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JOIN THE MARCH OF RIMES FIGHT infantile ■.'.m" PARALYSIS VOL. LXIV. Sailor Girl Shows How *j i I ■Jr " Wm&L ~ JjL». m '• •' <<K ’' CT* i i imPfiHTiiiiiVi ' NICKNAMED “INCHES” because she is the shortest in the crew of this woman-manned British Navy boat, this girl makes a big leap ashore to tie up as the boat comes alongside. For the past three years, Wrenn” (Women’s Royal Naval Service) have manned duty boats up to 60 ft. long in British naval harbors. In all weathers they take mail and stores to warships and bring sailors to shore on leave. Pillbox Work Job Os Roxboro Man Lt. Darcv W. Bradsher Helps Out In Tight Spot Near Maginot Line. The story of a struggle near yie Maginot line which lasted two days and in which Lt. Darcy W. Bradsher, j of Roxboro. son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bradsher. Sr., who is with the I Seventh Army, was a participant, is i revealed today iri an official dls- i patch received today by the Courier- I Times. , T^j^fatij^e^^fd. in spots builds up to a climax as far as Lt. | Bradsher is concerned. Other sol diers and officers mentioned are from Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn, N. Y. Here is the way it begins: With The Censored Seventh Army.—Things were even gloomier than usual on the foggy censored front southwest of Bitche when the, doughfeet found themselves stalled by heavy fire from Fort Schiesseck. one of the Maginot Line .strong points that resisted all attempts by the invading Germans to take it in 1940. Shells from 155 m, "Long Toms" simply bounced off the eight-foot thick, steel reinforced concrete walls, while those from 8-inch howitzers did no more than chip off a little of their outer surface. Just when things were at their darkest, a glimmer of sunshine appeared'in the form of S. Sgt. Irving Sunshine of Brooklyn, N. Y., and his 240 mm. gun crew of censored Field Artillery Battalion. By emplacing their giant piece on a forward slope, they found that they were able to bring it to bear : on the fort from only 8,000 yards— i closer range than the huge cannon I had ever been shot from before, j Their example was followed by S. j %gt. Vernon C. Lamm of Wilson, (Turn to page 6 please) —.—— ——o ———- • War In Brief Russian steamroller aimed at heart of Germany rolled on with out slackening speed yesterday, capturing Pniewy 109 miles east of Berlin and the long-surround ed Baltic port of Memel; seized Katowice and Beuthen to wrest rich Silesian coal and Industrial ( area completely from Nazi grasp and made other gains all the way ( from Budapest to Latvia. American First Army troops, ( despite howling blizzard, start drive toward Siegfried Line in ; coordination with Third Army men. advancing two miles and ' capturing seven towns. American troops on Luzon Is land advance to point within 3* ' miles of Manila, capturing towns of Angeles and Rosario, Reports to Sweden say Ber lin now is thronged with thou sands of refugees fleeing from the Russian avalanche, further complicating the crisis facing the 1 Reich. Generalissimo Chlang Kai shek formally names the new ' Lcdo-Burma road into China in ' honor of General Stilwell. Almiral Nimitz takes his Pa cific war headquarters to an is ,and 1,000 miles west of Pearl Harbor. Army newspaper assails 18,000 American soldiers reported AWOL 1 in European theatre. ,j J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Hospital Unit May Expand At Camp Butner I --—. I Troops May Be Completely I Removed. Details Lacking. ~ .. x r , , . J Durham, Jan. 26. -Camp Butner i may officially close on March 1. with the exception of the hospital and maintenance crews, according to a dispatch from Washington. Lt. Arnold Silvert, publicity di ■ rector of Camp Butner has said however, "Official orders have not been received making the Station i Hospital at Camp Butner a United States Army General hospital." First intimation that Camp But ner hospital would be turned into a classification of general hospital was received when 80 veterans of foreign wars were sent here to be hospitalized. Part of the patients were ambulatory while the others were litter cases. Camp Butner Hospital has a ca pacity of 2,300 patients, but at the present only a portion of that num ber are now on the hospital's rolls. However, reports indicate that the hospital will be enlarged. I Further imeptus to Camp Butner's (Turn to page 6 please) W. H. Adair To j Be Honored | Chapel Hill, January 29.