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Roanoke Rapids Man Is Fatally Injured In Motor Bike Accident " ' ---—-■-—---<» Old father Roanoke Says: I had plenty of fighting to do inside the Herald office before I got a contract to write this column. I brought in my first column, the one you read Sunday, and ^ showed it to all the big bosses. “I can do something as good as this three or four days a week,” I boasted. “Oh no, you can’t,” objected the Editor. “You’ve got one good idea: offering $1,000 to the first mother in these five counties who gives birth to quints. But that’s in your first column. Af ter that, what? Columning is a £ profession; you can’t start in it at 82 years of age. In promising that you’d keep it up, the Her ald would have a bear by the tail. I’m agin it.” “Why, you young whipper snapper,” I came back. “I’ll ad mit I’ll never see 82 again, but I've got more ideas than Ral eigh has rascals.” “All right, let’s hear another idea,” challenged the Editor. So I told him about the day I was born, the day the his tory books now call ‘The Great Seaboard Massacre.” Seaboard had about 800 settlers, was big ger than now. It was really our big town; we thought of Sea board then as people today think of Richmond. Roanoke Rapids, iut.li kaiicu uicot r aus, was just a stockade with about 50 settlers. This was the frontier fort put 'f here to> guard rich Seaboard from the west from the Injuns. The Injuns knew they could never get through Great Falls, so oa# dark stormy night, they sneaked through the woods to the north of Seaboard and fell upon the town. Before they were through, they had scalped all but two children. The hair-rais ing tale of those two kids, their escape, and who their Roanoke 'ft Rapids descendants are, will be another column. JATell, when Seaboard had been fe4d waste, the course of history arfcund here was changed. But for that massacre, Seaboard would have been the metropo lis of this region instead of Weldon first and Roanoke Rap ids more recently. Shows what fate can do to a town. f At this stage of my story, I turned to the Editor whose eyes were popping—he hadn’t realiz ed what all had happened in these parts during my lifetime— and I said: “If all that happened on just one day, the day I was born, think of all the thrilling events that have happened in the 29,930 days I’ve lived since. But let me go on with this,” I said. After the Injuns had slaught ered everybody but the two chil dren at Seaboard, they filled themselves with Seaboard fire water. Filled with “whiskey courage,” they came on yelling and shoutin' to wipe out Great Falls. I found the whole story in my mother’s diary. The screaming mob got to where the Dr.. Pepper plant now is and almost caught three boys play ing. The boys’ last names were Hockaday, Keeter and Meacham; I don’t remember their first names. The boys however, saw them first and flew back to the stockade. Hundreds of arrows flew around their heads, but they got inside the big gate just in time. The alarm was sounded. The women folks in the fort loaded the muskets and the men did the shootin’. Alfred Thomason, who had once wrestled Abe Lin coln back in Springfield, 111., where he came from, saw an flaming arrow hit a log cabin. In a minute, the whole stock ade would have been ablaze but A1 grabbed the arrow with his naked hands and saved every thing. After three days fighting, most of the savages were dead; the fighting ended. The Injuns that were still alive decided Great Falls was too tough; they went out to Texas. They thought the Texans would be softer pickins than the Daughtrys, Vaughns, Peeles, Faisons, Joyners, McMurrays, Gowens, and Harrises living a roUnd here. They made a right good decision, too. I see by the movies that the Rod Camerons, Roy Rogers and Gene Autrys are still having a time holding back the Injuns out west. I have to beg my readers’ pardon for always digressing and moralizing. Now I want to get back to what happened in Great Falls after the Injuns moved out to Texas. The In juns had no sooner left than the rustlers and the horsethieves came along. For a while—until we got the Vigilantes organized —this country was a living hell. Why, the folks over at Elizabeth City refused to come out west of Bertie county. They used to warn visitors: “West of Weldon, there is no law; west of Aure lian Springs, there is ro God.” Now you know the kind of talking I had to do to get to be a columnist like Walter Lipp mann, David Lawrence, Pat Nantz, and Eleanor Roosevelt. $ Impressive Ground-Breaking Ceremony Starts New Church The first symbolic shovelful of earth was turned for the found ation of the new Rosemary Methodist Church in a ground breaking ceremony on the church site at Ninth and Jackson Streets yesterday afternoon. A large number of people were $ on hand to witness the ceremony which represented a big step for ward in the plans of the congre gation' to erect a large new cathederal-type structure to re place the present church building and those gathered at the site participated in the services. The climax of the service came when C. S. Thompson, Sr., chair man of the church building com mittee, dug