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f ROANOKE RAPIDS Baihj Herald 34th Year No. 30 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Thursday, October 14, 1948 5c Daily; 10c Sunday Ike Receives Key To Columbia Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) receives the key and charter of Columbia University in New York at his installation as president of the school. Presenting them to him is Frederick Coykendall, chairman of the board of truslee.s In his installa h lion speech, Gen. Ike said "today's challenge to freedom and to every free institution is auch that none of us dares stand alone. (AP Wirephoto). Military Commanders Discuss Plans To Prevent Another Pearl Harbor In Talks With MacArthur At Tokyo ioicyo, uci. h—t/rj—Ameri can commanders in the Pacific . and Alaska discussed measures m to prevent another Pearl Har bor in a series of top secret conferences with General Douglas MacArthur ending today. The problem of Pacific de fenses brought together key officers of the Army, Navy and Airforce guarding the northwestern and Far Eastern frontiers of the United States. Airforce Li. Gen. Nathan F. 9 Twining, commanding the Alaska defenses, and Vice Ad miral John L. McCrea, deputy commander of the U. S. Pacific fleet, met with General Mac Arthur for three days. They met within view of Japan s Imperial Palace grounds—just across the moat from the big white building housing Allied headquarters— where the Dec. 7. 1941 attack or the U. S. Pacific fleet re ceived final sanction. Informed sources confined •' formation on the talks to 1 o points: \ T.ia American command t 3**£iscussed with General V ’jrthur practical precau , against the possibility of another surprise attack. 2. The high-ranking officers attained a "fine spirit of co w operation and coordination" among the Army. Navy and Airforce. This was described as an outstanding achieve ment. Agreement to work together in the Pacific followed the general pattern of unified de fense set forth by Secretary of Defense Forreslal. The Tokyo talks got down to the practical application which must take ■f place in the field in the event of war. Source* reviewing the con ferences made no reference to the first mid-winter amphibi ous landing attack exercise in the Far North. It will be held next February in "the Alaska Area." Pacific Fleet headquart ers announced yesterday. k Mrs. Brigman Stricken In Pennsylvania Mrs. Ella Brigman, 324 Mon roe Street, was brought to the Roanoke Rapids hospital yester day from Chester, Pa., where s. Brigman was ehivsitiehnrg Mrs. Brigman was visiting her sister at the time she suffered the attack and was brought to Roanoke Rapids in a Wrenn Fu neral home ambulance. Roanoke Ramblings By PAT NANTZ During her recent visit to Washington, D. C., Mrs. R. A. Cole attended a reception at the White House. . . . The affair was in honor of the Democratic Wo men’s National Council of which her sister, Dr. Martin, is the sec retary. Lorene Wright, ’48 graduate of the R. R. High School, will ex change wedding vows with Her man “Buddy” Lyles, on Thurs day, November 11. . . . her en gagement was announced yester day by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wright. . . . enjoying the week-end at Mars Hill College was Mrs. G. S. Bunn and Ann Bunn—they visited Bobby “Mac” McAdams, a ’48 graduate of the R. R. High School . . . Mac is attending Rapids. . . . Mac is attending Mars Hill College, where he is a freshman. Lola Cates, Margaret “Buchu” Outland, Alice Twiddy, and Jean Kidd will go to Hamlet Hos pital on Sunday to be inter viewed. . . . they plan to enter training there when the Febru ary class begins . . . Mrs. G. R. Rawls is expecting her son, Pvt. Roy Rawl^, to be at home this week-end. . . . Roy is stationed in Fort Jackson, South Carolina ... He and Clyde Waters were home to gether a few weeks ago, and Clyde is reported to have been sent to Japan . . . There will be one very happy girl in Roanoke Rapids this week-end, it is Sue Brigman. . . . she is expecting Charles Buf faloe to be home this week-end from his studies at Chapel Hill. Annette Edwards, formerly of this city and an attendant of the local high school, is now living in Chapel Hill. . . . Annette left Roanoke Rapids with her family in 1946 and went to Charlotte, N. C., to live . . . since then she has moved to Chapel Hill, where her husband is attending college . . . Tar Heel Political Kettle Boils ay The Associaiea The Tar Heel political battle front was active from lowlands to mountains today. Democrats, taking a one-day breather from their Congression el District rallies, nevertheless kept the front active with three nominees in the field. Governor-elect Kerr Scott went to Tarbor City to speak at the Carolinas YAM Festival in the afternoon; se©ator-nominate J. Melville Broughton headed to Caldwell county for a speech in Lenoir; and secretary of state Thad IJure was booked to speak at Rocky Mount at 7 p.m. Republicans meanwhile, pre - pared to hear two speeches by senator Robert A Taft (R-Ohio) tfr tciQfhrow. Taft is scheduled to J^fFat Chapel Hill and Wilson. George Pritchard, Republican nominee for Governor, moved on to Danbury for speech following an address at Dobson last night. John A. Wilkinron. the party’s nominee for the V. S. Senate, traveled from Hendersonville, where he spoke last night, to ward a 6 p.m. engagement at Tarboro, where the Democrates held a second congressional dis trict rally yesterday. 