★ RATION DEADLINES
GASOLINE—AI4, 4 gala.. Mar. SI
MEATS—Red Q 5 thru ZS, A2-D3
POODS—BIue X 5 thru and AS
through M 2.
SUGAR—34, 5 lbs. thru Feb. 38, and
35, 5 lbs. thru June 3.
VOL. LXIV.
Long Offers Reward
Case Involving Safe
No Explanation Reached. Still!
Another Theft Remains
Unsolved.
Still unsolved, with no new clues
to explain it, is Roxboro's safe rob
i
bery of early Tuesday morning at ,
Oscar W. Long's North End Service !
station, where a York safe weighing 1
nearly one thousand pounds and i
containing $1,500 in cash, in addi- J
tion to uncashed checks, records of j
deeds of trust and other valuable j
papers was stolen from the store by
robbers who apparently gained en
trance through the back door and
carted the safe and its contents out
the front door which they left open
after taking the safe to a waiting
auto parked at the side of the
building.
Mr. Long, owner-operator of the
station, is today offering a reward
of S2OO for information leading to
the arrest of the person or persons
concerned with the robbery.
Front door of his establishment
was found open by Mr. Long Tues
day morning about seven or seven
thirty o'clock when he went to open
up. Bars used to fasten the back
door were found near it on the floor
and it was evident that robbers hau
used a piece of copper tube in an
effort to keep the rear door closed.
$1,200 of the missing cash is the
property of Haywood Inscore, who
on the previous night asked Mr.
Long to keep the sum in the service
station safe for him. This means
that only S3OO of the missing moijey
belongs to Mr. Long, but he esti
mates tliat his missing check, deeds
of trust, etc., run the valuation up
several thousand dollars.
Investigation of the crime is being
made by Chief of Police George C.
Robinson and his staff and by Sher
iff M. T. Clayton and deputies, all
of whom were called to the scene.
Night policemen on duty at time of
the theft were Artie Watson and
Page Brooks, who said that they
passed the establishment for the
last time about four A. M. and saw
nothing amiss.
An employee at North End is
Charlie Wilkins, who arrived short
ly after Mr. Long. Last man at the
place Monday night about eleven
o'clock was Mr. Long. A heavy rain
fall during the night and the morn
ing all but wiped out traces of
tires of the parked auto in which
the safe may have been taken away.
City police still have under in
vestigation another theft of Tues
day a wee! ago, when four tires and
wheels were taken off of a car park
ed in the Tar Heel Chevrolet com
pany. Apparently the robbers climb
ed over the fence and then threw
the tires and wheels back over to
the outside.
Andrew McCormick, 34, of Long
hurst, who received head injuries
Saturday night in a motorcyle
wreck on the Longhurst highway
and has since then been a patient
at Community hospital for the
treatment of severe lacerations, is
reported to be improving at the
hospital.
Listed as manufacturing whiskey
is Percy Clayton, Negro, 25, of Al
lensville township, who on Tuesday
gave bond of SIOO for appearance
in Recorder’s court after being ap
prehended by Sheriff Clayton, who
said that the still of fifty gallon
capacity, with fifty gallons of mash,
was destroyed.
Twenty-seven or more cases were
disposed of Tuesday in Person Re
corder's court before Judge F. O.
Carver, with R. B. Dawes as solicit
or.
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Monday Game
Roxboro high school basketballers
will meet a Camp Butner team
here Monday night in Roxboro high
school gymnasium, according to an
nouncement* made today by District
Supervising Principal Jerry L. Hest
er.
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Hour Changes
Services will be at Hurdle Mills
Methodist church at 7:30 Sunday
night on the third Sunday Instead
of that morning, according to the
pastor, the Rev. Floyd G. Villines.
Regular services will be held at
eleven o'clock in the morning on
that date at Mount Zion.
