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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
National Guard Company Here Begins
Campaign To Increase Its Strength

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
schools.
He said chances for promo
ton are limited only by the abb
lity of the man and his applica-
ton of his ability. Veterans can
enlist in their former service
grade provided vacancies exist
in their specialities, and the Ser
geant said the earlier man en-
lists the nearer he will come to
getting the billet of his choice.
Sergeant Peoples said the an
nual enlisted mans pay is based
on 48 Armory training periods
and is days of summer field
maneuvers. He sail the pay in
the seventh grade of recruit,
formerly private, is $l57.50 an
nually; in the sixth grade of
private, formerly private first
class, $l68.l6; fifth grade, pri-
vate first class, fomerly corpor-
"a, is $4,000; fouth grade, cor
poral, formerly sergeant, is
$209.84; third grade, sergeant,
formerly staff sergeant, is
$241.34; for second grade of serz
geant first class, formerly tech
nical sergeant, is $28350; and the
first grade, master sergeant, old
title of maste segeant or first
sergeant, is $346.50 per year,
Veterans can add five per cent
to the annual base pay for each
three years prior service in the
Army, Navy, Marines or Coast
Guard.
Peoples said he will be glad to
supply complete information to
anyone who desires it, if they
will just see him at the Armory,
where he seves as National
Guard recruiting sergeant.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Five Killed
In Weekend
State Mishaps
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

b The ASSOClAIED PRESS
At least five persons lost their
lives by violence in North Caro-
lima over the weekend.
A man and wife driving their
ailing son to a hospital were in
an auto-bus crash in Charlotte
and the boy and mother were
killed.
Thirteen persons were injured
in the four-vehicle accident al
East Trade and Brevard streets,
three blocks from independence
Square.
Mrs. Howard Smith, of Morris
Field, near Charlotte, and Jerry
Wayne smith, 2, lost their lives
The father %, was injured seri-
ously.
Policemen said the Smith car
collided with an automobile, and
careened into a city bus which
was knocked against a parked
automobile. The bus driver and
IL passengers suffered monor
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
signed statement from her hus.
band that nd had put a quilt
over her head to quiet her."
A coroner's jury recommended
that ]. Dover Hudson, As be
bound over for grand jury invest
cation in the death of Mrs. Mae
Mary Hudson, the same age.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Senator Cites
'29 Crash As
Tax Boost Reason

Washington, Dec. 6-P-
Senator O'Mahoney tD-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
Fare bisxdt. " 50 the earnings are
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
Senate told 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
one of the leading congressional
supporters of president Truman's
twlce-rejected plea to reimpose
a modified form of the wartime
excess profits tax to boost gov
ernment revenue and ty to curb
initiation.
Senator Flanders (R-Vt), who
will preside at the unusual pro.
fits study, is opposed to revivins
the profits tax method.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Roanoke Rises
To 37.8 Feet
At Weldon

Weldon.-The Roanoke Riv-
er here was on the 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 3l.8 feet after being
above flood stage for several
days.
II 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 the stream went
over the 40 foot mark 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.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06

Iraac. Don't make any prom
iscs yet. 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 She
Dragon, his mother-in-law. But
Gramp outwitted her. He tied a
note around stone, threw it
out the window, and waited.
He hadn't long to wait. Along
came Herald carrier, one Jiggs
by nickname, our Washington
Street carrier. Jiggs, filled 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 person would intri-
que no one but a geratologist Ia
scientist specializing in the study
of human decay.
But Jiggs had read too many
detective stories. He thought
sure this would be from the girl
of his Dreams. He shimmied up
the tree as if he was a raccoon
freed 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 hao been Secet-
ly hoping he would have to res
C one of the Ingram twins
Jiggs didn't care which one. If
from fate worse than death,
so much the more grateful she
would be. He counted upon saw
ing her from a gang of Roa-
noke Avenue Wolves, and he
didn't much care if he had to
take on II gangs.
Instead, Jiggs found himself Is
Continued on Page Eight
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
ROANOKE RAMBLINGS
BY PAT NANTZ

