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War Bond Dollars Are Double Duty Dollars VOL. LXIV. Eagle Badge Will Be Awarded Soon At Scout Court Eagle Badge award is to be made i to Bobby Currier, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Currier and well-1 known athlete and student at Rox- 1 boro high school, tomorrow night at regular August session of the Per 'son District Court of Honor, it was announced yesterday by Gus Deer ing, court of honor chairman. The meeting will be held at Person Court house, starting at 7:30, with a number of advancements to come up. Regular presentation of the Eagle award to Currier will be made to morrow night, but a formal presen tation is also expected to take place later in the year at the annual Pa tlier-Son Scout night dinner. Planned for Friday night of next week, September 7, at the USO Ser vice Center is a meeting of Cub leaders and parents, together with Scoutmasters of other troops and their leaders. Time of the meeting will be 7:30 and a film on "Cubbing in the Home" will be shown. A good attendance is requested, as revival of cubbing will be discussed. Eight Deaths In County Last Year From Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is identified as the major health problem in Person County and Roxboro at the present time, according to a report filed to day with the Courier-Times by Dr. I. David Garvin, director of the Person, Orange-Chatham health de- i partment. incorporated--l**tti* re-J port ,arc local tuberculosis figures for the past year here, together with I specific suggestions for an intensi fied T. B. program. Dr. Garvin spent only one day here in the district office last week studying Person’s tuberculosis re cords. but his report reveals that: During 1944 eight deaths here were attributed to tuberculosis and no doubt many other deaths were diag- 1 nosed as something else. There were nine Person cases in the Sanatorium during 1944. Forty-five per cent of the deaths in Person occurring from | tuberculosis were in white people, J says the report. A very intensive campaign has been waged here against tubercul osis using a fluroscope for diagnosis Due to the extent of the problem and the limitations of fluoroscopy this method has been discontinued until such time as X-Ray equip ment can be secured. Plans are be ing formulated for the mass X-ray ing of everyone, according to Dr. Garvin, who cites the needs for* T. B. checks here. The seven great needs are: 1. "Intensified case finding with X-ray diagnosis. X-raying appar ently healthy people is the way to find tuberculosis early. When 1,000 persons are X-rayed about 990 show healthy chests. 10 have tuberculosis (Turn to page eight) Has Bronze Star ; . . i *Wf • SGT. H. S. YARBOROUGH i Technical Sergeant Henry S. Yarborough, of Roxboro, shown above, received the Bronxe Star award in Germany from Col. Charles E. Hoy, who is shown making the presentation. Bgt. Yarborough, at the time the pho tograph was taken, was stationed in the Heidelberg area, with the Seventh Army, 84th infantry Di vision. . J. W, NOELL, EDITOR I Expected to be here for that ' meeting is E. Pierce Bruce, of I Reidsville, Cherokee executive, who I will leave next month for LaGrange, Ga., to take up his new work. In connection with the leaving of Mr. Bruce a meeting of Cherokee Coun cil officials will be held ’in Reids ville Monday night for the purpose Os selecting a successor to Mr. Bruce. Going from here are to be at least three officials, among them, J. S. Merritt, district vice chairman, j. W. Green, district president, and C. A. Harris. One of the men to be voted upon is John Oakley, of Greenville, N. C., and Atlanta, a brother of Mrs. Floyd Peaden, of Roxbcro. Oakley is now a Scout assistant executive in Atlanta. Held here Tuesday night was reg ular monthly session of the Person district. Attendance was large and general discussion of troop problems particularly at Longhurst", East . Roxboro and Cavel and Olive Hill was held. | Plan Rites On Friday At Church ForMrs.W.Snow- Funeral for Mrs. Willie Snow, \ 24, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Roberson, of Longhurst, who j was killed last Thursday afternoon i by lightning in a tobacco barn near McGhee's Mill, will be held to morrow (Friday) at four o'clock at i Longhurst Baptist church by the Rev. J. F. Funderburk, with inter-, ment in Providence Baptist church cemetery. I Rites for Mrs. Willie Snow have j I been delayed until tomorrow in or der to permit arrival of her sister, Mrs. Helen Covington, of Glendale, California. Also surviving, in ad dition to the deceased’s husband and parents and sister, are two sons Larry and Jones, both of the home,! near McGhee’s Mill, and a grand mother, Mrs. Nannie P. Roberson, of Longhurst. Rites for Mrs. Nlelvtn Snow and for Miss Lessie Snow, sisters-in-law of Mrs. Willie Snow, and also kill ed when lightning struck, were at Providence. A large crowd was in attendance. Mrs. Arnold Snow, also a sister in-law, and Mrs. Jim Snow, moth er of Miss Lessie Snow, are report