Newspapers / Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, … / Oct. 18, 1948, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
ROANOKE RAPID 3 34th Year—No. 32 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Monday, October 18, 13*d 5c *..uly; lCc Sunday I Roonoke Ramblings By PAT NANTZ Six football fans attending the Carolina-State game on Sat urday, were Marvin Woodard, Billy Nixon, Noah Sadler, Don ald Taylor, Dwight Elting and Walter Shearin. One of Roanoke Rapiws’ 48 graduates who visited here this week-end was Walter “Bear” Myrick. . , . “Bear” visited his parents and family. He is a freshman at High Point College, at High Point, N. C. . . . Mrs. J. R. Wrann has return ed to her home after having spent a week in Norfolk, Va., with her sister, Mrs J. W. Leslie. Finding time to leave their studies and come home for the week-end were Jack Wrenn and Harry “Fuzzy" Weathers. Both are students at Wake Forest Col lege. . . . Wishes for a very happy birth day go to little Clarence Hale, Jr., and Priscilla Hancock. . . . Clarence is in the first grade and Priscilla is in the third. . . . may you both have many, many more just as happy . . . Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Nantz over the week-end was Mrs. Pinkie Burton, of Richmond, Va. . . . Mrs. Burton is a sister of Mrs. Nantz . . . The semi-pro football team of Roanoke Rapids didn’t have a very good start this season . . . they lost to Portsmouth, yester day, at a score of 42-0. ... It was, however, the team’s first game, . . . they and their coach, “Flip” Edmondson are hoping for better scores in the future games . . . 3t Ft.^e from college this week ♦.N*«Wv Were C. D. “Dickie” Clark, Clrarles S^nith, A. R. "Hardrock” Hardison, and Wiley “Boone” Warren ... all are attending Wake Forest College. . . • Here’s something that may be news to you . . . Billy White, a ’48 graduate of the Roanoke Ra pids High School is an alternate drum-major at High Point Col lege . . . Bill plays in the band as a drummer during one game . . . and then during the next game, he takes over as drum major. ... he was the drum major of the Roanoke Rapids band during his senior year, last year. . . Jerry Kidd and Fred Etheridge left yesterday for McDill Field i Tampa, Florida. Jerry and Fred spent a twelve day leave here with their families...both are ’48 graduates of the Roanoke Ra pids High School... One of the out-standing fea tures of the band performance Friday night, was the “killing” of the ol’ grey mare....while the band was marching during the half of the game an ol' grey mare came on the field and proceeded to aggrevate the majorettes....it was representing the Edenton team...when the drum-majorette failed to be able to make it leave the field, she called on Jesse Harrell,, Jr. for help..Jesse shot the grey mare, while the band played an engagement of “The Ol’ Grey Mare,” . . . then after having shot it twice, they played a funeral march, while Sonny Hines and Johnny Lynch carried the dead mare from the field on a stretcher... Little Carylon Staford, of Fran klin, Virginia, celebrated her fourth birthday at the home oi her grandmother, Mrs. Mamie Braswell, on Madison Street.... Carylon was honor guest at a party on Saturday afternoon.... A man who was wanted by the police had been photographed in six different positions and the pictures were circulated among the police...The chief in a small town wrote headquarters a few days later, saying: "I duly received the pictures of the sis jniscreants whose capture is de voured..! have arrested five ol them; the sixth is under obser vation and will be taken soon...” Weather North Carolina — Clearing, colder and windy today, pre ceded by diminishing light reins east portion this fore noon: tab and colder Ibwest temporal urea tt to 30 in mountains and 30 to 40 central and east portions, heavy frost lonlghil Tuesday, fair, not to cool or re west portion in af y^- TY waiting FOR IT TO CRACK Raleigh All Set To Welcome Truman For Two Addresses; One At Unveiling Monument And Other Opening Fair Raleigh, Oct. 18—(/P)— The State’s Capital City today un rolled its welcome mat for Presi dent Truman. Mr. Truman, fifth President to visit Raleigh while in office, will arrive tonight for two speeches tomorrow. The President, Mrs. Truman and their daughter, Margaret, along with the President’s offi cial party, are expected to arrive at the Raleigh-Durham airport about 6 p. m., from Miami, Fla. They will be greeted there by a committee including Governor R. Gregg Cherry, Democratic State Chairman Capus Waynick, Mayor P. D. Snipes, Kerr Scott, Democratic Nominee for Gover nor, and State Commissioner of Agriculture D. S. Coltrane. The Truman party will go by motorcade to the Hotel Sir Wal ter for the night. Mr. Truman is scheduled to speak tomorrow about 11:30 a.m. at exercises dedicating a monu ment to the three Presidents North Carolina calls native sons —James K. Polk, Andrew Jack son and Andrew Johnson. In the afternoon he will make an address officially opening