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Big Three Willing io Accept Berlin Settlement On Certain Terms 34th Year No. 27_ Roanoke Rapids, N. C., October 11, 1948 ~5c Daily; 10c Sunday Roanoke Ramblings By Pal Nanis And they thought they were out of school for good—Earl Wa ters and Eugene Ray left this morning for Kessler Field, Mis sissippi, where they will start taking schooling in this man’s ^ army. , . . both are ’48 graduates of the Roanoke Rapids High School. . . . Congratulations go to Howard “Jack” Erwin of Hamilton Street. . . . Jack has been an expert in tree surgery for sev eral years, . . . and has today opened his Plant Nursery—on the Weldon-Roanoke Rapids Highway. . . . Here’s hoping that Ruth Coop er recovers from that awful cold • that has put her to bed, today. . . . Ruth is with the Classified Ads department of the Herald. Taking time off from her studies at the Norfolk General Hospital was Trilla Morgan . . . who spent the week-end with her family. . . . Also visiting her family was Grace Dixon. . . . Grace is work ing in Richmond, Va., now. . . t A one-time resident of Roa noke Rapids—Jane Moore of Raleigh. . . . was a visitor in her grandmother’s home on Monroe Street. . . on Sunday. . . Jack Wrenn was home from college this week-end visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wllgl CUUIOUUIIK die ill UIUC1 for Edith Edwards and James Robinson, who are to be married today in the Rosemary Metho dist Church. . . . Edith’s sister, Lucille, will be married on the seventeenth of this month. . . . the other half of that married couple will be Bobby Weiss. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Edwards probably will feel lost after losing both so close togetther. . . . Many wishes for a happy birthday are sent to little Jim mie O’Neal. . . . Jimmy is cele • brating his third birthday to day. ... he will be feted at a birthday dinner tonight at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Lucy O’Neal. “Push a cart, pull a cart, fill it full of steam . . . send it back to E. City to get a better team. . .” that was the cheer that Ann Grizzard was leading with at the Elizabeth City-Roa noke Rapids game Friday night. i . . . I’m afraid that if a bet ter team had been sent we would have ended up with a scoreless game. . . . even though the Jackets did hold their op ponents in a scoreless position . . . they only managed to get in one touchdown. . . . and I believe Earl Rook was a little surprised to find himself across for a touchdown, too. . . . Deepest sympathy is expressed , for the family of Mr. N. B. Thomason, who passed away this morning. Mr. Thomason succumbed to the effects of a weak heart, after having been ill for some time. Going to see the sights of Can ada and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Laine. . . . they plan to leave on Thursday, October 14, and will be gone for two months . . . Mr. Laine is a retired merchant of Rocky Mount, but is now a resident of Roanoke Rapids. . . . This is the Laine’s first visit to Canada. Dewey Moves Into Pennsylvania As Vandenberg Blasts Truman’s Handling Of Newest Moscow Move Enroute with Dewey to Pitts burgh, Oct. 11—(AP)—Gov. Tho mas E. Dewey barnstormed a j cross Pennsylvania today, hold Wing in reserve a possible public blast at President Truman’s handling of the Vinson incident. The Republican Presidential nominee let Senator Arthur Van deberg (R-Mich) put into words what Dewey himself apparently would like to have said openly but decided not to do because of its world effect. Vandenburg declared in a New York City speech last night that Mr. Truman’s abandoned plan to to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow for personal negotia tions with Premier Stalin invol ved a “narrow escape” from sin glehanded action that could have crippled United nations handling of the Berlin crisis. The attitude among the Repub licans—evidently shared by Dew ey — was that Mr. Truman had made a desperate blunder that might have had tragic effects around the world. It further was said to be Dewey’s view that he—as the possible next president must try to salvage American prestige. What that involved in the Ber lin blockade question, wps put into these words b Vandenberg: “Now that we have gone to the United Nations, we must in telligently avoid any unilaterial independent action on our own account, let we confuse our friendly associates, cramp the Security Council and encourage our opponents to think our ap peal to the united nations is eith er timid or insincere.” Vandenburg added: “I must say tha? we have just had a narrow escape on this score, at Washington.” THE UNVEILING Riot Of Armed Prisons Is Quelled At Statesville Camp Last Night roiiucai campaign m State cets Warmer As November 2 Draws Near Radar-Eyed - Submarine Is New Weapon Washington, Oct. 11—(AP)—A new unit in the nation’s defenses will start