Help Person Go ,
Over The Top In
The Mighty Seventh
VOL. LXIV.
Who Want* To Go
To Hurdle Mills?-
Who wants to be principal
at Hurdle Mills school? That
is what Person Supt. R. B.
Griffin would like to know?
This is his problem: a few
weeks ago E. B. Isley resigned
as principal there and was suc
ceeded by W. M. Lovelace, but
now Lovelace has resigned—in
order to go to a school at
Mooresboro, said to be closer
to the home of his father, who
is ill.
Another resignation is that of
Miss Katherine Matthews at
Bushy Fork, who will teach in
the Durham system in her
home city. She is a sister of
Mrs. Gordon Carver of Rox
boro.
W. H. Lester, 37,
Marine Veteran, .
In For 17 Years
Radar Expert Works Under
Snipers’ Fire In Pacific
Area.
Warrant. Officer William H.
Lester. 37. of Roxboro, a veteran
of seventeen years of service in the
Ma l ine Corps, whose duties as a I
radar expert have taken him from
Los Negros to the Philippines, has
returned to the Marine Corps Air
Depot, Miramar, Calif., for leaves
and reassignment and may come
to Roxboro soon to vitit his family
according to information received
here today.
Lester went ashore at Leyte im
mediately behind assault troops and
two hours after the capture of the
first airstrip began setting up his
equipment.
The area selected for the station
was under mortar fire for ten
days and on three occasions snftJers
infiltrated and fired on the work
ers, injuring four.
LcsU. too'.; pavw-tn the Nicara
guan campaign in 1932 and was
stationed in the Virgin Islands dur
ing 1935-36. He is a graduate of
the Quartermaster school in Phil
adelphia.
His wife, the former Miss Louise
Ramsey, and two daughters, ages
6 and 2, live at Roxboro and his
father, Adolphus W. Lester in
South Boston, Va.
Rev. C. D. White
To Hold Revival
A revival meeting will begin at
the Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Sunday morning July 8, The Rev.
Charles D. White, pastor of the
Duke's Chapel Methodist Church,
Durham, will preach. Evening ser
vices will begin at 8:30 P. M.
A Vacation Bible School will be
held in connection with the revival.
The school will be in session from
2 to 4 each afternoon beginning
Monday. Mrs. B. I. Satterfield is
the supervisor for the school.
The regular Second Sunday ser
vices will be held at Mt. Tirzah,
Sunday morning and Helena, Sun
day night, according to the pastor,
the Rev. Floyd G. Villines, Jr.
Meets Graucho
Sk
m p .'i
PETE PRIDGEN
Seaman First Class Pete Prid
gen, now at Shoemaker, Califor
nia, and trombone player with
the Fleet City orchestra (official
Navy crchestra) hobnobs with
such movie celebrities as Graucho
Marx, Frank Jenks and Charles
Blake, together with, five or six
young feminine starlets, all of
whom were In a USO Camp show
in which the Fleet City orchestra
played recently. Pridgen, In the
Navy a year and a half and on
sea duty for a year, is the son of
Mrs. Thomas J. Crutchfield, of
Roxboro.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Schools To Open
Last Os August
Miss Vogler New
Club President
Mrs. Thomas J. Crutchfield.
Retiring President, Re
ceives Gift.
Officers were elected for the com
ing year at the meeting of the Rox
boro JJusiness and Professional Wo
man’s Club held Tuesday evening
at Hotel Roxboro.
They arc as follows: president,
Miss Billie Vogler; vice-president,
Miss Laura Penny; recording secre
tary, Miss Virginia Dixon; corre
sponding secretary, Mrs. Gertrude
Wagstaff; and treasurer, Mrs. Loyd
Crumpton. Miss Nancy Bullock was
reinstated as a club member.
The club presented Mrs. Thomas
Crutchfield, who has been president
of the club for the past two years,
with a gift. Miss Virginia Dixon had
charge of the program. Theme was
"F Dag".
The next meeting will be a chick
en barbecue at Louis Long's on
July 17th. i
Very, Very Quiet
Fourth Observed
Stores and Offices Closed As
People Stay at Home For
Restful Day. Few Picnics, j
With not even a shower of rain s
to break the calm of the day Person i
residents spent a safe and sane July)
4th. The sky was fairly clear and
the temperature was not as hot as j
it had beew»#w*lhe past many days. |
Practically every store and busi
ness office in the city was closed t
along with the mills of the city and
county. In the county proper many j
service stations and stores were J
closed in observance of the day.
