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VOLUME TWENTY_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14th, 1934 NUMBER NINE
DR. MARTIN
HEADS PARTY
UP AND DOWN
Tshc Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
There will be services at the
First Presbyterian Church next
Sunday morning at eleven A.
M., the Reverend J. S. Jones, of
, Mebane, filling the pulpit.
Since construction has started
on the Avenue paving project, the
detour signs route traffic over
Hamilton Street, as this is the
only through thoroughfare to
Roanoke Junction. Efforts are be
ing made by the city dads to have
the state go over Hamilton St.
with some sort of oil treatment
to keep the dust down.
J. R. Manning and Julian R.
Allsbrook left Wednesday for
Elizabeth City, where they will
spend several days attending the
state convention of North Caro
lina Building and Loan Associa
tions. Mr. Manning is secretary,
and Mr. Allsbrook attorney for
the Roanoke Rapids Building
and Loan Association.
The Elm City baseball nine,
members of the Central Carolina
League, will meet the Shell Inde
pendents at Simmons Field, Sat
urday afternoon at 3:30 P. M. Be
tffere and give the boys your active
support, as well as your gate re
ceipt support. Both are important
to a home team.
Bill Allsbrook, North Carolina
University student, brings his
popular Carolina Club orchestra
back to Roanoke Rapids this
week for two engagements. Bill
and his orchestra plays a pub
lic concert at the opening of
Lake Thomas pavilion tonight,
followed by a private dance, and
will play for the Boy Scout Dance
Friday night at Chockoyotte
Country Club. Admission to the
latter is by card only.
This is young Allsbrook’s
second venture to his home town.
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CHOSEN
COUNTY
CHAIRMAN
Su'-'-e^ds Dr. Long As Party
Chief At County Conven
tion Monday
Dr. John W. Martin of
Roanoke Rapids, was chos
en County Chairman of the
Halifax County Democratic
Executive Committee at the
County Convention at Hali
fax courthouse Monday, and
thus succeeds Dr. T. W. M.
Long, who had heen chosen
to fill the unexpired term
of the late E. L. Travis, Jr.
The convention was opened by
the retiring chairman, Dr. Long,
who introduced his keynote speak
er, Ashby Dunn of Scotland Neck.
Mr. Dunn made the conventional
address pleading for harmony in
the ranks of Halifax County Demo
crats and naming those who had
been party leaders of the past, a
mong them Messi-s. Long, Green,
Ti-avis and Gregory.
The only applause came, how
ever, when he named the two
new leaders of the party, Julian
R. Allsbrook and A. Leonidas
Hux.
Irvin Clark of Scotland Neck,
was elected temporary chairman
of the convention and R. Hunter
Pope of Enfield, temporary sec
retary. Later, the County Execu
tive committee elected Mr. Pope
permanent secretary of the party.
Eleven of the fifteen precinct
chairmen elected at the precinct
conventions Saturday afteroon
are known as Allsbrook-Hux men.
They now comprise the County
Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic party. The new chairmen,
elected after record breaking at
tendance at every precinct in the
county, are as follows:
Butterwood, John R. Liles;
Enfield, J. W. Whittaker; Con
ocanara, L. A. Parks; Faucetts,
M. P. Crawley; Hollister, Tracy
C. Qualls; Halifax, P. C. Milli
ken; Kehukee, Ed. C. Ruffin;
Littleton, N. M. Warren; Pal
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Baer Wins
Mighty Max Baer
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Primo Camera
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SISTER
KILLED
BY BOY
Accidental Shooting Fatal To
14-Year-Old Colored Girl
At Halifax
Rena Wood, 14-year-old Halifax
Negress was killed instantly when
the full charge of a 12-guage shell
penetrated her right eye, blowing
off the back of her skull Satur
day afternoon at her home near
the edge of the gity limits of Hali
fax. George Wood, 11-year-old
brother fired the shot accidentally
from a crude old single-barrel
shotgun.
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GET LOCAL MILLS
EXEMPT AFTER ONE
MONTH’S EFFORT
All City Cotton Mills Back On 40 Hour Week
After Local Management Takes Fight To
General Johnson In Effort To Keep
Local Folks Fully Employed
Roanoke Rapids textile workers and business men are
rejoicing over the glad news that was received yesterday
when, after a month of fighting on the part of the local man
agement, the NRA agreed to permit Roanoke Rapids mills to
continue the full 40 hours each week for the next eight weeks
instead of the cut to 30 hours which will be in force in most
of the other cotton mills of the nation.
On May 11, S. T. Peace, President of Roanoke Mills
Co. wrote the following to the Cotton Textile Institute: “We
wish to go on record as opposing any reduction in the pro
duction of our mills at this time.” This was more than a
month ago when the first reports came out that a 25 per
cent curtailment of the cotton textile industry was being
talked by the government and the entire local mill manage
ment went to bat to try to keep local mill workers working
on 40 hours.
But on May 22, the .following order to all cotton mills
in the nation, signed by Geo. A. Sloan, president of the Cot
ton Textile Institute, was sent out: “Today in Washington,
General Hugh S. Johnson approved the following require
ment under the code of fair competition,during each of the
three consecutive four week periods, beginning on the 4th
day of June, 1934, and ending on the 25th day of August,
1934, no productive machinery in the Cotton Textile Industry
shall operate for more than 75 per cent of the hours other
wise permitted by the Cotton Textile Code.”
Again the local mill management went before the Cot
ton Textile Institute and pled for the 40 hour week so that
local mill employees might have more work. But again on
June 1 they were turned down by the special committee of
the Cotton Textile Code authority which in a letter signed
by the secretary of the committee said: “The committee has
requested me to advise you that it'does mot deem that it can
properly recommend to the Administrator (Gen. Johnson)
an exemption in your case.”
Two more weeks the local management fought, carrying
their fight to General Johnson himself with the final result
that they obtained victory and in the mills yesterday the
following notice went up on the bulletin boards which meant
an extra ten hours work every week for the next eight
weeks for every textile worker in the city:
NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
Recently the Government Cotton Textile
Code curtailed cotton mill operations to thirty hours
per shift each week for the 12 weeks beginning
June 4th.
We have been successful in getting the Cot
ton Textile Code to allow us to run 40 hours per
shift each week for the 8 weeks beginning June 4th.
We cannot now say whether we will bte al
lowed to run 30 hours per shift per week or 40 hours
per shift per week for the last 4 weeks of the 12
weeks period.
This change is effective as of today.
ROANOKE MILLS COMPANY.
This morning’s News & Observer carried an article
by Associated Press from Washington in which it stated
that NRA had refused the request of most of the cotton
mills of the nation but had grant- (Continued on next page)