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| THE GREATER CITY * I 'Lj L' LJ l^D A | || NO ROOM FOR | | 15,000 POPULATION | A A ALj 1 i T AM J' 1 KNOCKERS NOW!— | L —1934! j OF the twin CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY L VOLUME 15. ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY. N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 2-ird, 1930.NUMBER 41. SEABOARD BANK ROBBERS CONFESS MANY CRIMES 5 CAUGHT BY POLICE Admit Robberies in Oth er Towns; State Inno cence Thefts Here With the arrest of five men at Richmnd and Portsmouth Tuesday, the mystery of the rob bery of the Farmers Bank at Seaboard several weeks ago seems solved. The Herald was in touch with officials of the bank at Seaboard today who reported that two of the men had confessed to the robbery and also to the robbery of the bank at Battleboro and stores at Jackson and Rocky . Mount. The tnrmUr>-. of the j.ang who confessed said, however, that their gang had nothing to do with the robberies and thefts in the Twin f ities. Officers in Ri( hmond got on a hot trad when they apprehen ! ed the car be!.mg.mg to the gang with a complete set of burglar tools in it. Farther defective work located part of the missing bond- ; a - ■if was thrown out an i four members of the gang quick ly arrested. Richmond, .Jan. i.mpn i.aiter lin, exconvict, 37, with several aliases and four other men were being held today as fugitives from Seaboard, N. C. They are wanted on charges of robbing the Bank of Seaboard Christ mas Eve. Joe Wilson, 27, Albert Heirsolzer, 86 and Charles Callear, 28, are in custody here together with Catterlin. The other man, Tracy Hart, is being held at Portsmouth, Va. having been arrested there last nignr following a confession obtained here from Wilson, Heirsolzer and Callear im;dilating Catterlin and Kart. Two headquarters detectives were dispatched tonight to North Carolina to investigate other jobs alleged to have been pulled by the gang in that State in recent years. Police theory is that Catterlin, bi-ains of the gang, was using Richmond as a base of ope rations, directing activities of men ♦rained by him for such work. It is suspected that his operations have ex tended as far as Jacksonville, Fla., three men arrested in his home early this month having been held for high way robbery at Jacksonville. One hundred thousand dollars in se curities was stolen in the Seaboard robbery. Eighty-five thousand dol lars of this amount, however, was •n non-negotiable securities. Bonds totaling $10,000 were recovered here. Catterlin, who claims to be a musician hy occupation and a native of Oregon, was sent to North Carolina peninten tiary at Raleigh in 1020 for robbing a bank at Black Creek, being given ■even years. He escaped in 1022 but was cap tured in Norfolk and returned to Ra leigh. All five men have agreed to go .to North Carolina without extradition papers. R. H. Harris, president of the Bank of Seaboard, and W. II. Joy ner, sheriff of Northampton County, arrived here late today on business in connection wth the arrests. -□ E. C. T. C. CLUB MEETS Mrs. George Taylor, Miss Ella Out land and Miss Ruth White entertain ed the E. C. T. 0. Club at thehome •f Mrs. Taylor. Lovely early spring flowers were effectively used. During the business part of the meeting plans were made for a basketball game to be given between the club members and the high school team. Final plans were also made for the banquet to be given by the club on February 7. When the business was finished a so cial hour was enjoyed and during this time games of several kinds were played. A salad course was served. The refreshments carried out the col ors of the two societies. The follow ing members answered to roll call: Mesdames R. L. Towe, R. E. Cleaton, Jr., R. L. Knight, Misses Amanda Til mon, Pat Edmondson, Mary Lander, Mable Riggan, Ruth Dean, Margie Caldwell, Virginia Blount, Mary Cox Thelma Toler, Sara Gurley, Martha ■•Tassel, Lee Arnold, Mrs. Clements, Mrs. Mustian and Mrs. China. -□ Miss Ruth Dean spent the week-end with relatives and friends in Oxford. I FARMVILLE PLAYS HERE FRIDAY P.M. The Yellow jackets will meet Farm ville here this Friday n’ght at 7:30 in one of the most important games of the season. It is a conference? game and will decide which team will take the lead as neither team has lost a conference game this year. Sullivan and Wertz are the only regulars on the local team this week, while Farmville brings back a veter an team headed with Barrett and , Smith. Farmville has not lost a game this year t odate and a real ! basketball feast is promised all who ' attend. | The girls team will play at Red Oak the same nisjht. Essay Cent?’’