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—r ;— — Supreme Court Approves Action Of Weldon's Paying Police Chief's «Expenses to FBI Training School iNisbet says Court More Realistic Now By Lynn Nisbet Raleigh, Nov. 27 — Mr. Dool ey is generally credited with the wise quip that "judges read the election returns." Whether in fluenced by election returns or some other sentiment, the courts have been showing a more real istic, as jcontrasted with purely legalistic, approach to solution of problen>s presented to them. The North Carolina supreme court this week decided speci al. fically that the commissioners of the Town of Weldon were acting within scope of their clear auth ority in paying the salary and expenses of their police chief while attending an FBI police training school two years ago. The fact that Chief Justice Sta cy, Associate Justices Denny and Winborne dissented from the ma jority opinion written by Justice A Ervin with approval of Justices a Devin, Seawell and Barnhill, in dicates there is "law" on both sides. These four-to-three deci sions are not very satisfactory, but majority prevails and until reversed fixes the interpreation of the statutes. main quesiiuu iiivuivcu· in nie Weldon case, which becomes controlling for other municipal ities and counties in the state, ^ was whether special training of a police officer is a "necessary expense" properly chargeable to general tax fund revenue. Those protesting "the practice contended that the individual of ficer rather than the community derived major benefit and thus was violation of the constitution al prohibition against personal emoluments from public funds. It was argued in support of this φ contention that the officer was under no permanent contract or obligation to stay on the local job, and might by reason of the public financed training, get a better job somewhere else. In that event the taxpayers of Wel don would have been socked with the bill for the individual train ing that inured only to the part icular officer and his subsequent employees. Three eminent jud W ges found merit in that conten tion. Old Father Roanoke Says: concluded that the duty of the municipality to provide compe tent police service outweighed the purely legal technicalities and justified the expenditure. In the instant case it was shown that Police Chief Kitchin had continued on the job after get ting the training, and so the oth W er argument was in this parti-1 cular situation academic. Justice Erwin's writing of the majority opinion is repleted with legal phrases, but typical home ly ,phraseology carries more punch. The justice declares that "poets may be born, but police men must be made." Again: "Both letter and spirit of these laws (those dealing with muni • cipal responsibility to citizens ) reveal that a city or town can not convert a neophyte into a policeman in the true sense of: the word by the simple expe dient of investipg him with a badge, a billy, a firearm and a uniform." The court was dealing with specific conditions of the Weldon incident and the decision does not necessarily mean that any φ town under other conditions may divert public money to individual training. Navy Spoils Army's Chances ^ Of Perfect Season as Bowl !|| Promoters Snap up Contestants New York, Nov. zy—wn— Winlëss Navy spoiled Army's bid ν for a perfect season with a 21-21 tie today but Notre Dame con tinued undefeated as the last I. big football Saturday of the year ,· I found the bowl promoters snap ping up the befct available tal ent for New Year's Day. j There were several surprises b^. the No. 1 eyebrow lift** was the moral victory for a Navy team that hadn't woi a game since early in the 1947 season and entered tlv service classic a three-touchd/vvn under dog. Oklahoma, th Seven champion, subdued a good Oklahoma A. a*d M. club, 19-15, on a rain-soakd field and im -*»ediattaiy ac«*Pted an invita». jt tion to play in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Jan. 1. 0 The opponents for the once beaten Sooners will be the un defeated but once-tied Tar Heels of North Carolina, who closed their season with a 34-12 tri umph over Virginia as the great Charlie Justice scored two touchdowns on runs of 80 and r 47 yards and passed for two others. Georgia wrapped up the Southeastern Conference cham pionship by squeezing past ^Georgia Tech, 21-13, with John ny Rauch's passes and Joe Geri's 1 running providing mosi 01 xne fireworks. Clem^on, the Southern Con ference: titleholder, had to come from behind in the last seven piinutes to nose Auburn, 7-6, in the mud and complete its sea son with nine straight victor ies. Notre Dame, meanwhile, piled up its biggest score of the year in flattening Washington, 46-0. with Southern California still to be met, the Irish boosted their consecutive victories to 21, a Notre Dame record. In the Southwest Conference, where Southern Methodist al ready had clinched the title— the closing weekend wound up in a rash of ties, started Thurs day when Texas and Texas A. and M. played to a 14-14 dead lock. The Methodists came from be hind with a minute and 41 sec onds left today to tie Texas Christian, 7-7, on the throwing arm of CU Johnson. Immediate ly after the game, it was an nounced that SMU would play Oregon's Pacific Coast confer ence co-champions in the Cot ton Bowl on New Year's Day. Baylor and Rice also played Lo a 7-7 tie but Baylor earned a bid to the Dixie Bowl at Bir mingham, Ala., where it will meet Wake Forest of the South ern Conference Jan. 1. χ ou won ι Deneve u, dui ι m going to get serious today. Old Father Roanoke V, son of "The Fourth" is 17, going on 18. He's already getting some bad habits. Sonny is beginning to enjoy "telling people off." He's try ing to take after his Uncle Loud mouth who lives next door to him. Loudmouth is always blust ering: "Well, I say what I think and if people don't like it, they know where they can go to." Sonny wants to be a Tough Guy like that, too. So I took him over to Hatcher's for some java and told him about a farm er I worked for back in '73. 