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Warren Grand Jury Studies County School Funds Case Roanoke o' Ramblings By PAT NANTZ The brightest face to be seen around the Municipal Building these days is that of the brand new, Mrs, Jim Myer (she was Dot Shearin until Thursday morning when she and the Jay’s slugging left fielder said, “I do”) If She’s back on the job as City Clerk and is visibly happy with, and proud of her new title. Can’t blame her either . . , — o — If you’ve been seeing a sly grin on the faces of the people who have seen Police Chief T. J. Davis, you probably wondered at their amusement . . .But, the Chief is more to be pitied than laughed at . .He has been Q wearing dark glasses and a makeshift patch over his left eye . . .No, he didn’t walk into a swinging “limb”, bump into a door or pick up a “shiner” from a prisoner who didn’t wish to be cooperative; nor any of the other many excuses available. Instead, he was hit in the eye by a cold that insists upon giving him a hard time. . .. rina -- expression seen on a man’s face in some time was the varia tion in Coach Danny Cagle’s look shortly aftter half time at Fri day ight’s ball game, and the big grin he was wearing a few minutes later when his JacWs were only one point behind Kin ston instead of 20 . . .Hs was nut entirely happy because his team lid not win, but he was delighted at the good showing they made when the odds seemed all against their looking good at all. — o — A chicken fry was enjoyed by the Romancos; winnings soft ball team of our fair city; on Saturday night at the Rosemary Recreation Hall. After the small feast, which was given by an ar dent fan, "Greasy" Neal, the ball players and their guests I* were entertained in the dance w hall of the “Rec.” — o — Little Sis: I’ve decided not to pe married unfl after I’m 25 years old. Big Sis: And I’ve decided not to be 25 years old until after I’m married. . .. — o — Rememper the window display that Mr. Grant had during the g. month of May? It was the one V- /here he had the two pictured nolhers sitting in movable swings. Well, he has now finish ed another, just as unique as that was ,in the other window. Stop by and see the \mprove ments and you’ll agree that Mr. Grant is just full of ideas. — o — nuing epiiapn ior a wander er is that which appears on the a tomb of a person in a small burial ground near Marfrees ooro. It reads: “Wander no more shall he; for now he has found his home.” Little Moran: Oh, Boss, is It o. k. if we start building this house at the top and come down? Boss: No, you dope, even you should know that that is impos sible. Little Moran: O. K., boys, start tearing it down III? Due to the fact that it is utter ly impossible that the “Rambl er” can find everyone who has a story to tell, or an interesting experience to recall, we appeal to you to send in your stories. Let someone else enjoy an ex perience that may arouse a laugh; or benefit by a lesson, which you learned the hard way. /. Just drop it into the mail to the “ Roanoke Rambler and you’ll be the holder of our deepest appre ciation. . • Increase Demand w* Brings Rise In Tobacco Prices Raleigh, Sept. 21 —(AP)—In creased demand brought steady to stronger prices on the flue j- cured tobacco market;. ” Gains came on most offerings on the Old Belt ra- ~:og $1 to $4 ier hundred pounds. On the Middle t the per centages of smoking leaf and cutters were hlghed while prim ngs declined because of a weak er demand. The majority of grades on the eastern North Carolina belt were higher in price and demand was eported exceptionally good. The " acreages ranged from $1 to (8. SUPPLYING CHINESE BLACK MARKET—These Chinese, majority of whom are black market eers, put a run on U.S. surplus goods in Shanghai. They bought up all the canned goods, cosmetics, cloth and dressing material allocated for the first day’s sale in one hour. The war surplus goods, valued at $30,000,000 in U.S. currency, was bought and shipped to China soon after surrender of Japan, but was put on sale here for the first time. Florida Keys Are Lashed By 110 Mile An Hour Hurricane; Key West Hit Hard U. N. Official Calls For End Of Force, War Paris, Sept. 21—(AP)* - The United Nations Assembly met to da yin an atmosphere of world tension and heard its temporary president call for the banishment of force from the earth. The assembly’s first meeting on the continent of Europe was opened by temporary President Juan A. Bramuglia