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President and Dewey Each See A Victory In Final Speeches; Truman Calls GOP Campaip “A Fake” Roanoke Ramblings ^ Some of the students which Carolina is minus this weekend are Richard Allsbrook, Kennetn Tilley, James Bridgeman, Frank Hawley.Clifton “Buddy” Braswell is visiting his mother this weekend, also. He’s a student at Washington, D. C.. . 0 Attending the Homecoming exercises at Wake Forest yester day, was Margaret Ann Ingram If for some reason or another there is noticed a slight decrease in the population of Florence, S. C.. . the obvious reason is that all the people there heard that Lola Cates, Bill Pace, Jr., Walter Shearin, Jr., Margaret Outland and Jean Kidd were #coming to spend the day today ... so they left town. Something new has been added —that something new is a po liceman to the police force of RoanokeRoanoke Rapids. . . he is W. T. “Bill Story, of Roanoke Park . . . Bill has been on the force about a week now and appears to be doing fine. Just, to let Vance Stewart know tha; the Vcilow Jax fans think be played a nice game Friday night and there wasn’t a one there that didn’t want to help him when he kept getting hurt—there was a most concern ed look on everyone’s face . . . and another person’s efforts which were appreciated were ^ those of Ann Grizzard ....if ^she doesn’t have a sore throat today it’s a miracle . . . It’s nice to see Richard Lynch getting about without h i s crutches, again ..Richard was hurt earlier in the season, and has just recently discarded his crutches. Home this weekend atfer hav ing gone for thirteen years is f i Carlton Shell. . . Carlton left Roanoke Rapids in 1935 to make his home in Charleston, S. C., and has not been back until yesterday . . . when he left he was unmarried and connected with the mills here. . . .Now he has three children and has a grocery business of his own. . . Mr. Shell said he just wanted to see how the city had pro still here, and he was surprised § to see how the city had pro gres*sed in so many ways .... Halifax County Voters Will Mark Ballots Carrying 58 Mantes in Tuesday's Election Rural Fire Truck Delivered for " Scotland Neck Scotland Neck, Oct. 30—Jack Batchelor, chairman of the Scot land Neck fire truck committee, said today a rural fire truck is expected to be delivered here for use in Scotland Neck and surrounding rural areas. Batchelor said the truck has been equipped and outfitted in Roanoke, Va., and will be sent here for use. Scotland Neck and surround ing territory is still seeking to raise the necessary $7,300 to purchase the truck, with $6,585 of the money already on hand. The movement to purchase a truck with a 500-gallon tank which could be used for fire fighting in rural communities was started in a meeting by farmers in the Scotland Neck town hall. Funds were raised for the purchase of a two-ton Chevrolet truck and it was sent to the Virginia city for complete equip ping. It is designated to be used in Scotland Neck and with in a radius of about ten miles from the town. * Local voters who enter the various polling places on Tues^ j day to cast their ballots in the I 1948 General Election will be rrofiffonted' by 58 names and four amendments on the four ballots ' they will receive when they go in to cast their votes. The bewildering array of na mes will be one of the largest slates of candidates to appear on local ballots in a number of years. They range from a choice among four party can didates for President and Vice President down to county offi cials for the voters’ own coun ty. For the first time in a long time the Presidential ballot will carry the names of four sets of candidates. In addition to the Democratic and Republican par ties, the the States’ Rights De mocratic and the Progressive parties will appear on North Carolina’s1 ballots for the first time in history. Both the latter parties won a right to appear on North Carolina votes after litigation. The state ticket for this year’s election has three parties, the Democratic, the Republican and the Progressive on it. The ticket bears the names of all the recognized candidates for North Carolina offices. Heading the ticket are the names of J. Melville Broughton, John A. Wilkinson and William T. Brown, all candidates for the U. S. Senate. Candidates for