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34th Year Mo. 72__Roanoke RapM». N. C., Monday, December 6, 1948 Sc Daily; 10c Sunday Old Father I Roanoke Says: in is is Uld father Roanoke IV. If it wasn’t for me, I guess there wouldn’t be any Herald today. As readers know from all of last week’s Heralds, Old Father Roanoke the First, my great I grandfather, has been ill unto the point of death. The Old Hea then is in about the same con dition as the man in the life boat who after 13 days at sea. cried out: “Oh Lord, if you'll only save my life, I’ll promise you.” "Hold it! shouted his com Jiggs is seer tly hoping he'll P have io rescue one of the In gram twins—and he doesn’t care which one. See Old Fath er Roanoke column. Fair And Cooler Is Prediction BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Carolinas were scheduled for drier but cooler weather to day. The forecast promised the skies would clear over the Western sec tions during the morning, though scattered showers would continue over the eastern sections. Clear ing weather was promised for this aftern&on. In the mountain sections, tem peratures were expected to drop ) to freezing or near-freezing levels tonight. Tomorrow, the weatheman predicted, would be fair and would be warmer in the after noon. K'v'.\ "Don t make any prom ises yet. I see a ship.” ‘‘Gramp is now being impri soned on the second floor of a house on Jackson St. (There’s another clue for all you Roa noke Rapids Private Eyes). Rocking back and forth at the foot of the stairs is a She Dragon, his mother-in-law. But Gramp outwitted her. He tied a note around a stone, threw it out the window, and waited. He hadn’t long to wait. Along came a Herald carrier, one Jiggs by nickname, our Washington Street carrier. Jiggs, tilled with irrepressible cuiosity picked up the stone, unwrapped the paper tied around it, and laid it out. Eyes popping, the newsboy read this blood-curdling message: ‘‘Save me. save me. Climb tree near second-floor window with handkerchief hanging down. My life depends upon it.” Sherlock Holmes—or for that matter, Doc Maddrey, one of Jiggses customers—could have told him the handwriting gave away the age of the writer. He had to be someone in the last stages of blind staggers, the ague, and epileptic fits. The writer as a person would intri gue no one but a geratologist (a ; scientist specializing in the study of human decay). detective stories. He thought sure this would be from the girl of his Dreams. He shimmied up i the tree as if he was a raccoon treed by Marvin Jordan’s dogs. Our hero knocked on the win dow. A face appeared. A face that must have escaped from a casket at the W. C._ Williams Funeral Home. Our newsboy was heartbroken. He had been secet ly hoping he would have to res e. one of the Ingram twins— Jiggs didn’t care which one. If from a fate worse than death, so much the more grateful she I would be. He counted upon sav ing her from a gang of Roa noke Avenue Wolves, and he didn’t much care if he had to take on 12 gangs. Instead, Jiggs found himself 25 (Continued on Page Eight) Weather North Carolina: Fair and cooler this afternoon end to night with temperature near freezing in mountain sections tonight. Tuesday fair, becom ing a little warmer in the af ternoon. National Guard Company Here Begins Campaign To Increase Its Strength ' company lisnn iniamry, 30th Division, North Carolina i National Guard, has recently had its size increased to six officers and 161 enlisted men fo a limit- j ed time, it was announced to day by Sergeant Carl E. Peo ples, administrative assistant to the commanding officer, Captain Raleigh F. Seay. The Sergeant explained that \ prior to this time a much small er number of officers and men were authorized strength for the local company. He said men in this area who have had prior service and who were honorably : discharged with a rank equiva lent to the first three grades of the noncommissioned ranks are authorized to apply for a com mission in the New National Guard. i Peoples said all who are in terested in applying for commis sions can see him at the Armory any day, Monday through Fri day, from eight a. m. until five 1 p. m. He said all young men of good character who have reached | their seventeenth birthday and ' who are not older than 35 and who can pass the National Guard physical and mental & examinations are eligible for en listment in the local unit. The local company drills each Tues- | day night for two hours and also goes each year to a regular Army post or car p for 15 days of field maneuvers. Sergeant Peoples pointed out that the New National Guard offers good money for spare time duty, valuable technical training. Fay while learning, a | good time and good contacts. He said the weekly drilling per ’od was a minimum of the close order drill but specializes in training in the use and main tenance of all kinds of equip