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34th Year—No 46 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Thursday, November 4,1948 5c Daily; 10c Sunday •1 _ ' effect of blocIT^—m lector of Berlin .,,™ * , „ 7 ~ Thc empty rail yard at Halensee Station in the western sector or Berlin was one of citys busiest yards before the Russians blockaded the sons. Junior Red Cross Enrolling Members 1 Here In Move To Reactivate Local Group The Junior Kea cross, inactive in Roanoke Rapids and vicinity since 1945, hfigan its reactiva tion here tocfey when a drive . started to enroll members for the organization from among the approximately 4,000 students in 18 schools covered by the local ; chapter of the Junior Red Cross, j f Mrs. Kirkwood Adams, who ; with Mrs. John Dunn and Mrs. < Frank Neal constitute the local Junior Red Cross Committee, said an intensive two-weeks’ en rollment period will start today to institute a number of activi ties disigned to teach local boys and girls the value of service to others. A working organization has al ready been set up by the Junior f Red Cross Committee in most of the schools and teacher-spon sors have agreed to serve in most in coordinating the Red Cross program among the child ren in the schools and in inter preting the program to other teachers. Some of the teacher-sponsors already agreeing to accept the ,tw*c are Miss Omara Danile ^ „ntral School. Mrs. G. E. p Brown at Vance Street School, Miss Margaret Hines at Clara Hearne School, Miss Marjorie Cannon at Rosemary School Mrs. Ben Israel in the Sixth Grade building, Miss Vernie Eddens and Miss Martha Rob Cherry in Roanoke Rapids High School ; Mrs. Garland Myes and Miss Hilda Nell Quinn at William R. 1 Davie School; and Miss M. A. Austin, Mrs. L. W. Lewis and Mrs. M. A. Wilkins at John Armstrong Chaloner School. Mrs. Adams said Mrs. Bessie Shields Wilder, county supervi sor of Negro schools, will con duct the enrollment campaign in Quakey, Piney Grove, London, Everett, Print, Edgewood, Airlie Goldwine and Saint Luke Schools. Mrs. Adams said the Com - mittee hopes later in the year ^ that teacher-sponsors will b e named in their units to provide leadership for the full Junior Red Cross program. The reactivtion this week will ■nark the first time since Miss -lara Hearne, who was chair nan of the Junior Red Cross for i number of years, was forced :o resign in 1945 because of pre sure of duties as elementary schools supervisor. After Miss learne’s resignation the com pete program in the schools in loanoke Rapids and vicinity be anie inactive. Junior Red Cross was es :ablished in the United States fr .917 after requests by leading educators1 and interested parents n 1947 its membership through >ut the world had grown to 19, >00.000. The program of the runior Red Cross is designed ‘to help guide boys and girls nto the ways of democratic citizenship and to learn how tc 'ulfill their responsibilities t c society. Committee members said the activities in the schools in the Roanoke Rapids district will be cased on the Junior Red Cross crinciple of service to others md will include community ser vice projects* such as making ray and table favors, scrap - cooks and puzzles fdr patients n hospitzls and county home nmates, sponsoring instructions md forest fire provention pro grams, first aid, home nursing md certified Red Cross courses 'or high school students. Na ;ional projects include making articles for veterans hospitals , contributing to he national child en’s fund, making magazine covers for blind children and articles for crippled children’s nstitutions. On an internation al level members fill education al gift boxes for children over seas and exchange school cor respondence albums designed tc \merican community life t c ’oreign children who reciprocate vith similar albums*. Committee members thanked Miss Mary Hicks, I. £. Ready, I. W. Talley, W. Henry Over nan, C. U. Williams and D. P Lewis for the interest they have shown and for their efforts ir lelping them to reorganize the unior Red Cross in Roanoke Rapids and vicinity. Weldon Junior Chamber Of Commerce Heads Chief Kitchen Discuss Driving Weldon.