Governor are W Kerr Scott, George M. Pritchard and Mary Price. For Lieutenant Govern or the candidates are H. P. Tay lor, Kyle Hayes and Kenneth Harris. For Secretary of State only two candidates, Thad Eure, Democrat, and James V. Dock ery, Republican, appear on the ballot. Other races appear between Democrat Henry L. Bridges and Republican M. V Hickman for State Auditor; Democrat Bran don P. Hodges and Republican Ben L. Spence; Harry McMull an, Democrat, Herbert F. Sea well, Jr., Republican, and C. O. Pearson, Progressive, are seek ing the Attorney Genera! post; Buford T. Henderson, Republi can, is opposing Clyde A. Erwin, Democrat, for Superintendent of Public Instruction; D. S. Col trane, Democrat (short term), L. Y. Ballentine, Democrat (re gular term), Watt H. Gragg, Republican, and John W. Stubbs, Progressive, are running for Commissioner of Agriculture, William P. Hodges, Democrat, is opposed by Deems H. Clifton, Republican, for Commissioner of Insurance; Forrest H. Shu ford, Democrat, will be opposed by M. K. Harrill, Republican, as Commissioner of Labor; and Sam J. Erwin, Jr., Democrat, will be opposed by Republican Robert H. McNeil for As sociate Justice of the State Su preme Court. The S ond Congressional District offers a race be tween incumbent Democrat John H. Kerr, Republican J. H. Sat I terthwaite and Progressive Ro-1 bert Lathan. The other state ballot Tues day will list the four proposed amendments to the Constitution of the state of North Carolina with “for” and “against” spaces beside each. On the Halifax County ticket only two parties appear, the Democrats and the Progres sives. The only Progressive can didate is Robert D. Stewart of Edgecombe County, who is seek ing one of the two District seats in the State Senate. The Democratic nominees are Julian R. Allsbrook and L. H. Fountain for Senator; Joseph Branch for House of Represen tatives; Charles R. Daniel for Judge of Recorder’s Court; Ro bert C. Josey, III, for Solicitor of Recorder’s Court; Frank G. Wilson for Register of Deeds-; and D. G. Dickens, J. R. Wrenn, Meade H. Mitchell, R. Hunter Pope and C. S. Alexander for County Commissioners. Voters will not be able to com plain that they are given no choice of names to mark on the ballot Tuesday, the names are there in large numbers in the 1948 election. Tar Heels, Irish, Michigan Move Along in Grid Battles New York, Oct. 30—(/P)— North Carolina, Michigan and Notre Dame—the big three of 1948 college football—subdued stubborn rivals today and add l<ed to their gridiron reputations. Charlie Justice, North Caro-. lina’s great back, manufactured two touchdowns as his mates. sidetracked an aroused Tennes see outfit, 14 to 7, in the game that got most attention. It was Emil Jitko who was the hero as Notre Dame pulver ized a willing Navy crew, 41 to 7, for the South Bend Irish -team’s 24th game wikthout a de flfeat. It was Navy’s 11th straight defeat. But it was lady luck to whom Illinois fans point as the cul prit in Illinois’ 28 to 20 loss to Michigan. Dike Eddleman, the Olympic athlete in the losers’ lineup* dashed 94 yards for an - apparent touchdown only to rfja\r'‘- it called back for rules V JSoit Minutes later a Mich igan pas3 was ruled complete on f khe Illinois one-foot line for in terference. Thus the big tree came tijrough. Bui so did nearly all tl.eir brethren, in a day almost devoid of upsets. Georgia Tech spotted an alert Duke team an early touchdown and then turned loose a bevy of speedy backs who built up a 19 to 7 victory. Georgia belted Alamaba, 35 to 0, for the Tide’s ( /worst defeat in w. years. Ar my permitted Virginia Tech to scare but spilled the Southern ers, 49 to 7. California, its sights set on th3 Rose Bowl, won a cherished 13 to 7 victory over Southern California. Penn and Penn State had re latively easy times. The Quak ers crushed Washington and Lee, 40 to 7, while Penn State kept its two-year undefeated skein going with a 32 to 13 conquest of Colgate. Northwestern became the mid west’s No. 1 'ose Bowl candi date with a rugged 21 to 7 verdict over Ohio State. Doak Walker went 67 yards for one touchdown, scored an other himself, passed for a third and converted all three as Southern Methodist moved out in front cf the Southwest Con ference race with a 21 to 6 score over vaunted Texas. Harry Stuhldreher, Wisconsin