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VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER 11 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1948 FIVE CENTS DAILY 1 Roanoke Ramblings ■ By PAT NANTZ David C. Edwards agrees that "boys will be boy3, especially ^ mischievous ones. Mr Edwards recalls the time he was fixing the roof of his house While he was on top of the house, his se ven year old son, David, Jr, decided he would like to see Pop get down without the help cf a ladder. So, he removed it, and hid himself to watch the scene. After much difficulty, Mr. Ed wards did get down. . . . but Ju 6 nior found himself having to eat dinner on the mantel that night. Miss "Frankie" Rightmyer and her guest, Mrs. Emma Melton have returned to Norfolk, Va., after spending the week-end with Franke’s mother, Mrs. R. J. Rightmyer. If you happen to be one of | the few people who don’t know the story of Jesse James, then make a special trip to McCrory’s store. They have the most novel record relating the stoiy, that could possibly be made. A little boys father died from over-indulgence. After the funer al, the little boy said to bis mo ther, “Mama! When I go to Hea ven, how will I know Papa? % “Just look for an angel with a red nose,” she suggested. At a recent business session of the Monday Night Bridge Club, Mrs. Ned Manning was elected president and Miss Ruth Transou secretary. Mrs. Cotter Murray was elected a new member. Flyin' into the wild blue yon der today, will be Mrs. A. L. 0 Drew, who is leaving today from Rocky Mount, by plane to attend PP:.he North Caroina State Florist Association Convention, in Ashe ville. Mrs. Drew is with the Roa noke Floral Company and is re presenting them there. The con vention will last through Thurs day. Although the citizens of our noble city probably have never a noticed any peculiar scent com w ing from the paper mill, believe it or not, out-siders do. Such was the case as J. W. McNeal re calls. On Saturday, when he was returning from a visit in Virgin ia, he said that the man on the seat beside him in the bus seem ed very interested in the sights of the country-side. When they crossed the Roanoke Bridge, he remarked, “Well, theie's Roa ^ noke Rapids’ famous land-mark ™ —in day or night.” Mr. McNeal inquired, “You mean the river?’ “No” was the answer, “I mean the paper mill, you can tell when you’ve arrived at Roanoice Rapids with your eyes closed, so long as you don’t have a bad cold.” After seeing the sights of Montreat, for a whole week, Mrs. 4* C. A. Wyche and Miss Susan Holladay have returned home. They had as their guests, Mrs. Henry Thorpe of Rocky Mount. The most dangerous part of a car is the nut that holds the steering w'heel! Dr. Lide Speaks At Mission Meet < Here Tonight Dr. Frank P. Lide, who has served the Baptist Church as a missionary to China will be the principal speaker this evening on the Week of Missions being conducted this week at Rose mary Baptist Church as an as sociation-wide serfes of the Roa noke Baptist Association. At last night’s meeting, Dr. J. 4 C. Powell, missionary to Africa replaced Dr. James Ray, secre tary of the State Baptist Train ing Union, on the program Itev ■’elix Arnold of Enfield was uest soloist and the devotional enod was led by the Aduit De . 'artment of the Sunday school. The Rosemary Baptist Church M s host church to seven churches ™<i.n the Roanoke Rapids areadur * g this week. m -—— Weother NORTH CAROLINA— Part ■ coudy today and tonight; a ;w showers in northeast pot ion; increasing cloudiness .'hursday with showers in outhoast portion; s i i g fitly ooler Thursday; not much emperalure change today and m onight except a little cooler in ® lortheast portion. DOVF COTE Police Seeking Local Man For Theft Of An Airplane C. L. Barnes Said To Have Taken Plane Local police and Halifax Coun ty officers early this afternoon were still searching for Claude L. Barnes, local man, on a charge of larceny of an airplane. Barnes crashed a 65-horse power Piper Cub training plane which he had allegedly stolen from the Halifax County airport about 5:15 yesterday afternoon into a pine thicket about five miles southwest of Roanoke Ra pids near the Aurelian Springs highway, W. B. Copenhaver .air port operator and owner of the airplane, said this morning. Copenhaver said he did not miss the airplane from its cus tomary place on the field until about eight o’clock this morning. He said he immediately thought of Barnes because Barnes had approached him yesterday after noon and wanted to rent a plane for awhile. He said he made a few calls and learned that Barnes had been involved in a plane crash late yesterday after The airport manager said he went to the scene of the crash and found the plane a total wreck in a pine grave. He said the tree tops for about 75 feet around had been sheared from the force of the plane’s fall. He said he believes the foliage of the trees is the only thing that saved Barnes’ life. The plane was noj insured. "I don’t know how badly he was hurt, but there was a lot of blood in the plane. I understand, though, that Barnes was seen with a bandage on his head at the Lions’ Festival last