ftOANOH RAPIDS
Sunday Herald
S4th ^jUr—No. 36 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Snnday, October 24, 1948 5c Daily; 10c Sunday
•Truman Charges Dewey “Insulting”
American People; Calls Opponent
Man of “Gall” in Pittsburgh Address
CIO s Murray
Backs Truman
For President
Pittsburgh, Oct. 23—(AP) —
President Truman said tonight
Republican Nominee Thomas E
Dewey is a man of “gall” who
is insulting the American voter
"ith “double talk” or "crafty
silence.”
Speaking in the same hall
where Dewey talked ten days
ago, Mr. Truman said his rival’s
promises ran from the “pecul
iar” to the “fantastic.”
A crowd that packed Hunt
armory to capacity and Over
flowed outside whooped it up
jbr a president who said:
“This soft talk and double talk
this combination of crafty sil
ence and resounding misrepres
cntation is an insult to the in
telligence of the American vot
er. It proceeds upon the assump
tion that you can fool all the
people — or enough of them —
all the time.”
C. I. O. President Philip Mur
Kay warmed the crowd up with
speech pledging “our fighting
support" to a “fighting president
Murray shouted that Dewey is
“in love with the birds and bees
and flowers”.
Mr. Truman rode from the
railroad station to the armory
through tens of thousands of peo
ple strung over some 15 milee
of streets. They turned out wav
ing red torches and beating pans
ind garage canlids'.
Inside the hall, a frenzied roar
went up as the thief executive
walked in, an ear-to-ear grin on
his fa«j4^Sgns and flags broke
out alts|rnr the place. A band
competed with premature hallow'
een noisemakers.
Police Lieutenant Arthur Bak
er estimated 15,000 people cram
med into the armory and IB,000
listened over loud speakers out
Wde.
The Chief Executive said that
this was about his 230th politi
cal meeting of the campaign and
"I’m still going strong and I’ll
still be going strong at midnight
on Nov. 1.”
The crowd booed when he
mentioned the Taft-Hartley law
But he got.a-big laugh with
his stabs at "Doctor Dewey
who he said tells his patient.
"You shouldn’t think about issue
^ Dewey, he said, has set him
self up ai a kind of a doctor
with a “Magic cure for all the
ills of mankind.”
He pictured his rival as pres
cribing a major operation-tak
ing out the works" and putting
in a Republican administration
for a patient who “never felt
stronger, never had more money
and never had a brighter future.
There wasn’t much about
What the Democrats say they
will do if they keep the White
House and regain control of Con
gress. The president put that into
talks today at Johnston, Scran
ton. and Wilkes Barre, Pa. He
listed:
Repeal of the Taft-Hartley la
bor law, changes in the displac
ed persons act, inflation controls
housing, a 75-eent minimum
Jiourly wage, aid to education.
W The Chief Executive had
spent the day campaigning from
one end of Pennsylvania to the
other for the state’s 35 elec
toral votes.
Mild Weather
To Continue
By The Associated Press
e Continued mild weather was
the prospect for the Carolinas
Sunday.
The forecast was for fair, and
slightly warmer in both states.
A minimum temperature of 40
was expected during the night.
Saturday's maximum temper
atures in North Carolina were
RaleL'j 66, Greensgoro 65,
alo£te 65, Cape Hatteras 68,
l$eth City 70, Wilmington 73,
Bern 69, Cherry Point 67,
Rocky Mount 60, Asheville '63,
Hickory 66,' Winston-Salem 66,
and Lumberton 71.
In South Carolina:
Spartanburg 65, Charleston 70.
’’iumbia 69, Anderson 67, Myr
■ Beach 73, Greenville 65, and
irence 70.