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Has Operation
Miss Hazel Greene, student nurse
in training at Watts hospital and
daughter of Mrs. E. M. Greene, un
derwent an appendectomy there
Tuesday night. Her condition is
considered satisfactory.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Film Nets S4O
l
S4O were received here Monday i
night at the Polio benefit show- j
ing of the Duke-Alabama Sugar j
Bowl game film Monday at the
Court House, bringing final total
of the Polio fund to $3,400.06, ac
cording to Chairman Rufus J.
Womble. A good crowd attended
the film showing at which Charlie
Dukes, director of public relations
and alumni affairs, Duke Univers
ity, was narrator.
Mr. Dukes, who afterwards gave I
a second showing to the Nt’EA
at the US Service Center, was in
troduced by J. S. Merritt, Duke
alumnus.
Ministers Voice
Regrets That i
Womble Leaves
Rev. L. V. Coggins Will Talk
At March Session.
February meeting of the Person
County Ministerial Association was
held Monday morning at Edgar
Long Memorial Methodist Church
with the Rev. W. C. Martin in
charge. Devotional was by the Rev.
J. H. Shore.
The message was brought by the
Rev. Daniel Lane gave a report of
subject "The Pastor As a Personal
Worker."
Rev. Daniel Lane gave report of
the services to be held at the Per
son County Home. The young people
of the Methodist Youth Fellowship
Will conduct the services on the sec
ond and fourth Sundays of each
and the Primitive Baptist Church
will conduct the services on the
third Sunday.
It was decided that Rev. L. V.
Coggins will bring the message at
the next meeting to be held March
12th and Rev. J. N. Bowman will
conduct the devotional.
Ministers present were; Revs. W.
C. Martin, L. V. Coggins. J. N. Bow
man, B. B. Knight. J. H. Shore.
Daniel Lane, E. C. Maness, Boyce
Brooks and Rufus Womble. Ex
pressions of regret were voiced by
the ministers that the Rev. Mr.
Wimble is soon to leave here for
new work at Epiphany Episcopal
Church, Richmond, Va., and it is
planned that the Association is to
send a letter of commentation to
that church.
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Tar Heel Units
Gain Citations
Camp Blanding, Fla., Feb.—Four
outfits of the 120th infantry, part
of the 30th division composed of
national guardsmen from North
and South Carolina, which trained
at Blanding, have been cited “for
outstanding performance of duty in
armed conflict with the enemy," it
was revealed today. Those cited
were the Second battalion; com
pany K; the First and the Second
platoon, antitank company.
“By their brave and heroic
stand.” the citation read, “they pre
vented the enemy from splitting our
forces in Normandy from those in
Brittany."
Tlie group occupied defensive po
sitions on hill 314, commanding
major routes of approach and sup
ply. For seven days they defended
the hill and road block at the con
vergence of five roads near Abbaye-
Blanche, northwest of Mortain.
More than 60 German thanks and
vehicles were destroyed in the
seven-day battle.
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Dutch Children
Reach England
Coventry, England, Feb.—The frist
contingent of refugee children from
HollaAd arrived waving flags and
cheering as their train rolled into
the station.
The youngsters, ranging in age
from 8 to 15, were selected on the
basis of their need for rest and
relaxation and their physical ca
pacity for making the trip. The
young refugees will be billeted at a
hotel until they learn enough about
the English to get along in private
homes where they will remain for
the duration.
The British expect to care for
20,000 Dutch children by the time
all of Holland is liberated.
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If yoa have anything to sell, a
25c want ad will do the job call
3391.
Coutttr^imcs
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
In Theft
And Cash
Cooker Clinic
To Be Conducted
In This City
Person Home Agent Is Ar
ranging Event At Post
Office.
A pressure cooker clinic has been
scheduled for Person County on
Tuesday, February 27th, under the
sponsorship of the Farm Security
Administration and Extension Ser
vice, both white and Negro, and
will be held in the Seed Loan Office,
in tlie basement of the Post Office,
according to Miss Evelyn Caldwell.
Person Home Agent.
Cookers will be checked for ac
curacy in registering pressure and
will have pet-cocks and safely valves
thoroughly cleaned.
