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I' ..minimum.wmammy P | %W W t pT\ * W a""""".■■mM.ri.HM.m.iiiiiiTii.iiTiiniiiiMiimimii.nTiTHnnTnmimiH.'.THPj THE GREATER CITY I LJ L LJ M IJ ^ I I | NO ROOM FOR | 15,000 POPULATION || JL ILiIViaJLjJL/ 1 KNOCKERS NOW!— | LOF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY L—.If———I VOLUME 15.____ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 6th, 193(7 ~ NUMBER 47. MANGLED BOY DIES QUICKLY Driver Cleared After It 1= Shown Bov Jumped From Behind Car Winston Cook, 7 year old colored boy darted in front of a car nnd wae horribly mangled in front of his horn > at Halifax late Monday afternoon. He died in the local hospital a few min utes after being brought here by I'. L. Bland, auto salesman of Ro.ky Mount, whoso car struck the boy. Mr. Bland was exonerated of all blame by a coroners jury which met at Halifax Tuesday morning. He was cleared by the testimony of C. L. Al ston, negro, in whose car the boy had been riding just prior to the accident. According to Alston, he ha.1 stop ped in front of the boy’s house and the boy had alighted. They saw the Bland car coming and cautioned the b'»y,. Just before the ca rpassed, Alston says he saw the boy crouched as if to jump out in the road and he yelled at him to stop. The next minute he had sprung in the path of the car. Mr. Bland applied his brakes and jumped from his car while it was still rolling. He ran back and went for a doctor. A quick examination showed that both legs had been broken in two places: above the ankles and above the knees; the skull had been frac tured from a blow of the radiator front; the chest had been crushed when the wheels ran over the body. The other cat was not running last, but had slowed down for pass ing, according to Alston. Mr. Bland testified he saw the other car parked, blew his horn and slowed down, but did not see the boy until right at the car and too late to stop. The rest of his testimony was the same as Al ston’s. The inquest was held at the request of the driver. Coroner Billy Williams was called on the night of the acci dent and the story related to him However, the father of the dead boy was inclined to blame Mr. Bland and the inquest wras demanded by the iat ter to clear himself. The jury consisted of T. E. Kirby, H. B. Ferguson, J. A. Wood, E. F. Cagle, A. P. Dickens and B. B. Boy kins. High School Seniors Have Weenie Whoopee. The senior class chaperoned b> Miss Mary Kessler had a most delight hike and weiner roast on Wednesday afternoon. The hikers left the high school building in the early part of the afternoon and walked up the riv er bank to the site where the new dam is to be erected. Not long after ar riving at their destination a fire was built and the usual procedure for a weiner roast followed. This delightful occasion was enjoyed by the follow ing boys and girls, Misses Annie Ken non Taylor, Priscilla Mullen, Ollie Powell, Virginia Hobbs, Elsie White, Jesse Davis, Margaret Wood, Laura Nell Thrift, Lurline Hardy, Annie Fitts and Lililan Bell Jenkins. Mes sers Edwin Akers, Graham Lynch, “Micie” Shell, Harrison Gi’es, Ikie Johnson. -□ Rosemary Methodists Donate To College The regular monthly meeting ot Missionary and tld society of the Rosemary Methodist Church was held on Tuesday night at the home of ifivs A. D. Glover. Mr*. C. W. D ivis led the devotional and gave a most in teresting talk on “Inner Attitudes fri True Worshin.,: The regular ol der of business followed with .interest ing reports fr»m til commiNci*:1. K wsa decided to apply the money from rainy day tags to the Swindell Me morial at Scarritt College. Plans were made to have a Bible class to begin in the near future. At conclus ion of business the hostess assisted by Mrs. Viola Glover and Miss Hazel Cobb served a delicious salad course. Those present were Mesdames Paul Read, Marion Hudson, Raymond Pur dy, Sam Thompson, Lewis Cannon, C. T. Thrift, Nellie Scales, C. W. Dav is, Hurley King,. J. C. Butts, Susie Gooch, Charlie Speight, N. D. Cox, R. I. Starke, A. D. Glover and Mrs. Boyd. -□ Hickory—First National Bank and Consolidated Trust Company plan consolidation. LOCAL R. R. MAY MERGE Alliance of Seaboard With The Pennsvlvania Svstem Suggested The posibility of an alliance of the Seaboard Air Line with the powerful Pennsylvania system is suggested in recent developments before the Inter state Commerce Commission. The commission is speeding up its investigation of the Pennsvlvama’* control of the Wabash and T nhieh Valley to determine if the anti-trust laws are being violated. Under the com n\'«s ton's consoli dation program, the Wabash v ould he the northern oufht ft r the Sea board. hut that would moan elimina tion of the Pennsylvania control. and it also contemnlat.es inclusion of the Norfolk and Western, which for man" ; °ars has hpen allied with the Penn