★ RATION DEADLINES GASOLINE—AI4, 4 gals., Mar. 21 MEATS—Red Q 5 thru Z 5, A2-D2 FOODS—BIue X 5 thru Z 5 and A2 through M 2. SUGAR—34, 5 lbs. thru Feb. 28, and 35, 5 lbs. thru June 2. VOL. LXIV. Miss Bullock Prisoner-Missing Details Program Parents And Other Relatives Hear Address Bv Charles Skarren. Miss Nancy Bullock, of this City, who has been named chairman of the Red Cross information commit tee on service men and women who are reported as missing in action or as prisoners of war, is expecting to have a second meeting of her group at some time during the first week in March, according to an nouncement made Thursday night at the first meeting of the group, which was held at Person Court House in the Grand Jury room, with Red Cross Field Director Charles Skarren, Jr., of Beaufort and recently returned from over seas service, as speaker. It is understood that Miss Bul lock as a member of the informa tion committee will work with the families of persons reported as miss ing or as prisoners and will help Mrs. Sue Featherston, executive se cretary of the Roxboro Chapter, of the Red Cross, in getting as much information as possible to the fam ilies concerned. One of the chief sources of information can be de rived from correspondence between various families who have a com mon bond in the easulaties concern ed. This method is being followed by .many families, particularly in in stances in which missing airmen are involved. The gathering at the Court House for Skarren's informal talk filled the Grand Jury room and many questions were asked. Skar ren did his best to reassure his hearers and asserted that he would by no means give up hope as to persons reported missing in action, most certainly, not until hostilities are ended. He also urged patience. »„«»d. requited.-that .all inquiries for information be placed through prop er Red Cross channels. Earlier in the evening, at Hotel Roxboro, Director Skarren address ed members of Roxboro Rotary club and special guests, giving an account cf His varied experiences with Red Cross service, both in this country and in Europe. He said with emphasis that apparently the Germans who had lived in occupied France and even in Germany, had enjoyed a certain measure of lux ury before the American troops and their allies drove them out. He said also that he came upon an atrocity scene in Belgium, where a dozen or more of the leading citizens of a town there had been slain by Nazis. John W. Jacobs Listed Missing' In French Area Sgt. John W. Jacobs, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Jacobs, of Long hurst, has been reported as missing in action in France since January 16, according to an official mes sage received last week by his par ents. A confirmatory letter was re ceived Friday from Maj. Gen. J. A Ulion, adjutant general, saying that other information will be dis patched as soon as it is received. Sgt. Jacobs, overseas for the past eight months, went in service in 1942 with an infantry unit. He went to school at Longhurst and worked at Longhurst mill and in Durham before going to the service. He served three months in the Navy before being called up for Army service. A brother, Harry G. Jacobs, is now with the Navy. Three sisters and another brother at home, aie other members of the family. Calvin C. Milan Now Sergeant Calvin C. Milam. 21, son of the late Mrs. Lillian E. Milam, of Rox boro, engineer-gunner on a B-24 Liberator, has recei/ly been pro moted to the grade of sergeant. He is with the 15th A A.F in Italy. Sergeant Milam entered the army on January 28th, 1944, in South Carolina, and attended several ser vice army schools prior to arriving j overseas in October of last year. He is a graduate of Bethel Hill | High school. Sergeant Milam is authorized to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge as a member of a heavy bombard ment group which has been cited by the War Department for “out standing performance of duty while in armed conflict with the enemy.” Before entering the service, Ser geant Milam was employed as an aircraft mechanic, with the Glenn L. Martin Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland. 1 J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Has JLuquire Asserts Women Needed For Vital Jobs Attractive. Important Open ings Available In Ar lington, Va, Claude Luquire, cf the Roxboro U. S. Employment service, has re ceived announcement that Lieu?. Francis H. Matson, of the U. S. Army Signal Corps, is at the Dur ham office of the USES to secure young women for vital position:: of ; a highly confidential nature at' Ar lington, Va. The positions are , of a clerical, analytical, and