operating next month —a submarine with radar “eyes” to detect any hostile planes at tempting a sneak approach across such remote places as the Polar seas. The Navy announced today that the submarine Tigrone, taken from the reserve fleet and converted into the first radar picket submarine, will be com missioned November 1. The Ti grone had varied service dur ing World War II, including the rescue of 52 downed aviators from enemy waters and the bombardment of Japanese shore targets. She is the first of two such pickets to be converted under the naval modernization pro gram. The second submarine has not been designated. By The Associated Press North Carolina Democrats and Republicans today opened a busy week of campaigning as they headed into the last three weeks before the general election. On Friday U. S. Senator Ro bert A Taft (R-Ohio-) is sche duled to address Eastern North Carolina Republicans at Wilson. The Democratic activity was scheduled to get under way with an Eighth Congressional District ralley at Carthage this afternoon. From there Kerr Scott, nominee for Governor, was going to Troy, and J. Melville Broughton, nomi nee for the U. S. Senate, to Lau rinburg, for speeches tonight. George M. Pritchard, Repub lican nominee for Governor, speaks at Canton tonight in the first of six appearances during the week. Tomorrow he goes to Gastonia, Wednesday to Dob son, Thursday to Danbury, Fri day to Mocksville and Saturday* to North Wilkesboro. Charles P. Howard of Des Moi nes, Iowa, Negro leader, of the Progressive Party, spoke at Ral eigh and Durham yesterday in a swing through the state. He told a Raleigh audience that the party is “dedicated to the pro gress of the Negro and the comman man" and that “there’s absolutely no hope for the Am erican Negro in the Democratic or Republican parties today." The Carthage rally was one of four scheduled by the Democrats during the week. Tomorrow the Third District rally will be held at New Bern. Others will be held Wedresday at Tarboro for the Second District and Fri day at Raleigh for the Fourth District. A number of other ap pearances by Democratic Lead ers are scheduled. Tomorrow Senator Clyde R. Hoey will speak at Stokesdale ant' Broughton at Bayboro. Thursday, Scott will be at the Tarboro City Yam Festival, Bro" ghton at Lenoir and Secretary of State Thad Eure at Rocky Mount. Secretary of the Army Ken neth Royall is rcheduled to speak at Williamstrn Friday, while Scott is at Durham anr Brough ton at Waynes'dlle. Saturday Broughton will be at Leaksville and Scott at GoY.sboro. oiatesviue, ii—{.Af* ;—A riot of armed Negro prisoners was quelled in a prison camp near here last night by rein forcements of Highway patrol men and deputies. The negroes held the super intendent for half and hour and a guard for an hour and a half before releasing them unharmed when reinforcements of state pa trolmen and sheriff’s deputies arrived. Twelve of the ring leaders were taken to central prison in Raleigh. C. W. Knox, superintendent of the prison camp six miles north of here said it was not a preme diated break, but started when a guard tried to take a knife from one of the prisoners who tried to attack another at the supper meal. Only negroes are at the camp. Knox gave this account: Guard Hamp Ashley asked the negro for the knife. He refused. Guard Everett Morrow grappled with the prisoner and got the knife. The prisoners refused to re turn to their cells from the din ing room. They darted into a lobby in front of the cell block. Ashley and Morrow were un armed. Knox and Guard Wat son W. Kerr came to their aid, but found that Ashley and Mor row had gotten away from the aroused prisoners. The prisoners held Knox and K err hostages in the lobby. Knox talked to them and they released him after half an hour. An alarm went out over the State Highway Patrol radio sta tion in Salisbury. Twenty. re inforcements arrived, including highway patrolmen, and sheriff Walter D. Morrison and his de puties. Through a barred door they talked to the prisoners and con vinced them they were outnum bered and out-armed, and resis tance would be useless. The prisoners let Kerr go and gave up without a fight. Information Right, But Wrong Man Oklahoma City, Oct. 11—(AP) —Someone said there was a man in the Keefe and Carroll Whole sale Tomato Co., and police went :o see about it. Officers O. E. Higginbotham and J. A. May found an open window, crawled in, and stole upon the scene. There was the man all^ight— night watchman Durward Jones. Three Prisoners Recaptured At Bus Station Halifax. — Captain A. J. Grif fin of the Halifax Prison Camp said here this morning that the three men who escaped from the camp Saturday afternoon lit erally “walked up on us” at the Roanoke Rapids bus station about midnight Saturday night. The prison official said that the three men, George F. Dixon and Richard A. Parks, both of Craven County, and Mote