sylvania line. Recent.lv railroe/l? in the K*is+ have been seeking to work out oonsoli 1 itim programs that would meet rmp”o"al of the commission. A compromise proposed for Pennsylvania would jpve that system the Norfolk end West0 n if it disposes of its holdings in the Wabash and Lehigh *Val!ey, and also the Seaboard. Alliance of the Seaboard with such such a powerful system as the Penn sylvania would make its financial fu ture secure and would assure it of adequate outlets to the north and West. Such a compromise would mean that the proposed Wabash con solidation woul lose both the Norfolk and Western and the Seaboard, but other line have been suggested as sub stitutes. All of these speculations are un official, and no negotitations to make them real are expected unless the In terstate Commerce Commission in dicates its approval. r-i AURELIAN SPRINGS Mises G. Chadwick, M. Gunn, B.Pat terson, G. Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Matthews, Mr. and M^s. C. L. Kellv. and Mrs. Crawley and Messrs C. W. Jackson and R C. Hatley at tended the oratorical contest h'IJ in Rii'-igO last Saturday night. Mr. Lore *1:0 Pittard. the representative from Aurelian Springs, was awarded Hrst p1a>o ip the contest, $50.00 and a gold medal. The Senior play given at A. S. H. S. on Saturday night proved to be a great success. Mrs. Perkins Taylor entertained the faculty at her home Wednesday night. Miss Virginia Insco spent the week end in Richmond. Miss Dorothy Cook of Dunn spoil* the week-end with Miss Annie Pearl Crawley. There will be a “Womanless Wed ding” given at A. S. H. S., March 7. Admission 15c and 5c. Time 7:30 p.m. Laughs for all. Everybody come. Last Wednesday night the Aurelian Springs basketeers defeated Severn 37 to 14. The boys from Aurelian Springs started the scoring tor a ieaa which they were able to maintain all the way thru the game. The game was just a little slow in the first quar ter but Morris, center for Aurelian Springs found it easy to score for his team; and by the end of the first half the score stood 14 to 7 for Au relian Springs. Liles also aided great ly in making points for Aurelian Springs, while Stephenson and Long counted for Severn. Not being satsi fied about the results of the first half Crawley, the diminutive forward, scor ed five filed goals for Aurelian Springs to ishare honors with his mate, Liles. Captain Morris was the high scorer for the evening, adding 13 points to his credit. Butts, guard for Aurelian Springs, sank a beautiful long shot from mid-court. Long star red for Severn with six points and the other boys shared about even in rounding out the teams. SUMMARY A.S.H.S. Severn Liles (10) Long (6) Left Forward Crawley (10) Stephenson (4) Right Forward Morris (13) Glover (3) Center Thorne (0) Britt (0) Right Guard Butts (2) Parker (1) Left Guard Hawkins (2) • eft Forward 5 ubstitu’ions: A i Mian S rings— Warren for Butts; Hawkins f'*r Liles; L ies for Tnino. Severn—Man i for Britt. Rfev'*;, F’.nsdson. PLANS MAY CUT FIRE RATE HERE Investigates Fqiiln-rien1 and Hirin'* Man; Chari ties Planned The Town Board of Roanoke Ra pids, thru Its Fire Department chair man, Geroge N. Taylor, is investi gating the pr :babk raving- ir fir. insurance premiums to the cit'zcns if it should in vest in a pumner for the Fire Department truck and cm rdoy a full time man who would on <Iuty the do. k around. At monthly meeting Tuesday tlm R nrd was informed that a pump c.* ami a full time man won! ? mrl.e Y>< to lower the insurance, rate ab' tit fifteen .er cent. It was estimated that $22 000 is paid out annually for fire protection m the city limits, exclusive of ir.il< property. A 15 per cent reduction would mean a reduction of about $1,000 a year. Many citizens seem to t) ink it would be a good investment and savings to property owners tr• buy Ihe pumper and hire a man . t $'00 per month, who hi.d s *v> ex perience in »h i line, could keep the jtilick and equipm*n< in shape, and (sleep near the truck at night, so as to be ready at all tioms Mr. Taylor was instructed to get all th? neces sary data and report back to the Board at the next meetin:. It is claimed the above require ments fulfilled would change the fire rating of Roanoke Rapids from fourth class to second class. Rev. J. N. Bynum appeared before the Board, requesting a representa tive from the Board be delegated to meet with the churches and other civ ic organizations relative to the forma tion of an Associated Charities for the Twin Cities. Mayor Long was chosen to represent the town. The plan as outlined by Mr. Bynum is to have a central charities body with an investigating committee to investigate ar;d report on all charity eases. All persons who felt inci nrd would donate their charity funds to this one organization, thus stoppirg the haphazard methods employed now, with many unworthy cases getting as sistance while many worthy cases S' uncared for. All persons begging for help would be sent to the committee; while many cases needing assistance, where he5p had not been requested, could be re ported by interested citizens to the committee. -□ Wilmington—Roanoke Bridge and Iron Works received contract for con struction of permanent bridge* aero.