ed to be improving at their home. Both Mrs. Arnold Snow and Mrs. \ | Jim Snow were knocked uncon- j j scious. Only person not hurt when i I the bolt struck the barn was an ' infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Snow. o Robbers Make Haul From Store Os Eddie Perkins Sheriff M. T. Clayton said yes terday that robbers, around mid night Monday, made off with 13 cartons of cigarettes from the Ed die Perkins’ store near the resi dence of Flem D. Long. The rob bers took nothing else, but cleaned off the top bf a safe and were apparently preparing to take the safe away when they were fright ened off by the barking of dogs. Entry into the store was through a window, but the breakers-in left out by a side door. It is thought that they had with them as many as two cats. ———o Benefit Program Grassy Creek quartet,’ of Oxford, will, give a, benefit program Sun day night, September 2, at Prospect Hill Baptist church at Woodsdale. The program will begin at eight o'clock and the public; is invited to attend, ®ht Courier=Cimejs Limited Amounts Ot DDT To Be Used In Schools I .., i Tests Being Made Os Power- 1 ful New Spray In Public Schools Dr. O. David Garvin, Person Dis trict health officer, speaking here Tuesday at a couny-wide gather ing of teachers prior to yesterday’s opening of the public schools, re- : vealed that all school lunchrooms, all entrance-ways to schools and all privies are to be sprayed with the new DDT anti-fly and insect solu tion as a test of effectiveness of | the new spray, good results from which have been obtained at Chub Lake in a campaign against mos quitoes. Dr. Garvin also discussed with teachers and principals the State rules on immunization against di seases such as whooping cough | diphtheria, small-pox, and the like, J and cited requirements for each child to be vaccinated before his or her entrance or admission to ’ school. Schools listed this year as having j lunchroom programs include, Rox boro high school and Longhurst j school, both in tire Person district system, Cunningham, Helena, Mt. I Tirzah, Bushy Fork and Olive Hill I ! in the county system. | In connection with the operati jn | 'of public food serving establish ments such as restaurants and cases, it was revealed that plans are be ing made to hold here at some fu i ture date a food conference on !ood ■ handling, expected to be of excep j tional, interest to persons working l in restaurants. In Greensboro re ! cently to attend a district confer- I | ence on such matters were Mrs. j Catherine Hidy, of th Health Edit- i cation service staff, and Miss Zeh Harris, Person sanitarian. A ten.a --i tive examination of case, restau i rants and hotels was made nere last month by Miss Harris and un ; other examination is expected to 4be made soon. State sanitary o-.fi- Jcials from Raleigh headquarters ! have been here this week. o 5 Father Receives Medals For His Air Corps Son Clyde T. Satterfield, of Rout 1. Timberlake. a member of the Per son County Board of Education, together with members of his fam jily, was in Greensboro Saturday at ORD station for presentation of the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf clusters to the Air Medal in recog nition of achievements of his son, S. Sgt. Luther S. Satterfield, of the ' Air Corps, missing In action in the Pacific area. Presentation of the medals to Sgt. Satterfield’s father was by Col. . Faul H. Younts, commanding offi cer of tiie AAF Replacement Depot and Redistribution Station at Greensboro. Medals were present ed to a number of other men and their families and the exercises took over an hour, it was reported. o Meeting Called i Aaron Weinstein, of Reidsville, [chairman of the Inter-racial com ! mittee for Cherokee Council has called a council conference at Yanceyville at Caswell Training school for Negroes at four o’clock Sunday afternoon, it was reported Tuesday night. A number of repre sentatives from Person are expected to attend. New Blame Shown For Pearl Harbor Washington, Aug. 29.—The veil an the ’’top secret” Pearl Harbor re ports was lifted today,, revealing that official boards of lnquirty lev- ! eled criticism at such Washington! leaders as General of the Army Oeorge C, Marshall and former Secretary of State Cordell Hull. But President Truman, in mak ing public the reports on til: na tion’s greatest military ' disaster, went strongly to the defense of Marshall. So also did Secretary of War Stimson who, in addition, branded the criticism of Hull as I wrong and “uncalled for." . ' An army board found that Mar shall, United States chief of staff failed to keep the Hawaiian army command fully Informed of the battle United States-Jspanese fric tion which preceeded the sneak at tack on the great Pearl Harbor bastion December 7, 1941. . It said that Hull, at a time whan ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA To Be Scene Os Historic Surrender Signing Pvt. J. J. Hubbard Dies At Batiey Hospital, Georgia i Rites To Be Held This After-1 noon For Chub Lake Soldier Funeral for Pvt. John J. Hub- i bard, 