Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper
The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME NINETEEN_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6th, 1933 NUMBER TWELVE
Only one game will be “on tap”
for Simmons Field Saturday in
City League play, with the Kilo
Swats meeting the Bascoes at 3
P. M.
Both teams have drilled stren
uously this week, and Saturday
afternoon’s affair promises to be
interesting. Come out and support
your home clubs.
Dr. Johnny Martin has re
turned from a few duys vaca
tion trip to Manteo and Ocean
View.
Editor Carl Goerch, state news
paper-man and editor-publisher of
the new publication “The State”
was in Roanoke Rapids a. little
while last Friday afternoon, and
called on S. T. Peace and J. T.
Chase here. He flew to Washing
ton, North Carolina, his former
home from the “air-port” at the
outskirts of the city, and mention
ed his pleasurable visit to our city
on his state-wide radio hook-up
over Station WPTF from Raleigh
Sunday night.
A new store, has been opened
in the South ward business section
by Tilghman Furniture Company
of Weldon, who will operate both
stores in the future. The location
is at 1024 Roanoke Avenue, next
door to the A. & P. Tea Co’s Up
town store, and in the buijding
formerly occupied by the L. & S.
Grocery. C. G. Tilgham will look
after the interest of the new store,
spending several days a week here,
and at other timer Young R. C.
Campbell, recently of Richmond,
Va., will be in the store. A good
line of home furnishings will be
carried
Mr. Tilgham says his company
has had the'ir eyes on Roanoke
Rapids for some time, and with re
cent improvement in general busi
ness conditions, he thought the
time was right to establish the
store here. With recent changes a
fnong city business institutions in
the Uptown section, there remains
only one empty store building on
the Avenue. This is the former lo
cation of the Quality Shop, and
doubtless a new store will an
nounce an opening there before
long.
Thursday afternoon had all
the appearances of a “World
Series” afternoon in Roianoke
Rapids, with small crowds of
interested baseball fans group
ed about radios listening in on
the results of the American
National - Leagues “All-Star
game coming over the ether
from Comiskey Park, Chicago.
From our neighboring city of
Scotland Neck comes news of the
return, Monday, July 3rd, of W.
J. Partin, farmer living in the
Dawson section near that city, who
mysteriously disappeared from his
home and family in January, 1924.
For days and weeks his family
looked and waited for his return,
(Continued on back page)
FUNERAL
FOR MRS.
BREWER
Funeral This Afternoon For
Mrs. J. R. Brewer Who Died
Wednesday Morning
BURIED HERE
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon, June 6th, for
Mrs. J. R. Brewer, prominent city
wife and mother, who died at Roa
noke Rapids Hospital Wednesday
morning, June 5th at 4:15 A. M.,
after an illness of several weeks.
In one of the largest funerals
ever held in the city, which at
tested to the high respect a.nd deep
esteem which her neighbors and
friends held for her, the body • of
Mrs. Brewer was laid to rest at
Roanoke Rapids Cemetery, and the
city tonight mourns the loss of
one of its most beloved citizens.
The funeral was conducted from
the Baptist Church, with Rever
end J. E. Kirk, officiating, anr
Rev. V. H. Grantham assisting in
the ceremonies. Floral offerings
were resplendent at the funeral,
and burial services.
Mrs. Brewer was the wife of J
R. Brewer, and is survived, in hei
immediate family, by her husband
and daughter, Miss Pauline Brew
er. The family has lived in Roa
Aoke Rapids for twelve years.
Mrs. Brewer was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Green of
Roanoke Rapids. Also surviving is
one sister, Mrs. T. M. Faison of
Columbia, S. C., and two brothers,
E. J. Green of Norfolk, Va., and J.
S. Green of Charlotte, N. C. All
of whom were in attendance at the
funeral today. She was born at
Rockingham, N. C.
Pall bearers were Messrs. Heck
Black, O. R. Elhnore, C. L. Mas
sey, J. Robert Myrick, D. L. Balm
er and Julian Glover. Flower girls
were Misses Hilda Hines, Ella Lee
Taylor, Essie Mae Matkins, Mar
garet Dunning, Pearlie Istreko,
Lucille Moore, Dorothy Johnson,
Arline Batton, Mary Wolhair, Vir
ginia Gurley, Alvarada Faison and
Mae Smith.
Downtown Dep’t.
Store Is Robbed
Sometime Friday
Thieves of unknown identity
broke into the Boston Chain Store
corner of Roanoke Avenue and
Second Streets, sometime early
Friday morning and robbed the
store of several hundreds of dol
lars worth of merchandise, most
of which was thought to be men’s
wearing apparel. Entrance was
gained through a window on the
second floor of the building.
The theft was discovered Friday
morning upon opening by Walter
Kee, manager of the store. The
thieves evidently roamed about at
leisure, selecting such merchan
dise as appealed to them, and ac
cording to size and fit. A light
was burning all night in the bal
cony of the store, and was undis
turbed Friday morning. The police
department has reported no clues.
\
THREE BEATEN BY
DRUNKEN MAN AT
WARRENTON 4TH.
