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IlVWWWrtrtflAi|g3^^ W T WW**! I A V WAWWWVWWWWWWWWWW»\VVVtfW Roanoke Rapids Township | I B^ ^^"B W4 I I I 31 PER CENT | 16,612 | • BL A JL Of Halifax County Population | Y^^WWWWWWWMWWWWVWWvj OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROAN OKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY V PLUME-*______ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 30th, 1931. ’ — NUMBER 3. FIEND WATCHES TORCH VICTIM BURN SMALL BOY SET AFIRE IN THELMA FIELD, DIES Grand Jury Returns Murder Indictment When Suppressed Facts Are Made Public After Officer Investigates A fiend incarnate has been discov ered in Halifax County who burns his victims alive and with no other mo tive than the ghoulish desire to hear the death cries of the sufferers, if facts as related in an examing trial before Judge W. O. Thompson be true. A horror story was unfolded in magistrates court here Monday night when relatives of Willie Williams, 6 year old colored boy who lived at Ihelma, told of how the boy had met horrible death, according to the dy ing boy’s statement, at the hands of Samuel Stovalle, 17 year old Negro boy. The tragic episode was laid in a newly plowed field near Thelma, on April 11th. For more than two weeks, the matter was concealed, as such ihings are among the colored race. Fu n the relatives of the victim said nothing to the officers or white resi dents. But they discussed it among themselves with many a shudder of fear and finally the story reached the ears of deputy sheriff Harry House, who made an investigation lust week. A 16 year old Yearlardy boy was found who had been with the other two in the field on the day of the 1 inning. He had been plowing and was at the other end of the field working when he heard the screams ol the small child. Yealardy told the court of arriving at the scene in a short time to find Willie Williams lying on the ground, 1 is clothing aflame all over, the flesh of his body cooking. He finally ex tinguished the blaze, wrapped the hoy up and carried him home. He died 36 hours later. The dying boy told how Stovalle had, without any apparent reason, built a fire, grabbed him and put him ’.ri the fire and held him there, saying he was going to burn him up. When Yealardy arrived, Stovalle, | stomped out the fire he had built, left the child with his clothing burning and was standing several feet away watching the scene as the rescuer beat out the flaming clothing. The father of the dead boy is said to be a janitor at one of the schools here who only goes home on Satur day nights. After the investigation by the father came over last Satur c&y night and swore out a warrant for Stovalle. At the hearing Mon day night, Judge Thompson bound him over to the grand jury on a charge with intent to commit murder and the grand jury returned an in dictment on this charge yesterday. The trial will be held at the June term of Superior Court. Girls Glee Club Orches tra Tie for First Places At the twelfth annual North Caro lina music contest in Greensboro, Roanoke Rapids brought back two blue ribbons. The orchestra, under the direction of Mr. R. L. Martin, played two numbers, Assembly as the warming up number and Sweet Dreams as the Greensboro number. The orchestra tied for first place with Greenville, and their score was 2, which was very good. Burlington was second. The girls Glee Club tied up with Burlington, LumWerton, China Grove, Roanoke Rapids. These four entries’ grades were very good. The mixed chorus of our school tied for second place with Lenoir. Mt. Ever est won the cup in this contest. This year if there was a tie for first place no CUP was awarded but the two contestants got blue ribbons. ROANOKE RAPIDS METHODIST CHURCH John W. Harrel, Minister. Sunday • chool at 9:45 a. m. Morning worship 11 a. m.