*, fir i Hi.F^ax CHigh School Pupils ! The Khvanis Clubs of Scotland Neck. F'filed. Weldon and Roanoke Rnpids-Roserrnvv are giving the ■ prizes for Halifax County in addition to the awards of the State in the , three year essay contest in which ; pupils of all public high schools or North Carolina may participate. I The contest was inaugurated bv ithe American Forestry Assciation and is carried on in this State through I the forestry division of the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop I ment. Prizes aggregating $25.00, besides special medals will he given the winners in the State contest. County Game and Forest Warden C. T. Lawrence has been instrumental in getting the Kiwanis Clubs of the county to donate $10.00 which will be divided into $5, $3 and $2 for first, second and third prize winners in the county. Medals and Money In addition to the county awards, and two medals the Department of > Conservation and Development will give cash prizes in the following I amounts: first, $10, second, $5; third, ! fourth, fifth and sixth prizes $2.50 each. Materials for help in the contest will be supplied to any pupil enter ing the contest. These will he pre pared by the State Tax Commission land the Department, of Conservation. jand may be obtained on request. The title selected for the contest (this year is, “Develop a Suitable Woodland Taxation Policy for North Carolina.” This is termed by Stat« Forester -I. S. Holmes as “one of the most important which will come be i fore the people of North Carolina dur ing the year since the proposed con stitutional amendment is designed t - (Continued op back page) REDl)EVILS ORGANIZE Loral Basketball Stars to Play Rocky Mount Y. M. C. A. Here Saturday | The local independent basketball team playing under the name of the] j Red Devils, will open its home season on Saturday night. The opening game j will be played in the High School , gymnasium Saturday night Jan. 25, | at eight p. m. with the Rocky Mount , Y. M. C. A. as the opponents. i I The Rocky Mount club boasts the strongest team in Eastern Carolina, | having a team of veteran players. | Listed among their plawers are a ( clever bunch including Jimmy Simp son, former Trinity star, Sides, now coaching the Rocky Mount Blackbirds, Yelverton and Harry Daughtry who plays class B baseball during the summer season. A number of other good men round out a well balanced squad. The Red Devils will probably start the game with Dickens and Flip Ed mondson playing the forward positi ons, Lester Edmondson, center and Ted Speight and Ned Manning as guards. Other men who will see ac tion during the game are Willis Mat thews, Homer Jones, Dick Brown, John Dunn and John Shaw. Although the Rocky Mount Club STATE TELLS OF POWER DAM HERE Development Dept.Fore cast* Work on Dam To Start Soon Raleigh, N. C., -Jan. 10.—Millions or dollars will he invested and work started this year on projects that will develop hundreds of thousands of horsepower of electric energy in North CaroRna, according to info'imi i tion released Saturday by the divisi >n I of water resources fo the Depm-t ! ment of Conservation and Develop ment. I In Eastern Carolina a $7,000,000 de velopment on the Roanoke River 1 above Roanoke Rapids is expected to be started tb;c? yen*’ by the Virginia Electric and Power Company, operat ! ing through the Virginia-Carolina | Power Company, a North Carolina Corporation. I In the 'A'v ■{. "n pa-t. of i1’-' State, w ok is lv ing started at n es nt on a five rn.ile tunnel which with a .200 foot dam on the Nentuhala Hi — , ahi ve Acpuono is expected to go r • • pera . ti.-n on 1030. This dav -I ,m *nt is Iru” !;■ >1 among others by t:.Nantn hnla A v. .id I dgbi C ; ■ nnny, a ■ subside* y of t:.e Aluminum C mtpany ’ < f America. j I 'ni'g in 11*30 with an i .sn.Hi- 1 gen ‘ a mg • ••.