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VOLUME I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1948 NUMBER 1 __
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Israel Is Charged With
Evicting Arabs; Berlin
* Blockade Still Sore Spot
By The Associated Press
India invaded the princely state of Hyderabad today, giving
the unsettled world another cause for concern.
Israel, another fledgling state, was accused by the U. N.
mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadolte, of evicting 8,000
Arabs from three villages in violation of the truce. He ordered
the Jews to readmit the refugees. Jerusalem had its heaviest
daylight gunplay Sunday in the eight weeks of the shooting truce.
Blockaded Berlin, nf course. I-—
remained the main sore spot.
<*. Western sources in Moscow pre
dicted a climax in the lengthy
talks over the blockade this
week, perhaps by Wednesday.
Eisther some sort of agreement
or an end of the negotiations
was expected.
The liberal democratic news
paper Montags’ echo said the
Russians have ordered German
communists to seize Berlin some
time after the U. S. elections in
k November. The paper said the
^ huge demonstration of 200,000
Germans last week “removed
any illusions communists have
had about their popular support
in Berlin.”
France’s new premier, Henri
Queuille, ordered his ministers
not to leave Paris for two
months. He is fightig inflation,
unstablewages and prices and
strikes. Gen. Charles De Gaulle
'4 said France had “incapable” gov
ernment. He wants elections
which he hopes would zoom him
into control.
The big four powers met in
Paris to try again to^solve the
issue of Italy’s colonies. No one
was very hopeful.
President Juho Paasikivi or
dered two Finnish editors ar
raigned for printing stories that
Prime Minister Stalin might
have liquidated Andrei Zhdanov,
the third or fourth most power
ful Russian, who died Aug. 31.
Czechoslovak Minister of Jus
tice Alexej Cepicka said “for
eign agents” are out to kill com
munist President Klement Gott
wald. Greek communists repuls
ed Greek troops closing on the
main road to Albania. The vol
cano Hibokhibok quieted down
after 12 days Of eruption in the
41 Philippines.
Indian troops struck Hydera
bad from the north, west and
south. India has been trying to
make the state the size of Min
nesota and with 16,000,000 peo
ple—join the dominion. The
Moslem Nizam, one of the rich
est men in the world, has re
fused, although 80 per cent of
his people are Hindus.
- The Indians said one column
# penetrated 30 miles and captur
ed the rail junction of Maldrug.
Another force took the rail
town of Ballarshah near the bor
der. India struck with the as
sertion that intervention was
necessary to prevent the state
from becoming “the home and
focus of anarchy.” Opposition
was scant.
Hyderabad called on the Unit
ed Nations to consider the case
0 as one of aggression.
Indian’s sister dominion of Pa
kistan lost her “George Wash
ington” in the death of Mahom
ed Ali Jinnah Saturday night.
Informed persons in New Delhi
said the death may soften the
relationship between Moslem
Pakistan and Hindu India.
Herald President
Milton I. Wick, president
and editor of the Daily and
Sunday Herald.
Herdd Publisher
Guy M. Leedy, former treas
urer and general manager of
the Elizabeth City Daily Ad
vance and for several years
connected with the Bluefield,
\V. Va., newspapers as adver
tising manager, is the publish
er of the new Daily and Sun
day Herald.
Plans Are Virtually Complete
> For Lions Club’s Big Festival
Which Will Start Next Mornlav
i-jans ror tne noanoxe rtapids
Lions Club annual Festival to be
held here starting next Monday
night, September 20, are nearly
complete, it was announced to
day by Lion Byron Gurley, Fes
tival chairman.
For several weeks now the
local Lions have been working
* hard getting things in order for
the big event, and they re -
port that the last-minute details
are about all that are lacking
at present. For the people who
attend the six days of festival
activity it promises to be a week
of play, but the Lions will all be
busily working toward the suc
cess of the festival.
One of the big things to get out
y of the way has been the con
m struction of a regulation-size
ing ring in which will be held
the two seven-card fights next
Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
The ring will be erected on the
north end of the high school
field, scene of most of the events
of the week, and plenty of^)rize
fighting action is promised to all
who attend.
