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■ _ _ ■ ---- - commissioners Vote Funds For John Armstrong Chaloner School New Property Valuation To ^e Used 1950 Halifax—Nov. 1, The Halifax County Commissioners in session * here this morning voted to lend the county board of education $6,000 to be used for the John Chaloner School sanitary facili ties and decided to use the pro posed revaluation of property for tax purposes in 1950 rather than 1949. In a long discussion the com missioners took the stand that property valuation in the county at present is not equitable and that a qualization is needed. Commissioner John Davis of Enfield moved that the revalua tion be used for tax purposes in 1950 instead of 1949. Davis pointed out that to get the pro perty reassessed and the books setup to take care of the new valuation would take sometime and he suggested that rather than rush into the matter suf ficient time be allowed to have ’ it done correctly. The motion was passed. The actual time for the be ginning of the reassessing o f property throughout the entire county will be worked out by the commissioners and the com pany which will do the revaluing. The action on the loan to the county board of education came after the commissioners redis cussed ‘ a request made by the 1 Roanoke Rapids School board at the October meeting for $12,000 with which to build sanitary fa ilicties at the Chaloner School. The commissioners voted to lend the county board of educa tion $6,000 to be used for the construction of the facilities and to be taken from the capital out lay fund. The additional $6,000 would be placed in next year’s capital outlay fund budget. The situation at Chaloner School was described as acute and health officials had pointed out that something must be done in a hurry. The action this morning providese that septic tanks and a water line be built at the school. The commissioners were to draw a jury for the November term of Superior Court during the afternoon session. .Chest Fund Is Now At $11,548.24 The Rev. John Walker, chair man of the roanoke Rapids Community Chest reported to day that as of Saturday the campaign for 1$4,375 had reach ed a total of 11,548.24 and he predicted that the campaign would go “over the top’$’ as 60on as all reports are in. Walker said that several of the workers reported that their totals wee not complete and that indications were that the goal would be reached by the end of the week, if not before. He urged all persons who have not contributed to do so within the next few days. Walker expressed appreciat ion to the people of Roanoke Rapids for the fine cooperation that the workers have received in their campaign for funds. Weather North Carolina — Moatly cloudy and not ao warm today with occaalonal light ihowara aast portion; conaldarabla cloudinaaa and mild tonight and Tuaaday with acaliarad light ihowara txirema wait portion- Tueeday. Russian Soldiers Are Blamed For Slavinc American ECA Official Vienna, Nov. 1—(AP)—Four Russian soldiers were blamed today for bludgeoning an Ameri can offi cial to death and sav agely beating his Austrian girl companion. Irving Ross, 38, an official here of the Economic Coopera tion Administration, was found dead early yesterday in his a 1 bandoned automobile in the So viet sctor of Vienna. Anna Sutkenina Ross’ com panion, told Austrian police she and Ross were riding in the So soldiers stopped them near viet sector when four Russian the South railway station. Two of the Russians tried to enter the car, she said, and when Ross feasted, they beat him over the jfZad with their rifle butts. * Austrian police officials said today they had orders from district Russian headquarters that no one be allowed to visit Miss Sutkenina in Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital. This applied to personal visits and "all police investigators." The American Provost Mar shal said a request for permiss ;on for U.S. investigators to s -isit her already had been sent ' o the Russians This is a -mal procedure, he said, in uses in which one ocupyiw power wishes to interview some one in the zone of anotherc occu pier. U.S. Army investigators said “there are many questions tc which we lack answers,” inclu ding a motive for the vicioui beatings. Unofficial American source: said Miss Sutkenina was the last of a number of persons Ros: was driving home from a Sat urday night party. One theory American investi gators are considering if that Miss Sutkenina, described bj Austrian police as an Austrian may be a Russian native ii Austria as a dispiaeed person. An' Austrian police official de scribed the slaying as "the most brutal I have ever seen.” Po lice said Ross’ skull had beer crushed by blows and that hi: body bore wounds indicating h< had be bayonetted. The cai was spattered with blood. Miss Sutkenina told polic: she jumped from the car wher the soldiers attacked Ross. Sh: was seized, however, beaten anc forced back into the automobile Later she jumped from the cai again or was thrown out. Aus trian police found her and tool her to a hospital where the doc tors said she had suffered a Skull fracture. > " Roanoke Ramblings By PAT NANTZ Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Harris oi Roanoke Rapids