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r=ri Tur ucp Ain i.==—. I ,s’000 POPULATION j J[ | KNOCKERS NOW!— | OF THE TWIN CIT1ES-R0AN0KE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY I-_WATCHUSCROW.| VOLUME 15.___* ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 3rd, 1930 " NUMBER 51 JOHNSON ESCAPES BYHAIR Eludes Officers By 15 Minutes; Warm Leg Cast Found Time and Fate favored Roy Johnson, now famous for his Houdini act of disappearing from the Roanoke Rapids Hos pital with one entire leg from his hip to toe encased in a plas ter cast. Tuesday of this week, Chief Gray and Virginia officers trailed Johnson and three others half way across1 Virginia and at one time were within fifteen minutes of them. When the end of the three week’s search seemed ended. Johnson and party vanished in thin air and the case is once more shrouded in silence and mystery. Acting on reliable information, Chief Gray left here Tuesday morning and in company with a Virginia State officer and a local officer, went to the residence of a kinsman of John son near Holland, Va. This uncle and aunt denied all knowledge of John sons whereabouts and the trail seem cold at once. Receiving additional information that a man with his leg in a cast, a woman and two other men had been there about a week before, the officers had a warrant sworn out for the uncle. He capitulated and ad mitted that Johnson and party had been with him for several days but had been gone three days. Under add ed pressure he told the officers where the party had gone. Piling him in the car with them, the officers sped on to Alberta, Va., where another kinsman lived. There was no body at home. Peering through the v{indow, Chief Gray saw a peculiar looking object on the floor. It was the cast from Johnson’s leg. Enter ing the house, the officers examined the cast which had been out through with a sharp knife. The cast was still warm. At a nearby filling station, they were told the party had stayed at the house for two or three days and had left in a Ford Coupe just fifteen min utes before the arrival of the offi cers. A man wrapped in a blanket, evidently Johnson, was in the rumble seat, a woman and two men on the front seat. They had purchased three gallons of gasoline and four drinks at the filling station and drove off in the direction of Franklin. The officers gave chase again, stop ping at various points to ask for the fugitives. At several places they were told the car had been by anywhere from half hour to forty-five minutes before. The trail led to a point one half mile from Franklin and there it ended. They could find none who had seen the car and altho hours were spent in trying to pick up the trail, Johnson and his friends had vanished completely. Darkness ended the man hunt. Chief Gray and E. Woodruff, wh oaccompanied him, returned here late Tuesday night, with nothing to show for the day’s trip but a broken auto spring and the knowledge they had missed their man by a scant quar ter hour. It will be recalled that Johnson was brought tt ohe hospital here on Feb ruary 19, with a bullet wound in his leg sustained when he refused to stop for officers on the Weldon bridge. In his car was found 40 gallons of li quor, officers reported. The leg »vas put in a plaster cast and early Wed nesday morning, March 12, Johnson, who was helpless to move, was spirit ed away from the second floor of the hospital and carried away to parts unknown. It is assumed his friends entered by way of a ladder and placed the helplefcs man on the back of one of the men, who descended with him to the ground. He was then carried to a waiting car and whisked away to freedom, evidently across tnc- Virgi nia line. Presbyterian Church Communion service will be held at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. Roy Watts, pastor of the Emporia Church ■will conduct the Sunday evening ser vices. Next week will be Church Loy alty Week and all members are urged to attend Sunday services and hear the details of this campaign. Mr. Wade McAnulty left recently for Richmond, where he will spend pome time. __ . s_ COMMANDER OF LEGION IS VISITOR Colonel Freeman, State Commander Here for Opening Local Post Over the top with 85 members re ported to date, Damask Post No. 147, American Legion, Rosemary and Roa noke Rapids, is stepping out the rest of this week to make the new post of the State, the largest Northeast of Goldsboro. Eighty enthusiastic Legionnaires greeted Col. George Freeman, State Commander, at the second meeting of the Post here Tuesday night, when the Commander predicted this would be the banner post of this section of the State in