coach, and his eleven were greeted with a “Yea, Harry” sign at the start of the second half of* the P dgers battle with Iowa at Iowa City. The team then had a 13 to 0 lead. But the sign was gone at the end of the fray. Iowa won, 19 to 13. Minnesota came from behind to defeat Indiana, 30 to 7. For the third straight week Columbia went down in the final minutes. This time Cornell got late tallies for a 20 to 13 decision. Dartmouth showed unexpect ed power in battering Yale, 41 to 14, and Harvard took a step on the comeback trail with a 20 to 13 verdict over Holy Cron. Mrs. Dawson Dies at Home Of Her Daughter Funeral services will be con ducted at three o’clock this aft ernoon from the First Metho dist Church for Mrs. Margaret Hedrick Dawson, 61, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Woodruff, at 508 Jackson street Friday night af ter a short illness. Mrs. Dawson moved to Roa noke Rapids about six weeks ago from Beaumont, Texas, to make her home with Mrs. Woodruff. Prior to that time she had made her home in the Texas city. Services this- afternoon will be conducted by the Rev. J. F. Her bert, pastor of 'the First Meth odist Church, and interment will be in Cedarwood cemetery. Mrs. Dawson is survived by her daughter; two sisters, Mrs. Lena Wilson of Eudora, Kansas, and Mrs. Alice Whinery of Ox ford, Kansas; and three broth ers,, A. T. of Strong City, Kan sas, B. B. of Ashland, Kansas, and C. O. Hedrick of Tulsa, Ok lahoma. Dog Makes Mystery Trip From Norway Dunellen , N. J., Oct.30— CAP) —The two-year-old shepherd collie Johan Jacobsen lelt be hind in Oslo, Norway, has come home to Dunellen, N. J., and nobody is quite sure how. The dog was found wandering on Long Island. N. Y., Sunday and was traced to Jacobsen by a collar tag which bore his name and home town. Littleton Negro Girl Jailed On Concealed Birth Count .uons curweii, 10, xauieionc ^egro girl, was jailed here late ast night on a charge of feloni >usly concealing the birth of a :hild, after district Solicitor Er lest R. Tyler had advised local jfficers to hold her under a $5, )00 bond on the charge. The young Negro girl, accord ng to investigating officers, ad ■nitted giving birth unattended Wednesday evening about six p’clock to a child which she said was illegitimate. She told offic ers the child lived only about two hours after it was born and said after it had died she wrap ped it up, carried it to a privy at the rear of her home near Littleton and dropped the in fant’s body into the privy. Officers said she was seen :arrying a package toward the outdoor toilet on Wednesday evening. Last night deputy sheriff E. L. Crawley of Littleton was told an infant’s body was in the privy. He notified Coroner Ru fus Britton of his finding and the infant’s body was retrieved, ft was that of a male infant weighing about eight pounds, and officers said it would be impossible to determine wheth er or not the child was still alive when it was placed in the privy. The girl was examined by Littleton and Roanoke Rapids doctors and found to be in good physical condition. Solicitor Tyler was called shortly before midnight at his home in Roxobel by Halifax County officers and told of their findings, and he advised them to place the girl under arrest and set a bond at $5,000 on the charge of concealing the birth from authorities. Officers were still conducting an investigation of the case to day. The solicitor told the local of ficers he did not deem an in quest necessary. Superior Court Concludes Trial Docket Friday Halifax, October 30,—Working until after dark to complete the trial docket, Judge Chester Mor ris completed a week’s criminal court in Halifax Superior Court here Friday evening. The court was adjourned short ly after six o’clock on Friday following a prolonged hearing of the case of S. E. Warren, charg ed with driving while drunk and reckless driving. After hearing all the evidence in the case, the jury returned a verdict of ac quittal in Warren’s favor. Leon C. Gilliland, Roanoke Ra ids youth, was placed on pro bation for five years under a which was suspended under the terms of the probation. Court authodities said here today that Gilliland entered a plea of guilty of larceny after he had been charged with breaking and en tering and larceny. A number of criminal actions which were originally