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a VOLUME XXX " ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.TTHURSDAY, JULY 26,1945 " NUMBER 47
Woman Is Hit
By Auto Last
Friday Night
Mrs. Daisy Gum was struck by
an automobile about two miles
*0 from Roanoke Rapids on the Lit
tleton Highway last Friday night
about 11 o’clock. The accident
was caused, it is said, when H.
E. Liles of Norfolk, on his way to
the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Liles, of Aurelian Springs,
met another car travelling toward
Roanoke Rapids. The two cars
passed without mishap, but im
mediately afterwards Liles said he
i saw a dark object directly in the
path of his car only a few yards
in front. He made every effort to
avoid hitting it. Stopping his ma
chine the Norfolk man discovered
it was a woman.
Mrs. Gum was on her way home,
it is said, after she had been to
the home of a daughter nearby.
She was taken to Roanoke Rap
ids Hospital for treatment. Her
injuries are not believed serious.
After an investigation of the ac
cident by officers no blame was
attached to Liles. Riding in the
car with him at the time were
S' « his wife and two children and
jR Mrs. Liles’ mother, Mrs. W. VV.
| Gibson.
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' Men Jailed in
"Break" Case
Two white men, Hubert “Boob”
Lowder and Ben Barnes, were ar
rested Tuesday morning by Police
Officer Jenkins and placed in jail
in connection with a “break-in” at
Kidd’s Lunch in “uptown” Roa
noke Rapids. The alleged crime is
believed to have been committed
sometime Monday night or early
Tuesday morning.
Entrance into the place was
made by tearing the screen from
the window on the side of the
^building and breaking the large
glass pane. Missing from the place
according to the management of
the establishment, were 500 pen
nies taken from the cash register
and two cartons of cigarettes.
Office Hours Of
Local Red Cross
The local chapter of the Ameri
W/can Red Cross, Miss Doris Hedge
peth, executive secretary, announ
ces the following office hours:
Monday through Friday, 9 a. m. to
I 5 p. m. Saturday, 9 a. m. to i2
j noon.
Back In States ^
Pictured above is Marine Cap
tain Allen P. McNeill, Jr., 29,
who has returned to the Marine
Corps Air Depot, Miramar, Cal
ifornia, for leave and reassign
ment, after participating in the
campaign for liberation of the
Philippines as.a communications
officer with a First Marine Air
Wim. group. Although he under
went several Jap bombings of
his base on Luzon, Captain Mc
Neill escaped injury.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen P.
McNeill, Sr., 4810 Meadow Rd.,
Norfolk, the Marine officer was
graduated from Roanoke Rap
ids High School in 1935 and at
tended Guilford, N. C. College.
Prior to enlisting in July, 1940,
he was employed by the Virginia
Power and Electric Company,
Roanoke Rapids. He was com
missioned in May, 1942, and was
promoted to his present rank in
January. 1944. A brother, George
13, is a Navy Seaman first class
in the Pacific.
Hoy Parker Talks
To Potary Club
Roy Parker, professor of Jour
nalism at the University of North
Carolina, and a widely known
North Carolina Newspaper man,
was the guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the Roanoke
Rapids Rotary Club here last
Tuesday. Mr. Parker interesting
ly discussed daily and weekly
newspapers and their position in
public life and industry.
Mrs. Parker accompanied her
husband on his visit to the city.
They returned to their home in
Ahoskie Tuesday night.
Wood-for-War1 Motorcade
Will Put On Show Here Next
| ’Tuesday Night; Vets Coming
ine u. s. Army wooa-ior-war
Motorcade now touring the East
ern part of North Carolina will
put on a night show here in Roa
noke Rapids for all workers, both
white and colored, working in lum
ber mills and ‘woods industries of
^.this vicinity. Included on the pro
*^gram will be the personal appear
ance of five distinguished combat
veterans of World War II. The
highlight of the program will be
the moving picture "San Pietro,” a
combat film, made under fire by
the U. S. Army.
The show in Roanoke Rapids
will be held at the Roanoke Rapids
Armory, Tuesday night, July 31, at
8:30 o’clock.
This show is being sponsored by
the U. S. Army, the Timber Pro
duction War Project and the War
Manpower Commission. It is de
signed to combat absenteeism in
the woods industries.
Fmployees from all lumber,
pulpwood, veneer industries and
others in this vicinity are invited
to attend the free show.
CHARLES T. JOHNSON I
IS FOUND DEAD IN BED!
"Meat Shortage" May Be
Cause of Theft Charges
Mincher Buys
Silver Grill;
Hatems Going
To Mew York
A. K. and Jimmie Hatem, oper
ators of Hatem’s Silver Grill on
Tenth street, have sold their busi
ness, including all stock and fix
tures, to B. Mincher. The deal was
consumated this week.
The Hatem brothers have been
residents of Roanoke Rapids for
13 years. Eight years ago they
purchased the grill and since that
time they have made many friends
throughout this section.
A. K. Hatem will leave this week
for New York city where he will
devote his entire time to the
brokerage and resident buying
business established there s;.t 1896
by N. Hatem, who. after his
death was succeeded by Albert
Hatem. The business will be op
erated under the firm name of B.
Hatem Company. Jimmie will join
his brother there after August 1.
