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Girl Arrested For
Murder Of Infant;
Sordid Story Told
Mary Cole Bonded
For Grand Jury
Action In May'
A sad and sordid story was re
vealed here last weekend with the
news that Mary Frances Cole, 32-
year-old waitress, had been charg
ed with the murder of her new
born infant.
Arrested on her discharge last
Thursday from St. Joseph’s hos
pital, Miss Cole was free until
Monday on a $5,000 temporary
bond set by Coroner Ralph G.
Steed. Monday, the bond was
withdrawn and she was transport
ed to Carthage jail.
Wednesday afternoon, she ap
peared before Justice McLeod at
Carthage to waive hearing, and to
make a cash bond of $4,000, which
he set for her appearance in May.
The case. wiU go before the grand
jury at that time.
Chief C. E. Newton, who made
the arrest, said the young woman
admitted giving birth to the child
in her hotel room, and striking its
head twice against the wall.
The body of a perfectly formed,
full-term seven-pound boy was
found buried between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen, near the
Drive-In theatre. An autopsy re
vealed, that it had lived, and that
t “every bone in its head was brok
en,”' Chief Newton said.
The news shocked and horrified
this community, where Miss Cole
and her sister Sue had lived since
November 1951. They came to
Southern Pines from Warrenton
and had been employed since that
time at the Coffee Shop, rooming
at the Jefferson Inn. They had
conducted themselves quietly, in
ladylike fashion, and were known
for their pleasant, ways / and
friendly manner.
Though suspicions of Miss
Cole’s condition had been aroused
among those who saw her fre
quently, she had confided in no
one. When questioned by persons
who felt she might be in trouble,
she denied there was anything
amiss. Her sister told Chief New
ton she even denied it to heis
Finding Mary ill and hemor
rhaging in their room Thursday
night. Sue Cole summoned an am
bulance PT'd went with her to St.
Joseph’s hospital. Also going to
the hospital with them was a mar
ried man who had been dating
Mary.
At the hospital physicians real
ized immediately that a birth had
taken place. This the girl at first
denied, but later admitted it. In
her statement to Chief Newton
she said that she had told the msir-
ried man, who lives in another
county, that she had had a mis
carriage and he was to get a suit
case from her room and “bury the
package.” To her sister she said
the suitcase had nightgowns and
other necessary articles in it, and
she was to give it to her friend,
and he would bring it to the hos
pital.
Chief Newton located the man
without difficulty. Shocked to
Cherry Red Smocks Are Symbol Of Hospital Service
ffl
The cherry red color of the smocks worn by
the ladies above has become a symbol of service
at Moore County hospital. They are the uni
form of the recently organized Volunteer Corps
of the hospital auxiliary, which is filling a long-
felt need in performing many necessary daily
tasks,’ relieving the nurses to concentrate their
time and attention on the sick.
Pictured above are the members from South
ern Pines and Pinehurst, about one-third of the
Corps. Those from Aberdeen, Carthage and
West End were not present for the photograph.
They are, from left, front row—Mrs. W. M.
Warner, Mrs. Mumford Horr, Mrs. John E. Cline,
Mrs. J. F. Remington, Mrs. A. P. Thompson, Mrs.
Harold A. Peck, Mrs. James W. Tufts, Mrs. Roy
McMillan.
Standing—Mrs. Claude E. Reams, Mrs. Lee
Page, Mrs. Katherine McColl, Mrs. W. T. Hunt-
ley, Jr., Mrs. A. L. Burney, Mrs. Hugh Carter,
Mrs. O. Leon Seymour; Mrs. Ralph Chandler, Jr.,
Mrs. H. A. Campbell, Mrs. T. A. Cheatham, Mrs.
C. V. Covell.
Mrs. Huntley and Mrs. Cline are co-chairmen
for Southern Pines. (Hemmer Photo)
Chairman Named
To Head Program
Of Chamber Work
The setting up of basic opera
ting committees, and the selection
sf a chairman for each, with full
responsibility for its work, was
the major sccomplishment of the
Chamber of Commerce board of
directors Tuesday night.