Weather
e North- Carolina—Fair and
not much change fat tem
perature Sunday
Where 38 Died In Air Tragedy
These small and widely scattered bits of wreckage are the ruins of a Royal Dutch Airlines
(KLM) Constellation which crashed in a cow pasture near Prestwick, Scotland, Thursday, and
killed 38 persons. Nine of the dead were Americans. Two persons, both Dutch, survived the
tragedy. The big plane struck a high tension wire on its flight from Amsterdam to New
York (AP Wirephoto via radio from London).
Report Soviet Has Rejected Neutral
Resolution for Solving Berlin Crisis
Soviet Veto
Of Resolution
Is Predicted
Paris, Oct. 23—(#)—Andrei Vi
shinsky of Russia has rejected
the six-power face-saving resolu
tion for solving the Berlin cri
sis, an authoritative informant
said tonight.
A Soviet veto of the resolution
when it comes before the Secur
ity Council on Monday apparent
ly is in the cards. Although there
is no certainty that Moscow has
given its final answer, it appear
ed Vishinsky took his stand af
ter consultation with the Krem
lin.
The informant disclosed Vish
insky’s attitude after the Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister had
conferred for two hours with
Juan Bramuglia, Argentine For
eign Minister and leader of the
six neutrals on the Security
Council.
The six powers yesterday in
troduced a resolution in t’ie Se
curity council proposing that
Russia lift the Berlin blockade
immediately; that the four mili
tary governors of Germany be
gin immediate negotiations to
implement the Moscow agree
ment of Aug. 30 for a Soviet
backed, four-power controlled
mark in Berlin by Nov. 20, and
that a foreign ministers council
be convened within 10 days
thereafter to take up other Ger
man differences.
Vishinsky’s objection, it was
reported, was to lifting the
blockade before a currency solu
tion went into effect.
The Western Powers already
IlttU luiucu uumi jrcatciuaj mo
counter-proposal for simultane
ous liftihg of the blockade and
putting into effect the currency
agreement.
Bramuglia was said to have
told Vishinsky he would not
bother to relay his. renewed
counter-proposal a second time
to the Western Powers, who
object tthat it would oblige them
to negotiate under pressure of
the blockade.
The Argentine added that he
would press his efforts’ for a
settlement of the case even if
Vishinsky finally kills by veto
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Cordell Hull Appeals to Soviet
To Forget “Dangerous Behavior”
And Live Up to Peaceful
Roanoke
Ramblings
By PAT NANTZ
The Roanoke Rapids High
School Band, majorettes, drum
majorette, flag carriers and di
rector, George Baird, were in
vited to the Emporia - Lawrence
ville game played at Emporia
Friday. The Emporia High
School students were celebrating
homecoming day . . . and ask
ed our band to represent them
at the affair. The band march
ed at 4 o’clock on Main street,
starting at the Armory, and go
ing all the way through Em
poria, then back 1p the Armory
where they adjourned. During
the half of the ball game they
performed in behalf of Emporia.
After the game a dance was
given and the band was in
vited to attend . . . they repre
sented Emporia at a game in
a similar way last year.
It stands to reason that Ted
Speight just isn’t as young as
he used to be. After refereeing
a football game at Greenville
between Greenville and Kinston,
Ted was on his way to the locker
rooms. To get there he had to
jump oVer some scaffolding—
make it. The scaffolding broke
and Ted is now nursing a badly
sprained ankle. Here’s hoping he
is up soon and won’t try to do
any more jumping around in the
future.
It is reported the Roanoke
Rapids Yellow Jackets played a
good game at New Bern Friday
night. Maybe their luck has
changed, because they won by
a score of 28-7. If only they
will keep thai luck until another
home game.
When in need of a toast, but
being able to think of nothing to
say, the famed writer, Charles
Dickens, would always say,
“Here’s to us all—God bless us
everyone. .He must have been
an optimist. . . .
A would-be chicken farmer
had some diffic ilty with her
flock and wrote the following
letter to the Department of Ag
riculture: “Someting is wrong
with my chickens. Every morn
ing wht.* I came out I find two
or three lying on the ground,
cold and stiff, with their feet in
the air. Can you tell me what is
the matter?” To which thesDe
partment answered with this
short letter, “Dear Madam. Your
chickens are dead. . .
