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GENERAL
ALEXANDER A. VANDERGRIFT
Grneral itlexancver A. Vandcr
grift. above, now commandant of
the U. S. Marine Corps, with the
Marine First Division, opened the
first attack on the island jump
ing Japanese invaders in an
attempt to push them back with
the landings in 1943 at Guadal
canal in the Solomons.
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Local Men Aid
Huge Ship Job
Five Roxboro Men Have Ac
tive Part In Shipbuilding
Program.
Nason Hall, Everette Quill, Jack
and Watha Morrison and John Har
ris, all of Roxboro and now at Nor
folk, Va., have participated in the
building of various ships in ship
yards there, according to informa
tion received here today. One of the
most recently completed ships on
which the Roxboro men have work
ed is the S. S Hampton Roads, one
of the four largest tankers in the
world.
The Hampton Roads has been
launched at the Welding Shipyards,
Inc., at Sewell's Point, where the
vessel slipped into the waters of
Hampton Roads. Sponsor at the
launching was Mrs. Chuyler Otis
Bland, wife of Representative Bland,
of Newport News. Matron of honor
was Mrs. Holmes McMurran.
The Roxboro men also helped to
build sister ships of the S. S. Hamp
ton Roads, the S. S. Phoenix, the
S. S. Nashbulk and the S. S. Am
tank. "
First By Air
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GEN. JIMMY DOOLITTLE
General Jimmy Doolittle, above,
ind his w’ell-trained crew of fliers,
who trained for months on a se
cret landing field In Florida,
smashed Tokyo with bombs a
few months after the attack on
Pearl Harbof- and accomplished
a feat, called impossible, by
launching Billy Mitchell bombers
from the flight deck of an air
craft carrier floating 400 miles
off the Japanese Islands.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Today, Wednesday. To Be Ob
served As Holiday Over City |
And County; Churches To
Be Open For All With
Services In Many.
News of the acceptance of the
Potsdam Declaration or the uncon
ditional surrender of Japan was
announced over the radios of this
country at approximately 1:05 F.
M Tuesday and immediately the
residents of Roxboro began celebrat
ing. The first to sound the good
news after the radio was the fire sir
en located on the top of a Main St.
garage. The siren must have sounct
for a full ten minutes and was im
mediately joined by whistles over
the city, church bells and hun
dreds of automobile horns.
For at least an hour the auto
horns remained wide open and peo
ple thronged the Main Street dis
trict. That they Were jubilant was
not to be doubted. Everyone ap
pearei to be in fine spirit and you
could even detect that the voices :>f
some quivered as they spo.ee.
Person County people had been
waiting for the news since Friday
.of last week. Many had been
stationed by their radios until late
in the nights. They had expected
the news any minute and altho
i ,-hoy had -been fooled several times,
| before it actually came they were
overjoyed nevertheless. Tliis joy
seemed to be shared by all and
I they all were giving vent to their
! enthusiasm in no little way.
It is understood that Wednes
day. August loth will be observed
a, a holiday over this city grid
county. At this time it is not
known when official V-J Day will
be proclaimed but Wednesday will
probably be observed from a stand
point of business over the entire
nation. Government employees in
Washington have been granted a
two day holiday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
Churches in the city and county
are expected to remain op -n all
day Wednesday and altho several
pastors are out of the city on va
cation it is thought that special
I thanksgiving services will be held
jin the city and at many. churches
i in the county.
No special programs have been
planned for Wednesday other than
criurch services . The mayor of
Roxboro has issued a proclamation
calling upon the people to go to
church and render thanks to God
for what has been done for the
world. He also called upon them
to close shops and offices and cele
brate. Tile Roxboro Chamber of
Commerce joined with the mayor
in tile suggestions.
V. A. Thomas
To Open Store
V. A. Thomas, resident of this
city and for seventeen years local
manager of D. Pender Grocery
Company, has resigned his posi
tion with this firm effective Tues
day of this week and will enter
business for himself, he stated this
week.
Mr. Thomas has been connected
with Pender's stores (or tne past
19 years and has a large following
in this locality in the grocery busi
ness. He has purchased the stock of
Alex Bass on Court Street and
will operate a grocery store in the
; same building that has been used
by Mr. Bass.
Mr. Bass is retired from business
under doctor’s orders and does not
expect to be active for the next
several months he stated.
Definite announcement as to
when Mr. Thomas expects to open
may be expected as soon as he
has time to arrange his stock and
store fixtures.