There were very few, if any, cele- j
bration other than picnics and fish
ing parties in this section. A ma- :
jority of the people simply took thej
day as a day of rest.
Loch Lily had a fair crowd of j
swimmers but none too many as the j
day was rather cool. The golf course j
at the lake was not even as busy as!
it has been on other holidays as a
large number of local golfers were
in the western part of the state \
playing golf on famous golf courses. I
Local police officers reported a i
quiet day over the city and the '
county. I
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Kiwanians Have
Quiz Program
The Roxboro Kiwanis Club met J
Monday night at Hotel Roxboro
with president Jim Long in chaige. i
Preston Satterfield, Jr., had:
charge of the program and he pro- j
sented J. S. Fleming, principal of j
Mt. Tirzah school who conducted a !
quiz program among the members.;
The prize that was to have been j
awarded was'a Parker pencil but j
at the end of the contest it was de-1
cided that no one had won tile I
prize so it was turned over to J. W.
Green, club member, to be giver,
to some deserving person.
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Wheeler Newell
Completes Bond Drive
On Tuesday morning of this week
Wheeler Newell, business man of
Roxboro, purchased the last E Bond
in the Seventh War Loan that i
was needed to put Person County
over the top in its drive for $248,-
000 worth of these bonds.
Mr. Newell bought his bond at
11:45 and it was of the SI,OOO va
riety. Immediately after this iast
needed bond for the completion of
the drive was bought G. C. Hunter,
chairman for this district, wired
headquarters that Person was over
the top.
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Pvt. Harris Hurt
Pvt. Lawrence Harris, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Harris, is reported
to have been seriously wounded at
Mindanoa in May. In the Pacific \
area since February, he entered ser
vice in September last year and had
basic at Camp Joseph T. Robinson,
Little Rock, Ark. He is now receiv
ing treatment in a hospital.
CoumriEime?
New Date Seen As Means Os
Avoiding Unpopular Sat
urday Classes.
Person County and Roxboro pub
lic schools will try a new system of
opening and closing, beginning next
i month, according to announcement
! made Tuesday afternoon bv Super-
I intendent R. B. Griffin, who Is also
secretary to the County Board of
Education, and who in that capaci
ty has reported for the Board the
adoption of a school calendar ca'ling
for the opening of all schools here
on Wednesday, August 29, about
one week earlier than usual.
Decision to open the schools at
an earlier date was reached here on
Monday at regular quarterly session
of the Board and reason for moving
the date up, according to Mr. Grif
fin was the desire of the Board to
eliminate for this next year the
schedule of Saturay teaching which
has been in effect here since the
adoption of a nine months schedule.
The Saturday schedule, as Mr.
Griffin pointed out Tuesday in his
news release, has always been un
popular here and in a measure Iras
been unsatsifactory as well, chiefly
' (Continued on page three)
Details Given
|
In Wheal Loan
Plan For Year
I Details of the commodity loan pro
gram to support the price of 1945
jerop wheat has been announced for
j North Carolina, according to C. T.
I Hall. Chairman, Person County AAA
| Committee.
Mr. Hall points out that loans will
1 be made to farmers on a notc-and
j chattle-mortgage basis for wheat
I stored on farms and on the basis of
■ a note-and-loan agreement when
! stored in approved warehouses.
' Wheat produced in 1945 grading
111. S. No. 3 or better, or grading U.
js. No. 4 or No. 5 because of test
i weight only, will be eligible for loan.
[Loan rates for North Carolina are:
| Grade No. 1, $1.63; Grade No. 2,
' $1.62; Grade No. 3. $1.60; Grade No.
14, $1.57 and Grade No. 5, $1.54.
"No storage payment shall be
1 made in advance at the time any
farm stored loan is made," Mr. Hall
declared, “but a storage payment of
17 cents per bushel shall be earned
by the producer if the wheat Is de
livered to the CCC on or after
i April 30, 1946.”
"Loans will be available unj.il
J December 31, 1945, and will mature
: on April 30, 1946 or earlier upon de
! mand,” Mr. Hall concluded.
