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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1945
It, Isn’t true because the COURIER-TIMES says It,
but the COURIER-TIMES says It because It Is true.
CALLING THE TUNE
North Carolina’s former Governor J. Mel
ville Broughton, who during his stay in office
established for himself a reputation as a vig
orous leader in various tohacco crises, is, to all
appearances continuing in that vigor and
spirit as counsel for warehouse association
units, as witness the following story from
Danville, Va., and the Governor’s opinions
thereon:
“Notice was served on the leaf tobacco
warehouse industry of the south that unless
it regulates itself successfully during the
coming auction season, it probably will not
survive as a system and will in years to come
be regulated by the government.
“Old belt warehousemen numbering 50 and
representing more than 340 loose leaf sales
houses in Virginia and North Carolina agreed
unitedly to a new auction dispensation which
they were assured will bring about orderly
marketing of leaf within the compass of the
redrying facilities. The gearing down process
calls for a 3 1 /■> hour sales day per set of buy
ers, 400 piles of leaf to be sold to the hour and
the weight of each pile not to exceed 250
pounds.
“J. M. Broughton, former governor of
North Carolina, now counsel for the merged
warehouse association units from Florida to
Virginia presented the new plan and minced
no words in saying that the inequities which
have fallen on the producer must be brought
to an end if federal intervention is to be
forestalled. He said there were countless in
cidents of leaf selling one day at 32 cents per
pound and 14 the next simply because buyers
got off the market seeing the redriers over
taxed with the danger of leaf caught in the
jam spoiling. The injustice, Broughton said,
was that when prices were good fanners
often trucked in their whole seasonal curings
to find prices slashed without an economical
ly sound reason.”
That threat of further government regu
lation is just what warehousemen will not
want. We are not thoroughly familar with
the evils so graphically described by Gov.
Broughton, but we take it that the ware
housemen are and that their adoption of a
new plan is illustration enough that they
both appreciate and understand the advice
given by their lawyer. In away, it seems a
pity that other evils connected with the pro
duction and marketing of our chief cash crop
cannot be solved as easily.
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WITHOUT CEREMONY
Without ceremony, but not without honor
to the man and the community and the State
which he serves, was the installation yester
day of Gordon C. Hunter, of this City, as
president of the State Banker’s association.
The ritual was made simple by war-time re
strictions on travel which considerably re
duced the attendance of banking officials at
their Raleigh meeting and eliminated entire
ly their annual gathering, usually at Pine
hurst. Stepping up of Mr. Hunter to the
leadership was automatic, being based on the
fact that he was previously the first vice
president.
This means that the story of his installa- j
tion as president of the Association has no
news value, but is rather a matter oi record, i
As for that record, people in Roxboro and Per
son know what kind of a banker Mr. Hunter
has been and we doubt not that the State, too,
will begin to discover the peculiar excellences
that can be discovered in small-town bank
ing as a field of training for leadership in
larger matters.
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, STILL ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION
The death on Tuesday of Stephen Johnson,
23, Person Negro of Hurdle Mills, Route two,
who on Sunday was allegedly shot by Aubrey
Johnson, alo a Negro, at Hesters Grove, a
Negro church, illustrates once again how im-
portant it is that Roxboro and Person counfy
should as soon as possible furnish hospital
facilities for Negroes. Stephen Johnson, the
story goes, was shot in the arm about eleven
o’clock Sunday morning. Some two hours
later he was removed to Lincoln hospital,
Durham, where it was subsequently report
ed his condition was not serious.
That report, it seems, was an error of
judgment, since Stephen Johnson died early
Tuesday morning, his death being caused
probably by loss of blood. Quick and on the
spot first aid action at the scene of the shoot
ing might have helped save him. Quick treat- 1
ment in a Roxboro hospital, if one had been
available, ought to have helped, too, but as
it was the injured man was, perforce, taken
to Lincoln at Durham. Under the circum
stances there was nothing else to do, for i
Community hospital here, although it does
at times render first aid to Negro emergency
cases, is at present in no condition or position
to do more than that and can scarcely give
adequate protection and care to its limited
number of white patients.
Under plans of the proposed War Memorial
hospital adequate provisions are to be made
for minority race groups, both Negro and In
dian, but even under the best circumstances
it will be at least two to three years before
such facilities can be made available. In the
meantime, Negroes in Person County who get
shot will continue to run a race with death as 1
long as they have to be taken to Durham for j
treatment, and those Negroes who do the j
shooting will likewise continue to havel
chances for murder charges multiplied.
