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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15, NO. 43.
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FIVE CENTS
PHILROUNSEVELLE
FATALLY HURT IN
MOTOR ACCIDENT
Noted Archer and Former Head
of Archers Company Here
Dies in North
Plans Home-Coming
WAS LIVIN'G IN CHICAGO
Phillip S. Rovmsevelle, nationally
known archery authority, former head
of the Archers Contipany here, died on
Friday of last week as the result of
injuries received in an automobile ac
cident near Cortland, New York on
August 2ith, according to word re
ceived by The Pilot this week. No de
tails of the accident were learned.
Phil Rounsevelle. as he was famil
iarly known to a host of friends
throughout the Sandhills, made his
home here for a number of years and
played a large part in the founding |
and building up of the Archers Com
pany, located in an atractive stone
building on Midland road between
Southern Pines and Pinehurst. The
company while located here manufac
tured bows, arrows, targets and all
equipment incidental to the sport 'of
archery. The company was merged
a ^ew years ago with one of the lead
ing hardware manufacturing concerns
in the north and moved to Connecti
cut. In addition to his manufacturing
work while here Rounsevelle was one
of the leading archers of the coun
try, winning a number of big tourna
ments held throughout this and other
states. He had also instructed in ar
chery in several universities.
After leaving here he spent some
time in California and later settled
in Hazel Crest, a suburb of Chicago,
wb«re be also maintained a plant
for making archery supplies and
equipment. The present comptmy is
knowrn as the Rounsevelle-Rohm Com
pany, and some of the targets used
by the concern are still being made
in Manly and shipped to Chicago.
Funeral services were held in the
chapel at Harvey, a Chicago suburb,
last week, with burial in Oak Woods
Cemetery.
While living here Mr. Rounsevelle
was an active and enthusiastic mem-
«>ber of the Kiwanis Club.
NO VOTE ON NEW
N.C. CONSTITUTION
IN FALL ELECTION
Noted Builder of Ship Models GEORGE H. HUMBER,
I To Have Studio in the Sandhills RECORDER’S COURT
JUDGE, DIES AT 57
State Supreme Court Rules I’ro-
I posal Cannot He Submitt-
' ed on November 6
ENDS STATE WIDE FIGHT
C. G. Davis to Set I'p Shop in
I’inehluff for Reproducinji;
Famous Craft
I .
Connie Davis, Colored,
is Stabbed to Death
L'i-Year Old Boy Arrested
N'iagara on Charge of
Murder
at
Connie Dav^, colored, 25-year-old
resident of Niagara, was stabbed to
death near his home at 2:30 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon after an alleg
ed altercation with John Henry
Thompson, colored, aged 15, also of
Niagara. He was stabbed in the neck
and died almost instantly.
Thompson was arrested within half
an hour by Chief of Police Gargis
of Southern Pines and taken to Car
thage to await trial on a charge of
murder.
PLAN SL'RVEY OF RENTABLE
HOMES IN SOUTHERN PINES
A possible survey of residences in
Southern Pines available tor rental
during the winter season, with a
view to aiding in their improvement
■with loans procured under the Na
tional Housing Act. was discussed by
the directors of the Chamber of
Commerce on Tuesday. The directors
felt that there are many homes here
which would be more readily leased to
winter residents if they were modern
ized and improved and that a sur
vey might result in loans to owners
for the purpose. The matter is to be
further discussed with local real es
tate men.
WEST SOI THEllX PINES
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 2H
The State Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday that the proposed new
constitution cannot be submitted at
I the November G general election.
