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- TIMES I Roxboro, North Ovrollna PUBLISHED MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY Courier-Times Publishing Company The Roxboro Courier Established 1881 The Person County Times Established 1929 J. W. Noell Editor J. 8. Merritt and Thos. J. Shaw, Jr Associates M. C. Clayton Adv. Manager p. R. Taylor, In Service With U. S. Navy 1 year. Out of State 83.00 1 year $2.50 G months $1.40 3 months !75 ADVERTISING RATES Display Ads, 49 Cents Per Inch Reading Notices, lo Cents Per Line The Editors Are Not Responsible lor Views Expressed By Correspondents Entered at The Post Office at Roxboro, N. C. As Second Class Matter MONDAY, MAY 14, 1945 , It Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It, but the COURIER-TIMES says It because It Is true. THE TOTAL EFFECT MAY BE GREATER Discouraging to many people have been the deliberations at the San Francisco con ference, where the Polish issue has been side stepped and left unfinished, with added fuel thrown in by revelation of the treatment by Russia of the Polish underground delegation. Additional thorns have been the Argentine issue and the question of spheres of influ ence in the Western hemisphere, the last named directly related to the principles of the Monroe Doctrine. Looking squarely at the San Francisco conference, it is difficult to see that any achievements of lasting value have been won, and it is possible that the most permanent work of the Conference will be in its clari fication and consolidation of previous prin ciples—say those enunciated at the Dumbar ton Oaks gathering. People of this generation probably will never know how greatly the San Francisco conference has suffered through the loss of leadership from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who could have and would have steered the Conference clear of most of the difficulties enumerated in the paragraph above, but it is possible and to be hoped that the work of the men gathered at San Francisco will be more important than they, the workers realize. To them and to us one thing is plain, the meeting at San Francisco is at its very best only one of a continuing series of conferences that will have to be held before the cease fir ing order that has been given in Europe can become a lasting and effective bid for peace and a looked for world federation. o A TIGHT SITUATION Houses are hard to get in Roxboro. Buying or renting, it makes no difference, and here is the latest example: a few years ago, after Pearl Harbor, Coy Day, a Roxboro business man, moved to Newport News, Va., to en gage in defense work. He took his wife and daughter with him, giving up a house he was renting in Roxboro. The Days lived in New port News about two years, but always want ed to come back home to Roxboro. Finally, about a year ago they came back, taking | when they did the only available house that was for rent here. A few months ago the Days were notified that the owners of their house would need it , for another tenant. From that day to this the Days have been looking for another house, an apartment, anything that could be called a home. Came the first of May, which was moving day, and still no house, and so, Mrs. Day and their daughter went to Weldon to the home of her parents, and Mr. Day is liv ing with his mother, thankful that he has space enough in the up-stairs of his store to keep his furniture. The Days, naturally, are considerably upset. They want to live in Rox boro and are going to, come what may, no matter how much trouble their kinsfolks here and in Weldon have to put up with. But there is one thing certain, Mr. Day agrees fervently with Hubert Eggleston, whom he heard Thursday night at Roxboro Rotary club. There is a housing shortage here and something must be done about it. Mr. Day is no Army veteran of this war, but he did get into his present trouble because ot | war work and he is a plain victim of the said 1 shortage. It comes to a pretty pass when a Roxboro native cannot find a place to lay his head. And that does not take into account the other Roxboro folks who will be coming back here, let alone a few desirable strangers who might like to live here, if they could. o — THE PRICE THAT HAS BEEN PAID Right here — in Roxboro—there are people who apparently have a biased and a warped point of view about the cost of war, who have a hazy conception of proportionate losses in men suffered by the three major nations in the United Nations group, the United States,' Great Britain and Russia. Cold, logical fig ures show that the U. S. losses in men killed were the lowest, although higher than in World War I, and that Russia and Great Bri tin, in the order named, paid most dearly in fighting men listed as