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» French Hope Berlin Issue Can Be Settled By Conciliation BULLETIN! '* 1 r W«t, Fla., Not. IB— (/P)—President Truman said flatly today the United States will not resume four-power negotiations on Germany un til Soviet Russia lifts its Ber lin blockade. BULLETIN London, Nov. 16—(/P)—The t Soviet government declared to * day it still insists on taking up the whole question of Germany on any negotiations with the west on the Berlin crisis. Paris, Nov. 16—(/P)—A French government spokesman said to day France stands firmly with the United States and Britain a gainst negotiating with Soviet Russia under duress, but hopes C the Berlin issue can be solved by conciliation. The spokesman, Francois Mit terand, issued the statement fol lowing a cabinet meeting. Mit terand is the French Secretary of State for information. The cabinet approved the text of a note Foreign Minister Ro bert Schuman intends to send to Secretary General Trygve Lie and President H. V. Evcatt of 1 the United Nations in reply to their appeal last week for direct four power talks on Berlin. The government also circulat ed a statement denying recent suggestions in the French press that the foreign ministry, the premier’s office and the presi dent’s office were not in agree ment on the appeal for Berlin Foreign Ministers of the T’nit \ ed, States, Britain and France were to meet late today to draft coordinated replies to the letter*, according to TT. S., British and French official spokesmen. Mitterand emphasized to re porters after the French cabinet meeting that the exchange of let ters by Lie and Evat. on one hand and by the foreign mini ters on the other represents p. demonstration of willingness to | reach a solution of the blockade, which Russia imposed last June. There is no question, he said, of a text which would involve agreement to definite proposals. Leedy Resigns As Publisher Of The Herald ( Guy M. Leedy, for the pasl six months publisher anc general manager to the Roa noke Rapids Hearld and the Herald Printing Company, Inc., resigned effective today. James L. Wick has assumed active management of the com pany and will direct publica - tion of the daily and Sunday Herald. . - Leedy, former general man * ager of the Elizabeth City Dail> Advance and Eadio Station WG AI in Elizabeth City, said thal his plans for the future are in definite. Postal Receipts Here Are Higher Gross postal receipts, normal !■ ly considered to Be a a gooc business barometer, were high er during the month of October 1948, than they were a year ago Roanoke Rapids Postmaster E G. Shell said here today. ’!e reported that receipts dur ing the past month in the loca post office totaled $4,851.27. Foi October, 1947, 4 he post offic< here grossed $4,607.02. ^ Postmaster Shell said thes« I figures indicated merely post of fice business and did not in | elude bond purchase^ and othei ! post office business. Major King Jr. Is rv_JNow A Corporal F'JKUOKA, JAPAN, Octobe: Berth King of 234 Jeffersoi 25—Major King, Jr., sor of Mrs \ street, Roanoke Rapids, who ii (serving with the United State! | Air Force in Japan, was recent \ ly promoted to the rank of cor poral. The airman is s ving as i control tower operator in th< | Airways and Air Communica j tions Service Detachment 1955-1 | at the Ashiya Air Force base oi Kyushu, Japan. The AACS is ai agency of the Air Force whicl provides airways communica £ tions, navigational aids and ai; traffic control services to mili aircraft. $ Roanoke Ramblings "T Pa* Nanis When you can gc fishing and hook a bear, you’re either a good fisherman or the possessor of a pretty big imagination .and the title of a good fishermen is what should be attracned to Raiford Green, Leaborn Mills and his father, Will Mills . . . these three went to the Chowan River, with no thought of doing anything ex ecpt fishing. However, they did carry their guns with them, knowing there were bears in that area . . . When they were seated in their boat, probably dreaming up some tall tale about why they hadn’t brought any fish home witht them, they saw a bear looking inquisitively their way . . . Which one ac tually shbt him is not known by me, and at that time they possibly didn’t know either .. . but you can bet they were three proud fishermen when they arrived at their homes that even ing to display what they