Like the boxing ring, a large
/g. op* door stage completely equip
* pv't with a public address sys -
tern will be erected on the high
school field and bleachers will be
put in place to give good seats
to those who come to watch the
various events which will take
place during the six-night affair.
Also on the high school field
for the whole week will be a big
tent in which local merchants
will have their wares on display
jo, for all to see. In addition to that
“ there will be seven rides in ope
ration for all the members of the
family to enjoy.
The Festival will get under
way Monday night at 7:30 with
a large street dance. The block
on Hamilton street in front of
the high school will be roped off
for dancing, and music will be
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provided by Algie Batts and his
orchestra. The dance officially
opens the Festival and will b e
free to the pubilc. Lion June Col
lier is the chairman of the street
dance committee.
Tuesday and Wednesday
nights will.be the big fight nights
for the Festival and the cards
will offer each evening six pre
liminaries and one feature event
with boxers from Eastern North
Carolina’s prison camps partici
pating in what promises to b e
action-filled rounds. Lion Joe
Talley is in charge of arrange
ments for the fights.
On Thursday night the Talent
Night sljow has been arranged
for the outdoor stage. Entries
are still open to those in the area
with any particular talents they
wish to display on the program
and chairman Lion John Lup -
ton promises an entertaining
show for all in the talent review
with valuable prizes to the win
ners and on the quiz show which
is part of the festivities.
On Friday night the feature
event of the evening’s entertain
ment will be the Coronation Ball
in the armory with music by Al
gie Batts. The Cornation of a
Festival Queen selected form ten
leading contestants will high
light the evening. The dance is
slated to get underway at t e n
o’clock and will be the only Fes
tival event planned to be held in
doors. Lion D. E. Bennett i s
chairman of the committee i n
charge of the ball.
Preceding Friday’s Coronation
and continuing through the Sat
urday night’s Festival windup
will be a Fiddlers’ Convention,
featuring a galaxy of talpnt
from this section competing for
a number of prizes in specialty
group and solo numbers in a/fea
ture which is sure to please the
devotees of Good OT Mountain
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Weather
North Carolina — Fair and
slightly warmer this afternoon
and tonight; Tuesday increas
ing cloudiness and not much
change in temperature.
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Volume One, Number One
Of The New Daily Herald
1 his is VOT. l, No. 1 of the
Daily Herald.
Next Sunday will appear the
first issue of the Sunday Her
ald.
These are historic issues; they
will be treasured in hundreds
of homes for 25 and 50 years ; in
a few, for 100 years or more.
Those who produced Vol. 1 ,
No. 1 are Guy Leedy, publisher;
William McCiung, managing edi
tor; William L. Davey, city edi
tor; Patricia Nantz, news depart
ment; Katie Williams, Louise
Burke, office; Mirl Crosby, cir
culation manager; Harold Mut
hig, county circulator; Mrs. Mar
garet Holliday, Robert Lee John
son, Winfield Britton, circula
tion; Don Hall, advertising mana
ger; Mabel Fitts Luter, Margie
Brewer, Ruth Cooper, advertis
ing solicitors.
In the mechanical depart
ments Frank Thomas is mechani
cal superintendent; J. K. Brewer
Jr., Bill Clary, Harvey A. Hayes,
Lawrence Emery, Rudolph Wat
son, W. J. Sasser composing
room; Larry Willis, stereotype
foreman; Johnny Garner, press
man: Loarine K. Harris, Mrs.
Agnes Jenkins, Mrs. Rachel
Woods and Lola Cates, teletype
Louise Umphlett, M. H. Neal, job
um-iH, xDiuin iviassey, inex
Williams, Jeanette Edwards,
Daniels, janitor.
Correspondents for the Daily
and Sunday Herald are Mrs.
George Pappendick and Mrs.
Fannie Hayes, Roanoke Rapids
correspondents; Mrs. Lawrence
Denton, Woodland; Miss Pearl
Grant, Jackson; Mrs. R. E. Vick
Seaboard; Mrs. James Riddick,
Scotland Neck; Mrs. J. Milton
Read, Halifax; Miss Katie Rid
dick, Enfield; Leonard Daniel,
Warrenton; Mrs. E. H. Russell,
Macon; Mrs. Selma Johnston,
Littleton; Mrs. W. L. Alston,
Weldon.
