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» nroc ucd a t r\ pocketbooknews 1 ilL flLKALU TerTo™ OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY 1 - VOLUME llL ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY. N. C- _THURSOAY. JULY 25th. 1320._ ■_ _NUMBER 15. KILLED IN . CAP WRECK 1* __* W.R. Ed 4 Ons From Injur ies Rl K'd In Sunday Af ternoon Accident • One loc^ man was killed and eev eral were injured in an aut mobile crash or the Littleton road Sunday ^ afternoon.^ W. 5. Eb :i'ds age -• >E-i<>nr, ■-? Roanoke Ranids, died in the h'.sp:tal Sunlay night at 11 to. no., :o the re sut of injuries sustained when the 1 ♦ca’ in which he was riding collided , with the car of H. M. Hudson of Jouth Ro'-emary. "V Mr. Hudson and bis two children were also injured. The children re ceived several cuts and bru'ses and Mr. Hudson was bad1/ bruised and suffered several broken r‘o\ The ; Hudson car was corn< 'ot -'v deni. 1 , ished. The Edwards cr.' was d •:• ••’ bv a brother df the deceas'd. Ran Ed wards. It was a roadster and two re'*n wer^ on the front s'*at. wMio t1'--*: pother two occupants were sitting in the rear of the car, which did not ha a rumble^ seat. The dei -used oceu I pied one*of the bade seats and when , f ht crash came, he was doubh .1 up and suffered severe internal irrur ies from which ho did not recover. 1’yland Draper was an occupant cf ^the car. Levi Jones, who was with the Ed wards boys, also received bruises and cuts. The accident happened at 1: *•> * Sunday afternoon near the .•'hearin Filling station. Edwards was rush ed t othe hospital and lived a little over six hours. Funreal services we-e held Monday aftemocyi with Reverend A. E. Mus- j tain of the Roanoke Rapids Baptist church officiating. Interment was in Cedarwood Cemetery. Surviving are i the parents, brother, a wife and a ten • * months old child. Both the Edwards men were em- | ployees of the Halifax Paper Corpo- : raton. A sad part of the <leaf.li was tne fact that Edward’s mother has been very ill for some time and was in so . critical a condition at the time of her ; son’s death, it seemed inadvisable to tell her about it. The deceased had made a habit of i spending the mornings at the h-dside of his mother and had been with her all Sunday morning. In tl.-‘ after noon hg was asked to take a ride af ter being housed up all lay. Up until Wednesday, the mother had not been told, except that her son wsfe in*the hospital with a broken leg. Coroner Billy Williams will hold an inquest today, at whcih time it is thought the blame for the wreck may be placed. BIG TIME FOR KIDS Doll Dav and Horseshoe Tour ney at Public Playgrounds Next Tuesday Next Tuesday is another gala day for the children at the Ti n City playgrounds when the boys wdl have ■ horseshoe tournament and tne girl: • doll show. In the horse shoe tournament one playground will be matched against the other. The hoys are practicing hard and some real experts have been developed. Prizes will also be given in the doll ,how for the girls. There will he Tor the largest doll, the small ugliest, the prettiest, the best the happiest, the saddest ,’er classes. All the little girls are urged to bring their favo ur the doll parade. ■ce at the two playgrounds ■ creasing, especially since parents nave i«uim .v. thing which will be kept ty this summer. •eeks there was a total at t the two parks of 6,975 , average of 327 each week, plenty of room for more 1 parents are urged to lildren at least once a ng is f^e. COPS HERE bway Tttrol paid a lities this week and. were b'lo.1 pflusinK b.ckes and lights, ve be-, reported, s we/! given the calls for "i 10 ■rd; s arc car r* of the Pa* dsjs. Cheerful News Supt. Davfs made two an nouncements this week which some persons may not call cheerful news. One announcement is that all persons must lit their taxes by this Saturday night. The other one is most en couraging to some 2.000 city i school children. School starts September 11. — Halifax County F’*eak N In State 1. s itution At Golds boro Goldsboro. —The ‘’wild nr/' that caused so mu -h extitemout in Halifax"1 county recently, wiivio he wandered around, hair sev-ra une-.hu '>•••"': 1.1 around, ba r seve -a! li.u.g ' standing uprgiht on »;ls head 'u-1 a j bristly beard on his c'n.u bar been ! brought to the insane asylum at [ Goldsboro for safe keeping. • After the time he was said t> have been found with hi.- ’hot v.-ur/v :.i bear trap in the swamp-. - Hub fax county he was carried to the County Home where lie vas ola--.