a short time. Prospects lined up by Captains Mar tin and Reynolds of the two member ship teams already bring the list up over the hundred mark and the opto mistic say that with the call sent out to Gaston Township and to the near by country sections, the membership will reach the coveted 150 marie in a few weeks. Sketching the founding of the American Legion in Paris, Colonel Freeman held his listeners spellbound with one of the finest talks ever de livered here. There are now over 10, 000 Posts in America with a mem bership of over 800,000 ex-service men. The North Carolina Department boasts 13,500 members. The Colonel described the chaos in other countries in the days of de moblization and contrasted it with the dembolization of five million men in this country with scarcely a ripple. He attributed this to the advance work of the Legion which foresaw the dan gers of dumping the soldiers back into private life after the rigors and hor rors of war. The Legions’ work with the dis abled soldiers was discussed with the formation of the Veterans Bureau. The work of the Legion with the or phans and dependents of the dead soldiers during the years since the war was told. But Colonel Fro'eman struck the keynote of his speech with the chal lenge to Legionnaires to fulfill their promise to carry on where the dead left off when ho graphically describ ed the problems which confront the Legion between now and 19 10, which year has been set by many army doc tors as marking the peak in the num ber of men who will gradually break down under the strain of years and succumb mentally and physically to the shoclf and gases sustained in their youth. Already more than 5,000 ex-service men are in the jails and public insti tutions of the country, their minds and bodies wrecked from the war. And the number is increasing every year with no provisions being made to care for them or their families. This is the job for the Legion, said Colonel Freeman. To spread the news, ac quaint the public with the facts, gain National aid, search out the cases and see that these ex-service men.are pro vided for and nursed back in mind and body, where possible. He briefly told oi some of the work Posts in the State are doing in civic life in the matter of playgrounds, boys camps, and cooperating with other ci vic organizations. The great work the Legion has done in combatting the forces of Communism and Socialism seeking to undermine the basic prin (Continued on back page) NEW STORE Hunt Store Opens Here Satur day Next to B. Marks Hunts Five Cent to Dollar Store will open its doors in Roanoke Rapids this Saturday morning in the renovated store room next to B. Marks, formerly occupied by the Williams Stores. Like the new Rosemary store which was opened March 1, the entire store has been done over inside and out and a complete stock of new merchandise in stalled. Attention is called to some of their special values offered elsewhere in this issue. Superintendent H. O. Horton of Wilson is here supervising the work and will remain until after the grand opening. W. T. Tomlinson, manager, and William J. Daniels, assistant ma nager, will be here permanently. Miss Nellie Ward, field worker, has return ed to train clerks and assist in the opening. More than a dozen girls have been given employment at the Twin City stores concern. CAROLINIANS—Know Your State!. \ i l COPVRICHT 1950 BY BOYCE & RANKIN __Jf i r EARLY MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA'i*-«sr> GREAT has been the growth and progress of North Carolina since Sir Waites | Raleigh's first expedition to America landed here in 1584. The land was first | named Virginia m honor of Queen Elisabeth of England, the virgin Queen. In 1663 i the name was changed to Carolina for King Charles II. North Carolina became aJ member of the Union by ratifying the Federal Constitution at Fayetteville on Novem* I ber 21, 1789. —• | ' Our State comprises 31,193,600 acres. The population is about 3.000,000, of I which only three-tenths of one per cent are foreign bom.'North Carolina leads thel world in tobacco manufacture and in numerous other important enterprises. Among I other things it ranks first in the United States in the number of native minerals and" in the number of cotton mills. It ranks fourth among the states in agriculture. The' State is constantly expending great sums to improve its schools, highways, etc. - g Pictures and articles of geographical, historical, industrial and educational facts J about our State, of interest and value to every proud North Carolinian, will appeat j weekly in this paper. These articles will give such information in condenacd_fora» without sacrificing the important tacts - __ HERES WHAT YOU MUST TELL THEM List o f Interrogations* Which Will Be Utter ed by Census Takers These are the questions that will be asked about each p* rson by a Federal Census taker here ;>onw time during the month of April: 1. Your name. 2. Your relationship to the family (whether the head of the family, wife, son, daughter, or uncle, etc). 