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Wor Bond Dollars Are Double Duty Dollars VOL. LXIV. Surveys Made For Memorial Hospital Reports Committee Young Men Put Names On List At Service Board White And Nearro Youths Os Eighteen Sign. White • • Group Goes To Exams. Twenty white youths and ten ne groes who became eighteen years of age in June have registered with Person Selective Service board it was reported this morning. White men listing their names were: Lyle T. Chandler. Walter Bradsher Fuller, Robert H. Morris, C. Stigall, William A. Erk shine, Jr., Arthur F. Perkins, Jr., Johnnie William Walker, Jr., and William Russell Breeze. Also, James Ronald Long, Willie Edward Irby, Dutie Andrew Carver, Emory Sanders Jackson, Thomas Holt, James Merritt Walker, Lind burg Tyndall, Stephen Alfred Moore, Ernest William Calvin Charlie Barker, Richard Paul Park er and Willie Thomas Clayton. Negro men who have registered, are: Percy Paylor, Cecil Calleworth Street, Willie Junius Jones, Robert Edward Long, McDonald Green, Willie Clarence Wilson, Jesse Lewis Holloway, Jr., Coner Williams and Peter Byrd Smith. With John A. O'Briant, Jr., as leader, white men who went down to Fort Bragg for examination were: Johnnie Albert Oakley, John Wil liam Chambers, Jr., Patrick Henry Briggs. Jr... Phillip, Hienrv Shields, James David Melton, Connie Miles Martin, James Rainey Emerson. Charlie Dewey Dickerson, William Linwood Rudder and Frank Gentry. James Hubbard Shotwell, Dallas Horton Rimmer, Tiny Baby Milam, Lcnnie Dodson Sanford, John Irvin Gentry, Weldon Lee Carver, James Berlie Chandler and Joe Ernest Robinson. o Slaughterers To Stamp On Numbers Effective July 5, Class three slau ghterers (farm slaughterers) must stamp their new permit numbers issued by the Office of Price Ad ministration on dressed carcasses, whether they killed the livestock or had some one else kill it for them, it was announced today by the Person OPA. Permit numbers must be stamped on each wholesale cut of meat such as rounds loins, ribs, chucks, and plates. The number must be stamp ed on the meat so that it will not smear and can be easily read. The registration of Class 3 slaughterers has been extended from July 1, 1945 to October 14, 1945. o——— Out On Points Pfc. Ei-nest T. Evans, wild served three years overseas in North Afri ca, Sicily, and Italy, has returned home and received a discharge by the point system from the army. He, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Evans. Holster Saves Boy From Serious Injury Tech 5 Oscar Satterfield, who is now in France with the U. S. Army is supposed to furnisn the thrills for his family, but the real test for the Satterfields came Saturday af ternoon about one o’cldck, right here in Roxboro, when Lawrence Lee Satterfield, 4, son of Tech 5 and Mrs. Satterfield, caught him self by a pistol holster on the bum per of a moving automobile on North Lamar Street. The child, who evidently started to dart across the street, received scraped hands and a head Injury of the same character while he hung suspended Just at street’s edge for about a block, while Mrs. Lacy Long, operator of the Packard au tomobile, drove along— Unaware of the tact that the boy was in im minent danger. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Fact Finding Committee Sur veys Number Os Patients Going To Other Hospitals. The preliminary or ground work for the proposed drive for Person County Memorial Hospital is going steadily forward, according to a member of the Executive Commit tee. A detailed study has been made by the fact finding committee as to the number of patients treated in the Community Hospital for the years 1943 and 1944. A study has also been made of all patients from Person County who have received hospital treatment in Durham, Dan ville, South Boston and Oxford Hos pitals during the last two years. With the information thus obtained it is felt that a very intelligent and worth-while report with recom mendations will be ready for the Qentral Committee at it's next meeting. Information in reference to the i legal requirements, proposed chart er, Articles of Information, etc. is being worked out by R. P. Burns, legal member of the Executive Com mittee. Tax exemption requirements have been gone into very carefully by R. L. Harris, Chairman of Ini tial Gifts Committee. Before the Financial Drive is launched all the above details should be settled in the