/ * -
Visiting here with her parents
ov6r the week end is Ellen Pow
ers. She is a student at Wom
an’s College of North Carolina.
Ellen is majoring in English and
Ihistory.
Washington, Oct. 23—(AP)—
Former Secretary of State Cor
deli Hull tonight appealed to
Russia to cast away its “danger
ous behavior” and live up to its
peaceful pledges in the United
lotions charter.
Hull, whom President Roose
velt once called the “father of
the United Nations,” spoke with
the prestige of the first man to
obtain Russia’s official promise
The “elder statesman” of
American diplomacy went on his
mission to Moscow five years
ago this month and returned
with high hopes of permanent
peace. He issued his new plea for
Russian cooperation in a state
ment from the hospital quarters
he has occupied for the past sev
eral years at Naval Medical Cen
ter here.
He said the Russians had
pledged themselves in 19^3 at
Moscow and in 1945 at San Fran
cisco to “cooperate x x x with
all peace seeking nations” in
making the United Nations “a
bulwark of peace and security
for themselves and for the
world.”
Hull’s statement contained the
most strongly worded criticism
of the Russians he has ever pub
licly expressed. He said:
“Instead, they have so far pur
sued an opposite course and,
through their dangerous behavior
both inside and outside the U
nited Nations, have aroused
throughout the world growing
impatience and mounting resent
ment. All this has tended to
make the work of the United
Nations organization vastly more
difficult and thus to impair its
effectiveness as an indispensable
framework of a peaceful world
order.
“Today, more than ever, man
kind desperately needs free
dom from fears of war and from
threats of war in order to repair
the ravages of the recent con
flict and to move forward to
higher levels of civilized exist
ene.”
Cornerstone of New Methodist
Church at Halifax Will Be Laid
With Ceremonies Thursday at 2:30
Halifax—The Rev. D. A. Petty,
pastor of the Halifax Methodist
Church, announced today that
the cornerstone for the Meth
odist Church here would be laid
next Thursday afternoon at 2:30
p.m.
The laying of the cornerstone
will mark the beginning of the
building of a new structure to
replace the one which burned
some 18 months ago.
The pastor said that the ser
vices would be held on the
grounds of the new site, the Dr.
Robert F. Young property, which
Dr. Young has donated to the
church for the building.
Dr. A. J. Hobbs, district su
perintendent, and Dr. C. M.
Grant of Rocky Mount, will of
ficiate at the cornerstone laying.
Ministers from all churches in
the surrounding area have been
invited to attend the ceremonies
and the members of the building
committee, the board of trustees
and all church members are urg
ed to be present tor the corner
stone laying.
In the event that the weather
is bad, the Rev. Mr. Petty, said
that services would be held in the
Episcopal Church here.
Evans Tells Aurelian Springs Residents
lo “Holler” Loud and Fast to New State
Administration to Get Work on Roads
Judge Morris to Open Criminal
Docket of Superior Court Monday
Halifax—Superior Court Judge
Chester Morris will convene a
one week criminal session of
Halifax County Superior Court
here Monday morning.
Docketed for hearing during
the term are a total of 27 cases.
One murder case, that of Geor
ge Terry, Northampton Negro,
is slated for hearing during the
session.
Several drunken driving cases,
assault cases, a non-support
case and several larceny and
breaking and entering cases are
slated to be heard.
Judge Morris will make his
charge to the jury about 10 a.m.
Monday, court attaches' reported
yeaterday.
Terry is charged with having
murdered Gordon B. Miles, 20
year old Weldon youth on Sep
tember 12, during an argument
over some whiskey.
Miles was faftally wounded
when, according to investigating
officers Terry allegedly slashed
him across the throat with a
pocket knife.
