:A. nd* a■» "WV WVUUM mamEDk lives-you lend JHg(!i\j YOUR HONEY" Wor Bondi Today ww In eerwtag VOLUME XIV Parolees and Their Problems Theme of Address by Howard Commissions Field Worker Agency Guest Says Rehabilitation Im portant Factor In Restor ing Persons From Pri sons To Society. “Whom tjo parole, and when and where to send them”, were described yesterday by B. J. Howard, of Chapel Hill, of the Field Staff of the State Parole commission, as problems con fronting parole workers called upjcn to investigate cases of pris oners seeking executive clem ency. Howard spoke at April ses sion of the Person County Coun cil of Soscial agencies held at Hotel Roxboro as a luncheen. Howard, who was introduced by Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, program chairman, paid high tribute to Mrs. Wagstaffs work in the Per son Welfare department among parolees, of citing a particular case in which a pancle violation was adjusted. Howard stressed the fact that more than 95 percent of prison ers win a release at some time, either by parole or by serving out sentence, and said that not more than threte percent die in prison. He described further the rehabilitation program of paT (tum to page eight, please) WAR SERVICE WINDOW PLANNED BY ROSE’S STORE C. J. Fox, Manager Os Roxboro Unit, Wants Photographs Os Person And Roxboro Fighters. C. 5. Fox, manager of the Rox bcro unit of RoSs’s 5, 10 and 25 cent "sf9ft,'today for establishment of a “War Ser vice” winddfwt in his *tme, fea ture of which is to be photo graphs of Person County and Rjoxboro men and women who are serving their Country in the army, navy, marine corps or other service units. • Fox .desires that these photo * graphs be 1 brought to him at Rose’s store, in any size, in fram ts tar in folders, with name end rank of the subject and with ad dress of the owner of the photo graph. It is planned that the display will occupy one whole window or more, increasing in sine as photographs ate turned hi. Pho tographs wall remain the prop erty hit the owner and will be returned to him or her after the display l is doted, although it is expected that the window. Will be far many months on display as a 'photographic record of Person men qpd women who are in mil itary service. The number of such men and women already is large and is constantly growing. Interested citizens are, faulted to temp or fariftg their “War Service”, pic • as toe-number on hand is large . chough to be « nttrectfctely pre- PUBUSHKD WERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1943 FRED FOX NOW IN LAS VEGAS, LIKES SALT LAKE Former Rose Department Store Man Now In Air Corps. Private Fred H. Fox, who has been stationed at Lowery Field, Colo., has graduated from the Armament school there and has been sent to Las Vegas, Nlev. He will be stationed in Las Vegas five weeks. While in Roxboro he was conrteoted with Rose’s De partment store. In command at Lowery Field, near Denver, was Brig. 1 Gen. Early E. W. Duncan, Person County native and University of North Carolina graduate, al though he has now been succeed ed by Brig. G)en. Sneed, accord ing to Fox. Fcx, formerly a resident of Bethel Hill and a graduate of Bethel Hill high school, is now in the Air Corps and expects to re ceive his wings at Las Vegas. While at Denver, where his wife, spent some time with hun, he was greatly impressed with the saenery, but that was before he saw Salt Lake City, Utah, dur ing a stop-over on, the way to Las Vegas. Thing that impressed Fox most in Salt Lake City was the great Morman temple, with hand-carv jed stone walls, sixteen feet thick at the base and tapering to six feet at the top. Also beautiful' I are the lake and the Stats house j and tower, as well as the flowers and the mountains. t ———————— Fairchild Builds New Type Plane Mi c*m Fumituee Workers Writ ing AnofUer Chapter In Aviation History. Some Commute From Roxboro. Burlington, April 29. Forty years is a long time to remem ber details, but there seems to be little doubt that on December 17, 1903, Alpheus Drinkwater was handed a message which said “Tests successful. Will be home by Christmas,” signed Orville and Wilbur. Alpheus Drinkwater at the moment was about to freeze to death, because he had tapped the coast guard telegraph line out cm Kitty Hawk baech, and set his Joey up on a box. The wind was sweeping the teach like nobody’s business. Romancers have it another way, but the feet is that Alpheus tnd his telegraph machine were out on the beach because one of the navy’s first submarines had aome to grief on a sand bar off; the Carolina coast, and Teddy Roosevelt was demanding almost hourly reports on efforts to re* float yiv'- 1; ■>v • ' z f Everybody knew,, qf that the bicjtetS makers Dayton Were Hist fooling around ou nearby Kill Devil Hill, ans hafrteceane used to (Tom to RDH four please) - v >' 'US- rnrunn PERSON I IHI f COUNTY In Senate Race Ii • m wS l Clyde R. Hoey Hoey Will Be Seeking Senate Seat f Former Governor Will Oppose Robert Rice Rey nolds In Democratic Con test. RAT .EIOH, April 28. Former