19, of Chub Lake, Person County, son of Mrs. Lillie L. Hub- i bard, whose death occurred Mon day morning at Battey Generali Hospital, Rome, Ga., will be con- ; ducted Thursday afternoon at three j o’clock at Theresa Baptist Church j by his pastor, the Rev. B. B. Knight ; of Roxboro, with interment in the church cemetery. Pvt. Hubbard, inducted into the j Army about a year ago, completed ! basic training and was sent to tne j 'Philippines, where he developed j leukima and was shortly after wards returned to the United States. He was a patient at Bat- j tey for about one month. Surviving *in addition to his mother, are two Brothers. Chantp, of Longhurst, and Bradley, of Woodsdale, and two sisters. Misses Nannie Lou and Irene Hubbard, of the home. Also surviving are two half-brothers, Jesse and Giles Clayton of Woodsdale. and three half sisters, Mrs. Andrews Wreitn. j Mrs. Oscar Solomon and Mrs. Dave Reade, all of Woodsdale. —o Service Board To Have Holiday And New Hours Person Selective Service Board j the first of this week went on a new schedule of working hours.! according to Ijliss Jeanette Wrenn.j chief clerk, and will be closed all [ day each Saturday, The Board will j also be closed on Monday, Sep(. | 3. for Labor Day, a legal national j holiday. Regular office hours of from 8:30 | a. m. to 5:30 p. m. will be observed | during regular work weeks from i Monday through Friday, says Miss Wrenn. The Saturday closing is to • conform with the Federal work I schedule of forty hours per week instead of the previous forty-four. o— : Pendergrast Not To Be In City J. R. Pendergrast, State examiner | for motor vehicle licenses, who lias ■ been here today at his office in | Person Court house said that lie | will not come to Person County next j Thursday, but will be here on regu -1 lar schedule by September 13. the army and navy were stalling for time because they were unpre pared, presented' Japan a 10 poi.r i document which the Japanese re ! garded as an ultimatum. This doe ! ument, the board said, "touched the button that started the war."” Howvere, it added that war was inevitable and imminent., anyway Others taken to task included Adm. Harold R. Stark, who was chief of naval operations at the time of the disaster that put the United States into world war 11, and Maj. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow then chief of the war department's war plans division. There was no criticism of the late President Roosevelt. The army board quoted tstimony oy the secretary of war stating that the President "had been very care ful to be sure that the United States did nothing that cou’U be considered an overt act or an act of war against the Japanes.." HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT I The USS Missouri, proud bat- * j (leship veterans of the Pacific | Fleet and named for the home j state of President Harry S. Tru • man, is expected to be the scene ! this Sunday of the signing: of for- j . mal terms of the Japanese sur ; render. Plans indicate that the signing will take place in Tokyo | bay, where a vast number of J American vessels has already | gathered. Marine and soldier ; troops have already landed there, according to reports received this morning. Scout Troop And Parents Go To Lake Affair i Boy Scouts of Troop 49, with Dr. ! Robert E. Long, scoutmaster, had a [ ! Parent-Scout brunswick stew, to- I getlier with water sports,, yesterday | afternoon at the Fred Long Cabin j at Chub Lake, where the stew was : served about 6:30 o'clock. Attend- ~ ante was placed at sixty, with many parents on hand, as well as Boy Scouts and scouting officials. Invited, but unable to be pres ent, was E. Pierce Bruce, of Reids ville, Cherokee Council executive, who leaves next month for a new assignment at LaGrange, Ga. A. ; gift for Mr. Bruce, which was to have been given to him yesterday afternoon by the boys, will be mail ed to him. Welcome to the parents was ex tended by Kirk Kynoch. Water sports contests between various pa trols was in charge of Joe Feather ston. Special guests included troop committeemen. Dr, A, F. Nichols, T. T. Mitchell and C. C. Jackson, Jr. Also invited were J. W. Green i president of Person District, Tom Shaw, secretary and C. A. Harris, ! prominent district leader. Wright T. Day Receives Award And Discharge Cpl. Wright T. Day, of Route 3, : Roxboro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex ! Day, received his discharge from i I the Army on July 31, after having! ! one hundred and nine points. Com- \ mg home was especially pleasing to 1 him because until then he had! never seen his sixteen-months old J daughter. His wife is the former | Miss Addie Mae Harris, of Route j two, Roxboro. He served in France, Holland, i Belgium and Germany with a glider i j field artillery unit from June 6. 