—Communion. Anthem^ Hear Then In Love”—Wooler. At e evening service, 8 o'clock the ser mon for the graduating class of the urses Training School of Roanoke apids Hospital will be delivered by Rev- Leon M. Hall of Wilmington. Special music by the choir—Anthem, ^ome Holy Spirit”—Gourrod—and O Master Let Me Walk With Thee” peaks. The public is most cordi Wy mv*ted to attend these services. ik. To Start Work on New Catholic Church Here Next Month; Buy Lots Construction of a Catholic Church and Parish House will start here some time next month. Bishop Hafey of Raleigh was here this week and closed a deal for the property which is located on the corner of 7th and Hamil ton Streets. The church purchased the cor ner lots on Hamilton Street and also those lots on the back street. Work on a brick chapel will be gin at once, according to the Bishop. A parish house for the resident priest will also be con structed at this time. There has been some talk of building also a parochial school but there are no plans for this in the immediate future. This " ill probably be the center of re ligious activites for Halifax County Catholics, their present services being conducted at Ha lifax. gangsters” GET 2 YRS. IN PRISON — Hold Up Men at Roa noke Junction Sen tenced in Superi or Court THREE DAY SESSION Superior Court adjournied yester day after a short three day session, with an unusually light docket made possible by the new Recorders Court recently established in Halifax Coun ty. Special Judge Clayton Moore, of Williamston, presided with Solicit or R. Hunt Parker prosecuting. The grand jury had not made a final re port last night. Simeon Garris, Willie Stewart and I.ee Conwell were sentenced to two years each in the State prison for larceny. They were charged with holding up at the point of a gun Ed Holmes and Grady Lylye. The rob bery took place at Roanoke Junction in February and the haul netted $7 from Holmes. Bull Rider, local Negro criminal, charged with store robbery in Little ton, was given a year with a sus pended sentence. Arthur Bunn, break and entering. Sentence, not more than 4 nor less than 2 years in State Prison. Her bert Walker and Geo. Clay, larceny of auto, 12 months on roads. Judge ment suspended on payment of costs. Lee Hockaday, house breaking. Sen tence, 4 months on road. James Jones, larceny of auto, judgment sus pended upon defendant paying Madry $15 and costs of action. Charlie Lew is, larceny, 8 months on road. Robert Judd, assault with deadly a weapon, defendant plead guilty to simple as sault. Fined $5 and costs. Mary Vincent, auto violation, 6 months at county home. Dave Out law, forceable trespass and lerceny, i year on road. Geo. Roberts, lar ceny. Having been confined 80 days in jail, action dismissed by order of court. A. D. Robertson, Audrey and Bud Lynch, larceny, 6 months on road. John Doe, alias Wm. Kidd, alias Emmett Kidd, larceny of auto, defendant plead guilty of temporary larceny of auto, 6 months on road. Allen Connor, liquor, allowed to Dec. 1, to pay balance of cost. Continued. Robert Harris and Simeon Garris, larceny, 2 years in State Prison. Joseph Judge forgery, 1 year in State Prison to be transfered to insane asylum, if examination by prison authorities show him to be mentally incapable. Willie Haisley, reckless driving, let off with payment of cost. Willie Lawrence Alston, house breaking, 7B (Continued on back page) To Preserve Lindbergh Homestead lhe old Lindbergh homestead just within the city limits of Little Falls, Minn., where the now famous aviator spent his boyhood, and which the state of Minnesota by legislative enactment has just created Lindbergh park. Souvenir hunters are responsible for the dilapidated condition of the house. NURSES T O RECEIVE DIPLOMAS Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday Night; Com mencement Next Thursday Night PUBLIC IS INVITED Commencement exercise of the graduating class of the Roanoke Ra pids School of Nursing will be held next Thursday evening. May 7, when | eight nurses will receive their diplo mas. The graduating class is Misses Lottie Eva Matthews, Seaboard, Mar garet Janet Harvey, Littleton, Eva Petaway Williams, Warrenton, Mable Alston, Weldon, Janie Lee Lassiter, Roanoke Rapids, Syretha Lyerly, Rosemary, Bertha Mae Harris, Roa noke Rapids, and Nettie Frances Pat terson, Alma. The following invitation is made to the general public: The Graduating Class of The Roanoke Rapids School of Nursing Request the Honor of Your Presence at the Commencement Exercises Thursday Evening, May Seventh, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty One at Quarter Past Eight O’clock Junior Senior High School Auditorium Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina The public is also invited to the other ceremonies of Commencement Week which begins this Sunday night when Reverend Leon M. Hall of Wil mington, former local pastor, will de liver the Baccalaureate Sermon at the Raonoke Rapids Methodist Church. At the graduation exercises next Thursday