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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME NINETEEN_ ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 1933 NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE
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Ghe Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
About fifty persons from Roa
noke Rapids left this morning for
Washington to see the Worlds
Series. New York took the first
two games at New York by scores
of 4-2 and 6-1. The next three
games are at Washington Thurs
day> Friday and Saturday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Har
ris announce the birth of a
son. Mrs. Harris was Miss
Josephine Wright before her
marriage.
Newsome Riddick of Scotland
Neck, and E. L. Travis, Sr., of
Halifax, will probably be the two
names to appear on the ballot Nov.
7 representing Repealists. Petitions
Ij. are now being circulated for this
purpose.
The Fire Dept, was called
out Tuesday noon but failed to
locate any fire. Hose was laid
from the fireplug on the Ave
nue between 2nd and 3rd
Streets when smoke was seen
pouring from the roof of
Smiths Service Station. Tom
White rushed out to explain
he was burning an old tire
tube in the stove.
Joseph McCarthy, 23, who was
drowned in the Roanoke River
September 26th in an attempt to
escape from Caledonia Prison
Farm, was a resident of Washing
ton, D. C., and relatives claimed
the body which was shipped there
j oh Sept. 30th.
The officers of the Roanoke
Rapids Woman’s Club will be
at home Wednesday, Oct. 4th,
from 4 to 5:30 at the Club
House, honoring all members
of the Club.
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BOND IS
GRANTED
TO FAYED
Charley Faved, Syrian merch
ant, was placed under a one thous
and dollar bond on a. manslaugh
ter charge in connection with the
death of Billy Elting at the hear
ing in Mayor’s Court Friday.
The Mayor bound him over to
Superior Court, criminal session
of which meets at Halifax start
ing October 22.
At the hearing, Fayed entered a
plea of not guilty. The defense
pieced no witnesses on the stand.
The State used two, J. B. Hardy,
an eye witness to the death of
the child, and Police C. L. Mas
sey, who investigated the killing.
The boy was killed Saturday,
Sept. 9th, on Jefferson Street by
a car owned by Tucker Fayed and
operated by the defendant, Char
ley Fayed.
Civics Department
Has Charge Of The
Woman’s Club Prog.
The monthly meeting of the Roa
noke Rapids Womans Club wa^
held Monday afternoon at the CluD
House with a large attendance
and a splendid program in charge
of the Civics Department.
Mrs. J. N. Bynum presided and
the speakers were introduced by
Mrs. W. F. Joyner, chairman of
the civics department. Mrs. W. A.
Thorne gave an outline of the pro
gram’s purpose.
Rev. J. N. Bynum spoke on “The
Social Needs of Roanoke Rapids’’;
Carroll Wilson on “The Civic
Needs of Roanoke Rapids”; Steve
Lipscomb on “The Cultural Needs
of Roanoke Rapids.”
Music was furnished by a quar
tet, Mrs. Heath Lee, Miss Ella
Lee Taylor, C. W. Davis and Steve
Lipscomb, with Mrs. Lipscomb at
the piano. Tea was served after
the program.
MORTALLY WOUNDED
NEGRO FIGHTS WITH
FOUR BULLET WOUNDS
i Mortally wounded, with four bul
let wounds in his body, Willie
Faulkner, colored man who lives
near Macon, staggered up to his
murderer, took his gun from him
and gave him a severe pistol whip
ping.
Staggering back to his home,
Ihe fell to the floor but retained
consciousness while being put in
| a car and rushed to the Roanoke
— ids Hospital Sunday morning.
aulkner, with a bullet thru his
: neck, two in his stomach and one
thru his hand, talked all the way
from Macon to Roanoke Rapids.
As the car passed the railroad
tracks coming into this city, the
man suddenly stopped talking. He
was dead.
His assailant, Merlin Harris, is
in jail charged with murder. He
says he was drunk at the time of
the shooting and there seems to
be every reason to believe his
story. Plummer Falkner, son of
tke dead man,' saw Harris fixing
a puncture a short distance from
the Falkner home. He offered to
assist and! got a cussing out for
his pains. Harris took a pistol from
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| “Fighting Parson”
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Dr. Benjamin R. Lacy, Jr.
Who will conduct evangelistic
services at Presbyterian Chureh
here Beginning Sunday morning.
MAN HIT
IN HEAD
ESCAPES
Ed. Jones, 55-year-old Portugee
resident of near Garysburg dem
onstrated definitely Saturday that
he could “take it.”
Jones had evidently been on a
spree, and was hit in the head over
the right eye in an argument with
a Negro near Roanoke Junction
about noon Saturday.
A passerby brought the injur
ed man to Roanoke Rapids Hospi
tal for treatment. Although he
had no money, and was unable to
make any arrangements for pay
ing his bill, he was given medical
aid and assigned a room in the
ward.