night," Copenhaver said. Copenhaver said he Veported the theft of the plane to the lo cal police and issued a. warrant for his arrest on a larceny charge. He said Barnes was drinking when he had approach ed him earlier in the afternoon, but that he would not say he was drunk. “A friend of his told me this morning that he was drunk when he crashed,” Copenhaver said. Copenhaver said he believes Barnes crashed the plane after he had "buzzed” the home of Jack Dickens, a friend of his, near the scene of the wreck. The manager said Barnes, who has held a private pilot’s license for about a year, had been warned about “buzzing” and had been forbidden to do it in any of the local planes. Seven Of Eight Columbia Bank Robbers Have Been Captured Columbia, in. c., bept. &/,— (AP)—A but one of thle eight men who participated in the $68,200 robbery of the East Caro lina Bank of Columbia yester day have been apprehended, the j FBI said today. I The eighth was believed hem j med up in a nearby swamp. Two Norfolk, Va., negroes were arrested shortly before dawn. Special Agent Charles W. Brown identified them as Wil liam Henry Ward and Milton Gray. Brown said Ward had $1, 00 in his pockets, but Brown di recting the search from Char lotte, did not know whether Gary had any money on his per med up in a nearby swamp, son. Neither Ward nor Gary resist ed, Brown said. Thus far, $59,567 has been re covered. Original estimates gave the bank’s loss as approximately $50,000. But the figure gradually rose employes concluded an inventory that was delayed pending the taking of finger prints. One negro was critically wounded when he ran from blood hounds and pursuers. Christopher C. Ward was shot through the back and wounded critically nearly Woodly station when he failed to heed the call to surrender-from a convict trus ty who was leading a pack of blood bounds rusned nere irom the Williamston prison camp. The pistol bullet entered the ne gro’s back and lodged in his in testines and he was taken to the Columbia hospital where be is given little chance to recover. On Ward’s body was found $4,263 part of the approximately 5$8,U00 recovered by officers. The shooting occurred about 7 p. m. and within a short time Jesse By rum of Wilson, Willie Melkins of Washington, ana Henry Ward of Greensboro, all negroes, were captured without any display of opposition near the area where the trio was picked up officers found a Navy zipper bag packed witn money and two pistols. Early in the afternoon, Har ry Everett Morrison, Norfolk white man, was taken into cus tody in Creswell and admitted, according to officials, that ne led the daring holdup. Aubrey Whit Tarkington, native of C'.res well but recently living :n Nor folk, was also picked up and of ficers expressed the opinion that ne naa served as loouout lor tne seven men who entered tne rank with gups flourishing, lined up the five bank employees and three cmustomers including one blind man, scooped up the cash and fled to their car waiting outside. The get-away car broke down at Creswell and the bandits were forced to take to the woods after dividing the money as the quick ly organized army of Jaw en forcement officers including county, State Highway Patrol, SB1, and FBI men, augmented by civilians, began closing in, while a helicopter from Eliza beth City Coast Guard station circled overhead to check on the fleeing men. The car, a 1948 Hudson, was stolen in Virginia, several days ago. Local residents recalled hav ing seen it in Columbia both on Saturday and Monday when six negroese and one white man vis ited several business establish ments. Cashier Marshall A. Matthews said the bandits entered the bank about 11:15 o’clock and that the white man believed to Kotro Knan Mrvrricrtn and Phillip L. Spruill, a blind man, to “hit the floor or d:e.” Matthews said he obeyed the command after explaining that Spruill was blind. The latter was permitted to sit in his chair while a negro stood guard. Two other bandits ordered bookkeepers Zelda Psrisher and Beulah Twiddy out of the room in which they were working and to lie down behind a counter behind which Tellers Biliie Swain and Milver Davis had been herded. Another bandit guarded the customers in the lobby while two men scooped up the money from a vault and the cash drawers. Four Persons Killed By Arabs Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 22 — (AP)—Jewish military authori ties announced Arabs ambushed and killed four persons in a United Nations convoy at Jeru salem today. No United Nations personnel was hurt, the announcement said, but one of those killed was described as “an American en gineer who came here recently as a technical adviser.” His name was not disclosed. ■ J. Edward Allen, Warren School Head, Indicted On Charges Of Embezzlement Warrenton, Sept. 22-J. Ed ward Allen, Superintendent of Warren County Schools since 19 19, was under a $15,000 bond to day following the finding of 34 true bills of indictment against aim here late yeaterday after noon on charges of embezzle - ment of $24,327.75, false pretense and forgery of 32 salary checks. A capias instanter ordered written by Superior Court Judge R. Hunt Parker after the grand jury