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VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1939 NUMBER 19
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Above are some of the 300 local workers who will ask you to be a Good Neighbor next week in the 2nd annual Community Chest drive which starts Monday and lasts thru
Thanksgiving Week, ending Saturday, Dec. 2. (Top) Part of the Business Section workers. (Center) Part of the Special Gifts Division. (Bottom) Part of the Industrial
Arts Division workers. See inside for complete list of workers and last-minute news of next week’s drive. ” (—HERALD NEWSkut by Brigman)
COMMUNITY CHEST
WORKERS AT RALLY
MEETING TONIGHT
“Let’s Bust the Budget” was the
slogan given the Community Chest
Workers, in addition to “Be Thank
ful You an Give”, by Chairman of
the Chest Campaign, Frank Sherry,
at a rally held tonight in the audi
torium of the high school when six
teen people spoke in turn, endors
ing the Community Chest, explain
ing the need in their particular
fields, and urging the cooperation
Of all workers in tpc' drive which
begins Monday, Jvovember 27.
The meeting was presided over
by Julian Allsbrook, chairman of
the Speaker’s Bureau for the
Community Chest, who introduced
the speakers.
The program, beginning at 8:00,
was .started by the high school
band, which rendered a number of
selections under the direction of
R. L. Martin, band conductor.
Chairman Frank Sherry told the
large crowd gathered in the audi
torium the purpose of the meeting
and turned it over to Julian Alls
brook.
Reverend Gordon Price, pastor of
the Roanoke Rapids Baptist
Church, gave the invocation, ask
ing the blessing of God on the
work of the Community Chest and
the understanding by all of the
purpose of the coming drive.
Mr. Allsbrook then called upon
the speakers for the night. Mayor
Bernard Allsbrook endorsed the
work of the Community Chest in
behalf of the city and dedicated
the week of November 27 to the
Chest campaign.
T. W. Mullen told the listeners
that, taking everything into con
sideration, citizens of Roanoke
Rapids should be thankful they
could give.
F. C. Williams, chairman of the
Budget Committee, was next intro
duced. He told his audience that
conditions in the city, with ap
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MAN SHOOTS SELF
WHEN POLICEMAN
KNOCKS ON DOOR
Answering to the call of an of
ficer by firing a twelve guage shot
gun into his own chest, Clifton
“Monk” Tudor, 27, took his own life
in his apartment at 48 Madison
Street here last night at 7:00 o’
clock.
Policeman Jim Adams, after re
ceiving a call to go to 48 Madison
Street about 66:45 yesterday, was
informed that Tudor, for whom
Mr. Adams had a warrant which
had been sworn out by a relative
some time during the day, was
in an upstairs room. The police
man knocked on the door, and im
mediately after answering a ques
tion as to his identity heard a shot.
Forcing the door open, Mr. Ad
ams found Tudor in a dying condi
tion upon a bed with a shotgun
clutched in one hand. The full load
entered the victim’s left chest a
bout two inches above the heart.
Mr. Adams attempted to question
the mortally wounded man as to.
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