Thomas K. Zeiler, former resi-
dent of this city is seriously i'll
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 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lassiter
had as their guests for the weeN
end, Mrs. Lassiter's mother, Mrs.
Matte Langston, who celebrated
her eighty-second birthday, at
her daughters 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 sew
eral days -.
Henry Simmons" asked the
Judge severely, "did you steal
this mans saw" "Naw, sub,
Jedge - not me. I only took il
for a joke How far did you
carry it," "Only fun his house
to mine = bout three miles"
Ten days." the Judge sighed.
That was carrying joke too
far :"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
u. S. Aid To
China Is
$b3-MiIIion.

Washington, Dec. 6-(AP)-
American Military aid to China
is running somewhat under one
third of that of Greece and Tur-
key.
This became known today with
estimates from government
sources that fighting equipment
valued at about 500 900, eco has
been delivered to Chang Kai-
Shek's hard-pressed armies i n
the last year and half.
During roughly the same per-
iod, the United States shipped
arms and other military supplies
worth $3.50, 900, 900 to Greece and
Turkey under the Truman doc
trine pledging to keep those ma
tons out of communist clutches.
How successful China may be
in its desperate efforts to mar
row the ratio of American aid
to the two Communist menaced
areas remains to be seen.
Those efforts currently are be-
ing pressed by Nine. Chang
wife of the generalissimo, h o
flew here last Wednesday.
China's first lady is due to meet
President and Mrs. Truman early
this week to voice her informal
appeal for greater help from this
country.
Chinese authorities here say
the program she is proposing
would cost the United States a
bout $l,0O0,000,000 a year over
the next three years.
That would be a big jump from
the S4OO, 100000 Congress voted
for China earlier this year and
would far outstrip the two-year,
$625, 900, 1000 Greek Turkey pro-
gram.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Communists Defeated In Western
Berlin P|ebisicite;; Anti-Russian
Socialists Gain Vast Majority
Results Show
Opposition To
Soviet Policies

Berlin, Dec. 6-(P)-Com-
munism received singing re-
buke yesterday from the citizens
of blockaded western Berlin.
Nearly complete returns from the
city election showed sweep =
ing victory for anti-Russian So
cialists.
With all but 33 of the city's
l,572 western precincts reporting
the German election bureau an
nounced the following results:
More than "a per cent of the
electorate in western Berlin vot-
ed. The count has reached L.
340,262 ballots.
Social Democrats (Socialists)
839, 488 votes-644 per cent.
Christian Democrats (Conser-
vative Pro-Church) 253,9 votes
-l9.5 per cent.
Liberal Democrats (Conserva-
tive) 2l0,5 ,525 votes-16.1 per cent.
Although the election ordinarily
would have been merely 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 to
vote "for freedom and against
communism"
The "a per cent figure of eligi-
Bile voters who cast ballots was
doubly significant. Even if all
non-voters were Communists -
which is not likely-they could
not have pulled more than 1876
per cent of the total. In 1916
the Communists polled 10 per
cent of the vote.
The Soviet Military command
had forbidden the election in it's
sector of Berlin. The Russians
set up Jump" Communist
government of their own in the
city last week.
German Communists had re-
fused 70 be on the ballot and
threatened revenge against all
who dared vote. o-t
| German leaders of all three
anti-Soviet parties united in call
ing the election a plebescite for
freedom versus Kremlin- n-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 un er
western allied auspices.
The socialists claimed the
election showed at least half the
Berliners who voted communist
in 1916 had gone over to the
social democratic party.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
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 afternoon,
In the mountain sections, tenn
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.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06

Company E, 10th Infantry,
3Oth Division, North Carolina
National Guard, has recently had
its size increased to six officers
and l61 enlisted men TO a limit
ed time, it was announced to-
day by Sergeant Carl E. Peo-
Piles, administrative assistant to
the commanding officer, Captain
Raleigh F. Seay.
The Sergeant explained that
prior to this time 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 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.
Peoples said all who are IN
terested in applying for commits
sions can see him at the Armory
any day, Monday through Fri
day, from eight a. m. until five
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 regular
L-rmy post or carp for Is 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
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06