had “hooked” ... They didn’t get a single fish. A few of the college students who were home for the week end were Bill Hawkins, Charles Buffaloe of Chapel Hill, Frankie Rightmyer of a business college in Norfolk, Va., and Bear My rick of Hir,h Point. Congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mr*. Charles Hol loway of this city. .. they have announced the birth of their daughter, Marjorie Jane..who was born Friday, at the local hospital . . . Mrs. Hollowav is the former Miss Marjorie Fitts.. Mr. and Mrs John O. Mat thews have as their guests this week their daughter, Mrs. C. T. Weiland and two grandsons, John and Terry . .. Mrs. Wei - land, a residnet of Morehead City, has recently returned from Quantico, Virginia, where she visited with her husband, Major C. T. Weiland, ot the Marine Corps . .. she also attended the ! celebrations, observing the Marine Corps anniversary... Weldon P. T. A. Holds Meeting Weldon — The Weldon Parent Teachers Association held its regular meeting Monday after noon in the Weldon High School | Library at 3:30 o’clock with an pro^maMv 45 members present. I Mrs. R. P. Alien presided in the president’s cnair. The meet ' ing was called to order, the min 1 utes read and approved and a report from the standing com mittees made. The roll was called of the grades, with teach ers and parents standing for each grade. Miss Peele’s 8th Grade won the attendance award for the elementary school and Jes sie Parker’s room the award for the High School students. Following the business of the » association Mrs. W.A. Pierce, Jr., gave a most interesting and detail report of the Roanoke Rapids Parent Teachers meet ing. , . Mr. C. B. Thomas, superinten dent of Weldon Schools introduc ed the speaker for the afternoon, Dr. Robert F Young. Dr. Young spoke to the parents and teach ers on the facts of “Polio.” His address was very interesting and informative. Navy Pilot Walks Away From Flaming Crash Near Charlotte Charlotte, Nov. 16—(fP)—A Navy F4U Corsair fighter crash ed on a takeoff, skidded 300 yards and buned on Southern Railway tracks near here today. The pilot, sole occupant, was not injured. The plane burst Into flames as soon as it struck the tracks. Railway officials halted north and southbound trains along its double trunk lines until the de I bris could be cleared. The pilot, who was not iden tified, had spent the night at Morris Field and was resuming flight to Jacksonville, Fla., when ttya mishap occurred. C E STM A N P E 0 P L E S CAR—T Here Is the Volkswagen (people’s car) which Hitler promised Germans but never produced. It is being built at rate ot more than 2,000 monthly In Hannover plant. Most are for export. Germans can buy them, with official sanction for essential purposes, (or $1,590, Engine is In rear. Gasoline tank and luggage space are In front. Measles Cut Attendance At Schools Measles have cut into the at ;endance in the elementary schools of Roanoke Rapids dur ing the past week, according to 3ity School Superintendent I. E. Ready, however the incidence of the disease is ‘'not enough to be alarming”, he added. The city superintendent said figures available on total at grades for last week indicated that measles had cut attendance down to approximately 90 per cent as compared to the usual 96 or 97 per cent for this time of year normally. He said there was certainly nothing of a serious nature to the school system as a whole in the reports on measle, adding that the absences were hardly numerous enough to be consider ed epidemic. The Central School last week indicated the highest percentage of absences due to illness and Ready said much of it could be attributed to measles. At Cen tral School absences ran as high as 20 per cent and decreased in the other schools. He s*aid following the central School, the absences in other buildings tapered off with the Rosemary School, Vance Street Clara Hearne and the Sixth Grade in that order. Ready said this time of the year there is normally a high incidence of measles in the schools, adding that present in dications are that there is no cause for alarm. Cloudy, Rainy Weather Seen By The Associated Press Cloudy weather was predict ed for the Carolinas today, final ly breaking out into rain in the western portions tonight and oc casional light rain scattered over the states tomorrow. Warm temperatures were the prospect for