-l in a sma!! wire enclosure. Dr. Mitchell of Ha'1 fax county, who n1.- he-.* co so. about having him phurd in the at* hospital stated that on the Sunday af ternoon before, he ipposod as many as a thousand peapl - visited him a a1 fed him through th e v.t ■ on peanut - and candy until his digo**ioi and life was endangered. T!io Negro w!ic is 22 yeras old had lived with an uncle in Halifax county until he got ' • wandering around the community begging for something to eat and scaring people by his appearance. Much improved in appearance In having his hair and beard cut off and by having on clean new clothing, the negro was seen by several visit ors at the hospital on Tuesday af ternoon. He has a normal size face, but from the top of his eyebrows and ears his skull seems to have no deve lopment. The skin on the negro’s head is nearly an inch thick and flab by which means that his small skull is much smaller than it appears. ;Ie j seems to be harmless, can say a few words and tries to carry out simple instructions. He shuffled about when some one told him to dance. When given a cigar he made a poor out at smoking it. When asked his age, he said “a mont" and looking down at i his clothes to which he seemed quite unaccustomed said “had dees pants about a mont,” It was said that $750 had been of fered for him f >r exhib:tion purposes but that the offer was refused as it is unlawful t > sell a human being. Dr. W. S. Hinvill9, superintendent of the State hospital said the “case is purely one of microcephalism and I do not think he has ever had any mind to amount to anything, although he is able to wear clothe-, he t.-an them up pretty badly. We are not anxious to admit chronic cases of this kind, but will relieve a county <>r a case that is giving considerable trouble.” -□ Pony Was Help to <uisco Kid* l n His Escapes “Cisco Kid” had eluded capture, even though there was a ;v.-" ; < *' $ *. 000 on his head, dead or alive, not only because he could shoot fivi -.ms of a second faster than any sli o-iif, ranger or soldier in the service, nut also because he rode u pony that knew every cow path in the mi squite and pear thickets in the old south west. “Sergeant Mickey Dunn” of the 17th cavalry was piqued because his colonel berated him for letting the Cisco Kid run wild. He determined to capture him, and do it alone. The scent led to the adobe house of “Tonia Maria” the fiery, half Mexi can, beautiful and passionate, whom Cisco Kid loved. There Sergeant Mickey failed to find the Cisco Kid, but he did find love, and when Tonia Maria and Mickey planned together they were playing with dynamite. The Kid overheard their plans and proceeded to do some planning himself. What happens forms one of the most sensational denouements that ever has been seen in a pictur. The picture is ‘In Old Arizona,” Fox film, the fiijpt feature length film drama to be made entirely with Fox Movie tone. The three featured players, Ed mund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess and N. C. State College Dresses Up for 1929-30 PS CUE H.QUU 7 CAMPUS EHTEANCE __ » PG.CSlDErvT\i /nezfPL view of Cpmpus £.C£CT&/C/QL £*V<5//V£T^/a/<3 YS / C %S &L.OG-. Views of the more recently erected buildings on North Carolina State College campus at Raleigh, with photograph of its presided. Dr. £. C. Brooks. The college is busy with plans for opening in September when many graduates of nral and city schools Will make up a capacity enrollment. SCHOOL i3 OUT FRIDAY Daily Vacation Bible School Commencement This Friday Night at Church The vacation Bible school continues a success. It is to be hoped that next year the school can be a real com munity school with ail th ■ churches participating and with th- sessions held in one of the school buildings. T he closing exercises of the school will be held Friday night, July 26th, at the Presbyterian church at eighl o’clock and it is to be hoped that all the parents and friends of the boys and girls will be ther_>. The program will be about forty-five miunt.cs in length and will be a rev:*-w of th* work they have done in the ten days the school has lasted. Each of flu departments has its own program, and will be given a chance t » show just what they hi ve d -ne. An offering vill be taken to help defray the expanses of the m’.ool. 1, rough figures the total expenses will he sc. enty-five dollars, and it is Imp ed friend.