Pines and has built him a
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(TOW Campbell, Robert Munyce new house on North Ashe Street
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13 Dead and 83 Injured in Troop
Carrier-Airborne Maneuvers in
Mackall Area Involving Over 10,000
12 Perish When Big
Veteran of 70
ALVIN C. FRY
No young enlistee of today is
more thrilled to receive his uni
form than was Alvin C. Fry, 70-
year-old Spanish-American War
veteran, a few days ago when he
received the new outfit which he
is shown wearing, a uniform like
the one in which he went forth to
battle for his country in 1898.
The Spanish-American Lodge
in Ohio, of which he is a member,
is meeting half the cost of new
uniforms for all the veterans, Mr.
Fry explained. Of the 103 men
in his Company only forty-seven
remained when he talked to his
Captain in Ohio some months ago.
A member of the 8th Ohio In
fantry, Mr. Fry recalls that it took
twelve days to sail from Long Is
land to Cuba. Few of his cornrades
were killed in battle, but yellow
fever claimed a heavy toll. He got
a bullet hole in one leg, but it
didn’t bother him much, hp says.
Mr. Fry offered his service in
this war, but was not accepted.
However, as a carpenter he has
had a part in the building pro-
Mackall, and he has a son serv
ing in the Merchant Marine.
Mr. Fry operated the New Eng-
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
During maneuvers it was nec
essary for the soldiers to leave
behind much valuable Army
ecfuipmenlt, made of vital and
scarce materials which cannot be
replaced. Persons who find any of
this are urged to notify Maneu
ver Headquarters, Camp Mackall,
either by mail or collect tele
phone call, or to take it to a near
by service station or general
store. These business places will
be checked by State police and
the equipment will be collected,
as it is badly needed.
KILLED IN ACTION
News has been received
that Lt. Sam Humber of the
U. S. Air Force, son of the
late Judge George H. Humber
and nephew of Mrs. Waller
Williamson of Carthage, has
been killed in action.
From Vass: Greer Alexander manent home.
Foster, Alva Luther Ring.
Archie Cleveland Sheffield, R.
1, Steeds; Carl Edward Cameron,
R. 1, Cameron; Ernest Brack Man-
ess, R. 2, Bennett; Arthur Mabe,
R. 1, Eagle Springs; Alvin B. Lee,
R. 1, West End.
which he plans to make his per-
REGARDING POLIO
Dr. J. S. Milliken brought to
THE pilot’s attention an article
on the “Queries and Minor Notes”
page of the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association, which
is of especial interest at this time.
In reply to a question regarding
quarantine for poliomyelitis, the
following answer is given:
“There is no evidence that rigid
quarantine of age groups is of
any effect in the control of the
spread of poliomyelitis. This but
tends to spread panic and fear.
There is no scientific reason for
‘prohibiting persons from attend
ing school until they have been
in the county for two weeks. Most
public health authorities agjree
that even in the presence of an
epidemic there is no reason for
not opening schools.”
DAIRY NOTES
The Leslie Dairy at 'V'ass, which
had served customers here with
“A” grade milk for many years,
made its last delivery Saturday
and is now selling at wholesale
in Sanford.
Coble’s Dairy at Lexington has
established a route," supplying lo
cal stores with dairy products,
Isupplemlenting the supply that
comes into town from nearby
dairies.
Explosion Damages
Jackson Hamlet
Business Place
Transport Crashes,
Bursts Into Flames
In an explosion which was
heard in Pinehurst one and one-
half miles distant Monday night,
the business house of Sam Ar
ne tte, colored, in Jackson Hamlet
on the Aberdeen Pinehurst road
as badly damaged. Windows
were blown out, sash and doors
damaged, glass in the gas pumps
and in two automobiles shattered.
Windows in the Arnette residence
20 yards from the highway were
also broken.
A small piece broken from a
block of nitro starch, sdeh as is
used by Army engineers to sim
ulate artillery fire in maneuvers
and to blow up bridges in com
bat, is said to have been found on
the ground. The explosion made
a hole approximately a foot deep
and a foot wide in the ground.