the 1948 North Carolina State Fair. This speech, in which he is ex pected to discuss the farm pro blem, is slated for 3 p. m. The afternoon address will be broadcast from 3 to 3:30 by a National Broadcasting Company Network, Democratic Chairman Waynick has announced. A State network will carry the morning address. The ceremonies leading to un veiling of sculptor Charles Keck’s monument of the three presidents will begin with a parade. The president’s party is scheduled to go to the foot of Fayetteville street at 10:45 to head the procession. The parade will move off for the Capitol and arrive there a bout 10:45. Mr. Truman’s party will leave the parade there and go to a reviewing stand at the east en trance to Capitol Square, facing New Bern Avenue and just in front of the monument. After the parade has passed, the Presidential party will leave the reviewing stand and walk down a corridor ol National Guardsmen to the speakers’ platform before the east door of the Capitol. Willis Smith of Raleigh, chair man of the Commission to erect the memorial, will present it to the State, and it will be accepted by Governor Cherry. The memorial will be unveiled by C. Lawrence Winn of Her mitage, Tenn., great-great-grand son by adoption of President Jackson; James Knox Polk of Warrenton, great-nephew of Pre sident Polk; and Miss Margaret Johnson Patterson of Green ville, Tenn., great-granddaughter of President Johnson. Mr. Truman is scheduled to begin speaking at 11:30 A. M. After the exercises, the Presi dent, Mrs. Truman, Miss Mar garet Truman, and the Presiden tial party will be guests of Gov ernor and Mrs. Cherry at a luncheon at the Governor’s Man sion. The Truman party is schedul ed to arrive at the fairgrounds at 2:30 p. m. He will speak from a platform in front of the educational exhibit hall. Greeks Says communist Killed CBS Radio Man puuisuauic uy icaui uiiuci pic sent Greek military law. Staktopoulos and his mother will be tried in Salonika. The other two may be tried in Ab sentia. “Kittyhawk” Being Readied For Shipment To United States London, Oct. 18—(JP)— The Wright brothers' biplane “Kitty hawk,” first power-driven air plane to accomplish flight, came down from the ceiling of Ken sington Science Museum today for dismantling and shipment to the Smithonsian Institution in Washington. The “Kittyhawk” has been on display here since 1928 when it was lent by the late Orville Wright for an initial period of five years. Wright sent the plane to Eng land after a long dispute with the Smitthonsai Institution as to whether the “Kittyhawk” actual ly was the first plane to fly. Its return to the United States is in accordance with the wishes of Wright who in 1943 informed the museum he wanted to with draw the machine later. The plane will be shipped to the United States on the Mau retania on Nov. S. C) nam ueiays Street Paving Street paving work here re ceived a temporary setback in the form of a couple of hours of hard rain this morning, how ever sharp winds began drying out the damage soon after the rain had quit falling. Men and machinery were un able to get to work at an early hour this morning on continuing the work started on street pav ing prior to the weekend, but it was expected that they would get into action later in the day. The only work completed be fore the weekend by the paving crew was the surfacing of Wash ington street between Seventh street and the end of the street a block north of First street. New Wage-Hour Rules To Be Enforced Raleigh, Oct. 18—(AP)—The State Department of Labor to day began enforcement of new federal wage-hour law inter pretations on certain premium payments. Labor commissioner Forrest H. Shuford said the rules apply to pay for work on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays and night shifts. Setting of the enforce ment date resulted, he said, from a U.S. Supreme court decision of last week against rehearing the so-called “Longshoremen1! back wage cases." U. S. Demands U. N. Let Five Great Powers And Canada Decide Aton Problen In Direct Talks BULLETIN! Tel Aviv. Israel, Oct. 18— (/P)—Israel accepted tonight a United Nations offer to ar range peace talks with Egypt on the fighting in the Nev. However, she rejected a cease fire proposal. Paris, Oct. 18—OP)—1The Unit id States demanded today that :he United Nations turn the deadlocked atomic energy pro blem over to the Five great powers and Canada for direct ne gotiations. Chief U. S. Delegate Warren R. Austin told the 58-nation po litical committee the United Na tions could go no further in its efforts to control the atom un-! til the Soviet Union agreed to “participate in the world com munity on a cooperative basis.” The Berlin dispute comes up tomorrow in the Security Coun cil. A new compromise plan which would take the issue out of the U. N. is reported under consideration by the six neutrals of the council. Austin, commenting on a re port drawn up by an atomic en ergy subcommittee, declared: “Communist states desire to live in a secret world of their own behind