-, will appreciate the work that has been done and help out in some way. The contribution, tho is entirely voluntary and in case the of fei in<’ »es n t take care the ex oens* in full the Men of the T,re.sby erh’.ii church have underv rift a it. Mr. Mu .Can and Mr. Ha l were present on Tuesday and Yfeduesday mornings respectively to i i mg the ooys and girls a message and time o 'events inviting all the other nvn isters. The total enrollment h?.s been 130 and the average attendance for the first week was 101 each day. Mrs. Bobyrs’ Circle of the Pres oyterian Auxiliary gave a ‘ surprise” when they served the boys ard girls ’•ast Friday morning. It was greatly appreciated. To Mrs. Futrell, Mis Crichton Harris, Miss Barclay and Miss Thacker goes the credit for the work that has been done. -LJ New Hosiery Mill A new hosiery mill with -10 ma chines to start will open soon at Ef ’and, N. C. Installation of equip ment is being made now under di rection of K. H. Scott, of Burlington, The new mill will be known as the Efland-Scott mills. Warner Baxter, are seen and heard, also every member of the big sup porting cast. All speak their parts throughout the film. Thestory and dialogue are by Tom Barry and the direction is by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh. The pic ture is coming to the New Rosemary Theatre Monday, Tuesday, July 29, and 30. BOY SCOUT WORK GETS UNDER WAY Kiwanians DiscUss Oi'Ranfcatinn of Patrols, Tr<*ops and Coun cils; Paint Up Movement Tfio Kiwanis Club turned its at tention to the task of a Boy Scout . organization for the Twin Cities last Thursday. Xed Manning. Cluu 1 | Dunn and J. T. Chase, Boy Scout1 chairmen, explained the organization j of patrols, troops and councils. 1C- j wanians will be chosen as members of i the council and as scout masters. Active organization work will begin next month. S. T. Peace made a talk j on the future of the community, stat- J ing that the business outlook was very good. A movement to paint up stor* fronts and make the business section more attractive will be started by the club. Kiwanians J. T. Chase, I. W. Ross,' J. L. Weissner and L. G. Shell are on this committee. A solo by Mr. Peace was the high j spot of the entertainment program. -n WILL HELP CRIPPLED Shrners Seeking Information of AH (’rippled Children In Halifax County In an effort to locate all crippled children of Halifax county, R. C. Dunn, of Enfield, former Grand Mas ter of Masons of Noith Carolina and Past Potentate of Sudan Temple, has sent an open letter to the newspapers, welfare officers and teachers of Hali fax county. He expresses the opin ion that treatment may be accorded in one of the Shrine hospitals for children who are suffering from phy sical handicaps. The letter follows: “The Shriners of Halifax county are anxious to get in touch with the crippled children, both white and col ored, in the county. We belive that we will be able to help such crippled children to obtain treatment in one >f the Shriner’s hospitals for crip pled children. “I am, therefore, asking the news papers, the welfare officers, and the teachers of Halifax county to assist me in getting a list of these unfortu nate children. I would want the names, ages, color and statement of the general health of the children, and a statement as to the financial condition of their parents. “Will you please give due publi city through the columns of your paper to this request, and thus aid in this movement? “Yours truly, R. C. DUNN.” $52,000 IN BONDSSOLD Hali'. x Refi’r.d’nK Bonds. Sell at 5 1-1 for S101.20: County Valued i.t 7(1 Million Fib. -two thousand dollars of coun ty bonds were sold last week at 5 1-4 and preumim of S101.20 to N. S. Hill and c .mpany of Cincinnati. The , bonds were for refunding purposes and in the intere.-i. of economy in government, it is understood. Twelve firms placed bids. Tl.iit.v two thousand dollars of the bonds represented Court House issues and $20,000 road construction. They were issued in den^nrnations of $1000 and are to mature $2,000 annually from June 1, 1950, to June 1, 1027, inclusive, and $3,000 annually from June 1. 1936 to Juno 1, 1949. The re funding was in accord v. ith an act of the general assembly of 1929. and t1.*1 bonds were approved by a New York firm as t all phases of legality and sound, ness. In a statement of the general con dition of the county which v,:. sent, out frt*m th° office of the Itcd-tor of I> vds V.\ T. Clement, the follow ing facts were* sot forth in reference to fiscal .