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MAN HELD HERE FOR ASSAULT Albert Jones, 28-year-old local textile worker, hat. been arrested on a charge of raping Miss Marie Beale, 18, of this city, in the Hornertown section of Roanoke Rapids last Saturday night about 10 o’clock after threatening to kill her if she resisted. Jones was arrested in South Weldon several hours after the al leged attack on the young woman took place in a wooded section. He admitted, officers said, to hav ing intimate relations with Miss Beale, but said it was with her consent. Miss Beale was brought to the local hospital in a hysterical con dition after telling her story to her mother upon returning from a date with Jones. Examining physicians said that she was only slightly bruised, if any at all, by the attack upon her person. The girl told officers that Jones had made a date to take her to Weldon to the show. He got Thomas Barnes to drive them o ver, and on the way stopped at the home of Jones’ brother where he had a room. There the girl in sisted that Jones’ sister-in-law go with them to the movie. The wife of Jones’ brother de murred, according to the story Miss Beale related, saying she wasn’t dressed to go out. How ever, the two couples agreed that they might not go to the show, and that if Jones and Miss Beale went the other two would pick them up later—or they could get a taxi back to Roanoke Rapids. The couples separated, and then Jones said he didn’t know where the show was located. He sug gested that he and the young wo man return to this city. RETURN TO HOUSE Jones got Grady Harper of Wel don to bring them back to his rooming place. Barnes and Jones’ sister-in-law had not returned, and Miss Beale said Jones propositioned her while they were at the house. She spumed his attentions, and begged him to take her home. He then said they would go to Mor ris’ store to call a taxi, and they left the house in Homertown. Enroute to the store, the young woman said, they passed some bushes and Jones pulled out a knife and threatened her life if she did not submit They then went to the store where Jones called a taxi, and brought her almost to her door on Hamilton Street and she got out of the vehicle in a highly nervous condition. She began crying, and after entering her home told her mother what had haDDened. Officers were summoned and Police Chief H. E. Dobbins and Sheriff H. A. House went to the girl’s home. She related the above story, and a hunt was started for Jones. He was arrested by Dep uty Sheriffs J. A. Draper and J. L. Mountcastle in Weldon, while Sheriff House and Chief Dobbins searched here. Jones was being held in the local jail without privilege of bond early this week. Miss Beale and Jones worked near each other in the Roanoke Mill No. 2, officers said, and had a couple of dates previously. Dodd Released (Continued from Page One) but further investigation revealed he was hunting in the vicinity with William Capps, 14, and Herbert Adams, 19, and Brooks Jeffers, 16. Capps and Dodd were shooting a rifle borrowed from Ben Butler, and Adams and Jeffers had one they were both using. Test bullets from both rifles were sent to the S. B. I. at Ra leigh, along with the fatal bullet taken from Parker’s chest, for examination by ballistic experts. 8. B. I. REPORT Chief Dobbins said that the S. B. I. reported to him that it was • the opinion of the examiner of the bullets that neither of the guns fired the bullet which killed the local man. Although the bullet removed from Parker’s body at an autopsy was badly scarred, a careful ex amination was made of it and the test bullets leading to the opinion of the S. B. L received here. Chief Dobbins stated that wheth er Dodd will be tried on the per-, jury charge, depends upon any further developments in the case between now and January 12. Dodd signed his own bond, and the local officer stated that he did not intend to prosecute him for the perjury charge unless other evidence of his connection with the case is brought to light. The shooting is believed to have been accidental, but Chief Dob bins stated that the case is still "open, and every clue will be trac ed to ascertain who fired the rifle which killed Parker.” Halifax Defense (Continued from Page One) messengers, drivers corps of per sons willing to offer their cars as well as their own time, emer gency food and housing corps, de contamination corps, demolition and clearance, road repair crews, auxiliary firemen, fire watchers, medical corps, and rescue squads. The county courthouse at Hali fax is headquarters for volunteer registration of citizens in the coun ty for National Defense work, and the office of the Clerk of Court will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday each week to take the names of those volunteering their services. Chairman Hux has contacted Sheriff H. A. House, and chiefs of police of all incorporated towns in the county to notify them to al ways leave word where they can be located in case of any emer gency. The county chairman of Civilian Defense has been notified by Theo dore C. Johnson, Director of Civil ian Defense in North Carolina, that he will receive a bulletin of special instructions immediate ly giving specific information a bout