—Honor I certificates will be awarded here ! Wednesday at a luncheon to approx imately 100 leaders from through | out the state in the recent War Bond campaign sponsored by the | North Carilina Pharmaceutical As -1 sociation and the State War Fi nance Division of the Treasury De partment. Among those to be hon ! ored is W. H. Adair, of Adair's Drug Company, Roxboro. Each drug store, organization or individual who sold $5,000 or more in "E" bonds qualified to receive a certificate. Total sales made during the campaign amounted to $4,000,- 000. half of which was in "E" bonds. Allison James, of Greensboro, ex ecutive manager of the State War Finance Division will represent the Treasury Department. W. A. Gilli am, of Winston-Salem, president of the state pharmaceutical assicia tion, heads the officials from that organization who will be present. o Two Casualties Reported Here Pvt. Harold Lunsford, of this City, has been officially reported as miss ing in action in Luxembourg, as of December 20, according to a mess age received here Friday by his wife. Pvt. Lunsford is a son of Mrs. Lennie Lunsford, of Roxboro. Now reported as having been slightly wounded in Luxembourg is Pvt. Bradsher Satterfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Allen Satter field, of Roxboro. Pvt. Satterfield had previously been listed as miss ing Ui action. ®ht CourituTOmes Broken Arms, Legs And Fires Beset Scouts On Eve Os Scrap Collection Great Need For Local Emphasis Stressed In News Mrs. Etheridge Has Message In Line With Forum Topic At Dress Meeting. Talks by Mrs. Mark Etheridge, of Louisville. Ky„ author and journal ist and wife of the editor of the Courier-Journal and Times, and by- Frank J. Starzel. assistant general manager of the Associated Press, featured final sessions of the North Carolina Press Association Friday at Chapel Hill and Duke Universi ty, where annual awards for excell ence were given to weekly and semi weekly papers, first place winner in ] the latter classification being the : Lexington Dispatch. , Courier-Times representatives who 1 attended the meetings were J. S. Merritt. M. C. Clayton and Thomas J. Shaw, Jr„ who were accompanied by E, D. Stephens, of the Caswell Messenger, Yanceyville. Forum topic at a meeting for weeklies and semi-weeklies was i concerned with reportorial and edi j torial policies, there being a gen j eral agreement that both should receive more emphasis. Emphasizing the importance of interesting, newsy, gossipy, and hu man interest stories in the news papers in the modern age, “when radio facsimile may soon become generally used," Mrs. Etheridge in her luncheon address, said editors should print more copy about every day routine problems of their com munity. Speaking on "communications bot , tlenecks —the erietfty of news dis tribution." Starzel, at Duke, Friday night, included the following among barriers to unrestricted transmis sion of knowledge and information: Unequal costs of transmission, archaic restrictions against the mul tiple address wirless, which he said was the most effective metaod of distributing news internationally; the duplication by new wireless ex changes of old cable lones instead of supplementing them, and vested interest and assumed vested right being given priority consideration (over the interests of the people. | The faults have not been correct led, Starzel said, because of “inertia, the ease of following accustomed modes of doing things instead ot | striking out boldly into new chan nels. and the lack of any concert ed plan With a broad purpose." • 0 Twenty Men At Bragg For Exams Twenty Person white men left Thursday for pre-induction exam ination at Fort Bragg, according to Miss Jeanette Wrenn, chief clerk of the Person Selective Service Board Leader of the group was John Har. ris Blanks and those who left were' Edgar Newton Moore, Jr„ Dewey Elliott Holleman, Alfred Rimmei Watson, Bural Carl Oakley, Rudolph Austin Tuck, Herbert Donald Whit field. Also, Elbert Bedford Clayton, Romie Reade Chambers, Isaac War ren Gray, James Royal Talley, Rob ert Hester Wagstaff, Dotsey James Davis, Otho Charles Martin, Jr., Roy Thomas Dunn, Clarence Gar vey Hurdle, Homer Otis Glaze, John Scott Connally. Clyde William Allen, and Charlie William Chambers. o Miss Brown To Be In Roxboro — Miss Betty May Brown, repre sentative of the United States Civil Service Commission, will be at the ' local United States Employment of ; flee in the basement, of the court house from February 1 through the j 7th for the purpose of interviewing j stenographers and typists. Any persons interested are asked to come to the employment office prior to this time to be registered for the interview. Registration must be done between the hours of 9 to 12 a. m. All openings are an essential work, j o Slightly Wounded Pvt. Robert W. Hicks, -on of Mrs. Minnie Hicks and the late L. L. Hicks, was slightly injured in action cn January Bth in Belgium, accord ing to information received here today. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Agency Speaker Miss Doris Hodges, of Raleigh, ease worker for the blind in this area will be guest speaker here Wednesday at noon at Hotel Roxboro at regular luncheon ses sion cf the Person County Coun cil of Social agencies, according to announcement made today by Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, program chairman. If is hoped there will be a large attendance. 