attended the one-hundredth anniversary oi Roberts Chapel Baptist Church at Pendleton, N. C., Sunday. There were approximately 100C attendants from N. C. and Vir ginia, at the morning service Eight of the former pastors oi the church were there, along with the entire fifth generation of the Stevenson family. The worship service lasted from 9:3d until 4:30 o’clock. Robert Burton, who has been stationed in Norfolk, Ve., is home on a few day3 leave — Robert has been assigned to a ship and will return there— he is spending his leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Burton, of Monroe St. Seeing the sights of the south . . . and those are the sights of North Carolina, too. . . . Mr and Mrs. J. R. Carver and Mr Carver’s father, Colin F. Car ver, all of Toledo, Ohio, are spending some time in N. C., seeing the things for which the south is famous. They visited in Roanoke Rapids over the week end with Mrs. Carver's sister, Mrs. Nancy Hawkins. The Car ver’s are quoted as saying they were told to spend their time in the Tar Heel State, if they really wanted to find the south ern atmosphere. . . . u was ratner a rough game played Sunday afternoon by the Roanoke Rapids Volunteers and the Richmond Rockets — they should be called the Richmond Ruffiese . . . according to the Roanoke Rapids' coach, ■•Flip’' Edmondson, several of the local boys were slightly injured and two of them were carried tc the hospital for treatment . , they were Ernest Smith, whc is now displaying a taped chest and Dan Davis, who 11 up one on Ernest, by having his arm in a sling. Also, “Dor.d. le-bug” Hedgepeth had hii shoulder dislocated twice during the game, by some ambition! player—but they did manage casualties and ail, to hold tht game at a tie score of 6-6. . . Deepest sympathy is extended to Mrs. Harvey Woodruff, of this city, in regard to the recenl death of her mother, Mrs Mar garet Dawson. Election Day May Be Wet BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A forecast of rain for parts of the Carolinas today and to morrow may affect the size oi the vote in the general election. In past elections rain has di minished the anticipated vote total, particularly in rural areas. Pay Of State Textile Workers Is Reported Up Raleigh, Nov. 1—(AP)—A 6.1 percent gain in the average hourly earnings of Tar Hill tex tile workers between Mid-July and Mid-September has been re ported by the State Depart ment of Labor. Average weekly earnings in creased 5.2 percent ip the same period-from $38.78 to $40.8C — the report said. The percent age difference in weekly and hourly earnings increases was due, it added, to a shorter aver age work week. Candidates Ail Confident Of Victory By The Associated Press Election eve — as usual— finds the major presidential candidates confident of vic tory. President Truman, sjveaking in St. Louis Saturday night, said the people, through the Democratic Party, "are going to win this election." Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, told a New York City audience it was the "eve of victory" foe the GOP. Truman has predicted a vote of 60,000,000. He says a heavy vote "is always good news for the Democratic Party." Herbert Brownell, Jr., GOP campaign manager, looks for a 52,000,000 turnout with a margin of at least 3,000,000 for Dewey. Gov J. Strom Thurmond, States' Rights Candidate, pre dicted his ticket will receive "millions of votes" and pre vent either Truman or Dewey from enacting an anti-job dis crimination law. Henry Wallace, describing the 1948 campaign as only one Battle in a long war, says that regardless of the outcome his Progressive Party will fight on. Israeli Troops In Control Of North Palestine Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 1—(AP) —Israeli troops were in full con trol of Northern Palestine today. United Nations observers said they had crossed the border into Lebanon. The Jews said a smashing two-day offensive had cleared all Arab forces from the Galilee area, driving the remnants of the Arab “liberation army” of Fawzi Pasha A1 Kaukji across the Lebanese border. For the first time in recent weeks, an Israeli spokesman re ported last night “all is quiet on all fronts.” » ———————— Clara Heame Study Group Time Changed The Clara Heame School Par ent Teacher Association Study Course will be held at the school this week from 3:15 to 3:45 as follows: Monday, Mrs. J. F. Herbert will speak on “Child training for the Busy Mother.” Tuesday, The Rev. Edmund Berkeley will talk on Hero Wor ship, wise or unwise and those radio comic-book clues”. Wednesday, Mrs. W. R. Ste vens will address the group on “Quarreling among children”. Thursday, Mrs. I. E. Ready will talk on “Lesson trouble and how to interpret report cards.” State GOP Sees Vietory In House Race. Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 1—(AP) —No matter how Tar I' els vote in tomorrow's general election, North Carolina will have at least two new congressmen. Republican leaders are predict ing that in addition there will be "one or more" new Repre sentatives bearing the GOF stamp. The state is certain to have two new congressmen because two of the present delegation are not seeking reelection, Rep. John H. Folger of Mt. Airy in the Fifth District and Rep. J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville in the seventh. Republican leaders say their chances of breaking into North Carolina's solidly Democratic re presentation in congress are bet ter in the Eightn, Ninth and Tenth district—particularly in the Tenth. Democratic obserbers concede that the voting will be close in these three districts, but they are predicting that Democratic incumbents will be reelected , in all three districts. Navy’s Life Insurance’ Fleet ■ 11.1- —— ■ — — - - ■ ■ ----- - ■ _ Here's pari of the 406 ships in the U. S. Navy's Pacific Reserve Fleet as they look now, several years after they were put in mothballs by "pickling" and cocooning." in San Diego. Calif. Two thousand men of the -Sam Diego Naral Station are busy repairing, maintaining and in some cases, preparing to "de-cocoon" varioui vessels as a test of the preservation methods. (AP Wirephoto). Year 1928 Strong In Minds Of State'S Political Leaders On Eve Of Election aj Tiie Associated Press The year 1928 was strong in the minds of North Carolina Democrats and Republicans to day, with the day of decision in the 1948 political campaign at hand. Tomorrow the people of the state will give the final verdict in the most intensive—and con fusing-campaign the State has seen in the 20 years since 1923. They’ll write the answer on the general election ballots which they’ll cast between 6:30 a. m. and 6:30 p. m. in the state’s 1,959 precincts. The year 1928 looms large be cause it was then that reoel lious Democrats turned from their presidential nominee, Al fred E. Smith, and helped give the state’s electoral vote to Re publican Herbert Hoover. That year also the State sent two Republicans to Congress. In 1948, heartened by dissen sion in Democratic ranks over President Truman’s civil rights proposals, GOP leaders have put forth unusual campaign efforts in hopes that they can swing the state s electoral vote from Mr. Truman to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Another factor in the new po litical look in the state is the presence on the ballot, for the first time since 1932, of tickets other than then traditional demo cratic and republican slates. The drain of votes which these two new parties—States Rights Democrats and Progres sives—will take from the old line partiees is expected to be felt more by the Democrats than by the Republicans. The States’ Rights Democrats are offering only one state- the presidential ticket of Gov. J. Strom Thurmond and Gov. Fielding Wright. The Progres sives, in addition to offering Henry A. Wallace for President and Senator Glen H. Taylor for Vice President, are running candidates for Congress and some State offices. Observers generally agree, however, that the real race for the State’s 14 electoral votes will be between the Democrats will be close. For today’s windup of the campaign, the Republicans have called in Harold E. Stas sen, former Minnesota governor and one of the top candidates for the GOP presidential nom ination in pre-convention figur ing, three appearances in the state. He was scheduled to arrive at Charlotte by plane at 1:27 p. m. and to go by motorcade to Lexington and Salisbury for brief speeches in the afternoon. He will deliver his principal ad dress at 8:30 p. m. at the Meck lenburg county courthouse in Charlotte. The speech will be broadcast. Kerr Scott, Democratic nom inee for governor, will sound the Democrats’ closing note v/ith a statewide radio broad cast from Ralaign at 7:30 o’ clock tonight. Scott’s Republican opponent, George M. Pritchard, closed his drive with a speech at a rally at Marshall' Saturday. Final bids will be made to night by the Democratic and Republican candidates for the U. S. Senate. North Carolina Voters Will Decide Fate of Four Proposed Amendments North Carolina voters on lues day will be given an opportun ity not only to cast their ballot; for the candidates of their choici but will have a chance to voti on four proposed amendment; to the North Carolina Constitu tion, changes which may be o great importance to the state a a whole. The four issues on which vot ing will be done are the Follow ing: (1) an amendment for fix iflg the salaries of members o the General Assembly at $1,20 instead of the present $600 am increasing the compensation fo special sessions; (2) an amend ment designed to remove tin debt limitation on the state coun ties and municipalitiees for nec essary expenses; (3) an amend ment for increasing the amoun of total State and county ta: which may be levied on proper ty by changing the limitatioi from fifteen cents on the $10 valuation to twenty-five cents (4) ah amendment for determin ing the results of special elec tions by a majority of the voti cast. The first amendment is aimei at increasing the amount of sal ary allowed to legislators dur ing the General Assembly am is the first change in compen sation since 1928 At presen the legislators receive $600 pe session, while presiding officer are allowed $700. It has beei said that with the present higl cost of living legislators canno afford to attend General Assem bly sessions without taking mon ey out of their pockets to live. A number of legislators, and recently Governor-nominee W. Kerr Scott, have made the state