killed, comparatively in hundreds of thousands rather than in the thousands suffered by the U. S. Counted, too, in costs, is the production of war materials, including foods, and in this respect the United States does have a right to claim first place, if only we remember that the guns and the planes and the food were produced here under conditions where secur ity and stability were not questioned. Through all of the war the United States so far has been free from destruction. Its build ings and its civilians are intact, whereas the people of Britain and of Russia were requir ed not only to fight but to produce under haz ardous conditions. And even now, with the coming of peace, their farms, their gardens, their homes and their factories have in many instances been destroyed. In the face of these known facts there are some Americans who already are saying that cause we must continue to send food to a starving Europe and ther.e are some Ameri cans who have no sense of values, who are forgetting the part of the burden carried for usH)y Great Britain and by Russia. There are some Amerians who already are saving that our next war will be against the very people whom we have aided. People who talk thus, loosely and without thought, are also the ones • who forget that there is such a word as grati tude. In World War I there were Americans who were chesty because they went across the Atlantic and saved dear old England and his toric France. The unwarranted jingoism ex hibited by some Americans of that day, we believe, was based on a lack of knowledge, both of themselves and of the world outside. World War II was and is much more serious, as those who have fought in it know well enough, but it is discouraging to any promise of world unity to have so many of our home front Americans showing a narrow-minded, cock of the walk attitude. There is no justi fication on any basis of comparisons in suffering or in losses, let alone in what more must be (tone to restore economic stability. o WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING WHERE OUR PRESIDENTS ARE BURIED Labor, Washington, D. C. The death of President Roosevelt has prompted students to thumb the pages of history to locate the last resting places of the thirty gentlemen who preceeded “F. D.” in the White House. Only one is buried within the boundaries of the District of Columbia— Woodrow’ Wilson rests in the crypt in the Episcopalian Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul. Washington sleeps at Mount Vernon, a few miles down the Potomac, and Taft’s grave is in Arlington Military Cemetery in Virginia, w'ithin sight of the White House. Our other Presidents were generally buri ed near their homes. There are exceptions. Grant’s tomb overlooks the Hudson, although he wasn’t a New Yorker. Grover Cleveland rests at Princeton, N. J., and not at Buffalo, where his spectacular political career began. One of the interesting facts developed by this historical research is that “Old Hickory” Jackson declined to have his remains deposit ed in a sarcophagus which had been trans ported across the Atlantic by a naval cap tain who admired the hero of New Orleans. In .declining the offer, Jackson wrote: “Every monument erected to perpetuate the memory of our heroes and statesmen ought to bear evidence of the economy and simplicity of our republican institutions * * * I have prepared an humble depository for my mortal body beside that wherein lies my beloved wife * * * for both of us there to re main until the last trumphet sounds to call the dead to a judgment.” o STEPS IN A PROCESS OF HATE News and Observer Many Americans are seeing conditions in. ' lermany at first hand and forming their own in:;'.: -s ior. r s the German people on the spot. The follow'ng le 'cr from Sgt. William L. Benton of the X.nfh Army Air Force to his wife in Raleigh is ilium Haling: There’s a lot of stuff being ’"rittcr these days about the character of the i eimr i people—those who are now or soon to, be un der our military authority (in other words, all of them), and our attitude toward them. When I was there some time back I had the opportunity to see much for myself. I have been reluctant to write about' it, but I can’t go on writing in a vacuum forever. I saw their towns in ruins, and was glad. I saw them pushing •wagons of 1 junk, or"car rying it op their backs, and scavenging in junk piles, or herded together like sheep at some railway yard. I even saw them brought into a hospital half dead from having stepped on mines left by their own soldiers, and felt no pity. I think possibly I hate them most for making me capable of such hatred. But now they want to convince us that they had noth ing to do with the crimes of the Nazis. And those crimes we are now