Roanoke Rapids to Host Extra North Carolina Guard Company
Roanoke Rapids will gain a new infantry unit of the North Carolina State Guard with 50 enlisted men and three officers. Ed H. Graves, F. S. Kemp, and John B. Dunn were selected for captain and two lieutenants, pending examination by the State Guard Board. Enlistment begins after year start. headquarters will be the Roanoke Rapids Armory.
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Roanoke Rapids
North Carolina State Guard
van Metts
Jenkins
Citizens Committee
East Carolina
Ed H. Graves
Halifax Paper %Co
F. S. Kemp
Roanoke-Patterson Mills
John B. Dunn
Roanoke Mills Co
State Guard Board
Tragedy Near Gaston In Army Truck Crash
A U S Army half ton truck overturned near Gaston killing Mrs Virginia Rowell 22 of Roanoke Rapids Pvt John P Adkins 24 and Sgt Mills of Pennsylvania. Injured Pvt Herbert W King of Roanoke Rapids driver. The crash occurred on Route 47 near 46 intersection after curving at Gaston. Mills and Rowell died instantly. Adkins died later at Roanoke Rapids Hospital. King had minor injuries. Mills and King were bivouacked at Emporia Airport and Camp Pickett. Adkins was at Camp Davis on furlough. Rowell was the daughter of the late Richard Balmer of Pleasant Hill. Funeral services held today at Wrenn Funeral Home.
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Virginia Rowell
Roanoke Rapids
John P. Adkins
Sergeant Mills
Pennsylvania
Herbert W. King
Sgt. Mills
Rowell
Adkins
King
Ernest Guthrie
Gaston
Guthrie
Mills
Emporia
Camp Pickett
Pleasant Hill
Rowel
Washington St
Wrenn Funeral Home
E. G Garlington
Spring Church Methodist Church
J. P. Adkins
South Boston
Roanoke Mills Co. No. 2
Start Drive for Salvage Waste Paper New Roanoke Rapids effort
J R Meikle announces a city wide paper salvage drive for Wednesday December 29 with city trucks and Boy Scouts collecting door to door. Residents should place paper on porches by 1 p m to support the war effort.
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J. R. Meikle
Roanoke Rapids
Needy List Taken Care Of By Clubs
No separate list appears in the Herald this week as civic clubs and other organizations in the city handle Christmas assistance. The qualifying families are mostly disabled or aged, with widows and large families among the needy. Interested individuals may contact Mrs. Clayton Gurley at the Community Chest office in the Imperial Theatre building to receive family names and needs for contributions.
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Herald
Clayton Gurley
Community Chest
Wrecks Kill and Injure Dozens on ACL Streamliners
Two crowded Atlantic Coast Line streamliners wrecked on an ice bound track near Bute North Carolina. Between 50 and 100 dead and over 100 injured as rescuers battled through snow to hospitals in Lumberton Fayetteville and Red Springs. Train No 91 the Tamiami West Coast champion was southbound from New York and had stopped at Weldon for survivors.
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Atlantic Coast Line
Lamberton
Fayetteville
Bute
New York
Weldon
Herald Prepares Early Christmas Edition Next Week
The Herald announces its Christmas issue will publish one day early next week to boost advertiser messages, assist the post office with holiday deliveries, and grant staff an extra Christmas day. Advertisers and correspondents are urged to submit copy by Monday noon for display ads.
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Herald
The
Post Office Department
Service Men Accepted at Bragg December 1
Local Draft Board No 1 announces selective service acceptances at Fort Bragg on December 1. Names include Claudie Wiggins Drewery Johnnie Junious Jenkins Joseph Linwood Long Francis Lloyd Starke and others led by Woodrow Wilson and George Whitley Draper.
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Draft Board No. 1
Fort Bragg
Claudie Wiggins Drewery
Johnnie Junious Jenkins
Joseph Linwood Long
Francis Lloyd Starke
William Lawrence Trippe
Horace Ray Longmire
Grover Cleveland Salmon
Henry Thomas King
Woodrow Wilson
Lucious Benjamin White
Fate Hall
Churchill Perkins Brown
Willie Jessie Shaw
Edward Lee Coker
William Reginald Branch
George Whitley Draper
William Roland Jones
Uburth Young
Gardener Blount Bunn
John Gurney Brown
David Loy Shearin
George Benjamin Hale
Lonnie Thomas Vaughan
Woodrow Wilson Jenkins
Boy Scout Court Of Honor Postponed
The Boy Scout Court of Honor scheduled for Sunday December 19 at 11 at First Methodist Church is postponed. Local officials will announce the new date in the Herald once decided.
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First Methodist
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Lemuel L. Newsome
J. P. Newsome
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Esso
Rotary Club
Bragg
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