In view of the division of the
work load and the fine cocpera-
tive snirit which was shown, Val
erie Nicholson, president pro tern,
agreed to continue in this capa
city for a time.
Chairmen were named as fol
lows:
E. W. Small, Central Carolina
Telephone Co. accountant, chair
man of the finance committee. To
supervise income and expendi
tures, plan a practical budget and
make regular reports at each
board meeting. Mr. Small is also
treasurer of the Chamber.
W. Ward Hill, local manager of
the Carolina Power and Light Co.,
chairman of the membership com
mittee. To plan and head the
membership campaign, extension
•^nd maintenance of membership
level through renewals and se
curing new memberships, wel-
’otre' of newcomers into Chamber
membership, all matters connect
ed with dues.
Robert F. Cameron, assistant
^a’'’aser of the Sinclair Oil Co.,
ownspeople Enjoy “Open House”
Initiating Use Of Community Center
chairman of the Motor Vehicle li-
discover what had actually hap-1 cense sales bureau. To assume the
pened, he took the Chief at once | contract with the Carolina Motor
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to the place where, he said, he
had buried “the package” without
un'wrapping it. It was wrapped
in a beach towel and slip, and to
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cli’b for license sales in this area
and supervise all matters connect
ed with its fulfilment. ,
-J. Graves Vann, Jr., production
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Mrs. Banigan Makes $4,000 Bond And
Departs; No Money Comes For Church
Mrs. Julie D. Banigan made | Tuesday. By noon Thursday,
bond last Friday in the amount of | nothing had been received or
$4,000, and was released from 1 heard from her.
Carthage jail, where she had been
incarcerated since early in De
cember.
The bond was made by a profes
sional bondsman secured for her
by her attorney, R. L. Gavin of
Sanford. Mr. Gavin said she paid
$400 for the bond, and that he did
not know where it came from.
Unofficial information was that
the money was made up for her
by several friends in Southern
Pines, in ■Hew of the fact that her
physical condition was extremely
grave. She was brought to South
ern Pines where she took the
train Friday night, presumably to
return to her home in Rhode Is
land.
She promised upon release to
wire back the $1,200 owing the
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
church, which she said she had
intact in a safety deposit box.
This was to have arrived by noon
Mrs. Banigan was jailed on two
charges of embezzlement arising
from real estate deals here last
year, one of them being that of
the Presbyterian church.
Most of the civil claims against
her had been cleared by a sher
iff’s sale. Before she left, a claim
of the Style-Mart store against her
husband, J. J. Banigan, was non
suited. This released his clothing,
which had been attached. Two
claims outstanding against Mrs.
Banigan, brought by Razooks and
Nell Covington of Pinehurst, were
neither paid nor non-suited.
Her jail term and privilege of
bond was extended till May by
Judge J. A. Rousseau following a
trial in criminal court at Carthage
last month, to give her a chance
to make good the amount she was
convicted of embezzling.
If these are not made good,
causing a review of her sentence,
two prison terms await her.
♦ Southern Pines people turned
out in a friendly and interested
throng Tuesday evenirfg to visit
and inspect their new Communi
ty Center cn South May street.
Mayor C N. Page and the town
board members, Supt A. C. Daw
son and members of the Munici
pal Recreation Commission, of
which he is chairman, formed a
proud and happy receiving line for
the proud and happy townspeople.
Also in the informal line, beam
ing like any young couple receiv
ing guests in their new home for
the first time, were Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis McNeill, who moved into
the upstairs apartment last week.
Some 200 people visited the big
white frame house in its setting
of pines during the appointed
hours.
Generous Dimensions
In the long assembly room
across the front nf the build
ing, a room of gracious and gen
erous dimensions, they paid many
compliments to the new town fa
cility. At a table at one end
adorned with red flowers and
training greens, smiling high
school girls in party dreses serv
ed lime ice punch from a big
punch bowl, and passed cookies.
New folding chairs and several
, . upholstered pieces were ranged
March of Dimes reports popping walls. The windows
RULES POSTED
Rules posted at the South
ern Pines Community Center:
"The Center will be open
from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday
through Thursday, from 9 a.
m. to 12 midnight Friday and
Saturday.