opinion of the Ex ecutive Committee so that once the drive is started all the details will be perfected. A careful check is also being made of former Person County citizens who have left here to make then home elsewhere. Many of these people feel most friendly toward Person County and will take a keen interest in the plans for a modern, efficient hospital, a living memorial to part tn both World Wars orie an 3 Iwo, both the living and those who made the supreme sacrifice. It is planned to I make this hospital a project which every citizen in Person County will be proud of. White, Negro and In dian patients will be treated in the proposed new hospital. When the Person County Mem orial Hospital is completed the people of Person County will have i the satisfaction of knowing that | they will be efficiently taken care : of as far as hospitalization Is con cerned, and that it will no longer be necessary to carry them sick and Injured thirty or more miles to the hospital in the neighboring counties. The Executive Committee would appreciate any helpful suggestions that will help in this patriotic pro ject. Any suggested names of form er residents of Person County should be mailed to W. Wallace Woods, Se cretary. o Home On Thirty Day Furlough Lt. William Smith Humphries, who was reported as seriously wounded several weeks ago, arrived home Friday afternoon. He will spend a thirty day furlough here with his mother at her home in the Bethel Hill section, and then will go to Rome, Ga., where he will prob ably spend 30 or 60 days, and then— nobody knows. Before entering Uncle Sam's Army William was the associate editor of The Courier, and was one of the ablest and most popular members of the staff. Cries of the cook of the A. W. Clayton’s caused Mrs. Long to real ise that something was wrong, the cook having seen the <boy dangling from the bumper guards. The toy pistol holster is all that saved him. The child was playing on the sidewalk on Lamar Street opposite his home. Mrs. Long, according to officers, was watching an approaching laundry truck while driving down the street and didn't see the boy. His pistol hoisted held fast to the bumper guards and for 200 yards saved him from falling beneath the wheels of the vehicle. Mrs. Long found the child and took his to Community Hospital for first aid treatment. He was removed from the hos pital to the home 'of his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Taylor. ®ht Courier=®imes Invasion Man ROBERT E. SOLOMON Seaman Second Class Robert E. Solomon, here in May for a Visit with his wife and three children, was in the invasion at Okinawa. Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Solo mon of Roxboro, he came home exactly one year after he entered the Navy. Expecting to go back to Pacific duty, Solomon said while he was at home that he does not think the “Japs will be hard to whip out now.” Farben Works Taken Over By American Units Hoescht, Germany, July B.—ln a sudden move the American Army has seized complete control of the management, assets and plants of the vast I. G. Farbenindustrie in the United States zone of occupied Germany and set in motion ma chinery intended to wipe out for all time the German ability to wage war. Acting under General Order No. 2, issued by Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay as deputy military governor, armed American troops marched simul taneously into 25 Farben plants at 6. p. m. and assumed control of properties which had played a great part in building up and maintain ing the German war machine. Blow at Cartel System The action was taken to smash I. G. Farbenindustrie’s worldwide cartel system and practices and beak up the industry’s war-making power, which the United States Group Control Council considers a "major threat to peace and securi ty of the postwar world so long as such industries remain within the control of Germany.” Control of the industry’s manage ment, assets and plants which pro duced more than 50 per cent of Ger man's supply of chemicals and al lied products is to be held for ulti mate disposition by a four-power government to be established for Germany. The seizure was made pursuant to military government law dealing with the blocking and control of German property. The entire man agement, under terms of the order, was "removed and discharged and deprived of all authority to act with respect to the corporation or its