ment that the small salary of fered the men who serve in the General Assembly has cost the State the services of a num ber of competent men who just cannot afford to enter public life for the compensation offer ed. The debt limitation amend f ment is designed to come to the > rescue of counties which have L been confronted with inadequate revenue -in the face of steadily increasing costs. Under present constitutional statute, the State and counties are limited in creat ing debt in excess of two-thirds of the debt reduction during the preceding fiscal period with out a vote of the people, except ■ in certain specific instances. i For example, this county can > not extend its debt limit beyond ; two-thirds of the debt reduction ■ last year. The principal change ■ would eliminate the two-thirds ■ provision, allowing no limit on the amount the State, county L or municipality could become ■ indebted in a certain year, how-; ■ ever they still will be unable' l to contract debt, pledge their j ■ faith, loan their credit or levy t taxes for other than necessary! * expenses without the approval : of a vote of the people i Under the proposed amend i ment the limfc for taxation t would be extended to twenty - five cents en the $100 valua • tion, however the State*! share will still be limited to five cents of the amount, leaving the coun ties with at least twenty cents. North Carolina has not levied a general property tax for its general fund except to share in a small percentage of in tangible tax collections admin istered by the State since 1937. For that reason the 15-cent levy has been used by the counties and in all likelihood the entire 25-cent levy could be used by the counties if the amendment is approved in Tuesday’s elect ion. Under the present Constitu tional provisions, no county or municipality may incur any debt, pledge its faith or levy any taxes, except for “neces sary expenses” except through special elections wherein a ma jority of the registered voters approve the issue. A number of issues in the past have been approved by those voting but have been de feated because those who voted did not constitute a majority of the voters registered. Actually, the voting method made the re gistered voters who did not go to the polls cast a vote against the measure up for considera tion. If the proposed amendment is approved, only those who actua lly vote on an issue will be coun ted, regardless of the registra tion, and a majority of votes actually cast will decide an is sue. All the amendments up for consideration are concerned Senate, Congress Races Will Be Major Battles BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Harry S. Truman and Thomas Edmund Dewey mim to the fork in the presidential trail today. Tomorrow the people will beckon one of them on. The Democrat who holds the White House lease sad the Republican who holds high hope of breaking it planned only the customary get out and vote appeals for tonight’s windup to a long and exhausting campaign. Halifax Polling Places Halifax County's seventeen polling places will open to morrow morning at 6:30 and remain open until 6:30 pan. The seventeen polling plac es and the registrate and place in which the ballots will be cast are as follows: Butierwood, C. E. Brewer, registrar, Aurelian Springs School; Conocanara, J. R. Ed. mondson, Tillery; Enfield, Walter Tignor, Town Hall; Faucetts, H. O. Hux, Darling ton School; Halifax, W. T. Stephenson, Old Clerk's of fice; Hollister, Mrs. B. C. Hamlet, Qualls Store; Kehu kee, C. H. Leggett, Jr., Hob good! Littleton, O. L. Currin, R. W. Thornton's 'fice; Pal myra, Mrs. D. B. Harrison, Everett's Store; • Ringwood, M. E. Cousins, Ringwood school house; Roanoke Rapids, No. 1, Julian W. Medlin, Boy Scout Hut; Roanoke Rapids, No. 2, C. B. Camp, Fire Sta tion Roanoke Rapids No. 3, H. E. Dobbins, Rosemary School; Roanoke Rapids, No. 4, Hannibal Shearin, Mc Daniels Service Station; Rose neath, H. C. Bass, Cotton's Store; Scotland Neck, W. A. Walston, Community House and Weldon, Thomas S. Tur ner, high school gymnasium. Littleton man Loses Hand In Hunting Mishap Eldridge DeLoatch, Negro o Littleton, was admitted to thi Roanoke Rapids Hospital thi morning about 8:45 a.m. suffer ing from a severe gunsho wound in his right hand. He told hospital attaches hi had gone hunting this momini and set his gun down on thi ground and it accidentally dis charged and the pellets hit hin in the hand. Doctors at the hospital founc it necessary to amputate th< hand. n *. i n n Capitol Square Scribe Sees State Giving Truman A Small Majority And Remaining In Democratic Column ny Lynn nisoet RALEIGH, November 1 North Carolina will give a clear though narrow, majority to the regular Democratic Truman— Barkley presidential ticket; wil elect the regular Democratic nominee for all state offices by approximately three-to-two ma jorities; will return to the na tional congress a completely Democratic delegation, and wil hold Republican membership ir the state house of representa tives to twenty or less. That prediction made on elec tion eve is based on informatior obtained from personal visits tc all sections of the state and in terviews with people from every county during the past sixty days, much of it