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RECORDERS COURT NEWS Mliert Jones, white of Weldon (.. :ir)ri.a with bastardy nol pros with leave. C Merritt, white of Koa _„ki; Rapids charged with non support - nol pros with leave, t'harlie Garner colored of Roa „ke Rapids was found guilty of 111111-support. Prayer for j.ulg mtnt continued on condition the i ,inmlant provides adequate sup-1 ,,ort for his family and pay the | court costs. Alvester Williams, colored of Jlobgood was found guilty of lar t.eny and was given six months 1 on the roads, suspended on pay ,nent of the costs and on condi tion lie remains outside of Hali fax County. James Q. Hardy, colored plead guilty of driving drunk and was fined $.i0 and costs. Lice me ve volo- i ’ ' months. Jordan 'liner*, colored of Rich Sl|V,,v was found guilty of driv ing without license and prayer for ucigincnt continued on payment of | the costs. „ .. , Bruce Mack Rley, white of Hob j goo.1 plead guilty to speeding and prayer for udgment continued on i payment of the costs, and on con I (iition he does not violate any mo tel vehicle law for two years. Ellwood Wiggins,, colored of I Aulander plead guilty of driving wit !,<nit operators license and . ... i for udgment was contin I ucd n payment of the costs and ,,,, c edition he does not violate a,,y motor vehicle law for two [years. W ilie Lashley, colored of Roa ■ m!ke Rapids was found guilty of [larceny and was given four tnon | ths 'a the roads. I 4 Roanoke Rapids Rian Commits Suicide Sunday f Kelly Duke, 45 year old white I,. ,11 died Sunday afternoon at his ) nue near Teeles Store, from a Li-:; inflicted gunshot wound. ! According to reports :t is al ii, ;cd that a woman whose name kvus not learned, had been keeping [house for Duke and another [younger white man. During the [week end the woman and younger l limn went auav and we e mar l-fed. it. is inruier ailedged that khey loturri/.-d Sunday alternoon end told Duke of their marriage Bu i t! - * i r plans to live elsewhere. Recording to report the couple left II.' lion.- and when they had gone it i.oi: distance they heard a shut pud noon returning to the house otind that Duke had shot him •If. An in.|uest into the death was fcondiu-i t 1 t.y Coroner F. N. Row, Monday morning and the lilt •t'-t ded it was a plain case Rf suicide. Duke'.- liody was taken to his lonnc home in Northampton F1 a for burial. IlII.K An extra 1,000 gallons of milk dav : y .Tune 1 from family milk lou> in Columbus County is the P't'dk" on of Assistant Farm A fnt J. F*. Quinerly of the State folit'go Extension Service. Tobacco plant beds offer won jcrlul opportunities for growing j fctra supplies of vegetables this [limmer, according to J. Y. Lassi Extenfcion ho^ti'Citlfliirist; at Itate College. i More and more our armies are nding our fighting troops by para te> disrupting enemy lines, en y communications, but paying a avy price In casualties. Silken fineries and their substi tes are fast passing from the mar t to provide safe landings for our stant fighting men. We can still silk and nylon for them with ar Bonds and Stamps. V. S. Treasury Department THE ROANOKE NEWS ESTABLISHED IN 1866 — SERVING HALIFAX AND NORTH AMPTON (JOUNTIES KEEP ON with WAR BONDS Seventy-Sixth Year Published Every Thursday — Weldon, North Carolina THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd., 1944 Volunteers Canvass For Local Red Cross Quota Drive Underway This Week To Raise Funds The Red Cross drive got under w... u.' this week and a house 10 nouse canvass is being made for contributions. Both business firms nr d homes are conlribut generously. The local theatres are cooper ating in making the drive a big success. Each day next week an offering for the Red Cross will be taken at the Levon Theatre. The Opera House will present “Hoosier Holiday’ starring ra dios’ popular entertainers “The Hoosier Hot Shots” and “The Music Maids” featurng Dale Ev ans and George Byron, next Wed nesday and Thursday. The pro gram will also include a news reel. The proceeds from this picture will be given by the manager, Mr. Eugene Btitchelor, to the Red Cross. Be sure to get the pleasure of seeing this good comedy and at the same time help a worthy cause - The Red Cross. Weldon Chapter Red Cross Workers Halifax and Weldon When the workers call please be ready to give generously. If no one calls please take your gift of money to the bank. Mr. John William Brown will receive your contribution. Mrs. F. H. Gregory. Mrs. C. E. Shaw. Mrs. Wr R. Caudle. Mrs. L.'M. Butts. Mrs. Jim Harlow Miss Katie Speer. Miss Ellice Bounds. Mrs. J. T. Maddrey. Mrs. Charles R. Daniel. Miss Katie Garrett. Mrs. \V. S. 0. B. Robinson. Mrs. Mike Josephson. Mrs. H. V. Bounds. Mrs. B. M. Bennett. Mrs. C. W. Gregory. Mrs. Ellis Bond. Mr. A. L. Garner. Mrs. A L. Garner. Mrs. A. P. Ellis. Mrs. R. S. Fountain. Mrs. Marion Inge. Mr. W. P. Maier. Mrs. H. G. Lassiter. Mrs. D. W. Seifert. Mr. S. E. Shirley. Mr. 0. G. Moorehead. Mrs. J. S. Turner. Mrs. Earl