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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, IV'jrth Carolina, Friday, September 28, 1931.
FIVE CENTO
P. A. ROCKEFELER
DIES IN HOSPITAL
IN NEW YORK CITY
To Ptay Benefit Ball Game for
Players Hurt in Auto Collision
Most Widely Known Resident of
This Section Victim of Stom
ach Ailment
ESTATE AT OVERHILLS
The conference of the Congrega
tional churches of the Carolinas will
toe held at the Church of Wide Fel
lowship in Southern Pines October
11 and 12. The closing session of the
conference will consist of the instal
lation of the new pastor of the
church, the Rev'. Dr. C. Rexford Kay-
niond. Full announcement will be
made in next week’s paper.
DOUC.KAS TO WEU
MISS IIAKUIS OF W ASHINGTON
The engagement was announced
this week in Washington, D. C., of
Miss Sarah Harris of Washington to
Douglas Lring of Ami.ssville, Vir
ginia and Southern Pines. Miss Har-
lid parents arc deceased. Mr. Laing
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
A. Laing who make their winter
home here. No date has been set for
the wedding.
Opens Campaign
The Sandhills section lost its most
widely known resident this week.
Percy A. Rockefeller of Overhills,
nephew of John D. and a capitalist
of first magnitude in his own right,
died in New York City on Tuesday.
He had been criticall.y ill since Sat
urday when he underv^ent an opera
tion in Doctors' hospital for a stom
ach ailment which had given him
trouble for the last two years. Much
of his time during this period was
spent at his extensive estate near
here.
Percy Avery Rockefeller was born
in New York February 27. 1878,
which was some time after the migra
tion of his parents, William and Al
mira Goodsell Rockefeller, from
Cleveland.
In this trek eastward the William
Rockefellers w'ere but a part of that
famous Standard Oil group headed
by John D., W'illiam's brother, and in-;
eluding the Pratts, Whitneys, and
the original H. H. Rogers. |
Soon after his graduation from,
Yale in 1900 Percy Rockefeller made I
it plain that his business career i
would be diametrically opposed to
that choscn by his cousin, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.
William Rockefeller, the father of
Percy, had a large stake in Stand
ard Oil but in the later years of his
life he also became a power in rail
roads, industrial enterprises and
banking. Percy with his brother.
William G., took up the burden of
management of his father’s inter
ests when the elder Rockefeller died.
Shrewd Business Man
By virtue of his early training,
Percy Rockefeller was weil qualified
to assume these ’•e^ponsibiliiies: but
while he was thus being trained, and
thereafter, his cousin John D,, Jr„
remained deeply immersed in studies
of practical philanthropy in prepar
ation for distribution of much of the
fortune amassed by his father,
Percy f})ckefeller’s activities in
W'all Street stamped him as a shrewd
and highly versatile financier. He
reputedly accepted places on the
boards of a score of leading corpor
ations, not only because of his finan
cial interests therein, but also be
cause the managements wanted the
benefit of his counsel and judgment.
Mr, Rockefeller acquired his es
tate at Overhills in this section some
time ago and had spent many winter
months there. He was an ardent hun
ter and game was plentiful on the
preserve. He either maintained a
back of hounds of his own for fox
hunting or had a guest pack from the
north there almost every winter, us
ually the pack from Millbrook, New
York, where he made his northern
residence, Mr, Rockefeller was a fre
quent visitor in Southern Pines but
always unostentatious, coming and
going with few here knowing who he
was. He was deeply interested in this
section and will be sorely missed,
TO INSTALL NEW PASTOR OF
WIDE FKL.LOWSHI1* CHURCH
W.VLTEK I.AMBKTH
Representative Walter Lambeth ot
Thomasville will open his campaign
for reelection at Troy, Montgomery
county today, Friday. All members
of the congressional committee will
be present, as will Sfate Chairman
Wallace Winbourn, of Marion. Miss
Beatrice Cobb, Democratic national
committeewoman of Morganton, ha.s
been invited, and will probably at
tend. Mr. Lambeth is opposed in the
November election by Alvon Hall, Re
publican of Yp-dkinville, Mr, Lambeth
defeated his Republican opponent two
years ago, 49,584 to 26,260,
Ml', Lambeth is now serving his
second term as congressman from
this, the eighth district, and is North
Carolina’s member on the important
Foreign Affairs committee, and is an
ardent supporter of the administra
tion.
