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ywmw--4 |! offering a Thorough Coverage £ !| 0f the Greater Roanoke Rapids £ ! | Trade Territory. f VOLUME 17._ _ _ 4 “ALL FOR ONE £ND ONE FOR ALL” |-""t ROANOKE RAPIDS ULD lasM --ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 25th, 1931. NUMBER 11. _UP AND DOWN THE AVENUE _WITH THE EDITOR How did you like the extra put oul ty the Roanoke Rapids Herald oi flection night? So far as we know this was the first Extra ever printec m Roanoke Rapids. Only 500 copies were printed anc those sold like hot-cakes. If you die not get one, we are sorry. Several people bought more than one copy sc 'hey could send one to their friends The newsboys were supposed to sell them for a penny each and keep the penny, but copies were sold as high as a quarter. The storm kept the boys from selling in the residental section. One friend told us the biggest kick he got out of election day was when he heard the newsboys yelling on the streets, “Extra, Extra, All About the Election.” Sounded like a big city, he said. Well, we are a big city, now. The returns were slow in coming in from the South Ward, but half hour after the final count, the Extra was on the streets. The boys were a lit tle afraid of their own voices for a rime, but after selling a few they picked up courage and yelled it out. Some of them were even practising the next day. They are asking us when again. Here it is boys: When ever we have another event as im portant as that election was, then we will print another Extra. They are still talking about that grand total of 2,324 votes cast. And they have every reason to. That is a record to be proud of. Every voter had a right to be proud of it and ev ery man of the organization respon sible for that vote. That's the largest \ote ever cast here in the two pre cincts and of course, the rest of the township did not vote, which makes it doubly good. One altercation as a result of the election, or which might be traced to the heat of the election, was reported. There was no casualties, however, as bystanders interfered. Otherwise, all was quiet on the election front. Of course, the organization work ers know it, but the general public (Joes not, so while we are handing out the boquets for the good work ac complished during the past few months here, we will take time to mention the steering committee of the organization. This committee, com posed of nine men, was the executive body or board of directors of the lar ger body. They held many meetings and then sent out the call to the en tire force when the time came. The steering committee is composed of men from each business section and representatives of the Power Com pany and the mills. The organization members agreed to follow their instructions. And how they did. Witness 1. The successful fight at Raleigh. 2. The registration. 3. Tuesday's election. We have received the key to the city. It was sent to this office the day after the election by M. L. Da venport of Norfolk, former resident here. Mr. Davenport is now working for the Davis Transfer Co. at the Norfolk end; he formerly worked here tor the Joyner Motor Co. The key to the bigger city is one of the biggest keys we ever saw. It is gix inches :°ng and was probably used to un lock some great treasure chest by ^ap’n Kidd. The Roanoke Rapids Golf team journeyed to Wake Forest yesterday afternoon and were drubbed b y a -core of 20 to 18. They defeated this same team here recently by a decis ive score but it seems that golf is like the old time football. You can on,y wm on the home field. “Tee new features start in this issue. Will Rogers will contribute each week to The Herald, Percy Cros V will show his inimitable Skippy, “ad Reg’lar Fellers, one of the best cartoons obtainable, will be used by e local paper. Exclusive use of eae nationally known services in Herald* ^ounty w*8 obtained by The Maybe you will think this column "** 100 "loch politics in it. Well, it “ st»rted for that purpose, and another election in the offing, “ will continue for a time. It’s a lot °* ton, anyway. NEW CITY VOTES 2,423 Big Boxing Show Friday Night 8 P. M. CIRCULATE PETITION Petitions are being circulated today addressed to the U. S. Postoffice Department asking for consolidation of the postoffices of Roanoke K.-ipids and Rosemary The plan has the hacking of both Pst masters Vest and Robin son and the petition which is merely a matter of form which is a ruling of the Department. Up on receipt of the petitions, a special inspector will be sent here to investigate and work out the details of the consolidation so that all mail will come to one postoffice to be known as Roa noke Rapids, N. C. The consolidated office and any branch offices will be situ ated by the Postoffice Depart ment, as all details are in their hands. The main reason given is the confusion that will follow un less the two postoffices are con solidated. It will also mean city delivery to every home and place of busi ness in the city limits twice dai ly. HOOD BOND IS PLACED AT $U,000 Negro Doctor in Enfield Faced With Two More Serious Charges ILLEGAL OP’RATION Rocky Mount, June 24.