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ROANOKE RAPIDS Bai lu Hcralà ^ ■ , ν iilh-Yeai^—No. 58 Roanoke Rapid», N. C., Thursday, November Hi 194B Sr irb· SSnr w Chief Reports Auto Pilfering Has Begun "People ought to be warne λ that it has startc. again," Polic Chief T. J. Davis said here toda> The chief said he was refer ring to a wave of thievery c packages of pat Iced automobiles He said the local police have al ready received a number of com plaints about having had thei cars pilfered while they wer parked. Pie said the holiday shoppinj season usually brines out a rasl ,1 of similar theft reports, ant warned that shoppers who pil· packages in their cars then gi off and leave them unlocked an only begging for trouble. Davis warned all drivers no to leave parcels in their auto mobiles at all whenever it is pos sible to avoid it. lie said, how ever, people should not leavt anything in their cars and leav« the automobile unlocked. H( I said people who leave unlocked cars or who leav·» the switch keys in their car are asking foi trouble. VFW Auxiliary State Officials Here Friday Mrs. Alberta Varner. state ^ president of the Woman's Auxili ^ ary of the· Veteran's of Foreign Wars, and Mrs. Bessie Hyman, senior vice-president of the Auxi liary will be guesrr of the Wo man's Auxiliary of the Veteran's of Foreign Wars at a meeting of the Third District a'the V. F. W. Home at 1037 Hamilton Street, Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock. Mrs. Ν. T. Jones, local president announced today. * The following towns comprising the Third District will be repre sented; Wilson, Rocky Mount, Norlina Warrcnton, Hoanoke Rapids and Louirourg. Refreshment committee for the occasion will ■ be Mesdames Hilda Richardson, Anne , Mae Reynolds, Louise Smith, Lula Bell Brown, Stella Wilson and Ν. T. Jones. The purpose of,the meeting is ^ to clect new district officers for ^k/4 Third District. ™ Ail members are invited to be present. Weldon Jaycees Hear Reavis Weldon.—A regular meeting of the Weldon Junior Chamber of Commerce way held Thursday vl night at the Scout Hut with Pre sident Wick Draoer presiding. Potrolman R. J. Reavis of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol gave a short talk on Safe ty and Law Enforcement. He emphasised the facr that law en forcement is only as good as the people would let ?t be. Final plans were made for the dance to be held November 26th at the Weldon Higl School Gym I nasium, featuring the music of Royce Stoener with Skeets Morris as vocalist. At the dance a 1949 Ford sedan will be auc tioned off. The Jaycees voted to be the Weldon sponsor of the North Carolina Symphony for the com ing year, along with the Roa nne Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce. I The club also voted to sponsor Φ again* the Christmas · Party for j children on December 17th with | the Weldon Merchants Associa- j tion as(a co-sponsor. Vincent Bridgers was welcom-1 ed as aj guest and Jerry Elliot and Fred West were welcomed to the qlub as new members. | AutogiTuck Are ttamaged ι» In Aowlent An autdfttobile driven by Mrs. j Ottis J. Hfenolds and pickup \ truck operate&^bv P. D. Medlin, Air Force private from Weldon home on leave, * were badly danaged in a coUisfen1 yesterday afternoon about 4·45 in, the 300 block of Roanoke Avenue. Acording to a report of , the ; acident turned in to theJocal: police this morning the Reynolds ! #car was struck from the rear by ι the pickup truck damaging the fenders and luggage compart ment door of the c?r and smash- · ing the fenders, gril' and radia tor of the truck. 1 Police were no* advised of the ; accident of the time of its oc- î durance and made no investiga- ] tion until it was reported to them < by Medlin's father 4ΛΙ« Supplies Pile Up On. Strike-Bound Waterfront ΐΜΜΠι- αι . ι This airview of the waterfront and railroa d yards at Jersey City, Ν. (J., shows piles of ex ! port-bound supplies which could not ' be loaded ο η ships because of the AFL longshoremen's strike. ' j New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer says he has received assurance from union that food andi. [ fuel supplies * will » not be affected by the strike which has tied up East Coast ports· - (AP j · Wirepholo). ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT ' NANTZ !l ! By rat Nant* John Crutchfield, Jr., a fresh man at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New «York, will make his first trip home since he entered school in September. He is a '47 graduate « of the local high school, and was many times the winner in poster and art contests—John's artistic abi lities were recognized by every one ... he is studying com mercial art at the institute. John is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Crutchfield, Sr., of Hamil ton street . . . Congratulations are •l in order for Mrs. H. G. Perkinson, who celebrated her sixty-sixth birth day on Tuesday. . . Everyone has been talking about ihe new record which has become popular, by Spike Jones. It is, "All I Want For Christmas are My Two Front Teeth." and it is possibly Vance Stewart's theme song, now—Vance was the one who scattered those teeth on the Greenville gridiron Friday night at the football game . . . and speaking of football I 'have a few pedictions as to the outcome of the Jackets' last conference game, which will be played at Tarboro to morrow night, .those putting the Jax over the Tarboro team are Wallace Harps, Harry Har ding, Christine Jernigan, Char les Joyner and Blanche King, by at least two touchdowns.... and M. B. Walker and Edith Wade predict that Tarboro will beat Roanoke Rapids by not more than one touchdown, anyway, I know we all are wishing them loads of luck. . . It has been announced that Marvin Woodard will coach the Varsity Jax in basketball, this season . . . Mr. Woodard has been [ teaching physical ·· education and Spanish at the high school for two years, and last year was the coach of the Jay-Vees . . . He is planning to start his boys in-practice immediately after the football games are, all play ed .. . and'everyone is look ing, forward to a winning, team this season, under his direction. Miss Betty Gates and Mise Virginia Gates, teachers at the Vance street school, are to be commended for the arttactive -display they have in the win dow of Matthew's Drug Com pany ... in observance of Na tional Book Week . · . they have as their center a. globe . of the world, with tapers ex tending to books representing the countries of the world—the idea is to get us lo recognise the fact that we could bettet understand our neighbors by reading about their habits, ways of life, industries, and . beliefs . · . Teachers get all kinds of an swers from their industrious students and just an exa.Aple of this could be when Mr. Robert Hollar asked one of his physics students to explain . why a per son would weigh more at the north pole, than at the equator —Jesse Harrell, Jr., was the un fortunate one to be called upon for the answer, so he promptly answered, "Because they have on more clothes there," . . . well, you can't say we don't use our common sense . . c even if we don't know all offthe laws of physics . . . "I want you to' understand," said Young Spender, "that I got my money by hard work." "Why, I thought it was left to you by your rich uncle!" said his com rade. "So it was; but I had td work to get it away from the lawyers . . Rosemary Methodist Clmrch Women's Annual Bazaar To Be Held Friday The Rosemary Methodist church will hold bazaar Fri day of this week at their church in the Sunday School rooms, be ginning at 10:00 a. m.. which will last all day or until they are sold out. A irkey dinner will be served by the ladies for the bazaar îcrcjs the street in the dining' lall of the Rosemary Baptist :hurch at 5:00. The wu^en of the church have jeen working for the past year :oward theii* annual bazaar, vhich i their main project for he year. Handiwork of all kinds, cakes, )ies, candies, cut flowers, potted )lans, Christmas cards, Christ nas wrappings, and a general ine of stationery will be offer id for sale. A notion counter will display îovel gifts for Christmas. There vill be a cold drink bar also. Tickets for the turkey dinner lave been on sale fc two weeks nd expectations are they will .11 be sold as it ie common :i jwl.dge about what good ooks the ladies are. Those serving on committees are as follows: decorating, Mrs. C. H. Speight, chairman withî Mesdames R. L. George and Lloyd Sandlin: pricing commit- ι tee, Mrs. S. M. ' Thompson, chair man with Mesdames Winifred' Taylor and Wiley King; Sales women for the bazaar Mesdames Exum Matthews, Sarah Hux, David Camp, B. Boyd, and .Ver non Daughtrey: Pick-up com mittee for car con ibutors, Mesdames Dewitt King, David Camp, J. E. Buck, Vernon Daughtrey, Sam Butler and H. E. Cameron. Mrs. G. C. Redford is chairman for cooking the turkeys: Plate committee, Hiss Ruth Glover, chairman, General chairman for the dinner, Mrs. Vernon Daugh trey; chairman of ticket sale, the W. S. C. S. president, Mrs. Lil-. lian Kinker: Serving chairman : for dinner, Mrs. C. S. Thomp son. TWO-TONE JO: APPEALS NEW YORK (U.P.)