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VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER 13_FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1948 _ FIVE CENTS DAILY * U.S. Protests Russian Plans To Use Berlin Air Corridor Tor Bombing and Firing Range bovier news n Mediums Banned In U. S. Zone Berlin, Sept. 24—(AP)— Russian anti-aircraft gunners plan to fire “dangerously high” in practice in the American-Bri tish air lift corridor to blockaded Berlin, the American charged in I a protest today. The Russians also announced they would conduct bombing and fighter firing practice in the cor ridor the Americans said. Ask ed what precautions they would take to protect traffic, the Rus sians said that when their own planes appeared, they would stop shooting. In another development of the ' battle for Berlin, the U. S. mili tary government banned all So viet-sponsored newspapers and other publications from the Am erican zone of Germany. This was in reprisal for Soviet ban ning of Western-licensed publica tions in the Soviet zone and the Russian sector of Berlin. Capt. V. H. Gookin of Quincy, Mass., chief U. S. representative at the four-power Berlin air safety center, said the Russians posted a notice there that they intended to conduct anti-aircraft firing practice for seven hours to day in the Bueckeburg Corridor. The Corridor i3 used by all American and British planes on air supply runs to Berlin. The Russians announced they would m 000 feet near Dolle airport, about 25 miles west of Berlin. , * "I objected that this was dan * gerously high range,” Gookin -J said, “and asked the Russians what protective measures they were taking for their own air traffic going between here and Paris for the United Nations s-ssions. The Russian represen tative answered that when their own traffic came along, ‘We will stop shooting.’” Later, Gookin said, the Rus sians reported they were also in tending air-to-ground practice. This would include diving fire bjf aircraft at targets and possibly bombing practice. These opera tions also were scheduled at Dolle, along the corridor. The American protested to the Russians yesterday against a stunting Soviet Yak fighter plane which flew dangerously close to an American transport carrying J 30 persons *rom Berlin to Frank furt. On the political front, the war over the newspapers nullified a four power agreement reached at the Moscow foreign ministers conference in 1947, for free ex change of information throughout the four occupation zones. The American action, in effect a counter-embargo was signed by Maj. Gen. George P. Hays, "> deputy U. S. Military governor. American officials said Hays acted after he had sent repeated but unavailing protests to the Russians against the blocking of Western-zone publications from the Soviet zone. Cool Weather y Will Continu Over WeekenO By THE ASSOCIATED ?HESS Fair and continued cool weath er was, predicted generally ior the Carolinas today, tonight and tomorrow. Mild weather was forecast for South Carolina this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. \ Low temperatures this morn ’ ing ranged from 10 degrees at Mt. Mitchell to 58 at Columbia and Greenville, S- C. Other lows: Anderson and Winston-Salem 51; Hickory, Wilmington and Charlotte 56; ItHleigh and L Greensboro 47; Florence 57. * Lumberton 54, Asheville 5.7, E’i -abeth City 55, Rocky Mount 50, Mew Bern 52. High temperatures for major ■joints yesterday ranged from 89 tegrees at Asheville to 80 at ■'Morenoe ir.d M /'"'e Bear h The verage was in he mid 70’s. Weather NORTH CAROLINA — Fair -d continued cool today, to ipht and Saturday. Suspect Jailed In Bank Robbery This man. Identified by the FBI as Harry Everett Morri son, of Norfolk, Va., sits in jail at Plymouth, N. C., after his arrest in connection with a $60,000 hold-up of the East Carolina Bank at Columbia, N. C. FBI Special Agent Charles W. Brown reported another white man and three Negroes, all of Norfolk, also are under arrest. He said $58,217 of the loot has been re covered. (AP Photo). Truman Issues Challenge To Dewey To A "Title" Fight By The Associated Press President Truman turned east ward from California today with a challenge to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to “a championship fight” with no “running away from the record or ducking the issues.” Thus far, Mr. Truman said, he has had nothing but “double talk” and “high sounding words” from his Republican opponent Dewey prepared to