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I the ROANOKE RAPIDS I'icture NEWSpaper BV liW*% ^ ^ ome Print B H _ A _ ^flF H I I Advertising — L__„—C B m JrT CAROLINA’S FIRST^V fl M id Subscribers j _ >-r >EUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE bap™ ,, — --—~__ ---ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1941-i,MM 1n TRAIN WRECK OCCURS • (aboard Air Line reight Crashes into Another ie wreckage of two Seaboard Line freight trains which col 1 just a few yards below Suin Tuesday morning about 11:3<> ick had been cleared today, and fic was moving over the road usual. However, fog hindered wrecking crew Tuesday night, | it was not until yesterday that ' gs were about normal, lie crash occurred when a tex , or “highball” freight, plunged the rear of a local freight go onto the siding at Summit to the other pass. •ews of the two trains miracu ly escaped with their lives n they jumped, and only the nan on the engine which was died along with five freight was hurt. One of the cars jht fire and burned, jbbert N. Bass, Jr., of Raleigh, fireman, was brought to the 1 hospital with a compound ture and dislocation of the left t, a dislocated right shoulder, bruises about the face and iontinued on Page 7, Sec. A) HONORED Mrs. Mary Barnhill of Enfield was honored on her 80th birthday recently by being made a life member of the Woman’s Societies of Christian Service of the Meth odist Churches of Halifax County. She was presented the certificate and a beautiful pin by .'Mrs. Sam Peirson, Jr., in behalf of the En field group at a Zone Meeting held recently in Halifax. need Cross Meeting Here I Call of the local chapter A merican Red Cross closed here last ,nd officials of the organization here are shown above at a meeting to make plans for the drive and hear reports of the s activities during 1941. drive was verj successfu 1, and shown above (standing) to right, E. H. Graves, who spoke at the meeting; L. S. Neal, 11 Chairman of the Chapter; the Rev. Gordon Price, General m of the Red. Cross here;* and Clyde Liske, retiring secretary Call Chairman Neal stated today approximately $2,781.87 was during the drive. The goal was $2,000, and a complete check » has not been completed. EX-GOB IS HELD IN JAIL James Dodd Is Arrested In Parker Case James Dodd, 20-year-old ex-sailor, is being held today in the city jail in connection with the death of Thaddeus D. Parker of 338 Char lotte Street, whose lifeless body was found in the vicinity of the old canal, near Roanoke River, last Saturday afternoon. Dodd was arrested yesterday by Chief of Police H. E. Dobbins on a charge of perjury before the coroner’s—at an inquest" in Parker’s death. Parker, a well-known local man, had been dead about a couple of hours from a .22 calibre rifle bullet in his chest when officers arrived on the scene. Although Dodd is being held on a charge of perjury because of discrepancies, found by Chief Dot - bins after further investigation into the mystery surrounding Parker’s death, in his story before the cor oner’s jury there is a strong indi cation that he might have fired the rifle causing the man’s death. The ex-sailor, who received an “undesirable” discharge from the Navy, first stated that he came up on the body between the river and the old canal just beyond the city dump while searching for a fishing hole along the river. Chief Dobbins stated today, how (Continued on Page G, Sec. A) Caught Today Colon Todd, 32, was brought back from Norfolk, Va.. today under arrest on charges of breaking into the Ever Ready Cleaners here a month ego and stealing a quantity of clothes theft of an automobile from Butler Brown of Roanoke Rap ids, and attempting to break into Johnny Clincher’s place here on the night he committed the other acts. Todd was arrestee? in Nor folk by Officer A. J. Brigman, who was accompanied on the trip by T. B. Glover, one of the proprietors of the cleaning plant. Brigman stated that Todd has admitted everything but the charge of attempting to filter Clincher’s place. The prisoner led officers a merry chase since the night of the thefts here. He was al most apprrehended in Bladen County, but escaped arrest. During the time Todd has been sought, he told the local officer, he has been in South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and all over North Carolina. PROPRIETOR JOHN A. CARRAS, proprietor of the new Rosemary Cafe here, realized an ambition to give Roa noke Rapids one of the finest eat ing places in this section when the formal opening of (he cafe was held here last Friday night. auto" tags 1942 North Carolina license plates for motor vehicles, and also city tags, are being rapidly sold | at the branch office of the Caro ! lina Motor Club in the Municipal Building here. Those handling the sale of the plates are Mrs. Ruby Wood Minch er and Mrs. Dorothy Shearin, man ager and assistant manager, re spectively, of the office. Mrs. Mincher stated today that all persons who do not have a 1941 “pocket card”, a 1942 appli cation card, or a title for their automobile in their own name should call at the office and make arrangements to get their license before January 1. HALIFAX BOARD IS CHARGED Health Officer Objects To Action County Health Officer Robert F. Young yesterday called upon citi zens of the town of Halifax to pe tition the city board of commis sioners there to reconsider its ac tion in granting a license for the operation of a livery stable in the heart of the Halifax County seat. In a letter addressed to all cit izens of the Town of Halifax, he stated, "I am including this open letter to you a letter which 7 wrote to the town board, regarding the livery stable which is located on our main street within one-half block of the only meat market in town and within one block of all our food stores and within one block of our public school.” Dr. Young said today that at a meeting of the board before the one this week at which it granted a license for operation of the liv ery stable he appeared before the Halifax city commissioners and talked the matter over with them. At that time, he said, all seemed to be agreed that it w-ould not be conducive to the health of citizens there to allow the “nuisance”. He charged in his letter that “the majority of the board after being individually ‘high pressured’ voted to allow the livery stable to operate and thus let the citizens of Halifax get by the best way they can. In other words, these three (Continued on Page 7, Sec. A) At Cafe Opening A few persons in the huge crowd which jammed the new Rosemary Cafe for its formal opening here, last Friday night at 8 o’clock are shown in the picture above. Around 1,300 people flocked to the cafe during the evening for the grand opening of the city’s newest cafe, and to congratulate John A. Carras, the proprietor, on the realization of an ambition he has long had to have the best restaurant in tins section to take care of his many friends and customers. (Continued on page 6)
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