which, for all we know, they may arm and pre pare their people for war. We do not desire to live in such a world. “That is the impasse in which the United Nations Atomic Ener gy Commission finds itself. This is an impasse which can not be overcome by the Atomic Energy Cdmmission.” Austin said the problem must be turned over to, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China and Canada for negotia tions. Paris, Oct. 18—(JP)—'The Unit ed Nations Security Council has been called to meet in special session tomorrow to discuss the new flareup of fighting in Pale stine. Warren R. Austin, U. S. dele i ?ate and October President of :he council, ordered the session, after conferring twice with Dr. Ralph Bunche, the interim Pale stine mediator. Bunche said earl ier he would ask for such a meeting if Israel refused to ac cept a three-day cease fire or der in the southern desert, where Israeli and Egyptian troops are fighting. Bunche said he still is trying to get an agreement for a three day truce. The special session of the council means it will meet twice tomorrow, once at 10:30 a. m. (4:30 a. m. EST) on Palestine, and again at 3 p. m. (9 a. m. EST) on the Berlin crisis. Weldon Negro Is Jailed In Knifing Weldon. — Janies Wesley , Boone, Weldon Negro, received serious stab wounds in a fracas at the Flamingo Club near Wel don early Sunday morning and William Lassiter, Negro, was 1 jailed in Halifax on a charge of | assault with a deadly weapon and the inflicting of serious per sonal injuries in the case. Boone was taken to the Koa- . noke Rapids Hospital, where it was reported today that he had been stabbed deeply in the chest and that one lung had been pierced. Hospital officials said his chances of recovery are good. Sheriff H. A. House and de puty Sheriff James L. Mount castle conducted an investiga tion of the stabbing, and the sheriff said Lassiter had been ar rested Sunday morning near Gumberry in Northampton County and jailed on the charge. The sheriff said he did not know what had caused the fight between the two men except that it seemed to be “just an other Saturday night fracas.” U.S. Airlift Plane Shaken By Explosion Berlin, Oct. 18—CAP)— A United States C-54 transport plane supplying blockaded Ber lin was shaken by a mysterious explosion today shortly after tak fng off from Berlin’s Gatow air port. The pilot said at first he be lieved a Russian anti-aircraft shell had burst near his plane. U. S. and British officials, how ever, said they believed the plane was jolted by the concussion from a ground explosion which occurred so near Gatow Airfield that it rattled windows. There was no indication, these officials said, that anti-aircraft guns were fired. The Russians gave no warn ings of gun practice today in the air corridor used by British and American planes supplying blockaded Berlin. They did impose a sharp traf fic inspection at occupation sec tor borders within the city, aim ed at tightening the blockade. Rain And Frost Are Predicted By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Varied weather — including rain today and frost tonight—is predicted for the Carolinas. The forecast for North Caro lina is clearing, colder and windy today, preceded by dimin ishing light rains over east por tion this forenoon; fair and cold, with lowest temperatures 26 to 30 degrees in the mountains and 30 to 34 degrees in the Central and East portions, and heavy frost tonight. Tomorrow was I expected to be fair and not so cool over the West portion in the afternoon. Senator Wagner Amnesia Victim New York, Oct. 18—(A5)— Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) suf fered an attack of temporary amnesia during the weekend, when he disappeared from his son’s Long Island estate, says his physician. Dr. William C. Carhardt examined the ailing 71-year-old senator shortly after he was found early yesterday at a Man hattan restaurant, one of his fav orite eating places. Wagner had been the object of a widespread police search for nearly 12 hours after he ■ wandered away from the home of Robert F. Wagner, Jr., at 1s lip, N. Y., about 3 p. m. Sat urday. Early yesterday, the senior ; Senator from New York and ' father of the New Deal Labor Relations act entered a restaur ■ ant near 85th Street and Lexing - ton Avenue and ordered a sand i wich and a cup of coffee. Waiters, previously alerted by : police concerning the Senator’s > disappearance, notified authori ties. 1 saionuca, Greece, uci. i o— (JP)—The Greek government says a top communist killed George Polk, correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem, last May. Topping off a five-months in vestigation of the slaying, the govememnt yesterday named three others charged with com plicity in the murder. Two of them are under arrest. One of the persons under ar rest was quoted as believing the murder was planned by the Com inform (Communist International Information Bureau) to discredit the Greek government abroad, i The government said the ac • tual shooting of Polk was done i by Adam