research type and the wages range from $146 per month up. Lt. Matson explained that while these positions were un der Civil Service, and enjoyed all normal Civil Service benefits, no examination is required. A variety cf duties, in many categories pro vides. unusual opportunities for most ; every type indivdual; Girls with as little as 2 years’ high sehcol education are eligible and there are exceptional openings in the semi-professional positions for high school and college graduates. No. previous business experience is necessary, first, class transportation is provided, and housing is guaran teed. The United States Employment Service office in Durham is at lit Church Street. Security Numbers Not To Be Used For Identification Durham, Feb. 12.—Occasional complaints, that social security ac count number cards are improperly Used as identification for check cashing purposes, today. led Mr.:. Nina H. Matthews, manager of the Durham Field Office of the Social Security Board, to issue the follow ing cautionary statement: “The Social Security; Account Number card is not intended to serve as identification, for check cashing purposes,: and should not be accepted as such. “A social security card is issued to any person who applies for itj It is issued for one purpose, and only one. That is to identify a so cial security account on which the wage record of the possessor may bo posted as credit toward old-age and survivors insurance benefits. The account number is used with the person's name to identify his social security account, because many peo ple have the same name but no two. can have the same number. Thp Social Security Board, in pay ing benefits requires that the bene ficiary identify himself fully.'' Col. Younts Gives Air Medal To Mrs. B. G. Clayton Col. Paul R. Younts, post com mander, AAF Overseas Replace ment Depot. Greensboro, presented Mrs. Grace O. Clayton, of Roxboro, the Air Medal, for her son, S'gt. Burleigh G. Clayton, Jr., who is reported missing in action in the European Tjheatre of Operations, Saturday at Greensboro. Lt. Col. V. H. Wohlford. base sir inspector, and Lt. Col. Charles W. Rose, Jr., base mess officer, were photographed with her. The award was presented Saturday morning at the Kitty Hawk Big Top on the post, before massed troops. Mrs. C. B. Kirby and Miss Claire Harris, both of Roxboro, ‘ went to Greensboro with Mrs. Clayton. Huel Tuck At Traux Field, Wis. Huel O. Tuck, 37, formerly a carp enter and painter in Roxboro, has been promoted to the rank of Cor poral at Truax Field, Madison, Wis., it was announced today by the post commander. Now a member of the supply and maintenance squadron at Truax field, Cpl. Tuck formerly was sta tioned at Atlantic City, N. J. He and his wife, Margaret, live at G 53 E. Gorham St., at Madison. ®f)e Cotmer=®4tnejß XT’ rnc<m a tvr> r\ a xmvm ” Army And Navy—One Family |nwHk . ... —JH||| LT. W. C. PULLIAM, JR, F IX L. W. PULLIAM Lt. William Cary Pulliam, Jr., 26, and Fireman First Class I.ar rence Bradshcr Pulliam, 20, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pulliam of Roxborr. and Olive Hill. Lt. Pulliam, who received his commis sion last November after a long an,.- varied Army career, including twelve months in Hawaii, is now in Germany with Patteli’s Army. His Navy brother, recently at home, volunteered for the Navy in 1943 and has been at Camp Bradford. Norfolk. Kids Who Fight And Grin, Gain Praise Capt. H. K. Sanders, Jr., Savs American Fifth tint; Spirit Wonderful. Having highest praise for tire fighting spirit and the ir.rn.ie of the:.American soldier. Capt, Harper K. Sanders, Jr., of this City, son of Person Farm Agent and Mrs, H. K. Sanders and recently returned from Italy, France and Germany, where he has,been since June 1943. is like wise Convinced that a ’•hero” is a guy who finds himself in a tough spot and gets out—or tries to. Capt. Sanders, 25. and an alumnus cf State College, has been in tough spots Himself, but he won’t speak of them, although he received a severe hand wound just after Sal erno. That wound, incidentally, looks good now, because of an ex cellent job of skin-grafting. Capt. Sanders went to the Army as a Second Lieutenant in June 1941, after having had ROTC training at State. Being ,the son of Agent Sanders, he is naturally interested in farm ing conditions as he found them in France and Italy. Production meth ods are at least fifty years behind the times judged by American stand ards. lie says, and the houses, al though of stone, lack .many conveni ences. Stable : and house combina tions are frequent. Net .too optimistic about the war tin Europe) being over