THE ROANOKE RAPIDS 0 L-I P.R.A f M-XSBl I 1 CAROLINA'S FIRST^^^ I M kTrade Tcrrilor!^ A M ^TAB/oit/iKNEWSjwiwp '-r VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. W THURSDAY, APR. 30, 1936 NUMBER FORTY-FOUR __ _ -yj Three persons were killed in two automobile crashes here Saturday afternoon. The dead are Albert Hughes Jarvis, 5 years old, Mrs. Delia Barnes, 45, and Claud Shaw, 21. The little boy died in the local hospital Saturday night with se vere head injuries. He was struck near Clary’s Filling Station at Burton Springs Crossroads at 2:30 the same afternoon by a car driv en by Mrs. Tom Perkinson of Lit tleton. • In the car with Mrs. Perkinson were Mrs. Thurmon Atkins and her small son, and another lady visiting Mrs. Atkins. Mrs. Per kinson is in bed at her home with a nervous breakdown. Ak Floyd Bryant says the child was w following him and was hit as they crossed the highway from one fill ing station to another. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at the residence on Cedar St. with interment in the local cemetery. A. C. Jarvis, grandfather of the child, was nearby at the time of the trag edy. An hour before, two had met death at the railroad crossing just a short distance from the same spot where the child was hit. Mrs. Delia Barnes, wife of Jack Barnes of Deep Creek, and Claud Shaw of Thelma were the victims. Shaw was driving the car and had con tracted to take Mrs. Barnes and her son to their home. The son and a Negro in the car escaped with minor injuries. (Continued on Page Two) ♦ KIDNAP SENTENCE DROPPED _n_ The Supreme Court of N C. yes terday struck out the charges of kidnapping against George Smith, Dick Tudor and Jewell Gray and affirmed the sentences of con spiracy and assault against Smith and Tudor. According to this decision, Smith and Tudor will serve sentences of six months each. After being found guilty in Su perior Court in January of charges brought by Frank Mitchell and A Richard Weaver, Judge Parker sentenced Smith to from five to eight years in prison jfor kid napping; Tudor from three to five years; Gray 18 months. To each was added six months for con spiracy and another six months for assault as to Smith and Tu dor; the latter six months Judge Parker suspended. UP AND DOWN WITH THE Ghe Avenue StMo* COUNTING DOTS has proved very popular and the count ing still goes on. The contest does not close until noon May 12 and those who have not counted them and entered have a good chance yet to win one of the cash prizes. The con test manager says less than ten out of one hundred usually count them right. In order to give those out in the county an even break with those who could get them in the P. 0. here quicker, we offer special prises to those outside the city this week. Read details inside. You can’t lose. If you even fail to win a prize, you get The Herald 9 months or a year, with its local news, county news, 8 pages colored comics, 8 pages magazine section, and once a month an ad ditional 12 page Rotogravure farm section. Sample copies do not carry these extra features this week. They go only to regular subscribers in the trade territory. Turn inside and count the dots. It’s not too late. IIOWMANY dots are there, we are constantly asked? Hon estly, we do not know. We have not tried to count them. The campaign manager does not know. The only man who does is the man who made the plate and he lives hundreds of miles away. His machine count is sealed and will be opened by the judges when the contest closes. Until then nobody knows. Altho several tell me they do, because they have counted them. Maybe. The contest closes noon May 12th. Every count is being checked as to arrival by the con test manager and all books will be turned over to the three rjudges: Messrs. Lee, Thorne and Hobbs from the three banks. FLASH— Bad news for Jax fans. Edenton defeated Roa noke Rapids at Williamston this afternoon 6 to 1 to win the Eastern Carolina Conference championship. TWELVE Rooms and four baths for transient trade will soon be completed by John C. Smith on the second floor of the Rose Building. The rooms are large, well lighted and ventilated and will fill a long-felt need in Roanoke Rapids. The office will be downstairs next to Rose’s. Later Mr. Smith plans to build a warehouse for Rose’s behind the Filling Station and then fix up twelve more rooms and four extra baths in the rear of the second floor. ROCKFISH season in the Roanoke has been extended fif teen days, according to Sen. Allsbrook who was in Raleigh Friday on this and other matters. The season, which was to have closed May 1, has been extended to May 15th, due to high waters early part of the season when fishing was im possible and most of the fish traveled on up the Roanoke. Fishermen report splendid catches last night and today. ASSISTANT Manager of the Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Dor mitory at the University of North Carolina is now Jimmy Shell oi Roanoke Rapids, who is wonting nis way tnru col lege and now has a good position which helps him much and yet leaves him time for studying. Jimmie says in a letter to C. W. Davis and Paul Reid that he is trying hard to make the honor roll. Go to it, Jimmy. PEGGY ANN is the name of a new dress shop to open in the building with Gladhome Florist, 1014 Roanoke Avenue, Fri dya, May 8th, according to announcement of A. Swartz, man ager. Partitions are being built and fixtures erected this week. The shop will carry a popular-priced line off ladies and misses frocks. BRUSHES probably went flying out the door when a local housekeeper told a brush man this week what she thought of him when he started to politick her for his favorite can didate. This lady was interested in buying brushes and found out the salesman was not half so interested in selling his wares as in putting in a word for a candidate for office. Salesman and brushes were sent speeding from the house (Continue^ on Page 2) LITTLE NEGRO GIRL AND STRAY DOG CHIEF STATE LINKS A little Negro girl and an old stray dog were probably the most potent and deciding factors in the murder case completed last night when a Halifax Superior Court jury found Evans (Snooks) Macklin guilty of first degree mur der in the death of Chief of Police Moore of Scotland Neck and Judge Cranwejl^entemed t,he negro to die in the State lethal gas chamber on Monday, June 1st. CANDIDATE DR. W. A. CARTER who today announced his candi dacy for the office of Judge of the County Recorder’s Court of Halifax County. Dr. Carter was born near Halifax, the son of the late R. W. Carter. He has lived in the county all his life. He at tended the U. S. College of Vet erinary Sergeons, Washington, D. C., graduating there in 1918. He returned to Weldon 18 years ago where he has practiced ever since. Doc says he is a rank amateur at politics but is going to try his hand at it. He will oppose Charles R. Dan iel of Weldon and T. Emmett Mar shall of Enfield, both of whom an nounced this week. Judge Daniel is the present incumbent. This newspaper requests all candidates who wish their pictures run to please bring photos or newspaper cuts to this office and we will gladly run them. It takes one week to get a cut made from a picture. i tt was when another colored friend of the accused, told the jury Macklin said to him the morning after the shooting, “I shot the — and would have shot the — dog if he hadn’t run away”, that the cir cumstantial evidence web tighten ed around Macklin. The dog, a poor stray which the Chief had befriended and which followed him around on his rounds, had howled when the death shot was fired, had run, but after the killer fled, had returned to the side of the dead body of his friend. The dog testimony made a profound impression on all who heard it. A tiny pickaninny, so scared her voice could hardly be heard by the Judge, forged another ctrong link. After the defense denied knowing anything about the death gun, the little girl told how she went out in the early morning after the Chief’s death and while she stooped near the house she saw the gun lying under the house. She told the court she went in and told her mother and that later Macklin came out and carried the gun away. His woman also gave strong tes timony against him. She says Macklin came