HIGHWAY DEATHS
SHOW DECUNE
DURING JANUARY
Roanoke Rapids
Counted Two
Dead in Month
Highway fatalities for the State
showed a decline during January,
the total being 73 compared with
93 during the first month of last
year, the Highway Safety Division
reported yesterday.
The figures indicated a down
ward trend from the record of
1941, when more than 1,200 persons
lost their lives in highway acci
dents in the State. As a result of ,
last year’s bloody record, the Gov- I
ernor, the Highway Commission
and the Motor Vehicle Department
have collaborated in safety efforts.
The January figures show a de- f
aline from six to two accidents in
Wake County, which ran up a toll
of 58 during last year. Mecklen
burg, which counted eight deaths
in January, 1941, had just two last i
r»/\r>llnoo urni'o mnAnforl olcA I
m Alamance, Buncombe, Chatham,
Columbus, Durham, Guilford,
Johnston, and New Hanover.
More deaths for January occur
red in Alleghany, Cleveland, Cur
rituck, Edgecombe, Henderson, Le
noir, Moore, Sampson, and Stanly.
Cumberland County had the high
toll of 12 deaths last month, com
pared to four in January a year
ago.
Among the larger cities, Char
lotte, Durham, Raleigh, and Wil
mington passed the month without
traffic fatalities, whereas each
had suffered at least one the pre
vious January. Charlotte had seven
killed during January of 1941. Roa
noke Rapids, with two deaths, and
Salisbury and Shelby, with one
(jach, were the only towns of 10,000
to 25,000 population with traffic
deaths in January.
Negroes Drown
(Continued from Page One)
The driver of the car was iden
tified by his birth certificate found
in his pocket as John Willis Stone,
Jr., of Portsmouth. The other man
in the car was identified as Wes- ,
ley Stone, also of Portsmouth. His
Selective Service identification
card served to reveal his identity.
One of the women was identified
as Katrine Stone, wife of Wesley
Stone, but officers have not identl
fied the other woman. It is (
thought, however, that all occu- ,
pants of the car were relatives.
Officers working with Coroner (
R. L. Grant said they were of the j
opinion that the car overturned
before it went into the water. They ,
based their conclusion on the fact ;
that a headlight was knocked off .
the car and a fender was bent
One of the men, Wesley Stone, had .
a broken jaw and other bruises,
while one of the women had abra- ,
axons on the head and face. I
Coroner Grant of Northampton
aaid that embalming of the bodies ,
revealed no trace of liquor, nor j
was there any signs of drinking i
ifn fr.h« pap.
Several persons in Jackson, :
through which the Negroes passed
on the way to their death, said
that the Negroes were evidently
unfamiliar with the roads in the
vicinity of Boone’s mill. Officers 1
set the time of the accident at
about 12 o’clock on the statement
of a Jackson merchant that the
Negroes had stopped at his place
for food about 11:30.
The bodies were kept in a Jack
Bon undertaking establishment un
til relatives could be reached in
Portsmouth.
HURT IN CRASH
(Continued from Page One)
Richmond Hardy, a Rosemary Ne
gro, and skidded across the high
way to crash into the side of a
taxi owned by Johnson’s Taxi Ser
vice and operated by Bell.
Officers said that the Penny car
was going south at a rapid rate
of speed and in going over the
hill just north of the bridge evi
dently failed to see the Hardy
automobile just ahead, crashing
into the back of it and skidding
across the highway to meet the
taxi head-on, which was going
north on the highway.
All three automobiles were bad
ly damaged, the taxi being a total
loss. The Penny automobile was
badly wrecked, as was the Hardy
automobile.
Smith and Penny were en route
to Penny’s home at Xenansville
from Warsaw, Va., for the week
end. The two remained in the
Roanoke Rapids hospital until this
afternoon, when they were re
leased. Harris received treatment
here and was allowed to return
to his home. The Hardy Negro
was uninjured.
So badly were the cars wrecked
that officers and onlookers alike
were heard to comment on the
narrow escape of the occupants. |
CRIME WAVE
(Continued from Page One)
sage and placed himself at a van
tage point on the incoming high
way from Roanoke Rapids. He
recognized the third car that pass
ed him as that described in the
Message and arrested the driver,
rhe automobile had not been
iamaged.
An automobile belonging to Mar
irin Jordan, an employee of White
Vfotor Company, was stolen from
where it was parked on 11th
street on Sunday night, and was
recovered on Wednesday about a .
olock from the point where it had
seen stolen. It too was undam
iged.
The third automobile to be stolen
n the past week belongs to a
xaveling salesman stopping at a
ocal hotel. This automobile was
'ound on a side road near town |
md had been overturned in &
litch.
Chief Dobbins said that it was
significant that none of the tires
vere stolen from the automobiles,
lor the vehicles damaged in any
vay. |
2,920 REGISTER
(Continued from Page One)
>rderly fashion and without much
ielay. Unable to work on account
>f the rain, the men reported to
•egistration centers early in the
lay, leaving very few to register
n the afternoon and evening.
Local Board No. 1, here in Roa
loke Rapids registered 1,497, while
Local Board No. 2, at Enfield,
•egistered 1,423, for a total of 2,920
'or the county. Board No. 1
lerved Roanoke Rapids, Weldon
ind that part of Littleton which
s in Halifax county. Board No. 2
lerved Enfield, Scotland Neck,
rtingwood, Hobgood, Hollister, Hal
fax and Darlington.
A lottery for determining the
jrder number of the late regis
;rans will be held sometime in
March, unofficial reports this
morning saying that the men reg
stered Monday will be placed at
;he end of the present selective
service pool.
Except for the fact that a few
of those registering were not at
ill sure just how near 45 they
were, there was not a hitch in
the whole day’s registration.
Mrs. N. C. Christensen of Nor
folk, Va., spent the week end here
as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Fanney.
Mrs. J.. T. West and Albert Hux
of Portsmouth, Va., visited Mr.
and Mrs. L. R. Hux over thej
week end.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Taylor of
Oxford, William Davis and Miss
&nn Putham of Norfolk, spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Bloys
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