In order to secure inspection as
sistance, it will be necessary to have
ccakers thoroughly cleaned, inside
and out, labelled with name and
address and brought to the base
ment of the Postoffice on either
Friday, February 23rd, or Saturday,
February 24th, at which time there
will be some one there to check in
cookers.
If pressure guages does not reg
ister correctly or if steam escapes
at either the petcocks or safety
valves, the services of .the clinic
should help.
The series of clinics held in the
State in 1944 and 1945 will be the
last scheduled anywhere in the
State; so, if cookers need repair,
please make arrangements with
either the Home Demonstration
Agent or F. S. A. Supervisor as
curly ,a» passible to assure the
cookers a place in the clinic, since
only a limited number can be
checked, says Miss Caldwell.
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Three Roxboro
Soldiers Home
Cpl. Leonard Earl Parham, ol
Fort Bragg, is spending several
days here with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Parham, North Main
Street. While Cpl. Hassell Whit
field of Bushy Fork, son of Mr.
j and Mrs. Frank Whitfield, stationed
in Washington, returned to that city
; yesterday after spending several
days here. Now at Camp Butner
hospital is Pvt. James A. Holt, of
Roxboro, son of Mrs. Ruth Holt,
this city, and husband of Mrs. Con
nie Holt. El Paso, Texas.
Pvt. Holt, wounded in Germany,
was in Europe forty months with
the eighth Infantry Division. He
j has the Purple Heart and the Com
bat Infantryman's badge. A bro
i ther is Elmo Holt, of the U. S.
1 Navy.
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Library Board To
Meet On Friday
Board meeting of the Person
County Public Library will be held
Friday afternoon, February 16th,
at 4 o'clock in the Board of Educa
tion office, according to announce
ment made today by Mrs. Ethel
Waler Whetstone, tri-county libra
rian, who arrived in Roxboro the
first of the week.
Sen. Flem D. Long, chairman of
j the board, is expected to be pres
i ent.
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Breslau is the largest and most
important city of Germany's east
ern border region.
PLANS FOR CRUSHING NAZIS FORMED AT MEET
Washington, Feb. The "Big
Three’ on Monday decreed death
for German Naziism and militarism
I in an historic agreement which re
vealed for the first time how the
Allies plan to strip defeated Ger
many so completely of any wav
making capacity that she “never
will again be able to disturb the
peace of the world.”
The agreement was announced by
President Roosevelt, Premier Jasef
Stalin and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill at the conclusion of a
momentous eight-day conference at
far-away Yalta in Russian Crimea.
They coupled their verdict on
Germany with decisions to:
1. Turn loose upon Germany a
tremendous assault that will result
In "shortening the war.”
2. Speed the establishment oi
world peace machinery by calling
a full-dress United Nations meeting
at San Francisco beginning April
25th.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Prisoner Os War
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SGT. JAMES S. PENTECOST
Sgt. James S. Pentecost, of Rex
boro, a prisoner of war in a
German camp, says he is in good
health. Sgt. Pentecost, 26, is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pente
cost, of Roxboro. Route two. Two
sisters are Mrs. Rupert Jones and
Mrs. Resell Yoder, both of Rox
boro. He was at first reported
as missing in action.
Women Urged
To Assist In
Nurse Program
Raleigh. Feb. 9.—North Carolina
women were urged today by Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry to give full
est support to the current campaign
to enlist 105 women for training in
the Women's Army Corps to serve
as medical and surgical technicians
in Army General Hospitals which
now are receiving over 30,000 war
casualties monthly from the battle
fronts.
The Army, stressing the need for
quick action so the ill and wounded
men may not suffer for lack of at
tention. has asked North Carolina
to meet its quota of 105 recruits by
March 20th. Governor Cherry has
designated the State Office of Civ
ilian Defense to cooperate with the
Army in the recruiting campaign,
and OCD Director R. L. McMillan
appointed June H. Rose, of Green
ville. Assistant State OCD Director,
to active direction of the drive
among 104 OCD local councils
throughout the State.