Gov. Clyde R. Hoey late Tues day afternoon declared unequi vocally his candidacy for the United States senate. He said it in an easy 10 word telegram, writing his announcement' on a pad while the photographer caught him in pose and repose. Governor Hoey then talked in formally and briefly to newspa per and radio men expressing his amazement at the number of long distance calls, telegrams jand letters which have come to him since Former Gov. Max Gardner took himself from the same race. • It was known by many news papermen that Hoey had been memoralized anew to get into the gubernational race and when Judge Warlick left that contest the set conference of candidate and scribes had double interest i because it might produce an angle on the governship, but Governor Hoey settled that in a few seconds. He will make the senatorial race no matter who else runs. During the day Ex-Congress man W. B. Umstead, of Durham, was asked if he considers the senatorial Yace as candidate. He dec&rt Chicago, April 29.—Fifty years ago this May Day a dream city —the World’s Columbian Expo sition—opened its gate* on the shores of. Lake Michigan. ' Millions came, stared bug-eyed, then -wept home with millions _of dreams of their own. Some Os those dreams never oeto* tni*> many others were ful fiilSd beyond even the dreamers’ expectations. h They theught in those days we loop would be taßtf ng with Mars pm a beam of light. j 00 (tom Infant Arrives While Blaze Rages Nearby \ Archer Wayne Lee, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Raney Lee, of Route one, Roxboro, arrived yesterday during a time of great excitement. He was born at three A. M., at Community hospital while Roxboro’s $40,- 000 fire raged nearby. Electric power was off and the attend ing physician and nurses work ed with an emergency lamp. Two such lamps were furnish ed by Fire Chief Henry E. O’- Briant, who took them off the City fire truck. Physician was Dr. George W. Gentry. War Loan On Way To Goal Top In Person i Gordon C. Hunter, Person and Roxbero chairman of the Second War Loan drive, to day reported that the drive here now stands at $239,000, near the $242,000 goal, which Hnnter hopes will be exceed ed. He said this morning he hopes subscription will reach at least $275,000. LOVE NEWMAN, IN (TTY COURT, GETS ROAD SENTENCE I I Finds He Cannot Pay Out Os Charge Os “Cus sin.” I Love Newman, 23, Roxboro Negro, with a long Mayor’s Court record, has found that “cussin” out women and using the s'ame words to describe the police officers summoned by the outraged women, do nic weapon, sent to Recorder’s Court; Willie Parker, 29, drunk and disorderly, not guilty, sort to Recorder!* on possession charge; Tommie Thomas, 29, dcnaftl and disorderly, $9.25; O. E. Carver, 51, drunk, $8.25 and Jean Haw ley, 22, Negn> man, drunk, called and failed. Also Joseph Shelton, 2%as sault on wits by slapping, war rent withdrawn by wife, who paid coats; also, J.A Jordan, 45, charged wi|u*dtor* intoxicated, $8.25, and Willard of Hurdle Mills, charged with being drunk and with resisting arrest, bound over to Recorder’s Court under $l9O bond. ;.» > $40,000 Blaze Destroys Six Buildings In Business Area Parker And Harrison Get Stiff Fines Daves Sentences Men Charged With Manufac turing Whiskey. Hubert Parker, 28, and D. R. Harrison, 25, two white men of Cunningham township, Person County, both charged with man ufacturing whiskey and appre hended last week by Sheriff M. T. Clayton, on Tuesday received jin Person Recorder’s Court be- I fore Judge R. B. Dawes, heaviest j fines meted out to any offender lin this court. Both Parker and Harrison were required to pay fines of $75 apiece and one half the costs each. ISheriff Clayton today re ported destruction of another still in AUensville township, third found in that' township in one day and bringing total to four discovered there and in Cunningham in less than twenty-* four hours. Other Recorder’s Court cases included: Robert Oliver, unlaw ful possession, called and failed, bond set at $100; Alton Eakes, 18, no operator’s license, su spended, with costs; Robert New man, Negro, 26, larceny, six months on the roads, and Loren jzo Gentry, Negro, 32, carrying j concealed weapon SSO and costs, with weapon, a pistol, confis cated. Also, Foster High, Negro, 44, ! assault with a deadly weapon, suspended, with costs; Roy Owen, Negro, 40, drunken driv ing, SSO and costs, with license revoked twelve months; Willie C. Parker, 26, unlawful posses sion, prayer for judgement con tinued, and Joshua Crowder, Negro, 22, judgement suspended, with ccsts. Edmund Walker, Negro, 28, carrying concealed weapon, six months on the roads, suspended with fine of S6O and confiscation of pistol. Roy Lee Holt,' 30, Yan ceyville truck driver, no chauf feur’s license, sus pended with costs; Ernst Hamlet, Negro, 24, no operator’s license, fine of sl, with license suspend ed eight months, and George Page, 28, judgement suspended with costs. FEATHERSTON GETS POSITION IN RED CROSS Mrs. Sue Feathers ton To Be Executive Secretary Qf Person And Roxboro Chapter. .. .