ENTERS WACS
Miss Mary Jane Tucker of Rox
j boro yesterday enlisted in the Wo
i men's Army Corps at the local Army
Recruiting Station, according to Lt,
| Margaret Young. She will leave for
I basic training at Fort Des Moines,
' lowa, in September.
©he Courier=©ime!s
Pacific Landings Numerous
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Many landings like the above were accomplished by the Navy and
Army in tlieir drive to push the Japanese forces back to their home
islands and make them release their gains. Shown are two land
ing crafts, from a vast armada of American ships hraded for a beach
head on a Pacific Island. Many such landings were made in the
Solomons, Marshalls, New Guinea. Guam and Okinawa and other
small, but important, stepping stones to Tokyo. The landings, claim
ing a heavy death toll, were necessary to bring the Army and Navy
Air Corps within bombing range and with the atomic bomb Japan
was brought to her knees.
High School Has
Few New Teachers
Junior Cattle
Show Planned
Fitting Demonstrations Given
For Person Groups At
Quail Roost.
A group of Negro 4-H Club lead
ers from Person County recently
attended a fitting demonstration,
which had been previously arranged
by Agent C. J. Ford at Quail Roost
dairy.
The herdsmen at Quail Roost took
a heifer and went through all of the
operations, fitting one horn, a side
of the belly, udder and head. After
this, the boys were allowed to fit
the other horn, other side of the
belly, bead, back and back of hind
legs. They were a little awkward to
begin with, but developed skill as the
operations progressed.
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These leaders will give other club
boys demonstrations in fitting their
heifers and cows for community cat
tle shows in Olive Hill, Woodsdale,
Lee Jeffers and Hurdle Mills com
munities. They will also assist ill
fitting the animals to be carried to
the Junior Cattle Show to be held
in Greensboro September 21.
Clifford McCoy, James Villines,
Albert Howard. Jr. and Ray Roy
ster have purchased a Guernsey
heifer each respectively, which they
plan to exhibit at the Junior Cattle
Show.
Clifford MiCoy will also exhibit
a 12 month's old Guernsey bull, pur
chased from Rev. G. W. Thomas.
Josiah Thomas, son of Rev. G. \V.
Thomas, will show a Guernsey heif
er raised on his father's farm. The
two Guernseys were purchased from
: one of the best herds in Guilford
County, and the Jerseys were pur
chased from the Aldridge Dairy
Farm at New Haw River. •
C. J. Ford,
Negro County Agent.
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AA 37 mra. gun has an Impact
equal to that of a five-ton truck
hitting a stone wall while traveling
41 miles per hour.
ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
1 The list of teachers for Roxboro
| high school has been completed and
the schedule of classes has been ar
ranged. according to Jerry L. Hester.
Supervising principal of Roxboro
District Schools.
Pupils who did not register at the
close of last school term and those
who wish to change their subjects,
may come to the principal’s office |
and register on the following days: ;
August 23. 24, and 25. The hours
each day for registering will be a
follows: 10--12 in the morning, 2—4 ]
in the afternoon and 8--10 in the:
evening. Those pupils who have riot |
reported by the end of the last day.;
I will have their program arranged by j
the registrar.
Stuart Tripp, athletic director j
will arrive on August 22, and re !
quests that all boys planning to
participate in football to report on
the athletic field on Thursday, [
August 23, at 7:30 P M. lor foot-1
ball practice.
In addition to Coach Tripp, two j
new faculty members at Roxboro j
high school are, Miss H'pael Bow- j
man. mathematics and science, who J
transfers from Bushy Fork, and
Miss Sarah Hodgin. of Greensboro
who will teach public school music
in grammar grades at Roxboro higli
school and Roxboro Central school
Other regular faculty members are
returning to Roxboro high school
and among them is Fred Bishop 1
who this year will be teacher of
Bethel Hill Club
To Sell On Curb
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The Bethel Hill Home Demonstra- |
tion club will sell on the Roxbom !
Curb market on Saturday, August;
18, according to announcement made !
today- Mrs. Tenie Shotwell and Mr.y ,
H. B. Humphries will be in charge
of products to be brought to market
and members who wish to have pro
dticts on sale at the market are
' asked to bring their wares to the
| Shotwell and Humphries homes by
Friday, the 17th. The market will
I open Saturday morning at eight
o'clock.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1945
President Truman’s Press Release
Touches Off Spontaneous Festival
The war ail war —for the first
time since 1931, when the Chinese-
Japanese angle of it began is over.
