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6 ROBERT E. MAY, Navy, May 8, 1942 JAMES VV. WHITBY, Navy, Oct. 26, 1942 . R» H. McCOMMONS, Merchant Mar., July 5, 1942 WILLIAM H. CAMP, JR., Navy, Nov., 1942 I _H VOLUME xxvm _ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943 NUMBER 35 • t Scout Executive V # WILLIAM B. RHODEN i 3*» the new Field Scout Executive pf. the East Carolina Council, who re cently arrived in the city to take over his duties. Rhoden replaces Norman Scrivener, who was recent * ly promoted to Assistant Scout Ex ecutive with headquarters in Wil son. • TWO COLO!® SUICIDES ON ’NEARBY FARM Two colored people committed suicide within a week of each £ other, and on farms that almost adjoin, it became known here this week. Neither death had any con nection with the other, so far as is known, and the first has not even been reported to County £ Coroner F. ”N. Rowe, he said to day. Henry Faulcon, 57-year old Ne gro farmer landowner, who lives on the Littleton Highway near Hannibal Shearin’s service station, dj discharged a shotgun into his chest Tuesday evening about 6 o’clock. The full load took effect in his heart, it is said, and death was in stantaneous. Faulcon, the father of eleven children, had been in ill £ health for some time, and his self destruction is attributed to this fact by his family. The suicide was committed at his home at an out-building on the farm. The funeral has not been m held, awaiting arrival of his son who is in- the armed services in Tennessee. The coroner investigat ed the shooting and rendered a verdict of “death by own hands.” He did not deem a formal inquest jj) necessary. It is reported that Laura Powell, who’s family lives on a farm prac tically adjoining the lands of Faulcon, visited the home of her people a week ago Tuesday, and $ retired to a bedroom where she shot herself in the head With a pistol. HI health was also attri buted as the cause 6f her com mitting suicide. f NEED $500 REACH GOAL RED CROSS Hope To Raise Amount In Appeal To Theatre Going Public In City L. S. Neal, chairman of the roll call drive of the local chapter of the American Red Cross, reported today that the war fund drive started here several weeks ago is still almost $500.00 short of the $10,000 goal set for the chapter, "vith practically a'l reports in at this time, it is indicated $9,521.00 has. been raised from all sources. Mr. Neal stated he felt many per sons in the community had not yet been enlisted, and appealed to them to address their voluntary contributions to him, either mailing them to him or leaving at his of fice. The princmal remaining hope to raise the milanee of the money needed to reach the goal is the drive being staged in city theatres, which started today. On the screens of all local movie houses today and continuing for a week, is the screen appeal of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Representa tives from the Red Cross are sta tioned in the lobbies of the thea tres to accept contributions, and it is hoped through this source to obtain a major portion of the funds needed to reach the goal. ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT I DEATHVICTIH T. A. Sledge Came To City Before Turn Of Century; Dies Monday Funeral services for Thaddeus Adolphus Sledge, 86-year old city resident, who died Monday, were held Wedesday afternoon at All Saints’ Episcopal Church. Rev. Edmund Berkeley, officiated. In terment was in Cedarwood ceme tery. One of the oldest settlers of the city, Mr. Sledge came here from Thelma in 1899 and started work ing for Rosemary Manufacturing Co. He was born and reared in Halifax county. Mr. Sledge has been in failing health for several months and his death was not unexpected. Surviving him are five daughters, Mrs. R. T. Mountford of Roanoke Rapids, Mrs. Winfield Taylor of Roanoke Rapids, Mrs. W. A. Spor hase of Deland, Fla., Mrs. L. E. Pearson of Roanoke Rapids, and Mrs. George Cooper of Roanoke Rapids; and two sons, Samuel L. Sledge of Roanoke Rapids ‘and Robert A. Sledge of Norlina. GIVES UP HOPE FOR SON AS SHIP MATE TELLS OF SINKING OF THE OWEN Bill Gay Says Marvin Scott In Engine Room Of DeHaven When Sunk Mrs. Mary Poythress, who lives just across the river from the city, on a farm in Northampton County, has given up all hope that her son, Marvin Scott, fireman first class in the Navy, is sti’l alive fol lowing the arrival here of Bill Gay, a ship-mate, who