night, Representative D. Mac Johnson of Enfield will deliver the principal address. The pins will be presented to the graduates by Dr. John Martin and Dr. T. W. M. Long will present the diplomas. Following these exercises, a recep tion and dance will be held at the new Nurses Home on Jackson Street. Henderson Visitors See Local Schools and Mills A tour of inspection of the Twin Cities, which included visits to the schools, mills and other places of in terest here, was made Tuesday by visiting membes of the Literay Club of Henderson, who were the guests of Mrs. T. R. Manning. Members of the local Study Club were also pres ent at a joint meeting and luncheon. Visitors from Henderson were Mes dames Asa Parham, Rob Davis, Legg, Watkins, Harris, Hughes, Alderman, Pat Parham, Singleton, Bridgers and Sam T. Peace. Study Club members were Mesdames C. A. Wyche, R. L. Towe, Pendleton Grizzard, F. L. Nash, A. E. Akers, Frank Williams, W. S. Dean, Frank Hawley, George Hayes, T. M. Jenkins, A. L. Taylor, R. P. Beckwith, Hugh Bradley, Julius Goodman, Ridley Meahcam, W. H. Pruden and Miss Susan Holliday. Don’t forget to look for the names hidden in the ads of The Herald. If your name appears you are entitled to a free ticket to the People*. THE MERCHANTS — Along The Avenue Mrs. B. Marks and Manager Abe Norinsky have been buying at the markets in New York. Mrs. Marks is stopping over in Baltimore where Sammy Marks underwent a slight operation from which he is recover ing nicely. Changes and additions to Your Cafe have been made recently by owner Cleophus Bray. The main room has been enlarged, fitted with mirrors, painted. Tty kitchen has been moved farther back to a larger room. The Rosemary Dress Shop, recent ly opened by Mr . and Mrs. V. T. Lamm next door to Rosemary Furni ture Co. The store has been attract ively arranged and redecorated, fill ed with new merchandise. H. T. Smith is remodeling the front and interior of his new store and ar ranging for new merchandise. Frank Horwitz is repainting the front of the Fashion Shop. FIGHT ENDS IN COURT Recorders Court Pushed To a Small Room By High Tribunal Recorders court made way for Su perior court Tuesday morning and convened in the Commissioner’s room. Owing to the limited space and big Court, there were few spectators, and little time was wasted ;in getting down to work. Two white men from Scotland Neck got into an argument. One thing led to another, as it usually does and a fight was the consequence. Cullen Bryant was charged with assault on Floyd Hodges, his injury being a broken jaw bone. Prayer for judge ment was continued on condition that defendant pays hospital and doctors bills of prosecuting witness and costs cf action. Grover Whitley, white man was sentenced to 60 days on roads for operating car without license. Judge Daniel sentenced Kenley Harris, colored, to 2 months in jail, assigned to work in roads on a liquor charge. Geo. H. Wilkins, colored, was sen tenced to six months on road on an assault charge. Carl Ray, white, liquor charge, 4 months in jail, assigned to work the roads. Sentence suspended for a pe riod of 2 years on condition costs are paid and the defendant does not violate the prohibition laws. Allie Long. Judgment absolute on bond to be discharged on payment of $75. Grover Whitley, Willie Jones, John Haislip, disorderly, nol pros with leave. Wm. D. Thompson, white, plead not guilty, verdict not guilty. James Palmer, colored, liquor, pled not uilty, verdict guilty, 2 months on roads. WOMANS CLUB MONDAY The Womans Club will hold its regular monthly meetin on Monday afternoon in the Domestic Science rooms of the High School at three' o'clock. This is an important meet ing and all members are urged to at tend. i.... - ■ END OF COUNTY SCHOOLS The Largest Graduating Classes In Halifax His tory To Get Cer tificates FINISH TOMORROW The largest 7th grade graduating class in the history of county schools of Halifax will receive their gradu ating certificates at the closing exer cises to be held at Halifax in an all day session tomorrow. One hundred and thirty 7th grade pupils will comprise the class of '31 who will parade before County Sup erintendent A. E. Akers tomorrow morning the morning program opens with music by the South Rosemary Harmonica Band. ihe invocation will be by Rev. Carleton Wilson and devotional will be in charge of the Halifax 7th grade. A chorus number will be sung by the graduating