3. Whether your home is owned or rented. •1. The estimated value, of your home if owned, or the monthly rental if rented. 5. Is there a radio set in your home? (>. Do you live on a farm? 7. Wha tis your sex? S. What is your color or race? 1). What was your age at last birth day? 10. Are you married, single, widowed, or divorced? 11. What was your age at first mar riage? (For married persons on lvl. 12. Have you attended school or col lege since September 1, 1929? 13. Are you able to read and write? 14. Where were you born? 15. Where was your lather born? 1(5. Where was your mother born ? 17. What is your native language? (For foreign born persons only). ;S. In what year did you immigrate t othe U. S. (For foreign born). 19. Are you naturalized? (For for eign born). 20. Are you able to speak English? 21. If you are a gainful worker what is your occupation? 122. In what industry are you employ ed? 23. Are you an employer, emnloyce, or working on your own account? 24. Were you actually at work yes terday. 25. Are you a veteran of the United States military or naval forces, and if so, in what war or expedi tion did you serve ? If you answered “No” to question 24, you will be ask?d whether you have a job and are merely temporari ly out of work, or whetner you have no job at all. If you lave a job you will be asked: 1. How many weeks since you have worked on your present job. 2. Why were you not at work yes terday (or on the last regular working day) ? 3. Ddi you lose a day’s pay by not being at work? , 4. How many days did you work last week? 5. How many days in a full time week? (Continued on back page) GOLDEN WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Smith Mar ried Here 50 Years Ago; Nev er Left the County Yesterday marked the golden an niversary of Mr. arid Mrs. G. S. Smith of this county. They were married in 1880 and have spent their entire life in Halifax County. Mr. Smith is 75 years old and Mrs. Smith is (53. Tuesday night, their children gave them a surprise party on the eve of the anniversary. An outdoor table, beautifully decorated, was laden with good things to eat. Presents of gold and numerous other gifts were pre sented to them by their children and friends. They have lived to see the fourth generation of their family with seven teen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Their children are C. L. Smith of Nashville, J. C. Smith of Whitakers, J. B. Smith of Rosemary, Sam Smith of Enfield, Mrs. F- D. Shearin of Littleton, Mrs. G. W. Pear son of Rocky Mount, Misses Alice and Ruth Smith, who live with their par ents. Friends of the couple who at tended the party included Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pittman and daughter, Miss Nora Porter, Mrs. A. H. Porter, W .L. Kemp and Robert Fulgom. This paper offers the “young” cou ple congratulations and every wish for many years of happy life to come. -□ DEMOCRAT Robert M:iyo. 71, Negro Demo crat, l asses Away Robert Mayo, 71 year old Negro died Monday night from acute indi gestion. He lived about 5 miles from here and was one of the old-timers. His father. Granville Mayo, was at one time one of the wealthiest c:ti zens of Halifax County, operating a supply store near the old Gascon bridge and supplying many farmers of the County, both white and color ed. Tom, another son, is mail clerk on the Seaboard. Old Robert was a Democrat. There is a story going the rounds that he ran and won a seat in either the State Legislature or Congress about 35 years ago, running on the Democratic ticket in the days when the Negroes voted. They say he sold his seat to a white Democrat, incurring the wrath j of his colored brethern who had left i the GOP party to vote for him. The writer was unable to check the truth of this story, but it is generally re membered that he played a prominent role in the hot political days of Ha lifax 30 and 35 years ago. A crowd of more than 250 attended the funeral Wednesday at Hicks Ce metery near Thelma. HOME CLUBS OF COUNTY IN SESSION Demonstration Clubs From Ove- Halifax In Joint Meeting The Halifax County Federation of Homy Demonstration Chibs held its Spring meeting in the Halifax School building Saturday, gti sis of the Ha lifax Club. Tlverv club in the coun ty an. v. red to roll call. They boast of ho . 