"No alcoholic beverages
will be allowed on the prem
ises.
"Those using the Center for
meetings or parties must
clean up afterward."
"A minimum fee will be
charged for use of the build
ing and also the outdoor cook
ing facilities.
'Tor teen-age parties, a
minimum of two adult chap
erones must be in attendance,
furnished by the group or in
dividual sponsoring the party.
'Those wishing use of the
Center must make arrange
ments in advance with Mrs.
McNeill."
March Of Dimes
Quota Is Made
in this week from one place after
another showed the county to be
safely past its quota, though with
out a great deal to spare.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
campaign chairman, said that re
ports through Tuesday totaled
$9,065.41. County quota was $7,
540.
The “Big Five”—towns with the
largest quotas—are now all safe
ly over. These are Southern Pines,
which had a quota of $1,750, re
porting about $2,400 collected,
Aberdeen, Pinehurst, C^irthage
and Robbins, with quotas of $1,-
000 each—Aberdeen reporting $1,-
501, Pinehurst $1,400, Carthage
$1,052 and Robbins $1,040.
These were first reports for all
five except Aberdeen, which
“went over” last week and this
week had additional funds to re
port, including $318.60 from the
employees of Robbins Mill and
$100 from the Robbins corpora
tion.
Others passing their quotas this
week were Vass, $350.61' ($300);
Hallison, $61.05 ($50); Roseland,
$38.59 ($30) and Niagara, $32.65
($30).
Lakeview, "Westmoore, Highfalls
and West End made their quotas
“arlier. Cameron, Eagle Springs,
Farm Life and Manly have not
reported as yet.
Most of the chairmen say they
are expecting some more funds in,
are working through the rest of,
this week or have coin containers
to pick up. In any case, it appears
that the end is not yet and the to
tal to be given by Moore county
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were curtainless as yet, though
with Venetian blinds.
Everything was spick and span
and the newly renovated pine
floors gleamed.
The visitors roamed into the
kitchen, as yet unequipped, from
which refreshments can be serv
ed in the main room over a con
venient bar. They saw also a
smaller game room with ping
pong table already set up, ready
for action.
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STEVENSON SPEAKS
Local friends and well-
wishers of Adlai Stevenson,
also some members of his im
mediate family, 'will be
watching television here Sat
urday night when he delivers
his first major post-campaign
address in New York City.
The address 'will be' made
before 1,800 guests at a Jef-
fersoh-Jackson Day dinner at
the Waldorf Astoria.' It 'will
be carried on nationwide TV
and radio networks, sponsor
ed by Democratic organiza
tions of eight states.
The former Illinois gover
nor and Democratic presiden
tial candidate ^unrived in New
York Tuesday fromi the Weet
Indies, where he has been 'va
cationing 'With friends.
His brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L.'
Ives, and nephew Lieut. Tim
othy Ives are 2d their South
ern Pines home. Paint Hill
Farm.
Irish Knight Will
Speak On Ghosts
For Flood Relief
Sir Shane Leslie
Gives Services For
Monday Night Event
Sir Shane Leslie, noted Irish wit
End scholar, first cousin of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, will
speak Monday night at the South’
ern Pines library on “Ghosts in
Theory and Experience.”
The event is being held for the
benefit cf English and American
families made homeless by floods
in England. A free will offering
will be taken.
Coming here to address the
Pinehurst Forum Thursday night,
Sir Shane voluntarily expressed
his willingness to “do anything he
might be asked” to benefit this
cause which has stirred the hearts
of the country. He was immedi
ately and appreciatively taken up
on his offer.
The Moore County Historical
association is sponsoring his talk
here, through arrangements made
by Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president.
Mrs. Ives and her husband are old
friends of Sir Shane’s.
A number of British-born resi
dents of the community are also
working hard to get the news
around and secure good attend
ance. The event promises to be
one of the most enjoyable of the
season, as well as giving aid to the
flood sufferers.