—The Junior Cham ber of Commerce held a supper T of bar-b-cued chicken on Tues ^ day night at the Boy Scout Hut in Weldon. An address by Chief of Police, P. R. Kitchen, of Weldon on “Pre-Driving Age Education for Children in High School,” high lighted the regular meeting of the Weldon Junior Chamber of Commerce after the supper. Chief Kitchen’s address was very interesting and timely, in _ as much as the month of Nov * ember is being devoted to SAFETY by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce. President Wick Draper presid ed at the meeting and announc ea that a safety roster pertain ing to bicycle safety would be distributed in all the rooms in Weldon. Also efforts are being made to obtain fluor escent tape to be distributed • free of charge to all bicycle 'Sliwners to help make bicycles more visible at night. The club endorsed the efforts of the Aurelian Spring Commu nity to obtain better roads in community and the secre V'ry was instructed to write a letter to the chairman of the Road Committee offering any help that the Weldon Junior Chamber of Commerce could ender. 0 Additional plans were made or the dance to be held at the Weldon High bchooi Lrym nasium on Friday night, Nov ember 26th, with Royce Stoenei and his well-known orchestra furnishing the music. Alex Lassiter was welcomed as a new member of the club and the following guests were recognized and welcomed by the president: Fred Wast, Vincenl Wyche, Ed Williford, Johr Henry Harris and Rudolph Creel. Wanta Free Ticket To The Show? Read This Item Do you want a free ticket to the movies here in Roanoke Rapids? There's a good chance that you may get one. On the classified page in the Daily Herald two names of people residing in the city will appear starling tomorrow. The names are being taken from the city directory. If your namj is printed in the classified columns, all you have to do to get a free ticket to the current picture showing at a Roanoke Rapids theatre is to stop by the Herald office and pick up your ticket. Read the classified columns today, besides the free tickets, you'll find many bargains of fered in the ads._. U. S. Asks No Sanctions In Palestine War Paris, Nov. 4—(AP)—T h e United States asked the Security Council today to delete re ferences to sanctions from a British-Chinese Palestine pro - posal directed mainly at Israel. The resolution, introduced Oct. 28, provided for economic and peace in the Holy Land. Short ly after it was presented, a re liable informant said the United States would back it. Later, however, other informants said President Truman had interven ed to change the American de legation’s position. The proposal was referred to a security council subcommittee, a step some sources said was intended to get the question out of the way until after the U. S. elections. ' Dr. Philip C. Jessup of the U. S. delegation proposed today an amendment enabling the council to consider action under chapter l seven of the charter. That char j ter sets out what action the council might take “in respect j to threats to the peace, breaches I of the peace and acts of aggres j sion.” Rural Overseas Program To Be Mapped Tuesday Halifax — On Tuesday nights Nov. 9th at 7:30 a meeting will be held in the Court House at Halifax to discuss the Christian Rural Overseas Program. A representative from the State office of this organization will be at this meeting to explain j this program in detail. The Christian Rural Overseas Program which is being desig nated as CROP is a Nation Wide Program sponsored in North Carolina by the N. C. Council of Churches. The purpose of this program is to give the rural people of America an opportun ity to contribute a portion of their food and othe< farm pro ducts for overseas relief espec ially for the hungry children in the war torn areas of Europe. Italy, Greece and China. While, this program is being sponsored by the churches they will need the help of everyone to make it a suces-s. Donations that are collected will be distributed in foreign countries by church representatives in those count ries in order to make the dis tribution where the food will do the most good. All persons in terested in this program, both white and colored are invited to attend this meeting in Hali fax Tuesday night, Nov. 9. urnisii newspapers Reflect Joy Over Election Results London, Nov. 4 —(AP)— Bri tain’s joy over the results of the American election was re flected today in banner head lines in London newspapers. Some samples: “The states go wild about H-a-r-r-y” (Mirror). “Harry’s secret weapon was people” (News Chronicle). “Truman did it all single handed” (Mail). “He ain’t no Churchill but what the heck” (Express). “Now Truman has it all his own way” (Graphic)*' 4 t Roanoke Ramblings By Pat Nani* Deepest sympathy is extended to the famly of Mr. Stealing J Harris, in regard to his death on Tuesday. Mr. Harris- passed away after a lingering illness of several months. Visiting here Monday and ruesday