•••nil ‘ ms i:i llallrv.x: The enthncb.l value of proper* y was given at $70,390,020 with an as cessed valuation of $59,251,495. *lhe population in 1920 was 45,755. now it is believed to be 55,000. The gross receipts in 1928 were given : ? $653, 543.20. The tax rate at $1.50. The bonded debt, including the issue of last week, is $1,514,000, less $152,000 siren dy provided as a siak'ng fund. The net bonded debt, therefore, be ing $1,112,000. There is no pending legi lation, his report said, and the county was not in default in payment rf any interest or debt. Lcral Team Defeats Weldon Two Games Tile Triple-R baseball team came back this week with a vengeance to defeat their oH time rival, Weldon, two games, Tuesday and Wednesday. The Tuesday game was a slaughter 14 to 4, with five' home runs, King and Knowles each put two over the fence and Birdsong counted for one. Johnson held Weldon to five scat tered hits. * A ninth inning rally Wednesday by the local boys brought an S to 5 victory, after trailing 5 to 4. With the bases filled Mitchel smacked out a three bagger in the final round to win for the home town boys. Good man and Sharpe were good for cir cuit hits for the locals and Pierce slammed one over the fence for Weldon. Team Up In Air When a local Negro ball team, nine strong, riding in one ! car, hit or were hit by another 1 car on the way back from l.it [ tlelon Saturday night, it ii sa d I that the sky rained black Iwys for a few minutes. Four of the boys were so bad ly hurt, it was necessary to lake them to ike local hosp.ta*. Now, the manager of the team says the e will be no more base ball, as the half not in the hos pital is scared to death ami can’t even see the ball. RED LIQUOR SUPPLY LOW Government Will I.e* Contracts For 10 Million Gallon Sup ply at Early Date A new whiskey crisis is facing the Hoover administration. Some distilleries mu t be open 1 soon to replenish the d minishi. g supply of medicinal liquor. Fifty dis tilleries want the job and remunera tion and the treasury must decide cm less than six to do the job, thu« alte rnating powerful interests. Then there is an increasing rebellion among or ganized drys against any distilling at all. Prohibition commissioner -T. M. Do ran next week will start a su. .'ey of government - controlled liquor stores to see how much of the sup posed lo,000,000 gallons has leaked, ■vaporated, been stolen, adulterated. »r otherwise molested. Surveyors for distillers contend there is little more than 7,000.000 gallons in storage. If there is 10.000,000 gallons or less.’ distilling must he orded at once to provide medicinal supplies with the prt scribed aging of four years. Doran has virtually completed a survey to determine the extent of adulteration, substitution and thefts of liquor stores. Investigating agents unable to open a barrel or ( bottle without breaking the bond an.’ thus disqualifying the contents, were I forced to resort to tapping containers i v/.th their hands, judging consents by the sound from this thumping. On j this basis the prohibition unit believes its stores are ir> good shar. ? | Distillers, however, nave m average instances of 1 mg storage I that half the contents of a fifty gal lon barrel have evaporated through natural process by the time the bar rel is opened to place the whiskey in bottles for reidi'tn* ft-”" drug stores. The distillers roust stand such fifty per cent losses themsew.v. and are on the point of reoellion uele-o there is pn adjustment on the basis of a thorough Surrey. Vit'i illegal di versions stocked on top of a natu-al evaporation distillers’ .uvestigatois have arrived at their estimate of 7, 000,000 gallons as the total medici nal supply less than half the s >v ernment figured Regional repotts on the amounts of whiskey in storage in va-.mua sec tions of the count. / will reach Damn about the end of the month. The de cision to distill or not to chsrdl will be made on the basis of the total shown by these reports. If the total is near 10,000,000 gal lons treasury heats will star; lating a program for the output of legalized liquor. The annual consumption of medici nal liquor is about 1.500.0 to gallons. Even without evaporation cr theft a 10,000,000 supply would last only about six years. The United Sta.c pharmaceopia sets up a standav 1 < f four-year-old whiskey. Ihus the p 11' sure of the time element is obvious. If the distillers’ figures arc correct, immediate distilling action could not keep up on the four-year ageing stan da id. _n. Great Jannings