today and tonight. It got down to 28 degrees in Asheville overnight, and 35 in Columbia, but warmer weather was the prediction for tonight. Weather North Carolina—Increasing cloudiness and continued warm today; considerable cloudiness ionigl and Wednesday with occasional light rain Wednes day beginning in west portion tonight; not much nge in temperatures except warmer tonight. Autoists Reminded Of Two Deadlines For Inspection Raleigh, Nov. 16—(AP)-Thf state motor vehicles department has reminded motorists of twc more mechanical inspectior deadlines coming up. All 1940 and 1942 model ve hides must be inspected by Not 30 and 1941 and 1949 models bj Dec; 31, says Arthur T. Moore head of the inspection program Moore said that through Oct ober, 646,330 vehicles had beer 164,000 still have to go through inspected. He added that about the state's 40 inspection lsnes. y Warren County Annual TB Seal Sale Will Be Headed By Harry Cohen Warrenton.—The county-wide distribution this week of posters bearing the message, “Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis,” and of brightly colored book marks fo. library books will re mind Warren county residents of the 1948 Christmas Seal Sale to be conducted from November 22 until Christmas. Harry Cohen will serve as Seal Sale Chairman. Work has gotten underway at the Association’s headquarters to make this forty-second annual seal sale the best ever. In this county, Mr. Cohen pointed out, the seal sale funds constitute the sole support of the Warren County Tuberculosis and Health Association and its tub erculosis control projects in 1949, which include Health Edu cation, Case Finding, and Reha blitation. Although the seal sale rush is on the other work does not stop, Mr. Cohen stated, and add ed that for quite a while there has been a large literature rack in the Warren County Commu nity Center, containing educa tional information. At the re cent Warren County Fair many people picked up reading mater ial from our booth and our sigh, “Get a Chest X-ray”, was greatly noticed. Our case finding work never ceases. Twenty people have been taken to Wilson for a chest X-ray since our clinic in September and others will con tinue to go-'wfee have come 1n contact with the disease, or who have been advised by their doc tor to have a chest X-ray. In the mean-time pl&ns are in the making to bring an X-ray mach ine back to Warren county in the spring. Rigid Crop Production Controls And Cash Subsidies Rejected By Grange Portland, Me., Nov. 16—(AP) —Proposals to use either rigid production crop controls or cash subsidies to keep farmers po sperous were rejected today by a National Grange convention committee. In a report to the farm orga nization meeting, the Grange a griculture committee declared full output by industry would do more than anything else to maintain farm prosperity. Failure of industry to keep pace with farm output was claimed to be the major cause of farm depressions. “The Grange believes,’* the report said, “that the so-called ’farm problem’ is in the main a result of the failure of in dustry to keep its output i n balance with the abundant out put of farms, and of the result ing failure of farm, prices to re main in proper balance with prices of other goods and serv ices.’’ The committee did not pro pose, however, the junking ol all federal farm-aid programs. It would keep price supports, but would use them chiefly as devices to help guide production away from surpluses and short ages. It would use them also tc prevent a ruinous collapse in prices. The committee urged that crop controls be used only as a “last resort” to combat sur pluses and low prices. The report, which will be act ed upon by the convention latei in the week, slapped at a cash subsidy plan advocated by J. W Fichter, Master of the O h i c Grange. Fletcher would do away witl all price supports. He would al low uncontrolled markets to se farm and food prices. If thos< prices failed to give farmers < fair income, the governmenl would pay the difference in sub sidies. | Drive For Memberships In Symphony ; Society Begins In Warren County Warrenton—The drive to se-‘ cure memberships in the North Carolina Symphony Society was launched here 'Hi Monday, Nov ember 15, by the Warrenton Symphony Society Committee. A membership which costs two-dollars, includes one junior ticket and the opportunity to at