class of Hobgood and another by the class from Aurelian Springs. The main address of the morning will be by Dr. John Carr, professor of education at Duke Uni versity. A picnic diner will be served at noon on the Halifax school campus and in the afternoon there will be an original play by the children entitled The May Queen’s Visit to The Earth of Children. The public is invited to attend the day’s program. Friday night, the High School com mencement exercises o f Aurelian Springs will be held at the school. Sixteen High School graduates will be presented diplomas by R. L. Towe, chairman of the County Board of Education. The Commencement Ad dress will be delivered by J. C. B. Ehringhause. The rural colored schools will hold their county commencement exer cises at Halifax courthouse on Satur day morning, May 2, when 62 of the 7th grade pupils will receive gradu ating certificates. This is the largest colored graduating class in the coun ty’s history. The address will be given by N. C. Newbold, director division of Negro education. Supt. Akers will award the certificates. Rural supervisor, Willie M. Jeffries will award perfect attendance certificates. Music will be furnished by the colored schools of Littleton and Eastman High School. Clean-Up Week Ends Here Saturday Night All the smoke you have been see ing this week did not come from the mills or trains. Most of it was from piles of dead leaves and weeds, scrap paper and other burnable debris, which have gone up in smoke during this Clean-Up Week. The town wag gon has been piled high all week with other refuse. Take a drive around the town Sun day and see if everything has been done that could be done to give the streets, alleys and yards the neces sary Spring clean-up. Have you done your share? The work hsa been sponsored by the Civics Department of the Wom ans Club. They remind the public that Clean-Up Week does not end un til this Saturday night and there is still time to do a lot of work. CLEARED OF CHARGES Louis Harrell, young white man of this vicinity, charged with several others of breaking in the filling sta tion of H. L. Bell and a store in Littleton, was cleared of the charges in Mayors Court here. No evidence was brought out showing Harrell had Any connection with the robberies. The world to growing neither bet ter nor worae, bat the people In It— well, that’o another atorj. Paced with a jail sentence or the bath tub, Thomas Benn of Los An geles, took hit first bath in SO years COTTON FESTIVAL HERE WEEK OF MAY 18 - 23 Who? You're Wrong It’s William B. Woodward. His striking resemblance to former Presl dent Calvin Coolidge has fooled hun dreds, even personal friends of Mr Coolidge. He is as reticent as the former President, carries himself in the same manner, and is n native of Landgrove, Vt., within 25 miles of the Coolidge home at Plymouth. TAKES LIFE Former Resident Here Takes Own Life at Greenville; Cause Unknown Frank M. Fitts of Raleigh, former ly of this city, died in Greenville yes terday afternoon, after slashing his throat with a broken milk bottle, ac cording to a Greenville dispatch. He was a traveling salesman. Funeral services will be held at Warrenton tomorrow afternoon. The father of the deceased was a form er jailer of Warren County, moving his family here where he was a po liceman for several years. The reason fjor suicide was not known. A note was left requesting that his wife in Raleigh and rela tives be notified. He was a brother of Mrs. V. T. Lamm, Collins, Henry and Oliver Fitz of this city, and Wil liam, Dr. Nathan Fitz, and Rev. Rob ert Fitz, former residents here. DEATHS J. T. Taylor died at his home in Northampton County on April 17th. Funeral services were held the fol lowing Sunday at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with Revered Foun tain of Weldon officiating. The pall bearers were J. T. Edwards, R. A. Daniel, J. T. Bass, J. F. Kinwell, J. L. Taylor, R. T. Kee. A large crowd at the funeral attested the standing of the deceased in the community. His wife and several childlren sur vive. Mrs. Taylor was unable to at tend due to illness. The deceased was born May 6, 1851, and was one of the oldest residents of the coun ty. George L. Green, 52, died Friday at his home at Thelma after a lingering illness. He spent several weeks prior to his death at Duke Hospital. Fu neral services were held Sunday and interment was in the family cemetery near Thelma. A