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ft VOLUME XXXI_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.,THURSDAY, APRIL 4th, 1946 NUMBER 27
*Negro Shot Dead
After Stealing Car
After stealing an automobile on
March 18 belonging to Mrs. Katie
B. Cooke, Hamilton street, Eddie
.Tones, negro, was shot to death
ff last week by Princess Ann County
(Virginia) officers.
Jones, according to Police Chief
H. E. Dobbins, after stealing the
car took it to Richmond, accom
panied by several other negroes.
After “hanging around” there for
a few days, the negroes went to
Norfolk. Officers there noting sus
picious actions of the negroes
started to close in on the car and
0 Jones, it is said, jumped from the
vehicle .with a gun in his hand
and attempted a get-away. Officers
opened fire on him killing him in
stantly. The other negroes were
rounded up.
Willie Lashley, one of the
negroes involved, was arrested
here last Saturday by Chief Dob
bins and FBI Agent Stewart. Two
others arrested in connection with
the theft were Wilson Lashley,
Pfy 17, and Eddie Louis Arrington, 17.
Ministerial
Association
Holds Meet
The Roanoke Ministerial Asso
ciation met in Weldon Metehodist
-'Church last Monday at 10:30 a.
m„ with the president, Rev. D. L.
Fouts, presiding. The program con
sisted Of an address by Mrs. W. R.
Stevens of Roanoke Rapids on the
subject, “The Pastor’s Ministry to
the Children.” Mrs. Stevens dis
cussed different ways in which the
pastor might make his Ministry to
the children more effective.
Immediately following the ses
’ sion a meeting of the Roanoke
rPRapids Ministers was called by the
president, Rev. B. Marshall White
Hurst. The following program and
plans were made with the co-op
eration of all the churches of the
city:
Pre-Easter services are to be
conducted the week preceeding
Easter from Monday to Friday
from 12:15 to 12:40 noon in Rose
mary Baptist Church and the
^First Methodist Church. The pub
is invriea ro aitena ana is
urged to come dressed as you are
for work. s
The Easter Sunday Sunrise ser
vice is being planned by a com
mittee composed of Rev. L. A. Til
ley, Rev. Edmund Berkeley and
Rev. Peter Dinges with Rev. W. R.
Stevens as preacher for the ser
vice.
Simultaneous Vacation Church
Schools are being planned to be
IJfconducted in all the churches
from June 17th tb June 28th.
The time of evening services in
all the churches is being changed
next Sunder to 8 o’clock p. m. The
public is asked' to make a note of
the change.
Playgrounds
Equipment Is
Ordered For
City Schools
The annual Kiwanis Minstrel
for 1946 has been staged, and the
club thanks all those who parti
cipated in the show, ticket pur
chasers, and advertisers for their
cooperation in making the show a
success. .
As previously announced, the
Kiwanis Club promised to use the
entire proceeds cleared from the
minstrel to buy and equip the city
schools with playgrund equipment.
The project gained unanimous ap
proval from the various Parent
Teacher Associations of Rosemary,
Central, Clara Hearn Vance Street,
and John Armstrong Chaloner
School, and the P. T. A. of each
school offered to increase the
amount given by the Kiwanis Club
thus providing each school with
even more equipment than origin
ally anticipated.
This week an order amounting
to $1,930 was placed for the equip
ment, approximately two-thirds of
which will be given by the Kiwan
is Club. The club will be respon
sible for installing and putting up
all the equipment when the ship
ment arrives.
Typhoid Vaccine
Given at Clinic
Typhoid vaccine will be given
at Rosemary Clinic every Tuesday
and Thursday, it was announced
today. The hours for giving the
vaccine will be from 11 to 12 a.
ei., and 7 to S p. m. This treat
ment for the prevention of typhoid
began last Tuesday and will con
tinue until May 16.
Army Day Will
Be Celebrated by
Wildcat Veterans
Veterans of the historic 81st
cr Wildcat Division will meet Fri
day night at 8:00 o'clock at the
Hotel Weldon to celebrate “Army
Day.”
James E. Cahall of Washington,
D. C., national adjutant of the
Wildcat Veterans will aettend and
address the vets. Plans for the
great National Homecoming Re
union, jointly of the new and old
Wildcats will be discussed, and
refreshments will ba served.
i
Will Launch
Emergency ,
Conservation
Of Food Plan
C. L. Kelly, chairman of Halifax
County A. C. A., has been appoint
ed manager of Halifax County
Emergency Food Program. Mr.
Kelly is calling a meeting of all
school superintendents, school
principals, vocational teachers, ru
ral preachers, civic club leaders
and any other interested persons
to meet in the auditorium of the
Helafix County Office Building
in Halifax on Tuesday, April 9th,
at 2:30 p. m., for the purpose of
^i.QfUfigino1 nlono for a mi/ln
emergency food conservation pro
gram as requested by President
Truman and Secretary of Agricul
ture Anderson. The purpose of this
meeting is to develop a county pro
gram to reach every individual in
Halifax County, both white and
colored with the need for the con
servation of wheat, fats and oils
and the increased production and
use of substitute foods. <
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son says, “Millions of our fellow
human beings in other lands face
prospects of starvation in spite of
help given so far and look to this
country for immediate aid.”