soon, Capt. i.Sanders says there is lots more to be done than the newspaper ac counts would lead their readers to believe. Individual groups he praises 'for their war work include the U. S. Army medics, who frequently risk their lives in saving our boys, and the French Forces,of the Interior (the underground). Capt. Sanders, who had brief but informing stays in Paris and Rome, savs he saw Dorothy Clements, of the Red Cross, Greensboro, in Italy, People in Rome were hungry, he recalls, but the citizens of Pari« ap pear to have suffered less. Women of that. City, as beautiful as they are said to be, dress almost exclu i sively like Americans now. ■‘The ultimate goal" of every sold ier is to come home”, says the Cap tain, who has been with the 45th, "Thunderbird” division, and expects “Pep” Taylor At Alumni Session j The newly organized Person 'County State College Club held a | supper meeting at Hotel Roxboro I recently, with a short business ses sion at which ‘ Pop" Taylor, secre tary of tlie State College AlUmni | Association discussing the develop ! ment of State College. Officers of the Person State Col lege Club are: Rev. Rufus Womble, president; L. C. Liles, vice-pres.; C. C. Jackson, seer.; and J. M. Wil burn, reporter. Others attending ; the meeting were Errol Morton, Mr. | Timberlake, Archie Sink, and H. K. Sanders. The next meeting will be held on April 30. Masons To Meet Tuesday Night Person Lodge 113, A. F. and A. M., will hold a regular meeting Tuesday night at the Lodge Han, in the third degree. All visitiilg Masons will be welcomed. Active in the program will be W. W. Mir ren. Worthy Master is J. Av. Green and Secretary is C. C. Gar rett. * 1 ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1945 to return to duty after his leave is up. He has brought home lots more souvenirs, including a P-38 but right now he- is.: relaxing and en joying homo, with' side trips to South Carolina and New York Cits*. Bitt try as he will, he cannot forget his wonderful comrades, mere kids, some of them, who face death with a smile and then laugh over the whc>_' business once the danger is passed. : Roxboro Red Gross Girl Has Mo Story . Miss Emily Bradsher Turns From Scholar To Hostess. Quite convinced that she has no story although she has just return ed from eighteen months of Red Cross service club work overseas in Africa and Italy, is Miss Emily Bradsher, cf Rcxboro. who says that living and working at Casablanca and, at Foggia, in Africa and Italy, was a tame affair as far as danger went. The work, ot course, is a different thing, and it is wonderful to help good American boys, many cf them Tar Heels and not a few from Rcxboro, who come into a ser vice club. tired and weary, wanting the relaxation of coffee, bridge and dancing. Incidentally, says Miss Bradsher, who is herself a graduate of Mere dith, southern girls make grand Red Cross workers. They are popu lar and know how to talk and enter tain. The Yankees may laugh at accents, but they flock around just the same. Miss Bradsher. who has practically completed requirements at the University of Pennsylvania for a Ph. D. degree in English, keeps that fact to herself when she is on duty at service clubs. But she need not bother. She may be, and prob ably is intellectual, but she is also interested in people, which explains, maybe, why she left graduate re search in favor of G. I.’s and Italy's mud and rain and that big stature of Benito M—just outside the Naples service club. Roxboro folks whom Miss Brad- i sher met while fcv Italy include Pfc. Elbert Stanfield, who has now re turned home with a medical dis- ! charge. Odis Day. Donald Carver tin Africa), Robert Montague, Lt, W. C. Bullock. Jr., and two Moore boys, Rufus aiid John, of Roxboro, and Raleigh, not to mention a shv ; but attractive Roxboro youngster ■ who used to bring her his Courier- ; Times every time he had one. Miss | Bradsher also remembers , blonde j Mrs. Hazel Beacham Shore, of : ■ Alo*Uf *lUe Watf. m J. W. Noell, my partner in crime in this office, took a dirty crack at me the other day and now I want to get even; hence this story. J. W. Noell must have the most unique touch on a typewriter of any man living. The other day he wrote a check on his type writer. Every word on it was typewritten but he forgot to sign his name hence the check was mailed tb the person without any sig nature. The person who received the check did not notice that it was not signed and duly deposited it in the bank along with many other checks. Then the bank officials saw that there was an un signed check but there was no way to tell whose it was as they even had no handwriting to go by. Now what do you think! the bank officials did. They charged the check up to J. W. Noell. How they decided whose it was is more than I know. That's why I say that he has the most unique touch of anyone on a typewriter. Page Mr. Ripley! 