NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!
Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper
The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME NINETEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1933 NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT
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UP AND DOWN
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WITH THE EDITOR
BUY NOW!
Itoanoke Rapids merchants
are telling HERALD subscrib
ers that “Now Is The Time
to BUY” to the tune of over
1,000 inches of local, display
advertising in this issue
(which is more advertising
than many small-town dailies
carry in an entire week of
six or seven issues.)
All over the United States, lead
ing newspapers and stores in lead
ing cities are conducting similar
“BUY NOW” campaigns, and they
are not for the entire purpose of
“selling merchandise” at this time.
Progressive retailers, seeing the
price advances the codes have af
fected on all commodities already,
and realizing that many of the
advances are not reflected, as yet,
in today’s prices, feel it is their
duty to warn their patrons that
it is a matter of expediency to
“BUY NOW”.
In addition to increased
newspaper advertising pro
grams, merchants participat
ing in this campaign are dis
playing the latest official ap
proved NRA “Now Is The
Time to Buy” insignia, which
was distributed to them by the
Herald.
Next week, more merchants, in
various lines, will join in this BU^
NOW campaign. The best way for
the consumer to keep up with all
of this is to read the local adver
tising in the HERALD.
The Roanoke Rapids NRA
. Compliance Board is meet
ing tonight at the Mayor’s
Courtroom. It is said several
complaints have been . filed
with the Board for investi
gation.
At a special meeting of the Roa
noke Rapids Building & Loan As
sociation Tuesday night, several
more loans were made possible
thru the funds secured from the
Federal Home Loan Bank. These
loans make possible further build
ing, additions and repairs for
local home owners.
The carnival at the Fair is
, reported to have had the same
trouble leaving town as other
shows of that natui«e have ex
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Scientific Approach
Mrs. lieline MacDonald Bowman,
President, National Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, with 1400 clubs and 55,000
members, urges scientific approaches
to wipe out discriminations Against
the business woman.
CAR DRIVER
SENTENCE
SUSPENDED
A two-year sentence in the peni
tentiary, suspended, the payment
of one thousand dollars to the
parents of the dead boy, and pay
ment of court costs, w'as the sen
tence meted out to Charley Fay
ed in Superior Court Tuesday.
He was given one year in which
to pay the thousand dollars to Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Elting, parents of
little. Billie Elting, who was killed
September 9th.
Fayed was driving a car owned
by Tucker Fayed, local merchant.
He was traveling at a fast rate
of speed up Jefferson Street when
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WILL PAY
MATTHEWS
EXPENSES
Late renort Is State Will Pay
Back Expenses To The
County.
The State of North Carolina
will pay the expenses of returning
E. A. Matthews, Roanoke Rap
ids lawyer now held in San Fran
cisco, was the report from Hali
fax today.
The State, however, expects
Halifax County to pay the bill now,
and to refund it to the county when
Matthews is brought back to this
county.
Auditor Vincent said he was
powerless to advance the expense
money until authorized to do so
by the County Commissioners.
Meanwhile, a hearing has been
set by California courts for Mat
thews on next Monday. He is held
there under $2,500 bond at the
request of Halifax County offi
cia’s.
While only one indictment, tor
embezzling $3,800 has been re
turned in this county against Mat
thews, Solicitor Burgwyn was of
the opinion other indictments
would follow when Matthews was
brought back. It was thought em
bezzling indictments reaching 30
or 40 thousand dollars might be
returned.
Judge Moore yesterday set a
bend of $5,000 for Matthews to
fill in case he is brought back
here while court is not in session.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Jenkins, Mr.
and Mrs. Elisha Sanders and Mrs.
Ernest Clark, spent Sunday in
Lawrenceville, Va.
Tammany In Struggle To Regain Power
Once again in the cycle of years New York’s Tammany is fighting to
retain its political powers. Mayor John P. O’Brien, Tammany candidate,
left, asks reelection. Joseph V. McKee, center, “Recovery Party” candi
date, said to have Washington support, is running as Independent Demo
crat, and Fiorello ID La Guardia, right heads the Fusion ticket.
Propounds Life-Ray
-—*
Dr George W erne, noieu cieve
land O., physician, in an address to
the American College of Physicians
and Surgeons, propounded '' radio
gens’ as a life ray theory within tin
human body, similar to a radio set,
which doctors ot the futon might
successfully read
CULLOM
WITNESS
REHEARD
So'iritor W. H. S. Burgwyn and
Sheriff Johnson were in Roanoke
Rapids again Tuesday night and
reheard the testimony of one of
the witnesses of the Cullom in
vestigation.
The officers witheld the name
of the witness and did not state
the reason for reopening the in
vestigation so far as this parti
cular witness was concerned.
The Solicitor did say that the in
vestigation would continue and it
is probable that others who gave
testimony before the Coroner’s
jury will be recal'ed to clear up
conflicting testimony.
With four witnesses stating they
saw Marvel Cullom on Friday
night at 8 o’clock or thereabouts,
the entire story of her actions on
the night of the murder must be
reconstructed by the authorities.
They had based previous theo
ries on the testimony which had
shown the last time she was seen
had been soon after 6 o’clock Fri
day night, attired in different
clothing from that which 8 o’
clock witnesses testify to.
Fractured Skull
Southgate Britt, salesman from
Murfreesboro, was brought to the
Roanoke Rapids Hospital Monday
afternoon suffering from a frac
tured skull sustained in an auto
mobile accident near Weldon. He
was still unconscious Monday night
but is reported improved today.
Miss Virginia Smith and Mr. R.
L. Martin attended the Musical
Supervisors Conference in Greens
boro, recently held.
HUSBAND
APPEALS
VERDICT
Defense Testimony Not Per
mitted In Superior Court
Trial.
Fought thru two comHs, the
case of Cullom vs. Cullom will be
taken to the State Supreme Court
by the husband, L. H. Cullom,
after Judge Moore refused to per
mit testimony regarding the par
enthood of the child in Superior
Court today.
Cullom was given a suspended
sentence of six months and ord
ered by the court to pay Mrs. Cul
lom ten dollars per month for
maintenance of the child, after he
had been found guilty on a non
support charge by the jury.
Attorneys for Cullom served
notice they would appeal the case
to the Supreme Court and a court
stenographer kept a record of all
questions asked by Cullom’s lawy
er, Kelly Jenkins. Many of these
questions had to do with Cullom’s
claim that the child in question
was not his own, and it was the
answering of these questions which
was refused by the court.
This was the same action taken
by Judge Daniel in Recorder’s
Court from which the case today
was appealed.
The trial today was, like yester
day, a battle of legal wits. Cul
lom’s lawyers were Kelly Jenkins
and E. L. Travis, Sr. Solicitor
Burgwyn, represented the State,
and was assisted by Julian R. Alls
brook, who represented Mrs. Cul
lom.
HOCKADAY
FUNERAL
FR1 DAY
Mrs. W. S. Hockaday, 73-years
old pioneer citizen of Roanoke Rap
ids and native of this township,
died this afternoon at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Miller
on Jackson Street.
Funeral services will be hell
at the residence this Friday after
noon at three o’clock, by Reverends
S. J. Starnes, of this city, and C.
P. Womack, of Littleton, with in
terment at the family cemetery in
this township.
Mrs. Hockaday moved to Roa
noke Rapids from the rural sec
tion near here in 1910. Her hus
band died four years ago. Sur
viving are two daughters, Mrs.
Miller and Mrs. M. F. Harrison,
and three sons, W. G., W. N. and
N. M. Hockaday, all of this city
and county.