turn lose a counter-punch tonight in a Hollywood Bowl address on the administration’s handling of the communism-in-government issue. Mr. Truman issued his chal lenge last night at Los Angeles, where he spoke in partly-filled Gilmore Stadium. At the same time he made a direct bid for support from liberal voters lean ing toward Henry A. Wallace’s Progressive Party. Don’t “waste votes,” he said, on a third party which he de clared is powerless to obtain peace in the world or improve conditions in this country. said. “This is the hour for the liberal forces of America to unite. We have hopes to fulfill and goals to attain. Together we can rout the forces of reaction once again.” Wallace struck back at the Truman administration in which he once served, as he opened his final vote drive in Toledo, Ohio. The former cabinet member accused the railroads of “de frauding” the government of $2, 000,000,000 in wartime freight charges. He said the administra tion is hiding this from the pub lic by postponing hearings on the matter. Wallace termed this a “strik ing example of subservience of the Truman administration to vested interests.” “Behind a curtain of fear,” he said, “the monopolies have converted the government of Franklin Roosevelt int* the mod el of Republican reaction which we defeated four times.” OUR MISTAKE Due to a typographical ciror, loafers advertised in yesterday's paper by the Slipper Shoppe at $2.98 should have read £3.98 a pair. The Herald regrets the error and is running the ad correctly today. South Africa Charges Big Powers With Breaking Faith Paris, Sept. 24—(AP)— South Africa charged today the great powers broke faith with the small nations and threatened to reconsider her membership in U. N. if there is not a change. E. H. Louw, South African minister of economic affairs, told the general assembly that "if the DTganization of the United Na tions continuese on the road it followed during the past two years, the question will later have to be faced whether consi deration in our own national in terests is compatible with con tinued membership in the organi zation.” He spoke at the fourth meet ing of the assembly after U Ohn, Burmese minister of commerce, had demanded freedom for In donesia and French Indo-China ad had charged that the fighting in southeast Asia "is in some way due to frustrated national ism.” Louw’s criticism came as the U.N. kept its back door open to receive a possible newcomer into its family troubles -the pro blem of the Russian blockade of Berlin. The South African economic* minister charged the general as sembly is being used for "ideo logical propaganda and for poi soning relations between Euro pean and non-European races of the world.” Are You Guilty? Clear Yourself Dear Friends: Are yo;: guilty of storing a lot of useful items in your home that someone else could use? Well, what do you say you clean out your clothes closets, attic, basement, garage or storeroom and get cash for those idle articles? T?.ere r no better time than right now to dispose of them.- Don't you agree? Just pul a little Herald Want Ad to work for you. . . . and prepare for ACTION! Write, stop in or phone R-326 or R-862-1. It's always a good idea to order your ad on a six day basis and cancel it as soon as results are obtained. Don't wait. . . . act at once! Yours sincerely, Ruth Cooper Barnes Surrenders To Deputy Sheriff On Plane Theft Count uiauae uames, local man who has been sought since Wed nesday morning for stealing and wrecking an airplane from the Halifax County airport, was ta ken into custody by Deputy Sheriff G. F. Gray bout two o' clock this morning, Halifax County Sheriff H. A. House said here today. The sheriff said that Barnes, whom Roanoke Rapids police and Halifax County officers had been seeking in conjunction with the theft of the Piper Cub train- : er pane belonging to W. B. Co penhaver, had sent word to De puty Gray tha«,hitwas ready to give himself up. The alleged plane stealer was lodged in the Halifax jail, the sheriff said, and will probably be held there until Tuesdajr, when he is slated to appear be fore Judge Charles R. Daniel in the recorder’s court on charges of assault on a female. The sher iff said Barnes was out on bend for his appearance in the assault case when he is alleged to have wrecked the airplane in a dense woods about five miles south west of here last Tuesday after Warrants charging larceny of an airplane, operating an aircraft while under the influence of al