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VOLUME TWENTY-THREE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. _THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1938 NUMBER 28
5 DAYS
Roanoke Mills Co. No. One
mill will go on five days starting
Monday morning, according to
news received tonight from
Manager F. C. Williams.
The work time of all employ
ees now working will be increas
ed to the five days, after several
months of short time.
Work in all local mills has
picked up some but No. One is
the first to go on full schedule.
RESIGNS
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THE REV. HERMIT TRAYLOR
pastor of the Christian Church of
Roanoke Rapids for the past 18
months, who has resigned to take
the pastorate of the First Chris
tian Church of Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama. (See inside)
WOMAN
INJURED
IN FALL
Mrs. Eunice Massey, wife of
Charlie Massey, city textile worker,
suffered minor injuries when she
fell 10-ft. to the ground from a
stall case at the rear of the B. S.
Webb building here about noon
Wednesday.
Mrs. Massey, a resident of the
building, evidently leaned against
the guard rail of the staircase,
which gave way, and she toppled to
the ground. While her injuries are
not serious, she is cohfined to Roa
noke Rapids Hospital.
It is reported the building was
condemned some time ago, tho a
great number of families still live
upstairs. City Building Inspector
Henry Fitts set about his routine
duties of posting additional “con
demned" signs on the building fol
lowing this latest accident.
At Halifax Meet
Of County Council
Mesdames M. E. Faison, C. T.
Johnson, C. W. Cook, Robert Par
rish, R. L. Powell, B. C. Pair, Her
bert Vaughan, W. W. Gibson, Ed
ward Allen, V. C. Carter, Robt.
Frueler, Lee Morris, Carl Murray,
G. Hawkins, and Miss Mertie Fai
son of The South Rosemary Home;
Demonstration Club attended thd
County Council Meeting at Halifax:
Tuesday.
PRESIDENT'S BALL
HERE JANUARY 28*h
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Lions Club Is In
Charge Here; Jim
Fuller's Orchestra
The annual President’s Ball will
be held in Roanoke Rapids on Fri
day night, Jan. 28th, with music be
ing furnished by Jimmie Fuller and
his University of North Carolina
Tarheels. The Roanoke Rapids Ball
is being directed by the local Uions
Club with the following commit
tees: Allie Wood, chairman, James
Parker, Bill Alligood and Stewart
Wilson.
The ball will be held at the down
town dance hall. Clerk A. L. Hux,
County Chairman for the Presi
dent’s Ball announces plans for a
’Second Ball the same night at Scot
land Neck.
The local committee announces
the following list of * chaperones
for the Ball at Roanoke Rapids:
Dr. and Mrs. John W. Martin, Dr.
and Mrs. W. E. Murphrey, Dr. and
Mrs. Upshur Higginbotham, Dr.
and Mrs. M. C. Maddrey, Dr. and
Mrs. Bahnson Weathers, Dr. and
Mrs. T. W. M .Long, Messrs, and
Mesdames W. A. Thorne, A. N.
Martin, H. S. Loy, M. S. Benton,
Frank C. Williams, E. B. Manning,
J. P. Grizzard, W. L. Medlin, F. S.
Kemp, F. D. Wilson, C. L. Elting,
J. T. Chase, W. A. Wolhar, R. H.
Hundley, Virgil McDowell, J. R.
Manning, W. H. Pruden, John
Dunn, W. B. Allsbrook, R. E. Clea
ton, F. J. Hawley, C. L. Wilson,
L. M. Wilson, Frank Sherry, G. N.
Taylor, J. C. Smith, O. Griffin, G.
T. Hobbs, H. E. Lee, Jack Cassa
da, Clyde Liske, W. S. Dean, Jesse
Harrell, Neil Pharr; from Weldon,
Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Lassiter, Mr.
and Mrs. D. H. Moody Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Daniel, *1». and Mrs.
Meade Mitchell; Dr. and Mrs. J. W.
Parker, Jackson; Mr. and Mrs. A.
L. Hux, Halifax; Mr. and Mrs. S.
E. Wilson, Rocky Mount; Dr. and
Mrs. F. W. M. White, Halifax.
CITY YOUTHS FACE
CAR THEFT CHARGE
John Finch And
Carl Haislip
In Halifax Jail
Two Roanoke Rapids youths
learned a swift lesson in the “Crime
Doesn’t Fay” series, and are no
doubt repenting at leisure tonight
in the Halifax County jail, instead
of being well on their way to
Florida, where they had reportedly
planned to go Wednesday after
noon.
The boys are Carl Haishp and
John Finch. Sheriff Joe Riddick,
accompanied by County Jailer G.
E. Pittman left Halifax at noon to
day for Nashville, where authori
ties were holding the boys pending
their apprehension in Nash County
about 10 o’clock last night in a
small pick-up truck, reported to be
the second car they had stolen
within as many hours.
Finch and Haislip, it is reported,
stole a Ford V-8 belonging to
George Smith, which was parked in
front of a downtown business place,
about 7 o’clock Wednesday night.
It appears they switched license
plates on the Smith automobile,
substituting a pair of 1937 Virginia
tags for the bright and shining new
North Carolina plates. The Vir
ginia tags had been discarded by a
Roanoke Rapids resident, who
moved here the first of the year
from Virginia and had bought N.C.
tags.
