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1 KEEP FAITH \iMus—\ 'war BONDS VOLUME 25. NO. 7 h-khlt-klt-k-kli -k^-k -k * Those Boys Need^^ Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday. January 12. 1945. TEN CENTS Funeral Services for S.B. Chapin Are Held Saturday HEROIC MISSION Great Friend of Moore County Passes at Pinehurst Home Funeral services tor Simeon Chapin, industrialist and philan thropist who died at his Pinehurst home Wednesday night of last week from a heart attack, were held at 3:00 p. m. Saturday in the Village Chapel, Pinehurst. Rev. Dr. Thaddeus A. Cheatham, a close friend. of Mr. Chapin for many years, officiated. Burial was in the family mausoleum at Lake Geneva, Wis. Although Mr. Chapin would have been eighty years of age next May 31, he remained active in his business and philanthropic interests until a few weeks ago. On Wednesday morning he visited ,'the Moore County Hospital to talk to Manager E. T. McKeithen about Bibles, and donated to the hospital so that a Bible could be placed in every room. Born in Milwaukee, Wis., Mr. Chapin started to work for Ar mour & Company at the age of 16 years. He was founder of S. B. Chapin & Company of New York and served as president for many years. He was a director of num erous companies. His business in terests in the South are represent ed in the Chapin Orchards, Pine hurst, the General Foundry and Machine Company with foundries in Sanford, Greensboro and Fay etteville, large real estate hold ings in both North and South Car olina, and in Chapin Company, which operates a general store , •and ■ c/iiTEi' enterpiisea ifi Myrtle ' Beach, S. C. Mr. Chapin was one of the lead ing Protestant laymen of Amer ica. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, but his sympathies and interest extended to all denominations. Moore County has profited much from Mr. Chapin’s interest. In 1928 he was the chief organizer and obtained a large portion of the subscriptions for the Moore Coun ty Hospital. He was the hospital’s first president and was honorary president at the time of his pass ing. He was very generous in sup porting the churches in Pinehurst and contributed to all charities. In addition to his Pinehurst res idence Mr. Chapin owned homes in Myrtle Beach, S. C., dt Lake Geneva, in New York and Chica go. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. S. B. Chapin of Pinehurst; two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Av Lt. Kenneth S. Schley risk ed his life on the night before Christmas to fly penicillin to American troops in the be- leagured town of Bastogne, where hundreds of wounded men were in need of this life saving ^ug. After making the hazardous landing safe ly. Lt. Schley the next morn ing flew back across enemy lines to rejoin his outfit. Lt. Schley's wife is the for mer Sue Fuller of Durham who lived here with Mrs Moss for a while and attend ed Southern Pines School They were married at Em manual Episcopal Church. Changes Hands Drive for Funds to Combat Polio Op ens January 14 Emphasis Is On Ad equate Support for Hospital Facilities Above is shown the building recently purchased by G. C. Brown from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welch as it appeared when they bought it in 1927 from J. D. Davis. The front has since been rebuilt and greatly improved in appearance. CONGRATULATIONS Pointing out that the 1944 epi demic ’of infantile paralysis was the second worst outbreak of the disease in its history in the United States, H. Clifton Blue, chairman of the 1945 polio campaign in this county, issued a statement today in which he emphasized the “need to reinforce our lines of defense against this insidious enemy of childhood.” The annual fund appeal is being conducted this year from January 14-31 in celebration of the Presi dent’s birthday, and, as in the past, most of the funds will be used to combat polio in this State. Although North Carolina had One" oi Its worst epidemics of in fantile paralysis during the past year, the death rate from th® dread disease was the lowest ever recorded, solely because the funds to provide the best possible medical aid and equipment were immediately available. Chairman Blue pointed out. “This record proves again that (Continued on Page 4) THE PILOT extends con gratulations to two Pine hurst couples who celebrated wedding anniversaries Sun day, January 7: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Watt of Cherokee Road, their 60th, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wigg of Box Cottage, their 48th. Welch Building On Broad Stj^eet Is Bought ty Brown J. B. Edwards Is Named Chairman War Fund Drive County Quota Is Set at $31^200; Driye^ Erected n 1922, It Has Beei Sinclair Station i>r Years 'HUNK" GETS HOME “Hunk”, Mrs. Cliff Johnson’s toy terrier, was “kidnapped” Sun day afternoon, but the fates de creed that pet and mistress should not be separated for very long. It happened when the dog rode up town with Mr. Johnson