100th an niversary of the State program for the blind was observed last week in Raleigh, with Gov. Gregg Cherry as speaker. Salvage Depot Roof Burns Off Some Paper Destroyed As Are Collection Boxes Scouts Would Have Used Yesterday. Fire destroyed the roof of the Salvage Storage depot at old "cot ton gin site" on Lamar Street, west of Roxboro Central School about 9:30 Friday night. There was little paper in storage at the time of the fire, but there were a number of boxes that the j Scouts had collected in which to place the paper collected in Sun day's drive according to W, Wallace Woods, who. said that greatest loss was the shed roof that had been I erected at a cost of approximately SBO.OO for the specific purpose of storing waste paper. Mr. Woods. Person Salvage Chair man said today, that paper is the No. 1 critical material and that every effort should be made to save all waste paper possible. He further said that the Salvage Storage was on private property under the supervision of the Coun ty Salvage Department, and that any one found trespassing on the property, unless delivering paper there, would be prosecuted to the extent of the Law. Any one having accumulated waste paper is requested to take it to the storage depot as there are no arrangements for regular col lections. It is hoped however, that periodic collections can be made in the residential sections and every one is urged to save all paper pos sible. i — -o Court Opens As Harris Gives His Jury Charge Superior Court with Judge W. C. Harris ,of Raleigh, presiding, open ed this morning. Foreman of the grand jury is F. E. Wells, of Cun- 1 ningham. Only one case, that of James Pearce, a Negro, charged with assault with intent to kill, was disposed of before noon. Pearce, found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, was given a suspended sentence of three years and placed on probation. He al legedly assaulted another Negro named Cameron last Summer on the “Hill". First order of business this morn ing after the selection of the Grand Jury, w'as Judge Harris' charge. o No Show Friday's scheduled U. S. Army glider demonstration at Roxboro Airport was cancelled late Thurs day afternoon when manager Mal colm iMac) Warren received a tel egram from Charlotte CAP head quarters saying that the event had been postponed because of reasons beyond control of the program sponsors. It is expected, however, that the demonstration may be held later. ■ Waif, m This may be wrong but I have been told that Bill Harris I has already planted his tomato seed and that soon he will have toma to plants ready for the garden. I have also been told that Bill Walker has issued a challenge to any man on Lamar Street to have a better garden than he has. I understand that, Jim Long will have no garden since the mmi who has been working it has been sick and Jim does not know whether he can get around to working his this spring. It is a known fact that Jerry Hester always plans a big garden at this time of the year and then changes his mind as the weeds start growing. T. Miller plans for his wife to lwve a nice little garden at the back of his house. * So far no report on the truck farm of Dr. A. F. Nichols and J. S. Walker. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Roxboro Boy Scouts on Friday night had their regular monthly Court of Honor at the Court House, where the scheduled program went off as planned, but, judging by the subsequent turn of events, the Scouts had every reason to consid er Friday as their unlucky night. To begin With, the paper salvage I storage depot's roof burned otf about 9:30, destroying accumulated paper and some boxes to have been Ufjed in yesterday's paper salvage drive. About the same time of night two persons, a Scout mother and a Boy Scout in different sections of the city received arm and leg injuries in accidents which occurred as they were returning home from the Court of Honor. The injured mother is Mrs. H. C. Kynoch. wife of the circulation I manager for the Durham Herald, i who broke her right arm in a fall near the Western Union on Main ' street, and the injured Scout Is Jimmy Walker, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Love Walker, of Ca-Vel, who suffered a broken leg when he Mas , allegedly struck by a taxi-cab as lie , was getting off of a City Transit Company bus at Ca-Vel The ooy is now a patient at Coinm.ini.ty . hospital. Mrs. Kynoch had been to the , Court of Honor to see her son, Kirl- Kynoch, receive an advancement in rank. The only good news in this story is a report of yesterday's Collection of scrap paper by the Scouts, wild gathered two and one-half tons, of it from homes in Roxboro, Long hurst, East Roxboro and Ca-Vel. Dr. Robert E. Long, scoutmaster, I and W. Wallace Woods, salvage j chairman, urge other residents in ! bet It the City and County to bring their scrap paper to the salvage de pot here, which is still in use de spite the fire. Polio Drive In State Goes Well Chapel Hill. Jan. 28.—Reports from every section of the state in dicate that the 1945 infantile par alysis campaign is steadily gaining momentum and that the $390,000 goal will be exceeded if local chair men redouble their efforts during tile remaining four days of the ap peal. Mrs. Phillips Russell, execu tive secretary of state campaign j headquarters here, announced to- I day. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1945 Over Two Tons Os Scrap Paper Collected Here Sunday By Local Scouts "We are trying to raise $500,000 in North Carolina this year, and we can do it if all local chairmen intensify their efforts," she said. An indication of the enthusiastic response this year is seen in the case of Alexander county which has already exceeded its quota of $1,625 Last year Alexander raised $331 and the year before $162. The campaign in Washington county "is a huge success and we are confident we shall oversubscribe our quota," reports Mrs. G, B. Cur ly of that county. In Franklin county the Cub Scouts raised $75 in one day. re ports Mrs. Hugh H. Perry, of Louis burg. Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., of Lincoln county, says the biggest contribu tions there come from distributing coin cards among the school chil dren. Prizes are offered in each township for the largest amount turned in to their teachers. Encouraging reports also came from Ben Baker and Mrs. D. B Oliver of Johnston county, Emmet Sams of Yancey county, and Jona than H. Woody, Mrs. Charles E. Ray, and W. Roy Frances of Hay wood county. "You may count on Us to exceed our quota of $3,887.” (Turn to page 6 please) $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Hospital And Medical Care Comes Up Soon Will Provide For Construction Os Network of Hospitals In Stale. , Raleigh. Jan. 28.—The long talk- S ed-about hospital and medical care ! bill probably will hit the general assembly's hopper Monday night as the law-making body buckles down for what may be its heaviest week of activity to date. Tile assembly will reconvene at 8 p. m., after a week-end in which I many legislators remained in the I capital to work on educational and ' other important legislation expect ed to be introduced during the week. On Tuesday David E. LiUenthal, chairman of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will address a point session at noon, and tire following day both houses will tour the Raleigh Dix Hill unit,. of tlie state's hospital system h r tile insane. The Dix Hill visit was accepted ' by both houses after on the invita tion bv N. E' Edgerton, chairman of tile hospitals board of control, and will climax -two weeks of tf fort oti the .part of the hospitals (o obtain additional funds for im . provements and general expansion. The joint committee on mental in stitutions. already lias visited the hospital' and described conditions there as "beggaring description.” The hospital and Medical cats measure, said to have been altered considerably from its original form, may be the most important legisla tion to be introduced ill the assem bly during this session. Some ob servers say the measure, which Calls j for the construction of a. 400-bed hospital at Chapel Hill to form the ; center of a network of smaller hos pital and health centers throughout the state, will probably hit its heav- . iest opposition when the measure! goes before the joint approouatiens ; committee. That committee, already faced with the problem of handling additional money requests from state institutions arid agencies to- 'j taling more than $17,000,000, wul air the proposed bill at its final public hearing Tuesday. Also scheduled to be introduced tins week are the education omni bus bill which carries the names of county board of education as cer tified by county Democratic execu tive committees; the educational machinery bill, and one setting up the eight educational districts of the state board of edcation as pro vided in the constitutional amend ment passed in the general election last November 7. A bill to re-estab lish the office of comptroller on the board of education may also be introduced. Roy Foushee Now Sergeant Roy E. Foushee, son of Mr. arid Mrs. Roy Foushee of Roxboro. was one of a small group to receive pro motions at the Florence Army Air Field, Florence. S. C., to the lank of Sgt. it is announced by Col. Ar thur I. Ennis, Commanding Officer. Sgt. Foushee's promotion came as a result of the recommendation of liis Squadron Commanding Officer and his Section Chief and was in recognition of the caliber of work j performed. Sgt. Foushee attended Roxboro ] high school and prior to his entrance ; into the Air Forces was employed by the Roxboro Roofing Co. He is married to the former Lois Copley' of Rougemont. He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal in 1943. Negro Scouts To Go To Burlington . • v Negro Boy Scouts of Roxboro and Person County, together with their leaders, are to attend a district con ference in Burlington on February 11. at which Dean Gibbs, of A and T College, Greensboro, is to be the speaker. Also planned for later in Febru ary is a training course for Negro Scout leaders which will be held at Pleasant Grove school in Alamance County. No