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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME NINETEEN_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933 NUMBER SEVENTEEN
I n UNDER
HU BRIDGE
NRA NETS 75 JOBS
UP AND DOWN
£>he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
Two North Carolina towns |
have already voted on the j
teachers’ supplement question
and in both cases the supple
ment was carried by a very
substantial majority. Durham,
the first town to decide this
important issue, held an elec
tion Tuesday. In yesterday’s
election at Southern Pines
the supplement was adopted
by a safe majority.
School taxes on real estate will
be reduced 20 per cent; poll taxes
and taxes on personal property
remain the same as last year. Why
vote to seriously cripple the
schools? It has taken years to
build them.—T. W. Mullen, Chair
man Roanoke Rapids School Board.
- "Our children should come
first not only when being sav
ed from sinking ships and
burning buildings, but in our
hearts, homes, churches and
schools. I shall vote to give
the children in Roanoke Rap
ids advantage of more and bet
ter schools.”—J. F. May.
Upon investigation we find the
taxes on real estate for schools
are to be reduced 20 per cent
through the re-valuation of prop
erty and that poll taxes and taxes
on personal property are not to
be increased.—Junior Order Unit
ed American Mechanics of Roa
noke Rapids, N. C.
It is good to know that
children are in school rather
than on the streets. I shall
vote for more and better
schools.—Mrs. P. E. Allsbrook.
Children deserve a place in the
New Deal. I shall vote to give
them a good nine months school.
—Mrs. H. G. Perkinson.
I am not able to send my
children away to school. I shall
vote to have more and better
schools in Roanoke Rapids.—
Mrs. L. E. Davenport.
A vote against our schools is
a vote against the childhood of
this community.—M. D. Collier.
My boys had the opportun
ity of a good nine months
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82 Merchants Sign
NR A Code In City;
Flying Blue Eagle
Over 75 Roanoke Rapids people
have gone back to work in city
stores and business houses since
merchants have signed President
Roosevelt’s NRA code it was
learned this week in an extensive
survey by the Herald.
Thirty-one men and women have
been given full-time employment
and well over forty are working
extra and part time in city busi
ness institutions as a result of
Roanoke Rapids business men
signing the code. Thirteen city
stores reported they are “work
ing out plans” and will add to their
staffs on or before September 1st,
and thirty-one stores have in
creased wages.
At noon, Thursday, eig'hty-two
local concerns had signed the code
and were flying “Blue Eagles,”
with several more saying they
would sign up as soon as their
trade associations had submitted
codes they were sure would be ac
cepted by General Johnson, and his
National Recovery Administra
tion.
Roanoke Rapids merchants seem
to have entered into the spirit of
the NRA, and are striving to work
out their plans in a way that will
enable them to give the maximum
of service to their customers,
shorter hours and more pay to
their employees, and yet not work
“greater and unavoidable” hard
ships no themselves.
Practically every mercnant in
terview by the Herald was enthus
iastic over the new code and the
working conditions it has brought
about. All have voiced perfect con
fidence in the administration, and
have seemed to share in the belief
that the NRA stands for a short
cut to better living conditions.
A FINAL
PLEA MADE
BY DAVIS
On the eve of the School elec
tion Tuesday, C. W. Davis, City
Superintendent of Schools makes
the following statement:
“Children are first in the face
of disaster or danger. We would
strike down any one on a sinking
ship or burning building who
would try to save himself at the
expense of a child. Children come
first not only on sinking ships
and burning buildings but in our
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ONE OF THEM CONFESSES
LESTER TRIPPE
lee McIntosh I
McIntosh and Trippe, escaped Georgia convicts who are held in jail
at Nashville. McIntosh has confessed that he took part in the robbery
of the Planters Bank at Battleboro on July 20 but says that Trippe had
no part in the bank robbery. McIntosh, however, says that Trippe was in
on the kidnapping of John C. Lyle, a Georgia mail carrier, who was re
leased near Wake Forest. He Bays that he, Trippe, and a Negro, who has
not been captured, participated in other crimes.