1944 to May 1945, and has re-! ceived the Bronze Star award, the \ good conduct medal and a Presi- 1 dential citation. His total service in Europe amounted to nearly two years. President Truman reserved deci sion on whether any further action j would be taken, but indicated the publication of the army and navy inquiries would wind up the whole affair. In response to a question lie said if courts-martial were found nec essary those charged would be giv en a prompt and fair trial.. Neither army nor navy inquiry boards re commended courts-martial. The President made public the voluminous documents at a special news conference. He said the coun try was entitled to the- facts now Since hostilities had ceased and there was no longer any need for military secrecy. The army board concluded that the “extent of the Pearl Harbor disaster’’ was due primarily to two causes—failure of the commanding general of-the Hawaiian department j tt. Gen. Walter C. Short, “ado quately to alert his command fori THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1045 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Many More Os Service Men To Come Saturday Rev. Daniel Lane Will Con duet Vespers, With Burn ers As Hosts. Coming of visitors from the Fourth (Ivy) Division. Camp But- i ner, together with other regular vis istors from the Camp Blither hospi tal and convalescent center, is ex pected to greatly increase the num ber of service men who will be at the Roxboro USO Service Center this week-end; It Was reported to day. Host and hostess for the . supper I Sunday night a; the Fred Long cabin. Chub- Lake, will be Mr. and Mrs. Karl Burger, of Hotel Roxboro. and vespers speaker will be the Rev. Daniel Lane. Junior hostesses will ! be from groups three and four, with Misses Lucille Oliver and Mary Alice Thornton as chairmen. Transportation to tile lake will be furnished by the F. C. Hall transfer company. Regular Saturday pro gram will be observed at the USO Center, where senior hosts and hostesses will assist the juniors. On schedule for Saturday night will be tiie regular dance. A considerable increase in at tendance at the Center was observ ed last week-end, first week in which visitors came from the newly located Fourth Division, according to Dr. Robert E. Long. USO Center chairman. Stephen Huff, Os Allensville, Out Os Army Service Technical Sergeant Stephen Roy Huff of Allensville, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Huff, after forty-eight months in service, much of it over seas in the Pacific area, received his discharge on August 17, it was re ported today, having received more than one hundred points. ! He entered the Army in 1941, I August 14. and was with the 158th j Infantry Division, medical unit. [Sent to Panama in December 1941, 'he then went to combat duty in j New Guinea and the Philippines. He has the Asiastic-Pacific ribbon with (four battle stars, the pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon: the Good Conduct ! ribbon and the Philippine Libera i tion ribbon. r Huff, who was educated at Allens : ville and was formerly at Plant E. j Collins and Aikman, came through i forty-three months of overseas ser ' vice without a scratch. He says “I am really glad to get back to God’s country and live in peace once more, like a civilian”. I war,” and failure of the war de partment to direct Short to “take adequate alert” and inform him of all developments in the United States-Japanese negotiations. Short was relieved o f his com mand January 11, 1942, 35 days af ter the Japanese attacked Petri Harboro. -Under the heading of “responsi bilities,” the army board said: The action of then Secretary of State Hull in delivering sharp counterproposals of November 26, 1941, to the Japanese _after drop ping a three-months truce plan “was used by the Japanese as the signal to begin the war by the attack on Pearl Harbor. To the extent that it hastened such attack iit was in conflict with the effors ,j of the war and navy departments .to gain time for preparations for ‘ i war. Partial Observance Os Labor Day To Take Place Here Collins and Aikman And Num ber Os Public Offices Plan Holiday Off again, on again, apparently is to be the Labor Days closing policy here next Monday, on tiie basis of reports received this morn ing in the Courier-Times office. One industrial plant, tli.tt of Col lins and Aikman. expects to dose unless some unusual development takes place, while probably not to dose, are Roxboro Cotton Mills and Somerset mills. No general closing of stores is expected, according to W. Wallace Woods, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Who said this morn ing that several merchants have called him, but that no concerted action has been taken. Peoples B; 'the United States Post Office td Person Selective Service Boqr.i will be closed, „s th •; traditionally are on legal holidays. | A special emergency situation will keep tUt- Person Health De partment open Monday afternoon from one until four o’clock, the emergency situation being the dis covery that many school children have neither whooping cough nor tire whooping cough vaccine: Be cause of this fact the Health De partment will be open at the hours indicated in order to administer whooping cough vaccine, which must be given to