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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. "THURSDAY, APR. 23, 1936 NUMBER FORTY-THREE
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ANNOUNCEMENT
To provide an interesting and profitable pastime for
subscribers, The Herald this week announces a unique con
test in which we offer fifteen awards, the first of which is
"■^©OTOO in cash. * ~
This is not a circulation campaign in which we employ
men and women to make a concentrated canvass of the Hali
fax County territory, but a friendly event in which every
subscriber, young or old, may take part.
JUST COUNT THE DOTS
All you have to do to compete for the awards is to count
the dots shown in the square in the big announcement shown
other page of this issue, together with a nine months sub
scription to The Herald at the special rate of SI.00. And
you are duly entered in the competition.
This is not a game of luck or chance but a contest of
accuracy and skill. The contest opens at 10 A. M., Tuesday,
April 28th, 1936, and closes at 12 noon on Tuesday, May
12th. No entries will be accepted prior to 10 A. M. Tuesday,
April 28th. This is done to give those living in distant parts
of the territory squal opportunity to mail in their entry, the
same as those living nearby. Entries may be mailed to The
Dot Contest Mgr., Box 29, Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
PROMPTNESS HELPS
The first CORRECT answer, or nearest correct answer,
will win first award, and so on down through thq list of fif
teen awards. In case there is more than one correct answer,
the awards will be made on the basis of the first entry re
ceived.
The complete list of awards: First, $20.00 cash; Sec
ond, $10.00 cash; Third, $5.00 cash; Fourth, $5.00 cash;
Fifth, $2.50 cash; Sixth, $2.50 cash; Seventh, $2.50 cash;
s Eighth, $2.50 cash; Total cash awards $50.00.
For the next seven correct, or nearest correct counts, a
one year subscription to The Roanoke Rapids Herald.
REMEMBER - It i’s not necessary to personally bring
your entry in. It may be mailed, from your post office, or
wherever you like, and all entries will have equal opportuni
ty to be in the first received. Employees of The Herald will
not, of course, be eligible to compete. Judges will be an
nounced later.
NOW turn to the big announcement on another page
and begin counting dots!
For the benefit of those who mail their entries, a self
addressed envelope has been sent out. Cut the coupon out
of the paper.
Write your name and address, your count of the dots,
and enclose proper remittance for your subscription, and
then mail.
No subscription can be accepted unless proper amount
of one dollar is enclosed with your entry. Please send either
a dollar bill or money order.
) FAKE winner of the $5,000 Eddie Cantor prize for the best
^ essay on how the U. S. can keep out of war was discovered
to have copied his essay from a magazine article. He did
not keep the money, which was then awarded to another
boy who will keep it. This real winner was an Eagle Scout.
We have a few of them in Roanoke Rapids and we are proud
of all of them and the records they are making. We do not
know, but we make a long guess that the faker and copy
writer was NOT a Boy Scout, certainly not an Eagle Scout.
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Genie Gay Jr., Jackson
Man Dies From Gun Wound
CHARGE NEGRO WITH
KILLING POLICEMAN
Sheriffs Work Up
Case In Scotland
Neck Chief Murder
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The Sheriff’s office announced
ioday they have charged Evans
Macklin, 26 year old Negro, with
the murder of Chief of Police
Moore of Scotland Neck, who was
shot and instantly killed at 3 a.m.
Sunday morning four weeks ago.
On evidence worked up by the
Sheriff’s office and presented to
Magistrate Ben Bracey yesterday
afternoon, Macklin u,as bound o
ver to Superior Court on a mur
der charge and allowed no bond.
A new witness, a Negro woman,
has been found who talked with
Macklin a few hours after the
murder and her testimony, along
with that of another witness who
has been held in jail for some time,
was sufficient to permit the Mag
istrate to hold Macklin on prob
able cause.
Macklin’s gun, a single barreled
shotgun, is being held by the of
ficers as the death instrument,
it was in his room. A tight chain
of circumstantial evidence has
been wound around the suspect.
He denies everything.
Macklin has been in trouble
many times. He was being held
this time on a charge of stealing
hams when arraigned on a mur
der charge. He was arrested the
Thursday night following the kill
ing for shooting on the highway.
Most significant is that Mack
lin had been arrested before the
murder morn for fighting and was
let out of jail the afternoon be
fore the killing, as one officer
said, “sore at the world”.
1,000 HEAR DR.
McDON’LD HERE
Doctor Ralph McDonald, Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor,
spoke to an audience of 1,000 vot
ers at the Roanoke Rapids High;
School auditorium last Friday;
night.
C. C. Shell, president of the Roa
noke Rapids Merchants Associa
tion, acted as chairman of the
meeting. Dr. McDonald was in
troduced by Bernard Allsbrook, lo
cal attorney. County merchants
and directors of the Merchants
Association and Fair Tax League
occupied the platform.
Praising the Roosevelt admini
stration, Dr. McDonald said the
Hoover philosophy, “It Can’t Be
Done”, had been supplanted by
the Roosevelt philosophy, “It Can
Be Done”. Answering charges he
was not a true Democrat, he said
he stood on the State Democratic
platform: on schools, no state tax
on land, no sales tax, the policy to
tax ability to pay rather than con
sumption.
Taking up most of his speech
with taxation, the Doctor said that
was the major issue of the cam
aign. He says he fought the sales
tax in the last session of the leg
islature and in this connection
made the following statement:
“Thank Goodness for the people
of Halifax County for sending
men like they did to the last leg
islature who fought the sales tax.
If all counties had sent men like
them, we w ould have no sales tax
today.”
He told of escape of taxation by
some types of wealth and cited
one 11 niillion dollar estate that
did not even appear on the county
tax books. Another case of a per
son with a half million dollar in
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Genie Gay, Jr., 45 years old,
member of a prominent North
ampton County family, died in
the Roanoke Rapids Hospital at
midnight last night from self-in
IMt***!" gun shot wounds. ,
He shot himself yesterday aft
ernon at 2:30 while alone in a
room at his home in Jackson. His
mother-in-law was in another
room of the house. The wounded
man was found lying on a cot with
a severe wound in the abdomen
from a shotgiln.
Rushed to the Roanoke Rapids
Hosital, Mr. Gay remained con
scious for several hours but gave
no reason for his act.
Four years ago, he made a sim
ilar attempt and shot off his left
arm.
Funeral services will be held at
Jackson Friday afternoon at 2
p.m. with interment at Littleton.
He is survived by his wife and
a 12 year old daughter, his moth
er and one brother, Ballard Gay,
Jackson attorney. The father of
the deceased, Genie Gay, Sr., died
two years ago. He had been a
prominent merchant and landowm
er of Jackson.
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