•v ity of l 0: horse power *»f w;.t r an ! steam piv' -r, pro jects now under way or scheduled dur ing the i urrent year, when completed will bring the installed capacity be yond the 2,000.000 horsepower mark, the report says. Describing the proposed dcveiop ' mer.t, the report says: } “Plans arc projected for utilizing i that portion of the Roanoke River bo* tween Roanoke Rapids, NT. C., and Buggs Island, Virginia, a distance of approximately 49 miles,4* says the department’s description of the de velopment. “These plans provide for a 42 foot dam. just above Roanoke Ra pids which will back water up to the site of the second dam about 63 feet in height which will be in the vicinity of Clements Island about nine milos above Roanoke Rapids. It is expect ed that construction will be started on the lower dam during 19.30 and that a generating capacity of 56,000 horsepower will be provided. It is estimated that the lower development to be started in 1930 will cost about $7,000,000.” A review of the power situation in North Carolina at the end of 1929 (Continued on back page) SUPPORTS CHILDREN |I?y Splint? Whiskey, says Mother of Seven, who is Sole Wajre Earner of Family; Arrested Stating tha tshe had to have some way to keen her seven children* from ■ starving, Mrs. Anna Cleary was ar rested Wednesday night by Chief of Police Gray, charged with having whiskey in her possession for the pur pose of sale. With the seven children, she lives over a pool room on Second Stree**. She has tried other work she says, but cannot make enough to clothe and feed the children. Various organiza tions have helped the family at times but there is no source of con stant revenue so the mother has been selling whiskey to buy food and cloth ing. Such is the pitiful story told the | police. The father left the family J some month sago and is said to be at .the County Home. j Four pints ot whiskey were found I in the room by Chief Gray who searched the room and found the li quor in the baby’s bed, wrapped in (diapers. Jesse Baldwin, who was in the (house, was arrested by the officers ! and also charged with possession. His bond was first set at $100 by Mayor Long, but when the Mayor discovered that Baldwin had a wife and three children in Raleigh, whom he had left, the bond was raised to $500. Trial will be held at 2 p. m. this Fri day afternoon before the Mayor. Mrs. j Cleary was released on her own re-, cognizance. . has been playing together for several years and have won a number of games this season, the Red Devils are expected to give them a hard fight from the opening whistle. Come out and give the boys your support Saturday night. YOUNGER JERNIGAN ARRESTED Your* per Brother in Jail at Windsor; L. W. Still At Large Denson Jernigan, accused with his older brother. L. W. Jernigan, of robbing a store and smokehouse in Bertie County, was arrested in Petersburg last Friday. The elder Jernigan who escap od here when officers were starching his house and finding much of the stolen property, is still at large. Hoping to catch him officers at Petersburg held Denson for a day in jail, but the older man had evidently taken another trail ro was laying l-nv. Denson was uaht to Windsor by the Sheriff of berfie County and his examining trial neld TIondoy after noon. He refused to make any state ment, waived examining trial, and as hoM to Superior court under bond. ■ . ailing to f'll bond, he is in jail at u':ndsor a’.va’tlng trial on 'February 10. I’he Herald was in touch with Bar tie County offi' :als t 'day who state:1, that they hoped to pin several other •roM:e: k-s on the Jernigans. They sa:d a series of robberies had taken place in the county during the pa t few months and on several occasions, the Jernigans were seen in the vici j nity just before the thefts. No signi 1 ficance was attached as the father of I the two men liver, near Fowellsville, where the last robbery took place. It is reported that several other men were implicated with the Jerni gans and officers are working on in formation they are said to have. Con fession on the part of the younger Jernigan to help his case would clear up several robberies here, it is thought. To date, however, he main tains his innocence, alt ho articles from the eH# of