President Harry S. Truman, in a dra
matic seven o'clock conference Tues
day night at the White House in Wash
ington, announced to assembled re
porters that Imperial Japan had ac
cepted the unconditional surrender
terms proposed at the Potsdam con.
ference. In Roxboro and all over the
nation the news was transmitted by
Ronald Hill To
3e Speaker For
Vesper Service
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Eastern Star To Serve Siiddit
Sunday For Visit inu
Soldiers.
Rev. Ronald Hill, of Spindale, sup
ply pastor for the past several weeks
at Roxboro First Baptist church
during the absence of the pastor,
the Rev. Joyce Brooks, will speak
at Sunday's USO Service Center
vespers to be held at Chub Lake,
according to Dr. Robert E. Long,
USO director.
Mr. Hill, a student; at Mars Hail
college, expects to enter Baylor Un
iversity in Texas in the Fall.
Sunday picnic in connection with
the vespers program will be held
and groups are expected to leave
the Center for the Lake a three
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Serving
end sponsoring the picnic will be
members of the Person chapter of
'he Order of Eastern Star.
A regular large group of Camp
Burner men is expected to come to
Roxboro this Sunday, says Dr. Long,
who adds that Senior and Junior
hostesses will be on duty as usual at
the Center on Saturday and Sun
' day.
Featured last week-end was a
hayride to the lake Saturday night,
the truck being furnished by'Rox
boro Beverage company. Regular
Spnday afternoon program was also
held at the lake and at the Center
■that night.
Bible.
Classes in the schools here, which
open on August 29, will be on a
j short schedule for the first thirteen
' teaching days, having class periods
Jof forty rather than fifty minutes,
according to Mr. Hester. The short
j schedule is intended to take care
of tobacco and general farm work
dong by many pupils, it is said.
"PROCLAMATION''
V-DAY is here! World War II comes to an end. We and cur
Allies have won a great Victory. Thanks, of course, to our fighting
men everywhere.
A brave, courageous people went to war. They went forth,
determined and unafraid. They went that PEACE might prevail
throughout the world. A costly adventure in “sweat, blood and
tears,” and an adventure that has brought death, and bereavement
to so many cf our homes. Therefore, no time for jubilation, but- a
good lime for sober meditation. Let us then on this day of all
days, conduct ourselves nobly and in the spirit of meekness. God
has surely been cn our side. To him we should go with a prayer
of thanks I therefore, as Mayor, proclaim this day as a day of
prayer. Our church doors stand ajar a good place to go and ac
knowledge our gratitude to God for his wonderful goodness to us all.
A people who both loved and cherished peace. Yes. loved it
well enough to fight and die for it. So VICTORY is ours. VIC
TORY DAY~is here! Let us keep it as a living symbol of our
soldiers' sacrifice.
Some of our boys will soon be returning—some will never return.
Peace to the dead, and enduring, lasting peace to the living.
Therefore, let us celebrate today with all the dignity of our being.
As Mayor, I offer this suggestion: close our shops, our offices,
our business plafces as suggested. THINK, MEDITATE AND
PRAY. This Is our day, let's keep it HOLY.
S. G. WINSTEAD. Mayor
The sentiments herewith expressed are endorsed by the Rox
boro - Chamber of Commerce, and we join in the suggestions made
herein.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
radio ill few minutes and by five
after seven o'clock Tuesday night
tile first public Roxboro note of the
greatest day in the 20th century
was tlve long, prolong sounding of
the lire siren at City Hall.
Supremo Commander of Japan
is to be Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
the official announcement from
Washington said, although iat eight
o'clock Tuesday night' no announ
cement had been made as to when
or where; or by whom .tire, offi
cial peace terms would be signed.
Official V-J Day must Walt on tile
actual signing of terms, accordtrig
to President Truman, but in Waste
ltigtoii both Wednesday and Thurs
day are proclaimed as holidays, two
days being alibied to Government,
workers because they had no holi
day on V-E Day in May v.Uen
Germany collapsed.
Roxboro started taking its li illdaV
Tuesday night and most stores tne
expected to be closed all day Wed
nesday.
President Truman’s official press,
conference announcement roves led;
that Emperor Hirohito's acceptance
..message had official character with
a full acceptance of the Pot sdani
terms. Arrangements are now be
ing made to take over the gov
ernment and the control of Japan.
