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PAGES THIS WEEK NUMBER 50. UP AND DOWN Che Avenue WITH THE EDITOR In case ot Fire or for Police, Dial or .156. The Digest poll of today with al most four million votes cast shows (he same preponderance of sentiment for repdal of the 18th Amendment. Kansas, only state showing a dry vote for continuance out of the 18 states, shows increasing wet with less than 100 votes difference. The nearest Dry of the Wet States is North Caro lina. than which we estimate there is no weller-Drinking State per capita uf ihe 18. The repealists are leading m totals by a ratio of 4 to 1. Grady Houghton is reported very ill with pneumonia at the home of his mother, Mrs. D. W. Etheridge. The First Area Conference of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held at Rocky Mount on April 4. Mrs. Fred C. Williams of New York, na tional president, will speak. Mrs. Charles Dunn of Scotland Neck will preside. Twenty Eastern N. C. coun ties are in this area, including Hali fax. Halifax County’s new board of elec lions named Saturday by the State ’.Vani «.f Elections, on recommenda ' n of State Chairman (). M. Mull, of tin* Democrats and State Chairman Duncan of the Republicans, includes A. Paul Kitchen, Scotland Neck and W. R, Neville, Heathsville, Demo crats, and J. D. Whitehead, Jr., En field, Republican. The ballots for United States Sen ator and State offices will be combined as an economy measure. Those for tin Democrats will he white and those for the Republicans will be pink. The form of all ballots was left to Chair | nan Biggs a n d Attorney General lirummitt. The latest addition of the efficient city government is the new signal system installed this week for the police telephones. A new phone has been installed in the entrance of the Rosemary Branch of t h e Roanoke Bank & Trust Co., and on the front of the bank is a red light which auto matically lights when the phone rings. This makes it possible for the police to see the light from any part of the business section. The light continues to burn until the phone is answered. However, as we understand it, if you want to call the police and they do not answer at once, you must con tinue to call, as the light goes out when you hang up the receiver. A similar light signal is being installed at police headquarters in the North Ward, where a new sign was hung last week. The new police phone is 35fi. The North Ward police head quarters number has been changed to 355. The “Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece” is made a point in t h e campaign speeches of John C. B. Ehringhaus, candidate for the gubernatorial nomi nation. “I hold in my hand a bright, shiny piece on one ^ide of which is shown an elephant, and under it these words:*Hoover Lucky Pocket Piece,’ which was distributed in tl^e 1928 campaign. It looks like gold, but is only brass, worthless like some of the promises made in that campaign. On the other side are the words ‘Good for four years of Prosperity.’ Is there anyone present who would like to cash it for me?” Mr. Ehringhaus asks his audiences. Ye Old Time Fiddlers Convention will be held at the High School audi torium Friday night, April 1, at 7:45. This program is sponsored by the Music Department of the High School to help with the expenses for the State music contest. Troy Goodmon, former Roanoke Ra pids High School athletic star, is ap w parently making the grade with the Richmond club. He is a rookie out fielder and is about the only one that remained when the club first be gan to cutting the squad. Troy made good in baseball at State College, fin ishing up last season ranking as one of the State’s leading college batsmen. Bradley Slagle of Emporia is pitch ing for the Colts. He lost his first practice game by a close score. T. W. Gates, Vepco employee here has been transferred to the main of (Continued on back page) ROBBERS DAMAGE DEPOT SAFE ANDY GUMP UNDER $500 TRIAL BOND Charged With Breaking In Reynolds Store Last Saturday Night OLD COIN CLUE Algie Draper, known to most peo ple as “Andy (Jump”, is in Halifax iail under $500 bond charged with breaking in the store of E. II. Hey nolds Saturday night. Local police, using good Sherlock Holmes methods, connect Gump with the robbery because