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V )LUMN EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, April 6th, 1933 - NUMBER FIFTY-ONE
EMMETT KIDD HELD IN CANNON CASE
UP AND DOWN
t?he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
Only three of the 76 officers and
crew were rescued when the dir
igible, 'Akron, largest in the world,
crashed to the waves in a thunder
storm off the Jersey coast early
Tuesday morning. -This is the
N 'world’s -largest air fatality in his
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North Carolina will have beer
starting May first, 1933. As in the
Senate, the bill passed the House
by a 3 to 1 vote, the Senate accept
ing the House amendments Tues
day night. A regulatory machine
hill is stiti •) come with derails as
' to making, sale and purchase.
The entire Halifax County dele
gation voted for the beer bill. It
was noted, however, in the House,
tha R. Hunter Pope voted for the
referendum amendment which
would have brought it to the peo
ple for a vote. The other Repre
sentative, Frank Taylor, voted a
gainst the amendment, which failed
to carry.
The New Hope school house was
entered during the storm Tuesday
night by persons who broke in a
^ glass door, tore down window
shades to be used for bedding, and
played general havoc With the in
terior of the school. Officers lay
it either to tramps or to irrespon
sible persons getting out of the
storm. Nothing was missing from
the school which is about 200 yards
from the main highway.
On Schuyler Moss’s farm near
Enfield there once lived a big
frog. He is no more for he was
killed by Lovey, aged Negro ten
ant on the Moss estate. Let old
Lovey tell his frog story:
“Yessuh, Mistuh, Ah goes
in de cowbarn early in de
morning and dere he is. De
fust time Ah didn’t bleeve it
and he got away, but on dis
mawnin Ah cotched him in de
act. Der was de cow a laying
down and dere was dis big
bullfrog ahold of her teat and
milking away. He wa3 plumb
bloated wid milk ana when Ah
scared him away, from de cow
and hit him wid a stick, de
milk flew out of him ever
which way.”
This was the version we heard
from the old Negro’s lips last Sun
day when Mr. Moss called on us.
And we will stack Lovey’s milking
frog up against every cat, dog and
fish in Kinston.
(Continued on back page)
23 PER CENT SAVINGS
TO CITY TAXPAYERS
| Her Excellency
I To Wear Cotton
Cooperating in the movement to
further popularize cottons, Mrs. J.
C. B. Ehringhaus is serving as
honorary chairman of the commit
tee in charge of the State-wide Cot
ton Ball to be held in Raleigh Fri
day evening, May 19, as a grand
finale to North Carolina’s first
State-wide Cotton Festival.
In addition to the ball, the Fes
tival, which ties in with National
Cotton Week observance, will in
clude a gala street parade and a
cotton style show. Ladies will wear
all-cotton ensembles to the ball.
Special Services
Methodist Church
Beginning Monday evening,
April 10th, at 7:45, a series of
special Revival Services will be
held at the First Methodist Church.
The pastor will preach a twenty
minute sermon at each service,
using as a text one of the seven
statements of Jesus while he was
nailed to the Cross. All the people
of the community are invited to
attend and cooperate in the meet
ing. This represents the week in
which Christ was crucified, and
these services are intended to pre
pare the way for a fuller appre
ciation of the Easter Services.
The inside dope is the Kiwanis
Club will have its Fourth Annual
Minstrel, bigger and better than
ever, early in May. The net pro
ceeds are to go for Boy Scout and
other Child work. Of course, the
dopester might have given us the
wrong tip, but we will know some
thing definite next week.
Managers of the four local base
ball teams met last night but fail
ed to decide on several details of
the proposed League and will meet
again the first of the week.
Property Values
In County and City,
Cut 20 Per Cent
All real estate, improved
and unimproved, in Halifax
County will receive a horizon
tal cut in valuation of twen
ty per cent, for the 1933 as
sessment, by action of the
County Board of Commission
ers taken Monday, under
authorization of the law pass
ed by the present General
Assembly.
The B.au-4 decided this war the
proper thing to do in view of pres
ent business conditions and also in
view of the cost to the county of
a new appraisal, estimated to cost
between five and six thousand dol
lars. It was also thought a new
appraisal at this time might create
inequalities.
Things look brighter for Hali
fax County taxpayers in view of
the -Monday action of the Board.
It is thought the 1933 county and
State tax levy will not exceed 75
cents, 10 cents more than at pres
ent, which at the new assessed
valuation will represent quite a
saving in taxes.