cohol, reckless flying and dam age to personal property have been served on Barnes. The sheriff said he expects Barnes in the jail at Halifax un til the assault case is heard, and said a preliminary hearing on the moTe recent warrants will probably follow the action in the other case. Sheriff House said this morn ing that he had not talked to Barnes personally since his ar rest, but he said deputy Gray said Barnes had told him that he went to the airport Tuesday af ternoon in a taxi and that he “didn’t remember anything af ter he got to the field until he was climbing out of the wrecked airplane.” Barnes was taken into cus tody near his place of residence in Horner Town, the sheriff re ported. Ten-Year-Old Hoy Wins Lions’ Talent Contest A ten-year-old local boy, Johnny Strickland, who entered he Lions Club Festival Talent 'light at the last minute, walk id off with the first prize here ast night with his singing of he hillbilly number, “Move it Dver.” A capacity audience crowded nto the open-air bleachers to ee and hear the performsrs in tction, and everyone showed ap preciation for the better-than iverage talent displayed in spite )f the chilly breezes which an xounced that fall has officially amv*d. Talent, wh ch : -r* "oa noke Rapids, Wfladyn ■-.< • ! fc' ria, was unusually out the show, and the a‘c3en~ showed its appreciation bya^. plauding lustily. Second-prize winner Ralph Willis, harmonica virtue ) from Weldon, who gave the crowd a big kick with his rendi tion of t.hf» “Fnv Hunt” rrvm plete with baying dogs, shouting hunters and all the other sound effects which he coaxed cut of the mouth organ. Winner of third place was an other youngster, Billy Jones, ten, of Roanoke Rapids, who won a lot of applause with his dis play of true talent in a clear, young soprano voice in his rendi tion of “Now Is the Hour.” Mack Outland, who served as master of ceremonies, did a good job of handling the acts as they appeared, and Mrs. Elva Martin acted as piano accompanist. The Jubilee Quartet and Billy Mor gan and his string band also ap peared on the show to provide further entertainment, however neither of these were entered in dogs in the vicinity. Every contestant who entered the Talent Night show received valuable gifts from local mer chants and the winners each received several multiple prizes for their participation and their being chosen as prize perform ers. Fiddlers’ Contest, Crowning Of Queen Feature Activities At Lions Club Festival Tonight With the end of the Festival in sight, the Raonoke Rapids Lions Club has really built up to something tonight, when the annual Festival will feature not one but two cc/.ip?ete, entirely different entertainments. Before the night is out there will be a coronation of a Queen of the Festival to climax the Cor onation Ball at the armory start ing at ten o’clock. The ball will be the big social event of the week insofar as the festival com mittee is concerned. There are ten lovely candidates for Queen, and valuable prizes will be given to the young lady who car ries to the regal scepter. First on the docket, however, is a contest that will furnish real competition from start to fin ish. The opening round of the Fiddlers’ Convention will get un derway in the outdoor arena at eight o’clock tonight in a show manship contest that is fairly bulging with talent. Lion C.A. Irby, who is the man heading the Fiddlers’ Convention comm ittee said today that all the hill billy talent in this flat country seems to have gravitated to ward Roanoke Rapids for the convention. There will be first and second place prizes awarded in seven categories at tonight’s shindig, and the value of the prizes don ated locally makes them even more an object worth seeking. There will be a first-place and a second-place prize given in the following classifications: beststring band, best fiddle solo number (violins are not on the docket), best banjo solo, best hillbilly song solo, best clog dance, best singing ensemble and best guitar solo (either string or electric guitars accept Competing for the prizes in these divisions will be the fol lowing well-known groups a mong lovers of hillbilly music: Bob Hester and his Carolina Playboys, Skinny Newslne and his Cherokee Boys, Rusa Lee Phillips and her Greensville County Ramblers from over the state line, Morris Morgan and his string band, Powell Tanner and his Rangers and Shorty Martin and the Carolina trio. All these groups will be pr imed for the contest all an op