meeting of the Person Negro Scout district was held last week because of the fuel shortage. A Crust Os Bread THIS VERY YOUNG GREEK, like* many of his elders, is making the best of a difficult situation. Ilis name happens to be ( haralambas Makris. Rut he is one of thousands who have survived three and one-half years of war and German occupation. Head bandaged he is seated upon a beam that once formed part of his home, now in rubble. He has a morsel of bread, but his distended stomach indicates malnutrition. He has an expression in his eyes old beyond his years. He has the sunshine, but not much else. Faculty Women, Men Stage Game Polio Fund Will Receive Pro ceeded. Letters Need To Come In. Over S9OO has been reported as of today; for the Person and Roxboro Polio fund, according co the Chair man, the Rev. Rufus J. Womble. who said that of the. total received $123. was received by Girl Scouts who on Saturday staged a benefit Tag Day in the business district. To be featured Wednesday after noon at three o’clock at Roxboro high school gym is a benefit bas ketball game to be played between ‘ men and women of the faculty of Roxboro high school. 208 letters have been received in that part of the campaign accord ing to Mr. Womble. but: there are 345 letters which have not been re turned and an urgent appeal is be- . ing made for finishing this part of the drive as soon as possible. Work continues in the schools j and some reports from them are expected this afternoon. Yet to be heard from are coin collection box es. The drive officially ends this week, says Mr. Womble. It is particularly hoped that a speeded up response to letters will be in evidence, especially from those citizens who have not otherwise contributed. Coach Feathers To Speak Wednesday Coach Beatty Feathers, of Ra leigh ;head coach for State College will be guest speaker here Wednes day night at 7 o'clock at Hotel Rox boro for annual dinner of the Rox boro high school Ramblers, the football team. Co-Captains Sterling Wade arid Bobby Currier will also (speak, as will all senior members oi : the team, j It is expected that both State college and Notre Dame football films will be shown. E. B. Craven, Jr., Has New Job E. B. Craven, Ji'_, for a number of years with the Peoples Bank here, , has become connected with the office staff of Roxboro Cotton Mills and entered upon his new duties today. Thigh Wound | Pvt. Talmadge E. Coates, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Coates, of Rox boro. who was wounded overseas in action in Germany on December 14, is receiving treatment for an injury in his lower left thigh, according to a card received by his parents | from Lt. Fred S. Harrell. Pvt. Coates is now at 164th General hos '. pital. o Last year meat consumption In the United States and Canada was i about 50 pounds per capita more . than in the United Kingdom. Buy War Bonds , and giva th • change to the MARCH OF DIMES JANUARY 14-31 NUMBER 17 Hold Riles For Mrs. Wilkins At Story's Creek Mother And Sister Os Roxboro Residents Dies From Heart Attack. j Funeral for Mrs. Ida Clayton Wil kins. titi. of Oak Grove. Person County. whose death occurred Thursday night at her home after a long illness, was held Saturday morning at eleven o'clock at Story's Creek Primitive Baptist church with i interment in the church cemetery. . ! Death was attributed to a heart | condition. Surviving in addition to, her hus ' band. S. R. Wilkins,. are five sons, four daughters, one sister, three brothers and twenty-five grandchil dren. Ministers in charge ot the rites, were Elder N. D. Teasley, assisted by the ReV. J. Boyce Brooks. Mrs. Wilkins was a sister of A. W. Clayton, of Roxboro, and of Alvis Clayton, keeper oi the Person Coun ty home and was the mother of Winfrey Wilkins, also of Roxboro, : arid ol Mrs. Rufus Harris, of this City. Other sons are Stephen Wilkins,, ol' Roxboro, Percy Wilkins, of Hur dle Mills, Burley Wilkins, of Wilm ington and Jesse Wilkins, of Woods dale, while other daughters are, Mrs, R. E. Hicks, of Hurdle Mills, Mrs. Talmadge Ramsey, of Woods dale and Mrs. Arch Aiken, Os the home. A sister is Mrs. Alvis Oakley, of Roxboro, Route I, and another ! brother is Charles Clayton, of Rox . boro, Route 3. Quail Season Ends (n February Hunting season for quail, turkey and rabbitt in Person County ends on Saturday, February 10, according to W. Wallace Woods, secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, who said today that he has had a number ol inquiries concerning the closing date. The squirrel season, except lor Fox Squirrel and Boom er, ended on January I. o - ■ ‘ Sgt. John Berry New At Home I Staff Sergeant John L. Berry, I son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A Berry of Timberlake. has just returned j from 32 months overseas in the European Theatre of Operations- ’ 5. Sergeant Berry, who has bceti t serving with the Chemical Service, will return to duty for re*’;* assignment after a visit with his parents.
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