of Argen tina. Bramuglia proposed a new in* | tematiohal policy of “cooper i*icn ! and not domination,” economic1 equality and settlement of dis putes by right over might. In a thinly veiled reference to Spain’s exclusion from the U. N., Bramuglia said “we do not want any nation of the world to be excluded from the United Nations.” “There can be no chosen and no outcasts in this world,” be added. The delegates of E3 nations convened in an atmosphere of world tension, heightened by the East-West cold war over Ger many and the imminent threat of renewed warfare? in Pales tine. Bramuglia was a candidate for the presidency of this session. Argentina engaged in a stiff be hind-the-scenes baitle with Aus iraua, wmcn suppuvieu lian Deputy Prime Minister Her bert V. Evatt. The great hall In the Chail lot Museum’s cellar was filled to overflowing with people from many lands. Exotic costumes mingled with formal western dress. The Soviet blockr.de of the German capital and the issues in volved with it were the chief topics of conversation among the delegates although Berlin is net on the assembly’s agenda as yet. On the eve of the iJirst meet ing in the Palais de ^haillot this afternoon, the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and France called a halt yesterday to their two-month-old attemp to negotiate a direct settlement of the Berlin issues with Kus sia. Lad Gets Left Hand Hurt In Hay Bailer Willie West, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernice West o:' Littleton, was treated at the Roanoke Rap ids Hospital sufferr.g from in juries to' one of h's hands. Attaches at the hospital said that Willie caught his hand in a hay bailer this morning ;nd received cuts about his left ring finger. Storm Reported Moving North Towards Miami Miami, Fla., Sept. 21 —(AP) —Winds of 110 miles an hour lashed Key West today as a big and growling tropical hurricane brushed nearer over the island city 175 miles south of Miami. All weather stations along the long narrow stretcn of Florida Keys—famous fishing grounds for thousands—reported hurri cane force winds of 75 miles an hour or better. Torrential rains acompanied the winds.c The hurricane was a short dis tance south of Key West at 10:30 a. m. (EST) and moving north eastward at about 10 miles an hour. Key West reported 110 mile an hour winds at 10:20 a. m.. Red Cross official at the island city where President Truman has his “Little White House" said no casualties had been reported. Shelters were crowded. In Miami, sustained winds reached 60 miles an hour and vi aiblity was almost wiped out by the blowing rain. The storm has enlarged and gales now cover an area about 300 miles in diameter, the Wea ther Bureau reported. The slow movement of the storm will keep the center over south Florida for a longer period and delay the arrival of hurri cane winds somewhat, forecast ers said. The storm grew rapidly in size after crossing Cuba, said Chief Forecaster Grady Morton. The storm came to a halt 55 miles south of Key West during the night, but the weather bu reau reported in at G:30 a. m. that it had begun moving for ward again. Many stores were closed for the day in Miami. People forced to come out fought against stiff1 winds. The barometer reading at Key West was 29.33 and at Miami, 29.56. The weather bureau said the hurricane reformed northeast of Havana during the night. The eye of the storm became dis torted while passing over the hills of Cuba, and “apparently the hurricane paused in the Florida straights for regenera tion before continuing its march on Florida,” the weather bureau stated. “The eye of the storm was horseshoe shaped for awhile af ter midnight,” forecasters said, but regained its circular shape during the early morning hours. Firemen battled a stubborn blaze in the Bali night-dub oi^ Biscayne Boulevard. * Negro Absolved Of Blame In Fatal Mishap Conway, September 21.