slated for trial in the weeks’ criminal court were continued on the docket until the November mix ed term of court, which is sche duled to be held here on Nov emher 29, with Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids as presiding jurist. Court officials said at one time it was expected that the courl would be forced into a Saturdaj morning session in order to com plete the trial docket. A two day recess was taken by Judge Morris from Tuesday afternoor until Friday morning because o: business in Dare County which claimed his attention. Need A Heater For Cold Weather? Find One Here Everyone is preparing for the cold months ahetad. Have you thought seriously about heating your h le properly? Perhaps you need to have your home insulated.—maybe you need another heater. Our classified page offers many suggestions for your heating problems. There are times when you need something and need it quickly. The question then arises, "Where can I get it?" Most people in Roanoke Ra pids turn to the Herald clas sified ads when they have a need. Among the offerings that appear daily in these columns, almost anything me might need can be found. Next time you have a want ad, turn to the Classified ad page and see how much more quickly you will be able to fill It. Daniels Says Truman Deserves South’s Vote Raleigh, Oct. 30 — (JP)—Jona than Daniels, a secretary and advisor to President Truman for the last six weeks, declared to day “I do not think there has ever been a President who more deserved the support and confi dence of the South.” Daniels, who is editor of the pro-Democratic News and Ob-! server, concluded this week a six-weeks’ tour of duty in the White House at the request of the President. In a lengthy front-page arti-! cle appearing in tomorrow’s N&O, Daniels will have the fol lowing to say: ‘‘The important thing ... is that Harry Truman is a big enough man to handle the pro blems of America. The denial of this by the Republicans has been made in some respects, the central issue of the campaign. And oddly enough it is now be ing stressed by some of the same publications which describ ed him as the ‘most valuable’ man in Congress before he was nominated him vice president.” Local Hunter Hunts Squirrel Bags a Deer James Harris, Roanoke Rapids resident, went squirrel hunting Saturday morning and came home with a buck deer for his trouble. Neither Harris nor any of the four men who accompanied him had any reason to complain, however, because the party also brought back a total of 20 squirrels for their morning in addition to the deer. Harris said he and the deer were both surprised at each other when he was crouched in a clearing looking at some squir rels in a tree when he heard something which he said he thought was one of his hunt ing companions. The hunter said he looked around and saw a deer standing about 20 steps away. He said he was not equipped for deer hunting and had ex pected to shoot at nothing big ger than a squirrel, but he rais ed his 12-gauge shotgun loaded with Number Four shot and blazed away. He hit the deer with two shots and the animal toppled over dead to climax the morning’s hunt. The hunters, Harris, Lloyd Epps, Fletcher Ogburn, W. D. Freshwater and Pete Ferrell, said they were in Northampton County on the Roanoke River below Jackson for their Satur day hunt. $1500 Damage Caused By Fire Fire, which started from an overflowing oil heater, caused considerable damage estimated by Roanoke Rapids firemen at more than $1,500 at the home of Grady Brewer at 1023 Frank lin street early Saturday eve ning. Firemen answered the alarm at 5:48 and on their arrival found the house in flames froir the oil stove. They stayed or the scene until nearly seven o’ clock before the fire could b« extinguished when the oil stub bornly resisted the firemen’s ef forts. Most of the damage to th( Brewer home came from wate] and smoke, as the fire swep through the house destroying < lot of furniture. Dewey Pledges “Winning” Of World Peace New York, Oct. 30 — CAP) — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey closed his campaign for the presidency tonight with a pledge that win ning world peace “is the cause closest to our hearts.” Expressing confidence he will win Tuesday’s election, the Re publican nominee said in an ad dress prepared for delivery in Madison