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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald —X_QLUME TWENTY_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th., 1934 NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT UP AND DOWN t?he Avenue WITH THE EDIVOR Coroner W. C. Williams has been confined to his home since Sunday by an attack of flu. A quantity of cloth, stolen from Roanoke Mills No. 2 over the week end, was discovered concealed in the nearby woods and returned to the mill by the city police. An addition is being made to the home of J. W. Taylor, on Jackson Street. A new living room will be added to the South side of the house. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coburn an nounce the birth of a son on Tues day night, October 23. Mother and son are both doing nicely. Joe Wafford, sewing machine salesman, escaped injury when he lost control of his car Mon day afternoon at Roanoke Junc tion crossing. Plans now are by Rose’s 5 & 10 to move into their building and be ready for business there by November 10th., according to Manager Hoffler. Counters and other fixtures are being installed now. Mr. and Mrs. Graham Lynch announce the birth of a son Friday, October 19th. The lit tle fellow has been christened W. G. HI. Mother and son are doing nicely. John Shaw over in Northampton County tells us that he is having no trouble with the bean beetles this year. We asked him why that was, and he says that they have gotten a taste of free Government flour and now they refuse to eat even the beans — they demand Government Relief. The Young Mens Civic Club is acting as host tonight to the Kiwanis Club at the weeky supper meeting. About 60 are expected to attend. Beaten at baseball by the Kiwa nis, the Young Men tonight chal lenged their rivals to a checker contest. 27 boards were put in play and when the smoke ofbattle cleared the Youngsters had (TURN OVER) Cited For Contempt Stoll Kidnaping Suspect The safe return of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, Louisville, Ky.. society woman, to her home after pay ment of $50,000 ransom to the kidnaper precipitated an inten sive manhunt throughout mid western states for the suspected abductor. Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., above, former inmate of Tennessee asylums for the in sane. Robinson fled from Indian apolis. Ind., after receiving the ransom money, federal agents say. Eight Employees Carrying Petition To Break Con tract With Dr. Long Seven men and one woman, all textile workers for Roa noke Mills Co., are cited to appear in Superior Court to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court on a petition sworn to by Dr. T. W. M. Long Mrs. Clifton Davis, Clifton Da vis, E. L. Hogan, O. F. Ray, Clif ton Grant, Tommy Beale, Lofton Rook and Garland Wheeler are those upon whom the order, pe tition and attached adfidavits were served. In his petition, Dr. Long says that the above eight have at - tempted to induce and) have in due ad \arious of the people, who signed a contract w;th Doctors '<ong and Jarman m 1932 for me i ieei and surgical service, to break or abandon said contract, con - trary to the terms of a restrain ing order signed by Judge Friz elle on October 9th. 1932. Affidavits attached to Dr. Long’s petition were made by Wil lie T. Dixon, B. A. Lewis, A. M. Wrenn, Bennie G. Radcliffe, Lon nie T. Vaughan, John Robbins and L. R. Pearson to the effect that they saw the eight who are cit ed carrying around with them and soliciting the various employees on Dr. Long’s contract to break the contract by signing an agree ment to join together and take (TURN OVER) ADULT CLASSES STARTED HERE 164 adults of Roanoke Rapids are enrolled in the adult school which is being held at the High School by local school authorities. There is no age limit and this opportunity to learn has been graspedi by many in all walks of life. There is room for several more adults and those interested should see Supt. C. W Davis at once. A c!>i«s in shop woik, held b; Prof. Johi Smith, meets five days a week from 4 to 6 in the after noon. A c .'fhs in drawing undet Prof. Fail c Knight meets at the same hours every afternoon except Pat t laj. Elementary work, grades one to seven, meet-from 7 to 9 the first four nights of the week un der Misses King and Johnson. High School work is under Prof. Tom Cheek from 7 to 9 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Freshman College work in Eng lish and History will be given if as many as 20 High School grad uates will form a class. Those interested should see Mr. Davis at once. Strain Telling On Hauptmann Grown wan and haggard since his recent arrest in connection with the Lindbergh baby kid naping case, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is pictured above in a closeup in Bronx, N. Y„ Su preme Court. Apparently gazing at the man accused of his child’s murder, Col. Charles A. Lind bergh is shown in a photo snapped at the Federal Aviation Commission meeting in Wash ington, where he predicted a bright future for U. S. aviation. WORK ON 60J3ATHS Plumbers report they have fin ished roughing in about 60 bath rooms in Roanoke Mill village this week end are now ready to in - stall fixtures. Boarding houses and! those with large families will probably re ceive first attention.. Work of similar nature is un der way in other parts of the city. 2,440 AT WORK IN MILLS NOW Will Rep.ch Near Full Capa City Monday Unless New Strike Interferes Talk of another strike here took on serious aspects this week with an Associated Press report to outside news papers saying that the strike nau been set to start Mon day morning. Charges of wholesale dis crimination against union members numbering one thou sand, claims that the mills were going outside to hire workers in place of those on the payrolls before the strike and lack of response on the part of the government in handling charges filed with them by the union, were said in the report to be the cause of the new strike. opinion is conficting as to whe ther the strike will take place. Some union members not now working say that it will. Other union members who are working say it will not and that if it does they will not join it but will continue to work. A check-up tonight showed no basis for the charges which have been made against the mills or for information which has been used in press dispatches. Every mill is running practical ly full capacity today with every indication that by Monday all mills will be running two full double shifts. More cards were distributed to workers today, some to report tonight, some Monday. Patterson Mills Co. is running full capacity with 575 on the pay rolls today. Roanoke Mills No. 1 iis running 85 per cent capacity today and will be near 100 per cent Monday. Today shows 655 on the payrolls. Roanoke Mills No. 2 is running full capacity today with 560 on the payrolls. Rosemary Mfg. Co. is running near full capacity with 650 on the payrolls. This makes a total at work in the four mills of 2,440. By Monday, this figure will reach more than 2,500. Weave rooms are running just about full with carding and spin ning rooms running full and in (TURN OVER)
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