a shovel into the f ground where the foundations will be started this week. The pastor, the Rev. W. R. Ste vens, was in charge of the pro gram and special music was pro vided by the church choir. The congregation assembled joined in two hymns and participated in the responsive dedication service led by the Rev. Mr. Stevens. The pastor said the members of the church were doing some thing toward which they had worked for a number of years. He explained there would have been no building of a new church had it not been for the cooper ation of all the members of the church and Interested individuals and friends of the church. Mayor W. B. Allsbrook told the congregation the constuction of the new chiirch marked a bifi 9 life of Roanoke Rapids. He said he dated the "real birth” of Roa noke Rapids from the 1931 Gener al Assembly, when larger incor poration limits were made. The mayor said In that time the city has made great strides in many ways, and he refuted the claim that the city had grown only ir economic ways, while forgettlnc *thers. He said the city is filled sA with thriving churches whlct atisfy the spiritual needs of the onununity, adding that the nund-breaking ceremony re A , 4' - - pres.-d a high point in the accomplishment of the congrega tion of the Rosemary Baptist Church. drawings and working plans of the new church, which will be constructed of stone, were drawn by Linthicum and Linthicum, architects, of Raleigh. The new structure will cost approximaely $80,000 and the building fund has b^en devoted for several years to the raising of the money nec essary to get the work started. Dawings are now in the hands of the building committee and work will proceed as soon as the foundation is completed. Red Troops Launch New China Threat Nanking Nov. 22—(AP)—In - dependent military dispatches to day indicated Communists are threatening the east flank of Suchow. Pro-government reports, how ever, insisted national troops still held the initiative in the re surgence of fighting mostly centered around Nienchuang, 39 miles east of Suchow. Government armored cars, re ports said, spearheaded nation al forces in a battle in the out skirts of Nienchuang. Many Red were reported killed. Chinese military observers said today that apparently gov ernment forces did not follow up an advantage gained last week when air raids forced the man Reds forces to hunt cover South of Suchow lighting was reported centered around Suh sien, midway between Pengpu and Suchow. Government troops reportedly had e'eared the area. Suchow, 180 miles northwest of Nanking guards the approach to the national capital. Northward in Peiping, Gen. Fu Tso-Yi, Nationalist commander, declared martial law in the five Parades and other demonstra tionaw are banned. Anti-Parking Meter Arguments To Be Presented At Special Commissioners Meeting Tonight A______ _ Opponents Say Decision Is Up In City Board The fate of parking meter* in Roanoke Rapids may well be decided here tonight, when *he Board of City Commissioners will meet in special session at 7:30 in the municipal building at the request of a committee of citizens who oppose the contin uation of the meters. Dr. W. E. Murphey, who is a member of the committee which requested the special meeting, said he expectes the meeting will be open to the public, how ever he said he did not expect it to be a controversial affair. there are points to be consider ed both in favor of the meters and against them, and he said the group which is opposed to continuing the operation of the meters will be on hand to pre sent their side to the Commis sioners. “We, of course, do not know what the Commissioners will de cide to do, however we hope to have the matter discussed while there is still time to take action,” Dr. Murphey said this morning. Mayor W. B. Allsbrook call ed for the special session after he had been approached by members of the anti-parking meter forces. He was requested to call the members of the Board together for a special meeting to discuss the various aspects of the city’s parking meters and complied with the request. The meeting is only for the purpose of discussing the meters which were installed in Roanoke Rap ids on March 19 on a eight month’s trial basis. According to the existing con tract between the City of Roa noke Rapids and the Karpark Corporation of Cincinnati, Ohio, the city had the option of in stalling the meters on a eight months’ basis. The contract says that the city must request that the meters be removed within 15 days of the expiration of the trial period, which expired last Friday. opposition to me installation of the meters was voiced at the time they were first consider ed, and recently there has been more active opposition by a large group within the city. The most recent public opposition of the meters came in a letter in which the Roanoke Rapids Ju nior Chamber of Commerce went on record as opposing the met ers and wrote a letter to Mayor Allsbrook and town Commission ers to that effect. According to the latest figures available the meters have tak en in $9,439.77 and have earn ed $3,732.99 for the city to be used for traffic regulation. A number