Football Season Opens
Saturday at Chapel Hill
Carolina an'l Wake Forest All
Set for Gj.me, With Bij?
Crowd Expected
Carolina and Wake Forest are to
meet on the gridiron in Chapel Hill
GatL'rday in what is e.xpected to be
the b;st atlcndeJ opening game be
tween these tv,o rivals since they
started playing football way back in
the nineties.
All this week the ticket sale has
been unusually heavy. The 62-0
trouncing that Wake Forest handed
Guilford last Saturday has served
notice that the Tar Heels have a
formidable crew to reckon with this
Saturday.
Two of last year's standbys who
didn’t play against Guilford are ex
pected to be ready for Carolina.
They are Mike DiAngelis, one of the
state’s best guards, who reported
late, and Bill Martin, the best broken
field runner on the squad, who had
an injured foot.
The Deacon line will outweigh the
Tar Heels 10 pounds to the man.
averaging 200 pounds. Wake Forest
has a coterie of fine ball carriers
in Martin, Edens, Myers, Kitchen,
Morris, Sheppard, Gold, Horton, and
Peacock, and in Edens and Kitchen
it has perhaps the best kicker and
passer in the state.
To stop the Deacon hosts, Carolina
is banking on the speed, drive, ex
perience, and spirit of its veteran
line. The latter, averaging 199
pounds! lists six lettermen, Daniel at
center, Captain Barclay and Kahn at
guard, Tatum and Evins at tackle,
and W. Moore at end, with one
sophomore. Buck, at the other flank.
The reserved seats for this game
will be $1.65 and general admission
$1.10.
Ralph Wallace, West Eod Mana
ger and Others Injured in
Crash in Fok
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As the aftermath of a collision be
tween two automobiles last Friday
night there'will uj a
between two all-star teams made up
of players in the Moore County Lea
gue on Wednesday afternoon on the
Southern Pines ball diamond. There
would appear to be no relationship
in an automobile collision and a ball
! game, but there is.
' Ralph Wallace, West F^nd High
School teacher and athletic coach,
and M, C, McDonald, Jr,, of West
End, in McDonald’s car, and Henry
Butner, Alfred Upchurch and Ralph
Hendricks of Aberdeen, in Butner's
i car, were all injured, some seriously,
; when the two cars came together in
a heavy fog last Friday night when
the young men were returning from a
i dance at Jackson Springs, The cars
‘ collided at the railroad crossing at
West End,
Wallace and McDonald were the
most seriously injured. The former
suffered a broken knee cap, the lat
ter a fractured arm. Hendricks and
Upchurch were badly cut about the
faco and arms, Butner escaped with
minor cuts and bruises. All were
rushed to the Moore County Hospi
tal where they were treated and
where it will be necessary for Wal
lace to remain for some time,
W'allace was manager of the West
End team, this season’s winner in
the Moore County League. Upchurch
has been a member of the AberdeDn
team from time to time. Fellow play
ers in the league conceivcd the idea
this week of playing a 1 enefit game
next Wednesday to help the injured
youths defray their liospital expenses
and doctors’ bil'.s. Two managers
have been named to orgahize teams
from among the best players in the
league, Jack Johnson getting up one
team, Landon Tyson of Vass the
other. The game will be called at 3
o’clock Wednesday afternoon. No
tickets will be sold but hats w'ill make
the roundo during the game and all
contributions go to the •‘Collision
Fund.” A large crowd is expected to
witness this final baseball game of
the season here.