—A Northampton County coroner's inquest here last night absolved Willie Odell Garris, Negro truck driver from Ayden, of any crim inal negligence in the death of Sheila Nicholson, three, of Rra noke Rapids near here lost Thursday. Garris was freed after evi County Coroner S. D. Hitchens of Gaston to the effect that the child’s being crushed by a truck operated by Garris was an un avoidable accident. The Negro, who is employed by T. J. Cannon, Ayden corn buyer, came to the home of Lloyd Askew, uncle of the child, near here last Thursday to pick up a load of corn. The child was playing in the rear of the house near the barn when the truck load of corn started to leave the yard. Just a3 it pull ed away from the barn the lit tle girl stepped behind it and the truck motor stalled, so that the truck rolled backward, crushing the child between the tail board of the truck and the barn door. The accident happened about 11:15 Thursday morning, and an ambulance was immediately summoned to take the child to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital, however she died before the am bulance reached the city. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Nicho’son of Roa noke Rapids and was visiting re latives of her mother when the accident occurred. Garris was held for investiga tion and released under a $500 bond Friday, which was posted , by his employer, pending last night’s inquest. Truman To Speak In Raleigh Aboard Truman Campaign Train, Sept. 21 —(AP)—Presi dent Truman today had sche duled two appearances in Ra leigh N. C., on Oct. 19. Mr. Truman will discuss ■'“The Farm Problem” at the North Carolina State Fair. His other appearance that day will be at the dedication of a mon ument to three North Carolina born presidents, Polk, Jack son and Johnson. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross announced the President’s aceptance of the fair invitation last night. He previously had indicated his willingness to speak at the monument dedication. The invitation to speak at the fair came in a series of tel egrams from high party lead ers in the Tar Heel state, sev eral of whom promised him an audience of 30,000. Invitations were received from State Agricu’tural Com missioner D. S. Co l ane; Sen ator Clyde R. Hoey; J. Melville Broughton, former governor now running for the Senate; R. Flake Shaw, executive vice president o fthe North Carolina Farm Bureau; Harry B. Cald well, Master of the North Ca rolina State Grange; and Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer. Although it hasn’t been an nounced officially, the presi dent plans to address the American Legion Convention in Miami, Fla., Oct. 18. He is expected to keep both the Mi ami and Raleigh engagements by plane. Dewey Unfolds His "New Era" GOP Program By The Associated Press Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s "campaign to unite America,*’ roiled today into the West—the region President Truman said faces GOP “sabotage.” Having unfolded the broad outlines of his "new era” Repub lican program in Des Moines last night, the GOP nominee headed for Denver. There he was expected to give some of his promised "honesty answers” to such questions as high prices, housing, farm aids and other national problems. Dewey stressed his 'faith in America” in his opening cam paign address — faith that "our enterprise system” will achieve "free, and fuller production for the benefit of all our citizens” —faith that "we can have peace” in a “world, in which tyra.uy ir on the march.” The New York governor said he does not "contend that all our difficulties today have been brought about by the present na tional administration. ’ But, he added “that any fair-minded person would agree’ part of the difficulties "are merely the re sult of the administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people.” Mr. Truman, however, told his Denver audience that Republican leaders "working against the in terests of the people” have been “eager agents of big business.” He urged the people of the Western states to join him in fighting what he termed 'Re publican undercover sabotage of the West” and "slick political propaganda of the special inter ests” backed by "millions of dol lars that Wall Street is pouring into the treasury of the Repub lican party.” Bandits Holdup Columbia Bank; Take $50,000 Elizabeth City, Sept. 21—(AP) —Bandits shortly after 11 o’ clock this morning held up the bank at Columbia and escaped with approximately $50,000, Highway Patrol officials here announced. The patrol officials said all patrolmen in eastern Carolina had been alerted and that a helicopter from the local Coast Guard station had been called to join in the search. Signs Of Oil Are Found In Test Well Being Drilled In Hertford Ahoskie, Sept. 21 (AP) —Signs that oil lies beneath Hertford county in the vicinity of the test well being drilled near Cofield were reported this week by Har ry Austin, supervisor of Pain Beau Drilling Company of Gra ham, and Marlon