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p Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper T he Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME TWENTY ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th., 1934 NUMBER TWENTY FOUR , .. . . •• ' iJL&ziiU 'TfjMrTrTri'jrwnrfwfiiii UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR Mr. and Mrs. Howard Han cock returned Tuesday from their honeymoon trip to New York. They are at home in their ap artment in the Citizens Bank Building. The Young Mens Civic Club met tonight in the basement of the Christian Church. Two new members were voted into the club. Plans for a joint meeting with the Kiwanis Club next Thursday night, for the further selling of dollar tickets to any football game here for the purpose of buying new equipment for the Hi School squad, and the sponsor ing of junior football teams in the city, were approved. Coby Williams, Pig Speight and John Glover entertained highly with a musical program. Guest speak er was Carroll Wilson. Selling old gold was tried by many at the Rosemary Drug Co. this afternoon, a buyer paying an average of about $40.00 per ounce for pure gold. One small 18 karat gold watch case brought $8, but most of the stuff was only gold plated and brought very little. Miss May Stone, superinten dent of the Presbyterian Hospi tal, Newark, N. J., is visiting Dr. and Mrs. John Martin. They took a trip to Williamsburg, York town and other historic Virginia places yesterday. Merchants along the Avenue perked up a little today with 600 working at Rosemary and about 1,000 at Roanoke and Patterson. They say it makes them feel better to hear the machines run ning even tho business may not come for a week or two. Local fishermen have been vis iting Warren’s Pond near Lit teton more than usual during the past few weeks. Fairly good luck has been reported. Local deer hunters have had very good for tune, several families being for tunate enough to receive wel come gifts of choice venison. Sheriff Johnson reports that one Halifax County farmer who —(Continued on back page)— CLARK HEADS LEGION Elliott Clark of Weldon was inducted into office as the new Commander of Shaw Post of the American Legion at Weldon Tueday night, following supper at the Legion Hut. The Weldon Post has now been increased by members of the former Roanoke Rapids Post who have transfered to Weldon and the new combined Post starts a most aupicious year. Next reg ular meeting of the Post is sched uled for Roanoke Rapids. Some twenty five veterans from Roanoke Rapids have either joined or intend to join the Wel don outfit. It was announced that Tuesday night of Fair Week will be Legion night and all ex service men will enter the grounds free. Tickets for Roan oke Rapids vets will be at Rose mary Drug Company. THEATRE TO OPEN The Peoples Theatre, closed all this week, will remain closed next week and will reopen for business on Monday, October 8th, according to the present plans. During next week a new auto matic sprinkling system for fire protection will be installed in the theatre. Plans for reopening were made immediately after the new3 of the end’ of the national textile strike. Pictures had been cancel led out for an indefinite period. HOSPITAL REOPENED The Roanoke Rapids Hospital reopened last Sunday night af ter a partial shutdown for a few days. With the opening of Rosemary Mfg., Co., Monday morning and a planned opening of the other mills later in the week, the Board of Trustees voted to begin taking new patients starting Sunday night. There were a few days last week when no new patients were taken, altho the hospital contin ued operation for some forty patients already in. Resumption of the mills here enabled im mediate reopening. RAINBOW WINS - ? The yacht races between Eng land and America is over. Eng land won the first two; America the next four to retain the cup. England protested the third race but was not allowed to file the protest because they were late flying the proper protest flag. In the last race both boats flew protest flags, but England haul ed hers down. They went back home saying it was their last race. We kept the cup but who won what? Above is Bruno Richard Haup tmann, who was arrested a week ago in connection with the Lind bergh kidnapping case. Thousands of dollars of the ransom money was found about the premises of his garage in Bronx Borough, New York City, and he is being held tonight by New Jersey auth orities in lieu of bond, set at $100,000. Doubtless other charges will follow with further develop ments. WOMEN TO HEAR LANIER The woman’s Club will meet on Monday afternoon at the club house. Mrs. Alfred Thorne, pres ident of the club, will preside and she urges the members to keep in mind the new members that each one was asked to bring; in this way they hope to enlarge the membership of the club. The garden Department under the direction of Mrs. A. Meikle will have charge of the meeting for the afternoon and one of the most outstanding programs of the year has been planned. Mr. John Lanier Hunt, a land scape Gardener of outstanding ability, will speak on the subject of “Town Beautification” this is a subject that should be dear to the heart of every citizen in Roanoke Rapids and a large at tendance of members and inter ested outsiders should avail them selves of this unusual opportun ity. UNION VOTING TODAY Charge Discrimination At Rosemary Mfg. Co. ; All Mills Now Running Voting to restrike by mem bers of the local United Tex tile Workers goes on today with reports from union headquarters that all voting to date are in favor of re striking, which would again close down and picket the mills of Roanoke Rapids and, probably Weldon. While some were voting, others were returning to work at Roanoke and Patter son mills which opened this morning with one full shift, employing about 1,000 work ers. Rosemary Mlg., (J., had open ed Monday morning and today about 600 there were at work. They were forced to start with a crew of about 300 due to dam age done to the machinery by lack of attention during the three weeks of the strike, a condition made worse by constant rains and damp weather during that period. As fast as machines were put back in running order more help was added each day during the week. Altho less than half at Rose mary were able to work Monday, * charges of discrimination again st union members were made at once. J. Dooley,UTW organizer, reported these charges to strike chairman 'Gorman, who yester day told the local election to continue but advised holding up the strike action until the latter part of the week. The strike has been unofficialy set for this Sun day midnight with pickets to restart early Monday morning. There have been no charges yet of discrimination against union members at Roanoke or Patterson, claimed 100 per cent members by UTW, but a strike call will close and picket those mills as well as Rosemary. Union meetings were hold in the park several times yesterday and again this morning with the arrival of P. R. Christopher, State president of the United Textile Workers. Speeches were made by President Christopher, —(Continued on back page)— •
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