'Twas during Reconstruction Days; Grant was President. The farmer's name was Mason; he lived down Halifax way. He's been dead 50 years so I can speak freely. My job was to pick tobacco worms. Mason said you had to pick up the worms and squeeze the juice out of them New Auto Tags Go On Sale Wednesday Raleigh, Nor. 27— (/P)—North Carolina will put its 1949 motor vehicle license plates on sale next Wednesday. The State Department of Motor Vehicles said the tags will be sold at its office here and at 63 branch offices throughout the state. The new plates, which the department said already have been distributed to the brandhes, will have black let ters on an orange background. L. C. Rosser, motor vehicles commissioner, estimated that plates for probably 1,000,000 vehicles will be issued during 1949. Already, he added, reg istrations in the state total 955,000. tarai Bureau Against Increase In Tobacco Quota Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 27 —(AP) —The North Carolina Farm Bureau unanimously adopted re solutions today opposing any in crease in the announced 1949 flue-cured tobaco quota and fa voring 90 per cent of parity sup port on all basic commodities. A third resolution also called for a change in the time at which farmers can begin moving corn through government channels. The proposal would move the time from June to April as a means of encouraging greater corn production. President W. W. Eagles of Macclesfield presided over the group of more than 75 organi zation leaders. The group resolved that "the North Carolina farm bureau is opposed to any further increase in the already announced quota for flue-cured tobaco for the 1949 crop." Dy nana; oinerwise, they'd come to life again. Eighty hours a week I did that; he paid me $2.50 a week. The old Skinflint. Well, I had the same admirin' feelin' toward Mason that Sonny has toward Uncle Loudmouth. Every time Mason told people off, which he did every time he went to town—to hear him tell it—I thought him so brave t wouldn't have been surprized to see a telegram from the White House pleading with him to ac cept the Congressional Medal of Honor. I got wise to Old Man Mason when I heard him boast; "When [ want to spit, I spit; and it don't make no difference whose floor it is. I spit." "Get the point, Son?" I ask ed. "Guess I do, Gramp. Loud mouth spits, too; only he spits with words. But it is still spit ting." Chinese War Moves Nearer To Nanking By The Associated Press Chinese government forces battled Communists last Night in open warfare over a large area northwest of Nanking. The center of fighting shifted from Suchow, 211 miles from the Chinese capital, to Suhsien, 45 miles south of Suchow. In Paris the United Nations general assembly formally con demned three Balkan nations, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugosla via, for aiding Greek Communist guerillas. The vote was 47 to 6, with only the Russian bloc vot ing no. Steel-helmeted troops of the new military government kept order in Caracas, Venezuela, as the army leaders who overthrew Romulo Gallegos Wednesday at tempted to restore normal con ditions. A report from a secret radio station supporting the deposed president said that there were clashes between civilians and troops in Maracaibo and Cara cas. The dispatch came from neighboring Colombia. Communist leaders officially called off the French coal strike which had crippled industry for a month. The government said 30 to 90 per cent of the men have been back at work for several weeks. About 9,000,000 tons of coal were lost during the strike, United States experts es timated. In Berlin, Soviet authorities or dered a sharp reduction in elec tric power consumption in the Russian zone. Western authori ties said this was due to the western allies' counter-blockade which deprived the Russian sec tor of needed coal from the ruhr. Truman Is Consistent Chicago. Not. 27—(/P)—Polls may com· and polls may go, but HVrry S. Truman didn't think any more of them in 1944 than he does in 1948. A Chicago marketing re search firm, Ben Gaffin and Associates, today made pub lic a letter written to one of its staff members by President Truman when he was a mem ber of the U. S. Senate. The letter, dated September 21, 1944, was in response to a questionnaire on political polls. It read: "Replying to your question naire regarding polls, I am not familiar with them, don't know anything about them, and hare no opinion on them except that most of them are inaccurate. "Sincerely yours, (Signed) Harry S. Truman, U.S.S." Leonard Rosensiein, chief statistician for the Illinois Poll, a survey conducted by Gaffin and Associates and dealing only with Illinois, said, "We keep the letter