IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI
jGerman Fuehrer
Begins Vacation
At Ominous Time
A pre-Christmas week studded
disaster for Nazi Germany,
aifll with ominous portents for
her outlawed partner, Soviet
Russia, throws its heavy shadow
over the man upon whom the
tragedy events turn as a pivot,
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
He has gone, Berlin reports, to
take his Yuletide holiday at his
mountain-top retreat, Berchtes
gaden. Yet the unchallengable ev
ents of the week on the sea front
will keep him grim company in
his holiday making.
By his order, a hundred thous
and tons or more of German ship
ping, including the powerful poc
ket battleship Admiral Graf
Spee and the Nazi luxury liner
Columbus, once the boast of the
German merchant marine, have
been scuttled by German hands
to save them from enemy seizure
or the rusting idleness of inter
ment in neutral ports. To cap
that,comes word that Captain
Langsdorff of the Spee has end
ed his own life in Buenos Aires,
as he ended that of his ship by
Hitler’s command.
Turn of Tide?
The tide seems to have turned
heavily against Germany. Nazi
submarines, Nazi mines and Nazi
aircraft have for 16 weeks taken
heavy toll of Franco-British and
neutral shipping; yet London re
ports British import and export
totals rising. From France comes
j an official recapitulation that half
a hundred Nazi U-boats have
been sunk in the war. British
submarines report they have
scored heavily against Nazi sur
face craft.
In Finland, Gremany’s doubt
ful “friend”, Soviet Russia, is
meeting bitter resistance from
her midget foe. World opinion has
branded Russia an outlaw for
that incursion, spawned of the
German-'French-British conflict.
The ponderous machinery of
Franco-British power is mqving
to give such aid and succor as is
possible to doughty Finland, while
the neutral world applauds.
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1940 LICENSE
PLATE FIGURES
GIVEN TO DATE
Sales Reported As Slight
ly Less Than Last Year At
The Same Time.
Through Tuesday of this week
a total of 1,342 automobile, truck
and trailer license plates for
1940 had been sold at the local
branch of the Carolina Motor
club, according to figures releas
ed today by the manager, Miss
Nina Abbitt.
Miss Abbitt reported that of the
total advance sales recorded 1,103
plates were sold for passenger
cars; 74 were sold for trucks and
165 for trailers. Os the total num
ber of 1940 plates sold to date it
may be observed that figures
show a decrease of 19 over the
number sold last, year through
the same date, December 19, when
; 1,109 passenger car plates; 85
truck plates and 167 trailer plat
es had been sold.
In a message to local motorists
Miss Abbitt urged prompt buy
ing of 1940 plates, since after the
Stroke of midnight December 31,
all motorists driving cars or oth
er vehicles Without the new 1940
licenses may be subjected to ar
rests and fines. Sale of the plates
began the first of this month. And
U platerbofQght now may be placed
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY ft THURSDAY
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Mr. and Mrs. James Oliver! of Qolncy, Mass., visited by tbe stork only recently, are shown with their
family of 12 children. Mrs. Oliverl holds the youngest arrival, who was christened Peter. Mr. Oliver!, 36 years
old, is an anto mechanic receiving $36 a week salary. Mrs. Oliverl is 32 years old. The couple has been mar
ried for 15 years.
N. Y. A. Officials Visit
City And County Yesterday
Made Inspection Os N. Y. A.
Buildings At Training
School and Bushy Fork.
Roxboro was crowded with not
ables yesterday as a large num
ber came to this city and coun
ty to inspect recently finished N.
Y. A. buildings. Among those pre
sent were Aubrey Williams, head
of the N. Y. A., Congressman Lon
Folger, of the fifth district; Con
gressman Durham of Chapel Hill
and John Lang, state head of the
N. Y. A. The men were joined
here by Person County leaders
and then made an inspection of
the N. Y. A. buildings at the
Person County Training school
and the community building at
Bushy Fork school.
Aubrey Williams made a short
talk at Bushy Fork and the dele
gation remained there for about
cne hour. A delicious lunch was
served by the ladies of the com
munity around noon.