was Walter “Bear” My rick of High Point College— ‘Rear”, a ’48 graduate of th€ Roanoke Rapids High School, is a freshman at High Point. . hi was visiting his- parents, Mr and Mrs. W. R. Myrick, of Mon roe St. Wishes for a happy birth day, today, go to Batbara Coop sr. and litt1® Judith Lyles . . .al so, congratulations go to De lores Davis, who celebrated hei birthday yesterday — here’i hoping all three of you havi many, many more just as nic< as this one. ... James Barnes has returned t< the naval base in San Diego California, at which he has beei stationed. . . . Jimmy has beei spending a fifteen day leavi here with his parents, Mr. am Mrs. T. C. Barnes and his bro ther, Joseph Barnes, of Wilson Most sincere sympathy is ex pressed to the family of Mr Thomas Cooke, who passed a way Tuesday, after a brie illness.... * The many friends of Mrs. Dor othy Coppedge will be glad tc know that she is no longer c patient in the Roanoke Rapid! Hospital and her condition i: reported as greatly improved.. William Taylor has returnee to his home, after having at tended a business school in Chi cago, Illinois, for six months.. Bill plans to accept a positior in Norfolk, Va., effective or December 15. . .until that time he will remaii* at the home o! his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T Taylor.... The wife of a farmer sold her surplus butter to a grocer in a near-by town. On one occasior the grocer said, “Your buttei was underweight last week.’ “Now fancy that,” said Mrs Farmer. “Baby mislaid my weight that day so I used the pound of sugar you sold me.”. . Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Jernigar and their small son, Val, have returned to their home, after having visited Mr. Jernigan’s fa ther, David Jernigan, of Oak field, Ohio.,.. Sees Statehood For Alaska As Election Result Anchorage, Aaska, Nov. 4— (AP)—Gov. Ernest Gruening o1 Alaska says the election “assur ed” the territory of statehood at the next session of Congress “The most gratifying aspecl of the election from the Alaska point of view,’’ he said in a telephone interview yesterday, “is that Alaska is assured state hood at the next session of Con gres. “The Democratic Party pled ged immediate statehood in its platform. President Truman has already urged it. Congress anc the party are now bound tc carry out the pledge.” Shanghai Paper’s Election Comment Shanghai, Nov. 4 —(/P)— The American owned Evening Post-Mercury led off its edit orial comment on the Americar election today with this line: “They laughed when Harry S Truman sat down at the pianc figuring the Missouri Waltz wit! one finger was his limit.” The editorial concluded a reference to Chinese hopes foi more American aid with “Goc helps him who helps himself. Look at Harry.” 88 To 88 In Eighty-Eight Eighty Eight, Ky., Nov. 4—(/P —Eighty-eighters split theii vote in Tuesday’s presidents election. The unofficial tabulation ir this south-central Kentuckj town gave Tru an 88, Dewej 98. < Battered Republicans Gird For 1 wo- Yeat Fight In Congress Against What Many Think Will Be Effort To Revive New Deal Truman's Way Stronger On His Program Washington, Nov. 4—(JP)— President Truman found the way open today in the Demo cratic overthrow of GOP con gressional rule to launch a new phase of the New Deal—the “Truman Deal” of far-reaching social and economic legislation. Vying with this controversial program in the new, 81st con gress convening January 3 will be great international problems dealing with the cold war a gainst Russian communism. But the big questions from the domestic standpoint are these: Will Mr. Truman ask Con gress a third time to grant him standby power to control prices and wages and ration scare nec essities? Will he ask Congress to in crease taxes, to avoid the bud get deficit that threatens as a result of last spring’s tax cut and stepped-up defense spend ing? Minnesota voters defeated i Rep. Harold Knutson, author of . the GOP tax-cutting bill enact . ed over the President’s veto af ter a bitter battle. Knutson has been in Congress 32 years. Mr. Truman’s 21-point postwar domestic program already has been rejected almost bodily by 1 both the Democratic 79th Con gress and the Republican 80th. 1 That program was first sub *■ mitted on Sept. 6, 1945. But the voters on Tuesday gave Mr. Truman even more numerical power on Capitol Hill . than he was bequeathed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Latest re . turns indicated this congression ; al lineup: senate—04 Democrats; 42 Re publicans (the 80th Congress makeup is 51 Republicans; 45 Democrats. When FDR died in 1945 the Senate was made up of 56 Democrats, 38 Republicans and 1 minor party with one va cancy.) House—260 Democrats, 174 Re publicans, 1 American-Labor. (The GOP in the present Con gress has 245 Rouse seats, the Democrats 185 and the American Labor Party 2. In 1945 the di vision was Democrats 242, Re publicans 190, two minor parties and one vacancy.) Electoral Vote Count Gives Truman 304 Washington, Nov. 4—(JP) With about 94 per cent of the vote counted, President Truman had won or appeared assured of victory in 28 states with a to tal of 304 electoral votes. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey seem ed certain to carry 16 states with 189 electoral votes, 77 short of the 266 needed to cap ture the presidency. On the basis of incomplete re turns at 9:30 a. m., EST, today, only two states—California and against the president. And in both states, Mr. Truman’s lead appeared sufficient to give him their combined 29 electoral votes. With 3,027 of California’s 16, 802 precincts unreported Mr. Truman had 1,533,153 votes to Dewey’s 1,475,223. California has 25 electoral votes. In Idaho, with 59 of the state’s 834 precincts unreported Mr. Truman led 105,395 to 9'\502. The only state now in the Dewey column which conceiv ably could shift to Mr. Truman is Indiana with 13 electoral votes. With 967 of the state's 4, 056 precincts still unreported Dewey held a lead of 773,260 to 765,963. In popular vote, returns from 122,349 of the country’s 135,864 voting units gave Mr. Truman 22,288,519, Dewey 20,420,065. Henry A. Wallace, the Progres sive Party candidate, had 1.030, 781 votes nad J. Strom Thur mond, the State’s Rights can didate 864,303. On the basis of incomplete re i turns Thurmond, the Governor ; °f South Carolina, carried four states—Alabama, Louisiana, Mis sissippi and South Carolina, [ with a total of 38 electoral votes. Prices Soar In Shanghai Shanghai, Nov. 4—(AP)— It was just like old times in Shang hai today. Prices, thawed out from the levels at which the government froze them in August, soared. Bank interest rates were 75 per cent a month; department store prices leaped 300 per cent, hotel rates 200 per cent, dairy products 450 per cent, bakeries 400 per cent, butchers 700 per cent, and rice 480 per cent. V Motor Vehicle Budget Request For Next Two Years Is $6,153,955 zvaieign, nov. *—(.at;— ine State’s Motor Vehicles depart ment today put in a request for substantially increased funds for its operations in the coming biennium. Motor Vehicles Commissioner Landon C. Rosser appeared be fore the advisory budget com mission to ask for an appropria- ! tion of $6,340,977 for 1949-50 and $6,153,955 for 1950-51. Sitting with the commission which will make recommenda tions to the 1949 general as sembly were Governor Cherry and Governor-Elect W. Kerr Scott. In addition to these funds, Rosser asked for increased ap propriations for two self-sup porting divisions of his depart ment. The inspections division request was $1,320,476 for the first year of the biennium and $1,215,476 for the second com pared with $520,802 and $930,069 being spent this biennium. An appropriation of $781,820 for each year of the biennium was requested for the drivers’ li cense and highway safety divi sion compared with $491,752 spent last year and $628,390 this year. x\usaei suiu uie luuus wuuiu be used to provide for a 25 per cent boost in salaries, to employ 139 new workers and to in crease mileage and travel al lowance. The new workers would include 91 in the inspect ion division to man 11 new in spection lanes and 10 additional radio operators for the highway patrol. The State Bureau of Investi gation asked for $230,439 next year and $217,540 the following year compared with $109,849 spent last year and $113,615 be ing spent this year. Part of the funds would be used to employ eight new agents, including two principal agents to be stationed one in the east and one in the west, two senior investigators to be stationed at North Wilkesboro and Fayetteville, and four junior investigators to be stationed at Sylva, Shelby, Burlington and Rocky Monnt. The State Library Commission asked that the appropriation for state aid to libraries be boosted to $500,000 each year of the biennium. The commission spent $274,409 last year and is spend ing $275,000 this year. Other agencies heard this morning included Secretary of State, Attorney General and State library. Soviet Rejects Western Atomic Energy Plan Paris, Nov. 4—(AP)—Russia rejected today the western plan for control of atomic