around for laughs." Flue-Cured Sales Continue Drop Raleigh, Nov. 27—<AP)—Vol urne and sales prices continued to decline this week on the flue cured tobaco markets still operating in North Carolina. The sales season ended Wed nesday for the eastern North Carolina belt, and will end next Friday on the middle belt. J. Edward Allen Charged With Embezzling $20,372 in County Funds in More Warrants ^unàay Hcralà 5 34th Yew—No. 65 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Sunday, November 28, 1948 ?! j u * 5c Daily; 10c FOC IN PARIS - Gendarme* stand near a street light during an un usually heavy fog in Paris. Study Of Presidential Vote In California Is Requested By GOP National Committee οαιι ι- ιαιινιον,υ, nu*, «ι / —A study of the California presi dential ballot at the precinct le vel was asked of Republican county chairman today to deter mine if there is a basis for a vote recount. i The study was requested' .gy National Committeeman Mclnty re Fairies, who informed a meet ing of the Republican State Cen tral Committee it had been ask ed in a letter from the Republi can National Chairman, Hugh Scott, Jr. Fairies said similar requests had been made on GOP party officials in Ohio and Illinois, al though leaders there said they had not received them. In Chicago, however, Illinois GOP chairman Paul C. Rosen quist said he would meet with state central committee mem bers to discuss the situation and probably look into possible need for a review. Fairies said he understood a review of the Nov. 2 votes in which President Truman carried California, Ohio and Illinois by small margins, was to deter mine "If the results were in ac cord with the vote." It seemed unlikely, however, California Republican leaders would demand a recount al though Fairies c ο m m e ΐι ted : "Our faces would be red if we found we had the wrong presi dent." Madame Chiang To Arrive In U. S. Next Week Washington, Nov. 27 —(AP)— The state department announced tonight that the Americas gov ernment would furnish official transportation to Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, China's first lady, on her visit to the United States beginning next week. The announcement said that the wife of Generalissimo Chi - ang Kai-Shek will leave Shang hai tomorrow and arrive here next Wednesday. She is expected*- while here to make an appeal for greatly in creased American aid to the na tionalist government of China in its fight with the communists. More Rain Is Forecast By The Associated Press The forecast promised more rain and little change in temper atures for North Carolina and South Carolina todây (Sunday). Weather North Carolina — Mostly cloudy, little change in tem perature, rain Sunday. ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT NANTZ Bobbie Fisher, '48 graduate of the local high school, is visiting with her mother, Mrs. Cassie Fisher . . . Bobbie is a freshman at Woman's College of the Uni versity of North Carolina . . Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Reaves and small son, Bruce, of Alex andria, Virginia, are visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alford Reaves and Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Riggan , . . Congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Green, who are the proud par ents of a son . . . and to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Carawan, t ο whom was born a daughter Fri day morning . . . The many friends of Mrs. Rives Manning will be interest ed to know that she has been confined to her bed, because of bronchitis . . . Mr. and Mrs. Η. H. Taylor has as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. George Allen, former residents of this city . . . The Aliens are now from Springsdale, Massa chusetts . . . Mr. Allen is a grad uate of the Roanoke Rapids High School and of State College . . Mrs. Allen is the former Miss Janie Lee Maddrey of Littleton . . . they plan to visit with their many friends her· until Christ mas . I « 'I Those who are celebrating their birthdays today are Mary Lee Cooper, Lynford Saunders, and Ruby Lee Harris . . . those who celebrated their's yesterday were Jean Hall, Benisha Erwin, A. D. Nelms, and Shirley Niles . . . here's wishing you all have a very nice birthdays and many happy returns of the day . . . Clergyman (concluding story ) . . . "And now, children, would you like to ask any questions?" Bobby (who had been constant ly watching the clergyman while he spoke) . . . "Yes, sir. Please, how do you get into your col lar?" . . . The only child to celebrate a birthday on Thanksgiving, this year was Adell Taylor of the third grade . . . those who were fortunate enough Friday to have a real holiday on their birth day were William R. Hux, Jr., Edward Faucette, Bland Bailey, and Eugene Porch . . . may you all have many more happy birth days .. . and to Adell, here's hoping you had a very enjoy able one Thursday. Clifton "Buddy" Braswell is visiting with his mother, Mrs. Mamie Braswell of Madison street . . . "Buddy" is a fresh man at Strayer's College in Washington, D. C., studying to be a public accountant. He plans to return Sunday. · · · t Judge Parker To Convene Couj «Κ Monday; 12 Criminal Cases Are Listed On Docket For Hearing will be docketed for trial here Monday morning, when Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids convenes the two-weeks' Novem ber mixed term of Halifax