Baker, Jr., the company’s geologist. Baker said whale vertebrae and sharks’ teeth have been tak en from an outcropping near the test well. These finds have beer forwarded to the University (f South Carolina for study by the University’s geological planning commission where Dr. J. W. Brewy is trying to correlate the geology of South Carolina with that of North Carolina. Baker says the test wc'l, a: a depth drillers will not reveal, Jjas “a definite oil showing and that gas bubbles rising with mud and water from the depth of the weli indicate the presence of sul phur content, whicn is a favor able sign to oil prospectors and geologists.” Austin, supervisor of the pro ject, said he was sending samp les of earth at each 20 feet to North Carolina geologists at Ral eigh. Pam-Beau moved equipment on the site of the test well early in August, .but slow arrival of materials and supplies from s »p ply houses in Texas delayed drilling four weeks. W. W. Connell, Inc., oil pro ducers, of Dallas, Texas, has 100,000 acres of Hertford Coun ty land under contract at 10 cents an acre a year. Plans Complete For Opening Of Orthopedic Clinic Here At Hospital On Thursday Dr. Robert F. Young, Halifax County Health Officer, announc ed today that preparations have been completed for the first Or thopedic Clinic to be conducted Thursday at one p. m. at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. The Clinic, which represents over a year’s work on the part of sponsoring agencies an doth ers, is sponsored by the Roanoke Rapids Rotary Club and the Crippled Children’s Division of the State Board of Health. The Halifax County Health Depart ment, the Halifax County Wel fare Department and the Voca tional Rehabilitation Depart ment are cooperating agencies. Dr. Young said Dr. Everett I. Bugg of Durham, who will serve as Orthopedic Surgeon for the clinics, has notified the Health Department that he is looking forward to serving With this clinic and hopes to develop it in to one ot tne nest in Norm Caro lina. Others who will help Dr. Bugg in staffing the Clinic include three public health nurses from the Halifax County Health De partment, a consultant nurse :rom the Crippled Children’s Di vision of the State Board of Health, a consultant from i\e Vocational Rehabilitation De Dartment, a clerk from the Hal ifax County Health Department, a representative from the Roa noke Rapids Rotary Club and other personnal assigned by the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. Dr. Young said diagnosis ser vice at the clinic will be free for children and adults who have any of the following defects: congenital abnormalities, birth injuries, injuries resulting from tramua, acident, etc., diseases such as anterior poliomyelitis, tuberculosis of bone and joint, syphilis injury, infection such as osteomyelitis and arthritis, diet deficiency, rereditary defects and other defects such as curva ture of the spine and flat feet. He said parents who have chil dren suffering from any of these orthopedic defects are urged to take full advantage of these clin ics, the first of which will start at one p. m. Thursday. A clinic will be held at the same time every fourth Thurs day at the Roanoke Rapids Hos pital. Drunken Flying Case Continued Norfolk, Va., Sept. 21 —(AP)— The case of Roland Hagan, of near Norfolk and Harry N. York of Pinetops, N. CM charged with flying while under the in fluence of intoxicants, has been postponed until Friday, Septem ber 24. Appearing before Judge J. Da vis Reed, Jr., justice of Princess Anne County, Monday afternoon with an attorney, they asked for a continuance on the ground that one of their witnesses was not present. State Trooper C. O. Marr re ported the men were flying a light plane belonging to Frank Harris of Tarboro, N. C., and were stunting in the traffic pat tern over Glen Rock Airport. 