energy, calling it fanastic and unreal. Andrei Y. Vishinsky, leading the Soviet bloc s bitter closing fight, told the United Nations General Assembly the atomic bomb can be answered with a tomic bombs and weapons of other kinds. He asserted the United States does not want international a tomic control and demanded that the delegates adopt the Soviet plan. Hector McNeil of Brituin pleaded with Visihinsky not to reject the western plan merely because it was ‘novel” ideas on state sovereignty. But Vishin sky repeated the Russian argu ment that the majority proposal would invade the sovereign! rights of states. Pollsters Seek Answers For Election Upset New York, Nov. 4—(/P)—The poll takers were st 11 combing through statistics today-try ing to find out why their figures , misled them into forecasting the election defeat of President Truman. Latest comment from one of the country’s major public op inion researchers came last night from Elmo Roper, direct or of the fortune magazine poll. “I don’t know why I was wrong,” he said “I could not have been more wrong,” said Roper. “The thing that bothers me most is that at this moment I don’t know why I was wrong. But I certainty propose to find out.” He suggested several “Possi bilities” that might have caused the mistake. normally high 15 per cent don't know vote we received last aug ust did not distribute equally to both major candidates as it has in the past, but that this time it all went to Truman” Or it could have been, he add ed, “That the labor vote, brought out to the polls’ more nuietlv but more efficiently this time, turned the tables.” “Or it might be that, as we found out in a poll done late in the campaign, the people are strongly pro-new deal and per haps they see the objectives of the Roosevelt program imperil ed,” he said. “Perhaps, but I don’t know.” Earlier, Dr. George Gallup, whose Ameican institute of pub lic opinion predicted Dewey would get 4©.6 per cent of the vote and Mr. Truman 4 .8 per cent, said he believed an analy sis of voting statistics would re veal the reason for the error. Court Upholds Conviction Of Rev. L. J. Davis Raleigh, Nov. 4—(JP)— A former Dunn Orphanage super intendent must serve a two-year term on a morals charge, the State Supreme Court has ruled. In a 4-3 decision, the court yesterday upheld the conviction of the Rev. Lonnie J. Davis on a charge of fornication and adul tery with Lola Mae Reeves, a ward of the institution. The girl was 14 at the time of the offense. Davis was convicted last June in Harnett Superior Court. Pre viously he had won acquittal on a charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under 16, but Judge Henry Stevens ordered him re-arrested on a bench warrant after ex pressing sharp criticism on the jurv. The Reeves girl testified tht* Davis had intimate relations with her several times in 1947 while he was superintendent of the Free Will Baptist Orphan age at Dunn. She did not con test a charge of fornication and adultery against herself. In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Davis’ attorneys argued her testimony was incompetent under the statute of fornication and adultery which says that “the admissions or confessions of one shall not be received against the other.” Associate Judge William A. Devin wrote the majority o pinion of the court, which said the girl was not making a con fession or admission, since she was not on trial. State Democrats See Dreams Come True As A Result Of The Election Raleigh, Nov. 4— (AP)— North Carolina Democrats saw their dreams begin to come true to day. Superior Judge Wilson War - lick of Newton, whose nomina tion as federal judge was not confirmed by a Republican se nate during the summer, ap - peared sure of the job. Rep. R. L. Doughton, veteran legislator from the Ninth Dis* trict, undoubtedly will resume the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee: and Rep. Harold Cooley of the Fourth Dis trict moves up to the chairman ship of the Argiculture Com mittee. The Democratic sweep of Tuesday also put two other Tar Heels in position to move up. Rep. Graham A Barden of the Third District will become se cond-ranking majority member of the Education and Labor Committee and Rep. John H. Kerr of the second district will be third ranking majority mem ♦ ber of the Appropriations com Warlick, long on the state bench, jumped back into the picture in a post-election state ment by Senator Clyde R. Hoey plums to be handed out, said he would place Warlick’s name in nomination upon the recon vening of congress. A proposed constitutional