*'•• -f Mrs. Sue Featherston, of Roxboro, will in the near future bernene .first executive secretary of ibe Person:and Roxboro chap ter of the American Red, Cron, it was learned here today. Mrs. Featherston, now con nected with « public school luncheon project, will begin her new A)se& as soon as the school term is ended. • Members of the Chapter com mittee, who conferred with Mrs. Featherston, included Dr. Robert S, XiovuL charter president and w Wallace Woods; organization fiTim 4/. MARRIED MEN AND YOUTHS IN ARMY UNIT White And Negro Men In Selective Service Group Report For Exam inations. The following Person County and Roxboro white men in April quota of Selective Service left this morning for Camp Croft, S. C., at Spartanburg, for examina tion and possible induction into military service. Jessie James Carver,, William Howell Scarborough, Aster Blair, Lacy Elmo Johnson, Ellis Wood son Vaughan, Charles Spurgeon Wade, Jr., Basil Wilkersqn Gar rett, Roby David Turner, James Charles Brooks and Nathaniel Ward Hicks. Also, Preston Thomas Whitt, Jr., Ellis Shaube Dunkley, Clar ence Thomas Satterfield, Thomas Arthur Bpwles, Clifton Isaac Childrey, Marion Paul, Harvey Edward Blowles, Archie Nichols Bunn, Robert Baynes Harris and Luther Thomas Attains. Also, Johnnie Thomas Duncan, Aarpn Bert Dark, Jr., Claude Earl Langford, Emory James Foushe?, Willard Colman Norris, Andrew Bryant Hubbard,- Edwin Eamhart Flythe, John Floyd Howard, Henry Talmadge Pulli am, Otis Lee Melton, William Al fred Wilson, Jr., Coy James Hor ton, Thomas Hill Clayton and Calvin Coolidg)? Stovter Harris. Also, William Henry Shotwell, Coy Henry Dickey, Graham Love Duncan, Christo Younger Fox, Flynt Austin Oliver, Floyd Thomas Gates, Ernest Bradsher (sum to page four, please) College At Greensboro to Have Finals Woman’s College Os Un iversity Will Have June Commencement. Greensboro, April 29.—Fiftieth annual commencement exercises of Woman’s college will be held June 5, 6 and 7, with the Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian church, Washington, scheduled to deliver the baccalureate sermon, and, according to custom, Gov. J. M. Broughton, President Frank [p. Graham, of the University of North Carolina, Dr. W. C. Jack son, dean of administration and a spokesman for the senior class the speakers for the graduating exercises. Miss Mary Jo Rendleman, An na, HI., president of Student Gov ernment association, has been chosen by ber classmates as rep resentative of the class of 1948 at these exercises which will taka place at ISSQ a- m. Monday, June 7, in Ayoock auditorium as the final event of commencement ex ercises. Other commencement events are dam day exercises Saturday afternoon June 5, and Our nap*- al play as a courtesy to visitors that night, a lawn for seniors, their (Turn to page dour please) j BACK UP WL YOUR BOYBH Buy an Additional HgUKr Bond Today Roxboro Lumber Company Loses Two Structures State And County School Boards Lose Property. Chicken Establishedment Destroyed. Fire, doing an estimated dam age of $40,000, partially covered by insurance, early Wednesday morning in the Depot street bus iness district of Roxboro, destroy ed six buildings, including the office and two lumber sheds of Roxboro Lumber company and a building used as Person Coun ty garage to house public school trucks and repair parts. The blaze orgininated in the County Garage, Foushee street, from undetermined causes and spread to other buildings on De pot and Long streets. Saved from the blaze were twp hundred baby chicks and three hundred laying hens in a chick en establishment operated by E. L. and Q. B. Mcßroom. Two hundred other chickens were) lost. Buildings of Roxboro Lumber company, owned by Preston Sat trefield, Sr., and Jr., and by W. Burkte Mewbcrne, will tie"'"re-"'"* 1 built. Person Superintendent o f Schools R. B. Griffin, reported that two relief school busses, a gasoline truck, many repair parts and some school furniture stored in the garage were lost. Scheol equipment is property of the Sttate School Board amd of the Person Bqard of education. School loss is placed at SIO,OOO. The blaze occurred one year to the day and almost to the hour of Roxboro’s warehouse* fire of 1942. Fire fighting here is by volunteer department. Alarm was turned in about 1:30 A. M., after notification from attaches of Qommunity hospital, located near scene of the fire. J. A. Long, Jr., this morning said that value of the County garage building, property of tha J. A. Long estate and of another small building used Roxboro Qctton Mills and Lig gett and Mleyers as a storehouse, (turn to page eight please) Ritchie Has Arm Amputated After Planer Accident H. E. Ritchie, about 60, of Wil liams-McKeithan lumber com-. pany, yesterday afternoon about three o’clock, caught his right hand in a planer at the plant injuring it so eeverely. that hia arm was amputated slightly be low the elbow. , He is a patient at CqmppmKsr hospital, where it k reported be is resting comfortably. Warrant Ofriaer 1* M: €arßon, Jr., of Fort L. M NUMBER 58