'n r a 100 per cent attendance : of dubs. The ore-dent, Mrs. X. I.. Stedman. called thy meeting to order by hav ing ih; audeneo repeat the club col bed in unison. Rev. Kirk, pastor of the Halifax Baptist. Church gave the in voce ion. Mrs. Quentin Gregory of the Halifax Club gave the welcome address in her charming manner. The respon-v was given by Mrs. J. P. Field- of the Spring liills club. Mrs. Hazel Erwin Wheeler, home ugent, made the necessary announcements and presented the council with a steam pressure cooker which had been won in a National canning contest. The Federatio of County clubs, with an attendance of 200 members and 38 visitors, had the pleasure of hearing two lovely musical numbers, a violin duet rendered by Misses Elizabeth and Ida Shaw Applewhite and a vocal duet by Mesdames F. W. M. White and Joe Butts of the Hostess Club. Both selections were beautifully given and much enjoyed by the audience. Mr. B. B. Blanton of the Lucas Paint Products, gave a most instruct ive demonstration on painting house hold articles. He painted an unfinish ed tea wagon a corner book shelf, a frame for a fire screen, and some vases. Mr. A. F. Ramsay, landscape artist for Van Lindsay Nursery, was a most interesting demcnsTu* ir, using large charts, landscape* plans, and spec men plants to illustrate his ideas ir cor. ncction with his ad vie?. Miss Freida Heller cf the State Library Commission, made an excel lent address on “The Library Devel opment in North Carolina, urging the club women to m ike more use cf the State Library, and asked them to urge that a County Library be es tablished in Halifax County, with each rural community library radiating from this county library. Lists of most useful books for the “Flower Lovers” and “Home Makers” were given each community by Miss Heller. She explained how to use the lists in securing the books from the State Library. The Halifax Club handled the luncheon most creditably, this part of the day being much enjoyed by every one. The two loving cups were again giv (Continued on back page) MUSICAL CONCERT TUESDAY Orchestra, Glee Clubs, Choruses Have Mam moth Program Tuesday night at eight o’clock in the High School auditorium will prove whether or not all civic minded and community loving people value music training nad serious musical efforts in the community. It will be the night and hour of the annual concert by the High School Musical Organiza tion including the orchestra, boys glee club girls glee club mixed chorus, quartettes and soloists. At this time the directors and school authorities are wondering whether or not it will be possible for these or ganizations to make the trips to the district contest at Rocky Mount and state contest at Greensboro. The question of raising money, al ways a difficult one, in this case, is a mammoth task, for there are 65 students in the organizations for whom transportation and lodging must be furnished. Needless to say the proceeds from this annual concert will all go toward this end. It might be well to say that the boys and girls have done everything in their power to help themselves. With taking part in an operetta in December, selling sandwiches a t school, holding candy sales, rummage sales, selling tickets for the Hawai ian concert, giving a concert in Con way Friday night and practicing a little between times, these boys and girls have been fairly busy. They have done all they can to help them selves and have raised approximately $150, leaving a balance of about $200 to be raised by the concert here next Tuesday night. A very fine program has been ar ranged for this concert in order that all people who want to help in this project may have something for H'eir money. It is hoped that the towns people will support this event, thus jMieQuraging these boys and girls to wards bigger and better musical ef forts. The program for Tuesday night will be as follows: Marche Miiitairc—Schubert. Overture Migonette—Bauman. At The Spinett—Clarke. High School Orchestra. Ba re aro 11 e — Bra h m s. May Magic—Srtatton. Girls' quar tette. Stars of Summer Night -Moore. Song of the Decor;—Tsehsikowsky. Who’s That a-( ailing? —Lawrecr. Boy’s Glee Club. Fairy Gardners—Harris. Virginia Armstrong. Pale in the Amber West—Parks Boy’s Quartette. Down in the Dewy Dell—Smart. As I Walked Out In The May - Woodman. Girls’ Glee Club. The Hills of Home—Fox. Harvey Saunders. Homing—del Riego. Mixed Quar tette. The Swallows— dell’Acqua. Con stance Barrow. The Green Cathedral—-Hahn. Fallen Leaf—Logan. Mixed chor us. Admission charges will l.