of a single coin clue. Among other things taken from the Reynolds cash register Saturday night was an old 50 cent coin made in 1827. This coin was in Andy’s possession early Sunday morning and seen and identified by the former owner who gave it to Mr. Reynolds. Gump claim, io have found it five weeks ago in , front of the hospital. Mr. Reynolds says it was in his cash register Sat urday night. Another clue was that of a gun stolen from the store. This was also a rather odd,white-bone-handled af fair and police say they have witness es who saw Andy with the gun Sun day morning. The gun has not been found yet. Gump was taken before Mayor Jen kins, who because of his past record, placed a stiff bond on the prisoner and bound him over to Superior Court. This is only cne of several times Draper has run afoul the law. Police think they have clues to oth er store robberies around here. From the Reynolds store Saturday night were taken also a quantity of cigarettes a n cl other merchandise, similar to hauls from other local stores in the past. Goes After Corn And Never Returns Kinchen Baker, G3 year old Negro who has worked for W. T. Hancock, near Scotland Neck for the last 20 jears, was found dead in a shed on the Hancock farm Tuesday morning. He left his house Monday afternoon saying he was going after some corn. and never returned. Search failed to reveal his whereabouts that night and ,the body was found the next day. Sub ject to heart attacks, he had evidently died the afternoon before when he stooped over to get some corn. Cor oner Williams did not deem an in quest necessary. MRS.HOUSE IN PRIMARY Mrs. House Announces For Re gister of Deeds Which Job She Has Held for Year Mrs. Elizabeth H. House officially announced her candidacy for the of fice of Register of Deeds of Halifax County with a visit to the office of this newspaper last night. She will ?nter her name in the June Democratic primary. Mrs. House was appointed in Febru pry, 1931, by the County Board of Commissioners to fill the unexpired term of Judge W. T. Clements, de ceased. For the past year she has ful filled the duties of that office to the general satisfaction of the public and at a substantial savings to the coun ty. She had worked under Judge Clem ents in the office for seven years and prior to that had been in the of fice of former Superior Court Clerk Cary for four years. With the past year as Register of Deeds, Mrs. House is completing an even dozen years of service in the Halifax Courthouse. Besides her experience she has a most pleasing personality and plans to stump the county before the pri mary in June, visiting as many homes as possible. She was born and raised in Halifax, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hale. Her mother is still living and resides with Mrs. House. No Definite News On Sewer Work As Yet; Study Plans The Roanoke Rapids Sanitary Board vitii Engineers and bonding attorneys, is still poring over bids and specifica tions of the proposed water and sew er work for the city. No definite statements were issued thi.s week but it is understood from good <01.11 ce that the Board will go be fore the Local Government Commis ion at Raleigh the end of this week for approval of certain plans. It is necessary for that Commis sion to pass on all financial ques tion relating to the local district. It i* hoped to have some definite news, one way or the other, on the matter ny next week. TEACHER DIES HERE S UND A Y Pneumonia Fatal to Miss '"mm a Ewing Of Rocky Mount Sick 2 Weeks FUNERAL MONDAY Before the sickness epidemic could reach its peak and wane, death took one of the teachers of ‘he Roanoke Rapids schools when Miss Emma Louise Ewing died here Sunday from pneumonia. Miss Ewing had been ill with in fluenza for two weeks and was con fi•'( (! to the Roanoke Rapids hospital. At the same time there were four other teachers at the hospital and the schools had been closed last week because of the epidemic. Pneumonia developed and she died Sunday. The deceased had come to Roanoke Rapids with the opening of school in September. She graduated from Duke University last year and this was her first position. She was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Ewing of Rocky Mount. Besides her parents she is survived 3y three