-* inland waterway on Big ivaj No. !0, rMolina Beach Road WIN ATTENDANCE PRIZE The Aurelian Springs School is the proud owner of a big silver loving cup for the best attendance in the primary and grammar grades of the school. Pictured above is the splendid prize being held by little Misses Catherine Carter, age 6, in the black dress and Jane Glasgow, 6, dressed in white. These two are of many in the first j grade. i The cup will be presented at Com-1 meneenvent time to the class with the best attendance record for the year. The name of the class and the teach er will be engraved on the cup with the year. Each year, the cup will be held by' the previous champions until another class has the best record, when it will pass on to the new own ers. Attendance in rural communities is a real problem and this contest has served to gain the interest of parents as well as children. The Parent Teachers Association is sponsoring the contest and the handsome silver cup comes as a gift from that public spirited citizen of our community, Coroner Billy Williams. The entire Aurelian Springs community has ask ed THE HERALD to express its ap preciation of the gift which will he carefully guarded and highly prized in the years to come. Halifax Fanners Btijr Pasture Seed Cooperative orders for 335 pounds of pasture grass seed, 319 pounds of lespedeza, 3,905 pounds of May peas, and 204 pounds of Aliskie Clover seed were made by the farmers of Halifax County during the past week, accord ing to County Agent J. B. Britt. The seed were ordered to be sown for soil improvement and grazing purposes. Halifax farmers, Mr. Britt stated, 1 also are interested in protecting their soils through terracing as well as the use of soil improvement crops. During the past week demonstrations were held on three farms and 105 acres were terraced, he said. Soil tests to determine the kind and amount of fertilizer necessary were made on 75 acres, the county agent said. REPUBLICAN HARD TIMES By C. T. THRIFT There is a cry of hard times abroad in the land. There are perhaps mil lions out of in ployment hero in American and this unemployment is still on the i*cvease. But this is by no means the first time there have been hard times in the Unit id States. There are many who can remember the year 1893 when Cleveland was President. We are constantly remind ed of that and the fact that the De mocrats were in power. Nothing like so many can remember 1873 when U. S. Grant was President *m<1 the Republicans, as now, were in power. It may be worth while to refresh our memories on these thing* lest we forget. Our country survived gh.ii ously those trying times. What has been done can be done again, so we may look for the dawning of another and, let us hope, a better day. I h*ve just finished reading “The Tragic Era,” by Claude G. Bowers, a book which every preacher and every teach er and if possible everybody in the South should read. Here is what is said about 1873 on pages 412-15-17: ‘A dismal winter, one of the several, turned its bitter blasts upon the un employed. Men, women, and children were soon walking the streets in fruit less search of work, and the employ ment agencies of cities were jammed from morning till night. The placards at a mass meeting at Cooper Union in December (according to the New York World of December 12, 1873) did not exaggerate: 10.000 homeless men and women in our streets. 7,500 lodges in the overcrowded ‘charnel’ station houses per week. 20,250 idle men from all trade un ions, while only 5,950 are employed. 182.000 skilled workmen belonging to trade organizations of the State idle. 110,000 idle of all classes in New York City. And there were other placards hav ing political significance: Civil Rights have passed, now for the Rights of Work. Freedom for Labor, Death for Mo nopolies. Does Speculation or Labor produce Wealth? We demand suspension of rent for three months. When workmen begin to think, Mo nopoly begins to tremble. Hard times had seemingly come to stay, and there was prostration in business and suffering among the people. Financiers were urging the resumption of specie payment. But the clamorous multitude was passionately demanding more paper money.Great was the astonishment when he (Grant) returned the measure with a vigorous veto vote.There was no rejoicing among the unemployed, and suffering among the masses threatened sinster possibilities. The silk workers of Pat terson, N. J., in mass meeting were demanding an immediate tariff le duction