-e fifteen, twenty-five and thirty-fivo cents. Fill the auditorium. ENDS APR. 15 Get Your “Trade At Home” Es say in Early Just two more weeks are left to get those ideas of yours written down and landed or mailed in on the subject, ‘Why We Should Trade With Home Owned Stores.” The contest closes at midnight, Tuesday, April 15th. Remember that any man, woman, or :hild, as many as wants to from any one family, can write in their reasons, not to exceed 500 words, on trading at home. The best paper and reasons will be awarded $15 in gold, second prize $10 in gold, fourth $3, and 5th 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th prizes are one dollar each. Anybody in this trading territory, meaning anybody who does any trad ing in the Twin Cities, can send in their reasons. Mail them or bring them to any Twin City store, t oany school principal or teacher, or to this newspaper. Nine people are bound to win. You can be one of them. Remember the date, April 15. Remember the men| who ere giving the prizes: the inde pendent merchants of Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary. ALLSBROOK STORE IS ENTERED Safe Is Robbed Sunday Night; Part of Loot Is Discovered Hoover-time thieves continued their espacade?; in the Twin Citi es with the W. C. Allsbrook Gro cery, Second Street, as the latest victim when the store was brok en in sometime Sunday night, and the safe entered and clean ed of cash and checks. Luckily, Mr. Allsbrook had de posited his morning and early Saturday afternoon business be fore the bank closed that after noon. In the safe over the week end was more than $25 in cash and $85.30 in checks, most of them mill pay checks. These with the cash were gone Monday morning when the robbery was discovered. Money and checks were in a cash box, which was found Tuesday morn ing by Mrs. W. L. Long in her yard. The box had been carefully deposited behind a boxed evergreen a short dis tance from Fourth Street which flanks one side of the Long property. The checks were still in the box ar.d the cash was gone. Mrs. Long notified Chief Gray wh oturned the checks ov er to Mr. Allsbrook yesterday morn ing. Entrance to the store had been ef fected through a back window of the building. The screen was torn out and the window prized open. The combination of the safe was knocked off with some heavy instrument and a sawed off screw driver had wedged in so tight that it was left behind as mute evidence of the robbery. It was dislodged by the police and has ap parently been used before on similar jobs. The inside of the safe was batter ed up and papers thrown around. However, only tjjjb cash box vva-.JCuss ing angl so far as Mr A15s!»:oo* ' an tell, none of the me«rchange in the store was touched. The'local police have been very for tunate in solving most >•£ the tht-fi mysteries which have taken place in the Twin Cities in the past few months and are working > n this wise with the scant clew,5 at ham!. This is about the eleventh robbery here in three months, pointed to be many as a » riterion of hard times. Ronhe dcs in the State and Nation ha e greatly increased in the same period. -□ Cotillion Club Plans for Bis* Af fair Here April 18th The youth of this section of the State is all agog over the Annual Eas ter dance of the local Cotillion Cluo which will take place Friday night, April 18 at the Rosemary Winter Gar den. It will be some gay party and music will be furnished by Jack Wardlaw and his ten piece University of North Carolina orchestra now playing over Station WPTF. Bill Allsbrook, Local • boy, is a member of the orchestra, and the music was booked for the oc casion through him. Admission will be by card and more than 200 have been mailed out to members of the club and their friends here and at Henderson, Rocky Mount, Wilson, Greenville, Windsor, Tar boro, Emporia, La Cross,e and other cities. Girls and boys home from college for the Easter holidays will help swell the joyful throng. Plans for novelty dances for feature numbers similar to those featured at the Wilson Automo bile show dance will be a part of the program. The dance is from ten to two. The Club committee is Clyde D. Liske, Jack Cassada, Homer Jones, Tom White, Tommy Gates and Dave Clark and Bob Allen of Weldon. 1 Ladies’ Nile Toniie Tonight is Ladies’ Night at the KU wanis Club. Due to the crowd expect ed, the supper and meeting will be held at the Home. Economics Build ing of the High School at 6:80. The special program includes the fam ous Kiwanis Club quartet from Ra leigh as well as other entertainers from that city. Medicine Man $«E. Matthews Is 111 at his home after..having his removed the first of the wee
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