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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME TWENTY_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1935 NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE
STORE LOSES $300. IN
ROBBERY TBS MORNNG
UP AND DOWN
Tshc Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
We are in receipt of the follow
ing communication from Buzzard
Roost, N. C.: Dear Sir: My son
works in ditch and brings home a
Herald. I see in your paper you
can buy an automobile that goes a
hundred miles an hour. Please tell
me where. (Signed) Jim Scott.
-—Cheapest car on the market ad
vertised to do 100 m.p.h. is the
1936 Auburn. Several cars in the
$1,500 and $2,000 class of 1935
models will pass 100 mark.
Speaking of automobiles, Bill
Edwards, jovial jtoprietor of
the Tri-City Motor Co., an
nounces the new Master De Luxe
models of Chevrolet are on dis
play at his show-rooms now. A
large advertisement, scheduled
for this week’s issue, failed to
arrive, and Mr. Edwards is anx
ious that the public know the De
Luxe models are here.
Many readers commented on the
absence of this Avenue column last
week. Which was quite hearten
ing. One local wag explained it
thus: How could he go Up and
Down the Avenue when the Ave
nue is all torn up? Which brings
up this question. With driveways
for seven or eight filling stations,
no parking in front of about as
many frieplugs, no parking in
front of two theatres, no parking
in spaces' reserved for police cars
—all in four business blocks—
During the Christmas shop
ping season, the business men
and their clerks respond nobly
to the suggestion they park on
side or back streets, leaving the
business sect’on f ee for shop
perk* cars. Why not the same
plan no busy days, say Fridays
and Saturdays all during the
year?
City policeman Clifton Massey
is on duty again after more than
two weeks’ illness. We have not
seen the city building inspector so
far this week. He may be sick
too. But our hunch is that it may
be somebody else that will be sick
when this epidemic is over. Epi
demics have a way of coming and
going.
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Special Service
In order that oU-* city sub
scribers mgy get their Heralds
at the usual time this week, this
newspaper has made special ar
rangements with the mail car
riers who are delivering this is
sue to you. *
Friday is Washington’s Birth
day and there is no regular mail
delivery.
But there is a SPECIAL De
livery. This copy of The Roan
oke Rapids Herald is the only
mail you will receive from the
carrier this Friday.
This service, at extra cost, is
for the benefit of our readers
and adVertisem
YELLOW
SHADOW
FRIDAY
Young Men’s Civic Club
Play At High School
Tomorrow
Tomorrow night (Friday), at 8
o’clock, the curtain goes up on the
thrilling mystery drama, “The Yel
low Shadow,” the first production
of the Young Men’s Civic Club, of
Roanoke Rapids, with an all-star
cast of local players.
The show is being staged at the
High School auditorium at popular
prices with the proceeds to be used
by the club in its work among the
children of the community during
1935.
At 4; 30 tomorrow afternoon,
there will be a parade thru the city,
led by the Rosemary Concert Rand.
Watch for this parade and then
plan to go to the High School to
morrow night nad try and find out
wh othe Yellow Shadow is.
Preceding the main show, there
will be six vaudeville acts with the
cream of local talent performing,
so that a well-rounded program
of entertainment for old and young
is assured.
The Young Men’s Civic Club is
an organization of over 30 young
men of this city who have banded
together to do their part ip the
civic development of the com
munity and in making Roanoke
Radips a better town in which to
live. They meet every two weeks
for luncheon, business and a con
structive program and deserve the
support of the. entire citizenship.
--- I
Mrs. F. M. Sherry and son spent
last week in Richmond, Va.
M. R. VICK
FUNERAL
WED. P. M.
Well Known Textile Overseer
Pneumonia Victim
Tuesday
Mark R. Vick, 62 years old, was
buried yesterday afternoon in
Ronaoke Rapids Cemetery while a
mourning crowd of several hun
dred heard the last rites at the
Episcopal Church with the Rev
erend A. W. Taylor, former rector,
assisting the Reverend J. N. By
num.
Mr. Vick waS a vestryman of the
local Episcopal Churcfi '.'or many
years and was one of the leading
citizens of this community. He
had lived here for 24 years and wag
an overseer at Rosemary Mam>
acturing Co.
He was stricken a little over a
week ago and died Tuesday morn
ing from pneumon a at his home
,on Monroe Street.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Zillah Griffeth Vick, and six child
ren: John Vick, of Boston; N. W.