“You may say for us,” said the
Hatem brothers, “that we deeply
regret leaving Roanoke Rapids and
its fine people, but our added
business interests in New York
demand our time there. We have
many wonderful friends in the city
and Roanoke Rapids is a great
place in which to live.”
The Hatem brothers’ brokerage
business in New York is at 1182
Broadway.
Loan Approved To
Halifax Paper Co.
It was learned today that the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion approved an application for
loan to Halifax Paper Company,
Incorporated, and Albemarle
Paper Manufacturing Company,
in the amount of three and one
half million dollars for moderni
zation and expansion of facilities
in the State of North Carolina.
Trucks Available
It was announced today that the
Surplus Property Administration
will make available next week to
/armers and farmers coopera
tives in Halifax, Edgecombe, Ber
tie and Northampton counties 100
1’4-ton cargo trucks, 22 ’4-ton
pickup trucks and 10 l$4-ton
stake body trucks. Procedure for
obtaining these trucks may be ob
tained from the County Agents
and AAA offices.
The shortage of meat in Roa
noke Rapids may be the cause of
Roland Bishop, white man, and
“Strawberry” Carter, negro wo
man, being arrested and placed in
jail last week charged with steal
ing two hogs valued at $30 each
from H. T. Davis.
Bishop’s wife, N. Shaheen, W. W.
Enright and Otha Lynch were all
charged with receiving stolen
goods. Arrests of the six people
were made by Deputy Sheriff A.
J. Brigman and Police Officer P.
C. Luter. Hearings were held in
Mayor Jenkins’ court Monday
afternoon and all six defendants
were bound over to Halifax Coun
ty Recorder’s Court for trial,
w'here Bishop drew a three
months road sentence and the
Carter woman was given six
months in jail. Mrs. Bishop had
judgment in her case continued
upon payment of $12 to Davis,
w'hile the charges against Sha
heen, Enright and Lynch were nol
prosed with leave.
Report Made
For Women
Mrs. Howard Pruden, chairman
of the Women’s War Finance
Committee for Roanoke Rapids,
said this morning that her com
mittee sold $55,369 worth of “E”
bonds during the past Seventh
War Loan campaign.
“I am happy over the results,”
said Mrs. Pruden, "and I would
like for The Herald to publish my
thanks and appreciation to every
woman in Roanoke Rapids who
assisted in the sale of those secur
ities — and many did. It was only
through the cooperation and good
work of the women that made it
possible for us to accomplish such
a fine record.”
Mrs. Pruden urges her commit
tee members and all other women
to continue efforts to sell bonds—
“not only sell them, but keep
them,” she concluded.
Monkeys Climb Trees: Men
Also Climb Trees, Too; So
What? Says Prof. Einstein
was it r^ror. jumstem wno said
“men are offsprings of mon- '
keys,” or who was it? Anyway,
someone said it.
And believe it or not, but
men sometimes do try to imi
tate monkeys.
And that’s what happened last
Saturday afternoon, right here
in Roanoke Rapids on Monroe
street. A gentleman, after taking
“a fast one,” decided he would
climb a tree to get some honey
from a bee hive, it is claimed.
He started with a short ladder,
but soon got tl*e idea he could
do like a monkey, so he discard
ed the ladder and “shinnied” up
the tree.
Sawing off a limb to -get to
the bees, he found it was so
restful up among the branches
where the cool breeze was blow
ing, he forgot all about the bees
and fell sound asleep.
Startled by the loud “snoring”
or maybe it was the “cheep,
cheep, cheep noise made like a
“monk,” an officer of the law
was called by someone. Investi
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Body Discovered
By His Daughter
At Noon Monday;
Rites Wednesday
Charles Thomas Johnson, 62
years old, prominent Roanoke
Rapids citizen for 45 years, was
found dead in bed last Monday
noon at his home, 818 Roanoke
Avenue. The discovery of Mr.
Johnson’s death was made by his
daughter, Mrs. Paul T. Overton.
Johnson, native of Johnston
County, near Smithfield, was own
er and operator of Johnson’s
Laundry here for a number of
years until it was destroyed by
fire several years ago. He also
had large farming interests in the
county. After the death of his
wife in 1941, Mr. Johnson’s health
failed rapidly and this year he
was forced to give up active work
and went to Florida for several
months.
Keturning home he was recent
ly stricken with appendicitis for
which an operation was perform
ed. He had been released from the
hospital and his condition was be
lieved good. However, he suffered
a heart attack sometime Sunday
night, to which his death is at
tributed.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 o’
clock from the Rosemary Baptist
Church. Rev. B. Marshall White
Hurst, pastor of the church, offi
ciated. Interment was in Roanoke
Rapids cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Johnson are two
sons, Charles L., and Raymond
Johnson, and a daughter, Mrs.
Paul Overton, all of this city;
two brothers, Willis D. Johnson of
Raleigh and James R. Johnson
of Roanoke Rapids; two sisters,
Mrs. C. D. Etrauther of Roanoke
Rapids and Mrs. D. S. Greigg of
Burlington; a half-sister, Mrs. J.
M. Hodges of Dunn, and four
grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were: C. C.
Shell, William Tickel, V. C. Mor
gan, Harold Bloom, Harvey Tay
lor, R. I. Starke, Julian Allsbrook
md Ed Knott.