Lt. Margaret W. Pegram, of Win
ston-Salem. has been assigned to
the OCD Office as liaison officer
to coordinate activities of the civil
ian and Army agencies.
Mrs. J. A. Graney, of Charlotte,
is chairman of the State Civilian
Advisory Committee working with
the Army, and Governor Cherry, at
the request of General Uhl, appoint
ed Mrs. Cherry as honorary chair
man.
Urgency of the need for hospital
technicians was laid before Govern
or Cherry by Major General Fred
erick E. Uhl, of Atlanta, Command
er of the Fourth Service Command,
who flew to Raleigh to urge utmost
cooperation from the State in meet
ing the North Carolina quota.
Subsequently, Governor Cherry
appealed to North Carolina women
to give serious thought to the need
for more hospital aides in the Wac,
and he urged those in a position to
join to offer their services at once.
To be eligible, women must be U.
S. citizens between the ages of 29
and 50; must have completed two
years of high school or its equival
ent in a business, trade or vocational
school; and must not have a child
under 14. They may join at the
Army recruiting stations at Char
lotte. Asheville or Durham.
3. Form a‘new Polish government
and tentatively fix Poland's new;
eastern boundaries at the Guivon j
Line. Poland would be compense..- i
ed for lost territory in the past by j
acquiring territory from Germany j
. Back the Atlantic Charter's j
principles of self-determination
among the liberated peoples of Eu
rope in establishing their govern
ments.
5. Invite France to join in the oc
cupation of defeated Germany and
take part in future European coun
cils.
81 Bring China and Russia into
simultaneous discussions on estab
lishment of a world peace organi
zation —a possible hint that Rus
sia eventually man abandon her
neutral status with Japan.
They called upon the German
people to quit- their "hopeless re
sistance” and assured them—as
contrasted with Nazis and German
militarists—that the Allies do noth
Public Relations
Theme Discussed
'By ■ Teachers
! Teachers Discuss Personality
And School Salesmanship.
February meeting of the Person I
I Chapter of N. C. E. A. was held Mon
day night at the Roxboro U. S. O
with Bethel Hill and Allensville |
acting as co-hostesses and Mrs. A.
F. Nichols, president of the local
N. C. E. A. presiding. The theme of
the evening was Public Relations,
1 with Miss Bertha Dixon as chair
man.
Special talks were made by Miss
Helen Sears on "How I Sell Myself
; To The Public". J. A. Stanley on the
'Model Teacher" who used differ
ent teachers as concrete eramples.
Namely, personality, Miss Inda Col
lins; character. Miss Ruth Sims;
intellectuality, Miss Helen Sears;
i love of work, Miss Nellie Gravely;
love of all children. Mrs. Hayes;
professional minded. Mrs. A. F.
Nichols; and Mrs. Clyde Crowell
who spoke on "Mechanics of School
Advertising”. G. C. Hunter spoke
highly of the cooperation that the j
' schools had given in the different
war campaigns.
A valentine contest sponsored by
j Bethel Hill was won by Miss Collins.
Following the contest, Rev. Rufus
Womble also thanked the schools
for the collection of $1303.86 for the
polio drive. He then presented
Charlie Duke who showed the
Duke-Alabama football game at the
Sugar-Bowl.
Refreshments were served by the
, hostesses who carried out the val
entine motif in their decorations.
Two New Firms
Open In City
Two new' business establishments
are now open for business in Rox
boro. one an auto parts supply
house, tlie other devoted to the
j felting of tractors, farm supplies
’ orfd fertilizers.
The auto parts company is South
ern Parts of Roxboro, Ihc., with
Belvin Barnett, of Roxboro, and R.
F. Ashworth, of Durham, as asso-1
dates. Their location is in the Kirby |
building. North Main street.
The tractor and supply firm is
Johnson Cotton company. Court!
street, near Spencer’s Funeral Home
and Planter’s Warehouse, with F.