of citizens have approved the meters and many have said they have done a good job toward regulating the park ing problem which the city has been trying to remedy for some time. On the other side of the fence have been those who op pose the meters and have said they believe the city will be bet ter off without them. Both sides should have a chance to present their argu ments in the special meeting tonight. Hertford County Sheriff Will Hear Sentence Tuesday Winton, N. C. Nov. 22 —CAP) —Recorder’s Court Judge Dare Boone said today he expected to enter judgement tomorrow In a case in which Hertford County Sheriff C. W. Parker has been found guilty of simple assault. The judge said that when Park er was tried on Nov. 9, the con tinued judgement in the case un til a cash in which Albert Law rence, Negro, is chnrged with af fray, could be tried The Lawrence case is schedule for trial tomorrow, the judge said The charges grew out of an incident which occurred more than a month ago when Sheriff Parker and other officers clos ed a road house, allegedly for gelling beer on Sunday. v • Soviet Bloe Spokesman Blames Palestine Trouble On Britain, U. S. , • * ' ■- -.•“ -r* -,-i Negro -Jailed In Jackson For Murder Jackson.—Sheriff J. C. Steph enson said here today he is holding Raymond Moore, 20- j year-old Negro youth, for the murder of his brother Andrew, 25, in what the Sheriff termed "just a drunken brawl” at the Moore home near here about seven o’clock Sunday evening. The sheriff said the dead man was killed instantly when he was shot through the throat with a .12 gauge stockless shotgun. Moore was arrested at the home of a neighbor where he had gone after the fatal shoot ing. Stephenson said the Negro youth was asleep when he was apprehended Sunday night sev eral hours after the shooting Stephenson said Moore is be ing held without bond in the Northampton County jail here on a charge of murder. Convict Caught In Northampton After Escape Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 22—(A‘)— A prisoner described as “about as bad as we’ve got” was re captured near Jackson Saturday night, Prison Inspector Kyle Matthews reported today. Matthews said the prisoner, William Edward Shoaf, 27, stole a car Saturday night and was chased down by State Highway Patrolmen only a short distance from the Northampton County prison camp from which he es caped Thursday. Prisop records show that Shoaf, a Stokes County native, was sentenced in Forsyth coun ty in 1946 to 12-16 years for armed robbery, that he escaped from the Guilford County pri son camp in December, 1946, to be recaptured four days later and that he was tried in Guil ford County and sentenced to 15-20 years on a charge of kid naping for taking a hostage on his escape try. Heavy Rainfall Hits Carolinas By The Associated Press More rain and little change In temperatures was the outlook for the Carolinas today, tonight and tomorrow. General rain blanketed both states during the 24-hour period ending at 7:30 a. m. today. Al most an inch fell at many points. Low temperatures this morn ing were in the high 40's and low M’l. ► Paris, Nov. 22- (AP)— Dr. Os-< car Lange, Polish delegate to the United Nations blamed the Uni ted States and Britain today for Palestine’s chaos and war. “Defense of an old and now crumbling empire on the one hand, the expansionist drive to wards the establishment of a new empire on the other hand, are responsible for the present situa tion in Palestine,” the Soviet Bloc delegate told the 58-nation political committee. Semen K. Tsarapkin of Russia said the Soviet Union regarded the proposals made by Count Fol ke Bernadette, the assassinated mediator, “as proposals prepared in the British Foreign Office.” He said giving Arab Palestine to Trans-Jordan would continue a “semi-colonial” territory under the domination of British and American oil interests. The committee also heard Hen ri Cattan of the Arab higher com mittee assert that Arabs in Palestine were “murdered and driven from their homes, their villages pillaged, and their churches descrated.” He said this was done “by the very people who have clamored for the sym pathy of the world.” Poland and Russia both called for th U.Nf partition plan of a year ago to be put into foce. Lange said the Trans-Jordan ■Arab Legion, led by British of ficers and maintained by a Brit ish subsidy “became one of the spearheads of war” in the Holy land. He said Britain “did not use its influence to restrain the Arab states from trying to solve the problem by appeal to force.” Christmas Seal Sale (Started In County Today Members of the Halifax County Tuberculosis Committee today be gan the annual sales of Christ mas Seals in the county in con junction with the 5,000 associa tions affiliated with the National Tuberculosis Association. Miss Fannye Marks,local sale chariman, urged full cooperation of all citizens in buying the Christmas seals bv which funds are rai^fed tor the fight against tuberculosis. She pointed out that 75 per cent of all money raised in Hali fax County i will remain in the county for use in giving treat ment to sufferers from the di sease. Funds from the county are sent to