Carriers and agents for the
paper include the following: Ro
bert Allsbrook, Bill Britt. Don
ald Move, Bobby Walker, Ri
chard Nethery, Ervin Allen, Win
| field Shearin. Jiggs Hatched.
Billy Butler, Buck Jones, Wayne
Hartley, C. L. Paede, Billy Jen
kins. Freddie Ray. George
Wright, Paul Bailey, Roland Bai
lev. Jack Best, Craig Parrish,
David Andrews, Jimmy Harlowe
and \\ ade. Glosson. city carriers
Charles Landing, Halifax; Lloyd
Thomas, Jackson; Willard S
Sledge, Enfield; Kenneth Odom,
Conway; L. C. King, Warrenton
Lloyd Earl Thomas, Littleton ;
Mrs. Lawrence Denton, Wood
land agent.
Roanoke Mill Fire
Monday Morning
Put Out Quickly
Fire which broke out in a
dryer. in the finishing depart
ment on the third floor of Roa
noke Mills Number Two mill this
morning' caused damage to cloth
and the machine, however water
damage was caused when the
sprinkler system was set off by
the flames.
Roanoke Rapids firemen an
swered the alarm from the plant
about 8:45 a. m. and went im
mediately to the scene of the
fire, only to find that the sprink- .
lers had pretty well extinguish- j
ed the blaze.
Assistant Fire Chief C. B.
Camp went to the fire with •«1e
truck, and Chief \ W. C. King
arrived on the s<$ene within a
short time. King 'said the fire
apparently started j in the lint
flue of the dryer and said fire
damage was negligible. He add
ed that water damage was prob
ably considerable, 1 however he
declined to estimate the amount.
The chief said the* firemen did
not have to use (any of their
equipment.
Workers on the top floor of
the plant left the floor quickly,
and in a short time there were
several inches of water sloshing
around in the vicinity of the
burned machine.
POLIO DECLINING
1 Raleigh, Sept. 13—(AP)— An
apparent decline in the state’s
polio epidemic is bringing an
end to quarantines in various
parts of the state.
Last week’s total of cases re
ported to the State Board of
Health was 112 cases, compared
with 138 the previous week. The
number of cases for the year
reached 2,004.
Mayor Allshrook
Congratulates
City and Herald
Mayor of Roanoke Rapids W.
Bernard Allsbrook today grac
iously saluted the new Daily
Herald with the following let
ter:
“Congratulations on your deci
sion to publish a Daily and Sun
day Herald, thereby keeping
pace with the phenomenal
growth of the City of Roanoke
Rapids.
“This is anothqr step forward
and it. should prove mutually
beneficial both to the city and
to the Herald.”
Late News
HURRICANE HITS BERMUDA
Miami, Fla., Sept. 13—(AP)—
Hurricane winds approaching 140
miles an hour velocity swept
the British island of Bermuda in
the Atlantic today.
NAVY PLANE CLASHES
Ottawa, Sept. 13—(AP)—A U.
S. Naval plane carrying five
persons, tw’o of them classed as
“very important,” is missing be
tween Churchill, Man., and the
Pas, the U. S. embassy said to
day.
LAST TRY
Paris, Sept. 13 —(AP)
big four foreign ministers coun
cil met at the foreign ministry
today for a last try to agree on
Italy’s colonies.
Unless they agree by Wednes
day, the solution will have t.c
be made in the United Nations
under terms of the Italian peace
treaty.
Argument Over Whiskey Results in Weldon Man
Being Stabbed to Death Early Sunday Morning
Negro Held
For Murder
Of G. B. Miles
A roadside qu-rrel over some
whiskey cost the life of Gordon
Bryant Miles, 20, World War II
veteran farmer, of Weldon late
Terry, alias George, Northamp
ton County Negro, was jailed on
a murder charge in the death.
Terry, now being held in an
indisclosed jail, will be brought
before Judge Charles Daniel in
Halifax County Recorder’s court
tomorrow, when Judge Daniel
will sit as committing magis
trate in the preliminary hear
ing.
