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1 POISON BISCUIT VERDICT -o The Poison Biscuit case, heard in Halifax Superior Court this week, resulted in the conviction of Will White, who lives near Scot land Neck, the sentence being from 7 to 10 years in State prison. Young White was charged with putting arsenic of lead in the flour from which biscuits were made by Mrs. G. T. Daniel, who with her husband and son lives at the home of White’s father. The case was appealed to the Su preme court and White is under ?. $3,000 bond. No one saw White put the poi son in the flour but he was seen by Daniel washing his hands with an empty bag nearby said to have contained the lead poisoning. When Mrs. Daniel began cokoing the biscuit, the peculiar smoke and o dor from the cooking dough made her sick. Suspicious, the dough was sent | to Raleigh where an examination showed it contained enough lead of arsenic to kill the whole fam ily. The State attributed as the motive the fact that young White wanted to get rid of the Daniel family so he and his young wife could move in with his father. _A_ SET FIRE TO FOUR HOUSES -o Tillery, is the champion firebug of Halifax County and on his own admission of having set fire to four different houses near Tillery he was sentenced to two 10 year terms in prison in Halifax Supe rior Court this week. The two terms are to run con (Continued on Back Page)' ROANOKE TEXTILE WORKERS Pictures at the left show views of the celebration given at Lake Thomas Saturday by the Roanoke Textile Workers, independent organization of employees of the Roanoke Mills Co The top view shows a part of the crowd of nearly one thousand who ate barbecue, Brunswick stew and all the trimmings. Because the pho tographer had no revolving camera, it was imposible to get a picture of the entire crowd which is standing at tables which reach around the pavilion at the left and down the hill some distance to the right. ine picture in the center shows part of the crew of cooks at the kitchen with Bill Pace (leaning against tree) in charge. These men, with others cooked all night last Friday and until nearly noon Saturday. At the left'of the picture are the pits where sixteen pigs were barbecued at one time. At the right are shown some of the kettles in which scores of gallons of stew were cooked. All the food was prepared for the cooks by a committee of twen ty women members under the chairmanship of Miss Nita 1 urner. It was served by an other committee of twenty under the leadership of Mrs. Mamie Braswell and Dick Smith. Supplies were gath ered by a committee under Jessie Lee. Wood was fur nished by a crew under Gar land Wheeler. The finance committee was headed bv Guy Murray, the entertainment tummuiee Dy uurton Grant. The picture at the bottom shows the speakers on the program and part of the of ficers of the Roanoke textile Workers.' From left to right: Mrs. Cleo Lynch, a director of the organization; Bill Pace, chairman of cooking commit tee; Mrs. Mamie Braswell, di rector; Miss Nita Turner, di rector; in front of microphone David Clark of Charlotte, principal speaker, editor of The Textile bulletin; M. Scott Benton, attorney of Roanoke Rapids; Carroll Wilson, editor of The Roanoke Rapids Her ald; and Sherrod H. Crump ler. President of the Roanoke Textile Workers and master of ceremonies. Other officers not shown in the picture are J. F. Johnson, vice president; I Charlie Smith, secretary; J. H. Renn, treasurer; R. T. I Smith and C. G. Grant, direc I tors.
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