—^larged with performing three illegal opera tions on white women, Dr. J. J. Hood, Negro physician, was in city jail to night unable to produce $11,000 bond required for his freedom. A preliminary hearing before Judge Hen H. Thomas was given him in the case of Julia Weeks, young Enfield woman who died from what is alleged to have been the effects of an opera tion Hood is charged with perform ing and he was remanded to Edge combe Superior Court under a $10, 000 bond. Solicitor Thomas J. Pearsall sur prised the court room audience when he produced two additional warrants charging Hood with performing ille gal operations. on Mrs. T. Y. May and Miss Ollie Mae Pierce of this city. Bonds of $500 are required in each of the cases. Calhoun Braswell told the court here details of the operation Hood is accused of performing on Miss Weeks. He said that he came to this city from Enfield to arrange for the operation and that Hood consented to undertake .t for $50 and that he paid $40 in advance, the remainder to be paid af ter the operation was performed. He said that he came with the young wo man on June 3 the Burnette office building and that after some conver sation between the woman and Hood, the woman permitted the operation. Braswell stated that he stood be side the operating table while the ope ration was in progress and that he fanned the girl to keep her from fainting. He said that Dr. Hood re plied that an anesthetic was unnec cessary when she asked that she be put to sleep. Judge Thomas ordered that Bras well be held in $500 bond as a materi al witness. Braswell gtaiea mat *»« girl to the home of Richard Smith, near Enfield, where she died. Altho the girl complained of being in ter rible pain during the operation Bras well said, she did not complain any more until she arrived at the home of Smith. He said that her condition gradually became worse and that he summoned Dr. F. C. Whitaker who treated her. Braswell testified that when the girl died he went to Coroner W. C. Williams, of Halifax County and then to Solicitor Don Gilliam of Tar (Continued on back page) J. T. CHASE R E SIDENCE DESTROYED Flames Take Beautiful Avenue Residence Monday After noon APPRECIATION The beautiful residence of J. T. Chase, Carolina manager of the Vir ginia Electric & Power Co., was prac tical destroyed by fire Monday af ternoon. I The contents of most of the house was destroyed by fire or water. Con servative estimates of the loss to the building and contents are set at $18, 000. The fire was discovered b y Mr. Chase a little after 1:30 in the af ternoon. It had started in his den on the second floor and had been burning for some time when discovered. De fective wiring is attributed as the cause. Mr. and Mrs. Chase were seated downstairs and heard noises twice which they decided were caused by the servants. But what they really heard was articles falling as the blaze «-wept thru bookshelves and papers in the den. Mr. Chase started upstairs and saw smoke. Running to the front <;f the house he could see the den a mass of flames. He began crying Fire and was heard by Tom White at Smith’s Service Station a block away. Tom started the fire siren. When the fire truck arrived the fire had swept thru two open doors in the den to other rooms in the up stairs. A stiff breeze caried the fire thru the house and up into the much gabled roof. Poor hose and distant fire plugs delayed the department. The near est plug was over a block away and around the corner on Hamilton and Fourth. So much hose was strung, it was necessary to use a few bad sec tions. These burst twice before water was finally put on the fire. From then on it was a bitter fight. The fire was not halted until the top floor was destroyed and water damage to the lower floor ruined what had not been moved out. At one time, flames threatened the Job Taylor residence next door but n o damage was done. The Chase family lost all personal effects and much that insurance cannot replace. More than 1,500 books which Mr. Chase had accumulated over many years were burned. A stamp collec tion, valued highly, and reported to be worth $1,000 was destroyed. Ev ery bit of clothing, except a f e w dresses of Miss Josie Chase, went up in flames. Files filled with valuable papers melted under the heat. A safe of val uables was destroyed. The door of the safe was open. It will take three months to rebuild according to contractor C. T. Kidd, who started work today tearing out practically the entire