ment. He said National Guard trainees have good opportunities to learn skills of their choice and have a chance to attend ad- | vanced technical training 1 schools. He said chances for promo tion are limited only by the abi lity of the man and his applica- ' tion of his ability. Veterans can enlist in their former service ' grade provided vacancies exist ’ in their specialities, and the Ser- : geant said the earlier a man en lists the nearer he will come to getting the billet of- his choice. • Sergeant Peoples said the an- , nual enlisted man’s pay is based on 48 Armory training periods and 15 days of summer field ; maneuvers. He sail the pay in the seventh grade of recruit, i formerly private, is $157.50 an nually; in the sixth grade of i private, formerly private first class, : $168.16; fifth grade, pri vate first class, fomerly corpor al, is $189.00; fouth grade, cor poral, formerly sergeant, is 1 $209.84; third grade, sergeant, formerly staff sergeant, is • $241.34; for second grade of ser^_ 1 geant firsi class, formerly tech- ' nical sergeant, is $283.50; and the 1 first grade, master sergeant, old j 1 title of maste segeant or first I sergeant, is $346.50 per year. Veterans can add five per cent j to the annual base pay for each 1 £ three years’ prior service in the 1 Army, Navy, Marines or Coast i Guard. t Peoples said he will be glad to i supply complete information to ■ > anyone who desires ‘ it, if they | c will just see him at the Armory, j 1 where he seves as National £ Guard recruiting sergeant | s i Bridge Collapses With Truck, Cuts Gas Main This highway bridge on U. S. Route 42 at Cardingion, Ohio, collapsed with a truck-trailer and severed a gas main. Gas service to about 500 residents of the village was disrupted. The driver and a companion escaped without injury. (AP Wirephoio). Three Injured In Accident Sunday Night In Two-Car Collision Near Horner Town wcic uijuitu, yjlie af them requiring hospitalization in an accident last night shortly before 11 o’clock on East Tenth Street about a mile beyond the city limits of Roanoke Rapids. Walter Pleasant of Roanoke Rapids driver of one of the cars, suffered severe facial lacerations and was admitted to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital for treatment. Driver of the other car was J. C. Collier of near Gaston. Collier said he and his wife both suffered minor cuts and bruises and Col lier said his side was injured in the crash. Both drivers said they were meeting at the time of the acci dent though both said they were uncertain as to how the collision had taken idndr. City police and State Highway Patrolmen investigated the crash but no charges have been lodged against either driver. The pa trolmen were said to have the case still under investigation. No estimate of damages to the automobiles was given by either Iriver, however both agreed that the cars were badly damaged by ;he crash. House Group Give Spy Report To Jury Washington. Dec. 6—(A3)—The [-louse Un-American Activities Committee is handing a grand ury today what it calls definite md shocking proof a red spy net vort operated in the State De jartment before the war. At the request of the justice iepartment, the committee sent me of its investigators, William V. Wheeler, to New York. His nission: to turn over copies of secret papers to a grand jury vhich has been investigating lommunists and espionage for learly a year and a half. These are papers which the committee says a member of the :ommunist underground in the, state department turned over to mother member on the outside or repay to Russian agents. The outside man was Whit - aker Chambers, now a Time Magazine editor who admits he vas a courier for the Communist inderground in Washington be ore he broke with the reds in 938. The committee is hanging on o another set of copies of the locuments, for use when it starts ts own spy hearings going igain tomorrow—but perhaps be* nnd closed doors. Gumberry Negro Youth Cut In Face Rubin Pierce, 14-year-old Sum jerry Negro, was admitted to the toanoke Rapids Hoepital at 4:45 ’esterday suffering from severe ;nife wound* on the left side of lis face. The boys said he had been cut >y an aquaintance of his at Gem terry whom he declined to name. He and his friend were “just! tanding and talking, when I tarted to walk away to the louse and he pulled out a knife nd cut me.” Pierce said the wo were not arguing or were ot angry with each other, and /ould give no reason for the ther bo>’s having sliced his ace. He &aid his assailant used ‘‘regular little pocket knife” to Lash his cheek. Robert Cornwall, Superintendent Of Weldon Waterworks, Dies Sunday WP1Hnn_Rnliort C'ro \ tl TiVi nn _ Cornwall, 59, superintendent of the Weldon Waterworks for the past 25 years, died at his home, 311 Sycamore street, yesterday afternoon after a long illness. A native of Henrico, Va., Mr. Cornwall was the son of the late Alfred L. Cornwall and Martha; Friend Cornwall. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kathleen Her bert Cornwall. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Cornwall attended Randolph-Ma con College, Duke University and the- University of Worth “Caro* ! lina. He was a member of the Grace Episcopal Church in Weldon. Funeral Services will be con ducted Tuesday afternoon from the home of Mrs. Herbert Thorn ton in Morehead City and burial will be in the Morehead City cemetery. Reds Claim Suchow Fort Is Trapped Nanking, Dec. 6—(AP)—T h e Chinese Communist radio report ed tonight that red forces had completed “an air-tight encircle ment” of the nationalist former Suchow garrison in the develop ing battle for Nanking. ' The garrison, comprising some 110,000 combat troops in the 16th. 13th and second Army groups, abandoned Suchow last Wednes day in an effort to reach the trapped government 12th Army group in the Suhsien sector, a bout 45 miles to the south. If the communist claim is true, it means that only the govern ment troops on the New Hwai River defense line enjoy freedom of movement in the region. The line was set up recently 100 miles northwest of Nanking, but is \nanned by relatively inferior troops. Senator Cites '29 Crash As Tax Boost Reason Washington, Dec. 6—— Senator O’Mahoney (D-WYO) to day cited the 1929 financial crash as an argument for boosting taxes on business profits. Corporation earnings now are piling up at about the same rate as in 1929 although the companies tree *»**£.' So the earning! ere greater than ever before, O’Ma honey said. “The conclusion we are asked to draw from this is that these profits should not be taxed,’’ the Senato told a reporter. “My con clusion is on the contrary, that if the corporate profits of 1929 had been adequately taxed, this government would have been in a much better fiscal position than if it was to meet the depression.’’ O’Mahoney is a member of the senate-house economic com mittee which opens two weeks of public hearings on business pro fits today. The Wyoming senator also is Dne of the leading congressional supporters of president Truman’s twice-rejected plea to reimpose a modified form of the wartime excess profits tax to boost gov ernment revenue and ty to curb inflation. Senator Flanders (R-Vt), who ivill preside at the unusual pro fits study, is opposed to reviving the profits tax method. X'C'C'C'CtC'C'CKtCtCtC'CtCtWClCtCICI&CiCX 1 h Shopping 1 U Days Until Christmas The Spirit Of Christmas Is Personified Charlotte, Dec. 6 —(AP) — A small boy dropped a bill and tandful of coins into a Salvation Army pan at Independence Square here. The act seemed to please Ma ior William B. Purdue, who was tending the Christmas cheer fund tettle. But his smile vanished •nomentarily as examination dis closed the child had contributed E8.20 in “play money." Then he smiled again and said: "It was probably all the child had and it was given in the :rue Christmas spirit. No gift can be more than that, and cer tainly none will be more appre ciated this year by the Salvation Army." The “play money" will serve 1 Christmas purpose. It will go nto the stocking of an underpri rileged boy or girl. First Methodist WSCS Will Meet Tuesday The regular December meeting )f the Women’s Society of Chris ;ian Service, of the First Metho iist Church, will be held on Tues iay evening, at 8 o’clock, in the :hurch auditorium. The presence >f Christmas will feature this neeting. The program will consist of the String Ensemble presenting a Christmas Musical program, as sisted by Donald Hall, who will ell the sfory of Handel’s “Mes siah”; Joseph Parker, who will iing a selection from the “Mes siah”; and Miss Allperta Swain, vho will sing Goudnod’s “Ava daria”. Mrs. Donald Hall, cell st is m new member of the En semble. ‘i Communists Defeated In Western Berlin Plebisicite; Anti-Russian Socialists Gain Vast Majority i-- --^ Kerr Scott Returns From Florida and Speaks His Piece Raleigh, Dec. 6—(/P)— Capitol & Hill, which wanted to hear some answers from Governor-Elect i Kerr Scott, had pleny o them ' to talk about today. The outspoken Scott, just back at his home near Haw River last night from a two-week Flor ida vacation, made the answers without hesitation. 1. Yes, he did write Chief Highway Engineer W. Vance • "Baise and ask him to resign. 2. Yes, he did ask Charles Z. j Flack, chief clerk of the State j Utilities Commission to resign. 3. No, he had not requested ; any other resignations around Capitol Hill. 4. He did not attend meetings of the advisory budget commis- j sion here Nov. 22-24 because he I didn't think it necessary to do so. ! 5. His inauguration date? He j thought it had been announced --Jan. 6. Questions about Scott had flown around Capitol Hill for i two weeks while he vacationed j at an undisclosed spot. The place ' came to light yesterday when | the Associated Press carried a 1 story from Miami, Fla., about the Governor-Elect. 