shortly after three o’clock. Mr. Johnson left the dog, also his car keys, in his automobile parked on Pennsylvania Avenue next to Broad Street Pharmacy, and to Be Held in March Announcemet has just been made of the sse by Mr. and Mrs. Frank-Welch t Gordon C. Brown of the brick bilding at the cor ner of Connedcut Avenue and Broad Street r..fi occupied by the Sinclair Oil C( ipany, which, it is understood, v„l continue to oc cupy it. The cent owners pur chased the bjding^ li'SvIsui Kiwanis Speaker Tells of Inhuman Deeds of Japanese Paul Jernigan, Born in Kobe, Recounts Shocking Atrocities when he returned about five min- Patterson of New York City and I utes later, car and dog were miss- Mrs. Francis A. Drake of Pine- ing. J. B. Edwards of Aberdeen has been named chairman of the Red Cross War Fund drive in Moore County, which will be conducted during the month of March. The quota for the county iS $35,200.00. Last year’s chairman was O. Leon Seymour. Mrs. Henry Page, Jr., of Aber deen has been made chairman of the Camp and Hospital Commit tee, taking the place left vacant by Paul Dana, who resigned. These announcements were made at a meeting of the Execu tive Committee of the Moore County Chapter held Tuesday ev ening at Red Cross headquarters in Southern Pines with Col. George P. Hawes, Jr., of Pine hurst presiding. Other committee members present were MIs.n Laura Kelsey, Mrs. William J. Kennedy, David Packard. Paul Dana and A. L. Burney. The buildi,! Davis and coi 1922, was firs, Motor Compaq Mr. Davis y agency and sc, erect county. Durin, hurst; a son, S. B. Chapin, Jr., of New York, and a sister, Mrs. F. E. May of Chicago. There are five grandchildren. -h Additional Polio Chairmen Named To complete the list of Moore County community chairmen in the Polio Fund campaign which will open on Sunday, January 14 and run through January 31, Prof. M. A. McLeod, superintendent of the Cameron Schools, will serve as chairman for the Cameron drive and Mrs. C. C. Underwood of Eagle Springs will again serve as chairman of the Eagle Springs- Samarcand division, according to an announcement by H. Clifton Blue, general county chairman of the Polio Fund drive. Moore County’s quota in the drive is $3890.00 and Southern Pines’ quota is $1,000. Paul C. Butler is Southern Pines chair man. BUY HOME HERE Captain and Mrs. L. A. des Pland, who for several years oc cupied the Bacon Cottage in Pine hurst, have recently purchased and moved into the S. S. Wom ack residence on Arbutus Road in Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines. 1 1925 to 1933, three individui,, ly Walter, Per, an(d E. A. B Dodge eand E Colton took ove cted by J. D. [eted in December, le home of Davis in 1923 and 1924. the Chevrolet cars all over the the period from was occupied by or firms, Bever- Motor Company I'iteau, who sold ick cars. Georg lin 1933, and from 1934 the place,lwas operated as Colton and F, Late Sunday afternoon Sgt. Tommy Tucker of the Station Hospital, Camp Mackall, was pass ing through Merry Oaks, near Ra leigh, and saw a little dog which appeared to be lost. He took it in charge and on Monday had it with him when he was in Sou thern Pines. Someone recognized the dog and told Sgt. Tucker about its being stolen. “Hunk” was carried home, and although Mrs. Johnson was not there at the time it was clearly evident that the pet was familiar ^ith the surroundings. When she did arrive the reunion was a happy one. Incidentally, the automobile was found Monday night parked by gate number two at Camp Mackall. POLITICAL ADVISER John G. Erhardt, a State De partment official, has been ap pointed political advisor on Aus tria to Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, Allied Commander in Italy. Mr. and Mrs. Erhardt resided in Southern Pines at The Corral and their son, D. Davis Erhardt, graduated from the local high school in 1943. BUSY DAYS AHEAD Wilbur H. Currie, Moore County's representative in the State Legislature, has some ^usy days ahead. He has been named on the folio-wing House Committees: Agricul ture, Appropriations, Conservation and Devel opment, Education, Finance, Game and Inland Fisheries, Health, Manufactures and La bor, Mental Institutions, Prop ositions and Grievances, Roads, Unemployment Compensation. Trustees of University, and Veterans Legislation. guson’s Garage. When Colton aJjd Ferguson went to work at Fort Bragg, two or three years ago, A. A. Hewlett began operating Hewlett’s Service Station there. Sinclair products have been sold at this location since the time when Mr. Baritau was the operator, and in December 1934- January 1935 the Sinclair Oil Company, for which Herbert Cameron is local distributor, re built the front. Originally there were apart ments on the second floor of the building. CHOIR ENTERTAINED The choir of the Aberdeen Presbyterian Church was enter tained at dinner at the Pine Needles Thursday evening by Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson, and later taken