Douglas. j Mrs. W. A. Carter. Miss Ida Mae Cheatham. Mrs. W. Wallace. Mr. B. F. Turner. i Mrs. C. J. Owen. ' Miss Ola Belle Whitehead. Dr. W. G. Suiter. Miss Julia Rhem. Mr. M. H. Mitchell. Mrs. R. 1. Daniel. Mrs. Wm. L. Knight. Mrs. D. Allen Green. Mrs. W. W. Selden. Mrs. C. E. King. Mrs. Allen Pierce. I Mrs. Cam Tilghman. Mrs. A1 Travis. Mr. L. C. Barrow. Colored Committee Dr. Cook. Augustus tCofield. Lucille Edwards Cook. Meade Mitchell, Jr., At Florida Air Base Now Miami Beach, Fla.,-Meade H. Mitchell, Jr., 20, son of Mr. and Mrs Meade H. Mitchell of Weldon Halifax County, N. C„ has be gun studies at Army Air Forces Officer Candidate School here, which, when successfully complet ed, will qualify him for commis sion as a second lieutenant in the Air Forces. He came to Miami Beach from North Carolina State College, where he held the rank of Corpo Before entering the army, he attended North Carolina State College in North Carolina. Officers trained here direct vital administrative and supply opera tions of the AAF.__ Mrs. C. P. Vincent has return ed home after a two months visit with her daughter, Mrs. Younger Snead of Raeford. N. C. I Cherry Advocates Close Co-operation Between I Government Units Washington, Feb. 25 — “State governmental authoanties should work in cooperation with local government in avoiding centraliza tion of authority, except in in stances where it is clearly neces sary,” Major R. Gregg Cherry, candidate for governor, said in an address tonight before the Wash ington Lions Club. “There are a great many fields” Maor Cherry pointed out, ‘in which the State has found it necessary to become the central authority because otherwise an adequate program of maintenance and im provement could not be carried out “It proved necessary, for in stance for the State to take over the schools in 1923, when if this had not been done the school sys tem of North Carolina would have suffered a terrific recession from which it might not have recovered' for a generation. | “Similarly, it proved necessary \ in order to have a co-ordinated and adequately developed highway sys tem, for the iSItate to become the' central factor in that field. This, has also proven to be in the best interest of the citizens of North Carolina with regard to numerous other functions. “But, whenever and wherever possible, the retentions of local control over matters of adminis tration of governmental functions is a sound and preferable princi ple. “It is still true that local con-j ditions are best known and best dealt with by local authorities, except in cases where the task is obviously too large to be dealt with by local sources alone.”’ John R. Lipscomb | John L. Lipscomb, 82, died Mon day at the home of his son after a lingering illness. Funeral ser vices were conducted from the Wrenn Funeral Home Tuesday af ternoon by the Rev. Gordon Price and the Rev. Edmund Berkley. Survivors include five sons, Jack Lipscomb of Roanoke Rap ids, C. T. Lipscomb, R. L. Lips comb, George Lipscomb and Joe Lipscomb, all of Durham, four . daughters, Mrs. I. S. Smith and Mrs. Charles McLowhorne both of | Durham, Mrs. Parker Riddle of Roxboro and Mrs. Arthur Laffady of Hartsville, 'SI C., also one bro ther, Will Lipscomb and one sist er Mrs. Sally Cherry both of Washington, N. C._ New ABC Rules Now In Effect The following telegram was re ceived this week by the Halifax County ABC Board from the State Board in Raleigh: “Coupons number thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and sixteen will be valid at any time during the month of March for the purchase of one quart, one fifth, two pints, or two tenths only of rationed items. After March first counties will be permitted to register ap plicants only on the second Tues day in each month, namely: March fourteenth, April eleventh, May ninth, Junes thirteenth and July eleventh. This is mandatory in all counties. Signed: Carl L. Williamson, Chairman N. C. Board of Al cholic Control. . Square Dance Here Friday Night The Weldon Lion’s Club is spon soring a square dance to be given Friday evening, March 3rd from 9-00 ’til 1:00 at the Weldon Com munity Center. The admission is only 50c and there will be good music. Everybody come for and evening of fun and in the interest of a good cause._ Visitors in the home of Mrs. C. P Vincent over the week end were Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hill of Kins ton and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vincent of Murfreesboro, RED CROSS is at his side a Carrying the theme of the 1944 American Red Cross War Fund Appeal, and symbolic of the true service of Red Cross men and women on the far-flung fronts of the world, this reproduction of the 1944 Red Cross poster depicts the Yank soldier, in full equipment, and at Ms side the representatives of your Red Cross Allen Thomas Thompson Shot Saturday Night Aii inquest was conducted here Sunday afternoon by Coroner If. N. Rowe into the death of Allen Thomas