(Photo Courtesy NEWS and OBSERVER)
APPEALS
SUPPORT
VERDICT
Cullom Guilty of Non-Support
In Case Arousing Much
Interest Here
APPEALS
L. H. (Dooley) Cullom was found
guilty of non-support of his child
by a jury in County Recorder’s
Court Tuesday in one of the hard
est fought cases in that court
since it was founded.
The charges were brought by
his divorced wife, Mrs. Nellie C.
Cullom, for support of their 6
year old boy.
The jury rendered a verdict of
guilty and Cullom was ordered to
pay $5.00 per week for support of
the child. He appealed the case
to the Superior Court.
The case aroused much interest
here and the court room was fill
ed with Roanoke Rapids citizens,
many of them witnesses for one
side or the other. Much of the de
fense testimony was ruled out of
order or irrelevant to the case by
the Recorder.
Misses Elmyra Jenkins and Fan
nie Harris have returned from
their trip to the Century of Pro
gress.
MAN IS
STRICKEN
IN BED
Negro Farmer Dies Suddenly
At Home In Hawkins
Chapel Community
ENROUTE HERE
Waverly Hines, colored farmer,
age 40, was coming to Roanoke
Rapids yesterday to sell vegeta
bles. He never got here.
He had worked late on his Haw
kins Chapel farm gathering veg
etables for the trip and planned
to leave at 2 a. m., to get here by
daybreak in his slow wagon. Lee
Fleming came by and called him.
Hines answered and Lee waited
for a long time.
When Hines did not appear he
called again and got no answer.
Hines’ wife then called him. Still
no answer.
For Waverly Hines, getting up
to come to Roanoke Rapids, had
died making the attempt. They
found him on his knees by his
bed. Death had come suddenly
from acute indigestion.
Imprisoned in the county jail at
St. Joseph, Mo., Gus Pusateri, al
leged liquor vender, had the bars
painted silver and his cell done
over in red and white lavquer.
Man Thrown Over
Bridge After Hit
By Mystery Auto
Hundreds of persons pass
ed over the big bridge here
Sunday little realizing the
presence of a mysterious
corpse lying hidden in the
bushes below the bridge.
Even after the mutilated
body had been discovered and
identified, there remained
many unanswered questions whieh
as yet leave all details of the kill
ing in the dark.
Mystery One: Who was
driving the death car? t
Two: Where was the maic
struck and killed?
Three: What time did the
killing take place?
Four: Why? If an accident,
why was the body thrown over
the bridge and no report made
of the accident?
rive: it not an accident,
what was the motive?
On their way to Thomas Lake
about 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon
Earl London and Whitford Wat
ters, textile workers for Rosemary
Mfg'. Co., crosing the bridge over
the Roanoke River, saw a white
object in the bushes of the small
island between the two little riv
ers on the Northampton side.
Looking closer they decided it
was the body of a man. They
climbed down from the bridge,
parted the undergrowth and look
ed upon the body of a negro who
had been dead for many hours.
The two boys rushed to town and
notified officers of their gruesome
discovery.
It was identified as that of Hart
Clements, 45, colored employee of
the Halifax Paper Corporation. He
had been struck by a car and the
body was badly mutilated. The
left leg had been broken in three
places, once below the knee and
twice above. The left arm was
broken between the wrist and el
bow and was practically torn from
the socket. The right hand was
mangled and there was a cut, as
from glass, under the chin. A big
briuse across the abdomen was as
if from the headlight of a car.
The time of death was placed
at sometime between 2 a. m. and
daybreak Sunday. Clement was last
seen at 2 a. m. between the Eagle
Pilling Station on the Weldon
road and Roanoke Rapids. He was
seen at the filling station about
midnight. When last seen he was
walking toward Roanoke Rapids.
He was living near Camps Store
and might have been hit by the
death car either on the Weldon
road or on the other side of the
river.
Altho there was seme glass on
the bridge, it was not enough to
convince officers he had been
struck there. No blood could be
found on the bridge. The theory
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