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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald FREE “HONOR SLAYER” UP AND DOWN t?he Avenue WITH THE EDITOR The County tax delinquent list appeared in this paper last week, and the school and city delinquent list as appearing this week. The law provides that the County list shall be published beginning the week of the first Monday in Aug u. and that the School and ^ city list shall be published be ginning the week of the sec ond Monday in August. Among others who helped, the High School Alumni Association wishes to thank the four Boy Scouts who put out the car and window stickers concerning the school election. They were Scouts Eugene Shell, Jack Vincent, Fran cis Fisher and George Nethercutt. Miss Letha Blythe and Mr. Leslie Garner, of Roanoke Rapids, were married August 12th, at Lawrenceville, Va. The young couple will make their home in Roanoke Rap ids. Somebody had been systemati cally stealing gasoline from one of the ditch diggers of the Fiske Carter Construction Co. The other night, the gas thief was inter rupted and fled leaving his five gallon can. Those who found the can claim it had the Mayor’s name written on it and his friends have been making life miserable since. NEW H. S. BUILDING A new High School building for the Manual Training Department will be erected soon and the pres ent department in the Junior High School building will be turned in to class rooms to take care of the heavy enrollment. The new building will be of brick construction, one story, plain ly finished inside. A notice to con tractors runs in this issue calling for bids to be opened Friday, Aug ust 25th. The new structure will be in the rear of the main High School building. VISITING GREENBERGS Mr. and Mrs. H. Kaplan, of Bos ton, Mass., are spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Mooney Greenberg of this city. Mrs. Kap lan is Mrs. Greenberg’s sister. VOTERS THANKED BY DAVIS Says Roanoke Rapids Schools Leaders In State; Asks For Cooperation Supt. of City Schools, C. W. Davis, made the following state ment to the citizens of Roanoke Rapids following the school elec tion Tuesday: “On behalf of the children and the teachers in the Roanoke Rapids Schools, I wish to thank you and to congratulate you for the splend id way in which you stood by your schools in the election last Tues day. By your action you have placed-the Roanoke Rapids Schools in a position of leadership in this State. You have shown to the peo ple that you are not willing for your children to have less than the best. Your loyalty will give each pupil and each teacher cour age, inspiration and a determina tion to make your schools worthy of your confidence. I hope that you will visit the schools often dur ing the year, try to know the teachers and help them render to your children the best service pos sible: “I should like to take this occa sion to express my appreciation to those of you who encouraged your friends and neighbors to register and vote. I especially wish to thank the Parent-Teacher Organi: zations, Alumni Association, the Junior Order, Boy Scouts, those who furnished cars and drove cars, for the effective work you did. All of you rendered a real service to your community. “To those of you who for vari ous reasons could not vote for better schools, I hope that you will accept in spirit and in reality the verdict and join hands with the rest of us in making your schools a real asset in a growing, progres sive community. The children and the schools are yours. The teach ers want to do for you the best job possible. Let us all work to gether and get the best results. “C. W. DAVIS” Infant Dies Funeral services were held Mon day, August 14th, for the infant, 11-day old child of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Robinson, at their home in this city. Interment was in Roanoke Rap ids Cemetery. The funeral was con ducted from the home by Rever end V. H. Grantham. Bill Duke was a Rocky Mount visitor Tuesday evening of this week, Farmer Acquitted On Second Degree Murder Indictment G. T. Garris, farmer living 5 miles from Enfield, was freed Wednesday afternoon of the mur der of his cousin, Henry Lewis, young Edgecomb county farmer, whom he murdered by slashing his throat in an “honor killing” on July 12th, 1933. Evidence pointed to the fact that Garris killed in self-defense, and to protect the honor of his home. The jury was out one-hour and a-half. It sems that on the night of July 12th, Lewis, the slain man, and Seth Adcock, his companion, came to the Garris home bringing with them the younger Garris boy. The three had been on a drinking spree, it is said, and young Garris was put to bed. Lewis and his companion stayed around the house for an hour or so, and at length, Garris’ lf> •year rid daughter, the father and the slain man engaged in an argu ment. It