Unconditional surrender is ' ikon to
mean, that Emperor Hirohin will
accede to all Wishes of the supreme
commander. General MacAuhr.r,
Os deep interest to all service men,
prospective draftees and their fam
ilies is the radio announcement that
rate of induction to military service
will be cut and that no men over 28
years, of age are to be called. From
eighty to fifty thousand inductees
per month have been called upon
recently, but the figure is expected
to be drastically cut. Many men arc
expected to be released from armed
services at once. .
The atomic bomb., according to
radio announcements made Tuesday
night is considered as exclusive
property of the United States Great
Britain and Canada.
Deep social and economic signifi
cance is attached to announcement
that all war manpower controls arc
immediately abolished.
From Emperor H,irohito, who later
Supreme Pacific Commander
Hatcher Takes
Patrol Office
Raleigh, Aug. 15. —H. J. iDoggy>
Hau lier of Morganton, Just released ;
from the Army after . serving in j
Germany as a lieutenant colonel,
became major in charge of the State
Highway Patrol and Safety Division ,
Monday.
H)■ was sworn in bv Associate .
Justice M. V. Barnhill in the office;
of Governor Cherry. His salary will
be $5,500 a year.
Major Hatcher succeeds John
Armstrong as patrol head and Ron
ald Hocutt as head of the safety di- '
vision, since both offices were con- ,
sblidated by the Governor.
Tuesday night delivered a special;]
broadcast to his people, came a '
(hree-point declaration with impel i
till sanction,and -declaration- to lay
down arms.
President Truman in his own an
nouncement of the coming of pence
said that the regret of his life at
that moment was that the late Pres- ]
idem Franklin D. Roosevelt "was
not here". .1
From Great Britain, m London,
came Prime Minister Clement Att
lee's, first; long Public address, what
was referred to. as a "majestic ad- 1
dress". The British will have a two- j
day holiday, starting Wednesday.
Announcement of the acceptance
of terms by Japan ended a vigil
which began Friday after tlie Japs
first said they would surrender. The
long wait was punctuated Sunday
night at nine-thirty by the unex
plained and premature United Press j
news flush. Roxboro, North Caro- ]
liua and the Nation joined the world
Tuesday night in the beginning oi
a celebration which will extend all
through Wednesday.
By eight-thirty o'clock last night
GoV, T. Gregg -Cherry, of North
j Carolina, was on the air with his
I own V-J Day address of thanks and
! praise. State holidays are Wednes
day and Thursday.
Gov. Cherry in his own announce
ment said that during the two holi
days in North Carolina, beginning
Wednesday and continuing through
Thursday, there is to be no sale of
alcoholic or spiritus drinks, includ
ing beer and wine. ABC stores are
to be closed.
The Governor in his address wax
ed eloquent in his tribute to light
ing North Carolinians.
First break on the imminent im
pending arrival of peace terms via
Berne, Switzerland, came Tues Uy
morning at two o'clock over ra ii),
when the Domei News Agency
i semi-official) for Japan, said
terms were being sent to Switzer
land. The said terms arrived late
in the afternoon in the United
States and were sent by Swlsi di
plomatic officials to Secretary of
State Byrnes.
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GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
General Douglas MacArthur hat
been appointed supreme com
mander of Japan and is expected
to take charge immediately.
Censorship Will
End As War Ends
Washington. Aug. 15.—Censorship
of news from the United States to
Europe. Latin America and Asia,
will end one hour after President
Truman announces victory over Ja->
pan. the Office of Censorship said
today.
"We will go out of business after
i that." said Byron Price, director ol
I censorship.
Since the beginning of the war
lull news going to foreign countries
from the United States was sub
jevt to censorship by the Govem
, merit.
The elimination of war time cen
sorship after V-J Day will include
j cable, communications as well as
wireless, the Office Censorship said,
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Restrictions Off
WASHINGTON. Restrictions
i limiting dealer deliveries of anthraf
| «'ite and coke before Sept. 1 to 59
Per rent of consumer's annual needs
will be lifted Aug. 15.
Annolicing this today, the Solid
Fuels Administration said the ac
tion will permit householders and
| industrial plants to obtain their
lull wartime quotas—Bo per cent of
i normal needs.
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GEN. CHIANG KAI-SHEK 3
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1 Generalissimo Chiant Kal-Bfcafc.
above. leader of the Chlmaa an»* M
ies has been matching wits with
the Japanese for nearly ten years
and with their surrender mail—, -
his and the people of China’s
long hope for peace. China fought
Japan for six yean alone.