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I VOLUME XXV111 KUAJNUKE KATIUS, N. U IHUKSUAI, JUNE 3, 1943 NUMBER 44 ° MOBILE BLOOD DONOR UNIT * — A drive is currently being made in the county to provide a mobile blood donor unit similar to the ‘One pictured above, which will be donated to the P merican Red Cross, in honor of youths from Hali fax County now in the armed services of • the count y, The unit will bear the name of Halifax County on the door, when sufficient funds for its purchaf e have been raised. -—— SOLICIT FUNDS IN COUNTY TOR MOBILE BLOOD DONOR UNIT FOR THE RED CROSS • *>• W. Mullen Chairman Of Drive In Gty; Reports Progress Funds are currently being solici t<A throughout Halifax County to pay for a mobile blood donor unit to be given in honor of county men serving in the nation’s armed forces, and T. W. Mullen is chair . rikn of the drive in Roanoke Rap ids. The blood plasma procured by this means is processed into dry plasma, and sent for use on the battle fronts. It is said to be of tire greatest help in bringing back American soldiers who have been wounded in battle. When sufficient contributions have been made to insure the ■ purchase of the unit, it will bear I tife name of “Halifax County, r IN OT til UttFWina. Ull IUC kakjvji, ! will be given to the American Red Cross, to be used wherever it is most needed. Air. Mullen pointed out that tms was strldby not another Red . Cross Drive, as the only interest ' that organization had in the ven ture was in placing the units ; where they are most needed. * Ji concerted drive for contri butions will be made in industrial | plants in the city, while the Vet , erans Of Foregn Wars organiza ■ tion will solicit funds for the 1 balance of the community. Mullen t! named the following men to head t* drive here: A. O. Pendleton for Roanoke Mills Co. No. 1; W. T. Hodges for Roanoke Mills Co. I No. 2; A. Meikle for Patterson Mills Company; T. W. Mullen for gtesemary Manufacturing Co.; E. UP Byrd for Manchester Board and Paper CO.; E. H. Graves for Halifax Paper Cb., and Don Tillar for Virginia Electric & Power Co. The drive In the county has been underway for more than 10 ^Uontmued on Page 8, Sec. A ADVANCES ✓ . J CPL. GEO. GRAHAM DICKENS' son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Dickens, 2009 Halifax Road, has been sent to Miami Beach, Florida, for an 8-weeks course in physical educa tion, at the completion of which he will be made a staff sergeant. CpL Dickens was inducted in Au gust, 1942, and was stationed at Ardmore, Oklahoma, until recently. A brother, Staff Sgt. Joe B. Dick ens, is on duty with a medical unit in North Africa, having ar rived tjiere shortly before Christ mas last year. BOND QUOTA FOR COUNTY UP FOR JUNE See Details Page 8 - Sec, A ERWIN DIES AT HOSPITAL HERE TODAY City\ Police Officer Breathed His Last ,About 10:30 A. M. W. M. Erwin, who has served as a city police officer since De cember, 1936, died at Roanoke Rppids Hospital about 10:30 this norning, of coronary thrombosis. I 'e was stricken with a heart at tack on the morning of Tuesday, lay 18th, and was taken to the lOspital where he remained as a atient, up to the time of hi^ eath this morning. Reports of his condition had been encourag ng for the past ten-days, although death was not unexpected. Funeral services will be conduc ed from the nosemary tsapusi. Church here Saturday afternoon at 5 p. m. with Rev. C. F. Young, of Lexington, officiating. Mr. Erwin was 58-years old. He came to Roanoke Rapids in 1934, from Hillsboro. He was a native of Orange County, and worked at the carpenters trade here prior to joining the city police force. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nellie B. Hurley Erwin; 3 sons, H. H. “Jack”, and Crawford Erwin of this city, and Bradley Erwin of Newport News, Va., 6 daughters, Mrs. C. E. Hicks of Hillsboro, Mrs. W. R. Myrick of Roanoke Rapids. Della M. Erwin, serving with the WAACTs at Camp Polk, La.; Mrs. Frank Marquardt of Pennsylvania, and Misses Lucy and Annie Er win of this city. In addition to his immedate family he is survived by 16 grand children, three brothers, Henry Erwin of Mooresville, J. F. Erwin of Charlotte and John Erwin of Davidson College, and one sister, Mrs. C. W. Beam of Kannapolis. PREVENTORIUM WILL OPEN IN CITY JUNE 14th See'Details Page 8 - Sec. A Negro Is Suicide LIVES FOR 4V2 HOURS AFTER FIRING SHOT Wife Unable Explain Tragedy; Apparently Not In Any Trouble James “Buddy" Putney, colored man in his early thirties, commit ted suicide at his home in the Lin coln Heights colored section of the city last night by firing a shot gun into his head. Reports are to the effect he fired the shot about 10 o’clock, practically blowing away his skull, but he breathed until 1:35 o'clock this morning, at Roanoke Rapids Hos pitai wnere 11 tug Hours cook nim. Both his wife and his mother were unable to give an explana tion as to the cause of the act. His wife reports that he came In from work yesterday afternoon as usual, and was obviously under the hallucination that “the law vas after him.” She reported to officers that he acted strangely all evening. They retired shortly before 10 o’clock, she says, and soon afterward he got up out of his bed and grabbed a shotgun stating that someone was after his hogs in the backyard. He ran from the house a short distance into the backyard, and his wife heard the gun discharge soon, thereafter. Upon investigating the shot she found he had shot himself, and with the help of neighbors brought him to the hospital where he died at 1:35 o’clock this morn ing. It is said that doctors mar ?ontinued on Page 8, Sec. A SILVER BARS J LT. RAINE WILSON son of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Wilson, 738 Roanoke Avenue, was com missioned a first lieutenant at Camp Pickett, Va., on May 13th. He was a member of the 105th Medical Regiment from the city. PLAYGROUNDS TO OPEN HERE NEXT MONDAY Joe Talley Will Have Charge Of Project For Summer Months Four city playgrounds will open next Monday morning at 8:30, under the supervision of Joe Tal ley, principal of the city junior high school. The same playgrounds will be operated this year that were maintained under last year s program, including those at Cen tral School, Bunker Hill, Patterson and Rosemary, and the colored school at Chaloner Park. The Rosemary swimming pool is evpected to open within jt few days, depending upon time re quired by workmen to complete repairs. Playground hours will be from 8:30 to 10:30 A. M., and from 2 to 4 in the afternoon. Present plans are for the pool to be open from 11 to 12 In the morning for children who have obtained -tickets from the play grounds, and from 2 to 5 o’clock afternoon for the general public. The following playground pork ers have been selected: For boys: Frank Hawley, Jr, Sanford Brown, Adres Fisher, Buck Rose, Rich ard Wilson, Jack Wrenn, Kenneth Tilley and Oliver Bray; for girls: Marie Harbour, Mary Louise Mar in, Virginia Lee Thorne, Elisa beth Beckwith and Margaret Tay lor. BIG NOISE IS UNEXPLAINED Blast Is Heard Over Wide Area Tuesday Morning At 4:30 A big noise, resembling that of an explosion or earth tremor, was heard over a wide area in Eastern North Carolina, and parts of South side Virginia about 4:30 a m. on Tuesday morning, and is as yet mexplained. Reports are to the effect that the noise was heard as far south as Washington, N. C. (more than 100 air miles from here) and was not as distinct in Emporia and other points in Virginia Rumors were rife in Roanoke Rapids throughout the day Tues day as to the possible cause, but so far no authoritive explanation has been advanced.
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