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TEAM TO PLAY AT RALEIGH Romancos Are In Softball Tourney After defeating Rocky Mount and Wilson in the First Softball Dis trict playoffs last week, the Ro mancos pulled out this morning for Raleigh where they will defend their title as State champions in the North Carolina tournament to night. Coach W. G. “Bill” Alligood was notified that the Romancos would play tonight at 8:15 o’clock, and the team meets the winner of the Charlotte-Goldsboro contest. The tournament will be run on a single-elimination basis—one de feat will cost a team its chance for the title and a trip to Detroit for the national meet. The Romancos, who won the State title in 1939 and 1940, are conceded an edge to repeat for the third successive year over other teams entered and take the title and the trip to Detroit. At the time the Romancos are playing in the State tournament for men at Raleigh, the local girls t?"al will be competing in the wo mens division at Mount Holly. Finals of the men’s tournament are scneduled for Saturday night at 8:30 o’clock. The men’s tourney has been held at Raleigh for the past two years, but it has never been held at Devereux Meadow, scene this year of all games, before. Negro School Teachers Are In Car Wreck Three Negro school teachers were involved in an automobile wreck on the Garysburg-Gaston road this morning about 8 o’clock, and one of them required hospitalization here. It was reported that a tire on the car in which they were riding blew out in front of the home of W. W. Grant, and the Vehicle turned over. Dorothy Magette was the most seriously injured, and was admitted to the local hospital. Attaches said she had no broken bones, but suffered cuts and bruises and was badly shaken up. Others in the car were Charity Clark and Mary Wright. Both re ceived minor cuts and scratches. Woman Murdered (Continued from Page One) his crime at the November term of Halifax County Superior Court. The cutting occurred in front of the residence on First Street in Weldon last Saturday night about 10 o’clock. According to reports of the kill ing, Mrs. Stokes was sitting in her automobile with Curtis Strickland and Miss Dorothy Louise Carter when Joyner began an argument with the woman he had been liv ing with, and accused her of treat ing him wrong. During the fuss Joyner pulled a knife from his pocket and slashed her throat from ear to ear, severing the jugular vein. She died almost instantly; before the others in the car could summon aid. ADMITS CUTTING When officers arrived on the scene Joyner was said to have been sitting on the running board of the car, holding a whiskey bottle between his legs. He made no at tempt to escape, and admitted the cutting. After his arrest he was quoted by officers as saying, “I in tended killing her. She treated me wrong.” Miss Carter, 19, and Strickland, 20, were also cut by Joyner about Girls Team At Mt. Hally The Roanoke Rapids girls softball team left this morning for Mt. Holly where the State softball tournament will open tonight. In the girls’ tourney Mt. Holly and Raleigh share the favorites’ spot. Raleigh is defending champion, but Mt. Holly has come up this season with a cracker-jack outfit. The locals are scheduled to meet Greensboro at 8:30 tonight, the first semi-final game on Friday will start at the same time and the second is scheduled to start at 9:45. The tournament will be run on a single-elimination basis, and Saturday night’s winner in the finals will gain a berth in the national tournament at Detroit. Shown above are: front row, left to right—Edna Jones, third base; Alice Jones, second base; HaStel Lee, pitcher and first base; Alfutia Jones, roving fielder; Ina Mae Hux, right field; Hazel Buxton, shortstop. Back row, left to right—Bill Riggans, coach and manager; Marjorie Lee, pitcher; Verona Outland, left field; Margaret Butler, catcher; Elizabeth Drake, center field; Dorothy Champion, utility. the arms, hands and shoulders when they attempted to prevent his fatal attack upon Mrs. Stokes. It was reported that Mrs. Stokes and Joyner had an argument earli er in the day over some matter which has not been revealed. The other two young victims of Joyner’s attack were reported today to be recovering from their wounds. Mrs. Stokes, who had been sep arated for a number of years from her husband, George Stokes, was a native of Halifax County. She was the daughter of Mrs. Lou Jarrell of Weldon, and the late Allen King. She had lived in Weldon approxi mately 18 years, and had been em ployed in the textile mills in Wel don and Roanoke Rapids. FUNERAL SERVICES Funeral services for the deceased were conducted from the residence