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Tar Heel Man
j Greatly Honored
j Washington. July 4.—The War
i Department announced today the
j award of the Medal of Honor to
Cpl. Henry F. Warner, 22, of Troy,
N. C„ near Dorn Butgenbach, Bel
gium, after he had smashed and
set afire three German tanks.
S-Sgt. B. G. Clayton, Jr. Listed As Killed
Btnff Sergeant Burleigh G. Clay
ton, Jr., 21, tailgunner with the
United States Army Air Corps and
son of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Clayton,
of Roxboro, previously reported as
missing in action in France as of
February 25, 1944, has been offi-'
cially reported as killed in action
on that date, according to a War
Department message from Adj.
Gen. J. A. Ulio received yesterday
by Sgt. Clayton's mother.
The Ulio message is based on a
corrected report Just received by
the War Department and regrets J
were expressed in the message over,
the unusual "lapse of time In re
' porting the death” of Sgt. Clayton,
who was promoted to Staff
Sergeant the day he went on his
final mission.
A letter is expected to follow from j
I the War Department, but the mes- j
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Production Room
Open On Thursdays
Production room of the Per
son Red Cross chapter in the
Wilburn and Satterfield Build
ind will be open again today
from three to five o’cloca in
the afternoon, according to
Mrs. T. T. Mitchell, production
unit chairman, who points out
that the room is open each
Thursday at the hours stated
and that public cooperation is
especially needed in the mak
ing of bedside and kit bags for
use at Camp Butner.
Women who wish to help with
the program may do their
sewing in the Production room
or they may go there to ob
tain materials to be taken to
their homes for completion.
Byrnes Goes In
As New Stale
Department Chief
Not A Dissenting Vote Cast
For Confirmation Os South
Carolinian
Washington, July 4.—The Senate,
without a dissenting vote, on Mon
day speedily confirmed the nomina
tion of James F. Byrnes to succeed
Edward R. Stettinius Jr., as Secre
tary of State. He was sworn in at 11
A. M. E. W. T. Tuesday at the
White House.
In testimony to the popularity of
their former colleague, the chamber
approved the appointment by unan
imous consent less than half an hour
after it was submitted by President
Truman. Committee hearings ware
dispensed with at the request of
Democratic Leader Alben W. Bark
ley.
Byroes, a South Carolina lawyer
who reached the top in all three
branches of government, thus was
handed the job of steering the na
tion's foreign policy along the lines
of international cooperation laid
down by the late Franklin D. Roose
velt and followed by Mr. Truman.
The former Senator, Supreme
Court justice and War Mobilization
Director also becomes next in line
for succession to the Presidency.
Mr. Truman announced Byrnes'
appointment Saturday, soon after
he disclosed that Stettinius had re
signed to become chief U. S. dele
gate to the United Nations Security
Council.
Byrnes will undertake his first
assignment very soon. He will go
to the Berlin Big Three conference
to serve as the President’s right
hand man during his crucial talks
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin.
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Kinswoman Gives
Spinning Wheel
To Camp Butner
Mrs. W. N. Thomas, of Oxford,
and well known in Roxboro, has
parted with one of her most cher
ished possessions, an old spinning
wheel, which now has an honored
place in the Occupational Therapy
Shop of the U. S. Army General
Hospital, Camp Butner. When a
published appeal was made for a
spinning wheel for the use of soldier
patients working in the shop, Mrs.
Thomas responded at once with the
gift.
A second spinning wheel, one of
the most valued of her many pieces
of antique furniture, will be sent to
the shop as a loan. Mrs. Thomas is
a sister-in-law of Mrs. Joe Kirby,
and Mrs. Fred Long, both of Rox
boro.
sage received yesterday confirms a
! letter received on June 9, of this
! year from the co-pilot on Sgt.
| Clayton’s plane, the letter indicat
' ing that Sgt. Clayton and at least
'two others of the crew were ap-
I parently struck by bullets and se
j riously wounded before the plane
crashed in flames.
| Sgt. Clayton, a graduate of Rox
i boro high school, went into mili
■ tary service early in 1943 and went
joverseas in December of that year.
Prior to entering service he worked
( with a defense industry at Newoort
; News and then with a tobacco com
; pany as assistant to the manager.