'j It concerned an interview in j which Scott expessed opposition ! to Presiden- Truman's Civil 1 Rights program but added, ‘ as a • Democat, I believe we should j ! fight the matter out within the party.” Then last night came a report . from Haw River that Scott was home—and newsmen who had been wanting for two weeks to 1 ask questions got iheir chance. Scott said he asked Baise’s : resignation because he wanted to “make a change.” In the i engineering department of the ' State Highway Commission and ! “I thought I was doing the I courteous thing to give Baise | i'notice. ”■ 1 He asked Flack to resign, he , j went on, because "I had an j j agreement with Charlie in the i i campaign and he broke it.” | "I thought if I couldn’t trust ! him on that I couldn’t trust him on anything else,” Scott added. He said Flack, "because of our friendship,” agreed in last spring’s Democratic primary campaign to be neutral "although he was to vote for the opposi tion.” Flack "lined up his coun ty (Rutherford) against me,” j. Scott asserted. The Govenor-Elect said he j didn’t think his presence was : needed at the budget commis- |; sion’s executive sessions because he gave each member a copy of a memoandum stating his views ! about what appropriations should be for the biennium start ing next July 1. He "disappeared” while on va- ' cation, he continued, because he needed rest. "I didn’t get but a day and ’ a half off after the primary,” h; said, "and I made more speeches in the general election campaign than anyone else. If I was ever going to get away, I knew I’d better go now.” He plans to return to Raleigh : tomorrow, after going through a two-week accumulation of his mail. rive Killed In Weekend State Mishaps BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least five persons lost their I lives by violence in North Caro- \ lina over the weekend. A man and wife driving their j ailing son to a hospital were in i an auto-bus crash in Charlotte I and the boy and mother were I i killed. Thirteen persons were injured ! i in the four-vehicle acident at ] East Trade and Brevard streets. 1 ] three blocks from Independence Square. Mrs. Howard Smith, of Morris , Field, near Charlotte, and Jerry I. Wayne smith, 2, lost their lives. The father 28, was injured seri-! ] ously. ', Policemen said the Smith ear! , collided w’ith an automobile, and i; careened into a city bus which!; was knocked against a parked j« automobile. The bus driver and j, 11 passengers suffered monor 1 bruises, cuts and shock. !, A woman was found dead in | ] her home near Penrose, Transyl-; ] vania County, and Sheriff Bert \ Freeman said he had obtained a j signed statement from her hus- i band that hd had put a quilt over her head to “quiet her.” A coroner’s jury recommended that J. Dover Hudson, 45 be j ‘ bound over for grand jury investi I; gation in the death of Mrs. Mae Mary Hudson, the same age. | Roanoke Rises To 37.8 Feet At Weldon Weldon.—The Roanoke Riv er here was on ihe rise again today. L. M. Shearin, official weather forecaster, reported this morning that the river had risen to 37.8 feet. Saturday the river had fall en to 31.8 feet after being above flood stage for several days. It was the second time in ten days that the Roanoke had overflowed its banks in low lying sections along the stream. The newest flood threat was expected to crest at somewhere around <40 feet Tuesday. Dam ages to the farm lands in the area were no expected to be high unless ihe stream went over the 40 foot maxk which is nine feet above flood stage in Weldon. Rains in the upper reaches of the Roanoke were reported to have been heavy during the past few days, causing the new flood threat to the area. U. S. Aid To China Is $63-Million Washington. Dec. 6—(AP)— \merican Military aid to Chine b running somewhat under one ;hird of that of Greece and Tur cey. This became known today witl estimates from governmen sources that fighting equipmen vaiued at about $63.000,00V5 ha been delivered to Chiang Kai Shek’s hard-pressed armies i i :he last year and a half. During roughly the same per od. the United States shipoec inns and other military supplier vorth $230,000,000 to Greece anc rurkey under the Truman doc rine pledging to keep those na ions out of communist clutches How successful China may b< n its desperate efforts to nar row the ratio of American aic o the two-Communist menaced ireas remains to be seen. Those efforts currently are be ng pressed by Mme. Chiang, vife of the generalissimo, w h c lew here last Wednesday, -hina’s first lady is due to meet ’resident and Mrs. Truman earlv his week to voice her informal ippeal for greater help from this country. Chinese authorities here say he program she is proposing could cost the United States a >out $1,000,000,000 a year over he next three years. That would