The Bushy Fork building was
constructed entirely by N. Y. A.
students. They even went into
the woods, cut the logs and erect
ed the building.
The out-of-town officials con
tinued their inspection, going
frcm Roxboro to other points
where N. Y. A. buildings had
been erected. Only a brief stop
was made at each point.
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Driver Unhurt In
Truck Turn-Over
Steven Satterfield, driver of a
milk truck for the Roxboro Dairy
Products company, escaped in
jury early Sunday morning, a
bout 4 o’clock, when his truck
turned over on the Durham high
way going towards Quail Roost
dairy, just the other side of
Rougemont.
Satterfield is reported to have
gone to sleep while driving. In
the truck were some 70 empty
milk bottles. When the. driver
woke up the truck was doing a
single turn-over and repeated an
other half turn before it came to
a stop with 4 intact bottles and
considerable damage to the truck.
A. C. Fair, owner-manager of
the Roxboro Dairy Products com
pany was driving about five hun
dred feet behind the truck at the
time tke accident happened.
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FIRE TRUCK BUSY
The city fire department has
been summoned five times in the
last few days, though none of the
fires did serious damage. In all
cases an old field had caught.
One fire was near the prison
camp, one near the home of Jess
Davis, one next to McWharter
Lumber Co., one near Mrs. Mun
day’s, and one near Henry Gates’,
on Highway 144.
Quarterly Funds
Are Paid Out
By Rail Company
Roanoke, Va., Dec. 20—Benefits
amounting to $164,348.75 were
paid to members of the Norfolk
and Western Employees’ Relief
fund and their families during
the third quarter of 1939, acord
ing to the quarterly report of the
railway’s relief and pension de
partment.
The receipts of the fund during
the quarter totaled $207,388,10,
the report disclosed. At the end
of the quarter, the fund had a
balance of $3,789,518.92, a net
gain of $144,366.57 for the 12
m ruths ended September 30, 1939.
Since the establishment of the
Fund on July 1, 1917 to Septem
ber 30, 1939, members and their
families have been paid $12,352,-
553.11 in benefits. For the estab
lishment and operation of the
department, the entire cost of
which is borne by the railroad,
the Norfolk and Western has ex
pended $2,671,350.39.
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CITY EDITOR CONFINED
Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., city edi
tor of the Times, is confined to
his room because of a severe cold.
He will probably be out again in
a day or two.
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HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. A. C. Fair has returned to
her home here for the holidays,
from Park View hospital, Rocky
Mount, N. C. She will return soon.
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“What doth Invention but togeth
er place,
The blocks of a child’s game to
make it whole?”
—Johnson
Rites Conducted
For Miss Oakley
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
at the graveside, in Hobgood fa
mily cemetery, for Miss Sallie
Oakley, 78, of Rougemont, Route
1, the Mt. Harmony community,
who died Saturday night at the
home of her nephew, Lester Oak
ley. The rites were in charge of
a friend and neighbor of the
family, Spencer E. Peed.
Miss Oakley, who had been in
ill health for some time, is sur
vived by one sister, Mrs. Nancy
Oakley, of Rougemont, Route 1,
and by a number of nieces and
nephews.
Pallbearers were Hunter Keats,
Albert Clayton, Oscar Cothran,
Jim Latta, Walter Vaughan and
Buster Paylor. Flower bearers
were Misses Doris, Evelyn and
Lucile Oakley.
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14-YEAR-OLD BOY IS
THUMBING’ TO BOWL
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 20
Walter Maples, Jr., 14-year-old
Knoxville high school boy hitch
hiked tnto town today, declar
ed he hadn’t missed a University
of Tennessee football game in
three years and didn’t intend to
start January 1 when the Vols
play in the Rose Bowl.
“My folks worry about me a
little,” he said, “but they told me
if I was big enough fool to do it,
why go ahead—and here I am.”
A laugh greeted suggestion that
tickets were a bit scarce out there
at Pasadena for the Tennessee-
Southern California matinee.