Fortunately, no one was injured.
Arnette, who is saiH to believe
that the explosive was thrown
by some white officers passing in
a car, whom he had refused to
serve earlier, reported the matter
to Camp Mackall authorities and
a complete investigation is under
way. However, there is nothing
but circumstantial evidence, and
the investigation is not far enough
along for the authorities to give
an opinion. ■'
So loud was the explosion that
at the Chalfonte it was thought
that their own boiler had explod
ed.
(Special from Camp Mackall)
For the third time in ten
months, thousands of airborne
troops from Camp Mackall spot
ted the countryside of the Sand
hills this week with parachutes,
field guns, bivouac and other
equipment as the combined Troop
Carrier-Airborne maneuvers in-
volvirig over 10,000 soldiers got
under way Sunday evening at 9
o’clock with the dropping of over
2,000 paratroopers, largest night
jump ever recorded in the coun
try.
In spite of the large number of
Paratroops dropped from planes
in the cloudy, dark night which
made the jump more hazardous
than usual, only one soldier, Pfc.
John P. Hall, of Tennessee City,
Tenn., was killed as a Result of
the mass jump.
Eight paratroopefs and four air
corps men were killed Sunday
evening in the crash of a C-47
transport plane which went out
of control only a few hundred
feet from the ground, and crash
ed, then burst into flames. The ac
cident occurred bn the Johnston
farip, designated as “D” field,
northwest of Hoffman, and was
witnessed by over 300 high rank
ing military observers from Can
ada, Britian, France and the Un
ited States, and by over 25 news
representatives of press services,
newspapers and magazines. Many
in the crowd believed for hourr
that what they saw fall to the
ground and burst into flame?;
was a new type of flare. The dead
are 1st Lt. 'Wayland W. Hose, St.
Paul, Minn.; 2nd Lt. George J.
Helfend, Los Angles, Calif.; T|Sgt.
Victor L. Graves, Springer, N. M.;
S|Sgt. Myron K. Shnaper, Chica
go, lU.; all of the Air Corps. The
paratroopers are Sgt. Arnold J.
Pappas, Ipswich, Mass.; Cpl. Rob
ert M. Green, Long Veach, Calif.;
Keimeth 'W'. Kirkendoll, Gig
Harbor, 'Wash.; Pvt. Elmer G.
Peavley, Grey, Ky.; Pvt. Emerson
D. Taylor, Hawthorn, Nev.; Pvt.
Luther J. Hairpell, Seattle, Wash.;
Pvt. Charlie F. Evans, husband
of Mrs. Mary G. Evans, Matthews,
N. C.; and Pvt. Louis H. Lake,
Pleasantville, N. J.
Less than eight tenths of one
per cent of the large number of
men involved in the maneuvers
had up until Tuesday noon been
admitted to hospitals hpre and
at Maxton for treatment. Eighty-
three were under treatment, but
officers announced none were crit
ically or seriously injured.
Cooperating in the maneuvers,
which last until October 6, are an
airborne division from Camp
Mackall, the Troop Carrier Com
mand, based at Maxton, and the
Airborne Center of Camp Mack
all, the training school for para
troops and glidertroops.
Directors of the maneuver are
Brigadier General William D. Old
of the First Troop Carrier Com
mand, Major General" Henry Ter
rell, Jr., of the 22nd Corps, and
Colonel J. T. Dalbey, of the Air
borne Center. Major General E.
G. Chapman is in command of
the airborne division engaged in
the maneuvers.
The coming of the thousands of
paratroops Sunday night was the
.first action of the maneuvers.
Dropped at three widely separa
ted points, at distances up to five
miles from the Camp Mackall
airport, the objective of the para
troopers was to advance through
forces designated as the “Red”
army and capture the airstrip
there. During the evening, they
were reinforced by glider forces
which landed in the darkness sev
eral miles from the airport with
out casualties and with only
slight damage to one glider, form
ed a junction with the paratroop
units and advanced to the object
ive.
Monday morning, over 200 glid
ers were brought into various cot
ton fields and other open spaces
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