a - mendment to increase the pay of legislators continued to see-saw. Returns from 979 of 1,959 pre cincts gave 126,068 votes for the amendment and 124,311 against. In numerous precincts, count ing of the amendments vote was postponed pending the official county canvasses. One to permit a majority vote to carry special ' elections, in stead of a count against regi stration, was safely ahead. Thq electorate apparently, however, had turned down proposals to in crease debt limits of state, coun ties and cities governments and to increase tax levies for general fund purposes. Truman To Carry Out Party Plans Washington, Nov. 4—(VP)—Re publicans closed their shattered ranks today for a two-year fight in Congress against a certain ef fort by President Truman to modernize the new deal. Mr. Truman returns to Wash ington and a welcome-home celebration tomorrow the hottest article in American politics, as the result of his upset victory over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. He will be off Sunday for a two-week breathing spell at Key West, v Fla. When he comes back, it will be time to shape up the legis lative program which he prom ised last night will be based on the Democratic Party plat form. Mr. Truman told a home-town victory celebration in Independ ence, Mo., he wants every citi zen to help him carry out his “tremendous responsibility for the peace and wefare of the world.” “I am going to do the very best I can to carry out that Democratic platform as I prom ised to do in my speeches a round the country,” he said. Besides efforts toward win ning a lasting peace, the plat form pledged such things at home as (1) curbs on “Repub lican inflation,” (2) “comprehen sive” housing legislation and (3) tax reduction “whenever it is possible to do without unbal ancing the nation’s economy.” The platform also called for (1) repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, (2) a 75-cent an hour mini mum wage to replace the pre sent 40-cent figure, (3) extension of social security coverage, (4) a national health program, (5) federal aid to education, (8) a farm price support program, (7) repeal of the oleoitaxes, and (8) strengthening o|' civil rights. Election - chastened Republi cans won’t oppose all of those. In fact, Dewey was for some | of them. The Republican leadership there will remain the same, with Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Mass.) bossing the House min ority and Senator Robert A. Taft (Ohio) continuing to run things pretty much on the Re publican side of the Senate. Taft shrugged off the election results with the observation that they proved it is almost impossible “to put an adminis tration out of office at the very peak of a prosperity boom.” Taft and Martin are likely to figure that the battered GOP's best chance for a comeback in 1950 rests with making Mr. Tru man look bad on his campaign promises. Now his party has control by an apparent 260 to 174 margin over the Republicans in the house (there is one minor party member) and a certain 54 to 42 edge in the Senate. Whether Mr. Truman can get much more in the way of legis lation out of such a Democratic controlled Congress remains to be seen. Southern Democrats who hive never been too enthusiastic about some of his policies will be back in the saddle as chair men of many of the important committees. They may have a new re spect for Mr. Truman as m po litical windmill who can chop down the opposition at the bal lot boxes. But a lot of them think the president carried Southern states simply because he was the Democratic candidate and not because—for instance— he advocated repeal of the Taft Hartley act. The States’ Rights party, headed by Gov. J. Strom Thur mond of South Carolina, served notice it will continue its fight against the president’s civil rights program. Thurmond won four states— South Carolina, Mississippi, Ala bama and Louisiana. But Mr. Truman demonstrated that the Democrats still can win even a close election without the Solid South. Cooler Weather Seen Tomorrow BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The weather bureau said a virtual cloudburst hit Elizabeth City, early today. More than three and a hall inches ol rain were reported in the six hours ended at 7:30 a.m Raleigh had 3 01 inches in the 24 hours ended the same time. The Carolinas forecast was partly cloudy and warm today and tonight, with showers in eastern portions today and over the states tonight. Showers and cooler wee the i prediction lor tnmnnrmr.
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