property.u” Shareholders' rights in the selection of the management or control of the industry also were suspended. o To States Soon Pfc. Henr” M. Turner, son .of Mrs. Mamie Turner, who was wotmded March 14, in the Euro pean theatre and was subsequently removed to a hospital in England, is reported to be improving. He expects to return soon to the United States. What She Wanted, She Now Ha* This story may be true or it may not be true but the story was properly reported to this of fice. The husband of a colored wom an of this county, whose name could not be ascertained, was re cently inducted into the armed service of this country. After a short time his first allotment check came in. Then his wife went into action. She promptly bohght 810.00 worth of watermelons. That amount at the ceiling price of four cents a pound means that she bought 250 pounds of water melons at one clip. Manganese, a material used in small quantities to toughen steel, may be needed in the human diet, so tests with rabbits indicate. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Rotary Discusses Project Plans For New Year : Dr. John Fitzgerald, New President Announces As-, sembly Program Plans. i Dr. John Fitzgerald, new presi dent of Roxboro Rotary Club, who had charge of the program Thurs day night at Hotel Roxboro, an nounced that the meeting of July 26, will take the form of an Assem bly session with open forum dis cussions as to policy and program by chairmen of newly appointed club committees, members of which, together with chairmen, were an nounced at last week’s meeting. Enclosed with the list of commit tees was an idea sheet pertaining to club programs which is to be fill ed out and returned by club mem bers at the July 12. meeting. Theme of Dr. Fitzgerald’s discussion, his first formal program as new’ presi dent, was the club’s general pro gram and plan for the new year, it being suggested that a worthwhile civic, community project should be undertaken. \ Fred Long, retiring president, had as highlight of his administration, celebration of the club's 20th anni versary, observed last fall. Guest pianist in the absence of Mrs. W. Wallace Woods, who is in Sanford, was Miss Bivens Winstead. It has been suggested that the iclub here could render great assist ance with the USO Service Center work carried on here each week end at the Center and at Chub Lake for Camp Butner hospital soldiers. o Solons Approve Universal Draft 1 i Military Committee Urgs£«P*ompt Considera tion by Congress. Washington, July.—With only one member voicing opposition, the House Postwar Military Committee today endorsed the “broad policy” of universal military training. It brought to a head the long pending controversy over compul isory military training in peactime by urging that Congress give the proposition "prompt and thorough consideration.” Although only 16 members of 22- man committee headed by Chair man Wood rum (D-Va.) signed the formal recommendation, only* one. Representative Bradley (D-Pa.) flat ly opposed lt. Os the other five, Representative Shepherd ID-Calif.' was not available to study the re port and four declined to sign it but were represented by Woodrum as being neither opposed nor in favor of the proposal. They are Repre sentatives Bulwinkle (D-N C.), Short (R-Mo), Arends (R-Ill), and Allen (R-Ill). Hearings Slated. The committee did not offer spe cific legislation—it has no legislative powers—but left that job to the Mil itary Affairs Committee which is expected to hold hearings after the summer recess. A majority of the military com mittee is known to favor a peace time draft requiring every youth to take a year of military training at | some time between the ages of 17 and 22. The Woodrum committee, which for two weeks heard Army, Na.vy, veterans' groups and others support the proposal, and churchmen, edu cators, labor and farm groups oppose it. urged that “full consideration be given” to these matters when Con gress is ready to act: “1. It should-be designed primar- I ily to train men for military service under conditions of modern war fare. "2. I't should conform in its de tails with the requirements shown by experience in this war and by future technological developments. ■ /Uo*Uf Waif, m Shed a tear, dear reader, for M. W. “Mellie" Satterfield of Main Street and npw I’ll tell you why. AH this summer he worked in his garden as hard as a mule could have worked: Each afternoon found him