The lecture which Sir Shane
will give here is the fruit, he says,
of 40 years’ study ofk Irish and
English ghost stories and haunt
ed houses, and the “whole host
of the para-normal and supra-
sensory.” He will conclude the
talk with three vivid recitals of
ghost stories, out of first-hand
knowledge.
Sir Shane is a member of the
Psychical Research Institute of
London.
He is also well-known as a
writer cf novels, verse and his
torical works. He is a biographer
of Jonathan Swift, Cardinal Man
ning, Cardinal Gasquet, King
George IV of England, Tolstoy
and Mrs. Fitzherbert, secrH bride
of George IV.
He has for 30 years been known
as Ireland’s leading forester, and
has done much to promote good
forestry practice in his country.
He regards himself as Ameri
can as much as Irish. He is rela
ted to Churchill through his
American-born mother, sister of
Churchill’s mother. They were the
legendary and lovely Jerome sis
ters, who made history of a sort
themselves.
Hunter Trials To Run
Wednesday Attracting
Many Outside Entries
'*^Piiblic To Attend
HAVE A HEART
They won't be exactly car
rying their hearts on their
sleeves, but a number of local
ladies will have them in their
hands, when they conduct a
coin collection do'wntown
here Saturday — Valentine
Day.
This is National Heart day.
climaxing the nationwide
fund drive of the American
Heart association, and women
making up the local commit
tee ■will seek your dimes and
dollars to aid in the associa
tion's heart disease research
program. said Mis. A. H.
Grant, county chairman.
Except for the sencUng out
of letters,, this will be the only
solicitation conducted during
the drive. You are asked to
"Have a heart — Give Your
Heart—Give to the Heart
Fund."
Western Union
In New Quarters
At Jefferson Inn
The Western Union office mov
ed a half-block away this week
and is open for business today
(Friday) in its new home, a first-
floor front room at the Jefferson
Inn.
The room was partitioned off
for the telegraph office by the
Jefferson Inn owners, and has its
own front entrance.
The move followed an eviction
hearing held last Friday before
Justice jOf the Peace D. E. Bailey,
at which the utility, first ordered
out of its old habitat as of Febru
ary 1, was given an extension un
til today.
The move was to take several
days, as wiring and other details
of the installation of the teletypes
is somewhat complicated. How
ever, said Mrs. Nellie Mann, man
ager, the office would cEury on
without interruption, except for a
few minutes when the teletypes
were actually in transit.
Patch’s Department store, which
served the eviction notice, is ex
pected to have the small frame
building Western Union has been
occupying tom down practically
at once. Several bids have been
received, said Earle B. Owen,
store manager, and the contract is
to be let within a few days. The
building was previously con
demned. I
Hoke Citizens Told
Army Will Again
“Reconsider” Plan
Citizens of Hoke coimty, “fight
ing mad” at Army proposals to
annex a 50,000-acre corridor for
military purposes, met at the
courthouse at Raeford Saturday
night to hear that the Army has
agreed,, for the second time, “to
reconsider” the plan.
The information was brought
them by a three-man county com
mittee, just back from two days
of conferences in Washington.
The report to the people was
made by J. L. McNeill, chairman
of the county committee. Rep.
Harry Greene and Editor Paul
Dickson.
With former Secretary of the
Army Kenneth C. Roy all as their
counsel, and Rep. C. B. Deane,
Sen. Clyde R. Hoey and Sen. Wil
lis Smith backing them, the com
mitteemen spent 'Thursday and
Friday in the nation’s capital to
learn the latest developments.
Stalemate Seen
Although developments have
struck a stalemate and the Army
has done little more than study
its original plan since the Hoke
county delegation’s first protest
trip to Washington, the delegation
WEIS told that the Army would
consider a second time.
T. A. Young, special assistant
to the Secretary of the Army, has
been heading the WEishington
study of the proposed project,
which will provide a corridor for
long-range artillery firing be
tween Fort Bragg and Camp Mac-
kail.
"While in Washington, the com
mittee learned that although a
$49,000,000 fund has been approv
ed for maintenance, operating fa
cilities, housing, training facilities
and land acquisition, they could
find no trace that actual approval
has been given to the fund.