house with ex-1 (Continued on back page) j Rosemary Mfg. Co. Swimming Pool Opens The Rosemary Manufacturing Co. swiming pool was opened this week and will continue open to the public the balance of the summer. A Red Cross life saver will be on duty at all times when the pool is in use. In or der to defray expenses and other in cidentals with running the pool, a small fee will be charged. A season ticket will cost fifty cents for adults :.nd 25 cents for children. Regular hours will be maintained as in pre vious years. ALL STARS WIN FROM ORJOLES Roanoke Rapids Defeats Orioles 3-2 In The 9th Inning (By Sports Editor) Coach Welch and his fast travel ing Roanoke Kapkfa All-Stars de feated the Orioles of Norfolk here last Saturday 3-2 The Orioles are holding down first place in the Nor folk City League and have one of the fastest amateur clubs in Virginia. It was anybody’s game up until the 9th inning, both clubs playing heads up baseball, with Finch, the star lo cal hurler working out a great game. He was a trifig wild, but anv pitcher that can hoid the opposing team to three hits can afford to be wild and that is exactly what Mr. Finch was doing. In the last half of the ninth inning with the score tied at two talllies! each, young Ikey Johnson, who held down the left pasture for John An derson’s Guilford College outfit, the past season, and who now plays cen ter for the locals, stepped into one of pitcher Rose’s fast balls for a nice two bagger, then up stepped Bernard Edmondson and slapped a nice single to right field and Johnson scored the winning run and the game ended then end there 3-2. The outstanding work of Birdsong clown at the hot corner was a feature c.f the game. Time and time again he dug slow ones and hot ones out of tne dirt to cut off runnners at first. Finch pitched a nice game and prov ed again that he is one of the most dependable hurlers on the local staff. Manager Clyde Liske announces that Graham, North Carolina, will be the guests at Simmons Park for this coming Saturday, the game starting exactly at 3:30 P. M. A & P EXPLANATION Owing to the rush in preparing The Herald Extra Tuesday night, the display advertisement of t h e Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com pany was repeated in that edition. The items quoted in that advertise ment were Specials for Friday and Saturday of last week, and prices in all instances were not good for this week also. The regular A & P ad for' this week appears on another page of this issue. CHILDREN START HIKING Little Marjorie and Jack Hazle wood, age eight and six, children of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Hazlewood of this city, were homesick. In spite of the fact that their mother lay in the Roanoke Rapids hospital convalescent from an operation for appendicitis, and that they were having a perfect ly “grand" time at the home of their paternal grandparents near Whit akers, where they had been taken i!waiting the recovery of their moth er, they wanted to come home. There were many obstacles to the homeward trek for the two young sters. In the first place they had no means of transportation, except what Mother Nature had provided, and ihe distance to Roanoke Rapids and home was some thirty miles. Then, too, there was considerable reluctance to bid adoo to the grandtsrenti who had entertained them while their mother was sick. But the call of Home Sweet Home was too strong. So that they nonchalantly "shoved off'* from the farm shortly after break fast (which is in the country around 6 a. m.) and started "hoofing iv’ foi home last Monday morning. The sun was hot, th r,r little bodies were tired but they kept on walking, and were some five miles fro.n the tnr/n when found by a kindly neigh bor, who sensing that everyhting was not alright at seeing the children walking so far from where they were visiting, picked them up and took to the elder Hazlewoods, who were then almost frantic at the mysterious disappearance of their grandchildren. Fortunately, Mrs. Hazlewod’s con dition is much better now, and their father journeyed to the Edgecombe county home of his parents to bring the children back Thursday. Un doubtedly little ‘Margie’ and ‘Jackie4 will be glad to see their mother and father, and greet their little play mates once again. SUFFOLK ATHLETES COMING Good Bouts For Scout Benefit To Be Held in Warehouse Suffolk, Va., June 25—Six young athletes, four fighters and two wrest lers, took off their gloves and left the mat at tntir final verkout in the gymnasium <if the Suffolk Athletic club last night in preparatioi foi Hnr bout against th: pick of the textile towns at Roanoke Rapids Fri day night. Spud Wade, the boy with the Milo Stienborn body, came in from New York, where he has been working for the past month in the 169th St. gymnasium, and had a mat