T. J. Jernigan and the smokehouse of Morton White of Fowellsville were found in both his house and the residence of his broth er last week. HOSPITAL NEWS Recent patients at the hospital in clude Mrs. L. H. Herrin, Rosemary, | Joe Neal, Rosemary, Mrs. L. F. Bar row, Littleton, Mrs. A. T. Garris, Rosemary, G. W. Waters, Roanoke Rapids, Willie Boone of Potacessi. Birth announcements: To Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Smith, Roanoke Rapids, a hoy, Jan. 17; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mur phy. Rosemary, a boy, Jan. 20; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bryant, Roanoke Rh pids. a hoy, Jan. Id; Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Barfield, Rosemary, a girl, Jan. 18; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Burton, Roa noke Rapids, a girl, Jan. 20. Patients who haverecently under gone operations, Charlie Suggs, Mrs. E. S. Stainback, Clarence Malone '-f Broadnax, Va., Bernie M. Tud »r, Charlie Rook, Claude Henderson. Roy Harvey Lassiter, Jr. of Pocates si, was admitted to the hospual wiih a broken leg. □—_ Interesting Service at The County Home Last Sunday afternoon. Rev. C. T. j Thrift and about a dozen men.bers from Rosemary, New Hope and Smith’s went out to the County Home and held services for the inmates. They enjoyed the trip and were glad of the opportunity to hold the ser vice. Mr. Medlin and his wife, who I superintend the home, gave them a hearty welcome, and the inmates, both white and colored, who were able to assemble for the service were very appreciative. -n BYPU Elects Officers The officers of the Roanoke Ra pids B. Y. P. U. for 1930 are Miss Ruth King, director, Rosa Moody, as sociate director, Calvin Kennemur, secretary, Janice Bristow, treasurer, Beulah Kidd pianist, Hoyle Hutchin son. chorister, Ollie Powell and Helen Vann, junior department leaders, Mrs. J. H. Hines, intermediate leader, Catherine Hines, senior president. -n Miss Pauline Kendrick, Miss Ollie Powell, Miss Lillian Bell Jenkins Miss Hattie Humphries and Mrs. E. E. j Kendrick attended a district meeting j of the B. Y. P. U. in Tarboro on Sunday. DRINK KILLS NEGRO MAN NEAR HERE 3ut D’ptH Cannot Be Bl^rr^d on Whiskey; He Did Not Drink One man kil1 -d from drinking which cannot be laid to whiskey is Curley , Copeland. N’cgo, who died near Hol lister some time Saturday night, j For Copeland, crazy with jealousy, I drank lye water and in the intense ' pain which followed, finished the job by shooting himself. The man had been acting wildly all day and patrolled his house and yard jwith a shotgun. The wife, of whom I he is said t obe jealous, and several of the children went to a neighbor's house late in the afternoon. An old er son went back to persuade the ! father to give up the gun which had been hidden from him sometime be fore. He refused and told the boy to leave h’m. I Later in the night, neighbors went back with the family but could find n • trace of Copeland. At a nearby he us a woman s <i she had s -on C ua-lard land he told her to tell bis wife he (was going av ay and t > '-.k £<• »d |care of hi- .'ikben. Sunday ruing the man was fou d : near b’s v-.nd'iile, i'.;d, I'- pu'.. i Sheriff VivhM cal'-d for Co I Wi!!;'ims \ ’■» f-nrnl C-»ne!:: :1 1 iag on his fac- -a ith the • !-.••*. :un n -ar h'm. A hole had been b'mvn in lrs <-Vv t I from close range. s1'jn - , the left lung and heart. Mystery entered the er.se f tie f'rst. time when the/ Coroner fou’n! the man’s mouth and threat filled with lard. It was literally cram med full of lard to the point of al most caus'ng death by strangulation or suffocation. Investigate n by the Coroner show ed that Copeland had mixed a box of lye with some water and drank it. I Ilis finger prints were plain in the ■lye inixtu e. The intense pain cvi j dently brought him to his senses and he ran t$ the lard pail and filled his mouth with lard intent on easing the terrible burning sensation. Gaining no relief, he evidently staggered out doors and put the gun to his chest, pulling the trigger and putting him self out of his agony. Copeland was said to have had a good reputation and he did not drink. His family and neighbors say he has not touched a drop of whiskey, but has been acting queerly for some