H. Dagenhart. as manager.
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Band Concert
Draws Crowd
Oxford and Roxboro high school
bands, which yesterday held a joint
ly sponsored all day clinic in Rox
; boro high school, including in their
! programs a downtown parade in
the afternoon and a concert at,
night, ended festivities with a dance
at the USO Service Center. Also
held was a dinner at Hotel Rox- ;
boro.
j ‘ Concert at the high school, where |
i fourteen selections were played to
i a capacity audience, was directed
by Miss Mary Earle Wilson. Rox
boro, and A. J. Wagner, Oxford, j
Spirited marches and colorful pa
triotic numbers, closing with the
"Star Spangled Banner," appealed
greatly to the audience.
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USO To Open
The Roxboro USO Service Center :
is expected to be open this week- |
end for a curtailed and limited pro- j
gram, according to Dr. Robert E. \
Long, director, who recently return- |
ed. from Richmond, Va., where he
had a conference with Chester D. |
Snell, regional director of USO. j
i Nothing definite is yet known about j
j the future status of Camp Butner j
except for the hospital unit.
propose to destroy them.
But they decreed stern retribu
, tion for a defeated Germany, in
- eluding joint occupation and con
trol; complete destruction of Ger
man militarism and Naziism; dis
armament of Germany and destruc
tion of all her military equipment;
elimination or control of all Ger
man industry that could be used
for military production; just and
swift punishment for all German
war criminals and "reparation in
kind” for destruction wrought by
the Germans.
They said nothing officially about
Japan. But their call for a con
ference on world organization at
Nan Francisco was seen as a possi
ble hint that Russia is preparing
to take part eventually In the war
against Japan.
They revealed that the following
fate awaits Nazi Germany:
I—New and “even more power
fUl blows” win be launched against
Two Airmen Reported
Missing, Killed In Action
Men Like Sweaters
Roxboro Red Cross officials of
the knitting division. Mrs. George
W. Kane and Percy Bloxam, feel
that work of the division has re
ceived a boost because of a letter
of thanks received from the Field
Director, Gulfport, Miss., who
says that men there, who are at
a port of embarkation and have
received a number of the sweaters
knitted here, have praised the
quality and comfort of the gar
ments made in Roxboro. Need
less to say, work of the knitting
division still goes forward.
It has. in fact, received an im
petus. because of this unsolicited
commendation.
Further Emphasis
Will Be Given
Church Crusade
City Methodists Plan Special
Services Sunday.
Members of Long Memorial Meth
odist Church are being called by
the pastor, Rev. W. C. Martin and
:S. G. Winstead. Chairman of the
Crusade for Christ Council, to take
part in raising $25,000,000 for world
relief and reconstruction, the first
phase of the denomination's nation
wide Crusade for Christ program
of post-war service, according to
; announcement made today,
i Quota for Long Memorial Church
|is $3,034 and Sunday is to be Vic
tory Day when it is expected the.
full amount will be raised in pledges
i and cash. Pledge cards and Crusade
envelopes have been distributed
| among the members this week with
j the request that the pledge cards
and first payment be placed on the
\ altar of the church Sunday morn-
I ing before a lighted cross.
! Other phases of the Crusade for
i Christ program call for continued
education in and expression of opin
i ion for “co-operation among na
tions in the post-war world,'' renew
ed evangelism efforts with special
j empnasis in 1946, education for
Christian Stewardship of ability.
| time and money, and improvement
of Sunday School enrollment and
! attendance.
The Crusade for Christ is Meth
odism's organized response ior as
■ suming its part in meeting the un
! settled conditions and vast stagger-
{ ing needs created by the second
j World War, Mr. Martin stated.
! “Having proved its will to live in
1 the face of all enemies, the Church
jis now ready to give practical and
spiritual food to the hungry, both
of its household and others through
out the world without distinction
of race, creed or color.”
Pfc. Melvin Ashby
Wounded Twice
j Pfc. Melvin M. Ashby. 23. son of
| Turner Ashby, of Timberlake, has
i been officially reported as serious-
Ily wounded in action, January 29.
!in Luxembourg. Pfc. Ashby was
j slightly wounded in July last year
\in France and was in a hospital
\ one month.