tussle for an hour and half with Turk Nelms. Both boys are capable grunt and groan artists, and should open the athletic card in a fitting manner. Wade will go on the mat against Husky Johnson at 150 pounds. Turk will open the festivities against Hog gard at 140 pounds. Although the wrestlers will show plenty of action, it is the quartett of leather pushers, whom Suffolk fans are counting on bringing back the Rosemary bed spreads. Kid Bry ant, 140 pounder, has been working hard for the past two weeks in pre paration for the Boy Scout benefit PncomflH- on/1 a Fourth of Jljlv appearance at ^tuy, where he will headline a real fighting card. He will give some Roanoke Rapids boy a busy evening in the ring. Bill Benton, who will fight the main go, is one of the cleverest young battlers in Tidewater. Benton whip ped Tommy Bashara two years ago at the Four County Fair Grounds be fore a crowd estimated at 2,000. Af ter a year lay off Benton has again made a good impression on fight fans at Virginia Beach, the Oasis Club in Portsmouth and at Conan Beach near Suffolk. Juddy Johnson and Battling Shaw who will fight the 135 pound battles against Young Mills and Young Out land, are fast steppers who have large followings in the Peanut Capi tal. Both boys have won recent bouts at Conan Beach where they have appeared on many of the week ly programs. With so much competition between the fighters of Tidewater for places on the cards at Virginia Beach, Portsmouth and Conan arenas, the >oungsters wee glad to sign for the Boy Scout benefit at Roa. Rapids in order to keep in proper condition for their next bouts at the local punch bowls. They are not taking their Roa. Rapids matches any way but seri ously, and every afternoon for the past two weeks has found them spar ring at the athletic club gmy in this city. HERE’S THE WAY THEY ARE Preliminaries Juddy Johnson, Pride of Suffolk, vs Young Mills, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., 3 rounds Batttling Shaw, Suffolk Va., vs. Scrapper Outland, Roanoke Rapids, 3 rounds. Kid Bryant, Suffolk, Va., vs Hen ry Love, Roanoke Rapids, 140, 3 rounds. Final Fred Mutter, Portsmouth, Va., vs. Ted Kimrey, Roanoke Rapids, four rounds. WRESTLING Husky Johnson, Raonke Rapids, vs Spud Wade, Baltimore. Beef Hoggard, Roanoke Rapids, vs lurk Nelms, Portsmouth, Va. CHURCH LAWN PARTY The ladies of the Roanoke Rapids Baptist Church will have a lawn par ty on the grounds of Mrs. F. C. Wil liams, June 26th, from 7:30 to 9. Tin public is cordially invited. Benefit o: the building fund. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Crutchfield o Philadelphia, are visiting his mother Mrs. L. L. Shell of Hamilton Street. OFFICIALLY NAMED CITY OF ROANOKE RAPIDS YESTERDAY MASS MEETING The Democratic voters of the new city of Roanoke Rapids will hold a convention the first part of next week to nominate a tick et for Mayor and Commission ers. The election will be held on Tuesday, July 7th, when a May or and six commissioners, three from each ward, will be elected. SELL BONDS FOR CITY SCHOOLS $50,000 Balance $110, 000 Debt To Be Transferred to Bonds In the interest of further economy, $50,000 worth o f Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Bonds will be issued and sold as per a notice which run in -.i-'-r part of th>t >• u •. Ti.e nm t,.-. of this arti. is vo give in ca - -' -1 i ■ i • in from tli- • -v' •••ormi ■ ton mission, th. • writer Knowing I hr’ would tK. the natural question 1 min s, as 1<—, o^iioui au thorities. Also knowing how easy it is for the public to be misinformed about such matters or to get the wrong idea, it is the idea to give the public all the information possible on questions of public interest. The question of these bonds led to some mighty interesting information concerning the way the finances of the city schools have been operated under the business management of the present superintendent, C. W. Davis. In a little less than six years, r,he schools have been able to reduce this particular indebtedness about $.00,000 without special levy. This amount was originally $110, 000 and was money borrowed to build the annex or Junior High School building, sometimes "known as the manual training building, and also to build the teachers home, Coltrane Hall The money was borrowed at the rate of G per cent and has been cut down at the rate of $10,000 per year so that today the indebtedness on those two buildings is only $50,000. Finding it possible to save money by selling five per cent bonds and al sr making it possible to carry on the same efficient school system even un der reduced State appropriations, the school authorities applied to the Lo cal Government Commission for per mission to float bonds for the $50, 000 balance. This request has beer granted. It might be mentioned that the