the State Tuberculosis Association, which sends five per cent of the state total to na tional headquarters for use in the research and training to battle the disease on the national level. She said much progress has been made in reducing the num ber of tuberculosis deaths in the country each year, adding that than wag gtill much to be dona. Madame Chiang Makes Appeal For China Aid San Francisco, Nov. 22 —(AP) —Madame Chiang Kai-Shek has asked the United States for im mediate aid in China’s critical civil war. Her appeal was made in Nan king yesterday and was broad cast by the American Broadcas ting Company in a hookup with the Chinese capital. Said the wife of China’s presi dent: “I only ask this — to telF you that any further aid must be im mediate and definite. “If Communism prevails in China, you, my friends will ulti mately also be suffering. “For with China’s strategic po sition, resources and man power in Communist hands, you your self will be greatly weakened. “If China falls, all of Asia goes. And certainly Asia’s importance to world peace is not one whit less than that of Europe.” Three Placed Under Arrest In Hit-Run Case Jackson.—Nothampton County >fficers said here this morning that Raleigh Tucker, 38, Valen tine, Virginia, Negro, is being leld in jail here on a charge )f hit-and-run and manslaughter n the death of Moses Martin, Northampton County Negro, who ivas struck down on the highway lear Bradley’s about 11 o’clock Saturday night and killed in stantly. Also jailed with Tucker were Ueorge Mason and Wiley Mason, Virginia Negroes, who were ar rested late Saturday night after North Carolina State Highway Patrolmen and Virginia troopers had joined in the search. Tucker was arrested yesterday and brought to the jail. The other two men are being held for aiding and abetting in the charge against Tucker. Martin appeared to have been killed instantly when he was hit not far from the Virginia line on N. C. highway 46. His body was thrown about 25 feet from the spot where the fatal car struck him and pieces of headlight glass were found at the scene by investigating offic ers. Northampton County Coroner S. D. Hitchens was summoned to the scene Saturday night by officers and identified the dead man. corporal ix>gan n. Lane ana Patrolman W. C. Hartley of the State Highway Patrol led the investigation of the accident, however neither officer could be reached this morning for state ments concerning the arrest of the three men. Virginia officers cooperated with the North Carolina patrol men in solving the case. Post Office Open Wednesdays Until Christmas Over Postmaster L. G. Shell an nounced today that the Roanoke Rapids post office will remain open all day Wednesday, Nov ember 24, and will start remain ing open every Wednesday after noon until after the Christmas holidays in order to accommo date patrons of the local office. Shell said the post office will join the rest of the town in closing all day Thursday for Thanksgiving. ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT NANTZ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Garner had as their guests th»s weekend their children, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Davis of Conway, Mr. and Mrs. Leaton Johnson of High Point, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gamer of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Keith Garner and Mr. and Mrs. Mai Garner of Washington, D. C., and their infant grand-daughte, Glo ria Keith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith J. Gamer.Mr Garner- said that neither of her children knew that- the others were coming and it turned out to be a weekend full of events.. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton E. Wood ruff of Toledo. Ohio, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Sullivan of Jackson street. . .Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff told how they saw cotton in the fields for the first time in their lives when they were traveling through the South . .. Mr. Woodruff is 83 years old and Mrs. Woodruff says she is mighty close to 80...Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have carried them sightseeing around this area and they were quite sur prised to find that tl. j Woodruffs had believed that peanuts grew on bushes ... so guess the South still holds enchantment for those who have never been here... it’s too bad that we, who live here, don’t take time to appreciate that which is about us .... Visiting here from High Point College, this weekend was Wal ter “Bear" My rick ... he was visiting with his family on Mon rot strati .mi Celebrating their birthdays to day are Dennis Woodruff, Mar garet Cagle, and Ray Wheeler ... sincereat birthday wishes are extended to all of you and here's hoping you have many, many more just as nice .., It seems that rain is now a Monday morning speciality ,.. Anyway, Charles Liver man thinks so, because he has beer caught in it every time, without his raincoat . . . Charles has made a resolution not to evet be without it again, unless the sun is so bright, it is blinding.. but you still aren't safe then, Charles, because around here the rain