Thompson, white man of Roanoke Rapids, who was fatally shot about 10:d() Saturday night as he ailed ;edly attempted to break into the home of i! u Turn er, negro who lives on the Allen Pierce farm near here. According to evidence Thomp son went to the home of Turner earlier in the night, knocked at the door and was admitted after, sitting in tbs^, house for a while' he declared ne was going to bed there. Turner explained that he had na place for the white man to i sleep and insisted that he go to| his own home. Finally Thompson j decided to leave and Turner, tak-j ing a lighted lantern, accompan-j ied him out to the road and show ed him the way to go home. After Turner had returned to his home Thompson ctamc hack and beat on the door but Turner; told him to leave. The white man then tried to get in the window and Turner shot over his head to scare him. Turner then handed the gun to his son Andrew Turn er and told him not to let Thomp son get in while he went upstairs to get more shells. Thompson then crashed a piece of wood thru the window and was coming in anyway. Gat Turner said he heard the crash and the gun shot while he was upstairs so he left thy house by another door and came to Wel don to get the officers. Upon his return home with the officers they found Thompson lying dead acr' ! the window sill, the full load of the gun having gone in his e and lodged in his head. The Coroner’s jury pre.-mited a verdict of justifiable homicide. Funeral services for Thompson were held Monday afternoon from; the Wrenn Funeral Home in Ron Retailers Hear OPA Rep. Discuss Prices Retailers of Women’s and Girl’s outerwear garments, under the jurisdiction of the Roanoke Rapids War l i ice and Rationing Board, uim very fortunate to have Mrs. i Nina M. Shaw, from the Apparel ' Division of the District, Office of. Price Administration, Raleigh, N.| C., on Wednesday, February 23,; 1944. ; Mrs. Shaw discussed with the, Retailers their duties and their problems in connection with regu lation 330 covering these garm i ents. Two meetings were conduct ; ed on Wednesday for the mer ; chants, in the Price Office of the ! Local War Price and Rationing j Board. There were 13 retailers present at the morning meeting and 5 present, at the afternoon meeting. The merchants found I Mrs. Shaw’s talk very informative i and helpful and Mrs. Shawr was favorably impressed with the in-j telligenee and the cooperative, spirit of the retailers. j These two meetings, w'ith an ex-' cellent representation, were among the most successful price meet ings held by this board. j COTTON SEED ! More than 17,000 bushels of purebred cotton seed, direct from breeders, will give a big push to the One-Variety Cotton Improve ment Program in North Carolina, reports J. A. Shanklin of State College. noke Rapids with the Rev. Edntuna Berkley in charge. Survivors include his mother, his wife, four children, two bro thers, Paul Thompson of Garys burg, William Thompson of Em poria, Va., and one ’"v, Mrs.. Nelson Pruden of Roan ... Rap ids. JUNIOR RED CROSS HELPS—Here members of the Junior Red Cross pack boxes of afghans, bed room slippers and games in the Red Cross Eastern Area storage depot, for shipment to military hospitals in the United States and abroad. Two Marine Fliers Have Narrow Escape Tuesday Navy Dive Bomber Pilot Makes Forced Landing Near Here Weldon Boy Scouts i Hold Meeting A regular meeting of the Wei don Boy Scouts was held on Feb-' ruary 25. Mr. Richardson told each patrol which corner they were to have. There were twenty four Scouts present at thle meeting. We hope that all the Scouts will be present at the next meeting. We want all boys who are twelve years old who want to become Boy jSIcouts to come to the meeting which will be held Friday night at 7:15 P. M. on March 3rd at the Boy Scout Hut. Bill Kittner, Boy Scout Scribe. Weldon Girl’s Hi-Y February the 26th the Weldon Girl’s H-Y held its regular meet ing n the home of Ballard Mohorn. The meeting opened with the Hi-Y code and songs. The high-light of the evening was a reading, Alice Duer Millers “The White Cliffs”, by Mrs. Pierce Johnson. Everyone enjoyed it very much. After the business the meeting was closed with the benediction. Delicious re freshments were served. A Marine Lieutenant made a skillful forced landing in a new late - type dive bomber at Tilgh man’s Cross roads near here at noon Tuesday. Accompanied by a Marine Cor poral who served as gunner-ra dio operator, the Lieutenant was on a routine flight when he be came lost. He cruised around for hours in the fog until his gas ran low, then he came down low look ing for a landing place. lie picked out the large open field which he saw through an opening in the fog and with the landing gear pulled up so the plane would not nose over, brought the fast plane in on the bottom of the fuselage. The pilot was uninjured and the Corporal received only a slight leg injury while the plane was only slightly damaged. A crew of Marines with special