As the same new valuation will
hold good in the three tax districts
of Roanoke Rapids, city, school and
sanitary, it represents an even
greater saving in taxes to Roanoke
Rapids property owners. While the
tax levy may be increased slightly
in some cases to meet necessary ex
penses, the increase in levy will
not make up the difference in val
uation, and tax experts place the
savings to Roanoke Rapids own
ers for .1933 on all taxes at a pos
sible twelve cents decrease in tax
levies plus a 20 per cent decrease j
in property valuation.
For example, a man who in 1932
had property here valued at $1,000
paid in city, school, sanitary, coun
ty and State taxes, the amount of
$25.90. In 1933, this year, on the
same property, under the new val
uation and the estimated levies,
he will pay $19.76, a saving on each
thousand dollars of property of
$6.14.
This is a savings on all taxes of
over 23 per cent.
(More Board Doings Inside)
Miss Virginia Belle Vincent,
student of Peace Institute in Ral
eigh, is spending the Spring Holi
days with her mother, Mrs. W. H.
Babcock, of this city. Miss Eliza
beth Wilson, N. C. C. W. 'student
is a guest of Miss Vincent while
here.
Horrible Family Massacre In Va. Shocks
Scores Of Roanoke Rapids Relatives
Emmett Kidd, aged 32, former Roanoke Rapids resident,
is being held today by Virginia officials and questioned con
cerning what he might know about the horrible death of
four of his kinsmen last Friday night.
B. L. Cannon, 77, his brother, Willis Cannon, 82, and
their two grand-nephews, John William Cannon, 25, and
Thomas Cannon, 56, were found Saturday morning brutally
murdered at their farm in Mecklenburg County, Virginia,
near La Crosse.
Champ Pretzel Twister
—
Helen Hoffer of Beading, Pa,
daims the world championship as
pretzel twister, her record being 48
Eetzels per minnte ... and maintain*
? this average. . . . Helen is not
tomplaining, what with beer on tap
ind pretzels in demand.
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Brother Of Local
People Dies Last
Night Near Macon
Horation Harris, 48, died at 11:30
p. m. last night at his home near
Macon. He is survived by his wife
and seven children. He was a bro
ther of Mrs. E. F. Lynch, Mrs.
John Riggan and P. D. Harris, of
Roanoke Rapids, and K. D. Harris
of Kinston.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at Bethlehem Church. Mr.
Harris was a prominent farmer in
the Macon and Churchill vicinity.
Among thase that attended the
funeral and burial services of the
Cannon family at LaCrosse, Va.,
Sunday, were: Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Cole,
Misses Ellen and Josephine Tay
lor, George Baird, Howard Taylor,
W. A. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Taylor and daughter, Irene, Mrs.
Bernice Watson, Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Burton, Misses Mildred and
Margaret Burton and Opelia
Chambliss.
Mrs. Harry Kenyon visited Miss
Sallie Allen Friday of last week.
Kidd last live in Roanoke Rap
ids in 1917 or 1918 when he was
employed in the grocery depart
ment of the L. G. Shell Co. He had
also worked in the supply room of
the Rosemary Mfg. Co. For some
years he has been living at La
Crosse, but was seen around here
from time to time. Recently he
was in trouble with local officials
over a car stolen from a local
d<alcr.
The murdered men had scores of
relatives in Roanoke Rapids. They
were distantly related to most of
the Taylors, Kidds and Acrees in
this city.
Mrs. J. E. Acree, 237 Washing
ton Street, was a sister of John
William Cannon, as was Mrs.
Jacob Taylor of Belmont. Their
father, Joseph Cannon of Mecklen
burg, one of the heirs, lost in the
massacre his son, John William,
his brother, Thomas, and his two
uncles, the old men.
John Cannon of Roanoke Rapids,
who resides on Cedar St., next to
the Holiness Church, was a broth
er of Thomas who was killed, an
uncle of -John William and a neph
ew of the two old gentlemen.
Mrs. W. A. Kidd, 600 St., this
city, was a sister of Thomas and
a neice of the elder two.
At least one hundred Roa e
Rapids relatives and friends' at
tended thg joint funeral services
near La Crosse Sunday afternoon.
The crowd was estimated at be
ween three and four thousand with
a count of over 1,000 automobiles.
The Cannon home was on the
edge of Mecklenburg near the
Brunswick County line and as a
arge part of Roanoke Rapids came
from that section, the horrible
murders shocked the entire com
munity, many of our citizens hav
ing known part or all of the mur
dered men.
The heirs have posted a reward
of $750. Money estimated at $35,
000 was stolen by the murderers.,
MORE OF THIS STORY INSIDE
Rev. Joe Mack, former pastor of
the local Presbyterian church,
passed through here last week en
route to his home in South Caro-'
lina.
The General Assembly has rati
fied the measure providing for an
overlapping grand jury for Hali
fax county. It was introduced by
Representatives Pope and Taylor.