discovering for our selves—remember how people were polite enough not to call the reports of the Poles and Russians and Czechs “propaganda” mere ly because they were our “allies.” And after all, you have to whip up morale by any means possible where you’re at war. Well, as for the non-party members among the Gentians: they must learn that they cannot disclaim • OPEN FORUM Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Editors, Courier-Times Roxboro. N. C. Dear Sir: For the benefit of all my very dear friends in and around Roxboro, I would like to let them know that I am getting along all right. I was knocked out by shrapnel and re gained consciousness in the water. I was hit over the left eye and am taking treatment in a Hospital now. I am getting along absolutely per fect and I’m feeling fine. I do not have an address as yet ] because everything has to be j straightened out again before I'll ] have a permanent one. So in the meantime the only one I have is the old one. I'm thanking you very much. Yours truly, J. H. Mundy, Warrant Machinist. | Italian, German Prisoners Will Be Sent Home Soon Washington. May 10.—The ship- 1 ment of German prisoners of war from Europe to the United States | stopped on Monday. In reporting this today, General j Brehon Somervell, chief of Army service forces, also said that the War Department had asked Gener al Eisenhower to make arrangements ■ for returning Axis prisoners to Europe. He said the Army desired to move them out as fast as possible, al- i though lye noted; that a number of \ them were employed on farms and that some arrangement would have.; to be made in this connection. We | don't want to keep any Germans on any jobs that American workmen I want." Italian service units, composed of former Italian prisoners of war who volunteered for non-combat work to aid the Allied war effort, will be given priority in the. transfer of prisoners. Somervell said. There are 396.703 POWs in the United States, including 348,115 Ger mans, 50,302 Italians, and 3.286 Jap anese. About 35,000 of the Itftlans belong to service units. The decision to return European war prisoners was made independ ently by this country and had noth ing to do with surrender negotia tions, Somervell said. The LONE RANGER ( COME ON, \ WHAT'S THE MATTER ?\f HOW? HOW -YOU KNOW WHAT I ) WHIM TH6VCE , WlVOOrr TO I'DUNNO. IT'S TOO FAR AWAV .)1 f HO, I *"-I CAN'T TELL FOR SIRE —T WHERE’S MISS DEARING ? f BUT IT MUST BE JAY IT’S £2 7 **?,! M£S f . , MAYBE SHE CAN TELL. / TO BE !Tr 7/ REALLV 'i v 1 -■' : ■- I whoa / whqal its jay rark-1 Isay, who's the red-)( 'never oh, jay,] yeah, but it doesn’t ~; wr A THERE/f— J - ER. he BEAT SKIN RIDIN’ WITH rvSAW THE YOU'VE MEAN MUCH. OAK- T TO.TQ-f - rj" 1 “- 1 responsibility-now simply because they neg lected their responsibility in the years from 1934 on. This ifc their crime—playing Pilate while Hitler proceeded from atrocity to atroc ity. •Still, their guilt is shared, in a lesser de gree, even by us. We permitted what happen ed in Spain, Ethiopia and China. I suppose we’re getting our punishment for it in this war, now, but we’re still getting off easy, some of us, that is. I’m not capable of pass ing judgment, but I’m glad that I’m incap able of denying my responsibility to try to judge—like these “meek” Germans. They’ve got to learn that the bell tolls for them, too. It will be noted that this writer, like many other Americans in Europe, looks at both Germany and his own country with clear eyes. Davidson College Gets Mystery Figure Relics j DAVIDSON.—An interesting fea ture of the annual alumni luncheon to be held this year at Davidson college on commencement day, Frl jday, May 25. will be the presenta tion to the college library of a j number of quaint and valuable I relics of Peter Stuart Ney, Iredell I county school teacher from 1820-40. A collection of interesting mem entos of this romantic and courage ous figure of the early nineteenth .century are now on display in the I Davidsonians room of the Davidson college library. Others are still abroad in this area and some scat tered in more distant locations. A suggestion has been made, sponsor ed by historians and antiquarians : in the piedmont section of the Car -5 olinas, to assemble the various ar ticles now extent at Davidson col lege for safekeeping, j The college library is a new, fire ! proof edifice where the New pos | sessions will be kept on display for their historic and sentimental value, to be viewed by succeeding genera- I tions. «T:! , *|: For, many years, rumors and counter-rumors conceniing the real identity of Peter Stuart Ney have [swirled about the state. These ru mors began in 1815, when Marshal Michael Ney, Napoleon’s trusted lieutenant, was supposed to have | been executed. It was