equipment loaded the plane on a large truck Wednesday. With the wings folded back the plane was started back to the base at Green ville where it will be repaired and thoroughly inspected before it is used again. Sgt. John Shearin, Jr. of New York, N. Y. was in Weldon for a few days the first of the week. One-Man Crime Wave hits Weldon Tuesday Night Peanut Prices May Be Higher j During Year ’44 j Peanut growers of seven south - eni states presented an unitea front to tne Commodity Credit Corporation recently at vvasuaig ton, l). C. and a*ter two days or commences mauc some gams in their firm and oft-repeated ue mand mat mey oe heard in the lormulation of the contract lor handling the iyd4 peanut crop, and in the price to be paid fur same. iNear tne close of tne sea sions, alter the leaders ol ine gro wers had told J- B. Hutson, president of the Commodity Credit Corporation, that the growers de manded an answer to their re guests, Mr. Hutson retired to con fer with Marvin Jones, head of the War Food Admnistration, and his price committee, and returned with some concessions for the 1 growers. He then agreed to meet with a committee representing the growers to handle the support price situation, and this comnntec comprising one representative from each state, was immediately named by the several state dele gations. The committee went into seb i,ion Friday morning after the 200 or moie growers who had been on the scene for two aa>» w.u re turned to their homes. J. B. Fear ing of Windsor was elected to represent North Carolina and the committee continued in session through Tuesday of this week. At that time it was announced that the price committee of the CCC had agreed to a new price and had recommended same to Adminis trator Jones for approval. It was indicated that the situation would favor the growers and that a def inite answer might be expected from Mr. Jones in a few days. The committee which went from this state to represent North Carolina, having been selected at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federaton, ■was composed of R. V. Knight of Tarboro as chairman, Charles J. Shields of Scotland Neck, S. N. Clark, Sr., of Tarboro, C. S. Alex ander of Scotland Neck, I. G. Rid dick of Gatesville, J. G. Spiers of Como, J. F. Turner of Jackson, J. B. Fearing of Windsor, W. Robert Everett of Nashville and Palmyra, R. Flake Shaw of Greensboro, secretary of the State Farm Bur eau, and Etic W. Rodgers of Scot land Neck. This committee invited B. B. Everett of Palmyra and W. W. Eagles of Macclesfield, both state officials of the Farm Bureau and well versed on the peanut question, to accompany them, but Monday night a thief entered the Avenue Service Station where the safe was broken open add j $126.00 taken. Entrance was made through the side window of the Weldon Mattress Company was broken open and some tools were removed, the Weldon High. School was entered and some fountain pens were missing and a car be longing to a tourist who was spending the night in i... u. R. Anderson home was broke. 1 opened and several articles removed. The thief John Henry Jack -m, 26, year old Tarboro negro, was arrested in Enfield fuesday morning by Chief of Police Ferris Sykes on information from Chief of Police P. R. Kitchen and Dep uty Sheriff J. L. Mountcusile of Weldon. He confessed the crime and is being held in Halifax jail on charges of breaking ami enter ing, larceny and receiving stolen goods. Jackson who had a long prison record was released last Saturday from the prison camp near Hali fax where he had just finished serving a term for larceny. He was arrested here Saturday after noon for public drunkardness and fined in court here Monday morn ing. Black Markets Cause Gas Shortage Raleigh, Feb. 29 — The spread of gasoline black markets in the „uui in which gas is pur chased with stolen or counterfeit coupons, has caused the temporary “drying up of filling stations in several areas, notably in North Carolina, the Office of Pri'e Ad ministration has announced. Gasoline black markets, OPA oftficials admit is one of their most serious problems and Theo dore S. Johnson, district director of OPA at Raleigh said: “It is doing more than encouraging crime; it is actually sapping the strength of the whole war effort and is robbing honest car owners of their share of the nation's lim ited supply.” “It should be remembered,” he continued, “that there is only so much gasoline available for home use and that amount cannot be increased because there is an act ual shortage of petroleum, too. It has been estimated that black market parasites are robbing mo torists of about 45 gallons of driv ing each month. But for this ill egal, black market drain, the (Continued on back page) they were unable to do so, and Charles J. Shields was unable to make the trip. The committee therefore invited R. Hunter Pope of Enfield and Robert Shields of IScotland Neck to accompany them.
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