Chairman McNeiU told the citi
zens at the mass meeting that re
cent economy moves by the Re
publican Administration.might be
extended to militEiry projectsJike
the one planned in this Etrea, but
he urged them not to place too
much hope in such a move and to
continue their fight.
Formal Hunt BaR
At Carolina Hotel
Next Wednesday is Moore
County Hounds Day in this sec
tion. Starting at 2 p. m. with the
opening event of the Hunter
Trials cut at the Scott farm on
the eastern end of Young’s road,
the day will close with the Hunt
Ball at the Carolina Hotel in Pine
hurst that evening.
Both events will be held under
the auspices of the Moore County
Hounds, proceeds from the hunter
trials' going to build fences and
open up the country.
This year’s program for the
afternoon event follows the usual
classifications, starting with the
requirement that all entries must
be bona fide hunters. The five
classes listed include: first season
hunters, thoroughbreds, non
thoroughbreds, and an open class,
with the spectacular hunt teams,
taking the field in full livery,
rounding out the day. Parking
spaces for cars on the hill, from
which every fence may be seen,
may be obtained from Mrs. W. O.
Moss, secretary of the hunt, who
is also in charge of selling tick
ets for the ball. Pinehurst people
may get their tickets from the
doorman at the Carolina.
•The Moore County Hounds will
parade, to open the program, and
a popular feature is the miniature
drag, laid over a few fields and
fences in full view of the specta
tors, followed by a select few of
the regular field. W. Ozelle Moss,
joint master with William J.
Brewster, will as usual act as
huntsman, with Mrs. Moss and
Jack Goodwin as first and second
whips.
AT ART gallery
* An unusual display of bird
prints, including several Au-
dubons, -will be the next ex
hibit to be shown at the art
gallery in the Southern Pines
library, starting Monday and
continuing for two weeks.
The prints ■will be arranged
by Miss Allie McIntosh, local
dealer in antiques and art ob
jects. The show ■will include
some prints o-wned by Miss
McIntosh, some borrowed
from other collections; some
old, and Some of more recent
vintage, -with interest ifor both
bird lovers and art lovers.
The exhibit of paintings by
Danila Frassineti De'vins,
young Southern Pines artist
and animal portraitist, ■will
continue through this ■week
end.
Campbell Notified
Region Six Has
Won Top Award
Region Six, Boy Scouts of
America, of which W. D. Camp-
ib"'!! of Southern Pines is chair
man, was the leader in last year’s
inter-regional competition for ex
cellence throughout the United
States.
A congratulatory letter received
by Chairman W. D. Campbell this
week from- the Chief Executive,
Dr. Arthur Schuck of New York
City, informed him that the cov
eted Lorillard-Spencer award for
1952 has been won by his region.
This is the highest honor in Boy
Scouting on the regional level.
He will receive the award in be
half of Region Six at the National
Council meeting, to be held in
connection'with the Third Nation
al Jamboree at Los Angeles, Cal.,
next July.
Region Six, comprising the
states of North and South Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida, is com
posed of 37 councils, of which the
Occoneechee Council is one.
Moore county is a district with
in the Occoneechee Council, one
of 12 with headquarters at Ra
leigh.
The Lorillard-Spencer award is
based on three major points indic
ative of sustained interest, activ
ity and growth: (l)percentage of
membership increase; (2) percent
age of subscriptions to Boys Life,
national Boy Scout periodical, and
(3) fewest number of lapsed units.
Commenting this week on the
award. Chairman Campbell said,
“It is due entirely to the team
work of 50,000 volunteer scouters
—^the finest people I ever knew,
working together in the interest
of the fine young manhood of
their communities and councils.”
Boy Scouts in the Region num
ber 145,000.
The honor comes to Region Six
in the second yesir of the Southern
Pines man’s chairmanship. It was
greatly desired and worked for—
especially since last year it “just
missed.” The first year he was
chairman, the Region placed sec
ond—^no small feat in itself.
It is the fourth time Region Six
has won the Lorillard-Spencer
award. It won it in 1947, and once
a good many years before that,
the exact date not recorded here.