County Superior Court. Court officials said here the first four days of the two-week criminal and civil court are scheduled for the trial of crimi nal actions on the docket and it is expected that the cases for trial will be disposed of by Thursday afternoon. On Friday a number of pend ing divorce actions will be heard as part of the civil term and the week of December 6 will be turn ed over to civil proceedings. Five of the cases for trial are appeals of judgments in the recorder's court and all are for driving drunk cases. Those who have entered appeals to the Su perior Court on the charges are Ε. M. Burnett, Howard Sistaire, J. E. Whittington, Theron H. Ed monds and Milton Massey. Three Roanoke Rapids youths, L. E. Draper, Eldred Strickland and Richard Gilliland, will face charges of assault and larceny of an automobile in a case where the three were charged with hav ing hit Cleveland Harris of Em poria over the head late on the night of November 6 and having taken Harris' automobile. In Mayor's court the three waived a preliminary hearing and were bound over to Superior Court. Both Draper and Strickland were placed on probation under sentences for larceny by Judge Chester Morris here in October. x^iauut uaiiica, ituanunc ivajj ids man, will face a charge of larceny of an airplane here this week in a case which was bound over from recorder's court. Barnes, who is alleged to have taken a Peper Cub training plane belonging to W. B. Copenhaver, local airport operator, from the the Roanoke Rapids airport on September 21. Barnes, a licens ed pilot, crashed in a dense pine thine thicket near the Aurelian Springs-Roanoke Rapids high way a short time after the plane was taken from the field. In an earlier trial before Judge Charles R. Daniel Barnes was fined for reckless operation of an j airplane and operating the plane ι while under the influence of in toxicants. Doris Burwell, a Littleton Ne gro girl, will face a charge of illegally concealing the birth of a baby. She was charged with fel ony on orders of district Solici tor Ernest R. Tyler after county coroner Rufus Britton had found the body of a male infant in a privy behind the girl's home when an investigation was made by the coroner after a complaint had been lodged by neighbors. Lawrence R. McPhail will be tried for breaking and entering and larceny. McPhail, a minor, is being tried in the case which court officials said was transferred from juvenile court. Casper Clanton is charged with the larceny of an automobile, reckless driving and driving drunk; Millard Cooke will be tried on a charge of fraud; and Thomas O. Griffith is scheduled to face charges of abandonment and non-support and assault. Correct Number In Friday's Herald an article concerning the State Highway Patrol radio station in Halifax contained an error in the number of the telephone at the patrol barracks. The correct number of the radio station at the patrol bar racks is Halifax 671. and all who need any assistance from members of the patrol are asked to call this number in order to get in touch with patrolmen in this area as soon as possible. He Didn't Give A Hoot for a Toot Atlanta, —(AP)—Aaron E. Richards, 27, apparently doesn't give a hoot for a toot. Police early today found Rich ards sitting calmly in his stalled automobile on a railroad cross ing. Six trains were held up. Richards, said police, just ig nored the angry whistles. He was booked on a charge of public drunkenness. | France, England Present Rival Unity Plans J Paris, Nov. 27 —(AP)—France and Britain tonight presented ri val plans to a five-nation unity committee attempting to lay the foundation for a European fed eration. The French foreign minis try announced in a communique that Britain proposed a "council of Europe." France put forward a plan for a "European consul tative assembly." Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are also represented at the con ference. The communique did not give details of the proposals. Britain is known to favor regular meet ings of a kind of European cab inet composed of ministers ap pointed by and responsible to each of the governments. British sources have criticized as "just another talking ship" a French plan for a "parliament of Europe." Both the British and French plans would give the proposed European political organization only advisory powers. CIO Smacks Down Left Wing Union Portland, Ore., Nov. 27—(AP). —The CIO smacked down one of its left-wing unions today. Its executive board ordered the farm equipment workers un ion to give up its identity and join the united auto workers. This was the first action grow ing out of the CIO convention which established the right wing in full control, determined upon a big nationwide organizing "crusade" and adjourned yester day. The board also adopted resolu tions in which it: 1—Called upon the 81st Con gress to abolish the House Un American Activities Committee and to set up new rules for con gressional investigating commit tees that would "protect the rights of witnesses and persons under investigation." 