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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME TWENTY ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th., 1934 NUMBER TWENTY FIVE UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR Dr. Smith, of the Union Theo logical Seminary, Richmond, will preach two sermons at the Pres byterian Church next Sunday. Both morning and evening serv ices will be at the usual time, 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. E. W. Smith was called to Lumberton Tuesday, to attend the funeral of his little eight year old nephew, Thomas Smith, who was killed in an automobile ac cident Monday. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Edna Mae Smith, daughter of Mrs. Josie Smith, and Charles C. Fitts, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Fitts, on May 6th, 1934, at Emporia, Va. They were married in the presence of a few close friends. The bride had finished her cour se at the Roanoke Rapids Hos pital and is a graduate nurse. Mr. Fitts is an employee of VEPCO. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Mary Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Brown of Vaughan, and Clyal Ranhorn, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ranhorn, Roanoke Rapids, on January 18th, 1934 at Emporia, Va. The bride was a graduate of the 1934 class of the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. The groom is employed at his fathers store Getting the first loan from the Home Owners Loan Corporation, J. K. Dickens is making extended improvements to his residence at the corner of 4th Street and the Avenue. Standing to date is the Volley Ball League, with games at the High School gym each afternoon at 5 except Thursday, is as fol lows. Skeeters Hornets Bees Ants w 12 8 7 4 L 6 7 8 8 The Kiwanis Club and Young Mens Civic Club held a joint din ner and meeting tonight, after math of the recent baseball ser ies between the two clubs. A Court of Honor was held at (Continued on back page) The Detroit Tigers ... American League Fans’ World Series Hope. Titer^Ameri ‘ At°Ve pictured t.he heroes of the hoar *“ the eity. They are Mickey Oochane’s Detroit Whfte tlT League pennant winners, Reading, left to right, front row: Rowe, Clifton, Baker (coach) Retell’ &t1Ckey Cochrane, Perkins, (coach), and Fox. Second row: Torn, Anker, Owen, HaywortK, Rogell, Sorrell, Bridges and Greenberg. Third row: Schuble, Doljack. Gehringcr, Hamlin, Hogsett, Marberry and Goslin. Last row: Carroll (trainer), Fischer (mascot), Crowder and Walker. DeWy TAYLOR & COLLIER GROCERY IS ROBBED WORLD SERIES The Detroit Tigers won the second game of the World Ser ies this afternoon by a score of 3 to 2 in the last half of the 12th inning. Schoolboy Rowe went the lim it for Detroit while Bill Hallihan, St. Louis pitcher, retired in the 9th inning when the Tigers tied the score. Each team has now won a game, St. Louis taking the open er 8 to 3. JOHN BRYANT, 60 BURIED YESTERD’Y Funeral services for John Bry ant, father of Arthur Bryant and Mrs. Sam Green, were held yesterday afternoon at the home in South Rosemary with inter ment in Cedarwood Cemetery Rev. J. E. Kirk officiated. Mr. Bryant was 60 years old at the time of his death Tuesday. He is survived by his wife, son and two daughters. He came here several years ago from Cash and Merchandise Taken In Night Store Robbery The first store robbery for sev eeral weeks took place sometime Tuesday night or early Wednes day morning when theives stole merchandise and money from the grocery store of Taylor & Collier. $10. in cash, left for change in the cash register, was taken. Cigarettes, sack tobacco, overalls and other merchandise amount ing to about $50. worth had been checked up as missing. Two pairs of overalls, taken from the store, were found the next morning. One pair beside the path which leads from the store toward Bunker Hill; the second pair farther down the path just across the railroad tracks. There was no sign left as to method of entry into the store building. One theory is that the thief or thieves were hidden in (Continued on back page) IS SHOT IN EAR J. S. Ivey, employee of Hal ifax Paper Company was shot in the ear by a stray bullet while walking across the com pany property Saturday noon. The bullet hit him in the cent er of the left ear and penetrat ed some distance. He was taken to the Hospital and the ball re moved. He js deaf in the injur ed ear but may regain his hear ing. Mr. Ivey was able to leave the hospital yesterday for his home. It has not been determined where the bullet was fired from, but it is thought it was from someone target shooting at some distance away. Dies At Seaboard Kinchie Taylor, 81 years old, died1 yesterday at his home near Seaboard. Funeral services were held this afternoon. Surviving are his wife, four sons and one daughter. WHEELS TURNING MERRILY Strike Threats Grow Remote With 65 Per Cent Back At Work There are abput 2,000 em ployees back to work in local cotton mills at the end of the first full week of operation since the strike. Ihis is some 65 per cent of the total number that was employed when the strike was called by the United Tex tile Workers. At the time there were about 3,000 on the payrolls of local cotton mills Those back at work in round numbers are: Roanoke Mil^s Company 1,000 Rosemary Manufacturing Co. 600 Patterson Mills Company 400 The mills are running on one lull shift, cutting down from two shifts due to lack of orders and cancellations of orders which came during the strike period. Special crews are working on sample goods in order to make up for time lost by salesmen who have not been able to get the new line of samples, while com peting mills were running during the strike. Rosemary Mfg., Co. opened with about three hundred work ing and during ten days opera tion have increased the number to double that amount. Roanoke and Patterson opened a week ago with about 1,000, had 1,200 work ing Monday of this week and 1,400 today. All charges of discrimination against union members of the UTW for last week were dropp ed and the mills opened Monday with a clean slate. However, yesterday, a Wash ington report says that a deleg ation from Roanoke Mills Co., headed by Dooley and Strickland, labor organizers, presented 55 complaints of discrimination for this week. The complaints were made before the Labor Relations Board. How many of these alleged discriminations were from Roan oke, Patterson and Rosemary were not divulged. UTW delegations which called on the mill officials this week were told that workers were beAg put back to work as quickly as —(Continued on back page)—
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