I The advisory opinion, delivered to
j Governor Ehringhaus in accordance
I wtih his request of last Saturday, wa.s
I unanimous. It ended abi'uptly the
■ State-wide campaign for and against
I the adoption of a complete new con-
j stitution. I
I Action of the Supreme Court in
UFA. E. L. BAKBEU | holding submission jat the coming’
The pastor of the Bothesda Pres- | election unconstitutional sends the '
byterian Church in Aberdeen is mak- ; q^ie^tion of constitutional revision |
ing plans for the annual Home Com- | General As.sembly, which |
ing at Old Bethesda Church, to be j resubmit the entire new consti- ^
held this year tin the first Sunday in | tutjon, any separate amendments, or
October. He has announced that Dr. | Convention of the People to 1
Angijs R. Shaw of Charlotte will i a new organic law to replace the
preach at the morning service that | pj-ggent constitution which was adopt- j
day, and Judge Thomas J. Shaw of j g,j jjj iggg j
Greensboro make the address in the ; Attempts in recent years to call a
afternoon. Both are “sons of the old j constitutional Convention have failed,
church.” j and the fate of virtually every recent.
ly submitted amendment has been
defeat at the polls.
Three factors combined to make
submission of the proposed constitu
tion this year invalid. They were: The
repeal election held last November 7,
the act of the 1933 General Assembly
calling that repeal election, and the
4-1 opinion of the Supreme Court on
which the 1933 General Ajsenibly re
lied in terming the 1933 repeal elec
tion “a general election.”
The constitution::! hitch was’: The
present constitution provides that
any constitutional amendments must
be submitted at the “next general
election” folLwing the General As
sembly which passed them. Under
normal course of things the election
in November would have been the
next general election but the repeal
election upset that normal course.
Ask Safe Approaches
to New Bridge Here
Times Call for Poise
and Discrimination
Dr. Cheatham Warns Kiwanis
Against Reaction to Experi
ments of Administration
It is a time to develop a calm, tol.
erant attitude, to use intelligent
poise and discrimination, to keep the
atmosphere sweet. Beware mildew
and mold within ourselves.
Dr. T. A. Cheatham of the Pine
hurst Chapel, back from the north
after a vacation spent mostly in New
England, counselled with his fellow
members of the Kiwanis Club at their
meeting Wednesday on what he call
ed “Playing a Waiting Game.” He
spoke of the “reaction to the experi
ments of the administration” which
has set in in many parts of the coun
try, and said we should beware of
everything we hear. “Develop a non-
resistance,” he advised. Changes are
being made so rapidly that it is un-1 Chamber of Commerce To See
wise to resist. What we object to to
day may be altered tomorrow. Kiwan-
ians .should set an example by re
fraining from criticism.
"Let us concentrate our attention
That 1‘tdestrians Are Pro
tected from Passing Autos
has done, do much constructive work
in this section.
Locals Defeat Ft. Brag-g
and Fayetteville at Golf
at
Chairman Frank Buchan of the
Highway Committee of the Southern
on the development of the Sandhills.” i Pines Chamber of Commerce is taking
That we can do because we know j up with the State Highway Commis-
whereof we speak and act, he said, j sion this week the incomplete state
The Kiwanis Club can, as it always | of the new bridge over the Seaboard
tracks at the southern end of town.
The new bridge was secured through
the efforts of the local civic organi
zation to provide adequate protection
for pedestrians, especially school chil
dren, crossing the tracks at that
point, and although the State has
met the conditions insofar as the
bridge itself is concerned, providing a
raised walk on one side of the bridge,
there appears to be no provision on
the east and west approaches to the
bridge for those afoot. They will still
be in danger from passing automo
biles.
Mr. Buchan plans to confer with
Highway officials to ascertain if the
plans provide for any profected walk
on these approaches and if not, why.
He is also investigating a report that
convicts at work along Route 1 be
tween Southern Pines and Aberdeen
were seen destroying the young pines
planted for beautification purposes
some years ago by the Kiwanis Club.
Thirty Compete in Match
Pinehurst Country Club
on Wednesday
Leading golfers of Fayetteville and
Fort Bragg loaded their automobiles
with their drivers, niblicks and put
ters on W'ednesday and motored to
Pinehurst to take on a team com
posed of Southern Pines and Pine
hurst linksmen, and when all had
registered with Don Currie at the
first tee it was found that 30 play
ers were on hand. There were all
kinds, cracks and duffers and in-be
tweens, but the matches were arrang
ed to pit dub against dub, star against
star, etc., so that a fine afternoon of
sport was enjoyed.
