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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
^VOLUME NINETEEN__ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, September 21st, 1933 NUMBER TWENTY-THREE
THREE ARE WOUNDED
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Bullets Fly On Jackson Street
. -m —
UP AND DOWN
'GKe Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
CONSUMER’S STATEMENT
OF COOPERATION
I will cooperate in reemploy
ment by supporting and pat
ronizing employers and work
ers who are members of N.R.A.
What citizen of Roanoke Rapids,
what American citizen, could re
fuse ?o sign the above agreement ?
What decent reason could anyone
give for such a refusal? To sign
it means only this: I am a good
American citizen. I believe in my
country and am willing to do any
thing to serve it. I will help get
jobs for more people by buying
from those who are trying to
give more jobs. I am willing to
sign this agreement so that Presi
dent Roosevelt may know that I
am in sympathy with his pro
gram for recovery and reemploy
ment. I wish I could do more for
my country.
ADVERTISERS NOTICE
To bring our plant under
N. R. A., it will be necessary
for our advertisers to cooper
ate with us in the matter of
deadline for advertising copy.
It will be impossible for us
to accept any advertising copy
after Wednesday night for the
following day’s issue. Our ad
vertising manager will be a
vailable Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of each week
» to assist you in drawing up
copy.
Correspondents will please
get news articles in early each
week: Monday’s for week-end
news, Wednesday noon for first
of week news.
The best NRA speeches we have
heard, either in Roanoke' Rapids,
elsewhere or on the air, were
those of Mrs. W. A. Thorne at the
High School yesterday morning,
and by Jujian R. Allsbrook at the
Junior Hall Tuesday night. If
General Johnson could have heard
those speeches he would have
drafted these two local people for
service in Washington or on the
radio.
The City Street Dept, has
done good work this week in
cleaning up the Avenue and
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HUNDREDS HOMELESS
NEED RED CROSS AID
CITIZENS
TO HELP
STRICKEN
Drive For Funds Is Needed
To Help Tar Heel
Sufferers
16 ARE DEAD
Roanoke Rapids citizens will l>e
called on to lend a helping hand
to thousands of North Carolina
persons who are suffering from
1 he hurricane which hit the Caro
lina coast lest Friday and Satur
day.
The Red Cross has sent out an
appeal for funds to aid in relief
work among the storm victims.
The Roanoke Rapids Chapter of
the Red Cross has been asked to
raise all money possible to be sent
to the stricken area.
As soon as the NR A drive here
;s completed the last of this week,
local Red Cross officials plan to
naugurate a tag day or some
similar plan to raise a fund to
send to the distressed coast peo
ple. It is felt that thankfulness
because the storm missed Roa
noke Rapids will swell the contri
butions.
The following telegram was re
ceived yesterday by Mrs. T. W. M.
Long, Chairman of the local Red
Cross Chapter:
^'Incomplete survey area de
vastated by hurricane indicates
hundreds of homes destroyed. Those
damaged over a thousand, with
loss of lite to date sixteen to
gether with injuries to many.
These figures increasing daily as
information seaps in from out
lying and isolated sections. Stop.
“Counties most seriously affect
ed Craven, Carteret, Dare, Tyrrell
and villages on Banks. Stop. Red
Cross rushing food and supplies to
isolated sections via Coast Guard
boats. Hundreds of families now
being fed and given emergency
assistance by Red Cross. Stop.
“Governor Ehringhaus yester
day designated Red Cross official
relief agency and urged people of
State to contribute to relief fund.
Stop. Urge inauguration vigorous
campaign for relief fund in line
with DeWitt Smith’s wire yester
day. Stop.
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With Ballroom Code i
Miss Ann Metzger, of New York,
winner of five first prize beauty con
tests in 8 weeks has been selected by
New York Ballroom Ass’n., to* pre
sent- the NRA ballroom code to Gen.
Johnson.
NRA DRIVE
WORKERS
TO REPORT,
The 200 loyal NRA drive work
ers will meet tonight to report
in their two-day campaign.
At this meeting, all business
houses and homes will be report
ed on and a clea.n-up crew will
again cover the city tomorrow.
First reports show that nearly
every business in town has sign
ed up under the NRA code. All
but about twenty had signed up be -
fore the drive, and not more than
three of these were unreported
on this afternoon.