children before! they can enter school. The offi ce, however, will be closed Mon day morning. Also taking a half-day in the Veterans Report Shbw Fund Nears Two Fifty Total Officials of two veterans’ organi zations here, the members of which ’ are receiving funds to be given to members of the Snow iami'.y, victims of last week's lightning dis aster at McGhee’s Mills, said this ; morning that total funds obtained so far stand at $250, with neither ! of the funds regarded as conipieled., Gordon C. Hunter, of Lester Blackwell Post, the American Le gion, (says that Legion members j have received about S2OO to be giv en to the Snow family, while C. C. Garrett, commander of Lewell T. Huff Post, the Veterans of For eign Wars, said this morning that his organization has reported about SSO dollars on hand for the fund Legion contributions are being re ceived at the FSA office in th; Post Office, headquarters for Com ■ mander Joe Y. Blanks, .who is now ! out of the city at an FSA confer- i ence in Winston-Salem. Other Le gibn collection centers are tiie Peo ples Bank and the Courier-Times office. 'Veterans of Foreign Wars funds \ are being received by Adjutant J. A. Jordan at White's Barber shop and by Commander Garrett. Two men in the Snow family, Melvin and Arnold Snow, are lt cently returned veterans with long overseas records. It will be recalled that Mrs. Melvin Snow was killed and Mrs. Arnold Snow was injured, i Also killed were two other mem bers of the Snow family and it is thought by both the American Le gion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars that considerable more of public support for funds to aid tiie stricken families will be forthcom ing. Many members of both organizi-j tions were at the two funerals 1 Sunday afternoon and VFW mem- i bers contributed flowers in addi- ! tion to the funds reported today. o Duke Man To Go With Herald i Durham.—A. A. Wilkinson, head j of the Duke University News Bu reau for the past 18 years, has re signed and on Sept. 10 will become associate editor of The Durham Morning Herald. A graduate of Duke, Wilkerson previously has served on the staffs of The Asheville Citizen-Times, The High Point Enterprise and The Her ald-Sun papers, and also hsls served as vice president of the American College Publicity Association. Fatal Highway ~ Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN IMS DON’T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 78 Wreck Claims Second Victim Robert Wilson, Roxboro young man. injured last Thursday morn ing in an automobile crash that took the life of Ira T. Dickerson. Jr., died this morning about eleven o'clock at a South Boston, Ya.. hospital, where he had been since the wreck, according to a report received here this after tax n. Wilson, the son of J. E. Wil son of Roxboro, had previously been reported as improving. He received a severe head wound. Two other young men who were injured in the crash which oc curred near South Boston, have returned home and are improv ing. Funeral arrangements for Wil son are incomplete. j afternoon Monday is the office of ; the Clerk of Superior Court. No holiday Will be taken at the Regis - ter of Deeds office. Closed both Saturday and Monday will be the ; War Price and Rationing board of fice. Likewise to be closed Monday i are file Person Welfare department j and the Person County Public Li- I briny; it is reported. I The public schools, which started : tiie Fall season yesterday, will rot :be closed. The Red Cross office will not close. Office of the Cour ■ ier-Times will be open as usual. Committee May Decide Soon On Roosevelt Case Washington Aug. 29.—Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt was told by a Con gressional committee today that it would decide whether to reveal Treasury findings in his business affairs "as soon as we complete (OUT I studies including the matter of your tax liability.” The House Ways and Means Com mit tee, after a closed session tele graphed the second son of the late President that Federal law prohib its, at this time, granting his re quest that the full report.—involving reports of large loans in 1939—be mad' public immediately. The committee indicated the whole report might be made pub lic later in a formal transmission to Congress. An informal poll in dicated a majority of tht committee favored immediate publication be fore counsel was consulted. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) told newspapermen that I-toosevelt him self is free, if he desires, to make public the statement he gave. Brothers Meet ) * a I Mil I H T| ' It - - igflk 1 - M : |jgE[K3sjMpH AUBREY & ROBERT BANFORA Gunner's Mate Third Claaa Au brey Sanford, and Seaman Third Class Robert Sanford, sans d#,.. Mrs. Bessie Sanford, and tt tfan> i late Robert Sanford, met HM|H in Honolulu where they had > ’this photifraph taken. boys are grad nates of Bethel Wjmjt t high school and entered service In i 1943. but had not seen each other i in months until they met In Ha-I i waii. A brother, Pfc. McDonald Sanford, is in Belgium.