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T^TT'HITinHI ROBERT E. MA^SSLu. V. S. JV«* May S, 1942 lii|| |||| || iiiJI |||| || Hi II HiJI ||^|jS. Merchant Marine, July 5, 1942 THE ROANOKE RAPIDS t ■ i _i More News — More Advertising — More Paid Subscriber* VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. ~ THURSDAY, AUG. 20,1942_NUMBER 3 TWO MORE YOUTHS IN SERVICE WILLIAM BELL SERGEANT HURLEY MIDGETT William Bell (left) is a former Herald employee, now stationed with the Army in Australia. His sister, Miss Ruth Bell, of this city, has heard from him twice recently. Hurley Midgett is shown on the right. Complete story off Ms promotion to Sergeant will be found on Page 13— Section A 1 --- --- ft All but two of the 17 prisoners who escaped from the State High i way Commission Prison Farm at Jackson shortly after midnight on Wednesday, August 12th, have been captured. Lloyd Bennett, of Atchison, Kan sas, and Delma Stanley of Ashe . ville, are the two prisoners still at large. Authorities are said to be following down several clues in their capture, but it is thought the man-hunt may spread to other states. [i ! Four of the prisoners were cap ’ tured Thursday afternoon about 5 o'clock at Branchville, Virginia, , where they had taken refuge in a j vacant house. The men were seen to enter the house and authorities , were notified who quickly sent pris on department employees and state . highway patrolmen to the scene I whereupon surrounding the house I they were captured. The four men who gained cover in the empty house had a shotgun in their possession which they had stolen from the prison guards at Jackson when making their es cape. They did not attempt to fire the gun and all four men made their exit from the house with their hands up. Thursday night brought the capture of two more of the fugi tives between 2 and 5 a.m. near Vaughan. One state employee who had been called from the Raleigh office to assist in the man hunt Thursday was returning to the capital. He left the camp about 9:30 and as he was approaching the town of Vaughan he saw three men, whom he recognized as prisoners, run from the road. He notified authorities at the camp, who hurried to the scene and caught two of the men on (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) BROTHERS IN FOREIGN SERVICE JAMES E. COOPER THOMAS A. COOPER, -JR. The two brothers shown above are now seeing service on foreign soil. James Cooper is in Hawaii where he was sent soon after he entered the Army in September, 1840. Thos. A. Cooper, Jr., entered the Army in October, 1941, and is now stationed in Northern Ireland. They are the of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cooper, of near Weldon. ft._i_ ^Msaw^iyiii—liwii ■iiiiyMMaw - v TESTS SHOW CD GROUP UP TO PAR HERE Another air raid drill was held Wednesday afternoon, the air raid alarm being sounded at 6:30 P. M., the all clear at 7:15 P. M. The Citizens’ Defense Corps unit work ed perfectly and at the Control Cen ter ,two minutes after the last re port of air raid damage was called in, the emergency service panel was cleared of “services needed”, which means that units had been dis patched to every single incident which had been reported. Two cases of persons not observ ing the traffic directions of the policemen were reported and both men were immediately sent to jail. One of the problems brought back problems of the 1940 flood when it was reported that a high explosive bomb had wrecked the power plant and damaged the canal. Several minutes afterwards a call came for “more sand bags”. Other incidents included heavy fires in the Rose mary section and one air raid warden reported that a high ex plosive bomb had wrecked the down town ABC store, and he re (Continued on Page 12, Sec. A) COMPULSORY TO DISPLAY GAS STICKER Unless local motorists have their gasoline rationing sticker prom inently displayed on the windshield or rear glass of their automobiles they may be turned down on their requests for gasoline from filling station attendants, according to announcement made this week by H. B. Speight, chairman of the Halifax County Rationing Board. NC-42-1. Speight declared that it was ob vious some motorists had neglect ed to display their stickers, which are furnished each motorist with the issuance of their rationing book. The rules require each mo torist to display one sticker, which conforms with the ration ing book in their possession. He declared that filling station op erators would soon be instructed by the State office not to make deliveries of gasoline to an auto mobile unless it displayed a ra tioning sticker. IN AUSTRALIA Staff Sergeant Elwood L. Good fellow, above, is now serving in Australia. See story on Back Page of this section. R.W. VAUGHAN OF ENFIELD DIES TODAY Robert W. Vaughan, Enfield Ford dealer and service station proprietor, died shortly after noon today at a Rocky Mount hospital, allegedly the result of injuries he received in a fight with Harry Hardison, former Enfield night policeman. The two men are known to have had an altercation at Vaughan’s filling station about noon today. Vaughan was injured to the extent that attending phy sicians advised that he be taken to the hospital. He died shortly after arrival at a Rocky Mount hospital. Hardison is reported to have given himself up to Deputy Sheriff Cliff Strickland, and is now being held in the county jail at Halifax. Very few details of the diffi culties between the two men were available at press time. Vaughan, about 45-years old, served as a town commissioner at Enfield. Hardison had served as a night policeman for about 18-months when he was recently suspended from the service. Fifty Nazi police agents were killed in Poland last June, in cluding the Gestapo chief at Lub lin. TO PUT IN FINAL GAME SATURDAY State Tournament To Be Held In The City If They Beat Pilot t 4** Roanoke Rapids bids fair to haver the state Softball tournament held in the city if the Romancos con tinue their winning streak and de feat the Pilot Mills team in Ra leigh Saturday night. The Eastern finals have been postponed for a fourth time because of rain. The Romancos were state cham pions for the past three consecu tive years, and it is said they are favorites to take the Eastern titles thereby giving them a chance at Greensboro, the Western champ ions, for another state champion- , ship. Interest in softball has always been high in the city and the prospect of having a state tourna ment played here makes Saturday night’s game in Raleigh looked for ward to with great interest. The final game to be played be tween Pilot Mills of Raleigh and The Rosemary Manufacturing CO. Romancos of Roanoke Rapids was to have been played originally on Saturday night at Red Diamond in Raleigh but was postponed un til the following afternoon be cause of wet grounds. The game on Sunday was called off because of rain at the end of the third inning with both teams deadlocked in a 1-1 tie. Again the game was put off until Monday night. There was no game on Monday so the game was forwarded to Tuesday. When no game could be played that night the tournament officials decided to postpone the playing of the game until Saturday night. These excessive postponements have made it necessary to move the date of the state finals for ward to next week at which time the winner of the Pilot-Romanco game will meet Greensboro, the Western champion, on the East ern winner’s home grounds. So far in the tourney Roanoke Rapids holds victories over Golds boro and Rocky Mount and Ra leigh has defeated Fayetteville, having drawn a bye in the first round of tournament competition. Birmingham, Ala., held a “scrap out” recently, with air raid ward ens supervising a drive which net ted 279 tons of metal and rubber.
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