—William Spangehl, 37, told police he stole .·, a patrol car while on a binge ! because he "likes the two-tone 1 color job." 1 -AFL Enters Politics On Big Scale '' Cincinnati, Nov. ,· 18—(/Ρ)—The American Federation.·/ of > Labor has entered politics on t· a per manent basis. Delegates to · the Federation's 67th'annual convention voted yesterday to collect 10 r cents from each of its.nearly 7,500,000 ! members to finance a propa gnada and education drive of I "labor's league" for political edu cation." The delegates acted as league members because the Taft-Hartley Act forbids -direct contributions. The drive, with-$750,000 work ing capital, will be centered in the nation's 110,000 polling pre cincts during the next 14 months. The move was approved unani mously after Secretary-Treasurer George Meany told the dele gates that 172 · league-backed candidates had been elected to the House of Representatives, Nov. 2, and 106 classed as "un friendly" were defeated. Meany said it was a "tremen dous victory" and t the "tide of reaction has been decisively turned." He cautioned, however, that "we should ·, not become overconfident χχ .· χ and forget our political responsibilities." Final Rites For T. A. Cooper Jr. To Be Sunday Weldon — Funeral and rebur ial services for T-5 Thomas A. : Cooper, Jr., of Weldon, who was . killed in action in Italy on July 6, 1944, will be :· held ' Sunday from the home of his parents. He was boin in Weldon on Jan uary 24, 1917, and was a gradu ate of Weldon High. School. He was a member of ' the Weldon lodge of the Woodmen of the World before entering the ar my, where ne served in Company C of the 701st Tank Destroyer Division for two years and nine months prior to his death in act ion. Services will De held at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cooper. Sunday after noon with the Rev. D W. Petty," pastor of Halifax Methodist Church officiating. Reburial services will be at Sederwood cemetery and mili ary rites will be conducted at ;he graveside by the William 3haw Post 38 of the American liegion, with the Rev. Worth C. ûrant, pastor of the Weldon Baptist Church, acting as chap- c ain. S. W. Neal is post con> a nander. t Pallbearers will be Jackson Glasgow, Clifton Moses, Hobson ν Stainback, Dick Stainback, Paul b Sirdsong, Roy j_.ewis, David li L.yles and Hobson Overton. Survivors of T-5 Cooper are his >arents; ïive siters, Mrs. C. W'. li Varren, Mrs. Ε. T. Dickens, Mrs T( r. D. Freuler, Mrs. C. B. Nance C md Miss Lillie Irene Cooper of ii franklin, Virginia ; and two bro- C hers, James E. Cooper and Wil- g is G. Cooper of Weldon. L Chinese Government Forces Claim Complete Victory |ln Suchow Battle U. S. Bolstering Marine Force In China; Question Of 'Fighting j Depends On The "Circumstances" vraaiuiiBiun, ANOV. JO—^ΛΓ )— The United States, blostering its Marine force in China, left open today the question of whethër ^'circumstances" might j lead to armed conflict with Communist troops. The Navy said 1,250-leather necks will sail from-Giiam next Tuesday to reinforce = the 3,600 man Marine garrison* at Tsing tao. This force, said the} Navy in adding details to a surprise news conference announcement b y Secretary of Defense Forrestal, "will assist in tne orderly eva uation of United States nationals through the port of Tsingtao." Forrestal was asked by report ers whether the Marines will fight if the Communist armies attack Tsingtao. That, replied Forrestal, is a matter for the State Department to decide. At the State Department, press officer' Michael J. McDermott took this position: "The answer is that, is all de pends on circumstances and there is no answer now. I don't know what the'answer will· be. I can't pretend to say now what ney will do m certain circum îtances." On the basis of information a failable here, the circumstances it this time are these: 1. Tsingtao, Yellow Sea port ît the base of the' Shantung Peninsula, is close to Commu list-controlled areas—so close ;hat the water supply for the city s within Communist-held tern ary. Some experts believe that the Communists can take the :ity any time they choose, with >ut much opposition from nation ïlist forces. 