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Wilbur Anderton, Latt ~ THE ROANOKE RAPIDS H pcSiyv D 1 M ^TAB/oic/^mamiNEWSp&fier VOLUME XXXII ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. d, THURSDAY, MARCH 27th, 1947 NUMBER”22 1 Negro Asks Cashier For Two Checks; Now In Jail Edward Burnett, 20-year-old negro employee of the Halifax Paper Company, wasn’t satisfied with working for the company and drawing his own pay check in return for his labors. Burnett wanted more so he decided, it is alleged, that he would collect someone else’s check in addition to his own. According to the police, Burnett would go in and ask the cashier for the pay check of a certain number, say 46. The cashier, look ing up the check, would ask for the right name on it and Bur nett promptly supplied it. Then, say officers, the negro would wait until the cashier had been re lieved for a few minutes and then go in and ask for his own. He got away with it at least twice, but is now in jail pending re lease under $300 bond for larce ny. Merchants who cashed the checks will be the losers, because when the paper company found out about it, payment on the checks was promptly ordered _J _ i- 4.1_l. ~ 1_ Eddie Gibson Is Recovering Eddie Gibson, shot through the chest, allegedly by Vance Beard on Saturday night, March 8, in an affray between Gibson and his brother, Lewis, and Beard at lat ter’s store in Gaston, was releas ed from Roanoke Rapids Hospi tal today. The Gibson brothers are being held under bonds of $500 each’ for their appearance in North ampton County Superior Court on charges of an affray with a dead ly weapon in which bodily harm was done. \t Divorces Are Granted Twelve divorce degrees were granted in Halifax Superior Court this week with Judge Walter J. Bone of Nashville presiding. They are: Alla Mae King from James King, Moses Easter from Mary Powell Easter* Ella Rae Daniel from Claude Daniel, Paul Smith from Roxie Smith, James Gary from Lillie Gary, with Gary getting custody of his two minor children, Willie Henderson Hardy from Ruth Ellen Hawkins Hardy, Archie Lawrence Williamson from Margaret Ray Williamson, Willis W. Mabry from Nancy Edwards -— ■»-*-— Harris ris, Jessie zer Lynch ntie Coker er, Grady :aret Haw - ... '■■■■ , i Tillery Held Up by Negro $20 Is Taken Walter Tillery, 32-year-old negrc man of near Efifield, was robbed last Tuesday morning by a negrc man and woman. According tc Tilley’s story,. told to Dr. E. D Harbour* the negro had just ar rived on the bus from his home and was on his way to Dr. Har bour’s office to get a pair oi glasses he had there. Tillery was accosted by a negrc man near the Rosemary Drug Company and was asked to come with him, he had some lots tc show him that could be bough cheap. Tillery went with thi negro and near the railroad track; on Tenth street they were joinec by a negro woman. At this poin Tillery said, the man pulled i pistol on him and told him t< hand over his money. Tillery said “I pulled out my- pocketbook anc the woman took it and got a $2( bill, all I had, ’cept a one dollai bill and some change, which sh< left.” Tillery, about two hours latei went to Dr. Harbour's office anc told his story. Dr. Harbour sug gested he call the police, but the negro said he ‘‘didn’t know anj of ’em.” The Negro man, Tillery said this morning, when seen by s Herald reporter, was wearing -3 dark brown overcoat, dark browr coat under it and light brown trousers. He appeared to be aboul 40 years old. The woman wa; dressed in a black coat with fui down the front and had “a moutb full of gold.” Heart Attack Is Fatal To Negro "Grave Digger" Willie Sims, about 52 years old, a “grave digger” for J. R. Wrenn funeral home, went to work Saturday, March 8, to prepare a grave. It was snow ing rather hard, and Willie continued his work — not real izing that he probably was dig ging his last grave and that someone else would dig his. Sims suffered a heart attack while working and as a result died last Sunday night at his home near Patterson Mills. Vice-President Above is Gordon A. Berk stresser, who, last week was elected vice-president of Roa noke Mills Company, Patter son Mills Company and Rose mary Manufacturing Com pany at the annual meeting of the stockholdeis and direc . r tors. Enlistments Being Sought for Guard Enlistments are now being sought for Co. E, 119th regiment, 30th division, National Guard m Roanoke Rapids. Needed are 51 non-coms, seven technicians and 123 privates, first class. Pay starts at 2.50 for lowest rank and goes as