Dick erson of Durham and Roanoke Rapids, walked up to the bus station and said the prison guards, who were parked out side waiting for them, imme diately captured them without any trouble and returned them to the camp. Captain Griffin said that all three men, who left the prison in overalls, were dressed in oth er clothes and said all had small quantities of money on them. “They were all about drunk when we caught them,” the prison head said. He said the men, who were all honor-grade prisoners, had - - utmcui U11C and four o'clock Saturday after noon and said he believed they had caught a ride from Halifax to Roanoke Rapids, Prison officers, officers from the Halifax County Sheriff’s De partment, State Highway Patrol men and Roanoke Rapids police all were called on the search for the missing men, and blood hounds from the prison were brought to bear on the search at one time near Roanoke Rapids. Captain Griffin said he had not questioned the men about escape, adding that they had all lost their honor-grade privileges. He said they were first missed when the mail arrived Saturday afternoon and one of the guards went out into the yard to give them their mail and found that the trio had gone. He said Dixon was serving a 33-months’ term, Parks was in the camp under a six-months’ sentence and Dickerson had a two-year term. The prison head said he had learned no reason for the men trying to make their getaway, and he said they were caught before they could buy any bus tickets. Motorists Slow In Reporting To Inspection Lane E. G. Whitehurst, supervisor for Mechanical Inspection Lane No. 38, which has been in opera tion here since last Wednesday afternoon, said today that peo pie have been slow to take ad vantage of the lane’s appearance. He pointed out that the opera tors have been running two shifts from six a.m. until ten p.m. to accomodate motorists with get ting their cars inspected and that they will leave here Thurs day night to go to Jackson. He urged that all owners of motor vehicles of any sort which are licensed take advantage of the service being offered them be fore it is too late. The deadline for the inspection of all models of 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, and 1945 will be October 31, Whitehurst said. He said that people who have complained in the past about the lane’s closing in the afternoon have hppn billon ----lx to get “after dark service” but said few people have used the night facilities. For that reason he added, it is doubtful if two shifts will run when the lane makes its final two visits to Roa noke Rapids for the year on November 2-8 and December 2-8 Whitehurst said that in spite of all the pleas that have been made in the past motorists still seem to persist in waiting until the last minute to do anything about coming to the lane, so he said he was adding another re minder that the lane will be in place on West Sixth street from now until Thursday doing busi ness from early morning until late at night. Flue-Cured Tobacco Prices Apparently To Continue Steady Raleigh, Oct. 11—(AP)—Three flue-cured tobacco belts operat ed in North Carolina and Vir ginia entered a new week sales today on a note of generally steady to higher prices. Combined Lifting Of Berlin Blockade And Meeting Of Big Four Ministers Are Terms Listed In Note, Spokesman says -—-- - I _ r'l • ■■ T • Roanoke Avenue Will Get New Surface As Work Is Under Way Work was started here this morning on the paving of Roa noke Avenue between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, when workmen started putting down plant mix black top surfacing on each side of the street as part of a state contract. The F. D. Cline Construction of Raleigh is handling the pav ing job, and city street super intendent George Justice said today that a surface treatment will be given Roanoke Avenue on its entire length from Four teenth street tp First street. Justice said the black top treatment will be put on the principal street of the city down the center of the street over the paving now in use. He said the work on pavipg about six miles of city streets in Roanoke Rapids has been badly set back by rains which have fallen during most of the past two weeks, and he said he estimated it will be some time next week before the priming coat work can begin. The Cline company has the contract for the street paving with the same surfacing treatment. now being put. down on Roanoke Avenue. Justice said the contract called for paving to begin last Monday, but said the work will be de layed because the rains put the streets in such condition that thpv will h a VP tn ha nlnurarl on^ re-shaped before the first coat of the paving can be put down. Meanwhile work by the same company on the grading of streets and the installation of curbs and gutters preparatory to surfacing is continuing on the west side of town. Today the workmen were working on the