The locals scored 34 1-2 points to
10 1-2 for the visitors. There was
one mixed foursome in the fray, Mrs.
Jack Meadows of Aberdeen, playing Mrs. Alice Stead, an aged and
with Lieut. Stokes of Fort Bragg for j highly respected citizen of near Car-
the visitors competing against Mrs. • thage, passed peacefully away at the
P. T. Keating of Pinehurst and Dr. | home. Oak Point Farm, early Sun-
MRS. .\L,ICE STEAD, 88. DIES
.\T HER HOME NE.\R ( .\KTHAGE
The West Southern Pines School
will open on Friday, September 28th
and parents of the pupils are invit
ed to attend the opening exercises
with their children. There will be a
short program before classes are or- j
ganized. P. R. Brown is the principal j
of the school, heading a faculty of j
17 teachers. The school hours will be |
from 8:30 a. m. until 3:15 p. m.
Bowman of Aberdeen.
YOl'NG V.VSS (orPLE
M VKRIEn IN SANFORD
Miss Viola Causey and Edgar Brew
er of Vass were quietly married in
Sanford on Saturday, September 8tn.
The bride is the attractive daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Causey and
the groom the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Ere;v^r, all of Vass.
day morning. She was born in Lon
don, Englauu on July 20. 1846, thus
being 88 years of age. Her parents
were William S. MorrLs and Louise
Dennett.
The body was prepared for burial
at the Carthage funeral home and
the remains sent to-Easton. Pa., her
former home. Two children, Mrs. Ed
win Binney and John Stead accom
panied the body. Funeral services
woi-e routlucte.l on V,'ei'.ne?day.
Probably the last things you’d ex- j
pect to be manufactured in the Sand- ;
hills of North Carolina are ships. Yet
ships are to be made in Pinebluff
this winter, clipper ships, frigates,
packet ships, barks and others, mod
els of ocean-going craft of this and
by-gone days. '
One of the leading builders of ship
model.s in miniature, those fine and
delicate pieces of workmanship you
see on the mantels of aristocr;;tic
homes. C. G. Davis, famed in F^urope
and America, is to set up shop here.
E. Remington of Cazenovia, New Yoi k
and Pinebluff, has interested Mr.
Davis in this section as an ideal place
for confining work of this kind in
winter. Mr. Davis has had his ship
studio in Cazenovia this summer, close
by the estate tliere of Mr. Remington, ,
and the two have become fast friends,;
a friendship grown out of the fact i
that Mr. Remington, too, is interested
in the building of ship models and
fast becoming adept in the craft.
The Pilot has in hand a booklet
showing some of the work produced
by Mr. Davis, and quotes a few para
graphs therefrom:
“The building of ship models has
become a popular hobby with busy
men as it compels relaxation from
business worries. Besides the interest
one takes in making them, they turn-
' i.,h a distinct type of house amuse-
, ment that gives an atmosphere of
I the sea and of adventure that pleases
I young and old.
Britbh Supply Plan!«
“There are so many different kinds
of ships, and different rigs, ti:at there
is an almost never ending variety
to choose from. American clipper
ships were, in their day in the 1850s,
the finest craft afloat. William H.
W'ebb of New Vork built many of
these vessels. Historians have failed
to give u.s ocular proof of what the
first 13 frigates that were built to
form an American navy in 1776, look
ed like. The navy records at Washing
ton failing to supply this informa
tion, Mr. Davis appealed to the Brit
ish Admiralty, who sent him a photo
graphic copy of a plan of the Ral
eigh drawn in 1779. The Raleigh was
captured by the British and taken
into their navy. It being their cus
tom to keep on file a plan of each
vessel, the Raleigh was docked at
Plymouth and this set of plans drawn
of her. Fortunately, even the carv’ed
ornaments at bow and stern were de
picted and from these plans a model
was made by Mr. Davis to preserve
a record of the ship.