to Pinehurst to hear Jean Carlton sing in the Fo rum meeting. BY HOWARD F. BURNS Kiwanian Paul Jernigan, in an address to the Sandhills Kiwanis Club at the Southern Pines Coun try Club, Wednesday, speaking on the subject“The Innerworkings of the Japs”, told in detail of the inhuman treatn^ent to the Chinese and other nationalities residing there. Mr. Jernigan described this as a pretty tall order, for no living human being in his opinion has been born who knows anything about the interworking of the Jap mind. It is the job of the Americans and Allies, he declared, to dissect these barbarians to a point where they will learn some thing about their inner-workings and have sense enough to destroy the characteristics -which are ob jectionable. Mr. Jernigan stated he remem bered vividly the remarks of his father when he said, “Son, after thirty years in the Orient I know less about the Oriental mind than I thought I did after my first year in this part of the world.” He described Shanghai as the most cosmopolitan city in the world, comparable only to New York. Peking, on the other hand, is the most beautiful city in the world, and when the Japs took Peking in 1937, they were careful not to mar the city by a single bomb, daily send out planes for what they called mopping up purposes, he explained, and to make bloody shambles of out-lying villages, where the occupants’ crime was that of farmers who minded their own business. These planes flew so low we could see the bombs hanging in the racks, said the speaker. , Mr. Jernigan, born in Kobe,' Japan, and educated at Randolph- Macon, described another form of entertainment indulged in by the, Japs -to make life unbear able for all nationalitiies besides terrorizing the Chinese. “It was their habit to kick into insensi bility any Chinese driving an au tomobile who sounded his horn within their hearing. They would slap and kick women walking . u7iij(ro1®c(ted on the streets. It was a nightly custom to try to break down the door of our gar age and steal our car, and when we went out in the evening they took their revolvers and threaten ed our servants for shoes, cloth ing or whatever was demanded of them.” Continuing, he said, “On every street the Japs set up (Continued on Page 4) Six Classes Are on Card for First Gymkhana of the New Year to Be Held Sunday Afternoon at Country Club TO AID TAXPAYERS A Deputy Collector will be at the following places on the dates indicated below to assist tax payers who are required to file 1944 estimated income tax returns Or 1944 returns by Jan uary 15: Courthouse in Carthage, Jan uary 10 and 11. Courthouse in Raeford. Jan. uary 12 and 13. Basement Southern Pines Post Office, January 15. , Red Cross Issues Urgent Call for New Nurse’s Aides Volunteers Wanted to Train in Class Starting Jan. 19th The Moore County Chapter of the Red Cross is making an ur gent call for women to train for Nurse’s Aides. These aides are needed for work at Camp Mackall and Moore County Hospital. The need is pressing, as the President of the United States has request ed all graduate nurses to join the armed services. If need be, grad uate nurses will be drafted. Uriless wiomen volunteer for Nurse’s Aide work, a desperate situation is threatened. Classes will be held at the Nurses’ Home , ■at "‘‘thd Mofee"" Cduhtjr’Hospltal" with Mrs. Mary Wilder Johnson, as instructor. Applications may be obtained at Red Cross Headquar ters, Southern Pines and Moore County Hospital. The next course will start Jan uary 19, with sessions from 9 a. m. until noon, Mondays through Fridays. There will be 35 hours of class work and 40 hours of floor work. Show Is Expected to Attract Many En tries and Spectators Louis Scheipers, chairman of the equestrian committee, has an nounced the first gymkhana for the New Year, to be held Sunday at the horseshow grounds at the Southern Pines Country Club. A large string of horses from the stables here and in Pinehurst is expected to be entered in the afternoon show at 2:30 o’clock. The card lists six classes as fol lows: First, a class for light weight hunters to be run over the regu lar hunting course of rail jumps and panel fences. Second, a class for heavy weight hunters. Third, a class for pair jump ers. Fourth, a class for open jump ers to be held in the inside ring. Fifth, .1 class for servicemen. Sixttb, a class for children’s horsemanship, William E. Schlusemezer of Farmington, Mass., well known horseman who is at the Mid Pines Club, will judge the show. Mrs. Schlusemezer will present the ribbons. Plans are being made for a large turn-out of spectators. Characteristic i Coroner’s Jury Pronounces Death of Louise Morgan Unavoidable Accident A coroner’s jury, impaneled to investigate the death of 13-year- old Louise Morgan of upper Moore County, who was almost instantly killed on Monday afternoon of last week by a car driven by G. E. Gibbs, principal of the school at Murfreesboro, returned a ver dict of “unavoidable accident” at