alleged that !he mysteriously escaped and took refuge in North Carolina, where he 'became a famous teacher. In 1840 'he designed the Davidson college seal which has been called a master | piece of symbolism. On May 25, Latta B. Ratledge of Mocksville will present to the col lege Ney's flute and compass case, together with other articles and .accompanied by appropriate cere monies. It is hoped and believed that others who have interesting doc uments and mementos associated with Peter Ney will follow'this ex ample and /deposit them at David son. (Buy War Bonds " ——TODAY United States Combat Losses Reach 247,654 Washington, May—Total United States combat casualties on all fronts have reached 972,654, an in-' crease of 22,182 over a week ago. Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson revealed today. Victory in Europe cost the army about 800,000 casualties, including 150,000 killed*he estimated, and it may be several weeks longer be fore all next of kin notifications for final casualties in Europe are completed. He also said that between 70,000 and 80,000 United States prisoners of war have been liberated from German prison camps, and that 8,000 already have been returned The casualty total includes 867,- 709 for the army and 104,945 for the navy, marine corps and coast guard. The army suffered 34,598 casualties, exclusive of air force losses, in April, the last month of heavy fighting in Europe. From D-Day on June 6, 1944, through last month, the army in Europe, exclusive of the air forces, suffered 512,113 casualties, includ ing 88,225 killed, 365,320 wounded, and 58,568 missing and captured. Os all the 536,029 soldiers re ported wounded, more than half or 283,472 have returned to duty. The table of officially announced casualties for all services: Army Navy Total Killed 175,168 41,458 216,626 Wounded 536,029 48,858 584.887 Missing 74,305 10,382 84,686 Prisoners 82,208 4,247 86,455 Total 867,709 104,945 972,654 Channel Islands Now Liberated London, May 13.—British troops have returned to the channel is lands which were the only part of Britain captured by Germany, and as the parting shots of the war were fired on the continent the U-boat fleet began arriving in British wat ers under the flag of surrender. The channel islands, famous for the cattle first bred on Jersey, and Guernsey, are closdr to France’s iCotentin peninsula than to Britain. The Germans invaded in 1940 and heavily fortified them, particularly the Island of Alderney guarding the approaches of Cherbourg, i After the fall of Cherbourg last summer the Germans on the islands held out and the Allied command never deemed them worth the cost of seizing them in the face of big coastal guns. Curtailments In Travel Continue Washington, May 13.—The public is asked to stay at home and forego all unnecessary travel this spring and summer, next fall—and even next winter, if the Pacific war lasts that- long. Director J. Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation said that, with the shift to the Paci fic war, the next 12 to 15 months will be “the most critical period in transportation history." Trains and busses have have no space for unessential travel he said. There will be no resort trains or busses for vacation trips, and pas senger train schedules which have been cancelled cannot be restored. Other schedules may be cancelled, he added. No ODT wadtime controls over transportation will be relaxed at this time, and more restrictions may be added. Freight priorities for civ ilian commodities may be needed. “Civilian travel in the Pacific coast area will become well-nigh impossible at times during the com ing months," he said. 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The limitation* on paints have been made more drastir this year There will be only a limited supply available Get Your requirements early PLYWOOD We have been able to secure a limited supply of plywood No priority required for tills board • ROXBORO LUMBER COMPANY “Home of Quality Lumber" a*rvaßow, and oOtwa nuty 'aF'tfeef same.: , o——— .... a New Raids On \ Okinawa Coining v i Guam, May 11.—Six Marine Div ision engineers have bridged the Asa River just above Naha for new thrust toward the Okinawa cap ital city despite suicidal efforts of the enemy to blow up the bridge with human bombs, it was announc ed today. All across the island, Marines and soldiers fought forward slowly In bloody hand-to-hand combat, and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that the Japanese air force had le inched another desperate Suicide| assault against ground installations and U. S. fleet units off Okinawa on Wednesday night and Thursday. You watch is more valuable than ever. Take care of it. 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