newly formed Local Governmenl Commission must approve all pro posed bond issues by every loca governmental agency before those bonds can be sold and they are be ing very strict in their examinations of local governments desiring to floa' bond issues. They gave the loca school district a clean bill of healtl on fiscal affairs. Another interesting fact brought ou in the discussion was that the tax lev] of our graded school district has no been changed during the past si: years. In other words, they are ope rating the schools o n t h e sam amount of money which they did si: years ago, notwithstanding the fac that the number of pupils has increas < d over 33 per cent. This is a rathe; remarkable record which has not beei duplicated by many school systems the general rule being that the cos uer pupil ha3 increased instead of de creasing as the number increased. The bonds, for which bids will b received at Raleigh on July 7th, ar 1 therefore not for anything new nor i it a new transaction. It is simply ar other way of paying off the balanc of an old obligation. City Area Now Extends From the Canal to the Creek as Result of Election RECORD VOTE CAST Hello, World. This is the City of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, broadcasting. The newest city in America. Date of birth: June 23rd, 1931. Date of Christening: High noon, June 24th 1931. Those favoring the arrival: 2,206. Those opposing same: 118. The youngest city in America and in the World was officially formed at noon yesterday as the vote of Tues day was certified to the Board o f Elections. That vote was the largest vote ev < r cast in this community on any question, even though several hundred voters in the township were outside the incorporated area, and of course, could not take part in this electioi}. A total of 2,324 people went to the polls Tuesday to vote in the election on city extension and 2,206 of them voted for it, while only 118 voted against it. The odds were 20 to 1. The majority for was 2,088. Anoj'he; record went 5*mash in tfti.i • lection when 90 per cent of the re istered voters voted- It is the opin ion of the writer that verj few. if any. areas with a total ••egnstration of 2,691 ever voled that large r per- ■■■■■ I he North Ward, precinct No. 1. ! a total >f 1,28# of which 1,285 | were for city extension and 24 against i The odds at this precinct were almost GO to 1. I ine aoum wara, rrecinct no. z, voted a total of 1.035 of which 941 were for city extension and 94 were against it. The odds here were 9 to 1, It was this precinct where oppo sition to city extension was expected to roll up a large vote. The most op timistic supporter of the measure was hoping for a 6 to 1 vote while others were willing to be satisfied with a 2 to 1 vote in favor of extension. Voting started at sunrise, a few minutes after 5 o’clock, and the polls closed at sunset, a few minntea after 7:30. The early morning was cloudy, with a sprinkle of rain a few minutes after five. Then it cleared up and got hotter and hotter. The heaviest vot ing was done in the morning. More than 60 per cent of the votes had been cast by noon. The women voted more strongly in the afternoon, after they had wash ed the noon dishes. And more women voted than any election in history. It was surmised that of the 118 votes cast against the measure, not more than a dozen of them were women. They appeared to be the strongest supporters from the way they talked around the polls. They had no hesi tancy in telling the world where they stood on the question. The proponents of the measure had one of the finest working election day organizations ever seen in this State. A meeting of several of the leaders was held Monday night and final plans made to use practically the same organization which had brought out such record registration. From fifty to seventy-five workers in automobiles, each sporting a big sign “Vote For City Extension," were busy from morning until sunset. It may have been that this early morn ing display of strength had something to do with the lack of fight on the part of the opponents of the mea sure. Practically every home was can vassed, not once, but many of them several times. The city area was di vided into sections with crews work ing each section and combing it clean. By seven o’clock at night, a non-voter could not be found. The mills were 1 turned out by rooms. Each shift was , caught coming off work or going on t the job. It was as thorough Job of - any kind that has ever been done. Tha organization worked like a clock. 2 Ballot boxes and oficial tabulations 2 were turned over to the special elect* s icn board yesterday iter by the re - gUtrars, the vole ceitffied and the 2 new City of Roanoke Rapids became (Continued on back page)
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