Jones, apparently worrying over
his hospital bill fled from the Hos
pital early Sunday morning clad
only in his night clothes, and With
a probable fractured skull. He
has not been heard of since.
Three Reelected
Without Opposition
With no opposition, a quiet
school election was held Tuesday
and three members of the Roa
noke Rapids Graded School Board
were re-elected.
They were Messrs T. W. Mullen,
J. T. Chase and E. W. Eubanks.
No one filed against them to make
the race, nor were any names of
opponents written in on any of
the ballots.
Condition Of Mrs.
Hockaday Serious
The condition of Mrs. W. S.
Hockaday, 73-year-old resident of
Jackson St., was said to be seri
ous at Roanoke Rapids Hospital
today. She underwent a major op
eration Monday.
EMPLOYEES
OF MILLS
ON PICNIC
Between 95 and 100 employees
of Roanoke and Patterson Mills
Companies attended a picnic, Bar
becue, Brunswick Stew and gener
al outdoor “get-together” last
Saturday afternoon at Lake Thom
as.
The group consisted of super
intendents, overseers, second hand
and members of the shipping de
partment of the two mills, and a
few invited guests, with whom it
is the custom to hold an annua1
“get-together” of some kind. This
vear it was decided to hold a meet
ng at Lake Thomas, and the af
fair was a big success.
Brunswick-stew, barbecue an '
old drinks of all kinds, including
plenty of “3.2” was served, and
Eddie Beard and Russel Myrick
were in charge of the program
Entertainment was furnished by
a string band aggregation from
Roxboro, and a Negro Quartet,
composed of local talent delighted
the audience with several voca1
numbers and dances.
Edwards-Barber
Shooting Hearing
To Be Held Oct. 13
The preliminary hearing in the
Edwards-Barber shooting affray
will take place in Mayor Jenkins
court next Friday, October 13th.
The shooting, in which three
were wounded, took place on Jack
son Street Saturday night, Sept.
16th.
M. F. Edwards and Gilbert Bar
| ber, the principals, were wounded
and Mrs. W. S. Brown was wound
ed by a stray bullet. The two men
were in the hospital but both have
recovered sufficiently to be dis
charged.
NARROW
ESCAPE
MONDAY
Car of Joe Wells turns Over
Twice On Slippery Road
Four Roanoke Rapids people
were injured Monday night when
the car in which they were riding*
slithered on a slippery road and
turned over twice.
The injured are:
J. C. Wells, local grocer,
Mrs. J. C. Wells,
Mrs. C. B. Kidd,
Mrs. Kidd’s 4 year old daughter.
. The letter two were more seri
ously injured, Mrs. Kidd suffer
ing a broken arm and the child
receiving a broken leg.
Mr. Wells has a broken rih, a.
bad bruise on the head and pos
sible internal injuries. Mrs. Wells
suffered cuts on the legs and
bruises.
The car wrecked near Elm City*
not far from Wilson on Route
40. It was raining slightly and
the car struck a slick place, gou
out of control, crashed into a bank,
turned over twice.
Mrs. Wells, sitting on the front
seat with her husband, was thrown
into the back seat with Mrs.
Kidd and the child. Mr. Kidd, fol
lowing the car in a truck was the
first to arrive on the scene.
The injured were taken to the
Wilson hospital and brought back
here Monday night by K. R.
Batts, insurance man who form
erly lived here.
The accident occurred about 8:45
p. m. The party was on the way
to Wilson to take the truck for a
new top. Mr. Well’s car, a new
Pontiac, was practically ruined.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Riffith, Miss
Lula Inscoe and Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Mills spent Monday afternoon
in Rocky Mount.
FIGHTING PARSON i
TO HOLD SERVICES
IN ROANOKE RAPIDS
Dr. Benjamine Rice Lacy, Jr.,
President of Union Seminary at
Richmond, Va., and known during
the World. War as “The Fighting
Parson”, will hold evengelistic
services at the Roanoke Rapids
Presbyterian Church beginning
Sunday morning, October 8th.
The services will continue dur
ing the week with a service each
night at 7:30 p. m., and end with
the Sunday night service on Oct
ober 15th. The public is cordially
invited to attend all these services.
Each morning at 10:25, Dr. Lacy
will speak to the High School
students in the High School audi
torium and the public is also in
vited to these programs.
Dr. Lacy is an outstanding lead
er in the church work of the
South. His job as President of
Union Seminary has been desig
nated the biggest in the Southern
Presbyterian Church today and he
has been called the best qualified
man for the job.
He is a native North Carolinian,
his father for years being State
Treasurer of North Carolina. He
married Miss Emma White of Ral
eigh, daughter of the pastor" of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Raleigh.
The blood of educators flows in
his veins: His great grandfather
was one of the early presidents of
Hampden-Sidney. His grandfather
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