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VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, Mar. 23,1939_NUMBER 37
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CLOSING SCENE of “Saw Dust and Span
gles”, 9th annual Kiwanis Club show which was
staged here last Thursday and Friday nights, play
ing to the largest crowds ever to witness the
shows in the nine years. This picture was taken
from the first balcony on last Thursday night by
The Herald staff photographer while the big show
was in progress. This shows the Minstrel second
part, which followed the Circus first part of the
show which many think was the best ever produced
here. Interlocutor Lawrence Stell is in the center
of the first row in white evening suit, while in the
pit can be seen the back of John “Slim” Hutchings,
popular Rogers Producing Co. director.
WAKE FOREST-CAROLINA
GAME HERE APRIL 18th
IS SET BY OFFICIALS
Plans were laid yesterday here
for the biggest baseball game ever
held in Roanoke Rapids when
Wake Forest College and the Uni
versity of North Carolina will meet
at Simmons Park on Tuesday, A
pril 18th, at 4 p.m., bringing to
gether two Roanoke Rapids boys,
each captain this year of his col
lege team.
George Nethercutt is captain of
Carolina and Irvin Dickens is cap
tain of Wake Forest.
Meeting with representatives of
the Lions and Kiwanis Clubs here
yesterday were A1 Dowtin, gradu
ate manager of athletics of Wake
Forest, and Bo Shepard, assistant
athletic director at Carolina. All
details of the game were discussed
and decided on. The two local civic
clubs are sponsoring the game, the
local share of the net proceeds to
be used to equip the Roanoke Rap
ids High School baseball team
with new uniforms.
Messrs. Dowtin and Shepard and
the local committees visitedAflm
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rrions park where the grandstand
is now being enlarged to seat fifty
per cent more people. Ladies and
gents rest rooms will also be in
stalled. The visitors were very
much impressed with the size of
the park and new grandstand.
Finances, expenses, advertising,
ticket sales, insurance and other
matters were discussed and decid
ed on.
The game will be one of the
most extensively advertised ever
held in this section: newspaper,
radio, card and direct methods will
be used in telling the people of this
section of the State about the
game on April 18th. With increas
ed grandstand capacity and other
extra seats, a crowd of 2,000 can
be handled in the park.
Carolina and Wake Forest will
bring about fifty men on the two
squads, including managers and
coaches. Umpires will be decided
on by the rival coaches. Trans
portation will be by bus for the
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MISSING
MRS. MYRTLE MAIE TYLER
AND CHILD
CLARENCE RICKS
TWO MISSING OVER
MONTH WITH TRAIL
GONE; FOUL PLAY?
Mrs. Willie Stewart, 311 Jackson
St., is almost certain her daughter,
Myrtle Maie Tyler, has been mur
dered; but she is still hoping the
24 year old mother of two children
may be found alive.
Officers of a half dozen states
have been on the case, after being
notified by local officers of the
disappearance of Mrs. Tyler on
Wednesday, Feb. 15th, over one
month ago. The woman was last
seen in car with Clarence Ricks,
local insurance agent, who left
here at 4 p.m. on the 15th.
Her mother, Mrs. Stewart, says
Mrs. Tyler got in the car after
Ricks had promised to take her to
the other end of the city and that
was the last she ever saw of her.
Mrs. Stewart firmly believes Ricks
abducted her daughter, whom she
says would never willingly have
left her two children.
Her theory is strengthened by
stories which have been told her
by those who claim to have seen
the two struggling near the Roa
noke River on the old Thelma road,
with the man beating the woman
unmercifully. Mrs. Stewart says
she thinks sometimes the girl re
fused to go away with the man
and he killed her.
However, in the hope she may
have been seen by someone and is
still alive, Mrs. Stewart gives this
description of her missing daugh
ter: Age 24 years; short, chestnut
colored hair; nice white teeth;
height 5 feet 2 inches; weight 160
pounds; tiny scar on bridge of
nose; small hands and feet, wore
4% shoe; was wearing blue-gray
short sport coat, black broadcloth
dress with three white buttons to
waistline; tan, square-toe oxfords.
The frantic mother desires any
information by anyone having seen
the missing woman.
Ricks had struck the three year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Holland
Twisdale, with his car on Sunday,
Feb. 12th, the child dying the fol
lowing Tuesday. Altho it was stat
ed the killing was unavoidable, of
ficers had a warrant for Ricks on
the 15th for the usual hearing. At
about 4 p.m., the man left hi3
home, leaving a note saying he was
going to take his life. He drove to
the Stewart home and got the
Tyler woman in his car and drove
quickly out of town.
Except for reports brought to
the mother about seeing the man
beating her later in the day, no
trace of the two has been found.
Finance company officials, seeking
the car, have been unable to lo
cate any trace of it.
Ricks was about 5 feet 7 inches
tall, weighed about 160 pounds, had
gray eyes, brown hair, protruding
front teeth and wore a brown suit
when last seen. Neither took any
clothing except what they wore.
Ricks is said to have left his watch
at home, but took his pistol,
have been seen by someone and is
A further description of Ricks
furnished late today by Sheriff Rid
dick states he had a lower front
tooth missing, a coarse voice, smok
ed cigars constantly, had a scar
under one eye and a small scar
under each ear. He was driving
a brown 1939 Chevrolet, 2-door se
dan, with left front fender and
hood dented and radiator shell
damaged.