E. T. Latting, Sr. Dies
At Finehiirst, Aged 77
Esteemed Citizen Here For
Many Years Pas.ses Quietly
Away at liospital
PUBLIC DEBT, LOSS
OF HONOR NATION’S
TWO MAJOR EVII-S
Honored
MOORE CO. BAR
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Recovery of Respect for Law l)e-!
pendent Upon Relief From
Tax Burden
11. F. SEAWELL .JR. SPEAKER i
ST.VTE F.VlIi OI*EXS OCT. «
WITH Nl’MKKOlTS FEATl’RES
The annual North Carolina State
Fair will open on Monday, October
8th in Raleigh and promises to be
the best in many years. Agriculture
and the home are being emphasized
in the exhibits. Numerous entertain
ment feature.^ have been provided this
yeai', including the World of Mirth
Shows and a Winter Garden Revue,
a musical comedy to be presented
ris:ht!v.
One of Pinehurst's most esteemed
citizens, Edward Towmsend Latting,
passed quietly away last Thursday in
the Moore County Hospital, Mr. Lat
ting was 77 years of age.
Of a prominent Long Island fam
ily for whom Lattingtown, N, Y., was
named, E. T, Latting first came to
Pinehurst some 18 years ago, making
it at first his winter home, in recent
years his permanent abode. He has
been a familiar figure about the re
sort. his love for the horse and for
exercise making a daily ride during
the winter season a fixed habit des
pite his advancing years.
Two of Mr, Lr.tting’s surviving
children ai-e residents of Piuehurst,
Mrs, Frank Dudgeon, wife of the
Pinehurst postmaster, and Edward
T. Latting, Jr, Two other daughters
survive, Mrs, R. L. Van Namen and
Mrs. Charles Shotwell, both of Brook
lyn, and one son, Harry Latting, re-!
sides in Chicago. '
Funeral services v/ere held in the j
Village Chapel last Friday afternoon
with the Rev. T. A. Cheatham offi
ciating, after which the body was
taken to Lattingtown, on Long Island,
for burial, Mrs. Dudgeon and Harry
Latting accompanying the remains.
OLD BETllEsb.V HOME ( OMIXG
I'lHST SVNUAY IN (M'TOUEK
A week from next Sunday will b?
Old Bethesda’s annual Home Com
ing, and the Rnv. E. L. Baiber, pas
tor of the church, and members of
the congregation are busil.v engaged
in preparation for the event, the full
program for which will be announc
ed in next week’s Pilot. It is expected
■•at Dr. Angus R. Shaw of Charlote
will be the morning preacher with
Judge Thomas J. Shaw of Greens'ooro
delivering the address in the after-
r :'n.
The Two major evils which beset
state and nation today are:
First Overwhelming and increas-
ing public debt.
Second—The loss of sensibility to
ward honor.
Unless we curtail the first we may
lose entirely the second, ^
Herbert F, Seawell, Jr,, candidate |
for Member of the House of Repre
sentatives from Moore county, en- j
larged upon these points in a splendid i
talk made before members of the
Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen in the par
lors of the Church of Wide Fellow-;
ship on Wednesday. He wa.s intro
duced by Frank McCluer of Aber- [
deen,
Mj', Seawell spoke of the increase
in debt in North Carolina from $7,-
000,000 in 1920 to $ls0,000,000 at j
present, “greater than in any state
in the union except New York, the
greatest per capita debt of any state,” |
He stated that North Carolina's debt
is four and one-half times greater
than the average of all the other
states, and is a 95 percent increase '
since 1918. Our annual tax bill, he
said, has multiplied itself four times
.1 ten years, and now represents an j
interest payment of $.53,000,000 a
yeai', or $144,000 a day. It is greater ;
than the annual income of all cor-1
porations, foreign and domestic, in
the state, he said. On a per capita i
basis it represents a debt of $183 for |
each man, woman and child in the
state.
Of 67 new industries which came
south last year, North Cai'olina got'
four, Mr, Seawell stated, intimating i
that the tax load here was militating!
against our industrial progress. I
Readjustment lnip«‘rative '
Mr, Seawell sees only two courses i
open: repudiation or readjustment.
