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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids ' erald VOLUME TWENTY_ROANOXE RAPIDS, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15th., 1934 NUMBER THIRTY-ONE 1 SHOT HER BECAUSE I LOVED HER hS&£» UP AND DOWN t;he Avenue WITH THE EDITOR Laura Tillery, colored, is in the local hospital with a broken leg. Many people get legs broken but few, like Laura, can blame it on a cow. At Tillery this week, a cow dragged Laura all over the lot, broke her leg. Guthrie Waldon, Rosemary Mfg. Co. employee, had his hand severely mashed while at his work Tuesday night. Every ef fort is being made to save the mangled member. J. W. Myrick of Littleton may lose a finger. It was nearly bit ten off several days ago by a man whom Mr. Myrick was trying to pull out of his truck and who, drunk, was resisting him. The flesh was torn from the finger in the scuffle and severe infection has set in. _f Legion members from Roanoke Rapidg attended the Armistice Day services at the Weldon Methodist Church Sunday night and the day celebration of five county posts at Rich Square Monday, where General Manus McCIoskey, commanding offi cer at Fort Bragg, was the prin cipal speaker. Local vets got a b'g kick out of kidding one of the boys, who, introduced to the General, saluted and said, “Glad to meet you, ColoneL” The Cotton census report this week shows 15,065 bales of cot ton ginned in Halifax County from the 1934 crop prior to Nov. 1, 1934 as compared with 22, 175 bales ginned to Nov. 1, 1933. The ladies of the First Bapt ist Church will serve a turkey dinner at the church on Tuesday November1 27th, two days be - fore Thanksgiving. All are urg ed to come, bring family and friends. Incomplete returns from the Associated Charities today show a total of $565.00 subscribed so far with Roanoke Mill No. 2 and oth er teams still to be heard from. Rev. J. N. Bynum, president As sociated Charities, is delighted with the response to date. (Continued three pages over) MRS BROWN FUNERAL IN CANADA Community Mourns Loss Of Mrs. Fred Brown Last Week Mrs. Fred M. Brown, wife of F. M. Brown, President Halifax Paper Company, was buried at Granville, near Montreal, Canada, Saturday afternoon. Her death last Thursday noon after a lingering iiiness came as a shock to the nriny friends oi the family. The body was ship ped to Montreal Friday morning. Two sisters of the deceased, Mrs. A L. Cayford and Mrs. B. M. Ritchie, were here at the end and, with Mr. Brown, accompa nied the remains back to Canada, birthplace of Mrs. Brown. Major Brown returned yesterday. The Browns moved to Roa - noke Rapids a dozen years ago, during which time Mrs. Brown was very active in club and religious activities. She was president of the local Womans Club for several years an officer in the State Federation of Womans Clubs. She sponsored a Better Homes program a few years ago and won for Roanoke Rapids a $200 prize for the best program put on in any town un der ten thousand population in the United States. During the World War, Mrs. Brown served as a volunteer nurse under the Australian Divi sion and was stationed at a Lon don hospital. DOCTOR'S MOTHER DIES HERE Mrs. G. B. Royster, 73 years old, mother of Dr. T. H. Royster, died early Sunday morning at the home of her son and Mrs. Royster on Hamilton Street. Funeral services and interment were at her old home in Oxford on Monday afternoon. She had made her home here with her son for several months. Dr. Royster is the only surviv ing member of the family. His brother died in Richmond a short time ago. Wings Across Pacific j l -r-ssfasss&i* LOS ANGELES . , , 11 Sorry I'm. early,” was the smiling welcome of Kingford Smith, noted Australian airman, as he set his plane down here, completing a flying hour trip, Australia to Los Angeles in 54 hours, 49 minutes for a total of 7,365 miles. Bill Allsbrook From Richmond To Play Dance Here Bill Allsbrook and his Tantilla Garden orchestra will play for a dance here Thursday night, Nov. 22, at Chockoyotte Country Club, another of those popular dances sponsored by the Boy Scouts. Bill and his orchestra have made a name for themselves in Richmond, playing to 2,000 danc ers at the Gardens last Satur - day night. This week-end they play for the Homecoming of William and Mary College and start a tour of the nation' soon after the Roa noke Rapids dance. Admission to the dance here will be by card only, cards being sent to ^lancers in all sections of the nearby State and Virginia. A mixup in dates made it im possible for this orchestra to ap pear in Roanoke Rapids recently but a contract has been made far enough in advance to insure no repitition of this trouble and Bill is anxious to bring his enlarged orchestra to his home town. A 12 piece orchestra, with an enter - tainer, gives plenty of entertain ment. DRIVER IS HELD Willie King, 20 year old Lit - tleton boy, was bound over to Superior Court this week by Ma gistrate Charley House on a charge of manslaughter. Young King was driver of the truck which hit and killed Whit Anthony, Negro convict, near Air lie last week. King says he did not know he had hit anyone. Wit nesses say the side of the truck knocked Anthony from the side of the road into the ditch. The i truck was passing a car at the 1 point where the road crew was i working. TWO BOYS INJURED BY CARS Two boys are in the hospital here with injuries from auto ac cidents. Mason Long Harp, 7 was hit about 6 p. m. Tuesday on Jack son Street by a car driven by C. M. Fleming. The boy has a broken leg and bad scalp injury. The skull, however, is not fractured. His reported fair with a good chance to recover. | rieming, who uruve on, says he did not know he had hit any one. He is under a $500 appear ance bond. Carl Pinch, age 7, has a skull injury sustained when he ran into the side of a small truck of Rosemary Mfg. Co. last Thursday. His condition at the hospital is not serious. A playmate says Carl ran from the side of the road headlong in to the truck. TWO HURT IN SMASH AT TRAIN Charles Davis and his son, Wil lie, were brought to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital yesterday after noon suffering from injuries sus tained when their car smashed into a train at the crossing near Potecasi. The son has a broken leg and the father a broken nose and head lacerations. They live at Con - way. Mr. Davis is the brother of T. E. Davis of Roanoke Rapids, we'l known trucker. WOUNDED WIFE DIES THIS A M Bride Of One Year Killed By Husband After Hectic Year Mrs. Pearl Crowder Brown, 18 year cld bride of one year, died in the Roanoke Rapids Hospital this morn - ing from fatal wonnds at the hand of her estranged hus band who told arresting of ficers he shot his wife be - cause he loved her. Johnnie Brown, 25, cm - ployee of Roanoke Mill3 Co., is in jail at Halifax and Sat urday a brother of the dead woman will swear out a war rant of murder in the first degree just as soon as the funeral is over. Brown shot his wife as five eye witnesses looked on, two of them brothers and one a sister of the girl. He emptied a load of buck shot into her leg in front of their homes in South Weldon, al most tearing the limb from the Doay. The wounded wife was rushed to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital soon after the shooting Sunday afternoon. Surgeons amputated the leg Monday but loss of blood and infection which set in were fatal and she died at 9:00 o'clock this morning. It was just one year ago to the day that Pearl Crowder and Johnnie Brown were married. After a hectic year, the couple separated two months ago. They had been living with Brown's mo ther. The wife went to live with her three brothers across the St. Two doors up from Brown lived Mrs. Claud Smith, a sister of the dead girl. It was to the Smith house she was going when her husband jumped from his own porch and shot her. Mrs. Smith heard a shot and looked out the window. It was just in time to see Brown fire the second shot which took ef fect. The first shot was fired as ha jumped from his porch, hitting the ground at the rear of the girl, who did not run, because she probably thought her hus band was just trying to frightened her. They had an argument the same morning when Johnnie had (Continued three pages ever)
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