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Carolina's Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C„ THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24th, 1932. NUMBER THIRTY-TWO. CHARGE NEGRO _ - —- -- _ -I UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR Coroner Billy Williams attended court in Richmond Friday where he was qualified as an expert wit ness for xhe plaintiff when rela tives of the engineer who died at the throttle near Enfild last year sued an accident policy insurance company. They claimed an acci dent.. The coroner testified it was an ordinary death. The court threw the case out. William Alfred Thorne and fam ily have moved to Roanoke Rapids and will occupy the Allen Zolli coffer home. Mr. Thorne is cash ier of the Rosemary Branch of the Roanoke. Bauk and. fPrnsl jUo... ... Roosevelt received the largest vote North Carolina ever gave a candidate: 408,000. And he came within less than ten thousand of what might be called an all-time majority over his opponent: 300, 000. It was impossible to print some late news received from our cor respondents as The Herald went to press Wednesday night of this week instead of Thursday in order to give our employees a holiday on Thanksgiving. Roanoke Rapids will be “on the air” again next Saturday after noon from 4:30 to 5:15 p. m. over Station WRVA in Richmond, at which time the Rosemary Concert Band, under the ‘ directiqp of J. W. Sanders, will give a 45-minute general concert.. Appearing on the same program with the local musicians will be the colored quar tette from here who have previous ly broadcasted with them. Local radio fans are urged to tune in on Richmond at this hour and hear the local boys. >\ There will be no morning or ev ening services at the First Meth oist Church n$c&, .Sunday on |c count of the pastor, Rev. S. j. Starnes attending conference. Sun day School, however, will be held at the same time Sunday morning. Reverend Hubbard Baucom, ar dent of W*ke Forest, who has been called to.supply the pastor at eof the First Baptist Church, will cgp duet the Thanksgiving servieejvint the Church Thursday ereninp!^ 7:30, and regular Sunday servlctjo thereafter until a regular paM^r is called. ISf All former N. C. members (rtf 6«th Pioneer Infantry, A. E. F.; teres ted in a State reunion and 6f OUT OF CONFERENCE Mrs. Lona Harris Dies While Asleep ’•» 's ' Mrs. Lona Harris, 50 years old, wife of Sam Harris, died here early Tuesday morning of acute dila tion of the heart. «« Her small son, Sam, Jr., awoke about one o'clock Tuesday morn ing to find his" mother dead. Surviving are the husband and two children; Mrs. James Williams and Sam, Jr. The funteral was held in Brunswick County Wednesday. •«> - ■ SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB -j * __ --The Saturday Night Bridge Club met November 19th with Misses Evelyn Tilghman, Amanda Tilgh mah and Katherine Reid as joint hostesses at the Teacherage. Con tract was played at four tables. Miss -Ruth Dean held high score and was given a plaque as a prize A sweet course was served at ten thirty to: Misses Virginia ’Gates, Marjorie Cannon, Betty Gates, Thelma ([arris, Mary Cannon, Ma ry HamptpnKeith, Virginia Forbes Susan Womble, Ruth Dean, Mabel Regan, Sara Gurley, Martha Car son, Margaret Woodbury, Mar jorie Caldwell, Aileen Cannon. '"■V--1 1 1 .■ 1 ■— i i ganization please communicate at once with either O. B. Shelley or Louie Hart, Monroe, N. C. | Roanoke Rapids is no longer ir ’ tKe Northeastern^ Conference o f North Carolina ifigh Schools. I We resigned fj»m the Confer ' ence last night. ^As a matter of fact, we have outgrown the. Con ference, to hear tj>e complaints of others who look with envy on the ltoanoke Rapids.' record for the past three years. | Two football championships and three baseball trophies were too much for our rivills. At a meeting 5jn Washington, N. C. Tuesday nwit, P. A. Reid, who looks after business man agement of the «thletic Associa tion, with the sjfcction of High | School authorities handed in the resignation of Rdjfeioke Rapids. But not until le had receive! the football troph® for 1932. All claims by other fentesting teams were waived but^the atmosphere was such that ROfeioke Rapids de cided to seek higMr laurels. Next year, we will compete with teams in the State elimination contests. In fact it will stpj|t with the bas ketball team of m season which begins jpst as soon as the last football game is played. The Ladies Aid. Society of the First Baptist Church will give * Turkey Dinner a* the restaurant room next door W t h e Peoples Theatre Wcdneedfer evening, No vember 3dth. Tickets are on sale now at 50c per plat*. DIES AS TRUCK IS FOULED Cary Alston, colored, truck driv er for Darden Lumber Co., of Lit tleton, was instantly killed near here Friday afternoon when his truck overturned o n a slippery curve at Tilmans Crossroads. Wade Gilchrist, colored, who was riding in the cab, jumped to safe ty as the truck left the,road and was uninjured. The truck with a trailer, was on its way to Margerettsville and traveling, according t o Gilchrist, at a high rate of speed. It was raining and the highjvay was slick._ On a slight curve near the crossroads, the trailer swung around, left the road and fouled the truck. Alston was evidently caught be hind the steering wheel altho when the cab broke up he was thrown dear of the wreck. His neck was broken, the chest crushed and the lungs punctured. GEORGIA WOMAN DIES Mrs. Lula Arthurs, 25, died here Sunday from bronchial pneumonia. She came here a year ago from Cedartown, Ga., where the body was shipped Mfcmday for burial. Henry Mitchell, Jr., 16 year old Negro, is in jail at Halifax charg ed with the murder of his father. The killing took place on High wayl25 about 5 miles from Route 40. The senior Mitchell was 60 years old. His lifeless body was found Monday morning at day break on the side of the highway by Lewis Parker, a short distance from the Mitchell house. Parker notified the family and several conflicting tales were told. Officers held the younger son and at preliminary hearing in Magis trates court at Enfield Monday night young Mitchell was bound over to Superior Court. Mitchell was killed with a heavy club. He had an ugly bruise over the left eye and was cut across the temple. The death weapon has not been found. The spot v.'l'Cl'c he was clubbed down was several feet from where his body was foiuui aryl in tha wtlHln tk« 3*b»d. ' His assailant had dragged him aside. At the hearing it was difficult to get a coherent story from the family, but the trouble apparent ly started over who should have the bedclothes. Henry, Jr., his old | er brother, Norfleet, and one James Lewis were sleeping togeth er and the two brothers got in a fight over the bed clothing. The father came in and entered the fray, during which he held Henry, allowing Norfleet to scratch him up. From what neighbors say they fought all during the early hours of the morning. At dawn Norfleet and Lewis went to work and later the father went down the road to get wood. Henry was supposed to be following his broth er, but was later seen near the place of the killing and came out of the woods after the body had been found. Lewis Parker, who found the body, saw a man disappear in that lirection jusc before he arrived on the scene, but a hill kept him from identifying the party. They were all questioned b y ^Ofoner Williams who took them oefore the Magistrate for the preliminary hearing. Dies At Caledonia* G. N. Langley, 76 years old, fath er of W. A. Langley, guard at Caledonia State farm, died at the farm last Thursday. Funeral ser vices were held by Rev. J. N. By nftm Friday at Williams Funeral Stag* and interment was in Roa rfehs Rapids cemetery. Mrs. David Traynham and dau ghter Katherine spent the week end in Raleigh with Mrs. 'Claude Edgerton. Miss Martha Craddock and Miss Hart Sheridan spent Thanksgiving at the home of Miss Craddock in Halifax, Va.
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