The latter is, of course, imperative.
The cure must start in local affairs,
he told the Kiwanians, must start:
with the cooperation of all in an in-,
terest in local government. The mat-1
ter is above partisan politics, !
Speaking of the loss ot love for I
government and country he cited the
fact that there were 30,000 murders
in the United States !a.st year as
against 20 in England. There were
three times as many murders in the
city of Charlotte as in all of the
British Isles, “We are sitting in the
seat of the scornful” as a result of
this disrespect for law and order. We
have been through, are going through
a moral as w^ell as an economic de
pression. Self respect, national pride,
love of country must be rebuilt, “This
Kiwanis Club can help develop the
right attitude, can be a forceful ex
ample,” he said.
I'he Late Judge \\. .J. Adams
„ PAYS TRIBUTE TO
]DGE W. J. ADAMS
Memorial Service Held to Eulo-
' };ize Life and Character of
I.ate Supreme Court Justice
RESOLI TIONS ADOPTED
RELATIVES WIN IN
KELLY WILL CASE;
ACCOUNTING ASKED
.Jury Holds Ajfainst Kenneth
Caddell After Second
Trial at Carlha«:e
WILLIAMS AWARDED $H'>.
Carolina Hotel Opens
Doors on 0( tober 26
Yarn Manufacturers To Meet
Prior to Informal Opening
On October 28
The Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst
will open its doors on October 26th
for a convention of yarn manufactur
ers of North Carolina, who will meet
there for two days. On the 28th the
hotel will informally • open to the
public, and the formal opening' is
scheduled for November 9th, it was
announced this week.
The first through Pullmans to
Pinehurst from New York will run
the night of October 25th, regularly
from then on. The Pinehurst cars
this year will all be air-conditioned,
the Seaboard has announced.
The famous Isabella Kelly wiW
case ha.i been settled in favor uf:
the caveators, the jury in Superior ^
Court at Carthage answering in the |
negative the question, “Was the;
paper offered for probate as the last i
will and testament of Isabella Jane j
Kelly, signed and executed accord- .
ing to law?” This casu had been re-!
manded down by the Supreme Court'
for another trial. !
Kenneth A. (Caddell sought the j
execution of the will of Isabella, a '
negress, which made him the heir to i
property consisting largely of a |
small amount of Carthage real es-1
tate, Mr, Caddell claimed the proper- j
ty was left to him through gratitude
for his kindness to her son while m i
France and since the war in obtain- [
ing him government compensation j
and hospitalization. The son is dead.
Relatives of the woman sought to j
stay the execution, claiming that the |
signature to the will was obtained ■
by undue influence and duress, and
that the woman did not have the
mental capacity to transact business,
she being then, they allege, in the
throes of death.
The court ordered that the will
and record of same be marked can
celled, that letters testamentary is
sued by the clerk upon the estate
to Robert E. Denny, executor under
the purported will, be revoked, and
said executor was ordered to pay
into the office of the clerk of the
court all moneys that have come in
to his hands as executor, to file his
final account within 30 days from
the adjournment of this term of
court, and to surrender possession
of all real estate and to turn over
to the administrator for said estate
to be hereafter designated by the
clerk all personal property and
other things of value belonging to
the estate. It was ordered that
Robert E. Denny and Kenneth A.
Caddell, propounders, and the surety
upon their bond pay the costs of this
action,
Paltick Williams was awarded
judgment against the Texas Com
pany in the sum of $412,50, it being
found that the defendant had negli
gently polluted the subterranean
water and well of the plsintiff, Wil
liams claimed that gasoline from a
tank supplied by the defendant
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IIKIH TOB.XCC’O A\ ERAGF
ON ABERDEEN 'a. RKET
Sl’NOAY SCHOOL C'OWENTION
AT J AKKVIEW ON SI XI>AY
The Moore County Sund.iy School
convention will bo held in the Lake-
view Presbyterian Church this Sun
day, ripening at 9:45 o’clock in the
morning, with a morning, afternoon
and evening session. There will be a
fellowship dinner on the grounds be
tween the morning and afternoon ses-
.‘^ions, with those attending asked to
brings their basket lunches.