portunity to be invited back to Koanoke Kapias baturaay night for the concert of winners. In each of the classifications the winners will be back at the same old stand on the next night to perform without the pressure of competition. Each of the per formers and groups will be allowed to play as it pleases, and it is a sure bet that the stra ins of good ol’ mountain music will be the chief source of de light to those who take in the show. Today it was learned that an old friend of the Lion’s, Smokey Harris of one of our nearby prison camps, has vol unteered to appear at the con cert Saturday ana bring a fel low cell-mate known as “Frog’ Smith. The two Negro prison ers will stir up their own brand their act. Harris, of course, first appeared this week as a (Continued on Page 12) SPECIAL MATINEE Houston Fuller, chairman ci the publicity committee lor the Lions Club Festival announced here this morning that a spe cial matinee will be put on at "the Festival grounds on the high school field tomorrow af ternoon. The gates will be open free to all school-age children from 2:30 until 5:30, and he said a special cut-rate price will be charged for the rides in opera tion on the grounds. The ex hibit tent and concessions will also be open, he said. Faster Completion Of City Street Paving 1 Is Seen With Signing Of A New Contract Faster completion of Roanoke Rapids’ projected $404,000 street paving project with even better material than was originally an ticipated seemed assured today, with the announcement that construction men expected to start pouring some priming sur face as early as Monday. Mayor W. Bernard Allsbrook said yesterday that the City of Roanoke Rapids has negotiated a new paving contract with the Exum-Cline Construction Co., Rocky Mount division, to take over completely the paving of about six miles of street with plant-mix black top surfacing. The mayor said the Town Commissioners had made the decision to “pay a little bit more to get a lot better job’’ and had awarded the paving contracts to Exum-Cline after being released from a contract with Sam Fin ley, Inc., the firm which had entered a low bid on paving the local streets with macadam sur facing. Mayor Allsbrook said the pro posal to use the higher-type paving material at a good price was made the city after Exum Cline had been awarded a state contract for the rep.'nirg of Roa noke Avenue, pa;t of the state highway system, and the widen ing and repaving ot the Roanoke Rapids-Weldon highway, j He said after the company had been awarded the state contracts they set up a mixtog plant at Garysburg to prepare the sur facing treatment and had been in a position to offer the city a good price because of the near ness of the plant for supplying the paving mateual. The same company already is working on contracts for putting in curbing and guiterj and grad ing streets, and it was reported today by George Justice, Super intendent of Streets, that the en tire curb-and-gutter wore on the east side of Hcacoke Avenue has been completed and he said work is going forward on the west side of town immediately. Justice said there ia still some grading work to be completed on many of the streets which will be affected, adding that he expects to see some of the prim ing surface put iown by Mon day. The new paving contract calls for work io begin by Oct ober 4, Mayor Allsbrook re ported. The mayor said tha Finley company had been quite gen erous in releasing the city from its contracts on request, after members of the town board had decided to try and have the better surfacing ap plied by fhe firm already in the city on the job. Superintendent Justice said here today that there is little possibility that the entire paving project will be completed this year, however he said the new contract will speed up the work considerably because the plant mix surfacing can be put down at any time and will not be adversely affected by the cold weather as the macadam would have been. He said he does not know when the company intends to start its surfacing work on the state contract on Roanoke Ave nue, but said he hopes to see most all of the work in town completed by next spring. Citizens who live on the streets which were on the list for paving now have the pros pect of being relieved of the al ternation between riuat and mud much sooner than had been an ticipated. Justice said the streets affect ed by the paving east of Roa noke Avenue are the followings Washington street to be paved its