Vick, of Augusta, Ga.; Robert,
Rufus, Catherine and Phala, of this
city. The deceased was a native
of Northampton County, coming to
Roanoke Rapids in 1910.
Active pall-bearers were vestry
men of the Episcopal Church, while
the honorary pall-bcarers included
many of the men he has worked
with for the past twenty years.
Active pall-bearers were: W. F.
Joyner, W. J. Long, J. H. Lyerly,
J. B. Batton, M. S.- Benton, Paul
Heydrenrich George Steel, T. W.
Mullen.
Honorary pall-bearers were J.
McGee, W. L. Manning, N. L.
Braswell, Martin Nixon, Charles
Dickens, John Buck, C. H. Speight,
Lewis Grisson, L. B. Crouch, Tart
Garner, G. M. Gurley, George Fish
er, J. Sanders, Will Smith, S. D.
Brown, Ben Powell, W. A. Wolhar,
W. S. Dsan, L. S. Cannon, E. W.
Lehman, Leslie Towe, Howard
Pruden, E. B. Manning, B. Wea
thers R. P. Beckwith, W. O.
Thompson, George Johnson, C. B.
Smith, Oliver Fitts, C. M. Pitt, L.
Wheeden, Sam Powell, W. J. Nor
wood.
Bolton—Burns
Miss Catherine Murchison
Burns of Weldon, daughter of Mrs.
Katie Cottingham Burns, of Max
ton, to James Cener Bolton, Jr., of
Rich Square, on August 29, 1934,
in Emporia, Va.
V
Richest Girl’ Weds
Shown above in recent pictures
are Doris Duke, 22, believed "the
world's richest girl,” and James
H. R. Cromwell, 38, New York
business man, who sailed to Italy
following a simple Manhattan
wedding. Miss Duke is heiress
to an estimated 140,000,000 of
the great Duke tobacco and utili
ties fortune. Mr. Cromwell te
stepson of E. T. Stotesbury, Mor
gan partner. _
INCOME
TAXMAN
COMING
Here March 5th To Give
Free Service to
Taxpayers
For the convenience of those
who are required by law to file
Federal Income Tax Returns, a
Deputy Collector of Internal Rev
enue will be at Roanoke Rapids
N. C., on March 5th, 1935, to assist
taxpayers in preparing their re
turns. No charge will be made
for this service. The matter of
filing your Income Tax Return
should be given immediate atten
tion, in order to avoid penalty and
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ENTER BY
DOOR ON
AVENUE
Thieves Get Big Haul
Of Cigarettes And
Chewing Tobacco
CLEATON LOSER
Thieves broke two locks on
the front dpor of the Roanoke
Rapids Grocery Co. some time
early this morning and es
caped with about $300 worth
of cjggj'.ettes and chewing to
bacco. ^ ' Z
At least forty thousand
cigarettes and eighty pounds
of chewing tobacco were
taken, so far as is known by
"Robert Cleaton, owner, after
a checkup this morning.
The cigarettes had been hidden
in a store room, off from the main
store. One case of Camels was
hidden under a counter and back
of other merchandise. Several
cases of Camels and Wings had
been piled up with cases of lard
about the same size and these were
taken, as well as other cases which
had b en purposely hidden. This
leads Mr. Cleaton to believe thfe
job was done by persons who had
investigated and planned the rob
bery in advance. Either this, he
says, or they spent a lot of time
in the store hunting for what they
wanted.
For some reason not known, the
thieves spurned a case of 20 Grand.
They started to take it but changed
their minds and left it in the mid
dle of the storeroom.
Working in the shadow of the
big steam shovel on the street
project, the thieves were able to
work unnoticed. They used heavy
tools from the steam shovel,
wrenches, bars and files, to break
off the padlocks on the outside and
to force a Yale lock on the in
side.
A street light is only a few feet
from the store entrance, but the
steam shovel was parked directly
in front of the store and is thought
to have given sufficient protection
against detection.
The robbery was not discovered
until the store was opened this
morning.
Cigarettes, easy to bootleg, con
sisted of Camels and Wings. A
shipment of the former was de
livered yesterday and Mr. Cleaton
thinks the gang probably had &
lookout who saw- them delivered
(CoaOnd am. Bach Page.)