Good sales have featured the week
on the Aberdeen tobacco market,
from all standpoints, quantity, qual
ity and price. The daily average has
been running from 35 to 30 cents a
pound, with sjme high grade leaf
bid in at prices above 50 cents. Far
mers are well pleased and the .sec
tion is feeling the beneficial reac
tion of funds released for iiade. Auto
mobile dealers report a good demand
for cars, the best in several years,
and merchants generally are finding
bv ;nc;j3 improved and improving.
On Friday morning of last week, a
memorial service was held by tha
Moore County Bar in honor of the
late William Jackson Adams, Su
preme Court Justice of the State of
North Carolina. Oral remarks eulo
gizing the life and character ot
Jud^e Adams were made- by the fol
lowing members of the Bar; L". L.
Spence. M. G. Boyette. H. F. Sea-
well, Jr., H?nry Seawell, S. R.
Hoyle and Judge John H. Clement,
At a meeting of the M jcre County
Bar A.-sociation a committee was
appointed composed of H. F. Seawell,
Sr,. M. G. Boyette, J. Vance Rowe,
W. D. Matthews and U. L. Spence to
piepare and present to the associa.
tion and to the Superior Court of
Moore county at the September
term suitable resolutions on the life
and character of Judge Adams, who
died on May 20, 1934.
The committee reported to the as
sociation and to the Superior Court,
Judge J. H. Clement residing, on
Sept. 21, 1934 the following resolu
tions and moved their adoption:
Resolved, that the Judge of the
Superior Court presiding at this term
be requested to have entered on the
records of the court this memorial
and appreciation of the Moore Coun
ty Bar, of the life and character of
WILLIAM JACKSON ADAMS
William Jackson Adams was born
in Rockingham, North Carolina on
January 27, 1860, and died in Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,
Maryland, May 20, 1934, He was the
son of Rev, Shockley D. Adams and
Mary Jackson Adams. His father
was a Methodist minister and was
for a long period a presiding elder
of the church and well known and
loved throughout the State.
In his early life, his parents es
tablished a home at Carthage in
Moore County, where he thereafter
lived and died.
From the preparatory schools he
entered the University of North
Carolina and graduated from that
institution in 1881 with the degree
of A.B. Later the University con
ferred upon him the degree of
Doctor of Laws. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1883. He
began and continued the practice of
his profession in Carthage until he
was appointed a judge of the Su
perior Court and was associated in
the practice with J. C. Black until
the latter’s death.
He was married December 19,
1906 to Miss Florrie Wall, of Rock
ingham, who survives him. He has
one son, William J, Adams, Jr,, who
had completed his education and
begun the practice of law at Rocky
Mount, North Carolina shortly be
fore his father’s death.
He was a student of the law and
had a scholarly and analytical un
derstanding of its principles and the
ories. He was a pa ins-taking and
accurate practitioner and command
ed a l^rge and desirable practice;
and in *Jie handling of his engage
ments he was never found unpre
pared.
Distingui.sh€>d Service
He took an active interest in civic,
religio s and political affairs. He
was mv,.'e than once county chair
man of his political party, and was
one of the six Democratic members
of the Fusian State Senate of 1895.
He was a member of the Board of In
ternal Improvements from 1899
to 1901. He was appointed a Super
ior Court Judge by Governor R, B.
Glenn in 1908 for a term which ex
pired in 1910, and he was re-elected
to this position in 1910 and 1918.
His record on the Superior court
bench is one of distinguished ser
vice. He was admittedly one ot the
great judges of the State. In Sep
tember 1921, he was appointed by
Governor Cameron Morrison an As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the State .to fill out the unexpired
term of Associate Justice William
R. Allen and resigned his office of
Superior Court judge to accept this
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