Two other brothers are in service,
! Pfc. William H„ in New Caledonia,
j and Pvt. Robert S. Ashby in camp
in Alabama.
the heart of the Reich from east,
west, north and south. Military
staffs of the three great powers
have planned this last crushing
blow in detail and are ‘'fully agreed
on it."
2—The Big Three leaders have
agreed on common policies and
plans for enforcing unconditional
surrender terms that will be im
posed on Nazi Oermany when final
enemy resistance is crushed.
These terms will not be disclosed
until the final defeat of Germany
has been accomplished.
3 American, Russian and Brit
ish forces each will occupy a sepa
rate zone of Germany. The three
powers will set up in Berlin a cen
tral control commission consisting
of the supreme commartders of the
three nations. France will be in
vited to take over a zone of occu
pation and to participate in the
central control commission.
(Turn to page 4 pleace)
Sgt. Moore Has
Many Missions
Credited To Him;
i
Roxboro Man Chalks Up Re
cord At Base In Italy.
T-Sgt. Lawrence C. Moore, 20. son :
of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Moore. Cavel l
and Roxboro. X, engineer-gunner on '
a B-24 Liberator, has recently flown
his 20th combat mission in the 15th
Air Force, Italy, it was reported
here today.
Sergeant Moore arrived Overseas 1
last August and was assigned to a ;
veteran Liberator group command
ed by Col. Leroy L. Stefonowicz
Wildrose, N. D. The group has
participated in more than 180 com
bat missions against enemy install- 1
i ations in the Mediterranean Thea
: ter of Operations,
i Sergeant Moore holds the Air
Medal witli one bronze cluster for
"meritorious achievement in aerial
flight."
Sergeant Moore was graduated!
from Bethel Hill high school in
1943. He was employed by the Col
lins and Aikmait Corp.. before en-l
taring the army on Feb. 27. 1943.
jHe received his engineer training
at Keesler Field. Miss.. and his
■ gunner's wings at Laredo, Tex.
Board Formed
To Create War
Weapon Plans
Washington, Feb.--Creation of a
new board of civilian and military
• aeMHists to develop,- weapon#'
any future conflict was announce d
today.
The board to be known as the
iresearch boajrd for 'national se
eurity, will serve in the interim!
between office of scientific research
and development, a wartime agency
land the establishment by Congress |
i of an independent agency to carry
l on the work.
The announcement was made i
j jointly by Secretary of War Stim-.]
son, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal j
j and Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president j
of the National Academy of |
Sciences. A committee on postwar !
researcli has recommended to Con
gress the establishment of a per
manent independent agency.
The new board was set up by |
Dr. Jewett at the request of the;
armed services. Twenty civilian
scientists, with an equal number
from the army and navy, will com
pose its membership.
Explaining why the board was
: needed, Etimson and Forrestal said j
in a statement:
"This war emphasizes three facts j
of supreme importance to national ]
security 11 > Powerful new tactics |
of defense and offense are devel- j
oped around new weapons created j
by scientific and engineering re
search. 1 21 The competitive time I
element in developing those weap- ;
ons and tactics may be decisive. i3> j
War is increasingly total war, in j
which the armed services must be :
supplemented by active participa
tion of every element of civilian
population.
"To insure continued prepared
ness along far-sighted technical
lines, the research scientists of the
country must be called upon.
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V-Bombs Slay
19 Per Day
i
London. Feb.—German V-Bombs j
during January killed an average \
of nearly 19 persons a day in Eng- j
land. They caused casualties total- \
ing 2,214 nearly double the De- i
ceniber figure, the British air min- }
istry announced today.
Os the total 585 persons were!
killed or missing and believed kill- !
ed and 1.629 were injured. During j
the month 94 children under 16 i
were killed and 228 were injured.
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Convicted Os
i Making Poison
Newark, N. J., Feb.—Some time
ago Merck & Co., big chemical firm,
distributed a drug for relief of dis
tress after operations and it killed
15 persons. •
Convicted this week of faulty
labeling of its product, the concern
was fined sls,ooo—a thousand dol
lars for each death—by Federal
Judge Thomas F. Meancy.