1 kppv-uio xyj*. _ f' “ * ‘ J -- support of the Democratic ticket from President Truman on down were made at the Tarboro rally. Governor Cherry, taking note of a “disaffection” in Democra tic ranks, said, “if there’s a time when men and women ought to stand by their party, it is when they are assaulted and attacked by people who never were in the party or never had their heart in the party.” “I personally expect to vote for Harry Truman and every oth er candidate on the Democratic ticket,” Cherry asserted. Rep. John Kerr of the Second District said his section would back the full ticket . Other speakers included Scott, Brough ton and Senator William B. Um stead. On a brief stop at Charlotte yesterday, GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Pritchard said the State’s public school system is in a “deplorable condition.” He said modernization could be achieved by “spending enough surplus, to be supplemented also by an appropriation from the general assembly.” He urged in creased teacher retirement pay and a boost in old-age pensions. Western Powers Reported Framing Demand For U.N. To Lift Blockade Colin Kelly’s Body Returned To Florida Home ■T*I I Lying in state in the county courthouse at Madison. Fla., is the body of Capt. Colin Kelly, first American to be proclaimed a hero in the war with Japan. He perished in his plane after sinking a Jap warship with aerial bombs. Funeral service with military honors was held at Madison Wednesday. (AP Wirepholo). First Hero Of Pacific War Buried Amid Boyhood Scenes In Florida Madison, Fla., Oct. 14— (AP)— Capt. Colin Kelly, hailed seven years ago as the first hero of the war in the Pacific, lies buri ed today amid the scenes of his boyhood at this small North Florida town. Full military honors marked tthe burial yesterday of the young flier who was killed when his plane crashed soon after he had bombed the Japanese Bat tleship Haruna. At Kelly’s com mand, the crew members para chuted to safety. Kelly’s death won him personal praise from President Roosevelt, and he was posthumously a warded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Fly ing Cross. Among the hundreds of morn ers at the graveside service were Kelly’s parents, his young widow who has since remarried, and his eight-year-old son, Colin III. The flag which drapped the coffin was presented the son by Capt. William E. Frantz of the 14th Air Force. “It’s a small token of appre ciation from a very grateful na tion for the supreme sacrifice of your father,” Frantz said to young Colin. Colin, nicknamed “Corky” by his family, was recommended for a West Point appointment in 19 56 by President Roosevelt. The recommendation was made by the President a week after Kelly’s death. In a letter to whoever is President of the United States in 1956, Roosevelt said: “My request is that you con sider the merits of a young Am erican of goodly heritage—Colin Kelly 3rd—for appointment as a cadet in the United States Mi litary Academy at West Point.” Kelly was a West Point gra duate. And young Corky has no doubts about following in his footsteps. "I know what I want to be,” he said yesterday. “I want to be a flier.” It’s Not Worth As Much As It Was When He Loaned It San Pedro, Calif., Oce. 14—(JP) —After 50 years, James Rose, used car salesman, got his dol lar back, but it wasn’t worth nearly as much. Rose loaned a dollar to John Wertz, grocery clerk, in St. Louis, Mo., July 7, 1898. Yesterday Rose, now 69, got a letter from his brother in St. Louis saying Wertz had looked up the brother, given him the buck and asked him to forward it. Alert Police Rookie Uses His Head RHINELANDER, Wis. (U.P.) —Patrolman Frantz Heise was off duty when he saw a car answering the description of one stolen the week before. . Heise, on the force only two months hailed a cab and told the driver to follow the car. He used the taxi’s short wave radio to have the cab station relay mes sages to police headquarters. Police followed Heise's direc tions, stopped the car and arrest ed the driver. William Garrow, Bangor, Mich., was booked on an auto theft charge. » Shaw Speaks To Warren Farm Bureau Tonight Warrenton — R. Flake Shaw, executive vice president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, will be the guest speaker at a barbecue supper to be held here this evening at the Warrenton armory at seven o’clock. The Warren County Farm Bur eau is conducting the supper, which will be served without cost to all paid-up members of the county Bureau. Tonight’s barbecue will cul minate the annual Farm Bureau drive for memberships. Warren County’s minimum quota during the drive is 775 members, and today an effort was being made by membership committeemen to have the quota reached in time -for the supper. Alston Twitty, county Bureau secret ary-treasurer, and all