brothers and a sister: Charles Ewing of Portsmouth, W. W. Ewing if Akron, 0., IT. T. Ewing of Mur freesboro; and Mrs. J. A. Walraden af Atlanta, Ga. vvitn tne sicxness o n tne wane, school was resumed Monday, but was dismissed at noon so members of the faculty could attend the funeral in Rocky Mount Monday afternoon. More Ilian fifty members of the local fac ulty and friends of the deceased at tended the funeral in Rocky Mount. Local teachers were flower girls and the majority of the pallbearers were from Roanoke Rapids. The funeral was from the Clark St. Methodist Church of which her father was pas tor. Services were preached by a half dozen of his fellow-ministers. Supt. Davis reported only three teachers out yesterday due to illness, when 17 were sick last week, attend ance of the children has been in creasing daily since- Monday. Rev. S. J. Starnes of the First Methodist Church of Roanoke Rapids led the services. Flower girls were the following teachers from here: Misses Margie Caldwell, Sara Gur ley, Mary Sue Hughes, Martha Spivey Marjorie Chapman, Carrie Smith, Ma ry Hix and Frances Sharpe. Pall bearers were young men from Roa noke Rapids: Messrs Davis Clark, H. fj. Loy, CJlayton Gurley, Marvin Sharpe, Claude Cannon and Willis Matthews. Halifax Youth Gets Exoneration Benton Hedgepeth, young white man of Halifax County, was exon erated Friday of any responsibility for the death of Charlie Lane, 70 year old Negro who was killed under the wheels of Hedgepeth’s automo bile Thursday night. Coroner W. C. Williams, who inves tigated the accident, determined tc his own satisfaction that Lane was drunk and ran across the road directlj in the path of Hedgepeth's car. Nt formal inquest was deemed necessary Willie Hazelett spent the week-en* in Norfolk. Joan and Gene in Double Harness Little Joan Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett the actor, and famed for her work on the screen, weds Gene Markey. dramatist and novelist BASEBALL SATURDAY Season Officially Opens for The Town Team Wilh I.ouisbur'C Saturday Here The Roanoke Rapids baseball team will engage Louisburg* College Sat i day at Simmons Park in the opening game of the season for the mill boys. The affair is scheduled to get under way at 3 p. m. The local boys are under the direc tion of Harry Welch, former star naseball player, who old time fans will remember as a pitcher in the old ;RoanoflJe Rapids league. Welch is an employee of the Rosemary Mfg. Co. Clyde Liske of Patterson Mill is business manager of the club. Louisburg will bring a snappy out fit of college players here to meet the locals in their first game. They recently lost a close game to Nor folk Southern of Raleigh and hold a victory over the crack Raleigh High school team. Tht* Roanoke Rapids team will probably play the House of David with their bearded outfit on Wednes day of next week, according to man ager Liske. More Talk About Local Team and Semi-Pro League Enthusiasm of baseball fans is fan ned to white heat by additional talk of Roanoke Rapids entering the semi pro league which is the idea of Otto Pahlman of Henderson, who was here last week conferring with Manager Clyde Liske. Mr. Pahlman has a league in mind which would include six teams in cluding Roanoke Rapids, Oxford, Hen derson, Chase City, Va.. Rocky Mount, Tarboro or Littleton. me pian cans ior tnree games a week and a Board of three men to make up schedules and a few set of simple rules. Each town would stand on its own bottom. A forfeit of $50 would be levied for failure of a team to appear on schedule. Local fans say there is sufficient material here to have a good team without the expense of hiring players They also feel that league competi tion would add much interest to the local games. Tuesday night Miss Mary Wolhai gave a party at her home on the Ave nue. Punch and cake were served as refreshments and those present were John Bounds, Belmont Murray, Jim mie Shell, Carl Thompson, Cyrus Ritchin, James McNeil, Butler Brown Beaman Holmes, Herman Tickle, Vir ginia Belle Vincent, Essie Wayne Mat kins, Margaret Anderson, Grahar Shell, Pauline Brewer, Norma Speight, Ella Lee Taylor, Virgini Taylor and Julia Crutchfield. Miss Fannie Alford and Clarenc Maseley spent Sunday in Petersburg LOCAL MEN onwi :ked nnAT-'" IND’Y P rty Bo’md From Franklm. T' Norfolk Stranded ’ i Albe marle S uind OUT ALL NIGHT Fdenton, March 29.