of twenty per cent. (Continued next week) -□ Power Officials Here Officials of the Virginia Electric and Power Company from Richmond visited the Carolina properties of the company this week. Those in the party included Mr. Joseph Bowes, vice president, Mr. H. C. Leonard, general manager of operations, chief engineer Tabor. They were here for two days. Another Reputed Member of Liquor Gang Is Arrested Held on three charges. Mon is Lynch was bound over to Superior Court by Magistrate Thompson Tues day night. The charges are con scaled weapon, obstructing an officer in the performance of his duty and liquor transportation. Bonds totaled $850. It is charged that Lynch is one of the gang who took Joe Williams away from an fficer near Aurelian Springs. Duke and Tom Shearin. as well as Williams, were later arrested, all said to be members of the gang. It is said Lynch sat in a car with a drawn gun and held a crowd at bay while oth ers proceeded to shoot up some evi dence at the Crawley store: namely several demijohns of liquor. It is also charged that it was his car, liquor laden, which turned over and wrecked near here last Sunday night week. When the car could not be started, it was burned, later identi fied as Lynch’s. Williams, once res cued, later retaken, is on the road. ——n Civil War Veteran Dies at Halifax Major Wilcox of Halifax died last Tuesday mroning after several weeks of illness. Mr. Wilcox w-as born in Halifax and has lived here all of his life. He fought in the Civil War. He leaves surviving him two sisters, Miss Bettie and Miss D. Wilcox and three brothers, W. A. Wilcox, Charlie Wil cox and Willie Wilcox all of Halifax. -n Collins-V aughan Miss Doris Vaughan and Mr. Hu bert Collins were married here Tues day evening with Reverend J. N. By num performing the ceremony. Only a few close friends were present. The young couple left at once for a bridal trip to Washington, D. C., and on their return will reside in the Twin Cities. Miss Vaughan is a graduate nurse and has lived here for several years. She is very attractive and popular here. The groom is a local boy, well known here and has been employed at the Roanoke Pharmacy for over five years. -□ Watch Your Chicks Here is a notice from police head quarters: Everygody must fasten up their chickens so they will not get on other people’s property. Those not observing this law will be indicted in the Mayor’s Court. Signed, G. F. GRAY, Chief of Police “MINSTREL MIMICS” NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT IS TALK OF THE TOWN HALIFAX TOWNSHIP Mr. D. Mac. Johnson of Enfield, was here on business Saturday. Mrs. 11. B. Ferguson returned t< her home here Sunday after spend ing the week with friends at Eden ton. Misses Clemie Read and Vera Bob bit spent the week-end in Littleton visiting friends. Mr. Geo. C. Green of Weldon war here Monday on business. Messrs Julian Allsbrook and A1 len C. Zollicoffer of Roanoke Rapids were here Monday on business. Mr. Willie Jennings and w-ife of Fremont, spent the week-end with hteir mother, Mrs. Annie B. Jennings. Mr. and Mrs. Edw-ard Hamill of Woodland spent Sunday with Mrs. Annie B. Jennings. Mr. J. B. Hall of Scotland Neck was here on Monday. Mr. Rudolph White of Tillery was i here Saturday. Mr. W. J. White spent Sunday in | Rich Square. Mr. J. W. Harvey of Littleton was here on business Monday. Mr. Walter Allen was here Monday on business. Mrs. Elizabeth Stedman Boyd who is attending Wake Forest College, spent the week-end at the home of her father, Mr. N. L. Stedman. Mr. Hunter Pope of Enfield was here on business Monday. Friends of Miss Nannie Gary are glad to have her back home after spending a few days in the hospital in Richmond, where she went for an examination. We are glad to have with us again Mr. W. T. Clement, Register of Deeds of Halifax, who has been in the hos pital at Rocky Mount for the past two weeks. Mr. Clement seems to be much improved in health. Mr. W. L. Long of Roanoke Rapids was a business visitor here Monday. -□ Womans Club To Give Flower Show The Womans Club held its regular monthly meeting on Monday after noon in the vocational building of the Junior-Senior High School. Mrs. F. M. Brown, president, presided over the meeting and the regular order of business was conducted. About JO iaoies were present n^d a most in teresting pr fiam wa.» given under the supervision of the Gav.u a f)tj jrt 1 ent. Mrs. C. A. Wycr e g.ivi a most helpful talk >n bulbs illur.tt atod with slide pictures. The Better Homes Department of the club is stu-r:ng a Womans Exchange and anybody h:\v ::.g food or fancy work ft.: sale can notify Mrs. P.. P. Be:kw;th r.r Mrs. A. L. Taylor and they will help dis pose of same for 10 per cent of the sale price of the article sold. For fur ther information call Mrs. Taylor or Mrs. Beckwith. Notice was given that the Garden Department