Other cases docketed include:
James D. Ruffin, crime against
nature; Johnnie Tyson, break
ing and entering; Frank Pulley,
crime against nature; S. E. War
ren, driving while drunk and
reckless driving; Will Richard
son, forgery; Sam Lynch, non
support; E.M. Burned, driving
while drunk; Erma H. Porter,
driving while drunk; Howard W.
Sistaire, driving while drunk;
Leslie Johnson, driving while
drunk; Sterling Harris, break
ing and entering and assault on
a female; J. E. Whittington,
driving while drunk; Charles F.
Lassiter Jr., larceny of an auto
mobile; . E. Draper, breaking!
and entering and larceny; T.
J. Edwards, driving while drunk;
Leonard Braxton, indecent expo
sure; Casper Clanton, larceny
of an automobile; Milton Massey,
driving while drunk; Thomas I.
Griffith, abandonment and non
support; Mae Jeffreys, assault
with a deadly weapon; Melvin
Ellis, assault with a deadly wea
pon with intent to kill; James
D. Jones, breaking and enter
ing and rape; Tommie Lynch,
larceny; William Edwards, lar
ceny of an automobile; Leon
C. Gilliland, breaking and enter
ing and larceny; Eldred Strick
land, larceny of an automobile;
Ernest Phipps, burglary; Tom
Lattimore, larceny and Russell
L. Hunter, bigamy.
Nation’s Big Four of Grids
Conies Through Again Unscathed
Decline Noted
On Tobacco
Marts in Week
Raleigh, Oct. 23— (AP)— A
general decline was noted this
week for flue-cured tobacco on
thte Eastern North Carolina Old
and Middle belts, the U. S. and
N. C. Departments of Agricul
ture announced today.
On the Eastern belt, a small
volume was sold during the
week, although quality held good
in spite of many growers sel
ing the last of their crops. For
the 10th week of sales, the agri
cultural departments reported
most grades were $1 to $4 under
last week’s prices.
Gross sales on the Eastern
Belt totaled 18,711,998 pounds this
week for an average of $51.30,
or $2.21 below last week. Sea
son’s sales mounted to 362,038,
409 pounds averaging $49.73.
On the Old Belt, losses during
the sixth week sales ranged from
50 cents to $9, with majority
down $1 to $3, as compared
with last week. Red smoking
leaf grades chalked up the great
est losses. A few green leaf
grade |and some nondescript
showed slight gains. Cutters
continued in good demand and
held firm at last week’s quota
tions.
This Man Says
Nyack Most Honest
Nyack N. Y„ Oct. 23—(AP)—
Nyack, says Murray Kerchman,
“is the most honest town in the
world.”
Storekeeper Kerchman lost $70
n loose bills on ,Windy Main
stret yestrday. Without much
hope, he reported his loss to po
lice with these results:
Barber Otto Leukroth brought
in $35 he found fluttering around
the doorway of his shop. Joyce
Keesler handed police $10 she’d
picked up on Main Street. Still
later, Mrs. Cornelia Mahan walk
d into headquarters with the
last of the $70.
Charlotte Observer
Will Back Dewey
Charlotte, Oct. 23—(AP)—The
Charlotte Observer announced
tonight its support of Gov. Tho
bas E. Dewey for President,
thereby departing from its “tra
ditional independent democratic
policy.”
The Observer endorsed Pres
idnt Franklin D. Roosevelt for
a second term but “with six
definite reservations critical of
his labor policies and waste and
extravagence of his bureaucrat
ic government.”
New York, Oct. 23—(AP)—
, Michigan, Notre Dame, North
| Carolina and Army came through
with their expected football vic
tories today but what happened
to Indiana, Columbia, Holy Cross
and Mississippi State
Michigan stormed to its 19th
straight triumph by smothering
Minnesota, 27 to 14 although the
Gophers held the lead in the sec
ond quarter and then again in
the third.