high as $5.50 for drilling once a week. Anyone interested in join ing the outfit should see James Taylor or Raleigh (Buster) Seay at the Roanoke Rapids Armory. Recorder's Court Will Be April 10 Roanoke Rapids Recorder’s Court, which is held here on the first Thursday in each month, will not be held next week, according to announcement made today. The court, however, will be held on Thursday, April 10. Now that the opening of the Coastal Plain League season is approaching, the Roanoke Valley Athletic Association, the business name fpr “The Jays,” wishes to express its appreciation for the fine cooperation which it is re ceiving. It justifies the faith the board of directors has in the baseball spirit of Halifax County, and *we are happier than ever that we have undertaken the tremendous isasaaki Club President Extends His Thanks for Fine Cooperation President Hines Is Certain Everything Will Be Ready To Open Season Here April 24 "Death Blow" Will Be Dealt "Town Rats" “Town rats” are going to be given the “death blow” the sec ond week in April along with those on the farm of Halifax County. The City Councils are working with the Halifax County Depart ment of Health to perfect the Or ganization for killing the “town rats”. It will be worked different ly than in the rural areas. In the country each farmer' poisons his own rats, while in the towns the campaign will be worked on a town basis, street by street, with a crew of workmen distributing the bait. In this way the whole area will be covered^ including commercial houses, storage plants, city dumps, vacant lots, etc. Scotland Neck, Enfield, and Wel don have already completed their campaign plans with the organi zation ready to go. Roanoke Rapids, Hobgood and Littleton are considering joining the campaign and are discussing possibilities. They, too, will probably join the rest of Halifax County in this greatest of all mass move ment against man’s worst pest, the rat. All farm orders must be in by Friday. The Roanoke Rapids Jays’ race with the calendar continued this week as baseball officials await ed the first arrivals of players from several states to begin spring practice. It was the same old story of a lot of work to do—and a Jot of work being done. L. D. Hines, president of the club, said to day that “we’re gradually getting things worked out. It’ll be a close call, but we feel pretty certain that everything will be in readi ness when the season opens on April 24.” Stuart Martin, former major leaguer, who will pilot the Jays’ in their first Coastal Plain ea gue season, has just returned from Florida, but no announce ment was available today on the players Martin has obtained for try-outs here. The promising band of players who have been signed for try outs will begin arriving here next Monday. Tentatively they will room and board at the Weldon Hotel, and will practice in the vv eiuun utui jiiUH, Simmons Park, which is in the midst of renovation and changes, is not yet ready even for prac tices, but Hines predicted that the team could begin practice “in a week or ten days at Simmons.1* Meanwhile, the club announces that a bus has been purchased for transporting the players on their out-of-town games. Juveniles Are Caughf Again in 'Break-in' Two ‘ juveniles, young white boys, one age 10 and the other IS, are again in the toils of the law, this time for breaking into the soft drink place of Rosemary Manufacturing Company last Tues day night. The youths were under sen tence to the reformatory for a prior crime, and, when questioned by officers, said they “knew we were going to be sent away so we thought we’d get all we could before we left.” According to the police depart ment $115.50 in cash was stolen by the boys, all of which was re covered. The call came to the depart ment over the telephone and the patrol car, radio equipped, was dispatched to the scene. Officers L. H. Nelson, J. F. Stanley and C. C. Deese arrested the youths in a few minutes after the break-in was reported. “It was a fine pieos of work on the part of the police,” said an official de partment spokesman. job of bringing professional base ball to this county,” said L. D. Hines, president. “On only one phase do we need more help. Scores of persons have pledged to invest various sums in the corporation, and we have reached the point that we soon will need this money to complete the park and whip the baseball team into shape. “If you have pledged to invest— 'Continued on page 8, Sec. A) \
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