Lives New Role Gorgeous scenery and novelty of theme and an unusual note to Emil Jannings’ sixth American masterpiece ’■Betrayal,” which opens at the Peo ple's Theatre Monday night for a tw„ day’s run. Two leadingParamount featured player's, Ester Ralston and Gary Cooper, carry important sup porting redes in this powerful drama set in the Swiss Alps. Jennings quick rise to fame on the American screen was marked by five epic pictures, including “The Way of All Flesh” and “The Patriot.” The sixth in this great series, "Betrayal" places Jannings in an entirely new environment and offers him a story worthy of his great histrioic power. Jannings, by a family arrangement, 20 WOMEN Attend State Meeting of Farm Women at State College; Study Short Course Thirty farm women from eleven Halifax County communities are at tending the annual farm com out ion nad the special shoit course for fai m women at State College this week. They are accompanied by the County IT ime Demonstrator, Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. Gov. Gardner opened the convention with an address Tuesday to 1,200 delegates. Those in attendance are Mrs. J. S. Lewis, Roseneath; Mrs. L G. Barn hill, Mrs. 0. C. Weeks, Mrs. J. B. Partin, Mrs. H. S. Butts. Mrs. J. L. Holliday, of Dawson; Mrs. Bellamy of Tillery; Mrs. J. P. Fields, Mrs. Jim Pope. Mrs. Allsbrook of Spring Hill; Mrs. T. S. Dickens, llama::; Miss Marjorie Clark, Murfreesboro* Tenn.; Mrs. J. II. Saunders, Ileatluiviile: Mrs. B. C. Matthews, Mrs. Frank Taylor, Aurelian Springs; Mrs. Ed. Dickons, Mrs. Sam Freuley, Mis. May War ren. Mrs. Dana Dickens, Mrs. R. G. Gibson, Mrs. M. C. Crawley, Darling ton; Mrs. John Myrick, Calvary: Mrs. I.enda Arrington. Mrs. E. 11. Nerd, Mrs. Bessie G upton, Mrs. T. C. W 1 liams, Hollister. Mrs. J. II. Saunders of Hcathvilie will be awarded a certificate this year for attending this course for 1 } ears. She is one of 9 in the stale to receive the certificate. Mrs. W. R. Neville of Reathville, Chairman of the 11th district of Fede ration of Romo Demonstration Clerks, will give the district report at State College on July 25. Mrs. Hazel Wheeler and Mrs. N. L. Stedman, president of the Halifax county Fed eration, will accompany Mrs. Neville. At least twenty young people of the county will attend a course at State College next month, under the supervision of Mrs. Wheeler and county farm agent, W. O. Davis. This courses gives the young people the most progressive methods in home making and farming. -H WHITE MAN IS BEATEN Negroes Attempt Assault Cher ry Minton: Dragged Out of Car Cherry Minton, white man of St. John’s section, was dragged from, his automobile late Sunday afternoon and severely beaten by three negroes, Denel Bryant, Clarence nayes and Jack Everett. Mr. Minton was driv ing along the county road about a mile east of the D. L. Minton place when the negroes waved him down and made an assault on him. As the negroes attempted to drag him from the car Mr. Minton grabbed his automobile pump and after wrest ling with one of his attackers suc ceeded in striking one of them across the face. He was then dragged from the car and a wrestle ensued between him and the three negroes. As two of them walked a short distance away and grabbed old peanut poles with whcih to attack him, Mr. Min ton extricated himself and drove away in his car. He drove to Woodland where he was given medical attention and re ported the holdup. Two of the negroes, Bryant and Hayes, were apprehended by officers and given a preliminary hearing be fore Justice Ira Askew at St. John’s Monday. They were remanded to jail in default of bonds of $1,000 and $500. Everett has not yet been captured. While officers were searching for Everett they ran across a small amount of homebrew wine, which is sadi to have been behind all the trou ble. The negroes had been imbibing rather freely for two days. n THELMA LADY DIES Mrs. Mance Gran, age 78, died Mon day at the home of her son, Baldie Green, at Thelma. Funeral services were held Tuesday faternocn and in terment was in the Evergreen ceme tery near Thelma. The deceased’s husband died several years ago and ince then she has made her horhe^with hef son. marries a young girl already in love with a young artist. Jannings is the typical, home loving, good natur end and self centerd burgher, and, to this character he brings all his won derful interpretative art. Esther Ralston plays the part of the girl wife ann Gary Cooper he** youthful sweetheart.