had returned its findings in open court was served on Al ien last night in Duke Hospital, Durham. He has been a patient at the hospital since last Wed nesday. The capias was served by Sheriff E. G. Belvin of Durham County, who was accompanied by Warren County Deputy Sheriff R. D. Chewning and at UUX1UO XJOiltCl fJL UClUtll ton, who said he will defend the veteran school man in'the case. The bills of indictment against Allen were returned to Judge Parker by grand jury foreman J. T. White at 4:18 yesterday afternoon, after the grand jury had received them from District Solicitor Ernest R. Tyler shortly after 11 o’clock. Judge Parker had the findings entered in the records of the Superior Court and ordered Clerk of Court Joe N. Ellis to issue in stanter suppoenas for the arrest of Allen. He further orderd that a bond of $10,000 be set in the embezzlement charge and bond of $5,000 set on the othei counts. Surely for the bonds was left to the approval of Ellis. A few minutes before the court was recessed for the af ternoon a check in the amount of $15,000 was posted with Ellis by C. P. Allen, Jr., a nephew of the superintendent. Julius Banzet said he, his brother Frank, and State Re - presentative John Kerr, Jr., will defend Allen, however he declin ed to say whether or not they had been retained for that pur pose before the charges were formally lodged. Court was re-convened a t 5:30 yesterday by Judge Parker so he could sign in open court an order impounding “all re cords pertaining to and dealing with the transactions of the de fendant with the Citizens Bank Bank and Trust Company of Raleigh, the Citizens Bank and Henderson and the Bank of Hali fax. Litterton, and the records of the County Board of Educa tion pertaining to the financial transactions or tne aeienciant. Judge Parker said he will sign today an order for an audit of the books of the Board of Education by an approval audit ing firm. The firm of Williams and Urquhart, Raleigh, was sug gested by Tyler, however the order was left unsigned until some definite firm could be found to take the job. Tyler said he does not expect the case to come to trial at the present term of Superior Court because the action was initiated through the Grand J /y, how ever he said he is “ready to try it now.” The next term of Warren County Superior Court will be held in January, and according to the North Caro lina court calendar Judge Wal ter J. Bone is scheduled to pre side. Bills of indictment charge that the County Superuntendent em Dczzled State school funds in the amount of $24,327.75 on October The checks in question nade out to the teachers and JO, 1939. The alleged forged Day checks to Negro school rachers who were not at the ime teaching in the Warren Dounty schols and who cud not receive any of the money dated at far back as October 10, 1939, and the most recent was dated March 25, 1947. ' The false pretense indictment :harged that “J. Edward A1 en did falsely pretend that a school in North Carolina known as Young School was being op erated from September 27, 1946 antil May 21, 1947; that one Ann e Ruth Fortson was teacher; that 13 children attended Young School and that Annie Ruth Fort son was entitled to receive and did receive from the State of North Carolina as a teacher for the time a salary of $1,666.78. “Whereas in truth and in fact said Young School was not open and not operating at any time from September 27, 1946 until May 21, 1947; that Annie Ruth Fortson was not a teacher at the time and did not teach at said school that no other per son taught at said school and neither Annie Ruth Fortson nor any other teacher was entitled to salary, there being no school in operation at Young School and that said Annie Ruth Fort son received no salary as teach er for said school.” The 32 forgery indictments charge that Allen “did willingly and falsely mak, forge and counterfeit and did willingly as sent to the falsely making, for ging and counterfeiting” of 32 checks payable to Negro teach ers who were not teaching at the time the checks were writ* tn. were allegedly endorsed by the teachers and re-endorsed by A1 len. It is on the original endorse ment that the forging was charg ed. State Bureau of Investigation who aided in the investigation of the case, said yesterday that the handwriting experts of the same person on all the checks but did not know who had done the actual endorsing c|f the checks. Powell and S. B. I. agent Jint Durham testified before the r^rand Jury yesterday. Also * testifying were Auditor C. B. Douglas of th estate Board of Education and Paul Reid, Con troller, of the State Board of Education. \Tmnie B. Williams. Eiged Negro former school teach er, whose name appeared on 16 of the allegedly forged checks, j and Eliza Vivian Robinson, an other of the Negro former teacher, also testified before the Grand Jury in the course of the hearings. The total of the forged checks amounted to $5,147.48, however & this amount is included in the :|j total of the embezzlement charge, the investigators $aid. This morning Harry Walker, chariman of the Warren County ■ Board of Education, could not oe reached at his home in Nor lina, however J. A. Rooker of Warrenton, member c# the Board, said he has had no noti fication of any called meeting of the Board of Education i n view of yesterday’s develop ments. Allen is still officially the Warren County Superintendent of Schools. Britain Will Support Plan Of Bernadofte London, Sept. 22—(AP) —Bri tian today pledged her support to Count Folke Bernadottc’s re commendations for solution of the Palestine question. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev in told the House of Commons the assassination of the United Nations mediator in Jerusalem last week was an attempt 10 prevent the successful complet ion of the Swedish envoys's task. “The best way for us to com memorate his death is to com plete his work on the basis of the proposals which he put for ward just before his death,” Bevin asserted. New Christain Church Parsonage Is Dedicated A new parsonage at the Fir t Christian Church was dedicated Sunday afternoon in a formal dedication ceremony conducted by the pastor, the Rev. John L. Langston, who was assisted by the Rev. Edmond Berkley, Rec tor of All-Saints’ Episcopal Church and the Rev. B. Marshall Wh;te-Hurst, pastor of Rose mary Baptist Church. A number of members of the congregation of the church were on hand for the dedication cn the recently-completed building, which was built at a cost of ap proximately $12,000. The ceremony was carried out with symbolic corn, wine and oil, and it was pointed out that the acquisition of a parsonage as a great contribution to the spiritual life of the church. xriai ueiayea wnen Juror Gets Drunk Warrenton, Sept. 22 — C. R. Hathcock of Warren County is in jail today. He was in court yesterday as a juror. He will be freed tomorrow. Hathcock was empanelled with 11 other jurors shortly before the noon recess yesterday to here evidence in the case of Wil lie M. Wortham, Negro, charged in the Superior Court with man slaughter in the death of Miss Evelyn Bolton. Since no evidence was present ed in the case prior to the noon recess, Judge R. Hunt Parker dismissed the jury for lunch. Judge Parker said that when court re-convened Hathcock was under the influence of alcohol and “at 4:10 p. m. he is still half drunk.” The judge held Hathcock in contempt of coprt and termed his behavior “disorderly, con temptuous and insolent.” Parker said Hathcock had ad mitted having “two Targe drinks of whiskey” at the lunch recess, and ordered him confined for 48 hours “to be released at 4:15 p. m. on Thursday, September 23.” Summer Comes To End Tonight At 10:22 New York, Sept. 22 — CAP)--I Summer ends tonight at 10:22 p. m. standard time in the various time zones across the nation. Following summer’s passing, Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a. m. Sunday. At that time the clock moves back one hour in most communities with Daylight Saving Time. 3,988 Register In Halifax County Under Second Selective Service Act George N. Taylor, chairman of the Halifax County Selective Service Board, announced to day that a total of 3,988 young Halifax County men had regis tered at the seven draft regis tration centers in the county. The time limit on registra tion expired on Saturday, Tay lor added. State selective service head quarters had estimated that 4,500 Halifax men would have been registered under the sec ond peacetime selective ser vice act. Youths who become 18 years of age are required to report to the draft board in Halifax at the courthouse within 15 days after their 18th birthday and register for selective ser vice. Taylor listed the number of registrants at the various re gistration centrs as follows: lloanoke Rapids. 1,455; Wel don. 316; Halifax. 327; Enfield 88; Scotland Neck 597; Little ton 335 and Aurelian Springs The draft board chairman expressed the appreciation of the board members to all per sons who helped with the regis tration. He added that the question ! r.aires on which the classifica | lion of the men would b based ! were being mailed out and 1 that some had been returned. Western Powers Give Soviet Week On Berlin Paris, Sept. 22 — (AP)—The Western Powers gave the Soviet Union anothear week today to come to an agreemnt on the Berlin situation before they /ike the isue to the United Nations, well informed French sources said. As the United Nations General Assembly began organizing it self for the autumn session, the foreign ministers of the United States, Great Britian and France agreed on a general outlines of a note that may be sent to Mos cow sometime this wek, these sources said. Top-ranking diplomatic and military advisers of the three western nations will meet again to study the text of the message to Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, the sources said. They described the message tive to the military commanders m Germany concerning the cru cial question of Berlin’s cur rency. U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman have scheduled another meeting for sometime next week whein, presumably they wou'd have the reply from Moscow. —o— London, Sept. 22 —(AP) — The United States, Britian and France are in “absolute agree ment” on a policy to be pursued jointly if the Moscow talks over Berlin fail, Foreign