right on hand with his working clothes on and a hoe in his hand. That man really worked and for a. long time I thought that he was going to have one swell crop.. His onions, corn, squash and all other vegetables looked fine. He was really going to town and each afternoon I stopped and admired what that man had done with a little land, seed and a hoe. Then came the dry spell and then it got even drier. I saw my friend’s expression change to one of doubt, then of .despair—but never resigned exactly to his fate. Now his garden looks mighty dry. The squash, are gone, the corn looks mighty bad, the snaps have dried up and other things look like what they should not be. Maybe late rains will help. I don't know but Ido know that I sympathize with him. Mine is much worse but 1 did not work suite as hard. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Wounded ? I < U ' i ■ W’ f ‘M PFC. LINWOOD JONES Pfc. Linwood C. Jones, with the 77th Liberty Division, was wound ed last month at Okinawa, but is improving. His wife is the for mer Miss Julia Grinstead. His brother, S. Sgt. Curtis H. Jones, is stationed In Florida. Pfc. Jones, who has been in service since December 1942, has been overseas fourteen months. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jule Jones of Hurdle Mills. Bailey Favors Quick Adoption Ql United Charter Washington, July —I wish to inform the people of North Caio ; Una that I am heartily in favor of the Treaty recently agreed upon at I San Francisco by the delegates lep | resenting more than 50 nations. I j shall support ratification earnestly I and without reservation. It is my , | Judgment that we should ratify this ’’most important treaty witn os little delay as possible. These are the words of Senator , J. W. Bailey, of North Carolina, in , a special release to the Courier | Times. Probably it is well to warn our people that while this is a most excellent treaty, as good as could have been devised under all the 1 circumstances, it does not guaran ! tee peace or security. Probably it ■ does all that a treaty can do. It is my opinion that the security of our country and the peajj of our people will depend upon the peo ple themselves rather than upon treaties, even great treaties like 1 this one. It would be most unfor tunate if we should lull ourselves 1 into a sense of security up >n rati fication of this treaty by the na tions which brought it forth. There ’ has always been a powerful will to : peace in our country. Our people are peaceful and they hate war. What I fear is that so many do not seem to understand tht.t the security of this country depends upon the people themselves and upon their determination to keep this country strong and great. We must not only maintain our present great navy we must also have a very strong army. We must continue to be prepared. F;w of us realize how nearly we came to losing this war by reason of the fact that we were unprepared and jit required fully two years to pre pare us. We cannot afford to dis '■ arm and I am not for disarmament. On the other hand I am for pre serving the military and naval and air strength of our country and for keeping this country at the very i front in armed might. The United States is at this moment probably the strongest and the mightiest of all the nations. I hope it wl't con tinue to be so. o COUNTY TAX BUDGET Published today is official sum mary of the annual budget for ! 1945-46, as prepared by County Accountant T. C. Brooks on the basis of a tentative rate of $1.30. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Quick Action Taken When Sheriff Wants Man For Murder Charge Sgt. Sam Umstead Killed In Germany War Department Message Comes Saturday. Previous ly Listed As Missing. Sgt. Sam P. Umstead, 22 of Rox boro and South Boston, Va„ son of Mr. and Mrs. Logan H. Umstead, of Roxboro. aerial gunner with the United States Army Air Corps and missing in action over Germany since Saturday. July 7. has been of ficially reported as killed in action there on the same date, according to a War Department message re ceived here Saturday morning by ills mother. A graduate of Roxboro high school, Sgt. Umstead. also attended school at South Boston. Va„ coming to Roxboro seven yea.s ago witli his family. He entered the Air Corps in 1942, but had been over seas only one month. After finish ing high school, he went to the Naval Apprentice school, Newport News, Va. i A