—Ten men today told a story of a terrifying night and day of hardships and danger forced upon them when their freight boat wrecked in Sunday night’s gale in Eastern North Carolina waters. The men were Harry Harrison, own er of the :56-foot freighter Dixie Lee; 11.eland Fleet Ford, Francis Monikan, I Williams Dufney, Purcell Blythe and Edward Scott, all of Franklin, Va.; Arthur Murr, of Newport News, Va.; Wesley Williams, Dock Harrison and John Newsome, of Roanoke Rapids. for Norfolk. Engine trouble developed Sunday r.ight after they passed the draw in the Chowan river bridge. A stiff wind blew from the South west and as the craft reached the wide expanse of waters where the j Chowan and Roanoke Rivers join Al bemarle Sound, the engine stopped, leaving the boat at the mercy of the wind. A squall came up and the water grew rougher. With the boat out of control and no auxiliary power, the crew cast anchor to await daylight. About 1 a. m., Monday, while tne i storm was raging- at its worst, the j anchor rope snapped, allowing the boat to drift before the gale. The men were powerless. An hour later the Dixie Lee ran aground on a sand bank near John’s Island. The storm prevented the men from going ashore and they waited aboard (he battered craft until morning Then a crude boardwalk was con structed from timber aboard and the men got to land. John’s Island is a marshy wilder ness. The castaways were forced to tiamp through mud, water, thick un- 1 derbrush and briars in the direction ! ot the Bridge Road. It took them 10 hours to traverse four miles. Finally they reached the highway and a passerby reported their plight to Edenton police who sent a escue party. Twin Sisters Die The twin daughters of Mr. and i Mrs. C. H. Cooper died twenty-four i hours of birth at the home of their i parents, 500 Cedar Street. Nellie Ray lived only a few hours after birth on March 27th and Zilliah Ray died on } (he 28th. Interment was in Roanoke Rapids Cemetery Tuesday. Arrest Insurance Agent Agent (I. I). Lankford was arrested this morning by Officer Dobbins for selling insurance for a non-licensed company known as the National Aid Society of Springfield, 111. All per sons carrying insurance with this company are hereby warned that this ■ ' not a licensed company and that m. claim can be collected by law. The warrant was sworn by E. L. Warren, Deputy Insurance Commissioner. ~ CROSS GRADUATES 54 Local Boys and Girls Win Diplomas in Home Hygiene— Life Saving BIGG F ST GI A« R;t1 Cross work among the children Roanoke Rapids reached a new high his year, with 47 hoys and girls com Peting the course in Home Hygeine md are r»f the Sick and seven gradu 11 !P:'' >n the Red Cross Life Saving ourse. The Hygiene course was under the supervision of Miss Olivia Rook and he life saving courses given by Ned Manning and Sherrod Crumpler, ac cording to report of Mrs. T. W. M. j°ng, local Red Cross chairman. Those pupils completing the courses n Hygiene and Care of the Sick: j M ty Frances Ivey. Gladys Gray, -u/nie V. Keeter, Esther M. Joyner, 'at!.crine Hodges, Paige Powell. Lau •a E. Pearson, Mary McNeil, Blanche Lewis, Lillian Lee, Susie King, Lessie Tarp,Lucille Finch, Mabel Floyd, sathleen Coston, Ophelia Chambliss, Mildred Balmer, Martha Bennett, Co a M. Reeves, Alice Taylor, Louise I’aylor, Tola Belle Stainback, Louise ■‘hearin. Elizabeth Glover, Annie Lelfenthal, Virginia E. Taylor. Evelyn Jolly, Lillie Belle Etheridge, s’ellie Edwards, Frances Cullins, Horence Coburn, Annie Laura Acree, Myrtle Mae Coppedge, Edna Willey, yewis Tripp, Elsie Taylor, Gladys ’teinherg, Christine Stewart, Earline Moody, Isoline Holliday', Adelaide Jaird, Lottie Allen, Fanney Pulley, Vnne Matthews, Nellie Moseley, Cyn. hia Lowe. Those pupils completing the course ri Red Cross Life Saving service: Josie Chase, Kathleen Buck, Wil iam Brown, J. F. May, Hurley Mid ■■ett. James Simms, Daniel Cagle. DANCING BOY SHOT Leg Wounds Sustained In Acci dental Shooting at Filling Station Tues. Night Jim Whittakers, colored boy, was accidently shot by Rose Bunch at the rilling station of the latter’s brother m the Weldon road early Tuesday night. The Negro was dancing for a group rl white