Person People Prepare
For The Christmas Season
Stores Have Been Crowd
ed With Shoppers This
Week; Everything Closed
Monday.
Roxboro has been crowded with
Christmas shoppers all the week
and indications point to the fact
that both city and county mer
chants will continue to be busy
from now until late Saturday
night. All stores were packed
with Christmas merchandise at
the beginning of the season and
from the looks of things now old
Santa is certainly going to leave
plenty of gifts in this county.
Stores will continue to remain
open at nights through Saturday
thus giving everyone ample time
Chamber Commerce May
Be Disbanded Dec. 28th.
RECORD MARK SET
BE TOBACCO CROP
1939 Flue-Cured Output Os
1,117,594,000 Topped 1938’s
By 42 Percent.
Washington, Dec. 19—The De
partment of Agriculture annual
crop summary today placed the!
1939 flue-cured tobacco crop at
1,117,594,000 pounds, which is the
largest in history.
With production control aban-J
doned in the referendum during
the Fall of 1938, flue-cured grow
ers turned on the steam and in
creased their .crop to 42 per cent
over the previous year’s mark
and exceeded the ten-year aver
age by 59 per cent. Increased
average and high yield both were
responsible for the record crop.
The estimated 1939 yield of 905
pounds of flue-cured tobacco an
acre was exceeded only in 1935,
when the average was 928 pounds,
as compared with 760 pounds for
the ten-year average.
North Carolina was most res
ponsible for the bumper 1939 flue
crop. The Eastern North Carolina
belt, for instance, stepped up pro
duction from 251,980,000 pounds
to 400,950,000, the increase be
ing 33,000,000 pounds more than
the total crop of Georgia, Florida
and Alabama.
Production in the Old, Eastern
and Border belts in North Caro
lina totaled 800,650,000 pounds.
Virginia produced 104,800 pounds
and South Carolina, 226,150
pounds.
North Carolina this year pro
duced 290,700,000 pounds of pea
nuts, as compared to 249,075,000
last year. Total U. S. peanut pro
duction this year was 1,179,505,-
I 000, as compared with 1,305,800,-
! 000 last year.
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RUMANIA INCREASES
NAZI OIL SHIPMENTS
Bucharest, Dec. 20 Rumania
tonight agreed to double her oil
shipments to Germany.
The government consented to a
new trade agreement with the
reich after hard-fought negotia
tions which several times broke
down and precipitated the fall of
one Rumanian cabinet.
The new pact calls for Rumania
to send Germany 190,000 tons of
oil monthly. The first eight
months of this year Germany av
eraged 120,000 tons, but since the
start of the war the figure had
been cut to about 80,000.
to complete his purchases.
Over Roxboro and in the coun
ty, Christmas decorations are on
display in the homes and on the
lawns. Lighted Christmas trees
dot the landscape almost every
way one turns.
Practically every place of busi
ness in this county will be closed
next Monday, Christmas' Day. A
few will observe two days, Mon
day and Tuesday.
Taking everything into consid
eration it looks like a nice Christ
mas in this county. Although
people do not have any extra
money they are entering into the
spirit of Christmas and a nice
time seems to be in store for the
well-to-do and poor alike.
THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1939
Presidential Gift
None Other Than
Person Product
Two local citizens, Arthur
Crosley and C. A. Harris, confess
ed today to a “scoop” on the
White House Santa Claus.
• As officials of the John Watt’s
Sons company located here and
makers of towels, these two gent
lemen “are in the know” because
they have been informed, via
their New York offices, that Sec
retary of the Treasury, Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., shopping in
a York department store
for the Presidential gift, has se
lected no less than three dozen,'
blue-bordered and “F. D. R.”
monogrammed, made in Roxboro
bath towels.
Elated by possible official ap
probation of their contribution
to the White House and Hyde
Park St. Nocholas, Messrs. Cros
ley and Harris are so pleased
that they can scarcely find time
to decorate their own Christmas
trees.
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KIWANLS OFFICERS
ARE INSTALLED AT
FINAL ’39 MEETING
E. E. Bradsher, Jr. Winner
Os Large Christmas Tur
key.