We have no record of how many shooting ;
scrape instances here have been turned to j
murder counts simply because the persons!
who were shot at died because of inadequate!
or slowly received medical treatment. There
has been at least one other such case here in
addition to the Johnson one, in less than six i
months, and the ratio of deaths per shootings ;
will continue high just as long as the present |
low level in hospital facilities for Negroes is <
continued. Os that we are sure.
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AN EARLY PRACTITIONER
On Monday, on the Same day that Dr. Hen
ry McGilbert Wagstaff, of Chapel Hill and
the University of North Carolina, died and
brought to an end nearly forty years of cul
tural service to his State, Gov. R. Gregg,
Cherry, speaking to the 1945 graduating!
class at State college, said to the students,.
“We need you and we want you’. Something
of the same tenor was voiced by Dr. Frank
Graham, the only difference being that Dr
Graham extended the “we need you, we want
you” thesis so that it covered the whole South
rather than just the State of North Carolina.
The Cherry and Graham gospel of staying
in the South is, indeed no new doctrine. It has
been expounded these many years and was
observable as a tenet in the year of 1907,
when Dr. Wagstaff, moving across the few
miles from Person to Orange, began putting
the doctrine into practice for himself. Dr.
Wagstaff, however, was an early practition
er. He got his Ph. D., at Johns Hopkins but
he came back home to devote his life to teach
ing and in the carrying forward of his career
established for himself a tradition of cußqre
that was as individual, if not as startling as
that set up by the late Horace Williams.
There was in the Wagstaff make-up a un
ion of down to earth Person ways and of a
rarefied intellectualism. The two elements
met and lived together and were at home in
one man, a man who could teach English his
tory through the years to countless genera
tions of students and who could through all
those years keep an interest in the land and
the people of his own county. He lived for
long in a university atmosphere, but he never
really forgot those earlier and simpler days
and ways in the Concord section of Person
and thus, in keeping a balance between books
and men he achieved somewhat more solid,
if less sensational aspects of culture than
does the average college teacher.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
VICTORY PLEDGE OF AN AMERICAN
FARMER
Office Os War Information.
I-aril :.n American farmer. My thinking ...
my money . . . my t'r'e . . . will stay in this
war until the finish. I 1 my sons have a
big stake in complete victory. We operate one
of America’s five' million free farms. We
tend our flocks and till our fields on a bilbo:i
acres of the finest land in the world. Ameri
can liberty and freedom have meant much to
us.
While my sons are fighting for freedom, I
will work hard here at home that food and
fiber in abundance will ever fight on the side
of America. With careful planning and the
help of the Almighty God who has brought
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favorable seasons, I, as one'of America’s five
million farmers, have been able to increase
the production of my fieltjsand pastures each
year since the war started. In spite of diffi
culties ahead I will again endeavor to increase
the produce from my land and flocks.
But I realize that wars are not won with
food alone. 1 will do my part to keep our
Following Men In
This column la devoted u> news
of men serving their country.
Such news Is solicited from par-
W ents and friends of these men.
When writing, be sure to sign
Mrs. L. M. Saunders Receives
Letter From Son's Buddy
Robert Chambers
Dear Mrs. Chambers:
I thought I' would write you a few
lines to see if I could find out where
Hester is. I always wrote letters for
Hester when we were together, but
I had forgotten your address. I hope
this is the right address, I don't
know whether it is or not.
When you write Hester give him
my address and tell him to write to
me. because I will hear from him
sooner if he does. I sure wish >we
could have stayed together. I know
he will be glad to hear from me
wherever he is. Hester was my best
buddy. We had a lot of fun together
He was always telling me about his
little brothers.
I hope you are well and happy.
All I'm waiting for is the good old ,
days to come back. Well tell sister
hello. I' don't beleive I remember
her name. Hoping to hear from you
soon.
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Cpl. Johnnie Tillman Writes To
Mother From Austria
May 8. V-E Day
Dearest Mama:
Today is the day I've been wait
ing for for a long, long time. I’m all
c. k. Not a scratch have I received
in the E. T. O. and in perfect health
so far as I know, and as happy as
-I can be, excusing of course, if I
were home, I’d be happier.-One of
these days I’ll be coming home.
One thing I can say for sure and
that is I’m awfully glad it’s all over
with in one part of the world. Some
of the going has been plenty tough
at times, buti we've been ■■ getting
1 some good breaks for. the past four
or five weeks. 1 doubt whether I’ve
(been in fifty ihilfes of the front in
nearly a month; spent one week
in a town in Germany not long ago
where the third army headquarters
were. The Luftwaffe came over every
night, but not in strength, neither
were any eggs dropped.