tend any concert the Symphony plays in any part of the state. The “Little Symphony” has arranged to appear in Warren ton in March 1949, in order to be here when good weather will be favorable, to a large atten dance at the concert. It is re called that when the orchestra appeared here in February of this year the musicians became sftowbound and were forced by weather conditions to remain here for several days. A member of the Warrenton Symphony Society Committee stated, “Under the direction of Benjamin Swali'i, the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra has become a distinguished in stitution and the significant con tributions it is making to the educational and cultural life of the state grows apparent with each passing year. Maybank’s Cost Of Beelection Is 58 Cents Washington, Nov. 16—(AP)— What price ^-election? 58 cents. That’s the amount U. S. Sena tor Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC named in his report of his elec tion campaign expenditures. The 58 cents was spent ii sending his two required report on campaign expenditures am contributions to the Secretary o the Senate by registered mail. He listed no contributions. Mas e ink may become head e the Senate banking committee He is second-ranking Democra on the committee, but the rank ing DemqMrat—Senator Wagne of New York—is ill. Maybank’* Republican oppo nent, J. Batea Gerald of Chat ! leston, reported total expend! | tures of $216.35, and no contri I buttons. Halifax District Scout Leaders Praised By Herbert In Address At Annual District Scout Dinner “We are all seekers after im mortality,” the Rev. J. F. Her bert told Halifax District Scout ers here last night, “and here is a way to obtain immortality by giving character to the boys of today who will be America’s men of tomorrow.” The Rev. Mr. Herbert, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Roanoke Rapids, spoke here last night at the annual banquet of the Halifax District, Boy Scouts of America, directing his re marks to the Scoutmaster pre sent. “Being a Scoutmaster is a hard task,” the speaker said, “It calls for a certain quality ol human character.” He said the Scoutmasters toda> are makins the finest contributions to the life of the Amerecan communitj He pointed out that Scoutmas ters work without compensatior but are rewardeu in the feelinf of dignity and an increased fait! in God and man. Shortly before <he Rev. Mr. Herbert’s talk, Slate senator Ju lian AUsbrook awarded an Eagle Scout pin to tne Halifax Dis trict’s newest Eagle Scout, Leslie Darrell (Sonny) Hines, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs-. D L. Hines of 501 Franklin street. Allsbrook S3id the achieve ment of the Eagit rank is to be regarded as the epitome of ac complishment for the Boy Scout. He gave the p*n tv» Mrs. Hines, who pinned it on her son’s uni form to the sustained applause j of the group of nearly 100 Scout ers, By Scouts. District leaders and their wives who attended the annual banquet at the high 1 school cafeteria ' Scout Dwight Elung and Red Garris took charge of the install ation ceremony in which lead ! ers for the District for the nev j year were installed in office. Or the recommendation of a nom I inating committee headed bj 1 Edwin Akers, John Hines as District chairmen, the Rev. Ed mund Berkeley as District vice chairman and i). E. Bennett as District commissioner were all unanimously aporoved for re-el ection. Other chairman for the Dis trict were also re-elected for the ccm'ng year. E. H. Fu’ler served as toast master for the evening and paid a tribute to tht Scoutmasters, present — ‘‘tne most important individuals in Scouting”- and introduced the Scoutmasters pre sent to the group D. E. Bennett District com missioner, reported on District accomplishments during the past year, and Sea Scout Bob Murray reported on the progress made by the Senior Scouts in the district. Miss Margaret Hines sang two numbers, Zeb Denny gave | the invocation and Rudolph Wa j ters led the group in a patriotic , song. Assault On Father Case Is Heard Percy Midgett was found guil ty of simple assault and disor derly conduct ?nd his brother Reginald, was acquitted in Mayor’s court here yesterday af ternoon by Mayor W. B. Alls brook. Both youths had been held over the weekend on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and the in fliction of serious