boys and when he stopped Bunch playfully pointed a pistol at him. The gun was kept at the sta tion to guard against bandits. Bunch says he thought it was unloaded, but when he pulled the trigger, it fired, and the bullet entered Whittaker’s left leg, penetrated and lodged in the light leg. Bunch hailed a passing car and took the wounded boy to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital where he was ope rated on Wednesday morning and is recovering nicely. There was no evi dence of hard feelings between the white and colored boys and the lat ter refuses to make any detrimental statement toward the former. Jim is the son of Sam Whittaker, presser for a local dry cleaning firm. COMMUNION SERVICE Communion service will be observed at the Presbyterain Church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock when Rev. S H. Bradley will preach on the subject “Taking Christ from the Cross.” Miss Helen Powell spent Sunday ir | N orfolk. BREAK IN STATION LASTNIGHT fail To Get Money But Cause Much Damage And Hold Up Work BREAK DOOR OPEN Robbers broke in the Seaboard Air I ine Station here last night or early this morning and caused considerable damage to the safe door when they endeavored to break off the combina tion. I heir attempts were unsuccessful, but they left a damaged safe which cannot be opened and the money and records of the office have been tied up all day. E. W. Eubank, local station agent, called the Chief Clerk and reported the attempted robbery which was dis covered by the office force at an early hour this morning. A locksmith was to report here this afternoon to open the safe, the combination of which bad been broken off by the thieves. It is thought the only way entrance can be made will be with the aid of torches which will burn out what is left of the combination so that the bolts can be worked from the inside. Entrance was made into the main of fice by breaking or sawing off the padlock on one of the doors. Two drawers in a desk were taken by the thieves, containing stamps and pennnies. These drawers were found by lociA nr..^c late; i’*. morning on i. e dump near the railroad tracks \\ est of the depot. The pennies had been taken but the stamps had been left on the dump. Police investigating think the rob bers walked up the track after their attempted break and then cut North back by Rosemary Mfg. Co., and in to the city. They are looking for witnesses who saw anyone following this route last night or early this morning. Railroad detectives are also on the case. e dwards TELLSABOUT NEW FORD Complete details of the new V-8 cylinder Ford car which was intro duced March 31st, were made public by W. J. Edwards, manager of the ,Tri-City Motor Company, Ford deal The new Ford is large, long, roomy, fast, powerful and alert. Its V-8 cylinder engine develops 65 horsepow er and is capable of a speed of 75 miles per hour, and is offered in 14 body types. A four cylinder, 50 horse power engine is interchangable with the eight at a lower price. Numerous mechanical advances in the new car, chief of among which is a synchronized silent gear shift and silent second gear; rubber engine mountings, automatic spark control, rear fuel tank, newly designed rear spring and the body is insulated from the frame by rubber pads. The new’ bodies are fresh and mod ern from the gracefully rounded V type radiator to the rear bumper. The convex lamps, full crowned fenders and long, low running board harmon ize with the balance of the design. Body interiors are roomy and richly furnished. The riding comfort of the cars is ciue to many factors, but particulary to the new flexible tranverse cant liver springs, larger tires, and the new shock absorbers. The rear spring is of new design, being lowr er and flatter. The drive is of the familiar Ford torque tube type, the drive shaft being of tubular construc tion. Mr. Edwards attended a meeting in Norfolk the first of the w’eek where he inspected the new models, which were displayed in 200 American cities today. It is understood that the Ford xactories in Detroit are turning them out at the rate of 1,000 every day, and it will not be long until one of the new models will be on display at the local Tri-City Motor Co.
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