told ; er Tuesd ni ;ht that .he w as posi tive young Scott was in the engine room of the ill-fated USS DeHaven when she was sunk off Guadalcan al recently. Scott, one of IS survivor-; of the dj'SS Hints1* when 'tli.it shiv tv - sunk May 7th, 1942, was reported “missing in action” to liis mother about the middle of last r. onth. Bill Gay, 21-year-old son of Mrs. (Continued On Page 7--Sec. A) ■ Joe S. Craddock, veteran of one sea battle, and reported as “miss ing following action” by the Navy department, only to return to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Craddock, at 126 Hamilton Street, last Thanksgiving, was in another battle at sea recently. Young Craddock was injured in the last battle, but he is reported to be getting along nicely in the naval hospital at Norfolk, where his parents visited him over the week end. Latest notification of the injuries to their son came to the Crad docks from the Naval station at Brooklyn. The letter stated he was admitted to a hospital there for treatment on February 18th, after having received an injury in a convoy battle. His ship was re ported sunk. He was then transferred to the naval hospital at Norfolk, in order that he might be nearer the home of his parents, who hope that he will be able to leave the hospital and visit his home again soon. I— mm mmj JOE S. CRADDOCK 2nd VFW Dance Following the initial success of the dance staged by the Vet erans of Foreign Wars at the Armory here two weeks ago, they announce another one for 8 o’clock Saturday night, April 3rd. Music will be by a local “hill-billy” band, with both square and round dancing. \ Typhoid Clinics A typhoid clinic, under the auspices of Roanoke Mills Co. for their No. 1 and No. 2 plants, will be held at the doctor’s of fice at 2til Jackson Street, be ginning April 15th and lasting through June 1st. The clinic will be conducted daily except Sat urday. SUPPLY FEED WHEAT READY FOR • Available to Farmers -At $1.07 Bushel; Must Place (halers At Once Recent Congressional action free ing an additional 100.000.000 bush els of feed wheat will make it pos sible for Halifax County poultry and livestock dealers to obtain more federally-owned wheat for feeding purposes, it was announced today bv \V. A. Kitchin, chairman of the County AAA Committee. Release of this wheat, Chairman Kitchin said, is aimed at relieving shortages of feed which have oc 'r’fVr’rar'in 'Hairy areas'and assisting • "a- -ers in meeting their produc tion goals for livestn --k, dairy, and poultry in the 1943 Food for Free dom campaign. An allocation of 125.000.000 bushels of wheat for feeding purposes was made last summer, but the last of this amount was sold earlier . this month. Of the first allocation, North Carolina farmers purchased more than 950 carloads. T’Vicj rnoonthr rnlnhC'Qrl will be available to Halifax County feeders at $1.07 per bushel, de livered in carload lots to any rail road point in the county. Live stock, poultry and other feeders may place their orders with deal ers, the County AAA Committee or directly with the Commodity Credit Corporation, Mr. Kitchin said. In placing orders, however, pro ducers must state the amount of wheat they now have on hand and their estimated monthly require ments. Orders will be accepted for a quantity which, together with the amount on hand, will not ex ceed a three months’ supply. Local feed mixers and dealers will be required to state the unsold quantity on hand and estimated monthly requirements, and total amounts will be restricted to not more than two months’ supply. Large feed manufacturers, distri butors, and County AAA Commit tees, also must state quantities of unsold wheat on hand and weekly requirements, and total amounts they may have will be restricted to not more than two month’s sup nlv. “These restrictions are being placed on sales in order to as sure an equitable distribution of supplies which may be shipped immediately,” Chairman Kitchin said. “It is possible that lack of freight cars will delay filling of orders immediately, and those per sons who have some wheat on hand should delay their orders as long as practical to do so.” He said, however, that when it is impractical to accep* an order for less than the amouijt of wheat in a bin, a carload, or 'the amount of wheat represented by a warehouse receipt, the supply limitations may be increased to cne of these amounts.
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