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mill immi mill iihhii mii|| mill mill mill mm "'ll | i »J ,,,| •» m Ml urn iillllii mu iillflu mill! mill nllh nllll ml! ! ] THE ROANOKE RAPIDS i 17 y\ f ~i Picture NEWSpaper B H H BL I More News ~ More - All Home-Print - 1 ■ H ^ ^ A I ■ ! AdVertMn° ~ More S r I a 8^^ CAROLINA’S FIRST^^,/ B M L I * M ^TAB/oidJ+mrSEWSpaper A VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. " THURSDAY, FEB. 19, 1942 NUMBER 30 SPEAKER Ur. Vviluam R. Curtis, above, di rector or' the North Carolina Un employment Compensation Divi sion, was the principal speaker ai the installation of the Local Ad visory Council, appointed by Gov ernor Broughton to serve in ar advisory capacity to the Roanok< Rapids employment office, at th< employment offices here Iasi Thursday night. Dr. Curtis spok< briefly and reviewed the work ol the local office and outlined the duties and responsibilities of th< Local Advisory Council. TWO MEN I OUT FOR I SENATE Two announcements of candi dates for the State Senate were made by Halifax County men this week. They are the first two can didates to officially announce theii intention to run for a state oi county office at the Democratic Primaries to be held Saturday May 30th. Julian R. Allsbrook, Roanoke Rapids attorney, announced his in tention of becoming a candidate for the State Senate, and Edward L. Travis, Halifax attorney, an nounced that he would be a can didate to succeed himself to that office. Allsbrook is a member ol the House of the present legisla ture, having served during the 1941 session. He was a member of the Senate body of the Legislature during the 1935 session. Travis was nominated for the seat in the Senate left vacant by the death of Dr. T. W. M. Long at a meeting of the Halifax County Democratic Executive Committee held February 8th. He was elect ed, without opposition, on Febru ary 21st, 1941, took office Febru ary 24th and served three weeks during the 1941 session. Robert C. Josey, chairman ol the County Election Board, stated this afternoon that no one bad actually filed with him as candi dates for the May primaries as yet Roanoke Rapids1 irst Blackout Test Is Success Detail» Page 1, Sec. E ,k Petty Crime Wave Sweeping The City COPS ON OVERTIME LOOKOUT Roanoke Rapids police this week were investigating a score of petty robberies which have caused mem bers of the force no end of trouble at night during the past several days and, as if this wasn’t enough trouble, at least three automobiles have been stolen during the past week. All of the automobiles were recovered. Chief of Police H. E. Dobbins said this morning that scores of calls have come in during the past several nights concerning the breaking in and robbing of auto mobiles parked on residential streets of the city. With the same method of entrance to all auto mobiles robbed and with the gen eral characteristics of each rob bery the same, the Chief said he believed a gang of young thugs were at work and concentrating on automobiles. xn ea.cn case oi an auiomooue being robbed the method is almost always the same, he said. If the automobile is locked the thieves pry the doors open and take away J anything of value, from flashlights I to floor mats, and always leave the car doors open on finishing their work. j A large number of the petty rob beries have been reported in the vicinity of Jefferson street On that thoroughfare several cars were robbed in one night One lady resident on the street saw a group of persons trying to break into one car and notified the officers, but the thugs were gone before police could arrive at the scene. Calls from other parts of the city have reported automobiles having been broken into and rob bed of items of little value, but as yet police officers, who have investigated each call and placed themselves on the alert for any signs of suspicious prowling, have been unable to get a clue as to who the thugs are. | In the matter of automobile ' thefts, Chief Dobbins said that i John Vernon, Smithfield white ! man, is being held in the Halifax county jail in default of $1,000 bond on charges of stealing an automobile belonging to Mrs. Ruby Wood Mincher, Roanoke Rapids city clerk. Chief Dobbins said that the au tomobile was parked in front of the Municipal Building and was reported stolen within a short time after it 'was missed by Mrs. Mincher. Police in Littleton, Em poria and other nearby towns were immediately notified. In Littleton, a police officer received the mes (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) VICTORY GARDEN ■ ■ FOOP5 FOR SOLDIERS Above is shown a group of WPA workers tilling a field of corn, a part of which corn went into cans at WPA canneries last Spring. This year hundreds of acres of corn and other vegetables will be grown In ihe nationwide Victory Garden campaign, being cond acted to grow more foodstuffs for feeding the home folk and the boys in the fighting forces of the country . Scenes shown in the above picture will be routine in Halifax county this year as Halifax county farmers cooperate in growing enough vegetables for their own home use and a surplus for sale to the government. FOUR NEGRO MOTORISTS ★ ★★★ ★★★★ 3 HURT AS AUTOS CRASH Three persons were injured, none seriously, early Saturday night when a Roanoke Rapids taxi and two other automobiles crashed together between Weldon and Garysburg a short distance north of the Roanoke River bridge, bridge. The injured were: S. W. Smith of Warsaw, Va., James Penny of Ke nansville, N. C., and Sterling Har ris of Roanoke Rapids, a pas senger in the taxi. All three in jured received broken ankles and Penny and Smith received addi tional cuts and bruises, requiring hospital treatment. Jack Bell, op erator of the taxi, was uninjured. The accident occurred when Penny, who was driving a con vertible coupe, crashed into the rear of an automobile driven by (Continued or. Page 12, Sec. A) 2.920 REGISTER MONDAY A total of 2,920 Halifax county men were added to Uncle Sam’s potential manpower pool Monday in the third nation-wide draft reg istration. While the number of men registering might not have been quite as high as was first anticipated, few if any men in the 20-44 age group refused to regis ter. Reports from the chief regis trars, and from T. W. Mullen, chairman of Board No. 1 at Roa noke Rapids, state that the regis tration machine ran smoothly, that the assistants were present for the first registrations prompt ly at 7 o’clock. Several of the centers were rushed during brief periods during the early morning, but the task was handled in an (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) IN MILL POND AT JACKSON Four Portsmouth, Va., Negroes, two men and two girls, were drowned Saturday night when the car in which they were riding left the highway and plunged into Boone’s mill pond near Weldon. The accident was discovered early Sunday morning by Gordon Dick ens of Weldon who, while passing along the road, noticed tire marks which indicated that a car had gone into the pond. He also no ticed an automobile headlight floating on the surface of the water. Northampton county authorities were notified immediately and they found the car in about four feet of water. When brought to the sur face the four bodies were found inside the car. (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A)
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