Serretar/ Ernest Bevin declared today. Referring to talks at the Kremlin between envoys of the Western powers and the Russian leaders, Prime Minister Stalin and Foreign Minister Molotov, Bevin told an expectant House of Commons. “1 have to disappoint you. The , stage is not yet reached which makes it possible to make a release.” “We are in close consultation —we are still working it out— and shall be continuing our con sultation in Paris during the coming week. “There have been rumors of disagreement over our Berlin policy, but also as to the policy we will jointly pursue if that fails.” Probable Cause In Murder Found Against Terry Halifax, Sept. 22 — George Terry, Northampton County Ne gro, was bound over to Superior Court under a $5,000 bond on probable cause of murder in the second degree in a preliminary hearing before Judge Charles R. Daniel here yesterday . Terry is charged with the knife slaying of Gordon Bryant Miles, 20, of near Weldon follow ing an argument near Weldon on the night of September 11. He was held without bond pending the preliminary hearing in Halifax County recorder’s court yesterday. The hearing was slated for last week’s court, however, it was continued for a week. Terry, who worked near Wel don for a time under the alias of George Hudson, was arrested on the morning following the slay ing of Miles at the home of his grandmother near Gumberry in No;Hampton County. Sheriff H. A. House of Halifax County said the Negro had admitted the slay ing. Judge Daniels sat as commit ting magistrate in yesterday’s hearing. Supreme Court Gets Weldon Expense Case Raleigh, Sept. 22 — (AP)— Is it “necessary expen: %” for local governments to send their law enforcement officers to school? That’s a question brought be fore the State Supreme Court in a case on appeal from Halifax County. The action was brought by George C. Green, a Weldon tax payer, against Mayor J. T. Mad drey and Town Commissioners Walker Campbell, W. A. Pierce, C. R. Turner, and Pierce John son. i Green asks that the officials be required to return to town treasurer $1,100 paid as salary and expenses while Police Chief P. R. Kilchin attended the FBI’s National Academy in 1946. The sum includes $675 for three months’ salary and $425 expen ses. Green’s suit contends that the expenditure was illegal. Records in the case show that the commissioners declined to comply with a request from Green that the money be re turned to the treasury. The de fendants contend that the ex penditure was necessary in that it enabled Kitchin to become a more efficient officer. The attorney general’s office and the institute of government describe the case as the first court test of a nationally accept ed program for training law en forcement officers. Inspection Lane In Scotland Neck Scotland Neck, September 22. —Mechanical Inspection Lane No. 34 for Halifax, Northampton and Bertie counties set up shop here this morning, whruq it will remain until Sunday for the con venience of motorists in thi3 area who have not yet had their automobiles inspected. All who have not had their cars through the lane as yet are urged to do so while the lane is here. The lane’s schedule after it leaves Scotland Neck ’s as fol lows: September 28-30 at Rich Square, October 2-5 at Ailander, October 7-10 at Windsor. It is slated to return to Roa noke Rapids on October 12. Hurricane Moves Across Inland Florida Towards Citrus Belt miami, na., oqn. —mn — A drenching hurricane with its 100-mile-an-hour winds still in tact, moved over Lake Okcecno bee in South Central Florida to day and aimed for the state’s rich citrus belt. Two persons hav'e died and many have suffered minor injur ies in the big storm which Mast ed the Florida Keys with ICO mile gusts early yesterday ana pounced on Miami last night. Heavy gales and rain still bat tered the Keys and Miami to day. The center of the storm is ex pected to pass into the Atantie about 6 o’clock (ESI’) tonight in the vicinity of Melbourne, 160 miles north of Miami and over Merritts Island, just northeast of Melbourne, about 8 or 9 p. m., the weather bureau said. The hurricane eye passed close to the sugar-cane growing region at Cewiston on the Lake shore about 7 a. ml. Lake Okeechobee is the second largest fresh water laks entirely wiuim uie umieu omits. /v great hurricane in 1923 caused it to overflow its banks and drown about 2,500 laborers engaged in planting vegetables in the win Communications still were out ter “salad bowl” of the nation, today with Key West, where President Truman has his “Little White House,” Everglades city, 70 miles west of Miami, and Cewiston. A Red Cross survey showed 8,300 persons stayed last night in Miami's shelters. The shelters were stocked wjth- enough food to feed 53,000 persons for two days. Between 700 and 1.000 rfeugees from Highlands County in the central part of the state found haven in the little citrus town at Sebring. Forecasters said the hurricane “will pass very near Clewistm :m and over the eastern rim of Lake OkeechoDee” as it moves north- J ward toward Daytona Beach. It , is expected to pa&s into the At-; -1 lantic early tonight
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