The Air Medal was presented to
him in absentia at ORD at Greens
'boro early this Spring, with his
| mother as recipient,
j A brother, Tom Hill Clayton, is
| a Gunner’s Mate, Third Class, now
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
Person E Bond Quota Goes Over And
jGrand Total May Exceed Million Dollars
Person Keeps Leadership In E Bond Quota
And Grand Total May Reach One Million
Veterans Gain
Prior Claims On
Farm Machines
Comes Under War Food Order
Savs C. T. Hall.
Veterans of this war arc given
preference in the purchase of new
j farm machinery, C. T. Hall, Chair
man. Person County AAA Commit
tee, said here today.
! War Food Order No. 135. effective
| June 25, 1945, provides this special
| opportunity for veterans.
| Under this order, Mr. Hall said,
: veterans who can show both the
need for and the inability to obtain
farm machinery to establish or re
establish themselves in farming may
obtain preference certificates that
require dealers to give priority to
their needs.
“Dealers are required to honor
these certificates notwithstanding
any prior commitments or contracts
for sale other than those carrying
War Production Board Ratings,"
Mr. Hall declared. "The only orders
carrying such ratings are for the
military," he continued, "or in rare
cases, farmers faced with emerg
ency situations.”
In explaining the order further,
Mr. Hall stated that, "a veteran
using a preference certificates must
be able and willing to meet the
dealer's regularly established price
and terms of sale or payment. In
case a dealer receives more than one
veteran's certificate for the same
piece of equipment, he is required
to honor the certificates in the order
of their receipt."
The order provides safeguards
against misuse of certificates, appeal
procedure for both veterans and
dealer, and penalties for violations
of the order.
Mr. Hall pointed out that the
! Director of Materials and Facilities,
War Food Administration, will ad
minister the order and the prefer
ence certificates wil be issued by
County AAA Committees.
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Used Car Prices
To Be Lower
Raleigh, July 4.—Prospective used
car buyers were advised to look for
1 the lower ceiling price tags on all
used cars offered for sale, in a
I statement issued today by OPA Dis
trict Director Theodore S. Johnson.
Johnson reminded buyers that
ceiling prices of all used cars were
reduced four per cent on July first,
|in line with OPA's policy of taking
normal depreciation into considera
tion. New ceiling prices will be fig
ured to the nearest even dollar, he
said.
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Farm Boy Wins
Medal Os Honor
Washington. July 4.—A one-time
farmer who rescued four wounded
comrades from two shell-smashed,
flaming tank destroyers and forced
surrender of 55 Germans in two
days of fighting was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor to
, day.
I He is Staff Sgt. Herschel F. Briles,
1 31, Colfax, la., who won the nation's
j highest decoration for bravery last
1 Nov. 20-21 near Scherpenseel, Ger
j many. He is now back in the United
; States, the War Department said.
on duty in the Pacific, while a sis
i ter is Miss Grace Osborne Clsv
j ton, now of Roxboro, who will leave
[here July 20, to go into training
with' the American Red Cross as a
hospital recreation worker. Others
of the family are- Sgt. Clayton's pa
rents, who live here, and his ma
ternal grandmother, who lives in
Durham.
High praise for Sgt. Clayton is
contained in the letter from his co
pilot, a resident of Texas and con
siderable detail of what happened
to the men is revealed. Portiors
of that letter are reproduced be
low.
“I know that you have been anx
iously waiting for the truth about
your son and that is the reason for
this letter. I’m sure you want me
to go straight forward in telling you.
"On this particular mission, our
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
| E Bond quota of $248,000 in the ;
Seventh War Loan for Person |
j County was exceeded on Tuesday, |
1 July 3, and total in E Bonds for I
i this County now stands at $251,000,
| with more still to be expected by j
' t Saturday of this week, final date'
l of the loan drive, it was revealed j
j here this morning by the Person!
War Bond committee of which co
■ chairman are R. L. Harris and R. -
'B. Griffin.
j It is further reported that sales 1
lof all bonds in this drive in Per- j
son comes to $992,000, as of today I
and that final total may exceed one '
million dollars, largest amount ever
reported in a War Bond drive in
j Person in this war.
; The general quota here, exclusive
■j of the E Bond quota was $296,000,
j whereas sales in the general quota
! climbed to $738,000, according to
! latest figures. Os this general
j quota, according to Gordon C.
J Hunter, district chairman, $255,000
i is accounted for througn purchases
by the State of North Carolina end
allocated to Person County's quota.