be a big jump from he $400,000,000 Congress voted or China earlier this year and could far outstrip the two-year, 1625.000,000 Greek - Turkey pro gram. P'RTY TONIGHT The Womans Society of Chris ian Services of the Rosemary dethodist. Church will hold their innual Christmas party tonight t 7:30 at the church. All members are invited to be •resent. Opposition To Soviet Policies Berlin. Dec. 6—(A3)—Com munism received a stinging re buke yesterday from the Citizens of blockaded western Berlin. Nearly complete returns from the , city election showed a sweep - ing victory for anti-Russian so cialists. With all but 33 of the city’s 1.572 western precincts reporting the German election bureau an nounced the following results: More than 84 per cent of the electorate in western Berlin vot ed. The count has reached 1, 340,262 ballots. Social Democrats (Socialists) 839,488 votes-64.4 per cent. Christian Democrats (Conser vative Pro-Church) 253,925 votes —19.5 per cent. Liberal Democrats (Conserva tive) 210,525 votes—16.1 per cent. Although the election ordinarily would have been merely a local contest between rival political parties, the east-west struggle magnified it into a barometer indicating support of soviet or western policies. Western Berliners, blockaded #100 miles behind the iron cur ’tain, went to the polls with the exhortation of their leaders t o vote “for freedom and against communism.” j ble voters who cast ballots was j doubly significant. Even if all j non-voters were Communists — i which is not likely—they could | not have pulled more than 13.6 i per cent of the total. In 1946 j the Communists polled 19 per ; cent of the vote. The Soviet Military command had forbidden the election in its sector of Berlin. The Russians set up a "ump" Communist government of their own in the city last week. German Communists had re fused to be on the ballot and ;, threatened revenge against all 1 j who dared vote. ' German leaders of all three j anti-Soviet parties united in call ing the election a plebescite for freedom versus ‘Kremlin-style dictatorship. The Russians call ed it an election for “chaos and famine.” The Social Democrats who de mand socialization, of Germany along the lines followed by the labor party in England, scored possibly the greatest victory in the 80-year history of their party. They emerged with an absolute majority which gives them work ing control of the next city and borough governments under western allied auspices. The socialists claimed the election showed at least half the Berliners who voted communist in 1946 had gone over to the social democratic party. 14-Year-Old Boy Saves Child From Flaming Death Kannapolis, Dec. 6 —(AP) — Two-year-old Celia Ann Hols houser of West Kannapolis is a live today, thanks to the quick action of a 14-year-old boy. The youth, Coyd Owensby, jumped into a burning parked car and carried the child to safe ty. The boy was riding by in a nother car with companions when he was attracted by the smoke. The child’s quilt had caught fire from an undetermined cause, fire department officials reported. ROANOKE RAMBLINGS By PAT NANTZ Mr. and Mrs. 1. Jonnston Jrtar is have been visiting in Los Angeles, Calfornia for the pas' wo weeks . . they visited with riends and the family of Mr larris. * There were quie a few service nen visiting et their homes this reekend — some were Sgt ames Little, son of Mrs. J. L .little of Jefferson street, who is pending ten days here... he is tationed in Florida. Pvt loy F. Finch, son of Mr. anc Jrs. T. D. Finch of Madisor treet, who is stationed at for' Jackson, South Carolina, will re urn there on Wednesday of this t'eek .... Carlton Lewis, son o: Jr. and Mrs. S. J. Lewis ol Jadison stret is spending a fif een day leave at home ... he s stationed in San Diego, Cali ornia. Wishes for a very happy birth lay, today, go to Amelia Harris md little Carolyn Medlin. Word has been received thai i Thomas K. Zeiler, a former resi dent of this city is seriously ill in a hospital in Malane, Iowa . . . Mr. Zeiler is the father of Mrs. Cornelia Shelton of Cedar street. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton will leave today to visit her father . . . Mr. and Mrs. George Lassiter had as their guests for the week* end, Mrs. Lassiter’s mother, Mrs. Mattie Langston, who celebrated her eighty-second birthday, at her daughter’s home yesterday — Mrs. Langston is from Vann, Vir ginia .. . Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Medlin will return to their home, here, after having visited in Raleigh for sev eral days .... “Henry Simmons,” asked the Judge severely, “did you steal this man’s saw?” “Naw, suh, Jedge — not me. I only took it for a joke.” How far did you carry it?” “Only f‘um his house to mine — 'bout three miles.” “Ten days,” the Judge sighed. “That was carrying a joke too far...1*
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