Curiously, none of the company’s
| officers had been named in the
, indictment.
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0 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945
HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY
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Sergeants Todd And Shepherd
Previously Reported
Missing. '
Now reported as killed in action
after having been previously listed
as missing in action are two Rox
boro and Person airmen, Sgt. Royal
P. Todd, of Allensville, and S. Sgt.
Elmo W. Shepherd, of Virglllnit,
Va., route I, according to official
messages received here this week.
Sgt. Todd. 22, a waist-gunner, is
said to have been killed over Aus
tria on September 10, same date on
which lie was reported missing in
that area. He is a son of Mrs. N. J.
Todd, of Allensville, and of the late
Rev. Mr. Todd. Others in the fam
ily are a brother, N. J. Todd, Jr.,
of Roxboro and Newport News, Va.,
land eight sisters, among them Mrs.
Luther Dixon of Roxboro.
Sgt. Tcdd. decorated several times
for bravery, attended Bethel HIH
high scilool and was in civilian life
connected with Collins and Aikman.
Message concerning his death arriv
ed Monday through the Interna
tional Red Cross. • . .
Sgt. Shepherd, 20, and a son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepherd, Vlr
gilina. was reported as killed over
i Germany, November 26. He also re
ceived decorations and honors. An
Indian. Sgt. Shepherd attended High
| Plains school. The message concern
ing his death was received by Me
parents Tuesday morning. Bft.
Shepherd was said to have bean
missing on November 26.
At least seven or eight casualty
messages are reported to have bean
received here in the past week*
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Two Local Boys
Coming Home
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$. (Ftc. ,0 V C'aytan Jr* -of ihian
' City, son of Mr and Mtb. O X.%
| Clayton, who has been overseas in
India, Egypt and Palestine for more
than two years, has arrived Ip
Miami, Fla., and is expected here j
soon, possibly today, according to a I
message received from him on Wed- -
nesday. His wife is Mrs. Rebecea j
Pulliam Clayton, of South Boston. ■;
! Va., and Roxboro.
Also enroute home is Sgt. William •
A. Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Yg |
C. Sluders, who has spent a ytfiM
in the Pacific area. He has langag
in California.
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Virginians Want * I
| Sen. Glass Out
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Charlottesville, Va., Feb.—lt "ji
alleged that Carter Glass, Senior
Senator from Virginia, has not arP
wered a Senate roll call since June
22, 1942. Leading Virginians, mans',
|of them among the Sena tort ’
i staunch supporters in the past, art
(calling on Mrs. Glass to urge hey
husband to retire.
Glass has just passed his
sixth birthday. He was elected te ,
the House in 1902. After serving
16 years. President Wilson
him Secretary of the Treasury. He
I entered the Senate in 1920.
Glass has built up a considerate
: fortune, largely through his ewnev-,
i ship of two Lynchburg daily newer,'
; papers.
o
Mrs. Ware Will
Speak Tuesday—
"Wi
Roxboro Central Grammar Sch#| ;
Parent Teacher association wt*.
meet Tuesday afternoon at 3:45 ft"
the school td hear a nutrition peS- -
;gram to be presented by Mrs. Bee*'"
isie Starling Ware, of Durham.
cording to announcement (made to*
jday. A full attendance is foquestetf!'-
o
In Luxembourg
Pvt. Bernard Crabtree, of Hurd)?
Mills, son of Mrs. Bertha
has arrived in Luxembourg, eeeeMk»
i ing to a Message received hert. tyfe
has two brothers, Pfc.-Raney CntK|
, tree, in New Guinea, and Pvt. Bng3|
i Crabtree, at Fort McCleUflm Utyjpi
Negro Wanted
Selective Service desires infeßUM*
tion on Ira Long, Negro,
Hurdle Mills, who is aakfti ty: tyn
port to the board here at onem
Rev. Cecil Lawrence, Var a
will preach at the
byterian church aundaf matafe* at
NUMBER 22
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