local com mitteemen have urged that all who have not joined or who have not renewed their membership see them immediately. Shaw, who recently returned from a trip to Europe on an inspection tour of European far ming conditions, is expected to tell the Warren County members of his experiences and tell of the opportunities offered by the Farm Bureau. He is one of the 26 members of the National Farm Bureau committee. Twitty said today that farmers are facing one of the most criti cal periods in their history in America. He said there is a movement afoot to destroy the present farm program and said that Warren County farmers can do their part in retaining the program only by organizing and participating in the Farm Bur eau. The Man With No Fingerprints Is Arrested Again Charlotte, Oct. 14—(A3)— The man with no fingerprints has been arrested again. He is (Robert James Pitts, 34, who seven years ago had skin from his body grated to his fin gertips in an effort to remove his prints. The FBI at that time identified him through ridges on his lower finger joints after his arrest in Texas for North Caro lina authorities. Yesterday Pitts was found hid ing in a clothes closet at his rooming house apd arrested for investigation ip connection with the theft of $200 and clothing from a Charlotte dry cleaning firm where he had worked. Marine Recruiter To Be At Post Office ROCKY MOUNT.—It was an nounced by the Subdistrict Re cruiting Station here today that i Marine Recruiting Sergeant will be in the Roanoke Rapids Post Office on October 14 and 15, for the purpose of enlisting men in the Marine Corps, or to give information to anyone who is interested in enlisting and desires to obtain the facts. The sergeant will be at the Post Office from eight until four thirty both days. City To Invest $20,900 In Building-Loan Mayor W. Bernard Allsbrook said today arrangements have been completed to invest a total of $20,000 in street assessment funds of the city of Roanoke Rapids in building and loan stock. The money, the mayor ex plained, represents a sum coll ected in assessments for street improvements several years ago prior to the most recent bond issue for current paving. He said it is all earmarked for the purpose for which it was origi nally intended and must be paid back on bonds which will be maturing for several years, and it in no way represents surplus in the city’s treasury. He said the amount must be kept intact under law and cannot be used except for the retirement of bonds as they mature. Mayor Allsbrook reported at the last meeting of the Board of City Commissioners that the sum of $22,000 in the early street assessment funds was lying idle and drawing no interest, and the Board members instructed him to make arrangements to invest as much of the money as possi ble in interest-bearing building and loan stock locally. He said at the time that the Roanoke Rapids Building and Loan Association had agreed to except $10,000 and the Rosemary Building and Loan would take $5,000. The mayor said today, how ever, that an additional $5,000 has been accepted this week by the latter association. Sought, One Problem Solver; Try This Idea Everyone has their problems these days, but perhaps the most difficult problem is to find a place to live. Speaking of house hunting, we think we have a way to solve your pro blems. If you will constantly read our classified page every day, you will no doubt find the very thing you have want ed iu our "For Sale" or "For Rent" column. Maybe there is nothing to suit your purpose, if this is the case, we have the answer to that. Just place an ad in our classified section telling people what you do want. Such as—"Wanted to Rent" five room home for family of three. ... or "Wanted to buy— five room home convenient lo cation. Whether you have a housing problem on your mind, unused household articles on your hands, or unemployment wor ries on your shoulders, let the Herald classified ad do the work for you. It will only take a minute to write us a line, or Phone us at R-326 or R-8621. We are anxious to help you with your problems and will endeavor to give you quick and efficient service. Don't be denied—try our classified. Ruth Cooyer. Neutral Group's Conciliation Efforts Fail Paris, Oct. 14—(AP)—Western Power delegates met today on the Berlin crisis and authorita tive sources said they were fram ing a joint demand for Secrity Council action to lift the Soviet Blockade. The Council takes up the Ber lin issue again tomorrow. Hope vanished for mediation outside the council with Russia’s report ed rejection of conciliation ef forts by the so-called neutral states. American, British and French delegates studied the Kremlin’s answer to the neutral states’ me diation efforts. The content of the Soviet note still was not made public, but western sources said it set back the Berlin dispute to where it was six weeks ago. Members of the 11-nation se curity council prepared to meet this afternoon on the Palestine situation. A reliable source said they will be asked to crack down harder on both Arabs and Jews to keep peace. Dr. Ralph Bunche, interim me diator since the