5 u HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT White Men Go To Fort Bragg List Os Men Reaching Eigh teen Given By Selective . Service. With Gilbert Dickerson as lead er. twenty five Person white men left Friday for examination at Fort Bragg, according to Miss Jeanette Wrenn. chief clerk of the: Person Selective Service Board. The list is as follows: George Hayes Averette, Riley Martin O’Bri -1 ant, Jr., George Lambeth Soloman, Elbert Stephens, Clifton Alex Clay ton, Ollie Clyde Brown, William Maxie Perkins, Franklin Bedford : Talley. Bennie Lee Smith, Thomas Irvin Humphries, Kerb Clifton Rob ertson, Ernest Franklin Wheeley, Erastu's David Jones, Clifton, Bruce Duncan, Hezekiah Ivory. Dixon. Also, Joseph Herman DPnevant, William Ellsworth Head, John Ervin Lcwery, Charles Augustus Gentry. Jr. Preston Ross Morton, Cecil Everett Carver, Elmer Hinton Watson, Jes sie James Walker. For another board was Cabell Richard. Irby. White boys who registered, as I eighteen years of age during Janu ary are as follows; Louis Warren Hawkins, Jr., Ernest Monroe Oak ley. Henry Thaxton Slaughter, George Caryle Barrett, Elwood Louis Barrie, Oscar Hicks. Robert Julious Jones, Burley Walter Dunn, Fred Wilson Yarbrough, Wilton Kury Hicks, Lewis E. Pulliam. Negroes registering were: Neman Ahum Riley. Charles Earl Winstead, Cannon Arejius Gentry, R. T. Ram sey, Ivey Lewis Neal, Bedna Lee Obie, James Raymond Smith. Ed ward Barnett, Clyde Solomon Bowie. Charlie Curry, Ivery Ramble, Gar field Baird, William Matthew Law son. Greensboro, the one who wrote a long piece about the North Carolina colony in Italy, and is still on the job. Africa, according to Miss Brad sher, who is now in Roxboro with her sister. Mrs. J. A1 Martin, is a wonderful, exotic place, full of color and charm, while Italy, at least a* Foggia, is rainy and muddy. The people of Italy. are having a hard time, thinks Miss Bradsher and not enough credit has been given to them for what they have done, America. With its war-time abund ance, would seem like a paradise or fairyland to them, as it does at this moment to Miss Bradsher, who has no opinions as to when the war will end, but joins Capt. H. K. Sanders in praise for our fighting men. Hickory. Feb. 11.—Approximately 25 milk producers from Catawba. Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, and Iredell counties have served notice that after February 22 they will start selling their product in an other market unless they are given as high a price for their milk as is being paid in nearby areas. In an ultimatum to the office of price administration, the producers demanded an increase of 35 cents per hundredweight on bulk milk sold to distributors and an increase of 1 cent per quart for that sold to consumers. This would make the price of $4.40 per. hundredweight, and 17 cents a quart. A pint weighs about a pound. Sufficient milk still will be sup plied for hospitals and babies, spokesmen for the producers said. Ash Wednesday services, com memorating the beginning of Lent, will be held Wednesday night at St. Mark’s Episcopal church, with rites in charge of the rector, the Rev. Rufus J. Womble. Dairies Threaten To Boycott Area Ash Wednesday $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Commissioners Fail To Select Auditor-Supervisor Wounded Twice . >v jig. -9 WILIIAM < . IIAMLETT Mr. and Mrs; .1. M. Hanilett, formerly of Lcasburg; Route 1. new of Roxboro. R< ute 3, rec eiv ed a telegram that their son Pfc. William Hanilett was wounded the 2Uth of January in Belgium, the second time he has been wounded. Pfc. Hanilett has been overseas since July 1944. and has a brother. Sgt. Thomas L. Ilam lett who has been overseas for two years anil is now in France. Pfc. Hanilett was reported missing November 22,. 