Notre Dame, held to a minus
seven yards via the air, ground
out a 27 to 12 verdict over an
Iowa team that moved 201 yards
by passes. The game was the
23rd since the Irish suffered
their last defeat.
Army, displaying a new out
side-inside combination that
brought back memories of the
Blanchard-Davis combine of re
cent years, downed Cornell, 27
to 6, in a battle of unbeaten
teams. *
Charlie Justice scored one
touchdown personally and passed
for two more as North Carolina
romped to its 12th victory in a
row, this one at the expense of
Louisiana State by a 34-7
score.
But it was Pittsburgh, Colgate,
Princeton and Alabama that
furnished the day’s surprises.
For the first time in 10 years
the Pitt Panthers have a victory
string of three, pushing over In
diana, 21 to 14, on a 63-yard
play engineered in the closing
seconds by the passing combina
tion of Louis Ceconi and Jim
Robinson.
Ed Salem’s 15-yard field goal
in the second quarter gave Ala
bama a 10 to 7 margin over
highly favored Mississippi State.
A similar boot of 24 yards by
ai cm in. ivciLiici, a auusuiuic ten
ter, brought Princeton a 16 to 14
edge over Columbia.
Colgate ruined Holy Cross’s
celebration for Dr. William Os
manski, new coach, by taking
a 14 to 13 contest.
There were other surprises
through out the nation but none
equal that foursome.
Some of the minor upsets
found St. Bonaventure, little up
state New York College, spilling
William and Mary, 7 and 6; Il
linois tacked another defeat on
Puredue’s record 10 to 6;
Stanford losing to Southern Cali
fornia by only one point, 7 to 6;
and Vanderbilt crushing Yale,
35 to 0.
Littleton Negro
Gets Skull Broken
By Unknown Means
Robert Harrington, Littleton
Ndgro, was admited to the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital last night
suffering from a fractured skull
when hit with a bottle.
Acording to hospital person
nel, Harrington was brought in
with a deep cut over his right
eye and his skull fractured into
the sinus chamber. His condition
was described as “not serious"
His attending physician said the
cut required six stitches.
Harrington said at the hospi
tal he was hit with a bottle by a
man whom he did not know, for
no apparent reason. He said he
was minding his own business
when he was hit and said he
was knocked unconscious by the
blow.
Heavy Larceny
Superior, Wis. (U.P.)—Arthur
Gonser, 35, and Walfred Salen,
36, were arrested for stealing six
man hole covers weighing 250
District Commissioner
Says Little Can Be Done
On Area Roads At Present
BY BILL DAVEY
Aurelian Springs.—The residents of the Aurelian
Springs section of Halifax County want roads. There is
no doubt that they want and need them.
About 300 residents of the Aurelian Springs com
munity and representatives from Roanoke Rapids, Little
ton, Weldon, Enfield and other communities gathered in
the Aurelian Springs High School auditorium here Friday
night to see what they could do toward getting better
maintenance of dirt roads and construction of all-weather
roads.
They were told there is nothing they can do right
away except to have patience pnd then to “holler loud
and holler early to the new administration.”
First District Highway Commissioner Msrrill J. Evans
of Ahoskie, accompanied by First District Engineer T. J.
McKim and C. F. Gore of Weldon division highway engi
neer, appeared before the group and explained that there
has been no discrimination against the Aurelian Springs
section of Halifax County or any other section of the First
Division.
U. S.-Canada
Said Planning
New Alliance
Paris, Oct. 23— (AP) — Top
American Sources said today that
soon after the United States elec
tions the U. S. and Canada will
draft a sweeping North Atlan
tic Alliance for full military aid
to the five-nation Western Euro
pean Union.
Foreign Ministers of the five
nation alliance — France, Brit
ain, Belgium, the Netherlands
and Luxembourg—will meet
here Monday and Tuesday.
Reliable informants said they
will discuss the North Atlantic
Alliance and also another step
for binding more firmly the non
communist nations of Western
Europe—the early convocation
of a Western European parlia
ment.
