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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. W THURSDAY, APR. 30, 1936 NUMBER FORTY-FOUR
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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.
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♦ KIDNAP
SENTENCE
DROPPED
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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
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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 <to her house soon
after the murder and told her the
man who had arrested him several
times would never do it again.
It was shown that the Negro
was a bad character who had been
arrested several times. As a mat
ter of fact, he was arrested the
night before the murder and had
been released that afternoon. Oth
er witnesses told of threats Mack
lin had made against the Chief
and Sheriff Johnson and said he
was sore at the town which ar
rested him so much.
The accused showed no emotion
during the trial or at the verdict
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Another candidate in the field
for Sheriff is J. L. Bass of En
field, who announced in this pa*
per last week, bringing the total
aspirants for sheriff to six.