personal in juries on warrants signed by their father, H. H. Midgett, vic tim of the alleged assault. Mayor Allsbrook imposed a prayer for judgment continued on the payment of costs and on condition that he remain of good behavior for 12 months on Percy, and warned the 25-year old defendant that his keeping out of trouble would be his own responsibility. Allsbrook said he believed the entire family quar rel started because Percy had tnn much to drink. Mrs. Midgett, mother of the youths, testified that her husband’s head was injured when he fell in the back yard of the Midgett home while he was “tussling” with Reginald after the younger son had taken a shotgun away from his father AUsbrook had Mrs. Midgett subpoenaed to testify after th« sons and father had given con flicting evidence on the witness stand. The mayor said he was trying to dispose cf the case in as fair manner as possible and did not want to work hardship on any oj the members of the family involved Percy admitted striking his father with his fist and said they had both hit each other. He said he left the home before his father and tils ether brother be came involved. AUsbrook said he could find no evidence that a deadly weapon had been employed at any time by either of the youths and pro nounced judgment on Percy Midgett on the lesser charge oJ simple assault. Sgt. Myrick Reburial Rites To Be Sunday The body of Sgt. Lawrence Myrick, son of Mr. and Mrs Russell Myrick of Roanoke Ra pids, will arriv- h re Friday foi reburial on Sunday. Sgt. Myrick was killed in ac tion in Itaiy on November 14 1944, at the age of 22. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Myrick home a' 225 Clinton Street and buria will be in Cedarwood Cemetey Full military rites will be ren dered by the honor guard of thi Veterans of Foreign Wars. Sgt. M. - ick is survived by hi: parents; two brothers, Mason anc Joseph E. Myrick; and three sis ters, Mrs. Lucille Lynch, Misi Julia My ick and Miss Nodim Myrick. American Troops In Japan To Eat Turkey Thanksgiving Tokyo, Nov. 16—(/P)—Ameri can occupation troops in Japai will eat Christmas turkey o i Thanksgiving | Their Thanksgiving birds wer held up by the maritime strik on the U. S. Pacific coast. . A. And P. Officials ; Visit Weldon Store , Weldon.—The southern divi s'on president of the Atlanti and Pacific Tea Company was i Weldon yesterday afternoo along with other officials c t the huge chain store organize . tion. t W. M. Beeler of Charlotte, ac - companied by district superir - endent R. C. H ghee of Raj eigh and Assistant Superintend ent E. D. McCai. of Goldsbori ■ inspected the local store. Bdbler said that the local stoi was very neat in appearance bi could use some repairs and n novations. Chinese Claim Major Victor Near Suchow; But Outcome In Doubt Nanking, No\j 16—(AP)—The Chinese government claimed a front tonight to climax a con fused day which still left the final outcome of the battle for the approach to 'Tanking in doubt, Pro - government newspapers flashed their buildings with red posters and exploded firecrack ers to call attention to placards announcing that the Communists had routed northesat of Suchow and were withdrawing North eastward. That news, circulated by the defense ministry’s official mili tary news agency, was in direct contrast to the generally ac - cepted reports from other sources that the government control of the whole Suchow area was ^ottering. The U.S. embassy warned some 7,000 Americans to get out of China now or risk "hazar dous conditions.” MUTawuiiwit ' •yuaoaiiiau uui lington denied reports that Suc haw had fallen or even was threatened with red capture. He told the Associated Press: “The City is firmly In our hands and the Reds are with drawing to the Northeastward.” The Koumintang Daily News, quoting a Chinese air force source, said • reconnaissance planes had spotted a general Communist withdrawal north - ward from the Suchow front. Neutral observers, however, continued to eye the reports with considerable reserve and plans went ahead fo evacuation of A merican civilians and some o thers. The government’s return to the regular rationing of rice has considerably eased the food pro blem. U. S. Economic Aid Director Roger Lapham arrived in Nanking today with Former Ambassador William C. Bullett, who is checking the Chinese si tuation for Congress. They lunched with