Mouzenides, member of the central committee of the Greek Communist Party. H e was alleged to have shot the correspondent in the back of the head as Polk lay blindfolded and trussed in a boat in Salonika Bay last May 8. The other three charged with complicity in the murder were Evangelos Vasvanas, still a( large; Gregory Staktopoulos, Communist newspaperman, and his mother, Anna, both under ar rest for the past two months. All four face charges of con spiracy to murder Polk. Mou zenudes and Vasvanas also were charged with illegal possession of firearms and carrying arms, Western German Zone, Officials Agree On ’ New Economic Mercer i Berlin, Oct. 18—(/P)—An al-! nost complete economic merger if the three western zones of iermany was announced today. An agreement fusing the for ;ign trade of the French zone vith that of the already merged British and American zones was signed by the three western al- * lied military governors. . This united the economies of ■ all zones except the Russian * zone of Germany, save for a few , activities which will be regulat ed by consultation among the ‘ British French and Americans. States Righters Claim They Intend To Support All Democrats But Truman By The Associated Press 1 Another clash among the high \ command has rocked the State s Rights Democratic party in ( North Carolina. i Five members of the party’s 1 caimpaign committee, claiming a 1 majority of the group, yester day announced they will stand < by a previous decision to back ! all Democratic candidates but < President Truman. They issued a statement in answer to Phillip S. Finn, Jr., state chairman of the party, who had announced that State Righters were withdrawing sup port from ‘‘regular Democratic candidates for State and Con gressoional offices.” Meanwhile, Democrats were: preparing to bring their fall i campaign to a climax with an appearance in Raleigh tomorrow of President Truman, who will make two speechese in the capi tal city. The President will speak in the morning at the dedication of a monument to Presidents Jam es K. Polk, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson. In the af ternoon he will officially open the 1948 North Carolina State Fair. Democrats also had a cam paign rally on tap at Graham today—the last in their series in the state’s 12 Congressional districts. Speakers scheduled to appear included Gubernatorial Nominee Kerr Scott, state chair man Capus Waynick, Senator William B. Umstead and Con gressman Carl T. Durham of the Sixth District. The Top Republican nominees in the state—George M. Pritch ard for Governor and John A. Wilkinson for the U. S. Sen ate—were ready to set out on a speaking schedule for the week which included six engagements for each. Pritchard was to speak at lewland at 1 p. m. Wilkinson /ill begin his schedule with a peech tomorrow night at 8 o’ lock at the Women’s College uditorium at Duke University, inder auspices of the G. O. Po itan at Duke. The States Rights Democratic ommittee who answered Finn’s tatement were John W. Hins lale of Raleigh, chairman of the •ampaign committee; Wiley G. Barnes of Raleigh, Edwin H. Ma one of Louisburg, David Clark >f Charlotte and Franklin S. ^lark of Fayetteville, committee members. Franklin Clark is the party treasurer. It was the second time in sev eral weeks that David Clark has answered a statement from Finn. Previously Clark had taken is sue with Finn for criticising of ficials of the State’s Democratic administration for what Finn termed attempts to delay the lew party’s fight to get on the aallot in North Carolina. Finn had announced at Hen dersonville last Friday that the decision to withdraw support rom Democratic candidates in he State was taken because of he “failure of the candidates to support publicly the platform md principles of the States lights party.” He said the action was taken it a meeting at Charlotte the day before. The dissenting committee men asserted “we were not ad vised of any meeting called by Uol. Finn in Charlotte and knew aotthing of the same.” They said they were standing by a resolution adopted at a States Rights Democratic meet ing last month “requesting all Democrats in accord with us to vote the straight Congressional,! State and county Democratic ticket.” “This is still our position,” their statement declared. Federalist Speaker Says Federation May Not Be Far Off Greensboro, Oct. 18—(iP)—The United World Federalists of North Carolina today had this idea to think over: world union may not be as far off as a lot of people believe. Cord Meyer, Jr., of New York, national President of the Fed eralists, told the final session of the North Carolina convention here yesterday events in Europe point to the economic necessity of federation. He added that Europeans also are ready to ac knowledge the need for world government and believe the world cannot have peace with out world federation. A change of one piece in the European jigsaw would be enough to make federation of the governments of European countries not controlled by Rus sia an