I guess you are happy over the
armistice: I know too you are wait
ing to get a letter from me dated
on or after V-E, Day. Will attend a
movie this p m. Give my love te- aifc
To remind you mother. I have
been overseas thirty- months. I was
in North Africa, and other places
but the going on D-Day and, s'ttice
has been much tougher than £ver
there, but it is all over now and I
am hoping to see you soon."
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In the 15 years after World War
3, only 30 war tanks were built in
the United States.
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The LONE RANGER MASKED! PART OF THE WE PIDN'T SHOOT YOU. I BUCK SANTOS. HE STEADY,
HE'S A LAWMAN-ANP HE'S BADLY SANTOS GANG, EH!y — WHO'S SANTOS?TV SUM J; E ,? N ' SHERIFF
“ " ||l HAVEN'T GOT ANY EVI- I DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT WE'LL \l KNOW I'M DYIN~ AND fj
■ A/I ' TU CAN'T ~ PENCE THAT WOULD BANDAGE YOUR WOUND ANP- SOD OYOU'j
I COULD'VE NAILED THE ONE OF STAND UP IN COURI AND M \T
|| JORT OF HARD TO EXPLAIN .1 I UNOERSTANP. PON'T I BUT II HERE'S THE WATER. 11 WE WON'T
,J, e ■. ac ttkimi eng i fmwif~ t-ENNIE'S NOT A COWARP WORW ABOUT VOURJ THE IT'S PLENTy HOTy NEED IT NOR,
IT'S GONNA BE TOUGH FOR LENNIt EXACTLY, BOT-- I SON. SHERIFF. I'LL AND “- I PAN. THE
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country financially sound and economically;
strong. All income from the harvests I hope
to gather, above that’s needed Tor necessary
expenses, will be invested in War Bonds to
buy the equipment that my sons, and the
sons of other Americans, will use to speed
the final victory, and to prepare for the day
when my sons come home.
Let’s Not Ration
Recreation
A few hours alone with one's fam
ily away from the chores and re
sponsibilities of the home and the
farm, will give a renewed interest
in our job of tomorrow and a great
er appreciation of life in the coun
try. says L. R. Harrill, state 4-11
club leader for the State College
Extension Service.
"For tlie home group let’s plan a
family picnic,” he explains. ‘ Se
lect a good location and enjoy a
meal out in the open with the
songbirds to- ftStnish the music
and the great Mother Nature to
furnish the picture—‘Sunset —prob
ably the greatest of them all. The
plans for such a picnic or meal
need not be elaborate.
Good, wholesome food that can
be prepared and served outdoors is
the important thing, and there are
many dishes that become more ap
petizing when prepared and sen ea
in the open. The actual preparation
and cooking of the meal will be
as much fun and recreation as any
other part of the evening and
should be participated in by every
member of the family. Hard boil
ed eggs, when cooked over an open
fire, become a delicacy as dies
bacon broiled over the open coals;
and for dessert—who ever heard of
a better one than homemade ice
cream! But. don’t let the meal
scare you or work a hardship.
Remember, it's all for fun. Use
what you have to the best ad
vantage. You v?ill have lots of tun
planning the meal.
"When the meal Is finished and
all dishes and equipment packed
and the grounds cleaned up, let’s
turn out attention to other things.
While our little campfire is >t'U
burning and as the sun sets and
radiates its golden glow and
| paints an undescribale picture,
I we have a perfect setting for a
: atory-telling scene—one by father.
I qne by mother,.one, by Peggy, and
[ one by Jack.
| "This is going to be lots of fun l
I-If you don’t believe it, just try it
and see! The best picnic in toe
world is the family picnic."
HEARING FOR QUISLING
Oslo—Norwegian Attorney Gen
eral Sven Arntzen said today that
jVidkun Quisling. Norway’s No. 1
traitor, will be given a police court
preliminary hearing this week.
However. Arntzen would not say
at a press conference what the ev
entual charge against Quisling will
• be. or when his trial will be held.
Ships Fitted As
Large Hospitals
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Washington, May 30.— American
servicemen wounded in the European
theatre will be returning home at
the fastest possible rate within the
next three months, with Army hos
pital ships transporting a large per
centage of them, the Office of
War Information said in a report on
the Army and Navy programs for
bringing the wounded home by sea.
