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The Roanoke Rapids erald
VOLUME TWENTY ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th., 1934 _NUMBER TWENTY-ONE
Hold Death Car Driver
UP AND DOWN
£5he Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
The welfare department of the
Womans Club is working out
plans for a Dog Show, to be
held the last week in September.
Considerable interest has ueen
shown on the part of prospective
contestants and spectators. Any
one having a dog they wish to
enter should confer with Mrs. R.
P. Beckwith. Furthur plans and
dates will be announced later.
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The school of South Rosemary
will open on September the 10th.
A special sermon will be preach
ed to the nurses of the Roanoke
Rapids Hospital on next Sunday
evening at the First Methodist
Church. All the nurses and Phy
sicians are invited to attend,
whether connected with the hos
pital or not. The hour is 7:30
P. M.
GUARD IS
SHOT BY
GUARDS
Jury finds Hux Killed
by slug from guards’
guns in attempt to
prevent escape
Funeral services were held Sun
day at Ebenezer Church for Er
nest Hux, 34 year old State farm
guard who was killed last Thurs
day during a break for freedom
by five white prisoners.
The young wife of the dead
guard is seriously ill at the Roa
noke (Rapids Hospital suffering
from a nervous breakdown as a
result of the tragedy.
An autopsy showed that Hux
was killed by a slug from a shot
gun which sprayed the car in
which the prisoners were trying
to escape with Hux as hostage.
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CASSIDY
KILLED
IN^RASH
John Stanley Injured
and Faces Charge
Of Manslaughter
Jesse Cassidy, 39, was in
stantly killed early yester
day morning when the car in
which he was riding crashed
head-on into a large tree on
the Vultare road about three
miles from Camp’s Store.
John Stanley, driver of the
car, is in the Rioanoke Rap
ids Hospital with slight in
juries. He is being guarded
by officers charged with
manslaughter.
The exact time of the accident
is unknown. The officers recon
structing the wreck say the two
men must have lain out there for
for one or perhaps two hours be
fore anyone passed. Undertaker
J. R. Wrenn sets the time at
somewhere between three and
four o’clock in the morning.
The wreck was seen at five
o’clock by James Baird, local bar
ber, as he came to work here and
he reported it to officer Keeter
who took a party over with him.
They found Stanley lying on
his back by the side of the car,
one foot caught and held beneath
the pedal of the car. The dead
man was lying on top of him.
Cassidys head had hit the mir
ror in the car. His skull was
split and fractured. Two ribs
were broken and he had severe
internal injuries.
It appears the car left the road
some distance from the tree and
then went back to the road
swerving head-on into abig
gum tree at the edge of the road
ditch.
The car was traveling fast and
smashed into the tree with en
ough force to shove the engine
into the floor board and to dam
age the differential in the rear
of the car.
Stanley was evidently thrown
partly out of the car when it
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STRIKE LEADERS
At a momentous meeting of the executive committee of the United
Textile Workers in Washington, D. C. Standing are Thomas Mc
Mahon, left, president of the union, and Francis J. Gorman, chair
man of the strike committee.
STATE OK ON
AVENUE PLAN
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CITY MEN
INJURED
IN WRECK
George Tyler, city mail
■carrier is in the Roanoke
Rapids Hospital suffering
from what doctors blelieve an
Xray picture being made as
we go to press will reveal to
be a broken back, as the re
sult of an automobile acci
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The proposal of the city of Roa
noke Rapids to put in storm sew
erS on Roanoke Avenue if the
State and Federal governments
would widen the Avenue to the
curbs in both business sections
and widen from First Street to
the canal has been approved by
the State Highway Dept, and
the proposal has been sent to
Washington for Federal appro
val.
The City Board of Commis
sioners, in session Tuesday, stud
ied different plans for the divis
ion of drainage cost.
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PICKETS
SURROUND
ALL MILLS
No Trouble in Roanoke
Rapids As Four
Mills Are Closed
The four cotton mills of Roa
noke Rapids are idle as result of
the nation wide strike called by
the United Textile Workers, an
affiliate of the American Feder
ation of Labor.
The mill whistles blew as us
ual Monday morning and workers
at the four mills journeyed to the
gates and doors to find them
picketed by union men.
None tried to enter at Roanoke
Mills No. 1, No. 2, and Patterson
Mills Company.
At Rosemary Manufacturing
Co., largest damask mill in the
world; there was a tendency to
break thru the picket lines as sev
eral hundred workers showed up
who wanted to go to work.t
One room worked until noon
after slipping by the pickets
but the crowd grew restless and
the mill management decided not
to work them in the afternoon.
Tuesday morning the mill was
thoroly covered by pickets and
no effort was made ttf operate
the mill.
Picketing was carried on
peacefully at all the mills here.
The Pickets have been in good
humor and there have been no
disturbances.
A false rumor that Rosemary
Mfg., Co. intended to operate
Wednesday caused much excite
ment Tuesday night. When it was
found that the management had
no such idea, the crowd which
had gathered at union headquar
ters went home.
Including today, the mills have
now been idle for four days, the
longest all four mills have ever
been down at one time, except
Sundays and holidays.
There were approximately
3,000 textile workers on the pay
rolls of the four mills at the time
the strike was called.
Close Hart Mills
A union “flying squadron”,
which included strikers from
Roanoke Rapids, succeeded in
closing down the Hart Mills at
Tarboro yesterday morning. The
mills had run Monday and Tues
day.