Square Garden at 9:30 P. M. EST and for broadcast (NBC) nationally: “This is the eve of victory.” The New York governor swung hard at the administra tion of his Democratic opponent, President Truman. “It has been divided against itself for so long,” Dewey de clared, “that it has forgotten th$ meaning of unity, and it never did know the meaning of teamwork or competency.” He said the Democratic Par ty has resorted to “desperate tactics” because it is “splintered and divided” and its own house is at the point of collapse.” He added: “By its shifts in policy our friends at the council tables for peace are left stunned and the work for peace is paralyzed.x xx ine nine nas tumc to uuiig these tragedies to an end.” Then, he said, “We want our sons and daughters to be able to plan their futures and live their lives without this over shadowing threat of another war. “That, is the cause that lies closest to our hearts tonight. That is the cause above all other causes to which our next national administration will be dedicated.” Dewey pledged to wage the peace “patiently and firmly with intense labor and a new devo tion.” He promised to “enlist for this momentous task Ameri cans of the highest order of competence and added: “We will follow strong, clear policies. The world will once again know where we stand and it will be the same every day. We shall be all out on the side of human freedom.” “We will work for peace ;hrough the United Nations and oy every honorable means wherever the peace is threat jned.” Flames Damage Weldon Home Weldon.—Fire of undetermin ed origin swept through the basement ~f the home of R. L. McGee on the Halifax Road here yesterday afternoon and completely charred the base ment, including the rafters. Weldon Fire Chief D. R. Med lin said there was no estimate of the damage, however he said damage was confined to the basement of the home and did not harm the living portion of the home except for smoke. Chief Medlin said he did not know the cause of the fire and said it may ^have been started from faulty wiring or from oil. The fi.emen went to the scene at 1:45 and fought fire for an hour with the truck’s booster pump until they could subdue the flames. The chief, his assistant, Roy Lewis, and firemen R. B. Parrish, Lum Ed wards, Olin Warren, Frank Con ner and A. W. Garner were the firemen who put out the fire Halloween Night Passes Quietly; Police Report Only Few Complaints Goblins ana wncnes paraaea last night for Halloween, but for the most part they were well-behaved, judging by the appearance of quiet Roanoke Rapids streets, unsoaped show windows and little activity on the part of law-enforcement of ficers. Police reported things were unusually quiet last night from the standpoint of Halloween pranks, saying they had receiv ed only a few complaints from residents who thought the shen anigans were getting out of hand. Both in the Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids business dis tricts there were only a few of the small fry to be seen parad ing up and down in their out landish cosumes, most of them looking more frightened than frightening. Many of the children had a chance to get a lot of Halloween out ot their system prior to the weeKena at a series oi parties which were held in the various schools and by various Sunday schools and other groups. The hailowed old custom oi ringing doorbells and running like rabbits when the house holder answers the door was ob served being practiced in some of the residential districts Sat urday, and small boys who de cided to dress in their mothers old skirt had a hard time run ning as fast as they wanted. False faces of every weire description imaginable shorn curiously over the tops of cos tumes that turned harmless chil dren into Spanish caballeros Chinese mandarins, cowboy and ghosts, and the slight toud of Jack-o-Lantem lights in vari ous windows of the city left n doubt in the minds of observer that another Halloween ha come to Roanoke Rapids an departed almost as peacefully a it had ccone. Truman Wraps iip Campaign in St. Louis St. Louis, Oct. 30 — (AP) — Shouting above the roar of a wild cheering crowd in his home state tonight, President Truman said he is “on the road to vic tory” despite all the efforts of character assassins” to ruin hi* standing with the people. It was a