2. In the Shanghai-Nanking »reas there are about 3,050 A nericans. In other sections, in :luding the evacuation port of rsingtao, there are 1,574, others. Hiese figures do not include nilitary people such as those on he American advisory missions ο Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government. 3. The primary reason for the jresence of the Marines in China s to protect American lives and jroperty. It is to be assumed hat if shooting between Marines md Communists snould ocur it vould be in defense of these lives md the property they represent. Marshall Calls U.lS. Monetary Experts To Discuss Currency Aspects Of Berlin Problem Fans, Nov. IB—CAP)—Secre - tary of State Marshall summon ed American financial and mone tary experts today from Wash ington and Berlin to advise on currency aspects of the Berlin crisis. They will consult with Dr. Philip C. Jessup, U. S. deputy who handles the Berlin case for Marshall in the Security Council. This step was disclosed by an American delegation source as emphasis in the blockade dispute shifted to technical aspects of the currency" control problem in the former German capital. t The American experts are fly ing to Paris from the Treasury Department in Washington and from Gen. Lucius D. Clay's mili tary government staff in Berlin. The experts wili have before them a questionnaire of · th e currency issue .which Security Council President Juan A. Bra muglia of Argentine has sent to the big. four nations. Bramuglia is leading a Berlin compromise effort, on behalf of îhe council's six "neutral" na :ions. U. N. Secretary-General Try gve Lie also has initiated a study of the currency question by his own technicians. American sources said today their delega tion has not yet received any specific request for definite ' in formation from Lie. The Soviet Union has declared it will not lift the blickade un less the Soviet mark ' becomes Berlin's sole currency. The Western Powers agree, but. in sist the Soviet mark be under adequate l'our-power control when it circulates within Berlin. Bramuglia, November Presi dent of the council, has been working behind the scenes'on a new formula for resolving the Berlin dispute. His hand strengthened by yes terday's western power notes, Bramuglia conferred again with Soviet Deputy i'oreigh Minister Andrei Y. Vishiasky. They talk ed for nearly an hour, reported ly discussing a new formula for ending the crisis. Details of the plan were not disclosed, but it is believed to involve some form of gradual lifting of the Berlin blockade a long with a similar process of instituting the Russian zone mark as Berlin's currency. Christmas Decorations Going Up The South end of Roanoke Kap ds started acquiring a holiday, ook today, when workmen la wring under warm, sunny skies >egan stringing Christmas deco rations over the avenue. By noon the avenue had been estooned between Tenth and Eleventh streets and work had >een done on many of the in ersections. The work will be lontinued so the complete de - Oration scheme will be ready η time for the annual Christmas Jpening^here on November 26. Multi-colored lights strung on [raped greenery were being run torn pole to pole across the treets and more color was add d with red bells hanging iron he green strands. In the center f each strand was attached a luster of sijver bells tied with ride bright red ribbon. τκ» -c ii._ ι · I ess districts of the city are eing put up by the Roanoke lapids Merchants Association . 