brother. Ensign Wiley L. Um stead, is now on Pacific duty witn the Navy Air Transport Command. His father is a prominent Roxboro businessman with Export Tobacco Company and his mother is active in Red Cross and church and social circles. Others of the family are four sist ers, Miss Jane Umstead, of Greens boro, and Misses Anne Marie, Reda and Sally Umstead. all of Roxboro. The killed in action message re garding Sgt. Umstead is the second such report received here regarding Roxboro Air Corps members within a week. The other message concern ed S. Sgt. B. G. Clayton, Jr., pre viously reported missing since Feb ruary 25, 1944. Details concerning Sgt. Umstead's last mission are not know’n but a letter is expected from the War De partment. o Peaches Must Be Canned Soon Raleigh, July —Carolina and Georgia peaches now reaching East ern North Carolina markets will be a vital factor in our next winter’s food supply if homemakers will can I the largest amount possible, OPA District Director Theodore S. John son said yesterday. "Home canning may seem more difficult this year, because of flic extreme shortage of sugar,” John son admitted, "but Department of Agricultural experiments over sever al years have proved that peaches and other fruits may be effectively preserved without sugar, “Naturally such fruit sugar doesn't retain its shape or color quite as well but we must remember that this is wartime. We can't allow any food to go to waste,” Johnson point ed out. Receipes for canning fruit with out sugar may be secured from county agents, home demonstration agents, or from Department of Agri cultural representatives, he explain ed. Capt. Wright To Receive Discharge Capt. and Mrs. Wallace L. Wright have gone to Fresno, Calif., where it is expected they will spend two months. Capt. Wright, vet eran of many months of Pacific duty with the 'Air Corps, is ex pected to receive his discharge un der the point system while he is at Fresno. The Wrights have been living in Florence, S. C. Mrs. Wright is the former Miss Frances Critcher of Roxboro, daughter of Mrs. C. C. Critcher'. o Capt. J. M. Abbitt Secures Discharge Capt. James M. Abbitt, 29. of the Air Corps, veteran of nearly four years in service, both overseas and in the United States and re cently stationed at Monroe, La., has secured his discharge under the point system and is now here vis iting his father, I. O. Abbitt, Acad emy Street. With are his wife, his sister-in-law, Miss Adelaide Epperson and a friend of Miss Epperson’s of Miami, Fla. —o The United States has produced about SO percent more food annu ally during the present war period than in World War I. Holds Services • HT”" L JHlßhßk. sh. ■ a*? ■ HF|^ ■ - R|U REV. C. D. WHITE The Rev. Charles D. White, pastor of Duke's Chapel Method ist Church, Durham, is prech in a revival being conducted this week at Mount Zion Methodist Church. Pastor at Mount Zion is the Rev. Floyd Villines, Jr. Luther Strum's Rites Conducted At Kershaw, S. C. Funeral for Luther Thomas Strum, about 60, a Person native and former resident of Roxboro. whose death occurred Tuesday in Newport News, Va, from a heart at tack, was held Saturday at Ker shaw, S. C„ at four o’clock, with interment there. Mr. Strum’s second wife, the for mer Miss Lucy Bowers, a teacher at one time in Roxboro district schools, survives, as do two sons and two daughters by his first wife. The deceased was a brother of Jack and Buck Strum, of Roxboro. and of Mrs. Mollie Strum Barrett and Mrs. Delie Averette, both of Roxboro. A third sister is Mrs. Talmadge Gentry, of Laurinburg. Also surviving are three half-bro thers, Reuben Strum of Roxboro, Schaub Strum of the U. S. Army in Germany, and Andrew J. Strum of Winston-Salem. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Strum and was for many years connected with tobacco interests. Mr. Strum lived in Newport News for the past year, but prior to that time had traveled and frequently stayed in Roxboro. In Kershaw, home of his second wife, for the rites were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Strum, Mr. and Mrs. Buck Strum and Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Averitte, all of Rox boro. Surviving sons are Carroll, of Laurel, Deleware, Wesley, of Rich mond, Virginia, while the daugh ters, are Mrs. Grace McClellan and Mrs. Katherine Couch both of Dur ham. o The national wheat goal for 1946 has been set at 67 to 70 million acres for harvest, or