double-check ed by telephone or letter withir the past week. The total vote will be the lar gest ever cast in the state, i Qpnntn rtf (hi« (Ipnartmpnt havi acurcately gaged sentiment Chances are rated slim for i vote in excess of 900,000 despiti efforts of party workers to pusl a million. The western half o the state will almost certainnl; break all voting records, but thi east has shown inclination 11 by-pass the general election ti as great—perhaps greater—ed tent than usual. Two years agi the first congressional distric voted 11,201 votes in the genera election for congress, while th twelfth district with comparabl voted 72,221. In 1944, latest pre sidential year, the first distric voted 36,238 while the twelftl came through with 81,007. The twelfth, eleventh, tent' and ninth districts are expectei to break all voting records ii 1948. Because of some disaffec tion with the national platforr there is probability of liRhte than normal vote in the east It won’t affect election of th congressmen but may affect th rest of the ticket. Three congressmen—Deane with matters of prime impoi and municipalities and the d< cision as to whether or not an or all of the proposals will h approved or rejected is left 1 the voter when he casts his ba lot in Tuesday’s general elei l tion. Depending on how those pleas are heeded—and the wea ther—upwards of 50,000,000 citi zens will visit the polls. They will decide, among other things, which party will control the next Congress—and especially the Senate. For Dewey it is a second try —and the first time the Repub lican party had left its banner in the hands of a defeated can didate. The New York Governor lost a 3,596,000 popular vote decision to “The Champ” In 1944. But Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fourth term victory in the electoral college was a whopping 432 to 99. For Truman it is an uphill race to win his own right the mantle that fell upon him—as he put it—with "the whole weight of the moon and stars and all the planets” when Roosevelt died April 12, 1945. From the heights of popularity in the months that followed, Truman had to put down rebel lion in his own party last sum mer. He was not completely suc cessful. ) But the President stoutly dis putes the poll takers who show Dewey far in the lead. Even wawusui, UlC VUM?B HC Will 1OS0 in the South to States’ Rights Democrat J. Strom Thurmond and elsewhere to Progressive Party Candidate Henry Wallace, Truman insisted in his campaign windup that he is going to win. Dewey went to his Pawling, N. Y. farm to rest until he re turns to New York late today to vote and await the outcome. Truman went on home to Inde pendence, Mo. He will cast his ballot and follow the returns there, but only until an early bedtime. , While the presidency la the ; big issue tomorrow, the Senate , battle commands nearly as much attention. The Republicans, who smash ed 11 years of Democratic rule : of Congress in the 1B48 off year elections now hold the hand in the Senate by only a 51 to 45 vote margin, Thirty-two seats are at stake. And in 11 pivotal states the race are so close that politicians do not rule out the possibility of an unprecedented 48 to 48 tie. w/wLXBuvuii aim uunes—wui nave very narrow margins and Bul winkle can barely be called “safe”, though chances favor e lection of Democrats in all four of these close districts. The presidential picture is more muddled. Resentment a- ■ gainst President Truman which ocasioned real concern imme diately following the Philadele phia convention has materially lessened. The Wallace Progres sives have never been osasider ed a real threat in this state, and the States Rights or Dixie crat movement failed to achieve the importance its promoters hoped. Desperate efforts to re vive waning interest in the move ment during the past few days have apparently failed. Effect of the Dixiecrats has been to encourage some unenthusiastic . Democrats to stay at home, and ; some independents to vote for , Dewey. Few observers will be surprised if the presidential to i tal vote falls’ twenty-to twenty , five thousand below the totals for , the state ticket. That was the ; case in 1928, but in every sub . sequent election the presidential : totals have ex ceded the vote i for governor. , Taking into acount all factors . ana basea on a total vote ot , 900,000, the presidential candi t dates will probably come 1 through with these approximate . standings: Truman, 440,000 to , 450,000 (49 to 50 percent); De . wey, 390,000 to 400,000 (about 44 t percent); Thurmond, 50,000 to 60 i 0 (about six percent), and Wal lace' whatever is left—in no cate i more than 9,00 or one percent l of the total. i A few people with whom these . figures have been checked think , the Truman percentage too low, r both Dewey and Thurmond too , high. A much larger number e think the Truman estimate far ; too high and Thurmond way be low his probably strength. A , group of seven newspaper men ! . in a hotel room Friday night - made separate estimates and - when compared they ranged f from a Dewax plurality of JT 6 000 to * Tniman plurality a 40,000. That indicates how 0 - guess work and prejudice into the business of < probable dactiao
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