U. S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart before ar - ranging for a meeting with Pre sident Chiang Kai-Shek. State Demos End Campaign With A Balance Of $5,693 Raleigh, Nov. 16—(JP)-— The North Carolina headquarter! of the Democratic national commit tee finished the political cam paign with a profit of $5,693.36. A financial report sent to Washington yesterday shows that the state office took in $6, 905.67 for the national com mittee and i -id out $1,212.31 for expenses. State Director of Finance John Larkins, Jr., of Trenton listed himself as the biggest contribu tor—an even $600. State Pecan Crop This Year Is Good Raleigh, N. C. Nov., 16—(AP) —You shouldn’t have trouble finding pecans for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. A North Carolina crop of 2,477, 000 pounds—exclusive of wild or seedling pecans—is forecast by the federal—state crop reporting r service. Last year’s crop was 1.734 000 Dounds. The 10-year [ average is 2,298,000 pounds. ; Princess Elizabeth i And Prince Are “Fine” . London, Nov. 16—(AP)— All 1 was reported well today with 1 Princess Elizabeth and her new son as relatives gathered to r peek at the two-day-old prince ■ who may be Britain’s next king. 1 Buckingham Palace spread this i news in a bulletin Issued by roy 9 al physicians. r "Princes Elizabeth has had a 9 good night and is making ex r client progress," said the re* f port issued at 11:15 a. m. (6:15 1 a.m., eat) "the infant prise con tinue to do well.’1 Planners To Begin Work On Rec Program Mr. and Mr». W. W. Pangburn of New York City will arrive in Roanoke Rapids Wednesday to start work on tne proposed re creation center and planned long-range recreation program, it was announced today by T. J. Davis, chairman of the Roanoke Rapids Recreation Commission. Mr. and Mrs Pangburn are being sent to Roanoke Rapids by Ellwood Allen, recreational planner, who recently signed contracts to execute long-range plans and designs and draw ings for the center. They will reside in the city for some time while they are en gaged in their work. Harriman May Get New Post Under Truman Washington, Nov. 16—(/P)— Speculation mounted today that W. Averell Harriman, the Mar shall Plan ambassador-at-large, may be dealt a more potent; hand in Pesident Truman’s new term. Lower echelons of the econo mic cooperation administration buzzed with reports that Harri man, a multi-millionaire and staunch Democratic party sup porter, might: 1. Replace Republican Paul G. Hoffman as ECA Administra tor. Harriman, as ECA’s special representative in Europe, now is No. 2 man in the recovery agency. 2. Or as rumored previously, become Secretary of State if and when George C. Marshall steps down as h has indicated he wishes to do. The State Depart ment, with Mr. Truman’s back ing, could make its influence felt in the otherwise independent Marshall plan operations. Harriman, Washington-bound from his Paris ECA headquart ers, was due to arrive today. One subordinate official was offering to bet that by the end of January—that is, after Mr. Truman’s inauguration— Harri man “will be running ECA, in name or in fact.” Working against that theory, however, is an apparently wide spread feeling on Capitol Hill that the European recovery ef fort has been operating satisfac torily under Hoffman’s leader BUip. Nevertheless, a sharp presiden tial rebuff to Hoffman came t( light yesterday. Mr. Truman, it was learned has suggested to Hoffman tha he reverse dne of his basic po licy decisions—a two-and-a-haL month old order ending govern ment grain buying on Decern ber 1 and returning the whea and cdm expot trade to pri ; vate channels. 1 State Nurses’ Group . Secretary Will s Interview Graduates It was announced today b; Mrs. Carlee B. Jenkins, coun seling service secretary, tha Miss Helen Peeler of Raleigh associate executive secretar , and councelor of the Nort [ Carolina Nurses Associatlor , will be in Roanoke Rapids o ( December 1 for interviews wit . graduate nurses in this area. Mrs. Jenkins said Miss Peelc . will be at the Rdanoke Rapid . Hospital from 10:30 a. m. unt . 4:30 p. m. to offer advice o . new phases of nursing and 1 i, offer placement counsel to an nurse in the area who wishes 1 e consult with ner. Miss Peel< t will also speak to members < - the training classes at tha loci hospital. <
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