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B”j| B,||M "Jj1! 1,1,1 |H,|H|||,,|,|| ii|||ii iini| mim ||iiii|mmiimn iiIIILIIiiihJ.Uhl Iillll mu iillllJLllJ „|||al nmll ilimlllliillJ THE ROANOKE RAPIDS N. O.’a TABloid Picture NEWSpaper — AH Home-Print — K VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN_ROANOKE RAPIDS, NTc. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1942 NUMBER 46 J. R. ALLSBROOK IN NAVAL RESERVE SENATOR HONORED BY NAVY Julian R. Allsbrook, State Rep resentative, and nominee of the Democratic voters for the State Senate, received another very high honor yesterday at the hands of the United States, when he was commissioned Lieutenant Senior Grade in the U. S. Navy Reserve. Mr. Allsbrook volunteered his services to the Navy soon after Pearl Harbor, but was told to, pursue his normal course of life until such a time as his country felt he was needed. He will leave July 1st for a training course at Cornell Uni versity Naval Training School at Ithica, N. Y. Two hundred of his friends from all sections of Halifax Coun ty met at Halifax last night and were informed of the news. After congratulations from all of them, who wished they could go with him, the group demanded that he be continued as the leader of good government in the county and that he represent Halifax County in the 1943 State Senate. It was pointed out that as an officer in the Reserve, he could be granted the short furlough that would be needed for what promises to be a short session of the Legislature. His experience in both branches of the Legislature makes it imperative that he be present and little trouble is ex pected in getting him the leave for his legislative duties. The pre cedent was set in the last World War when members of Congress and State legislature returned on furloughs to perform their legis lative duties. The suddenness of the appoint ment of such a high rank shows that his fitness, legislative experi ence, character and reputation met with unanimous approval of those who are selecting the leaders in this program of winning a war. Such is the hearty opinion of all his many friends. Ration Boards To Meet At Halifax Rationing Boards of several coun- i ties in this section of the State i will meet in Halifax at the new I office building at 8:30 p.ia, Tubs- < day, June 23rd, to hear instruc- < tions from OPA Held Inspector i Schellingburg. Citizens of Halifax County, interested in file rationing : problem, are Invited to attend. MERCHANTS FROM AREA WILL MEET IN CITY MONDAY -* - COMMISSIONED LT. (SR. GRADE) ALLSBROOK U. S. Naval Reserve, who yesterday passed his final physical exam and was commissioned Lieutenant by the Navy. Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County salute a native son who volunteered soon after Pearl Harbor. He has set an example of unselfish patriotism which makes America great. He will still serve in the Senate of the State lie loves. (See story this page) __ TEST CASE TRIED AT HALIFAX Thurston Vanlandingham and Al ison Allsbrook, Scotland Neck vhite youths, Tuesday were sen ;enced by Judge Charlie Daniel in Halifax Countv Recorders Court ;o serve 30 days each on the coun :y roads for trespassing in the Civilian Defense Control Center in Scotland Neck Friday night, in he first case of its kind yet re corded in the county criminal court records. Vanlandingham and Allsbrook, i9 and 17 years of age, respective (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) High Federal Officials Will Discuss Price Regulations A general mass meeting has been called for all merchants in Halifax, Northampton and sur rounding counties to be held in the Roanoke Rapids high school auditorium on Monday night of next week at 7 o’clock, it was an nounced today by C. A. Wyche, President of the local Merchants Association The meeting was called by the local Merchants Association, for the purpose of discussing new price ceiling, credit and carrier regulations imposed upon mer chants by the Office of Price Administration. To be present for the meeting are A. N. Heflin, Associate Attor ney for the Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, who will discuss certain phases of the new regulations and conduct an open forum for merchants in attendance, Theo dore S. Johnson, State Director of OPA, and Norman Shephard, State Attorney for OPA, both of whom will discuss price ceilings and their detailed application to all types of businesses. r* r* n_: j — 4. the N. C. Merchants Association, will preside over the meeting. There is a possibilty that W. L. Dowe, who is executive secretary of the