1,000 Attend Opening Of Lion’s Fete An estimated 1,000 people gathered for the opening of th Lion’s Club festival last night. The street dance drew a variety of dancers from teen-age jitter bug experts to such couples as Marvin Collier and four year old June Lee Collier. Candidates for Festival Queen made their first appearance led by Louise Burke. The others are Ruth King, Jean King, Geraldine Revelle, Louise Cooke, Do: is Fahey, LaRue Lassiter, Dorothy pontT rides Ofifcials of the Lions’ Club Festival announced today that two ponies and two burroes would be available at the festi val grounds tonight for child ren to ride. muumiuiu, JUttlgaiCl AI1I1 J .1 gram, and Betty Wynne In gram. Dorothy Mountford, 13, is the youngest contestant. The girls will make another appearance Thursday night, out the queen will not? be announced until the Coronation Bad Fri day night. Carnival crowds will probab'.y swell the remainder of the week. Last night mechanical difficult ies prevented the successful op eration of rides and the crowd went home earlier than had been expected. Originally there were supposed to be seven rides, but only five are to be in operation. Two failed to arrive and two broke down last night. The en gine of the ferris wheel went out of order and the merry-go round was halted by trouble with a gear. These are being re paired. Partlow, ride owner, said he was sorry about the ether two but is short of help and just can’t get things squared away. Britain Orders Refitting Of 100 Warships London, Sept. 21 —(AP)—Bri tian considers the international situation so grave that it sus pended commercial work in the royal dockyards today in order to refit about 100 warships for service. An officials navy announce ment said the ships are to be made ready for duty before April. An admiralty spokesman said, however, the work can be done very quickly— perhaps within two months. The announcement of the big naval preparedness move came soon after the government slow ed-down demobilization of the armed forces, stepped up re cruiting on new troops, began doubling the production of jet fighter planes and started ready ing civilian defenses. The Admiralty did not say ex actly when the ships are to be refitted. Speaker Says Wallace Aim Is To Kill Demos In ’48, Win In ’52; Build Negro Party In South The Wallace third'party should not be dismissed as jusi another scatter - brained third party movement that will evaporate after Election Day. Its leaders are shrewd Communists who they know exactly where they expect to go and have a defin ite plan to get there. The pre mise—upon which all their plans is based is that America is headed for a terrible depression; when it arrives, the people will throw out the party in power and take the alternative par.v. The Wallaceitese warn the Re publicans to be in power during the depressen; then if the Pro gressives have completed the destruction of the Democratic party this year, they will be the alternative party by 1952. Wal lace, the front man, will be used until the Communists capture the machinery of government, afterwards, Wallace will be dumped; trusted Communists take over. These atatements were made last night to the Rotary club by James L. Wick, former foreign and Washington correspondent and brother of Milton I. Wick, president of the Roanoke Rapids Herald. Wick, who attended the Progessive convention in Phil adelphia as well as the Repub lican and Democratic conven tions, emphasized that he was describing the theories of the Wallace leaders; he was not pre dicting that any of these things would happen. If their premise* were false, the conclusions would be equally false. Wallace, on Oct. 29, 1945, pre dicted that 7 miUij.n would be unemployed in 1946 and 5% mil lions in 1947 and >9 IS in 1S49 and 1950, unemployment would rise to 7 or 8 million. Nor was Wallace alone; in 1944, 1945, and I94t> almost all officials in the Roosevelt and Trumaa adminis trations were making similar Dredictions. They had absorbed the theories taught by left-wing economists in the vniversites that capitalism was a boom-bust system that would have to make way for some form of collectiv sm, the government paternalisti eally taking care of the people, the people being unable to take tare of themselves. The second part of the Pro gressive program is that the Democratic party must be effec ively and completely destroyed, [n the North, one method of lestruction is being used; in the South, another entirely different nethod. In the North, the Progressives ire putting up candidates with Dig names. Elmer Benson, former governor of Minnesota, is being Dut up to take votes away from Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, Democratic nominee, who otherwise might unseat Re publican Senator Joseph tall, in Connecticut, Yale Professor Emerson is being run on the Progressive ticket to defeat Chester Bowles, Democratic no minee for governor A North western professor is being run n Illinois. College professors, in :identally, said Wide, compose i large segment of the Wallace