time. FILM TRUCK KILLS MAN IM'-pr Hold Tndor J.iern • Hond: Officers &ay He Should He Exonerated Henry Vrood was released under a .nominal $100 bond holding to grand j jury investigation in the death of an j aged negro man whom he hit and | killed early Sautrday morning near j Franklinten. | Mr. Wood, who drives a special j truck cartwing movie reels between Raleigh and points in this section of j the State, was on his regular run about five o’clock Saturday morning, when an old negro man, reported deaf and partly blind, stepped out in front of his truck. At the preliminary hearing before the Mayor of Franklinton, the driver was placed under a light bond. The Mayor said he would like t oexoner ate Mr. Wood, as the testimony show ed he was not at fault, but ho felt it was best the grand jury take that uathority. Mr. Wood lives here and makes his trip every night. He usually arrives here with films late at night for both theatres in the Twin Cities. -□ Rev. A. S. Barnes at R.R. Methodist Church The Reverend A. S. Barnes will (preach at the Methodist Church of [Roanoke Rapid?, Stmdav January 2'3, both morning and «ve’-’n'. Mr. Barnes ;s superintend mi. of the Me thodist oiphanage it Raleigh and is a forceful and inspiring speaker. The congregation remembers with pleas the visits he has made to the Church representing the orphanage. He is coming this time, however, not in an official capacity, but as a visiting j minister to supply the pulpit in Mr. | Hall’s absence. LOCAL MAN HELD IN MACON BANK ROBBERY Man Accused Eloping With Sister-in-Law C. F. King, who lives between Mount and Tarboro, will be tried by Mayor Long Friday for feloniously eloping with the wife of W. E. Tan ner of Hornertown. Chief Gray ar rested King and brought him here Wednesday. At King’s home he dis covered Tanner’s wife, but he also found King’s wife there, a sister of Mrs. Tanner. COLTRANE i IS NAMED I BY CHERRY | To Head Committee for Acquainting State With School Facts In o’tier to acciuaint the public v.-ith ; ail the facts about the schools of to- ' dry. and at the some time into p-e t j • nr; etlces of the m ’dorr. school to ' i • •(’ who pair adze it and pay the a special committee t f the Xorth . Caro’.ir.a Education Association has born appointed. President Annie M. < berry has named i\. .J. O'-krane, Su perintendent of the Salisbury schools, ;;.s Chairman of this committee. In [addition to the chairman the other | members are Lee H. Edwards of j Asheville, T. I. Foust, of Greensboro, j Maude C. Newberry of Currituck, Ionic* Peek* of Wilson, B. C. Siske of Warsaw, A. E. Akers of Roanoke Ra pids, B. L. Smith of Shelby, and T. Wingate Andrews of High Point. This | committe will be known as the Com imittee on Public Information. I Working under the general direc tion of the State Committee are dis I trict and county committees, which i will seek to work out the objectives j of the State Association. Chairmen of the various districts include such 1 able superintendents as Clyde Erwin | of Rutherford County in the Western | District, B. L. Smith of Shelby in the I South Piedmont District, G. B. Phil lips of Greensboro in the Northwest l ern District, John L. Lockhart of Wake County in the North Central District, W. H. Pittman of Edgecombe County in the Northeastern District and C. C. Russ of Columbus County in the Southeastern District’ The members of the North Central Dis trict Committee are: John Lockhart, Raleigh, Chairman E. L. Best, Louis buvg. J. E. Alien of Warrenton, F. M. Martin of Durham, C. G. Credle of Oxford, Lee Thomas of Carthage, and L. J. Bell of Rockingham. Within recent months, a series of conferences with school people have been held in various parts of the State for the purpose of acquainting principals and teachers with the plans of the State Association. In (Continued on page six) LOCAL MAN IN NEW YORK New York, Jan. 21.