------- I
New Mid-Western Trade Route to the Sea
_ . VXOSS6Se6S6X6S$msiKMmm^.... __
A new trade route has been opened to 22 raid-western states. It is the
Great Lakes—Gulf of Mexico waterway now open to barge commerce, —
the fulfillment of an inland dream of many years. Above is pictured the
first barge shipments crossing the official ship. USS Wilmette (background)
at Michigan Link Bridge, Chicago, and inaugurating the first ocean to
Lake Michigan shipments. It is said that twenty-two states in the Missis
sippi valley aro to enjoy a revision of shipping rates from this new trade
joute,^
WILL ADV.
PROPERTY
IN AUGUST
Advertising Of Property For
Taxes Postponed Under
Provisions New Law
INSTEAD OF JULY
A new law provides that aP
property on which the taxes have
not been paid shall be advertised
in August instead of July. Infor
mation as to the new law has just
come to light.
Before the final notices for the
School and City were made out and
mailed, both the Attorney General
and the Director of the Local Gov
ernment Commission were asked
to furnish information as to when
property should be advertised.
Neither was able to furnish this
information at that time, saying
that so many laws were passed by
the General Assembly they hard
ly knew heads from tails and it
would probably take some time
to compile and clarify the differ
ent laws. Now that the laws have
been compiled and clarifie'd prop
erty is to be advertised in August
instead of July.
When Prank Madge of New
York said “Hello, Cutie,” to a good
looking policewoman, he was as
sessed $36.45 for his breach of
etiquette.
Denounced as a “pest to the
public,” Alfred Smith of Illford,
Eng., was sentenced to prison for
flirting with young women.
WHITBY
FUNERAL
TODAY
Mrs. Martha Whitby Dies At
Home On Madison Ave.,
Evening of July 4
MOTHER OF EIGHT
Funeral services were held this
afternoon, Thursday, June 6th, for
Mrs. Martha Whitby, city woman
who died suddenly at her home
at 10 P. M., July 4th. They were
conducted from the house, 418
Madison Avenue, with Rev. S. J.
Starnes officiating. Interment was
at Roanoke Rapids Cemetery Mem
bers of the Roanoke Rapids Fire
Department were the pall- bear
ers.
Death came suddenly and unex
pectedly to Mrs. Whitby, who is
survived by eight children, and who
survived her husband by several
years. Mrs. Whitby had lived in
Roanoke Rapids 14-years, and
was dearly loved and highly re
spected by a host of friends, who
regret her passing.
She is survived by the follow
ing: two daughters, of Roanoke
Rapids, Martha Whitby and Mrs.
Edward Barrott, and one son who
lives here, Buck Whitby. Other
children are Mrs. N. H. Edwards
of Bluefield, W. Va., Mrs. Sophie
Moseley and Mrs. Ida Spraggins
of Gasburg, Va., and Niss Gladys
Whitby and George Whitby of
Richmond, Va.
Only Disturbance
Over Holidays In
Immediate Section
Romey Moore, who “lives
near the cotton mill” in War
renton, is in the city jail of
that town, unable to make
bond in the amount of $300
growing out of his assault on
two Negro men on the night
of the Fourth of July, and a
waits perhaps more serious
charges on the assault of a
white man, Joseph C. Powell,
Register of Deeds of Warren
County, the first victim of
the big club weilded by the
booze-crazed man when he
ran amuck on the streets of
Warrenton and assaulted
three with his club before
his arrest by several officers
whom it took to overpower
him.
According to evidence, Powell
was simply walking down the
street in Warrenton last Tuesday
night when he was attacked by
Moore, who allegedly uttered an
oath and declared he was going to
kill him. No enmity exists between
the county official and his assail
and, so far as is known, as is the
case with the Negroes, Peter Wil
liams and Ed. Bolton.
With a large club, Powell was
knocked to the ground, hit again,
and lying helplessly on the pave
ment was about to be the recipient
of a third, and perhaps disastrous
blow, when Geo. Robinson, who
works at the Theatre intervened.
Moore made his escape from t\l
spot of the ':'-st crime and assault
ed the two Negro men in an alley
with the club," making his get a -
way there also, later being appre
hended under a bridge at a War
renton warehouse by officers, who
declared he became violent when
they started off with him in the
direction of the jail, so violent
that it took several men to hold
him.
In preliminary hearing before
Mayor Frank Gibbs of Warren
ton, Moore, it is said, owned up to
drinking a quantity of whiskey and
home brew on the previous even
ing, but said he knew nothinc
whatever of the two assaults, and
that he had no recollection of at
tacking anyone.
He is being held in default of
$300 bond in the case of the Ne
groes, and will undoubtedly face
more serious charges in connec
tion with the first assault on Pow
ell, when the latter, suffering with'
severe head, face and possible in
ternal injuries, is able to testify.
It was the only serious altercation
reported in this section of the
state over the Fourth of July.
After a four-hour search, in
which police and neighbors joined,
William Scott, 7, of Cambridge,
Mass., was found asleep in his own
bed at hime.