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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME NINETEEN_ ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1934 NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT ■ - . . m - - - - . .-■ ... — . —_— i NO BOND FOR TAYLOR UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR The Chockoyotte Golf Club has reduced the membership fee from five dollars per month to three dollars per month with no initia tion fee. In the future only mem bers, prospective members and non-resident guests will be allow ed to play. With the lower month ly fee many new members are expected to join. 1934 officers of the Kiwanis Club will be installed tonight. They are C. W. Davis, president, Alfred Martin, vice president, Hugh Bradley, secretary, and «- Paul Reid, treasurer. Aurelian Springs basketball team will play the local high Yel low Jackets here Friday ngiht in the local gym. The game is called at 8 o’clock. The Art and Literary Depart ment of the Woman’s Club will meet on Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, wiith Mrs. Steve Lips comb. All members are urged to be present, and any interest ed member of the club is in vited. ' Marvin J. Rook, of the Eureau of Foreign and Domestic Commer ce, is returning to Washington after spending Christmas and New Year with his mother, Mrs. T. J. Rook. Roanoke Rapids colorful his tory for the last six-months of 1933, as revealed by the files of the Herald, will be printed in next week’s issue, owing to lack of space in this issue. Mrs. Jones Dies At Daughter’s Home Mrs. Jones, 78, died suddenly yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Woodruff, in Northampton County. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Shiloh Church. The deceased was survived by many relatives, among them a brother, John Matthews, Sr., of this city, a son, Ed. Jones, of Weldon, a grandson, Fenton Jones of this city, and the following sisters: Mrs. J. H. Kee, Mrs. Vir ginia Jordan, Mrs. Sallie Edwards, and Miss Martha Matthews. Many grandchildren and several great grandchildren survive. HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE Willie Taylor was bound over to Superior Court without bond after probable cause was found at his preliminary hearing be fore Magistrate R. L. Martin this afternoon, linking him with W. Alligood, Weldon married man, in the charge of criminal assault on Alees Pearson, 17 year-old girl of near Valentine, Va. The crime was committed on the night of November 11th, near Roanoke Rapids. Miss Pear son was visiting relatives in the Hornertown residence sec tion of the city at the time. Alligood’s preliminary was on November 29th, and he faces Sup erior Court on a similar charge, and is being held in the county jail with Sarah Taylor-Harris and Glenn Melwood, who faces charges as an accessory. E. L. Travis of Halifax lead the prosecution, assisted by L. J. Hammack, Lawrenceville attorney. Little was brought out at this afternoon’s hearing that was not known during the preliminary of Alligood. Miss Pearson, reiterated her testimony of a few weeks ago, saying in addition that after the car in which the four people were (Continued on back page) WORK ON PRIVIES HELD UP CWA Wages for Carpenters Same As Unskilled labor; 4 Local Men Get Jobs T. B. Turner, Julian Glover and Bob Elmore, and Mitchell Shearin have been given jobs with the CWA in connection with special sanitary work to be done in Roa noke Rapids Township during the next three months, but work is temporarily delayed. Work on the project is held up because carpenters were to be paid the same rate per hour as unskilled laborers and no local carpenters hired would work at that scale. Mr. Turner will superintend the erection of sanitary privies and septic tanks in the township, Mr. Glover will be inspector of the project, Mr. Elmore is foreman carpenter, and Mr. Shearin is en (Continued on back page) In Center of New Food and Drug Measure Rumpus WASHINGTON: . . . Here are three principals who will be in the 'center of the rumpus as the controverted Tugwell-Copeland biil, the much discussed drug, food and cosmetic measure, comes before the new congress. They are, left to right, Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, j Senator Boyal Copeland, who introduced the bill, and Rexford Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, author of the bill, which is introduced to snnnlant. the_27 year old pure food and drug art FEDERAL JOB FOR J. F. WELCH Local Man Lands Appoint ment In Treasury Department J. F. Welch of this city has been appointed Deputy Collector of In ternal Revenue by the U. S. Treas ury Department and was sworn into office at Raleigh, Tuesday morning of this week. At the same time he received his commission in Federal service from his superior, C. H. Robert son, Collector of Internal Revenue for North Carolina. Mr. Welch will work out of head quarters at Rocky Mount and will cover several counties in this sec tion of the, State collecting pro cessing tax and other Federal tax es. He returned to Raleigh today for further instructions of his duties. He has been a resident of Roa noke Rapids for 21 years and un (Continued on back page) DOWELL TO MAKE ADDRESS W. L. Dowell, executive-secre tary of the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association, with head quarters in Raleigh, has accepted an invitation to address the newly formed Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association, according to word coming from C. C. Shell, president of the local organization, and Mr. (Continued on back page) KERR IN FARMERS SPEAKING Congressman From This Dist rict Is Guest Of Honor At Farmers Meeting More than 150 farmers of the Aurelian Springs section heal’d Congressman John H. Kerr, of Warrenton, at the Aurelian Springs High School Monday night when he explained to them what the Federal government had done for the farmers in the past few months. Judge Kerr, who is recognized in Washington as an expert auth ority on cotton, iobacco and pea nuts, was invited to address the farmers by E. K. Veach, farm teacher at the school, who holds monthly meetings for the adult farmers. His struggle to get peanuts in the list for processing tax was told by the Congressman, it pass ing the House and losing by one vote in the Senate, after the Presi (Continued on back page) LIBRARY IS OPEN TO PUBLIC The Circulating Library of the Woman’s Club is now open to members. The price of member ship is SI.00 per year or 25 cents for three months. They have a special group of new books that can be secured for 1 cent per day. The, following rules and regula tions have been drawn up and (Continued on back page) SKILLED WORKERS QUITTING County Wage Scale Criticized; Also Charges Of “Too Much Politics” The Civil Works Administra tion in Halifax County is be ing criticised in various sec tions of the county with charg- • es ranging from “politics” in selection of workers to the more concrete criticism of the wage scale for this type of work in the county. These charges, which started a week ago only in a small way, have grown to large proportions during the week and culminated in the refusal of a crew of carpent ers to work for the minimum scale of 45 cents set for unskilled lab or. J. B. Hall, Halifax County CWA administrator, was in Raleigh to day conferring with Mrs. Tom O’Berry, State CWA administra tor. Newton Shepard of Weldon, Mr. Hall’s assistant, accompanied him to Raleigh. The, “politics” charges are that the needy unemployed are not be ing given preference on jobs, and cases are cited where men quit jobs to get CWA work. According to rules and regula tions of the CWA relating to wages, North Carolina is placed in the Central Zone with a 30 hour week, unskilled labor at 45 cents per hour and skilled labor at $1.10 with semi-skilled labor set be tween these two in accordance (Continued on back page) ROOMING HOUSE HAS FIRE Mrs. Dunning Discovers Lin en Closet Atilaze Early Wednesday Morning Fire originating in a second floor linen closet of the rooming house of Mrs. B. J. Dunning, comer the Avenue and 8th St., early Wednes day morning, did slight damage to the house, destroyed the con tents of the closet, and sent a doz en roomers seeking lodging for the rest of the night in the homes of neighbors. Mrs. Dunning, smelling smoke about one a. m., investigated and opened the door of the linen clos et to find it ablaze. The Fire de partment answered promptly and with the use of fire extinguishers and very little water, kept the fire under control and soon had it out. Good headwork on the part cf the (Continued on back page)
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