Reports in French circles said
Britain finally had given her
approval for calling together
such a parliament.
One undetermined factor in
the North Atlantic Alliance is
the reaction it will stir up in
the next U. S. Congress. How
ever, the general approach by
American planners has been on
a bi-partisan basis with Repub
licans and Democratic policy
leaders taking part. '
The European parliament en
ters into this aspect of the situ
ation. It is felt the U. S.Con
gress would more readily ap
prove funds for the contemplat
ed military aid if further signs
of European unity, such as the
calling of a parliament, make
their appearance.
“We can do no more for this
section right now than we al
ready have done because there
is no more money. We’ve spent
every dime,” Evans said.
The district commissioner dis
played maps of the 14 counties
in the First District and told the
crowd, “I can prove that the
heaviest concentration of funds
in the district is being spent
right on the spot where we are
tonight.”
He said the highway now in
the process of construction be
tween Aurelian Springs and
Roanoke Rapids is more than
half completed and said a con
tract for the road from Aurelian
Springs to Brinkleyville is to be
let by the State Highway Com
mission on Tuesday. He admitted
that the maintenance of the un
paved roads in the section had
been badly hampered and, said
the roads were in terriblfe con
dition, but he said he had done
all he could possibly do with
the funds he had available and
the men and machinery he could
get for needed work.
George A. Thorne, vocational
agriculture teacher and instruc
tor for a veterans’ farm training
class which had originally gen
erated the mass movement for
improved roads, served as chair
man at the meeting.
After the two-hour meeting
was nearly completed Thorne
declared, “We’re going to have
other meetings. We’re not whip
pen uy a way • . . aviayoe
we haven’t put our finger on
the right man, but there’s some
body responsible and, believe
me, we’re going to find him!”
Discussion at times during the
meeting which had been called
by Thorns and a committee he
headed to bring before the pub
lic the plight of the community
became slightly heated and at
other times quite general. Thor
ne was appointed chairman of a
large delegation which was ap
pointed at a similar meeting here
last Monday night He and other
members of his delegation work
ed through County Commission
er Meade H. Mitchell in inviting
the highway authorities to the
meeting.
Three sectional highway maps
with paved roads drawn in red
were posted on a bulletin board
in the auditorium in front of
the audience and repeated refer
ence was made to a large blank
area in the center of which is
Aurelian Springs.
At one time during the dis
Records Broken
As State Fair
Comes to End
Raleigh, Oct. 23—(fP)— Atten
dance records were set and
broken during tne North Caro
lina State Fair's five-day run,
which ended tonight. Crowds
estimated at 100,000 poured out
today to take in the final per
formances of the midway and
grandstand shows including the
featured auto races, to top Fri
day's all-time high of 90,000.
Approximately 415,000 people
passed through the fairground
entrance during the week, accor
ding to Fair Manager J. S. Dor
ton. This is the largest attend
ance record ever racked up dur
ing State Fair Week.
Perfect fall weather kept the
fair rolling at the fast pace set
by President Truman’s visit on
opening day. A brief sprinkle
Friday night which failed to ev
en dampen the enthusiasm of
the crowd before the Georgia
Southern burlesque show, was
the only rain during the week.
Sweet Potato Looks
Like An Ice Cream
Cone, Grown Here
Another strange garden oddi
ty was brought to the Daily
Herald office yesterday after
noon.
This time it was a sweet po
tato. But what a sweet potato.
A guess at its weight is that it
weighs more than a pound.
But the weight of the potato
isn't to unusual.[ It's the shape
of the potato.
It looks like an ice cream
con*, complete with ice cream
and all on top of it.
The potato was grown on a
lot on Hoanok* Avenue, which
C. W. Hawthorne, who lives at
1101 Vh Roanoke avenue, gar
dsns*
Hawthorn* said he look the
potato into his house and his
wife said "Why. it looks like
an ice cream can*.'* U does,
too.
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