Members of the Roxboro Ki
wanis club, holding their final
meeting of the year at the local
Community house, Monday night
installed the following officers
for the coming year: President,
F. O. Carver, Jr.; vice-president,
Ben Brown; secretary, J. A. Long,
Jr.; treasurer, E. E. Bradsher, Jr.,
and sergeant-at-arms, R. A. Bul
lock. These men, together with
Messrs. Ralph Cole, George
Currier, Stewart Ford, Emmett
Hedgepeth and the retiring presi
dent, D. R. Taylor, will consti
tute the 1940 board of directors
lof the organization.
At the meeting one new mem
ber, R. D. Bumpass, was welcom
ed into the fellowship of the
club.
Prior to the installation of of
ficers, the Christmas basket fund
sponsored by the club was con
cluded and E. E. Bradsher, Jr.,
declared winner of the Christ
.mas turkey. Judge in the contest
was S. F. Nicks, Jr., mayor of this
city. It was reported that appro
ximately SSO was raised for the
Basket fund during the cam
paign. This sum will be supple
mented by contributions receiv
ed from coin boxes placed in
various stores and public build
ings.
It was decided at the meeting
j that the club, through its repre
j sehtative, J. B. Snipes, will con
tribute to the support of the
Christmas entertainment pro
gram to be given at Eastern Caro
lina Training school, Rocky
Mount, December 28.
Next meeting of the club will
be held on New Year’s night at
Hotel Roxboro,
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SCHOOLS CLOSE
AH rural schools in the county
closed for Christmas last Tues
day. They will reopen on Janu
ary 1, after a holiday of twelve
I days.
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NUMBER TWENTY-ONE
Meeting Os Members ■’
Called To Decide Issue
After Christmas Holi
days.
Has 73 Members
A meeting of the members of
the Roxboro Chamber of Com
merce will 'be called for Thurs
day night, December 28, for the
purpose of determining whether
the Chamber of Commerce be
continued in Roxboro. Recently
a number of members have re
signed from the organization thus
leaving so few members that it
is almost impossible for the
Chamber to continue from a fin
ancial standpoint.
At a meeting of the directors
that was held last month it was
decided to place the matter dir
ectly in the hands of the mem
bers and let them decide. The
directors did not feel like tak
ing the responsibility upon them
selves.
This meeting will be held in
the grand jury room of the court
house at 8 o’clock on the night
of December 28. Glenn Stovall,
president of the organization will
preside over the meeting.
If the Chamber of Commerce
is to be disbanded, the directors
feel that it should be done before
January 1. If it is to be continued
this should be decided before
January 1.
The local organization now has
73 members, that are supposed to
pay $2.50 per month.
The Chamber was organized a
bout six years ago and has ha<£
three secretaries, Hugh Sawyer,
Jack Bane and Melvin Burke-
Mr. Burke, the present secretary,
has tendered his resignation, ef
fective January 1.
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COUNTERFEIT TENS
COME TO LIFE AT
SEVERAL PLACES
$lO Silver Certificates Tak- !
en In By Merchants. G-Man <
Here.
Because of the discovery in this
area of a number of counterfeit
$lO silver certificates, a Depart
ment of Justice official, of the
United States Treasury depart
ment, arrived in Rpxboro Tues
day to begin investigations
Thought to have several clues a» v
to the guilty parties, he declined
as yet to make a public statement.
At least five of the bogus cer
tificates were passed to merchants
here during ithe week-end and
three cf them were recognized as
spurious when they were turned
in at the local bank.
’ At first glance, the bills rather
' closely resemble genuine certi
ficates, although the counterfeit
: paper is approximately one
eighth of an inch shorter, is at
lighter weight and has certain
visible blurs on the obverse side
Hamilton potrait and on the re- ,
* verse side picture of the Federal
' Treasury building. Bankers here
reported that all three plate num
bers are different.
Persons receiving any bills of
counterfeit type are requested |||
r report the matter to their nearest ,
. policeman, or law enforcement.
• official at once, and if possible,
to detain the passer of such btffej
until an officer arrive*.