THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._ _ THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1936 NUMBER THIRTY-TWO ~
THREE KHUPPERS GET
PRISON SENTENCES
The President Sneaks
(International New Photo)
Talking by telephone to a dinner meeting of the National Committee
for the Birthday Ball for the President at the Waldorf-Astoria on
Jan. 18th, President Roosevelt’s words were picked up by radio and
(broadcast to the nation. The address marked the first time in Birth
day Ball history that the Chief Executive spoke to the nation previ
ous to a birthday ball, urging support for the benefits to raise funds
| for a nation-wide war on infantile paralysis. Col. Henry 1>. Doherty,
f chairman of the National Committee, presided at the Waldorf din
ner, attended by nearly one hundred of the nation's leaders. Mil
lions of Americans listened in.
Roanoke Rapids is one of the nearly 6,000 cities which tonight
are honoring the President with a Birthday Ball. Snow and ice to
night may keep many from out in the county attending but a splendid
floor show and dance is in progress for those who braved the inclem
ent weather. Music is being furnished by Dot Bennett and his Col
legians and the midnight floor show of seven acts is under the direc
tion of Mrs. Lyle Wilson and Miss Lucy Mayfield.
DP AND DOWN WITH THB
”Ghe Avenue
FIN^AfL warning to all car owners in Roanoke Rapids comes
. officially in a notice this week that all those who have not
I secured city license tags for cars and trucks by the first of
Feb. (Sautrday) will be haled into court, must pay extra
charges, costs, etc. Tags are on sale at the office of the
City Clerk.
PROTECTED by the law they flaunt and despise is the re
action of the average citizen who sits in on a criminal court
proceeding. Innocent until proved guilty beyond a reason
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Smith, Tudor, Gray,
Are Found Guilty In
Sensational Trial
MOVE IN J
OVER THE
WEEKEND
The new Post Office building in
! Roanoke Rapids will be finished
and ready for occupancy the end
of this w eek and plans of Post
master L. G. Shell are to move
from the old post office on Satur
day afternoon.
All persons having boxes in the
old post office and desiring boxes
in the new one should be certain
to make the necessary deposit and
get keys for their boxes at once.
All new boxes and drawers are
equipped with Yale locks.
The Saturday noon mail will be
put up at the old post office. Sat
urday night mail will be put up
at the new post office. In be
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BOY BANDIT
45 MONTHS
TO 6 YEARS
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Clyde Cumba, boy bandit cap
tured by local poilce after staging
a one-man epidemic of robbery in
Patterson Mill village recently,
pled guilty to three indictments
of breaking and entering and one
larceny charge and was yester
day sentenced by Superior Court
Judge Parker to a total of from
45 months to six years in the
State Central Prison at Raleigh.
On a breaking and entering in
dictment he was sentenced to
from 15 months to two years in
prison; at the expiration of that
sentence he is to serve a like
sentence for car larceny; at the
expiration of the second sentence,
he is to serve a third for 15
gnonths to two years for break
ing and entering; while a fourth
term of the same amount is to be
served concurrently with the first.
A jury in Halifax Superior, Court out less than two
hours jast night, after a sensational trial which started
Tuesday afternoon and ended Wednesday night, found three
men guilty of kidnapping, and two of them guilty of con
spiracy and assault.
George Smith and Benjamin (alias Dick) Tudor, of
Roanoke Rapids, were found guilty of all :.ree charges
brought against them by the State, while Jewell Gray of
Warrenton was found guilty of aiding and abetting in the
kidnapping of Frank Mitchell and Richard Weaver here on
January 18th.
At 10 o’clock last night, Judge R. Hunt Parker sen
tenced the three as follows: George Smith, five to eight
years in the Central Prison at Raleigh at hard labor to
be worked under the direction of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission on the kid'napping
charge; to be confined in the common jail at Halifax for a
term of 6 months, to be assigned to work the public
roads under direction of the State Highway Commission,
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HERE TUESDAY, FEB. 4th
The last number of the four-program series of the Collins Festival
will be brought to Roanoke Rapids next Tuesday night by the Wo
mans Club when the play, “Paupers and Pews”, with a splendid pro
fessional cast in three exciting acts, will be given at the High School
auditorium. Tickets for the performance will be on Bale at the door*
to take care of those (who did not have season tickets for the Festival.
Thus will come to a close four entertainments of highest quality!
which have pleased those who attended. A light opera program, a
revue, a noted speaker and the final play next Tuesday night fill out
the well-rounded program brought here by the Womans Club.