1944 but was back with his outfit within five days. Limit Os Debt May Be Raised WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Con gress Will be asked this month to raise the public debt limit again The. Treasury wants the ceiling boosted from 260 to 300 billion doll ars before the beginning of the Sev -1 enth War Loan, in May or June. Bills are expected; to be introduc ed soon in both the House and Sen ate. It became evident today that the present ceiling will be too low to allow safe growing roam for the beanstalk-like debt, during another bond drive—that is if the Seventh War Loan compares with previous drives in sales, The Treasury announced in a routine monthly statement; that on ly 818,980,169.147 of United States Government securities cat face amount > can be issued before the debt limit is reached. That is, the debt when translated into face amount i maturity value) now is $241,019:930.853, The actual debt, at current value of tlie *scurities, is around 233 bill ion but one lias to. translate it into face amount—adding interest to be earned in the future by the securi ties—to compare the figure with the 260-billion limit set by Congress. During the Sixth War Loan drive, more than 21 billion dollars of se curities were sold, and that was the actual purchase price. The face amount would be considerably more. President Roosevelt in his budget, message, Jan. 3 merely commented that a further boost, in the debt Unfit would be necessary some time before the end of the next fiscal year on June 30, 1946. Highway Group To Meet Here ■ ft Regular meeting of the Bifth s District unit of the State Highway 1 unit of the State Highway Cominis- 1 Sion with Commissioner George W. j i Kane, of Roxboro, presiding, will; t be held here on Wednesday, Feb l ruary 14, when road requests will c be heard. The meeting will be at e Person Court House in the Grand t Jury room and will last from 10:30 t in the morning until three in the 1 j afternoon, with intermission for, luncheon, according to Tom Burton. Pvt. Bunnie Blalock Missing In Action Pvt. Bunnie Blalock, of Roxboro and Person County, has been re ported as missing in action in Bel gium as of January 5, according to an official message received by his family. Pvt. Blalock is a brother of the late Coy Blalock, who several months ago w'as reported as killed in action. No Applicants File. Need Office In Court House. Meet Again Georgia Women Responsible For Poll Tax Reform Issue Remains Only In Seven States. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.—It was the women who started the Georgia poll tax reform drive, the success ful completion of which in that State leaves only seven other South ern States now requiring payment • of a cash fee as a right to vote. The Georgia League of Women Voters took up. the fight in 1938 when they were practically the on ly regency in the State which chal lenged a 75-year institution which had become the accepted order of tilings. ■ . Gradually they won support. More and more State newspapers joined in. The ice began to crack. In Wash ington, the Hop.se of Representatives twice passed a Federal antipoll tax bill, only to see it thwarted by a Southern, filibuster in the Senate.. Now young, vigorous, liberal Gov, Ellis Arnall iDi of Georgia has signed the completed law that takes Georgia out of the diminishing list of states putting a cash tax on the right, to franchise at a time when America itself is fighting a war to support democracy. The whole atmosphere round the poll tax fight is.beginning to change. Here in Washington a diminished number of Southern Senators pub licly defend the the tax which limits the number of the home electorate; their argument now shifts to the arugment that if repeal comes it should come from the indivdual states. This does not satisfy antipoll tax leaders, however. Once again the fight to pass.a federal law forbidding imposition of a .cash tax for the right to vote is coming before this Congress. The last two Congresses have seen this bill pass the Lower House. But in each case a Southern filibuster has blocked it in the Sen ate. Some Republican Senators de clined to aid in shuting off the fili buster, apparently because they did not wish to weaken conservative Southern allies. Observers general ly believe the antipoll tax bill would pass the Senate if it could be brought-'to a vote. Under such conditions the anti poll tax agitation is a lively issue ill the remaining seven states that employ it. Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi. South Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas, and Virginia actu ally passed a poll tax repealer two years ago, only to have it de clared unconstitutional, three to two. in the State Supreme Court. Either a changed court, or a differ ently drawn repeal law is expected to eliminate the Tennessee poll tax in time. Poll tax levies were directed in the South not so much against Negroes but against low income bracket white groups at the time of the radical Populist agitation. Lt. I. C. Gentry Receives Wings First Lieutenant Ivey C. Gentry, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gen try, Route 2, Roxboro, received the silver wings of a pilot when he grad uated from the Pecos. Texas, Air Field Advanced Two Engine School where he completed his training as a student officer. Lieutenant Gentry is an Alumnus of Wake Forest College. Prior to his entrance into the service in 1942, he taught in the Canton schools. His father is a Person County Commis sioner. Pvt. Otis Stephens At Camp Blanding 1 Pvt. Otis H. Stephens, 19, an; alumnus of Roxboro high school. ] where he was active in softball and baseball, is now stationed at Camp Blanding, Fla. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Stephens, of Longhurst, he entered the Army in November 1944. Prior to that time he was employed in Roxboro Cotton Mills. At Camp Blanding he is serving with an infantry unit. 0 Fatal Highway Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY! NUMBER 21 At a meeting of the Person Coun ty Board of Commissioners this morning, called for the purpose of discussing the appointment of a county tax supervisor and auditor to take the position left vacant by the death of J. S'. Walker, it was decided to make no appointment until next Saturday, February 17th„ when another call meeting of the hoard will be held. It is very prob- ; able that the tax supervisor and ■ auditor will be appointed at this j time. There were no applicants for the job this morning. It was brought out at today’s meeting that this position pays $2,240.00 per year and that the term of office for Mr. Walker would have expired the first of April of this year. It was also pointed out that the commissioners would be required to find an office for this work in the court house and that it would be necessary to have a vault or •safe in order that the tax books and papers be locked, up at night or ,4 at times when there was no one in the office. Prior to now all tax hooks had been kept in the Build ing and Loan office where Mr. Wal ker maintained the county, office. . At the meeting of the commis sioners this morning it was voted to give W. C. "Bill" Walker au thority to countersign all county checks that would come up between now and the appointment of the • ■regular tax supervisor and auditor. It was also voted to have an auditor come to Roxboro at once and check ■ the tax books and other records of i tliis office prior to turning them over to the new official. Senators Back Byrnes For Job WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—Senate 1 supporters of the labor draft bill set their sights today on approval by the senate military affairs commit tee this week of a measure which jj would place compulsory manpower ! controls in the hands of war mobil ization and reconversion Director James F. Byrnes. They said they would resist sub stitute bills which are being pre pared in the senate, including a proposal to throw out the house pasted bill and adopt in its place a plan giving legal backing to war manpower commission labor con trols. Such a plan is being drawn up by Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, Demo crat, West Virginia, to be offered ia : the committee when it starts voting on amendments to the house meas ure. Supporters of the legislation ex pressed the hope that the committee would conclude secret hearings and approve the bill by the end Os thi| week. This would pave the way for senate action on the measure the i following week. Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, Demo- ' crat. South Carolina, said “it will'; be a shame if the committee does ; not finish work on the bill and re- I port it to the senate this week.” Sens. Warren R. Austin, Republi can, Vermont, and Chan Gurney, ■ Republican, South Dakota, declared that committee action should be ob tained this week. "The time is ripe for reporting the bill,’’ Austin declared. Maybank said he understood tha. committee would conclude its secret; hearing on the bill Wednesday, and thereafter would start voting on amendments. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Democrat, 1 Utah, committee chairman, would make no prediction as to when the committee would act on the bill or when the hearings would end. Com mittee action may be postponed un- . til next week, he said. Legion Sees Need I For Job Plan 1 - - Washington, Feb. 11 —The Uni tad'll States may become socialist unless* it produces plenty of “selling after the war, the American ImH ficn asserted tonight. II “We are going to have to realisSl sell for the first time our nattansgjMj life or we may become a socialic£ji state, with government all production and distribution,”j||l | Production has been «mphai|l|fln too long, it added. Saler, and Siftl J tribution jobs kre the sjningboard "'J

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