Over-all Person quota was $544,-
000, including E Bonds and reach
ing of the one million mark v ill
mean that the general over-all to
tal will be nearly doubled.
Person and Wake are two of the:
eleven counties in Mr. Hunter's I
district which have surpassed both!
their E Bond and general quotas. |
possibly the only two thus tar. j
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Hoey Deplores
Labor Measure
i
i
Washington, July 4.—ln his maid
en speech on the Senate floor, Sen
ator Clyde R. Hoey has denounced
the present National La pot Rela
tions law as discriminatory against
non-union workers and employers
and called for revision of tit.: law.
Occasion for Hoe;/’: brief state
j ment was his insertion In the iec- 4
ord of an article in the Washington
Post July 1 discussing the proposed
Ball-Burton-Hatcn bill which seeks I
to rewrite this country's labor
laws.
Hoey's statement follows:
"I have not had the opportunity j
yet to study this measure, hut ccr-1
tainly a bill so biased in its provi
sions and enforcement as the Na
tional Labor Relations Act ought
not to remain unchanged on the j
statute books. The present law ig- j
nores entirely the rights of workers
who do not belong to unions and
discriminates against them as well
as employers, and it has oe ;h en
forced in such a manner as to give
’ the public the impression that the
board merely was an adjunct to the I
1 labor unions. I believe every group
is entitled to fair treatment both
in the provisions of the law and
I enforcement of the law. We have
I had neither. It is time that the
law and the policy should be
changed so that employers and
unions would be treated alike and
the rights of workers who are hot
unionized should be protected.
i "I think it is going to be neces-
J sary to have some reasonable and
1 fair measure to deal with the strike
situation. It is unthinkable that
we shall continue to permit the
whole routine of business to be ihs
rupted by strikes, both authorized
and unauthorized, and the public
denied the essentials of life because
of some real or imiginary grievance
and because of differences between
contending forces.
"It is necessary to have laws to
control monopoly in business, but
i continued on page 6)
plane was hit by enemy fighter
planes; the reajr end was riddled
with bullets, two engines were put
out of action, and a fire was started
in the cockpit. When this happened.
Lt. Rains gave the order to ball out
of the plane as ne ana I both real
ized that we could not get back to
England with the ship in that con
dition. Immediately after this order,
the plane went into a dive and
started toward the ground. Sgt. Mize
by this time, had put on his para
chute and backed into the bomb
bay. I put on my chute, noded my
head for him to jump, and I follow
ed him out of the plane. That was
the last I saw of him. Lt. Marion,
Sgt. Dente and ! were picked up by
the Germans and taken to a hos
pital near Longwy, France.
"All three of us were badly shak
(continued on page 6)
Health Education
Service Revived
Mrs. Catherine Hidy, of Little
Rock, Ark., and the University ot
North Carolina School of Public
Health, Chapel Hill, will be in
Roxboro and Person County from
now until September, to work with
the Health Education service of the
Person Health department, accord
ing to announcement made today by
Miss Elizabeth Lovell, ol Chapel
Hill, director of Health Education
in the tri-county system.
Here on a pari-lime oasis and
working with Miss Lowell a id Mrs.
Hidy will be Miss Helen Wilson,
whose central office will be in
Hillsboro, and Miss Mary Leith,
who will work in Carrboro.
Immediate project to be taken
vice is the DDT malaria control
up by the Health Education ser
program in the Chub Lake area,
which, as previously announced,
will begin in that section on July
Scouts Get Second
Chance At Camp
Announcement Made Os An
other Period, Beginning
July 15.
Person and Roxboro Boy Scouts
desiring to go to Camp Cherokee
may do so during the week begin
ning July 15, according to announce
ment made today by E. Pierce Bruce,
of Reidsville, executive. Numbers of
boys from here went to Camp dur
ing the first week in June, but a
good many others are wanting to go
and this second available period will
provide another opportunity.
Mr. Bruce, here last week for
June meeting of the Court of Hon
or, joined with Gus Deering, chair
man of the Court, in saying that all
boys who wish to receive merit
badges or other awards must be
present in person when Honor Courts
are held. Next meeting of the Court
will be held on Friday night, July
27. A number of advancements are
scheduled.