The dead youth, who lived
with his family in the Mush Is
land section near Weldon, was / '
fatally wounded when T ejapy/
allegedly slashed the left side
af his troat following an argu
ment between Miles and the
young Negro.
Sheriff H. A. House, who con
iucted an investigation of the
:ase, said the knifing took place
about a quarter of a mile from
Weldon on the old highway
which leads into the Mush Is
land section.
Uuarrel Enso pr
The sheriff said 1 ..5 *old
by Miles’ younger brother, W. T.
Miles, Jr., who was with him
at the time of the knifing, that
the two boys were driving up
the road toward Weldon about
11 p. m. when two Ne
gro boys' thumbed K ride
The boy told the sheiifiN that the
two Negro boys had .offc’tu to
sell them some bootleg wMskey
and had gotten mad Wher thejP
refused to buy it. The two white
youths got out of the car and
Miles was cut by the Negro, who
then started to run.
The injured boy’s brother said
he got in the car and attempt
ed to run the fleeing Negro
down, but drove into a ditch and
had to go back down the road
to the heme of his father. Wrt -
ford T. Miles, to get a pickup
truck in which to take his in
jured brother to the hospital at
Roanoke Rapids.
Miles died en route to the hos
pital from the wound and loss
of blood.
Sheriff House, aided by mem
bers of the Roanoke Rapids and
Weldon police forces and State
Highway Patrol officers, made
an immediate investigation of
the case, and about four o’clock
Sunday morning they went to
the home of Terry’s grandmo
ther near Gumberry in North
ampton County. A deputy sher
iff from Northampton County
accompanied the officers to make
the arrest.
icwy, wnu nan Deen laenu
fied by young Miles as the kill
er of his brother, surrendered
to the officers and was brought
to the Roanoke Rapids jail. The
sheriff said the Negro had no
weapon on his person at the
time of the arrest, however he
said he admitted cutting the
white youth and told officers he
had cut him with a pocket knife
and had lost the knife. Ter
ry had been living near Wel
don and working in the vicinity
for several months.
Another Negro, John Harrison,
who was with Terry at the
time of the altercation, was
picked up by the officers early
Sunday morning at the home of
his father at Garysburg and is
being held as a material witness
in the case. •
Negroes' Story
Sheriff House quoted the Ne
groes as saying they were walk
ing along the road from Mush
Island when they were overtak
en by a car. The Negroes told
the sheriff they had some ABC
store whiskey and said the white
youths had demanded that the
Negroes give them some and
had gotten angry when they re
fused. Terry said Miles slapped
his face and said he then drew
out his pocket knife and cut
him.
The sheriff said both Negroes
were taken Sunday to an undis
closed jail where they are be
ing held until Tuesday’s hear
ing at Halifax.
Coroner Rufus Britton said
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Washington, Sept. 13—(AP) —
President Truman’s supporters
counted today on a victory i n
Texas tomorrow to offset the
spreading revolt that threatens to
keep him off several Dixie State
ballots.
Truman forces were primed
for an effort to squash an at
tempt of States Rights backers
to seize control of the party ma
chinery at a state convention.
The states right party al
ready has qualified electors for
Gov. J. Storm Thurmond of
.South Carolina and Gov. Fielding
Wright of Mississippi.
They will contest the Truman
Barkley ticket for Texas’ 23 el
ectoral votes—sixth largest bloc
in the nation—even if they can’t
win control of the party machine.
The Truman camp made n o
secret of the fact it would like a
Texas victory to counteract last
week’s set back in Louisiana.
The state party committee’s
action there ruling Mr. Truman
off the ballot brought threats of
a suit from the Democratic Na
tional Committee as well as re
taliation against the Louisiana
politicians involved.
William Primm Jr., Assistant
o National Chairman J. Howard
McGrath, called the Louisiana
action “Flagrantly dishonest and
fraudulent.” He said the Nation
al committee will use “every le
gal means” to get Mr. Truman’s
name before the voters.
Primm called on William H.
Talbot, Louisiana national com
mitteeman, and other officials
involved to quit their regular
party posts.