on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. D. P. Moore, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, and burial was in Cedarwood Cemetery at Weldon. Survivors include her husband, ■who lives at Henderson; her moth er, Mrs. Jarrell; a sister, Mrs. George Taylor of Nevr York; a brother, Joe Jarrell of Franklinton; a niece, Catherine Taylor of New York; two nephews whom she rear ed, Sanford Wood, who is in the U. S. Army, and Thomas Wood of New Jersey. Joyner, who is being held with out privilege of bond in the county jail, is reported to have been mar ried and to be the father of a 17 year-old daughter. In his jail cell at Halifax, Joy ner talked freely to a reporter a i bout events prior to the cutting, | but >said he remembers nothing a bout cutting the woman. He told a reporter that Mrs. Stokes brought him to Roanoke Rapids last Saturday morning where he sold some clothes hang ers, which “I made myself”, and 'returned for him about noon. He stated that they then rode out to a place, he failed to say where, and bought a pint of “bootleg liquor”. : They consumed that during the afternoon, he said, and he also had a few bottles of beer. About dark, Joyner said, they secured more whiskey and both of them got “drunk”. Asked about the statement he had made that the woman treated him ‘“wrong”, Joyner replied, “She hadn't done a thing”. Then, he ex plained that she hadn’t done any thing prior to the night he killed her, and “I was drunk and don’t remember anything about that!” LOVED HER "Did you love her?” was a ques tion he quickly answered by say ling, "I must have. I lived with her and kept her up for about two years and a half.” He said he had known Mrs. Stokes about five years, and believed that she loved him. Although Joyner claims that he was so drunk he doesn’t remember what happened, Weldon officers made a conflicting statement. The cutting was investigated by Chief of Police P. R. Kitchen, Officer H. L. Ward, and Corporal J. C. Long of the Highway Patrol. Officer Ward stated that the two I couples might have been drinking, I but that Joyner “certainly was not too drunk to know what it was all about.” Chief Kitchen said Joyner was holding a whiskey bottle when arrested, and had been drinking. Mrs. Stokes, a small woman who looked her age, was sprawled on the seat of the coupe when officers arrived, with her head resting on \ the right window frame. Her throat ■ had been neatly cut almost from | ear to ear, it was reported, and the ' wound was gaping open with her head almost severed from the body. There were a few other cuts a-1 bout the face, it was said, and a I pint whiskey bottle was lying on her stomach. NO INQUEST Coroner T. M. Cooper of Enfield held that an inquest would be un necessary after hearing details of the cutting. Joyner formerly lived in Roa noke Rapids, where he did odd jobs and some peddling of various things to make a living. He has been living in this section for a bout 20 years, it is understood. The little frame house where Joyner and Mrs. Stokes were liv ing is at the extreme end of First Street in Weldon, and is next door to a Negro residence which are numerous in that section. ENTERTAINS Mrs. Matthew Broun entertained recently with a delightful tea hon oring her sister, Miss Sue Under hill, at the Country Club. Receiv ing the guests at the entrance to the Club house was Mrs. W. J. Long, and Miss Ruth Transou in troduced the guests to the receiving line composed of Mrs. Matthew Broun, Miss Sue Underhill, Mrs. Pattie Williams, and Mrs. Edmund Berkeley. Directing the guests to the punch bowl was Mrs. Lawrence Stell and Miss Marjorie Cannon, and punch was served by Miss Winifred Beckwith. Receiving at the dining room door were Mrs. H. S. Loy and Miss Elizabeth Clark, and serving a delightful ice course with cake, mints and nuts were Mrs. Bill Dunning, Mrs. Claude Cannon, Mrs. L. B. Brown, Miss Mary Ann Broun and Mrs. W. A. China. Good-byes were said to Mrs. Scott Benton. During the aft ternoon about a hundred guests called. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Shearin spent the week-end in Littleton. , fluvi KENT * R We have helped scores of Roanoke Rapids H Families to HOME OWNERSHIP, and — B FLOOR. ———— SH We Specialize I WE CAN I I FHA LOANS HELP YOU! I It does not take a “capitalist,*’ not even a “high salaried man” to build a home of his own for his family these days. If you have a “steady job,” a few dollars to pay down, and the WILL to own your own home you can ■ accomplish it with comparative ease' | You do not even have to own real estate at this ‘ time. We have listed a number of the choicest lots in the city, and can help you to select your homesite where you want it. If you own your own lots, the rest is easy. 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