Twenty Army hospital ships are
now operating in the Atlantic, and
18 of these will be busy in plying
back and forth between the home
base at the Charleston. S. C. Port
of Embarkation, and several Euro
pean ports. The size of the ships
ranges from that of the Milne,
which can carry nearly 1.000 pati
ents per trip, and the Clem and the j
Hinds, each of which has a capacity ;
of less than 300 patients. In addi- !
tion to these 20 ships, there are 13:
others transporting the wounded in i
various parts of the world. These
included two Army hospital ships
operating out of Los Angeles; three '
Navy hospital ships operated for the
Army in the Pacific, and eight Navy
hospital ships, all busy in the Pacific
theatres. Several Army ships now
operating in the Atlantic will soon
be transferred to the Pacific. Four
more Army hospital ships are to be
commissioned before mid summer,
and three more Navy hospital ships
are to be put into operation in the
next fevV weeks. It is anticipated
that all will be assigned to service
in the Pacific.
The new Navy hospital ships, in.
eluding three which were recently j
commissioned, are air-conditioned
throughout. Medical officials state
that the air-conditioning not onlv
provides greater comfort for service
men, but that the incidence of
fungi infections, prickly heat and
ether ills typical of the tropics will
be minimized. The ships are provid
ed with the latest medical equip
ment such as is found in standard
shore hospitals. The nurse and doc
tor staffs are supplemented by a
large group of enlisted medical per
sonnel. The mechanical operation of
the Army ships is in the hands of
! merchant seamen, but enlisted Navy
I personnel is used on the Navy ves
sels. The medical complements on
I the Navy ships operated for the
i Army is furnished by the Army
: Medical Corps to the Army Trans
portation Corps.
Patients returning home are class
!ed as litter, ambulant and mental
cases. The ships have special facili
ties for the mental patients, most of
whom are suffering from what is
known as "combat fatigue” and will
be restored to health following suf
ficient rest in the States. The pro-
I grams of entertainment on board
the hospital ships are varied and
full. Orchestras and choral groups
are organized on most voyages
home; motion pictures are shown,
usually daily, and games of many
types are arranged. Each army ship
m rctrcatihs mas vsio wise
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WMC Seeks
Order Reversal j
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Raleigh. May 31.—Reversing the-1
j usual order, the War Manpower
Commission in North Carolina re
! cently appeared as a suppliant be
fore the Manpower Priorities Com*
mitt asking for an increase in its
ceiling permission to increase the
number of employees by 82, from
486 to 568.
Actually, the increase was request- j
ed by the Civil Service Commission,
which has the responsibility of |
! manning the Manpower Commission |
; and the U. S. Employment Service,
as well as all other Federal agencies.!
The increase was recommended by
! Dr. J. S. Dorton. who is both State j
director of the War Manpower Com
mission and chairman of the Man- i
power Priorities Committee. After \
arguing against it facetiously, the'
committee finally allowed the re- i
quest.
More employers were sought to |
meet the needs in the 45 regular ,
USES offices and to man the 37 j
branch offices which have been
opened to bring the service closer ;
j to the returning war veterans and
, returning’ war workers and other
, workers and employees in as many
, i communities of the State as possi
-1 ble.
North Carolina stepped out ahead
icf the Nation in opening the extra
1 1 branch offices by using personnel of
, | the regular local offices to get start
led. Higher officials then approved
. t the stop, allowed two and three em
plcyee branch offices, and recom
mended this plan to other states.
This State now has 105 points of
I contact with workers and employers.
I including the State office, six area
. offices, 45 local offices, 10 divisional
, publishes a newspaper, with the
■ | patients providing a part of the ed
< \ torial staff.
THURSDAY, MAY 31, IM6
offices for Negro workers exclusive
ly, 37 branch offices, and six offices
at Army, Navy and Marine Corps
discharge centers.
Incidentally, Dr, Dorton became
mere of a suppliant before the
Manpower Priorities Committee,
when he asked for a ceiling to re
place the roof of blown off of the
grand stand of the Cleveland County
Fair at Shelby, in order to protect
the property. He applied to the man
ager of the Shelby USES office, got
approval of the WMC area director,
and then sought approval of his Pri
orities Committee. It was granted.
Local labor, largely semi-skilled, is
replacing the roof.
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Three In Germany
Pfc. Joe B. Sparks, of Broad street,
Pvt. Percy J. Carver, of Route 2,
Roxboro. and Cpl. Thomas A. Hor
ton. of Route I, Roxboro, are with
the Sixth Army, Germany, in the
143rd Infantry regiment, which 1*
Jnow observing its second overseas
anniversary, according to a report
received here today from the War
Department.
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