the conclusion of their delibera tions Saturday. John McCaskill, C. F. Barnes, Joe Allen, H. G. Poole, Houston Parks and Dave Ginsberg composed the jury. • However, a warrant charging manslaughter and careless and reckless driving, taken out by A. T. Morgan, father of the child, was served upon Mr. Gibbs im mediately after the inquest and a hearing is scheduled for next Monday in Recorder’s Court. The ■without bond. The accident occured about eight miles north of Carthage. Ac cording to the evidence, the Car thage school bus upon which the girl was riding home from school drove about 25 feet off the right side of the highway to unload. A northbound Raleigh-Charlotte bus, headed north, stopped to pick up a passenger and just as it started to proceed Gibbs, driv ing south, came by and the girl ran in front of the car from hind the bus. The driver tes that he saw the accident th: his rear view mirror. Mr. Gibbs rushed the c Carthage and she was tal there by ambulam County Hospitj about ten On every hand are heard ex pressions of regret at the passing of Simeon B. Chapin and recitals of good deeds which were a part of his everyday life. A Moore County atterney told an incident which is enaraetbris- tic of Mr. Chapin: “I hear that my good friend, , is about to be foreclosed by a land bank,” Mr Chapin is quoted as saying when, deeply concerned, he visitra the lawyer’s office. Before lea-ing, he turned over a signed check to be filled out for the ameunt necessary to pay off the in(febtedness and, in addition, left i check for $500 with the request that it be cashed and the monevjdaced in the hands of this frig tion beir ghe only stipula- vhie friend not be j -the aid had come. the Aberdeen Ihurch now has Jnts that were a It is said that the church he bed by the choir, the leadership of ^ pastor’s wife, has vork, that he do- defendant was allowed to go I the hospi 541st Band From Camp Mackall to Pinehurst Players Give “The Dover Road” January 13 1st Production of Group Will Benefit Hospital Auxiliary The production comriiWeve of the newly organized Pinehurst Players consisting of Miss Ruth McEnery, chairman, Caroline Spelman, assistant chairman, Mrs. George Mixter, Jr. of Boston and Pinehurst, and Mrs. Alex T. Rob erts, just announced the cast for their forthcoming vehicle, “The Dover Road”, by A. A. Milne, di rected by Henry B. Spelman, who will also appear on the stage. The play will have the following mem bers in the cast: Major and Mrs. Frank Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Carter, Lt. and Mrs. Alan Rob son, Miss Ruth McEnery, Mrs. John F. Landis and James Spel man. The 13th is the day chosen for the play which will be given in the Pinehurst Theatre, and the committee on patrons and patron esses, announces a gratifying re sponse to invitations to sponsor (Continued on Page 4) BANK OFFICERS Following the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Citi zen Bank & Trust Company held Tuesday, the Board of Directors on Wednesday elected N. L. Hodgkins, president; Carlton Kennedy, cashier; and Ethel Jones, secretary and assistant cashier. At the stockholdlers’ meeting the following directors were el ected: Kenneth B. Trousdell, J. C. Barron, John M. Howarth, Ho ward F. Burns and N .L. Hodg kins. The president’s annual report was read, showing a very suc cessful year. Popular Parachute Infantry Group to Give Concert Sunday The 541st Parachute Infantry Regimental Band will present a concert in the Southern Pines High School Auditorium on Sun day, January 14, at 4 p. m. The group under the direction of M|Sgt. Fernando Perez gave sev eral concerts^ during the past summer in the Southern Pines Public Park. The Program is as follows: Colonel Ducat McEntree —Perez. . ■. La Croix De' Jerusalem—Ov erture—BJeger. Celebrated Minuet—Paderesw- ki. National Emblem March—^Bag- ley. Ave Maria—Bach. A Night in Tripoli—Italian Song—Richart. My Wild Irish Rose—Olcott. The Bells St. Mary’s— Adams. Are You From Dixie—One Step —Cobb. "i^ictory—^American Fantasia— Yoder. The Teddy Bear’s Picnic— Bratton. Our Bugler—Military March— Missud. Star Spangled Banner—Smith. M|Sgt. Fernando Perez is band conductor, and S|Sgt. Walter C. Drury is business manager. Other members ' are; Clarinets: Loren Yaggy, Paul Kluga, John Stan ley and Eugene La Blonde; tu bas: Charles Moore and Merritt Greene; cornets and trumpets: (Continued on Page 4) C. E. CORPORATION MEETS IN SANFORD A meeting of the Central El ectric Membership Corporation will be held in the Lee County Courthouse Annex, Sanford, at 7:30 p. m. January 16, and all members and persons interested in procuring electric service are urged to attend. This corporation has been granted a loan of $150,000.00 by R. E. A. to build proposed electric lines in the counties of Lee, Moore, Chatham, Hoke and Wake, it has been announced. H. A. Cooper is president of the corporation and John B. Jo^^, secretary^treasiirer.
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