Mr.. and Mrs. T. Johnston Har-
ris have been visiting in Los
Angeles, California for the past
two weeks they visited with
friends and the family of Mr..
Harris ....
There were quie a few service
men visiting ct their homes this
weekend some were Sgt.
James Little, son of Mrs. J. L.
Little of Jefferson street, who is
spending ten days here he is
stationed in Florida Pvt.
Roy F. Finch, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. D. Finch of Madison
street, who is stationed at fort
Jackson, South Carolina, will re-
turn there on Wednesday of this
week u. Carlton Lewis, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Lewis of
Madison street is spending a fif-
teen day leave at home he
is stationed in San Diego, Cali
fornia.
Wishes for a very happy birth
day, today, 60 to Amelia Harris
and little Carolyn Medlin -.
Word has heen receiveA that
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
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.
mother 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 Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Old Father
Roanoke
Says:

This is Old Father Roanoke
w. If it wasn't for me, l guess
there wouldn't be any Herald
today.
AS readers know from all of
last weeks Heralds, Old Father
Roanoke the First, my great
grandfather, has been i'll 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
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Kerr Scott Returns
From Florida and
Speaks His Piece

Raleigh, Dec. 6-(P)- Capitol
Hill, which wanted to hear some
answers from Governor-E Elect
Kerr Scott, had pleny O. them
to talk about today.
The outspoken Scott, just back
at his home near Haw River
last night from two-week Flor
ida vacation, made the answers
without hesitation.
/. Yes, he did write Chief
Highway Engineer w. Vance
Baise and ask him to resign.
2. Yes, he did ask Charles z.
Flack, chief clerk of the State
Utilities Commission to resign.
8. No, he had not requested
any other designations around
Capitol Hill.
4. He did not attend meetings
of the advisory budget commits
sion here Nov. 1924 because he
didn't think it necessary to do so.
S. His Inauguration date? He
thought it had been announced
Jan. 6.
Questions about Scott had
flown around Capitol Hill for
two weeks while he vacationed
at an undisclosed spot. The place
came to light yesterday when
the Associated Press carried a
story from Miami, Fla, about
the Governor-Elect.
1t concerned an interview in
which Scott exposed opposition
to PresidenS Tr,lman's Civil
Rights program but added, "as a
Democat, l believe we should
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
ask questions got their chance.
Scott said he asked Baise's
resignation because he wanted
to make a change" In the
engineering department of the
State Highway Commission and
Il thought l was doing the
courteous thing to give Baise
notice" -
He asked Flack to resign, he
went on, because Il had an
agreement with Charlie in the
campaign and he broke it,"
Il thought if l couldn't trust
him on that l couldn't trust him
on anything else," Scott added.
He said Flack, because Of our
friendship" agreed in last
springs Democratic primary
campaign to be neutral although
he was to vote for the opposi-
ton" Flack lined up his coun-
ty Rutherford) against me, :"
Scott asserted.
The Govenor-Elect said he
didn't think his presence was
needed at the budget commits
sions executive sessions because
he gave each member a copy of
a memorandum stating his views
about what appropriations
should be for the biennium start
ing next July l.
He disappeared" while on va
cation, he continued, because he
needed rest.
II didn't get but a day and
half off after the primary"
h, said, "and l made more
speeches in the general election
campaign than anyone else. If
I was ever going to get away,
l knew I'd better go now"
He plans to return to Raleigh
tomorrow, after going through a
two-week accumulation of his
mail.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
p .RTY TONIGHT

The Womans Society of Chris
tian Services of the Rosemary
Methodist Church will hold their
annual Christmas party tonight
at 7:30 at the church.
All members are invited to be
present.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06
Weather

North Carolina: Fair and
cooler this afternoon and to-
night with temperature near
freezing in mountain sections
tonight. Tuesday fair. becom-
ing a little warmer in the af-
ternoon.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-06

