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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME NINETEEN -ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 20th, ,933 NUMBER FOURTEEN UP WAGES AGAIN Daring Holdup At Battleboro Nets Bandits $5,000.00 The Bank of Battleboro was robbed this morning by three men who escaped with more than $5,000.00 in cash. One of the trio was recognized from his photo as one Paul Ed wards, ex-convict. They escaped in the direction of Tarboro in a blue, 1932 Chevro let coach with an N. C. license tag. Officers are combing that section of the State this afternoon. One report of the fugitives has been made since the robbery. Tempor arily they have vanished. James A. Daughtridge, cashier of the bank, had just opened the bank at nine this morning when, the car drove up. A couple of cus tomers came into the bank follow ed by two of the bandits. The third robber remained in the car with engine running. Brandishing pistols, the two backed the customers to the wall and forced the cashier to the vault which he had just opened. They compelled him to lie face down on the floor while they snatched $4,300 in currency and $850 in sil ver. Quietly they sped to the wait ing car and sped away before the alarm could be given. A reward has been offered for their capture. YOUNG PEOPLE TO CAMP Episcopal And Presbyterians Of Five Towns To'Hold Young People’s Camp HUNDRED LIMIT The Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches of Roanoke Rapids, Wel don, Enfield, Jackson, and Scot land Neck, have made plans to hold a Camp again this year at the Episcopal Camp Site, on the Pamlico River, near Washington, N. C. • This camp is for the Young Peo ple of this section of Eastern N. C., who want to have an outing and vacation combined with a spir itual atmosphere and Bible Study. The cost of the camp is on an ab solute cash basis of $4.50 per week. The Camp will open Monday morn ing, July 31st, and continue thru August 12. Those staying for only one week will come back on Satur day, August 5th, the remainder staying ’till August 12. me faculty consists of Rev. J. N. Bynum, Business Manager; Rev. S. H. Bradley, Camp Director; Mrs. G. L. Hayes, Dietician; Mr. Edwin Akers, Life Guard and Chief Counselor for Boys; Rev. D. P. (Continued on back page) UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR Registration books for the spec ial school extended term election are now open. It is necessary to register in order to vote. Registr ar Welch will be at the High School with the books on Satur days, at Taylor-Matthews Drug Co., on Mondays and Wednesdays and at Rosemary Drug Co., on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The New Deal is being car ried thru by local stores. Most of them have started closing at 6 p. m. on weekdays. Traveling overland with car and trailer, army tent and cooking equipment, Bill Speight, Ikey John son, Henry Grissom, Marion Hud son and Ootchie Acree will leave Monday for the World’s Fair at Chicago. Benny Giles, colored, driver and cook, completes the party. They will be gone 12 days, intend to spend a total of $13.85 per head. A card from Samuel Marks, young Roanoke Rapids busi ness man, who is touring the middle-west and part of Cana da, on hiis honeymoon with his bride of two weeks, announces he has reached Chicago, and is taking in the Century of Prog ress Exposition. Sam says he saw General Italo Balbo, com mander of the Italian Aerial fleet land with his squadron of planes. Mr. and Mrs. Marks will be at home after August 1st. Funeral Services Monday For Infant Son Local Family Funeral services were held Mon day, July 17th, for little Elmer D. Ennis, 8-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer D. Ennis of this city. Little Elmer died Sunday, of co litis. Rev. J. H. Starnes conducted the funeral, from the home. Inter ment was at Roanoke Rapids Cem etery. John Corrock of Seattle has just finished planting 100 trees as a penalty for starting a forest fire. Miss Edith Bursot of Turin, It aly, was sentenced to 46 days in jail for throwing a pillow at a railroad official on a train. 