'he merchants recently voted to ecorate the city again this year nd decided to turn on the lights α November 26 when a parade rill be held featuring the ar - ival of Santa Claus to herald le Christmas, season. In their last meeting City Com lissjoners voted to furnish ower to the Merchants Asso iation for the Christina? lights nd agreed to,lend aid in having îe decorations put up. In spite of'' thr spring-like eather, Roanoke Avenue was eginning to look more and more ke Christmas ♦oday. Enfield—Rev. and Mrs. J. Fe ic Arnold left Monday for Char tte to attend the Baptist State anvention, which is convening that city this week. While in tiarlotte the Arnolds are the lests of Dr. and Mrs. Claude • Broach. · Urges Increase In- Corporation Income Taxes Washington, Nov. 18—(AP)— Rep. Knutson (R-Minn),*author of the law that cut individuals' taxes, said today the corpora tion income tax ought to be boosted. "A number of large corpora tions," Knutson told reporters, "are making too much monry." He said he had "given up any 'thought" of further slashes in taxes for the individual. Knutson said he is going to leave those ideas with the new chairman of the congressional committee that writes tax bills. For corporations he mention ed a 4 per cent tax hike that would bring in about $1,000,000, 000. The rate now is 38 per cent on income over $50,000, af ter the usual deductions are al lowed. Cloudy, Mild Is Prediction By Th· Associated Press Partly cloudy and mild weath er in the Carolinas today and tomorrow will be interspersed with scattered showers, the weatherman predicted. The showers were expected to begin in the extreme western portions of. the states tonight and spread over the Carolinas tomorrow. Clearing and cooler was forecast late tomorrow af ternoon or night. Weather North Carolina — Partly cloudy and continued mild to day, tonight and Friday with icattered ihowen Friday, be ginning extreme wait portion tonight; clearing and cooler Friday afternoon or night. General Chang Says Red Forces Are In Flight Nanking, Nov. 18—W—The government claimed com plete victory in the Suchow battle today. Gen. Chang Liu-Shih, official military spokesman, told his weekly press conference : "The battle for Suchow can be considered as conclud ed. What the Communists do now is subject to conjeture." Chang pictued the Red forces in flight. He said govern ment troops and planes were mopping up an area extending 30 miles around Suchow. Truman May 'Ask Increased Postal Rates Washington, Nov. 18—(AP)— President Truman will renew with" vigor next year his plea for higher postal rates' tof help balance the budget, those in the know said today. a.' The postoffice Department now seems likely to wind up $500, '000,000 in the red next June 30— an unprecedented loss which would acount for more * than a third of the deficit forecast for the entire government's · opera tion this fiscal year. Officials told a reporter pri vately the increase most certain to be proposed will involve se cond class mail—made up chief ly of newspapers (and magazines. They said* the reason is that the Postoffice Department rates that category as - its » biggest money-loser. Tney insisted the fact that a majority of the na tion's press opposed4 Mr. Tru man's election is beside t he point. To emphasize their no-retalia tion « contention, . they recalled that the President recommended postal rate boosts in each of the last two years " and ' followed up the first suggestion with a specific bill drafted'by the Post master General. Better Yield In Important State Crops By Lynn Nisbet , RALEIGH, November 18 —The general farm report issued by the state-federal crop reporting ser vice as of November 15, shows substantial gains in acreage yield for the state's three major crops. Corn, cotton and tobacco all go ahead of last year and ahead of the ten-yeai average in estimated yield per acre of land. The state will have a record corn yield. Although acreage is one percent below the ten year average, the yield is estimated at 3 bushels per acre, ^compared with 30.5 bushels last, year and an average of 21.8. Cotton acreage is also less than the ten year average, though a bove last year, . but yield per acre hits an all-time high of 457 pounds of lint. This compares with a ten year average of 355 pounds. Only fr.ur other states had better acreage cotton yield. Tobaco acreage was consider ably less than last year and well under the'ten»year aveage, but acreage production was far a head the figures being 1212 pound per acre this year against a ten year production of 1002 pounds in the flue-cured types. There was slight increase in buley acreage and almost a fifty per cent jump in acreage yield. Fire Causes Slight Damage To Cotton Gin A fire which started in a con denser in