Word has been received that
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-03-12

A little more than a year ago the state
highway department, after bitter protest
meetings held by Jackson county citizens
and appearances before the commission at
Jackson, finally got around to fixing the APP
proaches to the Escatawpa river bridge on
Highway So. These approaches were inn
passible at high tide and, as it was pointed
out at that time, the flooding completely
isolated Escatawpa from Pascagoula and
Moss Point, making their nearest point of
contact in time of emergencies Lucedale, 40
miles away.
The approaches, we were told at that time,
were going to be fixed permanently. The
highway department set up operations, a
great deal of dirt was hauled, with the road
way supposed to be raised 10 inches, to place
it well above high tide.
A little over a year later, Escatawpa citi-
zens are once more completely isolated, with
the approaches under water, and a ferry sys-
tenn of Red Cross and private boats operating
between Moss Point and Escatawpa.
We, of course, realize that the rain-swollen
Dog river and high tides have combined to
create a condition that gave rise to unusually
high water at this point during the past week.
However, we also have seen the approaches
gradually sinking during the past year with
normal high tides daily threatening to make
the roadway impossible.
There is no excuse for the sloppy and in
efficient work done by the highway depart
ment. More than that, this department has
consistently wasted the taxpayers money
by half doing this job time and again. We
hazard the guess that the money spent in
past years on tinkering with this job would
have been more than sufficient to have done
the job efficiently and permanently. We saw
the same thing occur on the repair of the
bridges on that stretch of Highway 80 be-
tween Pascagoula and Gautier. For a period
of several years the highway department
spent thousands of dollars tinkering with
repairs before finally doing a reasonably
permanent job and eliminating one of the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-03-12

another, does not constitute a mandate from
the people"
The state Democratic Executive Commit
that the battle is a peoples fight and
mapped plans to carry it to every cross road
in the state.
If all this is true, then why the timidity
about submitting the issue to the people? If
the people have given our state leaders a
mandate, then there should be no hesitation
about submitting that mandate to the peo-
pie for ratification.
Individual sentiments on the issue of Pres
ident Humans civil rights recommendation
have no bearing on the question of whether
or not the voters of Mississippi will be allow
ed to decide the matter for themselves, or
have it decided for them by a handful of
political leaders.
If our state political leaders are allowed
to deny the right to vote on this issue, then
a precedent is set whereby they can also
deny that right on other issues in the future,
and on which there might not be such UNI
animity of opinion.
The issue, as it now shapes up, goes far
deeper than our quarrel with President Tru-
man or the Northern Democratic party. 1t
strikes at the very fundamentals of our gov
eminent the constitutional right of a free
and qualified voter to express his choice at
the ballot box.
Let's not deny this fundamental right and
abandon Democratic principles in our zeal
to protect them.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-03-12
Let The People Decide

One simple fact seems to have escaped at
tention of state Democratic leaders who are
urging that the Southern Democratic party
break away from the Northern wing because
of President Truman's civil rights program
and the old, old issue of states rights.
That fact is:
Unde our system of government the vot-
ers decide issues, and the only way voters
can decide issues is at the ballot box.
Therefore, machinery should be put in mo-
ton now, while the state legislature is in
session, to place two sets of presidential cleo
tors on the November End ballot. One set
would be pledged to support the nominee of
the National Democratic party and the other
free to follow their w desire and cast Mis-
sissippi's nine presidential votes for whom
they please, be it for a Democrat, Republic
can or what have you.
To our knowledge, there has never been
one suggestion of this to come out of all
the oratory expended on the subject to date.
To the contrary, all suggestions have been to
free our presidential electors to do as they,
or the politicians, wish them to do. In that
way, every voter in Mississippi would be dis
franchised and denied the right to vote for
a president and vice-president of the United
States.
We have heard talk of a mandate from
the people" No such mandate has been
given, and none can be given except through
the ballot box. A group of 1000 persons meet
ing in Jackson, most of whom are connected
with county or state politics in one way or