the entire problem of de fending this area in case of an attack. Hux notified Governor J. M. Broughton and Civilian Defense Director Johnson immediately af ter the declaration of hostilities that Halifax County was organized and ready to carry out instruc tions. V-MEN” At the request of State Director Johnson, Chairman Hux of Halifax has also named a committee of “V-Men”. Those named to this committee will receive material relative to national defense, and will be called upon to make talks at various places about the mat ter. Those appointed to the "V Men” committee are: Julian R. Allsbrook, W. J. Nor wood, the Rev. Lawrence I. Stell, Roanoke Rapids; D. Mac Johnson and Joseph Branch, Enfield; Wade H. Dickens and Mrs. Helen Leg gett, Scotland Neck; George C. Green, Weldon; Charles H. Boy kin, Halifax; and B. B. Everette, Palmyra. SEND SOLDIERS Monday afternoon a detachment of approximately ^80 soldiers were sent from Fort Bragg to Weldon to guard the railroad bridge, Highway 301 bridge over Roanoke River and other utilities. A number of the soldiers have been detailed to Roanoke Rapids, iand are on guard at the Virginia Electric Power plant and other places twenty-four hours a day. Those here are camping in tents near the places being guarded, and the community center at Weldon has been turned over for use of the detachment. The men are from Company B, 9th Division, 39th I Infantry. MEETING OF FIREMEN Yesterday, Fire Chief W. C. King of the local fire department, Assistant Chief Bruce Camp and Secretary Rufus Britton attended a meeting at Raleigh for a demon stration by State Fire Marshal Sherwood Brockwell of the con tent of an incendiary bomb. State Marshal Brockwell also explained the equipment needed and proce dure for extinguishing it From a chart, he explained the appear ance and effect of armor piercing, demolition, fragmentation, aerial mine, light and scatter incendiary bombs. Marshal Brockwell also explained the action of white phos phorous and thermite, the former highly adaptable to sabotage, and offered ways of counteracting j their flames. He explained the | use of thermite against oil depos its and stated that gasoline fires could only be prevented, not ex tinguished. He urged special pre cautions be taken. Coordinators of the State's in ternal defenses received renewed pledges of cooperation from the Highway Patrol, SBI, FBI, Home Guard and Civilian Defense Coun cils, and Director Johnson told fire and police chiefs his county councils were ready and willing to give full cooperation wherever possible. Johnson revealed that air raid ! "spotters” were standing by 24 hours a day at the 220 listening posts in the First Interceptor Com mand, embracing the Northeastern section of the State. Seventeen of the observations posts are in Halifax County, and are on the alert for enemy aircraft, and for instructions for the army. The posts in this county were set up sometime ago under Hux’s di rection, with the assistance of Hu bert Riddick of Scotland Neck. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Members of the County Execu tive Committee of Civilian De fense were named by Chairman Hux as: D. Mac Johnson, Enfield; P. E. Shields, Scotland Neck; F. H. Clark, Weldon; A. N. Martin, Roanoke Rapids; the Rev. E. C. Crawford, Hobgood; R. B. Patter son, Littleton; and P. C. Millikin, Halifax. The complete council as an nounced by Hux is composed of the following: Enfield— D. Mac Johnson, Ivey Watson, Mrs. Sam A. Dunn, J. W. Whitaker, Reginald W. Alston. Roanoke Rapids — A. N. Mar tin, Mrs. W. A. Thorne, Frank S. Kemp, J. T. Chase, Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. Hobgood — Mrs. W. P. White, J. Alton Whitehurst, the Rev. E. C. Crawford. Palmyra — B. B. Everett. Scotland Neck — P. E. Shields, Mrs. Wade H. Dickens, Eric Rod gers, T. R. Whitehead. Littleton — R. B. Patterson, Paul E. Johnson, C. L. Kelly, H. A. House. Essex — Luther Williams. Hollister — Mrs. T. C. Qualls, I. A. Crawley. Ringwood — Clifton Moss. Weldon — F. H. Clark, Mrs. C. R. Daniel, the Rev. D. P. Moore, C S. Vinson, W. O. Davis. Halifax — Mrs. Helen D. Mar shall, W. R. Cadle, P. C. Mlllikin, V. C. Matthews, Dr. R. P. Young. Tillery — Mrs. Charles F. Marks, L. A. Parks. Four Negro citizens in the coun ty, also named on the council, are: D. J. Knight, Negro farm agent, Enfield; Winfield Branch, Roanoke Rapids; Walter Clark, Scotland Neck; and Dr. J. A. Tinsley, Wel don. Former Patient Local Hospital Given Sentence Charles P. Williamson, former Army reserve captain, pled guilty to assault with a deadly weapon in the midst of a jury trial in Jones County Superior Court on Tuesday, and was sentenced to serve from three to four years in the State penitentiary for his un provoked attack on State Senator John D. Larkins, Jr., whom he shot in the right hip at Trenton last September 27. Pleading his own case, William son declared that he still did not quite understand why he shot Lar kins. He asserted that he had re cently been in a hospital at Roa noke Rapids and had been in a highly nervous state, possibly suf fering a kind of mental lapse which kept him from remembering his trip to Trenton and his attack on Larkins. Mrs. J. M. 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