"The Western Ocean packet ships
that carried passengers before the
advent of steamers and made one ot
Americas most vivid chapters m her
maritime history are but a vague
’dream until we see an actual repUca
of one. Mr. Davis has reproduced the
Montezuma with all her three-masted
rigging, showing even the cow house
on the main hatch and hen coops in
the long boat. She was one ot the
famous Black Ball Line, hard driven
ships sailed by hard fisted m^tes, but
sailing regularly on schedule from
Liverpool to New York.
“Mr. Davis has reproduced in minia
ture the bark James A. Wright, built
at Baltimore in 1880 and a typical
cargo carrier of that day. The big
single topsails were made easier to
handle by being divided into two sails,
called upper and low'er topsails; for.
instead of carrying a crew of 30, low-
freight rates had reduced the crew
to eight men. It was in the James A.
W'right that Mr, Davis made a voj'-
age around Cape Horn to Chili and
back in 1892, and from first hand in
formation and data supplied by the
builder he made the model.’
Mr. Davis has plans of over 100
sailing ships, both merchant ships
and old sailing American men-of-war
from a line of battleships to a one-
j gun schooner. His studio at Cazenov-
I ia is a most intere.'^ting place to visit,
and he delights in telling of his work
and recounting his experiences on the
high seas. He has written a number
of books on ship and shipping history.
Permission has been granted by the
Town of Southern Pines for the mov-
j ing of the Heyward house on Mas-
' sachuselts avenue to another location.
In Again, Out Again
Troubles Pile I'p on ('arl
Storey After Alleged Theft
of L. ]j. Biddle’s Car
“In again, uut again, Flannigan”
was the experience of one Carl
Storey, white, who claims to be
from Bennettsville, S. C. In Pine
hurst on Monday night he got in
the car of L, L. Biddle II without
the owner’s knowledge and before
he reached Juniper Lake some two
miles distant on the Carthage-
Pinehurst highway he was out
a cut on his head, having wrecked
the car. Next, he was in the Moore
County Hospital, but in a short
while he was out again in the cus-
iody of Officer Currie of Pinehurst,
and a few minutes later he was in
the covmty jail, where he is now
waiting to be tried for stealing the
automobile.
Native of Cartha>je, He Served
On ('ounty Dench Since Es
tablishment of Court
FOR.MER CARTHACJE .MAYOR
By |)ion H. Butler
The death of George H. Humber
widens the ever-increasing separation
between the Moore county of today
and that of the past, for he was one
of the older men who, while fitting
in with the modern period retained his
close affiliation with that which has
almost gone. His boyhood and youth
! were cast in the period of reconstruc
tion and the days following, and he
i was a reservoir of familiarity and
understanding of the time before the
social revolution began with its new
creation not only of Moore county,
I but of the wide world, Humber was
I a man of broad understanding and ot
j mental attributes. He -vas a student
of affairs and of men and of times
and of causes. He was a lawyer of
tact and ability, and his appointment
as judge of the Recorder’s Court was
not a fortunate accident of politics
for him, but a carefully designed se
lection. When the court was created
he was employed in Raleigh and oth-
er names were mentioned, but George
The program of the second of three Humber’s nani3 was written on a
regional meetings of Red Cross chap. | sheet of paper with the other names,
. . „ n. /-I 1- i and then began a process of elimina-
ter.s, set for North Carolina tJiis ! ” ^
1 tion. not a selection, but a marking
month, to be held in Pinehurst next i . .. ,
' out of the names least suitable for
Wednesday, September 26, was an-1 jqJj p-rom top to bottom ot that
nounced this week. j list the pencil proceeded, every name
Richard F, Allen, manag^er of th^ undergoing a critical discussion as to^
Eastern Area of the Red Cross, will; fitness. And when it was decided that
Regional Red Cross
Meeting at Pinehurst
Projjram Announced for Gather-
inf? in Pinehurst CommVinity
Church Next Wednesday
speak at the luncheon seasU a on "To
day’s Challenge to the Red Cross.”