Most of the thirty-odd teams
reported 100 per cent sign-up or
the Consumers Agreement. In a
few isolated cases there were re
fusals but in these cases special
workers will follow up in an en
deavor to make the drive 100 per
cent.
Lack of cards and material slow
ed up the drive for a time yes
terday, but hurry uporders from
Raleigh, Richmond, Norfolk and
Washington arrived this morning
in time for the last day of the
drive.
Colonel Lipscomb, in charge of
the drive, stated he was more than
pleased at xthe results. Full re
ports will be given in next week’s
paper.
More than 1,000,000 New York
children have returned to school.
CAWTHORN
FUNERAL!
FRIDAY P.M.
The funeral of Allen Cawthorn
pioneer Roanoke Rapids citizen,
wd] be held this Friday afternoon
at 3 p. m., at the residence on
Tackson Street. Reverend J. E
Kirk will officiate, and intermen'
will be held in Roanoke Rapid
Cemetery.
Mr. Cawthorn. 45 years old, died
"arly this morning after a linger
ing illness of several months. H
is survived by his widow and four
sisters. Miss Pattie Cawthorn,
Mrs. R. A. Powell, Mrs. W. T.
Pridgen and Mrs. W. L. Simmons,
all cf this city.
The deceased came to Roanok**
'h p'ds in 1900. For thirty year
he worked in the local mills wher >
he was a mechanic and was we"
knn n and liked by a host of
friends.
Vepco Disburses
Quarterly Dividend
On Preferred Stock
Checks for the quarterly divi
dend of $1.50 per share on the
$6 Preferred Stock of the Vir
ginia Electric and Power Com
pany were mailed out Tuesday to
the preferred stockholders of re
cord as of August 31.
The total dividend amounts to
$292,000, of which 53%, or $155,
000, will be distributed to the 3,
410 local stockholders residing
within the territory served by the
company, representing over 68
per cent of the total number of
holders of this stock.
INFANT SON DIES
Mark W. Letchworth, year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Letch
worth, died Friday at the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital. Funeral ser
vices were held Saturday by T. H.
Humphrey, with interment in Roa
noke Rapids Cemetery.
Last minute reports show the
NRA drive is going over even
better than first expected. The
goal was the signing up of 4,000
consumers. It appears now that
this number will be increased by
about 500.
INJURED
SENT TO
HOSPITAL
M. F. Edwards And Gilbert
Barber Fng^ared In Pistol
Duel Saturday
WOMAN HIT
Two men were wounded in
a pistol duel on Jackson Street
and a woman, innocent by
stander across the street, was
shot in the leg, when bullets
flew wild here Saturday night..
The wounded are M. F. Ed
wards. at whose home the
■hoo+ing took place, Gilbert
barber, the other participant
in the duel, and Mrs. W, S.
B-mvn, who wras visiting rel
- lives across the street from
the Edwarcts residence.
The shooting took place in the
front of the Edwards house in the
200 block of Jackson Street about
8:00 Saturday night.
Barber drove up to the Ed
wards home accompanied by his
hrother, Alvin. Morris Blanton and
a man named Bichard Searce. He
called Ed"srds out and the men
had words over Barber’s wife.
Edwards went in the house, got
his pistol, and came back to the
front. Barber a'so had a gun.
Whether he had it with him when
he first went up to the house or
got it from the car when Edwards
went after his gun, has not been
ascertained.
It is also not clear who hit the
first blow or fired the first shot.
Both men were hit and both weTe
later shot.
Edwards was hit on the cheek,
with what he claims were brass
knucks. Later these were found
in the yard. Barber was hit in th®
head with Edward’s gun used as
a club.
Then a young war started with
both men emptying their guns. A
dozen shots were fired in rapid
succession. Some witnesses say ■
third gun was brought into play.
They say a man behind the Barber
car was also firing at Edwards.
This would have been Barber's
brother.
When the battle was over, Ed
wards had been hit twice. One
bullet entered his right side and
was removed from his back. The
other went thru the muscle of
his left arm.
Barber was hit once, the ball en
tering his left shoulder and re
mains buried under the right
shoulder. Tt had not been removed
when Barber was released front
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