entire length; Jefferson street from Third to Eleventh; one block of East First; one block of East Second; three blocks of East Third; two blocks of East Fourth; two blocks of East Fifth; two blocks of East Sixth; four blocks on East Se venth; one block on East Eighth! two blocks i# East Ninth, two blocks on East Eleventh; one (Continued on Page 12) Roanoke Ramblings By Pat Nantz After reading about Richmond Lynch's broken ankle, in yes /r day’s paper, a member of the Junior Jax asked me.if I had seen Billy Hudson’s face lately ....not knowing what he could mean by such a statement. I looked all-over for a glimpse at Billy’s profile—Now, I ask, have you seen it? He has a beautiful black eye and a bandage ’ ♦ above it. It seems that ^age is covering a "'s unlucky enough if the way of a ' . > i r.sequent 1 ’y ’ *sy. ;•.«•,• • -’•e, tne Y r m\ ;. i,. Cran. 'ra h • hs •, ul* * > of tiie less a. • Could it bt ■ oi n'/ t or could i be a pre vention of some kind’ I speaking of the four sweet pou toes, which appear in the wir dow of the A. B. C. store ii Rosem fy. Not being too fami iar with the manager, Mr. M. F White, I hesitated to venture ii to the matter any further...but if anyone knows the answer will you let us in on it? ? ? ? You aren’t up in the best o* society, and you just aren’t thought anything of at all in soc ial life—unless you are fortunate enough to be selected as a mem ber of the “2:40 Tea Party Club’ ...with, of course Miss Winifred Beckwith as social leader. It is held each afternoon from 2:40 until 3:30, on the second floor of the Senior Hi building... learning senior English, natural ly! M. P. Cunious approached T. I. Twadd with this statement; “I say, old man, I’m in a terri ble fix. 1 need some money bad ly, and I haven’t the slightest idea where on earth I’m going ] to get it from.’’ To which Mr. | Twadd replied, “I’m relieved to I hear that. I was afraid that you might have an idea you could borrow it from me,”.... Perhaps the most familiar face to everyone in Roanoke Rapids, from the age of 6 to 60. is that of Mr. A. E. Stowe. He is a bus driver for the Roanoke Transit Co. Mr. Stowe has been in Roanoke Rapids since 1913, and has driven taxis or buses for a good many of those years. He knows practically everyone in town, and most of them he can call by name. He is one of our older settlers. Well, it’s back to college for another of our more ambitious citizens....this time it’s James Russell Dickens, who is return ing to his studies. Russell will begin his sophomore year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill..he is majoring in commercial art. He is the son of Mrs. C. S. Dickens.. Something new was added at the Peoples Theater Wednesday afternoon at the matinee show ing of “The Fuller Brush Man.” To the first fifty women who att end^d the movie, a Fuller Brush was presented, with the compli ments of the Fuller Brush Co... This should happen more often, especially at certain types of pic tures—why didn’t they think of giving away gold-nuggets at the showing of “The Treasure of Seiera Madre”???? Rev. C. S. Grogan Is New Pastor Of Church Of God Here Rev. C. S. Grogan arrived here this week to take over the pas torate of the Roanoke Rapids Church of God. He comes to the local church as successor to the Rev. Floyd Boger, who has accepted a pas torate in Favetteville Rev. G.m an comes to Roa noke Rapids from Newport, >T. C. Opening Day At Orthopedic Clinic Termed "Very Successful" The opening day of Roanoke Rapids’ first orthopedic clinic at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital here yesterday fvas described by hospital authorities as “very successful”. Approximately 50 patients, a bout twice as many as had been expected, were on hand for ex aminations on the opening day. Fifteen of the patients were a dults, and the remainder of them were under 21J The clinic was sponsored by the Roanoke Rapids Rotary Club and Crippled Children’s Di vision of the State Board of Health, with the Halifax County Health Department, the Halifax inty Welfare Department and Vocational Rehabilitation De drtment as cooperating agenc es. Dr. Everett I. Bugg of Dur ham was orthopedic surgeon ; in charge of the clinic, and all I vodo^ov K'Ara T-pfprrpd l Qaj> given by Dr. Bugg and his assoc iates, however in many other where surgery or special treat ment is required the patients were referred to some other ap proved hospital. ' Helping Dr. Bugg yesterday j were Dr. T. J. Taylor of! Roanoke