assassination of Count Floke Bernadotte, is ex pected to speak. Britian was expected to de - mand of Israel’s representatives what progress has been made in tracking down the assassins of Count Bernadotte. The six “neutrals” of the council abandoned their efforts to madiate. Argentine Froeign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia, acting chairman of the coucil for the Berlin discussions, called the council meeting after receiving a Russian reply to the neutrals on what terms would be accept able to Moscow. Mrs. Gregory Is Appointed Tax Collector Halifax—Mrs. Arthur'Gregory of Halifax, who has served as Deputy Tax Collector for Hali fax County since 1940, was ap pointed as Tax Collector here this week in a special meeting of the Board of County Com - missioners called for that pur pose. Mrs. Gregory will succeed the late E. H. Smith of Weldon, who died last week following a short illness soon after he had been reappointed to the post he had held for a number of years. The Board of County Commis sioners gave Mrs. Gregory the authority to name her own de puty, and she said Mrs. Jack Whitehead will serve as her de puty, a post she had held during the time Mrs. Gregory has ser ved as acting Tax Collector since Mr. Smith’s death. Prowler Turns Out To Be a ’Possum Durham, Oct. 14—(£*)— It was after midnight when Mrs. D. C. Parrish phoned police that someone was in the apartment next to hers. That apartment, she explained, was supposed to be vacant. Police searched the apartment but found no one. But outside their flashlights fell upon the prowler: a big, fat ’possum. Presidential Candidates Speed Up Campaigns; Dewey Moves Into Missuori; Truman In Northwest By The Associated Mess Gov. Thomas E. Dewey head ed his Republican caravan today for Kansas City, one time Demo cratic stronghold where Presi dent Truman made his political bow 26 years ago. Making his second campaign swing across Mr. Truman’s home state of Missouri, the GOP pre sidential candidate switched from* his sharp attacks on the president’s handling of foreign affairs to a “good government” theme. Mr. Truman meanwhile pushed his vote hunt through Minnesota and Wisconsin, where he is scheduled to make a major talk tonight in Milwaukee. The Democratic standard bearer stressed a plea at St. Paul for the “right kind of unity” to pro vide peace and prosperity for this country. Dewey moves into Minnesota after a major address tonight in Kansas City. The New York governor nammerea away ax xne unity and peace theme in yes terday’s heavy round of speeches in Oklahoma. “The time has come,” he told an Oklahoma City rally, “for na tional leadership which will measure up to our devotion to peace.” Mr. Truman told his St. Paul audience that today’s bi-partisan foreign policy for which “others are now claiming credit so loud ly” was not Republican-backed in 1940 with “ha1* the world in flames.” “We achieved this degree oi unity,” he said, “only after world-shaking events had made it clear that the vast majority oi the people of the United States would no longer tolerate isolat ionism.” In 1944, Mr. Truman said, De wey “had so little foresight about postwar problems that he felt we could completely demobi lize our military strength the I minute hostilities ended” \ Pavers Start On Washington To Rush Streets Aided by clear skies and light breezes, the first step in the proposed paving of six miles of Roanoke Rapids streets got underway here yeesterday, when workmen of the F. D. Cline Construction Company began putting down the priming coat for surfacing at the north end of Wash ington street. Today the work was continuing, with Washington street closed to traffic from First to Seventh streets, and the entire section was receiving the priming coat nec essary for the subsequent laying of the plant-mix black top surfacing. Auto Inspection Lone Ends Stay Here Tonight Motorists in this ara who have not yet taken their vehic les through the Mechanical In spection land on West Sixth street in Roanoke Rapids were reminded today by lane super visor E. G. Whitehurst that the lane will shut down operations here tonight at ten o’clock. The lane opened here last week and has been running two shifts daily from six a. m. until ten p.m., having lights installed for after-dark inspection. Whitehurst said there have not been as many people taking ad vantage of the lane’s being set up as may have done and said a number of car owners who have models of years 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944 and 1945 must real ize that the deadline for inspec tion of those cars is October 31. He said the lane will return here on November 2 and will make its last appearance of the year from December 2-8. He said it is doubtful if two shifts will be run, since the night time shift will probably be discontinu ed. Union Cited For Contempt Of Court Indianapolis. Oct. 14—(>P)—Fe deral Judge Luther M. Swygert today held the International Ty pographical Union in contempt of court and ordered the union to abide by his injunction in deal ing with employers. The judge set no penalty for the contempt, but ordered the officers of