will hold a flower show some time in Apri’. Please keep this in mind and send what flowers you have at that time to the show'. Prizes W'ill be given for various collections. Full notice will be given at a later date. Members and friends are always welcome at all meetings of the Departments and club. The Welfare Department of the Womans Club will meet Monday af ternoon with Mrs. T. M. Jenkins at 3 o’clock. Better Homes Department will meet with Mrs. R. P. Beckwith Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Civics department will meet Monday after noon at 3 o’clock with Mrs. V. T. Lamm. The Garden department will meet Monday afternoon with Mrs. 1\ R. Manning. -n Rosemarv M. E. Church The pastor, Rev. C. T. Thrift, will preach at both services. Sunday morning he will speak on the Revo lution in the Ministry which would lesult from a Baptism of the Holy Spirit. At 7:30 he will speak on “The Influence of Jesus Christ in Educa tion.” All teachers in the Twin City schools are especially invited to this service. Professor Davis’ class which is growing at a marvelous rate will welcome all yc^ung men who will come. Mr. Hehe will be glad to see a large number of the older men. Sunday Schoool meets at 9:45. -d Minstrel Mimics next Friday nite. BIG STREET PARADE Everybody Planning To See Kiwanis Benefit Show Preceded by a regular old rime minstrel parade at noon, the Kiwanis Club will present “Minstrel Mimics of 1030 ’ on next Friday nigbi, .March 14th. The curtain will rise at eight o'clock sharp at the huge H. S. Auditorium and the ;nt:re sho v will consume two hours exactly, so that out of town visitors may return home at a reasonable hour.. No amateur performance this, according to visitors at rehears als. but a professional show chru out with the best local tr lent in the Twin Cities whipped into the keenest form by Lyle Wil son, director for the John B. I Rogers Producing Co., Fostoria, Ohio. Stage costumes, parade costumes, scenery and properties are furnished by the producing company. The parade will be held at noon on Friday of the show unless rain n tervenes. A full band of 26 pieces will lead the march with at least 30 min strels in full parade costume. The hour is picked at noon so that school children and employees of the mills may see the home town boys strut their stuff. The business sections of both towns w'ill be visited and a visit to Weldon is possible. Rehearsals started this Monday and have been under way every afternoon and night. They will continue thru next week until the big night on Fri day. The first hour of the perform ance is a regular old-time A1 G. Fields-Coburn-Honey Boy Evons min strel, with a circle of twenty one male voices singing and acting the latest and snappiest numbers, six black face end men full of fun and frolic, male soloists and a regular big-time or chestra in the pit. The second act will include special ty numbers, dancing, singing, jokes, banjo playing, and the like by the best talent in town. A 30 minute skit en j titled “The Isle of Never Known” is a scream farce. The action takes place on a cannibal isle ruled over by a gi gantic black queen. A young naval officer and two black-face sailors are marooned on the isle and things hap thick and fast when the queen takes ^a shine to the sailor boys. A beautiful | chorus of ten snappy little girl dan cers serves to add to the attractive ness of the skit. Then there is another clever skit of young girls which will catch the eye with its beautiful costumes, popu lar songs and ballet dancing. Among those to be seen ir. action in the first part are Sam Peace, How ard Pruden, Ned Manning, Hugh T. Smith, Roland Johnson, Carroll Wil son, Joe Chase, Leslie Towe, Wick Ross, Hurley King, Bob Myrick, Mur phy Jackson, Alonzo Akers, Charley Davis, Hugh Bradley, Bob Allen, Wil son Mullen E. A. Tellega, Dave Traynham, Red Mason, Dick Martin and others. Altogether it will present two hours of as much fun and entertainment as ever witnessed in this part of the state. The entire net proceeds go-to the work of the Kiwanis Club with the crippled children of the communi ty and Boy Scout and Girl Scout and reserve work. Admission is $1 with school children at half price. The High School audi torium seats over 2,000 so there will be seats for all and none have been reserved. Advance sale of tickets is being made by members of the Ki.vanis Clubs here, at Emporia, Scotland Neck, Enfield and Warrenton, with the Comunity Club at Weldon interest ed in helping the neighboring Kiwanis club put across its first big endeavor in this line. Members of the local Woman’s Club Study Club and P. T. A. are interest ed and out selling tickets for the good of the cause. The hope is to fill ev ery seat so that this might become an annual affair in the community, the only time in the year the public will (Continued on back page)