Assisting Mr. Deering as presiding
officer at the June session was
George Currier. Opening exercises
consisted of the Scout Oath led by
Von Neal, while the closing was the
Great Scoutmaster benediction by
the Rev. E. C. Maness.
June advancements were reported
as follows: second class, Johnny
Johnson, Jr., Thomas Jackson, John
Irving Brooks and Clifton Boyd, and
merit badges, to Clifton Boyd in
photography, Von Neal, handicrafts
and personal health, and Gene Co
zart, photography, athletics and
handicrafts. .
Negro Scouts, as previously an
nounced, are to go to Camp Carlson
at Greensboro, and it is expected
that as many as five or six or more
will attend.
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Generals Praise
Semora Man
Pfc. Fred J. Clark, of Semora,
son of Mrs. J. H. Clark, who was
wounded in act'cn and has receiv
ed the Purple Heart, has also naii
special commendations from his
commanding officers, Major Gen.
Henry L. Twaddle, and Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., it was learn
ed today. Pfc. Clark, expected
home soon on furlough, likewise has
won the Infantryman's Combat
badge. He entered service in No
vember 1942, took basic in Louis
iana and went overseas ii, August
I last year.
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Walter Chadwick
Has Purple Heart
Master Sgt. Walter W. Chadwick
of Roxboro, has been awarded the
Purple Heart for wounds received
in action during the battle foi
Leyte Island in the Philippines.
A flash ranging observer in the
287th Field Artillery Observation
Battalion, Sgt. Chadwick has fully
recovered and is now on duty with
his unit on Okinawa Shima.
He has been in the service more
than 11 years and came overseas
a year ago.
Sgt. Chadwick’s wife, the former
Margie Stanfield, lives In Roxboro
and his sister, Mrs. Robert Rhodes,
resides in Fayetteville.
1 Fatal Highway
Accident
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945
DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBEER 62
12, and will continue through July
16. A preliminary discussion meet
ing will be held Friday nighi at
eight-forty-five o'clock at Duncan's
store. A similar meeting was held
last night at Roxboro Country
club.
It is planned that at least forty
! four homes will share in the DDT
project, which comes to Person
under the War areas program.
Considerable work in malaria con
trol was done here last year by
j the Person Health Department in
.cooperation with the State Depart
ment. Waters of Chub Lake were
j lowered and other precautions taktn
after an outbreak of malaria was
' reported in the Chub Laxe area.
An insecticide almost miraculous
ily powerful against the malaria
mospito, DDT until recently ha»
! been a secret war formula and: has
(continued on page 6)
Rites Held For
Mrs. R. F. Denton
Sister Os M.rs. Bessie Satter
field Dies In Roxboro.
Funeral services for Mrs. Regta
Fuller Denton, 49, Durham Rox
boro was held Tuqsdqy afternoon
at 2:39 o'clock fronn Angier Avenue
Baptist Church Durham with the
pastor, the Rev. C. Nixon Royal,
officiating. Interment was in Pine
Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jack Satterfievl,
Stephens Satterfield, Arch Hamlin,
W. H. Bright, Julia Boyd and
Clarence Burgess.
Floral bearers were the Woman's
Bible Class of Angier Avenue Bap
tists Church.
Mrs. Denton died at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Bessie Satterfield,
Roxboro, Route 1, Sunday, after
noon at 5:30 o'clock after an ill
ness of the past few months.
She was born and reared in Gran
ville County, the daughter of Char
lie Fuller and the late Fannie Wil
son Fuller. She was married to
London C. Denton August 29, 1909.
She had been a member of Angier
Avenue Baptist Church for the past
20 years.
At Camp Butner
Pfc. George Basil Davis, of Rox
boro, landed first of the week in
New' York with tne Fourth Divi
sion and is expected to come to
Camp Butner, soon, it was was
learned today. Pfc. Davis was
wounded in action while in Europe.
Killed In Action
REUBEN ROBERT RUSSELL
Seaman First Class Reuben
Robert Russell, 18, son of Sir.,
and Mrs. Jesse Russell, of Bethel
Hill, lost his life an April 12,
in the Pacific area when the'
ship on which he was serving was -
sunk, according to a message re-,
reived by his parents. In the
Navy for fifteen months, withl
eight months of sea duty, yevng •
Russell wap a student at Bethel
HUI high school and had worked'
at Plant E, Collins and Aikman.
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