Rapids, a Rotary Club leader in the move to estabish: a clinic here, and Dr. Robert F. Young, Halifax County Health Officer. Both doctors and others who helped in the first clinic, which lasted from one p.m. un til after six, sent the patients to Dr. Bugg lor a complete an alysis. Dr. Taylor said today that Dr. Bugg had expressed complete satisfaction with the way in which the fir.g day’s clinic had been conducted. He said he was suprised to find as large a turn out as there was, adding that the large crowd indicated that there is a real need for such a clinic in Roanoke Rapids for people in this area who need or thopedic treatment. Dr. Bugg explained that be cause of a conflict in his profess ional schedule the time for sub sequent clinics will be changed and said the next clinic will be the first Thursday afternoon in November. This means that the October clinic will not be held, but all clinics will be conducted on the first Thursday afternoon of each month instead of on the fourth Thursday as was origin ally planned. Suspect Held For Break-In At Oil Firm Police Chief T. J. Davis said this afternoon that the Roanoke Rapids police are holding a sus pect in the break-in and at tempted safe robbery of the Newsome Oil Company here last Friday night. Chief Davis identified the man as Henry Barnett, 21, of Roa noke Rapids. The chief said Barnett was picked up late last night as" a suspect in the attempted robbery but added that no charges were lodged until today after further investigation. Davis said that Barnett did not1 admit to breaking into the oil company's office and knocking the combination off the safe, b$it said the youth had admitted stealing an automobile recently in Roanoke, Va. Barnett is being held in the lo cal jail pending the ppsting of a $1,000 bond for the Virginia.auto theft charge. Ban On Dogs Ordered In Two County Areas Halifax, Sept. 24.—Dr. Robert F. Young today declared a quar antine on all dogs in the Halifax and Conocanara Townships af ter a report from Tillery that a rabid dog had run loose and had bitten one person and several The Halifax County health of ficer did not say who had been bitten, nor did he specify the length of the quarantine. He said he was imposing the quarantine effectice immediate ly under the authority given him by the North Carolina Ba bies law to prevent a serious out break of rabies among the dogs in the two townships and to pre vent the jeopardizing of the wel* fare of the citizens in the area, T''” v’°,’r,'T said this quarantine Truman Nears Spot On Ballot In Louisiana Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 24— (AP)—President Truman today drew closer to a spot on the Louisiana November ballot, but without familiar identifications as a Democratic Party candi date. Leaders of the Louisiana State Central Democratic Committee, which two weeks ago ousted Mr. Truman’s slate in favor of the States Rights Democratic ticket, yesterday helped draft a com promise to get the president’s ticket on the ballot. The compromise proposal, now rolling through a special ses sion of the State Legislature, would amend the general elec tion to reserve a place on the » printed ballot for 10 Truman electors Mrs. Woodall New Herald ® Society Editor Mrs. Sue Woodall, a native df Roanoke Rapids who has been a resident of Hamlin, West Vir ginia, until recently, has ac cepieu a puaniuu as oucitty uui* tor of the Daily and Sunday Herald and began her duliea here today. Mrs. Woodall, the former Mil* Minna Sue Daughtrey, is a mem ber of one of the oldest fami lies to settle in Roanoke Rap ids, she is a graduate of Roa noke Rapids High School, where she won honors as a debater, a graduate of the University of Virginia, and took post-graduate work at the University of North Carolina. Following her college work she: taught commercial coursea at Hamlin, W. Va., high school and Virginia Intermont College, Bris tol, Va. She also served for a time as business manager for periodicals at Woman’s College, pf the University of North Caro lina at Greensboro. While resident of Hamlin Ur* Woodall was a member of the Hamlin Woman’s Club and is a past Worthy Matron of the Or der of the Eastern Star and a past president of the Hamlin Parent-Teacher* Association. She said today she is looking forward to her woric on r d*»y newspaper in her home tc and requested that all those ' have any items nf ink the social pages of the please to cell h** at
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