leadership; for example, 2? pro fessors at the University of Ccl Drado, are members cf the Wal lace sponsoring committee. Ev erywhere in the North, the Democratic party is to be de stroyed by pulling away enough Democratic votes to assure Re publican victories from coast to :oast. In the South, however, the program is to put up Negro (Continued on page eight) A Tyler Hasn’t Said True Billg Jt 0 Warrenton, Sept. 22 — “Some 40 bills of indictment” were handed' to the Warren County Grand Jury here today to be studied in connection with the alleged misuse of state tunds in the Warren County Schools, it was learned from a reliable source here today. Solicitor Ernest R. Tyler re fused to confirm that the Grand Jury had been presented with bills of indictment. Tyler had said several days ago that he anticipated bringing charges against J. Edward Allen, Wu ren county school superintendent. Court attaches said that one witness, a state school official, had been called before the Grand Jury this morning and that there were several State Bureau of Investigation men and other state school officials present in the courtroom. Court adjourned at 12:50 p. m., to reconvene this afternoon at 2:30. There were indications that the Grand Jury might complete its work on the school case today, court attaches said. Allen, bl, a Baptist lay lead er and a past Grand Master of the North Carolina Masonic Lodge, is a patient at Duke Hos pital. A telephone, call to his home several days ago indicated that he had left for Durham for treatment in the Duke Hospital. He has been ill at his home here for the past month. State Bureau of Investigation agents Jimmy Powell and Jim Durham, who have been con ducting an investigation of the case, were in court hero yester day at the opening of the toira and were requested by Solicitor Tyler to remain until today. Chief Auditor C. D. Reid and Controller Paul Reid of the State Board of Education have been in charge of making an au dit of State funds handled by Allen. Judge Parker said yesterday j that he is satisfied that the Warren County Grand Jury is i “a legally constituted grand' jury.” Under Warren County statutes, nine grand jurors are suppos'd to be chosen in January and r>a other nine-chosen in May each group to serve for a year. Last January due to'two va cancies on the jury 11- men were placed on the grand jury. No new jurors were chosen in i May because repairs to the War ren County courthouse prevent ed the holding of the scheduled i court session. To get the grand jury straight j for this term Judge Parker Monday dismissed the last two of the eleven men selected last January, dismissed the jurors picked in May, 1947, r.nd order ed nine new grand jurors seat ed. The grand jury is now com posed of the following 16 men and two women: J. T. Whive, foreman, J. D. Hardy, L. A. Fowler, M. K. Aycock, J. H. •> Bobbitt, C. A. Gundy, R. R. Rod well, H. H. Steed, H. R. Stallman, J. D. Haltzman, Car rie Hepenstall, J. S. Whitley, Mrs. J. T. Powell, Otis H. Po well, F. L. Harris, Morris Pen nell, D. N. Weaver and W. L. Knight. Scattered Rain Is Predicted In Some Parts By The Associated Press Carolinas temperatures aver aged in the airish low sixties this morning. This afternoon’s highs were expected to be about the same as yesterday’s—in the middle eighties and low nineties. A few scattered showers were expected in North Carolina this afternoon and evening, the wea ther bureau said. Here are 'his morning’s lows and yesterday’s highs in repre sentative cities: Winston-Salem 65-92, Hickory 63-91, Asheville 54-85, Greenville, S. C., 62-90, Anderson 61-92, Cherry Point 71-87, Wilmington 68-88, Greensboro 63-93, Char lotte 64-91, Columbia 65-93. Other morning lows: Florence 66, Lumberton 66, Elizabeth City 70, Rocky Mount 68, New Bern 66, Myrtle Beach, 65, and Cape Hatteras 75. Weather North Carolina — Partly cloudy and not much change in temperatures today and, to night: a few scattered show ers this afternoon and evening: Wednesday, fair and cooler. Immigration People Talk With Refugees Wilmington, Sept. 21 —(AP)— Immigration officials talked to day with many of the 69 Eaton- ' ians who landed yesterday after a voyage in a 76-foot sloop. Indications were the group would be sent to Ellis Island, N. Y., as was a group that landed a month ago from Rusiian-con trolled E (Ionia. Yesterday’s group consisted of 31 men, 25 women and 13 ren. They sailed from £ July 23 and made several ins