2—Urged President Truman to revise his order concerning the loyalty of federal employees, in order to assure each accused in dividual of a fair trial, an open ing hearing, and the right to hire a lawyer. The resolution said the government's loyalty pro gram now "has degenerated in to an irresponsible witch hunt". Interdenominational Sunday School Training Course Begins Tomorrow At First Presbyterian Church Here All Sunday School teachers and I leaders in the Roanoke Rapids and Weldon churches will parti cipate in an interdenominational leadership training school at the First Presbyterian Church for three days starting tomorrow. The school has been arranged through the Weldon and Roanoke Rapids Ministerial Associations and will feature four courses by leading teachers. Classes will start each evening, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes - day, at 7:30 and will consist of two 45-minute periods each ev ening. Roland Johnson, general sup erintendent of the Rosemary Qaptist Sunday School of Roan oke Rapids, has been elected general chairman for the school. Edwin Akers of Roanoke Rap ids will serve as secretary and Mrs. W. E. Selden of Weldon is treasurer for the three-day ses sion. Sunday School workers enroll ed in the school have been urged to be present at the First Pres byterian Church, wherè all class es will be held, promptly at 7 :30 tomorrow evening. One of the courses to be offer ed wjjl be for workers in the Children's Division. It will be taught by Mrs. W. R. Reed, dir ector of children's work in the Virginia Conference. The Rev. R. W. Bradshaw, pas tor of the First Methodist Church ( of Wilson, will offer a course designed for workers in the young people's division. Workers in the adult Bible teaching division will receive in struction from Dr. Joseph M. Getty, professor at Assembly Training School. A general course of methods in visual education will be under the direction of Dr. Fon Scho field of the Department of Visual Education of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board of Richmond, Va. On Wednesday evening follow ing the final session of the inter denominational school there wift be held a social hour for all par ticipants with refreshments. The Rev. John M. Walker, Jr., is the pastor of the host church and Rudolph Williams is chairman of the hospitality committee ο f which George Pappendick, Mrs. Jarvis Taylor, Mrs. J. U. Vaughn and Miss Josie Moore are also members. Chairman of the steering and program committee for the school ife the Rev. W. R. Stev ens, pastor of Rosemary Metho dist Church of Roanoke Rapids. Sunday School teachers and Bible class leaders from all churches in the two towns, re-, gardless of denominations repre sented, have been invited by the ministers to attend the classes in order to improve the quality of work being carried on in the Sunday School· in the area. New Charges Made Against Ex-School Head Warrenton, Nov. 27.—War rants charging former superin tendent of Warren County school J. Edward Allen with embezzle ment of $20,372.85 in county funds and the forgery of 126 checks were served on Allen here today, and a cash bond of $15,000 was posted. Warren County Sheriff Roy V. Shearin said here this evening the warrants had been served, however he said he did not know who had served the for mer school head with the war rants but said he had been in formed they were served and bond was posted. Special Agent James W. Po well of the State Bureau of In vestigation swore out the war rants on Friday after Powell had consulted with district Soli citor Ernest R. Tyler and Rich ard Urquhart of the firm of Williams and Urquhart, certified public accountants. The auditing firm has been conducting an audit of the books of the Warren County Board of Education on a court order drawn by Judge R. Hunt Park er, who was presiding at a term of Superior Court in War renton at the time Allen was indicted on warrants charging embezzlement, false pretense nad forgery in the September term of court. Information frnm h*»ro fnHaw indicated that the new warrants had been drawn after the audit had indicated Allen had forged 126 checks with the name of County Board of Education Chairman Harry Walker of Nor lina. The checks are alleged to have been drawn by the for mer superintendent for such list ed purposes as repairing build ings and buying equipment. The charges of embezzlement and forgery on the warrants served today are in addition to the warrants served in Septem ber in which Allen was charged with the embezzlement of $24, 327.75 in State echool funds. Be tween the two embezzlement charges the former school head is charged with the embezzle ment of $44,700.60 in State and Warren County school funds over a ten-year period. Tyler said there had been uncovered by the auditors a total of appro ximately $34,000 in disburse ments which are not backed by proper invoices. At the time the first warrants were drawn, the 61-year-old superintendent was a patient in Duke Hospital, where the war rants were served on him. At that time a cash bond amount ing to $15,000 was posted pend ing the trial of the case in Superior Court, the next term of which is scheduled to start on January 17, 1949, before Judge Walter J. Bone of Nashville. A short time after Allen was first indicted he resigned as sup erintendent of Warren County schools after having served in that capacity since 1919. Allen today was reported to be at his home here, where the warrants were served. Special Agent Powell was one of the investigating officers in the first case, having given tes timony before the Grand Jury which returned "true bill" find ings to the first warrants.
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