projects on Henry and Ninth streets. It was pointed out this morn ing that while the paving is be ing put down on Roanoke Ave nue, motorists will be forced to detour around the parts being paved. On Saturday and again today all traffic was being routed from Twelfth street around Hamilton and city police and contractors asked the coopera tion of the driving public in not interfering with the work in progress. _ Jackson Negro Faces Charges In Shooting Jackson — Sheriff J. C. Steph enson of Northampton County said this morning that Elijah Bauley, Jackson Negro, had been arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and the inflicting of serious per sonal injuries to Willie Cabarrus Jackson Negro, at a Jackson sawmill late Sunday afternoon. Bauley allegedly fired a load from a shotgun at Cabarrus from close range, the shots strik ing him in the left side. The injured man was sent to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital, where his wounds were described to day as “painful but not serious”. The sheriff said he was still making an investigation of the fracas, and said he had been told by Bauley that Cabarrus was after him with a gun when he shot him. The sheriff said he had found no gun with Cab arrus and said he was holding his assailant in jail in Jackson pending the outcome of Cabar rus’ injuries. Both men were employees at the mill where the shooting oc curred. Truck Is Damaged By Fire Today Fire damaged a Ford panel truck to an extent estimated at $150 this morning about 10:30 on the Weldon highway near Tilgh man’s Cross Roads. The truck belongs to the Gil bert and Gwaltney Plumbing Company of Roanoke Rapids, and at the time the truck caught fire workmen from the plumbing concern were working at a new sheet metal firm which will open soon. A fire truck was summoned to the scene from Roanoke Rapids, but by the time firemen arrived the flames had been ex tinguished by one of Jhe work men, Eddie Thorne, who smother ed them by throwing sand on it. The fire started under the floor board in the cab and did consider able damage to the floor of the truck, ruining the instrument panel and. breaking both sides of the windshield. The truck was parked in the rear of the new building and was unoccupied at the time the fire was first detected. , N. B. Thomason, Early Settler, Dies . At Home N. B. Thomason, 65, woll known Roanoke Rapids citizen and one of the earliest settlers, died Sunday night at his home at 209 Madison street at 10 o’clock following a heart attack. He had been ill health for some time and had been in bed for nearly six weeks at the time of his death. Mr. _ Thomason was sexton at the First Baptist Church, a position he had held for about 30 years, and was a longtime member and worker in the church. For a number of years he was employed by the Roa noke Mills until his retirement several years ago due to his failing health. Funeral services will be con ducted from the First Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon at 4:30, with the Rev. Gordon L. Price, pastor, officiating. The body will lie in staie in the church from two o’clock until time for the service. Interment will be in Cedar wood cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lola Thomason; one son, Herman Thomason; two daugh ters. Mrs. J. W. Wrenn and Mrs. Mary Lou Anderton; one sis ter, Mrs. Howard King; three brothers, Jim Rufus and Carroll Thomason; two grandchildren and one great grandchild. All survivors are from Roanoke Ra pids. Soviet Warns Of More Action In Air Corridor Berlin, Oct. 11—(AP>—T h e Russians warned again today of fighter flights and gunnery prac tice in the air corridors used by British and American planes sup plying blockaded Berlin. This is the second consecutive week of Soviet air maneuvers which some sources say are con nected with extensive Red Army war games. Meanwhile Russian soldiers guarding a road blockade shot a German truck and German passenger car attempting to pass through the blockade from Ham burg. The truck and its cargo were confiscated but the car and its occupants escaped. The shooting came after the Russians tightened traffic con trols on the outskirts of the block aded city to close leaks. They claimed to have confiscated thousands of tons of food from western Berliners who had ob tained the food by barter with Soviet zone farmers. The So viets call this trade “smuggl ing”. French Official Says Cominform Caused Strike Paris, Oct. 11—(AP)—Interior Minister Jules Moch charges that nation-wide strikes now -n-o - - vkuuviu; ncie engineered by Cominform. Mo'ch made the charge at a closed meeting of the National Council of the Socialist Party, held over the week-end at su burban Puteaux. Varying accounts appeared in Paris newspapers today. Moch said the Socialist organ Le Po pulate had given an “objective resume.” Marshall Heads Back To Paris Hopeful That His Trip To U. S. Averted