fighting, free-swing ing talk in which he virtually threw away remarks he had pre pared in advance for delivery, and it embraced attacks on what he called the “McCormick Patterson saboteurs” who he said conducted a “smear cam paign” against him. This “smear campaign,” he said, started in the McCormick Patterson newspapers imme diately after he submitted hi* first 21-point domestic program to Congress in the fall of 1945. He called the campaign “vile” and said the newspapers’ writ ers took it up and wrote criti cisms of him, not because they believed them “but because they were paid to do it.” The President was interrup ted repeatedly throughout his address by roars of approval from upward of 12,500 persons in Kiel Auditorium. They shouted “pour it on Har ry” as he went down the line with his attacks on the Repub lican-controlled 80th Congress. This time he called it a “do nothing idiot Congress.” As he “poured it on” waves of yells, whistling and screams of encouragement swept over the packed assembly which wel comed him home from a two months’ campaign covering more than 270 speeches, in ad dition to more than 70 speeches made in a pre-convention tour in Junp. Mr. Truman said he still fa vors his 21-point program and that “I’m still for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.” “Of all fake campaigns,” he said, “this campaign is the tops insofar as the Republican candi date for president is concerned.” He said Gov. Thomas E. Dewey won’t talk about the is sues “but he did let his foot slip when he endorsed that good-for-nothing 80th Congress.” The reason he couldn’t get the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill passed, Mr. Truman said, was because the “real estate lobby was at the rat-hole and would not let it pass.” Showers were falling as the President's special train pulled into St Louis, but they stopped a short whfle later. The streets from the station to the audito rium were lined with cheering crowds despite the wet weather. Mr. Truman took off his hat and waved and grinned at them. He got an ovation lasting well aver five minutes when he en tered the hall, and his intro duction by Gov. Phil M. Don nelly set off another roar of applsause. The President waved his arms for order, reminded the crowd his speech was being broadcast. He set off an outburst of “boos” when he denounced the i Taft-Hartley act. He set off another when he said his pro posed national health program had been described as “social ized medicine.” He talked sarcastically of those who earlier in the cam paign sang, “the Democrats can’t win.” He said 90 percent of the newspapers went along with the tune—that they were against him. He said he had made four previous campaigns in Missouri and never had a metropolitan paper for him, “and I licked them every time.” Sunday May Be A Cloudy Day By The Associated Press The forecast for Sunday for the Carolinas was partly cloudy and not much change in tem perature. The weatherman also said the current spell of mild weather apparently would continue for at least the next two days. There were no prospects for rain, either. Weather North Carolina — Fair to partly cloudy and mild Sun day and Monday, not quite so cool Sunday night. Patrolman Gets Chance Of Lifetime Revere, Mass.. Oct. 3(1— (AP) —The once in a lifetime chance to make me do that when I did write something 100 times came to a revere patrolman — but he passed it up. Patrolman Ralph D’Ambrosio stopped a speeding car yester ■ day and recognized the driver . as his grammar school teacher. “I should make, you write “it , pays to drive carefully’ 100 > times,” he told her. ‘‘You used i to mak me do that when I did . something wrong.” > D’Ambrosio quoted her as i saying she was "late for a safe* 1 ty meeting” when he asked why i she was hurrying. i That called lor a lecture and A* Cat A Traiii Hits Truck, Two Killed, Eleven In jured ' ■ —-—---. rmmm---ssrjaMji The engineer and fireman were killed and 11 persons were injured in this wreckage that resulted from a Pennsylvania Railroad train crashing into a steel-laden truck in a heavy fog near Uhrichsville, Ohio. At left foreground is the truck trailer cut in half. The locomotive and a baggage car were overturned, and three other cars were derailed. (AP Wirephoto).
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