Panel discussions on Red Cross mem-
the name under consideration did not
in every way fill the bill that name
w'as crossed out. In case of favora-
bership and organization will be led j ble consideration the name was re-
by William Carl Hunt, assistant man- j tained and the next one was ap-
ager of the area. A. J. Barnes and i proached. Four or five times, and al-
Miss Mary Camp Sprinkle, field rep
resentatives for North Carolina, will
also appear on the program, report
ing on Red Cross work in the state
during the past year. Miss Era Lin
ker, chairman of the Junior Red Cross
committee of the Cabarrus County
j Chapter, will speak on the work of
that organization. The meeting will
over, each successive consideration re
moving another name until finally one
name alone remained and that was
George Humber.
A Wise SelfH-tion
The selection proved a wise one.
Here was a new court, an experiment,
and some per.sons questioned the
Tobacco Sells As High
As 44 Cts. in Aberdeen
Average Wednesday Was Close
to 28 Cents, Despite Bad
Weather for Best Leaf
be held in the Pinehurst Commun- choice of the judge. But the commis-
ity Church. sioners had made a wiser selection
than they were aware. Their policy
of elimination of names was a criti
cal process, and it brought the re-
suit they aimed at. Judge Humber
took up a new work with a new
theory, and he received each case
with an attitude to fit the situation.
He was lenient with some, severe with
some, b'ut always he approached the
solution with an attempt to secure,
not particularly the enforcement of
the law, but the attainment of the
purpose of the law, which is often a
different matter. Some of his judg
ments have been criticised, and prob
ably with grounds enough, for no
man is beyond error. But a study of
Judge Humber’s work with his Re
corder’s court gives ground to believe
that he was a philosopher in his judg-.
ments, and that his court has been a
valuable factor in Moore county ad
ministration of law and order. He
was more or less of a Galilean in
that he believed that "him who is
without sin” should cast the first
stone, and that the recovery of a man
is more important than the maintain
ing of an arbitrary law.
Judge Humber was a curious char,
acter in some ways, but a philoso
pher and a thinker, a friendly chap,
well-informed, pretty human, which
means having a desirable groundwork
in his makeup, and like Poor Yor-
ick. a fellow of infinite jest and most
excellent fancy. His grave-stone will
be the memory he has left in the
minds of many persons who passed
through his court—perhaps to their
everlasting advantage,
i Judge Humber died early Monday
nil. Mc(jl f;ev TO PRE.ACH i morning in the Moore County Hos-
SINDW IN .XBERDKEN 1 pital where he had been a patient
(for some weeks.
The Rev. Glenroie McQueen, D. D. j Native of Carthage
of Newark, Ohio will preach on Sun- | He was 57 years old and was born
day morning at 11:15 o’clock in the at Carthage, the son of S. W. and
Bethesda Presbyterian Church in ( Rosanna Cole Humber. He received
Aberdeen, the Rev. E. I. Barber, pas- his early training in the Carthage
tor, announced yesterday. Di and public schools and his collegiate train-
Mrs. McQueen are spending the fall ing at Trinity College (now Duke
months in Aberdeen, making their, University), where he graduated in
re? Jence at Th» Lantana. | (Please turn to page 4)
More than 25,000 pounds of tobac
co was sold Wednesday on the floors
of Aberdeen’s tw'o warehouses at an
average price of $27.89 a hundred. J.
A. Barber of near Aberdeen sold a
lot of 412 pounds for $150.08, aver
aging 38 cents, and J. A. Almond ot
Ashley Heights so'd i ';9'J pounds at
an average of 44 cents, giving him
a check for $538.54. to mention only
two of the top sales. There was a
good market again yesterday, though
farmers are awaiting better weather
to bring in their better grade leaf.
Aberdeen merchants are reporting a
good businss as the result of tobacco
prices.
MAY FORM BRANCH HERE OF
ST.ATE RE.\L EST.ATE BOARD
Alphonsus Cobb, president of the
North Carolina Real Estate Boards,
and C. E. Phillips, secretary of the
board came down from Durham Sat
urday afternoon, meeting local real
estate agents for the purpose of
forrring a local board. Paul T. Bar-
num and D. D. Shields Cameron were
delegated to take up the matter with
other agents.