When they failed in their attempt
to get gasoline at one local filling
Station, they visited the station of
Dunn Batts, in the outskirts of
Rosemary mill vilage. Instructing
Mr. Batts to “fill ’er up," the boys
then ordered cigarettes, it is re
ported, and when Mr. Batts left
the car they drove away.
It is evident they drove Smith’s
car as far as Battleboro, where
they were forced to abandon it be
cause the oil pressure was low.
This reduced to walking proved to
be a very temporary situation to
the Roanoke Rapids youth, howev
er, as they quickly obtained an
other car without the owner's per
mission, in Battleboro. This time,
they selected a small pick-up truck,
and it is reported, did not bother
to switch the license plates until
they reached Rocky Mount.
In the meantime, a general a
larm had been sent out over the
State Patrol short-wave system,
and state troopers apprehended the
youths in their latest stolen car be
ween Rocky Mount and Nashville,
’.'hey were “behind bars” in the
Nash County jail within three
hours after their departure from
Roanoke Rapids.
It is reported the youths had a
shot-gun with them, but this could
not be verified in a telephone con
versation between Chief-of-Police
H. E. Dobbins and the sheriff of
Nash County today.
Nash County authorities indicat
ed their permission for Halifax
County to try the boys first today,
and Riddick left soon after a con
versation with officials there to
bring the boys back to Halifax, to
answer for their first crime here.
Young Haislip is about 18 or 19
years old. He has been tried sev
eral times for minor offences in
City Court, and is the son of Rob
ert Haislip, who lives on Henry
Street. His mother is dead.
Finch is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
G. N .Finch, of 306 Monroe Street,
and so far as is known, has never
been in trouble before.
MERCHANTS AND GOVT.
MEN BATTLE TO DRAW
IN OPINION CLASHES
Government Requested To Leave
Halifax County Out Of Next Reset
tlement Project As Plans Go Ahead
For Building And Financing Co-op
Stores On Farms
Halifax courthouse Was the scene of a strange
battle today. Center of a county which was the
banner Democratic county in 1928 and again and
again since has voted the New Deal back into of
fice, Halifax today saw a delegation of merchants
and business men desperately fighting the latest
phase of one of the New Deal’s pet projects.
BARBER
GEORGE
INJURED
R. L. George, well-known city
barber, is a patient at Roanoke
Rapids Hospital, suffering from a
broken nose, a broken jaw and a
few minor cuts, bruises and abra
sions about the face, as the result
of an automobile accident on the
Roanoke Rapids-Emporia highway
about 8 o’clock Tuesday evening.
Immediately following the acci
dent, George was taken to an Em
poria doctor’s office where he was
given first-aid treatment. Fearing
internal injuries, it was decided he
must be taken to a hospital. A
W. C. Williams ambulance was
called and the city man brought to
the hospital here shortly after 10
P. M.
While attending pnysicians say
his injuries are not critical, he may !
be confined to his bed for some ;
time.
The accident, it is reported, oc
curred a few miles this side of
Emporia, in the state of Virginia.
George was rendered unconscious
from his injuries, and was therefore
at a loss to explain the details of
the accident. Jack Ferrell, of Em
poria, reported to be the driver of
the car, was uninjured, except for
a few bruises.
BIRTHS
To Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Shaw, a
son, Jan. 12th; to Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Jones, a son, Jan. 16; to
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Merritt, a
girl, Jan. 17; to Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
Stokes, a girl, Jan. 19; to Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Parker of Jackson, a
boy, Jan. 18; to Mr. and Mrs. Her
mit Braswell ,a boy, Jan. 18; to
Mr. and Mrs. R D. Chewning of
Vaughan, a girl, Jan. 15; to Mr.
and Mrs. E. P. Bell, a boy, Jan. 14.
Aligned against the Halifax men
were directors, field men, super
visors and trouble-shooters of the
Farm Security Administration and
the Resettlement Administration,
all of them sold to the nth degree
on their project and their spokes
men filled with the necessary zeal
and facts to “sell” most any kind
of audience.
Representing Halifax County
merchants were such men as
Charles Boykins and Lonnie Ap
plewhite, Halifax, Jack Jones, Til
lery, A. N. Martin, Roanoke Rap
ids, Dr. B. M. Nicholson and R. C.
Rives, Enfield, “Spec” McDowell,
Scotland Neck, and others from
Weldon, Roanoke Rapids, Tillery,
Scotland Neck, Halifax and En
field. Several Halifax County of
ficials also sat in on the meeting.
Representing the government
were State Regional Director
Mitchell of the Farm Security Ad
ministration, his assistant, Claud
Farris, Mr. McLendon in charge of
Halifax Resettlement Farms, Mr.
Robbins, in charge of Penderlea
farms, and other officials and field
men.
The bone of contention was the
plan of the government to sponsor
and advance the capital for the es
tablishment of co-operative stores
in Halifax County to sell to reset
tlement farms.
Business men of the county con
tend that this is unfair competition
on the part of the government and
should be stopped if the govern
ment expects them to stay in bus
iness and continue to pay taxes;
that it is this very tax money
which is being used to finance
these competitive stores and that
they are in a position to serve the
settlers just as cheaply and with
just about as much convenience as
would the new stores.
The government men contended
that the stores were just for the
necessities of life, and were built
for the convenience of the settlers
and at their request and that it
was expected that dividends at the
end of each year would help the
settlers at a time when every doK
lar would count.
They also admitted that the gov
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