BOND CAMPAIGN
IN COUNTY IS
BEING PUSHED
"Minute Men" At
Work On Pledge
Drive This Week
Hundreds of modern ‘‘minute
men” have been canvassing the
county this week in an effort to
get the signature of every wage
earner in this section on a pledge
card stating that they will turn
over at least a part of their salary
each week or month to the pur
chase of Defense Bonds and
Stamps.
Under the direction of Heath E.
Lee, Chairman of the Defense
Bond and Stamp committee for the
county, hundreds of names have
been added to the already long list
of investors who use the Savings
Bonds and Stamps regularly as a
method of investment and at the
same time help the government in
its struggle to arm and equip its
rapidly expanding land, sea and
air forces.
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"minute men” had succeeded in
geting more than enough names
and pledges to assure the county
of meeting its set quota in Bond
and Stamp sales in the county for
the month of May, but they are ,
going on and will strive to get the j
signature of every wage earner, ■
white and colored, in Halifax coun- ,
ty on one of the pledge cards.
Farmers are considered income
earners and when asked to sign
one of the pledge cards they are ,
asked to state just how much of |
their income they will invest this ]
fall in Stamps and Bonds, after ]
their crops have been harvested 1
and marketed. ;
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men” are planning to “sweep the (
county” in their pledge campaign. (
They made a great deal of progress -
during the past few days, but a !
greater effort will be put forth in <
the next week or so to get the re- i
maining income earners in the 1
county to sign one of the pledge i
cards. I
Mill workers are being asked to i
sign the pledge cards regardless 1
of whether they are already par-' l
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ticipating in a pay-roll deduction
plan or not. They are being asked
to state on the cards just how much
they are investing through the
pay-roll deduction, but in most
cases are not being asked to in
crease their investment unless they
feel they can do so.
Chairman Lee appealed to resi
dents of the county today to help
put the campaign across in Halifax
county by signing the pledge card
when questioned by one of the
"minute men’’
TRAIN WRECK
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on the northbound freight. He is
in a serious condition in the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital. Hospital
attaches said that he suffered a
severe head injury and that he
was in a semi-conscious condition.
Ryland M. Wheeler of 558 E.
Hargett Street, Raleigh, a crew
member on the northbound train,
suffered a chest injury and was
still in the local hospital in what
physicians said was a satisfactory
condition. He too jumped from
;he train but was struck by an
pverturning car or by falling de
bris.
J. A. Bailey of Apex, fireman on
he southbound train, is still in
he hospital suffering from severe
>urns. He was scalded and oth
irwise burned when he failed to
ump before the crash.
Others injured were William
rones of Raleigh, who received
:uts and abrasions and is still in
he hospital, and C. I. Wright of
taleigh, who received cuts and
>ruises. He was dismissed from
he hospital after receiving first
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The two freights, which were
traveling at a high rate of speed,
crashed on the one-way track
which passes just west of Burton
Street. The accident occurred
during a heavy rain at 7:10 o’
clock Wednesday night when sig
nals from a Raleigh dispatcher
apparently became crossed. Both
trains, one enroute from Ports
mouth to Raleigh and the other
enroute to Portsmouth from Ra
leigh, were being routed by the
Raleigh office of the Seaboard.
A number of injured crew mem
bers had either jumped from their
trains about the time of the crash
or had crawled from the wreck
age when ambulances from the
city arrived on the spot. Eye
witnesses said that they saw sev
eral crewmembers jump from the
speeding trains just prior to the
crash. It was known that more
than half a dozen crewmen es
caped injury by jumping when the
crash seemed inevitable.
Woodrow Humphries and Page
Ross, residents of Burton
street near the scene
of the crash, said they saw the
two trains hit and were the first
to reach the scene. They stated
that both trains were travelling
at a high rate of speed. It was
raining and visibility was poor,
but Seaboard officials said that
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played a major role in the cause
of the accident. One official said
the crash "was just one of those
things that happen. We don’t
know who was to blame”.
The two trains vere running as
extras, officials of the road said.
The northbound train was routed
from Norlina to Portsmouth and
carried crushed stone for the ship
building yards in the Virginia city.
The other train was routed from
Portsmouth to Raleigh, via Wel
don and Roanoke Rapids, and
carried a general freight cargo.
The two locomotives and some
25 or 30 cars were left a tangled
and twisted mass of steel by the
force of the impact. Cars were
derailed and piled up for hundreds
of yards in both directions. Of
ficials of the line, said that it
was the worst accident in the his
tory of the Seaboard. Damage
was estimated by one official to
run near three quarters of a mil
lion dollars.
The crash occurred about a
mile from the Roanoke Rapids
yards and there were sidings at a
distance of about half a mile to
both the north and south.
Both Humphries and Ross said
that the two trains apparently ap
plied their brakes for some dis
tance before the actual head-on
collision occurred. They said that
wheels and tracks near the scene
of the crash showed white-hot in
the early evening haze.
The northbound train carried 35
cars, all but nine of which were
either smashed to pieces or de
railed, while the southbound car
ried 33 cars, all but 16 of which
were thrown from the tracks by
force of the impact.
Tracks were being cleared this
afternoon and officials of the line
said they expected to be routing
traffic over the spot by 6 oclock,
although it would be several days
before the debris could be cleared
from the right-of-way and the
tracks put back into first class
condition. Debris and wrecked
cars were piled along the tracks
I for a distance of several hundred
! yards.
Within a few minutes of the
crash hundreds of people were at
the scene, and a huge crowd was
on hand throughout the day
Thursday watching the wreck
crews clear the tracks.
Rumors that two hoboes were
seen on the southbound train be
fore it reached Roanoke Rapids
and were killed in the accident
were unfounded.
Investigators for the Seaboard
came here from both Raleigh and
Portsmouth to attempt to learn
the cause of the accident. Results
of their investigation had not
been learned when the Herald
went to press.
Kiwanis Meeting
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| ute period each in which to make
: a few remarks.
Another feature of the program
I will be a rendition of several
numbers by the Roanoke Rapids
High School choir under the di
rection of Lee Williams, head of
the music department in the local
schools.
Governor Norwood said that the
' annual meeting of the clubs in the
sixth division was formerly held
as a sort of ladies night meeting,
but that ladies would not be in
cluded in tonight’s meeting be
cause of the transportation short
age facing clubs who will send
representatives here. •
The committee on arrangements
for the affair is composed of W.
L. Medlin, president of the local
club, and Edwin Akers, Jr., and
Governor Norwood.
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