wife and three chil dien survive. Edward Mason, 7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mason, Henry St. died of pneumonia early Tuesday morning. Funeral services were held at the Evans cemetery in Brunswick County, Virginia. November 15, 1929 the Masons lost another son, Carlton, age 7, who was killed by a truck here. Taking Druggist Exam Carl W. Hale, junior druggist for Rosemary Drug Co., is leaving the first of May to take special work at the University of North Carolina' preparatory to taking the State Board of Pharmacy examination in June. If he passes, he will be a full licensed druggist, capable of making the most expert toasted sandwiches, strawberry flips, and other intricate and numerous specialities of the mo dern drug store. A two-cent stem was the net loot of two robbers who held up Mrs. Alex I Marks of St. Louis as she was enter ing her home after shopping. PROGRAM IS ELABORATE Crowning o f Popular Queen a t Fashion Show; Dress Mak ing Contest TEXTILE SHOWING The Halifax County Cotton Festi val, sponsored by the local Womans Club, will be held here the week of May 18th, starting Monday on the 18th and lasting thru Saturday, May 23rd, when Halifax grown cotton and Twin City manufactured cotton will lake the center of the stage. This will be known as Cotton Week when the Womans Club joins with ether organizations of the South in selling the idea of using more cotton goods to the rest of the country. “We Grow Cotton, We Manufacture Cotton, We Wear Cotton” is the slo gan which has been adopted Ihe events during the week will be climaxed on Friday night, May 22, when the Cotton Queen will be crowned at the Roanoke Rapids High School Auditorium. Nominations for the Queen wil open on the morning of the 18th and close at noon Friday, May 22. Voting will take place dur ing the week at Rosemary Drug Co. and Taylor-Matthews Drug Co. Rules will be published later. There will be a special musical program on the r.ight of the Coronation of the Queen, as well as a fashion show. Still another feature of Festival Week will be the Cotton Dress con test open to all Halifax County. Prizes will be awarded for the best home made cotton dresses in four di visions: best sports dress or suit, best house dress, best afternoon dress best child’s dress, two to four years. The dresses will be judged on Thurs day, May 21st, and prizes will prob ably be awarded at the Queen’s pro gram Friday night. There will also be a showing of manufactured cotton goods at the old store rooms of the L. G. Shell Co., during the week, with a silver tea. County women are especially urged to take part in these contests and shows. Local merchants will be ask ed to cooperate to make the Festival a success and an annual affair. All local clubs are asked to help with the work during the Cotton Week. At the present time, the women of the South are organizing, and when women organize, they mean business. And when women mean business they usually mean trouble for some one. These women are organizing to start a revolution. Not just a little measly affair like one down in South America, but a revolution that prom ises to assume magnitude of the greatest sort. For generations, wives, mothers, and housekeepers have had a king, and to him they have been loyal subjects. However, in the last few years they have al lowed a shiny Dictator called Silk to force King Cotton to abdicate. After following the dictatorship of Silk for a short time, the erstwhile followers of King Cotton are seeing their Southland in the slough of despond, and they are realizing that all that “glitters is not gold.” They are seeing their fondest dreams of happiness and prosperity drift away, mirages on a desert of rayon. They are beginning to realize that once more they must flock to the stand ards of old and proclaim again as ruler King Cotton. Yes sir, the women are starting something, and we are very much afraid that “Something” means trou ble for old man Silk. ZANDER-GUMP WEDDING The Zander-Gump wedding will be duly solemnized by High School pu pils at the High School auditorium cn Friday night, May 1. The wed ding march will start at eight o'clock. It is reported that the widow Zander has been here for some time and Un cle Bim will arrive today in his pri vate dirigible. A woman with 26 names was giv en power of attorney in a will filed in Chicago recently.
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