the gin caused an es timated $100 damage at the Rosemary Gin Company at the Seaboard junction shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. George E. Harris, manager of the gin, said he believed the fire lad been started by matches which were scattered through >ome of the cotton being ginned at the time. Fire Clûef W. C King said cotton gin employees had dis covered the fire and had used four fire extinguishers while the fire department was being sum noned. The alarm was sounded it 11:10 and local firemen hur ried to the scene of the fire to ind it had been kept in check 3y the gin employees. Chief King said the local fire nen got the fire extinguished vith water from a booster hose >n the truck, however he said îe felt certain the gin would lave been demolished except for he prompt action on the part >f those employed at the gin. The fire equipment left the icene at 11:35. 000 casualties were inflicted on the Reds as against 40,000 suf fered by Nationalists. (U. S. Senator George W. Ma lone (R-Nev.) in Tokyo told the Associated*Press he attended a secret conference in Tsingtao yesterday at which plans were discussed by representatives of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Navy leaders.) Other government sources said the government won at least the opening phase of the Suchow battle against 300,009 veteran troops. This victory, they added, means Nanking is safe at least for a month or longer. The government previously an nounced more than 1,000,000 men on both side;: were involv ed in the battle. More optimistic officials said the results Of the past week's fighting means the ascendency of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's once waning fortunes. Foreign observers placed the result of the fighting along the Suchow front somewhere be tween the government's official* claim of complete victory and the Communists' continued in sistence that they still hold the initiative. Gen. Chow Chih-Jou's rejuven utea air iorce lurnisned. tne balance of power which appar ently threw back Red Gen. Chen Yi's troops. Favored with a μ jrfect com bination of clear, excellent wea ther, bright - moonlight nights, and an energy carelessly concen strated in the open plains around Suchov, Chou's war planes made the Communist positions untenable by around the-clock bombing and strafing. Operating from Nanking's military airfield, more than 100 planes, ranging from Mustang fighter bombers to four-engined Liberators, plastered the areas south, . southeast and east of Suchow constantly during the past week. Slower planes drop ped munitions and food top the ground forces below. The effect of the victory claim was especially noticeable in Nan king. Hundreds of officials and others who were packed and prepared to flee the city before the arrival of the Reds now are discussing a military comeback. Kecreation Planners Here James S. Stevens of Raleigh, worker, and Mr. and Mrs. Wea ver W. Pangburn of New York City, recreational planners with Ellwood Allen, arrived here to day to start work on the long range recreation program for Roanoke Rapids which was ap proved by the city's Recreation Commission recently. Stevens, who has visited Roa noke Rapids previously for sur veys of the city's recreational needs along with Dr. F wold G. Meyer, said he will stay with the Pangburns for only a short time while they are engaged in their work. Stevens said this morning that Pangburn has been associated with Allen for a number of years in the recreational planning busi ness and has an engineering background for work in drawing up plans for such a recreation center as has been proposed for the overall recreation program for Roanoke Rapids. The local Recreation Commis sion signed contracts with Allen for long-range plans and sketches and designs of a ccnter on Nov ember 8. A Dogmatic Dissenter Against Age Of Speed Petersfield, England, Nov. 18 —(AP)—The age ot speed has a domatic dissenter in former ar my officer Raymond Francis Baird. Hailing into court for pulling an emergency stop cord on a train travelling 60 miles an hour, he paid 10 pounds six shillings ($42) in fines and court costs and declared: "I have written to the railway saying I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast." 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