appears that Lewis had been keeping company with the girl, and had on many occcasions kept her away from home later than her farter”s wishes. In his drunken stupor, it is al leged that Lewis was insistent the girl accompany him, against her wishes and those of her father. A violent agrument ensued, in which it is said Lewis threw the girl down on the bed, choked her and drew a big knife from his pocket. The elder Garris was called to the assistance of the girl, and her at tacker turned on him. Testimony brought out the fact that the father did not want to argue with the man, but sought the protection of his daughter and his home. He backed out of sever al rooms in his efforts to escape Lewis, and picked up a straight edge razor when he passed a table. Finally, being backed into the yard of the home, and after Lewis had struck at him several times with his knife, once cutting Gar ris shoulder, he drew the razor and slashed Lewis’ throat. Lewis was rushed to a doctor’s office in Enfield, then to a Rocky Mount hospital where he died a few hours later. Officers investi .gated immediately after the trag edy, and returned and arrested the senior Garris after the boy’s death. The jury was composed of a special venire, selected from free holders of the county. Miss Eileen Fisher is a patient in Roanoke Rapids Hospital, hav ing undergone an operation for appendicitis. German Ace Major Ernst Udet, Germany’s greatest living war ace, who will participate in the International Air Races to be held in Chicago Sept. 1st to 4th. PARKER HOLDING 1ST COURT In Home County Since Being Appointed Judge; Crim inal Term 2 MURDER CASES Superior Court convened Mon day with Judge R. Hunt Parker holding court in his home county for the first time since his ap pointment as Superior Court judge last year. The week is confined to criminal cases, including two murder cases. Judge Parker made a strong charge to the grand jury and his instructions to trial juries in vari ous cases are being widely quot ed. Robert Jones and E. B. Shaw pled guilty to breaking and enter ing and larceny and were sentenc ed to two years each on the county roads. A capias was issued for Patrick Coleman who failed to ap pear. Frank Bell was found not guil ty of a charge of assault on a fe male. The bond of Charles Cleary was forfeited on his non-appear ance. Henry Jones, bondsman, who gave a cash bond of $100 for Whit Wade in 1929, got his $100 back when it was shown he found Wade after bond had been forfeited and brought him back for trial. Lessie Mae Reville was granted an absolute divorce and custody of the children from G. T. Reville. BIG LEAD IN SCHOOL ELECTION Those For Better and Longer Schools Swamp All Opposition 90 PER CENT VOTE Voters of the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District are over whelmingly for maintaining the high standard schools of which this city has been so proud. In Tuesday’s election to decide whether or not to supplement the State’s eight months term and to provide for an additional month, a five to one vote favored the sup plement. Of a total of 1,464 ballots cast, the tally was as follows: FOR 1,207 AGAINST 251 Six ballots were thrown out as defaced or wrongly marked, mak ing the total of 1,464, and giving those for the supplement a voting majority of 956. The great danger for those for the supplement lay in those who, after registering, failed to vote as their registration counted a gainst the supplement. There were 276 who failed to come to the polls and vote after registering. This number must be added to those who voted against the supplement, making a grand total of 527 against. The total registration was 1,740. It took 871 votes to carry the supplement. Opposition, which was pretty strong a few weeks ago, petered out during the week before the election, particularly after the local Junior Order and High School Alumni Association became active for the supplement and better schools. In Greensboro the same day, those opposed to the supplement simply stayed away from the polls, their votes thus counting against and less than half the registered voters voted. The supplement auto matically lost from lack of voters. The same thing happened m Concord where two thirds of the registered voters stayed away from the polls. North Wilkesboro voted for the supplement the same day and Southern Pines a week ago. Char lotte lost the supplement when less than half the registered voters went to the polls Tuesday. Roanoke Rapids holds the record so far on percentage of votes cast, 90 per cent of the registration go ing to the polls. RETURN FROM FAIR Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jeffers re turned Friday from Chicago, where they attended the Century of Progress Exposition. They made the trip overland, also visiting Mr. Jeffers’ former home in Iowa.
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