—A coal and ice man from Rosemary, N. C., testified in Federal Court here today that a mysterious “George Wright” who wit nesses have testified took an active part in the sale by telephone of st ;ck in the Utah Lead Company of Dela ware. was always “out of town” when ho called in person at the offices of “The Stock Market Reporter” and ‘Trend of the Market.” This was the case, Samuel M. Thompson continued, even when he talked to “Wright” over the phone from the lboby of the same building J and then went up stairs only a few minutes later. Thompson, appearing as a witness in the trial for mail fraud of Chas. Beadon—who was editor of the two publication—the lead company, the publications and other defendants, tes tified that in 1928 he received a “booster” telephone call from Wright’ He came to New York, he said, bring ing a check for $5,500 which he ex changed for 1,000 shares fo Utah Lead stock. Subsequently, his suspicions arous ed he continued, he placed his stock with the Hanover National Bank with authority to sell, but he still has the stock. IDENTIFY KATZ CAR Owner of Car Maintains Innocence; Says Car Was Stolen D. Katz, owner of the Done Right Shoe Shop in Rosemary, is held under a one thousand dol lar bond for the next session of Superior Court in Warren Coun ty, charged with complicity in the illegal entrance of the bank of Macon about midnight Fri day night. A preliminary hearing was held at Warrenton Monday af ternoon at which time two men testified they saw a man resem bling Katz, sitting in a car which belongs to Katz, in front of the hank at Macon on the night it is charged the bank was,- entered. Otle of -the men is a salesman far tlie Oakland-Pontiac oars at War ronton. The other works in Macon. .They were returning from an engage menl and : ay they saw the car parked I in front of the bank. They drove ap thinking it was some ot then triends* I and the other ear pulled away. They ' followed it up the road and turned J around. They testified they were sus ' picious of the actions and flashed their lights on the car, disclosing the driver laone, whom they say resem bled Katz. One of them took dow* the license number of the car. Following the car back into Macon, they decided to call the president of the bank, after following the car domn the road and back. When they re turned with the president and an of ficer the car was gone. Investigation showed the hank had been entered by a rear window, flower pots on the window sill being knocked off on the floor. It is said feeble attempts had been made to open desk drawers ami a small safe, but nothing was missing-. A call to Raleigh revealed the li cense number belonging to Katz. On the Saturday morning following the attempted robbery, Katz reported te Rosemary police that his car had been stolen the night before and returned later. I Saturday afternoon Chief Dobbin*, j with the two witnesses and Warren County officers, arrested Katz in hi-* • shoe shop. At the time of the arrest the two men from Macon claimed that Katz was the man they saw in the car. The latter, however, insists his in nocence and maintains that he was home in bed at the time the attempted robbery is said to have been staged. . He says that it is possible, that who ever stole his car is implicated but that he was not driving the car be tween midnight and 12:30 Saturday morning. Katz filled bond after the prelimi nary hearing and v.-as released until the next session of Warren Superior Court. _I !_ ROSEMARY I*. T. A. MEETING The Parent Teacher Association of the Rosemary school held its meeting on Tuesday. January 17th. The meet ing was presided over by Mrs. Tom Kirby, vice president. Mrs. Hurley King acted as secretary. A disens sion was held led by Mrs. Kirby as to advisability of group meetings o»i problems of children in this school It was decided to try out the plan, and to take the books alloted to the* Association. The committee of Wel fare reported that shoes and over shoes had been given to a child im need of them. Plans were made for protecting the shrubbery planted around the school. Miss Toler show ed the picture purchased by the as sociation to be won by the grade har ing the greatest number of mothers present. Miss Toler’s grade having won for the last three months. At thm close of business Mrs. Harbour, Mrs. Horace Dobbins, Mrs. W. O. Thomp son and Mrs. Hurley King served sandwiches and tea to about forty members. -—a Mr. J. T. Chase, manager of Virginia Electric and Power will leave tomorrow to two day annual mid winter the North Carolina branch of ercian Society of Civil
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