Major American Setback Washington, Oct. 11—(AP)— Dort for this jmiintrv’s Ki.nariiean Secretary of State Marshal heads back for Paris today hope ful that his weekend’s work with President Truman has averted a major American setback in the cold war with Russia. Marshall was expected to take off around mid-day, thus wind ing up a critical period in which he and the President decided (a) to give the world an official version of the proposed Vinson mission to Moscow and (b) un derline that the whole projecl has been abandoned. As a result, the United States was able once again to present to the world a picture of un divided determination in inter national affairs. For one thing, reports of a split between Mr. Truman and his Secretary of State were for mally denied. And—despite sharp Republi can criticism of the President's role in the incident—GOP sup ■ f. . I 'i " foreign policy at the United Na tions sessions in general and on the Berlin crisis in particular was publicly reaffirmed. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee made the first move in this dir ection. It came roughly 24 hours after the disclosure by Mr. Tru man himself that he had consi dered sending Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson to Moscow but had been dissuaded by Marshall. Dewey issued a statement at Albany declaring that the Amer ican people “are in fact united in their foreign policy.’’ They "wholeheartedly and vig orously support the labors of our bi-partisan delegation at Paris on * prompt lifting of the block ade of Berlin.” While the New York governor would not say so publicly, news, men assigned to his campaign were given to understand that Dewey regards the Vinson lnd dent as • desperate blunder. •ft- ’ ' V'l...*’! nuie iiam lui Of Basic Needs For Settlement Paris, Oct. II—(>P)—The Unit ed States, Britain and France said today they are “not unwill ing” to accept a Berlin settle ment calling for combined lift ing of the blockade and meet ing of the Big Four Foreign Ministers Council on the whole German question. A British-American spokesman told reporters this was the sense of a note delivered by the west ern powers to Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia, who has been heading up a six nation effort to mediate the East-West deadlock in the Unit ed Nations Security Council over Berlin. The spokesman said the note primarily was a restatement of the basic principles the Western Powers would like to see em bodied in a Security Council set tlement of the Berlin stalemate. This indicated strongly the Western Powers are not prepar ed to enter any direct negotia tions with Russia over Berlin, which is what the Kremlin wants. There was, however, no imme diate indication of Russia’s atti tude on this idea. This, it is as sumed, is because Deputy For eign Minister Andrew I. Vishin sky is waiting for instructions from the Kremlin. He transmitt ed to Moscow Friday a set of questions put to him by Bram uglia, informants said. Bramuglia saw Dr. Philip C. Jessup of the United States, Sir Alexander CMadogan of Britain, and Alexandre Parodi of France vesterdflv nnrl aslrpd thpm a number of similar questions. Earlier, an American spokes man said the western powers had informed the Security Council’s “neutral six” that no mediation of the Berlin crisis could succeed unless the Rus sians lifted the blockade first. The Western position was clar ified yesterday during three in terviews the western representa tites had with Argentine For eign Minister Juan Bramuglia, who presented the “neutrals” at tempt at a compromise. The U. S. spokesman said no formula which will result in lift ing of the blockade is excluded, but the western powers insist the council recognize that the blockade constitutes a “threat to peace.” The spokesman added, how ever, that no formal note to that effect had been submitted to the Security Council. Britain urged the U. N. to blame the Soviet bloc for block ing agreement on disarmament. A British spokesman said to I day’s western reply to Bramu glia restated the three govern ments’ stand on settling the dis pute. Carolyn Shearin Gets Leg Broken In Fall At Home Carolyn Shearin, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David L. Shearin, was reported im proving at her home today after having broken t^o bonees in her leg Saturday morning in a fall. She was playing in front of her home on Charlotte street jumping back and forth across a ditch when the accident oc curred. At the Roanoke Rapids Hos pital doctors found that she had broken a bone in her kn§t and in her ankle when she timed her leg and fell on in. Her leg was put in a cast and she was returncJ home, where her con dition WAS rpnnrtpfl ao satisfactory.” She entered school for the first time this fall. Weather North Carolina—Cloudy and cooler with rain today, to night and Tuesday.
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