President Truman’s Famine Em
ergency Committee has called on
America to cut consumption of
wheat by 40 percent and of fats
and oils by 20 percent to pro
vide export shipments to starva
tion areas abroad.
This will be an open meeting
and all interested persons who are
willing to help with this pro
gram are invited to attend.
Oliver D. Fitts
Given Discharge
Coxswain Oliver D. Fitts, Jr.,
has received his honorable dis
charge from the Naw. Fitts, son
jt Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Fitts, 1917
Roanoke Avenue, enlisted in the
service July 22, 1943, and served
20 months overseas. He was award
ed the ETO ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific
and American defense ribbons,
Philippine Liberation and Victory
medals.,
John West Dies
At Maurice Home
John L. West, 73, died last
Thursday evening at 6:10 o’clock
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Maurice on Hamilton street.
Funeral services were conducted
last Saturday afternoon from the
Rural Hall Methodist Church. Mr.
West, a long-time resident of this
city, was postmaster of Rosemary
from 1922 to 1934 when he retired
from active business.
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Convicted of Double Murder
In Northampton County This
Week; Death Date May 24th
Oakes Made
Chairman Of
Cancer Drive
For County
Albert W. Oakes, Jr., of Weldon,
has been appointed Halifax Coun
ty chairman of the campaign for
funds during i-his month for the
American Cancer Society. Mr.
Oakes has accepted this respon
sible chairmanship and is now en
gaged in perfecting a county or
ganization to make every effort
to raise this county’s quota of' the
$12,000,000 national goal.
In asking the cooperation of
the people of Halifax County Mr.
Oakes gave out the following in
formation on the work of prevent
ing cancer:
At present three people die every
10 minutes of cancer. Did you
know that one of these three can
be saved? When detected early
enough, and treated effectively, at
least 30 to 50 percent of cancer
cases can be cured. That is a
wonderful message of hope.
To save those who now die need
lessly, and to increase the num
ber who can be saved, we must
do these three vital things:
1. Spread knowledge everywhere
of the danger signals of cancer
and urge people to consult a doc
tor in time to be saved.
2. Provide far more and much
better hospital facilities for pre
vention, diagnosis and treatment
of cancer.
3. Expand widely the scientific
research attack which will lead to
more effective treatment and pos
sibly even the elimination of can
cer.
We must organize to do these
three things as thoroughly and ef
fectively as scientists were organ
ized to solve the problem of the
atomic bomb. The American Can
cer Society has developed a pro
gram to do this. Last year it
raised $4,000,000 to establish a
beachhead for such action. This
year it is asking $12,000,000 for an
All-Out attack!
Funeral Services
For Whitley Held
Funeral services for Aubrey
Whitley, 39, and Harvey Lane,
both of whom were drowned in the
Chowan river last Sunday after
noon, were held last Sunday after
noon from the Baptist Church in
Woodland. Whitley, a resident of
Rich Square, was the brother of
Mrs. H. I. Pepper, of Roanoke
Rapids. He was married and the
father of two children.
Edward Floyd, 39-year-old white
man, was this week found giulty
of the murder of his father-in-law,
Wade Cook, 62, and his sister-in
law, Miss Rosa Cook, by a North
ampton County jury.
Presiding Judge John J. Burney
sentenced Floyd to die ?in the gas
chamber at State’s Prison on Fri
day, May 24.
The crime for which Floyd was
given the death sentence was
committed on Saturday night, Nov
ember 10, at the home of his
father-in-law, about three miles
from Roanoke Rapids in North
ampton County. Floyd, it was said
at that time, had been hunting and
after coming home late in the
afternoon was asked by Rosa Cook
to get in some wood. Floyd re
plied, according to testimony, that
he had gotten in “all the wood I'm
going to get in today.” A short
while later the family sat down
at the supper table to eat the
evening meal. Floyd was called for
supper and pulled his chair out to
sit down and then said: “I’ve got
ro wasn my nanus.
Going out on the back porch for
this purpose he came back through
the dining room, went to his bed
room and appeared within a few
moments in the door of the hall
with a .22-calibre rifle in his hand
and began shooting. He killed Miss
Rosa Cook first and then shot
Wade Cook to death. In a struggle
with his wife and another sister
in-law, Clyde Cook, and his moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Wade Cook, for
possession of the rifle, Mrs. Floyd
Cook was shot through the thumb,
Miss Clyde Cook was shot
through the jaw and his mother
in-law was kicked over two chairs.
Floyd's attorneys, Gay & Mid
yette, of Jackson, entered a plea
of insanity, based on the fact that
two of Floyd’s uncles committed
suicide and a brother died in the
State Hospital for the Insane. No
motive for the crime was estab
lished.
Solicitor Ernest Tyler handled
the case for the state, assisted by
Crew & Crew of Roanoke Rapids
as private prosecutors.
James W. Cannon
Gets Discharge
James W. Cannon, MAM3/C,
1016 Henry Street, Roanoke Rap
ids, has been given his honorable
discharge from the Navy at the
naval personnel separation center,
Shoemaker, Cal., it was announced
today.
Conduct Medal Is
Awarded Graham
Word has been received by Mr.
and Mrs. M. C. Graham that their
oon T/Sgt. William C; Graham has
been awarded the Good Cnduct
Medal. Sgt. Graham entered ser
vice on July 1, 1842, and is now
stationed in Peiping, China, with
the Marine Air Corp.