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m titHT* T" T-ariTl nil Jill ,.y„:l.liil„..:lM. did ji 1 THE ROANOKE RAPIDS VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942_NUMBER 33 ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING TAKES LIFE OF POPULAR ROMANCO STAR TODAY -- — ■■ - - ■ ■■■ Ut _ CIVIL COURT HALTS Lack of sufficient work caused Judge Henry L Ste vens to adjourn the first week’s session of Halifax civil Superior Court on Monday afternoon. After several cases had been compromised without the nec essity of jury action, Judge Ste vens, who makes his home in Warsaw, adjourned the session with these remarks: “Far be it from me to sit here all week using up the tax payers’ money, when there is insufficient work for judge and jury for more than a one week session. Court is adjourned un til Monday of next week and all cases that have not been heard this week will be carried over for hearing next week.” Mondays’ session will open at 9:30 o’clock and many of the cases scheduled for trial at this week’s session will be called for disposal on the opening day. The original court calen dar called for a complete dock et through Wednesday of next week. It is expected that the session will be completed by that time. ATTEMPTS TO END OWN LIFE Miss Nellie Mae Watson, 18 year old daughter of Mrs. Bernice L. Sheffield of Emporia, is in a seri ous condition at Roanoke Rapids hospital after taking a dose of bi chloride poisoning at her home in Emporia on Friday evening of last week. The young girl, a high school student, took the poison about 6 o’clock in the afternoon and was not discovered ill until later in the night when her mother found her and rushed her to the Roanoke Rapids hospital. Hospital attaches here said that the girl was in a serious condition and that she was not expected to recover. The girl’s family could give no reason for the girl's attempt to take her own life, saying that she lived the average normal life of a girl in her senior year in high school. HERE ARE MINSTREL SCENES , —— Staff Photographs - - --.- -- MINSTREL STAGED TONIGHT Last Showing Is Friday Night At H. S. Auditorium The twelfth annual Kiwanls Show, “Hooray America,” ran the curtain down on the first perform ance tonight at the High School auditorium, after showing to one of the largest and most appreci ative audiences ever to see a Ki wanis presentation here. The sec ond and final showing will start tomorrow, Friday night, promptly at 8*15. The scenes above and at the left are from the show. Top picture shows the bathing beauties: read ing from left to right, Mary Dick ens, Ann McNeill, Christine King, Elizabeth Keeter, Mary Florence Bridges, Doris Page Edwards, Doris Louise Edwards and Emily Clements. Middle photograph shows three girls who appear in Scene Six, “Barefoot Days.” Left-to-right they are Virginia Lee Thorne, E lizabeth Beckwith and Violet Dean Corbett. Bottom picture is of the skit, “Along The Trail". Boys, standing are James Rogers, Dick Edwards and James Hux; girls include: Jeanette Williams, Bessie Lee As kew, Faye McLane and Mary Clark. Erwin Riggan Is Victim Of Target Practice Accident Erwin "Pig” Riggan, Jr., star shortstop on the famous Romanco softball team for the past two years, was accidentally shot to death here this afternoon when a .22 calibre rifle went off while he and a friend were at target prac tice at a spot on Chockoyotte Creek near here. j Riggan died in the Roanoke Rap ids hospital about 45 minutes after he was shot. The bullet entered : his right temple, ranged upward and came out above his left ear. He was unconscious when taken to the hospital and died on the operating table. Francis Crouch, a friend, who ERWIN RIGGAN was alone with Riggan at the time of the accident, said that he and Riggan were shooting at tin cans with the rifle and that he went over to a stump to place a tin can on it and that while his back was turned to Riggan be heard the | (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A)
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