2,000 Textilers Here Happy; Short Hours, More Pay With shorter hours and more pay, the more than 2,000 Roanoke Rapids textile workers lived “Th New Deal” this week and liked it fine. Roanoke and Patterson Mills en joyed a ten per cent, increase in wages all up and down the line last week, and this week employees of these mills and Rosemary Manufacturing Co., will find a nother substantial increase in theii pay envelopes to conform with the new textile code agreed on by the managements and the government. xwo snuts ot 8 hours each work each day for five days. The limit is 40 hours per person per week. Supt. T. W. Mullen and other “old-timers” in the mills grin and say, “Lot different from the old days when we went to work at 6 in the morning and quit at 6 at night. But we didn’t hear them sighing for those good old days a gai». Another old timer, who hasn’t quite got adjusted yet to so much spare time, stopped us yesterday and said, “How about a ball game in the afternoons. Here it is not 4 o’clock yet and I’m thru with my day’s work, cleaned up and ready to go places and do things.” The two picture shows here are now showing every morning as well as afternoon to give the sec ond shift a chance as they miss both afternoon and night shows. Home life here is better under the New Deal. Used to be child ren hardly knew their parents, if they worked on night shift and slept in day. Now they are plann ing it so most of the married men work on the first shift and are all thru work by mid-afternoon. There is more time to rest, more time to play, more time to tend the gar den, more time to visit with the folks. And there’s production. The mills must have production to keep in the race with competitors. The superintendents say the folks are cooperating in the mills and first figures show a pick-up in hourly production, so the eight hours shut-down per day will not mean a one-third drop in production. Of course, everything is new and different and it will take some time to get things running smooth ly, but there was less difficulty in making the changes than ex pected, and so far everything, as the youngsters say, is Hunky-Dory. Mrs. Hannah Cotton of Kings port, Eng., was ordered to slow down her speech to 90 words a minute. Italian Airmen Fly To Chicago World Fair To the right is shown General Italo Balbo, Italian Minister of Aviation, who headed the Trans-Atlantic flight of a fleet of 24 huge flying boats from Lake Orbetello, Italy, to the World Fair at Chicago in hops from the continent to Iceland, Labrador and Canada. Above are shown the crews of the boats in review. Chicago planned a mamouth welcome for the flyers. CAUGHT PASSING QUEER CURRENCY NEAL OUT OF RACE Will W. Neal, Marion sock manufacturer, will not be the deputy commissioner of internal revenue, lucrative Federal job which Senator Bailey endorsed him for. His appointment was opposed by Senator Reynolds. The name of Allison James, of Winston-Salem, has been put forward. Mr. Neal was appointed chair man of the North Carolina Park Commission by Governor Ehring haus Tuesday. Aged Relative Of Local People Dies At Seaboard Home Funeral services were held this afternoon, Thursday, July 20th, at the Methodist Church in Seaboard for Mrs. Berda Ivey Long, widow of the late M. F. Long. Mrs. Long died at her home in Seaboard Wednesday, July 19th. She was 63-years-old. Interment was at the Seaboard Cemetei-y. Besides a daughter of Roanoke Rapids, Mrs. T. M. Bullock, she is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. E. H. Cuthrell of Norfolk, Mrs. H. L. Woodard of Pendleton, Thomas and Herbert Long, sons, of Norfolk, nad two sons, William and Howard, and a daughter, Miss Edna Long, of Sea board. , Charlie Thornton, colored, will be tried in Federal Court in Sept ember for trying to pass counter feit ten dollar bills here Monday. His case was heard by Commis sioner Thompson today who placed him under a $50u bond. He will bt taken to Durham tomorrow. His younger brother, John, was releas ed. Thornton had three of the bills which carried the same serial numbers. They had been printed instead of engraved and the paper, of course, lacked the colored threads of government currency. It was a fairly good job of coun terfeiting. He tried to pass the bills at The Hub Dept. Store. Mrs. Greenberg and Mrs. Shell became suspicious and showed one of the bills to Mr. Loy of Leggett’s Dept. Store. Officer Carl Green happened to be at the store and the arrest was quickly made. The negro claimed first he got the money as pay from a Norfolk ship. When a Secret Service agent from Charlotte came today he told officers he found the money in Emporia. Thornton recently completed a two year term in a Florida prison and has an unsavory reputation. Just a few days ago he was re leased from Halifax jail where he spent some time after threat ening the life of his sister, Lena Brown. The egg eating champion of Rhode Island is Peter Freeman who won the title by eating 50 three-minute eggs—two more than the runner-up.
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