N. C. Merchants Association, will be present for the meeting. President Wyche said that em phasis would be placed on the dis cussion of Credit Regulation W, which has to do with all open charge accounts. Merchants are urged to come prepared to ask as many questions as possible per taining to their own businesses, as an open forum will be held for the purpose of answering questions. What merchants have to do to comply with the price ceiling reg ulations will be clarified by Direc tor Johnson and Attorney Shep hard. This particular phase of the new regulations is causing con siderable confusion among mer chants and this will be an opportu nity of clearing up any confusion (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) -..^ STATE BOARD RULES DEMOCRATS REFUSED MAY VOTE JUNE 27TH Must Satisfy Registrars Of Their Pre cinct They Are Qualified Democrats Left Off Proper Book; Then Can Vote In Second Primary; Three Books Confuse Voters Democrats, turned away because registrars failed to enter their names on two of the three books now used for County, State and National elections, will get a chance to vote in Halifax County in the second primary on next Saturday, June 27th. Had P. C. Luter, candidate for Sheriff, signed only the second proposal made to the two candi dates in the second primary, which proposal would have meant an agreement to let all bona-fide Dem ocrats from the 1940 primary or general election vote in this second primary, this space would have been used as an apology to Sheriff House, who last week at press time had not seen the second proposal. But, Mr. Luter signed the first proposal which went back to the 1938 primary and also agreed to the later changes made in the sec ond proposal leaving out the 1938 primary. Sheriff House did not sign the first proposal nor did he agree to the second nor has he signed either at this date, to the best of our knowledge. They may vote if they satisfy the Registrar of their precinct that they are good Democrats who voted the Democratic ticket in the primary two years ago (when Gov. Broughton won the nomin ation) or the November election of two years ago, when President Roosevelt won over Mr. Willkie. They must satisfy the registrar “by affidavit, the democratic pri mary book of 1940, or otherwise”, according to the ruling by the State Board of Elections support ed by the Attorney General of North Carolina, and their name must now be on the general book. For example: the Registrar in Roanoke Rapids No. 3 precinct, largest in Halifax County, is Mr. Lunsford Crew, brother of J. Winfield Crew, Jr., More than 200 voters in that precinct were turn ed away in the first primary be cause “their names could not be found.” They must "satisfy” Mr. Crew that they have a right to vote. (Mr. Crew has lived in No. 3 precinct a matter of months. Many of those who must satisfy him have lived in No. 3 precinct all their lives and have voted the Democratic ticket since they were 21). Since the State Board of Elections has given them another chance to prove their party affilia tion, it is expect, d that Mr. Crew will have plenty of affidavits, sworn to, presented to him for his satisfaction. The same holds true, in lesser degree, to some other precincts in the county. Other registrars will have similar problems to decide. New Registrars in Roanoke Rap ids since the new registration in 1940 who must be “satisfied” are: Roanoke Rapids No. 1 (Roanoke River to 4th St.) J. B. BROWNING. Roanoke Rapids No. 2 (4th St. to 8th St.) ALGIE DICKENS. Roa noke Rapids No. 3 (8th St. to Rail road) W. LUNSFORD CREW. It is most interesting to report that in Roanoke Rapids No. 1, Roanoke Rapids No. 2 and Roan oke Rapids No. 3, the present Registrars are not the registrars who were on the books when the new registration was called by the Halifax County Board of Elec tions in 1940. From those three biggest precincts in the county came most of the complaints from Democrats, with biggest No. 3 topping the list. Searching for a needle in a hay stack, 48 Democrats in No. 3 were found in two days who certified they had voted in the primary and (or) the general election in 1940 and who were turned away on May 30th, 1942, because they were not on the Democratic book. An election official at that precinct testified that 10 voters were turn ed away in 12 minutes. All those who voted on May 30th and all those who did not come to the polls on May 30th, who are on the books, can vote on June 27th. They are not at stake (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A)
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