actuality, Meyer declared. That change would have to be an okay by the British cabinet, he explained. The following were named to a State executive council: Local Hunters Bag Three Deer J. L. Burton, Mack Johnson, Richard Burton, Mac Daugh trey, Eddie Gibson, Woodrow Harvey and Harold Garrett bag ged three deers on their hunt Saturday on this side of t h e old Tillery Farm adjoining the country farm. Burton says the largest weigh ed 110, the second about SO and the other around 88 pounds. Seven Die In Weekend Mishaps At least seven persons died by violence in North Carolina over the weekend. A tree-car crash near Greens boro took the lives of two Sum merfield residents, Andrew Frye Tuttle, 24, and Billie Stafford, 18. Ernest F. Bell, 37, a negro, died when an automobile over turned near Fayetteville. Brownlow Stephens Hill, 22, of Saluda, was killed when his automobile turned over near Hendersonville. Shirley L. Joyce, 25, of Mar tinsville, Va., died in a Lumber ton hospital of injuries received in an automobile accident near Pembroke. Bruce “Smokey” Butler, Kin ston negro, died of knife wounds. Coroner Raymond Jarman said Butler refused to take his wife home from a dance. When he got home, a fight started. Jarman said Butler’s wife, Marian M. Butler, has been charged with murder. Cecil Albert Sawyer, 36, was killed when his automobile over turned 200 yards from his home in New Bern, Route 2. Davie School PTA To Meet Tuesday The William R. Davit High School, Parent Teacher As sociation will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 October 19th, it the school auditorium. i) wright Is temoved To (ets Hospital Claude M. Wright, who Was ound on Jefferson street here iaturday night near the Patter on Mill clinic, was taken to the Icuire General Hospital at tichmond, Va., this morning at 1 o’clock for further treatment •f his injuries. Wright’s mother, Mrs. Bernice Vright, said her son’s condition aday showed little improvement rom Saturday when he was aken to the Roanoke Rapids lospital with a severe compound racture of his left leg and bruise >n his head. She said he was )eing taken to the Veterans Ad ninistration hospital because of lis status as a discharged Marine Corps veteran. Wright was discovered shortly after eight o’clock Saturday light lying in the street and was taken to the hospital after a taxi tiad been summoned by the man who found him. There is still no clue as to the manner in which he was in juried. Mrs. Wright said this morning that her son said he had no recollection of anything preceding the discovery of a pain in his leg. His brother said to day he has no idea of the cir cumstances surrounding his in jury. Local police officers conducted an investigation of the accident, but said they could take no fur ther action unless they find out whether or not there was foul play involved in Wright’s in jury. He was recenty discharged from the Marine Corps after more than 17 year’s service, re ceiving an honorable medical discharge after several months in service hospitals, his mother said. She said the wounds he re ceived Saturday night had apparently aggravated by his earlier illness, making his con dition critical. Negro Sought In Murder At Enfield Enfield — Local police and Halifax County officers are still searching today for Henry War ren, Enfield Negro, who alleged ly stabbed to death Cicero Willi ams, Negro, here late Saturday night following an argument. Chief of police F. C. Sykes of Enfield said he understetd the two men had engaged in some sort of argument in a vacant lot about 100 yards from the En field police station when Will iams was stabbed. The chief said the injured man was stabbed in the beck with a knife and died at the po lice station about five minutes after he had been stabbed. Af ter he was injured the chief said he ran to the nearby station to summon Sid and collapsed. Sykes said before he died he told officers that the man who stabbed him was Warren, and the chief said there were seven* al eye witnesses to the stabbing who corroborated William’s dy ing statement. The chief said an open pocket knife was found in the dead man’s coat pocket. Officers started making a search of the immediate area and checked outbound buaea from Enfield for Warren, whom Chief Sykes said will be charged with murder. Snake Cultists Plead Guilty Durham, Oct. 18—(jP)— Two religious cultists from Virginia today pleaded guilty to violating a city ordinance against handling snakes in public. Paul Lea Dot son and Oscar Hutton, both of St. Charles, wera fined $50 and costs each In police court They were among “faith hold ers" from five states who endr ed a three-day meeting in Zion Tabernacle here yesterday. Five other persona e! Durham ) and vicinity similarly charged I will be tried tomorrow. They am C. H. Bunn, leader of the MB. negation, B. C. Williams and his wife, Asalee, John Albert Maynard and Robert Bsnjamte Massey. ^ ^
Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 18, 1948, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75