the union to appear in court within ten days to show that they have complied with the court decree.. The judge’s opinion said the union has attempted to discri minate against newspaper em ployees in violation of the Taft Hartley law and contrary to the court’s injunction in making con discontinued. The court action today was a victory for the attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, who had asked the judge to hold the Printer’s Union in contempt. The judge ordered that the un ion should not discriminate a - gainst non-members in its con tracts. Joint Meeting Of Boards Is To Be Tuesday Mayor W. Bernard Allsbrook said today that he has called a meeting of the Board of City Commissioners to meet jointly with members of the Roanoke Rapids Recreation Commission at the Muncipal Building Tues day evening at 7:30. He said the joint meeting was requested by Recreation Com mission members following a meeting Tuesday afternoon in which Dr. Harold G. Meyer, dir ector of the State Recreation Commission, recommended a plan for the city of Roanoke Rap ids to follow in its proposed rec erational program. Mayor Allsbrook said the City commissioners and the mem bers of the commission they ap pointed will meet together for the purpose of discussing pro gress and proposals made for furthering the over-all recrea tional needs of the city. rmnp u. r iceman ui nuuuui, consulting engineer for the Roa noke Rapids paving work, ar rived in town yesterday and ac companied Mayor W. B. Alls brook and street superintendent George Justice on a tour of the work in progress. The mayor said this morning Freeman will remain here several days to as sist in speeding the progress of the street project, which has been delayed because of bad weather. Mayor Allsbrook said a Mr. Royster, who will serve as gen eral superintendent of the en tire street project including grad ing, curb and gutter installation and paving, has been sent here by the construction company to coordinate the work. Royster said he will see to it that streets in town which had previously been graded and worked but which had been made almost impassable during the recent wet weather are soon gotten ino sor.pe so that they might better be used by resi Grading on streets soon to be paved and curb and gutter in stallations on the west side of the city has been stepped up by the construction crews in an ef fort to make up the time lost recently. Repaving work on Roanoke Avenue being done by the same construction firm will probably be completed today or tomorrow, witht the paving crews moving at a rapid rate in putting down the biack top surface over the center of the paving now in place. The Roanoke Avenue work is being done as part of a state contract for highway im provement on N. C. highway 47. It is said that as soon as the priming coats on the street to be surfaced entirely are ready, the actual paving of the streets will proceed at the same pace with which the Roanoke Avenue work has been done. Scotland Neck Lions Club Hears Overman Scotland Neck—As part of the Scotland Neck Lions Club’s emphasis on public education during the month, the club was host to the teachers of the Scot land Neck Schools and W. Henry Overman, County Super intendent, was speaker at a meeting in the cafeteria last Thursday night. P. E. Shields welcomed the guests and Miss Minnie Hart re sponded in behaif of the teachers. L. W. Alexander, principal of the school, introduced all t h e teachers. O. H. Robertson and Myrle Worrell were in charge of the recreational part of the pro gram, which included several skits performed by some of the teachers. A. J. Moye, president of the club, introduced Overman who spoke on the general condition of the school situation today. He said that North Carolina gets the largest return for the educational dollar of any state and pointed out that our trans portation system of one 6f the safest in the nation. In Halifax County he said there were 2,186 white children in school with 32 buses and that Scotland Neck, with 20 teachersr has more teachers than any other school in the county sys tem. There are 6,483 negroes in the county schools with 25 buses and Scotland Neck has 21 teachers. In the white schools 66 per cent of the teachers have class A certificates, 16 per cent, B, six per cent, C, and the remaind er lower, but none have grad uate certificates. All of the Ne gro teachers have either grad uate certificates or class A certi ficates, with the exception of three teachers. “Twenty five white teachers have less than standard certifi cates” he stated, ‘‘We are below the state average in this re spect.” Sea Turtle Culprit In Lobster Grau McKinley, me. oj.p.)— The lobster-rustling menace appears over for the fishermen of this coastal community. Manuel and Morris YounC, brothers and fishing partners, suspected rustlers when two of their lobster traps vanished in less than a week. Then the Youngs found the culprit off Duck Island, tangled in the lines of five more traps. It was a 600 pound sea turtle. Weather North Carolina—Fair and a lUila warmor today and io nlghit Friday, lair and nat much change in iampccataagt