full production. Wage Hours Cut Into OPA Time Person OPA office, effective this week, will be closed four afternoons, it was announced today, the addi tion of extra closing time being made necessary by the recent ruling on a forty-four hour work week rather than a forty-eight hour work week. Under the new sys tem the office will close in the afternoons (after twelve o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays. The office opens each morning at nine. Afternoon hours on Tuesdays and Fridays are from one o'clock to four. All afternoon closings except on Saturdays are for office work sched ules. Sathrday afternoon closings are work free under the new ruling. Hie new schedule is being l 1 Fatal Highwai Accident IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 DON’T HELP INCREASE IT! DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 63 Percy Cooke Taken In Rox« boro Within Twenty Min utes After Local Men Get Word From Frank lin Sheriff. It all happened here yesterday when Sheriff J. P. Moore, of Louis burg and Franklin County, heard that a Negro man wanted for mur der there was in Roxboro. He got his man, and quickly, but the speed of the job was the part played here by Deputy Bob Whitt and State , Highway Patrolman John Hudgins. Sheriff Moore reached Roxboro around one o'clock in the afternoon : and sought out Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton, saying that he was looking lor a Negro man, Percy Cooke, 48, charged with a Louisburg-Franklin slaying, that of another Negro, some time last April. Pretty soon, within about twenty : minutes, in fact. Deputy Whitt and Patrolman Hudgins found their ' man, Percy Cooke, on a downtown street here. It was as easy as that. Cooke, according to Sheriff Clayton, has been employed with the George W. Kane Construction company in Roxboro and has been in the City I about five weeks. Sheriff Clayton said this mprn ing that Cooke, vjho was quickly ; taken in custody by the Franklin officers, was on his way to Louis burg almost at once. According to Sheriff Clayton, Cooke, who was not ! known to him, had given no trouble while in Roxboro. ! Name of the man whom Cooke allegedly killed is not known here, nor is there knowledge of the place, i circumstances or weapons used, but i officers in Roxboro are of the opin ion that it was a quick nabbing, i The capture was reportedly made | easier because his captors had be- I fore hand some idea as to who he ■ was. 1 o— . > - ■« ■/* ‘ Cpl. Glenn Crowder Gains Distinction Cpl. Glenn D. Crowder, formerly of Camp Butner and frequently a visitor in Roxboro in the home of his fiance, has received a certifi cate of merit in Germany as of June 19, it was reported today. A native of Lincoln, Calif., and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Crowder, of that city, Cpl. Crowder is with the occupation forces of the 9th Army in the 35th Division medical corps. The certificate is in “recognition of conspiciously meritorious and out standing performance of military duty from July 1944, through May 1, 1945.” o Junior Hostesses Meet Thursday Junior hostesses who have been working with the Roxboro USO Service Center program, or who i wish to resume connections with the organisation, are requested to attend a program planning meet ing to be held Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock at the USO Center, j according to Dr. Robert E. Long, 1 director, who says the meeting is most important and that all in terested persons should attend. The USO program here is growing ' larger each week-end and definite plans must be made for the Fall ; and Winter season. o I Of'.ton acreage is relatively small 1 in Wilson, Pitt, Beaufort, Chowan, ! and Bertie counties this year. These counties are large tobacco and : peanut producing areas. adopted, according to the chief clerk, because it Is impossible to is-' sue out the number of rations re quired in two afternoons. The rork load at the Person OPA office IS enormous at the present time and the public Is asked to please co-. operate, say officials. The new schedule, hour by hour,, will be as follows: vj - Monday morning 9—13; Monday} afternoon, closed to public; Tues day morning 9—12; Tuesday after*' noon I—4; Wednesday morning 9 12; Wednesday afternoon, (dosed to public; Thursday morning 9— 12; Thursday afternoon closed to Mnii lie; Friday morning Saturdaj^^ftOTnootj^' closed. v&Ssw'i'i&fc' **»*•.j