fails while the sun is still smiling through .... Danny Cagle’s Yellow Jackets will end their football season or Wednesday night, w hen they play the Weldon High School team., this is an annual affair in Roa noke Rapids and usually draws quite a large crowd . . . Weldor is not in the conference with oui local high school but there is s little rivalry between the t w < teams in siite of this. ..most probably because of this, but 1 will possibly prove to be a verj interesting contest to watch... The many friends of Mrs Mar; G. Baird will be interested ti know that she has been confini to her bed, because of ill healtl .... aha is at har home on Wash ingtoa street. _ V Albert Tanner Dies Of Injury In Bike Wreck Albert NcCoy Tanner, 24, died n the Roanoke Rapids Hospital ibout 10:15 from injuries re ceived when the motor bike he was riding hit a parked car shortly after eight o’clock last light on Roanoke Avenue in Iront of the First Methodist Church. According to police reports of the accident, Tanner, who was employed by Perkinson’s Ser vice Station near the scene of the fatal accident, was going up Roanoke Avenue and ran into the automobile of O. Griffin which was parked at the curb outside the church where the owner was attending services. Officers J. F. Stanley and W. T. Story were dispatched to the scene and found Tanner lying in the street beside the wrecked motor bike. He was said to be bleeding profusely from a severe cut on his leg and suffered other woulds. He was rushed to the hospital where emergency treatment was given, however he died about 10:15. Coroner Rufus Britton con ducted an inquest at the Wrenn Funeral Home this morning, where it was concluded that Tanner had apparently run into the parked automobile while not noticing where he was steering the motor bike. Cause of death was reported as an external hem horage from the cut on his leg and other injuries. Tanner, who was released from the Navy in January, is a veteran of World War II and was in the Army before going into the Navy. v unerai services win De con ducted from the home of his mother at 212 Jeiferson Street tomorrow afternoon at four o’ clock by the Rev. Gordon L. Price, pastor of the First Bap tist Church. Burial will be in Cedarwood Cemetery, and full military rites will be provided at the graveside by the honor guard of the Roanoke Rapids unit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Lillian P. Tanner; two brothers, Poweli Tanner of Roa noke Rapids and Lawrence Tan ner of Petersburg, Va.; and four sisters, Mies Edith Tanner, Mrs. Page Allen, Mrs. Nellie Edmond son, all of Roanoke Rapids, and Mrs. Calvin Fitchett of Emporia, Va. Tannef’s death marks the ninth fatality in the highway re ported in Halifax County this year. Marshall Will Confer On Poliey With President Washington, Nov. 22—OP)— Secretary of State Marshall ar rived today from Paris for a foreign policy review with Presi dent Truman. Mr. Truman greeted him at the airport. Marshall arrived at 10:10 a.m. (EST) after a trip which started at Paris at 2:30 p. m., Sunday, Paris time. The Secretary stepped from the plane, the Sacred Cow, into a drizzling rain. The formal conferences be tween the President and Secre tary of State were set to begin at 12:30 p. m. Before talking with Marshall, Mr. Truman had conferences scheduled with Secretary of the Treasury Synder, Secretary of Defense Forrestal, and W. Aver ell Harriman, roving ambassador for the European Cooperation Administration. When Marshall stepped from his plane, reporters besieged him with questions. Boyce Stoenner To Play For Weldon Dance Friday Night Weldon.—Wick Draper, presi dent of the Weldon Junior Chamber of Com..ierce, an noui 3d today that Royce Stoen ner and his orchestra have been engaged to play for the Jaycee dance at the Weldon High School gmynasium Friday night Draper said the band, which features “Sheets’* Morris as vo calist, will play for the dance which will celebrate the holiday season. Proceeds will be turn ed over to the Weldon High School Athletic Association for repair work on the school ath letic field. Members of the Weldon and Roanoke Rapids high school football teams will be invited to the dance as special guests of the club. The dance will go on from ten until two, and at intermis sion a 1949 Ford coach will be sold at auction to the highest bidder. W ■ isili a I ” cQnWT North Carolina —Mostly cloudy ; i this afternoon and tontgit. Oc casional rain this afternoon and ' in East portions tonight Slightly cooler this afternoon eaeept to coastal areas and cooler in ~ i portions tonight Ti . rAwsA A- A ROANOKE RAPIDS 34th Yeai^—No. 60 Roanoke Rapid*, N. C, Monday, November 22, 1940 Sc Daily; 10c Sunday Locomotive Explodes, Kils Two, Wrecks Train The engineer and firemen perished in this wreck of a freight train resulting from ex-gr plosion of the locomotive boiler near Clark's H ill, S. C. The terrific blast hurled the engine, the tender and a car from the track. One trainman was injured. The train was en route from Spartanburg, S. C., to Augusta, Ga., on the Charleston 8c Western Railroad. (AP Photo).
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