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;TV , v ._T7 • DESTROYS LAUNDRY U-JlSClStYOUS rive punt SATURDAY E * 'x-l-my I ||!lll|| "JJ'I ""'ll i! ullllki iillii iiiiill THE ROANOKE RAPIDS I VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N, C. THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 1942 NUMBEBI HERE SUED, ASSAULTED JOHNSON'S LAUNDRY IS TOTAL LOSS j) One of the most disastrous fires I in the history of the city occurred | shortly after midnight last Satur | day when the plant of Johnson’s .Laundry, located in the south part of the city on the Littleton High way, was completely destroyed. Estimate of the loss is placed at $50,000.00, making it perhaps the most costly blaze ever to occur here. i The modern plant of the laun dry and dry cleaning establish ment was a blazing inferno when the fire was discovered by L. A. Daniel, who lives across the street. Daniel quickly summoned C. T. Johnson, owner and manager of the plant who lives nextdoor to the laundry. Johnson had left j the building only thirty-minutes before the fire was discovered and after a last check-up of the prem ises had gone home and retired. The City Fire Department quickly answered the alarm, but their efforts were to little avail due to the fact the laundry is outside the city limits and the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District, therefore the only water available for fighting the blaze was from a 5,000 gallon tank maintained by Johnson for supplying the laun (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) ____ PROGRESS IS REPORTED ON THE AIRPORT A representative group of citi zens from Roanoke Rapids, rep resenting various business groups and civic clubs, appeared as a committee before the County Board of Commissioners meeting in their regular session Monday at Halifax. They reported the county board as being favorable to the project and expressing themselves to the effect that some satisfactory arrangement can be made whereby the land may be | purchased. Pending the “go sign” from the war department, in the event the county does purchase the land, and, in addition, take care of the initial engineering work necessary to get the project ready for actual construction, the Civil Aeronautics Authority would then build the field and add the necessary equip ment ■i iii in in mi inn m ■ mi in MOST COSTLY BLAZE IN CITY'S HISTORY SHOWN ABOVE is what remains of the Johnson Laundry plant after fire reduced it to ruins here Saturday might, causing damage estimated aft $50,000.00. —Staff Photo ESCAPE ATTEMPT ~ HS - * 2 KILLED IN TRUCK CRASH NEAR WELDON Two Negro men were killed and six seriously injured about 3:30 last Saturday afternoon when a truck in which some 25 or 30 colored workmen were riding left the highway about 3-miles from Weldon on the Halifax Road. The truck was owned by James A. Pierce, Weldon lumberman. It was being driven by LeRoy Turner, Weldon Negro, who is being held in jail at Halifax in lieu of $1,000. bond. A preliminary hearing was given Turner in the jail at Hali fax Monday night before D. C. Johnson, Weldon Justice of the Peace, at which time he was in dicted for reckless driving. According to reports the truck was returning to Weldon from some distance out in the country where the colored men had been “logging” It is said that Turner was driving too close behind an other car and ran off the high way to avoid hitting the car in front. /"The truck hurdled a ditch and did not 3top until it had run some lSO-ft into a field near the edge of the highway. The colored men were thrown from the truck and “piled up” in the ditch. The (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) A wholesale attempt ' to escape from the County Jail in Halifax was discovered last Saturday aft ernoon. and as a result some thir teen Negroes and one white prisoner will be indicted and tried at the next session of Recorder’s Court for complicity in the crime. Jack Whitehead, jailer, with the assistance of Corporal J. C. Long, and Patrolman Ernest Guthrie, of the State Highway Patrol, uncov ered evidence in the case which tended to show that hack saw blades were smuggled into the jail on Tuesday of last week by one Timothy Mills, county Negro who had been released from the roads only that day. Those involved in the escape attempt had made good headway and had succeeded in partially sawing through three heavy steel plates at the rear of the individual cell blocks. It was also found that they sawed into one end of the heavy bars to the outside of the jail, which would have easily permitted their escape if they were successful in their attempt to free themselves from the individual cells. Those who will be tried on charges ranging from smuggling, attempting to escape jail to aid ing and abetting to escape in clude: Owen Zack Wiggins, white man, and the following Negroes: Timothy Mills, alleged to have smuggled the blades into the jail, May Patterson, trusty, Buster Revis, Wilson Harrison, Nat Pe terson, Wilson Harrison, Marion Floy, Dawson Fason, William Rev (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) wiMiiiiWPiPiiiiMisiiiiii USO QUOTA IS FINALLY ATTAINED The $6,900 quota set for Halifax County for United Service Organ izations was reached this week, a month after the campaign started. The exact amount reported by Treasurer W .L. Medlin to County Chairman F. C. Williams was $6,960.53. Short of the goal last week, it was reached by the combined ef forts of the Softball League of Roanoke Rapids with a benefit game, collections taken up in local churches and a portion of the sale of salvage rubber by Major New some of the Salvage Committee. The Treasurer’s report to Na tional USO showed total collec tions on July 31 of $6,960.53; cam paign expenses, postage, publicity, telephone and telegraph $10.68; 10 per cent withheld as agreed for local USO work for the next year $694.98; balance after deduc tions and amount remitted to National USO $6,254.87. In regard to the $694.98 for lo cal USO, Chairman Williams stat ed this money would be spent by the County Committee which will be called together soon to appor tion the funds according to USO needs and amount raised in each community. A dangerous situation directly affecting the war effort developed here yesterday afternoon with the Government Appeal Agent of Hal ifax Draft Board No. 1 assaulted by a draftee, coming on the heels of the news that the Chairman of the Board had been sued for slander by a Warren County doc tor. Judge Charley Daniel of Weldon, who in addition to rendering free service to the country as Govern ment Appeal Agent, is Judge of the Halifax County Recorders Court, was in the draft board of fice in the Kidd Building here yesterday afternoon checking questionnaires Carl Haislip, former Roanoke Rapids citizen, now working near Chester, Pa, came into the draft office and demanded to see the Chairman of the Board. He was told the chairman, Mr. Mullen, was not in the office. Employees of the board in the office at the time were Mrs, Ellen Taylor, wL,"> succeeded “Swifty" Faison as clerk of the board, Mrs. Alice Miller and Miss Jeanette Robinson. Hais lip began to curse and talk abusively. Judge Daniel phoned for the police and Haislip left the office. Officer Carl Green arrived but Haislip had disappeared. When the officer left the build inf Waisfm rpf.TirnpH tr> thp riraff: board office and accused Judge Daniel of being “Swifty” Faison with whom Haislip had some words yesterday morning while being examined at the clinic. When Judge Daniel said he was not Faison, Haislip called him a liar and continued to curse and abuse. Judge Daniel sought to eject the niatt from the office and the presence of the three women. Haislip told the Judge to take off his glasses but the Judge refused and Haislip then hit the Judge in the mouth and ran from the of fice. Mrs. Taylor and Miss Rob inson had left to find an officer. Haislip followed them down the steps, cursing and abusing them. He was arrested a short time later by officer Green and lodged in the city jail. He became so un ruly there that he was taken to Halifax jail last night. He is re ported to have said last night that he had rather be in the peniten tiary than in the army and he hoped Germany and Japan won the war. The cause for Haislip’s anger appears to be that he was chang ed from 3A to 1A and ordered here for physical examination. His 3A classification was on the basis of a single man whose parents were dependent on him. Haislip has married since then but failed to report this to the local board. He may face charges in Fed eral Court of stssaulting Federal officers and seeking to impede the workings of the draft law. Suit for slander, asking $25,000 (Continued on Page 8, Sec. A) ". .—■
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